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Denver Post
Tancredo
passionate about curbing immigration
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has a way of bringing
a variety of campaign issues back to immigration. -- It's something
the 56-year-old Littleton Republican is passionate about discussing.
-- "The issue is monumental to me," Tancredo said in
a recent interview. He's not afraid of igniting passionate debate
that often ensues on the issue. -- Decisions made now "will
determine what kind of country we will be," said the two-term
congressman who hopes to represent south metro residents in a
revamped 6th District. |
KHBS / KHOG - Ft. Smith, AR
Police:
Officer Interrupts Rape At Rogers Park - One Arrested
A man was arrested early Friday morning
after a police officer on routine patrol interrupted an apparent
rape in progress at Foerster Park in Rogers. -- The officer was
patrolling the park at around 1 a.m. when he noticed a car parked
alone between two fields. When he shined his flashlight in the
car, the officer said he saw a Hispanic man and woman inside,
and the woman was hysterical. -- A police translator was called
to the scene and determined that a rape had occurred. Suspect
Joel Calderon was arrested... |
Associated
Press
Somali
rift may hurt economy
Lewiston, Maine - The state's top economic
development official is warning that the cultural rift over Lewiston's
Somali immigrant community could have negative economic impacts
on both the Lewiston area and the state. -- Steven Levesque,
commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community
Development, says Lewiston is under the national spotlight over
the controversy on the growing Somali community. -- The mayor
wrote an open letter last week discouraging other Somalis from
coming to the area because the city's finances were stretched
to the limit. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Denver Post
Feds
warn that Mexican sham ID's are not reliable
The Mexican Consulate in Denver presents
its new "matricula
consular" ID as a more secure identification for immigrants,
and an increasing number of police departments around the state
agree. -- But federal immigration authorities say that if police
officers believe they can trust the cards, they're flat wrong.
-- "One guy we arrested recently had three different matriculas
with three different names. It was his picture, issued through
the consulate," said Scott Weber, deputy director for the
INS in Denver. [This article is teeming with misinformation about
these phony cards.] [The
public doesn't like the idea.] [Also see: Aiding,
abetting illegals.] |
Arizona Republic
Hispanic
dropout rate a concern
Superintendent of public instruction
candidates Jay Blanchard and Tom Horne agreed Thursday that increasing
educational success among Hispanics poses a major challenge that
should be given top priority, but they differed over how they
would address the issue. -- The two candidates were responding
to just-released Census Bureau data showing the number of Latinos
who dropped out or never attended high school surged in Arizona
during the 1990s. -- "It's obviously something that's going
to have to be among our highest priorities," Horne said. |
L.A.
Weekly
Gray
and the outlaw block
They are up for grabs. Once taken for
granted by Democrats, California Latinos are expected to be the
swing voters in the governor's race next month. -- Several Latino
groups that rallied for Gray Davis in 1998 now oppose him. They
say Davis failed them on several key issues, and they want to
send a clear message to Democrats: Latinos are not a done deal.
-- A poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California
in September shows that 58% of Latinos would vote for Davis;
in 1998, Davis got 71% of the Latino vote. [Seems they're mad
about the veto of the illegal alien license bill.] |
Newsmax.com
No
Man's Land
The Border Patrol appears on the verge
of declaring victory in its campaign to control illegal immigration
along our border with Mexico. It says that for the first time
since 1989 it will arrest fewer than 1 million people crossing
illegally this year. -- Apparently, the Border Patrol hasn't
been listening to the residents of Cochise County, Ariz., who
share an 84-mile border with Mexico. Maybe that's because Tucson
sector officials recently disbanded a Citizens Advisory Board
after it became too critical of the Patrol's failure to stem
the flood of illegal crossings in its county. -- The Border Patrol's
strategy has focused on erecting barriers along heavily traveled
sectors of Mexico's border with Texas and California. The overall
effect, however, has been to channel illegal immigration into
Arizona. |
H.
Millard |
Consider
what illegal aliens want, because they're here?
