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Veteran's Day, November 11, 2002

Barnett Says U.S. Is Being
Invaded From Mexico
Rancher has turned over to BP more than 2,000 illegal trespassers this year
Barnett Ranch, AZ -- (11/8/02) -- Rancher Roger Barnett told a Tucson TV reporter that the flood of illegal immigration across the Mexican border into the United States is an invasion. "It's an invasion. Like someone said, its a slow moving invasion, one or two miles an hour, but it's an invasion." KGUN TV broadcast the interview during a special report Friday evening.
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Note: KGUN TV mistakenly identified Glenn Spencer as Glenn Stewart. The error was corrected later in the show. (Glenn has suggested that we have moved from the Russian Cold War to the Mexican Slow War.) Red DotAlso see: Barnetts turn over record number of illegals
Should We Close Our Borders?: Glenn Spencer and Roger Barnett to be on Donahue show (MSNBC - cable & satellite only). "Town Hall" type show will tape in New York on Tuesday, November 12, and air the same day at 5 and 8 PM Pacific. [Check your local listings] - If you have an opinion on the topic of this show, send an e-mail and they may use it on the air.

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November 11, 2002 -- According to reliable sources within the Border Patrol, the agency has put an abundance of agents along the southern boundary of the Barnett Ranch in Cochise County, Arizona, to stop the flow of illegals sneaking in through that property. They don't want the encounters between illegals and the ranchers to be reported on the American Border Patrol website. The flow of illegals was practically non-existent last weekend. If they can stop the flood there, why can't they do it everywhere else?

Juan
Mann
VDare.com
A Small Enforcement Victory For VDARE.COM!
Within three days of my article highlighting a dormant provision of immigration law for deporting illegal aliens, Attorney General John Ashcroft and his INS commissioner announced the revival Friday of that same section of law to prevent illegal alien invasion "by sea." Aliens smuggled "by sea" now will be put on an expedited removal track by the INS, instead of falling into the non-deportation limbo of Immigration Court bureaucracy in theExecutive Office for Immigration Review.

POLL
Should Bush grant illegal aliens amnesty?

Ventura County Star
MALDEF, others, and the local police
Police officers see a car full of young Hispanics -- some with shaved heads and pierced ears -- in a high crime urban neighborhood. They follow the car because the occupants seem to fit a profile -- young street gang members out cruising, looking for trouble. --- Eventually, the nervous driver fails to signal a left turn, the police click on the emergency lights, sometimes guns are drawn and more officers are called. The tension is kicked up a few notches. [Info on MALDEF]
La Opinion (Roughly translated by Google.com) 
More illegal alien whining over tuition
Lorena is only one of the thousands of students whom there are in the county of Los Angeles that, in spite of counting on a high academic average of 3.6, its future seems uncertain, since not being resident legal of the country, it does not describe to receive financial support of some university nor of other institutions. [These illegal aliens can most likely get higher education in their own homelands, yet they expect to be treated better than if they were U.S. citizens.]

POLL
Q: What topics would you like to hear more about on Bill O'Reilly's radio show?

Steve
Sailer
VDare.com
GOP Wins With Sailer Strategy!
Right after the GOP's tepid showing in the 2000 election, I wrote an article "GOP Future Depends on White Vote" that got VDARE.COM in general and me in particular banned from FreeRepublic.com, the self-proclaimed "Premier Conservative News Forum." -- JimBob and his enforcers apparently thought it was "racist" of me to point out the indisputable fact that whites cast 81% of the 2000 vote.

