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December 20, 2007
Underwater Homeowners Rent to Illegal Alien Smugglers "Unable to sell his house in suburban Phoenix's anemic real estate Tancredo May Withdraw from Presidential Race "Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado, whose forceful Myers Confirmed as ICE Undersecretary "The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Julie L. Myers as director of |
market, Jason Winterholler rented to a couple who paid the deposit in cash and didn't haggle over price. It was a deal he came to regret. The renters were fronts for immigrant smugglers who used the house as a hiding place for illegal immigrants and trashed the home. In October, a SWAT team drove an armored personnel carrier onto the lawn and raided the house, rounding up nearly two dozen people," the AP reports. "Immigrant smugglers are seeing a business opportunity in the nation's mortgage crisis: They are renting vacant new homes in the Phoenix suburbs and using them as stash houses for the people they have slipped across the Mexican border, authorities say. Stash houses are stopover points where smugglers collect their fees and make travel arrangements for immigrants headed to points throughout the country."
opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence, plans to announce he is abandoning his long-shot bid for the presidency, a person close to Mr. Tancredo said Wednesday. Mr. Tancredo, a five-term congressman, planned to make the announcement at a news conference in Des Moines, on Thursday, the person, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for Mr. Tancredo or his campaign, told The Associated Press," the AP reports.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two years after President Bush appointed her to the position amid questions about her qualifications to lead the government's second-largest law enforcement agency. Myers was among more than 30 people whose appointments were approved by a voice vote of the Senate as it concluded its session," the Washington Post reports. "Bush had used a recess appointment in 2005 to put Myers, then 36, in charge of ICE, the branch of the Homeland Security Department that enforces immigration laws, when the Senate appeared unlikely to confirm her. Although she was a former Treasury official and assistant U.S. attorney, lawmakers debated whether she had enough experience to lead the agency."