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Sunday, November 24, 2002 |
Mexico Calls For
War On U.S.
militant
-- 1.Fighting or warring.
2.Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the
service of a cause: a militant political activist. |
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Castaneda
Threatens U.S.
Mexican government may foster violence. In an
attempt to gain amnesty from the U.S., Mexican Foreign Minister
Castaneda said, "We are already giving instructions to
our consulates that they begin propagating militant activities
-- if you will -- in their communities."
Gutierrez threatens
Los Angeles
Juan Jose Gutierrez, long time Mexican activist,
told an American Patrol reporter that the AFL/CIO would shut
down Los Angeles in order to get amnesty for illegal aliens. |
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Star-Telegram
Summit
to take up invasion initiative
...Jorge Castaneda, Mexico's foreign
minister (pictured left), served notice Friday that his country
plans a
"militant" cross-border lobbying campaign to win U.S.
public support for the initiative. "At the end of the
day, what's important is that American society sees a possible
migratory agreement in a positive light," Castaneda told
a Mexican congressional commission. -- Although the Bush administration
is eager to support Fox and maintain harmonious relations with
Mexico, U.S. officials also acknowledge the difficulties of persuading
Congress to legalize another wave of undocumented residents,
particularly in a harsh economic climate. |
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The Daily
Citizen - Dalton, GA
Counterfeit
documents rampant in Whitfield
The use of fake green cards by illegal
immigrants is a "huge" problem in Whitfield County,
one that additional law enforcement officers and sentences in
federal prison could help curb, immigration officials said. --
"They're paying for the penalty then," said Sgt. Mike
Wilson with the Dalton Police Department. "Otherwise, we're
basically setting them free in their home countries (if they
are deported). Just by removing somebody from the United States,
for most aliens it's not punishment. It's just an inconvenience."
Wilson said many just end up coming back to the United States. |
UPI
Giant
sucking sound getting louder
Immigrants from Latin America and the
Caribbean were on track to send a whopping $25 billion to their
homelands this year as "remittances" continue to provide
an important source of dollars to developing nations. -- A report
released Friday by the Pew Hispanic Trust and the Inter-American
Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund predicted that
the amount of monies wired from expatriates in the United States
to the "LAC" nations of Latin American and the Caribbean
was growing at a record pace. |
Gainesville Times
Another
big drug bust in Hall Co.
Authorities seized nearly 11 pounds of
cocaine, with an estimated street value of $498,960, Friday night
near Oakwood, according to a report from the Hall Co. Multi-Agency
Narcotics Squad. -- Felizardo Iturios Esparza of Barrow Co. was
arrested with about 5 kilograms of cocaine on Mundy Mill Road
near I-985, according to the MANS report. -- Esparza faces charges
of trafficking cocaine and misdemeanor obstruction of an officer,
according to the report. |
Christian
Science Monitor
Migrant
flood continues despite 9/11
After the tragedy of Sept. 11, many Americans
called for tighter immigration enforcement and border controls.
Fewer immigrants, it was thought, could mean reduced danger from
terrorists. -- Perhaps surprisingly, the flow of immigrants,
legal and illegal, into the United States appears to have fallen
only barely. -- "It remains at record levels," says
Steven Camarota, research director of the Center
for Immigration Studies, a think tank in Washington. |
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Associated
Press
Mexico
Wants Migrants on Bush Agenda
...This week's commission meeting "is
an opportunity to make up for time we lost after the terrorist
attacks,'' said Tarcisio Navarrete, head of the Mexican House's
Foreign Relations Committee. -- "Mexico should not be frustrated
by a lack of progress. This won't happen overnight,'' he said.
But the Binational Commission needs to be told "that this
is a humanitarian concern that demands urgent attention.'' --
Navarrete said close to 350 Mexican migrants have died trying
to cross the U.S. border illegally this year. [Maybe they should
stop sneaking in. Colin
Powell will be venturing to Mexico on Monday.] |
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Sierra Vista
Herald (Not Published)
Who
are the wacko, militant, potential domestic terrorists?
...Clearly, the reconquista movement exists,
Castillo is one of its leaders, the movement is militant in nature,
and it has Arizona in its crosshairs. They have openly demonstrated
their goals and the dishonest means that they will use to achieve
them. Slandering those who wish to expose and fight them is their
Modus Operandi as they spread their hateful, divisive propaganda
- as I'm sure that this letter will have me branded as a racist. |
Knight-Ridder
Newspapers
More
Mexican fifth-column organizing un the U.S.
Mexican citizens in Illinois on Sunday
will choose seven local members for a new advisory council to
help shape Mexico's agenda on migrant affairs - from better service
at consulates to lower fees for wiring money back home. -- The
election will incorporate Mexican immigrants into the government
of President Vicente Fox, a milestone after years of pro-migrant
rhetoric that helped the Mexican leader win office. -- Election
organizers say other cities will have members appointed to the
Institute for Mexicans Abroad advisory council. -- The 120-member
group will report to Candido
Morales, a dual
citizen named in September to lead the government's new council. |
Arizona Republic -- Letter
Who's
disregarding what?
