Saturday, October 2, 2004

Bush Mentions Border - Kerry Does Not One chance to win - make the invasion an issue - catch Kerry in Mexican camp What's Wrong With This Picture? -- 95% in Lou Dobbs poll believe securing U.S. borders is an integral part of homeland security. Homeland Security Question Presidential Debate - Sept. 30 - Coral Gables, FL     When Jim Lehrer asked Kerry what he would do differently to increase the homeland security of the United States from what Bush is doing, Kerry said, in this order, more cops, fixing subways and tunnels, inspecting cargo ships, stopping tax cuts for the wealthy, protecting chemical plants and chasing down nuclear material in Russia. No mention of borders.     In his response, Bush spoke first of creating the DHS to protect borders and ports and then of adding more border patrol agents and modernizing the border. Debate text Dial-up Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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San Diego Union Tribune Mexican coyotes get light sentences, as usual An smuggler of immigrants who lost control of a sport utility vehicle while fleeing Border Patrol agents and crashed, killing four passengers, was sentenced to five years in federal prison yesterday. -- Another smuggler riding in the Chevy Suburban was sentenced to three years, 10 months. Both are from Mexico and pled guilty to smuggling causing death.

It's Not Amnesty!

North County Times -- Oceanside, California Conservative group targets Bush over immigration Fed up with what they say is the Bush administration's failure to address a growing illegal immigration problem, a small group of conservatives has launched a series of radio ads seeking to convince voters to oust President Bush from office. -- Last week, a group called Friends of the Border Patrol began a series of ads on KABC-AM in Los Angeles blasting Bush for "playing politics with national security."

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Lexington Herald-Leader Soaring number of 'no habla' criminal defendants a problem Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky soon will hire full-time interpreters for a growing number of Spanish- speaking defendants. -- The Administrative Office of the Courts will establish two offices with Spanish interpreters to try to save money and improve interpretation services, court officials said. The timing and cost of adding the staff members have not been determined.

Brownsville Herald Illegal aliens contracted to AMFELS linked to judge State District Judge Leonel Alejandro owns Port Fabricators, a company that allegedly supplied U.S. Department of Defense contractor AMFELS with undocumented immigrants [criminals] arrested in an early morning raid Wednesday. -- The case continues under federal investigation, The Herald found. -- Alejandro, who presides over the 357th District Court, had been AMFELS' attorney...

Honolulu Star Bulletin Mexicans involved in huge meth bust on Maui Federal prosecutors say 13 people were arrested in a shake-up of a West Maui crystal methamphetamine trafficking ring that allegedly distributed 20 pounds of "ice" a month from Mexican drug sources. -- The U.S. Attorney's Office charged 16 people with conspiracy to possess and distribute ice. Thirteen of the suspects are now in federal custody, and the other three are considered federal fugitives.

Joe Guzzardi -- VDare.com Joe Votes No On Dubya (Not Just For Immigration Disaster) I have closely followed all of the eleven presidential elections since 1960. -- The twelfth-the 2004 race between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry-is the first wherein half of the electorate is willfully disregarding the incumbent's record. -- Some who are ignoring Bush's flawed first term are the otherwise intelligent people on television talk shows: Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Bob Novak.

Daily Breeze -- Torrance, California Smugglers of Mexican invaders agree to plead guilty A Lomita, Calif. man and his alleged accomplice have agreed to plead guilty to a single federal conspiracy charge in connection with the alleged attempt to smuggle 50 Mexican citizens hidden on a sailing yacht into Los Angeles Harbor, court papers state. -- Gregory Ray LaBono and Vernon Eugene Siegel Jr., a Florida resident who was living on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, are expected in court Monday for arraignment and to possibly enter their guilty pleas.

Idiot

Winona (Minnesota) Daily News Brazen employer trots Mexicans to mobile invasion station ...[Scofflaw dairy farmer Marty] Hallock brought these employees [who apparently are invaders he's illegally employing] to Minnesota State College- Southeast Technical on Wednesday to get matrículas from a mobile unit of the Consulate General of Mexico. [This whole dog and pony show was reportedly set up by greedy Wells Fargo Bank]. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime]

Onslaught

Riverside (California) Press Enterprise (Free Registration)  Nonstop invasion of illegals not sitting well with Californians The tidal wave of immigrants flooding into California from Mexico and Latin America is almost too much to bear for some Inland residents who are now members of the disappearing white majority. --- Riverside's Larry Brown, a member of CCIR, said [invaders] drain the economy and benefit only the business owners who employ them. Taxpayers are left with the hidden social costs...

