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Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
Sierra
Vista Herald [Link will
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Suspects
stopped: Two men have ties to crimes in New York
Actions by two federal law enforcement
agencies Saturday may help cops in New York solve a couple of
crimes in the Big Apple. -- A U.S. citizen and a Mexican national
were taken into custody Saturday on warrants issued by the New
York Police Department. -- Enrique Sanchez, 21, who is a U.S.
citizen, was found to have a warrant for possible involvement
in an Aug. 18 killing in the Bronx, an INS official said. He
was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
inspectors as he attempted to re-enter the country at the Douglas
Port of Entry around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. |
Sam
Francis |
VDare.com
Abolishing
New England: In Lewiston, Maine, They Had a Dream, Too
The blessings of diversity have descended
upon the small city of Lewiston, Maine, a decaying mill town
of some 35,000 folks, who were mainly white until a couple of
years ago. Now, with the addition of nearly 2,000 Somalis, Lewiston
has begun to catch up with what's been happening in the rest
of the country-and Western Europe, and Australia, and New Zealand,
for that matter. Like most of the people in those places, those
in Lewiston don't much care for it. |
NewsMax.com
U.S.
Borders Still Open to Nuclear Smuggling
America's borders and ports remain porous
when it comes to spotting attempts to smuggle nuclear weapons
or materials, witnesses told a House hearing Thursday. -- The
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
reviewed the U.S. Customs Service's post-Sept. 11 efforts to
deploy radiation detectors. Problems with the deployment take
on added importance with North Korea admitting to its nuclear
weapons program, said Rep. James Greenwood, R-Pa, subcommittee
chairman. -- "Although the administration has acknowledged
the deficiencies uncovered by this committee, little concrete
progress has been made in eliminating holes in our system, despite
the intervention of the Office of Homeland Security," Greenwood
said. |
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Sentinel
and Transcript Newspapers
Tancredo
targets immigration debate
Rep. Tom Tancredo is against amnesty
for a guest worker program and, he says, is trading in his morning
cup of coffee for a quick read of the daily paper. -- "Opening
the newspapers every morning is an adrenaline rush, better than
coffee," Tancredo said last week. -- Tancredo addressed
his continuing brouhaha with Denver's two daily newspapers. He
almost went so far as thanking both the Denver Post and the Rocky
Mountain News for making him a household name. Both papers lobbied
against him on their editorial pages on the subjects of immigration
and his re-election in the 6th Congressional District. |
Associated Press
Ziglar
reflects with Libertarians
James Ziglar, who is stepping down as INS Commissioner,
said Thursday the agency has made progress with post-Sept. 11
security measures, but the improvements often are hampered by
criticism of the agency. -- "At some point the fingerpointing
and the bashing needs to stop and the atmosphere needs to be
one of trying to make progress and not just assigning blame,"
Ziglar said in a speech sponsored by the Cato
Institute, a libertarian think tank. -- Ziglar has said he
would leave his volatile job by the end of the year to work in
the private sector. [Good
riddance.] |
Times-News
(Twin Falls, ID)
Senator
wants illegals legalized
U.S. Sen.
Larry Craig Tuesday told the 60 or so people gathered at
City Hall he supports new and faster procedures for the legalization
of immigrants
already living in the U.S. -- Speakers asked Craig, R-Idaho,
to help youths who are not U.S. citizens but who have successfully
participated in the U.S. school system. These students should
be able to finish their education and should be eligible for
college financial aid, they said. The speakers also told the
senator people who live illegally in the U.S. are vulnerable
to exploitation and abuse. |
Dick
Morris |
NewsMax.com
Browning
of America Dooms GOP
Increasing numbers of black and Hispanic
voters will doom the GOP's chances for electoral success by 2008.
-- That's the assessment - not from conservative immigration
opponent Pat Buchanan but instead from America's pre-eminent
political strategist, Dick Morris. -- "The Hispanic and
black population increase, particularly the Hispanic population,
has made New Jersey and New York and California and is making
Florida into solidly Democratic states," Morris told nationally
syndicated radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday. |
Allan
Wall |
VDare.com
"Somos
Mas Americanos!" We Are More American!
Scratch the surface, and The National
Question pervades every facet of American society. The entertainment
world is no exception. -- In July of 2002, country-western singer
Chad Brock was lambasted for what he said at a concert in Greeley,
Colorado: "Why should we adapt? You are coming over to our
country. We don't speak Russian. We don't speak Spanish. We speak
English here." ["Singer's
Remark Riles Hispanics", Denver Post, July 9, 2002].
