Sunday, December 29, 2002

The California Spin The Power Elite Tell Us: "California is Not Unusual" Just as we predicted The "company line" from the L.A. Times: "Struggling through their worst financial crisis in half a century, states are freeing prisoners, closing libraries, hiking college tuition, even halting prosecution of abusive spouses as legislators scramble to plug budget gaps that seem to widen by the day." L.A. Times 12/29/2002 In other words: "California is not unusual" "Illegal Immigration has nothing to do with it." "It isn't Gray Davis' fault." "Get ready for really bad things in California." ----------------------------------------------- AP Comment: Never mind that California's budget deficit is greater than the rest of the states' budget deficits combined (National Association of State Budget Officers)!!! Never mind that Gray Davis killed Proposition 187 and allowed millions of illegal aliens to receive billions in California taxpayer funds - and then lied about it! Never mind that millions of middle class, taxpaying Americans have fled California! ABC NEWS -- IN ON THE SPIN This Week with George Stephanopoulos -- Dec. 29 -- According to the geniuses at ABC Network News, California's budget deficit is around $20 billion. Of course Governor Gray Davis says it is more than $34 billion. But what does he know? During the same show, governor-elect Napolitano of Arizona said her state's deficit is due in large part to illegal immigration. (There is always the ten percent who don't get the word.)  Listen Past Features   ABP Updates

Copley Newspapers LAX cocaine case: Mexican bites the dust A former longtime fugitive was convicted Friday on drug trafficking charges sparked by the seizure of one ton of cocaine from Los Angeles International Airport in 1994. -- Jose Alfredo Vargas of Tijuana is the fifth man convicted in an alleged plot to ship cocaine from Mexico through LAX to what was a purported auto upholstery business in Fontana. -- Los Angeles jurors deliberated for two days and found Vargas guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine and other drug trafficking charges that carry a potential life sentence. [They just sneak in to do jobs Americans won't do.]

Associated Press FBI seeks assistance in locating 5 Arab illegals The FBI said Sunday it is looking for five men of Arab ancestry who may have entered the country illegally last week. -- The agency said the five men are believed to have arrived in the United States on or before Christmas Eve. -- The five men are: Abid Noraiz Ali, Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, Mustafa Khan Owasi, Adil Pervez and Akbar Jamal, all born between 1969 and 1983. The FBI warned that the names and birth dates may be false. - More info from the FBI website.

Chicago Sun Times Mexican national arrested in child murder A South Side man fatally beat his live-in girlfriend's 6-year-old daughter, then grabbed her by an arm and threw her outside in freezing cold on Christmas morning because he was angry that police had been called to their home following an earlier domestic altercation, Cook County prosecutors said Saturday. -- A judge Saturday set bail at $1.5 million for David Hernandez, a Mexican national , who was charged late Friday with first-degree murder in the beating death of Alma Manjarrez. [They just sneak in to do jobs Americans won't do.]

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)   More on N.Y. rape involving illegals ...On December 19, the police say, a group of young homeless men surrounded a couple sitting on a bench on the walkway above, dragging the mother away, down two sets of stairs, between the lethal third rails, and into their dark hideout in the middle of a sporadically crowded hub of Queens, NY. -- The police have said all the suspects are illegals; one is Ecuadorean, while the others are from Mexico. Immigration authorities are not routinely notified when an illegal immigrant is arrested, the police said.

San Diego Union-Tribune  Mexican colonist gang update When Mexico picked Candido Morales to lead its office of migrant affairs, critics said the little-known No. Cal. social worker might not have enough clout to represent millions of Mexicans living in the U.S. -- Mexico has answered that concern by giving Morales some backup: a 120-member U.S.-based advisory council for his new Institute for Mexicans Abroad (which includes a Texas state senator, members of LULAC and La Raza, and Arizona Aztlan-cheerleader reconquista Isabel Garcia).

Associated Press FBI seeks assistance in locating 5 Arab illegals The FBI said Sunday it is looking for five men of Arab ancestry who may have entered the country illegally last week. -- The agency said the five men are believed to have arrived in the United States on or before Christmas Eve. -- The five men are: Abid Noraiz Ali, Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, Mustafa Khan Owasi, Adil Pervez and Akbar Jamal, all born between 1969 and 1983. The FBI warned that the names and birth dates may be false. - More info from the FBI website.

West Central Tribune -- Willmar, Minn. Another drug bust involving Somali refugees An undercover drug investigation that netted nearly 100 pounds of a controlled substance called khat initially caused concerns among members of the local Somali community. -- Now the ordeal has provided the impetus for increased communication and collaboration with local law enforcement. -- Siyad Warfur was arrested Oct. 11 and charged in connection the investigation. The man claims he was befriended by strangers who spoke Somali and took advantage of him to help deliver the drug. Warfur was asked to transport a box, which he thought contained shoes.