Federal Government Malfeasance

Ventura County Star (Free Registration)  Arrogant Mexican scofflaws apparently above U.S. laws Two Santa Paula sisters expecting to be deported Wednesday because of a sudden trip to Tijuana might be allowed to stay permanently in the U.S. after all, officials said [Nonsense... they were to be deported because they're invaders -- criminals, not because they went to TJ.]. -- An immigration judge will hear the sisters' case within the next few months...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial Open border with Mexico would be an unmitigated disaster Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, Mexico's border czar, wants more travel lanes at ports of entry and more border crossings into the United States to increase the flow of his country's main export -- misery. -- Mr. Cruz wants the 1,940-mile border separating America from his third-world economic and social basket case to be even more sieve-like than it is.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 26 who testified in death trailer case must leave U.S. More than two dozen [illegals] whose testimony helped secure record prison sentences against several smugglers are being ordered to leave the country within 60 days, which some say could hurt the government's efforts against human trafficking. -- Carl Ruznok, a spokesman for [ICE], said that the immigrants' temporary visas will not be renewed and that they will be deported...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Officials using lame scare tactics to discourage voters The state's top health official said Friday that doctors and nurses could have a hard time preventing the spread of infectious diseases if [Prop. 200] is approved by voters next month. -- Catherine Eden, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said the measure would discourage undocumented immigrants [criminals] from seeking medical care for fear of deportation.

Associated Press U.S. allegedly targeting visa violators Washington -- More than 350 people who have committed crimes or are suspected of terrorist links have been arrested in a federal crackdown on foreigners with visa violations, part of a broader effort to prevent al-Qaida from disrupting U.S. elections. -- Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement... are matching identities of visa violators nationwide...

Invasion

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Border death toll numbers are in dispute The number of illegal immigrants who died while trying to cross the border from Mexico declined over the past year... -- The total number of known migrant deaths along the entire U.S.- Mexican border dropped to 325 for the fiscal year that ended Thursday, from 340 in the previous fiscal year. [Notorious traitor Robin Hoover also chimes in, insinuates that the BP is lying.]

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Corrupt Mexican Gov't prepares to meddle with Prop. 200 Mexico City -- ...Mexico's undersecretary of foreign affairs for North America, Gerónimo Gutiérrez, likened the measure [Arizona's Prop. 200] to California's now-defunct Proposition 187 during a visit to Washington this week. -- On Friday, the international news agency EFE said Gutiérrez had called the measure discriminatory and added that Mexican authorities would prepare a "legal defense" if Arizona voters approved it Nov. 2. [Also See: Meddling Mexicans]

Washington Times Congress asked to set license standard Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore and Rep. Eric I. Cantor yesterday asked Congress to pass legislation that would require motorists to prove they are legally in the country before they obtain a driver's license. -- Mr. Cantor and Mr. Kilgore, both Republicans, urged Congress to approve a bill that would create a federal minimum standard for getting licenses.

Arizona Republic - Phoenix Hospitals not required to ask about immigration status The Bush administration on Friday backed off from a controversial proposal that would have required hospitals across the country to question patients about their citizenship status. -- The federal rules were supposed to go into effect Friday in order for hospitals to receive payments under a new law that helps compensate hospitals for the cost of treating undocumented immigrants.

¡Hasta la Vista!

Riverside (California) Press Enterprise (Free Registration)  MALDEF, day laborer nuisances, Mexican gov't whining again Temecula, Calif. -- Mayor Mike Naggar has drawn a backlash from day laborers and skepticism from other government officials over his appeal to the Border Patrol to round up illegal immigrants [criminals] at three places where workers seek day jobs. -- [ICE representative Virginia Kice babbles, "How does that address the root causes that bring on undocumented immigration?" [It's not supposed to, Virginia.] [Also See: Meddling Mexicans and The Scourge of MALDEF]