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Wednesday, October 2, 2002 |
McCain Wants Military
On Border
Changes His Stand, But Can't Get Bush
to Move
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O'Reilly Factor - October 1 |
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McCain: We
need to get technical equipment down there, we need to get the
reserves and the guard down there and to do whatever is necessary
to get the job done.
O'Reilly: You're
the senior senator from Arizona. Why can't you and Kyle can't
make this happen? What's the problem? ... They're accompanied
by the Mexican army, they're accompanied by the Mexican federally
police... when are we going to stop this, senator, when are we
going to put the military on the border to protect our own people?
 Watch |
 The
American Border Patrol Story Past
Features |
Washington
Post
Poverty
Deepens In D.C. - More People, Areas Hurting, Study Says
...The city's growing poverty in the
1990s came even as other indicators improved, with both its welfare
caseload and rate of births to single mothers declining. Experts
cite a variety of explanations for increased poverty, including
middle-class flight to the suburbs and an influx of immigrants.
-- The census statistics reflect the changing composition of
the needy who knock on the door of Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese of Washington. Ed Orzechowski, the group's president,
said they include a growing number of about-to-be-homeless women
and children, and others who are desperately poor. [Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
Paul Craig
Roberts |
VDare.com
Immigration
Abolishes American Loyalties
President Bush's invasion of Iraq will
be a strategic mistake with catastrophic consequences for the
United States. So concludes a report by William S. Lind of the
Free Congress Foundation. -- Lind argues that the U.S. is attempting
to confront terrorism by applying "Second Generation"
warfare-essentially the application of firepower to targets-to
a "Fourth Generation" conflict. This is a fatal strategic
error, because Fourth Generation conflict is war conducted outside
the state structure by people whose primary loyalty is not to
the state. |
Detroit News
More
unable to speak English
...In the past decade, the number of
people in Metro Detroit who speak English badly or not at all
doubled. By the year 2000, there were 62,000 Metro Detroiters
with minimal English skills, about as many people as live in
Royal Oak. -- That growth, experts say, has made southeast Michigan
a stronger magnet for new immigrants, who often seek out people
who look and sound like them. It has pushed schools, cities and
businesses to reach out in new ways to people who are unable
to speak English. And it has created countless challenges for
the immigrants themselves. |
Marietta
Daily Journal
Day
laborer accused in rape case
A man gathered three of his friends and
raped a Marietta woman after she went to an apartment to use
the telephone, according to a police officer's testimony Tuesday.
-- Judge Donald Phillips bound over the case of Sergio Nunez
Delatorre to Superior Court for felony prosecution at a probable
cause hearing held in Cobb County Magistrate Court on Tuesday.
-- Delatorre, who required a Spanish translator for Tuesday's
hearing, faces charges of rape and false imprisonment for allegedly
raping and holding the woman against her will at the Woodchase
Apartments complex.... |
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L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Bratton
to be Named Chief of LAPD
William J. Bratton, the brash former
boss of the New York City Police Department, has been tapped
by Mayor James Hahn to lead the Los Angeles Police Department,
city officials said. -- Hahn made his decision known to City
Council members Wednesday afternoon, and was expected to make
it public Thursday morning at the North Hollywood police station.
