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Steve
Sailer |
VDare.com
Diversity
vs. Freedom (contd.): More Phelps In Our Future
...Hispanics' workforce participation
is quite high, but American-born Hispanics' high school graduation
rates are actually considerably worse than blacks' rates, which
slows their advancement considerably. Hispanics' IQ test scores
do tend to be above blacks', but well below whites'. -- Hispanics'
school achievement test scores lag far behind those of whites
and Asians. Here are California's statewide average scores on
the SAT-9 (which, confusingly, has nothing to do with the college
admission SAT), expressed in terms of percent of students scoring
at or above the national 50th percentile |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Day
laborers now have legal voice
...Attorneys Chris Taylor and Jamie Hernan
recently left the posh downtown Atlanta digs of high-powered
King & Spalding to represent clients who are often clueless
about U.S. law and often fearful of it. -- Their new clients
are mostly unpaid day laborers seeking proper compensation. Some
unscrupulous contractors, Taylor said, intentionally stiff the
day labor pool and threaten to turn these workers over to immigration
authorities if they press for their pay. -- Other clients are
Latin businesses. |
Gainesville
Times (Georgia)
Hall
school growth sparked by Latinos
The Gainesville and Hall Co. school systems
have grown by a combined 854 students since last year, and 87%
of that growth came from the Latino community. -- Gainesville
Schools grew to 4,438 students in 2002-03 from 4,199 in 2001-02,
and the Hall Co. School System grew to 21,730 students in 2002-03
from 21,115 in 2001-02, according to enrollment numbers filed
last week with the Georgia Department of Education. -- The city
system now has 2,076 Latino students, up from last year's 1,849. |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Costa
Mesa Council Race Becomes a West-Side Story
Costa Mesa's west side -- an industrial
neighborhood mixed with rental housing, shops, street vendors
and mom-and-pop businesses -- is the key talking point in the
City Council race as candidates debate how large a role the city
should play in shaping the area's future. -- Some candidates,
including Mayor
Linda Dixon, Planning Commission Chairwoman Katrina Foley
and Deputy Sheriff Allan R. Mansoor, have championed improvements
in the commercial and residential community west of Harbor Boulevard,
an
older section of town they believe is blighted.... |
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WJAR - Providence
/ New Beford
Citizens
Group Alleges Elections Fraud
A group called Citizens for Fair Elections has
filed complaints with the Board of Elections alleging fraud Saturday.
-- News Channel 10 reports the group says holes in the system
allow noncitizens and undocumented
immigrants to vote. -- The group wants police officers stationed
at polls to cut down on what it calls harassment and brands some
poll workers "incompetent." |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Few
Clues, Many Theories on Arizona Desert 'Executions'
...Eight migrants have been shot dead
since March in a desolate patch of rattlesnake holes and scraggly
paloverde trees where Interstate 10 rolls west out of Phoenix.
Their hands were pulled back and bound with handcuffs, duct tape
or the waistband of their own jockey shorts. They were shot at
close range, their bodies left to mummify in the sun. -- "I
call these executions," said Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio. "I
believe they were tied up, driven to that area and killed. It
was brazen; they didn't try to bury the bodies. They're trying
to send a message." |
Kathleen
Parker |
Orlando
Sentinel
Tough
choices in tough times
...U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Fla., insisted that
Bush call his brother and get President Bush to instruct the
Immigration and Naturalization Service to release the
Haitians. She demanded to know why Cubans can swim ashore
and stay in the United States while Haitians face deportation.
-- Indeed, Haitians and not others are detained under a new post-9-11
policy -- often too long and under allegedly harsh conditions
-- while the INS reviews their claims of persecution and pleas
for refugee status. |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
Uexpress.com
America's
real war is being fought on our own borders
Curious, isn't it, how the most important
long-term foreign policy themes for American citizens get lost
in media overkill on stories such as Iraq, North Korea and the
Middle East? -- We were reminded of that recurrent theme this
week when -- just before this year's elections, quite some accident!
