Democrats In Wisconsin Gained Two State Senate Seats Assuring Republicans A Majority

State Senator Alberta Darling (R) re-elected

Republicans maintained control of the State Senate 17-16.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 10, 2011

Thiensville - On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Democrats gained two state Senate seats and came one short from taking control of the Chamber. Two of the Democratic Senators elected were, Jennifer Shilling, 32nd District and Jessica King from the 18th District.
Four Republicans were re-elected to the Senate, Robert Crowles, 2nd District, Sheila Harsdorf, 10 District, Luther Olsen, 14 District and Alberta Darling from the 8th District. Republican Senate incumbents, Randy Hopper, 18th District and Dan Kapanke from the 32nd District were defeated.
Associated Press declared Darling (R-River Hills) the winner with 100% of the precincts reporting, she got 39,471 votes, 54% and Sandy Pasch, (D) with 34,096 votes, 46% just after midnight in the recall elections. Pasch called Darling and conceded the election.
Darling is facing re-election once more in 15 months in 2012. She was first elected to the Senate 1990.
Two Senate Democrats, Bob Wirch, 22nd District and Jim Holperin from the 12th District have recall elections on August 16. Wirch is being challenged by Jonathan Steitz (R) and Holperin is facing Kim Simac (R).
So far, an estimated $6 million has been raised by recall Senators and more than $30 million has been spent in campaign ads by unions, special interest groups and major political parties including the candidates.
The Republicans have been recall for voting to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most state employees. The Democrats were being recall for leaving the state for a month to stall a vote to eliminate union state employees to engage in collective bargaining.
Also on Tuesday, Governor Scott Walker (R) signed into law a Republican Senate redistricting bill (SB-148) that would give an edge to the GOP and creates more Republican voting-age majorities in the state. Walker will be facing a recall himself in November after he completes one year in office. Walker signed into law Act 10, which eliminates most collective bargaining rights for most state employees. Act 10 became effective on June 29, after it was published in the Wisconsin State Journal.
He also signed a two-year budget, which eliminates in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and cuts $800 million from public school districts in the state, but boosts tax credits for businesses.

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4-H Foundation And Governor Walker Raised $53K During Auction At The Wisconsin State Fair

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Walker generated $53K for Wisconsin's 4-H to benefit youths.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 9, 2011

West Allis, WI - On Tuesday, Governor Scott Walker (R) during the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation's/Governor's Sweepstakes Meat Products Auction, at the Wisconsin State Fair AG Oasis helped raise funds for the 4-H. The 4-H one day auction and fundraiser raised $53,000, breaking a record for 2011, last year they raised $36,000.

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26 Asensión Municipal Police In Chihuahua Resigned After Two Were Killed By Armed Men

State police and Mexican military take over jurisdiction in Asensión.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 7, 2011

Asensión, Chihuahua, Mexico - On Thursday, Mayor Jaime Domínguez Loya of Asensión in the municipality of Casas Grandes confirmed that all 26 municipal police officers had resigned after two were murdered and a 23-year-old policewoman was injured in an ambush. The officers, Luis Ernesto Baltierrez Morales, 33, and David Alfredo Chacón Navarro, 40, were killed on Tuesday by unknown drug cartel members trying to take over the area. Navarro had just recently joined the force.
The 26 officers decided to turn in their uniforms, weapons and resigned for fear of losing their lives. The police department was attacked about a week ago and the recent killing of the two officers led to their resignations, according to Domínguez Loya.
Last week, Mayor Domínguez Loya requested the Chihuahua State Attorney's Office (PGR) to send state police and federal troops to patrol his town. Both the state police and federal troops began patrolling Asensión over the weekend, according to the PGR.
On May 14, Asensión Police Chief Manuel Martínez Arvizo and two of his bodyguards were kidnapped and then killed while returning from a law enforcement training session at the Casas Grandes municipality. The bodies of Arvizo and his bodguards were found a day after they were killed.

