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Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
Bush Worse Than
Clinton
Only public opinion keeps Bush from opening borders entirely |
Associated
Press
Mexican
Cartels Blamed For Record Calif. Pot Seizures
Growing marijuana in California isn't
what it used to be. Mexican drug cartels, attracted by the state's
rich soil and remote forests, grew nearly 75 percent of the pot
seized in California this fall, state officials announced Tuesday.
-- That marks a dangerous shift toward large and sophisticated
growing operations, said Sonya Barna, commander of the Department
of Justice's Campaign Against Marijuana Production, known as
CAMP. -- "It used to be an industry controlled by hippies
with small gardens," Barna said. "Now, it's not uncommon
to see cartels planting anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 plants
in a garden." |
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Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Deported
Mexican convict returns, repeats crime
A Round Lake Beach man pleaded guilty
to criminal sexual abuse Tuesday, the second time he has faced
charges with the same juvenile girl, authorities said. -- Ramiro
Castro was sentenced in Waukegan to 4 years in prison. -- After
the first incident, in September 2001, Castro was sentenced to
40 months of probation, officials said. -- The Immigration and
Naturalization Service intervened and deported him to Mexico. |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Shameless
pandering in Georgia
Rep.
Saxby Chambliss surveyed a crowd of Latinos one night this
month and delivered a message in broken Spanish. -- "Soy
su candidato para el senado de los Estados Unidos. . . . Quiero
su voto," the Republican said during a forum sponsored by
the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Translation: "I
am your candidate for the United States Senate. . . . I want
your vote." -- With less than a week before elections, major
candidates in Georgia are wooing immigrant voters more aggressively
than ever before. |
WorldNetDaily.com
Gov't
ignores people on immigration
More than three-fourths of Americans
want U.S. immigration laws tightened to allow fewer immigrants
from Arab or Muslim nations into the country. -- Instead, Washington
pays to move Muslims to the United States. -- According to a
recent Worldviews 2002 survey, 76% of Americans say that "based
on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. immigration laws should
be tightened to restrict the number" of Arab or Muslim immigrants.
-- Also, 77% said they favored restricting immigration "in
order to combat terrorism." |
Paul
Craig
Roberts |
VDare.com
Abolishing
The West (contd.): The Gottfried Analysis
...To propose immigration restrictions
is evidence of xenophobia, which is in the process of being criminalized
in the European Union. As well, it is prohibited to question
details of the Holocaust and to deprecate Islam. -- Recently,
when Austrian politician Jorg Haider rallied Austrians to control
immigration, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
quickly set up in Vienna to report on Haider's "assault
on democracy." Austria was boycotted by the European Union
until Haider resigned. |
Fox News
After
Haitian Boat Incident, Critics Decry Ease of Getting Ashore
People from all sides of the political
spectrum are wondering how, under a heightened level of homeland
security, a boatload of 214 Haitian immigrants was able to meander
up to the coast of Florida, run aground and swim ashore. -- And,
they ask, what if these illegal aliens weren't Haitians, but
Al Qaeda, or other groups that want to do harm to the United
States? If just a few got away, wouldn't they be able to wreak
whatever havoc they have in mind from within this country? --
"I think the U.S. should be a little frightened at the ease
in which these Haitians ran aground and started running in the
streets of Miami," said National Review contributor Joel
Mowbray. [Also
see: Bush worse than Clinton] |
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Miami Herald
U.S.
security measures didn't prevent boat's close approach
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, federal,
state and local officials are supposed to be having more meaningful
coordination under Homeland Security, with better procedures
in place. -- Yet on Tuesday a wooden boat filled with more than
200 Haitian migrants sailed up to Virginia Key in broad daylight,
suggesting little has changed to secure U.S. shores. -- Coast
Guard spokesman Luis Diaz said there would be an investigation
into why the Haitians' boat was not stopped farther from South
Florida. [Also
see: Bush worse than Clinton] |
Times-Dispatch
Mexican
given time to leave U.S.
A Mexican man - seized mistakenly by
Henrico County police in the sniper investigation - will be released
from detention and given more than two months to leave the country
voluntarily. -- Meanwhile, another illegal immigrant, from Guatemala,
seized in the sniper probe has been ordered deported. -- An immigration
judge set bond at $3,000 yesterday for Mexican scofflaw Edgar
Rivera García who has been in a detention center since
police turned him over to federal immigration officials. -- The
judge set relatively lenient terms because García has
a wife and three children in Henrico, said Jessica Peterson,
a representative of Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia. |
United
Press International
INS
under fire for sniper suspect release
The Senate Judiciary Committee --- which
has jurisdiction over the INS --- is considering looking at the
failure of the Border Patrol to keep sniper suspect John
Lee Malvo in custody last winter after he was detained for
being in the country illegally. -- Although no decision on an
investigation has yet been made, committee staff said that an
investigation could be begin after the November elections. --
Both the INS and Border Patrol have refused comment on why Malvo
was released three days after his Dec. 19, 2001 detention. --
A senior Justice Department official said that the INS had put
a "wall of silence" around the detention and release. |
United
Press International
INS
under fire for sniper suspect release
The Senate Judiciary Committee --- which
has jurisdiction over the INS --- is considering looking at the
failure of the Border Patrol to keep sniper suspect John
Lee Malvo in custody last winter after he was detained for
being in the country illegally. -- Although no decision on an
investigation has yet been made, committee staff said that an
investigation could be begin after the November elections. --
Both the INS and Border Patrol have refused comment on why Malvo
was released three days after his Dec. 19, 2001 detention. --
A senior Justice Department official said that the INS had put
a "wall of silence" around the detention and release. |
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Washington
Post (Not Published)
Re:
Peril on Mexico Border
No doubt the Washington Post relied on
the New York Times when it reported that vigilante groups "are
suspected in at least two shooting deaths of illegal immigrants
in Arizona in recent weeks." When Times reporter Madigan
lead his October 22 story with "The police are investigating
whether armed vigilantes.fatally shot at least two illegal immigrants."
