Friday, December 10, 2004

Will the South Fall Again? Hispanics (read Mexicans) Flood Into the Southeast Lou Dobbs Tonight - December 9 Dobbs: A shocking new study has found that the immigrant population in one region of this country is exploding at a staggering rate. What is most surprising about the report is where that explosion is taking place and it is a long way from our southern border. Peter Viles reports. Peter Viles:...look at the growth of Hispanics in the Southeast. Arkansas, 196%, Georgia 233%, and North Carolina 274%. Watch  Requires Free Windows Media Player 9x Transcript Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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Kerik

Associated Press -- 7:12 pm PST Kerik Withdraws Nomination as DHS Secretary Bernard Kerik, President Bush's choice to be secretary of homeland security, has withdrawn his name from consideration, the White House announced late Friday. -- Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan, in a conference call to news organizations, revealed that Kerik had withdrawn "for personal reasons."

Mark Alexander

Townhall.com Immigration Policy: A national security imperative In a day when political issues are so neatly dichotomous, left and right, down the line, immigration policy has both fervent advocates and opponents on both sides of the political divide. The Senate's passage of a much-ballyhooed intelligence- reform bill this week, now certain to be signed into law by President Bush, requires a resolution on whether trade or security will dominate immigration policy.

Newsday -- New York Usual suspects bellyache about Levy's new proposal His [excellent] proposal to "deputize" Suffolk police as immigration agents is dead after it provoked an uproar. -- Now County Executive Steve Levy is floating a new idea: He wants the federal government to station three immigration agents in Suffolk or train correction or probation officers as immigration agents in part to gain access to a federal immigration and crime database.

Joe Guzzardi -- VDare.com   MALDEF Moves To Suppress Free Speech I noticed (with equal parts amusement and pride) that one of my VDARE.COM columns, "California's Being Invaded Too---by Hispanic Holidays", is listed in federal lawsuit brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund against Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District.

Hampton Roads (Virginia) Daily Press Va. lawmakers scoff at Bush-favored bad Intel Bill Two Republican House members from Hampton Roads voted against a landmark overhaul of the nation's intelligence- gathering agencies that was sought by President Bush and the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. -- In a rare break with their party's leadership, Reps. Jo Ann Davis of Gloucester and J. Randy Forbes of Chesapeake voted against the compromise version...

Bush Agenda

Men's News Daily White House Questioned on Immigration Reform Despite social security being the primary focus of Thursday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Scott McClellan was peppered with questions regarding the newly passed intelligence reform bill and the issues of immigration and border security. -- A reporter began by quoting Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), who said, ""We cannot expect intelligence reform without closing these gaps in illegal immigration."

Associated Press Southeast Unprepared to Teach Hispanics The Southeast has the nation's fastest- growing Hispanic population [partly because this guy encourages them to sneak in] but is perhaps the region least prepared to teach public school students who don't know English, a new study shows. -- Educators in the South are unprepared to teach immigrants, and in many cases discriminate against non-English speakers...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial The intelligence bill: Failure as an option Jim Sensenbrenner voted against the final intelligence reform bill. And the Wisconsin Republican's vote was cast with an implacable sense of what's right and what's wrong for this country. For the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee knows this bill is a lousy excuse for bona fide reform.

Robert B. Bluey -- Human Events Invader Licenses: Congress Ignores 9/11 Recommendation A sweeping plan to restructure the U.S. intelligence community won overwhelming approval from Congress last week, giving President Bush and the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States a victory after months of haggling. -- But the final legislation failed to include language creating federal standards for state driver's licenses...

Harman

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com Jane Harman as top spook? Can it possibly be true? -- Is Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., really under consideration by the White House as the first director of national intelligence? -- That's one of the ideas being floated by the administration right now. --- And who is Jane Harman? -- She votes with the American Civil Liberties Union 73 percent of the time...

Associated Press High court will examine treatment of foreigners sentenced to death The Supreme Court is going to weigh-in on the rights of foreigners facing a death sentence in the U-S. -- The justices have agreed to hear an appeal from a Mexican national who's on death row in Texas. -- Earlier this year, the World [aka Kangaroo] Court at The Hague ruled that the U-S violated the rights of Jose Medellin -- and 50 other Mexicans on death row.

It's Not Amnesty!

