Saturday, June 28, 2003

Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

Peter Brimelow

VDare.com The Treason Lobby Has Reason To Fear ...Welch is particularly worried about "VDare, American Patrol and scores of similar sites" -- Whoopee again! -- We've noticed Welch before. His particular problem seems to be that he doesn't like the possibility that Department of Homeland Security might actually enforce U.S. immigration law. (Horrors!)

San Diego Union-Tribune Hutchinson, Mexicans chat about deportations, sham IDs Mexico and the United States need to work out a better agreement for returning criminal immigrants to Mexico, San Diego's Mexican consul general said at a forum yesterday. -- Mexican authorities need more time to check for returning felons who have warrants in Mexico that could keep them locked away, he said.-- Hutchinson also expressed concern about the "security" of an identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexicans living in the United States.

The News - Stuart, Florida Illegal alien crash victim to go home An indigent Guatemalan man who has lived at Martin Memorial Medical Center for two years after being injured in a car crash should be released to his native country for further care, a judge ruled Friday. -- Martin Memorial has spent at least $1 million caring for Luis Alberto Jiminez, an Indiantown resident who suffered severe brain injuries in a head-on collision that killed two friends in 2000.

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DelmarvaNow.com -- Virginia's Eastern Shore Illegal alien convicted of all seven counts in trooper shooting Norfolk, Virginia - A U.S. District Court jury convicted an illegal Accomack County resident Tuesday of attempted murder of a state trooper during the Feb. 4 police raid on his residence. -- Ipolito "Polo" Campos, of Accomac, was also found guilty of six other charges, including weapons violations, and Social Security and immigration fraud.

San Diego Union-Tribune Hutchinson, Mexicans chat about deportations, sham IDs Mexico and the United States need to work out a better agreement for returning criminal immigrants to Mexico, San Diego's Mexican consul general said at a forum yesterday. -- Mexican authorities need more time to check for returning felons who have warrants in Mexico that could keep them locked away, he said.-- Hutchinson also expressed concern about the "security" of an identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexicans living in the United States.

El Paso Times -- Charlie Edgren Mexico's latest 'blame switch' ludicrous One can only gawk in amazement at the temerity of the Mexican government official -- it must be assumed he was speaking for the entire government -- who pointed his finger at U.S. military personnel as possible suspects in the killings of hundreds of women in Juárez. -- Since Fort Bliss is the closest military base to the killing fields of Juárez, there's little doubt about whom Deputy Attorney General Carlos Vega was talking.

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San Antonio Express News Demos blast immigration laws Phoenix - Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham assailed the Bush administration's immigration policy Friday at a gathering of Latino leaders. -- A high-ranking Republican dismissed the attack as political sniping. -- The two candidates told NALEO that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have led to a broadening of security powers harmful to minority and immigrant communities [not legal ones, though].

WorldNetDaily.com Border becoming smuggler's paradise Illegal immigration along the U.S. southwest border is on the rise and getting more dangerous despite tougher security following the September 11 attacks, and lawmakers are responding by calling for reform of laws as well as a crackdown on human smuggling. -- The San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday the call for increased border vigilance follows the death in May of 19 Mexican migrants who perished in stifling heat in the back of a tractor-trailer rig in Texas....

New York Times (Free Registration) Illegal alien deaths uncover makeshift world of smuggling ...Law enforcement officials say that Ms. Chávez's group was typical of those that bring more than a million immigrants across the Mexican border into the United States each year. Unlike narcotics organizations, which are tightly centralized and controlled by powerful dons, immigrant smuggling networks rely on constantly shifting configurations of guides and safe houses from Honduras to Houston and beyond.

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, California Homeland Insecurity: Local cops still approve of bogus IDs Although the FBI is questioning the reliability of Mexican identification cards and says they could post a threat to national security, local law enforcement officials continue to support them, and the Mexican government has no plans to stop issuing them. A top FBI official this week told Congress that the FBI believes the cards are ripe for fraud...

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Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Suspect arrested in child-sex case ...Mesa police caught up with Eliseo Lopez, a Mexican national. While investigating an unrelated case, they found the [12-year-old] girl in a Mesa hotel and caught Lopez fleeing from the room. -- The girl told police she has had consensual sexual conduct with Lopez at least 20 times since she was 9 years old. -- "She (the victim) is devastated that he got arrested. He is her boyfriend," said a Mesa police investigator... [Family values don't stop at the Rio Bravo]

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com Recalling Davis -- And Ending Immigration? Hmmm. Should I, Joseph R. Guzzardi, your humble correspondent, be a candidate to replace the despised Gray Davis as Governor of California? -- I've got the $3,500 entry fee. I can get 65 friends to sign my papers. It's that simple. -- I'd be in! -- I would expect the entire VDARE.COM editorial collective, acting individually of course, to pledge total support.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Drug-filled van charges border; agent fires shots Naco, Arizona -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent unloading a woman and her 2-year-old girl for deportation at the Naco port of entry Friday fired on a drug-laden van fleeing back into Mexico to avoid a U.S. customs inspection. -- The driver of the van was able to negotiate the left turn, then smashed into a metal gate at the Mexican port of entry before making his getaway into Naco, Sonora.