1 Lone Star

6:35 p.m., Monday 18 July:

Well, it is I again.  It is going to be the start of a new day, a new order in how we will go about our business.  I pray to be able to stick with it.  Today, I will start with faith.

I have just been reading some really interesting insights from certain members of the staff of Ravi Zacharias.  Ravi is a fellow from India, who is also one of the most articulate advocates of the Christian faith in the world.  I would heartily recommend anyone who either wants to consider his/her spiritual path--of any kind to look into the writings of him, his staff, and his close associates.  The reason I say that is that he is not simply wanting to be so intellectually dishonest as to bar someone to make an unrestrained and objective consideration of the various spiritual paths available for one to choose.  One of his associates is another leading advocate, Os Guiness, from Great Britain.  He understands the essence of the struggle that has come to emerge between Christianity, secularism, and the other major religions of the world very well.  This is a man who as a boy raised by Protestant missionaries in China was forced out in the takeover of Mao Zedong in October 1949 with no food and no clothes other than what they wore; both of his brothers died under such hardship.  I read a review of his new book, Unspeakable, and in it I particularly like his three-fold test that he states should be followed for the determination of what worldview to follow:

I, like a lot of people in the USA, are paying attention to the left-wing attempt to make a scandal of Karl Rove's confirming the identity of a CIA employee who was critical of the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein sought yellow cake uranium from Niger and elsewhere in West Africa before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.  I will be very succinct as to why there is no case, which most of the "mainstream" U.S. media have neglected to tell.  First, the operative was not a covert operative, had not been for five years.  Under the law, that is a complete defense.  Second, she already had her identity disclosed by the media, especially Vanity Fair magazine, before the article by Robert Novak in the Chicago Sun-Times came out in June 2003, and before Rove even mentioned to a reporter that "Joseph Wilson's wife" (her husband and ex-diplomat at issue) had suggested that he, Wilson, go to Africa.  Third, Rove never gave her name.  Fourth, Rove testified that he reported all this and all other matters to a federal grand jury.  All these make for a complete defense under the law.  Game, set, match.  So why is the Left (Democratic party and their friends around the world) screaming?  Truth doesn't mean a thing, not to them.  No fear of God, no fear of character, of reputation, of consequences.  Just destroy George Bush.

Once again:  Bush did not lie about the war, none of his administration did.  They have done nothing wrong.  But his enemies have done all of the above.  It will come back on them, trust me.

Later.

14 July, Thursday, 3:15 a.m.

Well, here I am again.  Couldn't get to a computer to talk yesterday, but I've got to finish off with some info from Monday, and add some new stuff today.  I have been required to do a lot more with Gail, she has had to have help with matters mundane (grocery shopping) and significant (helping work on pricing on our "new" import-export business).  She has to pepper me full of questions while I try to work on blogging, or send me out on yet another errand.  The frustration, frankly, is building, but that is something I will have to work through.  You do that when you're married.

Here is some of the articles that I really found thought-provoking today.  I can't discuss them, I just have to give you the link to each one.  Sorry.

First, in Answers in Genesis, a really good article for those into science issues, called "Pseudogene function:  Regulation of Gene Expression."  It is an insightful expose of the notion long advanced by evolutionists in the area of genetics that pseudogenes--antisense RNA, are just lost and wayward genes of no particular good in development of the genetic makeup of living beings, or worse, that they are mutant genes that have lost their use.  It is apparent that instead, "junk DNA", as they are sometimes called, have been discovered to have more and more use in the building of every living cell's basic framework, that they are not evidence of a genetically-based movement to some kind of "transitional form."  To learn more about that, click to this article here, authored in Answers in Genesis by John Woodmorappe, M.A., a scientist on staff with AIG Museum of Creation History in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA.

