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Thursday, January 1, 2004 |
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BBC
Mexican
capital hit by earthquake
A strong earthquake has rocked Mexico
City and Acapulco, although no damage or injuries were immediately
reported. -- The quake, at about 1735 local time (2335GMT), centred
in nearby Guerrero state and had a magnitude of 5.3. -- Thursday's
earthquake was followed by at least one strong aftershock. |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Arizona
grows by size of Tucson
Arizona begins the year growing at a
rate that has added at least the equivalent of Tucson, the state's
second-largest city, since the April 2000 census. --- The largest
component of Arizona's growth, 44 percent, is net migration from
other states. About 32 percent comes from births exceeding deaths,
and nearly 25 percent is immigration, legal or not.
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Associated
Press
Study:
Half of Mexico remittances go to low migration towns
Mexico City -- A little more than half
of the money Mexican migrants send home from the United States
ends up in towns with low migration levels, according to a government
study released Wednesday. -- Mexico's Interior Department said
10 percent of the country's remittances are sent to 162 towns
with very high migration levels.... |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
American
tourist says Mexican cops robbed him
Amid a rising number of tourist complaints
about police misconduct, an Arizona man has claimed he was stopped
by police officers Friday near the San Ysidro border crossing,
placed in a police truck and forced at gunpoint to take money
from an ATM. -- "I feel lucky to be alive," victim
Ron Terwilliger said in a telephone interview from his home in
Arizona. |
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Arizona
Daily Star -- Tucson
2004's
just starting, but it's busy already
...A guest-worker bill is part of a sweeping
bid to reform the nation's immigration laws and is being pushed
by McCain and U.S. Reps Jim Kolbe of Tucson and Jeff Flake of
Mesa, all Republicans. They say the bill would create a legal
way for workers to come to the United States and then return
home. It
would also legalize the status of the millions of illegal immigrants
already living and working in the United States.
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FAIR
Bush
to Propose Broad Amnesty
We regret having to interrupt your holiday
season with bad news on the immigration reform front, but the
Washington Post reports this morning that President Bush and
Karl Rove-in order to appeal to Hispanic voters-are poised to
announce a sweeping amnesty plan during the second week of January....
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Juan
Mann
DeportAliens.com |
VDare.com
Mann's
2003 Wrap-Up: Juan Told You So . . .
In January, 2003, I made some predictions
about the real grass-roots immigration reform movement and some
of its patriots. -- The good news was that they all came true-well,
sort of. -- The bad news for 2003 was that few in Congress or
the Bush Administration seem to care-yet... |
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Associated
Press
NAFTA's
future in the clouds
As the North American Free Trade Agreement
reaches its 10th anniversary Thursday, supporters and detractors
are debating the future of the treaty and its impact on free
trade in the Americas and around the world. Its member countries
-- the United States, Canada and Mexico -- now envision a Free
Trade Area of the Americas... [Also see: World
Bank Says Mexico is Failing Due to Corrupt Culture] |
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New York
Times (Free Registration)
Flight
Sent Back to Mexico on Terror Fear, Officials Say
The American authorities in the last
week directed a United States-bound flight from Mexico to turn
around in midair and imposed extraordinary security measures
on at least six other incoming flights because of terrorist concerns,
federal officials said Wednesday. |
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