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In last month’s issue of The People News, it was mentioned that many feel Cleveland, TN has become a sanctuary city where illegal immigrants can commit crimes without fear of prosecution. At a recent Bradley County Commission meeting, Jerry Chess, a subcontractor in the county was another concerned citizen who took to the podium to voice his concerns.

He said that the illegal immigration problem seems to be getting out of hand, but it wasn’t so much the illegal immigrants that are creating the problem, his problem is with the builders and the homeowners trying to get the bottom dollar by hiring illegal aliens. He estimates that he has lost approximately 65 percent of his business just this year because of illegal immigration. Mr. Chess asked the commission what can be done to find a resolution to this problem.

Masonry contractor, Troy Smith also addressed commissioners saying that he had called the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department trying to get some information about what could be done. They informed him that they had never bee asked that question.

Commissioner Howard Thompson said the commission has talked to our legislators about this, however, he doesn’t think that they are moving fast enough in Nashville or Washington to take care of these problems. He said, “Locally I have no idea what we can do, but it needs to start on a state level.”

Commissioner Brian Smith informed Jerry Chess and Troy Smith that the city has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and that she has an office here in Cleveland. He said, ” I think the ICE agent can help answer a whole lot of questions about what can be done. Since she’s the federal agent, that’s who should be enforcing the law anyway.”

It took several attempts by this paper to contact local ICE agent Brenda Dixon. When we first called the Cleveland City Police Department, we were told she did not have a direct line. The city official with this information said they had only seen Agent Dixon one time and that she spends the majority of her time in Chattanooga. After numerous attempts, we finally contacted her at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs in Chattanooga. Agent Dixon said that she was not allowed to be contacted for press purposes and that she had points of contact that handle such questions. However, she said, those points of contact are not local and they would more than likely not be aware of problems that are going on in Cleveland and Bradley County.

Some local effort is being taken to deport illegal aliens with the recent news of the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office joining the Federal Criminal Alien Program (CAP) offered by ICE. The Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2008 directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program to identify incarcerated criminal aliens, ensure that such aliens are not released back into the community and to remove such aliens from the United States upon release. The criminal alien program allows the correction staff at the Bradley County Jail’s booking office to check the immigration status of all new inmates.

Chief Deputy Bill Dyer said if the BCSO suspects that the person being booked is here illegally, their information will be sent to ICE. If ICE cannot verify that the person is legal, the BCSO will hold them until ICE picks them up and deports them. If they can be identified as illegal before they can make bond, they will still be held, even after they have paid their bond, until immigration and customs enforcement deports them. Under the law, federal authorities have 48 hours to pick them up and begin deportation proceedings. Since the beginning of this year, the BCSO has identified 37 incarcerated individuals as illegal aliens and turned them over to ICE for deportation.

In a recent press release Sheriff Tim Gobble said he is still interested in the federal 287g program which would allow his department an even greater ability to identify illegal aliens and deal with the illegal alien problem. According to Chief Deputy Bill Dyer, if the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office gets accepted into the 287g program it would allow them to deputize their people as federal immigration officers. “In other words, they would become custom enforcement agents.”

Just before going to press, new information was received by the The People News in regards to the 287g program. After getting what was described as the run around on this program from the federal government, Agent William Black, the 287g Program Coordinator with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New Orleans, Louisiana contacted Chief Deputy Bill Dyer to see what he could do to help the BCSO get into the 287g program.

The BCSO’s requests to apply for the 287g program have been overlooked for over two years. After sending numerous requests to apply for the 287g program, Chief Deputy Dyer was was elated to receive some acknowledgement. He said, “I finally feel that they (ICE) are taking us seriously when it comes to our request for the BSCO to be part of this program.
Out of 95 counties in the state of Tennessee, only one, Davidson County, is certified to be part of the 287g program. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is also certified.”

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The Bradley County Sheriff’s Office has joined the Federal Criminal Alien Program offered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2008 directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program to:

• Identify incarcerated criminal aliens.
• Ensure that such aliens are not released into the community.
• Remove such aliens from the United States upon release.

