Monday, December 20, 2004

Bush Calls for Open Border Press conference leaves no doubt - he's on the side of the Reconquistas Press Conference - December 20 Bush: Legalize the process... people doing the jobs Americans won't do... take the pressure off the employers... so they do not have to rely on false IDs... the system we have today is not a compassionate system... Watch Windows Media Player Transcript Contact Bush  Contact Your Rep Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Bakersfield Californian Suspects in slaying could be in Mexico A man was convicted of murder earlier this month for his part in fatally shooting one man and wounding another, but the four men he says orchestrated the attack remain at large -- possibly in Mexico. -- Reyes Castillo Escobedo is the only suspect arrested in connection with the Oct. 13, 2003, shooting death of Chris Stoner in the Seven Oaks area...

Associated Press Mexican coyote pleads guilty in federal court El Paso, Texas - A 24-year-old Mexican pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of alien smuggling for profit. -- Manuel Hernandez, also known as Pedro Casas-Chavez of Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, faces between five and 35 years in federal prison, according to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's office.

Gang News

Rocky Mountain News -- Denver Gangs: Cops brace for more violence, note rise in drugs ...All are evidence of the gang warfare responsible for every homicide in Greeley this year, as well as stabbings, beatings and so many drive-by gunshots that police don't even keep official count of them. -- The killings began last January, when suspected gang members beat a rival to death with aluminum baseball bats...

Associated Press More on Bush's Orwellian amnesty scheming ...Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said Bush's view of the issue is provincial. -- "It's kind of embarrassing sometimes when the president keeps claiming he has special insight into immigration because he was governor of Texas and he doesn't. The mantra that immigrants do jobs Americans won't do is widely believed, but is economic gibberish," said Krikorian...

Chicago Tribune Cicero helps immigrants on the path to citizenship ...[Maria] Calderon... said the main reason most of her students say they want citizenship is so they can petition the government to allow family members to join them in the U.S. --- "I wanted to become a citizen so I could vote and so I could defend the rights of those who cannot vote," Veronica Salinas said recently in her native Spanish...

New York Daily News Foreign government pests meddling in U.S. affairs again Alarmed by growing anti-immigrant sentiments and policies, the heads of 14 Latin American consulates in the city have come together for the first time to address the issue. -- At the top of the agenda of the newly formed coalition is a campaign to press state and city authorities to accept consulate-issued ID cards, or matricula consulars [which only criminals need].

Public Service Announcement The Minuteman Project 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... [12/12/04 - See Latest Update]

FAIR Press Release Some Follow-Up Questions for President Bush At this morning's White House press conference, President Bush was asked a question about his plan to reform U.S. immigration policy. In response to the question, the president said, at least half a dozen times, that his proposal entailed allowing workers in other countries to enter or remain in the U.S. legally to fill "jobs that Americans will not do."

Tucson Sector PIO Press Release Big pot haul on Tohono O'odham Nation The Tohono O'odham Reservation village of Hickiwan is the scene for a large marijuana seizure on Sunday. Customs Patrol Officers tracked three stolen vehicles to a location 5 miles north of SR86 (mp82), early Sunday afternoon. CBP/CPO's located an area where suspected smugglers attempted to brush-out tire tracks...

Michelle Malkin

MichelleMalkin.com Malkin comments on Bush's latest buffoonish blathering After the White House news conference this morning, Bill Kristol on Fox News praised President Bush's remarks about "immigration reform" as "eloquent." Beg to differ. The president's open- borders statements were empty, garish platitudes strung together sloppily like cheap Christmas lights: Illegal aliens "do the job Americans won't do."

The Columbian - Vancouver, Washington In Our View: More Reform, Please ...Right now, lawmakers and government agencies too often look the other way and ignore illegal immigration. Some state governments, such as Washington, even help lawbreaking along by making it easier to live here undetected. --- Far worse is the state's practice of issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants [criminals] [Illegals can use sham Mexican IDs to obtain a license in Washington].

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

The Olympian Conservatives set to challenge Bush Emboldened conservatives in Congress say they will oppose the White House next year on at least a half-dozen issues where they say President Bush has strayed from GOP values. -- Conservatives claim a mandate to push their views. Now that Bush has been re-elected, they plan to take a harder line on issues such as federal spending and prescription drug coverage for seniors.

Washington Times Dutch getting plenty fed up with being invaded Amsterdam - Parliamentarian Geert Wilders sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy, finger in the dike, holding back a rising tide of immigrants that threatens to swamp the Netherlands and all of Europe. -- "Immigration is the biggest problem that Dutch society is facing today," said Mr. Wilders, in his office in The Hague. [Also: Italians fed up with Muslim onslaught]

Bryanna Bevens

VDare.com Blog Hillary Rodham Clinton: Sincere Opportunist? Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is not a stupid woman, oh how I wish she were. -- On December 13, 2004, the Washington Times ran an article by Charles Hurt titled Hillary Goes Conservative on Immigration. -- Ouch! That's gotta hurt! -- According to the WT, Senator Clinton's aggressive play for immigration reform is part of an overall strategy...

Dan Walters -- Sacramento Bee Congress ducks immigrant licenses issue, but state can't As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Latino politicians sparred during the past year over whether California should issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, both sides wondered whether - or hoped that - the issue could be settled by federal decree. -- Indeed, a House-approved provision of the new intelligence overhaul bill...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Border issue: Arresting lawlessness Proposition 200 says illegal aliens should not vote in Arizona's elections, nor should they receive taxpayer-funded benefits and privileges that are not required under federal law. -- Since the federal government won't protect the borders, Arizonans are protecting themselves. They don't want their elections polluted by people whose presence is a continuing criminal act, and they don't want to feed them or send them to college.

MS13 Gang

Yuma Sun More gang members showing up in border seizures Federal authorities say they have been arresting members of a notorious and violent Central American gang recently in the Yuma area among the thousands of illegal immigrants being apprehended. -- Joe Brigman, spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma sector, said patrol agents over the past 18 months have been apprehending members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang as those deported gang members...

Washington Post More Aggressive Congress Could Hinder Bush's Plans President Bush's second-term plans to reshape Social Security, immigration laws and other domestic programs are facing a stiff challenge from a group that was reliably accommodating in the president's first four years: congressional Republicans. -- After essentially rubber-stamping much of Bush's first-term agenda, many House and Senate Republicans plan to assert themselves more forcefully...

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Border Patrol agent killed in rollover A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in a single-vehicle accident Sunday afternoon. -- The 32- year- old man died in a rollover accident about 2 p.m. on Federal Route 21 near Pisinimo Village on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, said Rob Daniels, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson sector.

Pacific News Service Philippines now churning out dangerous sham IDs New York -- Encouraged by the popularity of Mexican consular identification cards, the matrícular consular, Philippine consulates in the United States will start issuing similar ID cards to Filipinos in 2005. -- The move is long-awaited by many undocumented Filipinos who could not open a bank account...

Clinton

Ventura County Star Immigration just might be a winning issue for Hillary Conservatives critical of President Bush's "liberal" stance on immigration are praising Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's position on the issue. -- Before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush and Mexico President Vicente Fox were working together on a plan to legalize the millions of foreign workers who sneak into the country across the 1,900-mile border with Mexico.