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Thursday, November 7, 2002 |
Look What Works
Blackburn Fights Illegal Alien Licenses, Wins with 70.7%
Of Vote
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From
a radio commercial for Marsha Blackburn, Candidate for Congress
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses --- it doesn't say, "Send us your lawbreakers, criminals,
and terrorists."
Right now, today, people who are in our country
illegally are flocking to Tennessee. Why? Because if they pass
a simple driver's test, Tennessee will give them a valid license.
Our doors stand wide open to illegal aliens, and state senator
Marsha Blackburn is fighting to slam that door shut.
[...] And before 9/11, Marsha Blackburn began
working to prevent foreign criminals from getting a Tennessee
driver's license just like yours. Marsha Blackburn fights for
what's right. Won't you fight with her? Vote
Marsha Blackburn. [Download
the commercial - 1.2 mb MP3]
 Legislators
Commend Governor For Driver's License Restrictions |
Past Features American
Border Patrol Updates |
Sierra Vista Herald [Short-lived link]
More
on Mexican murder suspect
A Mexican national wanted on California
homicide charges is in the Cochise County Jail waiting extradition.
-- Alejandro Zarate, who has documents with two different birth
dates, was taken into custody Wednesday morning by agents from
the U.S. Border Patrol's Naco Station. Zarate is wanted on a
Merced County, Calif., warrant, according to a Tucson Sector
Border Patrol press release. -- Border Patrol agents recently
apprehended another Mexican national wanted on felony charges. |
Knight
Ridder
INS
blocks bond effort for Haitians
Dealing a blow to more than 200 Haitians
detained in South Florida, the INS thwarted attempts by an immigration
judge to grant bond yesterday to the migrants, charging that
they pose a threat to national security. -- Meanwhile, a federal
judge ordered six Haitians held without bond on charges that
they orchestrated last week's smuggling operation that ended
with more than 200 Haitians jumping from a boat into Biscayne
Bay and climbing onto a highway. migrants' return to Haiti. |
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Not Published
Ranch
Rescue responds to Tucson Citizen editorial
...Your editorial states, "If individuals
wish to patrol their own land, that is one thing. People have
the right and the responsibility to protect their property. But
armed paramilitary groups must not be patrolling the border -
a situation that could easily spin out of control." -- It
is nice of ya'll to so graciously recognize that we Citizens
have the right to protect our own property. It's downright neighborly
of you to allow us to defend ourselves and our families. Gee,
thanks so much. |
Drudge
Report |
Arkansas
Senator-Elect Housekeeper Signed 'False Affidavit'
The woman now tells an Arkansas newspaper
she was indeed an illegal worker when employed by Pryor for about
six months in 1999 and that she told his wife this at the time.
She also says she made $70 a day for a day of work a week or
more for six months, which could mean she earned enough to have
required small tax payments by the Pryors. |
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Bloomberg
Meddling
Mexican: Small Nations Should Tie Up U.S. in UN
Mexico's Foreign Minister Jorge
Castaneda, recalling the novel Gulliver's Travels, said smaller
countries on the United Nation's Security Council should tie
up the U.S. to bring it in line with their views on issues such
as Iraqi arms inspections... -- "I like very much the metaphor
of Gulliver, of ensnarling the giant,'' Castaneda said in an
interview with the newspaper. "Tying it up, with nails,
with thread, with 20,000 nets that bog it down: these nets being
norms, principles, resolutions, agreements, and bilateral, regional
and international covenants.'' |
L.A Times
via San Mateo Co. Times
California
'a sinkhole for money'
...While the rest of America tilted Republican,
the great contrarian state emphatically backed Democrats, rewarding
the party with possibly its first ticketwide sweep in over 100
years. -- There may be consequences to this quirkiness -- and
not just adding to the state's shopworn image as the far-out
land of tofu and hot tubs. -- The Bush White House, which has
never shown much affinity for California, has even less incentive
to pay attention now as strategists begin plotting the president's
re-election plan. "The problem is the
state is such a sinkhole for money," said one White
House political adviser. |
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UPI
New
border security system: 179 arrests
Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday
announced that a 2-month-old security system that uses fingerprinting
and data scans to monitor those who enter and exit the country
has resulted in 179 arrests, but denied the system relied on
racial profiling. -- "The challenge we face is identifying
those that would threaten the United States," Ashcroft said
at a news conference standing in front of the rapids leading
to Niagara Falls. |
Globe and Mail (Canada)
Ashcroft
defends U.S. border checks
John Ashcroft warned that "no country
is exempt" from stricter border security during a speech
in Niagara Falls, and said people from every country should expect
more scrutiny when entering the U.S.. -- But the AG confirmed
that the U.S. would no longer photograph and fingerprint travellers
based only on their country of birth. -- "Place of birth
is not an automatic referral into this system. Many Canadians
