Friday, June 21, 2002

Senator Says Mexican Takeover OK Conquest of Aztlan OK as long as you don't bring weapons O'REILLY: Is it in the Constitution of the United States to protect the borders, sir? BINGAMAN: Well, it's certainly there to protect against an armed invasion. O'REILLY: But not from a civilian invasion? BINGAMAN: I think the tradition and policy of the government has always been to have the Border Patrol perform that function. O'REILLY: But they're obviously not performing that function with more than one million illegal aliens coming across that border. June 20 2002 O'REILLY: Do you favor the military on the border to stem this illegal immigration from Mexico? BINGAMAN: Well, I favor use of the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol where they determine that's useful. I don't think the total militarization of the border that you're advocating. O'REILLY: Why not? BINGAMAN: Well, the military, we have always reserved for combat situations. And I think that's a good general policy. We are not at war with Mexico. ( continues at left)   Watch This Segment Contact Bingaman We are being invaded with hostile intent WorldNetDaily.com Mexicans: Southwest U.S. is ours Past Features

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Sign the Tancredo Homeland Defense Petition Tancredo was on KABC radio on Thursday evening, June 20. He has 10,000 names on his petition, and is going for 1 million. White House Inundated with Petitions

Associated Press Secretary: Mexican trucks to hit U.S. highways by summer's end Mexican trucks should be rolling down U.S. highways by the end of the summer, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Thursday. -- Wrapping up a three-day tour of Mexico, Evans told reporters he expects President George W. Bush to soon declare the much-debated safety regulations as final. -- A week ago, Mexican President Vicente Fox warned that if the United States does not live up to its end of the NAFTA bargain soon, he would consider banning U.S. trucks from Mexican territory altogether. [Link will change or expire soon]

LTE - Dallas Morning News (Published) Denouncing Tancredo insults readers A personal attack with no discussion of issues is a dead giveaway that the writer is lacking a real argument. So it is with the article "Colorado politician on guard at Mexican border" that attempts to castigate open- borders opponent Rep. Tom Tancredo. -- The piece is so keen to condemn that even the long-discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (known more for its bulging bank account than for any work against hate groups) is quoted in the litany.

Financial Times More on the tanking Mexican economy The Mexican peso hit its lowest level in two years on Friday, after a comment from Francisco Gil Diaz, the finance minister, that compared Mexico's economy with that of Argentina. -- Analysts said the sudden drop in the peso was attributable almost entirely to concerns over internal politics and the country's close ties to the US economy. The troubles in Brazil were seen as having a minimal impact on Mexico will be forced to tighten monetary policy. [Also see this article from Reuters.]

BBC Dutch getting tough on asylum seekers The Netherlands is preparing to introduce some of Europe's toughest immigration policies, as the populist anti-immigrant party of the late Pim Fortuyn prepares to take a place in government. -- The assassinated politician's LPF movement is in coalition negotiations with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDA) - the largest party after May's election - and the liberal VVD party. -- They have approved a raft of radical measures on immigration - including making all asylum seekers pay large sums of money to remain permanently in the country.

L.A. Daily News Sheriff's budget ax falls Sheriff's officials confirmed on Thursday the disbanding of two units that serve Antelope Valley unincorporated areas, a reaction to a projected L.A. Co. funding shortfall. -- Sixteen deputies and sergeants from the Lancaster and Palmdale community- oriented policing and crime-prevention units will be reassigned to patrol duties in unincorporated areas, though they are subject to assignments in Palmdale and Lancaster. [Sheriff Baca is in favor of driver's licenses for illegals not in favor of enforcing immigration laws.]

High Point News-Record Pakistani deported, family upset The INS has deported Mohammad Israr Khan, a High Point man with a wife and baby, a steady job and no criminal history other than an immigration violation -- but with the misfortune of appearing on a DOJ list of some 6,000 Muslim "alien absconders." -- Khan's wife, Angie Khan, said the INS in Atlanta placed her husband on a plane bound for his native Pakistan about 7 p.m. Tuesday. She said she learned he was being deported during a tearful call from Khan shortly before agents put him on the plane.

Rep. Tom Tancredo White House Inundated with Petitions; Americans Want Troops on U.S. Border U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, today announced that the Caucus' petition urging the President to immediately deploy troops along the U.S. border has overwhelmed the White House email system...

Reuters Mexico could be next Argentina Mexico could face an economic meltdown like Argentina's if it does not take steps to permanently improve federal revenues, Finance Minister Francisco Gil said on Thursday. -- "I attribute Argentina's problems to the several consecutive years it was, like we are doing now, ... financing insufficient income with income from privatizations," Gil told legislators. -- "But at some point we are not going to have anything to sell, and that moment is close," he added. "We are living a problem similar to that of Argentina."

Reuters Hispanics flex new muscle in southern United States In most of the southeastern United States civil rights and ethnic diversity historically have been viewed through a black and white prism, but a fast-growing Hispanic population is threatening to alter the ebb and flow of race relations and rewrite the political agenda in the region. -- Like previous generations in California, Florida and Texas, Hispanics in a number of states in the Deep South are for the first time seriously campaigning for seats on school boards, city councils and in state legislatures.

