HOW MEXICO TREATS ILLEGAL ALIENS

How Mexico Treats Illegal Aliens
By Michelle Malkin
April 28, 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door "to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement." But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in "Nazi-zona" last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south.

The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?

-- The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset "the equilibrium of the national demographics." How's that for racial and ethnic profiling?

-- If outsiders do not enhance the country's "economic or national interests" or are "not found to be physically or mentally healthy," they are not welcome. Neither are those who show "contempt against national sovereignty or security." They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.

-- Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years' imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years' imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama's illegal alien aunt -- a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).

-- Law enforcement officials at all levels -- by national mandate -- must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens' arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.

-- Ready to show your papers? Mexico's National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens' identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico's Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) and were spotlighted in a 2006 research paper published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. There's been no public clamor for "comprehensive immigration reform" in Mexico, however, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.

PERHAPS PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD READ THIS AND BASE THIS KIND OF HORROR ON HIS IDEAS ABOUT OPENING OUR BORDERS!!!!

LET'S STOP THE INSANITY!!

Army To Court Martial Officer Who Doubts Obama

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Army to Court Martial Officer Who Doubts Obama
Was Born in U.S.
Christopher Weber
Editor
The Army will court martial a lieutenant
colonel who refuses to deploy to
Afghanistan because he won’t accept
orders from President Obama, whom he
considers unqualified to be commander in
chief, military officials said Wednesday.
Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes
Obama wasn’t born in the United States,
and therefore does not meet the
constitutional requirements to be
president, NBC News reported.
Lakin refused to report to Fort Campbell,
Ky., for deployment to Afghanistan, and
instead showed up at the Pentagon,
where he was informed that he would
face court martial. His Pentagon building
pass and government laptop computer
were seized.
The 18-year Army veteran is under
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investigation for failure to report for
deployment and for conduct unbecoming
an officer, The Associated Press
reported.
Larkin is a “birther,” a person who
believes Obama is not native-born and
therefore is ineligible to be president.
Hawaii officials have repeatedly issued
statements that Obama was born in the
state and that the Health Department
holds a copy of his original birth
certificate. A copy of the document has
been made available on the Internet.

OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP CASE FINALLY REACHES THE SUPREME COURT

VERY QUIETLY OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT AP - WASHINGTON D.C. -

In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has Released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.

This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned," leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U.K. In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U..S. Attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter...

LET OTHER FOLKS KNOW THIS NEWS, THE MEDIA WON'T !

Subject: RE: Issue of Passport?

While I've little interest in getting in the middle of the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah over at FSM did so yesterday and believes the issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question: What passport did he use when he was shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi ?

So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later?

And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration?

The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama's citizenship a rather short and simple one.

Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20? A : Yes, by his own admission. Q: What passport did he travel under? A: There are only three possibilities. 1) He traveled with a U.S... Passport, 2) He traveled with a British passport, or 3) He traveled with an Indonesia passport. Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981? A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S... State Department's "no travel" list in 1981.

Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport.

If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims. And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008..

Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as illustrated by his speech before Congress and the disastrous spending plan he has presented to Congress, the sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better.

AMAZING PICTURES OF TEA PARTY RALLY IN NEVADA!!!

AMAZING PICTURES OF TEA PARTY RALLY HELD IN NEVADA!!
WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!

WAKE UP WASHINGTON - YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT!!

WE WILL FIGHT FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WE HAVE INHERITED!!

WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS ISLAMIST ALIVE, WELL, AND LIVING IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!

Worlds Most Dangerous Islamist Alive, Well, and Living in Pennsylvania
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/

The most dangerous Islamist in the world is neither Afghani nor Arab.He comes from neither Sudan nor Somalia.And he resides in neither the mountains of Pakistan nor the deserts of the Palestinian territories.This individual has toppled the secular government of Turkey and established madrassahs throughout the world.

His schools indoctrine children in the tenets of radical Islam and prepare adolescents for the Islamization of the world.More than 90 of these madrassahs have been established as charter schools throughout the United States. They are funded by American taxpayers.

