Friday, November 15, 2002

Tombstone Paper Calls For Militia    Cochise County's "official newspaper" has issued a call to arms and is spearheading the formation of a local militia to combat illegal immigration.    Tucson human rights activist Isabel Garcia said the Tombstone Tumbleweed's rhetoric is the latest manifestation of a militant vigilantism that has long existed in Cochise County with the acceptance and encouragement of local officials.    She said Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever's public friendship with groups like Glenn Spencer's American Patrol, .... and the clear unwillingness on the part of Cochise County Attorney Chris Roll to investigate and prosecute the two brothers have given them credibility and encouraged groups like Texas-based Ranch Rescue and the new Tombstone Militia. Also See... Catholic Church Supports Mexican Conquest of U.S. Bishops turn from raping little boys to raping big nations  Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

San Antonio Express-News  Official calls for Mexico pressure The U.S. should take aggressive action to force Mexico to pay off its mounting debt under a 1944 water treaty, including withholding money for economic development and keeping water on the U.S. side of the border, Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs said Thursday. -- "We have not even made Mexico feel a pin prick of pain," she said. "We have power to do some things." -- Combs, who last week was elected to a 4-year term, testified before the state Senate Subcommittee on Border Affairs.[The Mexicans have plenty of water. They're most likely lying, as usual.]

San Diego Union-Tribune on Sinkole de Mayo Analyst doubles budget gap prediction A $21.1 billion gap has reopened in the state budget, Legislative Analyst Liz Hill said yesterday, forcing lawmakers to consider cuts in health, welfare and education programs as well as increases in taxes. -- The gloomy forecast alarmed school officials, who after years of increased funding are worrying that they might face cutbacks. -- Gov. Gray Davis plans a budget meeting with legislative leaders next week in a change of policy for a governor who let legislators work out the main budget solution this year. [Not a peep about all the impoverished illegal alien moochers.]

Moscow Times Refugees In South May Fly to U.S. The United States is considering extending refugee status to some of the thousands of Meskhetian Turks living in the southern Krasnodar region, a hot spot of ethnic tension known for the openly xenophobic policies of the local authorities. -- A delegation of U.S. officials, including representatives of the State Department and INS, traveled to the region Monday for a one-day fact-finding mission and met with Meskhetian Turk community leaders and rights advocates, meeting participants said. -- U.S. diplomats have been careful to stress that Washington is merely studying the situation and has not made any commitments or offers.

WTVC News - Chattanooga The Financial Impact of Immigration Thousands of immigrants flood into North Georgia every year. Some of them are legal, but many of them aren't. -- Many illegals do manage to find jobs...and that irks some Georgia residents. They say illegal aliens are hitting Americans right where it hurts...their wallets. --- "I don't think that people who start out their life here in this country who start out by coming here illegally and breaking the law are the kind of people we want to continue to live here," Jill Seymour says. -- The U.S. government estimates that 4 million illegal Mexicans live in America now... and they say thousands more are crossing the border every day [and the people are getting fed up with it].

North County Times Border enforcement works, illegal alien cheerleaders upset The federal border-enforcement strategy known as Operation Gatekeeper has been a "brutal success," and should be stopped, local activists told members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights visiting San Diego on Thursday. -- The ACLU of San Diego hosted a panel discussion Thursday on civil rights problems at the U.S.-Mexico border. -- Claudia Smith, an Oceanside attorney with the California Rural Legal Assistance, claims the Gatekeeper strategy is "funneling people to their deaths." [That would end if they'd stop breaking our laws, though.... Smith fails to mention that simple fact.]

News & Record Fugitive terror suspect arrested outside Greensboro A fugitive accused by the government of leading a terrorist sleeper cell here has been arrested in North Carolina and will be extradited to Michigan to face charges, authorities said. -- The man, initially identified in an indictment as Abdellah, was accused in an August indictment of acting with "a covert underground support unit" and an "operational combat cell" for a radical Islamic movement allied with al-Qaida. -- Court papers in North Carolina identify the man as Abel-Ilah Elmardoudi...

