Saturday, November 27, 2004

Ground Broken on ABP Border Facility Research and Development Center Planned Water well is capable of 75 gpm. Camp Alan C. Nelson Palominas, Arizona -- Ground has been broken on an 18-acre site near the Mexican border that will serve as headquarters for American Border Patrol, the non-profit Arizona organization. According to ABP head Glenn Spencer, the new facility will be used to evaluate new technologies for border enforcement. Named Camp Alan C. Nelson after the former INS Commissioner who championed Proposition 187, Spencer said the new headquarters will not be used as a launching pad for civilian border enforcement activities. "We are not a vigilante group," he said, "but we will have the capability of monitoring a large section of the border on a 24/7 basis." Spencer said a well drilled on the site was capable of producing 75 gallons per minute of excellent quality water. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Media Watch

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Screwball

Ed Williams -- Arizona Republic Capital, charm needed on invader issue President George Bush is back for his third try at a guest-worker program. -- The president's logic is impeccable: The United States has jobs to be filled and Mexico has qualified workers who are eager to fill them. The program will match job seekers to unfilled jobs - a splendid idea... [Warning: Further reading requires hip boots and a shovel.]

Yeh Ling Ling

The Colorado Springs Independent Newsweekly The Earth cannot sustain ...It is amazing that most Americans in power still want to believe that there is a growth management plan on Earth that can cope with ever increasing population. A look at New York City, Tokyo and Paris tells us that "smart growth" is no long-term solution: Those cities have city density development and great public transportation.

What Homeland Security?

KNBC-TV -- Los Angeles LA Port Considered Greater Security Risk Than LAX ..."If you look at where we are today, there has been notable improvement in terms of security at the ports," Randy Parsons, the FBI's counterterrorism chief in Southern California, told the Los Angeles Times. "But it is just such an enormous target in terms of the volume of cargo and the numbers of employees and the crews and the ships moving in from foreign lands." [Reader e-mail on 'liar' Ridge]

Frosty Wooldridge

NewsWithViews.com Swallowing a scorpion from Mexico They come to do the work that American's won't do. They come for a better life. They come in droves. Over 4,000 per night cross our Arizona borders. They number in excess of 15 million. They come from an endless line out of the Third World. What most Americans don't realize-they come to colonize and ultimately conquer our four Border States-but it doesn't end there.

Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain Two sides to immigration issue ...The Colorado Trust noted that Colorado's immigrant population increased 160% in the past decade and now accounts for 8.6% of the state's local population. It is funding a $6.4 million initiative to help immigrants in Pueblo and nine other counties. -- But that thinking does not resonate well with William Herron of Evergreen, who is chairman of Defend Colorado Now, a group that wants to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving such state benefits...

Dallas Morning News Officials report jump in deportations North Texas immigration officials report the number of foreigners deported is up 26 percent, one of the highest jumps in the nation's 22 field offices. -- The number of people deported who have been convicted of aggravated felonies ­ 4,737 ­ grew by 44 percent in fiscal year 2004, compared with the previous year, according to the Dallas district office of ICE...

Tucson Citizen Hispanic family sues rancher for holding them at gunpoint A Hispanic family from Douglas - all U.S. citizens - is suing rancher Roger Barnett, claiming that family members suffered emotional distress in an encounter with him and his loaded rifle last month while deer hunting on his property. -- The family is asking for at least $200,000 in damages in a lawsuit filed yesterday in Cochise Co. Superior Court. [Morris Dees' reconquista lackey Jennifer Allen chimes in]

Associated Press Dispute over turkey blamed for stabbings Worcester, Mass. - A man was charged with stabbing two relatives who allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner. -- Police said the fight broke out when Gonzalo Ocasio, Jr. and his father, Gonzalo Ocasio, reprimanded an uncle for picking at the turkey with his fingers...

James Fulford

VDare.com The Unbearable Wetness Of The Rio Grande VDare.com's Bryanna Bevens recently wrote about radio host Mark Belling, who uttered the word "wetback" on the air, and was fired by Clear Channel for doing so. Wetback is arguably a racial slur - if it's used to describe Mexican- Americans or legal immigrants. The term was used officially by the US Government during the Eisenhower administration ( "Operation Wetback")...

Your Taxes At Work

Tucson Citizen Rather than securing the border..... The Justice Department awarded the city of Phoenix a $450,000 grant Tuesday to help local police combat human traffickers and assist their victims. -- The money is part of a $7.6 million grant to help local communities nationwide combat human trafficking, a top law enforcement priority for the Bush administration. -- Human trafficking, also described as human slavery, is a global problem...

Albuquerque Journal Invader driver's license law threatened Provisions attached to intelligence reform bills making their way through Congress would fundamentally alter New Mexico's new program that allows immigrants [of the illegal variety... criminals] to obtain driver's licenses. -- Approved in 2003 during Gov. Bill Richardson's first legislative session, the program allows immigrants to use an individual tax identification number...