" Washington Refuses To Protect U.S. "
Sends Help to Mexico Instead

The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday said immigration officials are working closely with Mexican authorities to investigate a series of stunning attacks in Mexico including a car bomb in the border city of Juarez that has drawn comparisons to Middle Eastern terrorism.

While the Obama administration rolls out its plan to deploy 1,200 National Guard and other assets to the southwestern border, the violence in northern Mexico has only escalated in recent weeks.

Eighteen people were massacred at a party in the city of Torreon on Sunday - more than a month after 19 people were killed at a drug-rehab center in Chihuahua. In the border city of Juarez, where more than 1,500 have been killed this year, a car bomb apparently designed to lure police to the scene killed three people on Thursday.

"The incident in Juarez ... is one of great concern to both governments," CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin said Monday.

The use of a car bomb would mark a new tactic for the cartels in the war against the state that has played out in full force since President Felipe Calderon confronted them after taking office in 2006. According to reports, the device was remotely detonated in a way similar to the detonation of IEDs in the Middle East.

Bersin was cautious in assessing what the attack would mean for how authorities approach the fight against the cartels, but said the matter is under investigation. He insisted that the U.S. side of the border is more secure than it's ever been.

"This latest incident is one in a long string of violent incidents. The precise nature of it is one that we need to work with our Mexican colleagues and counterparts and discover exactly what it was and what implications it may have," he said.

Bersin said the violence is the result of "civil war" among the cartels.

"We see this as part of an ongoing threat that we've been cooperating deeply with the government of Mexico to confront," he said.

The FBI has dispatched agents to assist Mexican officials in the investigation of the Juarez attack.

On other fronts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said U.S. and Mexican officials are boosting collaboration in an effort to keep the violence from spreading.

Morton said Monday that ICE will soon have 40 U.S. agents at its Mexico City office, making it the largest ICE bureau in the world.

"We're going to be able to jointly investigate with Mexican authorities the smugglers who live and operate on the Mexican side," he said.

He cited several recent joint enforcement programs, including one started last fall to prosecute Mexican drug smugglers arrested in the United States in their home country. He said nearly 30 suspected smugglers have been brought to court in Mexico since the program started. "Several are now serving 10-year sentences," he said.

Though Juarez is on the other side of the Texas border across the river from El Paso, most of the attention in the immigration debate recently has focused on Arizona. The state in April passed a law making illegal immigration a state crime, bringing the issue of immigration hurtling into the national spotlight.

Nearly half of the National Guard troops will be deployed to Arizona. Morton on Monday acknowledged that the deployment places "particular emphasis" on the Tucson sector - an area he said is "favored" by smugglers and serves as "the principal point of illegal entry into the United States along the southwest border."

Border-state lawmakers have complained that the administration is not doing enough to enhance border security, even with the deployment of the 1,200 troops. But administration officials on Monday said several additional steps are being taken.

Morton said CBP would be opening a new investigative office in Ajo, Ariz., to focus "exclusively on cross-border crime" and deploying a special task force to Douglas, Ariz., to help with investigations in that region. Monday, July 19, 2010 - FoxNews.com


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" Kenyan official: Obama born here "
In debate over constitution, minister urges African nation to emulate U.S. inclusion

Posted: April 11, 2010
6:22 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Kenyan MP James Orengo

 A Kenyan law maker told the nation's parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."

 During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:

 "If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited, "how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"

 Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."

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 Debate is then recorded in the Kenyan government's official March 25, 2010, hansard  – a traditional name for printed transcripts of a parliamentary debate – as continuing with no other MPs mentioning or attempting to correct Orengo's comments about Obama.

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 As WND has reported, several other sources – including National Public Radio – have claimed Obama's birthplace as Kenya prior to his election as president.

 WND also reported when a video appeared in which Michelle Obama said her husband's "home country" was Kenya, though her comments didn't specifically suggest his birth there.

 The video, posted April 3 on YouTube and forwarded by a score of Internet e-mails, shows Michelle Obama saying, "When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test."

 The reference drew attention because of the claim made in numerous lawsuits and other challenges to Obama's occupancy of the Oval Office that he is not eligible to be president under the requirement of Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution that the president be a "natural born citizen."

But the NPR reference and Michelle Obama's comment are far from the only ones of their kind.

At one point, there were reports that even Obama's grandmother claimed being in attendance at his birth in Africa.

According to a compilation of images at a military forum, another reference was made in 2008 in the Nigerian Observer.

 Under a byline from Solomon Asowata and a Washington dateline, the report says, "Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next president with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will, however, face a stiff competition from his Republican counterpart…"

A commentary at The Post & Email website said, "It is no wonder that many doubt Obama's claim of a Hawaiian birth."

 It cited another report from African Travel Magazine that said, "As Kenyan born U.S. Senator Barack Obama jets into Kenya today as part of his African tour, concerns have once again been raised on the security preparations for other visitors and residents. ...."

The Post & Email commentary also cited a report from Indonesia Matters that includes similar references.

WND documented earlier several other statements linking Obama and Kenya.

These included the apparently archived article from the Sunday Standard in Kenya.

 The report begins, "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack (sic) Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations."

 The article is credited to the wire service Associated Press at the bottom of the page. However, the article could not be found either in the AP archives available to the public online or the archive on the newspaper's website. WND telephone calls and e-mails to the newspaper did not generate a response.

 Last year, an African news site and an MSNBC broadcaster referred to President Obama's birthplace as being outside of the United States.

 Network correspondent Mara Schiavocampo was reporting on the celebratory atmosphere in Accra, Ghana, immediately prior to Obama's visit to the west African nation.

 Interviewing a person who appeared to be a shop operator, she stated, "Barack Obama is Kenyan … but Ghanaians are still proud of him."

The video of the report is at this link.

Also, a report at Modern Ghana posted in advance of the president's visit cited his birthplace on the continent of Africa.

 "For Ghana, Obama's visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth," the report said.

 WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

 Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

 Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

 Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums exceeding $1.7 million to avoid releasing an original long-form state birth certificate that would put to rest the questions.

 WND also has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.

 Because of the dearth of information about Obama's eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"

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 WND also reported previously when Michelle Obama contradicted Obama's story that he lived with his mother and father for several years in Hawaii after he was born before his father left to pursue a graduate degree.

 Michelle Obama said her husband's mother, Ann Dunham, was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president.

 Her comments undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth.
The remarks were made by Michelle Obama during a July 2008 round table at the University of Missouri. Obama was responding to criticism of her husband's presidential campaign speeches about fatherhood and faith-based initiatives.

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