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Joe
Guzzardi |
VDare.com
"Bilingual
Education" Surviving -With Help From Bush
Assistant Secretary of Education Susan
Neuman came to town this week to spend two hours at the Lodi
Unified School District's Clairmont School in north Stockton.
-- As a Lodi Adult School instructor, I've taught a section of
English as a second language at Clairmont for more than 10 years.
I was happy to see the hard-working, devoted Clairmont teachers
and staff get their long overdue credit. That the kudos came
from the highest possible source, the Department of Education
in Washington, D.C. made the moment more memorable... |
KFMB-TV -- San Diego
Border
Patrol Agent Killed
A female border patrol agent on duty
along the Tijuana River Valley died on the job Friday. The agent
was patrolling an area called Spooner's Mesa, when her vehicle
rolled down an embankment, according to authorities. -- Investigators
are still piecing together exactly what happened. However, they
say early Friday morning, the agent lost control of her car along
curving dirt roads. According to estimates, the vehicle fell
25 to 30 feet down. The victim hasn't been identified yet. She
was the only person involved in the crash |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Deputies
stop another jail melee
A fight between Latino and Asian inmates
at the Theo Lacy Branch Jail last week led to a small-scale riot
that was quickly quelled by deputies. Orange County sheriff's
spokesman Jim Amormino said deputies restored order in less than
five minutes and no one was injured. -- Amormino said the disturbance
occurred Oct. 18 after several Latino inmates beat an Asian prisoner.
Other Asian prisoners retaliated by attacking a Latino. This
prompted deputies to search the cells for weapons, which angered
about 100 Latino prisoners. |
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Wall Street
Journal
Meddling
Mexicans push sham IDs in lieu of amnesty
As Mexican President Vicente Fox asks
President Bush this weekend to revive talks on amnesty for illegal
immigrants living in the U.S., his government is quietly working
to incorporate Mexicans into the U.S. mainstream by persuading
local governments to accept a new Mexican ID card for undocumented
aliens. -- Mr. Fox isn't likely to get much joy from Mr. Bush.
Since the terrorist attacks last year, Washington has effectively
backed away from considering any legalization proposal for illegal
migrants.... |
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WABC
NJ's
Ties To The Sniper Exposes Security Flaws At DMV
New Jersey's Department of Motor Vehicles
is once again coming under fire after connections to the sniper
attacks surfaced since Thursday's arrest. The fact that John
Allen Muhammad was able to register his car to an address where
he didn't live has once again exposed security flaws the New
Jersey agency. It's not the first time a crime has been linked
to bogus ID's, traced to the Garden State. New Jersey correspondent
Jen Maxfield reports from Trenton with more. |
Hispanic
Vista -- Patrick Osio, Jr.
Web
publisher whacks Tancredo, backs illegal alien moochers
...Tancredo has replaced Pete Wilson
as the new Republican darling of the anti-immigration [Osio left out the key word 'illegal',
as usual] movement in the US. He begs
the nation simply see one item "what part of illegal
do you not understand?" is the mantra. Only illegal
entrants are guilty not those who hire them (such as
himself and Wilson before him); not those who exploit them, such
as the contractor Tancredo hired [a blatant lie, of course].
--- The Tancredo/Wilson thinking is anchored in the simple premise
that illegal immigration
is wrong. People of reason cannot or should not argue against
this simple premise. Polls in 1993 indicated the overwhelming
majority of Californians including a Latinos, opposed illegal
immigration. This is right and the way it should be. [Current
polls reflect similar sentiments.] |
Associated Press
Arrests
of illegals up 25%
Omaha -- Arrests of [illegals] jumped
nearly 25% last year in Nebraska and Iowa, and the number of
people deported went up almost 30%. -- Agents arrested 4,315
[illegals] last year, according to a year-end report released
Thursday by the Nebraska and Iowa district of the INS. -- "That's
significant," district director Jerry Heinauer said. The
INS made 3,464 arrests the year before. -- If [illegals] try
to get back into the country and are again arrested, it becomes
a felony with probable jail time. |
New
Mexico Channel
Two
nabbed in fraud scam
Authorities have arrested two title company
employees accused of selling fake vehicle registrations and insurance
cards. -- Mario Mercado and Guadalupe Saenz were arrested Tuesday.