The second good article is found in the Christian Century, in which, in the July 12th edition, Rick Warren, whose book The Purpose Driven Life, has sold almost 65 million copies (not counting all the podcasts and audio books and hits on his website), has led the major move by over 150,000 evangelical churches, mostly in the USA, to eradicate what he calls "five 'giant problems' that oppress billions of people: global poverty; diseases, such as AIDS, that affect billions of people; illiteracy among half the world's population; spiritual emptiness among billions of people who don't know their purpose in life; and self-centered leadership."  He already had led about 42,000 churches in the aftermath of the December 2004 Asian tsunami disaster to aid its victims, in the largest single source of volunteers for the aid effort for the people of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India.  It is producing an unlikely set of alliances, of arch-conservative ministers like Pat Robertson, Billy & Franklin Graham, and James Dobson along with Warren, and well-known leftists and celebrities as George Clooney, Bob Geldof, and Bono of U2.  Once again, the secular world has underestimated the ability of the conservative evangelical  Christian community to be flexible and firm, compassionate on the poor and desperately destitute and yet firm in upholding their principles and faith (opposing abortion, gay marriage, Darwinian evolution, rank secularism in culture, pornography, arrogant statism and socialism, radical Islamism, stoutly declaring orthodox faith in the Bible, Jesus' uniqueness as God, etc.).  This article is from a publication that is from an ostensibly Christian organization that is notably left-of-center.

One really great article Wednesday in the blog The Belmont Club, which has done yeoman service in presenting a balanced view of the war in Iraq, as well as the war against Islamist terrorism (which is how I will stubbornly refer to the present war, not the sterile term 'War on Terror'), which does a great job of cautioning people all over the world, but especially here in the USA and the West, that this war is not, and cannot be a mere war against all Islam, and certainly not against the majority of Muslims. Wretchard (pen name), who has come to be one of the most dependable bloggers, has poignantly talked in "Al Jadida" about the tragedy of the suicide bombing attack of another coward working for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, murdering 27 children and wounding over 70 others, in order to take out one U.S. National Guardsman, handing out candy to children and food packages and other gifts to local Iraqis.  It is notable in the news reports that there is no more talk among the Iraqis blaming the Americans for these bombings.  They know that this is now a war on the part of less than 16,000 foreign fighters and Baathists against a nation of 27 million people.  The important thing that was said in Wretchard's article is that Westerners, especially we Christians and conservatives, need to give up the notion that we are in some modern version of the Crusades.  For all our concentration on the tragic bombing in London last week, we have to remember that on Sunday more people in Iraq were killed by these thugs, and that these children especially, are not part of the war against the West, or against Christianity, or civilization, they are its most common victims.  Sometimes they have been through tragic accidents or even gross negligence by the occasional coalition soldier, but a hundred times more often by the Al Qaeda thugs of al-Zarqawi, in allegiance to Osama bin Laden.  Let me include the quote that I find most telling and salient here:

"There are those who, after the London bombing, had convinced themselves that all Muslims were enemies of civilization. There are sound arguments for that: the existence of the Jihad, the silence of most Islamic clergy. But what of the children? What of the Muslim children who are the targets of these "freedom fighters", "resistants" or "militants", whichever the BBC prefers to call them? In what category do they belong? The empirical fact is that no group has been killed more often and more brutally by the "Jihad" than Muslims themselves. During the French Algerian war several times more Algerian Muslims died than French. Anyone with a calculator can see the same is true in Iraq. One of the targets of the London bombing was a subway station frequented by British Muslims. The first objective of terror, indeed of the Terror, and the first objective of the Jihad is to maintain internal control over its base. For as long as internal control can be maintained, a terrorist movement need not defeat its armed enemy. It will never lose; hence in the estimation of the Peace generation, it will always win.

"Logically, a large part of the War on Terror will consist of creating an insurgency within the insurgency. Fighting Islamic extremism must comprise organizing a revolt against Islam's internal oppressors. That would include waging intellectual war against Islamic fundamentalism within its own theological context -- a reformation -- it will include creating clandestine cells to strike at the gangs which beat women and intimidate men within the community. It will require all the skills of a resistance fighter struggling against bearded Big Brother. The Left has a word for such people: "Uncle Toms". That is how they've already characterized Hirsi Ali. That is to be expected. But many conservatives have also been blind to the urgent requirement of creating a liberation movement within Islam, in part because they half believe all Muslims are themselves the enemy; in part because they despair of Muslims ever rising up against the medieval institutions which constrain them; in part because they haven't thought about it. But they should. That pile of bloody children's slippers on an Iraqi street is a tally of spirits who were created to be free."

