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Battle of the Border
Hispanic Congressman Opposes Border
Control
Tancredo
reports that people are calling
his office to volunteer for border duty. |
June 19, 2002
O'Reilly Factor debates military on border
O'REILLY: We're talking about using the military
on the border
RODRIGUEZ: First
of all, there is no chaos on the border.
(He went on to say that we shouldn't use military
on the border because there are 60,000 foreign born now serving
in the U.S. military.)
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WINS - New
York
Bilingual
migrant's address rejected
The public high school has rejected the
valedictorian's request to deliver her graduation speech in two
languages, saying the address must be primarily in English. --
Angela Salazar, the top student at New Brunswick High School,
said she wants to give her speech twice, in English and Spanish,
for those in the audience who speak little English. -- "Not
saying anything in Spanish is denying who I am and where I come
from," Salazar told the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick.
[She comes from Ecuador.] |
CNN
Immigration
tops EU summit agenda
Illegal immigration has emerged as one
of the key issues as European Union leaders meet in Seville for
a summit on Friday. -- Human rights groups have attacked suggested
new measures to curb immigration as moves towards an uncaring
"Fortress Europe." -- Disagreement is expected between
Britain and France over the latter's opposition to a key proposal
to impose sanctions against countries that fail to try to limit
the flow of migrants. -- CNN's Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman
says the EU leaders will be principally working on immigration
policy. |
Associated
Press / The Indy Channel|
Hispanic
dropout rate four times that of whites
A new report says the Hispanic school-age population
is booming, but spending on programs for those students has lagged
and they are four times as likely as non-Hispanic, white students
to drop out. -- The report faults the Bush administration for
failing to provide more funding to teacher training, bilingual
education programs and immigrant education. -- White House spokesman
Taylor Gross defended the administration's record, saying it
has provided significant overall increases in its last two education
budgets. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Tancredo
at odds with Bush - Rove, La Raza, and Norquist chime in
Former civics teacher Tom
Tancredo never bought into the adage that newcomers in the
U.S. House of Representatives had to go along to get along. --
In just his second term, the Colorado Republican has emerged
as the most outspoken congressional advocate for tightening American
immigration policy. -- Along the way, he has clashed not only
with liberal groups but also with leaders of his own party, all
the way to the White House. -- To supporters, Tancredo has the
daring to point to the costs and challenges of historically high
numbers of legal and illegal immigrants. -- To detractors, Tancredo,
the grandson of Italian immigrants, is a xenophobe. |
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Fort Worth
Star-Telegram
3
more held on alien smuggling
A federal magistrate ordered three more people
held on charges that they helped smuggle undocumented Honduran
women into the United States and forced them to work as prostitutes
at Fort Worth bars. -- U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Bleil found
Wednesday that a grandmother and her daughter, described as key
recruiters of the ring, and a man accused of transporting the
women from the U.S.-Mexico border to Fort Worth are flight risks
and should remain in jail. |
So.
Florida Sun-Sentinel
Report:
Hispanic education lags
The Hispanic school-age population is
booming, but spending on programs for those students has lagged
and they are four times as likely as non-Hispanic white students
to drop out, a report claims. -- The report by the Senate Education
Committee and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus faults the Bush
administration for failing to provide more funding to teacher
training, bilingual education programs and immigrant education.
