Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Watch Donahue on MSNBC Tonight Spencer: America 1 - Aliens 0 Glenn Spencer and Roger Barnett featured on the Donahue show (MSNBC - cable TV only) Tuesday night. The "Town Hall" type show was taped in New York Tuesday morning, and will air (or has aired) Tuesday evening at 8 PM and midnight Pacific (11 PM Tuesday, and again at 3 AM Wednesday morning Eastern time... the first show aired at 5 PST/8 EST Tuesday). Check your local listings for times and channels in your area. - Other guests on the show are commentator- publisher Pat Buchanan (via satellite from Washington), and members of murdered ranger Kris Eggle's family, as well as Robin Hoover of Tucson-based Humane Borders. Additional guests include open- border advocate Frank Sharry of the National Immigration Forum, and Rev. Al Sharpton. Please let MSNBC know what you thought of the show. Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

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?

POLL	Should Bush grant illegal aliens amnesty?

Newsmax.com Gephardt's Suck-up to Illegal Aliens Cost Democrats Reason 99 why the Dems did so poorly in last week's elections comes courtesy of a new analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Look out, Dick Gephardt. -- "In what had to be the worst campaign strategy since Walter Mondale proclaimed that he would raise people's taxes if he was elected president, [House Minority Leader] Gephardt, D-Mo., declared that, should he become speaker of the House, there would be a massive amnesty for many millions of illegal aliens," according to FAIR, reported United Press International today.

David Montoya

VDare.com Government Failure On The Immigration Front Line Like most Americans, I always blamed our country's immigration problems solely on the INS. After all, the INS is the agency charged with overseeing the nation's immigration security. However, within a few days of becoming employed as a German/Dutch interpreter at San Francisco International Airport, I discovered that the INS is, in fact, mired down with congressionally mandated regulations and quotas and masses of complicated and unnecessary paperwork.

Brown Daily Herald MALDEF reconquistas getting nervous Today's youth must question immigration policy in order to retake control of the public debate on the subject from right-wing activists, MALDEF VP of Legal Affairs Thomas Saenz told a crowd of about 75 students yesterday in Salomon 101. -- Reflecting on his experience fighting the implementation of California's now defunct Prop. 187, which attempted to prevent [illegals] from receiving state- provided services, Saenz encouraged those in the crowd to speak out against what he called the US' discriminatory immigration policy. [MEChA mentioned in this article]

Associated Press White House, Congressional Leaders Strike Deal on Homeland Security Bill The White House and congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to begin pushing a bill to create a Homeland Security Department through Congress this week, moving toward a major legislative victory for President Bush. --- The measure would combine nearly two dozen federal agencies into a new department. They would include the Coast Guard, Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and much of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The Kentucky Post Estonian illegals file suit against INS officer Three Estonian women who helped the U.S. government successfully prosecute a Hebron, KY couple for operating an illegal immigrant-labor ring here say officials have reneged on promises to allow them to remain and work in America. -- Mare Kutt, Elvi Parmo and Susi Ene, who were victims of the scheme, have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Covington against Jerry Phillips, officer in charge of the INS office in Louisville. -- Phillips said the correct forum for the dispute is an INS removal hearing before an immigration judge --- not federal court.

Daily Pilot - L.A Times (Free Registration)  City may have a less charitable future Costa Mesa, Calif. -- It won't happen overnight, but changes are inevitable for the Westside. -- City Councilman- elect Allan Mansoor made that pledge throughout his campaign and it's a promise he intends to keep. -- Some residents, however, won't be disappointed if goes back on his word. Supporters of the city- funded Job Center and some charities have already begun analyzing the possible consequences of having another councilman poised to butcher their organizations.

Newsday Green Card Scam Alleged New York -- For a Chinese emigrant who endures the ordeal of transplanting himself to New York City, $35,000 may seem like a reasonable price for a coveted green card. -- Intense demand for this document, which affords legal status to live and work in this country, may have converted as many as 100 new arrivals from China into easy pickings for two Flushing immigration service centers that bilked them of a total $3 million to $4 million, according to attorneys for the victims.

Houston Chronicle / News & Record Spanish-language networks become titans In New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the No. 1 network for nightly news among adults ages 18 to 34 is not ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox or CNN. -- It is the Spanish-language network Univision (a propaganda outlet that features reconquistas like this). -- In Houston, Univision has been ranked No. 1 throughout the day among adults ages 18 to 49 for almost a year, according to Nielsen ratings. In the Piedmont Triad market, it still trails the newscasts of the major network affiliates....