Associated Press Bush advisers draft re-election agenda An internal White House document outlining Bush's re-election agenda starts with "War on terrorism (Con't)" and homeland security. It's the latest sign, critics say, that presidential advisers are seeking political gain from the Sept. 11 attacks. --- Bush's promise to ease immigration laws got lost after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the issue's appearance on the list reflects plans to rejuvenate the debate in 2003 in an effort to court Hispanic voters in 2004, officials said.

Associated Press Migrants linked to drug flood Hundreds of immigrant drug traffickers have flooded NC in the past seven years, an increase linked to the growth of Hispanic immigrants in the state. -- At the end of 1995, just 10 Hispanics were in state prisons for drug trafficking convictions. As of October, that number had risen to 400, according to the N.C. Department of Correction. -- In Wake Co., where Hispanics make up 5.4%t of the total population, they accounted for 46% of drug trafficking arrests in 2002.

Mark Andrew Dwyer

Law enforcement on a budget According to internal documents obtained by the Mercury News ("Even state's prisons may feel budget crunch" by Mark Gladstone, Dec. 26, 2002), " as California's budget woes have escalated, state prison officials quietly have been studying a range of options to save hundreds of millions of dollars, including releasing non-violent inmates, delaying the opening of a maximum security lockup and early discharge from parole."

Mercury News California junior colleges targeted for budget cuts When community college students return to school next month, many will find fewer classes to chose from and fewer library employees, lab technicians, tutors and counselors to help them navigate the system. -- That's part of the fallout from Gov. Gray Davis' call earlier this month for $215 million in cuts from California's 108 community colleges to help cure a state budget deficit that has grown to an estimated $35 billion. [Davis signed a bill into law earlier this year that allows illegal alien invaders to pay lower in-state tuition rates.]

KABC-TV News - Los Angeles Pasadena Boy Found A 5 year-old Pasadena boy snatched by his estranged mother is safe today in Arizona, ending a massive search for the child that covered two states, police said. -- As a result, police canceled the Amber Alert for Hector Jesus Gonzalez, who vanished yesterday. -- Police found the child with his mother Lourdes Caro Hernandez in Phoenix. -- His father is reportedly behind bars in Texas awaiting an INS deportation hearing.

James Fulford

VDare.com Ganging Up On America "America was born in the streets" is the tagline of the new Martin Scorsese film "Gangs of New York." -- You thought America was born at Plymouth Rock? Wrong! Hollywood has decreed that America wasn't really born until the era of mass immigration. -- The Scorsese film is based on Herbert Asbury's 1928 book, Gangs of New York...

The Record - Stockton, Calif. Lodi mosk official: 'This government has gone berserk' The spokesman for the Lodi Mosque on Friday denounced a government requirement for some immigrants to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, calling it a racist policy that would do nothing to curb terrorist activity. -- Taj Khan, a U.S. citizen and Muslim, criticized the government's arrests of more than 400 immigrants who were detained this month as they attempted to comply with INS requirements to register their presence in the United States. The requirements were adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Washington Post Invader advocates bark demands ...Crafting an ambitious agenda for the General Assembly session that begins Jan. 8, activists say they will focus on three goals: establishing a state health insurance plan for the more than 600,000 Marylanders who are not covered; allowing undocumented students who attended Maryland schools to pay in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities; and permitting undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

News Journal Group plans to aid, abet illegals ...CLUSTER is launching a special disaster-relief fund designed to help illegal immigrants in the event of a condemnation or disaster, an effort organizers say will help prevent homelessness among particularly vulnerable families. -- CLUSTER acknowledges helping illegal immigrants - even with non-governmental funds that do not come from taxpayers - will not appeal to everyone. [No kidding: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 'Diversity' in a Georgia Mexican colony ...The Latino presence is so grand in that part of Norcross, it's called "Mexico Lindo," or, pretty Mexico. -And- The state's 435,000 Latinos --- most of whom are undocumented workers [criminals] --- wield an estimated $11.3 billion in buying power, UGA research shows. --- El Banco doesn't even look like your typical financial institution. The outside of the building sports a bright yellow facade. Manager Jose Benitez and all the tellers are Hispanic. -- El Banco officials want to grow a network of banks that cater specifically to migrants. Their services are geared to folks such as Mexican nationals who work low-rung jobs and send most of their money to relatives back home.

Boston Globe Uneasy times in Somerville, Massachusetts ...In fact, everyone around the table is like her. They are white, they speak English, and they fear the changes in the city. They have come together to talk about how two deaf girls - one of them in a wheelchair and suffering from cerebral palsy - had allegedly been raped in October by members of the Salvadoran gang known as MS-13. After the rapes, Guarino spoke up at a public meeting in favor of a plan to ban suspected gang members from loitering in public places - which would be the first such law anywhere on the East Coast. Now, Guarino, head of the East Somerville Neighborhood Association, wants to work with police to reach out to Latino leaders. -- Somerville's known Hispanic population jumped from 2 to 9 percent of city residents in the past 20 years.