Sunday, October 20, 2002

Davis - Cedillo Gambit Dirty Tricks to Screw Americans California Gov. Gray Davis would not allow Proposition 187 to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. He made a deal with Mexico to kill it. American Patrol Analysis    GRAY DAVIS -- Promised to enforce Proposition 187 and then killed it once he was elected. He says no drivers licenses for illegal aliens.    We say that Cedillo put a poison pill in AB 60 so Davis would veto it, thus gaining 2 million white votes and losing few Mexican votes. After the election, sans pill, Davis will sign AB 60.    Simon hasn't a clue as to what is really going on and neither do California voters. Past Features  ABP WATCH -- Hawkeye Reports 5 SBI's -- All Apprehended

Copley News Service Bush wants mostly uninspected Mexican junk on our highways In an effort to get Mexican trucks rolling on U.S. highways, the Bush administration wants to bypass rules requiring that foreign trucks comply with U.S. manufacturing standards. -- To help accomplish that, the Department of Transportation has proposed a two-year "grace period" to long-standing rules because, officials said, many Mexican companies might need more time to certify that their fleets comply with U.S. guidelines for commercial vehicles.

Associated Press Hispanic voter registration group criticized in Arizona Some Hispanics seeking state legislative seats say an organization set up to encourage Latinos to vote hasn't been successful. -- The California-based Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project has raised about $85,000 to try to increase the number of Hispanics who will head to the polls. - "They raised a lot of money here and didn't do anything," said Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, whose husband, Earl, lost his bid for a state Senate seat in a heavily Hispanic district. -- Hispanics make up 25 percent or about 1.3 million of Arizona's population.

The Tennessean Lawyer wants you to accept migrants ...Immigrants also share our values. They want their children to succeed in school; they believe in family unity; they believe in American values such as freedom and democracy. -- Immigrants are hard workers who pay taxes, just like we do. They don't take jobs from Americans; they fill jobs in industries where workers are needed, and many times, they take the jobs Americans don't want. Immigrants make up a significant number of the workers who built our arena and our stadium, and who are building our ever- growing residential subdivisions.

Sacramento Bee Mexican indians flocking to California ..."They perform the jobs nobody wants to do," said Santiago Ventura, a Mixtec who does field inspections in Fresno and Madera counties, home to upward of 20,000 Mixtecs, for the advocacy group California Rural Legal Assistance. -- "Whether or not they get paid," he said, "whether or not they have a toilet in the field, they're still going to work." -- In part, this is because most of the newcomers are undocumented, and only about 20% speak Spanish fluently. Far fewer speak English. Most are not educated beyond elementary school.

La Opinion (Roughly translated by Google.com)  Demonstrators demand amnesty, licenses for scofflaws La Opinion, L.A.'s Spanish language paper, reported today that about 300 demonstrators ranted in downtown L.A. on Saturday for driver's licenses for foreign scofflaw criminals, and also demanded... that's right, demanded... a general amnesty for illegal aliens. As if that's not enough, this arrogant gang also demanded a halt to recent round-ups of illegal aliens at L.A. International Airport, among numerous other things. [Spanish version]

Associated Press Republican Hispanics try to boost California party's image Six Hispanic candidates are running for Congress in California as Republicans, a symbol of hope for a party that has struggled with an anti-immigrant image. -- Apart from the candidates themselves, few people expect these Republicans to win in congressional districts in which Hispanics may be a majority but registered Democrats easily outnumber Republicans. -- Some Democratic Hispanics dismiss the candidates as window-dressing for a party still trying to recover from Proposition 187, a 1994 initiative that sought to bar most state services to illegal immigrants. [187 would pass again if it were on the ballot, Rod Pacheco said last year.]

Denver Post Illegals want cheaper tuition ...These smart sons and daughters of factory workers, day laborers and cleaning ladies [a bunch of illegal aliens] are the kinds of students sought by elite colleges and universities eager for ethnic and economic diversity. But these students can't afford to go even to state-funded schools, not because of their status as illegal immigrants - as is the case in Colorado - but because of the costs. --- The issue is of particular interest in Colorado because of Jesus Apodaca, an 18-year-old Aurora honor student who feared that the cost of out-of-state tuition...