One of these charter schools – Tarek ibn Zayed Academy (TiZA) in Minnesota – is so radically Islamic and subversive in nature that the Minnesota Department of Education issued two citations against it and the American Civil Liberties Union is suing it.Dozens of his universities, including the Faith University in Istabul, train young men to become lawyers, accountants, and political leaders so that they can take an active part in the restoration of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamization of the Western World.

He also allegedly operates compounds to train jihadis in the tactics of guerilla warfare.This individual has amasssed a fortune – over $30 billion – for the creation of a universal caliphate.His name is Fethullan Gulen and he resides not in the wilds of southern Turkey – but the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.From his fortess headquarters, located on 28 acres at 1857 Mt. Eaton Road in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, Gulen plots the overthrow of secular governments and oversees the spread of education jihad throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Gulen is surrounded by an army of over 100 Turkish Islamists, who guard him and tend to his needs. The army is comprised of armed militants who wear suits and ties and do not look like traditional Islamists in cloaks and turbans. They follow their hocaefendi's (master lord’s) orders and even refrain from marrying until age 50 per his instructions.

When they do marry, their spouses are expected to dress in the Islamic manner, as dictated by Gulen himself.The Saylorsburg property consists of a massive chalet surrounded by numerous out buildings, including recreational centers, dormitories, cabins for visiting foreign dignitaries, a helicopter pad, and firing ranges.Neighbors complain of the incessant sounds of gunfire – including the rat-tat-tat of fully automatic weapons – coming from the compound and the low flying helicopter that circles the area in search of all intruders.

The FBI has been called to the scene, the neighbors say, but no action has been taken to end the illegal activity.

Sentries stand guard at the gates to the estate to turn away all curiosity seekers.Within the sentry hut are wide screen televisions that project high resolution images from security cameras.Before the hut is a sign that reads “Golden Generation Worship and Retreat Center.”It’s hard for the local residents to understand that the Muslim who operates this compound is not an American political or intelligence official – but rather a radical Islamist from Turkey.

Gulen fled Turkey in 1998 to avoid prosecution on charges that he was attempting to undermine Turkey’s secular government with the objective of establishing an Islamic government.

Since his arrival in Pennsylvania, the Department of Homeland Security has been trying to deport him. But in 2008 a federal court ruled that Gulan was an individual with “extraordinary ability in the field of education” who merited permanent residence status in the U.S.

The ruling remains quizzical because Gulen has no formal education or training.Gulen, according to the Middle East Quarterly, was a student and follower of Sheikh Sa'id-i Kurdi (1878-1960), also known as Sa'id-i Nursi, the founder of the Islamist Nur (light) movement.

After Turkey's war of independence, Kurdi demanded, in an address to the new parliament, that the new republic be based on Islamic principles. He turned against Atatürk and his reforms and against the new modern, secular, Western republic.How powerful is Gulen? And why is he such a threat to America and the Western world?

Consider this.

Turkey is now ruled by the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma, AKP)- - a party under the Gulen’s control. Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s first Islamist President, is a Gulen disciple along with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, the head of Turkey’s Council of Higher Education.Under the AKP, Turkey has transformed from a secular state into an Islamic country with 85,000 active mosques – one for every 350- citizens – the highest number per capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams than teachers and physicians – and thousands of state-run Islamic schools.

Despite the rhetoric of European Union accession, Turkey has transferred its alliance from Europe and the United States to Russia and Iran. It has moved toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria and created a pervasive anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-America animus throughout the populace.

Speaking on Monday at the inauguration ceremony of "TRT al Turkiye," the new channel of the state run TV station TRT, Prime Minister Erdogan said Turkey will always be on the side of Muslims wherever they are.Gulen’s tentacles stretch throughout the country since his followers, known as Fethullahists, have gained control of the country’s media outlets, its financial institutions and banks, and its business organizations.

According to Bayram Balci, a Turkish scholar, the Gulen schools that have been established throughout the world seek to expand “the Islamization of Turkish nationality and the Turification of Islam” in order to bring about a universal caliphate ruled by Islamic law.Several countries have outlawed the establishment of Gulen schools and cemaats (communities) within their borders – including Russia and Uzbekistan.