-- The Bush budget has a $1 billion increase in grants for disadvantaged
schools. |
Miami
Herald
7
Cubans caught off Florida
After drifting for more than two days
in a 16-foot boat, seven Cuban migrants were picked up Wednesday
by the U.S. Coast Guard about 30 miles northwest of Cay Sal Bank
in the Bahamas. -- By evening, the migrants were being interviewed
aboard the cutter Key Largo by an INS officer who would determine
their fates. Cuban migrants interdicted at sea are usually repatriated
unless they can demonstrate a credible fear of being persecuted
if they are returned to the island. |
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Hatch
Bill Creates Amnesty for Illegal Alien Students
This morning the full Senate Judiciary
Committee approved by voice vote a bill to grant amnesty to illegal
aliens who graduate from high school or college. Senator
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced [S. 1291] the "Dream Act,"
that would allow all 50 states to subsidize tuition for illegal
aliens at state universities. FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein
called the Dream Act, "A nightmare for students who play
by the rules and taxpayers everywhere." -- Under Hatch's
legislation, illegal aliens under the age of 21, who have
resided in the United States for at least five years, would be
allowed to attend public universities in their state of residence
at the subsidized in-state tuition rate. [ See fax 620c at
NumbersUSA.com: Ask
Senator Hatch to withdraw S.1291, his illegal alien education
bill, from the Senate.] |
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Hey,
Mr. McCain.......
Have
you seen this
website?
Upon reading the news story contained
on this site, I have some very simple but important questions
for you:
1) Why are you placing a preferential priority
on criminal illegal aliens from Mexico over legitimate US citizens?..... |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Sham
foreign IDs OK'ed
The lives of Chicago's Mexican immigrants
[illegals], often stymied in routine ways by the lack of proper
identification, became easier Wednesday when the City Council
made it legal to accept consulate-issued ID cards, allowing greater
access to city government and other mainstream institutions.
- The action puts Chicago on a growing list of major American
urban areas, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas,
that have recognized growing Mexican immigrant populations by
validating the card, known as the "Matricula Consular."
[Mexico
is a highly corrupt nation] |
Washington
Post
Mexican
workers pay for success
...All along the Mexican border with
the U.S., once-busy factories are closing. Since the end of 2000,
tearful farewell parties have been held for 250,000 factory workers
in Mexico. Some of the same jobs that left North Carolina textile
plants and Ohio auto-parts assembly lines for Mexico in the 1980s
are now moving to Asia. The reason is the same: cheaper labor.
-- The loss of jobs here in part reflects the slowdown in the
U.S. economy. But many of the plant closings are just the
globalized economy at work. Factories came to take advantage
of low wages; now that success has driven wages up... |
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Re:
Kolbe strikes again
Why does Mr. Kolbe continue to insist
that Mexican "students" be given special consideration
over all other foreign students? Obviously he "threw in"
a benefit to Canadian students to blunt the impact of his pandering
to Mexico and Mexicans at the expense of border area residents
who are bearing the expense of maintaining school campuses and
otherwise subsidizing foreign students... |
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H. Millard |
You'll
never meet Ceceline
You probably haven't heard of Ceceline Godsoe.
She wasn't very important in the big scheme of things. Ceceline
was just a beautiful, innocent, full of life sixteen year old
European-American girl. She was a young girl who had her whole
life ahead of her. Based on reports of those who knew Ceceline,
it might have been a very productive life. Ceceline might have
become a model or an astronaut or President of the United States,
or all of these. She might have had many beautiful children and
grandchildren. Our nation might have been greatly enriched had
Ceceline lived a long life... |
New Times
L.A.
Glenn
Spencer: "Peter Schey is a one-man nation-wrecking crew"
...Peter Schey's critics see little polish
or finesse. To them, he's the man who pushes the courts into
legitimizing illegal immigration and they believe he's largely
responsible for the destruction of the public school system.