Authorities said they face fraud and forgery charges. -- Court
papers said police and agents from the state Inspector General's
Office found approximately 2,000 blank insurance cards from various
agencies at Mercado's home. Investigators believe Mercado and
Saenz targeted Mexican citizens. |
FAIR
Press
Release |
Release
of Illegal Alien Turned Terrorist is Not Just INS's Fault, But
Congress's and the White House's
The revelation that one of the two alleged
Beltway terrorists, John Lee Malvo, is an illegal alien who had
been released from INS custody is but the latest indictment of
America's immigration policies and the incompetent agency that
administers them, charged FAIR. According to reliable sources,
[John
Lee] Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica, who entered
the U.S. illegally as a stowaway, and should have been promptly
deported when he and his mother were arrested by the Border Patrol
in Bellingham, Washington, in December 2001. |
Washington
Times
Report
says U.S. unprepared for another terror attack
...In terms of preventing terrorism,
the commissioners said federal authorities need to give local
officials access to information about potential terrorists. --
"Police officers on the beat are effectively operating deaf,
dumb, and blind," the commission concluded. "Terrorist
watch lists provided by the U.S. Department of State to immigration
and consular officials are still out of bounds for state and
local police. In the interim period as information sharing issues
get worked out, known terrorists will be free to move about to
plan and execute their attacks." |
San Francisco Chronicle
INS
decried for deporting illegal Guatemalan absconder
...The ordeal began in July when Lizbeth
Sanchez arrived at the San Francisco INS office for what she
believed would be an interview that would help her obtain legal
residency. -- Instead, Sanchez was handcuffed and arrested in
front of her husband and American-born daughter, both of whom
are U.S. citizens. An immigration judge had signed a deportation
order for her in 1996 after she failed to appear before at an
asylum hearing. |
Associated
Press - KVOA Tucson
Smuggler
theory gaining ground in illegal alien shooting
Pima County Sheriff's deputies are leaning toward
the theory that rival migrant smugglers are responsible for killing
two illegal border- crossers and abducting nine others in southern
Arizona. -- Detectives say they haven't ruled out the
possibility that vigilantes along the border were involved. --
But investigators say have no indication vigilantes carried out
the killings. [Also see: Fire
Reconquista Isabel Garcia] |
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Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration) (Published)
Joe
Daleiden: Immigration laws
...As the U.S. dramatically increased
legal immigration in the 1970s and 1980s, legal immigrants often
offered a new conduit for their families and friends to enter
the U.S. illegally. -- At the same time, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service was forced to divert resources from apprehension
of illegal immigrants to processing an increasing number of legal
immigrants...... |
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CNN
Senator,
family killed in Minnesota plane crash
Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife
and a daughter died Friday in a small plane crash near Eveleth,
Minnesota, Democratic sources said. -- The sources said three
staff members and two crew members also died in the crash. --
The plane went down in a wooded area about seven miles east of
Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport. Officials said bad weather
was reported in the area, and the last contact with the plane
was at 10:20 a.m. when the plane was about two miles from the
Eveleth airport. [1104PDT] |
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Times Dispatch
Attorney
seeking release of Mexican invader in Virginia
An attorney for Edgar Rivera García
is seeking a hearing to release the Mexican laborer from detention
until he faces immigration charges in Virginia. -- Mark Shea,
an attorney for Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia, filed
a motion for a bond hearing yesterday to free García from
custody. He met twice with García, who he said spoke with
officials from the Mexican consulate in Washington. -- García
faces an uphill battle to stay in the country. "It looks
like he's going to go [back to Mexico]," Shea said. "He's here illegally." |
Marcela Sanchez - Desde Washington
More
'nation of immigrants' hogwash
Forget that the
United States is a nation of immigrants, that immigration
has a human face. Numbers alone can tell the story: By 2010,
there will be 20.5 million new jobs in the service sector alone
and only 17 million new workers -- 19 million if illegal immigration
continues at its current pace. Another million workers, at least,
will be needed. -- Immigration
chief James W. Ziglar offered these calculations at a think
tank forum last week, as well as the observation that immigration
reform talks that began more than a year ago between President
Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico... |
Tucson
Citizen
Arizona
funds could be taken for jailing illegals
Hundreds of state and local governments,
including Pima County's, may lose federal dollars to help defray
the cost of jailing illegal immigrants. -- Congress left town
last week to campaign for the Nov. 5 elections without reaching
an agreement with the Bush administration on funding a Justice
Department program that provided $546 million last year to the
states. -- All 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories,
including Guam, have shared in the federal dollars distributed
through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program since 1995. |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
No
bail for terror suspect
A judge denied bail Thursday for the
co-founder of an Islamic charity that is suspected of funneling
money to Al Qaeda, saying the defendant is probably "a danger
to the security of the United States." -- Even if Rabih
Haddad is not a threat, he might flee the country, Immigration
Judge Robert Newberry added. -- Haddad's attorney, Ashraf Nubani,
said he will appeal. -- Haddad has been jailed since Dec. 14
on a visa violation. The Ann Arbor, Mich., resident and Lebanese
citizen helped create the Global Relief Foundation, which the
U.S. government has accused of providing money to the terrorist
organization. |
Ric
Oberlink |
San Francisco
Chronicle
Population
growth missing from gubernatorial debate
In 1994, Kathleen Brown, the Democratic
candidate for governor, spoke at a conference of environmentalists
in Sacramento. After her speech, she fielded questions from the
audience. -- I asked her: "In 1959, the administration of
Gov. Pat Brown began with a state population of 15 million. In
1975, the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown began with a state
population of 22 million. A Kathleen Brown administration would
begin with a population of 32 million. Can our environment survive
this never-ending population growth? [Ric Oberlink is an environmental
consultant to Californians for
Population Stabilization.] |
Houston Chronicle
China
replaces Mexico as the land of cheap labor
Edilia Perez can install circuit boards
in television monitors as fast as she can, but she just can't
compete against Chinese workers on the assembly line. -- Chinese
factory workers make about $1 worth of yuan each day, while Mexican
maquiladora workers like Perez earn an average of $9 worth of
pesos a day, according to a study by the Mexican Worker's University
in Mexico City. -- China's long list of business incentives --
including few to no taxes -- attracts investors. In contrast... |
N.Y.
