Monday, December 8, 2003

Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates Countdown: 4 Days to Nativo Lopez's Phony 'Huelga' Nativo Lopez, currently the big cheese at MAPA, but best known for his alleged involvement in vote fraud during the Dornan-Sanchez Congressional race, has called for invaders to strike on December 12 to protest the repeal of SB60, the law that would have allowed uninspected invaders to get valid California driver's licenses. We predict that this huelga (strike in Spanish) will be a monumental flop.

Boulder Daily Camera Usual suspects bewail law enforcement proposal (CLEAR Act) Local immigrant activists are worried about legislation in Congress that would encourage police departments to enforce federal immigration rules. -- "This would pretty much devastate the relationship with the police department and the sheriff's department," said Jorge De Santiago, director of the Boulder-based El Centro Amistad immigrant rights center.

Jon Dougherty

WorldNetDaily.com The Candelaria Kidnappings: Why All The Secrecy? If a foreign invader crossed into the United States and committed a crime, threatened U.S. citizens and law enforcement, or planned other mischief, don't the American people have a right to know about it? Furthermore, shouldn't a documented foreign incursion invoke as serious a threat of retaliation from American leaders as, say, an Arab nation only suspected of aiding anti-U.S. terrorists?

San Jose Mercury News California's Latino Caucus: On the right track? ..."We need to stand firm on issues that we fundamentally believe are more important for our community and all Californians,'' said member Rudy Bermudez, a Democratic Assembly member from Bellflower. "Sometimes we have to do things that are not popular, but are the right things to do.'' [ 'The right things to do' for who? The attitude of these guys is that voters don't count... unless they are 'Hispanic' and pro-invasion.]

Courier-Journal -- Louisville, KY Rights panel to meet with Hispanics The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights will meet today with local Hispanic leaders in hopes of educating them about their civil rights and how to bring complaints if those rights are violated. -- The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights will meet today with local Hispanic leaders in hopes of educating them about their civil rights...

Tulare Advance-Register Paper claims lawbreakers need bogus Mexican IDs Now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has successfully repealed the law granting driver's licenses to undocumented residents, efforts must be stepped up to provide those people with some form of identification. --- The Mexican consulate is reportedly working on an identification card that would help undocumented residents [criminals] to at least open a bank account. The state should endorse such a plan.

Tom Tancredo

Denver Business Journal Tancredo call for Schwarzenegger's support Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is calling on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to join him in opposing an environmental group's effort to stop the construction of an enhanced security fence along California's border with Mexico. -- "These efforts to curb illegal immigration have taken on a paramount importance since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11," Tancredo wrote...

Register-Pajaronian Feinstein urges renegotiation of Mexican extradition treaty ..."If you steal a car in the United States, Mexico will return you to face prosecution and punishment," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California. "If you kill the driver, Mexico will protect you. This is not right." -- The situation stems from a 1980 extradition treaty that contains a clause exempting capital punishment cases....

Gannett News Service Arizona pols get reconquista support for 'guest worker' scam Braving frigid temperatures, more than a dozen runners with a New York-based human rights group arrived on Capitol Hill Monday morning to express support for a bill sponsored by two Arizona lawmakers that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants nationwide. -- The runners from the Asociacion Tepeyac of New York presented Rep. Jim Kolbe....

Rocky Mountain News Officials still unclear on proper IDs Six months into the state law that considers some identification cards unacceptable, city, county and state employees are still struggling with its enforcement. --- Unacceptable IDs include the matricula consular and foreign voter registration cards, foreign driver's licenses and expired documents of any kind. -- Critics believe the identity act was directed at the Mexican government's matricula consular cards.

Robert Vasquez

Idaho Statesman Forget the rhetoric and start securing our borders ...To our senators and congressmen, I say this - save your rhetoric and election year observance of veterans as heroes. Forget the annual lip service from speechwriters expressing appreciation of the veterans sacrifices. Secure the borders, safeguard the people, and keep America safe.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Mexican consul in Tucson to get Phoenix post The Mexican consul in Tucson will step down next month as part of a shift of consulates and administrators in Mexico and the United States. -- Carlos Flores Vizcarra will become consul-general in Phoenix, replacing Rubén Alberto Beltrán Guerrero. He is leaving to become the consul-general in Los Angeles, said [Luis Ernesto Derbez] the minister of foreign relations in Mexico City.

Washington Times Editorial Political pandering and immigration law In just the latest example of how far Maryland Democrats are willing to go to strengthen their political base on the left, Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley are lobbying Congress to kill legislation to strengthen federal-state cooperation in enforcing U.S. immigration laws....

Riverside (California) Press Enterprise (Free Registration)  Border agents face uphill fight (More government malfeasance) ...Katherine Reynoso, 28, of Los Angeles was recently arrested for the third time on suspicion of felony alien smuggling, a crime that carries a penalty of five years in federal prison. She was freed hours later with no charges filed. Agents who arrested her were told that her case did not meet the criteria for prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office, said Senior Agent Victor Jaime.

Washington Times Guarding America's border Blaine, Wash. - More than 45 million trucks and cars will cross this year from Canada into the United States, any one of which could be carrying terrorists, concealing weapons of mass destruction, hiding illegal aliens or transporting illicit drugs. -- This flow of vehicles, along with 80 million people, will be greeted by an undermanned force of customs and immigration inspectors...

Mountjoy

Glendale News-Press / L.A. Times (Free Registration) Truth absent in the debate of licenses for illegal aliens ...This law was designed to blur the distinction between aliens who obey our immigration laws and those who break them. Instead of punishing illegal aliens for breaking the laws of the United States, it would reward them with the most valuable piece of identification, a valid California driver's license. -- A driver's license would open doors for illegal aliens from any country in the world...

Meddling Mexicans

El Universal -- Mexico City Meddling Mexican governors chime in on SB60 repeal Puebla, Mexico -- The National Governors Conference called on California Gov. Schwarzenegger to reverse his decision to repeal a law that would allow illegal immigrants [criminals] the right to obtain a driver's license. -- Jerónimo Gutiérrez, deputy secretary of Foreign Relations said the governors had asked to set up a meeting with organizations of Mexican migrants in California and also with Schwarzenegger to discuss the rights of undocumented migrants.

La Opinion  (Roughly translated by Google.com) Reconquista Durazo spouts off at SB60 repeal 'marcha' ...No matter who is the governor. They must feel the pressure and the anger of our town, because without the immigrants falls the economy of this country, it said Maria Elena Durazo [wife of Miguel Contreras and invader 'Freedom Ride' organizer], leader of the Union of Employees of Hotels and Restaurants (HERE), the Premises 11. we, this country is not rich nor great.

Jon Kyl

Senator Jon Kyl -- National Review Alien Laws -- We have rules. Why aren't we enforcing them? "Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be [equal] will certainly be the aim of our legislatures." -- So wrote Thomas Jefferson 202 years ago....

Invasion

Contra Costa Times Debate simmers over illegal aliens' worth ...[Sandra] Blas, a spokeswoman for the San Jose-based Latino activist group Voluntarias de la Communidad, said many who denounce illegal immigrants often have no problem hiring them as nannies or gardeners. -- "Critics say immigrants are just illegal and don't deserve any rights, but the hard labor, they don't see that," Blas said [This is irrelevant, of course].

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) Arrogant invaders bark more demands for driver's licenses ..."Whether they like it or not, we are a part of this society. We are part of California," Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, said to loud cheers. "We're not going to give up. We're going to continue." --- Activists said the push for the licenses is part of a larger agenda...