Sheriff Tim Gobble and Chief Deputy Bill Dyer met recently with representatives of ICE to finalize details of Bradley County’s participation. The act focuses on identifying criminal aliens who are incarcerated in Bradley County thereby helping to ensure that they are not released back into our community after they serve their sentence.

This program allows the correction staff in the Bradley County jail’s booking office to check the immigration status of all new inmates. As a normal part of the booking process correction officers will ask all inmates a number of questions such as where they were born and if they are a United States citizen. If the officer suspects the person being booked is here illegally or that their immigration status is questionable, an inquiry will begin to obtain more information about the individual. Those with questionable legal status have their names faxed to ICE for computer records checks and status verification.

If ICE cannot verify legal status, the individual is assumed to be here illegally and ICE will issue a federal detainer and forward it to the BCSO. This allows the BCSO to hold these individuals after their court proceedings are over and / or sentence is served.

Once the judicial process has concluded, the person will be held for federal authorities who have 48 hours to pick them up and begin deportation proceedings. This program also prevents those identified as illegal aliens from being released on bond once the detainer is received.

Sheriff Gobble said, “This is a step in the right direction, but the Federal government must get the illegal alien problem under control by securing the U.S. borders and quickly deporting all who come here illegally. The first test of citizenship is the ability to follow the law. If someone comes to this country illegally they have failed the first test of citizenship and should be deported until they can demonstrate adherence and respect for this country’s rule of law.”

“I am a great supporter of legal immigration and I am proud that the Statute Of Liberty still welcomes the world’s ‘tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ and holds her welcoming lamp ‘beside the golden door.’”

“However, I am strongly opposed to illegal immigration. It is important for all immigrants desiring citizenship to come here legally, it is also imperative that the federal government reduce the immigration bureaucracy and streamline a legal immigration process that promotes lawful entry into this country instead of discouraging it.”

Chief Deputy Dyer pointed out over the last several years there has been a noticeable increase in criminal offenders being brought to the jail who are unable to provide the arresting officer and the booking officer with either a driver’s license, social security card or any authenticated immigration papers.

Sheriff Gobble has worked diligently for months seeking viable solutions for the increasing local illegal alien problem.

“Getting this illegal alien problem under control will promote public safety and National Security for all citizens.”

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William Gheen

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)

The illegal aliens and their supporters were dealt a massive political blow this past week, when our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released Homeward Bound a new report showing an analysis of US Census data, which indicates that illegal immigration is reversing in America!

The ALIPAC Platform has been proven accurate. Our claim that we need to “Enforce our existing immigration laws” and focus on the four aspects of securing the borders, fining employers, removing taxpayer incentives, and empowering local police to enforce immigration laws, which will lead to a reversal of illegal immigration in America has been proven correct!

The CIS report concluded that more illegal aliens are leaving America than coming in due to increased enforcement of immigration laws. Their findings are that the illegal alien population in America has declined by 1.3 Million or 11 percent since last summer!

The illegal alien supporters were shocked and are attacking the report claiming that it is either not true, true but a bad thing, or the result of the bad economy, instead of enforcement. While our opposition was caught off guard, you can count on them coming back fast with a more cohesive strategy once the shock wears off.

ALIPAC is launching a press release and list of articles that reinforce the CIS study. We manage the largest archive of information in existence about the topic of illegal immigration at www.alipac.us Those of us closest to the information core of the site have seen many articles documenting the movement of illegal aliens away from high enforcement areas to states with weaker enforcement and out of the country. Our release and list of articles will be circulated to the media around the nation on Monday.

For the skeptics out there, we want you to know that we find the research methods of CIS to be sound in this case. Also, the media reports we have compiled are too numerous, and from too many sources, including liberal media writers who support Amnesty for this to be politically manufactured. Even the biased Pew Hispanic Center agrees the illegal alien population is now dropping, although they do not concur with the scale cited by CIS.

