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Friday, September 27, 2002 |
O'Reilly Strikes
Out
Lets false statements go unchallenged.
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"Torres: "Latino
immigrant workers pay approximately 70 billion dollars in taxes,
different kinds of taxes, and they receive approximately only
42 billion." (Absolutely false)
O'Reilly: They're in this country illegally, so what? I mean,
you know. [E-Mail O'Reilly] |
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Debate
reveals need for batting practice
O'Reilly Factor -- (9/26/02) -- A televised debate
between Rep. Tom Tancredo and Louis Torres, professor of Chicano
studies, revealed a lack of knowledge on the part of the host,
Bill O'Reilly. Torres repeatedly made gross false statements
about illegal aliens that were never challenged by O'Reilly.
The debate revealed that the Denver Post is targeting Tancredo.
 Watch
 See
our analysis |
The American Border Patrol
Story |
CNN
Nebraska
massacre suspects: Interpreter reads charges in court
One robbery suspect said, "It went
to hell in the bank," according to police investigating
one of the deadliest bank robberies in the United States. --
The Associated Press also reported that three of the four men
entered the bank shooting, according to Norfolk Police Capt.
Steve Hecker. The fourth, the alleged getaway driver, took off
during the robbery. -- Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo, Eric Fernando
Vela and Gabriel Rodriguez are charged with five counts of first-degree
murder and weapons charges for the holdup of a U.S. Bank branch
in the rural community of Norfolk. -- During the hearing held
in the Madison County courthouse, an interpreter read the charges
and the men had individual attorneys appointed for them. [Immigration
status of these suspects has not been released] |
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Douglas
Dispatch [Link will change
or expire soon]
Congressman
Flake urges President Bush to help border hospitals
Arizona
Congressman Jeff Flake, a member of the House of Immigration
and Border Security subcommittee, sent a letter to President
Bush calling to his attention a report on uncompensated emergency
health care costs to hospitals in treating illegal immigrants.
-- "As you well know, these costs associated with health
care encumbers Border States on top of the costs associated with
detaining, processing and incarcerating criminal aliens in the
counties of Border States," Flake said in his letter to
Bush. |
Omaha World-Herald
Accused
bank killers arraigned
Four men were ordered held without bail
Friday after a Norfolk police officer told how they robbed a
bank and killed five people Thursday. -- Norfolk Police Capt.
Steve Hecker said one of the suspects, Erick Fernando Vela, told
police "it went to hell in the bank." -- Hecker said
another suspect, Jorge Galindo, told investigators the men had
planned the bank robbery for two to four weeks. -- The men shot
the five people at close range in the head, Hecker said. -- He
said the bank's security camera showed that it all happened within
40 seconds. |
Seattle
Times
Suspect
in fake 'green card' scam in court
A Mexican accused of being involved in
what federal prosecutors say is the
largest counterfeit "green card" operation ever encountered
in Washington state made his first appearance yesterday in
U.S. District Court in Seattle. -- Jesus Salvador Rivera-Villalon
is charged with mass-producing fraudulent Alien Registration
Receipt Cards, commonly known as green cards, and other identification
documents in his Shoreline residence. A search of his apartment
uncovered counterfeit documents and printing equipment, prosecutors
said. |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Consultants
tied to wedding scam
A fraudulent immigration consulting business
in Chicago arranged sham marriages to U.S. citizens so foreign
nationals could illegally obtain permanent resident status, the
government charged Thursday. -- Authorities identified Jessie
Isaac, 51, of Chicago as the ringleader of the operation, which
catered primarily to immigrants from India living on the city's
North Side. -- Also indicted was Hilda Rose Figueroa, 30, of
Chicago on charges she helped recruit U.S. citizens to serve
as sham wives for $600 upfront and additional money later. |
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Washington
Post
Illegal
alien day laborers, cheerleaders lobby Congress
As protesters converge on Washington
to decry globalization and its effects on workers overseas, some
of the critics said yesterday that some American workers also
face poor working conditions and economic dislocation. -- Against
the backdrop of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank
meetings, more than 100 Hispanic day laborers and their supporters
took to the halls of Congress yesterday to lobby for new laws
to ensure they get paid by the contractors and landscape companies
that hire them from urban street corners. |
Mary Sanchez - KC Star
Crossing
border for kids (Propaganda)
One thing is clear after a week's worth
of e-mail and phone calls concerning a column discussing public
education for the children of undocumented immigrants. -- Some
people are stuck on the undocumented -- and, therefore, illegal
-- status of the parents. For them, moving to rational discussions
about the long-term economic effect of providing or not providing
a child an education become moot. [E-mail
Sanchez] |
Buffalo
News
Suspected
illegal plucked from river
Border Patrol officers rescued and then
arrested a Chinese man early Wednesday after he apparently tried
to swim to shore from a raft in the lower Niagara River and enter
the United States illegally. -- Bao Lin Chen, 30, an immigrant
residing in Toronto, was charged with illegal entry and was arraigned
in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. He will be held for immigration
removal proceedings once the criminal case against him is concluded. |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Migrant's
college bid turns political
In a case that has become an embarrassment
to a Republican Party courting Hispanic voters, a Colorado congressman
is urging immigration officials to deport an honors student who
has spoken out about the difficulties of undocumented
youths trying to attend college in the U.S. -- The incident,
involving Rep.
