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San Bernardino Suspect on K-1 ‘Fiancée’ Visa

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by ADELLE NAZARIAN3 Dec 2015320

Tashfeen Malik, the 27-year-old wife and accomplice of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, 28, was in America on a K-1 (fiancée) visa and held a Pakistani passport.

Malik and Farook together carried out Wednesday’s deadly San Bernardino massacre, which left 14 dead.

Farook, who was a U.S. citizen, had reportedly travelled to Pakistan and returned to the U.S. in July 2014. Under U.S. immigration law, the K-1-visa-holding fiancée of an American citizen is permitted “to travel to the United States and marry his or her U.S. citizen sponsor within 90 days of arrival.”

After the couple married, Malik was given a green card, becoming a lawful, permanent resident.

It can take as little as three years for a K-1 visa recipient to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.

A chart presented by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration last week reveals the U.S. issued 680,000 visas to migrants from Muslim nations over the last five years. The majority of those visas (83,000) were granted to immigrants from Pakistan.

According to CNN, “Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia for several weeks in 2013 on the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are required to take at least once in their lifetime, which didn’t raise red flags, said two government officials. It was during this trip that he met Malik, a native of Pakistan who came to the United States on a ‘fiancée visa’ and later became a lawful permanent resident.”

The U.S. Department of State says that “the foreign-citizen will then apply for adjustment of status to a permanent resident (LPR) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Because a fiancé(e) visa permits the holder to immigrate to the U.S. and marry a U.S. citizen shortly after arrival in the United States, the fiancé(e) must meet some of the requirements of an immigrant visa.”

During a Thursday press conference, law enforcement said that Farook was radicalized and had been in touch with people who were being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism. He had reportedly also been in touch with people with radical Islamic views both within the United States and abroad. Officials said Farook had communicated by phone and via social media with these terrorist suspects.

The terrorist couple was killed during a gun battle near the location of the massacre. They left behind a 6-month-old baby girl, in the care of relatives.

Breitbart’s Caroline May contributed to this report.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...-fiancee-visa/

Naming of second San Bernardino suspect, Tayyeep bin Ardogan, an apparent hoax


Authorities prepare to search an area near a church on Wednesday following a shooting that killed multiple people at a social services center for the disabled in San Bernardino, Calif. (The Victor Valley Daily Press via Associated Press) more >

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By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 2, 2015

According to multiple news outlets late Wednesday, police named a second suspect in the San Bernardino shootings, but the reports were retracted.

The reports in Fox News, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Los Angeles Times, Mediaite and elsewhere named a 28-year-old Qatari citizen, Tayyeep bin Ardogan, as the second suspect.

However, Rick Serrano, a Los Angeles Times reporter who had tweeted the name, later deleted his tweet and said it appeared to be a hoax.

“SB police clarifying that 2nd name was not released by them.

Appears now to be a hoax. We are disregarding,” Mr. Serrano tweeted.

Other outlets also altered their stories.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-san-bernardi/

Oh, well that explains that. A hoax.

2 different people.

Naming of second San Bernardino suspect, Tayyeep bin Ardogan, an apparent hoax

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Tashfeen Malik, the 27-year-old wife and accomplice of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, 28, was in America on a K-1 (fiancée) visa and held a Pakistani passport.

After the couple married, Malik was given a green card, becoming a lawful, permanent resident.

The hoax article said Tayyeep was from Qatari.

28-year-old Qatari citizen, Tayyeep bin Ardogan, as the second suspect.
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The real wife was from Pakistan.

Tashfeen Malik, the 27-year-old wife and accomplice of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, 28, was in America on a K-1 (fiancée) visa and held a Pakistani passport.

This tragedy has A LOT TO DO WITH IMMIGRATION - legal or illegal. 680,00 legal immigrants from muslim countries since 2009 under O admin and the continuing agenda of over 200,00 a year from muslim countries is spreading and enabling jihad.

Let us be clear, muslim countries have over 50% inbreeding statistics - aka violence and schizophrenia plus children with numerous disabilities - costs mostly on the taxpayer.

Is 30,000 mentally disabled peoples enrolled at the San Bernadino center enough numbers to realize there are way too many problems with mental disabilities for whatever reason - pollution, food chain, water, vaccines, parental and/or drug abuse. Why do we have to enable more populace of like by allowing them to emigrate to USA and breed on our dollar? It is NOT WISE! Is only for the benefit of consumerism and the money corporations will make?
And the ultimate muslim desire - take over - nothing has changed with them.