George Jonas - National Post Multiculturalism's volatile mix The loyalty of immigrants has been remarkable in Western societies. Canada and the United States have both benefited from it. Lately, however, we've been witnessing a new phenomenon: The immigrant of dubious loyalty. We've also begun to see disloyal native-borns, whether of immigrant ancestry or Islamic conversion. It hasn't happened overnight. To see it in context, it's useful to look at the point of departure.....

Associated Press Absconders rounded up For years, foreigners arrested in the United States for overstaying their visas have often been let go with a promise that they leave the country. Not surprisingly, many never did leave. -- For the past six months, however, the government has been quietly re-arresting many of these "absconders" on a U.S. Justice Department list about 1,000 names long. -- As of Friday, 708 of the approximately 1,000 people on the government list had been arrested under what is being called the Alien Absconder Apprehension Initiative, INS spokeswoman Nancy Cohen said. (But there are 314,000 'absconders')

Cal Thomas - Townhall.com Radical recruiting in America's prisons The mail brings a letter from a self- identified African- American prison inmate (several of the same type have arrived since Sept. 11). He predicts Islam will take over the world and America's days are numbered. -- This man is one of many converts to radical Islam under a program indirectly funded by Saudi Arabian money through the National Islamic Prison Foundation, which underwrites a "prison outreach" program. This program is likely to be discussed at the fifth annual Islam in American Prisons Conference, scheduled for July 5-7 at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International in Rosemont, Ill.

Tucson Citizen Border Patrol will back off from the border The U.S. Border Patrol this week quietly changed its enforcement plan for the corridor of the southwestern Arizona desert where illegal immigrants are dying in record numbers. -- Border Patrol supervisors told field agents of a "change in strategy" directly related to the two dozen immigrant deaths within the past two weeks, said Bud Tuffly, president of the Tucson Border Patrol union. -- Agents assigned to the "west desert" area, a wasteland of more than 15,000 square miles, previously were concentrated near the border with Mexico. [Clueless Rep. Ciro Rodriguez says there's no chaos on the border.]

Valley Morning Star Water haggling taking its toll The long-running dispute over sharing water from the Rio Grande is the biggest bilateral challenge facing the United States and Mexico, according to a new report. -- The June 2002 Mexico Report from Public Strategies Inc., concludes that the outlook for international cooperation remains uncertain while officials haggle about water transfers. -- Publication of the report comes as Rio Grande Valley cotton growers prepare for one of the worst harvests on record, a consequence of drought conditions and Mexico's failure to honor terms of a 1944 bilateral water treaty.

Gainesville Times Quinceañera drive-by kills 2 A 20-year-old Habersham County man remains at large more than three days after he allegedly participated in a drive-by shooting Monday near Gainesville that left two dead and two others seriously wounded. -- "I think he's still in the area," Maj. Wayne Mock of the Hall County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday of Jesus Cano. Mock said that was just a gut feeling. -- Sheriff Steve Cronic said the FBI is helping with an extended search. -- "I think he's out of state," he said. Neither officer is ruling out any possibility. - Law enforcement officials have a good idea where Cano might be headed.

Arizona Daily Star Cops try to rationalize why they shouldn't enforce the law An illegal entrant [alien] made it safely across the desert to Tucson this week, then turned back Wednesday to help Tohono O'odham police find a body he had seen during his covert trek. -- Lawrence Seligman, the Tohono O'odham police chief, said the case shows why local police should not enforce immigration law, an idea under consideration by the DOJ. -- "If we were mandated and required to enforce immigration law, we could not have developed this information and recovered these remains," Seligman said. [If they were doing their jobs rather than making excuses maybe they could help stop the invasion.]

Rep. Elton Gallegly - Washington Times Shifting INS not all it needs A few weeks after September 11, I asked Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar a simple question: Had the INS checked the immigration status and criminal backgrounds of security screeners working on September 11 at Dulles, Newark and Logan International Airports - the three airports from which al Qaeda terrorists commandeered U.S. airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon? -- Eight months later, after numerous follow-up letters, phone calls and face-to-face queries...

CitizensLobby.com Are Mexicans good sports? The U.S. soccer team made America proud on Monday with their stunning 2-0 victory over Mexico at the World Cup in South Korea. The Mexicans, though, showed no class or sportsmanship. After the game, the Mexican team left the field without the traditional shirt exchanges and handshakes. Mexican fans shouted and taunted American fans and the American team. An AP story reported that Mexicans at cafes and bars in Mexico City "screamed obscenities at the Star-Spangled Banner" and displayed "resentment" at America.

University Abets Mexican Who Threatened Magazine ...Liddle said that on Nov. 19 two Koala staffers "tagged along" with a free-lance photographer to attend a meeting of the extremist anti-U.S. group MEChA, Movimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan, which describes itself as "a union of free pueblos forming a bronze nation." -- In 1996 MEChA called for the "liberation" of "Aztlan," which it defines as the seven states of the U.S. Southwest: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.

