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Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
Bush Fights for
Mexican Takeover
Pushes for Mexican IDs, Cut in Border Officers
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Washington
Post
Intelligence
Reform Hits a Hurdle
The opening round of House-Senate negotiations
meant to craft a bill restructuring the nation's intelligence
community ended in discord yesterday as lawmakers disagreed on
whether tougher immigration rules and a new civil liberties board
should be part of the package. -- The nearly three-hour public
meeting culminated in partisan squabbling and offered few clues
as to whether negotiators can resolve the many differences... |
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Associated
Press
Honduran
Official Says al-Qaida Recruiting
Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- It's a U.S.
DHS nightmare, and Honduras' most outspoken Cabinet member says
it's happening: Al-Qaida operatives recruiting Central American
gang members to carry out regional attacks and slip terrorists
into the U.S. -- Yet U.S. and Central American officials say
they have found no evidence supporting the allegations. |
Border
Watch |
The Monitor
- McAllen, Texas
Mexican
agents sent to border after wave of violence
Reynosa, Tamps., Mex. - In a show of
force, some 200 Mexican federal agents arrived Wednesday morning
at Reynosa
International Airport for duty in Military Zone No. 8 outside
the city. -- As part of an operation that officials refused to
explain or comment on, another contingent of federal agents showed
up about the same time at the Matamoros
airport. |
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Arizona
Daily Star Hourly Update [Short-lived link]
Investigation
underway in Border Patrol-involved shooting
The Cochise County Sheriff's Department
and the FBI are investigating the shooting death of a Mexican
man by a U.S. Border Patrol agent early Wednesday near Portal,
on the Arizona/New Mexico border. -- The man, whose identity
has not yet been released, was shot at about 2:45 a.m., after
the Ford Aerostar Van he was driving was pulled over by an El
Paso Sector Border Patrol agent... |
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KTVT-TV
-- Dallas
Feds
move to strip citizenship of terror suspect
The Dallas-based office of the U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement has filed a highly unusual civil court
motion to strip a wealthy North Texas businessman of his American
citizenship and eventually deport him to his native Middle East.
-- CBS-11 News has learned that federal authorities have invoked
a rarely-used federal statute mainly used in past decades
to deport former Nazis - to de-naturalize native Palestinian
Rasmi Khader Almallah.... |
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Reno Journal-Gazette
High
school works to solve racial tensions
An emergency task force began investigating
Thursday at Hug High School to identify reasons for the ongoing
racial tension between black and Hispanic students. -- Interim
Superintendent Paul Dugan said he formed the group after receiving
calls and e-mails from staff, community members and parents about
the growing number of fights and vandalism on campus since the
start of the school year. |
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UPI
Intel
reform talks stall
House and Senate negotiators on a massive
reorganization of the nation's intelligence system have so far
been unable to move forward with a compromise bill. -- After
meeting late into Wednesday evening following a breakdown in
the first day's conference and three days of staff-level talks,
House Permanent Select Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.,
ranking member Jane Harman, D-Calif... |
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Donald A.
Collins -- Washington Dispatch
White
House and Lobbyists Attack Immigration Reform
...Here we go again, the "play acting"
on immigration reform from both sides of the aisle comes charging
out in what Mehlman describes as, "What must be a new world's
record for historical revisionism." He notes that, "Open
border lobbyists from both the political left and right are fighting
to remove critical immigration policy reforms from the final
version of a bill that would implement the recommendations of
the 9/11 Commission". |
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S. J. Miller
-- MichNews.com
Arizonans
up-chuck at media's force-feeding them mass invasion
When the Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star
carried John O'Sullivan's realistic coverage on immigration, I
could hardly believe it. Not only did the author of "Take
a trip to Balkans without leaving home" provide accurate
and thoughtful commentary on the immigration issue, but also acknowledged what's
been "hushed-up" for years... |
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Arizona
Daily Star Hourly Update [Short-lived link]
Border
Patrol agent fired on near Nogales
Eleven Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agents
have been assaulted in the last 20 days, officials say. -- Most
recently, a Border Patrol Agent in Nogales was assaulted Wednesday
as he tried to arrest several drug smugglers near Amado, about
40 miles south of Tucson, said spokesman Andy Adame. |
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Fred Akers
-- La Cañada Valley Sun
Don't
Reward Lawbreakers
When Rep. David Dreier advertises his
experience in public office we should recognize this includes
experience advocating anti-American policies and experience speaking
falsely. -- Dreier calls himself an "internationalist"
and wants to surrender American sovereignty and border enforcement
to the Free Trade of the Americas for the benefit of his multinational
sponsors... |
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KTVT-TV
-- Dallas
Feds
move to strip citizenship of terror suspect
The Dallas-based office of the U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement has filed a highly unusual civil court
motion to strip a wealthy North Texas businessman of his American
citizenship and eventually deport him to his native Middle East.
-- CBS-11 News has learned that federal authorities have invoked
a rarely-used federal statute mainly used in past decades
to deport former Nazis - to de-naturalize native Palestinian
Rasmi Khader Almallah.... |
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Denver Post
Alleged
hub of drug-traffic cartel attracted suspicion
...Federal officials announced Tuesday
that they had taken apart the cartel that used this ranch. Police
and federal agents along the Front Range seized $11 million in
cash and property, more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine and 521
pounds of marijuana. In all, 60 people have been arrested in
Colorado, Illinois, Texas, New York and Mexico since the investigation
began in March 2002... |
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Newsday [Poll on Right Side of Page]
Usual
suspects fret about possibility of having to obey existing laws
Two months after County Executive Steve
Levy announced massive sting operations against unlicensed contractors
in Suffolk, advocates say they have cast a chill over the immigrant
community [Bart Jones, the invader apologist who wrote this screed,
is referring to illegals]
because police conducting the raids will require contractors
to show proof -- "I-9" forms -- that their employees
have legal authorization to work. |
Gang News |
East Bay
Express
Lizard
Is a Rat
...In December of 2001, Daniel Hernandez
became the highest-ranking member of the Nuestra Familia prison
gang to cooperate with federal investigators. From inside Pelican
Bay State Prison, Lizard had served as the brutally violent gang's
principal secretary, helping inmates in solitary confinement
set up bank accounts in Idaho... |
MS13 Gang |
Newsday
6th
gang suspect arrested
The last of six members of the MS-13
street gang charged with killing two people they believed to
be informants has been arrested outside Nashville, Tenn., according
to officials. -- FBI agents and local police, acting on an anonymous
tip, arrested Jovanic Berrios late Friday in the town of Gallatin
in the Sept. 17 murder of Genaro Venegas, of Central Islip, according
to Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue. |
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