Saturday, February 5, 2005

Red Herring* Hearing Torture Issue Diverts Attention Away from Invasion Gonzales - Opposes local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration officers. Senate Gives Gonzales Free Hand on Border     When conservative John Ashcroft faced Senate confirmation, four days of hearings were designed to nail him down on issues such as race, affirmative action and desegregation. Twenty witnesses were called. Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales faced only two days of hearings with questions limited mainly to his role in the administration's policy on torture. In the single question on immigration law enforcement, Gonzales said illegal aliens are citizens.     "America is facing an invasion across its border with Mexico and the U.S. Senate has proven once again that it doesn't care," said Glenn Spencer of American Patrol.  * n 1: any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

The Terry Anderson Show 9 PM PT Sunday

Arizona Republic County Recorders claim confusion Proposition 200 has created widespread confusion among county recorders and election officials across the state, who say they are racing the clock to implement a key provision for the March 8 elections. -- The law's restrictions are meant to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting by requiring proof of citizenship when registering...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Let state police act as immigration agents, panel hears A committee of the Arkansas Legislature heard testimony Friday on a bill that would allow state troopers to gain the powers of federal immigration officials. -- House Bill 1012 by Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson, R-Little Rock, would allow the director of the Arkansas State Police to reach a "memorandum of understanding" with the federal Department of Homeland Security...

Associated Press   9/11 hijacker used bypass code to obtain California license The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, obtained a California driver's license without providing the required Social Security number for identification, officials are acknowledging for the first time. -- Nawaf Alhazmi then used that license when he registered for the flight training that enabled him to pilot the doomed airliner.

Associated Press Mexico Detains Vicente Fox's Travel Chief Mexico City -- Federal authorities have detained the head of President Vicente Fox's travel staff on suspicion he was feeding information to drug lords, the attorney general said Saturday. -- Nahum Acosta, director of the office coordinating presidential tours, was taken into custody by federal agents Thursday as he left his office at the presidential residence, Los Pinos.

Rally Scheduled - Mark Your Calendar - February 19 Redondo Beach, Calif. - SaveOurState.org

News-Leader -- Springfield, Mo. Moderate Republicans in crucial spot The enthusiasm with which conservative congressional Republicans greeted President Bush during his State of the Union speech concealed for a night the differences that threaten his proposals for Social Security and immigration reform. -- Those divisions have been strikingly evident in the weeks leading up to Wednesday night's speech...

Marty Lich

Magic City Morning Star I Can See Clearly Now ...For several years, none of us living in Colorado have paid too much attention to this allowed illegal immigration issue. That is, until the aspects of allowed illegal immigration began to impact our schools and hospitals. With that thought in mind, I emailed the Girl Scout Council and inquired why it is that only English language parents must provide identification numbers... [Also: Economic partners; The Equal Team Effort]

Jan Herron -- Magic City Morning Star Smuggling Parrots I returned the copy of George Bush's Inaugural Speech II sent by the RNC, suggesting they give it to someone who admires the President. I listened as the President read it on TV, once was enough. -- Why didn't he hire a literate ghost? He appears a shallow, stubborn and angry man whose objective is to subvert the will of America's people before the end of his second term.

Pioneer Press -- Minneapolis Apparent gang mistake leaves 2 dead, 6 charged The Anoka County attorney's office has charged six men and women in a deadly shooting Thursday night at a Columbia Heights pool hall that was apparently sparked by a case of mistaken gang identity. -- Two men were killed and four injured, possibly because they didn't understand gang lingo or dangers when they entered Jimmy's Pro Billiards on Central Avenue...

Robin Hvidston

Daily Mining Gazette -- Houghton, Mich. Minuteman Project a noble effort I read the article on the Internet (entitled) "U.S. border security in poor condition." -- I am one of the volunteers. I am going to be part of the Minuteman Project for five days. And I am a peace-loving, law-abiding mother. Our country is under complete and total invasion by Mexico. Our government will not protect us from the invasion.

The New American -- William Norman Grigg Mexican Narco-Terrorists Prey on U.S. Citizens With tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds, being used to secure Iraq's borders, U.S. citizens living near the border with Mexico have fallen prey to agents of Mexican drug cartels. -- The last year has seen a "dramatically increased number of U.S. citizens who have recently been reported missing or kidnapped along the border...

Redding Record Searchlight  [Poll on page] 'One Bill Gil' Cedillo brings back invader license bill Hollywood stars' powers of persuasion are apparently negligible in the north state when it comes to the issue of providing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants [criminals]. -- A Los Angeles lawmaker has unveiled a bill that would remove American citizenship as a requirement to drive in California. The bill by state Sen. Gil Cedillo...

Waste of Taxpayer $$

KOLD-TV -- Tucson Mexican invader shot by BP agent hits jackpot Mexico City -- Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says a Mexican migrant shot by a U-S Border Patrol agent in 2002 has received 125-thousand dollars in compensation from the federal government. -- Arturo Rosas of Mexico was shot by a U. S. Border Patrol agent in January 2002 as he dangled from the border fence near Agua Prieta, Mexico, and Douglas.

No Illegals!

Deseret News Tuition repeal stalls in House committee Proposed legislation that would make the children of undocumented immigrants [criminals] ineligible for in-state college tuition is stalled in the House Rules Committee. -- HB239, which has twice failed to emerge from the committee, would repeal a nonresident tuition exemption passed by the 2002 Legislature. -- Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden, said he hasn't given up on his bill...

Invasion

San Diego Union-Tribune Border fence could skip rules The regulatory exemption, being pushed by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee, would override a decision by the California Coastal Commission to deny the project because of concerns about erosion. -- Hunter, the project's longtime champion, believes that an impenetrable triple-fenced surveillance zone...

Houston Chronicle Salvadorans can renew their never-ending temporary status The Salvadoran government will host a campaign this weekend to renew the temporary visas the United States issued to nearly 250,0000 Salvadoran immigrants after El Salvador's two earthquakes in 2001. -- The visas give Salvadorans work permits and protection from deportation through Sept. 9, 2006. The deadline to register is March 8.

Tom Tancredo

The Telegraph -- Nashua, New Hampshire Chief's action draws notice New Ipswich, N.H. -- Last July, when federal immigration officials declined to take over a van full of illegal immigrants that Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain had in custody, he did what he felt he had to do. He complained. -- That complaint, and his calling attention to the situation, brought U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., to town... [This mob of open border cheerleaders whine]

Arizona Daily Star Police seize arms cache bound for drug cartel Nogales, Sonora - U.S. and Mexican officials are investigating a heavy weapons cache discovered in this border town that police believe was headed south to arm drug cartels. -- In a late Wednesday search of a Nogales home, police found an anti-tank warhead, six hand grenades and more than 1,200 rounds of ammunition, Nogales Police Chief Ramses Arce Fierro said Friday.

Jackson Clarion-Ledger 2 more Americans turn up dead in cesspit next door Police in the border city of Matamoros said Friday they are investigating the deaths of two hunters from Mississippi whose pickup truck flipped and crashed on a Mexican highway. One of the men had been shot in the face. -- The shooting victim was ejected from the truck, while his companion was found underneath the vehicle...

Washington Post Vicious Mara Salvatrucha killer gets very long sentence A member of the Salvadoran street gang Mara Salvatrucha was sentenced yesterday in Fairfax County to three consecutive life sentences for the 2001 rape and killing of a Falls Church area woman, making him the third local member of the gang to receive a life term for murder. -- Oscar Omar Ramos Hernandez sat quietly during the brief hearing...