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Monday, December 23, 2002 |
Project USA
Update |
ProjectUSA
wins free speech settlement in NY lawsuit
Readers of this ezine will remember that
in October 2000, ProjectUSA erected a billboard at the foot of
the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City reading, "Immigration
is doubling US population in our lifetimes." It pictured
two children and cited the Census Bureau as its source. -- The
board lasted just thirteen days. The owner of the property on
which the billboard sat, the Port Authority of NY/NJ, ordered
the board removed after, according to the New York Times, "an
authority employee noticed it and told his superiors." |
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Newsmax.com
Merry
Christmas - And Bush Is Planning to Give Social Security to Mexicans
If The Bush administration caves in to
pressure from the Mexican government thousands of Mexicans living
south of the border will be getting an estimated $1 billion in
Social Security checks annually. -- Both the White House and
Mexican government insist that negotiations on the matter are
informal and still in the preliminary stages. -- And Miguel Monterrubio,
a spokesman for the Mexican embassy, told the Post that several
meetings have taken place between the Social Security Administration
and its Mexican counterpart since November 2001, but he too called
them informal. |
We Get E-Mail
Open
letter to L.A. Co. Supervisors
It is my understanding that your group has voted
to close 16 community clinics, reduced by 25% funding for our
network of private clinics partnering with the County to provide
care, and approved the transition of High Desert Hospital to
an ambulatory care center. -- It is my further understanding
that within the last decade, 50 emergency rooms and 17 trauma
centers throughout Southern California have closed their doors,
all because they couldn't afford to keep them open because of
the ever increasing numbers of uninsured. |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
State
Park Rangers in Harm's Way
...Patrolling can be especially risky
in the Southwest, where border crossings by illegal immigrants
and drug runners have led to fatal encounters with park rangers.
Rangers have begun wearing body armor and carrying automatic
weapons. -- Last year, a ranger at Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument was killed while helping Border Patrol agents track
fugitives from Mexico. He was the third National Park Service
ranger killed on the job in four years. For the second year in
a row, a park rangers' organization has named Organ Pipe.... |
H.
Millard |
Eeeeeek!
Citizens Are Performing Public Service
(Senor Grijalva Goes to Washington)
Out in the Southwest scrublands of Arizona and
Texas, some hardy Americans have been trying to make a living
punching cows and doing those other things close to the earth
that many people in the East long ago stopped doing and which
they seem to have forgotten is the way those steaks make it to
the tables of the fou fou yuppie restaurants they haunt. -- Unfortunately,
it's much harder to ranch, or even live in many areas of the
Southwest, these days, thanks to the foreign invaders, mostly
from Mexico, who are trying to take over the U.S..... |
Metropolitan
News-Enterprise
L.A.
Co. unveils program to identify illegals who commit other crimes
A county program to quickly identify
criminal suspects who are in the United States illegally was
unveiled Friday by law enforcement officials. Sheriff Lee Baca
said the High Intensity Criminal Alien Apprehension and Prosecution
program will help officers determine whether suspects they arrest have illegally
re-entered the country after having been deported. -- L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich has said
illegal aliens committing crimes here account for 25 percent
of the county jail population. He said the prosecution, defense
and incarceration of deportable aliens cost the county $150 million
in 2001, including court costs. |
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Hispanic
Business Journal
N.M.
Governor-Elect Nominates Hispanics
Gov.-elect Bill
Richardson on Friday appointed five Hispanics to various
positions, including naming former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca
as the state's natural resources trustee. -- "I want a Cabinet
that looks like New Mexico, and this one does," Richardson,
a Hispanic, said at a news conference at the Albuquerque Hispano
Chamber of Commerce. -- Richardson, a Democrat whose term begins
Jan. 1, also nominated John M. Garcia of Albuquerque to be director
of the state Veterans' Service Commission. |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Scofflaws
whine about paying high college tuition
The solicitations from colleges are sent
to her home weekly, not surprising since she is a standout athlete,
earns all A's and is one of the top students at Lane Tech. She
dreams of studying at Northwestern to become a math teacher.
-- But as an undocumented immigrant who came to Chicago from
Mexico at the age of 5, Brenda will most likely not be able to
afford the costs of attending a private school since she is not
eligible for financial aid. She will even have trouble attending
a state institution, since many don't accept illegal immigrants,
and others would charge her out-of-state rates. -- "The
only thing holding me back is I won't be able to afford it,''
said Brenda, who asked that her last name not be used. [It is
unlawful for illegals to work in the U.S. This illegal can get
a higher education in her home country.] |
Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial
Run
for the border
A number of activist groups, including
the Arizona Civil Liberties Union and the Border Action Network,
are asking Arizona Gov.-elect Janet Napolitano to step in and
stop private property owners along the Mexican border from engaging
in "vigilantism." -- At least three such property rights
groups are now patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border, endeavoring
to round up smugglers and other illegal alien invaders, whereupon
they turn them over to local and federal police. The property
owners targeted in this protest are not known to have committed
any illegal violence. |
Associated
Press
America
still vulnerable
America was spared major attacks in 2002,
but it was far from winning the fight against terrorism. -- Despite
the killings and arrests of al-Qaida leaders, top U.S. officials
warned that a major attack was all but inevitable. -- Warnings
went out for planes and boats, landmarks and hospitals, nuclear
reactors and petroleum depots. One FBI alert did not mention
specific targets; it just said the attacks could be spectacular.