Christian Science Monitor Bush II's First Task: Immigration Come January 2005, both Congress and President Bush are expected to start work on some unfinished business from the intelligence-reform law that was finally approved this week. -- Left out of that sweeping measure, which was aimed primarily at consolidating the nation's spy work, were tough steps to block foreign terrorists from entering and operating in the US.

ALIPAC.us Illegal Alien Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Gang Rape A Salvadoran gang member admitted yesterday in a Fairfax County courtroom that he led the gang rape of a Falls Church area woman in the summer of 2001, then kicked her in the neck with such force that it killed her. -- Oscar Omar Ramos Hernandez pleaded guilty to capital murder, abduction and rape and signed a plea agreement to serve three consecutive life sentences.

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial   California should not ease licensing rules for illegals At least some of the Sept. 11 terrorists, all Arabs, obtained illegal driver's licenses and used them to board airliners on that horrific day. Which is why the issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants is a matter of pressing national security concern. -- Sen. ["One Bill"] Gil Cedillo has led a long- running campaign to enact a bill allowing illegal immigrants to obtain California driver's licenses freely.

Riverside Press Enterprise Mexican invader charged with felonies is released on bail An undocumented immigrant [criminal] accused of annoying a Murrieta child and forging documents to hide his immigration status posted bail Tuesday and appeared for court Thursday. -- Edder Giovanni Nieves-Vera posted bail and was released from the Southwest Detention Center on Tuesday, department records say. He was in court Thursday...

Onslaught

Minneapolis Star Tribune Minnesotans getting plenty fed up with 'immigrants' Walter Mondale has a message for his fellow Minnesotans: It's time for a hard conversation about how our state is changing. -- A new study commissioned by the former U.S. vice president suggests that a simmering resentment at the influx of immigrants in recent years is gaining steam, especially in the suburbs...

The Desert Sun -- Palm Springs Bono votes against bad Intel Bill over invader license issue Rep. Mary Bono says she voted against the bill to reform how the United States gathers intelligence because it dropped provisions that would have made it difficult for undocumented immigrants [criminals] to get driver's licenses. -- Bono, R-Palm Springs, was one of 75 House members, most of them Republicans, who voted this week against the bill.

Lorenzo Torrez - People's Weekly World (Communist Drivel) Arizona's anti-immigrant Prop. 200 Arizona's anti-immigrant Prop. 200 remains in quagmire! Even though it passed on Nov. 2 with a 56-44 margin, no one seems to know what it will mean to Arizona. Even its sponsors can't agree. What is abundantly clear is the racist character of its promoters. Most of their funding came from (FAIR), a Washington, D.C., right-wing foundation.

Christian Science Monitor What it will take to terror-proof border An impending sharp increase in Border Patrol numbers is a first step in what could become a long effort to secure US land boundaries in today's terrorist age. -- Nearly doubling the border force, as provided for in the just-passed intelligence bill, should at least make life a little easier for hard-pressed agents, who chase thousands of illegals every day...

More Info

Tucson Citizen Carnage in Sierra Vista: Coyotes may get death sentence Two men could face the death penalty after being indicted Wednesday for an Oct. 16 crash that killed five people in Sierra Vista. -- Jimir Valle Martinez, 21, of Honduras and Carlos Cortez, 29, of Mexico were charged with transporting illegal aliens resulting in death, according to a news release yesterday from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.

No Illegals!

Boston Globe Lower tuition rate DEMANDED for invading lawbreakers Advocates for immigrants and refugees yesterday renewed their demand for cheaper, in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants at state colleges, saying the results of the fall elections show that the Legislature can pass the measure without political damage. -- During the fall Legislative campaign, the Republican party sent out nearly 100,000 fliers blasting Democratic incumbents...

Associated Press 74 American Kids Found in Mexico Schools Mexican authorities took custody of 74 American youths who were attending two irregularly operated boarding schools and returned them to the United States on Thursday. -- The youths, who were found to be in Mexico without proper travel or residency documents, were handed over to U.S. consular officials and then taken to Los Angeles...

What Homeland Security?

The Brownsville Herald   Bangladeshi's arrest prompts concern over border security Last week's arrest of a Bangladeshi immigrant trying to illegally enter the country has federal authorities concerned over the vulnerability of the U.S.-Mexico border to infiltration by terrorists. -- Federal court records show Fakhrul Islam, age unknown, was arrested Dec. 4 with 13 other undocumented immigrants as they tried to pass through a wooded area east of Brownsville.