Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Stein Calls On Americans To Rise Up Federation for American Immigration Reform on O'Reilly STEIN: "You can't stop terrorism if you can't control immigration." We Are Being Overwhelmed Dan Stein: "If the American people don't rise up and say, look, we're a sovereign nation, we have not only the right but the duty to our posterity to control our borders, we're going to be completely overwhelmed. We're well on our way right now." O'Reilly: "And the polls show you right - most Americans want the military on the border, they want the border sealed, they don't want people coming across with impunity, but the politicians, bought and paid for by the Wells Fargo, by the Chase Manhattan people, are fighting this with every ounce they have."  Listen | Transcript Past Features   ABP Updates  Poll on Militia American Border Patrol Plans Live Video Feed From Border Saturday

WCBD - Charleston, SC Rare drug invades lowcountry, courtesy of Mexican illegal alien Charleston police officers have uncovered an unusual drug ring that started in Charlotte but made its way to the streets of West Ashley. -- After a three month investigation, police arrested two men for allegedly smuggling black tar heroine (sic) on our local interstates. - Police say, 18-year-old Dario Plascencia-Sanchez and 20-year-old Javier Sanchez, no relation, were hired as "runners" or "mules" for the dealers in the Queen City. -- It's believed Dario Sanchez is an illegal alien from Mexico. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been contacted.

Times-Dispatch Work visa's success fuels resentment ...H-1B visas are not as easy to come by as they were a year or so ago. Companies cut back on work-sponsored visas after Sept. 11, when the economy faltered and layoffs increased. -- Even with the pullback, the temporary work program for skilled workers has come under fire as jobs have become scarce. Some U.S. workers say their jobs are being done by foreign workers at a cheaper price. -- "It boils my blood," said an information technology worker who was laid off from a Richmond company about a year ago.

The Hillsboro, Oregon Argus Another bust in suburban Portland Washington Co. Tactical Negotiations Team members served drug warrants on two houses, and they had to gas a man out of one of the homes. -- Eli Rios and Emigdio Mendoza- Morales were arrested from two separate homes in east Hillsboro following an investigation into drug activities being conducted at the homes. -- Police found guns at Mendoza- Morales' house and they charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. He also was previously deported, and the INS has a detainer on him.

Sham ID Cards

WBAY - Green Bay Mexican sham ID lunacy continues in Wisconsin Undocumented Mexican immigrants are getting a chance to live a more normal life in America with a new identification card. It's called a Matricula Consular card. -- The laminated card will give an identity to Mexican nationals who don't have ID (because they shouldn't be here in the first place). -- "It's like an identity they will have in their pocket. They will be able to get a drivers license and bank account. They will be able to identify themselves whenever they need to," said Fernando Campos of Casa Guanajuato. [Mexico is one of the world's most corrupt nations, and they are issuing these phony cards.]

Center for Immigration Studies

Immigration Numbers Continue to Climb Data not yet released by the government shows that a record number of legal and illegal immigrants continued to arrive in the United States through the first part of this year. An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the Current Population Survey (CPS) collected in March 2002 by the Census Bureau indicates that 33.1 million legal and illegal immigrants live in the United States, an increase of 2 million just since the census.

The Arizona Daily Star Militia will risk arrest - Isabel Garcia's cronies concerned The leader of Tombstone's fledgling citizens militia says the organization intends to conduct its operations on public lands, patrol routes leading to water stations and have volunteers apply for state-issued concealed weapons permits. --- Until he hears from Bush or [AZ Gov.-elect Janet] Napolitano, [militia organizer Chris] Simcox said, "We will continue to train American citizens, bring them into this group and then deploy them." -- Napolitano has no intention of ordering the National Guard to the border, said Kris Mayes, a spokeswoman for the governor-elect. -- "...We're talking about violating peoples' human rights, people taking the law into their own hands," said Jose Matus, executive director of Derechos Humanos [a band of reconquistas based in Tucson].

