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Thursday, October 3, 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?
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 The
American Border Patrol Story Past
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The Scotsman
Mexicans
reject U.S. resolution on Iraq
Russia, China and France have hardened
their stance against a tough United Nations resolution that could
pave the way for a US-led war against Iraq. --- Mexico's president,
Vicente Fox, whose country currently holds a seat in the Security
Council and who has rejected the US resolution, yesterday said
US congressional approval for an attack on Iraq "doesn't
count, what counts is what is agreed on at the United Nations". |
KGTV News
San
Diego Co. man charged with hate crime
A judge has reduced bail from $500,000 to $100,000 for
an East County man accused in what prosecutors contend was a
racially motivated beating of an undocumented Hispanic immigrant
last week. -- Justin Samuel Smith, 18, is charged with robbery,
assault with a deadly weapon, battery and hate crime allegations
in the Sept. 24 beating, which left the unidentified victim in
a coma. -- Smith faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted
of the most serious charges, said Deputy District Attorney Wendy
Patrick. |
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Deseret
News
Thefts
of Social Security ID rising fast
Retirement has not started off easily
for Frances Stone. Her biggest problem so far has been convincing
the government that she lives in Utah, not California. -- Stone's
wallet was stolen in 1991. Almost immediately the woman who allegedly
stole her wallet used Stone's credit cards. Stone, 70, took care
of the problem and thought that was the end of it. -- But in
1992, Stone noticed her Social Security checks were getting smaller.
After some investigating, Stone discovered that the woman who
allegedly took her wallet, an illegal immigrant,
had gotten a job and was earning wages using her Social Security
number. The government thought Stone was earning more money than
she really was. |
Savannah
Morning News
Uninsured
Hispanics are a growing concern
A huge segment of America's Hispanic
population lacks health insurance, making it more difficult for
members of the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group to get quality
care, a private research foundation reported Tuesday. -- "Coming
to America, if health insurance is your goal, you're not coming
to the right place," Georgia Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor told an
audience of about 100 health officials at a symposium in Atlanta.
-- The number of uninsured Hispanics increased from 7 million
to 11.2 million during the last decade, according to figures
released by The Commonwealth Fund, co-sponsor of the symposium
along with the National Hispanic Medical Association. [Also see:
Importing
Poverty] |
Charlotte
Observer
14
foreign cons in trouble "may face deportation." [What's
this "may"?]
Fourteen illegal immigrants convicted
of crimes ranging from murder to robbery were arrested Wednesday
in a sweep by the INS and several other law enforcement agencies.
-- The roundup, dubbed "Operation Unexpected," targeted
undocumented immigrants living in Mecklenburg, Gaston, Union
and Cabarrus counties who had been convicted of felonies and
in most cases served prison time. -- Currently, prisons notify
the INS when an illegal immigrant convicted of a crime is about
to be released from prison, so the immigrant can be deported.
Immigrants who commit crimes without legal immigration status
must serve their time and are then usually deported to their
home country. |
Marietta Daily Journal
"Leaders"
to confer on local impact of immigration
As the Hispanic population in Whitfield
County continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important
for community members to learn more about immigration and how
it affects society, officials with the Georgia Project say. --
In order to help accomplish this, the Georgia Project and the
Georgia Association of Educators are hosting a three-day conference
in November at the trade center - what organizers call the first
of its kind in Georgia - for officials to discuss what is happening
in immigration with business people.... |
Catholic
News Service
Bishops put final touches on joint migration statement
U.S. and Mexican bishops met in Miami
in late September to put the final touches on an unprecedented
project -- a joint pastoral statement dealing with the movement
of people back and forth across the U.S.-Mexican border. -- The
plan is to have the full body of bishops in each country approve
it at their November meetings, so that the final version can
be published simultaneously, in English and Spanish, on Jan.
22, the anniversary of Pope John Paul II's 1999 apostolic exhortation
"The Church in America." |
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Californians:
Tell Simon to revive prop. 187 to win in November
Prop. 187 was passed by 59% of California
voters. If implemented, it would stop illegal immigration. Gov.
