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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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Davis Dumps Illegals
To Save Rear End
Vetoes Cedillo's Drivers License Bill
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| Demonstrators in Santa Ana wore
masks of Mexican president Fox as they demanded drivers licenses.
(photo by American Patrol) |
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L.A. Times -- October 1, 2002
No Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
Bills: Davis vetoes measure despite vows of support, citing national
security, as he faces deadline for legislation in his first term.
American Patrol Observation: Calls, emails,
faxes and letters from outraged Americans did it. Gray Davis
sold his Mexican buddies down the river to stay in power.
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 The American Border Patrol
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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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Associated
Press
Illegal
aliens protest veto of ridiculous driver's license bill
Disgruntled presumed illegal alien shouts
during a protest against California Gov. Gray Davis' veto of
a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants who are longtime residents
to receive driver's licenses today in front of the Ronald Reagan
Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. The decision forced
Davis to weigh what he said were increased security risks from
licensing non-citizens after last year's terrorist attacks against
the urging of immigrant rights groups [aka reconquistas]. |
The Guardian
(UK) / AP
Kennedy
Assails U.S. Refugee Policy
Citing American humanitarian obligations,
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy urged the Bush administration Tuesday
to increase refugee admissions for 2003 above the planned 70,000
level. -- Kennedy, D-Mass., commented in a statement after he
and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., discussed refugee admissions
with Secretary of State Colin Powell. Both lawmakers are members
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which monitors refugee policy.
Powell also met with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
-- Although the administration had recommended that 70,000 refugees
be admitted during the 2002 fiscal year that ended Monday, only
27,000 refugees were actually admitted.... |
CBS
Update
on deadly bus attack
A passenger slashed the throat of a Greyhound
bus driver with scissors as the bus traveled down a California
freeway, causing it to careen out of control, authorities said.
Two passengers died and dozens were injured. -- The bus, heading
from L.A. to San Francisco, flipped on its side Monday evening
and slid into a cotton field near Fresno, officials said. The
bus was carrying 50 passengers. -- Officials said the attack
was not related to terrorism, and said Tuesday morning they did
not know the motive of Arturo Tapia Martinez, a transient from
the L.A. area... |
Mercury
News
Screeners
rally as layoffs begin
Scores of passenger screeners at the
San Jose airport received pink slips Monday as the federal government
prepared to replace them today with Transportation Security Administration
employees. -- The job cuts triggered a rally outside Terminal
C protesting the federal hiring criteria that require English
proficiency and citizenship. About a third of the private screeners
at Mineta San Jose International Airport are not citizens. --
Jay Mendoza, a civil-rights activist who helped organize the
demonstration, called the dismissals "immigrant bashing.'' |
John
O'Sullivan |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Immigration
fight strategy all wrong
Every now and then a seemingly minor
incident erupts unexpectedly into a major political controversy.
When that happens, it is usually a sign that some concern of
ordinary voters has been neglected or suppressed until the minor
incident triggered open anxiety about it. And when that happens,
it usually highlights a political issue that pits the voters
against the political establishment of both parties. -- The Tancredo-Apodaca
affair, on which I wrote last week, is beginning to look like
just such an issue. |
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Haydee Pavia
-- Sonora News (Published)
An
ethical newspaper
I live in Southern California, about one hour
by car from the Mexican border. I want to congratulate your newspaper
for having the courage to print the truth. Newspapers and TV
news don't bother with the truth anymore. Illegal immigration
is a disaster that is overtaking city after U.S. city. The effects
of illegal immigration are devastating on our economy and our
society. |
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Times-News
- Burlington, NC
Big
drug bust in Burlington
Burlington police seized almost 20 pounds
of cocaine over the weekend during an investigation with other
law enforcement agencies. On Friday, Burlington police charged
Christian Edwardo Cano-Franco, Burlington, with possession with
intent to sell and deliver cocaine, manufacturing cocaine, maintaining
a dwelling for sale of cocaine and trafficking in cocaine. --
Others were arrested at a different location in town. Police
said police have not determined the identities of the men picked
up at the second location, but police believe they are from Mexico. |
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Denver Channel
Tancredo
Won't Talk To Newspaper Reporters Anymore
Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose hard-line immigration
stand has stirred disagreement among fellow Republicans, has
announced he will no longer talk to newspaper reporters. -- Tancredo
(pictured, left) will communicate with print journalists only
through written statements, but will still grant face- to- face
interviews with radio and television reporters, spokeswoman Lara
Kennedy said Monday. -- Kennedy said she could not cite any specific
news article that prompted the change. |
Omaha World-Herald
Hispanics
fret backlash after heinous bank robbery
...At Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Hispanics
prayed for peace and understanding as their priest and the head
of Nebraska's Mexican-American Commission told them not to be
afraid of a backlash because the four suspects share their ethnicity.