-- And two years ago, rock guitarist Ted Nugent provoked the
wrath of LULAC by saying, also in a concert, that "If you
can't speak English, get the #%!# out of America." |
GoUpstate.com
Marriage
fraud: Dozens charged
Spartanburg resident Thelma Rice said
she had needed help paying her bills such as a car payment when
she married a Pakistani man in late April. -- "I don't see
no wrong in it," said Rice. "We were helping each other.
That's what I was doing." -- Rice was among dozens of women
who were arrainged on charges of marriage fraud or who entered
guilty pleas to the offense before a federal judge in Spartanburg.
-- INS had stepped up such investigations of bogus marriages
after Sept. 11 for security reasons. |
Associated
Press
121
pounds of cocaine seized
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more
than 121 pounds of cocaine worth $3.8 million at a checkpoint
on U.S. 70 near Alamogordo. -- The cocaine was found Tuesday
in a lead-lined false compartment in the floor of a cargo area
of a sport-utility vehicle driven by a Colorado resident, authorities
said. -- Agents said the driver, Adelmo Chaparro-Rubio, who was
traveling with his wife and two sons, told them he was paid $20,000
for taking the drug to Denver. Chaparro- Rubio is a legal resident
of the United States... |
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Great Falls
Tribune
Canadian
truck driver guilty of pot smuggling
A Canadian citizen was convicted in Great
Falls federal court Wednesday of attempting to smuggle 1,226
pounds of B.C. bud into the United States from Canada in the
back of a semitruck. -- A customs official said the seizure May
10 at the Sweet Grass port of entry might be the biggest marijuana
bust in Montana history. -- The 12-member jury wrapped up the
three-day trial after an hour and 15 minutes of deliberation,
finding Guo Xin Huang guilty of three charges... |
Joel
Mowbray |
National
Review
Why
America needs a better Consular Affairs nominee
Recent news reports about Ramzi bin al-Shibh
demonstrate the importance of temporary travel visas in al Qaeda's
plans - reiterating why the State Department position responsible
for visa policy is such a vital post. And the more the Senate
realizes how crucial strict visa procedures are in defending
our national security, the further out of favor the nomination
of Maura Harty as Consular Affairs chief falls. -- The reason
Harty's nomination has become so controversial - at least one
senator currently has a "hold" on her nomination, blocking
her from speedy approval - is that senators are finally beginning
to realize that existing visa policy alone threatens national
security. |
BAssociated
Press
Once-peaceful
town on Texas border erupts into gangland-style violence
Nuevo Laredo, NL, Mexico - Visitors from
Texas and beyond have long come to this quiet, sun-baked border
town for cheap tequila, souvenirs and a taste of Mexico close
to home. But the tranquility has been shattered this year by
a wave of killings that has claimed 45 victims, including as
many as eight police officers. -- The gangland-style violence,
most of it drug-related, has killed four police officers, and
many believe four others missing for months also are victims
of the violence. |
Associated Press
Yemeni
idicted on fake ID charges
A Yemeni citizen was indicted Wednesday
on charges that he made false identification cards. -- U.S. Attorney
Bud Cummins said the 103-count indictment is part of the government's
effort to break up potential terror networks, but he didn't link
the suspect to any terrorist group or act. -- Nasser Ahmed Ameri,
also known as Nasir Almeri, is charged with possessing and using
materials to make false IDs, and with being an illegal alien
in possession of ammunition. |
Copley
News Service
Guilty
plea in LAX smuggling case
A woman who was charged with smuggling
illegal immigrants from the Philippines into the United States
through Los Angeles International Airport pleaded guilty to a
felony charge Tuesday. -- Agnes Cunanan s the first person to
admit a role in the smuggling scheme that started in 1996. --
Four other people, including an immigration official, who were
charged in June have pleaded not guilty and are set to go to
trial next month. |
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Las Vegas
Sun
Arrests
may not slow down trade in fake ID cards
Although 12 people were recently indicted
on charges related to falsifying documents sold to undocumented
immigrants, experts say the organization behind the crime
will continue to ply its trade, following the laws of supply
and demand. -- The 12 are allegedly members of an organization
that works from two Las Vegas swap meets. -- The indictments
were handed down last week as part of an ongoing investigation
involving the U.S. attorney, the INS, Metro Police, the Department
of Justice and the Secret Service. [Related
item] [Four
Mexicans Jailed] |
Billings
Gazette
Testimony
earns lesser sentence
Helping prosecutors in a drug case shaved
four years from a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years for
an illegal alien from Mexico. -- U.S. District Judge Richard
Cebull on Wednesday sentenced Victor Manuel Reyna Fernandez to
six years in prison on charges of possession of methamphetamine
with intent to distribute. Fernandez pleaded guilty to the charge
in May and later testified at trial against his co-defendant,
George Benevides Soto, of Phoenix. -- A jury convicted Soto of
the charge. Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom recently
sentenced Soto to 19 years and seven months in prison. |
Greeley Tribune
Illegal
alien rape suspect caught
A suspect in the rape of a Greeley woman
on Saturday told police he threatened his victim with a knife
and an 18-inch meat hook. -- Three men grabbed the woman from
outside a Greeley bar and took her somewhere between Greeley
and Lucerne, where they raped her two times apiece. according
to an arrest affidavit filed in Weld District Court. Police arrested
the suspects on Sunday, when two of the men returned to the bar
where they allegedly kidnapped the woman. -- One suspect, Dagoberto
Aguilar-Ramos, told police he had entered the country illegally
from Guatemala only 15 days earlier. |
Post-Intelligencer
ACLU
fears for liberties
...These instances -- none of which had
occurred in Seattle, she said -- stemmed from another post- Sept.