Gray Davis killed it when he refused to let the appeals court
decide on its fate. -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill
Simon said he might consider reviving Proposition 187 by sending
back to the courts for action...... |
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Associated
Press
Mexican
senators meddling in U.S. affairs again
A delegation of Mexican senators and officials
from a human rights commission began a three-day fact-finding
mission Wednesday to assess how Mexican migrants are being treated
in Arizona. -- High on their priority list is discussing ways
to prevent violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, reduce the
number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the southern
Arizona desert and combat migrant smugglers. -- "This is
a three-tier problem," said Ruben Beltran, Mexico's consulate
general in Phoenix. |
Berkeley Daily Planet
Berkeley
to open day labor center
For years day laborers like Victor Guevara
have stood on the corner of 4rh and Hearst streets in Berkeley
hoping to get a days work in exchange for a day's wages. But
as the economy flattened and their numbers increased, so did
complaints about their presence. -- Next month, Berkeley will
become one of more than 10 cities in California that will address
rather than ignore its unregulated labor market. -- FAIR estimates
that there are three to four million undocumented
immigrants in California. |
Abilene
Reporter-News
El
Paso needs 2 judges
El Paso is in line to get at least one
new federal court judge under proposed legislation expected to
be signed into law later this month by President Bush. --- Last
year, 4,156 criminal cases were filed with the Western District
of Texas. Of those cases, more than half, or 2,146, were heard
in El Paso. Experts suggest the problem stems from the success
of the Southwest Border Initiative, which started in 1995 as
an effort to slow illegal immigration and drug smuggling along
the border. |
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Sentinel
and Transcript Newspapers
Beauprez,
Feeley support Tancredo
"He's right," said Mike Feeley,
Democratic contender for the newly created 7th Congressional
District. -- "God Bless Tom Tancredo," said the Republican
nominee for the same seat, Bob Beauprez. -- Both men expressed
support for 6th Congressional District Congressman Tom Tancredo's
tough stance on immigration Oct. 1 during a debate in a small
Lakewood church. -- "We need to enforce the laws passed,"
said Feeley during the debate in response to an audience members
question regarding the U.S. immigration policy. |
Associated
Press
Poll:
Hispanic Voters Lean Democrat
Hispanic voters tend to identify themselves
as Democrats rather than Republicans by more than a 2-to-1 margin,
says a new nonpartisan poll that indicates the Hispanic support
for the Democrats is broad but shallow. -- "I think it does
suggest that despite some strong preferences for the Democratic
Party, Hispanic voters are in play when a Republican candidate
appeals to them," said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew
Hispanic Center... -- Democrats are working to prevent
the GOP from making inroads in the quickly growing Hispanic community,
which caught up with the black population in the last census. |
Marietta Daily Journal
Pesos
seized in gambling bust
Smyrna police confiscated nearly $10,000
while busting an illegal gambling ring in front of a Smyrna pool
hall this week, according to police. -- At about 1 a.m. Saturday
morning, two Smyrna patrol officers observed a group of 13 men
throwing dice and exchanging money in front of the El Trebol
pool hall, according to police. -- Police seized $9,820 and 1,070
pesos from the men, which is the equivalent of about $100, according
to the police report..... |
Detroit
Free Press
Bust
nets cash, cocaine, illegals
A drug raid on a Waterford apartment
Wednesday that yielded more than 19 pounds of cocaine and $30,000
in cash is being called one of the biggest in Oakland County
history -- and there are likely more raids to come, officials
said . -- Attributing the bust near Oakland International Airport
to "good old-fashioned gumshoe detective work," Waterford
Police Chief John Dean said the 2-month investigation and raid
may be just the beginning of an expanding investigation. |
Letters to
the Editor |
Denver Post
(Published)
Sen.
Campbell outrages
Rarely has a Republican politician outraged
me as much as Ben Nighthorse Campbell did today. His comments
regarding Jesus
Apodaca are the kind you would expect from ultra-liberal
members of Congress such as Barbara Boxer or Ted Kennedy - not
a so-called conservative. Is the Republican Party so desperate
for votes that it must now kiss the collective back ends of illegal
immigrants? What ever happened to the needs of American citizens? |
Associated
Press
Importing
poverty on a massive scale
Among the nation's older residents, those
who were born outside the United States tend to be poorer and
less educated. Immigrants account for nearly half of those 65
and older who lack health insurance. -- Overall, the 3.1 million
U.S. residents age 65 and over who are foreign-born made up about
10 percent of the country's older population in 2000, the Census
Bureau reported Wednesday. -- Those who did arrive in the country
in the past two decades tend to rely on Social Security income
more than their U.S.-born counterparts, though many are retired
or did not work enough to contribute their fair share into the
system.... [Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
Marietta Daily Journal
Activist
leaves Cobb county
The founder of the Georgia Coalition
for Immigration Reform, who gained fame last year as she urged
a crackdown on illegal aliens in Cobb, is leaving town and dissolving
the organization. -- Donna Locke of Powder Springs is heading
home to Tennessee after 31 years in Cobb County. -- Former members
of Ms. Locke's coalition have regrouped and are now operating
under the name of Georgians
for Immigration Reduction. The organization has about 500
members statewide. -- "Our government has lost control of
its borders," Locke said last year. |
Kansas
City Star
Hispanics
crowd KC schools
Across the Kansas City area, public schools
are filling with Hispanic students, reflecting a nationwide trend.
