Saturday, January 18, 2003

American Border Patrol on Buchanan & Press Left to right: Bill Press, Pat Buchanan and Glenn Spencer Spencer Explains Role of Live Border Videos Spencer: "The American people, after seeing this day after day, night after night, are going to call their congressman and say, log on to americanborderpatrol.com, and then you look at that and then you call me back and tell me why the Congress of the United States, and why the President are allowing this to go on." Watch Wednesday's American Border Patrol Mission Successful Watch for a Special Presentation on KSAZ-10, Phoenix (Fox Network) February 4 Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com Then They Came For The Nurses -- (And The Taxpayers) Years ago, when my father lay dying at the U.C.L.A. Hospital, the doctors stopped by his room once a day to deliver their brusque updates. Then they were gone. -- But late at night, the nurses were in Dad's room holding his hand. And on their days off, nurses visited my mother at home to lift her spirits. -- Mom still gets Christmas cards from the nurses who comforted her back when....

Open letter to the Arizona State Senate I read in the Arizona Republic this morning that the Arizona Legislature will be considering legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain Arizona Driver's Licenses. This is a bad idea for several reasons and I would ask that you oppose any such legislation after considering the following: 1. These are people who have chosen not to follow normal INS procedures that would have provided them with the necessary documents to legally obtain a driver's license.....

Las Vegas Sun Group hopes to 'legalize' millions of Mexican invaders A group that says it represents hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent in the United States is to meet this weekend in Las Vegas to develop a game plan for legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants. -- The Council of Mexican Organizations Abroad is scheduled to meet at the Sahara and at area community centers Jan. 17-19. -- The council represents about 600 clubs and associations of Mexican-Americans across the nation...

Washington Post Illegal Pakistanis flee to Canada ...For those without visas in these nervous times since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, deportation is almost a certainty. Hundreds of registrants have been arrested since the program began Dec. 16. The detentions have sparked protests and demonstrations, and this week the INS extended deadlines, but also added five nations to the registration program. -- Rather than wait for the inevitable, many Pakistanis have chosen to run, often with families in tow. They hope to obtain asylum in Canada.

Daily Times -- Pakistan Pakistan Foreign Minister wants special treatment for illegals Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Friday urged the U.S. not to harass the US-based Pakistanis in the name of registration laws. -- He said Islamabad would forcefully ask the United States to exempt Pakistan from a list of countries whose male nationals are required to register and provide fingerprints to the INS by mid-February. --- Kasuri heads to the U.S. today (Saturday). The foreign minister's 10-day US trip is the first ministerial level visit between Pakistan and the US since Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali's government assumed office.

American Border Patrol mission successful Cochise County, Ariz. -- Jan. 18 -- Pictured at left are two of three suspected border intruders taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol this morning resulting from the efforts of American Border Patrol Hawkeyes. ABP is now using more sophisticated equipment such as ground scan radar to detect movement in large open areas.

San Francisco Chronicle   More on California's job dilemma California's unemployment rate edged up slightly in December, reaching 6.6 percent, as the state lost 15,400 payroll jobs, the Employment Development Department said Friday. -- That compared to a revised 6.5 percent rate in both November and October, and 6.1 percent in December last year. All figures are seasonally adjusted. -- "We're dead in the water; there has not been any start yet to the recovery, " said Stephen Levy, director of the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy.

Sinkhole de Mayo

L.A Times (Free Registration)   We need 'guest workers'?: Jobless rate at 5-year high in Calif. California's unemployment rate hit a five-year high of 6.6% in December, capping a year in which the state lost a net 25,800 jobs, state officials reported Friday. -- It was California's first back-to-back annual decline in nonfarm payroll employment since the deep recession of the early 1990s. Job losses have mounted in recent months -- a troublesome sign for an economy hobbled by the slump in the technology sector, particularly in Northern California, and a massive budget deficit. [More articles related to illegal alien-bloated California's disastrous meltdown] [Gray Davis: "We've healed old wounds with Mexico"] -- [We told you so. Also see: Sinkhole de Mayo, and Killing 187 will kill Californians]

Sham ID Cards

Rocky Mountain News Sham Mexican ID acceptance challenged An anti-illegal immigration group has sent a letter to the 50 biggest banks in Colorado claiming they are exposed to criminal and civil liability by accepting the matricula consular card as a form of identification when signing up new customers. -- The card, issued by the Mexican consulate, has enabled thousands of illegal immigrants [criminals] to open bank accounts in Colorado and across the nation. At least half a dozen banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, accept the card here. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime] [Visit FILE] [Contact info on banking commissioner - submitted by a reader]

Grijalva Watch

KOLD-TV -- Tucson CongressMechista waits for response on call for investigation Congressman Raul Grijalva says he's still waiting for a response from Attorney General John Ashcroft on border militias. Grijalva called for an investigation into the groups shortly after he was sworn in as the U.S. congressman from District Seven. -- He's concerned border militias will lead to hate crimes against immigrants [read: illegal aliens]. -- He also says he won't support a guest worker program for immigrants unless it's part of a comprehensive border policy.

ABP - 11:40 AM Campers robbed by illegal aliens Glenn Spencer reports by satellite phone that he and a group of American Border Patrol Hawkeyes just encountered a group of campers in the Coronado National Forest near Douglas, Arizona, who stated that they were held up and robbed by a group of illegal aliens on Thursday.

