Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Ranger's Kin Call for Troops People Reject Phony ID's Associated Press - October 9    The family of a park ranger shot to death on duty in Arizona and the father of a victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks joined a Colorado congressman in calling for the military to patrol the United States' borders.       Bonnie Eggle, the mother of Kristopher Eggle, who was shot to death trying to apprehend a Mexican murder suspect who had fled into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in August, said she believes her son died because there was nothing to stop his shooter from crossing the border.       "He didn't deserve a bullet from an AK-47. He didn't deserve a 6-foot grave. But that's what he got because he was not cared for enough by those who could have made a difference," Eggle said. Eggles Call for Letter-Writing Campaign Tancredo points to 'ugly face' of immigration   Grieving parents come out for Tancredo Do you think the city of Denver should recognize Mexican ID cards for legal, and illegal, aliens as legitimate identification? Past Features  The American Border Patrol Story Californians: Tell Simon to revive prop. 187 to win election

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Help counter Immigration Lawyers' amnesty demonstration Support HR 5322 -- The Driver's License Integrity Act

MetroTimes - Tom Schram Issa: "The INS is worse than useless" ...If the United States is a country that loves to hate its government, then the INS is our current heartthrob. The INS has earned a miserable reputation rooted in its failure to keep undocumented foreigners out of the country and to cope with a backlog of millions of residency and citizenship applications. According to the Los Angeles Times, there are an estimated 8 million illegal immigrants in the country. Delays in citizenship applications can be measured in years. -- At least three of the Sept. 11 hijackers remained in the United States after their visas had expired. Others entered the country on student visas but, unknown to the INS, never attended classes.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution   Agencies urge needy to seek aid The number of impoverished families in Gwinnett County is significantly higher than the number on food stamps --- a disparity that has caught the attention of federal officials. -- Only 34% of Gwinnett residents living below the poverty level received food stamps last year, said Mary Collins. -And- Lucy Smith credits the increase in part to the Department of Family and Children Services' efforts to reach more needy Hispanic residents. -- This year, DFCS began contracting with Spanish interpreters who work at DFCS offices in Lawrenceville, Norcross and Buford.

San Diego Union-Tribune  Narcostate forests 'decimated' Drug smugglers in rural Mexico slash and burn more than 600,000 hectares (1.482 million acres) of forests a year to make room for clandestine marijuana, coca and poppy crops, the head of the National Forest Commission said Wednesday. -- Alberto Cardenas said drug smuggling gangs legally purchase large swaths of land, then chop down and burn millions of trees to make room for their crops. -- "We still can't say how many hectares the smugglers control," Cardenas said. "But we know it's thousands and thousands. The army destroys illegal harvests but they always have more."

The White House (Pander Alert) President Hosts Reception for Hispanic Heritage Month The President: Bienvenidos. It is such an honor to have you all here to the Casa Blanca, la casa de todos que viven en esta pais. As the Surgeon General mentioned, I'm just a temporary resident -- (laughter) -- but es un gran honor para mi familia de vivir aqui. -- [Translator can be found here] -- I want to thank you all for coming. Hispanic Heritage Month is an important month for our country -- particularly now that we're at a time of war. You see, Hispanic Heritage Month talks to the great diversity of our country and the fact that our country is a strong country because of our diversity. - [Also see this UPI article.]

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Rocky Mountain News Likely illegals flock to consulate in Denver for sham ID cards

San Gabriel Valley Tribune Solution to county's health care crisis being sought Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria "I want to pay them back" Molina [vehement reconquista] has been granted a meeting with Gov. Gray Davis to discuss the county's erupting health-care crisis. -- Zev Yaroslavsky, chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, is expected to join Molina today at the meeting which comes less than three weeks before the board is scheduled to make its second round of dramatic cuts to close more health clinics and hospitals to balance the budget. -- Molina said the meeting will be the first with Davis in 3 1/2 years, since county leaders began worrying about health department cuts and its now $700 million-plus anticipated deficit by 2005.

Press of Atlantic City Diversity costly during elections Cumberland County is starting to see the cost of its diversity when it comes to local elections. -- The county's recent designation as bilingual now requires officials to make all voting materials - ballots, advertisements and instructions - available in both English and Spanish, and this will as much as double some of the costs associated with the electoral process. -- Federal law requires such accommodations in counties where 5% of the population that is eligible to vote cannot speak, write or understand English. [Only citizens can vote, and one must speak English to become a citizen.]

Blethen Maine Newspapers Lewiston officials, Somalis meet City officials met Tuesday with Somali elders in an attempt to ease fears raised last week by Mayor Laurier Raymond's controversial letter asking them to stem the flow of Somalis into the city. -- At the same time, city officials tried to lend credence to Raymond's concern that Lewiston's budget has been strained by an estimated 1,060 Somalis who have moved here since February 2001. -- Citing projections of a $900 million state deficit and a $200 billion federal deficit, city officials say they cannot count on continued state and federal funding to help Somalis and other immigrants in the future.