-- Many councilmembers and LAPD officers favored Oxnard chief
Art Lopez, the only Latino candid and the only one with LAPD
experience on the mayor's list of three finalists. |
L.A Times
(Free Registration) / Stein Report
Border
deaths decline, activist groups spin survey
Although overall deaths by illegal immigrants
have declined in the past year, activist groups are highlighting
the increase in deaths along remote stretches of the border to
undermine U.S. enforcement policy. "Although deaths have
declined 7% in the last year along the entire U.S.-Mexican border,
the toll in the remote deserts and mountains of eastern Arizona
has nearly doubled from 79 last year to 134, according to the
U.S. Border Patrol," the LA Times reported. "What this
tells you is this is getting deadlier," Claudia
Smith of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
said. [Related
article] |
Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)
UN
seat quickly a hot one for Mexico
In world affairs, Mexico has always preferred
to profess neutrality, non-belligerence and, most of all, independence
from the U.S. But with Mexico's stand on Saddam Hussein suddenly
of crucial importance, the government of President Vicente Fox
finds itself in uncharted waters as a vote on Iraq looms in the
United Nations. -- Holder of one of 10 rotating seats on the
UN Security Council, Mexico is under tremendous pressure to show
solidarity with President Bush. -- That was the message delivered
Monday when Jorge
Castaneda... |
Sacramento
Bee
Davis
veto stirs statewide protests
One day after Gov. Gray Davis spurned
a proposal to allow some undocumented immigrants to obtain California
driver's licenses, proponents of the measure vowed to push the
issue next year and, in some cases, withhold their support in
the coming election. -- Across the state Tuesday, immigrant-rights
groups staged protests to decry the Democratic governor's veto,
calling
it an insult to the millions of undocumented immigrants who live
and work in California and contribute to the
state's economy. [Thank
Davis for vetoing AB60] |
John
O'Sullivan |
National
Review
It's
Illegal! -- Enforcing immigration law
...Now, an innocent observer witnessing
this scene would assume that all responsible people in the United
States believe that the government should uphold and enforce
the law. He would be surprised therefore at recent brouhaha in
which a Republican congressman, Tom Tancredo, has been criticized
and shunned, first by local leaders and later by the Bush administration,
precisely because he pointed out that the authorities were ignoring
a law that they were duty bound to enforce. |
Orange
County Register - (Sob
Story Alert)
Illegals
upset over AB60 veto, will continue to violate laws
Alejandro Reyes gave up driving after
police impounded his car one Christmas Eve on the way to see
Santa with his young cousin [while illegally in the country and
driving without a license]. -- Erika Covarrubias drives a produce
truck [illegals are prohibited from working in the U.S.] with
her Mexican license, taking cues from other drivers on the U.S.
rules of the road. -- Martin Leana grew tired of paying a co-worker
$15 a week for rides and now takes his chances behind the wheel
[a crime]. -- All three Orange County residents lack a California
driver's license and each had high hopes that Gov.
Gray Davis would sign legislation allowing some undocumented
immigrants to receive licenses. |
From
FAIR |
High
Immigration Driving Higher Energy Use
The U.S. will not be able to combat energy shortages
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions if immigration rates remain
the same, concludes a new report by Dr. Donald F. Anthrop, a
San Jose State University environmental studies professor. High
immigration has been responsible for a full one-third of the
increase in U.S. energy use over the last 25 years. |
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San Francisco
Chronicle
California
bus killer a Mexican citizen
Rolling up I-5 through the heart of the
Central Valley in the dark of night, it seemed like another routine
bus ride -- the dim glow of reading lights, a few people sleeping,
the quietude of a rural evening on the Greyhound. -- Then suddenly,
police and witnesses said, Arturo Tapia Martinez ran up the aisle
wielding a pair of scissors and attacked the driver, Abel Hernandez,
in a frenzy, stabbing him in the neck. -- Investigators said
Martinez, whom they said was a Mexican citizen without identification,
offered several explanations for the attack but none of them
made much sense. |
Tucson
Citizen
Our
Opinion: Feds owe border towns helping hand
Border municipalities have been grumbling
for years about the high cost of providing medical care to illegal
immigrants. -- Now the problem has grown into a medical emergency,
according to a recent study by the Border Counties Coalition.
It's an emergency that the federal government must play a role
in healing. --- Last year, for example, University Medical Center
provided $8 million in medical care to illegal immigrants. Copper
Queen Hospital in Bisbee, which last year had a net operating
income of $300,000, provided $200,000 in care to illegal immigrants. |
Palm Beach Post
Lake
Worth's great divide
...Rodney Romano, a lawyer who served
as mayor from 1993 to '97 and then returned to City Hall last
year, hears echoes of such times in some complaints about Guatemalans,
Mexicans, Haitians and other immigrants. Although his ID proposal
drew initial support from others, he was its only supporter in
the end. He thought it was "a simple thing. You can't even
get your utilities connected without identification." --
Many of Lake Worth's immigrants aren't
legal residents, so they can't get driver licenses or voter
cards... |
Gannett
News Service
INS
lacking devices for border cards
Despite new requirements that Mexicans
carry new high-tech border-crossing cards to make short visits
to the United States, federal authorities do not have enough
machines in place at U.S. border checkpoints to read the encoded
information encrypted on the cards. -- The computer equipment
at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexican border also are still
unable to read biometric information - digital photographs and
fingerprints - that appear embedded in the card, Marie Sebrechts,
an INS spokeswoman, said Tuesday. |
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WorldNetDaily.com
INS
won't screen Arabs from Canada
Middle-Eastern immigrants in Canada who
visit the U.S. will not be subject to registration under the
new anti-terror tracking system, which goes into full effect
this month, according to a more than 30-page federal document
obtained by WorldNetDaily. -- New immigration guidelines do not
authorize border agents to fingerprint, photograph and monitor
Canadians born in eight Mideast countries targeted for such special
registration under the Justice Department's new National Security
Entry-Exit Registration System. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Debate
heated over foreign driver's licenses in Georgia
A state lawmaker said Tuesday she will
continue to pursue her proposal to allow undocumented Mexican
immigrants with a valid drivers license from their native country
to drive legally in Georgia, despite strong opposition from some
residents. -- Critics told state lawmakers, who held a public
hearing in Decatur on Tuesday to discuss the proposal, that the
bill could allow some criminals to remain in the state. -- "If
someone is here illegally, we should not make it easier for them
to live here," said Roswell resident Chris Watford, 37.