The basis for the eloquence of the Belmont Club story, along with others on Monday and Tuesday, is the sad, horrifying, but necessary to report eyewitness accounts coming through Grayhawk in the blog The Mudville Gazette, which is one of the many fine "milbloggers" that have worked with coalition military in Iraq (not just American, there are some UK and Australian ones I'll report from in the future, too).  The graphic nature is devastating, but it gives the right perspective, and places the blame where it belongs (hint: it's not on the American soldiers, or President Bush).

Attorney Scott Johnson at Powerline blog on Wednesday has, among others, withered the continuing lie about Karl Rove violating some law by 'outing' CIA analyst Valerie Plame in discrediting her and her lying ex-diplomat husband Joseph Wilson in connection to the continuous false claim, constantly regurgitated around the world, that George Bush's entry into the war with Iraq was prearranged and based upon false pretenses.  The notes and e-mail of Time correspondent Matthew Cooper affirmatively show that Rove, the president's political director and a long-time friend, DID NOT break the law or act improperly.  The article, "Somebody Feed 'Em Some Cat Food," is devastating in its expose of the ulterior motives of the mainstream media (we call it MSM).

This story is complemented very nicely by Leon H., writing in the blog Red State, in his article, "Night of the Living 'Known Fact.' "  It simply blasts the left's continually parroting the theme that the U.S. 9/11 Commission had found no connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, therefore no justification for the Iraq war.  That lie was abundantly condemned by the leaders of the 9/11 Commission, as well as by the British commission investigating British intelligence's role in the matter, and has now been thoroughly exposed and discredited since by the discoveries from captured Iraqi intelligence documents and from interrogations of insurgents and former Baathists, a point not lost upon Leon H.  The most telling lines, backed by considerably documented information, is on this last line:

"Further, Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) documents that we continue to recover after the 9/11 commission's report, that the connection between Saddam and Al-Qaeda was real and even greater than the one stated by the Bush administration before the war:..."

Well, I guess that's all for now.  I'll be sending blog referrals to all of my online community lists later.  More on business to come.  God bless, au revoir. 

Well, well, well.  Here I am again, trying to connect with everybody, not exactly having a huge audience.  One interesting blog I am wanting to connect and exchange links with, a neat one connected with a website dealing with science and Christian faith called Answers in Genesis.org
had over 1 million hits to the blog during the first week alone...I am impressed!  Who knows what the future may hold for little 'ol me?

In the meantime, Answers in Genesis has a pretty impressive webpage dealing with a lot of questions that non-religious people and believers with doubts have about the question of God's existence and objections to the same.  The one thread of links from AIG's page, Creation Question and Answers, that really impressed me was the list of articles dealing with natural selection.  The issue of the selection of certain colors and character traits of finches in the Galapagos Islands and elsewhere strongly influenced Charles Darwin.  It was nice to see articles from AIG that takes that issue head-on.

Well, one thing that is going on that may effect people that you know, is the changes going on in the law for those who have distinguished graduate or professional degrees who are seeking to come to the USA, especially those who will be sponsored by a new employer.  Those affected kinds of visas are called EB-2 and EB-3 employment immigrant visas (permanent resident green cards).  On the first of July, the number of places allotted to those applying for EB-3 visas (for highly-specialized professionals like doctors) were completely used up.  That meant that noone in those categories could have their applications reviewed until October 1st.
There are still places available for those who are applying for EB-2 visas (not as elite but still for jobs requiring at least a Bachelor's degree, or higher), but for how long, who knows?  In the past there were excess numbers of places for such green cards, left over from years where the number of allotted places went unfilled--about 249,000 this fiscal year (Oct. 1st 2004-Sept. 30th 2005), but they have been depleted.  Only 140,000 places will be available for employment-based green cards, along with 50,000 places that were made available for doctors, nurses, and physical therapists from other countries.  The U.S. Congress needs to get on to raising the number of places available, if we don't want to surrender our status as 'land of opportunity' to countries like Australia.   That particular story has more to it, to learn about it, click here. But while it makes those wanting to stay here who are wanting to "adjust status" encounter a more complex situation than before, it doesn't make it impossible by any means, and there are resources to help one get through them.  To learn more, click here, or e-mail us at FJ.Fernandez@gmail.com. 

