Friday, July 1, 2005

Two Arizona Border Agents Shot Violence Escalates Along the Border Leg Wounds Not Life Threatening    Nogales -- According to Tucson TV reports two U.S. Border Patrol Agents were shot and wounded while they were patrolling tone mile north of the border and five miles east of Nogales. The wounds were not life threatening.      Reports suggest that the shooters were illegal border crossers, not drug smugglers. So far this year there have been 195 assaults on Tucson Sector Agents, compared to 118 attacks in all of fiscal year 2004. Arizona Daily Star article Watch Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Commander of Malfeasance

Dallas Morning News Texas beefs up border law enforcement while Bush loafs Texas is spending $5 million to beef up law-enforcement efforts along the Mexican border and will ask the U.S. government for more help fighting drug-related violence there, Gov. Rick Perry said Friday. -- He called it a "critical mission to protect the lives of citizens on both sides of the border."

Houston Chronicle Deranged Mexican who beheaded children gets off easy Brownsville -- A woman pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the beheadings of her three young children and was spared the death penalty in a deal with prosecutors. -- Angela Camacho will receive three concurrent life prison sentences and will be eligible for parole in 40 years...

American Patrol Minuteman Project rally in Phoenix a success Click the above link to view a video report shot at the rally today (Requires Free Windows Media Player 9x)

Waah! Waah!

Workers World (Communist Screed) Communist rag claims L. I. evictions are 'racist' In the early hours of June 20, while several dozen tenants of a tiny bungalow on Long Island, were still sleeping, Brookhaven town authorities raided the dwelling and evicted them from their home. -- Town authorities claimed concern for the terrible living conditions the workers, most of whom are Mexican, faced.

Rumor Mill

American Patrol Customs chopper strays into enemy territory According to reliable sources a U.S. Customs Blackhawk helicopter inadvertently landed just inside Mexico just south of Lochiel, Arizona late Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred during a drug chase after a load vehicle raced into Mexico...

Associated Press Stamps become a symbol of resentment against U. S. in Mexico Hundreds of people lined up at Mexico City's main post office on Friday, some waiting hours to buy postage stamps featuring a black comic book character that U.S. leaders have called racist. --- "They're the racists. They're worse than we are, but they just want to belittle us, like always," said Cesar Alonso Alvarado...

Fox Watch

Associated Press Fox claims criticism of offensive stamps unfounded Mexico City -- President Vicente Fox said Friday that U.S. activists who have condemned a new Mexican postage stamp as racist should read the beloved comic book on which it is based before they make judgments. -- "They don't have information, frankly," Fox said in an exclusive interview... -- "Frankly, I don't understand the reaction," Fox said.

WJXX-TV -- Jacksonville Restaurant owners caught selling fake immigration docs Jacksonville, Fla. -- Owners of two local Mexican restaurants have been arrested for writing forged documents to illegal aliens. -- In a joint investigation with our Hispanic Newspaper partner Hola News, the First Coast News I-team has confirmed the arrests of six people from El Rodeo II Restaurant...

Gainesville (Georgia) Times Invaders wreaking havoc in Georgia ...Northeast Georgia natives James and Rhonda Abee married 10 months ago and bought a home in the middle- class neighborhood lining Hillside Drive. --- Rhonda drives for a local delivery company. -- Twice in recent weeks, drivers without licenses ran into her. At least one was an [illegal]. She said he tried to bribe her not to call police.

Washington Post Invaders getting the boot; Whining ensues By every measure but one, the Gonzalez family of Jefferson City, Mo., are model citizens. Marvin was a courier for then-Missouri Gov. Bob Holden, delivering messages and screening the governor's mail. Marina taught Spanish and was the after-school care director at her parish grade school...

American Border Patrol Photo of the Day American Border Patrol took this photo of one of the many Humane Borders water stations along the border in Arizona.

Gang News

Star-Ledger -- Newark Troopers say gangs moving to suburbs New Jersey has nearly 17,000 gang members and they are increasingly moving their violent drug trade into suburban areas that hold the prospect of more money, according to a State Police survey released yesterday. -- Urban centers and the communities that surround them continue to house more than 90 percent of all gang members...

Washington Times Arrests target criminal aliens Federal officials yesterday announced they have arrested 25 illegal aliens in Montgomery County as part of a three-day operation to remove criminal aliens from the United States. -- Fourteen of the 25 aliens arrested were fugitives that already had been ordered to be deported by immigration officials. Ernestine Fobbs, a spokeswoman for ICE...