They come from Mexico, Calif., and other states and countries,
educators say. -- Some speak little or no English and have been
in this country for mere weeks. [Reader Comment: Schools may end up giving state exams
in foreign languages. Outnumbered American kids have to endure
dual-language instruction, and their American parents will have
to pay the taxes to finance the insult. It's how the West self
destructs...] |
San Francisco Chronicle
Davis
angers Latinos
Luis Abundis walks to work at the Cinco
de Mayo Taqueria, but he relies on his car to buy supplies for
the restaurant, which he bought last spring. Though he is a licensed
driver, he is frustrated that Gov.
Gray Davis vetoed a bill this week that would have made licenses
available to some illegal
immigrants. -- "Most people need a car to get to work.
It's really hard for them," said Abundis, who emigrated
from Mexico 14 years ago. [Illegals
are prohibited from working in U.S.] --
"We're here trying to build something for our families --
we're contributing
to the community......" |
Arizona
Republic
Arizona
border a deadly ground
Al most half of all immigrants who died
while illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border last year perished
along the 350-mile Arizona-Mexico line. -- All told, 145 crossers
died, preliminary Border Patrol statistics show. That's just
over 45 percent of the 320 deaths recorded along the Southwest
border last federal fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2001, and
ended this past Monday. ['Border
czar' tells deported illegals, "try again", then
Marxist
crackpot blames U.S. when accidents happen. | Do-gooders
add to the problem | Mexicans
say the American Southwest belongs to them] |
Valley
Morning Star
Study:
Mexican water debt has cost Texans jobs
A new study shows the Rio Grande Valley
would have gained nearly 3,300 jobs and nearly $80 million in
personal income this year had Mexico fully met its water treaty
obligations. -- The study, released Wednesday by Comptroller
Carole Keeton Rylander, also claims Texas would have gained more
than $100 million in gross regional product statewide this year
had the terms of the 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty had been fulfilled.
-- "Mexico's lack of compliance with the water treaty has
had and will continue to have a measurable impact on employment,
gross regional product and personal income, both for the state
of Texas and the South Texas border region," Rylander said.
[Also
see: Bush response wimpy, farmers livid] |
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Rocky Mountain
News
Worthless
INS fails to do it's job in Apodaca case
As the case of Jesus Apodaca inspires
debates over illegal immigration, one thing is certain: Even
if federal immigration authorities determine that the student
and his family are subject to deportation, the teen-ager likely
won't be removed from the U.S. any time soon. -- The INS has
turned the case over to an investigator. -- However, like many
districts across the United States, the INS Denver District has
higher priorities. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, tracking potential
terrorists and criminals such as drug traffickers and child molesters
are at the top of the INS agenda. [Illegal
immigration is a crime] [Where
in the world is Jesus Apodaca?] |
Brownsville Herald
Bush
response wimpy, farmers livid
Furious farmers, irrigation district
managers and lawmakers have condemned the Bush administration's
response to Mexico's violation of a water-sharing treaty. --
The deadline came and went Wednesday without even a bucket of
water being transferred to the Rio Grande. -- A deadline
day statement from a State Department spokesman failed to mention
the words "violation," "default" or even
"non-compliance," in relation to the terms of the 1944
U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty. |
Agence
France-Presse
Mexico
still violating water treaty
The United States on Wednesday accused
Mexico of continuing to violate the terms of a 58-year-old water
sharing treaty and called on its southern neighbor to deliver
the more than 488 billion gallons it owes. -- Deputy State Department
spokesman Phillip Reeker made the accusation on the deadline
of the most recent five-year accounting cycle for the 1944 treaty
under which the two countries are supposed to share water from
the Rio Grande, Colorado and Tijuana rivers. |
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Correction |
Stein Report
Update
on Nebraska murder, bank robbery suspects
American Patrol posted a link to a story
on the Stein Report on October 1 that indicated some of the suspects
may be illegal aliens. The story has been updated with this:
An INS headquarters spokesman
claims that none of the men arrested for the robbery were in
the U.S. illegally. Three of the men were U.S. citizens, and
one was a Legal Permanent Resident, he said. |
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