It appears that Colorado Senator Michael Bennet had a little help from his friends in the Midterm Elections.

According to thehill.com, Republicans on the House Administration Committee are calling for a severe tightening up of voter registration rules. Unexpectedly, a Colorado study has found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state voted on November 2nd, 2010.

The Committee Chairman, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.),called the study “a disturbing wake-up call”:

We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes.

Gee, DiNozzo.  Ya think?

According to Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, his department’s study showed that nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens, were nevertheless registered to vote in Colorado.

Of those illegal alien voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.

And all the state of Colorado had to do to find out about it was to compare the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.

Gessler said:

We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it.

Now, that’s reassuring.

Meanwhile, there has been a law enforcement bulletin issued that states that members of drug cartels have been overheard planning to kill federal agents and Texas Rangers who guard the border.

The bulletin, issued in March, said that the cartel members are going to use AK-47 assault rifles to murder agents and Texas Rangers from across the border. It did identify the cartels involved.

This bulletin was discussed at a hearing before a panel of the House Committee on Homeland Security named The Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management. The topic for discussion was “The U.S. Homeland Security Role in the Mexican War Against the Drug Cartels.”

Our role? How about keeping these murderous thugs from crossing the border?!

Well…there seems to be a little problem with that…

Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the Government Accountability Office, Richard M. Stana told the Senate Homeland Security Committee yesterday that the federal government can actually prevent or stop illegal entries into the United States along only 129 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

That leaves 1,825 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border where the Border Patrol cannot prevent or stop an illegal entry.

This professional bureaucratic bean counter’s office is responsible for “auditing agency operations to determine whether federal funds are being spent efficiently and effectively”

Stana proudly told the committee that the Border Patrol itself says it has established “an acceptable level of control” along 873 miles of the 1,954-mile-long southwest border. This is because of the way the Border Patrol defines “an acceptable level of control” of the border.

Acceptable? To whom???

Well, it certainly is not to Arizona’s Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever. He told FoxNews.com that an U.S. Border Patrol supervisor let him know as recently as this month that the patrol’s office on Arizona’s southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods.

According to Sheriff Dever:

The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back. “He said, ‘I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away. … They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back.”

The sheriff said that he had been talking to several federal agencies concerning this subject over the last two years. Dever will be telling the powers-that-be all about it when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

I will raise my hand to tell the truth and swear to God, and nothing is more serious or important than that. I’m going to tell them that, here’s what I hear and see every day: I had conversation with agent A, B, C, D and this is what they told me.

Of course, a commander with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection vigorously denied Dever’s charges.

Why would the Border Patrol not be arresting illegal aliens coming into our country?

Four words:  President Barack Hussein Obama

According to Scooter, he cannot sign an executive order to stop deportations. However, he did pledge to push for changes because he wanted to see students succeed rather than be deported.

Obama was speaking at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington D.C. in a Townhall Event, sponsored by the Spanish-language television network Univision.

When the meeting got started, student Karen Maldonado, via Skype, held up her deportation letter and asked him:

Why is the government saying that deportations have stopped,or the detention of many students like me, why is it that we are still receiving deportation letters like this one?

I wonder if this illegal alien is going to one of America’s Universities on American taxpayers’ money?  But, I digress…

Scooter answered:

We have redesigned our enforcement practices under the law to make sure that we’re focusing primarily on criminals, and so our deportation of criminals are up about 70 per cent.

Our deportation of non-criminals are down, and that’s because we want to focus our resources on those folks who are destructive to the community.

And for a young person like that young woman that we just spoke to who’s going to school, doing all the right things, we want them to succeed.

Respectfully, Mr. President, what part of the word illegal do you not understand?