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Ventura
County Star
Sorry
pander-fest: Candidates look to Latinos as potential voters
Supporters of Latino candidates from
Oxnard to Thousand Oaks host barbecues and picnics and camp out
in front of supermarkets to register voters. -- Meanwhile, Anglo
office seekers ride floats at Mexican Independence Day celebrations,
buy time to air their viewpoints on Spanish-language radio programs
and mail bilingual campaign literature to court Latino voters.
-- Organizers in Oxnard are hoping the allure of Norteno and
mariachi music, along with food and games for the kids, will
draw potential voters and candidates to their inaugural, nonpartisan
Latino voter registration festival on Oct. 13. |
Kennebec Journal
Lewiston
mayor stands by his letter
A letter
by Mayor Larry Raymond aimed at slowing the influx of Somalis
to Maine's second- largest city has sparked confusion and resentment
among members of the immigrant community. -- An estimated 1,060
Somalis have moved to Lewiston from elsewhere in the U.S. over
the last 20 months, according to one city official. -- In a 3-page
letter Raymond wrote, "This large number of new arrivals
cannot continue without negative
results for all. The Somali community must exercise some
discipline and reduce the stress on our limited finances and
our generosity." |
Columbus
Dispatch
Docs
hard to discern as fake
Across the US, a flourishing underground
network churns out fake and stolen documents that allow illegal
immigrants access to jobs. -- For a price, they can get
it all: birth certificates, visas, Social Security cards and
passports. -- ''The technology in use is quite sophisticated,
and it's very difficult for the typical employer to ferret out
phony from legitimate,'' said John Keeley, a research associate
at CIS. -- In Latin stores
in Columbus, ''nobody accepts U.S. documents for ID,'' said Alex
Flores, president of the Spanish-language paper La Voz Hispana.
''They know that, at best, they're not real.'' |
Lowell
(MA) Sun
Gang
fears top agenda of councilors
Gang problems in the Lower Highlands
will again be a primary topic before the City Council tomorrow
as Councilor Rodney Elliott has filed a motion he hopes will
bring the local police reinforcements. -- Elliott wants federal
involvement, particularly from the Drug Enforcement Agency and
Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- "I'm reading
about gang problems in Lawrence and Springfield, and their efforts
to combat the problem harness the power of the federal government.
I'd like to see if we could do that here." |
Los Angeles Daily News
LAUSD
displacing families
For the past nine years, Steve Huntsman
and his mother have paid $480 a month to rent a modest two-bedroom
house on a 1/2 lot, living happily with a German shepherd, a
rooster and a chicken. -- One of hundreds of families being displaced
by LAUSD's massive school construction program, they are scrambling
to find comparable housing with reasonable rent -- a virtually
impossible task in a red-hot market, where vacancies are scarce
and prices sky-high. -- The LAUSD's enrollment is expected
to exceed 776,000 students in four years. [Reader comment: We are seeing the terrible effects
of the continuing flood of illegal aliens.] |
Scripps
Howard News Service
Tracking
program under fire
Soon, every university and college in
the U.S. will adopt the same computerized tracking program to
help keep tabs on foreign students as part of the nation's war
on terrorism. -- Educators will be required to stay in constant
contact with the federal government through a mammoth database,
feeding it a constant diet of detailed personal information on
nearly every person living in the country on a student visa.
-- "We are concerned because this is a very complex computing
system, and anytime you initiate such complexity, the chances
for failure of the system are very great," U. of Tennessee
VP and Provost Dr. Loren Crabtree said. |
WDIV News
Illegal
Aliens Arrested In Chesterfield Township
Nearly a dozen illegal aliens were arrested
this weekend and authorities are searching for the truck that
may have brought them over from Canada, Local 4 learned. -- Four
men, five women and two 12-year-olds were taken into custody
after an ambulance crew spotted them getting out of a tractor-trailer
in Chesterfield Township and called police, the station learned.
The truck may have brought the illegal aliens from India into
Michigan from Canada at the Blue Water Bridge, according to a
report by WJR-Radio. -- Police are looking for a black tractor
cab towing a white trailer with the words "Dynamic Freight
Solutions" written in blue on the side. |
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Fox News
Tancredo
in Maelstrom of Immigration Debate
To advocates of enforcing immigration
laws at the country's borders, he is a hero. To those seeking
to protect illegal aliens once they get here, he is a racist.
-- One thing is for sure, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has a knack
for generating headlines as he advocates immigration reform in
a security-rich political environment. -- "He is a very
courageous individual," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.,
a member of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, of which
Tancredo is the chairman. "There are few members of Congress
who have the courage to be as candid as he is." [Support
Tancredo's HR5322 - Click Here] |
Washington Post
Herndon:
Problematic day laborers
Every weekday morning before dawn, dozens
of Hispanic men begin to congregate at the 7-Eleven parking lot
on Herndon's main drag. Many will be hired for day labor -- painting,
installing drywall or landscaping for about $10 an hour. Some
of the rest, residents say, will loiter on the corner into the
late afternoon, drinking beer and socializing past sundown if
police don't intervene. -- Officials in the historic town have
struggled for years to find a better way, a solution that satisfies
both the needs of Herndon's booming immigrant community and of
longtime residents who say that the gatherings are an eyesore
that jeopardize their property values. |
The
Morning News / NWAonline.net
LULAC
soiree brings out panderers
If a guest list is a demonstration of
how influential a group has become, then the guests at the Fall
Gala of the League of United Latin American Citizens prove that
the Hispanic population of Arkansas has become a political force
to be reckoned with. -- Gov. Mike Huckabee, Lt. Gov. Winthrop
Rockefeller, U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson, U.S. Rep. John Boozman,
Attorney General and senatorial candidate Mark Pryor and gubernatorial
candidate Jimmie Lou Fisher attended the event at the Radisson
hotel Saturday night in Fayetteville to woo Hispanic voters and
show their support for one of the fastest-growing ethnic populations
in Arkansas. |
Canadian
News Wire
Migrant
Smuggling Ring Smashed
As the result of a 12 month investigation
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Toronto District Immigration
and Passport Section has shattered an alleged multi-million dollar
people smuggling ring. -- At 6:00 a.m. this morning, seventy-five
officers from the RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police, the Toronto
Police Service, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested fifteen
people (arrest warrants for four others) and charged them with
a total forty-five Criminal Code of Canada charges. The arrests
were made in the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton and Windsor. |
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Valley Morning
Star
With
little water [thanks to Mexicans], crops could suffer
With Mexico still unwilling to comply
with the water treaty and release water into the Rio Grande,
area farmers face the specter of a subpar winter vegetable season.
