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Monday, October 28, 2002

Barnetts Turn Over Record
Number of Illegals
Arizona Ranchers Say Traffic Exceeds Last Year

Roger Barnett
Douglas, AZ -- October 27 (American Patrol) -- The discovery of 26 suspected border intruders by Roger and Don Barnett brought the total above that of last year. "So far this year we have we have detected and reported 2,212 to the Border Patrol," Roger Barnett said.
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Don Barnett
"The Border Patrol says they're not as many coming through but we're way ahead of last year," Don Barnett said.
Red DotABP Hawkeyes Turn In Many Illegals Over Weekend
Red DotCivilians patrol border: Law enforcement, reconquistas upset
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O'Reilly Discusses INS Incompetence in Sniper Case
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AlterNet
Halloween costumes, American customs freak reconquistas, PC police out
Some costume manufacturers have decided to forgo the typical fright, blood and gore this Halloween, choosing instead to market culturally insensitive and racially offensive masks as their new hot ticket items. -- Take "Vato Loco," for example. Members of the Latino community are protesting the bandana clad, tattooed, brown-skinned caricature of a gang member. -- Distributed by Fright Catalog, the "Vato Loco" mask's tagline on the company's Web site touts, "This scary stud can empty out a full house just by walking through the door." -- But Latino activists say they don't see the humor.

Letters to
the Editor
 
HispanicVista.com
Subject: Tom Tancredo is not the first to persecute children...
Your depiction of Tom Tancredo as a persecutor of little children is so typical of the liberal left and your reconquista's. The fact of the matter is this - both the children and their parents are here illegally, soaking up money and services that many legal Americans can not get. Deport them all. It is not the duty of the American taxpayer to support everyone in the world who wants a better life. Send them back to your boy Vicente and let him take care of them.

Project
USA
Update
Angry voters and immigration in Iowa senate race
According to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, 54 percent of Americans are "angry about something." Frankly, we're surprised it's not 100 percent. -- Every American should be furious with the revelation that Lee Malvo, one of the accused beltway snipers, is an illegal alien from Jamaica who was released earlier this year by the INS instead of being deported as the law demands. It is the latest in a long list of examples of the INS releasing illegal aliens into our midst with lethal results.

News Note 
Detroit Free Press
Border to turn into a high-tech sentinel (the Canadian border)
In some other place, there would be nothing sinister about the man and woman ambling down this long country road on a misty Monday morning. -- But 80 feet above them, a powerful, heat-sensitive camera with a 5-mile range has picked up their movements. The lens of Camera 16 zooms in on the couple. From the command center of a bunker 12 miles away, the U.S. government is watching them.

A Message from Hal Netkin and Bruce Boyer
Candidates for office in the new [possibly] San Fernando Valley City

Associated Press
Congressman says grants would fight illegal immigration
Police in northeast Oklahoma are seeking federal grants to fight illegal immigration, officials said Monday. -- The grants will be used to buy video conferencing equipment for county jails and to reimburse counties for holding illegal immigrants, U.S. Rep. John Sullivan said. -- The video equipment will allow INS agents in Chicago to interview foreign-born suspects in county jails to determine their immigration status... -- That will mean INS agents, of which Oklahoma currently only has two, won't have to come to the jail for the interview, Estrada said.

Aurora Sentinel
Tancredo hammers worthless INS
Congressman Tom Tancredo says the INS has dropped the ball, again, in regard to a 17-year-old Jamaican national arrested in the East Coast sniper case. -- Tancredo, a Littleton who represents southern Aurora, has gained notoriety in the last year for lambasting the federal government and even President George W. Bush over immigration policies. He said sniper suspect John Lee Malvo, who is in the U.S. illegally, should have deported months ago after he was arrested for violation of immigration laws in Bellingham, Washington in January." [Visit Tancredo's website]
Omaha World-Herald 
Legal entry option not often used
While millions of Mexicans and Central Americans risk death and deportation trying to enter the United States illegally, visas to allow unskilled workers to enter the country legally go unused. -- In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, immigrants used only 3,904 of the 5,000 employment-based visas available for unskilled workers, preliminary State Department figures show. -- Only 358 of the unskilled immigrants entering the country legally came from Mexico. That's barely more than the 320 immigrants who died along the border trying to enter the country illegally in the same year.