Adding to the evidence that illegal immigration is reversing, the Bush administration announced last week that a new pilot program begins in August called “Operation Scheduled Departure”, where illegals can sign up to self-deport without facing time in a detention center. The launch of this program acknowledges the mass exodus pressure. Furthermore, Dr. Robert Pastor, who is the top intellectual voice pushing the North American Community, which we call the North American Union, has announced that his dream is collapsing. He cites a perfect storm of opposition from the left and right for the demise of his plans and says the survival of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is in jeopardy! These breaking news stories bode well for our cause! We are starting to win!

We attribute this decline to four factors. One, the Federal government has started some minimal enforcement raids to placate the public outrage, although recent governmental reports indicate our borders are still wide open. Two, a historic number of states have passed legislation to do the job the Executive Branchrefuses to do and mass exoduses of illegal aliens out of states like Georgia, Oklahoma, and Arizona have been confirmed through media reports, activists, and government officials. Three, the bad economy is playing a role along with the decline of the dollars. Four, and most importantly the public backlash against illegal immigration exemplified in the growth of hundreds of organizations like ALIPAC, NumbersUSA, the Minutemen groups, and many others is sending the illegal aliens a clear message to “Vamoos!”

Not all areas of America are seeing the decrease. Many are experiencing an increase in Sanctuary Cities like New Haven, and in states like California and Texas, which is where our top supporters in the fight live! For those in areas where the problem is growing, take heart that the answer for you depends on the success we are seeing in other areas and states. We are coming for you friends; we are fighting our way to you! Keep the faith! Citizen activism lobbying lawmakers, supporting campaigns, and combating the biased media sources has worked!

An important observation that will burn the ears of the illegal alien supporters is that their activities and messages have actually helped our pro-enforcement cause. Leftist smear groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, Media Matters, the Anti Defamation League, and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) sacrificed their credibility in a desperate move to fight against citizen groups and leaders fighting illegal immigration, instead of focusing on the issue. The Spanish language media in America has embellished their false propaganda even more, while the English media has refused to print most of their attacks due to the glaring inaccuracies in their releases.

The results of their attempt to label any American standing up against illegal immigration as a violent and racist KKK supporting monster has had the unintended result of sending many illegal aliens running back for the border! While it is unfortunate that anyone should falsely be led to believe that Americans would want to physically harm them because of their race, the blame for these scare tactics is with the pro-amnesty groups mentioned above. They tried to exploit America’s reverence for Civil Rights and ended up broadcasting an extremely hostile message to our illegal alien population.

This politically explosive news, of the reversal of illegal immigration, is the greatest victory for our movement since the defeat of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform AMNESTY attempted in the US Senate last year! The false dichotomy (false choice) offered by illegal alien supporters of choosing between Amnesty and mass deportation has been irrevocably shattered.

We now have a modern example of how illegal immigration can be reversed in a humane and gradual way to accompany the historic information from the 1930’s and 1950’s, when revered Presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhower deported illegal aliens and many more left on their own accord.

These findings also shatter the claim from US Senators like McCain, Obama, Kennedy, Graham, Menendez, and others whose “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” Amnesty is needed to deal with illegal immigration. I will discuss this more during the Sunday August 3 broadcast of the Last Americans Standing Show on the RBN network.

These findings also prove what has become apparent to most Americans, which is the fact America’s illegal immigration crisis has been caused by the Executive Branch’s violations of oaths of office and the US Constitution by not adequately enforcing our existing immigration laws.

For the first time since ALIPAC was founded, almost four years ago, on 9/11, 2004 our movement is in a position to play offense instead of defense. The illegal alien supporters are in a temporary state of shock and we have the illegals on the run and their main propaganda thrusts in disarray.

Unfortunately, too many Americans remain asleep at the wheel and many good people who have previously supported our groups and efforts are bowing out because of the bad economy, because they are depressed about the Presidential race, and because they hope someone else will win this battle for them. Such a reaction to this good news would be a politically fatal mistake.

