Thursday, November 28, 2002 Happy Thanksgiving

Thank God For Georgie Anne Geyer Author of Americans No More on C-SPAN Georgie Anne Geyer, author of Americans No More - the Death of Citizenship C-SPAN Washington Journal, Nov. 24, 2002 (In responses to question by Glenn Spencer) "I would suggest to you, though, that it is even worse than that because many of our states, now are accepting Mexican identification cards... this means - I think it is astonishing... what it means that the United States is giving up knowledge of identification of vast numbers of people in our society and accepting another country's identification."  Watch this portion [Watch entire segment] Past Features   ABP Updates  Poll on Militia

The Telegraph Crackpot former N.H. state Rep. Alciere back in the news Less than 200 minutes after an Olympia, Wash., man confessed to a New Hampshire reporter he had killed a California police officer, Nashua's infamous former state legislator with similar views had resurfaced. -- Someone purporting to be Tom Alciere posted a message on a now-familiar San Francisco news Web site praising Andrew Hampton McCrae for admitting he killed Red Bluff, Calif., police Officer David Mobilio at random while Mobilio was pumping gas into his cruiser Nov. 19. -- "If somebody had slaughtered that goon while the goon was refueling a patrol car, then that goon wouldn't be shoving a submachine gun in your face," Alciere apparently posted at 1:21 p.m. on Tuesday.

New York Times Jobs leaving Mexico An exodus of factories in the past two years, many of them to China, has led to a wave of soul-searching among Mexico's business leaders and government officials over the country's ability to compete with other low-cost exporters for the U.S. market. -- "It's like somebody shaking you and saying, 'Wake up, the environment has changed, and you have to change strategy,' " said Rolando Gonzalez Baron, president of Mexico's National Maquiladora Export Industry Council, which represents the plants...

Associated Press Concern over Aztlan Express American truckers are worried about losing their jobs to Mexicans under Washington's new motor freight policy while companies in Mexico are just as concerned about where they'll find the money to upgrade aging fleets to pass tougher U.S. border inspections. -- President Bush on Wednesday approved opening U.S. highways to Mexican trucks beyond the 20-mile commercial border zones where Mexican rigs now transfer their cargo onto U.S. rigs heading to the American interior.

KOLD-TV - Tucson Marauding illegals trashing sacred lands on reservation The Tohono O'Odham Nation faces an environmental crisis. Every day, nearly 1,500 undocumented immigrants pass through the U.S.'s second largest indian reservation, leaving thousands of pounds of trash on tribal lands. -- News 13 recently got a first-hand look at some of the areas on the reservation that appear more like a trash dump than sacred lands. [And the authorities who are failing to control this are whining about citizens who are willing to do it for them?]

UPI - Ian Campbell Inside Mexico: Colin Powell and migration The U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was in Mexico Monday and Tuesday and brought with him U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and other ministers and senior officials for meetings with the Mexican government. U.S. President George W. Bush came, too -- by video link. The talks appear to have been cordial. Yet Wednesday the headlines in Mexico were less than celebratory. -- On the front page of Mexico City's Reforma, a newspaper that is generally in favor of modernizing Mexico and improving relations with the United States, the main headline was "United States imposes its agenda."

H. Millard

Prune to make the U.S. stronger If you want to destroy a rose garden, you don't have to do much. In fact, the less you do, the more quickly will it be destroyed. Most things that we consider valuable require effort. They are destroyed not so much by attempts to destroy them, as by non-effort. Just don't prune the roses and don't keep other types of plants out of your rose garden. Soon, you'll have a rose garden in name only and your diminishing number of roses will be weak and scraggly. Eventually, the roses may be totally overwhelmed and destroyed, and the desirability of the garden, as a rose garden, will be gone.

Voice of America US Landowners Take Up Arms on Mexico Border In spite of U.S. efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling on the U.S-Mexico border, recent reports from U.S. law enforcement agencies indicate such activity is again on the increase. There's also been an increase in violent clashes between U.S. agents and Mexican smugglers in the border area. Some property owners on the U.S. side of the border have taken up arms as a result of what they describe as threats to their lives and livelihood. -- Miguel Escobar, the Mexican consul general in the Arizona border town of Douglas, is concerned that armed vigilantes could create a climate of violence in the area. [Audio available]

