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Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
Arizona
Republic - O.Ricardo Pimentel
Hispanophile
'columnist' goes after Prop. 187, Pete Wilson
You remember. He was the California governor
who pinned his presidential ambitions on bashing and demonizing
immigrants,
mostly those from Mexico. -- He never became president. Enough
said. -- Wilson's tour de force was Proposition 187, which Californians
passed in 1994. This would have denied undocumented
immigrants such services as education, non-emergency
health care and welfare. Fortunately, the courts overturned
the measure. -- Wilson and other backers of Proposition
187 were foolish on a number of fronts. -- Undocumented
immigrants were already barred from welfare benefits [but
their ever-so-numerous anchor babies weren't barred, and Davis
stuck the taxpayers with pre-natal care costs for illegals...
reconquista Pimentel leaves these details out, among other things.] |
Col. David
Hackworth |
WorldnetDaily.com
Protect
home base first
Russia and America both possess massive
armed forces and enough nuclear-tipped missiles to destroy planet
Earth 10 times over. Yet last week their capital cities were
both paralyzed by an absurdly small number of madmen. In Washington,
D.C., it was two wackos with a rifle. In Moscow, a platoon of
AK-47-toting kamikazes wired with bombs. -- Welcome to the new
face of war. And whatever you choose to call it insurgency,
terrorism or guerrilla warfare get used to it. Because
it's going to get far worse before it gets better. |
Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)
Immigrant
shakedown denied
Accused of shaking down Hispanic men
on the streets of the south suburbs while on duty as a Metra
police officer last year, Walter Bergstrom took the stand in
his own defense at his bench trial Monday and denied the allegations.
-- Cook County prosecutors allege Bergstrom targeted the men
in and around Blue Island on Saturdays, believing that was their
payday. He was taken into custody as he ended a shift in June
2001 with $600 in cash... |
San
Diego Union-Tribune
U.S.
bans cantaloupes from Mexico
The U.S. government yesterday banned
Mexican cantaloupes from the United States after a series of
food-poisoning cases linked to the imported fruit. -- The Food
and Drug Administration said the ban will be lifted once Mexico
proves that its cantaloupes are produced in sanitary conditions.
-- Mexico's government has proposed a certification program that
would allow the FDA to identify Mexican cantaloupe growers who
maintain good safety standards. |
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EFE
Proposition
187 Still Sways California Hispanic Vote
A controversial 1994 proposition that targeted
immigrants is still influencing the Hispanic vote in California
and could cost Republican gubernatorial challenger Bill Simon
the election. -- Shaun Bowler, professor of political science
at UC Riverside, said Simon made a strategic mistake by asking
former Gov. Pete Wilson, a proponent of the anti-immigrant Prop.
187 eight years ago, to join his campaign a few days prior to
the Nov. 5 elections. Proposition 187, an initiative that would
have denied health and education services to illegal immigrants...
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Sierra Vista
Herald [Short-lived
link]
Group
watches the border with some high-tech help
From his command center, Glenn Spencer
can watch a bank of televisions, listen to what is being said
on radio stations, use computers to obtain real-time scenes of
illegal border-crossings and put together Hawkeye reports by
people who provide information to him. -- The purpose is to have
a real-time system capable of informing the American public of
the illegal activities along the U.S.-Mexico border, he said.
-- The center allows him to immediately put out video and other
information provided by Hawkeyes -- as he calls his volunteers
who watch the border. [Photo
on front page] |
Miami Herald
More
than 200 illegal Haitian migrants run ashore in Miami
More than 200 Haitian migrants jumped
off a boat, swarmed ashore and rushed onto a major highway after
their 50-foot boat grounded along shallow waters near Virginia
Key, officials said. -- The Coast Guard had been following the
vessel carrying the illegal immigrants, said Vivian Pombo, spokeswoman
for Miami police. They came ashore near Hobie Beach on Rickenbacker
Causeway leading to Key Biscayne. -- The migrants were lowered
into the water and ran into the streets, causing Rickenbacker
to be shut down. [Update
with photos - 2 PM PST] |
W. James
Antle III |
Etherzone.com
Americanizing
newcomers again
If the U.S. immigration system is to
have any purpose, it would seem that it should be the creation
of new Americans. To that end, admission criteria would be revamped
to prefer those who wish to become Americans and the naturalization
process would emphasize assimilation - what we once called "Americanization."