News Note 
L.A. Daily News
More on L.A.'s imploding health care system
State Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Granada Hills, will ask Gov. Gray Davis today to call a special session of the Legislature to address L.A. County's health care crisis. -- "As you know from news accounts and policy meetings, L.A. County's health care network faces a severe crisis," Richman, a physician, wrote in a letter to Davis. "Left unresolved, the county's financial plight not only threatens the health of millions of low-income residents who depend upon it for care, (but) it also puts a heavy strain on Southern California's private health care system."

Sacramento Bee
Reconquistas work toward labor reforms, social services.
Fabian Nunez and Cindy Montanez are bound by two of the more lasting images of the Latino protest movement of the 1990s. -- In 1994, amid a sea of Mexican flags that angered many voters, Nunez led 70,000 marchers through downtown Los Angeles to condemn Proposition 187 and Gov. Pete Wilson for targeting illegal immigrants. -- Nunez was a leader of One Stop Immigration, the Los Angeles immigrant rights group that organized the march against Proposition 187. -- Montanez praises [Gil 'Illegal Alien Cheerleader'] Cedillo for "the consistency of his ideology."

Patrick
Mallon
Chronwatch.com
Vote for Simon, Save Your Job
...The Economic Time Bomb That Is Illegal Immigration: Earlier this month, the Times delivered a laborious six-part series titled ''Enrique's Journey,'' about a boy who risked life and limb to sneak across the U.S. border from deep in Mexico to be with his mother in the states. -- How touching. What is the likelihood that Enrique's mother files state taxes by April 15? By law, the state of California is obligated to educate Enrique, and you--the taxpayer, the guy or gal at risk of losing your job while paying the highest sales taxes in the country--pick up the tab.

L.A. Times (Free Registration)
Health care meltdown continues
President Clinton flew to the rescue seven years ago, landing on the tarmac of Santa Monica Airport to announce a $1-billion bailout for the county's teetering health-care system. It was a dramatic gesture, meant to spur great reforms and quell recurring fears of collapse. -- Now, skidding toward a $500-million to $750-million health-care deficit, county supervisors are scheduled to consider Tuesday whether to end inpatient services at two of four full-service hospitals. -- Unable to count on a third federal rescue...
TheNewsMexico.com 
Migrant deal next year?
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said here Saturday that next year could see progress on an immigration accord between Mexico and the United States. -- Powell and President George W. Bush were in this resort city to attend a summit of the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. -- "Foreign Secretary Jorge ['the whole enchilada'] Castañeda and I will be meeting in November with a binational commission and we will review the bidding at that time and see what we can do over the next year," he said.

William F.
Buckley
Townhall.com
Outgrowing the U.N.
Follow this one. Immediately after President Bush was inaugurated, he wooed Vicente Fox. President Fox was (is) the glamorous figure south of the border, something of a hero for having defeated the reigning party in Mexico, which had ruled happily and corruptly ever since winning the long revolutionary struggle to install democracy 70 years ago. -- Bush was motivated by sound regional instincts, seeking a close association with our southern neighbor, and it didn't hurt that he had got a near plurality of the Texan Hispanic vote in the election.

Washington Post
Another sorry GOP illegal alien cheerleader candidate in California
Republican Tim Escobar has an uphill climb in his battle to represent California's 39th Congressional District. The seat was drawn up by the state's Democratic legislature to be a Democratic seat, and the Democratic nominee, lawyer Linda Sanchez, is forecast to have an easy victory. -- But Escobar has taken a bold, new step in his campaign: He assigned President Bush a new immigration policy. In a Spanish-language television ad for Escobar, the announcer declares: "Tim Escobar supports the proposal from President Bush to grant legal status to 3.5 million immigrants." The screen flashes a message that reads: "Legalize Immigrants."

