Friday, November 1, 2002

New Book Proves U.S. Government Drug Deceit American youth sacrificed for Mexican government stability Get The Book National Public Radio 'Morning Edition' - 11/1/02 --- "If you get into the documents, our government knows what's going on, but it's too embarrassing to go into. What happens if you pull a 30 billion dollar plug on Mexico which is on the economic ropes anyway? What happens if you go investigate a government, destroy it, that you really need as an ally on your southern border? So what happens is that you let the drug world go on to keep a kind of temporary social peace. That's our foreign policy." -- Charles Bowden, Author, Down By The River   Listen  American Patrol Comment: The same thing is being done on illegal immigration. America is being sacrificed for the benefit of Mexico. Past Features  American Border Patrol Updates

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Associated Press Mexicans hand over alleged coyote A man who allegedly recruited truck drivers to transport illegal immigrants, two of whom died inside an unventilated tractor-trailer rig in July, was taken into custody early Friday by U.S. law officers. -- Ruben Patrick Valdes, a U.S. citizen living in Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande in Mexico, allegedly smuggled as many as 1,000 illegals in at least 13 loads over a 3 1/2-year period. He was surrendered as an "undesirable alien" by Mexican authorities to U.S. Border Patrol and INS agents.

CBC Hyhenated-Canadians to get the boot Two Muslim men who were arrested in Baltimore last month will be deported to Canada. -- A U.S. Customs and Immigration spokesman says an FBI investigation found the men have no links to terrorism. -- The men are Reza Zazai, a Canadian citizen originally from Afghanistan, and Khoshal Wahid Nasery, an Afghan national with landed immigrant status. -- Both men were arrested on immigration violations. -- Another Canadian citizen, Pakistani-born Unsir Hafeez, faces a hearing on Nov. 5.

Rocky Mountain News Mexican invasion station in Colorado plans to move Mexico's consul general plans to move from its Cherry Creek building at the beginning of the year because it needs more space. -- The consulate's office is exploring several options to lease a building, said Mario Hernandez, consul general spokesman (the same foreign meddler who complained about Tom Tancredo's intervention in the Jesus Apodaca lowball college tuition sponge case). -- "We're moving, but everything's going slow," Hernandez said.

Sun-Journal (Maine) Gubernatorial candidate takes campaign to immigrants When meeting with two local Somali leaders Thursday, gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter compared Lewiston to a forest. -- In order for a forest to survive, Carter told Abdiaziz Ali and Omar Ahmed, it needs a diversity of trees. A society, he continued, is no different. -- "Stop referring to yourselves as just Somalis," Carter told the two men. "You are Somali-Mainers." -- Carter's meeting with Ali and Ahmed was one of several campaign stops he and his staff made Thursday, while traveling through the Twin Cities in cars carrying gigantic blowup pumpkins on their roofs.

Alan Stang - Etherzone.com It's the immigration, stupid! A couple of weeks ago, Fox News reported that 2,000 Somalis have turned up in Lewiston, Maine, a town of 35,000 souls and that conflict has erupted over lifestyles and the fact that the Somalis are using half the town's welfare money. What are Somalis? How would 2,000 Somalis get to Lewiston, Maine? -- A few years back, still unindicted traitor Bill Clinton, still President, spoke at Portland State University, in Oregon and boasted that people of American culture were already in the minority in California.

Albert V. Burns - Etherzone.com The "infamous" 14th amendment... At a time when the Founding Fathers of this country, and the Constitution they established, are continually being denigrated and "mean mouthed" by educators, the mass media and others, it cannot be repeated TOO OFTEN that the Constitution is a limitation on the GOVERNMENT, and NOT on individuals. It does NOT, and was not intended to prescribe the conduct of private citizens, but only the CONDUCT of government and those to whom governmental power had been granted.

Washington Times 9/11 group opposes State Department's nominee The largest organization representing relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks has come out against the troubled nomination of Maura Harty to head the State Department's consular service. -- Officials of 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism mailed letters Tuesday to senators expressing "deep concern" about Ms. Harty's role in the issuance of visas to the terrorists who carried out the attacks last year. -- "The only way to make sure that our loved ones did not die in vain is to have only people of the highest caliber safeguarding our nation," said the letter, signed by committee executives Bill Doyle and Peter Gadiel, both of whom lost relatives in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.