Even the Netherlands, a nation that embraces pluralism and tolerance, has opted to cut funding to the Gulen schools because of their imminent threat to the social order.But Gulen’s activities in the United States, including the establishment of an armed fortress in the midst of the Pocono Mountains, have escaped national press attention.In his public statements, Gulen espouses a liberal version of Sunni/Hanafi Islam and promotes the Muslim notion of hizmet – altruistic service to the common good.

Despite the paramilitary training at his Pocono fortress, Gulen has condemned terrorism and called for interfaith dialogue. He has met with Pope John Paul II, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomeos, and Israeli Sephardic Head Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron.In private, Gulen has stated that “in order to reach the ideal Muslim society ‘every method and path is acceptable, including lying to people.’”

In a sermon that was aired on Turkish television, Gulen said:You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe, they [the followers] must continue like this. If they do something prematurely, the world will crush our heads, and Muslims will suffer everywhere, like in the tragedies in Algeria, like in 1982 [in] Syria … like in the yearly disasters and tragedies in Egypt. The time is not yet right. You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it … You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey … Until that time, any step taken would be too early—like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside.

The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all—in confidence … trusting your loyalty and secrecy.

I know that when you leave here—[just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and the feelings that I expressed here.

Why has the federal government opted to turn a blind eye to Gulen and his mountain fortress?Why have Gulen’s madrassahs been kept under the radar screen of Hoimeland Security?Why have the CIA and FBI allowed Gulen to wreck havoc and topple secular governments without interruption or intervention?

The questions beg answers.

COMMENT;
SEEMS STRANGE THAT THE UNITED STATES IS ACTUALLY PROTECTING THIS INDIVIDUAL; AND CLAIMING HE HAS SOME KIND OF EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION TO OFFER OUR COUNTRY. I THINK NOT. SOMETHING DOESN'T SMELL RIGHT IN THE PROTECTION OF THIS EXTREMIST - AND WHAT EXACTLY IS HE TEACHING AND PREPARING?
WHY HASN'T HE BEEN SHUT DOWN AND DEPORTED?
TOO MANY QUESTIONS AND NO ANSWERS - I SAY WE LOOK TO THE WHITE
HOUSE -
Administration

DUMP CLEAN UP - LAKEWOOD HOLY BURIAL MESS

By ZACH PATBERG • TOMS RIVER BUREAU
•April 7, 2010LAKEWOOD —

For a decades-old custom, mass burials of religious artifacts may be a bit new whenit comes to legal clarity.Last week, following a rising tide of protests, the state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a site where thousands of trash bags full of sacred Jewish text and clothing were dumped to be cleaned up.

Because of the religious sensitivity,however, DEP is permitting the burial to occur as a temporary solution until it decides where and how to relocate it.

"Our long-term goal would be to have this material be disposed of at a proper location. We don't feel the current location is the proper location," said Wolf Skacel, DEP's assistant commissioner of compliance and enforcement. "In the interim, I think the safer option for the public and out of respect for the religious (needs), we've at least allowed him to cover it at this time."

Although there's no actual religious exemption, the agency is treading lightly, allowing, for now, a landfill that normally would take a county public hearing, inclusion into the county plans and a permit application to the DEP before being permitted. There's been no word yet on when or where the some 2,000 bags will be moved.

Rabbi Chaim Abadi, who organized the drop-off site during Passover, is expected to meet with DEP officials next week to discuss options.

"If we were insensitive to the religious side of it, it would appear that someone has created an illegal landfill," Skacel said in a phone interview today. "But once you understand the religious side, you just have to see where it would have the least amount of environmental impact."

The DEP did issue a warning April 1 for operating an illegal solid waste facility on the wooded property off Vermont Avenue."My question is where are these bags going to end up? Who is overseeing this? Who's the watchdog,"asked Mary Cipriano, 56, who lives on Albert Avenue near the site. "I don't want to see a replay of this next year."She will, according to Abadi. The rabbi has grown more frustrated over the past week as Lakewood residents continue to loudly condemn a practice that has been commonplace for years.

"Other towns don't want us, so we're stuck in Lakewood," Abadi said. "It's part of Jewish life to bury these religious items. People that don't like it don't have to stay here."Indeed, many businesses exist solely to transport and bury these items, called Shaimos, which Orthodox Jews are not allowed to discard by normal means.

