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Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
Salina
Journal
Heads
up, Kansas voters: Shallenburger, Sebelius court Hispanic vote
With a fast-growing, young Latino populace,
candidates for state office are using Spanish more in campaigns
and hitting the fiesta parade circuit this year as they seek
the Hispanic vote. -- Republican gubernatorial contender Tim
Shallenburger has some campaign literature printed in Spanish
to hand out in Hispanic celebrations and neighborhoods. -- Likewise,
Democratic candidate Kathleen Sebelius sent her bilingual son
to Garden City during the summer to campaign and learn more about
the Hispanic community's needs. She also has a network of Hispanic
leaders volunteering for her campaign. |
Allan
Wall |
VDare.com
Jorge
Ramos'(Uni)Vision For U.S.
...Jorge Ramos is a white, blue-eyed
Mexican (see photo
here). He immigrated from Mexico in 1983. Since 1986 he has
been anchorman of Univision's Noticieros news program. In Miami
(where he resides), Los Angeles and Houston, Ramos beats Rather,
Jennings and Brokaw. His daily radio commentary is broadcast
to dozens of Spanish radio stations, his weekly column is published
in the U.S. and Latin America, he's written several books and
won 7 Emmys. -- Despite that fact that Ramos is not even a U.S.
citizen, he's been referred to as "one of the U.S.A.'s most
influential Hispanics". The Wall Street Journal even called
him "key to a huge voting bloc". |
Denver Post
Bush
has warm words for Tancredo
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., found the
welcome mat out at the White House Monday afternoon. -- "Man,
this is really exciting," said the two-term Colorado conservative
after he was greeted warmly by President Bush at a Roosevelt
Room ceremony where Bush signed Tancredo's Sudan Peace Act into
law. -- Although Tancredo has had previous bills signed into
law, it was the first time one of his bills was signed at a public
ceremony. And it came only six months after the president's top
political adviser, Karl Rove, warned Tancredo "never
to darken the door of the White House again." |
Tucson
Citizen
Candidates
discuss immigration, etc.
Democrat Mary Judge Ryan raised her eyebrows
and pursed her lips. Jim Kolbe jabbed the air with his index
finger. Libertarian Joe Duarte looked at the ceiling. -- Seated
around a table nearly elbow to elbow during an interview at the
Tucson Citizen, the candidates for Arizona's 8th Congressional
District reacted visibly to their opponents' arguments on subjects
including Social Security and immigration. -- Ryan used the word
"disconnect" no fewer than five times to describe Kolbe,
a nine-term incumbent. -- Ryan claimed that Kolbe should be doing
more to stop immigrants from dying in the desert ... |
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Associated
Press
Fox
to fight U.S. farm subsidies, push Bush on illegals
Vicente Fox criticized American farm
subsidies Tuesday, saying he will approach President Bush this
weekend about making terms of free-trade agreements less painful
for Mexican farmers. -- In an interview with The Associated Press
on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit,
Fox called for more American attention to Mexico's affairs and
vowed to push Bush on an immigration agreement that was thwarted
by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The two presidents meet Saturday. |
New California
Media
Immigrants
Reel From Post 9/11 Policies
Immigrants are the real targets in post-9/11
policy, representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union
and the American Immigration Lawyers' Association said recently
at a meeting with New California Media. -- "The government's
activities target the most vulnerable group: immigrants, especially
Muslims," said ACLU attorney Jayashri Srikantiah. Through
secret detentions and deportations, profiling based on ethnicity
and a crackdown on the constitutional right to protest, the Bush
administration's new policies, she said, compromise the civil
liberties of all Americans, and immigrants in particular. |
Transcript - U.S. Treasury
Bush's
Latino treasurer
...It was President
Bush and President Fox who had the vision to launch the Partnership
for Prosperity during their historic meeting in September of
2001. They launched the Partnership to promote growth in
the parts of Mexico where growth has lagged and fueled migration.
-- The private sector, including credit unions like the Latino
Community Credit Union, is an important part of this Partnership.
We know that government doesn't have all of the answers. |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Man
admits selling fake licenses
A Wheeling man pleaded guilty Monday
to selling hundreds of bogus driver's licenses to unsuspecting
immigrants, authorities said. -- Mikhail Tsipis pleaded guilty
in Waukegan to computer fraud and was sentenced to 2 years of
probation. -- Authorities also confiscated $375,000 from his
bank accounts and seized office equipment worth about $32,000.
-- Most of his customers--as many as 250 a week--were undocumented
citizens who used the licenses... [undocumented citizens?] |
Jim
Boulet, Jr. |
National
Review
Lost
in Translation
A corrupt home-plate umpire can easily
decide the outcome of any baseball game. A few corrupt translators
can just as easily decide the outcome of South Dakota's Senate
race (and perhaps control of the U.S. Senate), thanks to that
state's Indian reservation voter-registration scandal. -- Fact
one: Many Indian languages lack written alphabets. This means
their bilingual ballots are actually cast via oral translation.
Fact two: Every aspect of the voter-verification process can
be conducted via translation, if only the voter's "translator"
makes such a request. |
Bergen
Record
Schools
must admit illegal alien children
The state Department of Education issued
a statement Monday reminding public school districts throughout
the state that undocumented children must not be prevented from
enrolling in school. -- The department cited "several incidents
in recent weeks" in which children were denied entry into
public schools because of their immigration status, which it
attributed to districts' confusion over new regulations on B1
and B2 code visitor visas placed by the Immigration and Naturalization
Service last April. |
H.
