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Monday, November 25, 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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UPI
Muslims
sniveling over immigration restrictions
Muslims have urged the United States
not to block future immigration from Islamic countries as it
would only aid those wanting to widen the gulf between the Islamic
and the Western worlds. -- Muslims have been reacting to a Justice
Department directive asking male visitors from 13 additional
countries to show up for fingerprinting and questioning at immigration
offices nationwide starting Dec. 2. -- Since 12 of the countries
are Muslim, the move has increased the worries of American Muslims
already living in a difficult environment since the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. |
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Associated
Press
Powell:
U.S.-Mexico Agreement Not Likely
Secretary of State Colin Powell, heading
into talks with Mexican officials, said Monday a U.S.-Mexican
migration agreement is highly unlikely soon because of the need
to ensure the safety of the American people. -- Flying here for
a 24-hour visit, Powell said that although migration issues will
be discussed, he is not prepared to offer specific proposals
to the Mexican government. -- A migration reform agreement that
would give legal status to Mexicans working illegally in the
United States has been a top priority of Mexican President Vicente
Fox. |
Omaha World-Herald [Message board]
Stan
Cox says illegals are great
The writer is a senior research scientist
at the Land Institute, a natural-systems agriculture reseach
organization in Salina, Kan. He has a doctorate in plant breeding
for Iowa State University. -- Connie
Morris, newly elected to the Kansas Board of Education, wants
to see children of undocumented
immigrants expelled from public schools. The Supreme Court
ruled in 1982 that to do so would be illegal... |
Herald
Sun
Family
values?
Teen pregnancies are declining nationwide,
but in North Carolina they are growing
among Hispanic teens, while funds for prevention and parenting
programs are being cut. -- The growing number of Hispanics in
the state only partially explains the increase in teen pregnancy,
said Linda Riggsbee, president of the Chapel Hill-based nonprofit
organization Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition. |
Laura
Ingraham |
DREAM
Bill Could Become Nightmare
When most people think about the American
Dream, family, hard work, God and love of country come to mind.
But if immigrant-rights groups and their supporters in Washington
have their way, the dream will also include lawbreaking. -- With
Republicans poised to take control of both houses of Congress
in January, a legislative quandary awaits them -- a bill called
the DREAM Act, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien
Minors Act. This bill would make it easier for states to offer
in-state tuition rates to illegals at state colleges... |
El Universal
- Mexico (Roughly translated by Google.com)
Mexican
consul in Laredo bemoans the deaths of illegals in his bailiwick
The consul of Mexico in Laredo, Texas,
Daniel Hernandez Joseph, informed that in this border 26 Mexicans
have died in which goes of the year, in its attempt to arrive
at the United States... He said that although the amount of deaths
is minor who in other border counties of the United States, the
number continues being high and worrisome "because a single
death is for us a high number", the diplomat expressed.
