Thursday, April 8, 2004

Mexico is a Threat - Not Iraq Government Priorities All Wrong Glenn Spencer debates Isabel Garcia on From the Heartland with John Kasich.  Spencer Scoffed at Iraq Threat, Warned of Mexican Threat Before War From the Heartland, Feb. 1 2003 Glenn Spencer: "Now let's understand something, we're fighting, possibly, a war, half way around the world against Iraq. Iraq is not a direct threat to us. But a recent poll showed that a vast majority of Mexicans believe the Southwest belongs to them." See Video & Feature of Appearance Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Lou Dobbs POLL

Do you believe the United States should spend more money to assure absolute security of its borders and shores? Voting ends at about 2:30 pm Friday | See Current Results

RINO Cannon

KSL-TV -- Salt Lake City Immigration Reform to Play Role in Campaign Immigration reform has become ammunition for the campaign season and the main target appears to be Congressman Chris Cannon. -- Congressman Cannon is on the defensive over immigration reform at the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. He claims ultra conservatives are using the issue to play on people's fears. -- Ad: "Immigration problems are about to get a lot worse thanks to a bill introduced by Congressman Chris Cannon...."

Allan Wall

VDare.cm British Spelunkers, Mexican Hypocrisy For sheer, unadulterated chutzpah, it's hard to top Vicente Fox and the government of Mexico. -- Fox defends the inalienable right of all Mexicans to enter the U.S. illegally and be rewarded for it. -- But on March 29th, 2004, the Mexican government expelled legal British visitors for - drawing maps of a cave?

Phoenix Business Journal GOP primary foes criticize Flake, Kolbe on immigration Arizona Congressmen Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe promoted their immigrant guest worker plan to business heavyweights on Thursday. -- Meanwhile, primary challengers to the two Republican congressman criticized them on guest worker and other contentious immigration issues.... [Meanwhile Kolbe has amazingly proposed a billion bucks in border security funding after neglecting the invasion for years]

Jeb Watch

Steve Stakem -- The Orator Network Jeb Bush Declared a 'Fool of the Week' ...It seems Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) has lost his mind, too. He has thrown support to a bill allowing illegal aliens to obtain a driver's license in the state. -- "We shouldn't allow them to come into the country to begin with," the governor correctly asserted before wrecking it with a stupid question, "but once they're here, what do you do?" -- Answer: You arrest the lawbreakers for coming into this country illegally. [Sheriffs Oppose Bush License Sham]

Campaign - 2004 - Arizona

Press Release Barnes Counters Jeff Flake's Comments on Immigration Mesa, Arizona -- Republican candidate for Congress Stan Barnes said today that "amnesty is wrong" in response to an immigration town hall held by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce featuring Congressmen Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake. -- "There's a fundamental difference of opinion on how to address the U.S. immigration problem..."

Jeb Watch

Press-Journal Editorial -- Stuart, Florida Ambushed: Governor joins brother in pandering to illegals Another Bush, another bad idea on immigration. By endorsing a bill to issue Florida drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, Gov. Jeb Bush is following his brother's faulty logic. And they think Sen. John Kerry is too liberal? -- The governor's rationalization begins with his claim that the drivers' license program will include criminal background checks... [Sheriffs Oppose Bush License Sham]

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald Review Rancher rounds up illegal aliens "You just missed 'em," Roger Barnett said. Barnett's comment referred to 18 illegal aliens that he and three of his family members had rounded up just minutes before I arrived at his 22,000-acre ranch located 15 miles northeast of Douglas. Barnett, 61, spends countless hours interdicting illegal border crossers who trample and trash his grazing lands located near our border with Mexico.

Snake Oil

Associated Press Guest-worker program needed, Kolbe and Flake tell businessmen Phoenix - A guest-worker program is the only way the government can bring migrant workers out of the shadows and focus on terrorists, two Arizona congressmen said Thursday. -- Republican Reps. Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake spoke to about 200 business leaders at the Arizona Chamber of Commerce-sponsored meeting to drum up support for a guest-worker bill they introduced in July.

Yale Daily News Bill to restrict aliens' licenses passes committee A [Connecticut] state bill opposed by both Yale and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization that could change the procedures under which foreign citizens can receive driver's licenses narrowly passed a committee vote yesterday. -- The measure... would require the state to issue non-citizens driver's licenses that expire when visitors' legal status in the United States ends.