TheNewsMexico.com 
Invasion stations helping Mexicans
Mexican consulates this year have provided legal protection for more than 56,000 Mexicans living abroad, the Foreign Relations Secretariat announced. -- The SRE said it has won more than 65% of the cases it handled on behalf of its constituents this year, losing only 5% of its caseload. 30% of its caseload currently remains under deliberation, Agence France-Presse reported. -- The lion's share of the SRE's work took place in the US, where its 45 consulates have attended the needs of more than 54,000 Mexicans so far this year.
Times Union
Cops refuse to bust foreign felons
..."I'm tired of hearing this kind of stuff," said Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) after learning about the INS's refusal to arrest illegal aliens trying to get driver's licenses. "This is as egregious as it gets and we were given every assurance in the world that this kind of thing wasn't going to happen. ... I intend to not go away on this. I'm going to kick some doors down," he added. Sweeney's comments came after tensions between local police in Saratoga County and the INS hit the boiling point. Sheriff's deputies there refused to arrest...

Letter To The Editor
Washington Times (Published)
Another wake-up call unheeded
Hearing that the junior half of the team charged in the sniper attacks is an illegal alien incensed me enough. Then I heard that John Lee Malvo had been detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service last December and, instead of being deported, had been released on his own recognizance with a promise he would show up at a deportation hearing 11 months later, in November. I cannot begin to describe my level of indignation.

Tucson Citizen
Civilians patrol border: Law enforcement, reconquistas upset
In the sprawling ranch land just north of the Arizona-Sonora border, teams of men outfitted in camouflage and armed with rifles are camped out round-the-clock, waiting for an illegal immigrant or drug smuggler to cross the line. --- The American Border Patrol, spearheaded by California transplant Glenn Spencer, has set up headquarters in Sierra Vista to document the wave of humanity crossing the border illegally. -- [Spencer] has been engaged in a very public battle with [Isabel] Garcia, the immigrant advocate, in interviews and news conferences. -- Garcia calls him a "racist." -- Spencer calls her "an agent of Mexico."

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Day laborer pest ban on trial
An effort to overturn a ban on soliciting work on the streets has city leaders reconsidering plans to create a day-labor hiring center. -- Eventually, the City Council decided against a center because state law would compel the city to verify a worker's legal status, council members said, undermining a center's effectiveness. -- But the council did pass an anti-solicitation ordinance... -- Now, that ordinance faces a legal challenge, part of a larger effort by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund to overturn similar ordinances nationwide.

News Note 
American Patrol
Feds to accept Mexi-sham IDs
According to a Georgia attorney, officials at the federal bankruptcy court in Atlanta have notified parties to proceedings that the federal government will accept Mexican Consular Matricula cards as valid forms of identification for their purposes. According to the attorney, federal bankruptcy court trustee, C. David Butler, told an official meeting of bankruptcy claimants last week that only Mexican government- issued cards would be accepted. Reminded by the lawyer that such cards are prima facia evidence of a federal immigration law violation and acceptance would amount to discriminating against other foreign government- issued IDs, Butler was reported to have become confrontational.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Corrupt INS let to death of Americans
Prosecutors in Virginia said today that they had evidence that the teen charged with an adult in the sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington suburbs was the gunman in at least one of the shootings. -- The prosecutors are using the revelation to buttress their argument that Virginia is the best venue for the first trial of the two, who would both be eligible for the death penalty here. -- [The INS had the teen, John Lee Malvo, in custody in Washington State as a stowaway last year. The incompetents let him go.]
Washington Post
Mexicans unhappy with Bush
...These days, however, both their [ox & Bush] body language and their relationship are formal and stiff. When the two leaders spoke to reporters after a 50- minute bilateral session Friday, they were unsmiling, sat far apart and barely looked at each other. -- Mexicans privately described the meeting as a virtual dialogue of the deaf. Fox talked about immigration and trade. Bush talked about Iraq, and his desire -- still unfulfilled -- to secure Mexico's vote on the U.N. Security Council for a U.S.-sponsored resolution against Baghdad.


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