Thursday, November 13, 2003

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Reuters Third world nations have designs on sham IDs, Bush mum Several Latin American countries plan to follow Mexico's example by issuing consular identification cards to illegal immigrants [criminals] in the U.S., despite FBI warnings that the cards pose a security threat... -- [Corruption-bloated] Mexico has issued around two million of the cards, known as the "matricula consular" to its nationals....

Debra Saunders

TownHall.com Revenge of the Wal-Mart nine How do people who deliberately set out to break American immigration law get to sue U.S. employers for breaking labor laws? -- It's a question I had to ask myself when I read in The New York Times that nine illegal immigrants who worked as janitors at Wal-Mart were suing the retail giant...

Associated Press Homeland Security worker charged with selling immigration docs A Department of Homeland Security employee was arrested on charges of selling work documents to illegal aliens for as much as $12,000, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday. -- Isidro Guerrero Fernandez, who worked at the Citizenship and Immigration Service Building in Miami, was charged with conspiring to transfer identification documents...

Jefferson City (Missouri) News-Tribune Two Mexicans get off easy in unlawful re-entry case Two Mexican nationals were sentenced Wednesday in federal court for illegally re-entering the U.S. -- Romaldo Viveros-Ortiz, who was living in Camdenton, and Miguel Moreno-Lopez, of Mexico, Mo., were sentenced to five years of probation under the conditions that they not return to the U.S.

Associated Press Ex-Mexican consul busted for aiding Arab invaders Mexico City -- A former Mexican consul to Lebanon has been arrested on charges of helping a smuggling ring move Arab migrants into the United States from Mexico, federal agents said Thursday. -- Imelda Ortiz, detained late Wednesday in Mexico City, is the fourth alleged member of the ring captured in three days.

La Opinion  (Roughly translated by Google.com) Juan Jose Gutierrez, other reconquistas to fight SB60 repeal ...During the protest... Juan Jose Gutiérrez [long-time reconquista activist and anti-American nuisance], coordinator of the coalition, it indicated yesterday that the objective is to show repudio that they feel the immigrants who are themselves attacked by the elect governor. [Nativo Lopez, of Dornan-Sanchez vote fraud fame, also chimes in] [Spanish version]

Daily Aztec -- San Diego State University General education title turns 'PC' San Diego State is following suit in political correctness with other universities across the country by dropping the word "foreign" from the general catalog's "Foreign Language Requirement." -- Dean of Division of Undergraduate Studies Geoffrey Chase said the extraneous word carries negative connotations and should, therefore, be omitted in the next publication of the general catalog.

WOAI -- San Antonio Huge drug ring run by foreigners busted A drug pipeline that allegedly shipped more than one million dollars worth of cocaine and other drugs from Mexico to New York and other northeastern states was shut down today with the arrest of 16 people in San Antonio and Connecticut. -- "You name it, they dealt it," June Stansbury, Associate Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio office of the DEA, said today.

William Norman Grigg

The New American Rewarding Lawlessness While it tends to the security of Iraq's borders, the Bush administration is collaborating with subversive groups to undermine our own. -- More than two years after Black Tuesday, our nation's borders remain terrifyingly insecure, and our anemic economy continues to shed manufacturing jobs. Assessing this grim situation, the Bush administration...

Associated Press 300 Cases Linked to Hepatitis Outbreak Pittsburgh -- The number of people sickened by a hepatitis A outbreak at a Mexican restaurant continued to climb Tuesday, with state health officials confirming at least 300 cases. -- Investigators hoped to pinpoint the source of the outbreak in the next week or so. Of the cases linked to a Chi-Chi's Restaurant about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh...

Save Our License Referendum Citizens Opposed to California Driver's Licenses for Illegals

The Business Journal -- Phoenix Hayworth, Flake call on Bush to push border issues Valley Congressmen J.D. Hayworth and Jeff Flake [a major 'guest worker' scam cheerleader] are both pressing the Bush administration for heightened border security and immigration reforms. -- Hayworth has written President Bush asking him to press border security matters with Mexican President Vicente Fox at upcoming meetings...

Washington Post Groups Decry Immigration Rule A coalition of legal advocacy groups said Wednesday that a federal program requiring males from 25 predominantly Muslim nations to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service has resulted in the arrest and deportation of thousands of laborers, students and parents for what are characterized as minor, often technical violations.

Mark Andrew Dwyer

Illegal immigration, gangs, and unlicensed drivers It appears that Mexicans believe that they not only have a God-given right to "migrate" to the United States, the right that Americans deny to them because of racism and xenophobia, and that Mexicans deny to other nations because Mexico is a sovereign country that is free to enforce her border and immigration laws....

