Tuesday, October 12, 2004

The Perfect Question for Kerry If the moderator had the guts Villaraigosa appears with Mexican President Zedillo on front page of Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 1999. Hypothetical Question & Answer Moderator: As Speaker of the California Assembly, Antonio Villaraigosa joined with the president of Mexico to kill Proposition 187, a measure that would have saved California from fiscal disaster and a Mexican takeover. He was a member of a reconquista Chicano organization, MEChA, and refused to repudiate its separatist goals. Why did you pick him as national co-chairman of your campaign? Senator Kerry: I need every vote I can get, no matter what it costs the United States. I know I said Mexico is corrupt, but, I'm a Catholic, and the Pope supports the Mexican reconquista. My wife is in favor of the takeover as well. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Associated Press Group says banks not catering to Hispanic business owners Frederick, Md. (AP) - Too few Western Maryland banks cater to Spanish-speaking businesses owners, the president of a Hispanic business group says. -- Despite a rapidly growing Hispanic population, many banks in the region have been slow to make more than token efforts to target Latino entrepreneurs, says Jorge Ribas, president of the Western Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

George P. Bush ¡Viva La Raza!

Associated Press Bush nephew rallies Hispanics in Las Vegas Presidential nephew George P. Bush touted his uncle's core values of "faith in God, faith in family, faith in community" during a visit Tuesday, hoping to persuade Nevada's Hispanics to vote Republican in November. -- Bush joined a group of prominent federal officials in Las Vegas as part of the "Nos Conocemos" (We Know Each Other) tour, which is sponsored by the campaign's "Viva Bush" grass-roots coalition...

Press Release ACLU attacks immigration provisions in H.R. 10 The American Civil Liberties Union today launched new radio advertisements in Spanish and print advertisements in English to educate the public about anti- immigration provisions included in intelligence reform legislation adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives. -- "The Republican leadership ignored calls from the 9/11 Commission, 9/11 families, and fair-minded lawmakers to drop anti-immigrant provisions," said Laura W. Murphy...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Report on reconquista rant at Glendale C.C. today More than 100 students and community members joined Tuesday on the campus of Glendale Community College to demand their voices against racial discrimination be heard and accused college officials of allowing an atmosphere of hate to grow on the campus. --- Yesenia Martinez... said ( faculty member Walter) Kehowski's actions offend her as a Hispanic woman. [MEChA organized this rant]

Christina Bellatoni

FrontPageMag.com When Illegals Vote U.S. citizens who go to the polls Nov. 2 to decide local, state and national elections are likely to get more help from noncitizens this year than ever before. -- Beyond requiring applicants to sign a pledge on voter-registration forms affirming that they are U.S. citizens, there is no way to prevent the nation's estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens from casting ballots in November, area elections officials said...

North County Times -- Oceanside, California  Feds launch crackdown on human smuggling in San Diego area San Diego -- Federal authorities today announced a stepped-up enforcement effort targeting human smuggling at the California- Mexico border, with particular attention on Lindbergh Field. -- Authorities will focus on the illicit transport of undocumented people into the San Diego area -- notably, through its bayside international airport -- and into Imperial County...

Robert Klein Engler

ChronWatch.com What's Missing From the Debates: Juana and Her Peanuts ...The Bush/Kerry debates have been rather ordinary. I watched both, yet felt something was missing. Something was missing from the questions asked and the answers given. That something was Juana and her peanuts, or more specifically, the issue of illegal immigration. Is it not odd that this issue, so vital to our country's future...

WCCO-TV -- Minneapolis Suspicious group allegedly cheated invaders Owatonna, Minn. (AP) -- A group that serves Latinos in southern Minnesota is denying allegations that it illegally charged undocumented Mexican nationals [criminals] to attend recent visits by Mexican consular officials. -- Officials with Owatonna- based Centro Campesino say they're disturbed by the allegations and welcome an investigation into they way the group organized the visit...

Peoria (Illinois) Journal Star Luis Gutierrez included in so-called 'immigrant' task force Chicago - Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday named members of a task force who will examine the plight of Hispanic immigrant workers across Illinois. -- The 14-person panel, which includes academics, government and labor officials and advocates for immigrants, is expected to make legislative and policy recommendations by the end of the year...

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  High Court Considers Immigration Cases The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the government can send immigrants back to countries that haven't agreed to accept them, a question that will determine the fate of thousands of Somalis resisting deportation to their war-torn homeland. -- The immigration case is one of three being heard this week that seek to delineate the limits of federal authorities...

ELECTION 2004 - Information on Selected Candidates Local and Regional Races - Calif., Ariz., Kansas, Georgia, Utah

RINO Cannon

Arthur Nifong, Jr. - America First Radio Cannon undeserving of conservative Republicans' vote If you heard a crackling sound last week, it just may have been hell freezing over. You see, yours truly, Mr. Conservative Republican, put up a sign in his front yard encouraging fellow Utahns to vote for a Democrat, Beau Babka. How did it come to this? -- Like the rest of the good ol' USA, Utah is being flooded with illegal aliens...