-- Cecilia Olivarez Huerta, executive director for the Lincoln-based
Mexican-American Commission, cautioned that last week's tragedy
may be a setback for relations between Anglos and Latinos. --
[Reader Comment: 4 White
women, and one Asian man, shot execution style by gang banging
Mexicans who can't speak English as they rob a Nebraska bank,
and the local Mexcian group says "Report hateful backlash".] |
Stein Report
INS
gagged in Nebraska over deadly bank robbery in Norfolk
A confidential informant has furnished
the Stein Report with news that Immigration and Naturalization
Service employees in Nebraska have been told not to reveal that
at least three of the five bank robbers who murdered 5 people
on Thursday were illegal aliens. Perhaps the INS thinks that
this information would draw attention to the fact that it is
failing to protect the American public from the tidal wave of
illegal immigrants. |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Border-crossing
card expires
The border-crossing card is expected
to pass quietly into extinction today. -- The card used to be
the primary document used by northern Mexicans to enter the United
States, and more than 5 million were issued. -- But the U.S.
government began phasing them out in 1998 because they were too
easy to forge and had no expiration date. -- In 1999 and 2001,
the documents were set to expire but survived on the life support
of last-minute extensions, leaving today as the next deadline. |
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Newsday
Day
Laborer Group to Fight Eviction
The eviction notice came due yesterday
at a day laborer hiring site in Farmingdale, but the tenants
refused to leave. -- Instead, they held a prayer service, hoping
for a change of heart among the landlords who want to boot them
from the location on Broadhollow Road. -- "We're not leaving.
We intend to stay and fight it," said Lillian Griffin, a
member of Farmingdale Citizens for Viable Solutions, which helped
create the hiring site. |
KOB - Albuquerque
Mexicans
overpower guards, flee jail in stolen pickup
Deming, NM -- Authorities are looking
for three teenagers who escaped from the Luna County Detention
Center's Deming airport facility after overpowering two guards.
-- Officials say the three teens, all from Mexico, fled in a
pickup truck belonging to one of the guards early Monday morning.
-- Jail director Ed Gilmore says guard Andy Gonzales suffered
a broken arm and cuts during the melee at the jail's facility
at the Deming airport. Gilmore says guard Zoila Sapien also was
hurt. |
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Are
politicians serious about homeland security?
...Thirteen months have now passed since
Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes and used three of them
to fly destructive missions into the World Trade Center towers
and the Pentagon. Yet since that fateful day, absolutely nothing
has been done to make our international borders any more secure
than they were on 09/11/01. |
Arizona Republic
Suit
targets English-only work rule
A small, family-owned burger grill in
Page, a border town to the Navajo Nation, has become the first
business to be sued by the federal government for not allowing
Native Americans to speak their own language at work. -- The
suit, announced Monday, is the first time the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission has filed an English-only lawsuit based
on a Native American language rather than Spanish, said Mary
Jo O'Neill, acting regional attorney for the agency's Phoenix
office. |
KCAL
TV News
Former
INS workers sentenced
Two former INS employees were sentenced
to prison for assisting illegal immigrants obtain employment
cards. -- Ruben Marquez was sentenced Monday to 18 months in
prison for his role and Roberto Barajas was sentenced to 6 months
in prison for using his badge to allow immigrants through a security
checkpoint. -- Prosecutors said Marquez issued more than 100
cards to illegal immigrants who paid $3,000 to $4,000 per card.
The cards, which allow foreigners to work in the U.S., cost $100
when obtained legally. |
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Omaha World-Herald
DeCoster
agrees to settle federal discrimination suit
DeCoster Farms has settled a federal
discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of eleven Mexican women
who said they were raped or sexually harassed at the company's
plants. -- DeCoster Farms and Iowa Ag-Construction Co., which
recruits workers for several egg farms in northern Iowa, will
pay $1.53 million to the women and a domestic violence group,
the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday.
Neither company admitted liability. |
Washington
Post
Noncitizens
Should Get Vote, Too, D.C. Mayor Says
Mayor Anthony A. Williams said yesterday
that noncitizens in the District should be allowed to vote in
local elections, as a Latino coalition issued a report complaining
that Hispanics lacked services and access to local government.
-- "I'm committed to expanding the franchise," said
Williams (D), who appeared at a news conference sponsored by
the Council of Latino Agencies. He said the city needs to develop
a new standard for voting -- "but it isn't citizenship."
-- When the council's executive director, Eugenio Arene, suggested
that all local taxpayers be allowed to cast ballots, the mayor
added: "Sounds like a good standard to me." |
Bloomberg
Davis
vetoes bond plan for Mexico border projects
California Governor Gray Davis has vetoed
a bill that would have set up a new authority to sell bonds for
public projects in both Mexico and the state, saying it duplicated
other efforts to finance improvements near the border. -- State
lawmakers last month passed the bill to help finance roads, flood
control projects, sewage treatment plants and similar improvements
within 62 miles of either side of California's border with Mexico.
-- The bill proposed state bond sales backed by revenue-generating
proposals... |
Associated
Press
Castaneda
talks migration with Powell
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
made a direct appeal Monday to Mexico, a UN Security Council
member, to support the U.S. effort for a tough stand against
Iraq by the United Nations. -- Officials from the two countries
said Powell discussed the Iraq question at the State Department
with visiting Foreign Secretary Jorge
Castañeda. -- Powell also told Castañeda of
the need for decisive action to resolve a conflict over Mexico's
inability to fulfill terms of an agreement to provide specified
quantities of water to the Rio Grande... |
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Fresno Bee
2
dead as bus flips on I-5 after driver knifed
A Greyhound bus passenger [identified
this morning on KTLA News as Arturo Tapia Martinez, a transient
from Los Angeles] attacked the driver and slashed his throat,
causing the bus to overturn on Interstate 5 two miles south of
Manning Avenue on Monday night. At least two people were killed
and three were trapped under the bus, a Fresno County sheriff's
deputy said. |
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