Thursday, December 18, 2003

Roy Beck on the Lou Dobbs Show Dobbs Picks Up Where O'Reilly Leaves Off File Photo Beck Tells the Truth About the Invasion Broadcast on December 17, 2003 -- (CNN) -- ...BECK: Well, illegal immigration's not a victimless crime in many ways. But No. 1, illegal immigrants steal wages. They steal from the wages of American workers, especially American workers that are in the occupations they compete with. And so it may be fine for the wealthy of the country and for the powerful of the country to put this on the backs of American workers, but these are wage thieves. Watch || Transcript Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Madison (Wisc.) Capital-Times Wisconsin county may shield invaders Immigrants living here illegally [criminals] should feel more at ease seeking help from Dane County agencies or in dealing with law enforcement officials, thanks to a new policy being introduced to the County Board tonight. -- The immigration policy resolution... would prohibit Dane County officials from disclosing any information about an individual's immigration status to any outside agency.

Meddling Mexicans

Associated Press Bush and Fox to meet on restarting immigration talks President Vicente Fox assured migrants returning for the holidays Thursday that he would fight to give them more opportunities in the United States, including the right to a driver's license in California. -- "We will be fighting as hard as we can to convince the state of California to once again issue licenses to all migrants because they are working people, decent people, honest people," he said.

Associated Press Bush and Fox to meet on restarting immigration talks President Vicente Fox said Thursday he has agreed with U.S. President George W. Bush to hold a private meeting during January's Summit of the Americas, to restart talks on immigration reform. -- "We will have a bilateral visit in January, in Monterrey ... we confirmed we'll be talking about restarting the migration issue," Fox said.

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...

GovExec.com Report criticizes federal immigrant tracking efforts A new study concludes that the Bush administration has failed to fully implement a 2002 federal visa-tracking law and has missed a series of deadlines to improve immigration controls in the country. -- More than a year and half after Congress passed the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act...

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BAN Nuisance

Republican-American -- Waterbury, Conn. 'Vigilante' injustice A man's home is his castle, except in Arizona where ranchers have been sued by a "human-rights advocacy group" for detaining illegal aliens crossing into this country from Mexico. -- For four years, Roger and Donald Barnett have patrolled their 22,000-acre Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas. In that time, they have detained more than 5,000 illegal immigrants...

KARE-TV -- Minneapolis Twice deported foreign criminal charged again A 29-year-old Honduras man previously deported from the country twice faces new charges that he illegally re-entered the United States. -- This time, Oscar Tome Gonzales was initially arrested at a Bemidji convenience store after a store employee alleged he touched her inappropriately. According to the criminal complaint, Bemidji police officers arrested Gonzales after a call from the store.

Yuma Sun One of their own The search for a missing Yuma U.S. Border Patrol agent went past the 24-hour mark without yielding any signs of the agent or where he may have fallen into the Colorado River while attempting to save illegal aliens Tuesday night. -- Yuma and El Centro sector agents were joined by several area law enforcement agencies for what turned out to be a massive search...

Washington Times Groups sue over immigration data Several pro-immigration and civil rights groups yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit to stop the government from entering immigration information into a national crime database, saying the data is being misused in the wake of the September 11 attacks on America.

Los Angeles Daily News L.A. County immigrant capital Los Angeles County leads the nation's counties in the number of foreign-born residents -- 3.4 million -- whil-- e Glendale ranks third among U.S. cities with 54.4 percent of its residents born somewhere else... The new reportshows that 36.2 percent of the county's 9.52 million people were born in a country other than the United States. [Also see: Importing Poverty]

Frosty Wooldridge

American Daily America's Body Count Of Immigration Suicide Each day, we hear 'body count' reports of our soldiers killed in Iraq. Inside our nation, we hear more body counts from job losses, infectious diseases spreading among our citizens, gang wars erupting in our cities killing our friends as well as drug smugglers killing our national park rangers like Kris Eggle. The ABC's of America's accelerating national suicide mount with every newscast....

Vicente Watch

Associated Press Fox tries to make holiday trip to Mexico safer for migrants The holiday trip home for many Mexican migrants has gotten easier under President Vicente Fox. Instead of insisting on bribes, some police offer to guide caravans of migrant cars, and customs agents allow gifts that in the past were often confiscated. -- Since taking office, Fox has made changing government officials' attitudes toward migrants one of his top priorities.

State Sen. Pete Rios -- Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Arizona state senator backs BAN's nuisance lawsuit ...The lawsuit filed in federal court by the Border Action Network against those few individuals who do not understand that we no longer live in the world of a Louis Lamour novel is long overdue. That they filed it on International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10) is a message that I sincerely hope does not get overlooked....

Daily Citizen -- Dalton, Georgia 9 charged for making fake IDs The arrests of nine people Monday for manufacturing false documents, such as Social Security cards and driver's licenses, are the first such arrests in Northwest Georgia, officials with the Dalton Police Department said Tuesday. -- he documents - including Mexican driver's licenses, Georgia driver's licenses, driver's licenses from surrounding states, Social Security cards...

Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer Crash exposes illegal Mexican aliens In a bizarre twist of fate, a minor traffic accident Wednesday morning led police to uncover two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were working on the Brattleboro Union High School renovation project. -- Both men were lodged on a detainer order by the border patrol at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield on Wednesday night.

Star-Ledger -- New Jersey Illegal alien serial rape suspect pleads not guilty A defense lawyer entered a not guilty plea yesterday on behalf of an illegal immigrant accused of being the New Brunswick serial rapist who, police say, attacked seven people, including two Rutgers University students and a 14-year-old girl, during the past two years...