-- As the United States appeared to move closer to invading Iraq,
the chances of an attack will only rise, intelligence analysts
suggest. |
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KNSD - San
Diego [Poll
On Page]
Scofflaw
detention protests continue
A protest is planned for Monday morning
in San Diego to continue decrying what is being called unfair
treatment of foreign nationals. -- The protest, set for Monday
at 10:30 a.m. in front of the federal building downtown, was
organized by local Middle Eastern groups to protest new government
guidelines which mandated for 3,000 men with temporary visas
to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service by
Dec. 16. |
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Latinos
getting fleeced by 'notarios'
...The perpetrators are so-called "immigration
consultants" who act like lawyers but aren't. Using notary
public, tax and even travel agencies as fronts, these consultants
charge high fees for promises they rarely deliver on. Offering
themselves as guides to the INS's labyrinthine application process,
the consultants - out of a combination of both greed and incompetence,
crime fighters say - sign people up for residency programs they
don't qualify for, alerting immigration authorities to an alien's
illegal status in the process. |
Santa
Rosa Press Democrat
One
hurt in gang attack at mall
A young man was hit in the face with
a blunt object Sunday at Santa Rosa Plaza in what police described
as a brazen, gang-involved attack. -- Santa Rosa resident Jaime
Murrillo was on the mall's second floor with his girlfriend shortly
after 4 p.m. when about six males chanting gang slogans and flashing
gang signs attacked him, police said. -- As of Sunday night,
police had no suspects and few leads. They said they were looking
for up to six Latino males in their teens to early 20s dressed
in red clothes who fled the west side of the mall. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Op-ed
Wendy
S. Johnson whines about hurting the feelings of scofflaws
...Labeling individuals as "illegal"
before a judicial or administrative determination fails to recognize
that some undocumented persons may nevertheless be lawfully in
the country or may be granted discretionary administrative relief.
-- The term "illegal" ignores the reality of U.S. immigration
law. For example, while undocumented immigrants may technically
be violating civil provisions
of federal law, greedy U.S. employers (some aggressively
recruit immigrant workers from their homelands) and lax border
guards combine to facilitate and encourage foreign workers to
enter the country, which is also against federal law. [Johnson
is in charge of this
Atlanta-based group. | E-mail
Johnson] |
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Associated
Press
Santa
arrested after he accidentally enters U.S
A wind-surfing Santa took a ride on the
wet side Sunday when strong winds took him across the Niagara
River -- and the Canadian border. -- The United States Border
Patrol promptly arrested the Canadian man in Buffalo. -- For
18 years, fitness instructor John Fulton has donned a Santa suit
to sail across the river at Christmas. He said he performs the
annual stunt in support of the homeless. |
NorthwestGeorgia.com
Meth
labs shut down, pot seized in separate raids
The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office
has closed down the largest methamphetamine lab ever found in
North Georgia, according to Sheriff Scott Chitwood. -- The individuals
allegedly responsible for the operation of the lab were arrested
at the scene. They were identified as Michael Billy Smithey and
his wife Sharon. -- In a separate incident, the sheriff's office
and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Humberto
Barraza Cardenas, of El Paso, Texas, and Sergio Melendez Rios,
of Dalton, around 1 a.m., seizing approximately 210 pounds of
marijuana with a street value of around $170,000, Chitwood said.
-- Investigators say Cardenas was getting marijuana from the
area of Warsaw, Mexico, and having it delivered to Rios. |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mixed
reviews on license proposal
The quixotic push to let undocumented
immigrants get Georgia driver's licenses got a boost when
the police chief of the state's largest law enforcement agency
signed on as a supporter. -- Atlanta's Chief Richard J.
Pennington and five chiefs from other agencies said last week
they favor legislation that Rep. Barbara Mobley (D-Decatur) introduced
last session in the state House of Representatives. The bill,
which observers say has little chance of passing, would remove
a requirement that limits driver's licenses to U.S. citizens... |
Fresno
Bee
Retired
judge aids invaders, joins the Mexican Colonization Crew
Retired Fresno Co. Judge Armando Rodríguez
has seen scores of injustices committed against Mexican immigrants
during his 20 years on the bench and as a member of various organizations.
-- "I have an affinity to work with migrants," he says.
-- Rodríguez will have a chance to address those problems
as one of four San Joaquín Valley representatives to the
recently formed Consejo Consultivo del Instituto de los Mexicanos
en el Exterior [which reports to this
guy.] |
Sham
ID Cards |
Bakersfield
Californian
Mexican
sham ID outrage continues to reward lawbreaking foreigners
Though the push to allow undocumented
immigrants to apply for driver's licenses has been unsuccessful
in California, some Mexican nationals have discovered another
way to identify themselves in their attempt to normalize their
lives in the States. -- In recent months, the Mexican government
has begun issuing updated identification
cards to Mexican citizens living north of the border [read:
illegal alien invaders], and it hopes the U.S. government and
law enforcement will begin to accept them as legitimate forms
of identification. |
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