Friday, June 27, 2003

Snow Time to Waste - Contact John Snow Secretary of Treasury Holds Key to Killing Matricula Consular Cards John Snow Sec. of the Treasury Battle Rages in Washington    June 27, 2003 -- The battle over congressional action to deal with phony IDs issued by the Mexican government rages on, with the FBI and State Department coming down against the Matricula Consular cards. The only holdout seems to be Secretary of the Treasury, John Snow. Critics say Snow is caving in to pressure from U.S. Banks that want deposits from drug and people smugglers.    American Patrol is urging people to contact Secretary Snow to tell him to reject the big money interests and support the people of America.    John Snow can be reached at (202) 622-6516 -- (More Info) Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

WashingtonTimes DMV studies ways to enforce new residency law for licenses The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is laying out the groundwork on how it will enforce a new law that requires applicants to show proof of legal residency in Virginia before obtaining a driver's license. -- The DMV has convened a 10-member panel, which has met twice to discuss ways to implement the law, which takes effect Jan. 1.

Patrick Mallon -- Newsmax.com California's Racial Iceberg Never a party to be outdone, California's Democrats are now pushing their class-warfare tactics to new heights, or depths, depending on how one examines the issue. -- Now in control of every level of state government, they manifest an abject reluctance to address (let alone acknowledge) their financial negligence. The governor deflects rumors that he will resign, and Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson trots around the state campaigning for increased taxes...

Phoenix Business Journal Democratic hopefuls, Arizona GOP woo Latino meeting Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham Friday addressed Latino leaders at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' annual meeting in Phoenix. -- Lieberman said current border policies are "immoral and unacceptable" and said he would hammer out an immigration-reform pact with Vicente Fox.

News Note

Associated Press Importing Poverty: Food dispursed to hungry children in California Tulare, Calif. - Some impoverished families who live in one of the richest farm counties in the nation but go to bed hungry nightly have received some aid Friday from an Oklahoma nonprofit organization. --- Many of the poor families are undocumented immigrants and seasonal employees, working on farms with bogus social security numbers [which is also illegal.] [Also see: Importing Poverty]

Tucson Citizen FBI probe shooting involving Border Patrol agent Naco, Arizona -- The FBI is investigating a shooting involving a Border Patrol agent at the Naco port of entry. -- FBI spokesman Adam Angst Friday afternoon would say only that a weapon was fired and that a Border Patrol agent was assaulted. -- Angst did not know if anyone was shot. The assault suspect fled back to Mexico, he said.

Sham IDs

Los Angeles Daily News Gallegly decries bogus IDs, usual suspects laud their acceptance Mexican identification cards... could threaten national security, FBI and DHS officials declared.... -- Rep. Elton Gallegly said he expects the House to vote by December on legislation he sponsored prohibiting federal agencies from accepting the Mexican ID... -- "It seems to me there is a great deal of fuss being made about this card that is, in essence, just helping people do their jobs," Rep. Linda Sanchez said.

Associated Press Deputy's slaying prompts manhunt clear to Mexico Wenatchee, Wash. -- The mother of a man being sought in the fatal shooting of a Chelan County sheriff's deputy was arrested early Friday. -- The woman was seen driving a white pickup truck in which her son, Jose Sanchez-Guillen, was a passenger on Thursday evening on Washington 28, Deputy Mark Mann said.....

Davis Recall

San Francisco Chronicle Petition workers complain of intimidation by pro-Davis crowd Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions are circulating, stepping up the political battle taking place in front of Wal-Marts and Home Depots across California. -- Davis supporters say they are simply exercising their constitutional rights when they confront recall circulators.

News-Messenger -- Fremont, Ohio Bogus ID card will help gate-crashers to do 'simple things' After this weekend, many of Sandusky County's undocumented migrant farmworkers will be able to flash a valid ID if they need to cash a check or open a bank account... -- On Saturday, the Consul of Mexico from Detroit will send representatives to Fremont to provide any Mexican nationals residing in the U.S. with a Matricula Consular...

L.A Times (Free Registration)  Reconquista Calif. Senate backs lawbreakers' "freedom ride" A labor-backed bus trip and rally to raise support for immigrant workers [read: illegal aliens, who are prohibited by law from working in the U.S.], styled after the 1961 Freedom Rides to expose segregation, won the blessing Thursday of the California Senate. -- The Senate is the first state legislative body in the country to back the "Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride"....

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Illegal alien death toll reaches 55 A Mexican man, found Thursday near Douglas by Border Patrol agents and apparently suffering from heat exposure, became the 55th illegal border crosser known to have died this fiscal year within the agency's Tucson Sector. ['Border czar' tells deported illegals, "try again" | Do-gooders add to the problem | Mexicans say the U.S. Southwest belongs to them]

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U.S. Congress Testimony of Steve McCraw (FBI) on Sham ID threat Chairman Hostettler, Ranking Member Jackson-Lee, and Members of the Subcommittee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is pleased to have the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the important issue of consular ID cards. The Department of Justice and the FBI have been charged by the President, with the support of Congress...