Usual Suspect Papers on Full Court Press for Scofflaws

Durham Herald-Sun Editorial These 'illegals' also work hard Before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks made homeland security a higher priority, the Bush administration proposed liberalizing immigration law to allow Mexicans now living and working in this country illegally to gain legal status. Administration officials were not proposing a blanket amnesty. The plan being discussed would have taken into account immigrants' employment records, family ties in this country and how long they have lived in the United States [even though most Americans oppose such a loony notion].

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editorial  Immigration workers deserve help President Vicente Fox of Mexico is growing justifiably irritated at the United States. The Bush administration continues to drag its feet on dealing with the millions of undocumented Mexicans for whom American business practically rolled out the welcome carpet. -- At the recent annual U.S.-Mexico conference of Cabinet-level officials in Mexico City, Fox once again urged the United States to resume negotiations on immigration policy reform. He predicted an increase in border crossings by rural Mexicans next year.

Washington Post Lawyer accused of fraud Attorneys for Samuel G. Kooritzky, an Arlington immigration lawyer accused by federal authorities of multimillion-dollar fraud, said yesterday their client was victimized by a "scam artist" who forged signatures and documents without Kooritzky's knowledge. -- Prosecutors say the alleged scam artist, Ronald W. Bogardus, was actually Kooritzky's co-conspirator in a scheme to file thousands of phony labor and immigration documents with the government and to charge immigrants as much as $20,000 for the chance at a U.S. green card.

Associated Press Mexico exporting jail-made products Prison officials in northern Mexico say their inmates are manufacturing furniture bound for Texas -- despite U.S. laws that ban the importation of goods made with prison labor. -- And they'd like to contract with more American companies to produce all kinds of goods. One official said prison shops would even label their products to hide their origin. -- Prison officials in Mexico's northern states are pointing to inmate workshops as a way to stem the loss of business as foreign-owned assembly plants abandon the border zone in search of cheaper labor in Asia.

L.A Times (Free Registration) Failure to assimilate: Kids sent to Mexican schools to absorb 'culture, values' Irma Padres has seen how quickly Mexican children can adapt to life in America, refusing to speak Spanish and resisting visits with grandparents across the border. -- She did not want that to happen to her three children when the family moved from Tijuana to this San Diego suburb four years ago. So every morning, Padres gets up at 5:30 to drive her children over the border -- to school in Tijuana. -- The Padreses are among dozens of families bucking the custom that for generations has led most immigrants to seek out American schools, along with jobs, in the United States. [Mexico is one of the world's most corrupt and backward nations.]

The Arizona Republic Environmental compliance pushed for Mexican trucks The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is looking into whether it will be able to force Mexican trucks to comply with the state's emission standards. -- President Bush lifted a ban that contained trucks to the border area on Wednesday, and while the decision requires the trucks to adhere to U.S. safety standards, environmental and labor groups say it doesn't adequately address environmental concerns.

AccessNorthGeorgia.com Hearing on licenses for illegals Georgians For Immigration Reform are rallying citizens to attend a public hearing by a committee of the Georgia House of Representatives in Gainesville this Friday to discuss granting of drivers licenses to illegals. -- "Concerned citizens are urged to attend this meeting to let state legislators know we do not support illegal immigration in Georgia," Jane Russell, President of the non-partisan immigration reform group said.

WISH-TV -- Indianapolis Mexican illegals nailed on I-70 More than a dozen illegal immigrants were discovered along Interstate 70 near the airport Tuesday morning. They were found thanks to an alert driver who spotted them heading east. -- The group of illegal immigrants had made it from California with hopes of getting to Gary. They were almost there when they were stopped by police. A motorist along I-70 noticed a white van with California plates driving erratically.

L.A Times (Free Registration)   Courtesy of the guy who killed prop. 187: Up to a $30 billion deficit The pomp of swearing-in ceremonies fizzled fast Monday as a new Legislature peered into a budget hole deep enough to consume all of their spending plans and pet projects. -- "If we fired every state employee -- I mean every Highway Patrol officer, every UC professor, every parks patrol officer -- we would still be more than $6 billion short," Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson (D-Culver City) said of a budget deficit that is estimated at $21 billion to $30 billion over the next year and a half. "Yet somehow, we must find a way to get this job done." [How about implementing prop. 187 and enforcing it?]