The 2 involved had a 6month old child - where were their thoughts for their offspring, let alone the numerous people they killed? MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSED BY INBREEDING AND THE CURRENT ISLAMIC CRAZINESS TO DOMINATE ALL.

Originally Posted by artist

This tragedy has A LOT TO DO WITH IMMIGRATION - legal or illegal. 680,00 legal immigrants from muslim countries since 2009 under O admin and the continuing agenda of over 200,00 a year from muslim countries is spreading and enabling jihad.

Let us be clear, muslim countries have over 50% inbreeding statistics - aka violence and schizophrenia plus children with numerous disabilities - mostly on the taxpayer.

Is 30,000 mentally disabled peoples enrolled at the San Bernadino center enough numbers to realize there are way too many problems with mental disabilities for whatever reason - pollution, food chain, water, vaccines, parental and/or drug abuse. Why do we have to enable more populace of like by allowing them to emigrate to USA and breed on our dollar? It is NOT WISE! Is only for the benefit of consumerism and the money corporations will make?
And the ultimate muslim desire - take over - nothing has changed with them.

The 2 involved had a 6month old child - where were their thoughts for their offspring, let alone the numerous people they killed? MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSED BY INBREEDING AND THE CURRENT ISLAMIC CRAZINESS TO DOMINATE ALL.

This is why we need an immediate 10 to 20 year Moratorium on All Immigration and we need it now. But I have no confidence in this Congress to do anything about any of it.

Developing San Bernardino shooting victims: Who they were

Marie Cabrera, Sonya Gonzalez and Christine Duran, all of San Bernardino, pray after Wednesday's shooting.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)


Authorities said a man and woman wearing masks and bearing assault rifles opened fire on a holiday gathering of San Bernardino county employees around 11 a.m. Wednesday. At least 14 people were killed and 21 wounded, police said.

These are their names and stories. The list will be updated as more information becomes available.

Do you have something to share about one of the victims?

Please contact datadesk@latimes.com or call 213-237-7847.

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Fatalities


Robert Adams, 40

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Yucaipa
Occupation: Environmental health specialist
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
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Robert Adams, who died in the attack, grew up in the Inland Empire and married his high school sweetheart, Summer, according to Jenni Kosse, a family friend.
Adams, 40, loved to attend the Renaissance Fair and adored his 20-month-old daughter, Savannah.
His love for his family, Kosse said, was infectious.
“When you saw the three of them together, you just wanted to jump in the middle and think, ‘I want to have fun too,” Kosse said.
— Marisa Gerber

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Isaac Amanios, 60

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Fontana
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Bennetta Bet-Badal, 46

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: Rialto
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Harry Bowman, 46

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Upland
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Sierra Clayborn, 27

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: Moreno Valley
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Juan Espinoza, 50

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Highland
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Aurora Godoy, 26

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: San Jacinto
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Shannon Johnson, 45

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: Los Angeles
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Daniel Kaufman, 42


