Religious authorities utilized the word 'heretic' in the 16^th century to silence or 'slap down' anyone that brought facts, figures and new concepts to the public.  If a new scientific concept contradicted the Catholic Church, they placed the scoundrel under house arrest-such as Galileo for proving the Earth revolved around the sun.

CBP Creates Electronic Reading Room to Increase Public Access to Documents

Washington - U.S. Customs and Border Protection today launched improvements in Web-based technology designed to increase public access to agency records and documents.

The upgraded CBP Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room will feature records and documents formerly only available through FOIA request. Documents and records responding to certain FOIA requests are now available at foia.cbp.gov. (FOIA Reading Room )

"CBP is striving to boost agency transparency and accountability, while promoting efficiency and effectiveness through the use of technology," said Acting Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern.

El Universal (Mexico City) 10/20/09

Violence crosses into the U.S. without a visa

Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana was murdered with eight .45 caliber shots the night of Friday, May 15, in a residence to the northeast of El Paso, Texas. The 37 year old man was the presumed leader of the Juarez cartel and a DEA informant. The killer was identified by police as Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18 years old, a member of the 111th Air Artillery Defense Brigade of the United States Army. Apodaca was asked to kill him. A rival organization, known as La Compania [The Company] contracted him and two other subjects to square away a debt.

Four months later, the night of Thursday, September 3rd, another supposed drug trafficker was taken out of his domicile violently, in a suburb of that same city.

Center for Immigration Studies: Immigration Blog

The Obama administration investigation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration enforcement program is starting to look a little futile. A federal source revealed today that more than 40 percent of the 500-plus arrests made in Sheriff Joe's crime suppression operations were in fact "serious" criminals of the kind Janet Napolitano claims to want help from local law enforcement agencies in identifying. This is actually a higher proportion of "serious" offenders than in many other 287(g) jurisdictions. So why has Sheriff Joe been singled out?

DHS spokesman Matt Chandler was quoted in Wednesday's Politico as follows: "[DHS] decided to terminate the Task Force Model in Maricopa County because the agency believes Maricopa County Sheriff's Office sweeps do not align with ICE priorities to arrest, detain and remove serious criminal aliens .... The success of the Task Force model relies on cooperation and coordination with local law-enforcement partners. MCSO has been unwilling to coordinate with local jurisdictions while continuing to flaunt a disregard for [DHS] priorities."