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Saturday, February 26, 2005 |
A Real Flake |
Jeff Flake,
Snake Oil Salesman -- Arizona Republic
Trade
deal would bolster C. America democracies
Much has been made about President
Bush's efforts to promote democracy and freedom across the
world [and here we thought Bush's job was to run the US, not
to play 'King of the World']. Free trade agreements, in addition
to promoting the trade of goods and services, also promote the
exchange of ideas and values. -- Central America has had a turbulent
democratic past... |
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The Times
of Trenton
Shameless
deportees try waving anchor baby to solicit sympathy
Mayra Ovalle's words are heavy with resignation
and defeat. -- Her husband was arrested in the couple's home
almost two weeks ago by federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents on a deportation order, and she is being
shipped back to Guatemala, too. -- But it's not her plight or
her husband's that saddens her the most... |
Mexican
Junk |
Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review Editorial
Arrogant
Mexicans should keep their rolling junk in Mexico
Before 9/11, Mexican long-haul truckers
were banned in the United States. After 9/11 and amid renewed
questions about truck inspections and safety, it's argued that
Mexico's 18- wheelers should be free to travel anywhere north
of the border. -- Holding Mexican truckers to 25 miles within
the United States... |
MS13 Gang |
Associated
Press
Alleged
gang leader had multiple arrests in California
Long before he became known to federal
authorities as a Honduran gang lord, a man arrested almost three
weeks ago near the Texas-Mexico border was regularly picked up
by San Francisco
police, largely for drug-related crimes, government officials
said. -- He was in the country illegally. But Ever Anibal Rivera
Paz, known as "El Culiche".... |
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Pioneer
Press
Hmong
gang becoming much more vicious
Twin Cities gang investigators have considered
the MODs a violent gang for at least a decade, but they say the
shooting of a Ramsey County sheriff's deputy this week by reputed
MOD members signals a new level of brutality. -- MOD gang members
also have been linked this month to a double homicide at a Columbia
Heights pool hall... |
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Virginia
Gazette -- Williamsburg
Alleged
killer duped police in 2004 arrest
James City -- How did Oswaldo Martinez,
arrested last week for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Brittany
Binger, escape scrutiny by immigration officials a year ago after
it was discovered he was using a stolen Social Security number?
-- That's a question both police and immigration officials must
answer in light of the revelation this week that the El Salvadoran
was arrested for drunken driving in 2004... |
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Arizona
Republic
1st
strike against day-labor centers?
..."We can't turn a blind eye to
the problem of illegal immigration," said [Republican Rep.
Colette] Rosati, the main sponsor of House Bill 2592. "We
don't want to promote and advertise it." -- The bill would
prohibit cities, towns and counties from building or maintaining
a work center that facilitated the hiring of undocumented
immigrants [criminals]. |
Karen Smith |
New York
Post Editorial
A
Needed Crackdown
Kudos to the Pataki administration for
moving swiftly to appeal a judge's ill-advised decision barring
the state Department of Motor Vehicles from cracking down on
driver's-license fraud. -- At least someone in New York seems
to have heard of 9/11 - unlike Manhattan Supreme Court Justice
Karen Smith... |
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WNCN-TV
-- Raleigh
Teen Arrested
In Rolesville Double Murder
A Raleigh teenager has been charged in
connection with Monday's double homicide near Rolesville, authorities
said Friday. -- Arsenio Calderon Sanchez... is charged with two
counts of first- degree murder, authorities said. -- Sanchez,
who also goes by the name Antonio Bautista Pineda, was arrested
at about 1:15 a.m. Friday... |
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KPRC-TV
-- Houston
2
Men Threaten To Blow Up Pentagon
A statewide alert remains in effect Friday
for two men accused of threatening to blow up the Pentagon, Local
2 reported. -- Wharton authorities and officials with the FBI
and the Texas Department of Public Safety said a man in his 50s
and a man in his 20s were apparently upset with the food and
service at a McDonald's restaurant on North Richmond Street... |
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Denver Post
DMV
revokes more licenses -- Focus on employees expands
Colorado authorities said they have revoked
74 more "highly suspect" commercial driver's licenses,
most issued by motor vehicle employees not already implicated
in an ongoing federal investigation. -- The revelation comes
as the probe of illegal driver's license sales focuses on an
additional group of employees in the state Division of Motor
Vehicles... |
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El Paso
Times
More
border agents on way
The number of U.S. Border Patrol agents
in the El Paso region will increase about 20 percent this year
as the agency adjusts to deal with more migrant activity, officials
said Friday. -- The agency's El Paso sector will reach a record
high of about 1,300 Border Patrol agents with the addition of
224 new agents expected to start arriving in mid-July, agency
spokesman Doug Mosier said. |
Rubber Stamp |
Agence France-Presse
Bush
puppet scheduled for jaunt to hostile Mexico
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
is to visit Mexico March 10, the US State Department and Mexico's
Foreign Ministry announced. --- Mexico has concerns over a state
of Arizona law limiting health assistance for people depending
on the legality of their immigration status in the United States.
[See 'Meddling Mexicans'
for more on these nuisances] |
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Magic City
Morning Star
Who's
Working for Whom?
That's the question posed by Coloradans
testifying before the House State, Veterans & Military Affairs
Committee on Tuesday on Bill 1271, Defend Colorado Now. -- To
those representing the illegal-alien lobby whose agenda they
support (Catholic Charities, ACLU, and federally funded Denver
Health Clinic), Representatives Paul Weissmann... |
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