-- Supporters of the bill took offense to such suggestions, which
created some tense moments during the hourlong hearing. [Reader
E-mail on sham driver's license meeting] |
L.A. Daily News
Valley
homicides up over 2001
The San Fernando Valley's homicide rate
continued its upward trend in September, with the LAPD recording
90 slayings so far this year, compared with 73 during the first
nine months of 2001. -- The month ended with an unprovoked car-to-car
shooting in Woodland Hills that left one man dead and another
injured. West Valley detectives were working diligently to establish
a motive and find the killers. -- Just as homicide numbers are
up in the Valley, citywide, there's been a citywide increase
of 13.4 percent. |
Omaha
World-Herald
New
charges in bank robbery case
Additional criminal charges were filed
Tuesday against three men in the deadly Norfolk bank robbery.
-- Madison County Attorney Joe Smith filed charges of burglary,
robbery and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony in the
theft, at gunpoint, of a 2003 Subaru following the slaying of
five people Thursday at a U.S. Bank branch. -- The men charged
in the theft of the Subaru are Jose Sandoval, Jorge Galindo,
and Erick Vela. -- They and Gabriel Rodriguez already face charges
of first-degree murder in the bank slayings. [Message board] |
HispanicVista.com
Illegal
alien cheerleader uses hearsay against Tancredo as if it were
fact
Tom Tancredo, ersatz Republican congressman
from Colorado, recently had his house remodeled by illegal alien
immigrants. Tom Tancredo leads the charge in Congress against
illegal alien immigrants, particularly those of the Mexican persuasion.
He claims he didn't know the workers in his house are in the
USA illegally. Tom Tancredo has just learned a very good lesson,
albeit very bitter one for Tancredo. Illegal aliens immigrants,
touch all of our lives, like it or not. [Note: There is no proof
that the illegals this guy refers to even exist. Contreras is
a long-time cheerleader for foreign invaders.] |
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Denver Post
Tancredo:
Ban only on 1 topic, 1 reporter
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., citing a
"miscommunication" among his staff, clarified his stance
Tuesday about talking
with newspaper reporters. -- The two-term conservative will
grant interviews with newspaper reporters, he said, indicating
that all he had meant to convey was that he would no longer take
questions from a particular Denver Post reporter about an Aurora
honors student Tancredo wants deported. Tancredo said he plans
to respond in writing to Post reporters asking about the case. |
Valley Morning Star
Bush
expected to say Mexico in default
Rio Grande Valley farmers hope and believe
President Bush will announce today - deadline day - that Mexico
has violated the terms of a water-sharing treaty with the U.S.
-- The formal announcement from the White House will likely use
the word "default" rather than "violation,"
but either way the statement will be viewed in South Texas as
an encouraging development in the long-running water dispute.
-- "We expect a firm and resolute statement from President
Bush today. Nothing less will do," said Jo Jo White, general
manager of Mercedes Irrigation District. |
Associated
Press
Agitator
outraged over AB60 veto
Dozens of immigrant
activists held a
rally Tuesday to protest Gov. Gray Davis' veto of legislation
that would have granted drivers' licenses to those in the process
of obtaining legal status. -- "We are here today to express
our collective disappointment at Gov. Gray Davis' unconscionable
veto," said Juan
Jose Gutierrez. -- Davis vetoed the legislation Monday evening,
saying he was concerned about security risks in licensing non-citizens
after last year's terrorist attacks. -- "We are sick and
tired of all these comparisons that paint
us as potential terrorists," Gutters said. |
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