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Wall Street
Journal - Raymond A. Joseph
Aristide's
Refugee Politics
...The U.S. was put on notice some time back.
Last July, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti gave a lengthy
interview to the New York Times, in which he noted that the dire
economic situation in his country might force thousands of Haitians
to flood the beaches of southern Florida. "Governor Bush
wouldn't want that," he said, especially in an election
year. Mr. Aristide even said, "Jeb and I are in the same
boat," meaning that a Haitian exodus could jeopardize the
president's brother's prospects. -- A weekly publication close
to Mr. Aristide, Haiti-en-Marche, brought up the "invasion"
threat in its Oct. 16 issue. "A bankrupt Haiti," it
wrote, "would mean thousands of refugees heading for the
Bahamas and Florida." |
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O'Reilly
on sniper suspect Malvo (and the do-gooders who made sure he
wasn't in custody)
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly interviewed
a lawyer connected with the Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project on his
show this evening. This is the organization that got suspected
sniper and illegal alien John Malvo and his mother out of
INS custody in Washington State (they put up the $1,500 bail
for his mother, Uma James). NIRP contact info: 909 8th Ave #
1, Seattle, WA 98104 -- Phone: (206) 587-4009 (they removed this
contact info from their website recently). |
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Newsday
Program
for Salvadorans pushed (continuing mooch-parade)
Rene Leon says he often feels more like
a local mayor than an ambassador, spending as much time tending
to constituents as he does rubbing elbows with other diplomats.
-- As El Salvador's ambassador to the U.S., he watches over up
to 2 million Salvadorans living here - a stunning number considering
the population of El Salvador itself is just 6 million. -- Yesterday,
Leon brought his road show to Long
Island, which is home to as many as 150,000 Salvadorans - one
of the largest Salvadoran populations in the nation. |
Boston Globe
Hispanics
shun political process
Although the number of Hispanics living
in Waltham rose dramatically during the 1990s, their level of
participation in local and state politics remains pretty much
unchanged: They continue to shun the polls in large numbers.
-- The result, say people such as Manuel Cruz, a longtime Waltham
businessman, is a poor connection between Latinos and City Hall,
and a disenfranchised minority population. [Illegals can't vote
anyway.] |
Associated
Press
Asylum
case overturned
The Supreme Court said Monday that a
lower court was wrong to allow an immigrant who feared mistreatment
in his home country to stay in the United States. -- Justices
ruled against a young man from Guatemala who claims he fled to
America after being threatened by guerrillas. His asylum request
was denied by U.S. immigration officials, but an appeals court
overturned that decision by the executive branch of government. |
NBC6.net
/ South Florida
Sharpton,
others protest jailing of illegals
Protesters took to the streets Monday
in a show of support for the more than 200 Haitian migrants who
came ashore near the Rickenbacker Causeway last week. -- The
protests follow similar demonstrations last week, which brought
hundreds of people to the streets and to a campaign event for
Gov. Jeb Bush in Miami. -- Students at Southridge High School
in Cutler Ridge have joined the effort to free the detainees.
The students launched a massive e-mail campaign on Monday, sending
out e-mail petitions as part of their international relations
class. |
Cal
Thomas |
Crosswalk.com
Loyalty
is a Two-Way Street
The Bush family consistently demonstrates
a character trait that is rare in Washington: loyalty. President
Bush, like his father, is loyal to those who have been loyal
to him. -- Loyalty, though, is a two-way street. One of the definitions
of loyal is "faithful to a private person to whom fidelity
is due." In the case of [SEC] Chairman Harvey Pitt, the
fidelity that is due him by the administration has expired. ---
Pitt isn't the only problem in this administration. -- Though
Commissioner James
Ziglar announced in August he is leaving by the end of the
year, he should go now.... |
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Houston
Chronicle
21
stowaways captured on Houston Ship Channel
Seven stowaways who leaped from a Honduran
barge into the Houston Ship Channel and 14 more found on board
the barge are being detained by immigration officials. -- The
barge, El Jaguar, is being searched by agents from the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, who believe at least two more stowaways
may be hiding there or could have jumped into the water. -- Those
taken into custody on land may be placed back on the barge to
be returned or may be flown back later, Griffin said. |
Reuters
Canada
mired in new travel spat with U.S.
Just days after persuading Washington to dilute
rules requiring the fingerprinting of some Canadians traveling
to the United States, Ottawa said on Monday it would try to head
off U.S. plans to insist on visas for some British Commonwealth
citizens living in Canada. -- Some ministers in the Canadian
government are losing patience with what they see as blatant
racial profiling by U.S. authorities in the wake of the Sept.
11 suicide attacks. -- "This annoys me a lot," said
Immigration Minister Denis Coderre.... |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editorial
Ruling
on Latino jurors proper
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that underrepresenting
Latinos in a county jury pool is not unconstitutional. The ruling,
however, serves as a warning that this won't always be the case,
and Georgia counties should be more aggressive in recruiting
Latinos or face the legal consequences. -- Addressing a murder
defendant's challenge to Hall County's master jury list, from
which trial jurors are selected, the state's highest court noted
that the jury list reflects the citizens of Hall County, as it
should. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Ruling
will limit Latino jury pools
Gainesville attorney Daniel A. Summer,
who challenged Hall County's jury pool for failing to adequately
reflect the county's Latino population, is requesting that the
Georgia Supreme Court reconsider its ruling last week in the
case. -- The court held that while Latinos are a distinctive
group that must be represented in jury pools, representation
need reflect only the percentage of county Latinos who are U.S.
citizens 18 and older. -- Here are excerpts from Summer's petition
for reconsideration... |
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Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Studies
find terror efforts misguided - U.S. still vulnerable
The handling of the Washington sniper
case has illustrated what two new studies are arguing--that the
United States remains, more than a year after Sept. 11, dangerously
vulnerable to another terrorist attack and its aftermath. --
The three-week rampage did not reveal a breakdown in communications
among federal, state and local officials--the people who would
have to cope first with an attack--so much as show that no formal
communications network has been set up to meet such an emergency,
the studies indicated. |
Mark A.
