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Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
Guardian Limited (UK)
Canada
forces U.S. security flip-flop
Canada secured a small victory for neighbourly
treatment yesterday with a promise from US immigration authorities
that they would no longer require Canadian citizens born in some
Middle Eastern states to be fingerprinted and photographed on
arrival in the United States. -- But American officials said
that while the rules had been made more flexible, they reserved
the right to stop any visitor and fingerprint and photograph
them if necessary. |
Associated
Press
Jeb
Bush panders in Español
Calling on ''Reverendo Dios'' throughout
his speech, Gov. Jeb Bush promised a throng of supporters that
he would look out for their children. He bounced easily from
English to Spanish referring to God in one language and pitching
formulas for change in the other. -- This seamless shifting between
languages serves the Republican governor well in a state where
Hispanics make up nearly 17 percent of the population and are
the largest minority group. |
Fox News
Opponents
Slam Gephardt's Support of Illegals
Republicans are calling Dick Gephardt's
efforts to capture the immigrant vote blatant, last-minute grandstanding
that is misleading because he offers a proposal that can't be
achieved. -- Earlier this month, Gephardt earned applause at
a Washington rally, which included scores of illegal aliens,
when he implied that that the legalization of undocumented immigrants
can be accomplished by putting Democrats in control of Congress.
-- "If we want to get earned legalization passed, we need
a new agenda in your House of Representatives," Gephardt
exclaimed to the crowd. "Si se puede," he and those
gathered chanted... |
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Portsmouth
Herald
Shackles
on extremely dangerous INS alienate top cop
This country is facing a tremendous security
issue when it comes to illegal aliens. -- That's the message
Police Chief Edward Strong sent on Wednesday after his department
detained a Colombian citizen and a Bulgarian citizen on Tuesday.
Both were found to be in the country after their visas had expired,
but police were told by INS agents to release them, said Strong.
-- "They
just let them go," Strong said Wednesday. |
So. Florida Sun-Sentinel
Lack
of security, incompetence a shock
The irony could not have been more complete.
-- While shipping companies and security officials from across
the globe gathered outside Washington on Tuesday to discuss counterterrorism
strategies, and as the Customs Service prepared to unveil new
anti-terrorist rules for cargo ships, a boatload of immigrants
puttered into Biscayne Bay and landed in Miami. -- The Haitians
who stormed Virginia Key posed no apparent threat to homeland
security -- they were only looking for a better life. But their
surprisingly easy arrival... |
So.
Florida Sun-Sentinel
So.
Floridians: Limit migration
The images from Biscayne Bay were searing:
Haitian women clutching babies while leaping off a crowded boat,
desperate men plunging through surf in a dash to freedom denied.
-- "Too many people here already," said Lily Pagan
of Boca Raton, a 28-year-old Puerto Rico native. "Just don't
let everyone in here." -- For Jenniffer Waldman, 25, of
Sunrise, it's an economic mistake to allow hundreds of Haitians
to live in the United States. -- "They don't have any jobs,
any education. They go on welfare...." |
U.S. Department
of State
Attorney
General's Statement on Haitian Migrant Situation in Florida
The October 29 arrival by sea of illegal
Haitian migrants in Florida is "of great concern" to
the United States, says Attorney General John Ashcroft. -- In
a formal statement issued October 30, Ashcroft noted that the
Haitian migrants intercepted by Office of Immigration and Naturalization
(INS) agents "are being treated fairly, appropriately, and
humanely." However, he cautioned prospective migrants that
"illegal migration by sea is perilous" and urged "anyone
who is considering similar attempts to come to the United States
in this manner to reject this hazardous voyage." |
Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)
Migrants
hassle Jeb Bush over illegals
Haitian-Americans angrily protested and
berated Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday over the detention of more
than 200 Haitian migrants
who jumped from a grounded boat off Miami in a bid to reach the
U.S. -- 'Community leaders' charged double standards in immigration
policy, saying that while Haitians are routinely detained and
returned to Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, Cubans
who reach land are usually allowed to stay. -- 'Community
leaders' took their complaints straight to Bush... |
Associated
Press
Detained
illegals draw rally
Gov. Jeb Bush's Democratic rival and
hundreds of Haitian-Americans called on lawmakers to help the
more than 200 Haitian migrants who remained detained Thursday,
two days after the nation watched them jump from a crowded freighter
and struggle ashore. -- For a second night, crowds
of Haitian-Americans waived flags and held signs reading "Free
Haitians Now'' Wednesday outside the Miami headquarters of
the INS, demanding the group be treated like others who reach
U.S. soil. |
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Grand Island
Independent
Two
Mexicans charged with drug possession
A man and woman from Mexico were charged
Tuesday in Hall County Court with possessing more than 11 pounds
of amphetamine after they were stopped on the interstate for
speeding. -- Guadalupe S. Labrada and Jose E. Rivas were each
charged with possession of more than 16 ounces of amphetamine
with the intent to distribute and not having a drug tax stamp.
