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McCain Teams Up
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Border tour lends credibility to Mexican claim on Southwest
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WNEG - Northeastern
Georgia
Controversy
Ensues over Licenses For Criminals
House Bill 851 would remove immigration
status as a condition for getting a driver's license. The last
of three public hearings on the bill was held in Gainesville
Friday. -- According to the 2000 census, an estimated 20% of
Hall County's population is Latino. How many of them are here
illegally is unknown. Even without U.S. citizen status or a driver's
license, many are on the roads. House Bill 851 aims to make those
roads safer by giving illegal immigrants the opportunity to legally
drive in Georgia. |
Bob
Ellis |
ToogoodReports.com
The
Silent Invasion
The United States faces an invasion of
growing proportions, yet many Americans are unaware that the
invasion is already underway. For decades, our border to the
south has been as porous as a cheap napkin when it comes to keeping
out illegal aliens. Despite the fact that we have an Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS), with laws in place to regulate
foreign visitors and to prevent illegal entry to our country,
our measures to do both are increasingly ineffective. Some might
argue that many in America are even unwilling to attempt to regulate
immigration... |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
Chicago
Tribune (Free Registration)
Why
the country lacks 'security' -- Immigration laws almost null
and void
The humongous new Department of Homeland
Security has been kicked off, and don't we all feel safer now?
This agency, bringing together 170,000 employees from such unlike
institutions as the Coast Guard and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, is charged with protecting us from Al Qaeda terrorists
and international ne'er-do-wells, not to speak of bawdy brigands
on the high seas. -- But as one looks at the realization of this
idea--that it is necessary for many American institutions to
integrate themselves tightly to win against terrorism--one sees
an entire area of concern that is hardly being addressed at all. |
Sierra Vista Herald [Short-lived link]
Cochise
residents urge politicians 'to do something'
Douglas businessman Bill Wendt likens
the border problems in Cochise County to a smoldering fire. --
And unless the federal government does something about it, there
will be a major blaze, he said. -- "It will only take a
spark and it will be out of control," he told two U.S. senators,
a U.S. representative and a representative-elect Thursday night
at the Douglas Airport. -- Republican Arizona U.S. Sens. Jon
Kyl and John McCain, Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe and Democrat
Representative-elect Raul
Grijalva ended a trip along the border.... |
Sierra
Vista Herald [Short-lived
link]
Kyl
decries border failure as ABP sends video feed from Douglas,
AZ
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl said Thursday that
the federal government has been remiss and ineffectual when it
comes to handling the U.S.-Mexico border problems. -- And he
said those who are hurting the most are people in Arizona, especially
in Cochise County. -- As the current and future members of Congress
held a short press conference, Glenn Spencer, executive director
of the American
Border Patrol, and some members of his organization provided
a live-feed broadcast on the Internet. [Reconquista Raul Grijalva
was in attendance.] |
San Mateo County Times
Day-labor
site to be announced
The city's long search for a place to
put a day-labor center may be coming to an end. -- The City Council
has scheduled a closed study session for Monday to discuss possibly
acquiring [a] property. -- Dozens of men from Mexico, Guatemala,
and other Spanish-speaking countries congregate on the streets
of San Mateo's Gateway Park area each day in the hope that someone
will hire them for a day of manual labor. -- It would help stop
the victimization of these workers, who often get cheated out
of pay by people who know that many are undocumented aliens...
[Also see: Aiding,
abetting illegals] |
Valley
Morning Star
Bush
decision challenges truckers
...The U.S. DOT is acting on Bush's pledge
to process 130 applications from Mexican companies that want
to transport international cargo or provide regular bus service
between Mexico and the United States. -- The agency said Mexican
truckers will have to comply with all U.S. safety standards and
insurance requirements, including an audit by the DOT's Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, to get operating authority.
