Monday, October 25, 2004

ABP Says Put Military on Border Now Risk of terrorist attack rises with each day American Border Patrol's video, Terror From Below: Death Across the Mexican Border, make the case for greater border protection. Spencer Urges Immediate Action Sierra Vista, Az. -- Glenn Spencer, head of American Border Patrol (ABP), is urging President Bush place the U.S. military on the Mexican and Canadian borders to stop all illegal immigration. Spencer said that Al Qaida terrorists could be massing near the Mexican border in order to move in for quick strikes.     "We know exactly how they could do it with impunity," Spencer added. "The president of the United States' first obligation is the protection of the American people - not to put them at risk for political gain."     Spencer said ABP will be using all of its resources to monitor the border this week. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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VDare.com Not A Peso's Worth Of Difference? With the Presidential election now just a week away, the Washington Times recently weighed in with an editorial splitting hairs over which candidate's illegal alien amnesty proposal would be a greater disaster for America. -- Calling the Bush betrayal "amnesty lite," the paper came to the conclusion that "John Kerry's plan is far worse..."

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Sam Francis - VDare.com Tom Ridge: No Security Necessary on Border of Homeland After 30-something years of mass immigration, legal and illegal, the immigration issue finally tiptoed into the national political discussion in the third and final presidential debate this month, with moderator Bob Schieffer acknowledging that he had received more e-mail about that issue than any other. -- Neither candidate, of course, had anything serious, intelligent or even true to say about the subject...

Providence Journal Nursing home worker held on patient assault charges South Kingstown, RI -- An employee of a North Kingstown nursing home was ordered held without bail today after he was arraigned on charges that he sexually assaulted two nursing home residents. -- Saul A. Lancerio, who does not speak English, has been charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault for allegedly assaulting an 80-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman last week...

The New American Corruption-bloated Mexico wants a North American EU "I would like to see a border similar to the one that Europe has right now where they have common, very common objectives," stated Mexican Foreign Ministry official Arturo Gonzalez Cruz in a recent Tijuana interview. Mexico's "border Czar" pointed out that members of the European Union "have a common economy..."

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Arizona Daily Star Hourly Update  [Short-lived link] No casualties as Border Patrol chopper goes down A Border Patrol helicopter crashed this afternoon in the desert west of Tucson, but the agency said everyone aboard had survived. -- "The pilots are alive and they're currently being taken care of medically," Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Zortman said. -- The crash occurred between 2 and 2:30 pm near milepost 129 on Arizona 86...

GovExec.com Senate, House leaders meet in Maine to try to close intel deal House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., flew to Maine Monday and met with Senate Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, in an attempt to reach a deal by Tuesday on intelligence overhaul legislation that President Bush could sign before Election Day. -- A spokesman said Hastert took the action because he "wants to get a bill done." Hastert was in Maine also to campaign for GOP candidates.

Christian Science Monitor US borders: sleeper issue for voters Every day they come. From Mexico and Nicaragua. From China and India. From the Middle East and Africa. Illegal immigrants. Hundreds enter the United States daily. Sometimes thousands. -- There are at least 8 million illegal aliens living in America today - and their numbers are growing by at least 400,000 a year. Maybe 500,000. No one knows for sure...

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Matier & Ross - San Francisco Chronicle S.F. parlor hit in crackdown on sex slave trade Federal and local cops have launched a crusade against the insidious and ever-growing immigrant sex slave trade in the Bay Area -- and from the looks of things, they've already scored their first big hit. -- Earlier this month -- two weeks after the U.S. Justice Department and local police announced a new crime-fighting task force -- agents raided a massage parlor in an alley off Mission Street...

Associated Press Agents seize 164 pounds of cocaine, Mexicans busted Hidalgo, Texas -- U. S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized 164 pounds of cocaine valuing 2.6 million dollars in two vehicles crossing from Mexico. -- Both seizures occurred Thursday afternoon. -- Nora Cecilia Muñiz Barrientos, of San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, was arrested on federal charges...

L.A. Daily News Invaders' testimony out? A federal judge who already has excluded key evidence in a human-smuggling case because police entered a suspected "drop house" in Canoga Park without a warrant is scheduled to rule today whether 10 of the illegal immigrants found there can testify. -- Attorneys for the seven defendants have argued that Los Angeles Police Department officers illegally...

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Andrew Freeman -- Massachusetts Daily Collegian Going Nowhere on Immigration In January of this year, Bush proposed a comprehensive plan of immigration reform, including a temporary worker program, stronger border enforcement, and granting temporary worker status to undocumented (i.e. illegal) working immigrants, in effect legitimizing their presence. The plan was greeted with intense criticism from many Republicans...

KTRK-TV -- Houston More than two dozen invaders found in home Immigration agents are questioning a west Harris County man after more than two dozen illegal [aliens] were found in his home. -- The incident started with a 911 hang up call from the home... -- A sheriff's deputy responded and opened the garage door. That's when about 25 immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico scattered.

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Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Illegal Immigration Back as Dominant Issue San Diego - After an absence of several seasons, illegal immigration has returned as a hot political issue here. -- In the race for the open seat in the 76th Assembly District, Republican candidate Tricia Hunter and groups supporting her are blasting Democratic candidate Lori Saldana as "too extreme on immigration." -- ...Saldana is under attack for allegedly favoring driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, opposing a border fence...

KOLD-TV -- Tucson Midtown Voter Rally Draws Prop 200 Face-Off A Democratic get out the vote rally in midtown Sunday afternoon unexpectedly became a chance for Proposition 200 supporters to argue their case. -- "We cannot take in all the poor people in the world, so we have to do something to our borders. We cannot take in everyone and educate everyone. We have to take care of our own people first," said Prop 200 supporter Nita Nixon.

Daily Breeze News Briefs -- Torrance, Calif. Barricaded suspect eludes SWAT team (Scroll Down) -- A SWAT team entered a Santa Ana apartment building where an armed man suspected of trying to rob an immigrant smuggler had barricaded himself Sunday, but officers did not find him, a sergeant said. -- The suspect may be hiding in a crawl space above the apartment, said Santa Ana police Sgt. Carlos Rojas...

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Washington Dispatch John McCain's Pernicious Lies on Arizona's Prop 200 On October 24th, an OpEd appeared in the Arizona Republic, the mouthpiece for open borders in Arizona, written by one of its Senators, John McCain, entitled "Prop 200 less than worthless to Arizona." Let's see how his opinion works out for Arizonans in his own words. -- First, he opines correctly that "Arizonans are angered and frustrated - and understandably so...

Chicago Tribune -- J. Dennis Hastert, speaker of the U.S. House Terrorism bill is not anti-immigration ...Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, misleads readers by implying that the House bill to carry out the commission's recommendations was loaded with anti-immigrant provisions. The House bill was focused on stopping terrorists, not on stopping immigration....

Pasadena Star News Dreier facing unusual battle ...Opponents of Rep. David Dreier's stance on illegal immigration, especially his support for a guest- worker program proposed by the Bush administration, have taken their fight to the radio airwaves and Internet blogs in an effort to bring down the Glendora Republican. --- His Democratic opponent, Cynthia Matthews, has tried to capitalize on this small but vocal rebellion...