-- The Immigration and Naturalization Service also has holds
on Labrada and Rivas. |
Houston
Chronicle
Sanchez
backers blast new ad by Perry as 'racist' and 'sleazy
Democrat Tony Sanchez's supporters Wednesday
slammed Republican Gov. Rick Perry's television attack on Sanchez
as sleazy, shameful and racist. -- The commercial features two
former DEA agents linking Sanchez's Tesoro Savings and Loan of
Laredo to drug money laundering and the 1985 murder of DEA agent
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. -- Perry defended his advertisement,
saying it is meant to appeal to a law and order mindset, not
a racist mindset. -- "Perry's commercial, which stated that
Tony assisted drug dealers who tortured and killed the DEA agent,
is outrageous," said State Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Grand Island
Independent
Guatemala
jumps into sham ID free-for-all, feds say nothing
Officials with the Guatemalan Consulate
in Houston will be at the Salvation Army on Nov. 8. -- Officials
will help Guatemalan immigrants with passports and identification
cards among other documents, according to Rudolfo Molina, president
of the El Salvadoran Committee of Grand Island. -- Officials
will help Guatemalan immigrants with passports and identification
cards among other documents, according to Rudolfo Molina, president
of the El Salvadoran Committee of Grand Island. (Most cities
that accept Mexi-sham
IDs also accept unverifiable bogus Guatemalan cards) |
L.A Times (Free Registration)
Candidate
wants illegals booted
Bruce
Boyer, a candidate [for mayor of the possible L.A. valley
city] who sported a white cowboy hat (and a black eye from a
football game), said if elected he would urge police to crack
down on "illegal alien criminals," even those caught
tagging a wall with graffiti. "Instead of arresting the
same guy 10 times and letting him go, let's get him out of the
country," Boyer, an alarm company manager, said at a news
conference outside the Van Nuys courthouse. |
Newsmax.com
Haitians
charged with smuggling
Six Haitian men were charged Wednesday
in federal court with smuggling 214 people to Miami from Haiti
after a four-day voyage aboard a 50-foot wooden coastal freighter.
-- An affidavit signed by Nicholas W. Economou, a special agent
for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said 200 Haitians
were taken aboard the boat Thursday in Shu Shu Bay in Haiti and
about 20 more were taken aboard during a stop at La Tori, Haiti,
the next day. |
Michelle Malkin |
National
Review
Just
a Number -- The Malvo age issue
Just wondering: How old is Lee Malvo,
really? -- According to Immigration and Naturalization Service
records, illegal-alien sniper suspect Lee Malvo told Border Patrol
agents in Bellingham, Wash., that his birth date was February
18, 1985. That would have made him 16 years old at the time of
his immigration- related apprehension in December 2001 - and
five months shy of his 18th birthday when he left a fateful fingerprint
at the liquor-store murder scene in Montgomery, Alabama on September
21, 2002. |
San Diego
Union-Tribune
U.S.
puts down smaller welcome mat at border -- Visa loophole being
tightened up
Thousands of Mexican medical patients
and schoolchildren who cross the border each year without U.S.