There is a hope for good news, however.  India has been anxious to get the USA to raise its number of H-1B nonimmigrant work visas (allowing for temporary residency for up to 6 years) from 85,000 visas (including 20,000 specialty visas) to the 195,000 that was available prior to October 2003 to incoming foreign workers, especially in the high technology industry from India and China.  Much of the growth of our high tech economy here in California, the center of the world for that kind of thing, is thanks to work visa-carrying H-1B employees have done (ask Oracle, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, etc.).  We have truly engaged in one silly move after another in the immigration realm after 9/11/01, and the cutback here is at the top of the stack.  Well, India has gotten help from the World Trade Organization, and they have formally petitioned the Bush administration through the State Department to revert to the old pre-2004 numbers.  We can stay tuned, and hope.  There are proposed changes going through Congress now, it may make such changes possible.  Again, stay tuned.

Well, I'll be back later with more to tell you.  Adios, and God bless.

Regards,

The Old Alcalde

2:22 a.m., Sun. 10 June:

Well, I've been keeping my eyes glued to the Weather Channel and to Matt Drudge, as they continue to describe the growth of Hurricane Dennis into what may become one of the worst storms to ever hit the coastline of North America and the Caribbean.  It has already grown to a storm that packs winds of over 145 mph, after initially weakening when it hit Cuba on Friday.  Dennis is taking dead aim on the northernmost area of the U.S. coast off the Gulf of Mexico, expected to hit somewhere between New Orleans, Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida.  I grew up in a city near the Gulf coast, Port Arthur, Texas, and I know hurricanes well.  It's almost like dealing with a military invasion force, only far more devastating.   You know that it's coming, and you know that you can't do anything to stop it.  I'll blog a little more about it later.  But if you have family or friends down in that area, or you're there yourself, pray, seriously pray for everyone's protection.

In the meantime, there are several things that have grabbed my attention in the fields of law, current events, spirituality, and business.  First of all, Leon H. in Red State writes a pretty insightful piece on the political and social outcomes that comes from wide acceptance among elites of atheistic evolution (as opposed to theistic evolution?).  He doesn't try to engage in the issue of whether or not evolution or theism is true.  Leon simply tries to shine the light of reality on the natural result of rejection of God as the source of ultimate truth and being.  It's challenging.  Go to the initial teaser article and click your way to his main column.

Also in Red State, Leon H. headlights the decision made Friday by the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, housed in St. Louis, Missouri, which declared that the national partial birth aborion ban was unconstitional.  He points out that such decisions will themselves highlight the importance of the replacements on the Supreme Court just now being announced. This is going to have a huge effect on the legal trends of the world's various legal systems, since there are definitely two different schools of thought concerning the rule of law in a democratic country.  More on that later.

Also in Red State, Pierre LeGrand makes an interesting quote of what Saddam Hussein's intentions were, even before the first Gulf War in 1990.  Here, in a threat made to then-U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie, Saddam clearly indicated that his organization was concerned with supporting terrorist causes over 15 years ago, to strike the U.S.  Here's the quote:
There is also a really fascinating article in the Sunday Times of London by Roger Scruton, in which he probably does the best job I've ever seen, in the fewest words, of destroying this notion that the West, especially the USA and UK, are somehow to blame for the jihadists and their relentless campaign to kill and destroy.  It destroys the notion that poverty is what always bears the blame for the breeding of terrorists, that it indeed seems to be, throughout history, the wealthy, the privileged, or the middle class, which is responsible for such acts, born out of simple resentment for the wealth and success of those they wish to destroy.  I'll quote the best one of those statements here.

There is more to follow, in a moment.

This is one kind of day that I would have to say I am glad to see gone.  I visited London twice in my life.  Both came in consecutive years, back in 1975-76, in late June and early July.  London was a seedy-looking city back then, as I recall, not at all the really cool city that I hear it has developed into under the guidance of the leadership of Lady Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. Those two people, from very different backgrounds, have done so much to remake Britain from an economic and cultural basket case into once again a great world power.  But back then London was a city that still provoked magic to me, and ironically it happened as America was celebrating her 200th birthday back in '76, a very significant time. 

