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Christian Science Monitor -- April 29, 2003 Spencer says Grijalva's citizenship bill "a dangerous step" ...Now, freshmen Rep. Raul Grijalva wants to turn that concept into law. In a controversial move, he has introduced legislation that would grant US citizenship to all enrolled members of the (Tohono O'odham) tribe - including those living in Mexico. --- "It's a dangerous step," says Glenn Spencer, who heads the American Border Patrol, a controversial civilian group that monitors illegal immigration in southern Arizona.

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Nogales International  LTE [Short-lived link] -- Posted April 19, 2003 Questions about CongressMechista Grijalva Some of us here in Nogales may be wondering how wise we were in the last Congressional election in voting for Congressman Raul Grijalva. He certainly has not been favoring Santa Cruz County, and his single visit to Nogales was surprisingly brief. -- Some time ago he started blasting away at the so-called vigilantes and has done all he can to get them prosecuted. After all, those folks are only trying to protect themselves from illegal aliens....

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KOLD-TV -- Tucson - April 16, 2003 Grijalva, other invasion cheerleaders support illegal alien rewards Should undocumented immigrant teens [illegals being portrayed as victims] be granted legal residency if they've graduated from a U.S. high school and they're college bound? Some local lawmakers are saying, "Yes." -- Arizona lawmakers are drumming up support for the "Student Adjustment Act" and the "Dream Act." The legislation would provide legal residency to students who were brought to the U.S. illegally as young children, but who have grown up in this country. It would allow them to continue their education and find jobs legally. [Note: KOLD links on SAA and DREAM references actually went to the Derechos Humanos website]

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Arizona Daily Star - April 16, 2003 CongressMechista, , Napolitano want tax funds for illegals, 'guest workers' Health care, education, immigration and government red tape topped a familiar litany of concerns presented by local business leaders at a round table Tuesday. -- The gathering was hosted by Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., and attended by Gov. Janet Napolitano. ---- Both Grijalva and Napolitano said they will seek federal compensation for costs incurred by the state and hospitals in caring for illegal entrants, while backing a combination of an expanded "guest worker" program and improved health care in Mexico to deter illegal border crossers.

People's Weekly World (Communist Paper)-- April 11, 2003 Usual suspects try portraying foreign scofflaws as victims ...Lorenzo Torrez, chair of the Arizona Communist Party, points to the grotesque ever-expanding 16-foot iron fence through the desert as the ultimate symbol of the militaristic, anti-democratic and brutal border policy. A broad array of human rights, labor, and faith-based groups has spoken out against the crises posed by border policies, he says, focusing on opposition to militarization of the region and the need for a legal process for workers to enter the U.S. [Derechos Humanos, Grijalva, Catholic Church also mentioned]

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Tucson Citizen -- April 5, 2003 Mexican traffic more important than national security?  Rep. Raúl Grijalva got in line with other lawmakers this week to ask Congress to fund several transportation projects in his sprawling southern Arizona district to ease the flow of cars and trucks across the border with Mexico. --- "Homeland security is a national problem, and (Congress) must put resources into it along the border region," Grijalva said. "But we must accomplish these security intentions without choking off the flow of people and commerce crossing the border."

April 5, 2003 ABP Board Member Invites Investigation Dear [Arizona] Attorney General Terry Goddard: I think an investigation of these border militia groups down here in Cochise County [as demanded by these folks] is an excellent idea. After all, through our freshman Congressman Raul Grijalva, we know that these groups are made up of cockroaches and are really 'hate' groups. (Whatever that might mean.) What an embarrassment to the state of Arizona 'Raul' has turned out to be! (His given name at birth was Ralph, not Raul.) Just not 'Mexican' enough for him, I guess.

