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Sunday, December 26, 2004 |
American Patrol's
Person of the Year
Rick Oltman was key to success of Arizona Proposition
200
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Rick Oltman |
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Years
of Dedication and Discipline
Arizona's Proposition 200 will go
down in history as a turning point in the battle against illegal
immigration. While many played a part in the success of this
ballot initiative, the one person who made the difference between
victory and defeat was Rick Oltman of the Federation
for American Immigration Reform. Rick went out on a limb
to raise the funds to gather the signatures needed to get the
initiative on the ballot. He used his excellent diplomatic skills
to keep the Protect Arizona Now team together despite severe
internal stress. The success of Proposition 200 is but one of
many of major contributions that Rick Oltman has made in the
fight against illegal immigration. He is American Patrol's 2004
Person of the Year. |
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Jobs
Americans
Won't Do |
Associated
Press
Seven
Stabbed at Ohio Tot's Birthday Party
Akron, Ohio -- Seven people were stabbed
in a fight at a birthday party for a 2-year-old girl, and police
said Sunday they charged two men with assault. -- The victims
of the melee Saturday night were hospitalized and at least one
victim required surgery, said police Sgt. Terry Hudnall. -- Tam
T. Nguyen and Vi Tran were charged.  |
Yeh Ling-Ling |
Provo (Utah)
Daily Herald
Herald
poll response -- Illegal immigration
[Includes items from Yeh Ling-Ling, Haydee
Pavia, Barbara Vickory] -- The only realistic way to slow the
torrent of illegal aliens across our borders is to seriously
enforce our immigration laws. This means not just the added border
patrol agents included in the new intelligence reform legislation... |
Idiot File |
Boston Globe
Illegals
may have something to do with Massachusetts' woes
...Offsetting the trend is a boost in
foreign immigrants, Harrington said, who are counted by the Census
but often don't show up in job or unemployment data. That suggests
that these workers are being paid under the table, which could
create "long-term economic growth problem," said Paul
E. Harrington, an economist at Northeastern University's Center
for Labor Market Studies. |
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i-Newswire.com
The War Few Discuss
In Washington
When veteran newsman Bob Schieffer questioned
President
George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry about immigration
and border security during the third presidential debate, he
was responding to an overwhelming number of e-mail from citizens
demanding answers to this most pressing issue. In fact, according
to Schieffer, he received more e-mail on this subject than all
the other issues combined.... |
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The Garden
Island - Lihu'e, Kaua'i, Hawai'i
Construction
workers arrested in Waipouli
Twelve workers allegedly in the United
States as illegal immigrant construction workers were detained
and flown to O'ahu last week by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security. --
Ten Mexicans, one El Salvadoran and one Guatemalan were arrested
for working illegally... |
Invasion |
Arizona
Daily Star
Smugglers
getting sneakier
The arrest this month of two Tucson men
on charges of smuggling marijuana inside coffins isn't the first
time traffickers have used strange methods to try to get their
drug loads into and through the United States - nor will it be
the last. -- Officials have had little to say about their investigation
into the recent coffin case... |
Jill
Stewart |
L.A. Daily
News
Mexico,
U.S. ignore illegal immigration
...People come here illegally because
Mexico's elected leaders and rich ruling families cling to quasi-socialism,
circa 1930. Moreover, the rule of law is so weak that lenders
are afraid to risk money on Mexican entrepreneurs -- a terrible
obstacle to building a middle class. Mexico will remain Third
World while China surges forward... |
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New York
Daily News
Scofflaw
job thieves face abuse & low wages
Carolina R. worked at a housewares shop
in Bushwick for just a month - but during that brief period,
she was sexually harassed, verbally abused and paid only $3.60
an hour. -- The illegal immigrant from Honduras said her boss
at the Knickerbocker Ave. store cursed at her, demanded sexual
favors and once choked her until her face turned red. |
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The Monitor
- McAllen, Texas
IAFIS
helping border agents identify criminal aliens
Border Patrol agents combing through
brushy ranchland southwest of Falfurrias in October probably
had no idea they were about to nab one of the most wanted people
in Jackson, Miss. -- Included in a group of suspected illegal
immigrants the agents arrested was a Honduran national wanted
in connection to a homicide that occurred outside a Jackson bar
a little more than a year earlier. |
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Dale McFeatters
-- Washington Times
Confronting
an emotional issue
President
Bush alternated between high spirits and nonchalance at his
press conference this week, but on one subject he became emotional,
even passionate - immigration reform. -- And it was unusual to
hear an American president speak up on behalf of illegal immigrants.
He twice referred to people sneaking across the border to work
as "good-hearted," his new favorite accolade. |
Point /
Counterpoint |
Mark Krikorian
-- New York Daily News
Should
the U.S. get tough on illegal workers? Yes
Sometimes it seems that the only people
who are expected to comply with the immigration law are nominees
for cabinet posts. -- Unfair as that may seem, Bernard
Kerik's illegal-alien nanny at least forces us to confront the
absurdity at the center of our immigration policy. [Read
'Counterpoint' from some open-borders nut at the awful Migration Policy
Institute] |
Steve
Levy |
New York
Times
Suffolk
Executive Brings a Shake-Up, and Keeps a Promise
When Steve Levy was sworn in as the new
Suffolk County executive in January, he vowed in his inaugural
speech to shake up government and "make some enemies."
-- With his first year in office nearly completed, Mr. Levy and
his fiercest opponents can agree that he kept that promise. --
He incensed Hispanic constituents with an idea to deputize police
officers as immigration agents. [Good! But the paper is lying,
as usual - Levy only promised to go after illegals who committed
additional crimes.] |
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Colin McNickle
-- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
You're
wrong, Mr. President
President
Bush says he wants to revamp an immigration system that is
"not working" and is "not compassionate"
through a program that can't work and would be anything but "compassionate"
to Americans forced to pick up the tab. -- During his end-of-the-year
news conference, the president formally revived his expanded
"guest worker" proposal first laid out as a set of
"principles" a year ago. |
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