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Tuesday, February 1, 2005 |
What
Homeland
Security? |
Daily Mining
Gazette -- Houghton, Michigan
U.S.
border security in poor condition
One more sign of growing frustration
with Washington's neglect of Mexican border security: A California-based
group called the "Minuteman Project" says it will field
some 240 volunteers who will observe and report illegal border
crossings in Arizona. -- They have chosen an area notorious
for smuggling illegal aliens... |
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Nogales
(Arizona) International
Shots
fired into downtown Nogales, Ariz. from Mexico
Nogales Border patrol agents last Tuesday
were reportedly "rocked" by Mexican culprits, and witnesses
said gunfire was exchanged. -- The incident was reported to have
taken place along the international border in the area of East
and Short Streets. -- Witnesses said there were actually two
incidents, first around 11 a.m. and then again after 1:30 p.m. |
Sen. Jon
Kyl |
Phoenix
Business Journal
Kyl
seeks increased funding for border-related state costs
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl has introduced new
legislation aimed at getting the federal government to reimburse
state and local governments for the costs of incarcerating illegal
immigrants. -- Border states such as Arizona are burdened with
substantial costs related to criminal activities by illegal immigrants. |
Onslaught |
Associated
Press
Arizona
Nabs More Illegals Than 3 Other States Combined
Arizona has achieved a dubious distinction
- for the first time, the state reported more apprehensions of
illegal immigrants than California, New Mexico and Texas combined.
-- The latest landmark from fiscal 2004 numbers comes after seven
consecutive years in which the Border Patrol's Tucson sector
led the nation in apprehensions. |
Axis
of Weasels |
Associated
Press
Fox,
Bush discuss 'bilateral relations' by phone
Mexico
City -- President Vicente Fox said he stressed Mexico's strong
desire to move forward on an accord that would guarantee the
safe, legal migration of Mexicans to the United States during
a telephone conversation Tuesday with U.S. President George W.
Bush. -- The two leaders also discussed Sunday's election in
Iraq, while Fox congratulated Bush on winning a second term in
office... |
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Bend (Oregon)
Bugle
Likely
invader arrested on meth charges
Redmond,
Oregon -- A resident of a southwest Redmond duplex was found
hiding in his garage by Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team
members on Tuesday morning and arrested on charges of methamphetamine
possession and delivery, police said. -- CODE Team members completed
a two-month undercover investigation into meth deliveries in
Deschutes and Crook counties with a raid... |
More
Government
Malfeasance |
The Monitor
Border
Patrol lending a hand in Iraq
An undisclosed number of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection officers have voluntarily been in Iraq
since at least August teaching members of the Iraqi Department
of Border Enforcement how to secure the frontierlands, a U.S.
Customs and Border Protection official said Monday. [We're being
invaded and Bush has the B.P. in a country that we have no business
being in.] |
Marty Lich |
Magic City
Morning Star (Two Items)
Terrorists
to the East, Terrorists to the West
Where do you all fit in the Big East-West
Picture? -- I read the following in the Denver Post today: DMV
flawed, ex-clerk alleges Accused worker: Fraud rampant: "A
woman accused of illegally selling Colorado driver's licenses"
I immediately wrote and asked the two reporters... |
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San Diego
Union Tribune
Alleged
crackdown targeting coyotes
Phoenix -- A 16-month-old crackdown on migrant
smuggling already credited with cutting down on assaults
and kidnappings is now targeting leaders of the rings that
make millions of dollars sneaking people across the border. --
Immigration officials said their success in identifying and busting
street-level operators... |
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UPI -- Gregory
Tejeda
Hispanics
Advised to Watch GOP Civil War
Hispanic people ought to pay particular
attention to Wednesday's State of the Union address to try to
get clues as to who will win the upcoming Republican civil war
over immigration reform. -- President Bush wants the Republican-
dominated Congress to give a rubberstamp of approval to his long-simmering
reform proposal... |
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Financial
Times
Visa
rules hurting US, warns Gates
Bill Gates says the tough US visa regime
has caused a decline in foreign computer science students so
severe it is threatening to undermine America's position in the
global software industry. -- Speaking at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, the Microsoft chairman, whose company is one of the
world's biggest employers of international computer talent, branded
the fall in student numbers a "disaster". |
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New York
Sun
Hate
Grows in Brooklyn
In his inaugural address, President Bush
told Americans that "We have seen our vulnerability - and
