Friday, November 22, 2002

Shocking!!! Racist!!! Hate Monger!!! Dees: Spencer Blames Mexicans for Iowa Drug Problem Arizona Daily Star editorial, November 11, 2002: "Glen (sic) Spencer...produced a videotape that says illegal immigration by Mexicans is spreading over the nation '"like wildfire.' The poverty law center said: 'VCT blames Mexicans for drugs in Iowa...'" NOW FOR THE TRUTH "They have a high school there. There are one thousand six hundred students in that high school. Over one third of those students have now tried methamphetamine." House Hearings, 1999 Constantine, head of DEA. "We had a miniscule methamphetamine problem until there was developed wide scale distribution from these [Mexican] criminal organizations. To give you a sense of the growth and the explosion, in 1991 emergency admissions in this country for methamphetamine were 4,900. By 1997, the emergency room admissions had gone to 17,400. To give you an example of the impact in the middle part of this country, in Des Moines Iowa, there are now more methamphetamine arrests than there are drunken driving arrests. ....We find that they build them [meth labs] close to middle schools and equestrian centers where young people are taking riding lessons, and all of them being driven by the heads of criminal groups that are based in Mexico." Senate Hearings, 1999 Senator Dianne Feinstein: "And are not the Amezcua brothers responsible for the establishment of the mainstream methamphetamine market in the United States?" Donnie Marshal. DEA Acting Administrator: "Yes, that's correct, they are. They in a sense were the ones that started it all. Watch clips from Bonds II video Mexican Drugs - Part I Mexican Drugs - Part II Click here to order Bonds II video Past Features   ABP Updates  Poll on Militia

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Omaha World-Herald - [Message Board] - (Sob Story Alert)   Two women, one ID and plenty of problems In Maria Delgadillo's view, she was just buying the opportunity to work. -- The undocumented immigrant needed to support her children - including an infant still breast-feeding - so she apparently paid a crook for a Social Security number that would land her a job as a hotel maid. -- What Delgadillo didn't know is that the identification belonged to an Omaha mother raising her own two children just miles away....

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)  Education program to focus on keeping Hispanics in school Educators have long been frustrated by high dropout rates among Hispanic high school students. -- On Friday, Harper College in Palatine and five northwest suburban high schools will join forces to try to reverse that trend and encourage Hispanics to enroll in college. Harper will host a Latino Summit for 250 high school freshmen. -- The conference is reaching out to students much earlier than most other college-prep events, and organizers will conduct about half of its programs in Spanish.

Allan Wall

VDare.com "Nuestra Gente" And The National Question In Texas Will American someday reach a point where race and ethnicity will be politically irrelevant? When voters simply vote on the issues, regardless of the candidate's background? -- Not anytime soon, judging from the recent Texas gubernatorial election. -- The election pitted a Democratic challenger, Laredo millionaire Tony Sanchez, against Republican incumbent Rick Perry. On November 2, Perry emerged victorious.

H. Millard

Is George Queeg Bush Nuts? Crazy, mad, going to hell in a handbasket post-American America is being invaded by lousy invaders from Mexico and the rest of the Third World who are deconstructing America and turning our land into a Third World sewer while pretending all they want to do is mow our lawns, get free (to them) medical and dental care and other freebies and be good non-citizens. So what does President George Bush, who is supposed to be protecting America from foreign invaders, do?

Associated Press Mexico, U.S. Lawmakers Hold Talks U.S. and Mexican lawmakers met Friday in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo to discuss the Rio Grande water fight, drug-related violence and other bilateral issues. -- The third annual legislative border forum brought together 46 lawmakers from the six Mexican states and four U.S. states along the 2,000-mile international line stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. -- From the United States, eight legislators attended--three from New Mexico, two from California, two from Arizona, and one from Texas.

Washington Times Parties' pandering expensive Political candidates did more than ever this year to reach out to Hispanic voters, running a record number of Spanish-language television ads during the campaign, and Republicans claimed solid successes from the efforts. -- At least 20 gubernatorial candidates, six U.S. Senate candidates, more than a dozen U.S. House candidates and many more down-ballot candidates ran Spanish- language ads this year, spending more than $16 million, according to a report released yesterday by Adam Segal, director of the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University.

Associated Press The giant sucking sound continues Immigrants who helped send $23 billion home to Latin America and the Caribbean last year say the transactions are too costly and put undocumented workers in danger of arrest. -- Only 9% of 302 U.S. immigrants interviewed for the study use banks to send money home, according to the study by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Inter-American Development Bank. Seventy-eight% still use wire transfer companies, and the remaining 8% send money home by courier or family member, according to the study released Friday by the Pew Hispanic Center...