One is described in the Jewish Press, a NewYork City weekly, as using three semi-trailers to haul, for a fee, the bags from Brooklyn homes to bury in Lakewood or upstate New York. Another company, Shaimos.org, advertizes a preaddressed Shaimos Box, which a customer can fill with Shaimos and mail to an address where it will then be buried. And yet any government regulatory structure is hard to find, on the local and state level.

Wolf said the Vermont Avenue site was unique because it was the first time the DEP was alerted to a burial outside a cemetery, where Shaimos are often allowed to be laid with the deceased. In Lakewood, contradicting information became the only constant on the issue.

Police Chief RobertLawson, for example, sent an e-mail last Thursday to township officials explaining that county and DEP officials "found that nothing inappropriate had been done" at the Vermont Avenue site. That same day, DEP issued its warning. Lawson also said a site plan was approved for the burial and that Abadi told him he had approval. But those at planning, engineering and zoning departments said they never heard of the project. Abadi said there was no site plan. He had simply discussed it with engineering, zoning and Lawson, he said. Lawson could not be reached for comment today. By now, the bags in the hole have been buried, Abadi said. He expects to plant grass there in thecoming days.

COMMENT:
SEEMS TO BE AN AWFUL LOT OF CONTROVERSY AS TO WHO SAID WHAT,
AND THE CLAIMS THAT THERE WAS A PERMIT BUT THERE WASN'T A PERMIT;
THE CHIEF KNEW, BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW, BECAUSE HE WAS GIVEN FALSE
INFORMATION. THE RABBI WHO WAS FINED, BUT NOT FINED, AND THE
TRASH WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MOVED, BUT IS NOT SIMPLY BURIED
AND GRASS IS BEING PLANTED OVER IT.

I ALSO JUST LOVE THE ATTITUDE OF THE RABBI - HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT
THE COMMUNITIES OUTRAGE AND SHOCK OVER TONS OF TRASH BEING,
LITERALLY, SHIPPED IN FROM OTHER STATES, TO BE BURIED HERE IN
LAKEWOOD; WHY? BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WANTS IT IN THEIR TOWN.
GEE, I WONDER WHY, RABBI!!!

SO IN THE END, DID WE REMOVE ALL OF THE MATERIAL WHICH IS NOT
BIODEGRADEABLE?!! DID WE ENSURE THAT THIS WILL NOT REPEAT ITSELF
COME NEXT PASSOVER?!!

I THINK NOT.

GOOD WORK, LAKEWOOD -

NOW, LETS HAVE EVERYONE ATTEND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN RALLY BEING
HELD IN LAKEWOOD THIS SATURDAY ON MADISON AVENUE - LAKEWOOD
IS, AFTER ALL, A VERY WELL KNOWN SANCTUARY CITY - KNOWN FROM
HERE ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND EVEN INTO OTHER COUNTRIES.

BEING THAT LAKEWOOD IS SO OVERPOPULATED AND SO OVERBUILT, I
HAVE TO WONDER, WHERE NEXT, FOLKS? WHICH DIRECTION ARE YOU
GOING TO HEAD NEXT? YOU'VE OUTGROWN LAKEWOOD - LOOK OUT JACKSON
IT'S C O M I N G !!!

Administration

DEP ORDERS RELIGIOUS BURIAL SITE IN LAKEWOOD CLEANED UP

DEP orders religious burial site in Lakewood cleaned up
By ZACH PATBERG• TOMS RIVER BUREAU • April 7, 2010

Asbury Park Breaking News

LAKEWOOD — The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered a site where some 2,000 trash bags full of discarded religious text and clothing were dumped to be cleaned up, agency officials said.


The DEP issued a field notice to remove the material that sits in a large hole in the woods. If it is not cleared, the next step would be a violation notice followed by a more serious action such as a fine, DEP Spokesman Larry Hajna.


The site drew heavy criticism from neighbors and other residents after it was discovered that members of Orthodox Jewish community were discarding the sacred belongings, or Shaimos, there during Passover. Orthodox Jews are not allowed to burn or throw away items in garbage bins, but rather must bury them in a respectable way. According to local officials, the custom has been going on for decades.

