Taken Baby I fail to see why an illegal alien who was stupid enough to give her baby to someone she didn't know because she was "afraid of deportation" should be front-page news. If she wasn't an illegal alien living off the USA's largess to begin with, she wouldn't be worried about being deported. ...more

March 27, 2009

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008

Explain, Congresswoman Regarding "Search For Culprit In Immigrants' Crime Spree Starts On Capitol Hill" (Our Opinion, Aug. 26): ...more

August 30, 2008

Temple Terrace police are looking for a pair of con artists who bilked a middle-aged woman out of $4,500 when she tried to help them. ...more

August 28, 2008

Like the politician she is, Republican Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, who represents the swamps and woods of Hernando, Citrus, Sumter and parts of Pasco counties, sent out news releases to the media the other day, attacking Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee and his office for not digging into the identity of Rigoberto Moron Martinez, a suspect in a series of violent attacks across the Tampa Bay region. ...more

August 27, 2008

After reading the Jan. 5 article "Foreclosure Threat" by Lily Oliva of Sebring, where it was explained how cheap foreign labor was driving them out of the dry wall finishing business, I would like to make the following comments. It was never stated if the Hispanics that were sleeping 15 to a room were illegals or not. And due to the fact that no law enforcement units in Highlands County have received 287-G (ICE) training, which would allow them to enforce the existing laws that make it a crime to hire an illegal alien, we will never know. ...more

January 9, 2008

My questions are: 1. Should our sheriff's officers be fighting crime by arresting criminals? 2. Is illegal immigration a crime? 3. Is hiring an illegal alien a crime? 4. Is identity theft a crime? 5. Is document falsification a crime? 6. Are any of our sheriff's officers arresting anyone for committing any of the above listed crimes? Why not? ...more

November 21, 2007