The city of Houston, Texas is in the process of installing 250 to 300 cameras at downtown intersections for the stated purpose of preventing and fighting crime and terrorism. The cameras are part of a security initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Houston began installing the cameras last summer. According to the city, they have already been able to catch car thieves in the act. The city also says that the cameras will be useful in identifying perpetrators after they’ve committed their crime.

More than 50 cameras already have been installed around the George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, the theater district and Minute Maid Park. Every downtown intersection will be equipped with a camera. A city spokesman says that the cameras will allow police to monitor any scene from several viewpoints at once rather than having to staff events with officers surveying the scene in binoculars.

Big Sis is doing her thing again.

Houston has spent about $14 million in federal grant funding on the camera program, which it expects to finish by the end of January. The money comes from Urban Area Security Initiative funds doled out annually by Homeland Security to regions across the country.

In recent years, Houston has received an estimated $18 million to $20 million, money to spend on initiatives to prevent and detect terrorism.

Meanwhile, at America’s airports, The TSA continues to become intimately involved with America citizens.

And, while President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his concerned minions tighten security on us average American Citizens, for our own safety, guess what they’re doing about securing our borders? 

Compared to everything they’re doing to us, not a whole heckuva lot.  There is some good news, though.

Yesterday, American authorities found a sophisticated tunnel used to smuggle drugs between Mexico and San Diego, the second such discovery in the region in less than a month.

The half-mile tunnel runs from a house in Tijuana to a warehouse in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area, according to the San Diego Tunnel Task Force.

The statement that they released went on to say that Federal border patrol, drug enforcement, immigration, and customs enforcement agents in the task force arrested several suspects and seized an undetermined amount of marijuana in a tractor-trailer on U.S. soil, the statement said.

Authorities believed more marijuana is still being stored inside the tunnel. Agents are working with the Mexican military on the investigation.

Officials are going to release further details of the probe this afternoon.

Earlier this month, federal agents made one of the largest pot busts in the United States when they confiscated 20 tons of marijuana they said was smuggled into the country through another tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California’s border with Mexico. Mexican authorities seized more than four tons of pot from the warehouse south of the border.

The secret passageway ran the length of six football fields and had lighting, ventilation and a rail system to send loads of illegal drugs from Mexico into California.

And, is a related story, Obama is pushing Congress to pass the DREAM Act.  The DREAM Act is a piece of legislation introduced by Sen. Orin Hatch [R-UT] and Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL].  It is supposed to offer a six-year pathway to citizenship for the offspring of illegal aliens, which involves either a college or military commitment.

Per U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, the legislation actually breaks down this way:

1. The DREAM Act Is NOT Limited to Children, And It Will Be Funded On the Backs Of Hard Working, Law-Abiding Americans

2. The DREAM Act PROVIDES SAFE HARBOR FOR ANY ALIEN, Including Criminals, From Being Removed or Deported If They Simply Submit An Application

3. Certain Criminal Aliens Will Be Eligible For Amnesty Under The DREAM Act

4. Estimates Suggest That At Least 2.1 Million Illegal Aliens Will Be Eligible For the DREAM Act Amnesty. In Reality, We Have No Idea How Many Illegal Aliens Will Apply

5. Illegal Aliens Will Get In-State Tuition Benefits

6. The DREAM Act Does Not Require That An Illegal Alien Finish Any Type of Degree (Vocational, Two-Year, or Bachelor’s Degree) As A Condition of Amnesty

7. The DREAM Act does not require that an illegal alien serve in the military as a condition for amnesty, and There is ALREADY A Legal Process In Place For Illegal Aliens to Obtain U.S. Citizenship Through Military Service

8. Despite Their Current Illegal Status, DREAM Act Aliens Will Be Given All The Rights That Legal Immigrants Receive—Including The Legal Right To Sponsor Their Parents and Extended Family Members For Immigration

9. Current Illegal Aliens Will Get Federal Student Loans, Federal Work Study Programs, and Other Forms of Federal Financial Aid

10. DHS Is Prohibited From Using the Information Provided By Illegal Aliens Whose DREAM Act Amnesty Applications Are Denied To Initiate Their Removal Proceedings or Investigate or Prosecute Fraud in the Application Process

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has tentatively scheduled a vote for this Monday on the Dream Act. 

So, allow me a moment to try and grasp this.   Americans are being treated like non-citizens by this administration and non-citizens may be granted the rights of a citizen of the country that they illegally entered by this same administration and its minions? 

Is it just me or is there something awfully screwy going on around here?