Saturday, March 2, 2002

RIORDAN AND SIMON --- HAND-PICKED BY MAHONY EVER HEARD OF PAPAL INFALLIBILITY? "Papal infallibility? Yes, O Modernists, who visibly stand within the Church, but who are spiritually without!" --"...there is no human tribunal to judge the Holy See but the Holy See." You don't think Catholic Charities is a religious organization? The State of California vs. the Catholic Church The state presents an even bolder argument: that the purpose of Catholic Charities is not to inculcate "religious values." If accepted, this argument would make the government the definer of religious teaching and values. ............ If California wins this case, it will be empowered to define what is or is not a religious organization. Simon is the V.P. of Catholic Charities L.A. From the L.A. Archdiocese website... Should someone ask Simon about Papal Infallibility? Funny that the mainstream media never discusses real issues. Past Features    Reader Reaction

Action Alerts! Stop Mexican ID Acceptance in Arizona  Tell Bush to Fire the INS Commissioner

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Arizona Republic Lawmakers review high money transfer fees Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois, likes to tell the story of a constituent who complained to him that he wired $300 to his relatives in Mexico using a local money-transfer company, only to find out later that the family received only $250. -- The lawmaker later learned that the missing $50 went to fees and other charges levied by the company handling the transfer of money to Mexico. -- Gutierrez said the story illustrates the need to require such companies, which collect billions of dollars from U.S. immigrants who regularly wire money to relatives abroad, to disclose all fees and charges to their customers.

WTVJ - Miami Coast Guard repatriates 29 migrants; two smugglers in custody The U.S. Coast Guard says it repatriated 29 Cuban migrants who were caught 25 miles south of the Florida Keys. The migrants' two smugglers were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.

Associated Press Triple-murder suspect arrested A Mexican teen-ager wanted in a triple murder in L.A. was taken into custody when he tried to cross back into the United States from Mexico, authorities said Friday. -- Javier Olivares was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry after he presented another man's U.S. birth certificate to an immigration officer. -- Olivares, 19, was the suspected gunman in a gang-related shooting in L.A. that killed three and wounded another, the INS said.

Miami Herald Mexico's action denounced in Miami Cuban exiles in South Florida were stunned to wake up to the news Friday that Mexican officials -- despite assurances that force would not be used -- had asked Cuban authorities to enter the embassy in Havana in a pre-dawn raid and oust the 21 men who had apparently sought asylum there. -- On the streets and the airwaves of Miami, betrayal and deception were words often muttered as Cuban exiles reacted to the incident...

The Record - Stockton, CA Group fans out to motivate Latinos Hoping to motivate a growing pool of eligible Latino voters, a new, nonpartisan volunteer group spent Friday afternoon marching door to door in south Stockton. -- The Semilla Organizing Project will spend the weekend registering voters, handing out literature and offering information about issues and candidates. -- About 20 volunteers will station themselves at grocery stores, community centers and churches in the city's predominantly Latino neighborhoods. On Friday, volunteers canvassed homes near B and Eighth streets.

Tucson Citizen DEA chief lauds Fox's help against smugglers The nation's top drug cop wanted to see for himself the challenges his agency faces in stemming the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. -- So yesterday Asa Hutchinson came to this city along the U.S.-Mexico border, where drug arrests are common and thousands of pounds of cocaine and marijuana are seized each year. -- Hutchinson credited the "excellent relationship" between Bush and Fox for a new level of cooperation between the DEA and its Mexican counterparts.

Tucson Citizen (Published) U.S. shows it could secure border It's about time our congressional delegation started to care what the people of Arizona think. If we can send our troops to a war in Afghanistan and deploy our troops to various countries around the world, we can secure our Mexican border.

UPI Controversy during Spanish debate One candidate's refusal to speak entirely in Spanish became an issue Friday night in an historic Spanish- language debate between the leading candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Texas. -- Dan Morales, a former two-term Texas attorney general, answered reporters' questions in both Spanish and English during the hour-long debate with Tony Sanchez, a Laredo millionaire. Sanchez said Morales had violated the negotiated rules that they would only answer questions in Spanish.