"Peter
Schey is a one-man nation-wrecking crew," says Glenn Spencer,
president of the anti-immigration group American Patrol in Sherman
Oaks. "There is a special class of people in this country
with special rights above others, and that's illegal immigrants,
thanks to Peter Schey and people like him." |
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Brownsville
Herald
Summer
brings rise in illegal alien deaths
...As of Wednesday, local Border Patrol
officials had logged 21 deaths during the current fiscal year
in the McAllen sector, including the most recent discovery in
a remote Kenedy County field. The sector encompasses a 17,000-mile
area in Southeast Texas, from Cameron to La Vaca counties. --
The fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. -- The tally
includes 12 drownings, one automobile accident death, six from
unknown causes and two who died from dehydration and exposure,
including the man found Tuesday. [If deployed on the border,
the military could most likely prevent a lot of this.] |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Secession
election challenged
A top lawyer for Los Angeles' largest
municipal union on Wednesday served formal notice that he will
file a lawsuit today aimed at stopping the November election
on San Fernando Valley secession. -- Robert Hunt, general counsel
for the Service Employees
International Union's Local 347, served the notice on Valley
secession leaders, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and the
Local Agency Formation Commission, the panel that put the breakup
measure on the ballot. |
The
Morning Call
2
charged with smuggling illegals
A federal grand jury has indicted two
Schuylkill County brothers on charges they transported and harbored
17 illegal immigrants, two of whom were killed in a traffic accident
a year ago Wednesday near Blue Mountain in Lehigh County. --
Authorities arrested Julio Perez- Barrientos and Jorge Perez-
Barrientos, both of Shenandoah, on June 13 at their homes, according
to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's office in Philadelphia.
They are free on bail. |
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Associated
Press
Officials
fear ruling may spur gas-tank smuggling at border
Officials at U.S. border crossings in
the West fear a federal court ruling could punch a hole in the
security net designed to keep drugs and terror weapons from entering
the United States. -- The acting U.S. attorney in San Diego is
challenging a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
that bans random searches of gas tanks of vehicles crossing the
U.S. border. -- The ruling requires inspectors at Western
border crossings to have reason to suspect someone of gas-tank
smuggling before pulling a vehicle apart. |
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El
Paso Times
Hispanics
claim gouging
A new study of more than 6 million car
loans made by Ford Motor Credit Co. between 1997 and 2001 finds
that Hispanic buyers -- regardless of their credit history --
paid significantly higher interest rates than non-Hispanics.
The difference averaged roughly $266 more per loan. -- The study,
the largest of several recent surveys of car-loan data for racial
or ethnic patterns, attributed the additional costs to extra
finance charges tacked on by dealers. |
Arizona
Daily Star
Another
illegal alien expires
An illegal entrant has died after crossing
the border into Southern Arizona, raising the number of known
deaths to 23 in two weeks, the Mexican Consulate in Tucson said.
-- The latest known victim, a 21-year-old man from Mazatlan,
in Sinaloa state, died Tuesday at St. Mary's Hospital, said Dulce
M. Rojo Mascareño, consulate spokeswoman. -- The Border
Patrol has registered 49 deaths of illegal entrants in Southern
Arizona since Oct. 1. |
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H. Millard |
The
cult of the neurotic hate hunters and their true believers
It has been said by some philosophers
that history repeats itself. With this in mind we might be forgiven
if we sometimes think that 1600's Salem, Mass. has not only come
back, but has now spread to the whole nation, but with some new
twists. -- As we look at back at history we all know that had
we lived in the days of the original witch hunters we would have
stood up for those who were falsely accused. Right? Nope... |
Glenn R.
Jackson |
"Preserve,
protect, and defend"
On June 18th House conservatives in the
Immigration Reform Caucus met to ask President Bush pointedly
to secure America's borders by using U.S. military forces to
control them. Controlling the nation's borders during wartime
is clearly a duty of the government. The open and porous U.S.
borders are an open invitation for those who mean the U.S. harm
to cross them to get to us. And yes the open and porous U.S.
borders are also an open invitation to a multitude of others
who wish to enter this country illegally.... |
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Tucson Citizen
(Published)
Undocumented
workers unwelcome
Illegal aliens are dying in the desert
because they can come to our country and receive cash or "tax
free" earnings for their labor. They get top-notch medical
care, and use social services at U.S. taxpayers' expense. --
Why wouldn't they want to come here? The only deterrent is deportation.