we have seen its deepest source," which he identified as
"ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder." If
this is true - and we think it is - then Saudi Arabia must be
counted among America's chief enemies. |
Invasion |
We Get E-Mail
No
Homeland Security in Cochise County
While some Americans don't realize that
"there is no Homeland Security," folks that live in
rural border areas hear the dogs bark, we hear the roar of backpackers
in the darkness slipping past our homes -- and if we turn on
a spotlight we see groups of illegal aliens headed north... |
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Washington
Post
Montgomery
to set up a 2nd day laborer pest hangout
Montgomery County officials yesterday announced
the planned opening of a new employment center that will offer
a range of services to prospective day laborers. -- Just a block
from where the new center is scheduled to open by the end of
next month in Wheaton, several dozen people, mostly Latino immigrants,
congregate each workday... [Also see: Aiding
and abetting illegals is a crime] |
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Deseret
News
Utah
governor extends invitation to top Mexican reconquista
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will send a letter
of invitation to Mexico President Vicente Fox, who has initial
plans to visit the state this summer, said Mexican Consul Salvador
Jimenez. -- "I feel his support, I feel his enthusiasm,"
Jimenez said of the governor, following his first official meeting
with Huntsman on Monday. |
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Rep. Virginia
Foxx -- Conservative Voice
We
must stop issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens
We have a serious problem here in North
Carolina a problem that can have serious ramifications
on our national security. -- According to the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, we live in one of
10 states that permits anyone to receive state issued driver's
licenses or identification cards without providing proof of their
legal status. |
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Anderson
Cooper 360º -- CNN
Numerous
reasons to never set foot in crime bloated Mexico
...Heidi Collins: Nuevo Laredo, is a
Mexican border town where Americans like to go and relax, to
party, to shop or maybe buy prescription drugs. But something
very scary is happening there. In an increasing number of cases
the Americans who go to Nuevo Laredo are not coming home. They're
simply vanishing. |
El Presidente |
El Universal
-- Mexico City
Annoying
Mexican says spat with U.S. is 'over'
Mexicali, B.C., Mex. -- President Vicente
Fox on Monday said a diplomatic spat with the United States about
drug-gang violence in the border region was "over."
-- Speaking in Los Algodones, a small, picturesque tourist town
on the border outside of Mexicali, Fox said his administration
was making unprecedented gains in fighting drug traffickers.
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'The Boot' |
Juneau Empire
Mexican
invader in Alaska being ejected today
Monday evening was perhaps the last day
Ernesto Guillen would spend with his family for a long time.
He is an illegal immigrant whose U.S. residency may have been
blocked by a bureaucratic mistake, and the U.S. Customs and Immigration
Services said he has to return to Mexico. -- Guillen didn't get
the hearing he was hoping for Monday, the last day to appeal
his case before his deportation. |
Rumor Mill |
American
Patrol
Say
it ain't so!
Within the last week the daughter of the head
supervisor of the NACO Border Patrol station was caught with
a load of drugs trying to enter the U.S. through the NACO Port
of Entry. Her dad was not on duty when the BP dogs sniffed out
the drugs. [UPDATE: We have been informed that the incident
did not involve the head supervisor, just A
supervisor.] |
Owens |
Denver Post
Guide
for immigrants pulled from state website
A state Education Department guide for
recent immigrants was pulled off the agency's website Monday
because it contained information that appeared to endorse illegal
immigration. -- U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., wrote a letter
to Gov. Bill Owens demanding that the guide be removed from the
site. -- Tancredo discovered the guide's contents via websites
dedicated to the issue of illegal immigration... |
Paul
Craig
Roberts |
VDare.com
Abandoning
Liberty, Gaining Insecurity
Should Americans have to give up the
Bill of Rights in order to be "safe" from terrorists?
Actually, it doesn't matter what Americans think. The trade has
already been made-and without any input from the people. The
"democracy" that America is exporting is in fact a
Homeland Security State with more surveillance powers than Saddam
Hussein. |
No Illegals! |
Austin American-Statesman
Tuition
law for invaders challenged
Almost four years after Texas became
the first state to make in-state college tuition rates and financial
aid available to immigrant children regardless of their legal
status, a lawsuit filed in Kansas threatens Texas' law as well.
-- Gov. Rick Perry enacted House Bill 1403 in 2001, and supporters
hailed it as a compassionate way to help immigrants [illegal aliens -- criminals]
attend college. |
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