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Thursday, December 26, 2002 |
A
Victory for Freedom of Speech
ProjectUSA wins free speech settlement
in NY lawsuit
Readers
of the Project
USA e-zine 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." More.... |
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| Brooklyn Bridge, Fall 2000 (the
NY/NJ Port Authority ordered this billboard removed after just
13 days) - More photos... |
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KNSD-TV
News - San Diego
The
never-ending joys of so-called 'cheap labor'
Time is running out for a group of farm
workers who live in shacks and work in Carlsbad's strawberry
fields. The city will tear them down after Jan. 1. -- The shacks
stand along the south shore of the Agua
Hedionda lagoon. Some neighbors have complained about the
migrant workers living there and the state of California says
the shacks and the behavior of residents are causing a health
hazard. --- Officials say it will cost the city of Carlsbad approximately
$30,000 in taxpayer money just to tear down the shacks after
the Jan 1. |
L.A Times (Free Registration)
Mexican
propaganda heads for U.S.
...But [Candido]
Morales realizes that a radio series will not keep his countrymen
south of the border. "The Mexican government has to stimulate
the economy to create jobs in Mexico that pay well so people
don't have a need to go across the border," he said. --
Radio Bilingue, a public radio network based in Fresno, plans
to bring the Spanish-language radionovela to California in January
on stations that reach from the San Joaquin Valley to El Centro. |
Santa
Fe New Mexican
Flood
of illegals continues
...INS figures report that detentions
and deportations, the closest thing available to a record of
the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S., are down.
But immigrants' rights groups in these regions say that while
immigration may have briefly slowed after Sept. 11, today just
as many immigrants as ever are risking their lives to make it
to the U.S. -- "After 9/11 there was probably a decrease
for a while, but they're still coming," said Isabel
Garcia... |
Associated
Press
Police
to protect immigrants
Police Chief William Welch says his department
has received recent reports of threats, intimidation and other
harassment directed at the
city's Somali immigrants. -- Welch served notice at a news
conference Tuesday that police will be vigilant to ensure that
the rights of the Somalis are protected. -- "Everybody's
entitled to the same rights here," he said. "People
have a right to walk the streets of Lewiston, Auburn and the
state of Maine, without fear that they're going to be in harm's
way." |
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Denver Post
6
Mideast students jailed for cutting course hours
Six Middle Eastern students studying
in Colorado have been jailed in the past 10 days for failing
to take enough college classes. -- The international students
got into trouble when they showed up to register with U.S. immigration
officials, as required by new rules. Upon reporting, they were
jailed and required to post $5,000 bonds for enrolling in less
than 12 hours of college credit. -- The INS says the students
are being detained because under-enrollment is a violation of
their student visas. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
National
Council of The Race sets up shop downtown, not in barrios
The National
Council of La Raza has opened its Atlanta office, but the
Hispanic civil rights group didn't settle in the heart of the
region's Hispanic population. -- The Washington-based nonprofit
chose to sublet space in the heart of Atlanta over Latino-rich
suburbs such as Gwinnett or DeKalb counties. The office is in
the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc. on Peachtree
Street. -- Latino suburbanites, though, shouldn't perceive the
location as a slight, spokeswoman Lisa
Navarrete said Monday. |
Press Enterprise
2
nabbed by Border Patrol
Murietta, Calif. - Two brothers were
arrested in Murrieta on Wednesday morning after attempting to
evade Border Patrol officers, Murrieta police said. One man was
wanted on immigration violations and now faces deportation, police
said. -- Border Patrol agents became suspicious when the passenger
in a blue Ford Excursion ducked as the agents passed the vehicle
along Rainbow Canyon Road, Murrieta police said..... |
Associated
Press News Briefs
Run
for the border fails
Chula Vista, Calif. (AP) - A man who
led authorities on a 130-mile freeway chase before he was tackled
in the mud near the Mexico border pleaded innocent to charges
of evading police and driving without a license. -- Eric Sanchez
was ordered held in lieu of $30,000 bail Tuesday. A preliminary
hearing was set for Jan. 9. -- The pursuit last week started
in Fontana in San Bernardino County when a California Highway
Patrol officer... |
L.A Times
(Free Registration)
State
hit hard by medical fraud, especially rampant in certain communities
Doctors, dentists, pharmacists and others
in the health-care industry have been stealing huge sums from
California's $25-billion Medi-Cal program despite increased state
and federal efforts to combat fraud. -- California can ill afford
to lose billions of dollars from its health program for the poor,
especially now that the state and federal governments both face
large deficits and lawmakers are expected to try next year to
cut spending on Medi-Cal. -- The fraud is heavily concentrated
in population centers of Southern California where there are
large numbers of poor people and many immigrant communities that
investigators say are particularly vulnerable to fraud. |
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Orange County
Register
Illegal
airport workers using fake docs whine about bust
Roselia Sanchez returned home from jail
and tore up her fake Social Security card. -- Just like her card,
her life had gone to pieces over a janitorial job. In August,
Sanchez and other workers were arrested in an anti-terrorism
sweep at John Wayne Airport. Many, including Sanchez, were illegal
immigrants trying to legalize their status, so prosecutors reduced most charges to prevent the
workers from facing automatic deportation. |
Denver Post
Meddling
Mexicans pushing acceptance of their scofflaw nationals
Mexican Consul Leticia
Calzada has faced some tough rooms over the past eight months
as she has traveled Colorado, but few so chilly as a crowd of
stern-faced police and sheriff's deputies gathered recently in
Wray. -- There to lobby authorities in the Eastern Plains farming
town for immigrants' rights, Calzada walked straight into the
resentment of a community transformed over the past decade by
an influx of Mexican
workers. |
Salt
Lake Tribune LTE
All
Must Obey Laws
Martin Torres, in his commentary (Nov.
15), portrays the U.S.-Mexico illegal migration problem as a
human tragedy of "innocent young migrants" being abused
by both unscrupulous traffickers and the absence of a comprehensive
migration agreement. The fact is that illegal migrants are not
innocent and most are not young eight-year olds. Anyone who crosses
our borders illegally is guilty of violating existing immigration
laws and should be treated appropriately.... |
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