There are individuals and employers within our community who
hire them, pay them cash, or submit payment to them with a false
Social Security number. |
Associated
Press
Immigrants
change the balance of power in Las Vegas union
When hotel workers won new contracts
with big hotels on the Las Vegas strip last month, the deals
represented a triumph for a growing force in the American labor
movement: Hispanic women. -- Many of the union members at the
bargaining table were Hispanic and female. The union, Culinary
Local 226 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International
Union, forced casino operators to agree to their demands -- although
tourism still hasn't recovered from the slowdown that followed
the Sept. 11 terror attacks. -- "They played hardball, and
they won." |
El
Paso Times
Kolbe
strikes again
A congressman has unveiled a bill that
would create a new visa category for international students who
want to enroll in U.S colleges part time. -- Rep.
Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., said the bill is intended to help thousands
of Mexicans and Canadians in border towns. He will introduce
it soon and does not expect it to generate much opposition. --
"Every day, many Mexican and Canadian citizens cross back
and forth to shop, do business and visit relatives, but if they
want to take an academic or vocational class and are not full-time
students, they are not allowed over the border," he said.
"My bill will correct this flaw in our immigration policy." |
Valley
Morning
Star |
Illegals
take to seashore
Padre Island National Seashore, the world's
longest natural barrier island, is also a route of choice for
migrants from south of the border, who may walk miles along desolate
dunes in Texas rather than risk highway Border Patrol checkpoints
inland. -- "It's been a perennial problem and our staffing
is minimal," Chief Ranger Randy Larson said Tuesday. "I
think after 9-11, the increased security at the border, they
know this. They also know that the ranger service doesn't have
a lot of presence so the chance of being caught is relatively
slim." |
Hartford
Courant
Foreign
student database delayed
Colleges will have difficulty creating
a database on foreign students in time to meet government deadlines
imposed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, state higher education
officials were told Wednesday. -- The nation's new focus on security
also could make it more difficult for international students
to get visas and could strain the relationship between colleges
and foreign students, said a report to the state Board of Governors
for Higher Education. -- The federal government asked colleges
to increase scrutiny of international students after the Sept.
11 attacks. |
Washington
Times
INS
told to target all illegals
The head of the House subcommittee on
immigration told the INS yesterday not to selectively enforce
immigration laws by accepting the presence of millions of illegal
immigrants. -- Rep. George
W. Gekas (R-PA) called "troublesome" recent reports
that he said indicate the INS may have to ignore the broader
issue of illegal immigration to focus on potential threats to
domestic security. -- Rep.
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) applauded that focus, saying the INS has
limited resources and that the post-September 11 crackdown should
not be aimed at all illegal immigrants. |
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BBC
'Fortress
Europe' raises the drawbridge
Fears over immigration may fuel racial tension
...On the face of it, it is logical that
asylum and immigration policy should be dealt with at a European
Union level - a European approach for a European issue. -- EU
governments did promise, at a meeting at Tampere in Finland in
1999, to bring it under their joint control within five years.
-- But progress has been slow, because at the heart of it, governments
are unwilling to give up power, especially over such a sensitive
issue. -- So it is individual governments which are making policy.
And not always in harmony with their neighbours. |
EFE-
Mexico
Alarming
number of illegal alien minors sneak into U.S.
The Mexican Consulate in El Paso, Texas,
is reporting a worrisome increase in the number of children detained
while trying to illegally enter the United States. -- Consulate
spokeswoman Socorro Cordoba said Wednesday at least 980 minors
- most of them between the ages of 15 and 17 - were repatriated
to Ciudad Juarez, during the first five months of 2002. -- This
represents a considerable increase over last year... |
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
Stick
Around: Group tries to keep foreign students in town
Pittsburgh entered this new century as
one of the least ethnically and racially diverse metropolitan
areas in the country -- a problem that Bing Xu and Alexandra
Clochard are trying in small ways to solve. -- Xu and Clochard,
young immigrants working for the Pittsburgh Council for International
Visitors, hope to persuade some of the approximately 4,000 foreign
students who study in the city's universities to stay here after
graduation. |
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Letter to
the Writer (Mary Sanchez - Kansas City Star - Not Published)
Re:
Mexico, U.S. must cross divide
How many generations on your personal
family tree would one have to descend to find an illegal alien?
