Tuesday, December 16, 2003

McClintock vs. Cedillo on Lou Dobbs Show California State Senator Says No Compromise - Illegals Must be Deported McClintock: "I don't understand how that is going to work. If you do a background check on people ­ the background check will determine two things: either they're here in the country legally in which case they don't need this bill, they are already entitled to a drivers license; or they're in the country illegally, and the law requires they be deported. I don't see how you compromise on that issue." Watch (First minute missing) - Transcript Note: After O'Reilly turned his back on America, Lou Dobbs became our new hero. Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

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Media Watch

Lou Dobbs: Should Illegals Have the Right to Vote? TONIGHT -- 8:22 pm Pacific Time -- CNN

Home News Tribune Previously deported illegal named as serial rape suspect New Brunswick, NJ -- Authorities say DNA evidence has linked a 32-year-old city man accused of trying to rape a woman at a French Street music store Dec. 6 to six rapes in New Brunswick. -- Ricardo Cepates, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who was deported from the United States once before, was charged with being the serial rapist who stalked women in the city since September 2001...

McCain

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix McCain: Day-laborer program a 'symptom' Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, said Cave Creek's controversial day-laborer program is a "symptom" of an immigration policy that needs serious reforms. -- He made the comment last week at a news conference in Phoenix. He went on to say that, while he doesn't condone programs that assist undocumented workers, he believes that it should be up to the individual community to decide.

Michelle Malkin

VDare.com Saddam Down, But Homeland Security Still Out To Lunch ...Airport security remains hostage to Norm Mineta's politically-correct handcuffs, the travel industry's profiteers, and immigration corruptocrats. -- On Monday, former INS official Maximiano Ramos was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a ring that smuggled illegal aliens from the Philippines...

Meddling Mexicans

Associated Press --  [Short-lived link] U.S. asks world court not to interfere in death-penalty cases involving Mexicans The Hague, Netherlands - The United States asked the United Nations highest legal body not to interfere in its criminal justice system, demanding Tuesday that it throw out a case filed by Mexico over the death penalty. -- The International Court of Justice is hearing a suit that alleges 52 Mexican citizens on U.S. death row...

KFMB-TV -- San Diego Mexican cop busted sneaking into the U.S. An unarmed Mexican police officer was arrested after he allegedly crossed the border illegally near San Ysidro, Border Patrol agents said Tuesday. -- Gabriel Ruiz Rojas, a police officer from Rosarito, was wearing civilian clothes when taken into custody around 7:50 Monday night in the Tijuana River Channel behind the new Las Americas Outlet Center, Senior Patrol Agent Angel Santa Ana said.

Sonoma Index-Tribune More on tantrum over illegal alien license law repeal Smiling, waving Mexican flags and beating drums amid Friday's gray drizzle, local Latinos hoped the sound of their protest would echo out of Sonoma Plaza all the way to Sacramento. -- Protest organizers hailed Friday's strike as the first in a series that will not subside until California's Latinos are treated fairly.

WPLG-TV Illegal Workers Arrested In Exclusive Neighborhood Miami -- Dozens of illegal immigrants working on exclusive Fisher Island were intercepted and arrested Tuesday morning. -- Coast Guard and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vessels intercepted a barge used to transport workers to and from the island.

Lopez

Hispanic Business Reconquista claims wimpy boycott a 'resounding success' Angered by the repeal of a state law that would have given driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, East Bay Latinos joined thousands around the state Friday in closing shops, walking off jobs and rallying to demonstrate their unity and economic power. --- Los Angeles-based activist Nativo Lopez (of Dornan-Sanchez vote fraud fame) led the statewide boycott and called it "a resounding success...."

David Garcia

Editorial -- Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Making Extradition Easier David A. Garcia is scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles court next week, charged with murder in the Nov. 15 shooting of Burbank Police Officer Matthew Pavelka. Garcia's arrest in Tijuana followed a two-week manhunt involving 1,000 police officers from agencies on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. It was a remarkable effort...

The Trucker Trucker could face death penalty in alien deaths Jamaican born truck driver Tyrone Mapletoft Williams could learn next month whether he will face the death penalty if convicted of his alleged role in the deaths last spring of 19 illegal immigrants. -- The Justice Department is to decide by Feb. 1 whether to seek the maximum penalty against Williams and four others who remain at large...

San Francisco Chronicle White House seeks to bypass smog review of Mexican junkers The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into an environmental dispute Monday at the Bush administration's request, agreeing to decide whether thousands of Mexican trucks can be allowed onto U.S. highways without a study of their possible effect on air pollution.

Washington Times Debate over foreign workers looms again As the economy picks up steam, a long-standing debate over foreign workers will, too. -- Trade groups and immigration attorneys are predicting that U.S. companies will face a shortage of highly skilled workers early next year, even while many Americans continue to search for work.

D.A. King

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Group: Enforce laws on illegals D.A. King is tired of the "lawlessness" when it comes to enforcement of immigration policy. -- He sees movements afoot in metro Atlanta and around the country to grant illegal immigrants the same rights as American citizens. -- The Marietta health insurance agent has founded the American Resistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization...

Save Our State 'Save Our State' Petitions Ready for Downloading Now See the Save187.com website home page for other pertinent information on this "Son of 187" initiative. Read all instructions carefully.

Bruce Barton

The Arizona Conservative A 'European Union' Model for the Americas or a New Homeland Called Aztlan? ...In Mexico's official "National Plan of Development  2001-2006," specific strategies for expanding the nation's political reach far beyond the U.S./Mexico border are outlined. Through out the lengthy document, globalization is frequently referenced...

FAIR Ridge Endorses "Legal Status" for Illegal Aliens Your help is needed to fight off an apparent attempt by the Bush Administration to get the amnesty wheels turning. Please contact the White House and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today and through the next week to voice your strong objection to granting legal status to people who have broken our immigration laws...

Worker's World Invaders fighting to regain driving rights In yet another reactionary assault against undocumented workers [read: criminal invaders] in California, the Democratic-controlled State Assembly voted overwhelmingly in early December to overturn a law that would have allowed undocumented workers to obtain driver's licenses.

WorldNetDaily.com More on Bush's amnesty double-talk ...Bush's comments suggest he supports some version of a congressional proposal calling for more guest workers and legalization of at least 3 million illegal aliens. -- In his speech last week, Ridge said, "The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status...

Diane Alden

Newsmax.com National Suicide I ....End immigration, legal and illegal ­ now ­ before it kills us. Both political parties and their operatives in the power corridor are doing us in through immigration, legal and illegal. From the corrupt visa system to illegal immigration, we get no help from conservatives or libertarians. Certainly none from think tanks like Cato and Heritage....

The Capital-Journal -- Topeka Kansas may see effect of California license law repeal ...Elias Garcia, executive director of the Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs, said the California repeal would ripple across the country and make an already "uphill battle" of convincing Kansas senators to pass the bill during an election year even harder. -- It's going to make it tough, or tougher," he said.