Thursday, July 31, 2003

Who Killed California? Pat Buchanan knows -- and so do we Buchanan: "The United States government did. For what killed California as the golden land was massive and unrestricted immigration from the Third World, an unrepelled invasion from Mexico, and a failure to protect the U.S. manufacturing base and the wages of America's workers." Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

Johnathan Tilove -- Newhouse News Service Migration Patterns Point to a Nation of 'Three Americas' Americans in ever-larger numbers are leaving most of the states that are premier destinations for immigrants and moving to Southeastern and Western states that are home to most of the white population growth in the nation, according to the first migration analysis of the 2000 census. -- The pattern gathered substantial force in the 1990s and offers a revealing look at how the interplay of another decade of record immigration...

Sam Francis

VDare.com Now They Tell Us: Mass Immigration Destroys American Jobs With the state of California at the edge of financial-and perhaps political-chaos, the truth about the real meaning of uncontrolled immigration is finally seeping into the state's major newspapers. -- Last week in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fred Dickey unleashed a 5,000-word feature on the impact of illegal immigration on the state's legal-and lower-income-workers. In a word, the effect is disastrous.

News Note

Newsday -- New York Police Make Arrests In Firebombing Case Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a Farmingville firebombing that left an immigrant family of five homeless earlier this month. -- Three of the males are 17 and were charged with arson and reckless endangerment as hate crimes, said a law enforcement source. The fourth was charged as a juvenile.

Gannett News Service Reconquistas carp over Kolbe-McCain-Flake Bracero scheme The National Council of La Raza [The Race], the nation's top Hispanic civil rights organization, typically would applaud legislation to help undocumented immigrants become legal residents. So would Derechos Humanos, a humanitarian group in southern Arizona that advocates for the rights of illegal and legal immigrants.

Washington Times Lawmakers see loophole in alien visa revocation A federal loophole is blocking the deportation of terrorism suspects once the State Department has revoked their visas. -- Under current rules, a visa revocation does not require the person to leave the United States, nor does it constitute a reason for deportation. -- Homeland Security officials have complained to congressional panels that they don't have the authority to deport aliens holding revoked visas.

EFE The Strip-mining Continues: Remittances to Mexico up 29 percent Mexico City -- Mexicans living in the U.S. sent $6.1 billion home to relatives in the first half of this year, up 29% from the first six months of 2002, officials said Thursday. -- Mexico's central bank reported that June remittances totaled $1.14 billion, an increase of 33% over the same month last year. -- These figures are the highest for those periods since the central bank began keeping a record of remittances in 1995.

Donna Locke

The Political Vine Immigration policy should be guided by logic and reality ...According to the polls, the majority of Americans want enforcement of our immigration laws, not rewarding of illegal aliens. Illegal aliens should not be given any American documents, period. Tennessee's 2001 law allowing illegal aliens to get driver's licenses insults the American people and has made Tennessee a magnet for illegal aliens...

Sunday, August 3 -- Don't Miss This Show! Tom Tancredo on the Terry Anderson Show

Mark Andrew Dwyer

Fighting Like a "Bengal Tiger" On July 27, 2003, in an article by its associate editor, Frank del Olmo, the L.A. Times pronounced that "Now Latinos Are in the Driver's Seat". This was after Gov. Davis had announced before a group of cheering "Latinos", an event aired on Spanish-language TV network Univision, that he would sign the illegal aliens drivers license bill, the notorious SB60...

Sham IDs

The Daily Journal -- Kankakee, Illinois Congressman opposes use of sham Mexican IDs Count Congressman Jerry Weller among those who question the use of the Mexican identification card called the Matricula as a form of identification in the United States. -- "My view is if they are a citizen of another country they should be carrying a passport,'' the nine-year Republican U.S. representative from Morris said...

Washington Post Study Examines Immigrants' Overcrowding Low- and middle-income immigrants struggle far more than native-born Americans with similar incomes to find homes that are affordable, well-maintained and large enough, a coalition of housing advocacy groups said Wednesday. -- The housing crunch especially affects Hispanic immigrants, according to the study from the National Housing Conference, which analyzed Census Bureau data.

FLASHBACK -- Orange County Register -- January, 2002 Riordan supports amnesty for invaders, may run to replace Davis [Note: Local news broadcasts in L.A. predict Riordan will announce soon now that Schwarzenegger is pulling out of the recall race] -- Irvine, Calif. -- 1/2/02 -- Richard Riordan emerged as the only top Republican gubernatorial contender to support amnesty for undocumented immigrants when the three major GOP candidates appeared Friday at a Hyatt Irvine forum co-sponsored by Hispanic 100 and the Lincoln Club of Orange County...