[Article goes on to rant about immigration policy, and fails
to say that illegal immigration is a crime.] |
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Associated
Press
Bush
Taps Garcia to Lead INS
Michael Garcia, a former federal prosecutor
who specialized in terrorism cases, will serve as acting commissioner
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service beginning Saturday,
the Justice Department announced Monday. -- Garcia was chosen
by President Bush to take over for INS Commissioner James
Ziglar, whose term ends Saturday. [See
item posted earlier today.] |
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Michael
Garcia to Serve As Acting INS Commissioner
President Bush today announced his intention
to designate Michael Garcia as Acting Commissioner of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS) following the departure of INS
Commissioner James Ziglar on November 30, 2002. Commissioner
Ziglar announced in August that he planned to return to the private
sector this fall. Attorney General Ashcroft said, "I welcome
the President's choice of Michael Garcia to shepherd the INS
into the new Department of Homeland Security, with its central
mission to keep our nation safe from future acts of terrorism...." |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Indictments
in big fraud bust
A Social Security Administration claims
adjuster is among 28 people indicted in an alleged widespread
fraud ring in which 1,900 Social Security cards were issued to
illegal immigrants. -- Celestine Huger, a claims clerk with the
Social Security office in Atlanta, was charged with conspiracy
to commit fraud and accepting bribes. According to the federal
indictment unsealed today, Huger received about $70,000 in payoffs
for approving the Social Security card numbers. |
The
Southern
Group
wants illegals rewarded
Scores of people, mostly from Mexico,
gathered at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Carbondale
Sunday afternoon. They were there to attend an informational
session held by a state non-profit group that is trying to help
improve the rights of immigrants who have been in the United
States for years. -- This is the third forum that a Chicago-based
Illinois Coalition for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights has held since last year, said
Roger Beck of Makanda, a volunteer with the group. |
Dan
Stein |
Times-Dispatch
Illegal
Aliens Don't Belong in State's School Slots
Public policy is about setting priorities
and allocating limited public resources. Virginia Attorney General
Jerry Kilgore has made the decision that one of the Commonwealth's
most precious resources, seats in its public universities, should
be restricted to people who are legally present in the United
States. -- To most Americans this seems like not only good public
policy, but plain common sense. A college education is an indispensable
asset for getting ahead in today's economy. |
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Associated
Press
Bush
Signs Homeland Security Bill
President Bush signed legislation Monday
creating a new Department of Homeland Security devoted to preventing
domestic terror attacks. He promised it "will focus the
full resources of the American government on the safety of the
American people." -- The president picked Tom Ridge as the
department's first secretary. -- Bush said he will nominate Asa
Hutchinson to be undersecretary of border and transportation
security. |
Mackubin
Thomas
Owens |
National
Review
If
the Government Won't Do It
In Arizona newspaper has proposed an interesting
way to curb illegal immigration during a time of war: the use
of a citizen militia. Last month, according to the November 15
Arizona Daily Star, Cochise County's Tombstone Tumbleweed published
an editorial entitled "Enough is Enough!" calling for
armed, able-bodied citizens, operating on private property, to
"create a presence and a deterrent to illegal border crossers."
[Related
feature item] |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Dual
citizen to head Mexican meddling agency
Mexican officials swooped into Candido
Morales' small-town life earlier this fall and plunked him
onto the world stage, unexpectedly appointing the quiet American
social worker as Mexico's point man for immigrants in the United
States. -- Morales, a 57-year-old immigrant from Oaxaca, faces
a daunting job: He must address the fraying marriage between
an estimated 20 million Mexicans living in the United States
and their sometime suitor, Mexican President Vicente Fox. --
He must build a new organization for Mexican immigrants while
negotiating politics on both sides of the border. |
Joseph
Perkins |
San Diego
Union-Tribune / City Paper
U.S.
shouldn't hand over whole enchilada to Mexico
Immediately after Tony
Garza's confirmation last week as U.S. ambassador to Mexico,
he addressed the issue of amnesty for the 3 million or so Mexicans
living illegally in the United States. -- "We should recognize
the contribution of undocumented
Mexicans and open the door for them to earned legalization,"
he told the Mexican daily El Financiero. -- In an interview with
the Mexican paper Reforma, Garza suggested that the criteria
might be based on "the length of their time in the country,
their employment record, if they have children in school, if
they have a real commitment to the community." |
Mark Andrew Dwyer
Do
we need more contraband?
Regarding the "undocumented"
workers, the governors of states that claim shortages of low-skilled
laborers, and several local governments that attempt to circumvent
the U.S. immigration laws by making it easier to illegal aliens
to live and work in the U.S., keep repeating their old mantra:
"We need them". -- Or do we? -- Because there are some
who hire them (in order to profit from their relatively low expectations)? |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Mexicans
elect advisory council
With only three weeks' notice and just
one voting place for all of Illinois, hundreds of people turned
out Sunday to elect members of a new council that will advise
Mexico's
president on migrant affairs. -- The seven immigrants chosen
for the council from a field of 22 candidates all have extensive
involvement in Mexican- American community organizations. Winners
included a college student, a teacher and the owner of a custodial
company. |
Joel
Mowbray |
Townhall.com
The
State Department's spin machine
In a front-page USA Today story this
week, the State Department lamented that relations with Middle
Eastern nations were suffering because of long visa delays instituted
after 9/11. Nowhere in this article did representatives from
State reiterate the importance of carefully scrutinizing who
does-and does not-get into this country. -- Given that all 19
of the 9/11 terrorists came here on legal visas, State's attitude
that visas still need to be dispensed as quickly and as often
as possible is at best suspect, and at worst reckless. |
Washington
Times
GOP
governors back Bush on illegals
Republican governors over the weekend
defended President Bush's immigration policies, arguing that
he isn't proposing amnesty, as critics claim, for Mexicans and
others who entered the United States illegally. -- Colorado Gov.