-- With little irrigation water, the chances for a bumper winter
season are slipping away. -- "We do have enough water to
begin the winter vegetable season," John McClung, president
of the Texas Produce Association, said. "But the question
is: Are we are going to have enough water to get it out?" |
Tacoma News Tribune
Northern
border agents overwhelmed
Somewhere in one of Washington's lonely
places, a barbed-wire gate leans open, surrounded by sagebrush.
-- Three gray sticks hold it together. One is loose. On it, two
words appear in faded black ink. The farmer who wrote them knew
where he stood: CANADA/USA. -- Border Patrol agent Richard Graham
pulls at the stray post and talks to himself. -- "I thought
for sure I wired this son of a gun up," he says. Swiftly,
he wraps a strand of metal around the post to hold it in place.
-- Someone crossed through here recently, someone who walked
from one nation to another as easily as stepping off a curb. |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Nearly
1,000 Attend Rally
A coalition of church groups, unions
and community organizations rallied with political leaders in
Tarzana on Sunday to urge voters to pass school and health care
initiatives and to defeat secession efforts in next month's elections.
-- Nearly 1,000 people attended the event sponsored by L.A. Metro
Industrial
Areas Foundation, a grass-roots organization seeking improved
health care and reforms in education and immigration. -- Many
at the rally also called for legislation to give driver's licenses
to illegal immigrants. State [reconquista] Sen. Richard
Alarcon said he would continue to push for such laws... |
Arizona
Daily Star
Interfaith
Council queries candidates on social issues
More than 1,000 people from religious
and labor groups put a plate of social issues before a collection
of political candidates Sunday afternoon. -- The Pima
County Interfaith Council and its sister group from Yuma
had members keep score of candidate answers on issues of immigration,
education, health care and family. -- Independent Dick Mahoney,
a gubernatorial candidate, made the most of his two-minute speech
before the crowd. -- He opened in Spanish and said the next governor
should be able to do so as well. He also told the crowd he is
a Catholic who cares about "social justice," as well
as a former union member and teacher. |
Michelle Malkin |
Washington
Times
Lawmakers
for lawbreakers
...Sen.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado Republican, has introduced
a similar bill on behalf of illegal
alien Jesus Apodaca, a Denver high-school student who criticized
his state for not giving him an in-state tuition discount for
college. The White House and Republican Colorado Gov. Bill
Owens back the bill. And they have distanced themselves from
fellow Rep. Tom Tancredo,
Colorado Republican, who bravely calls attention to the dangerous
effects of an immigration system that haphazardly enforces its
laws - rewarding the line-jumpers, making martyrs of defiant
deportation fugitives and making fools of those who follow the
rules. |
Sacramento Bee
Reconquista
barred from debate
California's major party candidates for
governor will hold their only scheduled debate in Los Angeles
today amid controversy over whether Green Party nominee Peter Camejo
should be allowed to observe the event in person. -- Camejo said
Davis had threatened to pull out of the debate if he appeared.
-- He said he was convinced that the Democratic governor feared
his presence because Latinos are outraged over his decision to
veto AB 60, a bill that would have granted driver's licenses
to undocumented immigrants who have filed papers to become citizens
or permanent residents. |
The
Tennessean
Rules
worry illegal alien cheerleaders
Immigrant advocates are criticizing a
recent executive order by Gov. Don Sundquist that tightens
the requirements for state identification cards and changes the
look of driver's licenses. -- Tennessee is now the second
state in the country to require a note on a driver's license
indicating whether someone lacks a Social Security number. Under
the new rules, those seeking a photo ID must provide a Social
Security number, U.S. birth certificate or immigration papers.
None were previously required. -- ''I think it stinks,'' Nashville
attorney Jerry Gonzalez said. [He plans to sue.] |
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Seacoastonline.com
-- Portsmouth, NH
TB
case on Seacoast investigated
A confirmed case of tuberculosis on the Seacoast
is raising questions about a disease that is often thought to
have been eradicated years ago. -- According to NIAID, the HIV/AIDS
epidemic is one cause for the rise in the number of TB cases
- along with other immune-deficiency illnesses that make people
more vulnerable. The institute also lists increased immigration
from countries where TB is prevalent, as well as increased poverty
and homelessness. People who live in the crowded conditions of
shelters or prisons, for example, are more prone to infection
and may also be weakened by poor nutrition, drug use and alcoholism. |
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