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Monday, December 16, 2002 |
NorthFulton.com (Georgia)
Gang
suspected in grocery heist
Forsyth County Sheriff's detectives working
toward solving the Dec. 7 afternoon armed robbery of the Tienda
Carniceria Grocery are considering the possibility the robbery
was the work of a Hispanic gang. -- Five or six males described
as Hispanic looking entered the store and ordered food from the
grocery and sat at a table in the rear of the business to eat
it before pulling out weapons and demanding money from the store
manager and butcher. -- "At the time of the robbery there
was only one customer along with the store manger and butcher
inside the store," said Capt. Ron Freeman. "They reportedly
threw the customer to the ground..." |
Mercury
News
State's
budget crisis may lead to elimination of service for 'immigrants'
A statewide service that helps low-income
immigrants navigate their way through the complicated citizenship
process may be eliminated, as part of a number of proposed cuts
intended to reduce California's ballooning budget deficit.
-- Immigrants and their advocates across the state blasted
Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to cut $2.9 million from the budget,
saying that tens of thousands of immigrants in the Bay Area and
across the state owe their naturalization to the program, which
gives direct grants to small non-profit groups that help immigrants
complete a long immigration form. |
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Mercury
News
State's
budget crisis may lead to elimination of service for 'immigrants'
A statewide service that helps low-income
immigrants navigate their way through the complicated citizenship
process may be eliminated, as part of a number of proposed cuts
intended to reduce California's ballooning budget deficit.
-- Immigrants and their advocates across the state blasted
Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to cut $2.9 million from the budget,
saying that tens of thousands of immigrants in the Bay Area and
across the state owe their naturalization to the program, which
gives direct grants to small non-profit groups that help immigrants
complete a long immigration form. |
Associated
Press
Virginia
AG seeks restrictions on illegals
Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said
Monday he will seek legislation aimed at preventing illegal aliens
from obtaining Virginia driver's licenses or attending college
at in-state tuition rates. -- Under the driver's license bill,
only those with permanent resident alien status, U.S. citizens
and holders of valid nonimmigrant visas will be eligible for
Virginia driver's licenses. This will help prevent illegal aliens
from obtaining fraudulent driver's licenses, Kilgore said, noting
that seven of the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists had fraudulent licenses.
-- U.S. Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, who sponsored unsuccessful
legislation similar to Kilgore's license initiative in Congress
this summer, joined the attorney general to announce the anti-terrorism
initiative. |
Sham
ID Cards |
Miami Herald
Banks
turning foreign lawbreakers into cash cows
...Undocumented
immigrants are wary of taking their business to banks for
fear they will be deported or that they lack the funds to keep
accounts. But banks are eager to reverse this fear and penetrate
the immigrant market. -- This year, Bank of America, Wachovia
(formerly First Union), Citibank and SouthTrust began accepting
the matrícula, a Mexican government-issued ID, so Mexicans
without U.S. legal status can open accounts. -- ''It's safer
to have the money there,'' said Juana Pérez, a Mexican
immigrant. She opened an account with Bank Atlantic using her
matrícula. |
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UPI
INS
not to extend deadline for Muslims
The Immigration and Naturalization Service
said Monday that so far it does not plan to extend the registration
deadline for visitors from 17 Muslim countries and North Korea.
-- Under the National Security Entry Exit Registration System,
launched on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
the U.S. government must maintain photographs and fingerprints
of all male visitors from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and Sudan.
Another 13 countries were added to the list in October. |
Gainesville
Times Editorial
Driver's
licenses should be a privilege for legal residents
If the debate over giving illegal immigrants
driver's licenses were confined to the intellectual arena where
all debates should occur, rational thought would have delivered
a knockout punch to the movement in the first round. -- Giving
legal driving privileges to illegal immigrants is an easy solution
to a complex problem, but it would weaken the federal laws that
govern the structured process of gaining permission to enter
and live in the United States. ---- It
is a violation of federal law to enter the United States illegally,
and the guilty should not be rewarded with the privileges reserved
for those who follow those laws. |
Associated Press
News
Ignores Hispanics
The booming U.S. Hispanic population
has yet to be reflected in the news reports of the major broadcast
networks and CNN, a new study shows. -- Out of about 16,000 stories
on the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN last year,
only 99 -- 0.62 percent -- were about Hispanics, according to
the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. -- The number
was a slight increase over 2000, when there were 84 such stories,
or 0.53 percent, according to the highly critical "Network
Brownout Report" released Monday. |
Omaha
World-Herald [Message
board]
Blacks,
Latinos to share concerns
As she listened to jazz at a north Omaha
club about 18 months ago, a question flashed through Josephine
Ramos' mind: Why don't Latino leaders work with black leaders
to solve problems that affect both communities? -- She met with
John Pierce of Creighton University and Chris Rodgers, a mayor's
assistant. As a result, the first Omaha African American &
Latino Communities Reception will be held Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
at Creighton's Lied Center for Performing Arts. -- Omaha Mayor
Mike Fahey is scheduled to join the meeting. |
Thomas D.
Segel |
Sierra Times
Border
Security, Can It Become A Reality?
