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Thursday, December 5, 2002 |
Tucson
Citizen
Helicopter
ride above border gives congressmen perspective on border
A helicopter ride high above the U.S.
- Mexico border Thursday gave Arizona Congressional leaders a
perspective beyond rhetoric. -- Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain
joined Congressman Jim Kolbe and Congressman-elect Raul Grijalva
on three black helicopters flying over the borderlands expanse.
-- For Grijalva, on his first aerial tour as a newly elected
member of Congress, the view was impressive. -- "You come
to appreciate how immense and important issues dealing with the
border really are," said Grijalva, the lone Democrat in
the party who will represent the western portion of the Arizona
border. [Grijalva
is a reconquista]. |
Pacific News Service
Slow
economy worries illegals
...Along the West Coast, day labor work
has declined by half in recent months, according to advocates.
While exact numbers are hard to determine, the GAO reported this
year there were 260,000 day laborers nationwide. -- "The
work is drying up," says day laborer Daniel Rosas Romero
Even though many have given up and returned home, newly unemployed
immigrants turn up everyday, he adds. -- "We now feel
the racism is coming at us from all sides..." |
Star
Tribune
Judge
halts effort to deport Somalis
Eight Minnesota Somalis, who apparently
came within a few hours of being deported Tuesday, have received
a temporary reprieve while legal maneuvers over their cases continue.
-- The eight had been arrested in Minnesota in recent weeks and
last week were flown to a detention facility in Louisiana. They
have been ruled deportable, either because they have committed
felonies or because their applications for asylum have been turned
down. |
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Star Tribune
Judge
halts effort to deport Somalis
Eight Minnesota Somalis, who apparently
came within a few hours of being deported Tuesday, have received
a temporary reprieve while legal maneuvers over their cases continue.
-- The eight had been arrested in Minnesota in recent weeks and
last week were flown to a detention facility in Louisiana. They
have been ruled deportable, either because they have committed
felonies or because their applications for asylum have been turned
down. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Gangs
caught in crackdown -- 51 alleged members face charges
A highly organized Hispanic crime syndicate
has been operating on the eastern crescent of metro Atlanta for
at least six years, committing five murders and wounding a police
officer, federal authorities said Wednesday. -- In five indictments
unsealed Wednesday, federal authorities laid out the alleged
operation of La Gran Familia, an intricate and well-financed
umbrella group for four gangs. The parent organization, authorities
claim, is financed by the gangs' robberies, drug dealing and
car thefts and used violence to enforce its territory, which
ranged from Hall County to Clayton County. |
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Tucson Citizen
Ariz.
congressional delegation wants feds to pay for illegals' care
The federal government must help pay
for medical services that southern Arizona communities provide
to illegal immigrants, the state's two U.S. senators, and two
congressmen representing border districts said today. -- "Arizona
spends more than $100 million every year on providing emergency
health care to illegal immigrants and yet it receives nothing
from the federal government in complying with this federal law,"
Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said during a press conference at Tucson
Medical Center. -- Kyl was accompanied by fellow Republicans
Sen. John McCain and U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, and Democratic
[MEChA-boy] Congressman-elect Raúl Grijalva. |
Gainesville Times
Illegal
alien license debate renewed
The politically flammable topic of allowing
illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses comes to town Friday
morning. -- A public hearing on a House bill to rewrite Georgia
residency standards for drivers begins at 10 in the Georgia Mountains
Center. -- The hearing, the last of three around the state, may
draw a crowd. -- A group called Georgians for Immigration Reduction
is trying to rally opposition. -- The Coordinating Council of
Latino Community Leaders of Atlanta, which provided 30,000-plus
signatures backing the proposed change last January, also is
working the area for support. |
San
Francisco Examiner
Study:
Latinas shun help
More than half of The
City's Latinas report some sort of problem that keeps them
from seeking public health insurance legally available to them,
according to a UC San Francisco study released today. -- Researchers
found local Latinas are six times more likely than their counterparts
in New York City to report immigration- related fears and other
barriers to applying for health insurance, and twice as likely
as those in Miami. -- "This is the legacy of Proposition
187 and less formal anti-immigrant measures that left women with
a sense of fear about interacting with the system..." |
Laredo
Morning Times
Huge
drug load aboard Mexican big rig seized
U.S. Customs Inspectors seized "a
huge multi-ton marijuana load valued at $6.4 million" at
the World Trade Bridge Monday night. -- The 6,428-pound marijuana
load was reportedly one of the largest seizures ever at the World
Trade Bridge. -- The seizure occurred while agents were conducting
anti-terrorist operations shortly before 8 p.m., officials reported.