Douglas Dispatch  [Short-lived link] Kolbe wants Border Patrol checkpoints relocated every seven days Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) has introduced new language into a bill which seeks to relocate Border Patrol checkpoints every seven days. -- "The Border Patrol has thus far failed to get the message that in order to effectively protect our nation' border, they must be vigilant in their use of checkpoints - consistently move them around so that they are unpredictable to those wishing to circumvent them," Kolbe said, who also represents Cochise County. -- The Border Patrol's checkpoints are used as a secondary enforcement strategy. Migrants that make it past the international boundary are typically picked up by smugglers waiting for them on the American side of the border.

San Diego Union-Tribune  More on latest Mexican military incursion in So. Calif. A detachment of Mexican soldiers wearing black ski masks and carrying automatic rifles was confronted by U.S. Border Patrol agents Thursday after the Mexicans strayed into U.S territory. -- The Mexicans left the area without the encounter escalating into violence or a diplomatic furor after a soldier told the agents that his unit was part of a special drug-interdiction team, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Ben Bauman said. [Also see this related article.]

South Bend Tribune Suspect arrested in 'drug-related' killing A suspect in the shooting death of Robert Earl Smith last week was arrested across the state line on Wednesday and has confessed to the crime. -- Ernesto Miranda Sanchez remained lodged in the Cass County Jail on Friday. -- Police said they believe Sanchez came to the United States from Mexico about five years ago. -- No weapon has been recovered in last week's shooting, police said, but they noted that the case remains under investigation.

Newsday Suspected gangster shot wrong victim A woman who was shot in the neck Thursday night in Hempstead was the unintentional target of what Nassau police believe was a gang-related drive-by shooting. -- The victim's son saw there were four men in a blue car that came to a rolling stop on the corner. He saw the shooter who was wearing a blue bandana. -- The description of the blue bandana led police to believe the shooting was likely executed by members of the MS-13, a Salvadoran gang.

San Diego Union-Tribune  Police tie fatal shooting to vicious Latino gangs Thursday afternoon's fatal shooting into a car loaded with teens has its origins in an on-again, off-again war between two Latino street gangs in San Diego, police said yesterday. -- According to investigators, the carload of 14-year-olds was cruising around southern San Diego yesterday, issuing verbal taunts and challenges to their rivals ­ until they got to Delta Street, which divides San Diego and National City. -- There, one of those rivals came up shooting. -- "In this area, you don't have to work very hard to find trouble," said National City police Lt. Mike Iglesias. "But apparently, they did."

San Bernardino Co. Sun Meddling Mexicans team up with local police, D.A. Deputy District Attorney Mike Martinez became responsible for almost 200,000 county residents this week. District Attorney Michael A. Ramos named Martinez the department's liaison to the Mexican consulate in an effort to reach out to Mexicans and people of Mexican descent who live in the county. -- "We are putting together a system where the Mexican community has a voice in the DA's office,' Ramos said.

Hartford Courant -- Link Corrected Construction workers decry use of suspected illegal alien job thieves Storrs, Conn. -- Hundreds of construction workers, many unemployed, demonstrated Friday at the University of Connecticut, protesting the award of building contracts to out-of-state companies - and Gov. John G. Rowland's layoff of state employees. --- "UConn is circumventing state law and giving contracts to companies in Texas, Alabama and elsewhere," said Charles T. LeConche, business manager for the Connecticut Laborers District Council. "They're using illegal aliens, trucking them in from out of state, sleeping 10 in a motel room and classifying them in jobs they're not qualified for. Our contractors can't compete with that."

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  Nogales tunnel opens into grave When Mexican investigators went through a suspected drug tunnel this week, they found themselves on the other side of the grave. -- One of four tunnels they discovered last Saturday led about 12 feet from an underground wash, beneath a cemetery wall, into an emptied-out grave. -- The grave, in a cemetery just south of the border, has a thin cement cap that is broken in two pieces and easily removed. -- An informal wooden cross marks the grave, but there is no tombstone and no name. A concrete stump at the site appears to be the remains of a heavier cross that once marked the grave.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)   Muslim monitoring protested American plans to fingerprint and register visitors from a number of predominantly Muslim countries met with widespread protest and indignation yesterday. The foreign minister of Pakistan made plans to fly to the United States this weekend to protest in person, and the government of Indonesia advised its citizens to avoid traveling to the United States. -- The American requirements have become a major political issue in Pakistan, where the perception that the United States is hostile to Muslims and to Pakistanis has stoked a rising tide of anti-American sentiment.

Tucson Citizen Trend rising for foreign invaders to be armed As some U.S. citizens take up arms to patrol the Mexican border, the U.S. Border Patrol is reporting more armed encounters with illegal immigrants. -- Agents in the patrol's Tucson sector encountered illegal immigrants with weapons just twice in each of the past two fiscal years. But there have been 12 incidents in the current fiscal year, which is less than 4 months old. -- Just in the past week, Tucson sector agents have been shot at twice and have confiscated three semiautomatic pistols, said Border Patrol spokesman Frank Amarillas. ['Mexican agent' and reconquista Isabel Garcia gripes about the Border Patrol in this article.]

Toronto Star Border points 'porous' despite Sept. 11 -- No security on isolated roads If good fences make good neighbours, then these two old friends could be headed for some stormy relations. -- Sitting at the end of a snowy Vermont road that New England poet Robert Frost would have warmed to, the mangled metal barrier - splotched with peeling yellow paint and rust - separating the pair is so battered that a normal adult step can clear it. -- The fence marks the border between Canada and the United States. -- Just an hour-and-a-half drive southeast of Montreal, this country's second largest city, the dividing line here is virtually unmarked and completely unguarded, but for an ancient hay cutter that seems to stand sentinel off to one side.