-- The new policy begins once the Mexican applicants are approved
by the Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. |
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Associated
Press
State
Workers Accused of Selling ID's to Illegals
Pontiac, Mich. - A couple and two employees
of the secretary of state's office were accused Friday of selling
forged driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and wanted criminals,
officials said. -- According to police reports, Rogelio Gonzales
took payments and steered undercover officers posing as illegal
immigrants to the secretary of state's office in Pontiac. --
At the office, Gonzales' wife acted as an interpreter while two
employees issued fraudulent driver's licenses, said Oakland County
Prosecutor David Gorcyca. |
H.
Millard |
Repressive
Patriot Act Making Strange Bedfellows?
...Lost in the PR spin coming from D.C.
about the Act is the fact that that real problem we have with
terrorism is a result of open borders and the massive Third World
invasion of this nation. Instead of closing our borders and stopping
this immigration, many of the same people behind this dangerous
and falsely named USA Patriot Act mouth the usual clichés
about America being a nation of immigrants and how it's just
plain American to have open borders. |
The New American
"Utaztlan"?!
Since the 1960s, radical Chicano activists
(with financial and moral support from major tax-exempt foundations)
have championed the notion that the southwestern United States
is actually "Aztlan," the mythical homeland of the
Aztec Indians. Believers in the Aztlan myth insist on the indivisibility
of "la Raza" (the Mexican race) and the need to abolish
the U.S./Mexico border. One of their preferred slogans is, "We
didn't cross the border - the border crossed us." |
Charlotte
Business Journal
We
need 'guest workers'?
The national unemployment rate rose to
6% in November, and the number of unemployed persons edged up
to 8.5 million, highest in nine years, says the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. -- The percentage level was most recently reached
in April. From May through October, the jobless rate remained
within a range of 5.6% to 5.9%. -- In November, the unemployment
rate for adult men rose by half a percentage point to 5.7%. |
William
A. Shields |
Etherzone.com
Forget
Iraq - Impeach Bush and declare war on Mexico
On March 9, 1916, Francisco "Pancho"
Villa crossed the border and invaded the United States, sacking
and looting the town of Columbus, New Mexico. This is not the
last time the United States would be invaded by an army of Mexicans.
-- Millions of Mexicans have crossed the border in recent years
and not one of them has come with honorable intentions. Since
they intended to, then in fact did cross our southern border
illegally, they are criminals, the lot. |
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Washington
Times
INS
focuses on 'high-risk individuals' at U.S. borders
The [INS] yesterday said illegal aliens
continue to be among the millions of foreigners who pass annually
into the United States, although it did not know how many successfully
avoid detection each year at the nation's airports and border
checkpoints. -- But Michael D. Cronin, INS assistant commissioner
for inspections, said since the September 11 attacks the agency
has "designed and calibrated" a border inspection system
at the 300 guarded ports of entry that is designed to identify
"persons of highest interest to us," including terrorists
and other major criminals. |
San Francisco
Examiner
Day-labor
group threatens to sue
The fiery group that runs San Francisco's
Day Labor Program is threatening to sue The City if officials
do not extend its contract and fast-track the group's application
to relocate to a new office on Cesar Chavez Street. -- In a Thursday
rally at City Hall, day laborers, staff of La Raza Centro Legal,
Inc., neighbors and a representative of MALDEF
blamed Mayor Willie Brown for stifling their right to protest
police harassment of workers. -- While most of the day laborers
humbly asked for support, La Raza [The Race] took a strident
tone. -- "We're angry when you take away our rights, Mayor
Brown," said Anamaria Loya of the nonprofit. |
El Paso Times
Worries
over junk trucks flourish
...Officials in Laredo fear that the
new trucking regulations will increase pollution from long lines
of idled, diesel- belching rigs. -- They also worry that impatient
truckers could look for new crossings, bypassing Laredo. -- And
they fear that letting Mexican trucks into the U.S. interior
-- instead of limiting them to commercial zones hugging the border
-- will hurt the local trucking industry, which has sprung up
around the need for drivers to ferry short-haul transfer loads
across the border. |
Sierra
Vista Herald [Short-lived
link]
Dever:
Border woes remain unheard
The people in charge of immigration policy
in Washington, D.C., are "truly ignorant" and do not