My local newspaper ran a Community
Commentary column today that was written by a citizen. This
citizen starts off giving a fairly good overview of local problems
and why a part of the city needs a major redevelopment. Ultimately,
however, the writer falls into the trap of giving us a variation
of the argument, "If you're going to be raped, you might
as well relax and enjoy it," when he tells readers that
we must consider the wishes of illegal aliens when we consider
redevelopment. He also tells readers that illegal aliens work
hard and that their employers like them. |
Paul Craig
Roberts |
VDare.com
As
Bush Gears Up To Send Army Overseas, American Jobs Are Already
There
Obsessed with Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration
believes an invasion of Iraq is a winning issue. Meanwhile, the
economy continues to drag. -- The latest statistics show no job
growth and no income growth. Low interest rates and home mortgage
refinance have cut monthly housing payments, thus permitting
consumers to continue spending. However, the stock market has
not recovered.... |
Portland Press-Herald
Somalis
want feds to investigate
Members of the Somali community and a
coalition of local advocacy groups plan to file a complaint with
the Justice Department against the city of Lewiston. -- The complaint
will ask for a comprehensive federal review of Lewiston's programs
and services, from the schools to the police department, to ensure
that they do not discriminate on the basis of national origin.
-- The decision to seek federal intervention, which is supported
by the Islamic Society, comes as Lewiston is getting worldwide
attention for a controversial
letter sent by Mayor Laurier Raymond to the city's Somali community. |
Cato
Institute
Griswold
cheerleads for Mexicans
...Opponents of immigration demand the
wrong solution for the wrong problem. The most likely profile
of a terrorist is not an immigrant entering from Mexico, but
a non-immigrant entering from a small group of Muslim-majority
countries. Like a laser-guided smart bomb, we should aim our
border-control efforts at the most likely sources and channels
through which terrorists would enter our country. -- Immigrants
-- foreigners who come to the United States to settle permanently
-- are only a small subset of the tens of millions of foreigners
who cross our borders every year. |
Mike
Rosen |
Rocky Mountain
News
Rosen:
Immigration on our terms
Let's talk about immigration reform.
About the dumbest argument I've heard for open borders - or policies
so friendly to illegal immigrants that essentially amount to
that - is that, historically, we're all immigrants. This may
be superficially seductive for the rationally challenged, but
it ignores some vital distinctions. -- For openers, our ancestors
who came to this country in the great immigration waves of the
19th and early 20th centuries were not illegal immigrants. They
didn't come here in contravention of U.S. law. |
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Newsmax.com
Latinos:
Gray Davis Is 'One of Our Worst Enemies'
In 1998, Gray Davis got 71 percent of
California's Latino vote. -- A poll conducted by the Public Policy
Institute of California in September shows that in this election,
that number may drop by almost 20%. -- The Davis campaign is
wondering, where's the love? -- Well, back in 1994, California
voters, not Republican lawmakers or right-wingers or anyone else
except the people who actually live in the state, passed Proposition
187, which eliminated public education and other taxpayer-funded
benefits for illegal immigrants (i.e., those who were paying
no taxes). |
Fresno
Bee News Briefs
Pot
gardens raided
Madera County officers reported Thursday
that they ripped out nearly 300 marijuana plants worth an estimated
$844,000 in dawn raids along the San Joaquin River. -- Each of
the four gardens raided differed in size. One patch just 10 yards
from the river yielded 86 plants. Another had 106 budding plants,
officers said. -- Evidence was being sorted to determine whether
the sites raided were connected to two Mexican drug cartels allegedly
operating in the Central Valley. --
Other news briefs..... |
San Diego Union-Tribune
Man
charged with 'hate crime'
An 18-year-old man has been charged in
the beating of a Mexican migrant worker in rural East County
last month an attack authorities are calling a hate crime.
-- A preliminary hearing for Justin Samuel Smith, of Boulevard,
has been scheduled for Nov. 13. He has been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with a hate crime allegation, robbery
and battery causing great bodily injury, Deputy District Attorney
Wendy Patrick said. -- A hearing for a 17-year-old Boulevard
resident arrested in connection with the case is pending, sheriff's
Sgt. Rod Gilmore said. |
Bob
Park -- Sonoran News
Police
and illegals
Are there good reasons for state and
local police to exercise their power to arrest aliens unlawfully
present in the United States? Indeed there are. -- Phoenix police
report that 60 percent of the homicides involve Mexicans mixed
up in both smuggling drugs and people.