Associated Press Unemployment Rate Climbs Amid Continued Job Cuts The nation's unemployment rate climbed to 5.7 percent in October as businesses slashed payrolls for a second straight month, raising new concerns about the durability of the nation's economic recovery. -- Other reports Friday also showed weakness in everything from consumer spending to manufacturing. "It could be a rather blue Christmas," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. -- Last month's jobless rate increased from 5.6 percent in September, and businesses cut 5,000 jobs after shedding a revised 13,000 the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

L.A. Daily News The U.S. needs more illegals? Unemployment claims in the San Fernando Valley hit their highest level this year since the depths of the 1990s recession, with the economic fallout of the 9/11 terrorist attacks accelerating the downward trend, according to a study being released today by CSUN in Northridge. -- The CSUN economists said the 6-city Valley economy already was weakened by last year's economic downturn, with the aerospace industry hit hard by the downturn in travel and airplane orders after 9/11, creating a spiral of job losses among retailers and other industries.

Associated Press Suit against Tyson dismissed Tyson Foods said that a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against its IBP Fresh Meats unit because the court lacked jurisdiction in the case. -- The world's largest processor and marketer of beef, chicken and pork said Judge Michael Mihm of U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois ruled last week that the suit was out of his jurisdiction because wages at IBP's Joslin, Ill., beef plant are governed by a collective bargaining agreement between the company and a labor union. -- The lawsuit alleged Tyson reduced wages by hiring undocumented workers.

The Oregonian Ecuadorean's conviction upheld The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the sexual assault conviction of a citizen of Ecuador, declining to address a broader question about how the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations applies to the state's criminal justice process. -- Victor Hugh Tumbaco-Chavez was convicted in 1999 of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl, partly based on a West Linn police officer's testimony that Tumbaco-Chavez admitted having physical contact with her. -- On appeal, Tumbaco-Chavez argued that the judge should have suppressed his statements because the officer failed to tell him that as a citizen of Ecuador he had a right to contact his consulate.

Aurora Sentinel (Poll on Lift Sidebar of Page) Tancredo says immigrant reform bill will not pass Rep. Tom Tancredo said this week he has no hope of passing his immigrant reform bill, but he will continue to fight for airtight borders even if he has to seem extreme doing so. -- Tancredo said a military exercise he observed in Idaho in August could serve as a model for beefing up security. The exercise involved deploying troops along a 100-mile section of the border with Canada, along with radar and patrol vehicles, and unmanned airplanes.

Michelle Malkin

John Hawkins - RightWingNews.com Twelve Questions With Michelle Malkin Asked "What steps would you recommend to reform the INS?", Malkin responded that "The War on Terror will not be won if the generals are not prepared or willing to fight it. The current head of the INS is a man who freely joked after September 11 that "People who say I don't have any experience in the area are absolutely right" and assured illegal aliens that it is "not practical or reasonable" to deport them. Such utterances can only have a negative effect on morale among experienced rank-and-file agents, inspectors, and investigators trying to enforce the law." (She also recommends The Stein Report, American Patrol, and VDare)

EFE D.C. expects Mexican support in U.N. The United States expects to have Mexico's support in the United Nations Security Council for a stern resolution against Iraq, Washington's top official for Latin America said this week. -- Otto Reich, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, told Mexico's Monitor radio the U.S. and Mexico seem to agree on the necessary steps to take against Iraq to resolve the matter peacefully. -- Mexico has a friend in U.S. President George W. Bush...

Daily Camera Sham ID acceptance challenged Anti-immigration activists on Thursday threatened legal action against cities that accept identification cards issued by Mexican consular offices. -- Following the lead of Denver, Colorado Springs and several other cities around the country, Boulder is considering accepting the "matricula consular" as valid identification for some purposes. -- Several police agencies in the state, including the Boulder Police Department, already view it as an acceptable form of identification, as do several banks.

George Putnam Lax Border Control = More Violence Against Americans ...As long as our borders remain porous, and as long as there are Muhammads and Malvos running loose in our country, the violence will continue. -- But where the government ­ the FBI, the INS and other agencies ­ are failing to protect us, civilians are taking up arms to protect our borders. Call them vigilantes, militia, soldiers of fortune, ranch rescue or, now, American Border Patrol ... armed citizens are patrolling our borders, sending a message to the government that where it will not do its job, we will. [The George Putnam Show can be heard weekdays at noon on L.A. radio and on the internet]

Rocky Mountain News Illegal alien cheerleaders, crackpot Webb spokesman heckle Tancredo Rep. Tom Tancredo, a staunch opponent of Denver Mayor Wellington Webb's immigration policies, bolted from a news conference Thursday as chanting, sign-waving counterprotesters surrounded him. -- "We can't have two immigration policies in this country," Tancredo said before rushing outside to meet television cameras. -- Webb's spokesman, Andrew Hudson (who can be reached at 720-865-9016 - E-mail Hudson), dismissed the criticism. -- "Tom Tancredo is the perfect Halloween goblin," Hudson said Thursday from his city hall office. "You don't know whether to scream in fright . . . or laugh in his face because he's so ridiculous."

