Sunday, November 16, 2003

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Invasion

Christian Science Monitor U-Turn for Illegal Aliens? Secretary of State Colin Powell and other cabinet members met last week with Mexican officials to find solutions for a range of border issues. They came up with a new telephone hotline for emergencies and an agreement to form a task force to improve border security....

D.A. King

MichNews.com "Habla Newspeak" ...Not long ago illegal aliens became "undocumented-immigrants", so as to be politically correct. Now in the current apparent "Newspeak" of many of our journalistic elite the 12 million plus horde that flaunt our laws and demand "civil-rights" and citizenship because they were able to successfully cross our virtually open borders....

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

Associated Press Illegal alien pot field sentries depicted as victims ...Police and defense lawyers alike say the guards are often indigent Mexican citizens who immigrated illegally. Federal defense attorneys argue the guards are simply pawns for drug cartels that plunk them down in remote locations with little understanding they might be called on to kill or be killed.....

Northwest Arkansas Online Northwest Arkansas Invasion Update ...About a year ago people in the Hardwood subdivision awoke to find their cars spray painted and windows busted out. There has been graffiti, drag racing, residents say, and in September a man was wounded in a drive-by shooting on Hardwood Road while getting out of his car. The man was shot in the shoulder. [Not a word about illegals in this article.]

El Universal -- Mexico City Report raises security fears Migrant smuggling through Mexico into the United States has become a major national security risk, according to a report from the Interior Ministry. -- The report says migrant trafficking organizations are diversifying into other areas of crime, which broadens their international connections and creates a national security risk.

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)   Muslim illegals bewail deportation ...Mohammed Akbar is one of more than 13,000 men the government moved to deport as part of a Bush administration dragnet that even its own officials acknowledge was a hastily assembled and blunt tool. They say they are not targeting Muslims, but people from nations where terrorists operate.

The Times -- Northwest Indiana Greedy banks put profit before national security, Bush mum A controversial Mexican identification card has gained wide acceptance at Northwest Indiana banks and credit unions competing for a share of the fast-growing Hispanic [read: illegal alien] market. -- Bankers say the matricula consular.. is helping people who were previously "unbanked" [and who should be deported] open accounts and establish credit.

Invasion

Associated Press Invasion harming wildlife, experts say The thousands of undocumented immigrants who cross the border from Mexico into the United States daily could eventually take a toll on wildlife habitats and animals in southern Arizona, experts say. -- While studies haven't been done to show the effects of border crossings on wildlife, biologists say that trails used by illegal immigrants would be most detrimental to animals.

Yeh Ling Ling DiversityAlliance.org

San Francisco Chronicle Advice on immigration to the immigrant governor-elect Californians are clearly unhappy with the state of our state. But our newly elected governor can restore luster and prosperity to California if he has the courage to take the necessary steps -- particularly in terms of immigration. -- To be blunt, our future will be lost unless we stop California's accelerating population growth.

KABC-TV - Los Angeles Update: Officer in Burbank Shooting Dies Police say one of two officers wounded in a hail of gunfire by two suspects during a routine traffic stop in Burbank last night has died. They say the other officer remains in stable condition at a local hospital. -- Burbank Police have identified the suspect who remains at large as 19 year-old David Garcia. The other man was killed by police during the shooting.

Army News Service Customs agents help guards on Iraqi border The tactics to combat narcotic movement along the American borders are now being taught in Iraq to thwart illegal crossings. -- Special agents from U.S. Customs were in Northern Iraq last week providing assistance to border guards and a specialized company attached to the 101st Airborne Division....

La Opinion  (Roughly translated by Google.com) Reconquistas fret as Schwarzenegger inauguration nears Mexican reconquista Juan Jose Gutiérrez, representatives of CHIRLA, and other groups who claim gate-crashers are 'immigrants', seem to be in a real snit over the issue of repealing the dangerous illegal alien license law signed by the disgraced former governor Gray Davis, and are really in a huff about Prop. 187-endorsing Pete Wilson's involvement in the new administration. Schwarzenegger is to be sworn in tomorrow in Sacramento.

The Tennessean -- Nashville  Hundreds of invaders line up for fallacious Mexican IDs Alicia Ibarra, a citizen of Mexico who lives in Nashville, said she's expecting her third child next month and needs an identification card from the Mexican consulate to be admitted to a hospital. -- Her husband, Ignacio Aranda, who works for an air-conditioning company [illegals are prohibited by law from working in the U.S.], said he needs one of the photo IDs so he can cash checks and open a bank account.

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Smugglers Stay Ahead of the Law by Moving Underground After the discovery last week of a cross-border tunnel between Mexicali and Calexico in the Imperial Valley, officials are more convinced than ever that the drug- and people-smuggling business has gone underground, literally. -- The tunnel was the 10th discovered in California and Arizona since federal officials tightened security at the border after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Los Angeles Daily News Is L.A. soft on illegals? The two men who allegedly shot and killed Ruben Rizo outside his Canoga Park home last year were in the United States illegally, and Rizo's widow says their presence was another sign of Los Angeles' flawed approach to dealing with immigrant criminals. -- "They should deport them back to their country," said Araceli Perez.... [The problem here is Special Order 40, lamely defended by the L.A. Police Commission and the inept City Council]

KABC-TV On Air Report - 7:00 am Pacific Burbank: One officer dies, another wounded in shoot-out KABC reports that one officer has died after a shootout in Burbank on Saturday evening in which one suspect was shot dead and another escaped into the neighborhood. Another officer remains hospitalized. -- The outstanding suspect, one David Garcia, 19, remains at large and is armed and dangerous. -- Click here for an earlier story on this incident. -- We will post links to updated info and a photo of the suspect when available.