Tom Tancredo, a leading voice in Congress against illegal
immigration, has caused a furor here and attracted concern from
Hispanic groups nationwide. -- Tancredo asked immigration authorities
to remove 18-year-old Jesus Apodaca and his family from the country
earlier this month after the youth was featured in a front-page
story in The Denver Post about the problems undocumented
teenagers face when trying to go to college. |
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Washington
Times
Loss
of agents hinders effort to secure border
The U.S. Border Patrol is facing a 15
percent attrition rate that threatens to increase to more than
20 percent by the end of the year. -- The turnover, according
to veteran agents here and all along the U.S.-Mexico border,
threatens ongoing efforts to secure the nation's borders. Nowhere
is the loss felt greater than along the 1,940-mile international
border with Mexico, where U.S. Border Patrol agents are leaving
in staggering numbers. -- Dissatisfied with the pay, disenchanted
with the job or in a hurry to "go home" after working
in the hot, arid and often desolate border regions of the United
States, agents are quitting at a record pace. |
Newsday
More
charges in Mexican hooker case
More charges were brought Thursday against
five people accused of luring young Mexican girls into the U.S.
and forcing them into prostitution at a Plainfield brothel. -
The superseding federal indictment was handed up following the
guilty pleas of Angel Ruiz on Tuesday and Pedro Garcia Burgos
on Wednesday. -- Ruiz admitted that he rented the Front Street
home to be used for prostitution and that he profited from the
illegal sale of beer there. He said he believed some of the girls
were under 18 and were coerced. |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Mexican
illegals caught in pot bust
The war on drugs in Ventura County was
on full display Wednesday, replete with guns, thumping helicopters
and sweaty, bug-bitten troops in camouflage scouring the rugged
hillsides for the enemy. -- As they have done each fall for the
last three decades, county and federal agents this week descended
on another small patch of the giant Los Padres National Forest
north of Ojai, seizing piles of the annual marijuana harvest.
-- Six undocumented residents from Mexico who were allegedly
attempting to flee the plantations. |
Arizona
Republic
Day
laborers prone to abuse, GAO says
...The GAO report also said that day
laborers were protected under two federal laws: the Fair Labor
Standards Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The
first one requires employers to pay federal hourly minimum wage
and overtime, while OSHA requires employers to provide a safe
workplace. --- But enforcement of either law is difficult for
federal authorities because day laborers, which include illegal
immigrants, are reluctant to complain about working conditions.
Coverage under both laws is not dependent on immigration status.