News Note

St. Spectrum -- Saint George, Utah Police crack down on use of illegal documents The Driver License Division is cracking down on those who present illegal documents and incorrect information. -- Since Monday, in conjunction with the recent enforcement, about 10 individuals were arrested and booked into Purgatory Correctional Facility. As a result of their arrest, they have been placed on deportation hold by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Expatica.com -- Europe Dutch Justice: Deportations set for dramatic increase The Justice Ministry expects a dramatic increase in the number of deportations of illegal immigrants in the coming months after the opening of an "expulsion centre" in Rotterdam on Friday. -- The new centre will be used to hold illegal immigrants arrested in the mass search campaigns being conducted by the immigration service and police.

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Focus of attempt to recall Phoenix councilwoman: Immigration At an emotionally charged news conference Thursday, two candidates and members of a group that wants to recall Phoenix Councilwoman Peggy Neely [e-mail] railed against a waiting center for day laborers in north Phoenix. -- Ousting Neely is just the first step in what they hope will snowball into a drive to rid Phoenix of undocumented residents [criminals], they said.

News Note

MSNBC -- San Diego 2 die when load vehicle crashes during chase Two people died and five were injured when a car loaded with suspected illegal immigrants spun out of control into oncoming traffic on a narrow road in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. -- The accident happened at about 7:45 a.m. during a police pursuit on Yaqui Pass Road on the west side of the park, according to the CHP.....

Associated Press Mexican national found guilty of possessing drugs A Mexican national has been found guilty of drug possession after federal agents discovered 19 bundles of cocaine in a car he was riding in while crossing the U.S-Mexico border, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. -- Juan Francisco Ramirez-Enciso, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, was found guilty Tuesday. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Post-9/11 migrant roundup faulted The Bush administration's stricter immigration policies since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are failing to protect the United States from possible future attacks and hurting the country's image abroad, a group of immigration experts concluded in a report released Thursday. -- "Current immigration policy may be making us more vulnerable to terrorism," said the lengthy report by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (The notorious traitor Doris Meissner is a Senior Fellow with MPI).

FYI	Associated Press L.A. Area Taco Bell Worker Had Hepatitis Los Angeles County health officials are urging anyone who ate at a Taco Bell restaurant in Alhambra a few weeks ago to get vaccinated for hepatitis A after a worker was diagnosed with the liver disease.

Sham IDs

Washington Times Mexican ID not valid, a 'threat,' FBI says The Matricula Consular card, issued by the Mexican government to Mexicans living in the United States, "is not a reliable form of identification" and poses a criminal and terrorist threat, the FBI has concluded. -- "Clearly, this is a threat to vulnerability," Steven McCraw, the assistant director of the FBI's Office of Intelligence, told a House immigration panel yesterday.

Tom Tancredo

Townhall.com Tancredo: 9/11 Repeat Would be Fault of Bush, Congress "If we have another event, and it's perpetrated by someone coming into this country illegally, and we've done no more to protect our borders and actually enforce our immigration policy...then the blood of the people that are killed will be on our hands and the president's," Rep. Tom Tancredo told CNSNews.com. --- Tancredo spoke with CNSNews.com on the eve of Thursday's hearing conducted... [concerning Mexican sham IDs.]

Alan Caruba

Cybercast News Service Immigration is Destroying California There was a time when America needed immigrants to work in its factories, to help build its infrastructure of roads, bridges and tunnels, to go West to farm its plains, and all the other tasks necessary to nation-building. That era is over. Nowadays, immigration -- especially illegal immigration from Mexico, Central and South America -- is the source of major economic and social problems.

Calls to Your Congressperson Needed Now! Hearings on acceptance of the bogus Mexican ID cards have been going on for a while, and an insider has told us they have been getting few calls on the matter. Please call your Rep. and ask that he or she cosponsor H.R. 687, to prevent the matricula consular ID card from being accepted as valid identification by U.S. government agencies and banks. Toll Free: (800) 648-3516, (877) 762-8762, or click here to find your Rep.

Journal-Gazette - Fort Wayne, Indiana Dangerous bogus ID helps Ft. Wayne, invaders Mayor Graham Richard's [contact the mayor and Sen. Lugar, who also likes the bogus ID] announcement that city agencies will be accepting photo identification cards issued by the new Mexican consulate in Indianapolis puts Fort Wayne in step with a welcome trend in immigration policy. -- The identification cards, called matricula consular, can be used by Mexican immigrants [only illegals need them] as proof of identification...