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Los Ciegos del Barrio Performed At Discovery World Outdoor Concert In Milwaukee

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Hundreds attended event at the lakefront.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 7, 2011

Milwaukee - Last Wednesday, Los Ciegos del Barrio or the Blind Boys from the Hood Latin group from New York City were in Milwaukee to perform an outdoor concert that drew hundreds of people. The group performed at the outdoor Rotary Amphitheater of Discovery World, 500 N. Harbor Drive for a second time. They were here last Summer.
Most of Los Ciegos del Barrio members are visually impaired, but their inability to see doesn't keep them from performing exceptionally well, especially when they play Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbias, Reggaeton, Rock and cross over songs in both Spanish and English. Only four of six members from the group were in Milwaukee.
Los Ciegos del Barrio are gifted with musical talent and draw crowds where ever they perform.

Los Ciegos del Barrio music video at link: http://bit.ly/q5faX1


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U.S. ICE No Longer Needs Authorization From State Governments To Implement Secure Communities

John Morton

ICE terminates Secure Communities agreements with 40 states.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 6, 2011

Washington, D.C. - John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently sent out letters to 40 state governments announcing that ICE will no longer need their authorization to implement Secure Communities Program (SCP). Some of the states wanted to opt-out of the SCP program because ICE was deporting more non-criminal illegal immigrants than criminal undocumented suspects. SCP is a fingerprinting sharing initiative to identify undocumented suspects held for domestic violations or criminal charges at any county jail in the U.S.
Morton determined that ICE doesn't need to make agreements with state governments inorder to get access to fingerprinting data of arrests. ICE will now automatically share the fingerprinting data with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), since it is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and already shares the information.
According to Morton, ICE uses an already-existing federal information-sharing partnership with the FBI that helps to identify criminal aliens without imposing new or additional requirements on state and local law enforcement. For decades, local jurisdictions have shared the fingerprints of individuals who are booked into jails with the FBI to see, if they have a criminal record. Under Secure Communities, the FBI automatically sends the fingerprints to ICE to check against its immigration databases. If these checks reveal that an individual is unlawfully present in the United States or otherwise removable due to a criminal conviction, ICE takes enforcement action – prioritizing the removal of individuals who present the most significant threats to public safety as determined by the severity of their crime, their criminal history, and other factors – as well as those who have repeatedly violated immigration laws.
Secure Communities imposes no new or additional requirements on state and local law enforcement, and the federal government, not the state or local law enforcement agency, determines what immigration enforcement action, if any, is appropriate.
Only federal DHS officers make immigration enforcement decisions, and they do so only after an individual is arrested for a criminal violation of state law, separate and apart from any violations of immigration law, according to ICE website.
ICE recently reported that about 400 thousand undocumented immigrants are deported every year from the U.S. and with the SCP implemented by ICE, the deportations could rise to 800,000 per year. The previous program under agreement with states was suppose to target criminal undocument immigrants, but only several hundred thousand have been detained and deported in two years. The rest of the deportations were at least 600,000 non-criminal illegal immigrants who were deported under Secure Communities within several years, according to ICE.
The National Institute of Migration in Mexico reported 66,704 Mexican nationals were deported from the U.S. between January and February 2011, 63,970 were over 18 and 2,734 were minors. ICE deported, 30,844 in January and 35,860 in February, of the adults, 57,908 were men and 6,062 were women. (Source Notimex)
Recently, U.S. ICE deportations have increased under President Barack H. Obama. More than 1,000 of undocumented immigrants are being deported per day (387,790 per year) under Obama's administration (400,000 families with U.S. citizen members are being destroyed by deportations according to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights), compared to almost 650 daily deportations (240,000 per year) under former President George W. Bush. (Source: La Jornada Morelos, 3/9/2010)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported that 10.8 million of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., 62% are Mexican nationals. In 2008, more than 12 million of undocumented immigrants resided in the U.S. An estimated more than 4 million U.S. born children have at least one or both parents who are undocumented.
In early December of 2010, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicated that the approval of the DREAM Act would help cut the federal deficit by $1.4 billion, and generate $2.3 billion in corporate and social insurance taxes within the next ten years. http://bit.ly/fk6B3N
Last year, the DREAM Act was killed in the U.S. Senate because it failed to get the needed 60 votes to prevent a filibuster inorder for the bill to proceed for a Senate vote.
Today, U.S. House Republicans are trying to implement E-Vertify System for employers to use the federal system to vertify the legal status of all employees. The system has flaws, according to Obama, who wants it fixed first before it is used.