-- Up to this point, such prominent center-right opinion leaders
and policy advocates as Ron Unz, Linda Chavez and Ben Wattenberg
would strongly agree.... |
CNN
Haitians jumping ship and
coming ashore near Key Biscayne, Florida
Live pictures shown on CNN at 1:15
PM PST showed a ship in shallow water just off the Florida coast
loaded with what are said to be hundreds of Haitians. They were
jumping off the ship and swimming or wading to shore. These images
were broadcast live from a news chopper in the area. More when
it becomes available. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Jury
pools opened for Hispanics
Georgia's soaring Hispanic population
has become a distinct class of residents and must be represented
on county jury pools, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.
-- But jury lists need only reflect the proportion of Hispanics
who are U.S. citizens and 18 or older, the justices said. --
While important immediately to jury commissioners in a number
of the state's 159 counties... |
Joe
Soucheray |
Pioneer
Press
Who
might be hurt if driver's license and visa expire together?
Roger Moe and Tim Penny, not necessarily
in concert, have managed to contort themselves into the following
position: They oppose Tim Pawlenty's endorsement of an existing
administrative rule of law that requires driver's licenses issued
to temporary visitors to this country contain that motorist's
visa expiration date. -- Why, Pawlenty is using the threat of
terrorism for political gain, huffed Moe and Penny.... |
Wall Street
Journal
Our
Friends at the U.N.
President Bush is understandably losing patience
with the U.N. on Iraq, noting yesterday that Saddam Hussein "is
a person who has made the United Nations look foolish."
We all know about the French and Russians, but lately Mexican
President Vicente Fox has also joined the soft-on-Saddam queue.
-- This council of conciliation is working to water down any
use-of-force resolution to the point that it would prop up Saddam
more than disarm him. Among other phrases, the countries object
to declaring that Saddam is in "material breach" of
earlier U.N. resolutions. |
Sun-Times
Chicago
settles immigrant fraud case
Like many other victims of immigration
fraud, Lorena Ovalle, who is Mexican, never thought that a fellow
Mexican would cheat her. She was wrong. -- In February of 2000,
just a couple of days before his arrest, Antonio Perez charged
Ovalle $724 to get her a work permit that never came. -- Now
Ovalle can't wait to receive her portion of a $220,000 settlement
that Perez has promised to 800 victims of his deceptive immigration
practices. |
Washington
Times
INS
decided not to deport Malvo
Sniper suspect John Lee Malvo, arrested
in December as an illegal alien, avoided deportation to his native
Jamaica when the INS overruled a Border Patrol recommendation
that the teenager be sent home. -- "Somebody dropped the
ball here," said one Border Patrol agent familiar with the
case. "We did our job. He should have been returned home.
Because he wasn't, some people paid a very high price." |
The Boston
Channel
Cops
say immigrats gang-raped disabled girls
Three men were ordered held on bail Monday
on charges they gang-raped a 17-year-old girl who is deaf and
suffers from cerebral palsy and her 14-year-old friend. -- NewsCenter
5's Jorge Quiroga reported that prosecutors alleged that the
three men and at least three others attacked the girls in Somerville's
Foss Park last Thursday. The mother of one of the victims said
that she believed the incident was gang retaliation. -- The three
suspects -- Jose Oritz, 20; Carlos Miguel Escobar, 18; and Jesus
Pleitiz, 18; all of El Salvador -- hid behind a court partition
as prosecutors detailed the charges. |
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San Francisco
Chronicle
Proposition
52 CON - 'Same-day voting' a recipe for fraud
Use your credit card at almost any retailer
and you'll likely be asked for valid ID as a fraud- prevention
measure. Imagine a cashier's reaction if, instead of a driver's
license, you handed over a pre-printed bank deposit slip and
a pre-approved credit card application you'd received in the
mail. -- While that may not be good enough for Target, backers
of the so-called "same-day voting" initiative on the
ballot think it's more than enough identification to walk up
to a polling place on election day, register and cast a ballot. |
Standard-Times
Why
did the INS let Malvo loose?
