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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
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Statesman-Journal
-- Salem, Oregon
Candidates
evade immigration issue
Every day, thousands of people illegally
cross into the United States from Mexico. -- Most are poor people,
seeking a better life and prepared to engage in a bizarre cat-and-mouse
game with the U.S. government in their quest to get here and
live undetected. -- But there also are those with sinister motives:
criminal intentions and ties to violent crime or organized drug
rings. |
Government
Malfeasance |
New York
Times
Workers
head north, jobs head south
While illegal immigrants continue to
pour across the border, the New York Times reports that long-time
immigrants many former illegal aliens themselves
are seeing their American Dream heading south or across the Pacific,
as their low-skill manufacturing jobs leave the U.S. in search
of ever cheaper labor... |
Invasion |
Sierra Vista
(Arizona) Herald Review Editorial
Presidential
Debate: Talk about the border
Tonight is the final debate between the
Democratic and Republican candidates for president. -- This time,
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry meet in Arizona - on our home
turf. The debate in Tempe will be on the topic of domestic issues.
-- We sure hope the two candidates at least spend a few minutes
to talk about one domestic issue that hits close to our homes
- illegal immigration and our porous border. |
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Christian
Science Monitor
Endangered
species: US programmers
...A programmer, Mr. Bauman was out of
work for 20 months before finally taking a job with a 40 percent
pay cut. His experience is common enough that programmers are
organizing to fight in Congress against H-1B and L-1 visas.
-- But they face an uphill battle, says Mr. Miano, as business
groups are far better organized and funded than the smattering
of programmer groups... |
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Newsweek
The
Changing Face of Poverty (Immigrants)
...The Census statistics are both better
and worse than advertised. They're better because the middle
class isn't vanishing. Many middle-class families achieved large
income gains in the 1990s and-despite the recession and halting
recovery-have kept those gains. They're worse because the increase
in poverty in recent decades stems mainly from immigration. [See:
Importing
Poverty] |
Cisneros Watch |
Arizona
Daily Star Hourly Update [Short-lived link]
Disgraced
liar, pal chum up Hispanics for Kerry in Arizona
Tempe -- Two top Democrats believe John
Kerry has a chance to win Arizona this year - but only if Hispanics
turn out for the Democratic nominee in greater numbers than they
did four years ago for Al Gore. -- Henry
Cisneros, who was secretary of HUD under Bill Clinton [until
he had to quit for fibbing to the FBI], said Wednesday Hispanics
need to back Kerry at a rate close to 70%... |
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KOLD-TV
-- Tucson
Woman
Fires at Border Patrol Agents, then Kills Self
Agents with the Border Patrol's Tucson
Sector were shot at three times during a roadside stop. -- Authorities
say a woman and two or three men ran from a car after agents
pulled it over near Ajo Road and La Cholla Boulevard. -- The
men ran away, but authorities say the woman shot at agents before
turning the gun on herself... |
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Reno Gazette-Journal
Mexican
invader arrested in 'hot prowler' incident
A man already facing charges in two September
home invasions has been accused of another "hot prowl"
incident in August. --- Omero Rojas-Penalosa, an illegal immigrant
from Mexico, on Tuesday was arrested on additional charges accusing
him of burglary and open and gross lewdness in an Aug. 6 incident
with one of his neighbors, according to police. |
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Washington
Times
Chechen
terrorists probed
U.S. security officials are investigating
a recent intelligence report that a group of 25 Chechen terrorists
illegally entered the United States from Mexico in July. -- The
Chechen group is suspected of having links to Islamist terrorists
seeking to separate the southern enclave of Chechnya from Russia,
according to officials familiar with intelligence reports. |
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Woodburn
(Oregon) Independent [Short lived
link]
Oregon
murder suspect arrested in Mexico
Woodburn police have been notified that the suspected
shooter in a 1994 murder in Woodburn has been arrested in Mexico
and will stand trial in the Sixth District Court in the State
of Michoacan. -- The arrest of Arnulfo Duarte-Anguiano was made
in connection of the March 1, 1994 shooting of Rogelio Alvarez-Diaz
in what was suspected as a drug or money deal gone bad. |
Project
USA |
Latest Update
Immigration
billboard in New York vandalized
The ProjectUSA voter awareness campaign
in New York's 26th congressional district was barely underway
before someone vandalized one of our billboards by scrawling
the words "erase racism" across its face. -- The billboard
carried the factual statement, "Congressman Tom Reynolds
supports amnesty for illegal aliens," and was one of four
located in the northern and eastern suburbs of Buffalo. |
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West Valley
View -- Litchfield Park, Arizona
Buckeye
P.D. makes record marijuana bust (invader involved)
More than 200 pounds of marijuana was
seized last week when a routine traffic stop turned into the
biggest drug bust in the history of the Buckeye Police Department.
-- The sizable load was discovered just before midnight Oct.