Millard |
Citizens
have a responsibility to protect this nation
The government is corrupt and looks the other
way instead of enforcing our laws relating to immigration. This
being the case, citizens can either sit back and watch as our
country is destroyed or they can do what the government is not
doing--they can patrol our borders and especially our border
with Mexico. Then, these citizens can make report the illegal
activity that they see to police and INS officials who may then
be forced to take action and stop pretending that they don't
see the illegal activity. That's what American
Border Patrol and Ranch
Rescue are doing. |
Wall Street Journal - Daniel Griswold
Another
open border rant from Cato
The 11 Mexican migrants found dead in
a sealed rail car in Iowa last week were twice victimized --
directly by smugglers who callously left them to die, and indirectly
by a U.S. immigration law in conflict with the realities of American
life. -- While the U.S. has encouraged closer trade, investment,
and political ties with Mexico, it has labored in vain to restrict
the flow of labor across the border. Starting with the clampdown
on illegal immigration in the mid-1980s, the government has imposed
burdensome regulations... |
San
Diego Channel
Couple
To Be Deported
Majeda Dweikat and Osama Yousef Basnan
admitted during separate hearings held Monday that they used
false immigration documents to stay in the U.S., The San Diego
Union-Tribune reported. -- Dweikat was sentenced to 60 days in
jail and Basnan to 53 days, approximately the length of time
already served, the newspaper reported. -- According to their
attorney, the couple will be returned to Basnan's native Saudi
Arabia, where a relative is caring for their six children, who
are U.S. citizens, the newspaper reported. |
Phyllis
Schlafly |
Townhall.com
Bilingual
education goes to voters again
The voters in Colorado and Massachusetts
will have a chance to vote yes or no on Nov. 5 about bilingual
education. This billion-dollar boondoggle is a fraud because
it doesn't teach two languages; it teaches all subjects in Spanish
to Mexican- American kids on the failed theory that they will
learn English when they are older. Bilingual education plays
into the hands of the open-borders faction of both political
parties. |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Reconquista
Garcia & Company, open-border cheerleaders complain
A group of human
rights advocates called Monday for a federal investigation
of several recent border incidents, including last week's double
homicide near Red Rock and other events involving vigilante groups.
-- The rights groups, including the Coalición
de Derechos Humanos, said the incidents are the result of
misguided federal policies on immigration, which also need to
be reviewed. -- And they said they fear things will worsen before
improving, as a "haven for racist vigilantes and their atmosphere
of terror" is created here. -- Isabel Garcia expressed doubt
that the vigilante groups have jurisdiction to do what they're
doing. [See
Tucson Citizen story] |
Sham
ID Cards |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Ventura
County may accept sham Mexican IDs
Ventura County supervisors today will
consider allowing Mexican immigrants -- legal or illegal -- to
use a Mexican
identification card to do business at county offices. --
The state of California and a handful of local governments have
begun accepting the card, a matricula consular, as valid ID,
said Supervisor
John Flynn, who will ask his colleagues on the Board
of Supervisors to do the same. -- Acceptance of the card
would allow Mexican nationals residing here to obtain marriage
certificates, business licenses [illegals are prohibited from working in the U.S.], senior discounts and library cards, the supervisor
said. |
The Californian
Illegal
Chinese come ashore
Authorities on Monday detained a handful
of people who illegally came ashore at Big Sur in a small boat
believed to a life raft, a Monterey Co. official said. -- The
men, believed to be Chinese, are being detained in the Monterey
Co. Jail in Salinas at the request of the INS. -- "We're
working on getting a translator or someone who can tell us what
the dialect is so we can go get a translator," said county
spokeswoman Maia Carroll. |
Times
Recorder
Honduran
crooks sentenced
Two North Carolina men who admitted to
stealing items from a Big Bear store in June, and were later
charged with robbery for making threats toward a store clerk,
were sentenced Monday in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court.
-- Judge Howard Zwelling sentenced Douglas Ismael Sorrano Bueso
and Franklin Joel Velasquez Bueso Honduran nationals to one-year
prison terms. -- They will be deported after serving their time. |
Times-Dispatch
Illegals
detained in D.C. sniper case to fight deportation
...Late [Monday] afternoon, the men -
a Mexican national and a Guatemalan native - were turned over
to the INS for possible immigration violations [Possible? They
reportedly admitted they are illegals]. -- They were transferred
to a location in Northern Virginia, where they can be held indefinitely
as INS detainees. -- They apparently will try to fight any
efforts to deport them.-- The Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce of Central Virginia has retained a local
Spanish-speaking lawyer to represent the men... -- "They
were innocent and needed to have the support of someone,"
a chamber rep said. [Innocent?
They're illegal aliens.] |
Sam
Francis |
VDare.com
Was
the U.S., like pie crusts and treaties, made to be broken?
...In the event you don't understand
why a Hispanic website puts the treaty [of Guadalupe Hidalgo]
text on line, you'd better sit down and start thinking about
it. -- In a nutshell, the website puts the treaty text on its
website not because its webmasters are so fascinated by the minutiae
of American diplomatic history but because it is becoming increasingly
clear that many Hispanic immigrants to the United States believe
that a large part of the United States really belongs to them
or their parent country, Mexico. |
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