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NC Newspapers Go Wild For Gheen!
(Making Illegal Alien Supporters Scream)

July 31, 2008

by William Gheen
President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)

My success, and that of our organization ALIPAC, is now reaching new levels in the fight against illegal immigration, especially in my home state of North Carolina! Our accomplishments are documented by the fact I’ve recently become the favorite political bad boy of the illegal alien supporting print media in my state!

You know you are doing something right, when the old guard print media in your home state goes into rabid attack mode and starts taking their lies to a new level of exposure and vulnerability. With this level of attention from these tabloid writers, I’m starting to feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of NC Politics!

It appears that some of the most staunch supporters of illegal immigration in the NC press are feeling highly threatened by ALIPAC’s operations, and my efforts, otherwise we would not be seeing this cacophony of mudslinging.

Mary Schulken of the Charlotte Observer tries to convince readers that I am like the charismatic, yet fictional Hollywood villain “Bill the Butcher” from the movie Gangs of New York. Kristin Collins of the Raleigh News and Observer wrote another highly biased article with just me versus five of my opponents, to assert that somehow I am associated with mysterious letters to Hispanic leaders that threaten death, dismemberment, and bombings! Of course the opposition leaders are reporting this to the reporter, without providing any evidence, instead of filing any police reports. And of course, there’s not a shred of evidence that I have anything to do with these alleged threats, but hey all is fair in love, war, and politics right?

Today, one of the biggest rats on the sinking ships weighed in with an attack. Scott Mooneyham, who claims he is a member of a group called the ‘Capital Press Association’, is spewing his vitriol at me claiming that ALIPAC is nothing for anyone to worry about in the upcoming elections.

Scott Mooneyham’s hit piece contains nine heavily distorted or blatantly false statements dressed up as facts in his four paragraph hit piece!

Nine lies in such a small space! I’m flattered. So far, only one newspaper has run his propaganda piece and I’m a little disappointed that more did not pick up the editorial, so we could smear more of the cracked eggs that Mooneyham has served up on their faces. Will publishers be more wary of Mooneyham’s writings in the future after this?

Scott Mooneyham has affixed his baleful glare on my progress for many years. He has been holding his tongue fighting the temptation to attack me in the open, fearful of the added credibility I would gain from such an effort.

But a great sense of calm has come to me today and has me grinning ear to ear. There are three reasons I’m happy to see these unsubstantiated attacks raining down from the ivory towers.

First, these liars who work for the opposition tabloids would not go to such great lengths and efforts, or put their character shortcomings on display on this scale, if they did not feel threatened by our strength and accomplishments in the battle for immigration enforcement. Each writer is going after me personally or with some set of details outside of the illegal immigration issue. It’s the only option they have because they are afraid to challenge me on the issue because they now know my stances are favored by a large majority of their readers.

Two, we are winning! As a seasoned campaign professional, I know the rules on negative attacks. The candidate or group that is in the lead does not resort to negative attacks on their opponent because they are in the lead. Launching negative attacks on your opponents, instead of addressing the issues, is a sign of a losing campaign which trails behind the leader.

Three, from my extensive personal experience of bringing down entrenched corrupt political status quos in the past, this kind of screaming is a sign of the end for my adversaries.

In battles where this kind of wild and desperate screaming did not emanate from my opposition, we usually lost, but in cases where it did, it was a sign of their impending collapse.

For Mary Schulken, Kristen Collins, and Scott Mooneyham, to play these cards it means that they are finally seeing the writing on the wall. The telltale hearts of their past misdeeds, bias, censorship, and slaughter of the truth is coming back to haunt them in Shakespearian fashion.

While I could easily respect these tabloid writers for having a different opinion than me on immigration, and I could even respect that only a small segment of the population shares their views, I cannot respect their willingness to lie to the public. I cannot respect their refusal to report crimes, when the culprits are illegal aliens caught murdering, gang raping, and assaulting our innocent citizens.

They are exposing themselves as anathemas to real journalism because they are more concerned about influencing the opinions of readers than reporting the facts.

Their guilty consciences are showing and manifesting in their personal attacks on me.