Richard Humphries ABP Board Member Reports on VIP Tour Naco (ABP -- 3/16/03) -- At yesterday's breakfast at the Copper Queen hotel, I got to speak to and with Hutchinson, McCain and Kyl and, perhaps even more satisfying to me, I got to speak about Grijalva, in his presence, to a room full of elected officials, dignitaries, Border Patrol supervisors and the press. -- I told the group that I was in no way there to represent the ABP, but that I am on the board of directors of that organization, whose members Grijalva had called 'cockroaches', when he labeled it a 'hate group'.......

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N.Y. Times (Free Registration) -- March 15, 2003   CongressMechista illegal immigration cheerleader under fire Mr. [Raúl M.] Grijalva, a freshman Democrat in the House of Representatives, represents a poor, largely Hispanic district whose people sent him to Congress, in part, to carry on his long-running fight to expand immigrants' [read: illegal aliens'] rights. Now, as a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Mr. Grijalva is in the awkward position of fighting to block the nomination of a Hispanic man, Miguel Estrada, to the United States Court of Appeals...

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Tucson Citizen-- March 15, 2003   CongressMechista gripes about citizen action on sieve-like border Eliminating the "significant opportunity" terrorists have to sneak over the Mexican border will require major renovations in this border town, its mayor told a top administrator in the new federal Department of Homeland Defense [Asa Hutchinson]. -- ...U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Tucson, who was on the tour, worries that Hutchinson does not have a clear picture of groups such as Civil Homeland Defense, which Grijalva says only add tension to the situation. -- "There's no place for people taking the laws into their own hands," the congressman said.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  -- March 11, 2003  O'odham, law agents air border complaints A congressional field hearing held here Monday provided an array of testimony almost as vast as the Tohono O'odham Nation itself. -- Drug trafficking, illegal entrants, environmental and wildlife degradation, vigilante groups, besieged border communities and residents, humanitarian assistance and homeland security were among the many topics aired at the four-hour hearing in the Nation's Tribal Chambers. --- Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a Democrat who represents the district, was in Washington and did not attend the hearing, an office spokesman said.

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Arizona Republic News Briefs (Scroll Down) -- March 9, 2003  CongressMechista Grijalva won't be there ...Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona's only member on the new U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, will be among those at a congressional field hearing on Monday in Sells on "The Impact of the Drug Trade on Border Security and National Parks." -- However, Rep. Raul Grijalva, a freshman Democrat whose district includes Sells, won't attend, although he has generated headlines - and controversy - for his efforts to get federal authorities to crack down on border vigilantism, which he has termed "a racist movement."

Tucson Citizen -- March 8, 2003  Reconquistas bristle over Congressman's visit to Arizona Three congressmen are expected at a hearing about law enforcement along the border and the drug trade's impact. -- The hearing for the Committee on Gov't Reform is spearheaded by Rep. Mark Souder, chairman of the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources. -- Rep. Tom Tancredo's visit spawned a protest by Derechos Humanos, an immigration reform [read: pro-illegal-immigration] group. [ 'Mexican government agent' Isabel Garcia and her buddy CongressMechista Raul Grijalva will not attend. "We think these are all just set-ups," Garcia said.]

Arizona Daily Star Hourly Update -- February 20, 2003  Usual suspects bewail Tancredo's border visit A local human rights group has accused a visiting U.S. congressman of exploiting the murder of National Park Service Ranger Kris Eggle to promote militarization of the border. -- Rep. Jim Kolbe said he favors a guest worker program as a way to control the flow of immigration across the border. -- "Given the tenor and the tone of what was going to be said, I didn't want to be any part of it," CongressMechista Raul Grijalva reportedly said.

Letter to Nogales International  [Short-lived link] -- February 17, 2003  Don't approve consular IDs Consular ID cards having any validity? What a joke. Haven't the taxpayers been overburdened already with uncontrolled immigration? When did Mexico become the 51st state? -- And-- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., is typical of this mind set. He cares more about illegal aliens than he does the citizens of southern Arizona who elected him. He should move to Mexico and attempt to get elected there, in order to serve his illegal constituency.

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