Associated Press Traffic Stops Target Illegal Aliens A new homeland security program is starting up in the state that's home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the country. -- Beginning Tuesday in Michigan, Border Patrol agents are setting up checkpoints, where they'll stop cars and ask people about their citizenship. They'll have leeway to ask a host of follow-up questions as well, in their search for terrorists and illegal immigrants. -- The ACLU is worried about the program. The head of the group in Michigan said it's going to be very hard for agents not to violate people's civil rights.... [Illegal immigration is a crime]

San Diego Union-Tribune  Latinos lose momentum at polls ...The absence of people such as Salvador Navarro (who is not a U.S. citizen) at the polls in California helps explain why Latinos still don't have the political power that their growing population of 11 million suggests they should. -- Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Velasquez Institute, said Gov. Davis' veto of a bill that would have authorized driver's licenses for certain undocumented immigrants may have weakened his support from Latinos. But others said the driver's bill veto wasn't a major factor, because Davis also signed a pro-labor bill that favored Latino farm workers.

Junto Society Fact Sheet -- Immigration With various proposals for some form of amnesty for illegal aliens being debated in DC, it is useful to have an idea of the magnitude of the problem. Of course no one knows exactly how many aliens are living and working illegally in the United States because of the illegal nature of their presence, which prevents enumeration. -- The 2000 Census, like all previous censuses, made no attempt to determine the immigration status of foreign-born residents. Nevertheless, the results of the Census did contribute to a re-evaluation of the proportion of the illegal alien population.

UPI News Briefs Immigration - si or no? A post-election analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a non-partisan group focusing on immigration problems, says the Nov. 5 election was bad news for proponents of increased immigration. "In what had to be the worst campaign strategy since Walter Mondale proclaimed that he would raise people's taxes if he was elected president, (House Minority Leader Dick) Gephardt, D-Mo., declared that, should he become speaker of the House, there would be a massive amnesty for many millions of illegal aliens," FAIR says.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)   Immigrants Facing Strict New Controls on Cash Sent Home Each year, immigrant workers send $30 billion to relatives back home, a ritual that has spawned a flourishing industry dedicated to transferring cash from the United States to just about anywhere in the world. -- But Sept. 11 cast that dollar lifeline in a new light - as a potential pipeline for terrorist financing - and the once informal business now faces significant changes. -- The government has now imposed strict new controls on the companies that handle nearly all immigrant payments, transforming a business that thrived on its lack of paperwork and catered to people who could not, or would not, do business with banks.

Sham ID Cards

Baltimore Sun Sham Mexican ID cards give sense of identity to scofflaws Eusebio Morales is, to all intents and purposes, an invisible man [actually, he's an illegal alien]. -- He works long hours in a Jessup restaurant [Illegals are prohibited from working in U.S.], has many relatives in his hometown of San Andres, Mexico, and lives with five other immigrants in an apartment in Columbia's Long Reach village. -- But he has no driver's license, no Social Security card and no other U.S. document to prove that he exists. -- Morales hopes his situation will improve soon, thanks to a small plastic photo-identification card called the "matricula consular" that he bought at the Mexican Embassy in Washington this summer.

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

TheNewsMexico.com Mexican farmers to block border A dozen independent Mexican farmers' organizations are threatening to block the country's ports and border crossings, demanding a suspension of tariff removal on agricultural goods under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). -- The farmers said NAFTA had damaged the Mexican countryside and claimed the next phase of tariff elimination among member countries (the United States, Mexico and Canada) could spell disaster.

Santa Rosa Press Democrat Another killing suspect jailed One of the last of 16 suspects in the slaying of a young Eritrean man in Santa Rosa last year has been arrested, and another prosecuted in Mexico has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. -- Meseret Kebede was stabbed to death in May 2001 on a corner by a mob of suspected gang members. -- In August 2001, Jaime Martinez Jimenez, 18, identified by police as the one who wielded the murder weapon, was arrested after a robbery in Morelia, Mexico.

EFE Scandalized Bishops plan to push for amnesty for Mexican illegals The situation of Mexican migrants in the US is set to be the main topic at a gathering of Roman Catholic bishops from both nations which began Monday in Mexico City. -- The meeting will examine a document drafted by Church representatives of both countries and by organizations that work with migrants. -- Mexico's Catholic primate told local media the church was concerned about the status of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and about respect for their rights.

EFE Meddlesome Mexicans back on the illegal alien amnesty bandwagon The interior secretary on Monday said the country's top "priority" in its relations with the United States is reaching an immigration agreement. -- "Our priority is to reach an immigration agreement to normalize the status of the 3.5 million illegal Mexican immigrants" living in the United States, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel said in an interview published Monday in the daily Cronica. --- Creel said he was confident that an agreement would be reached with the Republican legislature, despite the fact the talks had been pushed for by the Democrats.