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San
Diego Union-Tribune
San
Diego to open arms to Bantu refugees
The United States is considering taking
in about 12,000 Somali Bantu refugees for resettlement, starting
as early as next month, with more than 200 coming to San Diego.
-- The Somali Bantu are descendants of slaves who were taken
from Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique in the late 19th century.
They settled on the southern shores of Somalia and became farmers,
but their origins as "Mushungulis," or slave people,
and their cultural and ethnic differences have made them a persecuted
minority. |
Michelle Malkin |
VDare.com
Mexico's
Fox And The Weasel Next Door
Much fun has been had by American politicians
and pundits who are rightly taking France to task for its wimpish,
pro-appeasement ways. -- But what about the country that prides
itself as America's "closest ally" and has enjoyed
a highly-touted "special relationship" with us? What
about our soft-on-terror, fence-sitting, fair-weather friend
on the U.N. Security Council, Mexico? -- President Bush is sorely
disappointed that his old ranch buddy, Mexican President Vicente
Fox, has left him twisting in the wind at this late date. |
Denver
post
Lawmakers
protest Medicaid cut for immigrants
Cutting Medicaid coverage for legal immigrants
is "fiscally irresponsible and morally indefensible,"
three state lawmakers said Sunday. -- Reps. Andrew Romanoff and
Joel Judd, and Sen. Ken Gordon, all Denver Democrats, attacked
Senate Bill 176 at a press conference on the steps of the state
Capitol. The bill, signed by Gov. Bill Owens on Thursday, will
drop some 3,500 documented immigrants from the state's Medicaid
program beginning April 1 as part of an effort to make up an
$870 million budget deficit. |
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We Get E-Mail
Coloradans:
Vote Coming Up Tomorrow on Mexican Sham ID Ban
Keep calling your Colorado State senators and
ask them to vote FOR Bill #1224 WITH NO AMENDMENTS. -- The vote
in the Colorado Senate on bill # 1224 is TOMORROW, March 12.
-- THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION WOULD
PASS *IN THE USA*.... |
News
Note |
Associated
Press
Court
of Appeals overturns some driver's license rules
The Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned
rules Tuesday that limited the type of documents that can be
presented to get a driver's license and that required an unobscured,
full-face photo on a license. -- The ruling does not affect the
Department of Public Safety's ability to track foreign visitors
through special driver's license markings, because the designation
wasn't part of the rulemaking process examined by the court,
former Commissioner Charlie Weaver said. |
Washington
Post
Where
outlaws and Robin Hood meet (FBI plan backfires)
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - The Mexican bandits
wait in the darkness for the sound that tells them pay dirt is
approaching. And right on schedule, the Union Pacific train whistle
cuts the darkness, shrill and clear, and a slow-moving freight
train rumbles around the curve. -- The FBI says that for years
the bandits have been hustling up to the tracks through a hole
in the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border. Using techniques passed
down from father to son, they climb aboard and trip the emergency
brake to stop the train. |
Mexican
Meddling |
La Opinion
(Roughly translated by Google.com)
Fox:
Mexicans in U.S. should defend Mexico's interests
An article in the March 7 edition of
La Opinion urges Mexican nationals in the U.S. to act in the
interests of Mexico: "The countrymen in the United States
can be a strong vehicle of communication with the public opinion
of that country", affirmed to the agent chief executive
when inaugurating the First Meeting of Border Consuls, celebrated
yesterday (March 6) in Phoenix, Arizona. [Read
Spanish version] |
Times-News
-- Alamance County, NC
More
on major drug problem in North Carolina
A high Latino population and Interstate
85/40 have helped make Alamance County the hub of drug trafficking
in the Piedmont Triad, a sheriff said Monday. "The hub is
in Burlington, and we have to address that," Davidson County
Sheriff Gerald Hege said. Hege made the comments during a press
conference in which he and three other sheriffs unveiled three
pounds of cocaine and 102 pounds of marijuana that investigators
seized from a Randolph County home during the weekend. [Also
see this item] |
William F.
Jasper |
The New
American
True
Patriotism
...The administration has not convincingly
made the case that the hidden hand behind the 9-11 assaults belonged
to Saddam Hussein. ---- Nor has it shown the resolve to secure
our borders against the tide of illegal aliens (including terrorists)
swamping our shores, an absolutely essential requirement before
we launch into any war. |
Washington
Times
U.S.
agents see drug flow via Guatemala on increase
Deteriorating efforts to control cocaine
and heroin trafficking in Guatemala have discouraged U.S. drug
agents, who say the Central American country has become a major
transshipment point for illicit narcotics bound for the United
States. -- "Rampant corruption has made Guatemala an ideal
choice for drug dealers looking to send cocaine and heroin north
to the United States," said one key U.S. drug agent. "The
traffickers are winning this battle, there's no question about
that." |
News
Note |
Congress
Daily
Congress
probing links between immigration, terrorism
As Congress begins grappling with the
question of how to tighten border security, lawmakers have introduced
more than 90 immigration-related bills so far-many focusing on
homeland security concerns. At issue: Can the nation tighten
security while protecting the rights of legal immigrants? |
KTSM-TV
-- El Paso
Another
suspected illegal alien load vehicle crash
It happened near the Santa Teresa (New
Mexico) Port of Entry. -- Nine people were inside a Chevy Blazer
that should have only five people. New Mexico State Police say
the Blazer had nearly double the capacity as it headed west on
New Mexico Highway Nine and approached a curve. -- What is left
of the Blazer that held nine people inside is a crumpled shell. |
The
Journal News -- White Plains, NY
Police
chase day laborers from Route 59
Spring Valley -- Village police are planning
to increase their efforts to move laborers who wait along Route
59 away from businesses and off the busy road. -- Spring Valley
police yesterday asked 69 people waiting on Route 59 to leave
the area, Sgt. Joseph Ferris told a group meeting last night
at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Ferris said police will continue
working along Route 59, to let people know that they will no
longer be allowed to wait there. [Not a word about the INS in
this article.] |
Cedartown
Standard (Georgia)
Police
arrest suspected illegal alien drug traffickers
Police apprehended three suspects on drug charges
Wednesday, March 5. From reports: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation
(GBI), with the aid of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the Polk County Police Drug
Investigation Unit and Criminal Investigation Division and the
Cedartown Police Department, served warrants at 684 Slusser Ave.
