Monday, August 2, 2004

Deja Vu All Over Again U.S. Refusal to Stop Illegal Immigration Allowed 9/11 to Happen - Refusal Continues Episode aired on Sept. 24, 2001 60 Minutes, 9/24/2001 Steve Kroft: So we got a couple of million people entering the country legally and are now illegal aliens and nobody knows where they really are and nobody is really looking for them. Meissner: I think that is a fair statement. You have to understand that in the context of what the priorities of who you look for would be. Tom Fisher (former INS Atlanta District Director): Well, she was the commissioner, she set the priorities. Steve Kroft: You think she cold have done more. Fisher: Yes. Real Video | Windows Media Player Meissner is Working Against America: She now works for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - an anti- American globalist group. | Also see: Meissner and Citizenship U.S.A.  Meissner allowed murderers to roam our cities  Meissner labeled loyal Americans terrorists. | Lamar Smith exposed Meissner. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates Pressure D.C. to Expand Border Patrol Sweeps

Phyllis Schlafly

TownHall.com Kansas tuition law fails to make the grade It's not often that a state attorney general declines to defend a state law. Kansas passed a law allowing illegal immigrants to attend state universities at discount tuition rates. Consequently, some out-of-state U.S. citizens who have to pay higher tuition just filed a lawsuit. -- Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline agrees with them...

KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas Gov't finally recognizing the threat of porous borders The latest terror threat raises some questions here in South Texas. Could terrorist use our country's southern border, to enter the United States and does the new threat against east coast financial institutions have authorities here on alert? The answer is yes to both questions...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Paper calls for replacement of U.S. workers Our high-tech industries need the best scientists and engineers if they are to compete in the global economy. -- But our universities are not graduating enough Americans in engineering and computers to meet the demand. -- In fact, the number of American students enrolled in science and engineering graduate programs has dropped dramatically over the past decade...

Call the Governor's Poll -- (916) 445-2841 - Select Option 2, Then SB1160 Mexican propaganda mill urging push to license invaders Telemundo's station in the Los Angeles area (KVEA), which broadcasts over the air... not exclusively on cable... is featuring frequent segments on its local news programs urging the public (presumably foreign invaders) to badger Gov. Schwarzenegger into cutting a deal with Mexican reconquista state senator Gil Cedillo...

The Christian Science Monitor Closer tabs on student visas A year ago, administrator Sonja Mackenzie was up to her eyeballs processing foreign-student applications to attend the University of West Florida, when an e-mail from the Department of Homeland Security popped up onto her computer screen. -- At first, the content of the message seemed routine...

Mark Andrew Dwyer

A case against random classifications There was an old joke that circulated in then-Communist East European countries. During one of Communist Party conventions, its First Secretary was reporting how everything was good and improving. The economy was strong and growing, and so were food and consumer products supplies. The wages and the living standards of workers improved so much that they must have exceeded the ones prevailing in Western Europe...

Fort Worth Star Telegram Police in Texas on alert for terrorists Fort Worth -- Guns that shoot radar, not bullets, may be one of the best weapons against terrorism, Fort Worth police Chief Ralph Mendoza said Sunday. -- By staying focused on routine police work, including stops for simple traffic violations, local police turn up other things, he said. Those other things could include terrorists heading north after crossing the Mexican border, he said.

No Illegals!

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration) Tempers rising over allowing lawbreakers to get cheap tuition Kyle Rohde, a University of Kansas student, grumbles about the rising costs of attending college. The Wisconsin native finds it especially unfair when he sees the lower bills paid by classmates who have no legal right even to be in the country. -- Rohde is joining a nationwide effort by conservative activists to challenge states, including Illinois, that allow undocumented immigrants [criminals] to qualify for cheaper in-state tuition rates.

Jobs Americans Won't Do

Waterloo - Cedar Falls Courier Immigration trial postponed in light of new charges Cedar Rapids, Iowa --- The immigration trial for a pair of brothers-in-law who operate a chain of restaurants has been pushed back as federal authorities pursue new charges against them. -- In the latest round of indictments to be handed down against Luis Armando Varela- Arteaga and Jose De Jesus Ibarra- Castaneda, authorities said the two failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income on their tax returns.

Mexican City

BrattonMustGo.com L.A.P.D. - 'To Protect and to Serve' [when we feel like it] By order of a California Public Information Act request submitted by Hal Netkin, LAPD Commander Stuart Maislin was forced to admit that LAPD Cops have no way of verifying the information on matricula consular cards. What this means is that a suspect who is stopped for a minor infraction but whose true identity is listed on an ICE or FBI wanted list, would slip through the officer's fingers.

