Saturday, September 28, 2002

Slain Rangers' Family Backs American Border Patrol Slain Park Ranger Kris Eggle Sierra Vista, Ariz., Sep 27, 2002    A kick-off meeting of a new organization dedicated to telling the American people the truth about its borders has been endorsed by the family of a murdered National Park Service Law Enforcement Officer. Ranger Kris Eggle was gunned down on August 8 by a Mexican drug smuggler while working with the U.S. Border Patrol at Organ Pipe National Park.    "Our Border is out-of-control. You are helping to bring attention to this and the reform, which is needed!" wrote Eggle's father and mother in an email to American Border Patrol (ABP) president, Glenn Spencer. More.... Meeting to be held on Sunday, Sept. 29 - Complete Info The American Border Patrol Story Past Features

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AB-60 (Licenses for Illegals in Calif.) - Action Needed Now

POLL	Should illegals be able to get Calif. driver's licenses? | Story

Washington Post Police Take New Look at Man as Potential Suspect in Levy Case Detectives in the Chandra Levy murder case are focusing on a man convicted of assaulting two women jogging in Rock Creek Park last year ­ a suspect who was initially discounted after he passed a polygraph test that investigators now believe was flawed. -- Ingmar A. Guandique, 21, has been in prison for the assaults on the joggers since July 2001, two months after Levy disappeared. After her remains were found in the park May 22, some investigators reexamining his case were struck by the similarities in the three crime scenes, law enforcement sources said.

Austin American-Statesman - Mexico City Bureau Arizona sees more deaths of illegal aliens This summer will be remembered here as perhaps the deadliest. Although the number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by 28 percent in the past year, migrant deaths along Arizona's popular but deadly smuggling corridor have skyrocketed. -- Last year, the Mexican government counted 81 deaths along the entire Arizona border. This year, through Sept. 9, government figures show the number has jumped to more than 144 deaths with a little more than three more months to go. -- [Mexican 'Border czar' tells deported illegals, "try again", then Marxist crackpot blames U.S. when accidents happen. | Do-gooders add to the problem.]

Rocky Mountain News Editorial Give Tancredo a one-way ticket Colorado's 6th District should be one of the safest Republican seats in Congress, and on Nov. 5 it will probably whisk Tom Tancredo back to Washington, D.C., on the crest of a landslide. But we urge Republicans in the 6th to think carefully before casting a vote for the two-term incumbent. Do they really want a man representing them whose ambition is more important to him than his solemn word? -- Surely the answer is no. Surely most Republican voters see that their support of a man who breaks a written pledge to serve no more than three terms... [E-mail the editor]

Rocky Mountain News Editorial Another attack on Tancredo Some issues bring out the worst in everyone - those who believe Jesus Apodaca should be punished for being in the United States illegally, and those who want to reward him. -- Apodaca popped up in the media as an honor student who might not get to go to college because only legal residents of the state are eligible for in-state tuition. That prompted Rep. Tom Tancredo to call for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport him and his family. -- Illegal immigration is nothing to take lightly, but let's be realistic.... [E-mail the editor]

Re: Mass Murder in Norfolk, Nebraska About Sadoval, Galindo, Rodriguez and Vela, who stormed a bank in Norfolk, Nebraska, killed 5 people and exited the bank within forty seconds, a new story says: "And all are Hispanic -- a touchy subject in Norfolk, a late 1800s German settlement that rapidly grew more diverse in the 1990s as Hispanics came to work in meatpacking plants, opened small businesses and started Spanish-speaking churches. About 9 percent of Madison County is now Hispanic, according to the 2000 census."

Denver Post Support grows for scofflaw - Governor talks to Bush about Apodaca Gov. Bill Owens [Website] on Friday joined a rising chorus of the state's elected officials backing a bill that would give permanent residency to an 18-year-old honor student and illegal immigrant whose case has deeply divided the Republican Party. -- Speaking to a crowded banquet room filled with Hispanic leaders, Owens embraced a bill proposed last week by Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, [RINO-CO], which would create a special act of Congress granting residency to Jesus Apodaca and his immediate family, who crossed into the United States from Mexico when Apodaca was 12.

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Omaha World-Herald  From tragedy comes tragedy as trooper kills himself Two transposed numbers. -- It was an innocent mistake by a law officer - incorrectly entering the serial number of a suspected stolen handgun confiscated from a man during a traffic stop last week. -- The mistake helped lead to the release of the man, one of four men later charged in the deadly U.S. Bank shootings. -- And the mistake prompted the distraught lawman to kill himself. -- The body of State Trooper Mark Zach, 35, was found about 1:30 p.m. Friday just outside of town, authorities said. He shot himself with a service gun. [Also see: Suspects no strangers to Madison County residents----or to police ]

Mercury News (Published) H-1B system, not the workers, needs a fresh examination Americans with functioning memories may recall that when NAFTA and other schemes of economic globalization sent thousands of manufacturing jobs out of the country, ruling class pundits said it would be no problem. The reason? Americans would instead be happily doing information technology jobs in the brave new world of computers....

Caller-Times Education official: History texts need more Hispanics Hispanic contributions are not accurately reflected in American or Texas history books, Mary Helen Berlanga, a member of the Texas State Board of Education, told a group of about 40 Martin Middle School seventh-graders on Friday. -- Hispanics have been part of nearly all major American and Texas events, yet are scarcely mentioned. -- "Nine thousand nine hundred Mexican-Americans fought in the Civil War," she said........

