Thursday, October 14, 2004

Unmanned Presidential Vehicle Bush wrong about UAVs on border - and everything else - SO IS KERRY ABP Is Flying UAVs, Not U.S.A. From Immigration Question text Mr. Schieffer: Let's go to a new question, Mr. President. I got more e-mail this week on this question than any other question, and it is about immigration. I'm told that at least 8,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Some people believe this is a security issue, as you know. Some believe it's an economic issue. Some see it as a human rights issue. Pres. Bush: ..."We are increasing the border security of the United States. We've got 1,000 more border patrol agents on the southern border. We're using new equipment. We're using unmanned vehicles to spot people coming across. And we'll continue to do so over the next four years. It's a subject I'm very familiar with. After all, I was a border governor for a while." Fact: American Border Patrol is the only organization patrolling the border with a UAV. His Israeli-operated UAV is no longer flying. At left below: American Border Patrol Border Hawk spots illegal alien load vehicle on Mexican border - same day as Presidential debate. See the Dreaded Question Asked... Dial-up See ABP Border Hawk in Action.... Broadband / Dial-up Requires Free Windows Media Player 9 Series -- The entire debate can be viewed here Kerry encourages Mexicans to have babies here. Kerry: "And thirdly, we need an earned legalization program for people who have been here for a long time, stayed out of trouble, got a job, paid their taxes, and their kids are American. We got to start moving them towards full citizenship out of the shadows." Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Immigrant Nation, Divided Country Sunday, October 17 -- 5 and 8 pm Pacific Time

D.A. King

Latino USA Sound File   "Sam Zam", D.A. King chat on public radio Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with Atlanta State Senator Sam Zamarripa, and D.A. King, a columnist and self-described 'immigration crime fighter' about Latino immigration in the American south. -- Make sure to watch 'CNN Presents' this coming Sunday for more.... click here for details. [This sound file is 6 minutes, 55 seconds long]

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Editorial -- Tucson Citizen Tucson rag claims Prop. 200 will be ineffective and initiative ...The misnamed "Protect Arizona Now" would demand extensive, specific forms of identification to register to vote. Illegal immigrants don't register because they fear being discovered by authorities [the paper has no way of knowing this]. Arizona has documented nary an instance of voting by illegal immigrants. -- If we had such a problem, we should fix it. We don't. And with voter participation already at pathetically low levels, this move would only impede registration [more nonsense].

Catholic Church

La Jornada -- Mexico City -- (Roughly translated by Google.com) Annoying Catholic church meddling in U.S. affairs again The always troublesome Catholic Church is again meddling in political matters that should be no concern of theirs; namely the invasion of the U.S. by Mexico. They are coming out on the side of the invaders, as usual, according to this roughly translated report in La Jornada. Much of their sniveling has to do with the giant sponge of Mexico and it's dependence on 'remittances'.

U.S. Dept. of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Illegal Salvadoran child rape suspect busted at ICE office Houston -- A Salvadoran wanted for rape of a child in Virginia was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents here today after attempting to apply for an immigration benefit under an alias at a Homeland Security office. -- Vasquez illegally entered the United States near San Diego, Calif., in 1990. He resided in the Arlington area...

Sweetwater (Texas) Reporter Suspected invaders arrested after car chase Three suspected illegal aliens were arrested Friday afternoon by the Sweetwater Police Department following a chase that ended up in two separate streets in town. -- Mario Lumbreras Hernandez was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he reportedly rammed his van against another man's vehicle...

Desert-Mountain Times -- Alpine, Texas Border Patrol to dedicate station next week The new $6-million Alpine Border Patrol station, located about three miles west of town... -- The rear portion of the station includes an area where detainees are processed and has eight detention rooms capable of housing up to 100 people or more. Detainees will not be kept at the Alpine station for extended periods of time; individuals detained for immigration violations who are not returned to Mexico...

The Bones Bros.

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald Review Border question, lead-in surprise locals during presidential debate ...The Rev. Tom Buechele, who supports a more open door border policy, and Glenn Spencer, who wants the border controlled, said it was interesting to hear Schieffer start his question about immigration by saying it was the area the public apparently is concerned about the most. --- As for Bush touting the assignment of 1,000 more federal Border Patrol agents along the international boundary, Spencer said "that's a drop in the bucket."

Daily Breeze -- Torrance, Calif. Proposition limiting invaders' rights may be on rebound ...If Arizona passes the proto-187 Proposition 200 as handily next month as every poll now indicates it probably will, the new California version will gain ground fast in shopping malls and supermarkets. -- Plus, "If Proposition 200 passes, it could be a springboard for new federal legislation on illegal immigration," Brantley Davis, an initiative analyst based in Washington, D.C., told a reporter...

Lou Dobbs

NewsMax.com CNN's Dobbs May Get Prime-time Slot In yet another effort to shore up their sagging ratings, CNN's top brass are thinking about giving Lou Dobbs a juicy prime-time spot. -- According to New York Daily News business correspondent Phyllis Furman, the network execs are considering moving their top-rated financial commentator's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show to a higher- profile niche in prime time.

Donald A. Collins

Washington Dispatch Demanding Mortgages For Illegal Aliens ...The latest proposed scam to sell out America to the greedy who lurk everywhere has surfaced in an article from the Denver Business Journal on October 4th. It reports that "Undocumented Latino immigrants [criminals] could add an estimated $44 billion in new mortgages to the economy if it were easier for them to buy homes..."

