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Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
Mexican Reconquistas
Ratchet Up Rhetoric
Propaganda is mixed with threats
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Brenda
Walker |
VDare.com
The
Style Guide To Writing A Sensitive Immigrant Story
The following guide is designed for you
young and/or inexperienced writers on how to fashion an article
about immigration that is acceptable to modern journalistic standards
of diversity and multicultural values. -- Management wishes that
the newsroom speak in one voice about newcomers in America and
how they contribute to our marvelous diversity which only adds
to our strength. We have included examples to make it perfectly
clear the tone we want. Standard phrases that may be used often
are indicated within quotes... |
Tucson
Citizen
Agents
seize 838 pounds of pot; smugglers flee into Mexico
Though the suspects who smuggled about
838 pounds of marijuana from Mexico into Yuma early Tuesday morning
got away, U.S. Border Patrol agents seized the pot. -- The
marijuana, valued at $670,192, was smuggled over the border near
the Colorado River in a Ford Aerostar van, said Border Patrol
spokesman Michael McGlasson. -- By the time agents caught up
with the van, the occupants had fled back into Mexico, McGlasson
said. |
Ben Johnson - FrontPageMag.com
1965
Immigration Act Disastrous
America's current mass immigration mess
is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965,
despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration
country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924.
Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely
drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class
society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together
into a common national culture. In some ways..... |
Dallas
Morning News (Free Reg.)
Castañeda
bemoans 'lack of progress'
The lack of meaningful progress on a
comprehensive migration accord with the United States ranks as
the biggest foreign policy disappointment this year for President
Vicente Fox, Foreign Minister Jorge
Castañeda said Monday in a year-end report on his
ministry's work. -- Although Mr. Castañeda characterized
the U.S.-Mexico relationship as requiring "new and closer"
ties, he pointed to the 2- year- old migration negotiations as
a principal failure for the Fox administration. |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
UExpress.com
True
meaning of security has nothing to do with new department
...The common reassurances to Americans
after 9/11 were that: 1) Now, because so much of the terrorism
devastation came from our ridiculously lax immigration "controls,"
the government would act intelligently to manage immigration;
2) the Bush administration's push for a massive amnesty was dead
as the proverbial doornail; and 3) other governments would never
again be allowed to dictate our immigration policies. -- Not
only have those expectations not been fulfilled, but they have
actually been reversed. Despite some palpable acts by the INS,
immigration to the United States today is more wide-open..... |
Houston
Chronicle
Hospital
seeking remedy for interpreter shortage
Dr. Alfred Watson was scheduled to see
11 women for ultrasounds at Ben Taub General Hospital recently,
but eight of them spoke only Spanish. -- Because Watson speaks
only English, he had to search before finding a technician who
could interpret for him. [Reader
Comment: Treating Mexico's citizens is putting Harris County's
taxpayers at risk! Patient base in obstetrics is 80% Hispanic.
3000 patients/day treated at hospitals - 50% Hispanic. 8 of 11
women waiting for ultrasounds (pregnant, I assume) speak only
Spanish. The hospitals' answer: ask for volunteer interpreters.
No word about telling the pols to close the #&@!* border!] |
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USA Today
(Not Published)
Re:Job
hunt gets harder for African-Americans
The list of reasons for the shockingly high level
of unemployment among black Americans -- 11 percent -- leaves
out one of the most important, namely the enormous influx of
immigrants. ("Job hunt gets harder for African-Americans")
-- The job displacement of blacks in areas of high immigration
has been huge. For example, in the Los Angeles janitor strike
of 2000, newly organized Hispanics were pleased with starting
wages of $6.90 to $7.90 per hour. But in the 1980s, mainly black
unionized janitors made $13 an hour... |
So. Florida Sun-Sentinel
Registration
worries foreigners
As word spreads of a new regulation requiring
men from certain countries to register with the federal government,
calls from South Florida Arabs are flooding the office of Hollywood
attorney Mazen Sukkar. -- "They're frantic," said Sukkar,
who published a notice in a local Arabic paper. "They're
asking, are they going to arrest us, are they going to detain
us, and we don't know the answers." -- The Department of
Justice says new reporting requirements for citizens of 17 Muslim
countries and North Korea .... |
WorldnetDaily.com
Fleischer
pressed on border militia
At today's White House news briefing,
WND asked presidential press secretary Ari Fleischer about illegal
immigration, etc... -- WND: Ari, The Washington Times reports
this morning that in Arizona there are more than a dozen known
militia organizations responding to a reported 1 million illegal
immigrants. And Chris Simcox, the newspaper publisher in Tombstone,
is quoted as saying, "I dare the president of the United
States to arrest Americans who are protecting their own country...