Madeline Baró Diaz -- So. Florida Sun Sentinel Post-9/11 U.S. policy perceives mass immigration as security threat If thousands of Cubans again took to the seas as they did in the summer of 1994, they probably would not come straight to the United States. -- Today, the U.S. Coast Guard repatriates any Cubans caught at sea who immigration authorities determine do not have a credible fear of persecution if returned to Cuba...

Vicente Watch

Leo Sears -- Eureka (Calif.) Reporter Hey Vicente! You're the president of Mexico, not the U.S. ...Mexican President Vicente Fox claims to be outraged at series of border patrol sweeps in southern California. In June, a dozen agents arrested more than 420 illegal aliens and placed them in deportation proceedings. -- At a recent Chicago rally for Mexicans living in the United States, Fox promised the crowd that his government "will stand beside every (illegal) Mexican woman and man in this country..."

Cybercast News Service House Dems Urge UN Supervision of Presidential Election At least 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives [including Mecha-boy Grijalva] are calling for the United Nations to supervise this year's American presidential election, four years after one of the closest races in history. -- Rep. Corrine Brown's home state is Florida, site of the historic ballot recount in 2000 that eventually provided Republican George W. Bush with the margin of victory...

Washington Times Illegals acted on rumors of amnesty Nearly 35 percent of the illegal aliens captured trying to enter the United States in the 19 days after President Bush proposed a still-pending guest-worker program say they were trying to take advantage of what many saw as amnesty. -- According to a confidential Border Patrol report to a Senate committee, 1,000 of 2,881 foreign nationals interviewed by agents...

Fresno Bee 'Chicano studies' prof. does double duty for hostile government Fresno State can soon boast having a professor who is also a Mexican state legislator on its faculty. -- Professor Jesus Martinez- Saldaña, of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department [whatever that is] says he will soon become legislator Martinez- Saldaña in the state of Michoacan in west central Mexico.

Dan Stein FAIR

USA Today Plans aren't in U.S. interest Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., have unveiled remarkably similar immigration "reform" proposals that will essentially eliminate limits on the number of people settling in the USA. The Republican and Democratic plans are premised on two erroneous beliefs: Illegal immigration cannot be stopped, so we might as well let just about anybody who wants to come here do so legally...

KGBT-TV -- McAllen, Texas Terror Alert Increase Protection Along the Border The terror threat level that was upped in New York and Washington DC caused a ripple effect in the [Rio Grande] Valley. -- Border Patrol agents are on high alert and planning to eliminate training and community involvement programs, in favor of more patrols. -- "We cancel those types of things so that we can have more agents on the front lines at the border."

Gregg Bish -- GOPUSA.com One Sunday in August 2004 Life got serious again, this first Sunday in August. In a rare and unusually detailed press conference, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced this Sunday that the National Terror Threat Assessment level was being raised to "High" based on specific and credible information of threats against national economic targets. Among the targets reported by Secretary Ridge were the International Monetary Fund...

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  SEIU, lawyers help keep invaders from deportation The rise in human smuggling across Southern California is creating a cottage industry of lawyers who represent immigrants captured in police raids, legal help that federal authorities said has ultimately allowed some illegal immigrants to avoid deportation. -- "It is very important that they fight for the few rights they have and not to take the voluntary departures," said Ben Monterroso [of the notorious SEIU].

WOAI -- San Antonio Texas-Mexico Border Beefs Up to Deal with Al-Queda Threat The U.S. Border Patrol and other agencies along the Texas-Mexico border are beefing up security in the wake of the latest Al-Queda (sic) threats against the United States, officials said today. -- Information received by a captured Al-Queda operative in Pakistan reportedly indicates that financial targets in New York City, Newark New Jersey, and Washington DC would be attacked by 'non Arab' suicide bombers smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico.

Pasadena Star News Licenses for foreign scofflaws face new hurdle Advocates for granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants face a new challenge to their efforts because the 9/11 Commission report called for a single national standard for dealing with the issue. -- For security reasons, the 9/11 Commission called on the federal government to set a consistent standard for identification documents such as birth certificates and driver's licenses that would be used by all 50 states.

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Immigration Sweeps Become an Election Issue for Rep. Baca The series of sweeps by Border Patrol agents in the Inland Empire and San Diego County appear to be over, but the political fallout may last until the November election. -- Rep. Joe Baca , a staunch Latino rights advocate, jumped into the political storm by leading a protest of the sweeps - which netted more than 450 suspected illegal immigrants - and helping prompt federal officials to suspend the roundups. [Dump Baca ASAP -- Laning for Congress]

Santa Fe New Mexican Once in U.S., some men snub wives in Mexico ...For all the problems that immigration causes for those who pull up stakes and for the countries that receive them, the bigger burden sometimes lies with those who stay behind. -- San Pablito [Mexico] is emblematic. It now has some 70 madres solteras, or single moms like Bocato de la Pila, struggling to care for their children because their husbands abandoned them for a better life in the United States.