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Newsday
-- (Sob Story)
Desperate
Journeys
...Each year, thousands of Central Americans
working in the United States -- many, like Yajaira's parents,
undocumented -- try to reunite with their children by paying
smuggling rings to take them over the U.S. border. The rings
have mushroomed since the mid-1990s, when the United States began
sealing the U.S-Mexico border, leaving open only the harshest
terrain. -- Rather than risk walking their children across such
inhospitable turf, many parents pay groups to bring minors through
border checkpoints with false documents [a crime]. But with profit
as the smugglers' lone motive, the journey can easily go awry. |
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Miami New
Times
Under
the Table and Off the Books
...Willy is part of the invisible army
conscripted into an informal economy where people scratch out
a living in America's poorest city. He eludes census takers,
tax collectors, the government in general. And he helps make
Miami unique. Most big cities have networks of illegal aliens
working under-the-table jobs, but Miami's well-entrenched culture
of exiles, plus the fact that it is the only large city where
the so-called minority population outnumbers the majority, has
created a self-sustaining shadow world. |
Washington Post
Realtors
fear immigration rules
A government proposal to establish greater
control over people who visit the United States for pleasure
has drawn fire from real estate interests. -- The INS's plan
to limit the stay of foreign visitors could prove "devastating"
to real estate markets, especially those with high concentrations
of foreign ownership, according to the National Assn. of Realtors
(NAR). -- The nation's realty professionals are all for efforts
to protect the national security, said NAR President Martin Edwards. |
Washington
Times
Clawing
their way out
In 1989, Teresa Zapata told her family
the unthinkable. The 25-year-old from Tabasco, Mexico, was going
to work in the United States - and she was going on her own.
Across Mexico that year, families were scandalized as several
hundred young women left for jobs in American crab- processing
plants. All along the East Coast, crab- plant owners were looking
for replacements for their local workers, who were growing old
and leaving. -- "You're crazy," Miss Zapata's father
and mother told her. |
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Denver Post
Tancredo
rips the Denver Post in letter
When anyone overreacts to criticism,
we often say that the criticism has "hit a nerve."
Considering the reaction of The Denver Post to my call to the
INS regarding the Apodaca family (24 stories in nine days!) the
nerve I hit must have been exceedingly tender. -- I have been
in politics for a long time, but cannot recall such venomous
editorializing - and sometimes it was even on the editorial page!
I do appreciate the opportunity to provide a second response,
so here goes...... [Several other letters] |
H.
Millard |
THIRDWORLD
- (Fiction. Sort of)
Wispy tendrils of oily, brown, foul smelling
smoke wafted past the barred windows of my now decrepit house
as the so-called light-rail train went rumbling by carrying non-English
speaking illegal alien workers to the job center that had been
built next door. The government could arrest these illegals and
deport them, if it wanted to. After all, it is the law. Unfortunately,
the chicken-ass government has started taking a cafeteria approach
to laws that it wants to enforce. Sneaking into the country?
That's one of the laws that the government ignores. |
Propaganda
Alert |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
The
Boy Left Behind
Long and drawn out tale of woe about illegal
alien invaders as only the L.A. Times can spin a yarn. This piece
isn't news at all, but is boring, smarmy, fantasy designed to
jerk at your heart strings and get you to cave in to the invasion.
If you like this sort of fiction, don't miss this one. |
WorldNetDaily.com
Local
police little help to feds on illegal aliens
Few local police departments are responding
to Immigration and Naturalization Service efforts to utilize
them to help interdict internal illegal immigrant traffic, even
as the terrorist threat from outside the U.S. increases, police
sources tell WorldNetDaily. -- Additionally, say officers, a
new computer database being developed by INS specifically for
that mission and which contains names of illegal aliens
and persons suspected of overstaying visas will be worthless
because many local police agencies have adopted policies forbidding
officers from detaining "undocumented" immigrants and,
hence, will have no use for it. |
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Dana Garcia
- Washington Times (Published)
Border
wars
It is a shocking abrogation of basic
governmental responsibility that Roger Barnett must live under
a state of siege on his own ranch ("Border
rancher fights to stem flood of aliens," Nation, Wednesday).
The nation's first duty should be the protection of its borders
from foreign invasion of any sort so that U.S. citizens can live
their lives without having to act as unpaid law enforcement officers. |
El Paso Times
Candidates
advertise in Spanish
Gubernatorial candidates in Texas and
New Mexico are running Spanish radio and TV spots like never
before to reach the ever-growing bloc of Hispanic voters. --
This Spanish-language media blitz is especially intensive in
Texas, where both Republican incumbent Rick Perry and Democratic
challenger Tony Sanchez have ample campaign treasuries. New Mexico's
governor race -- in which both major candidates are Hispanic
-- is also reaching into Spanish broadcast media, although not
at the level seen in Texas. -- El Paso voter Margie Muñoz
said..... |
Orange
County Register
Ethnicity
scarce on councils
Orange County's Hispanic population has
grown about 50% in the past decade, but the number of city council
members eight countywide is the same as in 1988.
That's unlikely to change much after the November election, with
Hispanics accounting for 9% of council candidates. As the county's
ethnic population grows, so do related conflicts. Last month,
it was over a Hispanic supermarket in Anaheim. Before that, Hispanics
fought over moving a Placentia parade out of their part of town.
[Illegal alien criminals
cannot hold office] [Poll located here] |
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Denver Post
Tancredo
rips Owens' stance on immigrant
U.S. Rep.
Tom Tancredo is lashing out at Gov. Bill Owens and other
politicians from both parties who have jumped on the welcome
wagon for illegal immigrant and honor student Jesus Apodaca.
-- Owens had been careful not to criticize his fellow Republican
when he announced his support for special legislation to resolve
the 18-year-old's immigration problems by granting him permanent
residency status. But Tancredo was less cautious with his retort,
demonstrating how deeply the case has split the GOP. -- "The
governor said today he is opposed to selective enforcement (of)
the law," Tancredo, of Littleton, said in a statement. |
Washington Post
Bush
squanders tax dollars on illegals
Washington - Starting in November, "unborn
children" will qualify for government health benefits under
a new rule that the Bush administration announced Friday. --- Until
now, federal policy has precluded people living illegally in
the United States from qualifying for any form of government
health insurance. -- Health officials said the administration
was including that group on the theory that the
babies would become U.S. citizens - and thus eligible for
public benefits - when they were born. |
Dallas
Morning News (Free Reg.)
Lawlessness
abounds under Bush
The silver cellphone rings so incessantly
it seems possessed with the energy of a cash register. -- This
time, it's a Mexican relative calling to say that his son has
slipped past immigration agents at the Rio Grande. He's headed
for Dallas. -- "Ay, que bueno, bueno," says Angel in
Spanish. "Don't worry. We'll have a job for him." --
Angel has jobs for many. He's a merchant of men, a labor contractor
who often operates outside the law to supply workers for construction
jobs in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. |
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