Agence France-Presse   Blair urges tough new EU approach on illegal immigration British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his fellow EU leaders Thursday to adopt a tough new approach towards illegal immigration by drawing up a common asylum policy and tightening their borders. -- Speaking at a press conference ahead of the EU summit in Seville, Spain, he warned that failing properly to address the problem would play into the hands of extremists. -- Blair said illegal immigration and asylum would be the focus of the summit Friday and Saturday, hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

InvestigativeJournal.com - Jack Foote Texas congressman hasn't got a clue Rep. Ciro Rodriquez of Texas, clearly demonstrated a complete and utter ignorance of reality when he commented on the O'Reilly Factor that "there is no chaos on our border." -- I have personally talked to the rural border county landowners here in Texas and their comments are all the same: they are being overrun on a daily and nightly basis by hordes of thousands of criminal aliens. Their property is being destroyed, their homes are being invaded, their livelihoods are being eradicated, and they face regular threats of physical violence.

Daily Breeze 5 INS employees indicted An INS supervisor at Los Angeles International Airport and four other people were indicted Thursday on charges that they smuggled illegal immigrants from the Philippines into the United States through the airport. -- A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Maximiano "Mark" Ramos, 53, of North Hills, the INS supervisor, and four others who at one time worked for private airport security companies. -- Also charged are Rita "Margie" Cunanan, 42, of North Hills; Eshraga E. Nugud, 41, of Torrance; Vinzon S. Perez...

Agence France-Presse   Blair urges tough new EU approach on illegal immigration British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his fellow EU leaders Thursday to adopt a tough new approach towards illegal immigration by drawing up a common asylum policy and tightening their borders. -- Speaking at a press conference ahead of the EU summit in Seville, Spain, he warned that failing properly to address the problem would play into the hands of extremists. -- Blair said illegal immigration and asylum would be the focus of the summit Friday and Saturday, hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

Washington Times Now Colombians want amnesty Colombian President-elect Alvaro Uribe says he will ask the United States for legal status in this country for Colombian citizens, tens of thousands of whom are living here illegally to escape terrorism in their homeland. -- Following up on promises he made before his landslide election victory in May, Mr. Uribe told reporters in Washington this week that he would ask the Bush administration to grant temporary protection status (TPS) to Colombians seeking refuge in the United States. -- Mr. Uribe's request is "under consideration," said Sylvia Bazala...

Independent Tribune (North Carolina) Local gang activity on the rise Authorities say larger cities like Charlotte and Greensboro have seen a rise in Latino gang activity, and some signs of that activity have trickled into smaller suburban areas, including Concord and Kannapolis. -- Concord and Kannapolis police have begun to see Latino gang symbols on cars and buildings, but say there is no evidence that any gangs actually have carved out active territories in this region. -- Still, the KPD is educating both law enforcement and the community on what to look for and how to prevent gangs from becoming a widespread problem.

George Putnam

NewsMax.com One Reporter's Opinion: 'Do We Want 'Mexifornia'?' ...Professor Hanson points out that he loves the Mexican people, but that tensions abound even within families when the subject of our sovereignty and citizenship is discussed. One of his siblings is married to a Mexican-American; another has two stepchildren whose father was an illegal from Mexico; he has a prospective son-in-law whose parents crossed the border, yet they all disagree at different times whether open borders are California's hope or its vane. [Do we want Mexifornia?]

Press-Enterprise Hate crime: Gangsters face murder charges Five Riverside gang members will be charged today with murder and committing a hate crime in connection with the stabbing death of a gay activist, authorities said. -- "The only motive for this attack was hatred," Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach said at a news conference Thursday. -- Dorian Lee Gutierrez, 18, Viviano Cruz Marin, 25, Miguel Angel Ramos, 28, and Ramin Meza Rabago, 18, were booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center in downtown Riverside on suspicion of murder. [Related story with photo of 4 suspects, video report.]

Newsday 3 Arrested in JFK Smuggling Probe In what prosecutors said were repeated breaches of security at JFK, a Fresh Meadows couple and an upstate man were arrested yesterday on charges they tried to smuggle immigrants into the country by using a secure corridor for federal inspectors. -- The smuggling scheme, officials said, allowed seven immigrants traveling from the Dominican Republic by air to avoid any form of inspection or questioning by the INS and Customs Service. -- Arrested were Sergio Salazar, Angelica arce-Salazar, and Ramon Thomas Delacruz.

TheNewsMexico.com Migrant group calls on government to take action The Human Frontiers organization on Thursday urged the government to take steps to prevent its citizens from entering the United States through Arizona's indigenous Tohono O'odham Nation, where 13 undocumented immigrants have died over the past two weeks. -- "Many people are dying and something must be done. We need the political leadership of the Mexican government on this issue," said Protestant minister Robin Hoover who heads the private organization based in Tucson, Arizona.