Arizona Republic Usual suspects call for yet another toothless boycott A statewide gasoline boycott this weekend to call attention to the economic contributions of Latino immigrants is part of a growing movement across the country. -- In communities from California to Connecticut, Latinos are organizing boycotts, marches and other actions to counter perceived anti-immigrant measures such as Proposition 200...

VDare.com Criminal Alien Nation ...Approximately 27% of all prisoners in Federal custody are criminal aliens. The majority (63%) are citizens of Mexico. Other major nationalities include Columbia and the Dominican Republic (7% each); Jamaica 4%; Cuba 3%; El Salvador 2%; and Honduras, Haiti, and Guatemala (1% each).

El Paso Times 31 invaders found in New Mexico house Border Patrol agents found 31 [invaders], including four children and their parents, on Tuesday in a house in Chaparral, N.M., agency officials said. -- The [invaders], discovered at the house in the 600 block of Nopalera Rd., were all returned to Mexico on Tuesday, except for one person who had a criminal record and will be processed for deportation...

Chicago Tribune Immigration rally brings Minuteman issue to head The Minuteman Project gained notoriety in April when volunteers policed the Arizona desert against illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico. -- Nearly 2,000 miles north of that first effort, a small number of Chicagoans who volunteered in Arizona are bringing the fight to Chicago. Organizers plan to confront Illinois politicians...

Arizona State Representative Russell Pearce Contract with Arizona Arizona may no longer be the conservative state it used to be, but it still has conservative legislators whose priorities include illegal immigration, school choice, reducing spending, tort reform, passing a marriage amendment, restraining judicial activism, and states rights...

Onslaught

Diana Hull -- Detroit Free Press U.S. can't ignore toll of illegal immigration How much is 20 million? The population of the state of New York is approaching 20 million. Add up the combined populations of Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire and New Mexico, and the number is nearly 20 million too.

Californians for Population Stabilization CLEAR Act Authorizes Local Law Enforcement Assistance The CLEAR Act has been introduced by Charlie Norwood and over 25 co-sponsors. This bill makes it absolute that state and local law enforcement officers can and should help Federal agencies enforce immigration law. [You can call your Rep. toll free at 877-762-8762 and ask him/her to support this legislation.]

CNN Senate gives Bush win on CAFTA Fresh off a victory in the Senate, the Bush administration turned to the House in the drive to conclude a free trade agreement it says will promote democracy in Central America while opening new markets to American businesses. -- The House vote, expected in July, on the Central America Free Trade Agreement is certain to be close... [How They Voted]

Bakersfield Californian Operation targets invader smuggling in LA area Los Angeles (AP) -- Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement agents arrested suspects in an operation targeting an alleged [illegal alien] smuggling ring Thursday night, officials said. -- The operation was carried out in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Anaheim and other cities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

San Antonio Express-News Invaders: Ex-Fox stooge claims Mexico must be part of 'solution' Any effort to reform U.S. immigration laws must include the participation of Mexico, and address the millions of undocumented Mexicans [criminals] living in this country illegally, a former adviser to President Vicente Fox told a Senate subcommittee Thursday. [Also see: Meddling Mexicans]

Associated Press Minuteman organizing to 'protect' borders far from border Salt Lake City -- Wally McCormick never really thought that at age 68 he'd become a political activist. But there he was last month, outside a suburban bank with about 100 people at a protest he helped organize for a cause he says he's prepared to die for. -- This particular action targeted banks that allow illegal immigrants to use [Mexican sham] identification cards...

Fox Watch

Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- BlackNews.com Mexican Officials Must Come Clean On Racism The Mexican government's sale of the racially offensive cartoon character Memin Pinguin as a commemorative stamp is an outrageous sign that top Mexican officials still refuse to deal with the country's racism. But it's just that a sign. Racism goes much deeper in the country. Even while Mexican writers and politicians rail in articles against American racism...

File Photo

Associated Press Mexican illegals killed, San Diegan hurt in wrong-way crash El Cajon, Calif. -- Five illegal immigrants died and six more were injured when the van they were in collided with a pickup truck shortly after speeding around a Border Patrol checkpoint on a rural, two-lane road near the Mexican border, authorities said.

Jackson

Associated Press Jackson Calls for Black-Hispanic Coalition Standing at the site of a landmark school integration battle, the Rev. Jesse Jackson locked arms Thursday with leaders of the nation's two largest Hispanic organizations to call for a new civil rights coalition. -- "While some were picking beans, some were picking cotton, but we were both being picked on," he said...