Sunday, December 22, 2002

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Social Security Benefits for Mexicans? Contact Bush - Tell him: No Benefits for Non-Citizens

Open Letter to Bush Bush and the proposed Social Security for Mexicans ripoff Dear President Bush: I voted for you in 2000 but will not vote for you in 2004 if you continue to sell the U.S. down the road by pandering to Mexicans in this country and to Mexico. -- Nearly each week we learn that you are planning to offer another benefit to Mexicans. This past week it was revealed that you plan to add Mexicans to our Social Security system. What's wrong with you? Have you lost your mind?

Baltimore Sun Chief Mexican colonizer faces big problems ahead Mexican officials swooped into Candido Morales' small-town life earlier this fall and plunked him onto the world stage, unexpectedly appointing the quiet American social worker as Mexico's point man for immigrants in the United States. -- He must build a new organization for Mexican immigrants while negotiating politics on both sides of the border. And all the while, he must contend with U.S. critics who say he does not understand Mexican politics and was picked as director of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad precisely because he is expected not to make waves.

Sacramento Bee Editorial Reserve deportation for serious violations Thousands of males aged 16 years or older from five countries designated by U.S. authorities as sponsors of terrorism have registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service as required by a new regulation. All were photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed, and may not change addresses, jobs or a course of study without notifying the INS in writing. Otherwise they become "out of status" and subject to arrest and deportation. That's reasonable, up to a point.

Mark Andrew Dwyer

California tax dollars: Easy come, easy go There is an old Eastern European proverb form the by-gone Soviet era that says: "If the Socialists were in charge of Sahara then shortages of sand would follow soon". So, it had to surprise no one, at least no one familiar with how the leftist ideas worked when implemented, that Democrat-controlled California government turned a 14 billion dollar surplus into a 35 million dollar deficit...

Nogales International  [Short-lived link] Border Patrol replies to criticisms David Aguilar, chief of the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol, which includes Santa Cruz County, said that the impression of some residents that the government has chosen not to enforce immigration laws is incorrect. -- "Arizona has been at the focus of the Border Patrol's efforts for several years. -- "INS and the Border Patrol are in fact and have been aggressively enforcing our nation's immigration laws. -- "The Southwest Border Strategy is a multi-year, multi-phase strategy.

Washington Times Drive-by adds two to L.A.'s homicide tally An apparent gang-related shooting on a Los Angeles street corner Saturday night left four people injured and added two more names to the city's chilling homicide rate, which is the highest in the nation. -- Feuding among the city's myriad of street gangs has helped make it a bloody year in the nation's second-largest city with more than 640 slayings reported, an increase of more than 10 percent over last year. -- The shootings came as the LAPD under its new chief, William Bratton..........

Op-Ed -- Nogales International  [Short-lived link] Don't encourage more Mexicans to try to find work in the U.S. I read with interest Carlos Gonzalez' guest opinion [probably like these] on the Migrant Worker Program. He painted a rosy picture how great this would be for the United States. -- But I think it would be a win-win situation for Mexico. The Consul General failed to address the fact that there are already 4 to 8 million illegal Mexicans in this country. -- When they required hospitalization, I don't see Mexico stepping forward to pay the bill.

The Times of Trenton N.J. agencies aid and abet illegal aliens ...Under state statute, an employment agency must post a $10,000 bond to register with the Division on Consumer Affairs, the agency charged with overseeing them, said spokeswoman Genene Morris. -- But many temporary help agencies apparently do not register with the state. Nine of the 12 agencies in Trenton were not registered with the state, Morris said. --- For undocumented immigrants who speak little English, these agencies are the only places they can find work, Luna said. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime]

Fred Elbel

Guest Commentary - Denver Post Consider the legacy immigration leaves We often hear about "social justice," "environmental justice," "immigrant rights" and other variations on the concept of justice. The meanings of these terms are frequently obscured, often deliberately. Rather than expressions of rights under rules of law, such terms are often used to mean conformity to a particular political ideology. -- Thus, we see immigrant-advocacy organizations blurring the line between "justice" and illegality...

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)  Protesters criticize arrests of scofflaw airport job thieves Marching through a sea of holiday travelers at O'Hare International Airport, about 100 community activists on Friday protested last week's crackdown on illegal immigrants working in airports. -- Protesters held a candlelight prayer vigil outside Terminal 1 to ask authorities not to deport workers caught in the nationwide sweep called Operation Tarmac. -- Rev. Brendan Curran, associate pastor at St. Pius Catholic Church, said he understands the need for tighter security but questioned what is accomplished by deporting service employees. [Those arrested are illegals who have no business working in the U.S.]