Would prudently exercising the authority given police by Congress
in 1996 do more harm than good in this community? -- Phoenix
police are constrained, tragically so, by "Operations Order
1.4," which, where illegal aliens are concerned, means hands
off. Knowing this... |
Sam
Francis |
VDare.com
A
Real Debate On Immigration-And Guess Who Won?
Eight years after California's Proposition
187 tried to end welfare benefits to illegal aliens and more
than a year after the attacks of Sept. 11 by aliens who entered
legally, the United States still has not had a real debate about
mass immigration. Any reduction in immigrant numbers, we're told,
would mean "the terrorists win." That kind of flapdoodle
is too embarrassing to argue with, but if the government and
the country refuse to talk about immigration seriously, last
weekend one group of citizens did try. |
Omaha World-Herald
Latinos
feeling singled out
...Armando Garcia simply wanted to straighten
out a utility bill. Instead of friendly help, the Spanish-speaking
merchant said he was publicly berated by a clerk. -- "Some
of the Anglos, they treat us differently after what happened,"
Garcia said. "It's not right. I'm not responsible."
-- The encounter highlights the tension between Anglos and Latinos
in Madison and neighboring Norfolk since the bank
holdup that left five area residents slain and four Latino suspects
jailed. Now the two distinct populations, which mostly just
co-existed, have to confront one another like never before. |
KAKE
- Wichita
Hispanics,
pandering politicians
The Census Bureau reports that since
1990, the Hispanic population has grown by nearly 104% in Sedgwick,
Butler and Harvey counties. It's not surprising the Kansas gubernatorial
candidates are courting Hispanics for their support in November.
-- One hot topic was the driver's license issue. Right now, illegal
immigrants are forbidden to get a driver's license in Kansas.
They say they do not agree with the current proposal to issue
licenses designed to identify illegals. Shallenburger say he
thinks it is essential that people who live in Kansas be legal
taxpayers. |
San Mateo
Daily Journal
Ballot
languages causing stir
As the nearly 330,000 registered voters throughout
San Mateo County receive sample ballots in the mail this week,
more than a few are frustrated with the new format which includes
information in three languages. -- Federal law now mandates that
election materials be available in a county's primary languages.
For San Mateo County, that means English, Chinese and Spanish.
County election officials spent about $500,000 designing and
printing the new documents but are now fielding phone calls from
residents who can't figure them out. [Only citizens can vote, and one must speak English
to become a citizen.] |
David
Limbaugh |
WorldnetDaily.com
Immigration
politics
Just a week after he chastised his fellow
Democrats for playing politics with "a life and death issue"
on Iraq, Rep.
Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is back to playing politics himself
on another vital issue: illegal immigration. -- Congress's minority
leader told an audience of nearly a thousand people, according
to CNS News, that he would introduce legislation to allow illegal
aliens to become legal provided they help Democrats regain
majority control of Congress. |
KTUL-TV
Cops
hands still tied, even after 9/11
Oklahoma City - Police say they are handcuffed
when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants and you're not
going to believe how helpless local police are when it comes
to the issue. -- Wednesday, a number of area law enforcement
met with INS officials. What they learned is that police can't
do a whole lot when it comes to someone who is breaking the law
by being in the U.S. and that the INS has other priorities [of
an unknown nature, as usual]. -- Officers are learning from an
INS agent about the system. |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
2
illegals caught with 1/2-ton of pot
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more
than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and arrested two Mexican men believed
to have crossed the border illegally in a stolen vehicle, authorities
said Thursday. -- Agents from the Naco and Sonoita stations responded
to a report of a pickup truck that had illegally crossed the
border in a remote area and was trying to get past a checkpoint
about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. -- After being tracked by a Border
Patrol helicopter, the two men stopped the truck and ran off
but were soon captured. |
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Gannett
News Service
Top
Dem's immigration move shakes up House
The top Democrat in the House [Rep.
Dick Gephardt - D-MO] introduced a bill Thursday that would
give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn legal residency,
a move criticized by Republicans as "a naked public relations
stunt." -- They said Democrats are currying favor with Hispanics
before next month's crucial midterm elections. -- Hispanics represent
most of the nation's 9 million illegal immigrants. -- Joining
Gephardt were Hispanic and Asian-American lawmakers and several
key immigration advocates, including the National
Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights
group. |
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