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Bill Johnson - Rocky Mountain News Columnist can't discern the difference between 'legal' and 'illegal' Compassion and reality. -- It is the biggest difference between people like me and the legions of knuckleheads like the guy in the green truck. -- Every day, twice a day now, he drives past the Mexican Consulate at First Avenue and Steele Street. -- (Expletive) Mexicans! he bellows before racing off. Coward. -- The 100 or so Mexican nationals waiting in line for hours for documentation that will allow them but a smidgen of peace of mind as they make their way through this world, simply look down at their shoe tops. Undeterred, they continue to wait some more [for sham IDs]. [E-mail Johnson]

The Oregonian Mexican freed twice this year prior to attack of nuns The man accused of raping and killing a nun in Southern Oregon was detained twice early this year by the U.S. Border Patrol in New Mexico but released after Multnomah County passed on extraditing him to Oregon on old drug charges. -- The U.S. Justice Department is now investigating why two Border Patrol agents didn't do more extensive background checks on Maximilano Silerio Esparza in January that might have jailed him on federal charges. --  By Sept. 1, Esparza was a free man in Oregon, where police say he attacked two nuns on a bike trail in downtown Klamath Falls. He is accused of raping both nuns, then strangling one with her rosary beads.

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Al Knight - Denver Post Again, facts don't matter in Denver The Denver City Council has 13 members, but more often than not its members are eager to endorse, without any meaningful debate, the policies advanced by the Wellington Webb administration. -- The most recent example of this familiar supine attitude can be found in the Webb administration's decision to accept cards issued to illegal immigrants by the Mexican consulate as "official identification" in Denver. -- The council members have been either silent or supportive, and as a result, this policy will be adopted without any of the necessary debate that should accompany a significant change in city policy.

Hola Hoy / EFE -- (Rough translation by Google.com) Gephardt to introduce amnesty bill tomorrow The leader of the democratic minority in the [House of Representatives,] Richard Gephardt, will tomorrow present/display a law project to legalize to the immigrants without documents that live in the U.S.A. said legislative sources yesterday. -- The initiative contemplates the legalization of the undocumented immigrants who have been to five years living in the United States and at least two years working in this country, informed to EFE the spokeswoman into Gephardt, Fabiola Rodriguez. Undocumented people of any nationality could benefit from this legislation if, additionally to the dwell time in the country, they can verify that they have maintained good behavior and that they do not have criminal antecedents. [All illegals are lawbreakers.] [Original article in Spanish] [From La Opinion] [Note: In the translated text, the word 'companies' really means 'signatures' in this instance.]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution   Health care crisis affects Hispanics Underinsured and more susceptible to serious disease, Georgia's Hispanics face a "health care crisis," medical experts from around the country said last week at a Carter Center symposium. -- Dr. Elena Rios, president of the National Hispanic Medical Association, said participants wanted to "raise awareness of the lack of insurance coverage and the poor quality of health care in the South." The Hispanic population in metro Atlanta rose 362% in the '90s... [See: Importing Poverty]

Cox News Service Visa lottery under scrutiny The Egyptian man who shot and killed two at the Los Angeles airport on July 4, the Pakistani teenager who plotted to blow up power plants in South Florida and two Moroccans recently indicted as members of a terrorist cell in Detroit have at least one thing in common. -- All were in the United States legally because of a once-obscure but increasingly controversial Diversity Visa Lottery. -- Each year the program awards 55,000 residency permits on the basis of a random drawing.

Joel Mowbray

National Review 9/11 terrorist visas that should have been denied The cover story in National Review's October 28th issue (out Friday) details how at least 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers should have been denied visas - an assessment based on expert analyses of 15 of the terrorists' visa-application forms, obtained exclusively by NR. -- In the year after 9/11, the hand-wringing mostly centered on the FBI and CIA's failure to "connect the dots." But that would not have been a fatal blow if the "dots" had not been here in the first place. If the U.S. State Department had followed the law, at least 15 of the 19 "dots" should have been denied visas - and they likely wouldn't have been in the United States on September 11, 2001.

Associated Press Colo. Gov. Aide Quits Over E-mail The treasurer for Gov. Bill Owens' re-election campaign resigned after distributing an e-mail that ridicules immigrants. -- Bob Adams said Tuesday he received the e-mail at his home from an old high school classmate, found it humorous and forwarded it to three other people. -- The e-mail includes a poem about immigrants buying up property with welfare money and displacing white people. -- "I thought it was humorous the way it was written," Adams said. "I didn't see anything offensive about it, and I forwarded it on to folks." -- One stanza reads: "We have a hobby -- it's called breeding/Welfare pay for baby feeding."