have been born outside of Canada, just like many Americans have
been born outside the United States." |
KING-TV
- Seattle (Free Registration)
Feds
bust drug ring
Federal authorities say they've busted
a ring of alleged drug dealers responsible for trafficking huge
shipments of cocaine and heroin, much of it destined for the
streets of Western Washington. -- Prosecutors allege the 11 people
arrested in the Puget Sound area, plus others across the country,
are top level dealers, part of a drug trafficking organization
with ties to Mexico. -- During the year-long investigation, DEA
agents reportedly intercepted drug shipments valued at $500,000
or more. |
Wilmington
Star-News
'Mundo
Latino' publisher an illegal, may get the boot
Wilmington's only Spanish newspaper rolled
off the presses Wednesday for the first time since its owner's
arrest on immigration violations two weeks ago. -- Marie Luz
Ruiz, Mundo Latino's editor, said the 2-year-old paper plans
to press on and even expand as founder Alejandro
Llinas faces possible deportation to his native Colombia. --
Days after organizing a festival to help Hispanics obtain work
visas, Mr. Llinas was jailed on Oct. 22 for not having a valid
visa himself. -- With millions of illegal aliens in the country,
immigration authorities typically pursue only those who run afoul
of the law... [that's idiotic - Illegal
immigration is a crime] |
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Briefly |
Stowaways
caught at Port of Palm Beach
Two men who had stowed away on a container ship
from the Turks and Caicos Islands were arrested Wednesday at
the Port of Palm Beach, said Art Bullock, agent in charge of
the local Border Patrol office. |
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L.A Times
(Free Registration)
New
Anaheim mayor chummy with reconquistas
The Anaheim mayoral election was still
months away, but Curt Pringle made the critical move of his campaign
in August. -- The Republican, who 14 years ago was dogged by
controversy when the local GOP stationed guards at polling places
in Latino neighborhoods to block suspected illegal immigrants
from voting, stood shoulder to shoulder with Latino activists
who once scorned him [like illegal alien fifth-column cheerleaders
Nativo Lopez
and Amin
David]. |
Bergen Record
GOP
control could have broad effect
With the Republican Party now in control
of the executive and legislative branches of government, the
GOP may have a much freer hand in setting national policy. Here
are areas that may be affected: -- Immigration: Those on both
sides of the immigration debate are taking a wait-and-see posture.
-- Bush has been one of the most pro-immigration presidents in
decades.... |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
Hospital
to recruit nurses in Mexico
Monterey County hospital officials are
heading south of the border to hunt for nurses. -- Representatives
of Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital will soon be in Guanajuato,
Mexico, to discuss nursing internships. -- "There is, believe
it or not, a surplus of nurses in Mexico," said Mike Hutchinson,
of Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, which has a 10% nursing
staff vacancy rate. |
Arizona
Republic
U.S.
program to aid hospitals in Mexico (as U.S. health care collapses)
Their call for help finally has been
answered. -- After years lamenting the lack of federal help to
cover the costs of caring for undocumented immigrants, Arizona
hospitals hope those unpaid bills will be greatly reduced by
a new, experimental U.S. government program. -- The government
won't reimburse the hospitals. Rather, the idea is to improve
services at Mexican-border hospitals so patients won't have to
be rushed to Arizona for treatment. -- The $350,000 grant from
the U.S. Agency for International Development will arrive in
the form of medical equipment at the Hospital General de Nogales. |
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TheNewsMexico.com
GOP
victory causes consternation in Mexico
Following the Republican's victory in
U.S. midterm elections, Mexico will relaunch its efforts to clinch
a migration accord, but analysts doubt either U.S. President
George W. Bush or a conservative U.S. Congress will accede. --
Officials from the Foreign Relations Secretariat on Tuesday said
Mexico would renew efforts to strike a deal with Washington to
regularize millions of Mexicans living illegally in the United
States and expand legal opportunities for the tens of thousands
who slip across the Mexico-U.S. border each year. |
Washington Times
7
charged in terror arms plot
Four men have been arrested in a suspected
$25 million drugs-for-weapons scheme involving Colombian rebels,
while three others were indicted in a separate plot to trade
drugs for anti-aircraft missiles for the al Qaeda terrorist network.
-- In custody are Carlos Ali Romero Varela and Uwe Jensen, both
of Houston, along with Elkin Arroyave-Ruiz, also known as Commandant
Napo, and Edgar Fernando Blanco-Puerta, known as Commandant Emilio... |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Mexican
invader wanted for murder
[An illegal] arrested by U.S. Border
Patrol agents in Naco Wednesday morning is wanted on charges
of murder in California. -- The man, from Michoacan, Mexico,
was in the Cochise County Jail awaiting extradition to Merced
Co., Calif., on the outstanding warrant. -- The warrant was discovered
after the man's identification was checked through the Border
Patrol's computers. -- The man had been detained with nine other
illegal border crossers north of Naco . |
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