Sacred Items' burial stirs controversy in Lakewood

Sacred items' burial stirs controversy in Lakewood
By ZACH PATBERG • TOMS RIVER BUREAU • April 1, 2010

Asbury Park Press

LAKEWOOD — From linen-free kosher suits to 12,000 men waiting in the streets to bless a rising sun, Orthodox Jews have intrigued other residents with traditions of spectacular idiosyncrasy.

This may not be one of them.

The sight at the end of a loose-dirt path off Vermont Avenue has done little but alarm some who have come across it. There, in the trees, a large hole has been dug from which thousands of black trash bags overflow.

"I was like, this can't be legal," said Scott Wegeman, whose backyard on Albert Avenue is directly behind the burial site. "You can't just treat your property like a landfill."

While perhaps temporarily unsightly (the hole was to be covered by the end of the week), the decades-old tradition is religiously unavoidable, Orthodox leaders contend. That is because the bags' contents are what strictly observant Jews in Lakewood cannot burn or toss into trash cans: Hebrew text, Torah scripture, sacred garb — no longer usable but still holy.

So it is buried, most every year, in backyards, with coffins, under foundations and in open lots — anywhere a patch of earth can be found. The practice usually coincides with Passover, since that is when Orthodox families do their spring cleaning.

This year, in an attempt to organize and facilitate the custom, a local rabbi secured a 100-by-150-foot piece of undeveloped land donated by an individual and had it deed-restricted so nothing can be built there. This week, he dispatched youth under his supervision to collect the items from Orthodox households, bring them to the site in rented trucks and place them into the 40-by-60-foot pit.

"It doesn't hurt anyone and it's a holy thing," said the rabbi, Chaim Abadi, who got a site plan approved by the township zoning office.
DEP serves notice
But for those people unfamiliar with the tradition, such a scene might scream unlawful dumping. Complaints were made with police, the Ocean County health department and the state Department of Environmental Protection. Even some officials, such as Committeeman Raymond Coles, were unaware of the practice.
On Thursday, Police Chief Robert Lawson sent an e-mail to township officials explaining it to them.
"Based on those calls we did refer this to the county and the DEP," Lawson said, despite having become familiar with the routine after so many years. "They did come down and we discussed it and found that nothing was done that was illegal or inappropriate."

DEP officials tell a different story.

"They do not have a permit," department spokesman Larry Hajna said. "We are investigating unpermitted activity."

Later Thursday afternoon, Abadi confirmed he was issued a violation notice from the DEP for the site. But details about the violation were not available Thursday evening.

Officials for New Jersey American Water, a company that provides drinking water for the township and has a well that sits about 300 feet from the site, said they were not going to react until a ruling is made.

"We're going to wait for the (DEP's) determination to decide whether this is something we need to be concerned about," company spokesman Richard Barnes said prior to news of a violation.
Rabbi calls a halt
Yet religious leaders stress their intention is to benefit the community by isolating the practice to one place deep in the woods, rather than burying in piecemeal fashion. Abadi said he hopes to reuse the site in future years.

Longstanding but largely unnoticed, the practice used to occur mostly in cemeteries. It is considered an honor to be buried with sacred texts, Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg said. But as Orthodox populations exploded, more and larger spaces were required.

Sites have been dug in the mountains in North Jersey, in Jackson off Frank Applegate Road, and in Lakewood off East 7th Street. Private companies have sprung up to haul the items away for small fees. But not until now has it become a public controversy.

Abadi said, based on complaints and the DEP violation, no more bags will be unloaded off Vermont Avenue.

"People have gotten a little crazy about it," he said.

Zach Patberg: (732) 557-5739 or zpatberg@app.com
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HUGE IMMIGRATION REFORM RALLY PLANNED FOR LAKEWOOD, NJ APRIL 10TH, 2010!!!!

In addition to events already planned for Seattle, Chicago and Las Vegas, folks will be gathering to Rally FOR America in Lakewood, NJ this Saturday.
Details below:

Where: 215 Madison, Lakewood, NJ

When: Saturday, April 10th, 12pm – 4pm

You can RSVP for the event below. This event is free and open to everyone who supports immigration reform.

See you on April 10th!