Lowell Sun Lowell to seek federal support to fight gangs Federal immigration and drug-enforcement agencies will be called upon to help Lowell fight its ongoing gang problems. -- City Councilor Rodney Elliott last night successfully pushed councilors to request that City Manager John Cox contact the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Immigration and Naturalization Service for assistance. -- Elliott said he has noticed media references to strong federal involvement in anti-gang efforts statewide. -- "I'm noticing a little bit of a trend here" in how gang issues are handled in Lawrence and Springfield, said Elliott. "I think we can use all the help we can get on the matter. We have nothing to lose."

Honolulu Advertiser Mexican consul to push sham ID's The Mexican consul to the San Francisco district, which includes Hawai'i, will arrive tomorrow for a visit with the Mexican community here and to discuss with Honolulu officials ways to make life more humane for the estimated 30,000 Mexican immigrants in the Islands, including those here illegally. -- The consul also plans to meet with Honolulu Prosecutor Peter Carlisle and with Abellina Shaw, the mayor's chief of staff, on issues affecting illegal aliens...

San Mateo County Times Nader stumps for reconquista Consumer advocacy icon and former Green presidential candidate Ralph Nader stumped for Green gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo Tuesday, taking a few shots at Democratic incumbent Gov. Gray Davis. -- Latino outrage over Davis' recent veto of a bill to let undocumented immigrants seek driver's licenses has led voters and lawmakers to withdraw their support from his campaign, a wave of defections which "augurs very poorly for Gov. Davis," Nader said.

EFE Mexicans fighting for 'rights' for their trespassers in U.S. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights plans to study the situation of immigrants in the U.S. in response to a request by Mexico, Organization of American States president Antonio Cancado told reporters here on Tuesday. --- On May 9, Mexico sent the ICHR a request for a "consultative opinion" to back the rights of Mexican workers in the U.S. -- The request followed a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which found that Mexican national Jose Castro was not entitled to receive $67,000 back pay from Hoffman Plastic Compounds... [See ruling]

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News Daily - Clayton County, GA Fifth-column outfit pushes for Mexi-sham ID acceptance ...While DeKalb County recently voted to accept the matricula consular, the Forest Park City Council went against the recommendations of Forest Park Police Chief Dwayne Hobbs and voted not to accept the card. -- "I felt like it would be an encouragement, that if we in the city endorsed this (members of the Latin American community in the city) would be inspired to go get this," Hobbs said. "There are a significant number who don't have acceptable identification."

Arizona Daily Star 11 suspected illegals hurt in van crash A Chevrolet van rolled on westbound Interstate 10 early Tuesday afternoon in Marana, injuring at least 11 people authorities suspect are illegal entrants. -- A Department of Public Safety officer, Hal Van Woert, said marks on the road indicate the driver lost control of the van very soon or immediately after tread separated from a tire. -- The van left the interstate south of the Avra Valley Road exit, rolled into the median and crashed into a palo verde tree about 12:30 p.m. [Who pays for treating these criminals?]

Rocky Mountain News Tancredo's Republican foes smell blood The "vultures" are already circling over Rep. Tom Tancredo's political career, but most Republican Party regulars think he will easily survive a recent rash of controversy. -- Tancredo - the Republican congressman from Colorado's 6th District, has been in critics' sights over his fiery immigration reform rhetoric and his recent announcement that he will abandon his term limits pledge. -- Tancredo's Democratic challenger, Parker Councilman Lance Wright, is among the few people who think Tancredo is vulnerable in November's election.

Carolina Morning News Celebrating 'day of the race' Oct. 12 is recognized in many cities of the United States and from Mexico to Argentina as "El Di´a de la Raza," or "The Day of the Race." It is a day set aside to recognize and celebrate Hispanic heritage and the vibrant culture that has resulted from Spain's encounter with the New World. -- A special event is planned in Charleston in celebration of el Di´a de la Raza. The South Carolina Aquarium is hosting a special Hispanic festival called, "Fiesta de los Peces: Celebrando el Di´a de la Raza" this Saturday...

Associated Press Rights activists claim Latinos 'targeted' Court officials, human rights activists and student groups joined members of the UN Education Organization in charging that America's war on terrorism has unfairly targeted Latin Americans living legally and illegally in the U.S. -- Leaders from all over Latin America gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday for a conference on regional migration. They concluded that increased security following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has also violated the human rights of South and Central Americans and Mexicans...

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com Treason In Colorado: Tom Tancredo vs. The Denver Post To comprehend what happened after Congressman Tom Tancredo called the Immigration and Naturalization Service and suggested an inquiry into the status of Jesus Apodaca, the illegal alien hyped in a Denver Post August 11 front page sob story urging that he get in-state university tuition, ("Immigrants Shut Out of Colleges"), you must first realize that the Denver Post is an illegal alien propaganda machine disguised as a newspaper. -- Note, for example, that if Apodaca actually were a legal "immigrant," in the disingenuous words of the Post's headline, rather than an illegal alien, he would not be "shut out of college."