I’m the one trying to save lives and they are the ones supporting inaction and policies that are resulting in preventable deaths and suffering.

Most importantly, the thing that I believe is really setting these fiction writers on the warpath is that they are finally starting to realize that their monopoly on information flow has been broken.

They fear the fact that I’ve been on seven talk radio shows, in this state on a regular basis, warning listeners about the bias and censorship we face in the papers. They have lost control of political debates when they see me on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, or CBS, as well as many local TV stations expressing my opinions to the public about illegal immigration.

My direct contact and sizable support from NC Lawmakers drives them even futher up the wall. To my knowledge, they have never faced organized resistance to their radical and unpopular politics, with this level of sophistication before.

I have described many of these papers as dinosaurs breathing their last gasps of comet dust, soon to expire because they cannot compete in the more egalitarian and populist new media.

I’m more of a messenger in this equation than a leader, and they certainly want to shoot the messenger because my words burn their eyes and ears. I speak for voices they want silenced!

I’m smiling today because one of my top motivations for creating ALIPAC was to bypass their information hegemony in this state.

The fact that they have finally drawn their mighty pens, dripping poisonous ink, against me is a testament to my growing notoriety and influence. My abilities to confront them come from two sources. The people who support me and my goals empower me, and I invite the Lord to dwell within my heart, as much as possible.

After all, if these people did their jobs right there would be no concealed information for me to share with the public, and state policies could be crafted in an atmosphere of truth and clarity. I am meeting the demands they have neglected.

The chickens are coming home to roost in North Carolina, and I am but the first bird of the morning breaking the silence of the night to greet the glow of the approaching sunrise in the Eastern sky.

Let’s all raise our voices in a chorus for the new dawn of truth, which will send these shrieking unclean and hateful birds back into the political darkness where they belong.

Soon, NC Lawmakers and real reporters across the state will read this response, as well as, hundreds of thousands of online readers, but most importantly this will be read by Mary Schulken, Kristen Collins, and Scott Mooneyham several times over.

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A North Carolina-based immigration organization is commending state Attorney General Roy Cooper for ruling that the North Carolina Community College System should bar illegal immigrants from attending its colleges.

The ruling came following a lengthy debate that began in November of last year when the North Carolina Junior College system announced it intended to admit illegal aliens.

William Gheen is president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC or ALIPAC. His organization played a key role in defeating in-state tuition for illegal aliens in 2005. Gheen is pleased with what Cooper determined.

“[Cooper] said his understanding of federal law is that it is illegal to put illegal aliens in colleges at all, even if you charged them full price or out-of-state tuition. [He] came out and said his interpretation of federal law is that there should be no illegal aliens admitted to college at all,” Gheen explains.

It is important, Gheen feels, to turn off all incentives for those who are in the country illegally — and he is convinced that access to American colleges is clearly an incentive for illegal immigrants and their families to come to the U.S.

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Rigorous 4-week training at Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, SC

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nine law enforcement officers from the Tennessee Department of Safety began a rigorous four-week training program today under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) “287(g) program.”

The training is being held at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, S.C. After graduating on August 15, 2008, these officers will be authorized to enforce federal immigration law under ICE’s supervision, which is authorized through section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

The four weeks of training is the next required step in the 287(g) authorization process following the memorandum of agreement between the Tennessee Department of Safety and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The four-week course provides in-depth training on various enforcement topics, including: immigration law, intercultural relations, and how to use DHS databases to help positively identify criminals and immigration violators. This training was scheduled after both ICE and the Tennessee Department of Safety signed a 287(g) Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The signed agreement and training enable these law enforcement officers to legally identify criminal and illegal aliens that they may encounter, and to initiate removal proceedings for those found to be in the country illegally.

“Each law enforcement agency that participates in the 287(g) program represents a force multiplier to help combat crime in local communities,” said Michael A. Holt, special agent-in-charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in New Orleans. “Our ICE agents look forward to working closely with these newly trained Tennessee Department of Safety Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents to our mutual benefit, and to the ultimate benefit of public safety.”

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