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Saturday, November 9, 2002 |
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So. Florida
Sun-Sentinel
INS:
Most arriving by sea face quick repatriation
In an apparent effort to deflect criticism that
its treatment of Haitians is discriminatory, the Bush administration
announced Friday that all illegal immigrants who arrive by sea
will face expedited deportation and be detained while their cases
are pending. -- The announcement applies to all seafaring illegal
immigrants except Cubans, who continue to fall under the 1966
Cuban Adjustment Act passed by Congress. |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer Guest Column
Sanchez
thinks that taxpayers should subsidize tuition for illegals
Many U.S. consumers reap the benefits
of our state's world-class agricultural industry, but few bother
to understand the burdens of immigrant and migrant families who
make it so. Even fewer connect it with the travesty of denying
deserving scholars
access to higher education. -- Students who have received their
entire K-12 education in our state -- a constitutional right
for all residents -- but
who do not have legal papers are not permitted to pay in-state
tuition to attend college. |
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Deepikaglobal.com
(India)
Muhammad
Smuggled Malvo Into U.S. as His Son, Papers Say
Eighteen months before the national shooting
spree, accused serial sniper John Allen Muhammad smuggled his
teenage companion into the United States from this remote Caribbean
island with forged documents identifying the boy as his first-born
son, according to Antiguan government documents and official
accounts here Friday. -- Newly uncovered immigration documents
have convinced Antiguan authorities that Muhammad illegally brought
the Jamaican-born Lee
Boyd Malvo into the United States along with three of his
children in May 2001. |
National Post - Canada
Sneaking
across border circumvents U.S. accord
A new law designed to deter would-be
refugees from shopping for asylum across North America will actually
encourage the illegal smuggling of immigrants into Canada, a
Toronto expert charges. -- The law, based on an accord between
the United States and Canada, seeks to stop immigrants from arriving
in one country, applying for refugee status there, then travelling
to the other country to try again. The agreement would allow
authorities in either nation... |
Associated
Press
Mexico
Revels in U.N. Role on Iraq
Mexican officials reveled in their role
as players on the world stage after participating in a U.N. Security
Council vote to demand weapons inspections of Iraq. -- "I
believe that the benefits, the advantages of being members of
the U.N. Security Council are demonstrated here," President
Vicente Fox told reporters Friday in the north-central city of
Aguascalientes. -- Mexico allied itself with France's effort
to prevent the resolution from giving the United States explicit
permission to attack Iraq in the result of violations. |
Ananova
(UK)
Officers
smash people smuggling ring
Immigration officers believe they have
smashed a people smuggling ring at Heathrow airport following
eight arrests. -- The gang is suspected of helping asylum seekers
gain illegal entry to the United States from the UK by getting
them on to planes unhindered. -- Officers from the newly formed
Immigration Crime Team (ICT), part of the National Crime Squad,
swooped at the London airport after a year-long surveillance
operation. |
Thomas
Allen |
VDare.com
Senator
Lautenberg And His Stealth Amendment
Every year, with absolutely no publicity,
Congress votes to re-authorize the "Lautenberg Amendment."
This legislation grants extraordinary immigration privileges
to Jews, and also to Evangelicals and certain members of the
Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox Church, who live anywhere in
the former Soviet Union (the "FSU," as it's known in
State Departmentspeak). Any member of these protected groups,
because Congress arbitrarily declares them to be persecuted,
can claim the automatic right to enter the U.S. as a "refugee." |
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Laredo Morning
Times [Short-lived
link]
4 arrested
while wrapping marijuana load
A multi-agency taskforce effort led to
the bust of an alleged marijuana wrapping operation in an east
side subdivision Thursday. -- Jesus Perez Alvarado, Juan Perez
Hernandez, Felipe Arellano Lopez, all of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,
and Rosa Maria Jimenez, of Laredo, were arrested in connection
to a 638 pound marijuana seizure. -- The four individuals were
taken into custody at Webb County jail on federal charges. |
Express-News
Early
tests predict failure by thousands
Up to 64,400 third-graders are in danger
of being held back this year under Texas' new law prohibiting
social promotion - more than nine times the number retained in
recent years. -- The problem is especially acute for minority
students, who failed a field test of the new Texas Assessment
of Knowledge and Skills in much larger numbers than Anglo students,
said Leticia Saucedo, a staff attorney with the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. -- "Clearly
this is going to have a huge, disparate impact," she said. |
Durango
Herald
Man
charged with smuggling Mexicans
A Mexican citizen has been indicted on
one count of transporting illegal immigrants into the United
States after allegedly crashing a van with nine other Mexican
citizens on board. -- Sergio Perez-Amaro, who was born in Hidalgo,
Mexico, faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted of
smuggling Mexican residents to the United States, according to
the U.S. attorney's office in Durango. -- An agent asked Perez-Amaro
if he knew all the people he was transporting were illegal immigrants,
and he replied, "Yes, I knew..." |
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Modesto
Bee
Pelosi
on brink of becoming House Democratic leader
Claiming support from a majority of House
Democrats and with her chief rival dropping out, San Francisco
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
seemed certain Friday of election next week as House Democratic
leader. -- "The race is over," Pelosi told a San Francisco
news conference. -- The liberal Pelosi said she would unite the
"full spectrum" of the Democratic Party in building
a coalition to promote an alternative to Republican policies,
especially on the economy. |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Flier
Attacking MECha-Boy Villaraigosa Called 'Racist'
The same day Antonio
Villaraigosa announced he was running for Los Angeles City
Council, voters received a racially charged attack mailer seeking
to undermine his support in the Latino community by accusing
him of betraying Latino constituents at the urging of his "white
advisors." -- Although there was no name disclosing who
sent out the glossy flier, attorney Ricardo A. Torres II -- a
staunch supporter of Villaraigosa's opponent, Councilman Nick
Pacheco -- said in an interview late Friday that he spent $5,000
to send out 10,000 mailers to newly registered Latino voters
in the 14th City Council District. |
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Giuliani
to enter Mexico 'Twilight Zone of crime'
When Rudy Giuliani comes to Mexico City
this month, he'll find a law enforcement system with an Alice
in Wonderland quality where cops sometimes are not cops, and
it's often better to avoid them than ask for protection. ---
"Rudy is entering the Twilight Zone of crime," wrote
newspaper columnist Carlos Toledo. --- In Mexico City's system
of antiquated laws and spotty enforcement, it's all "by
the book" -- literally. Cops carry bound versions of traffic
laws because the small books are a good place to stash bribes. |
Bill
O'Reilly |
CNS News
The
Right Stuff
It is indeed party time for the Grand
Old Party as the right in America now has control of Congress
and the presidency. But after all the lemonades are drained,
there is one party pooper problem. Now, the Republicans actually
have to accomplish things. There are no excuses any longer. --
The federal government must immediately confront three issues
that are vital to Americans. No.
1 is stopping the relentless flow of illegal immigrants into
the United States. |
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