8 after Buckeye Police Officer John Martinez spotted a pick-up
truck being driven erratically on the eastbound side of Interstate
10 near Verrado Way, Sgt. Bill Seltzer said... |
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Indianapolis
Star
2
plead guilty to bribery in Indiana driver's license scam
Two former Bureau of Motor Vehicles workers
on Tuesday pleaded guilty to bribery, admitting they forged documents
for foreign nationals. -- Vernetta Brown faces a maximum of four
years in prison, and Marvin Fennell faces a maximum of three
years under terms of plea agreements filed in Marion Superior
Court. Judge Robert Altice scheduled sentencing hearings for
Nov. 10. |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Phoenix
rag continues endless tirade against Prop. 200
Non-citizens are not swamping the polling
places. Too few U.S. citizens bother to vote. -- Yet after years
of efforts to ease voter registration and lure people to the
polls, Proposition 200, the so-called Protect Arizona Now initiative,
would set up barriers for qualified voters and bury county recorders
in personal information about American citizens...[Find
out about Prop. 200 here] |
MS13 Gang |
Associated
Press
El
Salvador Police Chief Seeks Closer U.S. Ties In Gang Fight
Santa Ana, Calif. -- Police in El Salvador are
establishing better contacts with their counterparts in California
to gain leverage against gangs involved in smuggling, extortion
and other crimes in both nations, officials said. -- The national
police chief of El Salvador, Ricardo Menesses Orellana, is meeting
this week with law enforcement officials in Southern California... |
Nuñez |
We Get E-Mail
Flushing
Out Fabian
We are waiting for the October 16 March
for Immigrant's Rights (illegal alien rights) in Los Angeles,
the ten year anniversary of the big march in 1994. We'll see
Juan Jose Gutierrez again leading the troops for open borders
and amnesty. -- We wonder if California Assembly Speaker Fabian
Nunez will again help lead the rally as he did ten years ago
when he joined tens of thousands waving Mexican flags... |
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Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
Two
men are accused of human trafficking
Two Canadian men were brought into U.S.
District Court in Seattle yesterday, accused of trafficking illegal
South Korean immigrants who were smuggled over the Canadian-Washington
border. -- David Jarvis and Sang Shin Park, of British Columbia,
were arrested Friday night. Each faces one count of conspiring
to smuggle the Korean nationals into the United States and one
count of transporting them inside the country. |
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Associated
Press
Mexican
sex offender arrested near border
A Mexican man who's a convicted sex offender
is in federal custody after trying to illegally cross the Arizona
border, authorities said. -- Arturo Arteaga-Salinas was arrested
Monday near Douglas, Arizona and is being held for re-entry of
an aggravated felon, which is a felony, according to the U.S.
Border Patrol. [See
this BP press release] |
Mark
Andrew
Dwyer |
The
single most important election issue
By accident, I watched the presidential
debate on October 8, 2004. The two contenders, Pres. Bush and
Sen. Kerry, were arguing about all kinds of issues from Iraq
war, to North Korea's nuclear threat, to healthcare, corporate
taxes and abortion. Even the fact of laying off 150 teachers
in St. Louis where the debate took place, and an alleged $100
million education budget shortfall there were brought up for
discussion. |
Warren |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Reconquista
zealot Pedro Marin frets challenger
State Rep. Pedro
"Pete" Marin didn't have an opponent in the general
election two years ago when he and two other Georgia legislators
made history by becoming the first Latinos elected to the General
Assembly. -- But Marin (D-Duluth) isn't so fortunate this year.
Republican challenger George
Warren is trying to give Marin another distinction: the first
Latino to lose a seat in the state Legislature. |
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Arizona
Republic - Phoenix
Prop.
200 television ads drawing interest
Arizonans for Real Immigration Reform,
a group against Proposition 200, chose firefighters as the subject
of the group's first ad opposing the Protect Arizona Now measure.
The goal of the ad was to tell voters that firefighters could
run into serious problems if the immigration initiative passes
Nov. 2. The ad was introduced Sunday... [Find
out about Prop. 200 here] |
Invasion |
Santa Barbara
News Press
Activists
seek debate on "immigration"
To the dismay of many Latinos, immigration
issues have taken a back seat to questions about Iraq, homeland
security and the economy in the first two presidential debates.
-- However, prominent activist groups, such as [LULAC]
and [MALDEF],
hope to bring immigration policy to the forefront of today's
final presidential debate on economic and domestic policy. |
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Sacramento
Bee
Jones
backs ID cards for "guest workers"
Although he said he opposes issuing driver's licenses
to illegal immigrants, Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bill
Jones on Tuesday called for the development of fraud- proof identification
cards that eventually could be given to participants in a guest
worker program. -- Jones, who is challenging Democratic U.S.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, also said the United States must help Mexico... |
What Homeland
Security? |
Palm Beach
Post
Bush's
homeland security efforts get mixed reviews
The Bush administration's efforts to
protect the country from another terrorist attack, a key theme
in his quest for re-election, have garnered mixed reviews, including
criticism from Republicans. -And- The administration has
also been criticized for: Continued problems at the Mexican and
Canadian borders. Despite the addition of hundreds of new border
patrol agents, thousands of illegal immigrants continue to enter
the United States, many from countries other than Mexico. Several
Republicans have complained that Bush has not done enough to
stem the flow. |
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