Illegal Immigrant Bond Fund Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign

FOXNews.com - Illegal Immigrant Bond Fund Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign:
"SILVER SPRING, Md. — Illegal immigrants arrested in workplace raids can now access a fund to help them post bond.

The National Immigrant Bond Fund launched its national debut and fundraising campaign on Monday. Founder Bob Hildreth said Monday the goal is to raise $500,000.

Through the fund, illegal immigrants arrested in raids who do not have any outstanding criminal violations can apply for financial assistance. Churches, legal organizations or community groups help facilitate their requests. The fund provides half the bail money and immigrants must pony up the rest.

The fund has already been tapped into following a few raids, including one in Annapolis on June 30.

The fund was formalized three months ago. Hildreth says it's helped bail out about 100 people so far, and all of those cases are pending."

Democrats on illegal immigration?

Immigration Chronicles: Will wave of Democrats turn tide on illegal immigration?:
An interesting comment was posted in response to this article. When clarified, it pointed out:

"In most free countries in this world they replace there [sic] government when it not working . But in the most free country in the world it looks like the government is trying to replace it's citizens."

Continue to vote for democrats, and that's what you'll get - not the will of the people, but the will of the politician.

Mexican Soldiers Enter Arizona, Briefly Detain Border Agent

FOXNews.com - Mexican Soldiers Enter Arizona, Briefly Detain Border Agent:
"TUCSON, Ariz. — Four Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona and held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico, federal authorities said Wednesday."

FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm - Yahoo! News

FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Dr. David Acheson, the Food and Drug Administration's food safety chief, called the finding a key breakthrough in the case, as did another health official.

'We have a smoking gun, it appears,' said Dr. Lonnie King who directs the center for foodborne illnesses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Acheson said the farm is in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Previously, the FDA had traced a contaminated jalapeno pepper to a farm in another part of Mexico.

Acheson and other officials were grilled at a congressional hearing about why the investigation originally focused on tomatoes.

The officials insisted that tomatoes still cannot be ruled out and that it is quite possible that the outbreak was caused by several different kinds of contaminated produce.

The outbreak has sickened more than 1,300 people since April.

Tomatoes had been the prime suspect in the nationwide outbreak for weeks. But last week, the FDA said only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico were implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak. The FDA said then it had found the same strain of salmonell"

Widow Wants San Francisco Sanctuary Law Changed After Illegal Charged With Murder - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

FOXNews.com - Widow Wants San Francisco Sanctuary Law Changed After Illegal Charged With Murder - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:
"A San Francisco woman whose husband and two sons were gunned down last month — allegedly by an illegal immigrant who remained in the city despite previous crimes — is demanding the city do something about its sanctuary law.

Danielle Bologna was widowed on June 22 when Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly gunned down her husband, Anthony, and two sons, Matthew and Michael, in a road rage incident when her family was returning from a picnic.

Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder in the case, according to the San Francisco Chronicle."

Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants - USATODAY.com

Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants - USATODAY.com:
"Data on health care costs for illegal immigrants are sketchy because hospitals and community health centers don't ask about patients' legal status. In California, a 2004 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform put the state's annual cost at $1.4 billion.

But while they account for less than 2% of national medical spending, their growing presence is a problem in places such as eastern North Carolina, one of the nation's poorest areas.

Statewide, illegal immigrants accounted for one in four new residents from 1990 to 2004, according to a University of North Carolina study. The state ranks ninth in the nation for illegal immigrants with more than 300,000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

For hospitals, "the burden of the uninsured immigrant is huge," says Jeff Spade, vice president of the North Carolina Hospital Association. "It's exploded the amount of work that they have to do."

Steven Camarota of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies says offering non-emergency Medicaid to illegal immigrants would be more expensive than leaving them uninsured and in need of occasional hospital care. In those cases, hospitals lose money, and taxpayers pick up the tab.

"Either you enforce the law and don't have so many illegals, or you shut up about the cost," he says."

San Francisco goes further, adding adults at local expense. Some cities, including New York, encourage illegal immigrants to use public services such as health clinics without risking deportation.

At Duplin General Hospital, the challenge is staying afloat. Because so many patients are seniors on Medicare, low-income residents on Medicaid or uninsured people who can't pay their bills, it's difficult to turn a profit. "We're living off reserves," CEO Harvey Case says.

Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers

FOXNews.com - Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers :
"The Border Patrol says its agents have been attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period."