Denver Post Editorial Poverty cycle can harm us all The National Center for Children in Poverty has released a study that confirms what many have feared all along: The growing number of children of immigrants in the United States will likely face substantial economic hardship. -- The foreign-born population of the U.S. has increased by more than 57% since 1990 to 31 million people, according to 2000 Census data. One in every five children under 18 has at least one foreign- born parent and one in four impoverished children has at least one foreign-born parent. [Also see: Importing Poverty]

L.A Times (Free Registration)   Officers cleared in death of gangster sought by INS Prosecutors announced Thursday that they have cleared five officers of criminal wrongdoing in connection with the arrest of a wanted gang member who fought with the officers and later died of heart problems. -- Fermin Rincon died June 27 after running from police, jumping off a 10-foot roof and fighting with officers. He was the third man to die after fighting with Fontana police in a five-month period, and his death prompted the department to hire an outside consultant to make sure its use-of-force policies were appropriate.

Paul Craig Roberts

VDare.com At Home And Abroad, This War Is A Leap Into The Dark ...What the neoconservatives pushing Homeland Security and war don't understand is that our insecurity has as much to do with their policies of multiculturalism, open borders, and total commitment to Israel as it does with Muslim terrorists. -- Americans are under a greater threat from their own elites, who are determined to destroy our identity with multicultural diversity and mass immigration. -- Paradoxically, Americans are seeking security by placing themselves under new and dangerous government powers while permitting the Bush administration to foment war in the Middle East.

News 4 - Jacksonville Crooked Mexicans Everywhere: Illegals busted on city projects City leaders met Friday morning to discuss the recent arrest of undocumented workers found at "Better Jacksonville" work sites. -- U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested nine undocumented workers at the construction site for the city's new sports arena earlier this week. The nine Mexican men declined their right to a deportation hearing and were taken to the Nassau County jail. They will be taken back to Mexico next week, Robinson said. -- City officials told Channel 4 that six of the nine arrested workers used counterfeit documents to get hired.

Washington Post Latino, immigrant-rights outfits whine over policy on illegals Latino and immigrant-rights organizations criticized the Virginia attorney general today for issuing a directive that warns the state's public colleges not to enroll undocumented immigrants ­ and to report those on campus to federal authorities. -- Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore issued the memorandum to state higher education officials in September, citing concerns that illegal immigrants could be taking seats at state colleges that would otherwise go to U.S. citizens.

MSNBC Security screeners out of luck Orlinda Vencia lost her job as an airport screener on Wednesday after 14 years of stellar performance. Like many workers at the nation's 429 airports, Vencia lost her job not because she has done anything wrong, but because she can't meet post-Sept. 11 standards set by Congress. In the case of Vencia, who arrived in this country in 1988 from the Philippines and is now a U.S. citizen, her failure to meet new requirements for English proficiency got her fired. "I am so upset today and have no idea what to do about my five children..."

Herald-Sun New Mexican fifth-column chapter ...Sonia Díaz, who works as banquet manager in Research Triangle Park, said coming to a new city is difficult. To help newcomers, she and others have formed the Mexican Club of North Carolina. -- Other groups already serve Durham's and the state's growing Latino community. --- The Mexican Club is also working with the Mexican government's new Casa Estado de México, an office President Vicente Fox established to serve Mexicans living in the United States, as well as with the Mexican Consulate in Raleigh.

Reuters House Votes for Independent 9/11 Probe The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation early on Friday to create an independent commission to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and why nothing prevented them. -- In what would be one of the final acts of the 107th Congress, the Senate is expected to approve the long-sought measure next week, after which it would go to President Bush to be signed into law. --- The bipartisan commission would be charged with providing the most comprehensive look yet into why the hijacking attacks were able to occur by examining any and all fronts -- from intelligence agencies to airport security to immigration controls.

Sierra Vista Herald Border is a priority for Arizona Governor-elect How to help rural Arizona counties, especially those along the U.S.-Mexico border, is one of the priorities Governor-elect Janet Napolitano said she will work on during her administration. -- While the problems of border counties are not on the back burner, Napolitano said she will first take care of the state's budget crisis and clean up Arizona's educational woes. -- Next week, Napolitano will travel with Gov. Jane Hull (who has refused to put the national guard on the border) to Mexico to meet with Mexico's border governors and Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Steve Sailer - National Review The Color of Election 2002 ...With the 2000 Census showing that the non-white population was growing rapidly, GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser, devoted much lip service and a fair amount of money over the last two years to wooing minorities, especially Hispanics. -- Matthew Dowd, head of polling in Bush's 2000 campaign, told the Washington Post in 2001 in a widely cited remark, "Republicans have to increase their percentage among blacks and certainly among Hispanics..."

