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Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
Orange
County Register Commentary
Mexico
must lift burden of the state
As Secretary of State Colin Powell and
other officials today continue their visit in Mexico City, the
focus today is expected to be on whether or not to grant amnesty
for Mexicans living illegally in the United States. They also
may discuss some sort of guest-worker program. But we hope they
also focus on why so many Mexicans flee their homeland, risking
even death in border crossings in the desert, to seek their fortunes
in the United States. -- The leading problem is that Mexican
President Vicente Fox only partly has achieved the free-market
reforms he promised when elected in 2000 that would improve prospects
and prosperity for the broadest number of Mexican citizens. |
Michelle Malkin |
VDare.com
The
Lesson Of Lee Malvo's Fingerprint
If Montgomery County, Md., police chief
Charles Moose had been police chief in Bellingham, Wash., sniper
suspects Lee Malvo and John Mohammed would probably still be
on the loose today. -- That's because Chief Moose is a vocal
opponent of encouraging local law enforcement officers to cooperate
with federal immigration agents in cracking down on illegal aliens.
"This is the wrong thing to do," Moose declared in
May. Moose's remarks appeared in a Montgomery County, Md., community
news article entitled: "Helping INS hurts policing."
[Meet
Michelle Malkin in Garden Grove, CA, on 11/27] |
Kevin
Michael
Grace |
VDare.com
Breakthrough
In Canada!
This is Canada's immigration moment.
Three books by respected authors have suddenly appeared, demolishing
Canada's immigration policy and proving it the worst in the world.
(It's also the biggest in the world, relative to population
roughly twice as many immigrants per year as enter the U.S.)
The authors, of course, have been attacked as "racist,"
"protectionist," "Marxist" etc. etc. |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration)
Study
Finds Welfare Initiatives Do Not Address Needs of Immigrant Families
Many programs intended to lift people
out of poverty by promoting marriage and mandating work do not
address the realities of poor immigrants, a study released today
has found. -- The report, by the Urban Institute, a public policy
research group in Washington, was based on a national survey
of more than 42,000 households. The study showed that low-income
immigrant families were more likely than their native counterparts
to have two parents in the household and that poverty often persisted
in these families despite the fact that both parents worked.
[Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
Associated Press
Study:
Immigrants kids poorer
Children of immigrants are more likely
to live in two-parent families and in poverty than children of
parents born in this country, according to an Urban Institute
study released Tuesday. -- The researchers, who analyzed data
from the 1999 National Survey of Families, found that 80 percent
of children of immigrants live in two-parent families, compared
with 70 percent of children of native parents. [Also
see: Importing
Poverty] |
Sun
Media
Bad
immigration info still on file
U.S. immigration officials haven't wiped
out false information a jailed former U.S. border official entered
into their computer alert system, says an immigration spokesman.
-- And Alan Puckett, acting director of the Helena district for
the U.S. INS, said he'd like to hear from anyone whose name was
improperly entered by Hector Ramirez Garcia, a former senior
inspector for U.S. Immigration at the Calgary International Airport. |
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KIRO-TV
Border
Security Breakdown Captures Attention of Congress
An exclusive KIRO Team 7 Investigation
exposes a border security breakdown. -- You're paying millions
more than you should for a high-tech security system along the
Washington-British Columbia border that doesn't work very well.
-- Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne reveals what the federal
government wants to keep a secret. -- We've discovered a series
of computers and cameras that are supposed to stop terrorists,
drug smugglers, and other illegals from entering the US malfunction
on a regular basis. |
Numbers
USA
Asa
Hutchinson named the new undersecretary of the DHS
Asa Hutchinson has been named the new undersecretary
of the Department of Homeland Security, in charge of border and
transportation security. -- Nearly all of the enforcement responsibilities
of the old INS will be under Hutchison's care. -- While in the
U.S. House of Representatives (1997-2001), Hutchison earned an
"A" grade on the ABI immigration report card. -- He
was a federal prosecutor before Congress. Since he left the House
(voluntarily), he has been Bush's Drug Czar. -- In the House,
Hutchinson: 1.) Voted for using the military on our borders..... |
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Educating
Latinos: An NPR Special Report
Latino students now make up the largest minority
group in the school-age population in the country. Yet they lag
behind their white and Asian peers -- and in some cases African-Americans
as well -- on most measures of achievement: test scores, college
completion, and dropout rates. |
Chicago Tribune
105
terror suspects got U.S. visas
At least 105 foreign nationals suspected
of terrorist involvement who may "pose a threat to national
security" received visas granting them access to the United
States earlier this year because of lapses in a new background
check system ordered by President Bush, according to government
officials and documents. -- Investigators for the General Accounting
Office, who first uncovered the breaches, are trying to determine
how many of the 105 entered the United States and how many might
be at large here still.... |
Associated
Press
2
out of 3 new Ariz. residents since 2000 are immigrants
An estimated 130,000 immigrants settled
in Arizona since 2000, accounting for two-thirds of the state's
growth, but the new residents
are likely to live in poverty and lack adequate education and
health insurance, a new study says. -- 58% percent of
Arizona's immigrants and their U.S.-born children live in or
near poverty, compared to 28% of the state's native population
and are nearly four times as likely not to have a high school
diploma. [Also see: Importing
Poverty] |
FAIR
Update |
Here
We Go Again: Guestworker Amnesty Program Back on the Table
Just weeks after midterm elections, the Bush
administration, Republican policy makers, and some editorial
writers are already gearing up for another push to grant amnesty
to Mexican illegal aliens. While careful to characterize the
proposal as a "guestworker" program, there can be no
mistaking the amnesty that is intended. -- Tony
Garza, the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, floated the opening
trial balloon last week. Garza told reporters in Mexico City
that reaching an accord legalizing the status of illegal aliens
from Mexico remains a Bush administration priority. |
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Reuters
Fox
wants amnesty deal, big supporter of lawbreakers
..."It's high time to resume high-level
bilateral negotiations on the issue of migration ... in order
to reach real and integral agreements," Fox said. -- "The
tragic events of 9/11 caused us to give a priority to the topics
of security and then delay the solution to other important matters
on the bilateral agenda," he added. "Now it is time
to take up again with new found energy our negotiations in order
to obtain an integral agreement on these matters." [Most Americans
want nothing to to with Mexico's nonsense.] |
Portland
Tribune
Latinos
protest police shooting awards
Representatives of the Latino community
are calling for Portland
Police Chief Mark Kroeker to resign for awarding medals to
two officers who last year shot and killed immigrant worker Jose
Santos Victor Mejia Poot. -- In a Monday statement announcing
a news conference to follow the march, the Latino Network argued
that Kroeker not only insulted the Latino community but also
sent the wrong message to officers - that the killing of members
of the Latino community will be rewarded. |
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Associated
Press
Immigration
Said to Keep Pace With 1990s
Legal and illegal immigration into the
United States so far this decade has kept pace with the surging
rates of the 1990s, with nearly one-third of the new immigrants
arriving from Mexico, a private analysis released Tuesday said.
-- More than 3.3 million new immigrants entered the country between
January 2000 and March 2002 as the nation's foreign-born population
swelled to over 33 million, according to a report from the Center
for Immigration Studies, a research group that supports some
limits on immigration. [Read
the report] |
Arizona Daily Star Border Edition
Investigate
vigilantes
Had Congress and the federal government
been paying more attention, perhaps the militia groups that are
boiling over in S. Arizona would not exist. These vigilante groups
have arisen largely from the lack of leadership, policy and law
enforcement coming from Congress on the issue of illegal immigration.
--- Now, Arizona's elected officials would like to have a congressional
hearing on the problems along the border. -- Raúl
[MEChA-boy] Grijalva, U.S. Rep.-elect, wants the hearings... |
Associated
Press
U.S.
farmers open to temp-worker visa, official tells Mexico
The United States won't accept any renegotiation
of NAFTA trade openings in agriculture, but the U.S. farm sector
is interested in temporary-worker visas for Mexicans, a top U.S.
official said Monday. -- "The industry would like to see
an arrangement for a stable, reasonably priced labor supply,"
U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture J.B. Penn told a news conference.
"There is a feeling that there is a distinct labor shortage
at a certain price in the United States." |
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