Charlotte Observer
Latino commissioner feels all eyes on him
Dan Ramirez's shoulders feel heavy. -- One day after his historic win as the first Latino elected to the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, he sat in the conference room of his Pineville company and marveled at the responsibility. -- How do you educate Hispanic newcomers about government and inspire others to run for office? -- "There is a misconception out there that Latinos are taxing the system. That's wrong," he said. "They're hardworking people and they're being taxed, only their taxes go into a bottomless pit," because many can't collect Social Security or tax refunds because they are undocumented aliens. [Immigrants cost taxpayers billions]

News Note 
Island Packet - Hilton Head, SC
Police foil possible drug plot
Police say they stopped another potential drug-trafficking scheme in an Interstate 95 traffic stop Nov. 4, seizing $120,779 and arresting an illegal immigrant from Colombia. -- Luis Henao, of Woodside, N.Y., told Ridgeland police he was paid $1,000 to drive a 1997 Ford Taurus station wagon from New York City to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Chief Richard Woods said. He was sent to Immigration and Naturalization Services in Charleston. -- Henao was detained at the Jasper County Detention Center overnight and INS took him into custody Nov. 5.

San Diego Union-Tribune 
Press association condemns action by Baja government
An international newspaper association has condemned the Baja California state government for retaliating against a Mexicali newspaper, La Crónica, that published articles critical of the administration of Gov. Eugenio Elorduy. -- La Crónica is a 15,000-circulation paper in the Periódicos Healy chain, which includes three papers in northwest Mexico including Frontera in Tijuana. -- La Crónica recently won an award from the Inter American Press Association for articles on smuggling rings and the exploitation of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States.

News Note 
Washington Post
El Salvador President Pushes U.S. Work Permits
Blanca Rodriguez, a teacher's aide, arrived at her home in the Maryland suburbs recently to find an unexpected voice on her answering machine. It was the president of El Salvador -- calling her and hundreds of thousands of other Salvadoran immigrants. -- The recorded message from President Francisco Flores was part of an unprecedented campaign by the Salvadoran government urging immigrants to meet a deadline tomorrow to extend U.S. work permits they received through an emergency program.

CNN
Haitians challenge immigration policy
...Despite a fast-growing population of Haitians in S. Florida and some significant political inroads, they are having a tough time changing an immigration policy that they see as biased against them. -- The policy silently implemented by the Bush administration last December requires that Haitians be jailed until their cases are decided. The administration reiterated that stance toward Haitians, saying Haitians and others who attempt to enter the U.S. illegally by sea will be detained and subject to an expedited process to send them home.
The Herald News
Law change hastens deportation
...Miguel Moniz discussed changes in the law making it easier to deport Azoreans and any other foreign nationals living in the United States or Canada. -- He said a 1996 law changing the country's policies on deportation of foreign nationals found guilty of a crime has made it virtually impossible for foreign-born American residents to fight deportation. "It's basically a one strike and you're out law," Moniz said. -- The law had three major points to it. It gave the INS the power to deport noncitizens found guilty of minor crimes like possession of marijuana.

Richard
Ruelas
The Arizona Republic
Tax dollars squandered on day-labor center for illegals
There was no ribbon cutting. The mayor didn't turn over a pile of dirt using a golden shovel. Construction on Phoenix's first day-labor center began quietly. -- After about two weeks, there are only a few signs of progress at the site near 25th Street and Bell Road, just some orange stakes and a portable restroom. There is no sign trumpeting what's coming. -- The only hint of what's being built is the men, mostly illegal immigrants from Mexico, hanging around the site, waiting for work. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime]

Sacramento Bee
Citizenship not always U.S. rule
The federal government considered Jeimy Gebin trustworthy enough to serve in the Army but not trustworthy enough to screen luggage at an airport. -- Gebin lost her job as a security screener at LAX in September when the security checkpoint jobs were federalized in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Gebin is not a U.S. citizen. -- "Any sensitive job that gets us into the area of national security ought to be limited to U.S. citizens," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for FAIR. -- Niels Frenzen, an immigration law professor at the University of Southern California, said some citizenship requirements may violate the constitutional guarantee to equal protection.

Sham

ID Cards
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Sham Mexican IDs popular at California 'fiesta'
...The biggest attraction was a Mexican consulate booth that offered matriculas, a form of identification issued by the Mexican government. -- Hundreds stood in line for hours to apply for the ID, which makes it easier for them to travel between the United States and their native country. It also allows them to open bank accounts and take out loans in the United States, saving them the cost of wiring money and the burden of carrying large wads of cash in their pockets.