We were in not so good shape back then either.  We were coming out of our political humiliation in Vietnam, our industrially-based economy was getting badly whipped by Japan, we were wracked with political scandals, the resignation of President Nixon, and the Soviet Union seemed like it was invincible and could do whatever it wanted.  But we had our geniuses of leadership coming, too.  Especially one former movie actor who had an abiding trust in his God, love for his country, and an indomitable belief in the invincibility of freedom.  Ronald Reagan, whose first anniversary of his passing just happened a month ago, certainly was a testament to the power of one man to change the world, especially in tandem with three others of similar greatness:  Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, and the aforementioned Lady Thatcher.  Is there any doubt that the huge transformation of the way mankind earns his daily bread would not have occurred if not for the good fortune we all had of such great people all living at the same time.

I thought for many years that both Britain and America had made such great strides that the future was one that was 'full speed ahead.'  While so many others have just ripped them up for their entrance and conduct of the Iraq war, I have felt that both nations have excellent leadership in George Bush and Tony Blair.  And I felt that while war is always a tragedy that should be avoided if possible, I felt that this war was inevitable, with those of an interpretation of Islam that must be crushed, before it pushed the whole world back 14 centuries into a new Dark Ages.  And I felt that our enemies were too small a rag-tag band of bandits and thugs to be a real problem, and that we would easily prevail if we just stayed the course during this struggle in Iraq.  Whatever one may think of why we went to war in Iraq, democracy for these people is their birthright, too, and they appear to be determined to endure and overcome the insurgency.

But today, I just don't know.  London is now under siege, and while she is not on my native soil, she is, through the blood lines of my mother and my wife's family, my mother country.  The UK is probably our best friend, except maybe for Australia or Israel, and historically has been first to stand at our side when 'the guns begin to roar.'  The city has 80,000 cameras, watching everything that goes on in public, their MI-5 security force is unexceeded in their knowledge of the Islamic terrorist netherworld, their security systems supposedly watertight.  Scotland Yard has personally busted several major Al Qaeda plots since 9/11, including one a couple of years ago that would have released ricin gas in central London that would have annihilated tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people.  And yet, they were able to be completely fooled by Al Qaeda's British cells, and four highly-coordinated explosions slaughtered 40 people and maimed more than 700, many of them for life.

I have a daughter who works in downtown LA.  She is an office administrator by day, an actress and model by night, when she gets the work.  She is athletic, intelligent, and drop-dead beautiful.  She has a lover, a young schoolteacher, who worships the ground she walks on, as well he should.  She has retained the abiding Christian faith instilled in her and her wonderful sister by her mother and I.  She is my pride and joy.  She thinks every day about how that world could come to a screeching halt if Al Qaeda paid downtown LA a visit.

I thought today about the Jeanines of the London tubes, if not killed, then their lovely faces and skin, shredded, boiled and scarred for life by the fireballs of the bombs set on Thursday, their young limbs severed, their bodies broken, their brains reduced to vegatative states, all in seconds.  What about their broken-hearted parents?  A horror I never want to know is now their reality.  And what is so different about them from the parents who have had to live with such horror every day in Baghdad, in Kashmir, in Afghanistan, in Nigeria's budding religious war, in Sudan, especially now in Darfur? 

I have Muslim friends.  I know that they would never tolerate such hate.  I understand that there is a more moderate form of Islam practiced that rejects the hateful teachings that came from the Quoran and other Muslim writings late in Muhammad's life, and that embraces the kinder and more tolerant writings of his youth.  I have enough knowledge from them that there is a major difference between Sufi Islam and Wahabbism, at least in conduct.  I also know that most Muslims are of the more tolerant group.  But, like so many other conflicts of the past, I fear that 'the bad apples', the radicals, are getting enough people on their side to take the situation out of control, and that we may be about to enter something that the world has not faced since the Second World War.  Perhaps not even then.

There are several articles that I read today, in several areas.  I'll share them in my next post below.


1:11 a.m., Friday 8 July:

I, as I said above, am leaving you multiple links to a lot of articles that touch on different areas of interest.  That's something that is going to be more and more diverse as time goes along, Lord willing.

