What part of Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code can our elected officials not understand?
In a nutshell, this particular law says:
any citizen of any country other than the United States who:
Enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers; or
Eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers; or
Attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact;
has committed a federal crime. Violations are punishable by criminal fines and imprisonment for up to six months. Repeat offenses can bring up to two years in prison. Additional civil fines may be imposed at the discretion of immigration judges, but civil fines do not negate the criminal sanctions or nature of the offense.
Seems pretty clear-cut and easy to understand, doesn’t it? Yet our elected politicians seem to not understand it at all and many want to grant amnesty to these illegals. So in a courageous move, the State of Arizona decided they would establish a similar state law, so they could do the job federal officials are refusing. To remove illegal aliens from the United States of America.
Bear in mind the U.S. Code, quoted above. I’m fed up with hearing the ‘undocumented visitor’ B.S. that our President wants to use, whilst talking about federal criminals. An illegal alien is illegal, full stop. Why can no one seem to understand this? If someone violates criminal law, they become a criminal.
One would think with this country in the grips of an economic disaster, elected officials would see the need to enforce the immigration laws. With an estimated 12 — 20 MILLION illegal aliens living in this country, siphoning off our government-subsidized welfare programs, receiving free healthcare, taking jobs away from American citizens and NOT PAYING ANY TAXES, why should we continue to turn a blind eye to these criminals?
It’s time to start holding some feet to the fire, starting with elected officials and appointed judges. We have laws by which this country and its citizens are governed. Non-citizens do not deserve to be held above our legal system. If you agree with me, then please take a moment to share this post with others.
I want to make it clear one of my best friends is here on a permanent visa. He did all that was required of him to be here legally. He owns a local company and employs local labor. He pays his taxes. This is called legal immigration and I have absolutely no problems with this process.
As for the federal criminals who have entered my homeland illegally…
Yesterday, Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan introduced a new forum software package, XenForo. With all the customer dissatisfaction existing on the vBulletin company forums over the ongoing issues with vBulletin 4, you can imagine there are many familiar names appearing on the XenForo forums. I noticed a topic has been started on the vBulletin.org forums, asking if XenForo might be the vBulletin/IPB killer.
I registered a XenForo account to see what Kier and Mike had to offer. It is an interesting, new product, but I thought it still had a vBulletin ‘feel’ about it. I recognize that was to be somewhat anticipated, with all the history the developers have with Jelsoft/vBulletin. But I also thought I might see something completely unlike vBulletin, since they were starting with a clean slate.
In XenForo’s defense, yesterday’s release is coming very early in the development process, so I imagine changes will be made as the product matures. For now, my Care-O-Meter is registering in the ‘Meh’ range.
When I made the decision to leave vBulletin, it was actually quite some time before vB 4 ever appeared. I felt vBulletin had began to stagnate in key areas and to add bloat in unnecessary areas when vB 3.6 was released. I was dismayed to see vBulletin 3.7 adding load to my server. And I’m still not sure what vBulletin 3.8 was meant to be. So I had been shopping forum software for quite some time. I was reluctant to leave vBulletin, because it worked. But I wanted something that worked better. I think a lot of vB admins clung onto vBulletin because people like Kier and Mike were involved. But I was not one of those people. I was disappointed with what vBulletin was becoming. Because of that, I am likely going to be overly critical of XenForo.
Then again, in Invision Power Board, I have found exactly what I am looking for and that will likely keep me critical of other packages, as well. Whilst wishing Kier and Mike the very best with their new venture, I’m going to be happily continuing my business relationship with Invision Power Services.
Yesterday, I posted some security tips to help you lock down your WordPress sites against malicious attacks. I talked about how to edit file permissions and how to use .htaccess to shield your wp-config.php file. But today, I want to encourage you to take wp-config security one step further.
For those of you using Linux hosting, you will be familiar with how all your Web accessible files are located in /home/username/public_html/. And therein lies part of the problem, because a sensitive file like wp-config is Web accessible. And the details you need to keep the most safe and secure are in wp-config. Look at what is defined in wp-config -
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’);
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
Your database name, your database username, your database password and your database hostname are all contained in that file. Do you see why I am trying to do whatever I can to make this file as secure as I can make it?
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In a nutshell, this particular law says:
