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CNN
INS:
7 million illegals in U.S, and nearly 70% are Mexicans (what
a surprise)
More than a million illegal immigrants
have slipped into the United States in the past few years, raising
the total in the country to 7 million, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service said Friday. -- The vast majority of the illegal immigrants
are from Mexico, officials said. -- The numbers are based on
census figures from 2000 and the agency's own statistics. They
are the first official government figures on illegal immigration
released since 1996. |
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KRGV-TV
- Welasco, Texas
Border
Patrol Arrests
Our crews were there early this morning
when the Border Patrol hauled in a big bunch of illegal immigrants.
-- Margarita Escobar is just one of nearly 40 immigrants caught
by the Border Patrol. Agents have identified some of the illegals
as having criminal records. They credit AIFIS, a new computer
program also known as the Automated Integrated Fingerprint Identification
System. |
Star Tribune
Drivers'
license changes easily clear House
Item No. 1 for the House Republican majority
-- a bill that would change driver's licenses to better track
foreign visitors -- passed overwhelmingly Thursday, surviving
vigorous debate that split along questions of whether individual
freedoms were being compromised or public safety was being ensured.
-- Supporters, including law enforcers who say it would help
in the front-line war to combat terrorism, heralded the bill
as a "common-sense approach" to public safety. -- But
the measure has been seen by immigrant groups... |
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Reuters
Ranch
owners threatened , travel advisory issued for parts of Mexico
A U.S. couple from Idaho is trapped in
their own hotel-ranch in southern Mexico's Chiapas state with
local Indian peasants sympathetic to the Zapatista rebels threatening
to take their land. -- And -- The U.S. State Department on Friday
issued a travel warning for Americans in Chiapas because of threats
against foreigners and businesses that serve them.... |
The
Arizona Republic
Mexican
national off of death row
A Pima Co. Superior Court judge has commuted
the death sentence of a Mexican national to 25 years to life.
-- Toribio Rodriguez Rodriguez, 35, who was convicted of the
1988 first-degree murder of a Tucson woman, had been on death
row since January 1994. His sentence was changed because of an
agreement between the prosecutor and the defense attorney in
the case, according to Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Mexico has no death penalty and has often protested the use... |
The
Morning News (Arkansas)
Mexican
guilty of battery in boy's death
Rosa Martinez pleaded guilty Thursday
to the second-degree battery of her son in Judge David Clinger's
court. She will spend less than a year in prison. -- The prosecutor
confirmed that her office received a report on the boy's autopsy
from the Medical Examiner's office but declined to reveal the
conclusions. She said there is an "open investigation"
of the child's death, which could turn into a homicide investigation.
[Family
values don't stop at the Rio Bravo] |
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Associated
Press
Agencies
Question Sham Mexican ID Cards
An identification
card issued by Mexico to more than 1 million of its citizens
in the United States last year is facing greater scrutiny by
a security-conscious U.S. government after complaints by anti-immigration
groups. -- Used by Mexican citizens here for more than a century,
the cards are used to open bank accounts, obtain driver's licenses,
turn on utilities and enroll children in school. Anti-immigration
groups say Mexico is using the card to circumvent U.S. law. |
UPI
U.S.
consulate workers (Mexican nationals) face fraud charges
Three employees of the U.S. Consulate
in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, were charged Friday with selling visas
to unqualified applicants. -- The three suspects were arrested
Thursday night by agents of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service
in Laredo, Texas, following a seven-month investigation, U.S.
Attorney Michael Shelby said. -- Sergio Genaro Ochoa-Alarcon,
31; Benjamin Antonio Ayala-Morales, 34, and Ramon Alberto Torres-Galvan,
34, all citizens of Mexico, were charged with conspiracy to commit
visa fraud, Shelby said. |
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
Laser
technology aids border checks
New technology is helping inspectors
detect document fraud at the border in Nogales, but an investigation
revealed Thursday that inspectors nationwide are still having
trouble picking out fakes. -- A pilot project meant to improve
border security has allowed immigration inspectors in Nogales
to catch about 100 "impostors" crossing the border
with other people's identification cards since Nov. 14, said
Gary Rehbein the INS' deputy port director. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Bill
set to boost ID theft penalty
The Senate Judiciary Committee took a
step Thursday toward cracking down on criminals who steal the
most personal property of all --- identities. -- The panel voted
to send legislation to the Senate floor that increases prison
terms for people found guilty of impersonating others through
use of Social Security numbers, government- issued identity cards
or other means. -- The bill has broad bipartisan support. Identity
theft has become an increasing problem in the U.S. |
Associated
Press
Mexican
Farmers Stage Mass Protest Against U.S. Imports
Long lines of buses clogged main streets
Friday as tens of thousands of farmers gathered to demand greater
protection against U.S. imports and to seek more government aid.
-- "The central objective is to show the nation that there
is great discontent in the countryside that cannot be hidden,"
said Victor Suarez, one of the organizers of the march, that
has as its focus the NAFTA. |
Las Vegas Sun
More
funds needed to reach immigrant kids, experts say
Educators and community leaders have
a stern message for Nevada lawmakers: Either pay to properly
educate immigrant children now or face a steeper and more painful
price later. -- "We're looking at a future of more school
dropouts, more children being born out of wedlock, more homelessness
and more people lacking the basic skills to survive without public
assistance," said Mike
Martinez, a Utah attorney active in Hispanic affairs nationally.
