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Saturday, October 26, 2002 |
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KBCI-TV
-- Boise
Boise
State Encourages Latino Students to Attend College
The Hispanic student dropout rate is
more than 25% [a
whole lot more, actually], according to the National Center
for Education. But some local educators want to change that.
A special program at Boise State is encouraging Latino students
to attend college. -- About 650 students attended the program.
They also got a chance to sit in on some college classes. But
it wasn't all school-related. The kids also got a free lunch,
and entertainment by a latino band. -- "I think it's great
that we can all get together like this and support our race and
support each other with education," says Tawny Candelaria. |
Associated
Press
Captain
charged with smuggling Chinese into Big Sur
Federal authorities now believe that
10 Chinese nationals picked up after they washed ashore in a
lifeboat hadn't tried to hijack a fishing boat floating off the
coast -- they probably paid around $50,000 each to be smuggled
here to work. -- The captain, Lai Fa Chen, and engineer Zong
Xian Lin, are being held on charges of attempting to bring illegal
immigrants to the United States. The 10 immigrants remain in
custody as the Immigration and Naturalization Service sorts out
their status. -- Local authorities found the captain and engineer
tied up on board the fishing boat nine miles off the coast of
Big Sur early Monday morning. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Rockford
Register Star
Mexican
invaders swamp bank seeking sham IDs
...Friday was the last day the consulate
was in Rockford processing applications for its Matricula
Consular, a picture ID that shows proof of identity, nationality
and current address. It gives Mexican nationals across the country
a uniform identification that can replace the four or sometimes
five forms of ID they must provide for everything from getting
a driver's license to opening a bank account. -- Starting Tuesday,
the consulate staff processed about 500 people a day. |
PittsburghLive.com
Beltway
Sniper Case: The INS fails again
Lee
Malvo is responsible for his own actions. And the government
will prosecute the teenager for his alleged role in the Washington,
D.C.-area sniper shooting spree. But it turns out that the very
same government aided and abetted the horrendous crimes he stands
accused of committing. -- Mr. Malvo was arrested last Thursday
in Maryland along with John Allen Muhammad, his unofficial guardian.
Police link a gun in the car in which they were found sleeping
to the deaths of 10 people. -- But had the government done its
job, Malvo wouldn't have had the opportunity to participate in
the killing spree. Perhaps it wouldn't have happened at all. |
Sham
ID Cards |
San Antonio
Express-News
San
Antonio to accept Mexican sham ID cards
City and county offices soon will be
accepting the Mexican
matricula consular as a valid form of identification, officials
announced Friday. -- The card, which is issued to Mexicans living
abroad and resembles a driver's license, will allow Mexican citizens
to pay utility bills, get library cards, and identify themselves
to police officers, without having to provide a Social Security
card or other form of U.S.-issued identification. -- The card
has three layers of security [what a joke... they can't
be verified by U.S. authorities] and is resistant to counterfeiting,
said Carlos Vidali, consul general of Mexico. |
Associated Press
Sniper
suspect may have sold passports
During his strange sojourn on this Caribbean
island, John Allen Muhammad was a friendly mechanic, an itinerant
salesman and reportedly a purveyor of Antiguan passports to people
looking to emigrate illegally to the United States. -- The prime
suspect in the U.S. sniper shootings that terrorized residents
in the Washington D.C. area also allegedly used a falsified birth
certificate to obtain an Antiguan passport. -- When Muhammad's
life started unraveling last year, he chose as a refuge this
former British colony where the chief of police is accused of
bribery and corruption... |
Denver
Post
Decision
to free Malvo defended
A Justice Department official Friday
defended the INS's decision to set John Lee Malvo free even though
the Jamaican teenager faced possible deportation. -- The official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, rejected criticism voiced
by Rep. Tom Tancredo,
R-Colo., who attacked the INS decision on Thursday. -- Tancredo
made his charge shortly after Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were
described by the leaders of a state and federal police task force
as the two individuals responsible for the deaths of 10 people
in a series of sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington,
D.C., area. |
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Omaha World-Herald [Message board]
Deportee
will collect his costly winnings
Jose Cruz Mena - an undocumented
worker who was deported last summer after he tried to collect
his jackpot at Harrah's Casino in Council Bluffs - finally will
get his green. -- He won't get the entire $3,000, as state and
federal tax withholdings ate up $1,050. -- And legally he still
can't return to his friends and former Omaha home. The money
was forwarded to Mexico. -- But while the ordeal might not have
resulted in the ideal payoff for Mena, it should have positive
consequences for other foreign casino-goers across the nation
(casinos will accept phony Mexi-sham
IDs now). |
Times-News
Hispanics
colonizing southern Idaho
Magic Valley communities are among Idaho's
most diverse. -- The number of Hispanics living in the region
nearly doubled between 1990 and 2000. -- In Minidoka County,
more than one quarter of the population is Hispanic, the 2000
Census shows. In Rupert, the county seat, one out of every three
people represents the growing minority population. The tiny town
of Minidoka is more than three-quarters Hispanic. More Hispanics
are moving to southern Idaho because there is work here, said
the Rev. Dago Martinez, a longtime Rupert businessman. |
The Gazette
Grassley
pitches reward for coyotes
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has asked federal
officials to set up a reward for anyone who provides assistance
in identifying the smugglers responsible for 11 illegal immigrants
whose bodies were found in a rail car in Iowa this month. --
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Grassley,
R-Iowa, said the establishment of a reward by the federal Justice
Department would provide an incentive for people to come forward
with information leading to the apprehension of those involved
in the alien smuggling operation. |
Tucson
Citizen
Mexico-bound
arsenal seized
A cache of weapons and ammunition hidden
in a secret compartment and headed for Mexico was seized Thursday
at the Douglas port of entry, U.S. Customs Service officials
said. -- The vehicle's driver, Antonio Nelson Nole-Moran, a Peruvian
man who lives in Salem, Wash., tried to drive the pickup into
Mexico, but was turned back because he lacked documents needed
to export the vehicle, Roger Maier, a Customs spokesman, said.