Valley Morning Star Sanctions against Mexico possible The United States could impose sanctions before the end of the year in retaliation for Mexico's failure to honor a water treaty, a federal government official has confirmed. -- International Boundary and Water Commission Commissioner Carlos M. Ramirez told a state Senate border affairs committee hearing Thursday that he was not at liberty to discuss the State Department's "plans," but did testify on halting the delivery of water to Mexico from the Colorado River. -- Under a 1944 treaty, Mexico is required...

KOIN-TV News - Portland Mexican accused of rape has long criminal and deportation record A 25-year-old with an extensive arrest record is accused in a Clackamas rape. -- A tip led Clackamas County deputies to Jesus Del Carmen Gomez- Rodriguez. He was arrested Wednesday night. -- Gomez- Rodriguez, a transient and illegal alien from Mexico, has prior arrests for assault, theft, criminal mischief, giving false information and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle. He has been deported three times. [They just sneak in to do the jobs Americans won't do]

Sham ID Cards

Colorado Daily  [Short-lived link] Inmates Running Asylum: Worthless INS won't do it's job, as usual While a spokeswoman for Michael Comfort [the same incompetent guy who won't boot out illegal alien mooch Jesus Apodaca], the acting director of the INS in Denver, refused to comment on any specific enforcement action federal agents might take, there were clear indications Thursday that Mexican nationals applying for ID cards at a Boulder cultural center would not face arrest. -- "We have no intent of interfering with the Mexican Consulate as it is conducting its business with its citizens," INS spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said.

Sam Francis

VDare.com Troops On The Border? A tip of the hat to Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the once and future Senate Majority Leader, who this week endorsed putting U.S. soldiers on the border with Mexico to protect the country against illegal immigrant invasion. -- Mr. Lott is the highest ranking public office holder yet to support that position, and precisely because he is, others may follow.

Gannett News Service OK of homeland defense is expected to end INS Congress appears all but certain to abolish the Immigration and Naturalization Service as part of a new Homeland Security Department, a move that would change the way millions of immigrants and foreign visitors to Arizona and the rest of the country are treated by the federal government. -- This week, the House approved the massive bill that includes language that calls for replacing the existing INS with two new agencies to serve newcomers.

Arizona Daily Star Contrite criminal gets a break Admitting he was corrupt paid off for former U.S. Border Patrol agent Eduardo Rivas, who was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison. -- From the moment of his arrest, Rivas acknowledged his wrongdoing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Sue Feldmeier said. In May, he went beyond that and gave a voluntary interview to INS officials seeking to know the causes of corruption. -- U.S. District Judge Cindy Jorgenson noted Rivas' exceptional acceptance of responsibility for his crimes in giving a sentence far below the 13 years he might originally have received.

Arizona Republic Corruption comes to Phoenix A judicial ethics committee recommended that an east Phoenix justice of the peace be censured after she admitted to misconduct in office. -- Adelita Villegas admitted to a panel of the state Commission on Judicial Ethics that she allowed people to use Mexican drivers' licenses as a successful defense against citations for driving without a license. She also admitted being absent or late for court proceedings, collecting payment for marriage ceremonies performed during court hours; and signing an injunction against a political opponent banning him from going near his business.

Arizona Republic Arizona town unmoved by murders You'd think a double murder would rattle a tiny, tranquil Arizona ranching community to its core. -- Not this one. -- When the bodies of two undocumented Mexican migrants were found bloody and lifeless about 150 yards off Red Rock's main street last month, few took much notice. -- "We just went on our merry way, we didn't change anything," said Mark Brauner, principal of Red Rock Elementary. -- Investigators say the killings are the likely result of animosity between rival coyotes, or migrant smugglers. [Isabel Garcia, Pima Co. public defender, reconquista, and Mexican government agent, earlier insinuated that 'vigilantes' committed the crime.]