Injury: Fatal
Hometown: Rialto
Occupation: Ran the coffee shop in building 3 at Inland Regional Center
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Ryan Reyes dropped off his boyfriend, Daniel Kaufman, at work Wednesday at 7 a.m. and traded texts and photos with him throughout the morning.
"He was his usual cheerful, chattering self," Reyes said.
Kaufman, 42, ran the coffee shop in building 3 at the Inland Regional Center, training the developmentally disabled clients who worked there.
The last message from Kaufman arrived at 10:37 a.m. — a picture of a friend he had met at a comic book conference.
About an hour later, Reyes received a text from his sister: "Hey Ry does Daniel work at the Regional Center in Sb? Check the news."
Reyes, 32, called his boyfriend repeatedly but kept getting sent to voicemail.
"Call me ASAP!" he texted. There was no reply.
The next 22 hours were a slow torture, as Reyes and his family received conflicting reports about his boyfriend's fate. In the end, they learned that Kaufman was among the 14 killed at the regional center.
Kaufman's employer, a contractor for the center, hadn't been able to reach him either.
When Reyes heard that survivors were being brought to a local community center, he rushed there and waited.
A few hours later, around 4 p.m., Reyes got good news. His cousin had posted on Facebook that Kaufman was alive. He had been shot in the arm but would survive — at least that is the information she had received from the girlfriend of one of Kaufman's disabled clients.
Officials at the community center confirmed a similar story to Reyes' uncle, Greg Johnson. Kaufman was in surgery and out of danger, but nobody could tell the family which hospital.
Relatives and friends started calling, six hospitals in all. Reyes drove to the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Kaufman wasn't there either.
"All the hospitals said they didn't have him," Reyes said.
Back at the community center, buses had been arriving all evening, unloading traumatized survivors of the attack, who filed into a gymnasium.
Kaufman wasn't there and no more buses were coming.
"We were the last family there," said Reyes' aunt, Wanda Clemmons.
Officials told Reyes that the bodies of the dead were still at the crime scene and said they needed a physical description.
Just under 6 feet tall and around 195 pounds, Reyes said. Black dress shoes with square toes. Khakis. A black polo shirt — the uniform for Coffee N More. No tattoos. Lots of rings and necklaces and one earring on each side — rainbow bars for gay pride.
Reyes took four over-the-counter sleeping pills and fell asleep well after midnight. He still didn't know.
The couple — who considered themselves free spirits and shared a love of horror movies — had been together for nearly three years. Reyes said Kaufman engaged everybody he met in conversation, often holding up the grocery store check-out line. He refused to get a driver's license, saying he didn't want to give up the daily rides to and from work with Reyes.
Kaufman, who was adopted by an aunt and uncle after his parents died, spent much of his childhood in Pasadena but moved to Rialto during high school.
He had worked at the social services center for about five years.
Thursday morning at Reyes' house in Rialto, where he lives with his parents, he waited for news. A Christmas tree stood in the doorway.
Reyes had lost two close friends to disease in 2011 and 2012.
"I'm so emotionally drained right now," he said. "I don't know if I want to scream, cry or break a window."
"I'm trying to cling to hope."
But then, at 10:38 Thursday morning, Reyes' cellphone rang. It was the aunt who had adopted Kaufman.
He was gone.
Reyes huddled in the kitchen with his aunt and mother, Patricia. They wept together as the television news of the shooting played in the background. Read more »
— Alan Zarembo

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Damian Meins, 58

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Riverside
Occupation: County of San Bernardino Environmental Health employee
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In an email sent to employees, Juan C. Perez, director of Riverside County Transportation & Land Management Agency, called Damian Meins a "bright light" that had been "extinguished from our world in a most tragic way."
Perez said Meins had spent 28 years working for Riverside County and had recently returned to a position with the Environmental Health Dept. after retiring in 2010. Meins, he said was a physical education teacher at St. Catherine's School in Riverside, where he played Santa for the children.
"I will always remember Damian as a caring, jovial man with a warm smile and a hearty laugh," Perez wrote.
— Megan Garvey

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Tin Nguyen, 31

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: Santa Ana
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Nicholas Thalasinos, 52


Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Colton
Marital status: Married
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As he did every day, Nicholas Thalasinos dropped off his wife at work. But on Wednesday, he also carried in the classroom snacks.
"So I actually got an extra hug and a kiss before he left," recalled Jennifer Thalasinos on Thursday, outside her Colton home. "So I'm just holding on to that."
Thalasinos, 41, described her husband as a good, chivalrous man with a vast amount of friends made at church and on Facebook.
The second-grade teacher for the Colton Joint Unified School District said she had received a news alert on her phone about the San Bernardino shooting that would end up claiming the lives of 14 people.
Trying to keep her efforts quiet while in front of her students, she attempted in vain to reach her husband. Then she learned that the shooting had taken place at the Inland Regional Center, the same building that housed her husband's annual employee party where awards are handed out.
"As soon as I heard what had happened, I pretty much knew that he was gone. I just had a feeling," she said.
Thalasinos said her husband was a health inspector who worked with shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook at the San Bernardino County Health Department's environmental services division.
"They got along," she said. "As far as I know, [Syed] got along with everybody. That's what's so shocking."
The couple met online and had been together for 14 years. Both Messianic Jews, Thalasinos said her husband wore tzitzit, traditional fringe tassels as well as a tie clip with the Star of David.
"My husband was just a very devout believer," she said. "He became born again a couple of years ago and because of that I had a very strong faith, so I know that he's in a much better place."
She added that her husband evangelized many. "He wanted to serve the lord and bring more people to the lord."
She said that her husband was aware Farook was Muslim, but had never mentioned that his co-worker had any extreme views. "If he would have ... my husband would have had something to say."
Thalasinos said she had heard that before the shooting, there may have been an argument at the party. She described her husband as very outspoken about Islamic terrorism, with strong conservative politics.
"I'm sure that he went down fighting and protecting people," she said.
Just four days earlier, Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, had phoned a friend to tell him he was feeling OK after having a growth removed from his head.
"He had just healed from one thing and then this happened," said Ed Beck, whose wife once worked with Thalasinos for the Cape May County Department of Health in New Jersey.
Thalasinos had worked as a health inspector and left for California about a decade ago after meeting his future wife, Beck said.
Public payroll records confirm that Thalasinos worked as an environmental health specialist.
"He had an incredibly good work ethic," Beck said. "The job of a sanitary inspector is certainly not the most glamorous of professions. He was passionate about it. He wanted to make sure people were safe."
Beck, 55, remembered Thalasinos as someone always willing to lend a helping hand to others. He recalled that when he and his wife were in the process of building an addition to their home that Thalasinos would often drop by and pitch in.
"He certainly wasn't the contractor type, but anything he could do in the construction process, he was willing to do," Beck said.
Beck said his friend had become concerned about Israel in recent years and was extremely forthright about his opinions.
Thalasinos has two adult sons, he said.
Many of Thalasinos' friends shared their grief on social media.
"I am in utter disbelief!!! Why? Why does God take away good people?" posted Yael Zarif-Markovich.
Paul Haried wrote: "Nick was such a loving and kind man. ... Blessed be his memory! Yah grant him a wonderful place in yer Kingdom."
Diana Jakopovic posted that she was Thalasinos' longtime online friend and that they had bonded over political issues. She noted that he seemed deeply devout and often cited Scripture.
"I liked his comments," she wrote. "He was inspiring. He understood that there is a lot of evil happening in the world."
Thalasinos' last public Facebook post, written just hours before the shooting, mentioned receiving a threatening message related to Israel.
Until last year, Thalasinos contributed to the conservative blog Big Dog, where he wrote under the name "Noahide," the website's administrator said in a blog post.
— Corina Knoll and Veronica Rocha

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Yvette Velasco, 27

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Female
Hometown: Fontana
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Mike Raymond Wetzel, 37

Injury: Fatal
Gender: Male
Hometown: Lake Arrowhead
Occupation: Supervising environmental health specialist with San Bernardino County
Marital status: Married
Children: 6
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Wetzel lived in Lake Arrowhead with his wife and his six children, a friend of the family said.
"So many prayers needed," Wetzel's wife wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon. "My husband was in the meeting where the shooting happened. I have not been able to get in touch with him. Please please pray that he is ok."
Wetzel was well-known in Lake Arrowhead for his love of children, said family friend Arlene Arenas, 40. While running errands or buying groceries in town, he was often seen with his kids—three from his first marriage, three from his second.
A photo shared by the Church of the Woods, which Wetzel attended, showed him standing with his wife and children, who range in age from mid-teens to an infant. He loved babies, Arenas said, and could soothe a colicky infant when no one else could.
Wetzel spent seven years coaching boys' and girls' soccer with the local AYSO league. His first year, he coached five-year-old girls who were just learning the sport. Their team was princess-themed.
"He was super tall, and the littlest of girls thought he was a giant," said Arenas, whose daughter played on the same team. "He had no qualms about letting them follow him around, or walking around like a monster, with the little ones shrieking and hanging off his legs."
Wetzel graduated from Rim of the World High School in Twin Peaks, Calif., in 1996.
One of the last times Arenas saw Wetzel was during the last summer concert of the year in Lake Arrowhead Village. He and his wife, Renee, shared a table with Arenas, and she held their baby as they danced.
"We watched them just holding each other," Arenas said. "We took those small moments for granted."
— Laura J. Nelson

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Injured

Patrick Baccari, 55

Injury: Not fatal
Gender: Male
Occupation: Food inspector
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Patrick Baccari was about to dry his hands in the bathroom when bullets ripped into the towel dispenser, sending shrapnel into his face, blood spilling into his eyes. The rounds pocked the walls as he dove for cover onto the floor. He and another man pushed the door closed with their legs and waited for police arrive. Read more »
— Jack Dolan, Paul Pringle and Stephen Ceasar