-- "Immigrants to the United States, especially newer ones,
are more willing to accept lower wages and substandard work that
offers few benefits or protections, which makes them attractive
to unscrupulous employers who may exploit them as a cheap source
of labor," the report said. |
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Valley Morning
Star
Illegal
alien health care bill unpaid
Undocumented immigrants in the Rio Grande
Valley racked up more than $34 million in unpaid medical bills
in 2000, according to a new report released in Washington, D.C.,
Thursday. -- The study, commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border
Counties Coalition, is designed to put pressure on Congress to
reimburse border hospitals for providing emergency medical services
to undocumented immigrants. -- The report found that border hospitals
pay a significantly disproportionate amount each year in uncompensated
emergency care some $200 million in the 24 U.S. counties that
border Mexico. [Also
see this article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ] |
Houston Chronicle
Meddlesome
Mexican will seek dialogue
Candido
Morales, the Mexican government's new man in charge of organizing
immigrants living in the United States, promises to be a good
listener. -- "Only through dialogue can we come up with
solutions," said Morales, 57, who met with immigrant community
leaders here Thursday. -- The native of Oaxaca is the second
person named by President Vicente Fox to the post. The first,
Texas native Juan Hernandez, left after criticism on both sides
of the border. -- Morales faces a tall order. |
Arizona
Daily Star
Scofflaw-care
load could be lightened
Pima County hospitals - among the hardest
hit in the nation by unpaid emergency bills for border-crossers
from Mexico - stand to gain millions in federal relief if a bill
introduced in Congress Thursday becomes law. -- Of 24 U.S. counties
bordering Mexico, Pima County ranks near the top - third - for
losing money providing this care: nearly $25 million in the year
2000, according to a just-released federal study. -- The total
unpaid bill for all border-state hospitals hit nearly $190 million
that year, the study found... |
Sierra
Vista Herald
More
cuts at Bisbee hospital
Forced to make cuts because of budgetary
pressures, the Copper Queen Community Hospital's staff has been
reduced again. -- Twenty-one people were affected by the layoffs,
said Jim Dickson, the hospital's chief executive officer. Some
positions were eliminated through attrition, and other workers
had their hours reduced. The changes will save the hospital $461,800.
-- Patient care remains a top priority for the hospital, Dickson
said. The hospital's renovation project and the technological
improvement plans are grant funded and proceeding on schedule.
[Hospitals
all over the Southwest are getting stiffed by illegal aliens
left and right. No mention of that in this article, though.]
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soon] |
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The Denver
Channel
Another
arrest in mass-murder, bank robbery case
Police in Nebraska say they have captured
a fourth suspect in Thursday's deadly bank robbery in the farming
town of Norfolk. -- Police say Gabriel Rodriguez, 26, had been
driving the getaway car and apparently abandoned the three others.
The men were identified by police as Jose Sandoval, 23, of Norfolk;
Jorge Galindo, 21, and Erick Fernando Vela, 21, both of Madison.
[During an on-air report on another network, one suspect was
seen making hand gestures similar to gang signs while being put
in a police car.] |
Houston Chronicle
Mexicans
meddling in U.S. affairs again
Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia have
joined a citywide program to protect the legal rights of undocumented
workers [criminals].
-- The program, created by the Mexican Consulate along with three
U.S. agencies that deal with on-the-job problems, reaches out
to immigrants who were hurt on the job, face discrimination or
have not been paid properly. -- Immigrants who believe they've
been wronged are encouraged to report their problems on a hot
line. [Illegals are prohibited by law from working in the U.S.
The corrupt Mexican government is aiding
and abetting them.] |
Denver
Post
Senator
backs foreign scofflaw
Sen.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) introduced legislation Thursday
that would make Jesus
Apodaca, an 18-year-old honor student [and lawbreaker] that
fellow Colorado lawmaker Tom
Tancredo wants deported, a permanent resident of the U.S.
-- Campbell has also asked INS Commissioner James
Ziglar to refrain from taking any immediate action against
Apodaca or his family, who crossed illegally from Mexico into
the U.S. when Apodaca was 12. And Sen.
Edward Kennedy (D-MA), a key leader on immigration in the
Senate, has joined in lobbying the INS on the family's behalf. |
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Washington
Times
Agents
resent zeal for amnesty among politicians
The question of amnesty for illegal aliens
is a hot topic not only for politicians in Washington, but also
among the thin green line of U.S. Border Patrol agents here and
elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border. -- "What the hell
are we doing out here?" asked one veteran agent. "Why
don't we just pack it in? Amnesty? It's just an open invitation
for more illegal aliens to come into the country, stay low for
a while and, eventually, get their citizenship papers. -- "Who's
in charge here?" the agent asked, staring at a group of
11 Mexican nationals preparing to vault a border fence and head
north. |
Associated
Press
Mexicans
applaud U.S. Congress' suspension of annual drug certification
A vote in the U.S. Congress to effectively
end the annual process of certifying countries' cooperation with
Washington's war on drugs was applauded Thursday by the Mexican
government. --- The Foreign Relations Secretariat (Marxist reconquista
crackpot Jorge Castañeda)
on Thursday praised the decision by the U.S. House of Representatives
- which is still pending Senate approval - and emphasized the
action was a direct result of efforts by President Vicente Fox.
-- "Suspension of the certification process is an indication
of the success of Vicente Fox's foreign policies," the Castañeda
said. [It has been estimated that over 70% of the illicit drugs
entering the U.S. come in through corruption-bloated, crime-ridden
Mexico.] |
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