| Senate Rejects DREAM Act  This weekend, the United States Senate voted down the House version of the DREAM Act, H.R.5281. The vote was on a cloture motion to end debate on the bill, a motion that requires 60 votes to pass. Amnesty advocates, however, came up five votes short and the bill went down, 55-41.
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ICE Busts Mexican Drug Cartel in D.C.  Nine illegal aliens were indicted and charged last week for engaging in a massive drug distribution ring in the nation’s capital. All nine defendants illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico, where they reportedly have ties with the notoriously violent drug cartel known as “La Familia.” (Id.) This year alone La Familia, a cartel known to specialize in exporting drugs to the United States, has killed 20 Mexican federal agents and military officers in drug-related attacks. One senior federal immigration official described La Familia as an “extremely violent” cartel that “won't sell to their own Mexican citizens."
Read the full article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Border Patrol Agent Killed While Protecting Illegal Aliens  A group of bandits in Rio Rico, Arizona (10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border) fatally shot Border Patrol agent and former U.S. Marine Brian A. Terry last Tuesday evening. Terry, who had been an agent since 2007, was caught in the cross-fire while trying to protect illegal aliens from bandits who rob and sexually abuse them as they cross the border. (Id.) Four suspects were apprehended in relation to the shooting, including Manuel Arianes, a 34-year old Mexican national who was convicted in 2006 for assault on a Maricopa County police officer and had been ordered to be deported twice back to Mexico.
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