and 343 Chubb Town Road... |
Washington
Times
Trio
of problems blamed for INS screening faults
Inadequate resources, faulty computer
data and insufficient training prevented INS inspectors from
properly screening foreign visitors last year at the nation's
ports of entry, including would-be terrorists, illegal aliens
and smugglers, a report said yesterday. -- The Justice Department's
Office of Inspector General recommended the INS take immediate
steps to improve its primary-inspection operations at the nation's
220 airports designated as official ports of entry... |
News
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The Indy
Channel
Two
Mexicans get light sentences in child sex case
Two men who admitted having sex with
a 13-year-old girl who became pregnant were sentenced Monday
to a year in jail. -- Magario Chiguil, 19, and Cesar M. Alcantara,
24, each pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct with a minor. --
Chiguil may face deportation after he admitted being an illegal
immigrant [..MAY face deportation?]. |
Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
O'odham,
law agents air border complaints
A congressional field hearing held here
Monday provided an array of testimony almost as vast as the Tohono
O'odham Nation itself. -- Drug trafficking, illegal entrants,
environmental and wildlife degradation, vigilante groups, besieged
border communities and residents, humanitarian assistance and
homeland security were among the many topics aired at the four-hour
hearing in the Nation's Tribal Chambers. --- Rep.
Raúl Grijalva, a Democrat who represents the district,
was in Washington and did not attend the hearing, an office spokesman
said. |
The
Oregonian
Bills
threat to Latinos' [read: illegals'] civil rights, activists
say
...Samuel M. Davila, the director of
the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs, says the fervor to
increase security has undermined progress for Latinos and threatens
their rights. -- The proposed legislation includes legal residency
requirements for driver's licenses, a repeal of bans on local
cooperation with federal immigration investigations and prohibition
of farm worker strikes. |
News
Note |
KTLA-TV
News -- Los Angeles
One dead, one injured in
hillside shooting
On-air report: An early morning shooting
resulted in the death of a female passenger in a car bearing
Baja California, Mexico license plates near Primrose
and Vista del Mar in the Hollywood Hills. A male was critically
injured, and the shooter or shooters are still at large. Several
shots were heard in the area at about 4 am. LAPD Chief Bratton
also showed up at the scene, a highly unusual move. [See
8:33 AM Update] |
Tucson
Citizen
Defenders
of illegals find congressional hearing 'upsetting'
Sells, AZ -- Controlling drug trafficking
at the U.S.-Mexico border may require more law enforcement resources
and exceptions to environmental laws, according to testimony
and comments at a congressional hearing here yesterday. ----
Jen Allen, director of the Tucson-based Border
Action Network, called the meeting "upsetting."
Most of her testimony focused on alleged human rights violations
by the U.S. Border Patrol. -- Allen criticized those running
the hearing for ignoring the environmental impact of border enforcement...
[illegals
are wrecking the place]. |
News
& Record -- Greensboro, NC
Task
force announces drug bust -- illegal aliens involved
Deputies shut down a major Randolph County
drug supplier over the weekend in the first publicized bust by
a new six-county task force. --- "This area seems like it's
a hub for large amounts of marijuana, and it's all being brought
in by Hispanics, and they're all illegal," Randolph County
Sheriff Litchard Hurley said. |
News
Note |
Associated
Press [Message
board]
Homeland
Insecurity: NM senate OKs licenses for scofflaws
Legislation intended to make it easier
for undocumented immigrants and other foreigners to get driver's
licenses passed the Senate on Monday, over objections that it
would make New Mexico a haven for terrorists. -- The measure,
which passed 27-13, allows the MVD to accept an IRS-issued individual
tax identification number instead of a Social Security number
from a license applicant. |
WINS
- New York
Gov't:
Men Took Illegal Aliens to DC for Fake IDs
An employee of the Washington, D.C.,
Department of Motor Vehicles pleaded guilty Monday to fraud charges
in what prosecutors say was a scheme that provided driver's licenses
to 900 illegal aliens. -- Gwendolynn Dean could get up to 15
years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of two counts of
identification document fraud. She entered the plea before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Andrew S. Peck, who set sentencing for June
13. |
MorthJersey.com
Illegal
alien 15-year term in murder of newborn
A Wanaque woman pleaded guilty to aggravated
manslaughter Monday, admitting she stabbed her newborn daughter
to death more than two years ago. -- In exchange for her plea,
Lorena Manzanarez, an illegal Mexican immigrant, faces up to
a 15-year prison term when she is sentenced in May, although
her lawyer can argue for less time behind bars. Whatever her
sentence, Manzanarez must serve 85 percent of her term before
she is eligible for parole. [Family
values don't stop at the Rio Bravo] |
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