Dwyer |
When
nobody votes, the Democrats win
Last week, Washington Post reminded its readers
that "[on] the weekend before the 2000 election, George
W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove, predicted that Bush would
win 50 to 51 percent of the vote and a big electoral majority.
Bush managed 48 percent and barely made it to the White House
[...]." As puzzling as it might look, it doesn't take an
Einstein to understand this discrepancy between voters' actual
preferences and the outcomes of elections. The key element in
understanding this phenomenon is FRAUD. |
Associated Press
Cuban
theft ring investigated
Authorities are investigating whether
seven Miami residents arrested on theft charges in California
are linked to Florida- based Cuban cargo theft rings suspected
in dozens of nationwide warehouse burglaries in the past year.
-- If so, it would be the first known time that a Cuban cargo
theft team has struck beyond the Midwest. -- "The furthest
we'd seen them go before is Texas and Illinois," Miami-Dade
Police Lt. Ed Petow told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in
Sunday's newspaper. |
Associated
Press
Sharpton
plans rant for illegals
The Reverend Al Sharpton plans to lead
a march on the Miami office of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service today. -- Sharpton is pushing immigration officials to
release more than 200 Haitian migrants who have been detained
since last week. -- Officials turned down the activist's attempt
to visit the Haitians yesterday, prompting Sharpton to claim
he was a victim of a double- standard. -- A Miami religious leader
was allowed to visit the migrants on Saturday. |
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WorldNetDaily.com
Screening
of Arab-Canadians continues
A new immigration-security policy to
screen Canadian citizens born in the Middle East remains "in
force," INS inspectors said today, despite claims to the
contrary by Canadian officials. -- Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister
Bill Graham last week announced that he had received "firm
assurances" from U.S. officials that Arab-Canadians "will
not be treated any differently" upon entering the U.S. than
other Canadian visitors. |
Joseph A.
D'Agostino |
Human Events
Sniper
Suspect is Illegal Alien
Law enforcement authorities had numerous
opportunities to apprehend sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad
and John Lee Boyd Malvo long before they were finally captured
on October 24, after having allegedly killed ten people and wounded
three in a Washington, D.C.-area shooting spree. -- Their encounters
with law enforcement included run-ins with immigration officials,
who ended up releasing the two, even though Malvo is an illegal
immigrant from Jamaica... |
Associated Press
Attorney
battling bias claim
A prominent immigration attorney who
moved to the U.S. from Hong Kong is fighting allegations that
she disparaged white employees of her Cleveland law firm as lazy
and slow. -- At least four former employees claim in legal filings
that Margaret Wong routinely disparaged the ethnic backgrounds
of employees and clients. Her former colleagues say people of
many races were targets of her remarks. -- Wong is now being
sued by 4 former employees. |
Washington
Times
Pryor:
Employee not an illegal
Arkansas Senate candidate Mark Pryor
last night admitted hiring an immigrant housekeeper, and Republicans
demanded he "tell the people of Arkansas" whether the
woman was an illegal alien. -- The Pryor campaign confirmed that
Ortenzia Osorio, who lives in a mobile home by railroad tracks
on the southwest side of Little Rock, had been employed by Mr.
Pryor, the state's attorney general, but denied that she was
in the United States illegally. [Related
item with poll] |
Newsmax.com
Bilingual
Education to Be Tested Tuesday
The long-running dispute over bilingual
education has flared again this year with votes scheduled Tuesday
in Massachusetts and Colorado on whether to outlaw it in favor
of a one-year English immersion program for students who speak
another language -- usually Spanish. And..... So the battle continues
in California, and occasionally it gets nasty. Santa Ana, Calif.,
has scheduled a recall vote Feb. 25 for school board member Nativo Lopez,
who has been promoting bilingual education despite Prop. 227.
-- Conservatives tend to favor banning bilingual education, but
the issue crosses party lines. |
Allan
Wall |
Frontpagemag.com
Mexican
Chauvinism
Scratch the surface, and The National Question
pervades every facet of American society. The entertainment world
is no exception. -- In July of 2002, country-western singer Chad
Brock was lambasted for what he said at a concert in Greeley,
Colorado: "Why should we adapt? You are coming over to our
country. We don't speak Russian. We don't speak Spanish. We speak
English here." ["Singer's
Remark Riles Hispanics," Denver Post, July 9, 2002] |
ChronWatch.com
Why
We Don't Have Border Control
Lynn Bartels, writing
in the Rocky Mountain News, explains why nothing ever gets
done on U.S. border control. Neither political party really want
it controlled, and for different reasons. -- U.S.
Rep. Tom Tancredo says the Democratic and Republican parties
are key obstacles to solving America's illegal immigration crisis.
-- ''Democrats want it for votes. Republicans want it for cheap
labor,'' Tancredo said. ''Therefore, it is desirable to have
people coming across illegally.'' |
Associated
Press
Many
Californians impoverished
More than 2.2 million low-income Californians
cannot always put food on the table, and one in three have experienced
hunger, a new survey has found. -- The survey also found
poverty and hunger hit the most vulnerable populations, including
pregnant women, the elderly, undocumented residents and single-parent
families. American Indians and natives of Alaska had the highest
rates of hunger, followed by blacks and Hispanics. [Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
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