New York Times via UPI Editorial pushes for Mexican amnesty again ...Both nations must reverse the poisonous trend. It is time to restart talks toward an expanded temporary-worker program and clarification of the status of the more than 3 million undocumented Mexicans in this country. Such a deal would advance not only the United States' economic interests but its national security. Tolerating a huge shadow economy, with its millions of undocumented foreigners, isn't prudent homeland security.

Denver Post Bilingual debate has racial element Foes of bilingual education claim affluent white parents of children in dual-language schools are the only ones out to defeat Amendment 31. -- But Hispanic parents from dual-language schools in Denver and Fort Collins say their contempt for the measure runs deep. -- "To think only white people want to take advantage of this is just ignorance," said Martha Sarmiento, a parent at Harris Dual Immersion School in Fort Collins. -- The parents say they hope to convert their fierce but quiet loyalty to their schools into a powerful voting bloc to defeat the amendment.

Michelle Malkin

Washington Times Just following 'standard procedure' Immigration and Naturalization Service officials told The Washington Times this week that the fatally flawed release of illegal alien sniper suspect Lee Malvo from federal custody in January 2002 "followed standard procedure." -- For once, these INS bureaucrats are telling you the truth. -- The INS - along with the immigration court system, which is a separate fiefdom administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church - routinely ignores laws, policies and front-line employees' best judgment on detaining and deporting immigration outlaws.

John Dougherty - WorldNetDaily.com Reclaiming the border Guarding our nation's borders against a sea of illegal immigrants, terrorists and contraband traffickers has never been an easy job. Yet it is being made worse by a combination of misguided politics and liberal advocates of limitless immigration in the media and academia. -- In Washington, politicians from both sides of the aisle champion the "rights of immigrants" in exchange for national security because one party sees votes while the other sees cheap labor... (Goes into Ranch Rescue's efforts)

The Tennessean Agents raid Iraqis' homes Agents with an anti-terrorism task force yesterday seized financial records, videotapes and other items from the residences of two Nashville men who used to live in Iraq. -- No one was arrested, and the FBI refused to say why materials were taken from the homes of Mahdi Al-Tamimi and Fadhil Abbas Al-Sahaf. -- Douglas Riggin, an FBI agent in charge of the task force, told The Associated Press that the raids were not connected to ''any terrorist act which might pose a threat to the city.''

EFE Mexicans want country to remain neutral on Iraq issue Most Mexicans want the government to remain neutral if the United States declares war on Iraq, according to poll results published in the daily Reforma on Thursday. -- Of those polled, 56% said the country should remain neutral, while 29% said they opposed a war with Iraq and 12% supported the U.S. position. -- Meanwhile, 79% said a war between the U.S. and Iraq was likely, while 16% thought it was unlikely. -- The survey was carried out Oct. 26 among 851 people nationwide and has a 3% margin of error.

The Arizona Republic States may get stuck with tab for invading criminals Arizona taxpayers may be stuck next year with paying the full tab of jailing thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes. -- Members of Congress left town last month to campaign for Tuesday's elections without reaching an agreement with the Bush administration on funding a Justice Department program that provided $546 million last year to states. -- All 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, including Guam, have shared in the federal dollars distributed through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program since 1995.

TheNewsMexico.com  Reconquistas plan border rant Human rights groups along the U.S.-Mexico border announced Thursday a special Day of the Dead celebration in memory of the thousands of undocumented workers who have perished crossing the region in recent years... -- The groups are setting up shrines - florid offerings to the dead stemming from a centuries-old Mexican tradition - in cities along the border. The shrines will include objects like water bottles and tennis shoes... [Claudia Smith, of the CRLAF, is involved in this rant.]

Denver Post Likely illegal shoots at cops An Armenian man who fired a shotgun at police this week may be in the country illegally, police said. -- Sargis Maghakyan was arrested Tuesday at the Littleton apartment he shared with his father. He is under investigation for attempted murder after firing four shots from a 12-gauge shotgun at police. -- The shot came within inches of one officer and sprayed him and the father with destroyed drywall. -- Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the argument and Maghakyan's immigration status.

Arizona Daily Star Border is cited as Tucson's crime rate soars The economy, proximity to the border and the population of male youths all play a hand in the overall increase in Tucson's crime rate, a Tucson assistant police chief says. -- Tucson's overall crime rate grew 10.8% in 2001, according to an annual report released this week by the FBI. The figure, when compared with the 2000 report, shows the overall crime rate grew about 12 times the national average. -- The increase was fueled mainly by a 22.3% increase in vehicle thefts, a 13.9 % increase in robberies, a 12.3% increase in larceny-theft and an 11.5% increase in property crimes.