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Friday, December 19, 2003 |
Debate over Immigration
Law Enforcement
Dobbs Again Takes the Lead on CLEAR
Act Debate
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Lou Dobbs -- CNN -- Dec. 18
-- WIAN: "One opinion held by several police chiefs is that
there is not much they can do about illegal aliens until the
federal government secures the border. --- "As one chief
put it, they can arrest and deport every illegal alien in his
city and most of them would be back within a week."
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Imperial
Valley (Calif.) Press
Foul
play not ruled out in disappearance of Border Patrolman
Yuma - Federal authorities have not ruled
out the possibility of foul play in the disappearance of a Yuma
Sector Border Patrol agent missing since Tuesday night. -- The
FBI has taken part in the investigation since the outset of the
search for Border Patrol Agent James Epling.  |
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Houston
Chronicle
Panel
stalls action on invader care
Despite pleas from health care advocates
and minority representatives, the Montgomery County Hospital
District board decided Thursday to keep illegal immigrants off
its medical services rolls until perhaps as late as next fall.
-- The vote means the hospital district will maintain its two-year-old
policy of not paying for clinic.... |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Mexicans
arrested after home invasion
Police arrested three suspects in connection
with a west-side home invasion Tuesday, less than an hour after
the victims wrote down their assailants' license plate number.
-- [The police] arrested David Manuel Mendoza, 19; Javier Quiroz
Gonzales, 21; and Juan Manuel DeLeon, 27. All three men are natives
of Mexico. |
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Birmingham
(Alabama) News
Invaders
driving illegally cause traffic problems
...Troopers say they are stopping more
and more immigrants without driver licenses and seeing them involved
in more wrecks. -- "It is past being a severe problem. There
is no way to know how many undocumented aliens we have in the
state," said Col. Mike Coppage, director of the Alabama
Department of Public Safety. "It's estimated we have 75,000
documented aliens in the state...." |
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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... |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
Students
protest repeal of license law
Escondido, Calif. -- About 60 mostly
Latino students walked off the Orange Glen High School campus
yesterday for a march through the city to protest the repeal
of a law allowing illegal
immigrants [criminals] to obtain driver licenses. -- Along
the way, however, not everyone was supportive. The students were
subjected to slurs and obscene gestures... |
What
'Homeland
Security'? |
Washington
Times
Security
checks seen falling short
The Bush administration, charged with
making swift improvements in immigration security, has missed
the mark on 13 of its deadlines, according to a report released
yesterday. -- The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform
Act, passed by Congress and signed by the president in 2002,
mandated 22 benchmarks to improve the nation's tracking of aliens....
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Los Angeles
Times (Free Registration)
Another
city caves in, approves day labor center
Rancho Cucamonga - Construction workers
and gardeners looking for piecemeal work, commonly called day
laborers, soon will have their own job center. -- The City Council
unanimously approved a plan to create the much-anticipated job
center for day laborers during the council's final session of
the year. The job center at Vineyard Avenue and Arrow Highway...
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Associated
Press
Wal-Mart
says it helped government investigate alleged illegals
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it had been
actively cooperating with federal investigators for three years
when agents surprised the world's largest retailer with a raid
that rounded up about 250 alleged illegal cleaning workers at
Wal-Mart stores in 21 states. |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Labor
center foe wants facility shut down ASAP
An opponent of Phoenix's day labor center
wants it closed as soon as possible, even though the controversial
gathering place is just over month from completing a yearlong
trial period. -- According to the one-page appeal filed last
month with the city, Guy Nuckles wrote that the Macehualli Work
Center is "in a residential area does not fit this special
use." |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Ticketing
of scofflaw day laborers called "harassing"
A police crackdown on day laborers gathering
at two strip centers on Mesa's east side has raised cries of
harassment from immigrant rights advocates who have been lobbying
for a day labor center in Mesa for three years. -- The operation
was in response to repeated complaints from businesses... |
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Sacramento
Bee
Bush
picks diverse team to win California in 2004
...At a Sacramento news conference, [Assemblyman
Robert] Pacheco said Bush also should perform well in the Latino
community because he doesn't "just learn to speak Spanish
because he's running for re-election." -- "This man
has been there all along," he said. --- Bush lost the state
in 2000.... |
Peter
Brimelow |
VDare.com
Emotion
At Reason
We regularly have to boot the writers
at the Establishment Libertarian magazine Reason for being, well,
unreasonable about immigration policy. We now seem to have graduated
to Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie himself. -- Gillespie was recently
touting yet another federal government scheme to subsidize immigrants...
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Invasion |
Associated
Press
Border
security ineffectual against terrorists, inquiry says
A crackdown along the U.S.-Mexico border
to prevent terrorists from entering the United States has stopped
no known militants from slipping in since 9-11, an Associated
Press investigation has found. -- Instead, the tightening net
of Border Patrol and immigration agents has slowed trade, snarled
traffic and cost American taxpayers millions, perhaps billions,
of dollars... |
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