he knew he was misleading his readers... |
Associated
Press
Canada
Cautions Some on U.S. Travel
The Canadian government issued a travel
advisory this week with a twist: It suggests citizens born in
Iraq, Syria and other countries targeted by U.S. anti-terrorism
policies consider avoiding travel to the United States. -- The
advisory issued Monday focuses on a U.S. regulation adopted a
year after the Sept. 11 attacks that permits American authorities
to closely monitor travelers born in certain countries suspected
of terrorism links. -- Canada considers the system discriminatory
because it targets citizens based on where they were born, said
Reynald Doiron, a foreign affairs department spokesman. [Also
see this item] |
Al
Knight |
Denver Post
INS
owes explanation
...(Tom)
Tancredo has lately been a guest on several television programs
where he has lambasted the INS for its unexplained decision not
to deport John Lee Malvo when it had the opportunity to do so
late last year. Tancredo says that a 1997 law specifically empowered
the INS to immediately deport anyone who arrived in this country
as a stowaway. |
Associated Press
U.S.
Admits Fewer Refugees since 9/11
The number of refugees admitted to the
United States declined sharply in the 2002 fiscal year because
security concerns stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks bogged down
the screening process, State Department officials say. -- The
Bush administration has rejected calls from refugee advocates
and a bipartisan group of lawmakers to make up for the shortfall
in the federal refugee resettlement program, which officials
concede marks the biggest drop in two decades. |
News
& Record
INS
can't ignore bond requests
In a decision that could affect hundreds
of other jailed immigrants, a federal court in Georgia has ruled
that a Greensboro man jailed and facing deportation for misdemeanor
convictions must be allowed to request bond. -- The decision
directs the Immigration and Naturalization Service to allow Ekong
C. Ntuen of Greensboro, who has been jailed since March 7 in
Colquitt County, Georgia, to petition for his freedom under bond. |
Washington
Times
Tight
job market frustrates millions
...While unskilled and less-educated laborers
often took the brunt of layoffs in past recessions, this time
around joblessness is disproportionately hitting workers with
skills and education, from recent college graduates and airline
pilots to technology workers caught in the dot-com bust, and
executives dismissed from disgraced and bankrupt corporations.
-- The unemployment rate has stayed at historically low levels,
below 6 percent despite the recession, but labor analysts say
that's partly because many workers have grown discouraged and
dropped out. |
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L.A. Daily
News / N.Y. Times
Bush
signs election reform bill
President George W. Bush signed a bill
on Tuesday to clean up the nation's election procedures. The
measure sets minimum federal standards intended to prevent a
repetition of the ballot disputes that cast a cloud over his
election two years ago. -- Under the law, first-time voters who
register by mail will have to provide proof of identity when
they register or when they vote. -- Some civil rights groups,
like the National
Council of La Raza, have expressed concern that officials
might enforce the ID requirement in a discriminatory way. |
BYU News
Program
urges Latinos to vote
Su voto es su voz. Your vote is your
voice. -- That is the motto of Frank Cordova and his team of
volunteers, who work at tables outside of grocery stores and
go door- to- door to encourage their fellow Latinos to participate
in elections. -- "There is no reason for people not to vote,
to exercise their right and responsibility to vote," Cordova
said. -- Cordova said some the most important issues for Latinos
are education, housing and immigration. |
WPLG
News
Bush
discusses Haitian onslaught
Gov. Jeb Bush reiterated his position
at a campaign stop today on Haitian immigration in the wake of
Tuesday's arrival of more than 200 migrants on South Florida
shores. -- "My personal position is as someone comes into
this country illegally, they have to be processed at Krome. But
if they have a well-founded fear of persecution, they should
allowed out of Krome and allowed to pursue their remedies in
the administrative courts," Bush said. |
Washington
Post
With
Raised Hopes, Migrants Face Peril on Mexico Border
Nogales, Son., Mexico -- The U.S. Border
Patrol busted Urich Garcia Castro in a McDonald's just across
the border from here, less than a mile away. He was halfway through
a Big Mac, celebrating what he thought was a successful dash
to a better life. -- Within an hour, Garcia joined the daily
parade of illegal immigrants returned to Mexico by U.S. officials.
