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Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
Importing Permanent
Poverty
Mark Krikorian Describes a Diverging America
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Dallas Morning
News
Sorry
Texas rag bewails Arizona's Prop. 200
The trouble with Prop 200 is that it:
requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote even though
there's no evidence of fraud by non-citizens. -- Requires verification
of immigration status for "public benefits," a term
left undefined and sure to trigger legal battles. -- Threatens
government workers with sanctions for failure to report suspected
undocumented immigrants
[criminals]... |
Dan
Stein |
San Francisco
Chronicle
State's
middle class hinges on Bush's immigration policies
In the final presidential debate, moderator
Bob Schieffer prefaced a question about immigration policy by
noting that it brought him the most e- mail. Oddly enough, the
five minutes or so that President Bush and Sen. John Kerry spent
responding to Schieffer's question was pretty much the extent
of the discussion this issue received during the campaign... |
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Tri-Town
News - Howell, New Jersey
Funding
issues slow plan for day laborer pest hangout
Lakewood, NJ -- Township committeemen
insist there will be a muster zone for Lakewood's day laborers,
but it does not appear as if it will be established anytime soon.
-- "You're not just building a patio, and it doesn't come
cheap," Mayor Raymond Coles said. "I think everybody
wants to do something, but it's not going to happen tomorrow." |
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Vail Daily
Man
who fell in icy lake identified by a relative
Avon. Colo. - Almost two days after he
fell in icy Nottingham Lake, police on Wednesday identified the
Edwards man who died hours after being pulled from the frigid
water. -- Angel Chavez, whom police said was an illegal immigrant
from Mexico who lived in the Edwards mobile home park, died of
hypothermia... |
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Chicago
Tribune
Man
accused of scalding girl is caught fleeing to Mexico
A Waukegan toddler will have to undergo
skin grafts after being scalded by her mother's boyfriend Tuesday
morning, authorities said. -- Gilberto Velazquez-Sanchez is being
held in Lake County Jail on $1 million bail after being charged
Wednesday with aggravated battery to a child and heinous battery. |
Jan
Herron |
Magic City
Morning Star
Americans
Taking Action Against Invasion State-by-State
The recent action by Arizona citizens
that passed legislation allowing that state to block taxpayer
services to illegal aliens was long over due. I applaud their
efforts and endless work. The voters of Arizona sent the perfect
message: Foreigners who break into the US illegally don't receive
freebies from Arizona citizens... |
'The Boot' |
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Fibbing
Iraqi gets the heave-ho
An Iraqi man who pleaded guilty Wednesday
in St. Paul to lying to airport officials about his Mideast travel
was deported to his homeland and ordered never to return to the
United States. -- Ali Mohammed Abboud Almosaleh, who has been
in federal custody since his arrest July 7 at Minneapolis-St.
Paul International Airport... |
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WFSB-TV
-- Hartford
Identity
theft a component of DMV drivers' license fraud
Law enforcement officials say they have
uncovered troubling allegations that state workers and others
were stealing licensed Connecticut drivers' identities as part
of a broad conspiracy to sell bogus licenses to illegal immigrants.
-- Police affidavits supporting the arrests of two Department
of Motor Vehicle employees... |
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U.S. Coast
Guard
208
Haitian Migrants Rescued
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous
repatriated 208 Haitian migrants to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, today
after they were rescued from their overcrowded sail freighter
Sunday. -- Early that morning, a Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter
forward deployed to the Bahamas from Air Station Clearwater,
Fla., spotted a grossly overloaded 30-foot sailboat in the Windward
Passage... |
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Brownsville
Herald
Alleged
leader of child smuggling ring indicted
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted
the alleged leader of a child smuggling ring on multiple counts
of human trafficking and possessing false immigration documents.
-- According to the indictment, Gregoria Vega-Covarrubias and
two other women were allegedly involved in a scheme to smuggle
two children into Brownsville from Mexico in October. |
MS13 Gang |
Washington
Post
Latino
Gang: D.C. Jury Convicts 3 in Deadly Plot
In a major strike against the Latino
gangs that have taken root across the region, three men were
convicted yesterday in D.C. Superior Court of carrying out a
murderous conspiracy that left four members of rival gangs dead.
-- Eight other members of the gang pleaded guilty before the
trial to various crimes connected to the string of attacks in
Northwest Washington, which began in August 2001... |
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Deseret
News
Utah
Immigration Reform Group: Usual suspects rant 'racism'
St. George -- A citizens group's efforts
to bring attention to the problem of illegal immigration in Utah's
Dixie are generating fear among the local Hispanic community.
-- "This group is not going to stop illegal immigration.
What they are creating is the simple, racist feeling that it's
them against the (Hispanic) community," said Juan Polo,
a naturalized American citizen from Colombia... |
More
Government
Malfeasance |
Associated
Press
Agency
infighting impedes creation of fingerprint database
More than three years after the Sept.
11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified
U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning
most visitors to the country still aren't fully screened for
terrorist or criminal ties, the Justice Department's watchdog
warned Wednesday. [Also see: What
Homeland Security?] |
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Asbury Park
Press
Bar-coded
licenses promoted in New Jersey
Walk into one of New Jersey's 45 motor-vehicle
offices to get a drivers license and you're instantly under surveillance
by closed-circuit TV and an undercover officer. Even before you
get in line, a state worker checks your passport, birth certificate
or other required documents. -- When you get your license, you'll
notice a bar code on the back... |
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Arizona
Daily Star
'George
loved the Patrol'
A color guard, a riderless horse and
the mournful wail of bagpipes opened the U.S. Border Patrol's
memorial Wednesday in Casa Grande for an agent killed in a one-vehicle
crash on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. -- The memorial
for George B. DeBates ended with a 21-gun salute and a last dispatch
call... |
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Arizona
Republic
Immigration
smackdown
The senatorial tag team of Republican
John McCain and Democrat Edward Kennedy is ready to wrestle immigration
reform through Congress. They're tough. -- But they'll need presidential
muscle - in the United States and Mexico. -- President Bush recently
restated his support for guest-worker legislation... |
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