Saturday, May 10, 2003

REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM* Hispanics Say American Border Patrol's UAV is Racist Hispanics condemn use of spy airplane to catch undocumented people "'This new action by ABP is worrisome in that it contributes to promote hatred and racism against immigrants in the region' indicated Lemus when indicating that the US government has the obligation to prevent it." (Also, if broadcasting live video of crimes is illegal, TV stations will have to ground their helicopters.) *Definition: The Latin phrase reductio ad absurdum means "reduction to the absurd." It is used to refer to the process of demonstrating that an idea is probably false by first assuming its truth, and then showing how that truth leads to absurd conclusions which cannot possibly be true. Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

Arizona Daily Star BLM ranger shot in Ironwood Monument A BLM law enforcement ranger and the man he stopped in a stolen truck were wounded Friday in a gunbattle in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson, officials said. --- "I would say Ironwood has become a fairly significant entry for illegal immigrants coming through the Tohono O'odham Reservation," said Lorraine Buck, a spokeswoman for the BLM's Tucson field office.

News Note

Associated Press Oil issue surfaces in invasion fracas, Mexicans peeved A Congressional amendment that caused little stir in the U.S. has created an uproar in Mexico, where newspapers on Saturday accused American lawmakers of arrogance and even blackmail. -- The measure narrowly approved Thursday by the House International Relations Committee says that any accord on immigration issues with Mexico should include an agreement to open Mexico's state oil company Pemex to U.S. investment. [Bloomberg item]

Daily Breeze -- Torrance, California County may deny health care to nonresidents (but will still help illegals) Barred by a federal judge from closing or downsizing two public hospitals, L.A. County officials have begun looking at strategies for turning away out-of-town residents and other uninsured patients from the county health care system. -- The Department of Health Services is preparing a plan to deny non-emergency medical care to the estimated 20,000 patients who have used the system but live in surrounding counties. [Also see: Sinkhole de Mayo, --- Killing 187 will kill Californians, and Importing Poverty]

Fresno Bee - (Sob Story]   Feinstein tries to prevent removal of long-time illegal aliens Esidronio Arreola was heading out the door to pick up a van that would carry his family and their belongings to Mexico when the phone rang Thursday evening and his attorney delivered a sliver of hope. -- Hundreds of miles away, Sen. Dianne Feinstein had taken an interest in the Porterville family that had lost its appeal to stay in the United States. -- She wanted to help.

News Note

San Francisco Chronicle    Skyrocketing UC, CSU fees seen California's public universities are making plans for dramatic tuition increases because of new budget-cut proposals circulating in the state Legislature -- even greater than the 25 percent fee hike they were ready to approve next week. -- "It is almost certain that California State University is going to take deeper cuts in the May revise" of the governor's budget proposal, CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said Friday...

Associated Press U.S. Deports Saudi Envoy Living in Calif. U.S. authorities expelled a Saudi consular official and Muslim leader who had been living in Southern California, saying he was suspected of having terrorist links. -- Fahad al Thumairy was detained at Los Angeles International Airport earlier in the week after arriving from Frankfurt and was deported Thursday. He may not return to the United States for five years, authorities said.

Dos Mundos -- Kansas City Orwellian News: Group chats about improving invader/police relations ...Deputy Chief James D. Corwin hopes a new initiative involving the Mexican Consulate for Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma will help make communicating easier. -- Corwin issued a signed memo Monday (May 5, also the Cinco de Mayo holiday) to the KCPD's uniformed officers, informing them that matriculas, the registration cards the consulate is issuing to Mexican nationals, are acceptable identification.

Reader Comment

"Hispanics" objecting to UAVs are activists for illegal immigration ...American Hispanics don't need Jesse Jackson clones. Communities referred to as Hispanic Communities should be called Illegal Alien Communities. We have so many of them that they have formed entire communities. These should not be confused with Americans of Hispanic descent.

Letter to the Editor

Washington Times Charity begins at home (no cheap tuition for gate-crashers) Hooray for the chapter of the [NAACP] that is asking Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to delay signing a bill to provide in-state tuition for illegal aliens ("Tuition bill gets NAACP caution," Metropolitan, Thursday). The chapter's concern is that needy Americans should get scholarships before illegal aliens get financial aid.

News Note

WCCO-TV -- Minneapolis Group of defiant St. Paul scofflaws about to be deported ...Tchisou Tho and his family fled Communist rule in Laos in 1975, settling in France. They came to the United States 13 years ago on visitors' visas, settled with relatives in Sacramento, Calif., and then moved to Minnesota in 1993. -- Immigration authorities accuse the family of defying a judge's order to leave voluntarily before March 26.

Associated Press Mexicans living in U.S. send home more money than ever Dollar remittances from Mexican workers living in the United States hit a record US$2.74 billion in the first quarter, in spite of weakness in the U.S. economy, according to statistics released by the Bank of Mexico. -- The central bank said remittances surged more than 26 percent in the first three months of the year from the same period in 2002. [Related piece about U.S. Treasurer who spends a lot of of time in Mexico] [More on Rosario Marin]

Korea Times Koreans Want Visa-Free Entry to US Many South Koreans want President Roh Moo-hyun to raise the issue of the difficulty they face in getting visas to visit the U.S. when Roh meets President Bush next week. -- It might be hard to believe that a lawmaker from its seventh- biggest trade partner failed to secure a U.S. visa, but it is true. -- In August 2001, a ruling party lawmaker got tired of a protracted delay in obtaining a permit to visit the U.S. and chose to fly to Canada instead to deliver a lecture.

Grassroots Conference on Illegal Immigration Coming Up Medford, Long Island, NY - May 31st - Click for info

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com  [Hear Joe on the Terry Anderson Show Sunday] Why The Black Caucus Looks The Other Way On Immigration Of the dozens of mysteries that surround Congress' adamant avoidance of the immigration issue, none is so bewildering as why the Congressional Black Caucus looks the other way. Mass unskilled immigration has a particularly dramatic impact on their constituents, the most vulnerable of Americans. [See this 1992 quote by Edward Litwak] [Also see:View from Lodi, CA: My Doubts About Dubya]

San Antonio Express-News   Driver licenses for sham-ID holders? Austin, Texas - Foreign citizens might be able to legally obtain drivers' licenses - which could be used as proof of ID - under a bill that made its way Friday to the House floor. -- House Bill 57, sponsored by Rep. Miguel Wise, seeks to have the DPS accept a Mexican federal document, known as a matricula consular or consular ID, as a valid document that would permit an applicant to receive a driver's license. [This isn't Wise's first attempt to pull this off]