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New guidance telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to focus on apprehending terrorists and criminals has many of ICE’s rank-and-file agents wondering who then is responsible for tracking down and detaining the millions of other illegal border-crossers and fugitive aliens now in the country.

The new guidelines are outlined in a June 29 memo from Assistant Secretary John Morton, who heads the agency, to all ICE employees regarding the apprehension, detention and removal of illegal immigrants, noting that the agency “only has resources to remove approximately 400,000 aliens per year, less than 4 percent of the estimated illegal-alien population in the United States.”

Mr. Morton said ICE needed to focus wisely on the limited resources Congress had provided the agency and would “prioritize the apprehension and removal of aliens who only pose a threat to national security and/or public safety, such as criminals and terrorists.”

Isn’t that special? The ICE refuses to enforce the I part of the law. Particularly galling is the sudden contention by ICE that there are illegal terrorists in this country. From what we’ve been told for years, that simply didn’t happen. Now it’s a big enough problem that they’re focusing only on those kinds of cases?

I wonder what changed…

Along Israel’s border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in slightly from the border precisely so that Israeli soldiers can work on it. The IDF called UNIFIL and informed the UN that this work was going to be done today so that they could tell the Lebanese army that there was no aggression going on but just routine maintenance. Soldiers from UNIFIL came to observe and can be seen standing next to Israeli soldiers in the photos. Photographers were also standing by to film the operation.

But Lebanese soldiers opened fire on the Israelis who were working and in no way acting aggressively. The fact that journalists were standing next to the Lebanese soldiers shows that they knew Israel was going to do this maintenance and were observing. After the Israeli soldiers were ambushed, they returned fire.

One Israeli officer was killed, another seriously wounded; three Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist for a Syrian-backed pro-Hizballah newspaper were killed.  Interesting question: why would a reporter be in the far south of Lebanon to watch people trim trees, unless he knew that there was going to be a shooting attack by the Lebanese side? (No Israeli reporters had been informed or invited of the routine maintenance operation.)

So how did Reuters and Yahoo report this? By saying that Israeli soldiers had crossed into Lebanon and been fired on, thus implying the Lebanese army was acting in self-defense! Other news agencies merely reported: Israel says the soldiers were inside Israel; Lebanon says they were on Lebanese territory.

So an obvious case of non-provocation is turned, by the lapdog media, into a case of he-said, she-said.

Even when Israel is right, they’re wrong.

A night out in the South Street Seaport turned bloody this morning when three people were shot after leaving swanky Stella lounge, with residents of the upscale neighborhood now feeling on edge.

Just before 3 a.m., two young women and a 23-year-old man left the Front Street bar when they got into a fight with two men on Beekman Street, according to police. A crowd formed, and a one of the men pulled out a .357-caliber handgun and shot all three, then fled the scene.

“There was a group of people screaming,” said Henrique Gendre, 39, a Beekman Street resident, whose 10-day-old baby was woken by the sounds of two shots. “I was surprised. This is such a nice neighborhood.”

If you’ve seen the “crowd” that frequents the Seaport these days, this doesn’t surprise you one bit, and by crowd I’ll explain it as certain finger shapes, colors worn, and lots of… Well… Let’s just say many of the teeth at the Seaport have been replaced with precious metals.

Edilzar Mazariegos

Springfield Police Dept.

Police in Springfield, MA, are looking for an illegal alien from Guatemala, who they say brutally raped a 4-year-old girl on Saturday.

Springfield Police Sgt. John M. Delaney told reporters the suspect, Edilzar Mazariegos is wanted on a charge of aggravated rape of a child with force.

The tiny victim, whose name is being withheld, was found by her mother, after returning from work, crying and bleeding. She rushed her daughter to Mercy Medical Center, but because of the “severe trauma” she suffered, she was transferred to Baystate Medical Center, where she remains in serious condition.

Another illegal alien, Angel Santizo, 20, who was babysitting the girl at time of the rape, has been charged with of permitting serious bodily injury on a child while being a caretaker.

Sgt. Delaney said: “He was the caretaker of this child while somebody else there raped her.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a hold on Santizo, who is also from Guatemala.

Mazariegos (aka Edy Gonzales), is described as 5 feet, 3 inches tall with a stocky build. He is driving a blue Dodge Durango with two white racing stripes on the hood and roof, with a South Carolina license plate of FSX-544.

Yep. They all just want to work hard and do the right thing.

This is what happens when you don’t enforce your borders.

Incidentally, I’m not saying all illegals want to rape kids, but when you let all of ‘em in and not enforcing your border, you’re not always getting the cream of the crop.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days after President Barack Obama voiced willingness to talk to Iran.

Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the hardline populist Ahmadinejad also repeated his denial of the Holocaust, on which the consensus of historians is that six million Jews were exterminated by Nazi Germany.

Ahmadinejad said the Sept. 11 attacks with hijacked airliners on New York and Washington D.C. had been trumped up as an excuse for the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

And we’re supposed to talk with this guy as if he’s rational in order to get him to stop building nukes which, promise, (cross my heart and hope to die!) will only be used to provide power to the mudhuts around Iran.

Sounds like a plan to me!

Thank you Scott Rosenbaum for just making V a thousand times cooler. After the executive producer let slip at Comic-Con that he’d be introducing Anna’s mother in V‘s November season premiere — and that her name would be Diana, fans went bonkers. I personally begged Rosenbaum to cast Jane Badler (so deliciously evil as lizard villainess Diana in NBC’s original ’80s V series) as this new incarnation of Diana, and word has just reached me that he has indeed awarded Jane the role. Woo-hoo!

ZOMFG! As if the show wasn’t awesome enough, the most awesomest evil villain in television history is going to be a part of it!? This is almost too good to be true and there will certainly be something to screw it up.

A public library in Burlington County, New Jersey has ordered all of the copies of Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology removed from circulation, after a member of Glenn Beck‘s 9/12 Project complained about the book’s content.

The library cited “child pornography” as its reason for removing the book.

*sigh*