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Hundreds Of Black Teens Attacked Wisconsin State Fair Attendees At The Midway

Wisconsin State Fair Opening Day

Some black teens leaving the Wisconsin State Fair in a mob rampage attacked white festivalgoers without provocation.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 5, 2011
(Updated)

West Allis - On Thursday, hundreds of black teens acting like a mob began to attacked white festivalgoers at the North midway section of the Wisconsin State Fair Park. Fair police responded to multiple fights ignited by a large group of black teens, according to festivalgoers, vendors and police investigating the incidents.
Some of the mob like rampage incidents began around 7:00 p.m., before 10:00 p.m. and then continued after closing around the midway where the rides section in located in the North portion of the fair. Festivalgoers described the incidents as black teens picking fights with white males and other people.
Some of the black teens jumped on cars, people were just beaten up and racial slurs were shouted at white people leaving the fair at closing time. Police were able to make 24 arrests and seven officers were injured including two that had to be hospitalized. Numerous people inside and outside the fair were reported injured.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police, the West Allis Police Department and Milwaukee Police Department continue to investigate the incidents. The Milwaukee Police Major Incident Response Team (M.I.R.T.) will be at the state fair grounds for the weekend beginning on Friday.
Governor Scott Walker (R) ordered the State Patrol to assist Wisconsin State Fair Police in added security after reviewing reports of the melee by teens.
Wisconsin State Fair officials immediatedly implemented a policy prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 to enter after 5:00 p.m. without being accompanied by a person who is 21 or older.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, West Allis Police and other officials don't believe the black teen melee was racially motivated. But victims injured confirmed, the teens were shouting racial slurs at them while being beaten and at other white people that were attacked.
Extra police will be added to outdoor festivals and teens engaged in this type of behavior will be prosecuted regardless of race, Mayor Barrett said in a press conference on Friday.

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Girls allegedly Were Paid For Sexual Acts With Neighbor

Suspect in sexual assaults of three young girls believed to have fled the country to avoid prosecution.

By H. Nelson Goodson
August 4, 2011

Milwaukee - On Thursday, J. Guadalupe Paredes-Ramirez, 57, was charged with four counts of child enticement and sexual contact, three counts of 1st-degree child sexual assault including sexual contact with a person under age of 13 and one count of 2nd-degree sexual assault of a child. A warrant was also issued for Paredes-Ramirez.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the criminal complaint stated that the three young girls were lured multiple times by Paredes-Ramirez into his apartment and then paid less than $20 for sexual favors in several encounters.
Milwaukee police apparently changed the criminal complaint against Paredes-Ramirez of the 700 block of S. 37th St. Paredes-Ramirez is accused of having a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl and two 11-year-old girls on July 23.
At first, police in a search warrant issued on July 30 claimed the girls were forced at knife point to go with Paredes-Ramirez to his residence. At the residence, Paredes-Ramirez then took his clothes off and at gun point had the girls perform sexual acts.
Police have scrapped that preliminary report and are now saying the girls actually went willingly with Paredes-Ramirez to his upper apartment on S. 37th St.
Police have been silent until actual charges against Paredes-Ramirez were filed and the criminal complaint states a different version of events than priviously stated on a search warrant.
Paredes-Ramirez is believed to have fled the country and is currently in Mexico.

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