The mainstream media informed us this
week that Lee Malvo, the youth charged as a material witness
in the sniper investigation along with his stepfather John Mohammed,
is a "Jamaican national." -- Here are the facts: Lee
Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami
in June 2001. He was apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham,
Wash., in December 2001 but was then let go by the INS district
in Seattle in clear violation of federal law and contrary to
what the arresting Border Patrol officers intended, according
to my law enforcement sources. |
Naples
News
La
Raza gang defaces property
Vandals are on the loose in East Naples
- and they're using graffiti to strike businesses and other structures.
-- Gang members sprayed several stores in the Naples Manor and
Lely neighborhoods last week, officials with the Collier County
Sheriff's Office said Monday. -- Gas stations, a string of area
stores and Lely High School were among those hit on Wednesday,
when gang members used black spray paint to write "La Raza"
across several buildings. -- "La Raza" (the race) is
a known gang in Collier County. The same gang has struck in Collier
and Lee counties in the past. |
Peyton
Knight |
CNSNews.com
Immigration
Insanity
Following the killing spree alleged to
be the act of John Allen Muhammed and his younger associate,
John
Lee Malvo, Americans learned that the teenager was an illegal
alien, originally from Jamaica. Moreover, early indications suggest
that Muhammed was engaged in the smuggling of illegal aliens
into this nation. -- Largely unknown to most Americans is the
large percentage of the nation's incarcerated criminal population
representing the failure of those agencies responsible to protect
this nation against the dangers posed by illegal aliens. |
Arizona Daily Star
Pot-packed
van seized
U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a van
with U.S. government plates on the Tohono O'odham Nation Monday
morning and found 1,100 pounds of marijuana inside. -- Agents
were alerted to the suspicious vehicle from sensors planted in
the desert floor, agency spokesman Ryan Scudder said. The white
van that the agents stopped came out onto Federal Route 19, south
of Sells, at the right time and place to be the vehicle that
set the sensors off, Scudder said. -- The driver, Tohono O'odham
Nation, was arrested by the DEA. |
Salt
Lake Tribune
Fox
Can't Get Bush to surrender
Vicente Fox, who promised he would win
legalization for undocumented Mexicans in the United States,
went away from weekend talks with President Bush empty-handed.
-- "The legalization issue is dead," said Michael
Martinez, former chairman of the Utah Advisory Committee
to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. "The poor economy gives
the U.S. no incentive to solve the migration problem at this
time." -- Bush said the solution to illegal Mexican migration
is for Mexico to develop its economy. |
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Arizona
Republic
Red
Rock illegal alien shooting motive elusive
...In Tucson, human-rights advocates
[including reconquista
Isabel Garcia, an agent of Mexico] last week called for a
federal investigation into the fatal shooting of two immigrants
and a vigilante group's seizure of drugs near the U.S.-Mexico
border. -- Pinal County authorities speculated that the group
was caught in a turf battle between rival gangs of coyotes, but
human-rights advocates have speculated that vigilantes may be
responsible because the shooters reportedly were wearing camouflage.
-- Glenn Spencer, president of American Patrol, an anti-immigration
group based in Sierra Vista, said it is "outrageous"
to blame so-called vigilante groups for the killings. |
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La Opinion
(Roughly translated by Google.com)
New
L.A. top cop wants to protect foreign scofflaws
(Bratton): "I recognize totally
that the [Latinos are] very are disappointed by the performance
of the [L.A.] police; for that reason I am going to make sure
that this community, like the rest of the citizenship, receives
a right and respectful treatment on the part of our [officers]
", [Bratton] indicated. -- It was committed, also, to increase
the monitoring in the [areas occupied by "Hispanics"],
"that they are some of the most affected by the delinquency"
and to make respect the use of the Special
order 40, that prevents the police to collaborate with the
migratory authorities to [catch illegals and get the INS on them,
a practice sometimes known as enforcing existing law.]. Spanish
version. |
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