"It's a lot cheaper to educate than it is to reform." |
Letter to
the Editor |
Tucson Citizen
(Published)
Border
wildlife's main foe: Illegals
Regarding Scotty Johnson's Jan. 30 guest
opinion, "Border
fence would devastate native wildlife": What Johnson
doesn't realize is that the wildlife along our border has already
been devastated. -- Anyone who is daring enough to take a walk
anywhere along the border in southern Arizona will see for themselves
the destruction caused by illegal entrants. -- I have walked
through washes that have 2-foot-deep piles of trash left behind
by illegals. |
Albert V.
Burns |
Etherzone.com
Immigration
built America, and is now destroying America!
Immigration, of course, was what this
nation was built on, voluntary immigration on the part of the
vast majority of people, but involuntary for the slaves up until
the Civil War. The influx of foreigners, with their various talents
and trades, established and expanded a society unlike any ever
seen before. Old world hatreds died out in the atmosphere of
freedom. This is still the mental picture that most people have
of immigration taking place today.... |
Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)
Glitches
force INS to postpone foreign-student tracking system
Just one day before educational institutions
around the country were scheduled to begin using a new computer
system to keep tabs on their foreign students, the federal government
delayed implementation of the troubled system, citing continued
technical problems. -- The INS late Wednesday postponed until
Feb. 15 implementation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information
System, or SEVIS, acknowledging that campuses were still having
trouble entering student data into the massive database. |
Associated
Press
Bag
search leads to arrest, call to U.S. Border Patrol
...During a search of the area, police
said, they found a duffel bag containing a brick and a bag of
cocaine. As police continued to investigate, they learned a 26-foot
boat had washed ashore in the 800 block of N. Ocean Blvd. According
to the report, police determined James and Wright were from Jamaica
and were not U.S. citizens. They were turned over to the Border
Patrol. |
Tucson
Citizen
Customs
seizes ton of pot
U.S. Customs agents seized 2,421 pounds
of marijuana in seven incidents Tuesday on and near the Tohono
O'odham Nation. -- The largest seizure of the day was 513 pounds
found in an abandoned vehicle outside a residence in Sells, according
to Roger Maier, the agency's spokesman. No arrests were made.
-- In another incident, Customs agents and O'odham police seized
356.6 pounds of marijuana after searching a residence in Sells. |
Michelle Malkin |
Washington
Times
Pro-terror
pleader
(NSEERS) has stopped 330 known foreign
criminals and three known terrorists who attempted to come into
the country at certain official ports of entry. In addition,
the targeted registration of certain foreign nationals already
in the country has resulted in the apprehension of 15 illegal
alien felons. -- Naturally, Sen. Teddy Kennedy, Afghanistan Democrat,
wants to stop the Bush administration from using NSEERS to catch
any more criminal aliens and illegal aliens who pose law-enforcement
threats to America. |
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WAVY-TV
News
Man
Killed After Killing Norfolk Policewoman Was In Country Illegally
The man killed by police after he fatally
wounded a female Norfolk police officer was a convicted drug
dealer in the country illegally, police said Friday. -- Mario
Roberto Keen, 25, was killed by police outside a sports bar Jan.
16 after shooting Officer Shelia Herring, who was responding
to a report of gunfire in the bar. -- He shot Herring as she
approached him in the parking lot shortly before 2 a.m., police
said, and was killed when several other officers returned fire.
[They
just sneak in to do the
jobs Americans won't do] |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Task
force looking for 16 suspected members of five Hispanic gangs
The FBI gang task force is still searching
for 16 members of La
Gran Familia, a group authorities say is one the most violent
street gangs in metro Atlanta. The task force announced the indictment
of 51 members of the gang on federal racketeering charges in
December. Authorities have arrested 35 members. There are 16
still at large. -- "If anyone has information on the whereabouts
of the remaining 16, they can call the gang task force at 404-679-9000,"
said Alex Hill, FBI special agent and coordinator of the gang
task force. "The investigation of La Gran Familia is ongoing."
[Family
values don't stop at the Rio Bravo] |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
Armored-car
driver found in Baja, put under arrest
An armored-car driver who disappeared
last week with $3 million in cash and checks was arrested yesterday
by Mexican police in Cabo San Lucas after a private investigator
hired by the guard's family tracked him there. -- Philip Salcedo
Jr. was taken into custody as he was getting into a cab outside
the Melia San Lucas, a posh hotel in the Baja California resort
where he had been staying for the past several days, private
investigator Bill Garcia said. |
Copley News Service
INS
jumps estimate of illegals
Adding fuel to an already emotional debate,
the INS has increased its estimate of the overall size and annual
growth of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. -- The
INS still hasn't released its new figures to Congress or the
public, but the numbers indicate that the permanent illegal immigrant
population in the United States is growing at a rate of 350,000
a year rather than the 275,000 the INS previously thought. |
Anchorage
Daily News
Bill
bars licensing illegals
Freshman Anchorage lawmaker Bob
Lynn, reacting to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, aims
to keep illegal aliens from getting an Alaska driver's license.
-- He has filed HB40,
which says the Alaska DMV may not provide or renew a driver's
license to anyone who is not a U.S. citizen or legal alien. --
Lynn also has introduced legislation, HB39,
declaring that illegal aliens cannot qualify for resident tuition
at the University of Alaska. |
Ukiah, Calif. Daily Journal
$195,000
in meth seized by police, illegals busted
Law enforcement Tuesday night descended
en masse on six Ukiah-area residences believed to be involved
in an illicit drug-distribution ring. -- They arrested six people
and seized more than two pounds of methamphetamine roughly 10,000
doses with a street value of around $195,000 12 grams of cocaine,
a pound-and-a-half of marijuana, $14,000 in cash and three firearms,
according to Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force Commander Bob
Nishiyama. -- "We're not looking to sweep illegals,"
Nishiyama said. "We're looking to sweep illegals that are
involved in the narcotics trade." |
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