Every day nearly 3,000 Mexicans caught in Oregon apple orchards,
North Carolina motels, Missouri bus stations and on Arizona desert
trails are put in U.S. immigration vans and buses and driven
back to the border. |
Allan C.
Stover |
Toogood
Reports
Is
America going insane?
In a typical burst of political insanity,
political leaders in Tennessee, California, Colorado, and elsewhere
are seriously considering issuing driver´s licenses to
illegal aliens. Remember, these are illegal aliens who sneak
across our borders, while their compatriots back home who apply
legally wait for years-or forever. And... The Denver Post
featured illegal alien Jesus
Apodaca, who claimed he couldn't afford out-of-state tuition
at University of Colorado and wanted American and Colorado taxpayers
to subsidize him. |
Associated Press
Top
poverty rates in border counties
Counties along the Mexican border and
isolated areas across the South and Midwest were among the poorest
in the nation in the late 1990s, although a healthy economy helped
more people climb out of poverty nationwide, according to Census
Bureau estimates released Tuesday. -- Over half of the children
in two counties lived in poverty in 1999: Starr Co., TX, near
the Mexican border, and East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
[Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
Charlotte
Observer
Publisher
jailed for not having visa
Within days of holding a festival to
help Hispanic
aliens learn how to obtain work visas, a Spanish- language
newspaper publisher was jailed for not having a valid visa himself.
-- Alejandro Llinas, who helped start Mundo Latino two years
ago, was picked up last week following a joint investigation
by the Wilmington Police Department and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, said Supervisory Special Agent Thomas O'Connell of the
INS in Cary. |
Michelle Malkin |
NewsMax.com
Michelle
Malkin Exposes INS Bungling of Sniper Suspect
The journalist who helped Americans make
sense of the arrests of the Beltway sniper suspects last week
was not a hard news reporter but a syndicated columnist whose
first book is subtitled "How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores." --
Michelle Malkin was out front with the information that John
Lee Malvo, 17 -- arrested Thursday morning with John Muhammad,
41, on suspicion of engaging in a three-week shooting spree that
killed 10 people and wounded three -- is an illegal alien from
Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami and ended up in Washington state.
(American
Patrol broke this story at 9:04 AM 10/24) |
Worldnet
Daily
School
district sued over "El Dia de los Muertos"
A public-interest law firm has filed
a lawsuit to stop the classroom activities of fourth-graders
at a Petaluma, Calif., public elementary school planned in observance
of "El Dia de los Muertos" or "Day of the Dead."
-- As WorldNetDaily reported Monday, although administrators
and teachers at McNear Elementary School modified the planned
lessons, they chose to ignore a "cease and desist"
letter sent by the United States Justice Foundation, or USJF.
-- USJF argues in the lawsuit that McNear Elementary and the
Petaluma City School District are violating the Establishment
Clause of the First Amendment by promoting religion. |
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Denver Post
Hispanic
meeting looks for progress
Hispanics have made progress in getting
good jobs and better education in America, but they still largely
occupy the last rung on the economic ladder. -- Hispanic higher-education
leaders and advocates pounded home that point during the Conference
of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. --
More than 1,000 talked about nagging issues, like the lack of
Hispanics in top and midlevel jobs in government and business,
and the high dropout rate among students. [Also
see: Importing
Poverty] [Hispanic
student dropout rate a national crisis] |
Associated Press
'Homeland
security' a complete joke
More than 200 illegal Haitian immigrants
jumped overboard, waded ashore and rushed onto a major highway
Tuesday after their 50-foot wooden freighter ran aground off
Miami. -- There were no known fatalities and no injuries other
than dehydration, Detective Delrish Moss said. Miami police counted
206 immigrants, the youngest about 18 months old. -- The migrants
departed from Port-au-Prince and picked up three Cubans on a
raft along the way... |
Washington
Post
Cultures
Clash Following Fight
Florentin Bustillo had been drinking
beer in the parking lot of a laundromat and had built up a well
of anger when he stepped off the corner of 11th and Lamont streets
NW, police said. He had a 10-inch knife in his waistband. --
"I feel like killing me some black people," the 48-year-old
Bustillo yelled, speaking first in Spanish and then in English,
according to a police account. Then, police said, Bustillo began
following a black man walking along the block.... |
Brownsville
Herald
Mexicans
continue to stiff Texas farmers, uprising called for
The clamor for economic sanctions against
Mexico in retaliation for its mounting water debt to Texas grew
louder Tuesday after the latest U.S.-Mexico negotiations ended
without agreement. -- Furious Rio Grande Valley farmers and irrigation
district managers returned from the water talks in El Paso convinced
they will not get any help from Mexico over the next year. --
"The negotiations were a disaster," said Gordon Hill.
-- "We were led to believe we would get something out of
the talks but Mexico simply refused to give us any new numbers
or any details of a repayment plan. I think we've reached the
end of the line. It's time for an uprising in the Valley." |
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