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald Review Agent's memory nets 25 illegals Huachuca City, Az. -- A van that had possibly been hidden in one of the canyons in the Huachuca Mountains earlier this week was stopped by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as it was driven through Huachuca City Wednesday. -- The stop resulted in the apprehension of 25 illegal immigrants.

Sen. Cornyn

Fort Worth Star Telegram Cornyn scheme torpedoes border controls Mexicans who regularly cross into the U.S. to visit or conduct business would get to stay up to six months, as Canadians can, instead of the current three days, under legislation filed this week by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn... -- "Mexico is the single largest source for illegal immigrants in the U.S.," said David Ray, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.....

Riverside (California) Press Enterprise (Free Registration)  MALDEF aiding and abetting foreign invaders again Students do not need a Social Security card to enroll in college. If that information is used to get into college, it must be kept confidential. -- Those were some of the nuggets of information presented Wednesday at a seminar sponsored by UCR's Chicano Student Programs and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Paul C. Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts -- Newsmax.com Loss of Jobs in America Are we being spun on jobs by the White House and the rah-rah Bush media like we are being spun on Iraq? Make up your own mind after considering the following. -- Only a few of the 116,000 private sector jobs created in October provide good incomes: 6,000 new positions in legal services and accounting....

The Argus -- Fremont, Calif. Illegal alien arraigned in fatal DUI crash Richard Charles tried to check his rage as the man who allegedly drove drunk and killed his nephew's parents in a car crash was arraigned Wednesday on murder charges. -- Benjamin Silva-Perez glanced furtively between Alameda County Superior Court Judge Allan Hymer and the court documents in his hands as a court-provided interpreter translated the judge's words into Spanish for the undocumented immigrant.

Tucson Citizen 5 indicted in harboring 2 illegals, torturing 1 A federal grand jury has charged four men and one woman from the Three Points area with harboring two illegal immigrants and torturing one of them in a local stash house. -- In September, Pima County deputies arrested one of the men they said tortured an illegal Mexican immigrant.

Pioneer Press -- Chicago Lawbreaker drivers license bill's revival expected One vote in the Illinois Senate last week was all that prevented passage of a bill that would allow illegal immigrants [criminals] to get valid state drivers licenses. But state elected officials say the bill's not dead yet. -- The bill proposed allowing illegal immigrants to use federal tax identification numbers to get a license...

Houston Chronicle Murderous migrant gets death sentence in Texas Walter Alexander Sorto should forfeit his life for helping to kidnap, rape and murder two women last year in Houston's East End, a jury decided Wednesday night. -- After about 20 hours of deliberations over two days, jurors returned to the court of state District Judge Jan Krocker with their verdict shortly before 10 p.m. [Family values don't stop at the Rio Bravo]

Charlotte Observer Federal unit fights foreign criminal gangs in Charlotte Federal prosecutors are forming a gang unit in Charlotte to dismantle the violent organizations and stop their criminal activities. -- U.S. Attorney Bob Conrad said Wednesday the unit's mission is to put Charlotte's gangs out of business by using tough federal laws on immigration, racketeering, firearms and drugs. --- Those arrests targeted members of Mara Salvatrucha 13...

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) U.S. and Mexico Pledge to Revive Immigration Drive The Bush administration and the Mexican government Wednesday pledged to revive efforts to secure an immigration agreement through a "step by step" process that could take well into next year to bear fruit. -- After a series of high-level meetings between the two countries, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his Mexican counterpart, Luis Ernesto Derbez, offered no specific immigration proposals...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix National study lauds labor center Critics have tagged the Macehualli day-labor center in north Phoenix a failure because men looking for work continue to congregate along Bell Road, but preliminary results of a national study [done by illegal alien cheerleading UCLA professor Abel Valenzuela Jr.] indicate it is worth imitating. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime]

Arizona Daily Sun -- Flagstaff Report: Ariz. issues driver's licenses with fake ID Congressional investigators got genuine driver licenses from Arizona and six other states using fake identification, the General Accounting Office reported Tuesday. -- The report, presented to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, said the problem is not limited to people using fake IDs to get real ones....

San Diego Union-Tribune Tunnel for smuggling found in Calexico U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered a cross-border smuggling tunnel yesterday morning after one of their vehicles sank into the ground near a residential area, about a mile east of the Calexico border crossing. -- The 4-foot-wide tunnel, which is about 12 feet below the surface on the U.S. side, is believed to have been built by drug traffickers.