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"The American
Border Patrol Story"
To be released this week on VHS and DVD
 Past Features |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration)
Colombian
Refugees Plead for Asylum in U.S.
A group of Colombian leaders and local
officials called on the United States government yesterday to
grant temporary asylum to Colombians who fear returning to their
native country, where guerrilla fighters and the army have clashed
for decades in a bloody civil war. -- Carlos A. Manzano, a Democratic
state committeeman from Manhattan, said he hoped to meet with
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and convince him that the
conflict in Colombia is tantamount to genocide.... |
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Boston Herald
Poll:
Voters strongly back bilingual education revamp
Voters overwhelmingly support sweeping
change to the state's bilingual education system and are, so
far, eager to side with the English-only concept slated for the
November ballot, a new Herald poll shows. -- Sixty percent of
registered voters oppose the state's current bilingual education
law and nearly two-thirds say they'll support the initiative
mandating non-English speakers learn within a year, the poll
shows. |
Newsday
Female
day laborers sprouting up
...Women day laborers are a new and possibly
growing phenomenon. Because of the slowed economy, they have
been flocking to Williamsburg in increasing numbers over the
past year. -- The corners in the largely orthodox Jewish neighborhood
have been even more crowded since Sept. 11, when many immigrant
women lost their cleaning jobs in and near the World Trade Center,
said Oscar Paredes, executive director of the Latin
American Workers Project. One expert said the women of Williamsburg
could be pioneers. |
Newsday
New
day labor center on Long Island
...Hundreds of recent immigrants have
been showing up each day at the edge of a parking lot near Gravesend
Bay since the employment site was established in early March.
There, they await offers of temporary work as painters, electricians,
roofers and plumbers. -- In their dealings with contractors,
the workers are informally represented by The Latin
American Workers Project, a Bushwick organization which tries
to ensure they are paid in full. Contractors must sign agreements
to pay workers $70 plus lunch... |
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Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Green
Bay becomes diverse--and divided
...Immigration has built such momentum
since then that a Mexican can peruse the newspaper, tune into
the radio or attend mass without slipping out of Spanish. --
But county leaders, fearing that the new enclaves of Mexican
and Hmong immigrants threaten the cohesion of this close-knit
city, are pushing a controversial plan to make English the official
language of county government. -- Supporters say the measure
is mainly symbolic, an affirmation that immigrants should assimilate
into the fabric of northern Wisconsin. -- Mexican immigrants,
in a sense, have created their own world, and that troubles some
longtime residents and county leaders. |
Houston
Chronicle
Meddling
Mexicans praise cops for ignoring U.S. laws
...HPD officer M.S. Reutzel shot and
killed Jaime Santiago in 2000. He claimed Santiago was holding
a gun, and the grand jury found no criminal conduct. However,
when it was revealed that the gun was a toy and that a witness
disputed the assertion that Santiago was holding it, outrage
among the Hispanic community grew so great that Rodulfo Figueroa,
then Mexico's consul general in Houston, warned Mexicans to have
a lawyer with them when talking to HPD officers. -- Now, however,
HPD appears to be improving, said Marco Nunez, the Mexican consulate's
current press attache. -- Nunez praised the department for not enforcing
immigration laws, accepting the
matricula, an identification card for Mexican nationals,
as a valid ID, and implementing the Latino Squad. |
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Seattle
Times (Not Published)
Re:
Fouled-up system victimizes worthy immigrant students
Maria is not a victim, Maria is a criminal and does not
belong in this country. -- Read the polls; 85% of Americans want
illegal immigration stopped and illegal aliens deported. -- Maria
and the 11 Million criminal friends of her's, principally from
Mexico, cost US taxpayers $48 Billion in health care alone per
year. Billions more in schooling and social programs. |
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Wall Street
Journal
Store
parking lots turning into day labor centers
...For a new generation of Mexican migrants,
the Home Depot parking lot has become what fruit groves were
to their grandparents. Migrant workers have always been adept
at identifying and filling holes in the market economy. The twist
this time is that the workers are cashing in on a nationally
known brand, riding the good fortunes of a company that has expressed
some dissatisfaction with the practice. |
Patrick
Mallon - NewsMax.com
Wanted!
An Ethical Governor
In the event California's gubernatorial
race ends in November with Bill Simon winning, pundits and voters
will ask two fundamental questions. -- What took people so long
to recognize that Gray Davis was running against the majority
of the state's voters on so many issues? -- And why didn't Davis
ever comprehend and respond to a manifest credibility gap caused
by his arrogant indifference to charges of unethical conduct?
-- The answer to the first question is that voters unknowingly
suffer from discriminatory news coverage... |
Published
LTE - Chicago Tribune
Dual
citizenship
...A nation is like an extended family.
An international mass of dual citizens is not a nation. The number
of dual citizens, political polygamists, is exploding to a potential
one- in- seven Americans. -- U.S. citizenship should not simply
be a means to a better job, an extended shopping opportunity
or passport privileges. -- Would-be U.S. citizens should treat
the citizenship oath as serious as a marriage vow, because citizenship
is a form of marriage, a lifelong social contract requiring full
commitment. -- Dual
citizenships necessarily mean dual allegiances... |
Dan
Stein |
Arizona
Republic
Migrant-fueled
growth choking Arizona dream
If it's starting to feel a bit crowded
in Arizona, you're not imagining it. -- According to the 2000
Census data, the state's population - now 5.1 million people
- was the second-fastest-growing in the country during the 1990s.