Bill Owens, the newly elected chairman of the Republican Governors
Association, disputed the critics' interpretation of Mr. Bush's
policy. -- "It was never defined as amnesty for illegals
so much as moving back to legalized work programs," said
Mr. Owens. -- But other RGA members, here for their first annual
meeting since the midterm elections, agreed that the issue posed
at least some problems for the president with his political base. |
Washington Times
Divided
INS pleases some
Dividing the INS in the new Homeland
Security Department has pleased agency critics but angered pro-immigration
groups [reconquistas]. -- The House last week finalized the legislation
and sent it to Bush for his signature. It creates the Bureau
of Immigration Enforcement to guard borders and enforce immigration
laws. -- FAIR is an ardent critic of the INS, and Dan Stein says
the division of duties will strengthen border security. -- Raul
Yzaguirre, La
Raza [the race] president, said his group has lobbied for
years for restructuring but the changes do not amount to reform. |
Arizona
Daily Star
'Hispanic
studies' comes to TUSD
At last, school is about them. -- Hispanic
students in Tucson say Hispanic history and literature classes
are making school and their performance in it more meaningful
and important. --- They hoped the department and its programs
would curb high dropout rates and raise academic achievement
among Hispanic students, who number almost 30,000, or 49%, of
TUSD's 62,000 student population. -- In the new U.S. History/Chicano
Perspective class at Cholla, students are learning about social
justice and are reading and writing about discrimination, racism
and civil rights. |
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Tucson Citizen
Publisher
organizes vigilantes to patrol along border
The owner of a Tombstone newspaper says
he's putting his life and his livelihood on the line to stop
illegal immigrants from sneaking over the border, and he's calling
on the American public for help. -- Chris Simcox first encountered
"troop movements" of illegal immigrants on a camping
trip in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, he said. --- The
American Border
Patrol and Ranch Rescue
also have attempted to keep illegal immigrants out, and Ranch
Rescue recently seized a load of marijuana being backpacked from
Mexico into southern Arizona. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Denver Post
Holding
the door open for immigrants (mostly illegal)
...Five hundred people were already waiting
on the sidewalk outside, sipping the acrid coffee, shifting their
feet and talking quietly in Spanish. Most had been in line for
hours, and all were hoping to get a matricula
- a personal identification card issued by the Mexican Foreign
Ministry that's accepted by a growing number of banks, libraries
and police departments here in the U.S. The matricula doesn't
deliver citizenship, but it reduces the danger of deportation.
The people in line were just about steaming with longing for
it. |
TheNewsMexico.com
Immigration,
water and borders fill complex Mexico-U.S. agenda
Immigration, water and border issues
will be the focus of the Mexico-U.S. Binational Commission, scheduled
to meet Tuesday here to deal with what the White House considers
a "very complex" agenda. -- On the eve of the gathering,
U.S. officials acknowledged the difficulty of resolving the matters
at hand, but stated that, results aside, bilateral relations
could not be better, despite some "isolated differences."
-- The U.S. delegation is to be headed by Secretary
of State Colin ["Our common border is no longer a line that
divides us, but a region that unites our nations.."] Powell,
who is set to arrive Monday in Mexico City, where he is expected
to address the Chamber of Commerce and hold a preliminary meeting
with Foreign Relations Secretary Jorge
Castañeda. |
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