Times (Free Registration)
Its
Swing Vote in the Council Gives Mexico More Muscle
..."Mexico's position is neither
for nor against the United States," Mr. Fox said coyly in
a radio interview in Mexico today. "We are against unilateral
action, and in favor of taking decisions at the United Nations."
-- Early in his term, Mr.
Fox struck up a friendship with Mr. Bush. But since the attacks
last year, the administration's attention has been glued on fighting
terrorism. The Mexican president has grown increasingly frustrated
with the lack of results on immigration and other issues. [See
feature] |
Washington
Times
Some
Hispanics (illegals, that is) fret about being caught
...Mrs. Garcia bristles at the term "illegal"
when references are made to Latino immigrants as if "Latino,
Latino, Latino is bad, but not everybody is like that because
we have good Latino people, like me, who are coming to this country
and are working hard and doing the jobs that the American people
don't want to do." -- Not only did they believe that Latinos
were being stopped more frequently by the police and detained
longer, their bigger concern was with their being turned over
to the INS when they have done nothing wrong. [These
people really must believe that breaking into the U.S. isn't
a crime.] |
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Denver Post
Incompetent
INS a deadly "welcome wagon"
John
Lee Malvo was held by the INS in Bellingham, Wash., late
last year without bail for violation of immigration laws, Rep. Tom Tancredo said
in a statement. -- "I wish that I could be surprised about
anything that happens within the INS," his statement said.
"For years, the INS has been encouraged to ignore immigration
enforcement in favor of acting as America's welcome wagon. We
are witnessing the result of this policy. How many more innocent
American lives have to be lost before these policies are changed?" |
Bloomberg
Meddlesome
Fox may get pushy in Cabo
...Fox, who plans to meet with George
Bush in two days, has failed in the past two years to win concessions
from the U.S. for granting more rights to Mexican
workers living north of the border. -- Fox's message to Bush
will be: "Lets get back to work," the Mexican president
said. -- "Lets get back to discussing migration and let's
get it solved," Fox said. "It's going to be to the
betterment of the United States and to the betterment of
Mexico." -- Fox has struggled to put his demands
for increased protection for undocumented
workers and other immigration initiatives back on the U.S.
agenda. |
TheNewsMexico.com
Grijalva
frets over invader safety
The Mexican and U.S. governments must
review the level of violence against undocumented
immigrants along the northern border and take immediate action,
a Democratic candidate for a legislative seat in Arizona said
this week. -- Raul Grijalva,
who is expected to win the U.S. state's seventh district in the
Nov. 5 elections, underscored the need for "immediate dialogue"
to reinforce bilateral cooperation on migrant safety, government
news agency Notimex reported. -- Grijalva, a Mexican- American,
said undocumented Mexican immigrants cross the border in search
of a better life... |
INStumble-
bums |
Washington
Post
John
Lee Malvo: Confusing Connections And a Mysterious Past
...John
Lee Malvo didn't exist on paper in his new home. He and his
mother had been smuggled from their home in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica,
to Haiti and then onto a tugboat into Miami, where they illegally
entered the United States, according to accounts they gave immigration
officials. -- On Dec. 19, 2001, Bellingham police summoned immigration
officials after police were called to a domestic disturbance
between James and Muhammad, a U.S. Border Patrol report shows.... |
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