American Free Press - James P. Tucker Jr. Troops urged for border Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), flanked by colleagues from the Immigration Reform Caucus and family members of a slain victim of illegal immigration, announced that petitions signed by 30,000 Americans demanding that soldiers patrol the border have been delivered to President Bush. -- "As long as our borders remain undefended, we cannot claim that we are doing everything possible to protect the nation" from terrorism, Tancredo said outside the Capitol on Oct. 8. "It's time to authorize the deployment of military assets on our borders."

The Hawk Eye 'Latino studies' professor to Iowans: 'Reach out and show you care' The time is now for Des Moines County to prepare for an influx of Latino and other immigrants, says Jose Amaya, the keynote speaker at a town meeting Saturday at West Burlington High School. --  Speaking before about two dozen people, including members of the Des Moines County Diversity Team, Amaya advocated taking advantage of pre­existing programs and community groups. -- "This is the opportunity for you to reach out and show you care," said Amaya, an assistant professor of English and U.S. Latino Studies at Iowa State University and a Humanities Iowa lecturer.

Redding Record -Searchlight - News Briefs Two raids net 3,800 pot plants Platina, Calif. - About 3,800 marijuana plants were eradicated in two separate pot garden raids near here, officials with the Shasta County Sheriff's Department's marijuana eradication team said Friday. -- About 2,000 marijuana plants were discovered during one raid and four Hispanic males were seen fleeing, sheriff's officials said. -- Another garden was raided Friday morning and netted about 1,800 plants, including 350 pounds of processed marijuana valued at about $1.7 million. -- Officials said both gardens appear to be linked and part of a Mexican national marijuana operation. (Platina is about 700 miles north of the Mexican border.)

Milford Daily News INS raids on the rise as illegals fret The INS is cracking down on illegal immigrants, carrying out raids and knocking on people's doors to arrest and deport those who have outstanding deportation orders. -- In a recent INS pre-dawn raid in Cape Cod, the largest ever done in the Boston area, 35 Brazilians were arrested, and in another operation in East Boston, eight more were arrested. --- Fear of the INS is reaching deep into Framingham, where a large number of undocumented immigrants live.

Sun-Sentinel  Rules 'complicate' lives of scofflaws ...Sandra Ríos, (an illegal) who left Mexico City two years ago, has heard horror stories from friends turned away empty-handed when trying to renew their driver's licenses. Those friends -- a nursery worker, housekeeper and a nanny -- didn't know that stricter enforcement of state laws would make them and other undocumented immigrants ineligible for a license. -- Soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles began collecting old licenses so an immigrant's legal status could be verified before a new license was issued.

TheNewsMexico.com  Colonists hold pow-wow in Kansas Invoking the memory of past struggles, Rita Valenciano spoke with passion about the present as she addressed young adults Friday at the Latino Civil Rights Summit here. -- "The 1960's and '70's," she said, "brought riots, boycotts and protests by Hispanics who called themselves 'Chicanos.' They organized to fight for their civil rights." -- "Then, we got over it," she said, shrugging her shoulders. -- "But as long as we still have people who don't know the system, people who are just arriving to this country ... and an anti-immigrant sentiment out there, there is still a need."

Orange County Register Guest-worker debate leaves farmers in lurch While politicians in Washington and lobbyists for farmers and labor have given up on a new guest-worker program for this year, farmers in Orange County are hurting for workers. -- The heightened public concern over post-Sept. 11 security has reinvigorated the debate between those who say undocumented workers should be legalized and those who say that would be rewarding people who are breaking U.S. law by being in the country illegally. -- That, combined with tough bargaining over the details of a new guest-worker program means growers will continue to use mostly illegal workers.

TheNewsMexico.com - EFE Congressman: INS should arrest Mexicans in front of their consulate Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo says he wants the INS to stake out the Mexican consulate in Denver and arrest undocumented immigrants who go there to pick up their new identity cards. -- The Colorado Republican told the Rocky Mountain News he was sending a letter to Michael Comfort, Denver-based regional director of the INS, asking him to have agents arrest people who go the consulate to request identity cards. -- Tancredo's proposal came in response to a front-page Rocky Mountain News photo and story on the subject published last week.