Associated Press Mexico fires immigration officials The Mexican government has fired two immigration officials for deporting seven countrymen who could not produce official citizenship documents. The officials apparently thought they were from Guatemala. -- The fired officials also could face criminal charges from the incident earlier this month, Mexico's Migration Institute said Friday. The two officials worked at a migration office in the border state of Sonora, across from Arizona. [They mistook four Mexicans heading for the U.S. for Guatemalans.]

Los Angeles Times (Published) Immigrants' impact on the United States It is fascinating that political correctness has now infected even right-wing Republicans, as demonstrated in Goldberg's denunciation of Americans (e.g., Brimelow's VDARE.com) who prefer our culture to that of the Taliban, for example.....

CBS News Counterfeit license crackdown Authorities said it was easy to do, so CBS News went undercover and obtained a fake driver's license for about $150, reports Correspondent Sandra Hughes. -- It was used to buy tickets on three major airlines, testing the security of five airports. No one detected our license was a fake. -- Senator Barbara Boxer said she was stunned that Congress seemed unaware of this gaping hole in airport security, and Monday proposed legislation targeting the problem of document fraud.

The News - Mexico City Mexican migration to U.S. drops sharply Juan Hernandez, the head of President Vicente Fox's Office for Mexicans Abroad, on Friday said migration from Mexico to the United States had dropped 30 percent since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. -- Hernandez said tighter security along Mexico's 2,000-mile border with the United States and the faltering U.S. economy were behind the drop. ['Remittances are evidently declining, worrying Hernandez, a U.S.-born Mexican reconquista.]

Arizona Daily Star Trucks with 3,400 pounds of pot seized U.S. Border Patrol agents seized nearly 3,400 pounds of marijuana Thursday near Ajo, authorities said. -- Agents on Federal Route 1 about 25 miles north of the Mexico border, about 100 miles west of Tucson, saw three trucks driving in tandem about 7 a.m. Thursday and became suspicious, said Ryan Scudder, a BP spokesman. Agents caught up with two of the trucks after several minutes, but the drivers had fled...

Omaha World-Herald English now the law in Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack signed a bill into law Friday declaring English the state's official language, making Iowa the 27th state to take that step. -- "I recognize that the bill is not without controversy," Vilsack said. "My hope is that we will look beyond the controversy and put politics behind us so we can focus on our commitments and responsibility to improve education for all our children." [Message board]

Associated Press Recently certified Mexico is growing more opium, U.S. says Washington -- Opium poppy cultivation almost tripled last year in Mexico, the U.S. State Department said Friday in a report on drug production worldwide. -- Opium poppies are the raw material for heroin. -- Despite the increase, U.S. officials have consistently praised the level of Mexican cooperation in combating narcotics trafficking. -- The study states Mexico effectively eradicated 42,000 acres of poppies last year but the remaining acreage still yielded 78 tons of opium gum.

The News - Mexico City Embassy invasion puts reconquista Castañeda on the spot In most circumstances, it would seem like a most diplomatic invitation: Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda said citizens were welcome to visit his nation's embassy. -- But the place in question was Havana, and the result was an invasion of Mexico's embassy in Cuba and demands at home for Castañeda's head. -- Castañeda "doesn't realize that this could mean a great break between the governments of Mexico and Cuba," complained Congressman Sergio Acosta Salazar...

Fox News Islamic schools in U.S. teaching homegrown hate Can it be true? That Islamic schools in the United States teach hatred towards American Christians and Jews? -- The Washington Post on Monday revealed that one such school outside Washington, D.C., uses textbooks teaching 11th graders that "the Day of Judgment can't come until Jesus Christ returns to Earth, breaks the cross and converts everyone to Islam, and until Muslims start attacking Jews." -- Other accredited Islamic schools in America have world maps on classroom walls that exclude Israel.

UC Riverside Highlander Campaign for Latino chancellor in high gear A local activist organization is campaigning for the appointment of a Latino chancellor to fill the position that will be created by the departure of Raymond L. Orbach. -- The National Alliance for Human Rights has mobilized activists throughout the Inland region and the state to pressure UC President Richard C. Atkinson to appoint a Latino to fill the position. -- "We are on the offensive," Armando Navarro, chair of the ethnic studies department and organizer said. [Navarro is a rabid reconquista]