The same deadly strain of the swine flue that has killed several people and has infected many more in Mexico has struck in the U.S. 5 cases in the San Diego CA area, & 3 cases in the San Antonio TX area. For years RAIA has warned against the dangers of Illegal Aliens entering our country medically unchecked. Case in point...

Texas family quarantined after son contracts swine flu

(CNN) -- As Hayden Henshaw was being rushed to the doctor's office after becoming ill, his father heard that his son's classmates had been struck with the deadly swine flu virus like the one sweeping through Mexico.

Patrick Henshaw called his wife immediately to have Hayden checked for it. Later, they received the bad news.

Hayden had become the third confirmed case of swine flu at his Texas high school. It is a virus that has killed 68 people in Mexico and infected at least eight people in the United States.

Health officials arrived at the Henshaws' house Friday and drew blood from the whole family, then told them to stay inside and away from the public, Henshaw told CNN.

The whole family is quarantined indefinitely, according to CNN-affiliate KABB. Henshaw said his family was shocked when they got the news about their son.

"Stunned. My wife was having a panic attack," Henshaw told the affiliate.

U.S. health officials have expressed concern about U.S. cases of a swine flu virus that has similar characteristics to the fatal virus in Mexico.

More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time, U.S. health experts said.

"This situation has been developing quickly," Richard Besser, acting director of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Friday. "This is something we are worried about."

Besser said all of the eight U.S. patients have recovered. (5 in the San Diego CA area 3 in the San Antonio TX area.)

New York health officials said Friday they were testing about 75 students at a school in New York City for swine flu after the students exhibited flu-like symptoms this week.

A team of state health department doctors and staff went to the St. Francis Preparatory School in the borough of Queens on Thursday after the students reported cough, fever, sore throat, aches and pains.

Test results are expected as early as Saturday.

The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.

Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to a type of flu virus that infects people every year but is a strain typically found only in pigs -- or in people who have direct contact with pigs.

There have, however, been cases of person-to-person transmission of swine flu, the CDC said.

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“We understand that some people were taken into custody by ICE,” said Lt. Tom McAndrew of the Ottumwa Police Department. “We’re referring all questions to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].”

“ICE was in the Ottumwa area earlier this week,” confirmed Gail Montenegro, a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spokesperson. “We made a total of eight arrests Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Ottumwa and Oskaloosa areas during an operation which targets immigration fugitives.”

Montenegro said the agency is unable to provide specifics on the case or the suspects. But when asked about nationalities, she was able to name the country of origin for all captured individuals: El Salvador, Guatemala, Mali (Africa), Mauritania (Africa), Mexico and Peru.

“An immigration fugitive is an individual who has had due process, been through the court proceedings... was ordered to depart the United States by an immigration judge, and did not leave the U.S. in defiance of the judge’s order. We are out looking for specific individuals.”

Like any law enforcement agency, ICE has a large area to cover and only a certain number of agents. But finding immigration fugitives is one of the agency’s priorities, she said.

When asked about future fugitve-enforcement operations in Iowa or this part of the state, Montenegro referred to the effort as “an ongoing initiative.”

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Back in July Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama promised the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) that he would make comprehensive immigration reform a priority in his first term. He then went on to say, "We need a president who isn't going to walk away from something as important as comprehensive immigration reform when it becomes politically unpopular."

When asked the same questions McCain replied, "we must first prove to them (Americans) that we can and will secure our borders first, while respecting the dignity and rights of citizens and legal residents of the United States."

Obama's True Immigration Agenda was brought to light just days before the Election. November 1st The Associated Press released this story:

Obama aunt from Kenya living in U.S. illegally
Woman was denied asylum, ordered to leave US 4 years ago.
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, the Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a US immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.

Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of US immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.

The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.

Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.

A spokeswoman for US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.

Onyango's case -- coming to light just days before the presidential election -- led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the US law enforcement official told the AP.

The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.

Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.

The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.

It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order.

OTTUMWA - An Ottumwa man has joined two juveniles as the first people charged in the city with gang recruitment.
Felix Alberto Figueroa, 20, was arrested Monday afternoon at Fourth and Washington streets on a warrant for gang recruitment. The arrest followed last week's charges against a 15-year-old and 13-year-old.
Police say the charges are new for Ottumwa law enforcement and reflect changes in gang activity in the city. The three were allegedly enticing students as young as sixth grade to steal as part of a gang initiation.

OTTUMWA - Police charged two juveniles last week with gang recruitment, a first in Ottumwa.
Police reports show Juan Carlos Bethancourt, 15, and Jose Edwardo Pivaral, 13, both of Ottumwa, were arrested and charged with gang recruitment and theft.
"Those guys were the ones ... that were arrested for trying to recruit kids into gangs. They were committing thefts as part of a gang initiation," Clark said.
Two gangs, the Latin Kings and the Two-Sixers, were involved according to Clark. The efforts reportedly targeted sixth-grade students in Ottumwa.

May 9, 2008

Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Paul Edward Moore, better known to his friends as Buck. Buck's untimely death in a motorcycle accident is a tragic loss to his family, community, and indeed the nation.

Buck was the founder of Riders Against Illegal Aliens, an advocacy group dedicated to immigration reform and preserving American sovereignty. Buck led numerous rallies protesting the influx of illegal immigration, the unjust incarceration of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean, and the government's lack of will to enforce immigration laws. He will be missed.

Madam Speaker, I want to express my sincerest condolences to Buck's friends and family. He was a dedicated patriot and will not be forgotten.

Buck Young, our founder and leader, 53, of Phoenix, Arizona, passed away on May 5, 2008. Killed by a 19 year old Hispanic female that turned in front of him at an intersection. She has numerous prior traffic violations on her record. Buck is survived by three daughters, four sons, two sisters, one brother, and eight grandchildren. He will be greatly missed by us all.

There is an enormous number of Americans who have been harmed by the criminals who pass through the nation's open borders. For that reason, this section can only provide a symbolic tribute to the many unnamed victims who have been killed, raped, robbed, crippled and otherwise personally violated.

Click Here to go to www.immigrationshumancost.org's CRIME VICTIMS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS tribute page.

Still waiting for clarification from Congress on this. Does this pertain to all immigrants or only those that are in the U.S. legally.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Finally, one site that finds the totals for you, which until now has been difficult to find. Providing the public a free source of totals on the most pressing categories resulting from illegal immigration in America. Using the latest government and private organizational sources available, they have continually updating counters for;
· Illegal Immigrants in Country
· Money Wired to Mexico
· Cost of Social Services for Illegal Immigrants
· Illegals Enrolled in Public Schools K-12
· Cost of Illegals Enrolled in K-12
· Illegal Immigrants Incarcerated
· Cost for Incarcerations of Illegal Immigrants
· Illegal Immigrant Fugitives
· Anchor Babies

Click Here to visit ImmigrationCounters.com