...Our government cannot even tell us
how many illegal aliens are now in the United States. You can
pick any number between five and 15 million people, and your
count would be just as meaningful as those reported from Washington.
We do know people are making illegal border crossings from both
the north and south. We know they are arriving here by sea. We
know they enter by air using false documents and we know thousands
upon thousand enter legally on tourist or student visas, and
then disappear... |
The Arizona
Republic
Your
tax dollars at waste: Law would require immigrant workers to
use center
It will soon be a criminal offense in
certain parts of north Phoenix to stand on the street and ask
for a job. -- The city of Phoenix wants to ensure its new Day
Labor Center has a monopoly on the informal cash-for-sweat
marketplace that thrives in the mornings along Bell Road. --
The City Council is expected to approve a law Wednesday that
would make it a misdemeanor to solicit work on a public street
within a three-mile radius of the work center near 25th Street
and Bell Road, scheduled to open within a month. |
Chris
Simcox |
Tucson Citizen
Media
has mislead public about Tombstone group
...Why do we vote? I thought it was to
choose people as public servants - good-hearted folks who told
us they would represent us. We elect them based on their sincerity;
they stroke us into believing in them, enough to entrust them
to enforce the laws of the country. -- What a scam! -- Government
does not enforce the basic laws that provide for our national
security. For a year, my president and yours has been asking
us to be vigilant in defense of our country..... |
Star-Ledger
U.S.
gets a better handle on who's entering country
There are immigrants, nonimmigrants and
illegal immigrants. There are criminal aliens, political asylum
seekers, and refugees. Now, the nation's complex immigration
system has added another category by which to classify new arrivals:
"special aliens." -- They are male visitors from 18
Middle Eastern nations that the U.S. government believes may
harbor terrorists. |
Santa
Rosa Press-Democrat
Gangs
'a community problem'
While police estimate that the great
majority of gang members in Sonoma Co. are Latino, residents
and community leaders say it's an issue that needs to be addressed
communitywide and across ethnic and racial lines. -- "My
reaction is that even though 80% of the gangs, if that's correct,
and I think it probably is, are Latino, it's not a Latino problem
-- it's a community problem," said Flavio Velez, who teaches
parenting classes to Spanish- speaking residents. |
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San Antonio
Business Journal
Hutchinson's
record with Hispanics is drawing fire
Allegations that the U.S. Customs Service
has a track record of discriminating against its Hispanic agents
seem to have hit a nerve in the Hispanic law enforcement community
nationwide. -- The discrimination charges are raised as part
of a pending class-action lawsuit filed this past spring by a
group of Hispanic Customs agents. -- That tension is now being
focused on a recent nominee for a high-level post at the new
Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Asa Hutchinson, who is
currently the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA). |
Steve
Sailer |
VDare.com
Karl
Rove Call Your Office! Amnesty Triggered Immigrant Baby Boom
Now that the election is over, the White
House is again hauling out an unpopular idea it had kept under
careful wraps while the voters were paying attention: amnesty
for Mexican illegal aliens. But new evidence suggests the idea
is even worse than it seemed. -- Karl Rove's new ambassador to
Mexico, Tony Garza, described to reporters in Mexico City a rough
plan that actually sounds like Rove's learned a little about
why so many GOP Congressmen rebelled against his first plan back
in the summer of 2001. |
The Arizona
Republic
Taxi
industry in Arizona unchecked, uninsured
The taxi that hurtled into Phoenix police
Officer Jason Schechterle's cruiser last year and turned it into
a fireball was driven by an undocumented immigrant with a history
of epileptic seizures who lied about his illness when applying
for a driver's license. -- In New York, Boston, Los Angeles or
San Francisco, where taxicabs are strictly regulated, chances
are better that Rogelio Gutierrez wouldn't have been behind the
wheel of a taxi, or that the uninsured taxi he was driving wouldn't
have been on the road. |
Sham
ID Cards |
The Enquirer
Battle
Creek may accept Mexican sham IDs
The city of Battle Creek would recognize
Mexican
identification cards as a form of identification for Mexican
nationals if a resolution is approved Tuesday by the city commission.
-- The "matricula consular" issued by Mexican Consulate
offices across the United States is a laminated, wallet-sized
card that identifies Mexican citizens living in America by a
photograph and number. They're used across the country, and banks
and police departments are increasingly accepting them as valid
forms of ID. [Visit
FILE] |
Arizona Daily Star Border Edition
No
slowdown in influx of Mexican patients
Immigration inspectors are trying to
limit the number of poor Mexican patients they wave across the
border to Arizona hospitals, but there's no evidence the effort
is working. -- Tucson Medical Center is on pace this year to
treat more patients given medical waivers -or, humanitarian parole
- at the border than it did last year. -- The hospital treated
25 such patients last year at a cost to TMC of $1.5 million,
said Robert Guerrero... |
The
Age - Australia
Vigilantes
revive West's wild ways
...More than one million illegal immigrants
are expected to be detained this year along the Mexican border
but up to three times as many are predicted to get through. Mr
Simcox says he has seen numerous groups pass Tombstone at night,
and says that people have had enough of government inaction.
-- In the Sierra Vista, a group known as the American
Border Patrol has set up its own surveillance equipment. |
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