have a clue about the border issues facing Cochise County residents,
Sheriff Larry Dever said Wednesday. -- "It's amazing to
me how uninformed they are," he told nearly 100 people at
a Greater Sierra Vista Area Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs
Committee luncheon. -- In the 1980s, the county was known as
"cocaine alley" because of the drug- smuggling activity
in the area, Dever said. |
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Tucson Citizen
Border
Patrol technology helps thwart "crossers"
While most Border Patrol agents spend
their workdays under the blazing desert sun, Jeff Olsen sits
in a dark, stuffy room where the only light comes from a bank
of surveillance monitors. -- But like agents in the field, Olsen
is doing his part to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
-- "I think these guys are about to cross," Olsen says
to co-workers, pointing to a screen that shows three people hopping
the fence that separates Arizona from Mexico.... |
Glenwood
Springs Post Independent
College
discusses tuition break for lawbreakers
Children of undocumented
immigrants may graduate from a local high school, but under
federal law they have to pay out-of-state tuition - $6,600 a
year - to attend Colorado Mountain College. -- In-district tuition
for full-time students is about $1,270 a year. -- The Colorado
Mountain College Board of Trustees will discuss the tuition discrepancy
during today's meeting at the Spring Valley Campus. -- Colorado
Mountain College isn't alone in grappling with the out-of-state
tuition issue. Spuhler said several states, including California
and Texas, have gotten around the federal law by passing laws
of their own. [Both
of these states have huge budget deficits, too.] |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
4
pledge push for border aid
Four members of Arizona's congressional
delegation emerged from a helicopter overflight of the Mexican
border daunted by the vastness of the problems the international
line represents. -- But they said the trip will help them make
the case in Congress for increased funding for border needs,
from hospital reimbursements to high technology. -- Kyl and McCain
said they plan to reintroduce a bill that stalled in September.
It calls for $200 million in funding for medical facilities that
care for people illegally in the country. [Why not just fix the
problem rather than sticking another multimillion dollar bandage
on it? What
happened to McCain's call for troops on the border?] |
Tri-City Herald
Car
theft ring possibly cracked
A search of five homes in a Kennewick
mobile home park Thursday night may have broken a car theft ring
responsible for vehicles disappearing around the state, some
of them turning up in Mexico. -- Police still were looking at
cars and combing through belongings at 10 p.m., but had identified
10 cars as likely being stolen. -- A father and son who lived
in the Columbia Mobile Village near Clearwater Avenue and Zinser
Street were in police custody and two other people had been turned
over to the INS. |
Jon
Dougherty - Worldnet Daily
Vigilante
justice' is better than no justice
Residents of Arizona, Texas and other
increasingly lawless regions of the country are tired of being
ignored and are taking matters into their own hands, though their
actions are drawing the ire and fear of authorities.
-- Recently Chris Simcox, the editor of Arizona weekly the Tucson
Tumbleweed, wrote an editorial in which he said he was fed up
with waiting for the federal government to do its job and get
serious about enforcing the national borders of this country
especially in an era of increased terrorism. |
David
Montgomery |
FrontPageMag.com
Mexican
Anti-Americanism in America
In Los Angeles last year, cars were seen
bearing illuminated
signs that read "F--- you, this is still Mexico."
Not just a few cars. Thousands. This is but one sign
of the hostility towards the United States that is growing among
Mexicans living in this country. -- As the number of Mexicans
living in the U.S. has ballooned (growing from 2 million to 23
million over the past thirty years), so have the feelings of
anti-Americanism among them. While the many Mexicans
living in the U.S. are still law-abiding and loyal, there are
disturbing signs that anti-Americanism is on the increase. |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Border
trek delivered Simcox to his cause
...Chris
Simcox says he's always had a gun but didn't begin wearing
it regularly until October when he used his newspaper, Tombstone
Tumbleweed, to issue a call to arms, launching efforts to send
armed citizen patrols to intercept and detain illegal entrants.
-- Among
the more than 1,700 e-mails Simcox said he's received since the
story made international news are warnings that he will "eat
Mexican bullets," and an ominous threat that the injury
to any Mexican national by his group will result in a $100,000
bounty for his capture. |
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