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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
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Knight Ridder
Tribune
Analysts
hope Rice will bring renewed attention to Latin America
When Colin Powell said last week that
President Bush's second term would feature a major effort to
change immigration policy, many concluded that the president
was ready to focus attention on Latin America. -- With the nomination
Tuesday of Condoleezza Rice to succeed Powell as secretary of
state, some were less sure. |
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KGBT --
Harlingen
Customs
Inspector Accused of Letting Drugs Cross from Mexico
A senior U.S. Customs inspector in South
Texas is accused of conspiring to let truckloads of marijuana
from Mexico pass through his lane. -- An indictment unsealed
today names Lizandro Martinez, who's an agent at the Progreso
International Bridge. -- Prosecutors claim Martinez accepted
money from smugglers... |
What Homeland
Security? |
Reuters
Terrorists
might be smuggled into US, says Rumsfeld
..."There is no question that there
are terrorist organisations that are functioning in the United
States, in North America and in South America and in Central
America," he said, emphasizing violent narcotics cartels,
smuggling of people, criminal gangs and hostage-taking for money.
"And from our standpoint, obviously, the risk that some
of these human smuggling routes into our country from this hemisphere
could be used just as easily for terrorists." |
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KSBY-TV
-- Santa Barbara
Day
laborer nuisances gone wild in Santa Barbara
A decade ago, the city of Santa Barbara
set aside a small section of Yanonali Street as a legal place
to pick up day laborers, but as the number of people looking
for work has grown, so have the problems. Matt Cota takes an
in-depth look at Santa Barbara's labor line.-- Just a few blocks
away from Santa Barbara's East Beach, 50 to 60 men gather nearly
every morning... |
The
American
Cause
Presents... |
Pat Buchanan
"American
Immigration Crisis" Conference
McLean, Virginia - December 4 - Glenn Spencer
has accepted an invitation to speak at this function. Click headline
for a list of featured speakers and more details. |
Lee
Enoknian |
Illinois
Leader
Porous
borders need to be sealed
Our borders remain porous despite the
war on terror. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible.
-- The Center for Immigration Studies website at www.cis.org
says that there are 33.1 million foreign-born people in the United
States. -- Between 8 and 9 million are in this country illegally. |
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Public Service
Announcement
America
wants You! Volunteers sought.....
Are you interested in spending up
to 30 days along the Arizona border as part of a blocking
force against entry into the U.S. by illegal aliens early next
spring? -- I invite you to join me in Tombstone, Arizona from
April 1 - 30, 2005 to protect our country from a 40-year-long
invasion across our southern border with Mexico... |
Napolitano |
Arizona
Republic
Napolitano
says she plans re-election bid
Gov. Janet
Napolitano demurred Monday on the question of running for
president in 2008, but said she fully intends to run for re-election
to a second four-year term as Arizona's governor in 2006. --
The governor's discussion... ranged from issues of immigration
(she would like a guest-worker program) to education... |
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FAIR Press
Release
It's
Payback Time and American IT Workers are Going to Pay
Even as American high tech companies
have been shedding jobs in record numbers, and workers in other
sectors of the economy have seen their real wages declining,
some in Congress are preparing to use the lame duck session to
push through a massive increase in the number of foreign guest
workers who may be admitted to the country. |
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Marion Star
Update
on brutal murder of Ohio deputy
Marion, Ohio -- Marion County Common
Pleas Judge Robert Davidson ruled Monday afternoon that attorneys
may go forward with videotaped testimony from a witness against
the man accused of killing a local deputy. -- Juan Carlos Cruz,
the defendant in the case of the fatal shooting of Marion County
Sheriff's Deputy Brandy Lyn Winfield... |
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Newsday
-- New York -- Raymond J. Keating
Another
hand-wringer grouses about local enforcement plan
Bringing up immigration, whether legal
or illegal, usually
fosters some heated debate. That's certainly the case on Long
Island, where a long-running controversy in Farmingville over
day laborers has stirred passions. -- Consider the backlash now
against Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's proposal to deputize
up to eight police officers... |
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Houston
Chronicle
Stabbing
suspect may have been jailed, then freed
The teenager accused of fatally stabbing
his 10-year-old cousin may have been held in the Harris County
Jail three days after the incident but was later released, Houston
police said Monday. -- Francisco Guzman has remained at large
since the Nov. 8 attack in which four cousins and his aunt were
stabbed... [and it appears this guy fled to Mexico] |
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Denver Post
Visa
swindle brings limbo for at least 21 clergy in area
Arturo Vargas paid a trusted religious
leader to help him get his immigration documents legally, not
through fakery and forgery. -- But now, Vargas, pastor
of Friendship Christian Center at Sheridan Boulevard and West
Alameda Avenue, and at least 20 other local ministers are now
in a lurch, their immigration status in limbo. They were each
swindled... |
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Houston
Chronicle
Whining
demagogues fail to keep Belling off the air
Milwaukee -- A conservative radio show
host who was taken off the air for using an ethnic slur resumed
his show Monday, but vowed that he will not change the tone of
his program. -- Mark Belling used the word "wetback,"
a derogatory term for illegal Mexican immigrants, on his Oct.
27 show about potential voter fraud in Wisconsin... |
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Frank J.
Conti Jr. -- Arizona Republic
Prop.
200 foes leave Latinos living in fear
So Proposition 200 has passed in Arizona,
by a wide majority, and the sky has not yet fallen. -- Because
the drafters of Proposition 200 neglected to define a "public
benefit," the state Supreme Court will eventually be charged
with divining the intent of the people... |
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Newsday
-- New York
Honduran
rapist gets 9-year term for 2 crimes
A New Cassel man who raped a college
student in 2001 and two years later was caught having sex with
a 13-year-old girl was sentenced yesterday to 9 years in prison.
-- Elwin Alcantara was one of two men Nassau prosecutors said
sexually assaulted the student as she was walking home alone
from the Westbury train station on Nov. 23, 2001. |
Rally
Coming Up
Nov. 20 |
Public Service
Announcement
Temecula,
Calif. Rally to Support the Mayor's Actions
A grassroots rally to support the Temecula Mayor's
request to have the day laborer hiring sites in Temecula cleared
of illegal aliens. Click headline for details. |
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NewsMax.com
Arizona
Hispanics Backed Crackdown on Illegal Aliens
In a stunning election development that
the national media have yet to report, a near-majority of Latino
voters in Arizona backed a statewide initiative to deny benefits
to illegal aliens. -- Politicians and their advisers have widely
assumed that any crackdown on the invasion would be wildly unpopular
with America's burgeoning Hispanic population. |
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Customs
and Border Protection - Press Release
B.P.
Finds Marijuana hidden in Plywood Compartment
On November 15, 2004, agents assigned
to the Nogales Border Patrol Station arrested a drug smuggler
from Mexico transporting marijuana in a hidden compartment. --
At approximately 9:10 a.m., a Border Patrol Agent observed a
white Ford F-150 driving north from the border near the Buena
Vista Ranch, east of Nogales... |
Heather
MacDonald |
City Journal
Homeland
Security? Not Yet
...Currently, from immigration enforcement
to intelligence gathering, government officials continue to compromise
national security in order to avoid accusations of "racial
profiling"-and in order to avoid publicly acknowledging
what the 9/11 Commission finally said: that the "enemy is
not just 'terrorism,' [but] Islamist terrorism... |
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