-- A Mexican driver in a 1989 International tractor hauling a
manifested shipment of brake master cylinders and switchboards
was referred to secondary inspection.... |
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Salt Lake
Tribune
Update
on crash of van full of suspected illegals in Utah
A 7-year-old girl and a young man identified
as a "coyote" who smuggles people illegally into the
United States were among four killed in the collision of a packed
passenger van and a logging truck on Wednesday. -- The crash,
which happened about 4:30 a.m. on a straight strip of U.S. 89
eight miles east of Kanab, also injured the 10 other people crammed
into the van. -- All the van's occupants were Mexican nationals.
Martin Torres, Mexican consul in Salt Lake City, said he was
working with the INS and hospitals helping identify the victims
and notify relatives. |
MetroWest News
Egyptian
deported
Marissa and Ehab Abutaleb won't get to
celebrate key milestones together in their first apartment like
typical newlyweds. -- Instead, they will be separated by thousands
of miles and eight time zones. -- Ehab will be deported to Egypt
a week from tomorrow for staying in the United States on a one-year
visitor's visa that expired more than four years ago, according
to papers filed in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston. -- He's
presently jailed. |
Your
Tax Dollars At Work
Phoenix, AZ -- A symposium will be offered
on the University of Arizona campus Friday and Saturday to build
and strengthen activist alliances. The symposium, "Resistance
on the Border: Globalization Militarization Immigration,"
will host a variety of panels, performances, films and workshops
discussing issues on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and
on the border itself. Topics include "Challenging Institutional
Racism on the Border" and "Building Worker Solidarity
Across Borders." |
Ned
Weatherby |
Sierra Times
Aliens
Among Us
Recently there were complaints from Arizona
state elected officials regarding an editorial published in a
newspaper in Cochise County, Arizona, calling for citizens to
form a "militia" to defend their property from trespass
by illegal aliens. Arizona's Governor and the Governor-elect
responded to this by stating that local, state and federal law
enforcement would investigate these "vigilantes" and
prosecute them if possible. There was no mention made, however,
of prosecuting illegal alien lawbreakers. |
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L.A Times
(Free Registration)
Coyote
Pleads Guilty in Smuggling Case Tied to Fatal Crash
A Mazatlan, Mexico, man pleaded guilty
Wednesday to immigrant smuggling charges stemming from a head-on
highway collision in June that killed six people and injured
16 others. -- The crash occurred as a van packed with more than
20 illegal immigrants attempted to evade a border checkpoint
by driving the wrong way on Interstate 8. The van, which had
its headlights off, struck four oncoming vehicles along a dark
stretch of road just after 9 p.m. June 24. |
The Anderson
Report
Polilticos
Kyl, McCain, Kolbe and Grijalva to inspect border area
Arizona Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain
and the two Congressmen representing Tucson will tour southern
Arizona and the Mexican border [today... see above feature] with
a heavy focus on border security and illegal immigration's impact
on health care. The Republican senators, GOP Congressman Jim
Kolbe and incoming Democratic freshman Rep. Raul Grijalva will
make stops in Tucson, Nogales and Douglas. -- Needless to say,
and as usual, the local citizenry is unaware until the last moment.
There is also no opportunity for the local citizenry who are
most impacted by the out-of-control border situation to meet
with and discuss the issue with these squirrelly dudes. |
The Denver Channel
Drug
Pipeline Between Mexico and Brighton Busted
A major pipeline operating between Juarez,
Mexico, and Brighton, Colo., is now out of service after a 10-month
investigation and a major drug bust, local authorities announced
Wednesday. -- Federal and local drug agencies have been looking
into the medium-sized operation since February, and on early
Wednesday morning, agents served four warrants in the metro area. |
EFE
Bishops
seek to defend rights of illegals
Bishops from five northern cities called
on National Human Rights Commission chief Jose Luis Soberanes
for help in protecting immigrants "from persecution by armed
U.S. individuals," the organization said. -- The CNDH said
in a press release this week it would send representatives to
the border cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juarez, Casas
Grandes, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Saltillo to investigate
and document the complaints... |
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Washington
Times
INS
lacks proper checks on aliens
Millions of illegal aliens armed with
bogus documents enter the United States each year through the
nation's 300 ports of entry because of inadequate screening methods
by federal immigration officials at the country's airports and
border checkpoints, a little-publicized study says. -- Commissioned
by the INS, the study concluded that between 2.95 million and
5.45 million illegal aliens cross undetected every year into
the country through guarded ports of entry - with about one in
every nine illegal aliens being detained. |
News Transcript
- Farmingdale, NJ
Valid
identification remains key concern for authorities
It's nice to know who people really are,
especially for police officers investigating crimes or reports
of suspicious activity in a location within their jurisdiction.
-- This is especially true when police are dealing with people
believed to be foreign nationals who cannot produce valid and
legal identification papers, and it has been increasingly important
since the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. --
Identifying many of the immigrant Hispanics in the borough, many
of whom are believed to be Mexican nationals, is a major problem,
according to police officials. -- "Valid identification
is very important for us," Freehold Borough Police Capt.
Michael DiAiso said. "Of course, there is a lot of fake
identification being used, which only adds to the problem." |
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