Arizona Daily Star Hourly Update  [Short-lived link] Immigration overshadowed on campaign trail Phoenix -- In the waning weeks of the presidential campaign, illegal immigration has been overshadowed. -- While the candidates laid out plans confronting the problem earlier on, advocates on both sides say the complex and divisive nature of immigration has kept it from getting more attention. -- The final presidential debate tomorrow night in Tempe might change that.

WKRN-TV -- Nashville Authorities bust man for fake I.D. scam A phony driver's license scam has been busted here in Nashville. Metro police have arrested a man for illegally printing and selling bogus driver's licenses. -- Late Monday evening, police arrested Carlos Gonzalez and charged him with criminal simulation. According to police, the driver's licenses were being sold to illegal immigrants...

'The Boot'

The Denver Channel Colorado Pakistani Deported For Selling Fake IDs Denver -- A Pakistani man who was convicted of illegally entering the United States has been deported. -- U.S. ICE officials say Raja Ur Rehman Siddiq had been selling identification cards at his "dollar store" business in Colorado Springs, Colo. -- Immigration officials say undocumented aliens had used cards to get into secure military installations in and near Colorado Springs.

Warren S. Wright

The Spectrum - St. George, Utah County needs real talks on slowing illegal immigration ...Out of curiosity, I attended the recent initial meeting of a group called Citizens Council on Illegal Immigration at the Washington County Commission Chambers. -- I commend these folks for their willingness to take a stand and tackle such a daunting task, as the people who should be doing so, won't. This is, of course, not by accident. One has to just follow the money....

La Jornada -- Mexico City -- (Roughly translated by Google.com) Guatemala teams up with Mexico to badger U.S. for amnesty According to an item in La Jornada, Guatemala's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Briz, has teamed up with his annoying Mexican counterpart, Luis Ernesto Derbez, to push amnesty for their millions of invaders in the U.S. Arrogant Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel is also involved in the scheme. [Spanish version]

The Scourge of

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Reconquistas to stage rant at Glendale Community College Students and educators today will stage a demonstration against what they call "discrimination and hate" on the campus of Glendale Community College. -- Today's 11 a.m. protest and noon rally stems from a racially charged dispute brought on by a math teacher who used the school's computer system to send out offensive material, students said. [MEChA is responsible for this little snit]

KESQ-TV -- Palm Springs Michael Moore battles hecklers for two hours at UA Tucson, Ariz. --  Filmmaker Michael Moore is calling for the defeat of Proposition 200. -- The man behind "Fahrenheit 9/11" spoke to a sold-out audience last night at the University of Arizona's McKale Center. -- Prop 200 would require residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in Arizona. It also would require people to be legal residents to receive certain types of government services.

Invasion

Deming (New Mexico) Headlight Bingaman lobbies Bush for more protection on border Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) continues to lobby the Bush Administration for more protection for New Mexico's Southern border. -- The senator's office reported Friday that for the second time in four months, Bingaman has written to the administration about increased apprehensions on the New Mexico-Mexico line. Bingaman cited figures showing a 26 percent increase in apprehension of illegal immigrants the past year.

KOLD-TV -- Tucson American Taxpayers Funding Health Care in Mexico The U. S. government is spending a lot of money for medical equipmentin Mexico. The idea is to improve health care across the border so fewer Mexican citizens will seek it here legally or illegally. On Monday, October 11, 2004, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson met with Vicente Fox.

NBC-17 -- Raleigh Sheriff won't pursue invaders who registered to vote (a felony) Burlington, N.C. -- The Alamance County sheriff has called off plans to search for illegal immigrants suspected of voter registration fraud. -- Sheriff Terry Johnson said last week his deputies would seek out illegal aliens, specifically Hispanics, suspected of registering to vote by using false documentation. He said Monday he doesn't have the resources for such an operation.

Government Malfeasance

Atlanta Journal Constitution Invading lawbreakers able to obtain home loans While Georgia's undocumented Hispanic workers [read: illegal aliens - criminals] can't get a Social Security card or a driver's license, many are finding a way to finance a home using a federal tax identification number. -- The groundwork for the trend was laid in 1996, when the U.S. Treasury created Individual Tax Identification Numbers to collect taxes from workers in the United States...

Associated Press More Bush administration skulduggery in Mexico The top U.S and Mexican health officials signed an agreement on Monday to educate migrants about disease prevention and free health care providers in the United States, to lessen their reliance on overtaxed U.S. hospital emergency rooms. -- The accord was announced in the central state of Guanajuato, where President Vicente Fox, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Mexico's Health Secretary...