The Arizona Republic
Unpaid bills on border
Border states carry a heavy burden because of failed immigration policies and Uncle Sam's inability to secure our southern border. -- Costs for incarceration and emergency hospital services for illegal immigrants are crushing. Yet Washington continues to shirk its responsibility. -- Plans to secure federal reimbursement to states are stalled or shrunken. President Bush, who wrote Congress about the need for financial help when he was the governor...
Miami Herald
Plane carrying Cubans lands
A group of 10 Cubans landed at Key West International Airport this morning on what authorities said was a small Russian-made cargo plane. -- The single engine Antonov, which was escorted to the Key West airport by two U.S. fighters, landed at 10:41 a.m. Key West Airport manager Peter Horton said the airport had advanced knowledge the plane was coming, "but not much, just a few minutes.''

Denver Post
Obnoxious Univision Mexican reconquista takes swipe at Tancredo
Maria Elena Fuentes almost fainted when she saw Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos enter the Northglenn Borders Books. --"You are powerful because you tell the truth," Soledad Cisneros told him. -- Ramos, in town to promote his autobiography "No Borders," smiled and shook his head. -- Later, Ramos took a swipe at U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., for his vocal stance on illegal immigration. -- "That man doesn't know what country he's living in. He's living in the past," Ramos said to roaring approval. -- Ramos said he may consider entering politics in the future. After all, an English translation for Jorge Ramos is George Bush. [This jerk isn't a U.S. citizen].

News Note 
Associated Press
Illegals may be rewarded with subsidized college tuition
Children of illegal immigrants could qualify for more affordable, in-state tuition rates at Utah's colleges and universities by as soon as January. -- Utah lawmakers passed legislation earlier this year aimed at removing barriers that hold back children of illegal immigrants from getting a college education. The law states undocumented immigrants who have attended Utah high schools for at least three years are eligible for in-state tuition, which is about two-thirds less than the nonresident rate they must pay now.

Lindsay
Aiello
The Batallion Online
INS needs to toughen up on immigration
When more than 200 Haitian refugees arrived off the coast of Miami on Oct. 29, they brought with them a renewed debate on the treatment of Haitian refugees. Moreover, the incident brought attention again to an incompetent Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) that desperately needs reform. This is just the latest in a list of recent events that show a lack of fairness and effectiveness that are crucial to America's security.

El Paso Times
Fewer receive green cards, citizenship
El Paso's INS approved 22% fewer citizenship requests and 50% fewer "green card" applications in fiscal year 2002 than in the previous year, statistics show. -- Immigrant advocates contend that the INS looks for reasons to deny applications, especially since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But INS officials say they reject many applicants who don't have the right docs, or in the case of green card applicants, fail to meet economic solvency guidelines.
Miami Herald
Scandal may hinder fight for illegals
Miami Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Wenski is poised to ask his fellow bishops this week in Washington to join with their Mexican counterparts in pleading with President Bush to legalize millions of undocumented workers. -- He just hopes he'll have an audience. -- The clergy sexual abuse scandal threatens once again to dominate the agenda of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which meets today through Thursday in Washington.

News Note 
TheNewsMexico.com
NGOs want Mexican meddling on behalf of 'migrants' in U.S.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in the United States on Sunday recommended the Mexican government take up a growing number of grievances filed by immigrant workers in New York whose rights, they say, have been violated, the Labor Secretariat reported.

Omaha World Herald
Who pays for care of injured illegal alien job thieves?
It's unclear who will bear responsibility for Raul Freyre-Marquez's injury or his treatment. -- Raul might move to a rehabilitation center in a few weeks, his doctor said. -- Subcontractor Moses Colin said he and Raul's cousin - who headed Raul's crew - are paying what they can toward mounting medical bills at Creighton University Medical Center. -- The hospital often writes off health-care costs for uninsured patients. In the last fiscal year, it wrote off $23 million in charity health-care services. -- How Raul's rehabilitation expenses would be covered hasn't been determined.


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