L.A Times (Free Registration)  The guy who killed prop. 187 asks Washington for bailout Faced with a worsening state budget crisis, the Davis administration formally asked the federal government Wednesday to provide additional resources to stabilize Los Angeles County's financially ailing public health system. -- The request came in a formal application to the Bush administration for a waiver of federal Medicaid regulations to allow more creative use of federal funds to provide health care for the state's poor. No dollar amount was put on the request, but state officials hoped that it could amount to more than $300 million over the next three years. [See this feature]

Arizona Daily Star Update on shooting of illegal A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a Mexican man who jumped the border fence at Douglas. -- The bullet passed through 27-year-old Salvador Mendoza Flores' buttocks as he tried to climb back over the fence Monday evening into Mexico, said Miguel Escobar Valdez, the Mexican consul in Douglas. -- Mendoza Flores was hospitalized at a Douglas hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the consul said.

Tucson Citizen Illegal held in Calif. child-rape case A man wanted in California in the rape of a 10-year-old boy was one of 11 people detained Tuesday by the Border Patrol, the agency said yesterday. -- The Honduran was taken into custody near Green Valley. He is also wanted in California in connection with multiple sex offenses and a narcotics offense. -- A second illegal immigrant in the group had a California warrant for parole violation. He is in a Santa Cruz County jail, awaiting extradition.

Computerworld.com INS database problems thwart FBI counterterrorism work The INS has lost track of nearly half of all aliens that the FBI would like to question about their knowledge of terrorist activities. The culprit: a failure of the INS to maintain an integrated, updated database system. -- That's the assessment of the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, that was documented in a report released Nov. 22. -- According to the report, the INS has been unable to locate 1,851, or 45%, of the 4,112 aliens whom the FBI and the government's Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force want to interview. The INS has also lost track of 4,334 aliens from countries where al-Qaeda is known to operate, who have been ordered to leave the U.S.

Valley Morning Star Officials optimistic following water talks South Texas farmers and lawmakers say they are heartened by the outcome of the latest round of talks on the long-running U.S.-Mexico water dispute. -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said he held "frank discussions" with Mexican officials at a two-day binational commission meeting in Mexico City. -- As a result, Mexico may have agreed to announce a water delivery plan by Dec. 15, although further discussions are likely to be held in Washington, D.C., first. [The Mexicans are said to have plenty of water. Could they be cheating for a reason?]

Daily Bulletin MALDEF fifth-column tries to overturn day laborer ban An effort to overturn a ban on soliciting work on the streets has city leaders reconsidering scrapped plans to create a day labor hiring center. -- The City first considered such a center about ten years ago, when it formed a task force to respond to complaints about crowds of day laborers loitering near homes and businesses. -- Eventually the City Council decided against a center; state law would compel the city to verify a worker's legal status, they said, undermining a center's efficacy. --- Now that ordinance faces a legal challenge, part of a larger effort by the Mexican Legal Defense and Educational Fund to overturn similar ordinances nationwide.

Fox News New Immigrants Masters at Food Stamp Fraud ...The commonness of food stamp fraud among America's new immigrants is staggering. Many recent immigrants do not even understand that selling food stamps is a crime, representing, as they do, a form of individualized assistance. Most look at food stamps as just one more thing to barter, so for between 10 and 80 cents on the dollar, they are converted to cash. Never mind that the food stamp was invented to prevent public assistance, formerly given in cash, from being frittered away on non-food items.

San Gabriel Valley Tribune Park named for deputy murdered by Mexican illegal alien When sheriff's Deputy David March was trying to convince his wife to buy a home in Santa Clarita nearly two years ago, he pointed to the sign a stone's throw from the house promising a neighborhood park. -- On Wednesday the new park was named for March, who was killed in the line of duty earlier this year in Irwindale. -- March's family, friends and fellow deputies gathered on the windy day under a tent for the ground-breaking ceremony for David March Park on Via Joyce Drive in Saugus.

TheNewsMexico.com  Binational meeting a black eye for Fox, press says President Vicente Fox and U.S. counterpart George W. Bush have been calling each other best of friends since they both took office two years ago. -- But the friendship may be starting to wear thin in Mexico, where Fox is under pressure to show some tangible benefits from this close collaboration. -- The annual Binational Commission meeting Tuesday was seen by some as an opportunity to commit the United States to specific steps on the nation's top bilateral issues. Instead, the meeting confirmed Washington has succeeded in imposing its own set of priorities upon its southern neighbor, local news dailies wrote Wednesday.