-- Your fatuous "reporting" is a disgrace to Journalism,
as a so-called "Hispanic Journalist" is not a Journalist,
but a racist agitator seeking the advance the illicit fortunes
of La Raza in our society. |
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Arizona
Republic
Border
state governors to meet for conference
U.S.-Mexico border state governors will
gather Friday in Phoenix to find ways to advance mutual cooperation
on many fronts, from commerce and tourism to health and education.
-- But, for the third year in a row, the main topic of discussion
at the 20th annual Border Governors Conference is again likely
to focus on the immigrant bodies piling up in the Arizona desert
after futile crossings. -- As the governors gather at the Arizona
Biltmore for the two-day conference, nearly two dozen illegal
immigrants have died from the searing sun in the past two weeks.
-- Still lingering from last year's conference are proposals
to allow undocumented immigrants
to get driver's licenses and to qualify for in-state tuition
at state colleges. [Also see: Aiding
and abetting illegals is a crime] |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Ziglar
considers visa rule effects
The nation's top immigration official
said Wednesday he is willing to consider the economic impact
on the travel industry of a proposal to limit how long foreigners
can visit the U.S. -- James
W. Ziglar, commissioner of the INS, agreed in a House committee
hearing to meet with industry members to address their concerns,
as long as Bush administration officials approve and the law
allows it. -- The administration wants to eliminate the automatic
6-month stay currently granted to international tourists. |
Arizona
Republic (Sob Story
Alert)
Illegals
face graduation dilemma
The son of migrant farm workers from
Mexico, the 18-year-old shone as a stellar student and athlete
at Millennium High School in Goodyear. -- His father toiled in
the sprawling fields of the West Valley picking watermelon while
Armando stuck to the books, graduating in May with a 4.0 grade-point
average and high honors. He plans to attend ASU, which has awarded
him a full tuition scholarship at the Tempe campus. -- But Armando
may never realize those dreams because he is an illegal
immigrant. |
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Tucson Citizen
INS
failure to track down illegals draws criticism at House hearing
The chairman of a House immigration subcommittee
lambasted the Immigration and Naturalization Service today for
its failure to track down millions of illegal immigrants. --
Rep. George Gekas, R-Pa., was especially frustrated with the
agency's "abysmal" record in arresting the estimated
314,000 individuals who ignored deportation orders issued by
immigration judges. -- Marisa Demeo, a MALDEF
lawyer, said any INS crackdown on illegal immigrants would hurt
mostly Hispanics and do little to reduce the threat of terrorism.
About 60% of illegal immigrants in the U.S. come from Latin America
[mostly from hostile Mexico]. |
Tucson
Citizen
Kolbe
questions border plan
A group of lawmakers is urging Bush to
send thousands of soldiers to the borders with Mexico and Canada
to help keep out possible terrorists, illegal immigrants and
drug traffickers. -- Several House members announced plans yesterday
to circulate a nationwide petition to send military troops to
protect the borders. They also plan to introduce legislation
to broaden the president's power to use the military on the borders.
-- Rep.
Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., who opposes using military troops to
enforce domestic laws, said he did not sign the letter urging
Bush to put more soldiers on the borders. |
Tucson
Citizen
Group
seeks aid of hostile government
A group that has been placing jugs of
water in the desert is asking the Mexican government for help
in steering
illegal immigrants away from Tohono O'odham Nation land as they
cross the border into the United States. -- "We need
political leadership from the Mexican government on this,"
said the Rev. Robin Hoover, president of Humane Borders. -- Hoover
said he contacted [reconquista and U.S. citizen] Juan
Hernandez, "and told him the public sentiment here in
the states is that the Mexican governments needs to show some
leadership to steer these children out of the desert." |
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