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Kevin Ortiz, 24

Injury: Not fatal
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
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Kevin Ortiz, a county environmental inspector, was shot twice in the leg and once in the shoulder.
Amid the chaos, the 24-year-old managed to call his wife of two weeks and father to tell them he was alive.
"Kevin said he had been shot three times and that he was in pain but he was all right," Dyana Ortiz, 23, said. "Then he said, 'I love you,' and I said, 'I love you.'"
Seconds later the phone call ended.
Ortiz' family was not surprised he had found the ability to make these crucial phone calls.
"That's Kevin, he's a fighter," his brother David Ortiz said. "Through him, the Ortizes get to shine again." Read more »
— Louis Sahagun

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Denise Peraza, 27

Injury: Not fatal
Gender: Female
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It was 2:45 p.m. when Denise Peraza, 27, called a relative who was waiting outside of the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. As friends and relatives crowded around the phone, they listened as Peraza provided details of the shooting.
She said the the doors of the environmental health services office of San Bernardino County opened and two men dressed all in black wearing black face masks entered with "big 'ol guns" and started shooting randomly.
Everyone dropped to the floor. It was during a holiday party.
Peraza was hiding under a desk when she was shot once in the lower back. She said the shooters were gone and everything was perfectly silent for about five minutes. Then suddenly, the doors were pushed opened again but this time, it was law enforcement officers. Lots of them, and they yelled out: "Anyone who can move, leave immediately and find cover behind vehicles."
Peraza said they were then helped into the beds of pickup trucks and taken to a safer location. Read more »
— Louis Sahagun

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Jennifer Stevens, 22

Injury: Not fatal
Gender: Female
Occupation: Environmental technician for the County of San Bernardino
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Stevens was shot in the stomach during Wednesday’s attack, but is in stable condition after surgery, according to a fundraising page created by a family friend.
She was hired last month as an environmental technician for the County of San Bernardino, according to her LinkedIn page.
Stevens attended Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, and graduated from UC Riverside this spring with a degree in environmental science with a focus in toxicology, according to her LinkedIn page. She previously worked as an instructor at a surf camp for adults and children.
— Laura J. Nelson

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Julie Swann-Paez


Injury: Not fatal
Gender: Female
Occupation: Health department inspector
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By all accounts, Wednesday should have been a day of celebration for Julie Paez. The inspector with the San Bernardino County Department of Health walked into the Christmas party at the Inland Regional Center ready to receive an Employee of the Year award and spend time with her colleagues.
But the morning quickly went south. Shooters stormed into the room, opening fire on Paez and her co-workers. She was hit at least twice, according to her children.
"Love you guys," she said in a group text message with her family. "Was shot."
Attached to the message, sent around 11:20 a.m., was a photo of her face as she lay on the floor.
"I thought she was dead," said her son Nick Paez, 26, as he sat in his parents' home with his younger brother and sister.
At first, Nick Paez said, his father couldn't figure out which hospital Julie was taken to. He searched different facilities. An officer at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center said she wasn't there. Finally, he said, he made it to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he learned she had been shot once in the upper thigh and once in the abdomen and needed surgery.
A bullet shattered her pelvis, her children said.
The family waited for hours to see her, but she was in a post-surgery recovery room, Nick Paez said. Families aren't usually allowed in, he said, but doctors let them into the room for about five minutes around 10 p.m.
"They think it's your co-worker," Paez remembered telling his mother about one of the suspected shooters.
"That doesn't make sense," she replied. "They were congratulating him for having a baby." Read more »

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html

How the San Bernardino shooting suspect entered the US on a fiancé visa

But I have no confidence in this Congress to do anything about any of it.

And I actually have little confidence in conservatism, apart from the Tea Party movement, to do much. Around here, a suburban region has been trying to break away from the land use rules the state developed under a Republican governor. One town is working on a approving a 900 home development. I just know this would be rife with illegal alien construction workers...but, hey, it's all about the money. At least there has been a continual increase of the discussion of illegal immigration among conservative groups, something which was not common ten years ago.

But the reality is that a lot of big businesses AND a lot of mom and pop operations have been hiring illegals. Conservative territory, if you ask me......