Sunday, December 8, 2002

Kris Eggle Gave His Life to Save Part of America What Will You Do To Help Save The Rest? Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  Border barriers proposed The National Park Service is proposing to build a vehicle barrier along the Arizona-Mexico border in an area where a ranger was killed in August. -- The fence-like barrier would run the entire, approximately 30-mile length of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument's southern boundary. -- On Aug. 9, Ranger Kris Eggle was killed by a gunman who had driven across the border... Also See Sierra Vista Herald Article (Exp. 12/9) Arizona Daily Star (Published Letter) Eggle's Mother: More support for BP Four members of Arizona's congressional delegation plus staff members made the choice to tour the border on Thursday. -- It is a very positive sign that this serious issue is being given this kind of attention.... Past Features   ABP Updates

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The Sagamore (Indiana University / Purdue University) Mexicans set up another invasion station In its first three days of operation, about 700 Hispanics who would otherwise have had to travel to Chicago to obtain immigration aid found help closer to home when the Mexican Consulate opened Nov. 25 in Union Station. -- Among other services the consulate offers is assistance to families of deceased immigrants who want to send the remains back to Mexico, free legal, immigration and penal advice, help obtaining visas needed to take personal belongings back to Mexico when their stays ends, divorce services, and a new consulate-issued identification card immigrants need to open bank accounts and do other everyday activities.

Associated Press Border Patrol: Random traffic stops going well The U.S. Border Patrol says its unannounced, rotating checkpoints are working well after being introduced last month in areas of Michigan known to be frequented by immigrant smugglers. -- Since the program started Nov. 12, Border Patrol spokesman Stan Rosas said agents have set up checkpoints about a half dozen times near Port Huron and Trenton. They are stopping motorists near the border with Canada to ask their citizenship and other questions. -- "We're trying to disrupt the smuggling activity in the area," Rosas said.

Washington Post Old South Goes With the Wind (Balkanization) ...Until the early 1990s, the three major epochs in Southern history had to do with race: the Civil War, Reconstruction and the civil rights movement. Now comes the fourth. During the past 15 years, an unprecedented wave of immigration swept over the South, transforming the meaning of race in the very place it was defined. -- Immigrants from Mexico, India, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries shocked a fundamentally white and black society. This first generation poured in for work -- and to survive, many of them sweated on the margins of one of the most prosperous chapters in the American economy.

Associated Press Census check finds 10% more people, all Hispanic 'immigrants' The bustling mountain resort community of Avon, Colorado is reporting a 4 percent population increase, all in one day. -- The U.S. Census Bureau did a recount and found 230 more people, everyone of them a Hispanic immigrant. -- The 2000 census counted 5,500 people in Avon, making it one of the fastest-growing towns in Colorado. More than one-third of the Avonites counted were Hispanic.

Copley News Service Convention business shunning L.A. Cities nationwide have seen their convention business sag in the wake of last year's terrorist attacks, but no place has lost more air from its convention balloon than L.A/, where some 42 major conventions have canceled in the past three years and city officials and hoteliers are pointing fingers in all directions. -- Many say the lack of a convenient convention hotel has exacerbated the travel fears and economic woes brought on by the attacks. [Not a word about gang violence, crime, and illegal aliens all over the city.]

L.A Times (Free Registration)  L.A. gang crime a huge problem Fresh on the heels of his victory over secession, Mayor James K. Hahn is launching a new campaign to reduce crime and make his mark on the Los Angeles Police Department. --- When he was city attorney, Hahn sought court injunctions against loitering gang members, moves that brought mixed results. Shortly after he was elected mayor, Hahn ordered the LAPD to undertake a number of initiatives to boost recruitment and decrease resignations and retirements... [L.A.'s Special Order 40 protects illegal alien gangsters.]

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  Tombstone militia turnout is small At least 50 people were expected, but only a handful of would-be-militia volunteers showed up for the first organizational meeting of the fledgling Civil Homeland Defense here yesterday. -- The low turnout did not disappoint or deter the group's principal organizer, Tombstone Tumbleweed editor and publisher Chris Simcox, who used the meeting to lambaste the federal government for failing to control what he termed an "invasion" of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico through Southern Arizona.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution   Latino gangs part of 'family,' indictments say ...This seemingly random episode of urban terror now is being portrayed in federal indictments as part of a wave of violent Hispanic gang activity growing in Atlanta and its suburbs. -- The indictments last week against 51 alleged members of five street gangs that authorities claim worked under the umbrella "La Gran Familia" gang attempt to spell out a pattern of organized murder, robbery and mayhem in Atlanta's eastern crescent of suburbs since the mid-1990s.

Sierra Vista Herald Editorial  [Short-lived link expires Monday] Taking Arizona to Washington Border issues again gained attention Thursday when U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe and U.S. Representative-elect [reconquista Mechista] Raul Grijalva toured Southern Arizona. -- With flights in Blackhawk helicopters from Tucson to Sells to Nogales and finally to Douglas, four of our state's congressmen got a firsthand feel for what they know is a knot that needs to be untied -- problems along the U.S.-Mexico border. --- Come January, we'll find out where the four congressmen stand and if any real action will happen to solve our border woes.

Sierra Vista Herald  [Short-lived link expires Monday] More on proposed border barrier ...The U.S. Department of Interior is looking at putting up stronger vehicle barriers at the [Coronado National Memorial] and the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Western Arizona. -- Approximately 200,000 illegal immigrants and 750,000 pounds of drugs entered the United States at Organ Pipe, and 55,000 illegal immigrants and 120,000 pounds of drugs at the Coronado National Memorial, according to a letter from the superintendent of the Organ Pipe facility in 2001.

St. George Spectrum Immigration laws exist for a reason ...Many advocates for illegal immigrants say that cases such as Wednesday's crash point out the need to allow anyone into the country whenever they desire. -- We respectfully disagree. -- People who want to live in our country must be willing to abide by its laws. That doesn't mean they have to agree with them. Many an American citizen differs in opinion with laws on the books -- everything from guns to taxes to zoning ordinances. -- But they respect the laws, with a few criminal exceptions, and abide by them.

Bloomberg Mexican trucks blocked temporarily The Teamsters union and consumer groups will have at least 30 days to try to stop Mexican trucks from driving anywhere in the U.S. under rules authorized last month, an appellate court said yesterday. -- The union, joined by Public Citizen and the Environmental Law Foundation, last week asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to limit trucks from Mexico to a 20 mile zone along the border until the U.S. reviews the impact they will have on air quality. The government told the court..... [Also see this item from CBS News]