Kuykendall

Grunion Gazette -- Long Beach, Calif. Assembly Race Pits Karnette, Kuykendall In an era when most state legislative districts are drawn up to be "safe" for one party or the other, Long Beach's 54th State Assembly seat is in the middle of one of the few intensely contested state election races this November. -- Democrat Betty Karnette [an immigration disaster] held this seat for two years, has spent the last six in the state Senate and now wants to return to the Assembly. Opposing her is Republican Steve Kuykendall...

Associated Press Dozens Arrested in Oklahoma Drug Sweep Dozens of people have been arrested in a raid on a drug trafficking operation that smuggled tons of Mexican marijuana into the state. -- Guns and cash were also seized as authorities broke up an operation with ties to a Mexican drug cartel. -- "Hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. currency bound for Mexico has been seized and documented as being collected from drug transactions in Oklahoma..."

Kansas City Star LULAC blowhard wants billboards out of 'his community' Wyandotte County Latino activists on Wednesday demanded the removal of billboards that reflect Republican Kris Kobach's charges that Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore is soft on immigration. -- Tino Camacho, president of the local chapter of LULAC, called the billboards "racist" and said: "We want the signs out of our community..." [Tino needs to read this.] [Related Item]

Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald Border safety in the palms of their hands What could be the future of northern border security sits inside a softball- sized globe filled with infrared motion sensors that can detect the slightest movement of any heated body nearby. -- It's a prototype of the kind of ground sensor that could, within a few years, be scattered by the thousands all along North Dakota's and Minnesota's border with Canada...

San Francisco Chronicle Double dose of bad news for schools in California Nearly 4 out of 5 California high school juniors who volunteered for a new test by the California State University need remedial English and nearly half need remedial math, according to results released Wednesday. -- The Early Assessment Program test is designed to give college-bound students a chance to improve their skills in their senior year of high school as part of the CSU's effort to reduce the need for bonehead English...

What Homeland Security?

InfoWars.com   Sen. Dayton closes D.C. office over safety concerns Dayton says he will close his office on Capitol Hill at least until after the Nov. 2 election. The Minnesota Democrat says his decision is based on a top-secret intelligence report on national security that he received from Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist a couple of weeks ago. He said during a conference call with reporters that he can't, by law, discuss the report's contents.

El Presidente

El Universal - Mexico City More bellyaching out of meddling Mexican Fox The complicated U.S. electoral climate has caused a proliferation of opportunistic proposals by politicians looking for the support of a sector of the U.S. electorate that is very conservative and even racist. That is why they have proposed measures against Mexican immigrants, as is the case with banning identity cards issued by Mexican consulates, something that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger put forth.

Photos: Prop. 200 Rally at Presidential Debate Photos taken in front of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona before the final presidential debate on October 13, 2004. Images courtesy of Rick Oltman.

Houston Chronicle Pair of escaped inmates captured near Laredo San Antonio - Two federal inmates who escaped from a South Texas detention facility in August were captured Wednesday near Laredo, officials said. -- The men were among five inmates who fled a Frio County lockup Aug. 6, possibly with the help of the Mexican Mafia. One of the escapees was caught shortly after the escape. The two who remain on the loose are presumed to be in South Texas, officials said.

NBC4 -- Columbus Sheriff's Deputy Shot, Killed; School Under Lockdown Waldo, Ohio -- A Marion County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while he was responding to a report of a disabled vehicle Thursday morning. --- Deputy Brandy Lyn Winfield encountered two Hispanic men walking along S.R. 423 and was in the process of checking out the pair. There was no further radio traffic with the deputy...

NewsMax.com San Jose Police Chief Goes Muslim for Ramadan In a display of political correctness, San Jose, Calif.'s police chief has promised to observe the Muslim month of Ramadan. -- Chief Rob Davis told the San Jose Mercury News that he was inspired after speaking to 7,000 Bay Area Muslims last year at the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month of fasting... [See latest SPJ guidelines for reporting on PC items like this]

D.A. King

Marietta Daily Journal Make U.S. driver's license as tough to get as Mexico's U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) puts the number of illegal aliens that entered our nation in 2002 at four million. The U.S. Census and CNN tell us 70 percent of the illegals entering our republic come from Mexico. Last year, state Sen. Sam Zamarippa told the Georgia Senate that there were 20 million "undocumented" people in the U.S...

Invasion

Associated Press Candidates finally square off over immigration Democrat John Kerry accused President Bush of not following through on his promise to fix America's failed immigration policies, while the president said he has made the nation safer by putting more federal agents and monitoring equipment at the U.S.- Mexico border [see this excerpt]...

The Bones Bros.

The Business Journal -- Phoenix Kerry wants crack down on employers, GOP confident of AZ win ...During the debate, Kerry criticized Bush's jobs record in Arizona, saying the jobs being created are in lower-wage industries. The Massachusetts senator also faulted Bush for not moving forward with immigration reform and asserted that the border is less secure than it was before 9/11. -- Bush and other Republicans scoffed at that latter notion. East Valley Congressman Jeff Flake and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, both said the border is more secure now... [Also: See this press release]