Joe Sansone

Etherzone.com Phony 'war on terror' and Bush's borderless homeland security policy An all out global confrontation may be unavoidable, as even the Pope Speaks of a "Clash of Civilizations" as a scenario that may be inevitable, but, avoidable or not, it won't make much of a difference to Americans because if president Bush continues his destructive borderless Homeland Security policies, the United States of America will be abolished and its civilization will not likely survive.

Project USA

Latest Update Citizen militia on the border Nearly one hundred years ago, the southern U.S. border with Mexico was a place of violence, chaos, and political intrigue. A bloody revolution was raging in Mexico, Mexican agitators and partisans were operating out of the United States, and massive illegal immigration from Mexico to Texas was underway. By 1915, a full-scale movement was afoot among Tejanos (Mexican-Americans and Mexican illegal aliens in Texas) to establish an ethnically separate state in the Southwest.

Omaha World-Herald  [Message board] Registration concerns Omahan But Awad, a retired physician living in Omaha, is not feeling too special about having to be fingerprinted, photographed and questioned under oath by federal immigration agents. -- He is from Libya, one of 18 nations whose citizens in the United States could be affected by new regulations aimed at curbing terrorism. -- "I find it uncomfortable," said Awad, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be published for fear his family in Libya would be harassed. "You don't know what you're going to go through."

Human Events INS: We're Not Looking for Possibly Dangerous Visitors Over the past two years, the State Department has granted visas to as many as 184 foreign travelers whose background checks suggested links to terrorism or whose true identities could not be determined by the U.S. government, says a recent report by the GAO that was obtained by Human Events. -- Moreover, a spokesman for the INS told Human Events that if any of these 184 foreign visitors are still in the United States, the INS is not looking for them.

Houston Chronicle Weapon-toting neighbors declare war on local thugs A band of residents of an East End neighborhood, fed up with cowering on their porches, has decided to respond to street gangs with a two-by-four to the head -- and maybe worse. -- The loose collaboration that includes dads, military veterans and young men who spurned gangs has gone on the offensive, patrolling for gang members and attacking at least one when they believed they had caught him committing a crime. -- "If we have to use violence, we'll use it," said Frank Black, the posse's leader.

The Arizona Republic Environmental compliance pushed for Mexican trucks The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is looking into whether it will be able to force Mexican trucks to comply with the state's emission standards. -- President Bush lifted a ban that contained trucks to the border area on Wednesday, and while the decision requires the trucks to adhere to U.S. safety standards, environmental and labor groups say it doesn't adequately address environmental concerns.

El Paso Times Border drug seizures rise Despite stepped-up enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, drug traffickers continue to smuggle large quantities of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs across the El Paso border. -- The U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Border Patrol and DEA -- the main law-enforcement agencies that police drug trafficking along the border -- saw increases in seizures of marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.

Tucson Citizen Tombstone denounces vigilantes Although Tombstone is the hometown of Arizona's newest vigilante border patrol group, the town's council now denounces such activities. -- All four council members at last night's meeting voted to approve a resolution opposing vigilante groups in Tombstone enforcing the law. -- Chris Simcox, founder of the militia, said all the people who are standing up to him are going to pay the political price when voters choose not to re-elect "weenies."

Associated Press Bush's Mexican junker truck / Aztlan Express OK appealed A coalition of environmental, labor and trucking industry groups has asked a judge for an emergency stay of President Bush's decision to open U.S. highways to trucks from Mexico. -- The groups filed the request Monday morning, saying the federal government did not adequately review the impact the trucks would have on air quality north of the border. Later in the day, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the government until Wednesday to respond to the request. -- Last week, Bush opened U.S. highways to Mexican trucks beyond the 20-mile commercial border zones where Mexican rigs currently transfer their cargo to U.S. trucks that carry the loads to points within the United States. [Also see articles from Reuters and Bloomberg] [Press Release from Public Citizen]