Okay.  Read the name of the people behind this “study” and then do like I do.   Ask yourself,  “well what would you expect?”   Its like asking an Italian what his favorite food is.   Its like asking the Wright brothers if a man can fly.   Here is what the Article posted below failed to mention.    Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda is a part of the Cesar Chavez school of Latino studies at UCLA. For Americans that do not know,  Cesar Chavez has become synonymous with illegal immigration rights in America.

What these people do is rally support for more Mexicans to become legalized in America.  Make no mistake about it.   If you don’t believe me,  click this link to Aztlan and read for yourself.   According to the Aztlan site,  Mexico owns this land and they are taking it back.   So before you read the article posted below,  understand why the L.A. Times omitted these important facts from their “news” article.  Also,  look at the photo of Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda  and take note of the way he surrounds himself  only with people that look like him,  then call me a racist.  This is what the State of California is busy spending my tax dollars on.    

From the Los Angeles Times

Even during the ongoing recession, immigration reform legislation that legalizes undocumented immigrants would boost the American economy, according to a new study out of UCLA.

The report said that legalization, along with a program that allows for future immigration based on the labor market, would create jobs, increase wages and generate more tax revenue. Comprehensive immigration reform would add an estimated $1.5 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years, according to the report.

“If we are going to create a solid recovery with good wages, we have to fix this hole that we have at the bottom of the labor market,” said the author, Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate professor with the UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. “This is not about bringing in a lot of workers. This is about your neighbors and if we are better off where everybody in the economy has the ability to fight for their families and to contribute more to the economy rather than staying in the shadows.”

Hinojosa-Ojeda based the study in part on surveys done after 1986 legislation that resulted in the legalization of nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants. Those surveys showed that immigrants who became legal moved on to better-paying jobs and became more educated, resulting in more spending and more tax revenue. That legislation was passed during a similar economic downturn, he said.

The study, being released today, comes shortly after a renewed commitment by the Obama administration to back legislation this year that would provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The study is being released by two Washington-based immigrant rights organizations, the Immigration Policy Center and the Center for American Progress.

Hinojosa-Ojeda also projected that the economy would benefit from a temporary worker program, by raising the GDP by $792 billion. And the economy would suffer if the U.S. deported all illegal immigrants, which he acknowledged was an unlikely option. Mass deportation, he concluded, would reduce the GDP by $2.6 trillion over 10 years.

Immigration reform advocates said linking economic recovery and immigration reform seems counterintuitive, but the report shows that they are closely connected.

“You can’t build a strong, robust economy on top of a broken immigration system,” said Angela Kelley, vice president of immigration policy and advocacy for the Center for American Progress. “In fact, if you fix our immigration system, it makes our economy stronger and more robust.”

But Federation for American Immigration Reform spokesman Ira Mehlman said that even with legal status, many immigrants would continue to work in low-wage jobs, meaning their tax revenue wouldn’t make much of a difference to the economy. Also, legalization would flood the labor market and drive down wages rather than increase them, he said.

Mehlman said those supporting amnesty know they have a difficult sell because of the state of the economy.

“They are trying to portray this as an economic shot in the arm,” he said. “But I am not sure the American public is going to buy it.”

286 down,  14 million to go.    JD

Immigration agents arrested nearly 300 foreign nationals with criminal records during a three-day sweep in California, officials announced Friday.

The operation was the largest of its kind and resulted in the arrests of illegal immigrants convicted of robbery, assault and rape, said John Morton, head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sweep ended Thursday night.

Officials said 96 of the 286 arrests took place in Los Angeles County. Among those arrested in the county were a suspected gang member from El Salvador who had a 2004 robbery conviction and a Guatemalan man with a 1993 conviction for lewd acts with a child under 14.

“These are not people we want walking our streets,” Morton said.

The arrests were conducted as part of a controversial program designed to arrest and deport immigrants who have criminal records, who have ignored deportation orders or who were deported and illegally reentered the United States. About 400 officers and agents took part in the operation. Those arrested included people from Mexico, Denmark, Taiwan and Tonga.

Critics have said the “fugitive operations” program, which has rapidly expanded since it started in 2003, has created fear in immigrant communities by sending armed agents into neighborhoods and pulling parents away from their children.

To fill quotas, immigration agents have also often arrested people without criminal records or outstanding deportation orders, according to a report by the Migration Policy Institute earlier this year.

During a visit to Los Angeles over the summer, Morton announced that he would end the quotas.