The main story, and especially the timeline of the Al Qaeda bombing of the London train-bus system on Thursday, is here, on the BBC online website.  A truly insightful analysis on the nature of the attacks, their reasons, the problems of the failure of security, and a sobering question of the British people's resolve, is written by Mark Steyn, senior columnist for the London Daily Telegraph.  He also has an excellent interview with a similar theme,with American talk show host Hugh Hewitt, the transcript of which is recorded on RadioBlogger.com, under the topic, 'Grim Day in Great Britain.'  There was also a very poignant story on the blog, Red State.org, by Josh Trevino, a columnist/editor of one of the most well-respected political and legal blogs today, in an article called, "The Bloody Seventh."
It contained some of the same sentiments that I expressed earlier, the sorrow, yet the recognition of the inner strength exhibited by the British people.  He was in Edinburgh, Scotland, to report on the G-8 Summit, and then flew back to London after the attack.  He was also living in New York on 9/11/2001, so he has a particularly sensitive perspective on the effects of terrorism on a people, as reflected in an interview he also had with Hugh Hewitt today on his program, recorded on Radio Blogger.com. 

Also, courtesy of attorney and political consultant Erick Erickson at Red State.org, it is reported that U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist will formally retire in a news conference announcement at 10 a.m. Eastern time (3 p.m. GMT, 7 a.m. Pacific time).  Also, Leon H. and Erick E. both reveal that their sources (yes, they have them) in Washington say that a third Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, will also leave the Supreme Court in the next few weeks, these come in articles entitled, 'Night of the Walking Rumor', and 'Supreme Court Perspective.'

An article I told about yesterday is available now, in which the different tasks of the main border enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security are discussed.  It's good to know, if you want to come to the USA, who not to piss off.  They are the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCP), the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE), the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA).  They work to complement the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), which is the organization that would handle you or your friend's application for a visa to come work, study, or live in the USA.  You can click here to check out the article.

Finally, for those who may be in difficult circumstances in their homeland, and may need to come here for refuge from an oppressive governmental situation or civil unrest that the government may be unwilling or unable to control, an interesting article about the political asylum or refugee status' application process, is found in Immigration Law Weekly, under the title of "Immigrating the Spouse and Children of Refugees/Asylees."  I'll talk about that a little more, with my own opinion about it, tomorrow, I hope.

See you later.  Adios, and God bless.  Pray for London today, pray for Baghdad, pray for us all.

Well, once again I get pulled in so many directions that I get virtually nothing done.  What is really frustrating is that some of the very people who do the "pulling" are also the first to criticize me for "being unproductive, a procrastinator."  While it normally does not help someone to blame all their failures on other people, in this case I think it fits.  I want to work, and the world just won't freaking let me!! I'm sick of it, and I have finally had it.

I won't lash out at others.  I just have to just manipulate them.  Is this cynical?  Yes.  Am I going to do it?  Yes.  Do I think that God will understand and forgive...easily? Absolutely yes.  Am I going to feel guilty about it?  HELL NO!!!

It's almost 1:30 a.m.  I'll have to get back here tomorrow, to list all of those articles.  One on the apparent misplaced priorities of people like the Live 8 concert, another on the problems caused by international aid for Africa itself, a third on the solution for African poverty--free markets, and two articles about U.S. immigration.  One pretty well describes the different agencies and their tasks under the Department of Homeland Security, hopefully to clear up confusion on the part of people unfamiliar with the multiple bureaucracies in the middle of this broken mess which is our immigration system.  Another is the recently-released study about the numbers and the makeup of those who are undocumented workers in the U.S.--illegal aliens.  Finally is the tragic story of an upstanding family in Missouri who are being deported by immigration authorities because of another screw-up by our "wonderful system."

Here is the link to the article about the Live 8 concert commentary, just click here.

This is the link to the interview in the German newspaper 'Der Spiegel' with a leading African economics expert from Kenya, Dr. James Shikwati, which exposes international development as a curse rather than a blessing, just click here.

Here is the link to the article to the Washington Post column by David Ignatius about the answer to Africa's problems lying in free markets, just click here.

This is the link to the article in a leading immigration law website newsletter, Visalaw.com, concerning the Pew Research Institute, a leading research institution out of Los Angeles, on illegal immigration and changing patterns in those that come and live in the USA, just click here.

Here is the link to the article about the various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, which is good for someone trying to get into America, just click here.

And here is the link to the article about the tragic situation of the Gonzales' family in Jefferson City, Missouri, and their unjustified deportation, just click here.

Well, hope the articles help.  E-mail me if you want to know more, for your friend or close relative who would like to come to the United States, by using the comment line in the 1 Lone Star blog, or at fj.fernandez@gmail.com.

Adios for now.  God bless.