Portales (New Mexico) News-Tribune Load vehicle nearly runs over New Mexico lawman ...During the cleanup, officers narrowly averted a second crash when a Ford F-150 pickup truck containing 18 people nearly hit De Baca County Deputy Michael Mussman. After flagging the pickup down, deputies turned all 18 occupants of the pickup over to the Border Patrol on suspicion of being illegal aliens.

Littleton (Colorado) Independent Previously deported invader charged with selling drugs Greg Ehlers got the April Fool's joke of a lifetime when police told him they had arrested an employee of the Littleton Sub Shoppe he co-owns, and charged the man with home delivery of marijuana and cocaine, along with subs and pizza. -- Ehlers didn't find much to laugh about when [police] informed him Thursday afternoon that Wagner Machado...

Daily Tar Heel -- North Carolina Carrboro Alderman thinks non-citizens should get the vote ..."If you are already living here and paying taxes and doing things citizens do, the only thing you don't have is right to vote," he [Carrboro Alderman John Herrera, an immigrant] said. -- Herrera said the state can grant municipalities the right to allow noncitizens to vote for local positions. -- But N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird said she is not aware of such power.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Most of state's congressmen back bill for high-tech border security New legislation backed by most of Arizona's Republican congressmen calls for increasing the use of technology to bolster border security. -- Companion bills introduced Wednesday in the Senate and Friday in the House authorize two pilot programs for aerial and ground surveillance technology along the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.

Save Our State   TIME IS RUNNING OUT -- ACT NOW! '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. This initiative also ends the threat of invaders getting driver's licenses in California once and for all.

Patrick Mallon

NewsMax.com Human Tidal Wave Spills Over Border By all reports, the wave of illegal immigration across our nation's southern border has accelerated threefold since President Bush announced his confusing guest worker proposal in January 2004. -- Just last week, estimates of unauthorized border crossings range from 10,000 daily, according to Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol, to a shocking figure raised by Bill O'Reilly during the March 31 broadcast of "The Radio Factor."

The Scourge of

UCLA Daily Bruin MEChA gang holds 'solidarity rally' at UCLA Hundreds of students congregated, their many voices forming one in their chant, "We're fired up, can't take it no more." -- Chicana/o student group MEChA held a rally in front of Kerckhoff Hall on Wednesday afternoon in the hopes of teaching UCLA students about the purpose of MEChA, as well as uniting many student groups with the common cause of equality. [See: A victory for college Republicans]

Tom Lyons -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune -- [Send a letter to the editor] Lyons: We 'stole' part of Mexico - so give invaders licenses ...[W]e have this nation only because our recent ancestors took it from the earlier inhabitants by use of genocidal violence. We also moved in and violently stole quite a hunk of it from Mexico. So, can't we do without this insistence that our efforts to hoard the riches here are based entirely on moral principle?... [See Jeb Watch]

Charlotte News & Observer Customs loath to deport girl A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Wednesday that the agency would be reluctant to deport an 11-year-old Salvadoran girl who entered the country illegally to be with her father in Durham. -- "We're going to do everything in our power not to have to [deport her]," said Sue Brown, an agency spokeswoman...

New York Times (Free Registration)   Move underway to give non-citizens the vote in New York At first glance, it may seem a long shot in an era of orange alerts and stepped-up border patrols. But quietly and carefully, elected officials, labor unions and community groups are starting to push the notion of allowing legal immigrants who are not United States citizens to vote in New York City elections.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition More on USAF sergeant accused of invader smuggling A sergeant from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is facing people-smuggling charges after he was arrested Tuesday outside Nogales with five illegal entrants in his car. -- Staff Sgt. Claude Melvin Jones Jr., 41, had his initial appearance in U.S. District Court here Wednesday on one count of smuggling. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine...

WFAA-TV -- Dallas New ads complicate Frost-Sessions race Two congressional incumbents are battling for the same district. -- Redistricting pits Republican Pete Sessions against Democrat Martin Frost, and if that's not enough to heat things up, tough new ads are drawing an equally tough response. -- The ads come not from Sessions, but from a Washington- based coalition that opposes increased immigration.