visas won't have that option any longer because of a change in
immigration policy. -- For more than 20 years, the INS has allowed
foreigners to enter the U.S. without visas for humanitarian and
medical reasons. -- Last month, however, the INS headquarters
in Washington, D.C., ordered its inspectors to narrow their interpretation
of the law, as part of an effort to close immigration loopholes
in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
Providence Journal
Froma
Harrop: Immigration's impact
No one really thought much about Lewiston,
Maine, until a few weeks ago, when its mayor wrote a letter urging
Somali refugees to stop coming there. At that point, the national
media rushed in with cameras, chided the city as racist, then
left town. -- Let's hang around a few more days and discuss what
really is going on in Lewiston. This is important, because what's
going on in Lewiston is going on all over America. Washington
is making immigration policy, while poor and working-class towns
are picking up much of the bill. |
James
P. Pinkerton - Newsday
Goofs
show homeland insecurity
Two
hundred Haitians sail into Miami on Tuesday afternoon. They
swim ashore, clamber onto a highway, surround cars and bring
traffic to a standstill. Then, and only then, do authorities
seize them. Did our homeland securitizers know that the Haitian
boat contained no terrorists? No anthrax? No A-bomb? Or did they
figure that they'd let the boat come ashore and see who, or what,
spilled out? --- Note the endlessly evolving political correctness:
People who come ashore, uninvited, are no longer "illegal
aliens" .... |
Phyllis Schlafly |
Eagle Forum
America
Must Choose: Open Borders Or Civil Liberties
"They are coming after us, they want to
execute attacks. ... The threat environment today is as bad as
it was the summer before Sept. 11." In his appearance before
the congressional joint intelligence committees, CIA Director
George J. Tenet asserted that prior to 9/11 he was convinced
that Osama bin Laden was planning to kill Americans, "and
we reported these threats urgently." -- But to whom did
he report these alerts? Apparently, not to the agencies that
were admitting undesirable aliens by the planeload, boatload
and truckload..... |
Daily Journal
O'Reilly
blast INS incompetence
TV journalist Bill O'Reilly blasted federal
immigration officials for releasing juvenile sniper suspect John
Lee Malvo last year instead of deporting him back to Jamaica.
-- In a speech Wednesday, O'Reilly reiterated allegations he
aired on his FOX News program this week: that an INS agent altered
an arrest report, allowing Malvo to be released after the Border
Patrol had arrested him last year as an illegal alien. -- Malvo,
17, is the alleged accomplice of D.C. sniper suspect John Allen
Muhammad. |
TheNewsMexico.com
Mexicans
dismiss critical editorial
Officials dismissed an
inflammatory editorial in the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street
Journal, saying it was trying to create tensions between
Mexico and the U.S. -- In an editorial published Tuesday, the
conservative daily accused President Vicente Fox of opposing
a U.S.-sponsored resolution against Iraq in the UN Security Council
because of U.S. inaction on a bilateral migration accord. --
"Mr. Fox is wrong if he thinks ... sticking a thumb in America's
eye will make (a migration accord) more likely," the paper
wrote... |
TheNewsMexico.com
Illegal
alien torch en route from meddling Mexico?
A torch lit in the Basilica de Guadalupe
in Mexico City left for New York Tuesday in the hands of athlete
Ana Gabriela Guevara who, shortly before taking it, expressed
her solidarity with undocumented immigrants in the United States.
-- Under the slogan "Messengers for the dignity of a people
divided by a border," Guevara left Tepeyac Hill on a religious
pilgrimage expected to last about 45 days. -- The ceremony was
also attended by Joel Magallan, executive director of the New
York Tepeyac Association (a bunch of illegal immigration cheerleaders),
which organized the event. |
Joe
Guzzardi |
VDare.com
More
Sob Stuff From Big Media
In May, I was asked to address a local chapter
of the National Federation of Republican Women. My topic was
the implications of 10 million illegal aliens living in the U.S.
in a post-9/11 environment. -- When I segued into the portion
of my speech that analyzed how the media deals with illegal immigration,
the audience-- without any prompting - hooted and hissed at the
mere mention of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle
et al. |
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