WISH-TV - Indianapolis Mexicans open sham ID card outlet downtown The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis will be open for business Monday. It's an office that will serve a group of people that's growing rapidly in our city and state. Mayor Bart Peterson's office has worked for about two years with the Mexican government and the state of Indiana to get this consulate opened. -- There are now some 34,000 Latinos and Hispanics in Indianapolis, and 60% of them are Mexican.

Sam Francis

VDare.com What We Really Get From Mexico While President Bush ponders amnesty for illegal Mexican immigrants and yet another war against Iraq, the real war has already come here-from Mexico. -- The New York Times reported last week ["A Georgia Pipeline for Drugs and Immigrants," by Tim Golden, NYT, November 16, 2002] that in areas where Mexican immigrants were supposed to bring the vaunted "cheap labor" that would save American industries, what they've really imported is cheap drugs-and plenty of them.

WDEF - TV -- Chattanooga, TN N.Y. Times Article Calls Dalton, GA Drug Trafficking Center of Nation I-75 has always been a major drug pipeline for the east coast. -- The drugs come into the country through Florida... and head north... right through the Tennessee Valley. -- But now there is a new pipeline. -- This one flows through the underground of illegal immigrants. -- And now that pipeline has gotten national exposure... in a New York Times profile of the drug-immigrant connection in Dalton.

James Fulford

VDare.com Jonah Goldberg Lies A-Moldering In The Grave, But.... Daniel Griswold is Associate Director at the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies. His web page describes him as a "widely quoted expert on current trade and immigration issues." That means he's a professional immigration enthusiast, "widely quoted" (needless to say) in the Wall Street Journal. Griswold has just published a post-election damage-control column in the Goldberg Review. (They may have dropped their Jonah but his Beltway-benighted soul goes marching on!)

Riverside P-E (Free Registration)  Day-labor center proposed Day laborers would no longer wait for work on streets in Casa Blanca under a proposal to build a community work center at one of two different neighborhood sites. -- For more than a decade, workers and residents have squared off. The mostly immigrant men, sometimes numbering more than 100 at a time, say they are laboring in jobs others won't do and have a right to find work (illegals don't). -- Casa Blanca residents say the men whistle at their teenage daughters, make vulgar comments, urinate in public and cause traffic accidents.....

L.A Times (Free Registration)  Task force busts hundreds Pharmacist Daniel Hancz knows all about the foreign-made medications sold without prescriptions at outdoor swap meets, party supply stores and butcher shops. -- He assists other members of L.A. Co.'s Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force in an effort to stop over-the-counter sales of the potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals, some of which are banned in the U.S. -- The task force, known as HALT, has seized an estimated $5 million worth of illegal pharmaceuticals, mostly in immigrant communities...

Associated Press Forty-two indicted in Asian immigration fraud ring An immigration fraud ring centered in Charlotte sold fake and illegally obtained immigration and identification documents to aliens from China, Hong Kong and Malaysia, according to a federal indictment announced Friday. -- Forty-two people are charged with either running the operation or purchasing documents from it, U.S. Attorney Bob Conrad Jr. said. Conrad declined to comment on whether the fraud scheme was linked to arrests Thursday at an east Charlotte home.

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Authorities crack down on day laborers -- MALDEF cries foul A street corner popular with day laborers looking for work became the site of a police crackdown Wednesday, as 11 men were cited for trespassing or violating a city ordinance that bans workers making employment arrangements on the street. -- The operation by San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies and Upland police officers came two months after an association of day laborers filed a federal lawsuit claiming bans by Rancho Cucamonga and Upland on soliciting work in public rights of way are unconstitutional. -- The suit, filed Sept. 19 by lawyers affiliated with MALDEF, is currently pending in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Associated Press American disappears in TJ Stepping off a ship in San Diego, David Provost headed south into this border city, where rowdy nightclubs have lured young Americans for generations. But Provost, a 20-year-old merchant seaman from Florida, never returned. -- Nearly three months later, authorities have found no trace of him in the hospitals, jails or morgue. Relatives turned up disturbing clues on their own. His ship, the USNS Bold, set sail without him.

Associated Press Your tax dollars at work The U.S. Border Patrol has authorized a public service announcement about its eight rescue beacons, which are designed to curb the number of heat-related deaths in the desert. The one-minute segment is expected to air in Mexico and on Yuma-area TV stations sometime next year. -- Officials want to reach viewers in the interior parts of Mexico, where potential border crossers may know little about the treacherous terrain and nothing about the beacons.