Sacramento Bee Airport workers face loss of jobs When screeners at Sacramento International Airport become federal employees within the next few weeks, many of its most experienced security personnel won't be among them. -- New rules that require airport security workers to be American citizens are forcing dozens of Sacramento screeners -- and hundreds statewide -- into lower-paying jobs or out of work altogether. --- The new citizenship requirement is part of a sweeping federal aviation security law that was quickly passed...

Ruben Navarrette, Jr. - Salt Lake Tribune 'Harvard Chicano' reconquista derides Tancredo, repeats hearsay as fact Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado should remember an old adage: People who let illegal immigrants work on their houses shouldn't throw tantrums about illegal immigration. -- The two-term Republican member of Congress long ago discovered a market of voters hungry for red meat on immigration issues. And he has served it up in slabs. -- One minute, he suggests putting the military on the U.S.-Mexico border. The next minute, he blasts the leader of his own party -- President Bush -- for supposedly weakening national security with an "open-door" immigration policy. -- Tancredo has made these outlandish statements and others from his perch as chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. [Contact Navarrette. Ask him to produce some proof that Tancredo hired illegals.]

Omaha World-Herald  Vicious mass murder in bank: Forty seconds, five lives Three gunmen collected their death toll swiftly Thursday morning in the U.S. Bank branch office in Norfolk. They left the bank 40 seconds after entering, leaving behind five victims, each shot in the head at close range, Norfolk Police Capt. Steve Hecker testified in a court hearing Friday. -- Madison County Judge Richard Krepela denied bail for four suspects based on Hecker's account of the slayings. -- All four are charged with five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of using a firearm to commit a felony. [Immigration status of these suspects has not been released] [Note: 1998-1999 -- Mexican/Hispanics = 2.3% of the Nebraska's population, but 10.3% of the state's prison population]

Orange County Register Bills could bolster or bury Davis - Reconquista bills key Gov. Gray Davis, fighting for re-election, is poised to act on bills that have become symbols to the Latino community. How he decides these issues could affect the outcome of the election, experts say. -- The bills in question deal with driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants and mediated labor contracts for farm workers. -- Access to a driver's license is crucial to helping immigrants get out of poverty, immigrant-rights advocates have said [This is a lie. These are illegal alien scofflaws, aka criminals, not 'immigrants']. -- The farm workers bill gives laborers - mostly Latinos - a chance at contracts offering better pay and working conditions, and puts teeth in the state's farm-labor laws, according to the United Farm Workers. [Call Davis today toll free and demand that he veto AB60]

Washington Post Immigration lawyer indicted An Arlington lawyer who allegedly filed 2,700 phony immigration documents as part of a scam that brought in more than $11 million was indicted by a federal grand jury on 38 counts of conspiracy, fraud, making false statements and money laundering, according to court papers unsealed yesterday. -- The grand jury indicted Samuel G. Kooritzky on Monday, alleging that he and a business associate repeatedly filed false certification papers with the U.S. Department of Labor while trying to help hundreds of immigrants get green cards.

Seattle Times Mexicans offered cheap health services More than 10 million Mexicans residing in the United States but not covered by a health plan could benefit from a new program unveiled here Friday. -- The Immigrant Medical Health and Care Program - known by its Spanish-language acronym Promesa, which means "promise" - was introduced by the plan's president Fred Battah, of the United States. -- Since some illegal immigrants fear visiting a doctor could increase their chances of deportation, Promesa guarantees that members' information will not be used for any other purposes.

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EFE Mexicans without laser visas to be barred entry into U.S. Mexicans who do not have a "laser visa" will not be allowed to enter the United States starting Oct. 1, when the extension granted last year on the renewing of visas ends, the U.S. consulate in Tijuana announced Thursday. -- Furthermore, Mexicans must also have an authorized stamp on their passports, consulate spokeswoman Lorena Blanco said. -- In 1998, the U.S. Congress ordered the replacement of all Mexican visas due to the lack of control in the number and issue dates of the old visas.

Baltimore Sun Congress Moves to Grant Last-Minute Immigrant Amnesty Amendments Acting at the last minute and without public notice, Congress is moving to give special exemptions to a small group of foreign investors who sought to gain permanent U.S. residency by participating in financial partnerships labeled "questionable" by a federal agency. -- The exemptions were included this week in amendments to a Justice Department spending bill. The amendments were passed Wednesday by a conference committee; and the House, in a 400-4 vote, approved the full bill yesterday. The compromise legislation goes to the Senate.

Associated Press Reconquistas badger Davis Immigrants-rights advocates want Gov. Gray Davis to approve a bill that would enable some illegal immigrants to obtain California driver's licenses but would not affect most of them. -- Supporters say all California drivers would benefit by allowing [illegals] to obtain the licenses they need to get auto insurance. Others complain it encourages illegal immigration and grants a state privilege to lawbreakers. -- But both sides agree the bill, which faces a deadline of midnight Monday to win Davis' approval, sets criteria unattainable to most illegal immigrants. [Call Davis today!]

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Judges orders freebies for intruders A federal judge has ordered Arizona to continue providing dialysis services to more than 100 legal and illegal immigrants although state money for that program is gone [this as illegals are sucking the blood out of the health care system]. -- The lawsuit, filed originally in Tucson by five dialysis patients, was declared a class action by U.S. District Judge William Browning and now includes 110 plaintiffs across the state. -- In a ruling filed Thursday, Browning said federal Medicaid law requires the government to provide emergency services to all regardless of their legal status.