Saturday, August 2, 2003

300 Invade Top Secret Military Base 63 OTMs Caught, Rest Flee at Home of Army Intelligence Sierra Vista, Arizona -- American Patrol has received information about an incident on Fort Huachuca (Arizona) last night in which MPs encountered about 300 suspected illegal aliens on the base. Of the 300, 63 were rounded up and detained, while the remaining suspects escaped. All those captured turned out to be OTMs (other than Mexicans). The Border Patrol is prohibited from going on base unless they are invited. Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

Letter to the Editor

Tucson Citizen  (Scroll Down) Enforce existing immigration law If we had a president and a Congress with some intestinal fortitude (there are a few exceptions) there would be minimal border deaths. How about enforcing existing immigration law? -- This won't happen as President Bush is afraid he might make Mexican President Vicente "Sly" Fox unhappy and Congress is either a part of the cheap labor lobby or is kowtowing to minority vote.

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

Salt Lake Tribune Hatch pushes tuition reward for foreign scofflaws Children of illegal immigrants could pay in-state tuition at public colleges under a bill Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has reintroduced after it died in the House last year. -- Hatch's "Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors," or DREAM Act, is similar to legislation introduced this spring by Utah 3rd District [RINO] Rep. Chris Cannon.

News Note

Reuters U.S. Suspends No-Visa, Air Transit Programs Two programs that allow foreigners to travel through U.S. airports on their way to other countries without a visa were suspended on Saturday because of security concerns, the Department of Homeland Security said. --- Foreigners who normally need a visa to visit the United States were allowed under the International to International program to pass through a U.S. airport... [See DHS Press Release]

Newsday - New York More on overblown firecracker fracas in Farmingville ...Members of the Sachem Quality of Life organization, an opponent of Farmingville's illegal immigrants, said they resented the activists' attempts to associate them with the teens' act, and disputed that they created the climate that led to the crime. -- "How can we be responsible for the act of another person?" said Sachem Quality of Life spokesman Joseph Sadowski. "How can we be blamed for doing anything but promoting the issue of enforcement of laws?"

Oregon Statesman-Journal Controversial House bill passes The Oregon House took what lawmakers called a "baby" step Friday toward equalizing the cost of higher education for children of immigrants. -- Lawmakers voted 42-15 for legislation that would provide in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, provided that the children either were born in the U.S. or obtained citizenship through a green card.

San Diego Union-Tribune Plan for fence at border opposed -- Officials, activists say environment at risk Immigration officials have chosen a plan to complete a second fence at the U.S.-Mexico border that they say is the least environmentally damaging, according to a report released yesterday. -- The plan calls for the westernmost portion of the fence ­ about 5 miles ­ to be built 130 feet from the existing fence to make it easier for Border Patrol agents to catch undocumented immigrants.

Andres Oppenheimer

Miami Herald Has Bush lost Hispanic voters? President Bush's honeymoon with Mexican-American and Cuban-American voters has come to an abrupt end. All of a sudden, Bush will face a tougher time than previously thought to win a sizable part of the 6.5 million Hispanic voters who pollsters say will be critical in next year's election. -- Two unrelated events - the Republican vote in Congress to regulate the ID cards issued by Mexican consulates in the United States...

Embattled Davis

Copley News Service Will Davis sell out America to avoid being booted out of office? Sacramento ­ With his political life on the line, Gov. Gray Davis has promised to sign divisive legislation that would give illegal immigrants [criminals] the right to drive. -- If the governor delivers on a driver's license bill that he has twice vetoed, Democratic activists say they will be armed with the spark needed to energize Latinos to turn out for Davis in the Oct. 7 recall election. [The September 11 killers also had licenses]

We Get E-Mail

Boulder, Colorado: Importing Rapists The attached "Importing Rapists" flyer is posted throughout Boulder, though no one knows where it came from and who is posting it. The Colorado Daily was full of stuff yesterday about how bad the poster is, and how it is not the "right" way to discuss the immigration issue. However, that story has NOT been posted on coloradodaily.com...

Joe Guzzardi for Governor of California - Update ...According today's story in the Los Angeles Daily News, the number of candidates who have taken out preliminary papers to run for Governor in the Recall Election now totals 258! -- Rumors persist that Gray Davis is under increasingly heavy pressure to resign. This, in my view, is unlikely. If Davis were to resign, then the Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante takes over. Davis hates Bustamante and Bustamante hates Davis...

The Herald Sun -- Durham, North Carolina Many Mexican immigrants choose N.C. as working home ...The Latino influx has challenged North Carolina's state and local governments, UNC professor James Johnson told the group before it left for Mexico. -- While Hispanic workers have contributed to... much of the state's recent economic development, the new population has squeezed school budgets, filled health clinic waiting rooms and raised security concerns in a post-9/11 society increasingly wary of foreigners.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Controversial pilot program to enforce immigration law nets 165 arrests In the year since 35 Florida police officers were trained in a controversial pilot program to enforce federal immigration law, they have made more than 165 arrests, and officials here and in other states want to expand the program. -- "We've learned a lot through this, so that other states have been looking at us as an example," said Jim Sewell, assistant commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

WorldNetDaily.com Illegals entitled to workers' compensation A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled a transmission shop in Phoenix is liable to pay the workers' compensation of an illegal alien employee who injured his eye on the job. -- In a 3-0 decision, the panel rejected arguments by Lee Myles Transmission that it wasn't liable to pay the claims of Fermin Torres because he is not a U.S. citizen, the Arizona Capitol Times reported this week.

Mexican Meddling

San Diego Union-Tribune  Invaders busted near consulate; Mexicans 'outraged' Mexican officials filed a formal complaint with the Border Patrol yesterday after agents arrested a Mexican family on their way to the Mexican consulate in San Diego. -- "This was an act of bad faith," said Consul General Rodulfo Figueroa [contact this meddler]. "We feel outraged over the way it was handled. They were hunting them. They were spying on them...." [More meddling]

News Note

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Mexican accused of child abuse faces deportation After repeatedly denying that she gave birth to a 6-pound boy found on a Bal Harbour beach, Teresa Garcia Jimenez now says she wants her baby back. -- That may not be so simple. -- Garcia faces child abuse charges when she gets well enough to leave the hospital. [Family values don't stop at the Rio Bravo]

Honolulu Advertiser Two Mexicans busted with cocaine on Big Island Hilo, Hawai'i - Two men were charged with first-degree promotion of a dangerous drug yesterday after they were caught with a parcel containing cocaine in Waimea, police said. -- Mexican nationals Lazaro Mendoza Cardenas and Miguel Angel Torres Andres, both with a Waimea address, are being held in the Hilo police cellblock in lieu of $200,000 bail each, police said.