D.A. King

Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal -- The Political Vine A republic if we can keep it ...A quote from closer to home from Georgia state Sen. Sam Zamarippa in 2000: "Your song may be, 'We Shall Overcome.' Our song is 'We shall overwhelm.'" -- Zamarippa was explaining how the Hispanic lobby would handle resistance to Hispanic "influence" in our region. He advocates giving illegal aliens drivers' licenses "because they are here..."

KNBC-TV -- Los Angeles Marines Attacked, Stabbed By Gang Members Two off-duty Marines were stabbed, one critically, when they and two companions were attacked by more than a dozen alleged gang members early Thursday. -- The fight took place in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., a small Orange County town north of Camp Pendleton. [Comments heard on local radio described the assailants as 'Hispanics' or 'Mexicans'] [Related Story]

KCRA-TV -- Stockton / Sacramento Some say migrant farm workers attracting hookers Prostitution is not a new problem for Stockton, but police say a new trend is emerging among the ladies who walk the street. -- Police say many of the women working the streets of Stockton are from other areas. --- Business owner Teresa Gonzalez said she believes a customer base of migrant farm workers is what's drawing the prostitutes to Stockton.

News Note

Newsday -- New York Police Make Arrests In Firebombing Case Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a Farmingville firebombing that left an immigrant family of five homeless earlier this month. -- Three of the males are 17 and were charged with arson and reckless endangerment as hate crimes, said a law enforcement source. The fourth was charged as a juvenile.

Associated Press Bush signs bill honoring slain park ranger The visitor center at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona will be renamed to honor a slain park ranger under a bill signed this week by President Bush. -- National Park Service ranger Kris Eggle was shot to death in the park last August while chasing two suspects in a drug-related killing. The park lies along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Yuma (Arizona) Sun Minors being deported at faster pace The number of minors deported from Yuma County to Mexico this year has already surpassed the total number deported in 2002, and officials on both sides of the border expect the number to continually increase as the year progresses. -- Juan Gabriel Morales, deputy consul for the Mexican Consulate of Yuma, said his office has seen more than 1,250 minors deported...

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition  [Poll On Page] Cochise County to get water stations A federal land manager has agreed to allow a border-watch group to place water stations on its land in Cochise County. -- The Bureau of Land Management will meet with Humane Borders to establish where in the county the humanitarian group wants to place its blue barrels topped with 30-foot flags. -- Permission for the new water stations comes on the heels of a request by Congressman Duncan Hunter...

Mexican Meddling

Pioneer Press - Chicago Area Consular General of Mexico to visit Highwood Highland Park, Ill. -- Carlos Manuel Sada Solana, the Consular General of Mexico, will visit Highwood Wednesday to meet community leaders and residents. -- Plans also are underway for a local bank to sponsor a visit by the consulate to issue Matricula Consular identification cards in September.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Acceptance of fallacious Mexican ID causing concern A U.S. Treasury Department decision to review government rules regarding an identification card issued by Mexico to its nationals overseas is threatening to exacerbate tensions between Washington and Mexico City. -- The [corrupt] Mexican government says it stands firmly behind its matricula consular...

Federation for American Immigration Reform Comments on Pro-Illegal Alien U.S. Treasury Regulation Needed Time is running short! Thursday is the deadline for registering your opposition to bank acceptance of the controversial Mexican matricula ID cards used by illegal aliens. If you haven't already voted, please visit the Treasury Department's web site and vote "YES" to change the Treasury rule issued last May allowing banks to accept these cards...

News Note

Daily Northwestern -- Evanston, Illinois Activists demand financial aid for border-crashing students In an effort to change Northwestern's policy regarding financial aid for undocumented students [criminals], a local Chicago activist group lobbied the Evanston campus Tuesday, declaring that all people should have equal access to higher education.

Sham IDs

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Storm swirls around use of Mickey Mouse Mexican ID Branded by critics as a threat to national security and a backdoor amnesty for illegal immigrants, Mexican identification cards have become a bellwether issue in a reemerging debate over immigration from Mexico. -- Critics in Congress - mainly Republicans - are trying to use the federal government's clout to curb what they see as an alarming trend toward acceptance of the cards by local and state governments, banks and some U.S. agencies.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition   [Poll On Page] Border question: Helping or smuggling? People offering humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants say their work may be hampered by the decision to bring border policy foes to trial on criminal charges. -- "We're nervous about what it means," said Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network, a group that advocates for illegal immigrants [criminals]. "It makes people think twice before offering assistance when another human being is in need."

KGUN-TV -- Tucson Kolbe reveals 'guest worker' legislation Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe outlined his "guest worker" bill for a standing room only crowd tonight at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Tucson. -- The three reasons for the bill are Homeland Security, stopping deaths in the desert, and providing for a work force which will become critical when the Baby Boomer generation begins to retire.