-- 200
Haitian "asylum-seekers" suddenly appeared in a little
boat off downtown Miami, raced right onto a major expressway
and announced their determination to stay in the "promised
land." In many ways, this event was far more important in
terms of defining our nature as a nation than foreign wars or
threats of them. |
North County Times
Tensions
rising at Fallbrook High
For as long as many local residents seem
to remember, small groups of Latino and American Indian students
at Fallbrook Union High School have clashed on campus ---- but
no one seems to remember why. -- "It's a long feud that's
gone back even before I went here," said Marco Arias, a
social science instructor at Fallbrook High who graduated from
the school in 1987. "How it started, no one really knows."
-- The most recent flare-up.... |
Sierra
Vista Herald -- [Short-lived
link]
BP
nabs over a ton of pot
The harvest season for marijuana is in
full swing in Mexico, and the illegal substance "is coming
in big time to the United States," said U.S. Border Patrol
spokesman Albert Fresquez. -- Since Oct. 25, federal law enforcement
officers report seizing more than 3,000 pounds of marijuana in
Cochise County and just west of Fort Huachuca. -- On Friday morning,
U.S. Border Patrol agents came upon 26 bundles of marijuana near
the West Gate of the Army post, Fresquez said. |
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Shelby News
Superior
Court passes first bilingual test
An illegal immigrant from Mexico was
convicted on four counts of child molesting on Friday in Shelby
County's first bilingual trial. -- Leonardo Dominguez had been
living in Shelbyville for a short time when he fondled a boy
and forced him to submit to sexual deviate conduct in January.
-- When he was arrested Jan. 25, Dominguez was carrying false
identification and a false Social Security card bearing the number
of an Illinois woman. -- After a four-day trial, the jury convicted
Dominguez of three counts of Class A felony and one count of
Class C felony child molesting. |
Rocky Mountain
News
Bullard
& Eicher: Paper takes Apodaca's side
...The Post's new emphasis is illegal immigrants,
which the paper intends to study in an "occasional series
of stories." Officially, the Post launched the new series
on the front page on Oct. 20. Unofficially, the launch date was
Aug. 11 when the paper printed the first story about Jesus
Apodaca. You remember Apodaca, the 18-year-old Aurora honor
student who can't afford to go to the University of Colorado
at Denver because the law requires illegal immigrants to pay
out-of-state tuition. The Post made a poster boy out of Apodaca,
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo
got involved, and the debate still rages. |
Washington Post
Mexicans
fret border security
...Homero Hernandez, who runs a shelter
in Nogales, said he used to house perhaps 50 or 60 deportees
a month, and now he has twice as many. He said many of them describe
a "harsher atmosphere" in the U.S., where employers
and ordinary citizens are more eager to turn them in. -- Hernandez
said that atmosphere also seems to have increased the activity
of vigilant groups on the U.S. side of the border, many of whom
wear military fatigues and carry automatic weapons. -- Those
groups are suspected in at least two shooting deaths of illelgals
in Arizona in recent weeks. |
Newsday
Old
Neighbors at a Stalemate
...Bush
and Fox sought to play down the impasse with back-slapping
and stiff smiles. But Bush appeared irritable when reporters
grilled him on Fox's quest to legalize the 3.5 million undocumented
Mexicans in the U.S. and on the issue of scores of Mexicans
dying each year while trying to enter the country illegally.
Washington will "continue to work" on a migration accord,
Bush said, without offering details. -- A stone-faced Fox was
equally evasive when asked if Mexico would vote in the UN Security
Council for a U.S.-proposed resolution that would permit an attack
on Iraq... |
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EFE
NALEO
predicts many Latino election victories
An organization of Hispanic elected officials
predicts next week's midterm elections in the United States will
produce a bumper crop of victories for Latino candidates. --
In its "2002 Election Profile," released Thursday,
the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
(NALEO) predicts that Hispanics will win races in 30 states and
increase their representation in the U.S. Congress to 23. --
"Latinos are running competitive campaigns at every level
of office and throughout the nation," said NALEO Executive
Director Arturo Vargas... |
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