Only six people arrested in the operation this week did not have criminal records, he said. On Friday, Morton said that the agency is enforcing immigration laws but that there is a particular focus on arresting and deporting criminals, through this program and another in the jails and prisons across the nation.

“We are an agency of limited resources,” he said. “It makes a tremendous amount of sense for us as an agency, and for the country, for us to start with criminal offenders.”

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said Friday that the sweep demonstrates Immigration and Customs Enforcement is serious about going after convicted criminals. But she said she believed some of the crimes may have been minor and that this is not necessarily the most effective way to fight crime in the community.

“I’m very interested in finding out really what was the criminal activity,” she said.

There are 104 teams of officers nationwide who conduct such operations. More than 35,000 people were arrested nationwide by fugitive operations teams in the 2009 fiscal year, according to ICE. Of those, nearly 89% either had criminal records or outstanding deportation orders.

Although some were never deported after serving time for criminal convictions, many of those arrested this week had previously been deported and returned to the United States illegally, authorities said. For example, Ulises Vazuiz Arucha, 37, was convicted of first-degree robbery in 2004 and deported to El Salvador in 2007. The suspected gang member was arrested in Reseda on Dec. 8.

At least 17 of those arrested will face further federal prosecution, authorities said. They could receive sentences of up to 20 years in federal prison.

“These individuals are demonstrated threats who have proven their disdain for the laws of the United States and have lengthy criminal histories and rap sheets,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Curtis Kin said.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.   Kidnappings,  murders, rampant shooting and complete lawlessness.   Only in America can people simply walk across the border and do the same thing here that they are doing in Mexico.   Its an interesting dynamic that goes largely unreported here in California,  but happens almost daily.  Here is a link to a great article out of Phoenix and Tucson Arizona stating that more than 400 Americans have been kidnapped there by Mexicans.   Most of the victims are either of Mexican origin or have family in Mexico.

Right now,  here in the United States,  we have elected officials that are considering giving blanket Amnesty to million of illegal aliens,  mostly from Mexico,  and the thing that amazes me is that the proponent of this plan is Janet Napolitano,  who hails from  . . .  ARIZONA!!!

I have been to the Phoenix, Tucson area many times.   I remember the first time I was there and while in the hotel put on the local news,  and I thought I was still in Los Angeles.   Murders,  gang violence,  robberies are worse there than in Los Angeles.   Walls all over town are covered with graffiti.   Many sections of these once beautiful cities look just like Mexico.

If the United States continues the practice of letting people simply stay here once they have broken our laws to get here,  at what point will America be calling the U.N. in to keep the peace?

Why should the U.N. be forced to spend its money going into Mexico in the first place?   Mexico and the Mexican government is corrupt from top to bottom.    I have long been a proponent of simply using the American military to go into Mexico and take the country over,  and make it the fifty first state.

We may as well.  Eventually, after all of the people of Mexico come to America illegally and get Amnesty time and time again,  they will all be American citizens anyway.   We can make them taxpayers and exploit Mexico’s natural resources,  mainly crude oil,  which at the current time cannot be drilled for because Mexico is so corrupt in the first place.

One day,  long after I am dead and gone,  people are going to look back at American history and see that the beginning of the end of this once great nation was a society that simply gave up and let the lunatics run the asylum.      JD

REUTERS CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A seven-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people killed in a single day last week in this city across the border from El Paso.

Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world.

The relentless and violent crime have two leading business associations making a desperate plea for help — they want U.N. peacekeepers in Juarez.

“We are living basically in a state of war in Ciudad Juarez,” said Oscar Maynez, a criminologist in the border city.

Killings top 2,000 so far this year. Kidnappings and extortion are rampant. Businesses that fail to pay for protection risk having their property reduced to a pile of charred rubble.

All this is despite the presence of thousands of Mexican troops in the border city.

“That was the last resort for the Mexican authorities — use the army. And if the army doesn’t work or show any results, what then? What’s the next step or level of intervention?” Maynez asked.

Mexican business leaders say it’s time to seek outside help. Their concern about excalating drug violence is shared by U.S. companies operating in Mexico.

“We hear it from our multinational clients,” said Fred Burton of Stratrod Global Intelligence. “There’s not a day that goes by that they’re not asking us about the violence level in certain areas, such as Monterrey or Juarez.”

The bloodshed is now growing — not just on border streets, but in the boardrooms of both countries.