National Post (Canada) Sniper suspect accused of smuggling people through Canada John Allen Muhammad, one of the suspects in the Washington sniper case, is wanted in Antigua and Barbuda for allegedly smuggling people from the Caribbean into the United States through Canada, according to the leader of the Antiguan opposition party. -- One of his clients may have been the mother of John Lee Malvo, the teenage suspect in the sniper case.

Agence France-Presse   Mexico can expect little progress in talks with U.S., official says The United States has little hope for breakthroughs at high-level talks with Mexico next week on hot-button issues of migration, water and a brewing agricultural dispute, a senior U.S. official said Thursday. -- However, the official said incremental progress on those issues was possible and touted modest agreements on border security, customs and environmental issues to be signed during the 19th Mexico-U.S. Bi-National Commission meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Mexico City.

Wired News Geek 'Vigilantes' Monitor Border A group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona are using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border... --- The ranchers, members of an organization called the American Border Patrol, said their goal is to use technology to inform the public about the "slow invasion" they claim is happening at the southwest border. --- [A Mexican governor has already begun whining about Americans exercising their rights.] -- "I'm not going to argue about immigration law," Glenn Spencer, executive director of the American Border Patrol, said.

Tancredo on O'Reilly - November 21 O'Reilly: You just got back from the border last night. What did you see? Any improvement at all? Tancredo: Nothing. Not only that, it is getting worse. The cartels that have been running drugs across that border for years are now running people across that border.  Listen

Associated Press -- Travel Fun Mexican travel guide published Don't drink the water. Don't drive without auto insurance. -- Tourists heading south for the start of Mexico's high visitor season now have another "don't" to consider: Don't try to bribe the cops. -- San Diego and Tijuana officials on Thursday unveiled a legal guide for U.S. tourists that spells out what you can and can't do in Mexico if you get into trouble with the law. [Any travel at all in crime-bloated Mexico is risky at best.]

Arizona Daily Star 4,500 pounds of pot seized Two investigations by the U.S. Customs Service led to the seizure of nearly 4,500 pounds of marijuana, the agency said Thursday. -- The first seizure occurred early Tuesday south of Sierra Vista when customs agents conducting surveillance in the Ash Canyon area discovered 116 bundles containing 1,445 pounds of marijuana. -- The drugs have an estimated street value of $1.4 million. No arrests were made in the seizure.

Andres Oppenheimer

Arizona Daily Star Mexico's anti-U.S. bent 'political schizophrenia' Something very unusual happened this week in Mexico, a country long known for its fiery nationalistic demagoguery: Foreign Minister Jorge G. Castaneda said it's time for his nation to stop being anti-American. --- Mexico's nationalism and anti-Americanism made sense in the 19th and 20th centuries, Castaneda said. -- The country had lost half of its territory to the United States, and it was only logical that its leaders would try to build a national identity based on nationalism and anti-Americanism.

Associated Press U.S.-Mexican Talks Focus on Migration After a 14-month impasse, U.S. and Mexican officials will see if they can establish common ground on ways to revamp laws governing Mexican migration to the United States. -- Migration issues is one of the topics Secretary of State Colin Powell and five other senior Bush administration officials will deal with Monday and Tuesday during talks in Mexico City. -- Powell and his colleagues will be looking for progress in persuading Mexico to repay a huge water debt based on a 1944 treaty. Mexico's inability to pay the debt has angered many Texas ranchers.

Letter to the Editor

Tucson Citizen (Published) Border scenario like pro wrestling ...The paper warns Ranch Rescue "not to take the law in its own hands". What about the myriad of crimes perpetrated against law-abiding Americans along the border? Mum's the word. What of the violation of U.S. sovereignty? Silence. -- It's time to take a clear stand. Illegal immigration is wrong. Thank God for Ranch Rescue and the American Border Patrol. [Note ABP is not affiliated with Ranch Rescue]

TheNewsMexico.com Garza: Mexico a "priority" The U.S.' new ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, on Thursday said commerce, the environment, crime fighting and "of course" immigration will be the key issues he will address during his diplomatic tour of duty. -- "I trust that we will face these challenges in a positive way by viewing them as opportunities," said Garza after touching down at the Mexico City airport to take up his testing new post. -- Garza was sworn in as ambassador in an unannounced White House ceremony on Monday night...

Associated Press Garza's comments questioned As the new U.S. ambassador stepped off the plane in Mexico City, State Department officials back in Washington were already questioning comments he apparently made to Mexican newspapers. -- In interviews published over the weekend by Mexico City newspapers, Tony Garza was quoted as saying the Bush Administration would propose legalizing the status of many long-term illegal residents, though without granting them citizenship, and expanding guest-worker programs.