During the 1990s, nearly 1.5 million new residents settled in
Arizona - an increase that is larger than the entire population
of the state in 1960. |
Letters to
the Editor |
Chad Brock
to the Denver Post (Published)
One
singer's opinion
...We as Americans have the right and
the freedom to speak. My opinion certainly was not intended to
pinpoint or target any one culture. My statements were directed
at all Americans. -- ...I am pro-American and will not back down
from this ideal. If my opinions offend some, perhaps those individuals
would do well to rethink just how "American" they are.
[Numerous other letters] |
Letters
- Tucson Citizen (Published)
Mexico,
illegals decried
I'm just calling about the article, "Death
in the desert, one year later," about 14 Mexican citizens
who crossed the border and lost their lives in the desert. Now
their families that are trying to sue us. -- I've driven to Rocky
Point and further south in Mexico since I was 16. I have seen
many people get hurt on the highways just driving to and from
there. I've seen people injured and denied care... |
Laredo
Morning Times
Border
agents help with rescues
Laredo U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to
distress calls in the Cotulla area last week equipped with helicopters,
boats and jet skis as they saved lives of the residents being
swept by the powerful rising flood waters. -- The rescue
mission was part of the Border Safety Initiative program implemented
in 1998 to reduce injuries and prevent deaths in the Southwest
Border Region. |
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Seattle
Times
Fouled-up
system victimizes worthy immigrant students
Maria was a good student.... She'd like
to be a bilingual Spanish teacher. -- Washington state needs
teachers, especially bilingual ones in those districts, mostly
in Eastern Washington, where Mexican immigrants are swelling
the student rolls. -- Perfect fit, you would think. -- The
only catch is, Maria probably can't afford the education because
she doesn't qualify for low in-state tuition. She is not a legal
resident of the U.S. but a citizen of Mexico. |
Associated
Press
Four
Pakistani nationals jump ship
Four Pakistani nationals working aboard
a grain ship docked near New Orleans left the vessel without
permission and were apparently headed for Texas, authorities
said. -- The INS and border control agents were trying to track
down the men Sunday evening. The men were ordered not to leave
their ship as part of a standard INS order. |
Sun-Sentinel
23
people found on raft
Immigration and Naturalization Service
officers interviewed 23 people found on a homemade raft Sunday
morning by Coast Guard officers near Marathon. -- The group was
made up of 17 men, four women and two children, a boy and a girl.
One of the women was taken ashore for medical treatment, but
the rest stayed on a Coast Guard boat. |
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CNS News
Service
Congressman:
Hospitals burdened by 'parasitic effects' of illegal immigration
As Congress considers a reorganization
of the INS, some members are also taking a closer look at the
cost of illegal immigration, especially to the nation's hospitals.
-- "We basically want to know ... how much these hospitals
are being hit ... and what are their recommendations [as to]
what we should do," Chris Paulitz, a spokesperson for Rep.
Mark Foley (R-Florida), told CNSNews.com. "It's just hard
for these hospitals to keep staying afloat with this, especially
in our area in Florida." |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Racist
Rally Is Not a Draw
...Doles' group, part of a larger neo-Nazi
organization called the National Alliance, picked Gainesville,
50 miles north of Atlanta, because it's home to one of the highest
concentrations of Latino immigrants in the South. The town of
26,000 is the self-proclaimed "poultry capital of the world,"
and thousands of Mexican immigrants have come here to work in
the numerous chicken plants, taking minimum-wage jobs that most
locals eschew. |
Rocky
Mountain News
Greeley
learns language of debate
..."Wherever you go in Greeley,
there are Mexicans speaking Spanish," Castulo Venegas [formerly
an illegal alien] said. -- The Spanish-language issue flared
after country-western singer Chad
Brock peppered his performance July 5 at the Greeley Independence
Stampede with comments
that immigrants should learn and speak English. -- Brock
received a standing ovation, but set off a debate over language,
race and prejudice. |
Robert
Locke |
FrontPageMag.com
The
Open-Borders Conspiracy
If I could choose to have my readers
learn one and only one thing from what I write, it would be that
America's problems are not the result of blind, much less inevitable,
forces, but are the consequences of deliberate political action
by motivated individuals and groups. Nowhere is this clearer
than in the case of our ongoing immigration crisis. Let's trace
the lines of influence in the open-borders conspiracy, a word
I use despite its connotations of grassy knollology because in
this case it is factually appropriate. |
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Associated
Press
Four
Pakistani nationals jump ship in Louisiana
Four Pakistani nationals working aboard
a grain ship docked near New Orleans left the vessel without
permission and were apparently headed for Texas, authorities
said. -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service and border
control agents were trying to track down the men Sunday evening.
The men were ordered not to leave their ship as part of a standard
INS order. |
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Nationwide Budget Meltdown |
N.Y.
Times (Free Registration)
Governors
Share Woes on Budgets
The nation's governors gathered today
in an atmosphere of deepening concern, confronting persistent
revenue shortfalls, which many said would be aggravated by the
turmoil on Wall Street, and the rising costs of providing health
care for the poor and preventing terrorist attacks. -- Officials
with the National Governors Association said that by their count
45 states reported revenue shortfalls over the last year, totaling
$50 billion, caused by a drop in sales, capital gains... |
LTE
(Not Published)
Glenn
Spencer to the N.Y. Times
Two years ago I said the following: "Today,
the top four percent of income earners in California pay more
than 50 percent of all income taxes collected by the state, while
the bottom 49%, mostly Latino, pay less than two percent. When
the next downturn comes, and it will, state revenue will disappear
overnight, leading to an unpredictable level of discontent and
conflict among squabbling minorities." (From transcript
of my video: Immigration,
Threatening the Bonds of Our Union, Part II). |
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