"[See
transcript] |
Associated
Press
Sinkhole
de Mayo: Killer of prop. 187 says deficit in the high $20-billions
Gov. Gray Davis formally declared a fiscal
crisis in California Monday, saying the state's deficit could
surpass "the high 20 billions" of dollars - sharply
higher than earlier estimates of $21.1 billion -- His proclamation
allows the Legislature to transfer $1 billion in state fuel taxes
to the ailing General Fund to help offset the deficit, instead
of spending the money on roads and transit programs. -- Davis
proposed the transfer last week, when he unveiled a two-year,
$10.2 billion package of budget cuts targeting education, health
care, transportation and other areas. [See Killing
of prop. 187 is killing Americans] |
Jersey Journal
Mexico-NYC
torch run near Hudson
Runners participating in a torch run
from Mexico City to New York City will arrive at the Centro Guadalupe
tomorrow, after passing through Kearny and Jersey City. -- Organizers
say the religious pilgrimage is both a celebration of the feast
of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12 and a way of bringing attention
to the plight of the Mexican
immigrant in the United States. -- Sponsored by New York
City-based Asociacion Tepeyac, the event is an offshoot of a
torch run that's been held for the last four years.. |
Tucson
Citizen Editorial
Paper
opines against militias
The frustration is justified. The anger
is understandable. The determination to get involved is laudable.
-- Despite all of that, those who have formed or are joining
the private groups patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border are taking
the wrong approach in dealing with illegal immigration. -- There
now are at least three groups that have taken up arms to patrol
and guard southern Arizona's border with Mexico. The latest was
started by Chris
Simcox, publisher of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper. |
Tucson
Citizen
Cameras
watch border at night for illegal moves
While most Border Patrol agents spend
their workdays under the blazing desert sun, Jeff Olsen sits
in a 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. -- The U.S.
Border Patrol station in Douglas has cameras mounted on towers
- eyes in the sky - that scan the border constantly for illegal
activity, and Olsen is one of the agents who benefits from them. |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
Border
Patrol agent fires at rock-throwers
A Border Patrol agent fired his gun Sunday
at people throwing rocks at him and his partner as they tracked
a group of illegal immigrants near the border. -- No one was
injured in the 3:15 a.m. incident, which occurred about a half-mile
west of the San Ysidro port of entry. -- The shooting was sparked
by a group of people who climbed the border fence on the Mexican
side and began throwing rocks at the agents, said Raleigh Leonard,
a Border Patrol spokesman. -- "Smugglers tend to use this
tactic to try to push agents out of the area," Leonard said. |
Valley Morning Star
Senator:
Emphasis needed on border
More emphasis on the U.S. Border Patrol
and a more efficient INS are goals for the new Homeland Security
Office, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday. -- Hutchison
that the most direct effect the new federal agency would have
in the Rio Grande Valley is protecting the international border.
-- "We want to have commerce and we want to have business,"
she said, "but there will be more attention to services
and assuring that our borders are secured." |
Caller
Times News Briefs
Illegals
found in car trunk
Three illegals were found Saturday in
the trunk of a car at the Sarita Border Patrol checkpoint. --
Chief Border Patrol Agent Jose Garza said the men were found
under blankets when a dog alerted agents to the rear of a 2002
Dodge Stratus. Although they were sweating profusely, none of
the men required medical attention. -- The vehicle's driver and
a passenger, both women and U.S. citizens, were arrested on charges
of conspiring to transport illegals. |
Providence
Journal (Free Registration)
Grand
jury indicts 4 men in murder, assault cases
A Providence County grand jury handed
up indictments Friday against four men who allegedly committed
three separate high-profile crimes in the Blackstone Valley.
-- Simon Pacheco, the Mexican national of no fixed address who
was charged with the August slaying of an elderly man in a Central
Falls senior citizens' housing complex, was indicted on one count
of murder and two counts of larceny under $500. -- State police
say trace evidence linked Pacheco to the fatal stabbing of Matias
Hernandez, 68, in his Forand Manor apartment at 30 Washington
St. |
Jim
Kalb |
FrontPageMag.com
The
Pope Calls for Open Borders
Here's the Pope's message for the World
Day of Migrants and Refugees, which I gather is an annual event
in the Catholic Church: "To Overcome Racism, Xenophobia
and Exaggerated Nationalism". What he says is in one sense
typical -- it follows the line all respectable Christian religious
leaders now follow -- but in another sense quite extraordinary....
[Remember
this?] |
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Tucson Citizen
Aztlan
cheerleaders holding forum to rant about 'vigilantism'
A group of panelists including attorneys,
professors and activists will explore how new Homeland Security
policies, among other things, are affecting life in border communities.
-- The community forum is being presented by Derechos
Humanos, a human rights organization that advocates change
in U.S. border and immigration policy. -- Jose Matus said the
goal of the forum is to eradicate vigilantism and change border
enforcement policies... |
Arizona Daily Star Border Edition
Intruders
allegedly shoot at illegals
Six men burst into a Cochise County trailer
Friday, demanded money and opened fire on the eight men inside
after they said they had nothing, officials said. -- No one was
hit by gunfire but some suffered cuts and scrapes as they jumped
out the windows and door, said Carol Capas, spokeswoman for the
Cochise County Sheriff's Department. -- Neighbors reported hearing
more than 20 shots, but Capas said an official determination
hadn't been made. -- The intruders had not been located Monday,
she said... |
TheNewsMexico.com
Mexicans
start 'demanding' again
Mexico is not drifting away from the
U.S., but is going to intensify its "strategic relationship"
with its northern neighbor, Foreign Relations Secretary Jorge Castañeda
said on Monday. -- In an end of year address, Castañeda
said the nation's foreign policy priorities are to hammer out
an immigration deal with the U.S. government, and get Mexico
into the International Criminal Court. -- Castañeda said
a limited deal to legalize Mexican
workers in the U.S. could be made in the next few months. |
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