The Arizona Republic never ceases to
amaze me. -- Wednesday's editorial on the situation along the
U.S.-Mexican border said, "disregard for the law is oozing
into rural America." This was in response to the editor
of a Tombstone paper calling on citizens to help patrol the border.
-- Illegal immigrants by the thousands wantonly disregard federal
and state laws, on a massive scale on a daily basis. -- They
not only are largely excused for these offenses, but are effectively
protected. |
Arizona
Republic
A
monumental problem
...But these beautiful and lush-yet-fragile
Upper Sonoran Desert lands on Tucson's urban fringe are under
assault from a most unlikely source: Illegal immigrants who camp
while waiting for rides to take them north. The campsites are
mini-garbage dumps. You name it - trash, clothing, toiletries,
backpacks, plastic water jugs, human waste - and it's there.
There's also severe impact from smugglers who cut new roads to
these primitive campsites, scarring vegetation that'll take years
to revive. |
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Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Mexico:
Cutting tariffs to put strain on farmers
Victor Suarez is worried that U.S.-Mexican
relations, warmer than ever not so long ago, are about to get
much worse. -- The Mexican farm leader is vowing to lead blockades
of U.S. products trucked into Mexico if Mexican farmers are not
cushioned from the 9-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement,
which enters a new phase Jan. 1. -- Tariffs will be dropped next
year on imports of most farm products, except for key goods such
as corn and beans. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Sierra Times
Commentary - Rick Riemer
The
Border's Just Moved North, Some
For anyone who thinks that illegal immigration
is a problem for Californians, Arizonans, New Mexicans and Texans
only - think again. --- Glenn Spencer's Americanpatrol.com website
has an excellent
dissection of this "Sham ID", with links to other
sites clearly documenting the reasons it will accelerate the
rush to legal and social chaos. For example, the Friends of Immigration
Law Enforcement website notes that..... |
Sierra
Vista Herald Editorial [Short-lived
link]
Riding
the Capitol, not the border
...U.S. national policy has caused people
to live in fear in their own homes in our county. It has caused
our public and private lands to be tarnished with waste left
behind by the illegal travelers. It has caused our federal government
to spend untold millions of dollars on equipment and manpower
that have been largely ineffective. -- Cochise County and state
leadership have been less than stellar in addressing this serious
issue as well. Except for the constant efforts of Douglas Mayor
Ray Borane to work the system and offer solutions, most of our
legislators and other citizen leaders have not been vocal enough. |
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah
Immigrants May Feel Brunt of Economic Troubles
...Michael Martinez, former chairman
of the Utah Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission,
said the economic troubles may even pit Mexicans working with
proper documents against those here illegally. -- "Legal
Mexican workers are finding themselves being displaced by illegal
ones," he said. "The employer wants the cheapest labor
force possible, and the undocumented immigrants are the cheapest
ones of all." -- Foreign-born residents made up 7.1% of
Utah's total population... |
ABC
News
Gang
Wars Push L.A. Murder Rate
The nation's second- largest city is experiencing
a killing spree fueled by gang violence that threatens to make
it the nation's homicide capital. -- A 5-day shooting spree that
began a week ago left 14 dead and turned the spotlight on the
gang wars playing out in the streets of South L.A. -- "I
need this city angry about gangbangers shaping the perception
of Los Angeles," LAPD Chief William Bratton told the Los
Angeles Times. [May
gangsters in L.A. are illegals. The LAPD is prohibited from cooperating
with the INS.] |
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Sierra Vista
Herald [Short-lived
link]
Reconquista
Isabel Garcia's buddies going off deep end
Saying the American Border Patrol and
a self-proclaimed Tombstone militia group are wackos, Guadalupe
Castillo said what is more frightening is that they are domestic
terrorists. -- Castillo, the co-chair of Coalicion
de Derechos Humanos, said extreme right-wing groups want
war with Mexico as a way to stop the flow of people coming into
the United States whose
only crime is to seek work. -- "They (right-wing groups)
are domestic terrorists. They are a bunch of McVeighs. They are
wackos," she said to nearly 100 people who attended a meeting
sponsored by Citizens for Border Solutions. |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Probe
of 'militias' is sought
Arizona leaders at the state and federal
level are calling for investigations into armed civilian patrols
along the state's border with Mexico. --- Chris Simcox, publisher
of a weekly newspaper in Tombstone, who used his pages this month
to call for creation of a Tombstone militia, said citizen action
is necessary - and legal, judging by several months of research
he conducted into the constitutions of the United States and
the state of Arizona. -- Glenn Spencer, whose American
Border Patrol organization set up headquarters southeast
of Sierra Vista in August, said he's urging Simcox and his militia
to "obey the law." |
Associated
Press
U.S.,
Mexican officials worry about vigilante groups that hunt illegal
migrants
U.S. and Mexican lawmakers expressed
concern Saturday about a growing number of American vigilante
groups that capture and sometimes hurt or kill Mexican migrants
who cross into the United States illegally. -- The fringe groups
have sprung up in several border towns in Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas, where residents frustrated by U.S. border agents'
inability to stop illegal migration have taken matters in to
their own hands, said Arizona state Rep. Robert Cannell. -- Cannell
said Arizona legislators will likely take up the issue of vigilante
groups during the state's next legislative session. The Democrat
said he was "strongly opposed" to the groups. |
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