Arizona Republic (Published) U.S. is failing border citizens I don't believe in vigilante justice, but I believe vigilantes are popping up along the border because our government is either unable or unwilling to enforce the law. -- Let's get this straight: These people are not coming into this country legally; they are illegal immigrants. -- If our government would only enforce the immigration laws there would not be any need for vigilantes...

WorldnetDaily.com Bill Frist weak on immigration ...Frist was awarded a "D" by Gun Owners of America for his voting record of opposing the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. He was also awarded a "D" lifetime rating by Americans for Better Immigration for his voting record of supporting unrestricted open-borders immigration and amnesties for millions of illegal immigrant law-breakers. As objectionable as Frist's voting record is on the Second Amendment and border-security issues...

Wheeling News-Register Editorial Reserve Social Security for seniors Within the next 15-20 years, it is likely that the Social Security system as it now is structured will not be able to cover retirement benefits due to all the American citizens for whom the program was created during the 1930s. Paying Social Security benefits to hundreds of thousands of citizens of other countries won't make the task any easier. -- Before you scoff at the idea of such payments, consider that they're already being made.

Stop the Mexican raid on U.S. Social Security! Letter to President Bush: We are part of the American Patrol organization and were just notified of something you are considering. This letter is to let you know how this American feels about you adding legal workers from Mexico to "our" social security system. Haven't the democrats hurt this federal government enough? I thought I voted in a Republican but I am beginning to wonder....

Juan Mann

VDare.com U.S. Has Legal Means To Stop Detention Revolving Door Beltway sniper John Lee Malvo might be the most famous illegal alien ever detained and released by the Immigration Service on the lying promise that he would attend U.S. Immigration Court hearings. -- But detaining and releasing aliens like the young Jamaican and his mother on minimal immigration bonds is nothing new. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of illegal aliens like Malvo just walk right through the same federal immigration bureaucracy every day.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)    D.C. Sniper case: Illegal alien Malvo the likely triggerman In the nearly two months since the sniper attacks in the Washington area ended with the arrests of John Muhammad and his teenage protégé Lee Malvo, investigators say they have made one striking conclusion: All the evidence they have points to Mr. Malvo as the triggerman. Little if any indicates Mr. Muhammad fired a shot. -- Some officials who have reviewed the evidence at the sniper task force say that the lack of evidence against Mr. Muhammad will complicate prosecutors' efforts to get a death sentence for him in the shooting of Dean Harold Meyers...

Newsday Border security bemoaned in Texas For decades, hundreds of Mexicans and Americans waded, rowed, or drove back and forth daily between the neighboring, co-dependent hamlets of Lajitas and Paso Lajitas, a commuting system that was technically illegal but largely ignored by the U.S. Border Patrol. With the government's increased determination to better secure U.S. borders, though, the daily ritual has ended. It's all right to leave the United States via the river [Rio Grande]....

NY Post Mexican migrants charged in gang rape Four homeless men have confessed to brutally beating and gang-raping a woman for two terrifying hours in a shantytown near Shea Stadium, police sources said yesterday as the squalid encampment was dismantled by officials. -- In graphic, gory detail, the Mexican immigrants, who showed no remorse for the chilling attack, admitted their guilt in videotaped statements, saying it "was a robbery that went way out of control," one of the sources said.

Arizona Daily Star Editorial Time bomb: Napolitano should investigate border 'vigilantes' After Janet Napolitano is sworn in as Arizona's new governor on Jan. 6, she should immediately focus her attention on the incendiary situation building along Arizona's border with Mexico. In that sparsely populated landscape, a confrontation looms between heavily armed vigilante groups and unarmed Mexican immigrants entering the United States illegally. -- Congressman-elect [and Mechista buddy of Isabel Garcia] Raul Grijalva adopted the appropriate tone Wednesday when he said one his first acts after he takes office will be to ask the FBI to investigate the links between civilian militias in Southern Arizona and white supremacist groups.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  Aztlan Express Update: $7.5M in pot seized in last week The seizure of 1,395 pounds of marijuana Thursday capped a busy week for U.S. Customs Service inspectors at the Mariposa cargo facility in Nogales. -- It was the largest of 36 marijuana seizures - totaling 7,509 pounds - made by Customs officers in Arizona in the past seven days. Officials put the total dollar value of the seizures at about $1,000 per pound - or, about $7.5 million. -- Thursday's seizure was found during an agricultural inspection of a 1985 Freightliner tractor-trailer that entered the port from Mexico at about noon.