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The Violent Mexican
Invasion
Attacks on Border Patrol and Americans Escalate
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Sen. Jon Kyl |
Phoenix
Business Journal
Kyl
and McCain introduce border security bill
Arizona Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain
have introduced a new border measure that looks to bolster security
in remote desert regions often used by drug traffickers, immigrant
smugglers and other illegal crossers. The legislation instructs
the federal Department of Homeland Security to look at what technology
and equipment can be used to help patrol remote border areas
in Arizona and other states. |
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Home Channel
News
Home
Depot sponsors Mexican National Team
Home Depot has signed on as a sponsor
of the Mexican National Soccer Team's 2004 tour of the United
States. As the "official home improvement retailer"
of the Mexican National Team, Home Depot has the rights to develop
national and local market advertising, marketing campaigns and
have a presence on game days via scoreboards... [Contact
Info] |
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Arizona
Daily Star Update [Short-lived
link]
USAF
sergeant arrested on invader-smuggling charges
An Air Force sergeant stationed at Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base is facing charges of smuggling illegal border
crossers. -- Staff Sgt. Claude Melvin Jones Jr. is scheduled
to have an arraignment in U.S. District Court here at 2 p.m.
Wednesday on people-smuggling charges that carry a maximum sentence
of up to 10 years in prison... |
Tom Tancredo |
Agape Press
Proposed
Bill Lets Local Police In on Enforcing Immigration Law
A Colorado congressman says it's time
to stop playing politics, pointing fingers, and passing the buck
when it comes to addressing the illegal alien crisis. The Republican
lawmaker wants to see state and local law enforcement agencies
do more to help address the situation. -- Congressman Tom Tancredo...
says the United States should not be in the business of "in-sourcing"
criminals. |
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Associated
Press
U.S.
says Mexican marijuana, opium poppy production goes up
Despite intensive eradication programs,
marijuana and opium poppy cultivation in Mexico increased during
2003, according to State Department estimates released Tuesday.
-- Eradication efforts resulted in a record elimination of 90,440
acres of marijuana, up from 76,050 acres in 2002, department
spokesman Adam Ereli said. |
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Associated
Press
Mexican
police officials arrested for ties to drug organization
Two top officials of the investigative
police in central Morelos state were arrested for protecting
a branch of a major Mexican drug organization, a federal authority
announced Wednesday. -- Raul Cortes, and Jose Agustin Montiel,
operating director and general director, respectively, are accused
of protecting a cell of the Juarez Cartel... |
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Los Angeles
Times (Free Registration)
Suspect
in Killing of 2 Turns Herself In
A woman who fled to Mexico after being
named a suspect in a Highland double homicide two years ago called
the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday morning
to turn herself in, and authorities took her into custody in
Calexico later in the day. -- If convicted, Ernestina Bernal
could receive the death penalty. --- Mexican authorities had refused to extradite her...
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Arizona
Daily Star Border Edition
O'odham
police get new vests
The U.S. Border Patrol today is expected
to announce the donation of 12 high-impact bulletproof vests
to the Tohono O'odham Police Department as part of the agency's
push to work with local law enforcement agencies. -- The Police
Department, long plagued by border-related crime, needs the vests
for its special operations unit... |
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KZTV --
Corpus Christi
Patrol
Makes $4 Million Dope Bust
In addition to saving lives in Mexico,
the Border Patrol also seized more than two and a half tons of
drugs at the Falfurrias checkpoint. -- In total, 5200 pounds
of marijuana, worth more than $4 million, was found this weekend.
-- 259 bundles were hidden inside of an 18-wheeler... |
Jeb Watch |
Los Angeles
Times (Free Registration)
More
on pandering Jeb Bush and licenses for outlaws
Four months after California repealed
a law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses,
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has thrown his support behind a bill that
would let the estimated 400,000 foreigners illegally working
in this state to get licenses following background checks. --
"We shouldn't allow them to come into the country to begin
with, but once they're here, what do you do?" [How about
arresting them?] |
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Tucson Citizen
Border
Patrol rescues 55 people along border since Oct. 1
Agents with the Border Patrol's search-and-rescue
team have saved 55 people along the border since fiscal 2004
began Oct. 1, the agency said Monday. -- Among the most recent
rescues were the March 30 recoveries of a mother and son who
had been left behind in the desert by smugglers. |
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Associated
Press
Former
embassy employee, 2 others charged in visa scheme
Miami - A former employee at the U.S.
Embassy in Mexico City is accused of conspiring with a Colombian
couple in a visa bribery scheme that allowed dozens of cartel
members and leftist guerrillas to get doctored visas. -- Julieta
Quiroz, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nicaragua, is accused
of making at least $345,000... |
Pandering Bush |
WorldNetDaily.com
Jeb:
Give illegals driver's licenses
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed a
bill in his state's legislature that would grant driver's licenses
to illegal aliens. -- Bush said he favors the legislation as
long as there are rigorous screening standards to ensure recipients
''won't be terrorists,'' the Miami Herald reported. [Fax Bush at (850) 487-0801 or see
his website for other contact info] |
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Odessa (Texas)
American
Illegals
among victims in multiple-fatality crash
Reeves County, Texas - Three of the people killed
in a five-fatality accident early Monday in Reeves County were
illegal Mexican immigrants, the Border Patrol reported Tuesday.
Marielena Martinez Garcia, Ermilio Maya Lujan and Marco Antonio
Camacho, of Zinapecuaro, Michoacan, Mexico... |
Al
Knight |
Denver Post
Immigration
facts would be welcome
On Monday morning, a caller to a local
radio talk show asked Gov. Bill Owens to assess how much illegal
immigration is affecting the state's water supply. -- The governor
minimized the caller's concern and repeated two familiar points:
The lion's share of the state's water supply goes to agriculture
rather than to domestic use.... |
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Gainesville
Times
Georgia
county picked to test bilingual ballots
Hall County voters will be able to cast
their ballots in English or Spanish in the November general election.
-- The Secretary of State's Office picked Hall for a test run
of bilingual ballots because of the county's large Latino population
and its success as a guinea pig in electronic voting, said Cara
Hodgson, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Cathy Cox.
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Home News
Tribune -- Central New Jersey
Perth
Amboy gang tensions worry parents
The mother of two Perth Amboy High School
students is concerned about racial tension between black and
Hispanic students. -- An incident last month on Smith Street
in Woodbridge, just over the city boundary, resulted in crashed
cars, a street fight with bats and seven people injured.
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Brownsville
Herald
Mexicans
arrest one in connection with 19 alien deaths
Mexican authorities confirmed Tuesday
the arrest of a Rio Grande Valley man wanted in connection with
the deaths of 19 undocumented immigrants near Victoria, Texas
in May. -- Victor Sanchez Rodriguez, of Brownsville, was arrested
March 29 in Matamoros by special investigators at the Agencia
Federal de Investigation... |
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Dobbs also features clip of Florida governor Jeb Bush
supporting drivers licenses for illegals. (Later, Bush appeared
on Spanish language TV, speaking Spanish, supporting the license
bill.)