11 Ashcroft policy, which asks local police to assist federal
immigration officers with their enforcement duties. -- The Seattle
Police Department has declined to participate in such efforts.
-- by Clark Kimerer, Seattle police deputy chief, "Determining
the status of an undocumented person in this country -- barring
any criminal activity -- is a federal civil violation
not enforced by the municipal police department. -- Only INS can enforce federal laws relating to illegal
entry..." [See
Sec. 133] |
Sham
ID Cards |
El Paso
Times
Mex-sham
IDs prove versatile, popular [and unreliable]
The use of Mexican
consular cards known as matriculas is gaining in popularity
as more U.S. banks, cities and states accept them as a form of
identification for immigrants. -- On Wednesday, the Mexican consul's
office in El Paso displayed the new "high security"
card, which features a digital photograph, holographic letters
and a magnetic band with machine-readable data. -- Mexican Consul
Juan Carlos Cue Vega said Mexico's
Foreign Ministry is working to persuade Texas to accept the card
for driver's license applications, too. |
Tucson
Citizen
Arizona
Hospital Crisis: Kino may become psychiatric hospital
Kino Community Hospital would be converted
to a psychiatric hospital but maintain its emergency room and
expand its primary care clinics under a proposal by the county
administrator. --- During the last nine years, Kino has accumulated
losses of $69 million and the rate at which Kino is losing money
is accelerating, the memo said. -- The losses are largely attributed
to uncompensated care - expected to total $10 million this year
alone - in part for services to uninsured or underinsured residents
and undocumented
immigrants. -- Kino's proportion of such patients is greater
than that of any other local hospital, the memo said. |
WTVQ News
Center
aids and abets illegals
Every morning dozens of men gather outside
Lexington's homeless shelter for men hoping to be picked up for
a day's work. Marshall Whitlock has been hiring the homeless
for his Lexington roofing business for two years. Whitlock says
two men who were living at the Hope Center turned out to be illegal
immigrants who gave him bogus identification numbers. Whitlock
then got a letter from the Internal Revenue Service saying he
owed taxes on the workers earnings. |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Supected
illegals shot dead
Two people believed to be illegal border
crossers were shot dead near Red Rock Wednesday afternoon after
someone opened fire on a group gathered around a stock pond,
a Pinal Co. Sheriff's spokesman said. -- Sheriff's officials
said late Wednesday that a search would resume this morning to
try to find the others in the group. Authorities are concerned
that others in the group who ran from the stock pond may have
been wounded in the shooting and are still out in the desert. |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Armed
citizens capture pot load, conservancy group unhappy
Members of an armed citizens patrol seized
about 280 pounds of marijuana Tuesday and Wednesday from smugglers
crossing a ranch owned by The Nature Conservancy. -- About 13
volunteers for the group, called Ranch Rescue, have been working
near Lochiel since Saturday in their first mission aimed at surveillance,
rather than cleanups at border-area ranches. -- Tom Collazo,
director of The Nature Conservancy's Arizona branch, said the
ranch manager would ask the group to stop today. |
Buffalo
News
Ashcroft
defends new immigration procedures
U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft
calls it a program designed to help close immigration loopholes
and protect Americans from terrorists. -- Critics call it a discriminatory
program that takes the United States down a dangerous road toward
formalized profiling of foreign visitors. -- Ashcroft was originally
scheduled to visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls today to witness
and discuss a new anti-terrorism program that requires visitors
from some Muslim countries to submit to fingerprinting and other
security measures. |
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