-- Nole-Moran was arrested and charged with attempting to illegally
transport firearms into Mexico. |
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Associated
Press
Idiotic
MALDEF suit: Forest Service must hire more Latinos
The percentage of Latinos working for
the U.S. Forest Service in California must match the percentage
of Latinos in the state's overall workforce, according to a settlement
of a discrimination suit. -- The settlement is the second
such agreement to try to achieve employment parity for Latinos
in the Forest Service, something the first agreement -- reached
12 years ago -- failed to do. -- The Mexican
American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Legal Aid
Society, Employment Law Center filed the discrimination suit
in October 2001. |
Associated
Press
Bush
shows up in Mexico, greeted by Fox
Facing a crisis in Asia, President Bush
launched urgent diplomatic talks Saturday to unite Japan, South
Korea and other allies behind a strategy to deal with a nuclear-armed
North Korea. --_ U.S.-Mexican relations, bolstered by the election
of an American president with long ties to his southern neighbor,
have cooled since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, shifted Bush's
focus to the war on terrorism. Mexico has accused Bush of ignoring
immigration reform and other issues vital to the U.S.-Mexican
relationship. -- "I hope we can get the attention of the
U.S. government to Mexico's affairs," Vicente
Fox said in an interview with The Associated Press. |
Letter to the Iowa State Daily
Immigration
causes domestic problems
This letter is in response to the editorial
board's column on illegal immigration in the Daily on Oct. 22.
You seemed to be in defense of illegal immigration, stating things
such as their goals are the same as our ancestors and the economies
in their home countries are crap. Well, while these statements
are true, they hardly come close to convincing me that I should
support illegal immigration. |
New
Mexico Channel
Illegal
Drivers' Licenses Bust
The state Motor Vehicle Division's Artesia
field office has been closed amid allegations that a former office
manager issued illegal drivers' licenses. -- The state Taxation
and Revenue Department's inspector general, Rick Maag, said the
ex-manager, Juanita Gomez, allegedly provided up to 20 illegal
licenses to Mexican nationals. -- Maag said the former manager
allegedly accepted about $200 for each transaction. |
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Times Dispatch
Mexico
rewards it's fifth-columnists in the U.S.
...Raul Murguia can quickly transport
himself to the time when his family moved to the United States
from Mexico, after his father was hired by an American furniture
maker. -- "It's like coming into another world," Murguia
said. "You can't speak the language. You might have been
a top student in Mexico, but not here. That happened to me. It
seemed like it happened overnight." -- Murguia received
from the consulate the Ohtli award, a medal given by the Mexican
government to people who help Mexican immigrants in the United
States. |
News Journal
Arrests
show off worthless INS
The arrest of two suspects charged with
murder in the Washington, D.C.- When Congress returns for a lame-duck
session later this month, lawmakers may focus on the shortcomings
of both systems. But action probably will have to wait until
next year or later.area's deadly sniper shootings again exposed
weaknesses in how the nation deals with illegal immigrants and
enforces restraining orders designed to keep guns from people
with records of violence. -- Advocates of tougher background
screening for gun purchases point to... |
The
Daily (UW -- Seattle)
Bill
will help foreign sponges
A bill for the approaching state legislative
session might help increase the number of minority students [like
foreign criminals] attending
the UW. -- Although the bill is in its drafting period, its language
is clear: students who are not U.S. citizens can establish residency
in Washington state as long as they have lived here for three
years and have graduated from high school here. In effect, undocumented
students could apply to the UW and be part of the in-state pool
instead of facing the tougher requirements for out-of-state applicants. |
Valley
Morning Star
Water
on Bush's Mexican agenda
Rio Grande Valley farmers have been told
the long-running U.S.-Mexico water treaty dispute will be the
number one issue when Presidents Bush and Fox meet in Baja California
today. -- They do not hold out much hope of a breakthrough, however,
and say calls for economic sanctions against Chihuahua will grow
louder if the issue is not resolved soon. -- A delegation of
Valley irrigation district managers and commodity growers hope
to learn more when they meet with Mexican officials in El Paso
on Monday under the auspices of the International Boundary and
Water Commission. [Also see: Action
likely on Mexico water debt] |
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