Saturday, July 2, 2005

Naco Is Back Illegal Border Activity Returns Mystery Grows Larger Only days after American Border Patrol reported a significant drop in illegal border traffic in the Naco area of Cochise County, Arizona, the non-profit border watch group now reports that traffic appears to have returned to normal. "It may be a coincidence, but the drop in traffic occurred just as we were performing an assessment of Border Patrol operations in this area," said Glenn Spencer, head of ABP. Spencer said the assessment, which uses using remote sensing and aerial vehicles , will resume next week. "We are going to expand our coverage area to avoid game playing," Spencer said. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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Invasion

KOLD-TV -- Tucson Invader onslaught threatens endangered species Tucson, Ariz. -- Biologists are concerned that an increase in migrant traffic on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge could have deadly consequences for the endangered Sonoran pronghorn. -- Biologists say they've noticed a spike since early spring during which traffic has gone from a handful of [invaders] a night to 200...

Onslaught

Steamboat Pilot -- Steamboat Springs, Colorado Crossing the Line - Immigration in Northwest Colorado ...The El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol is responsible for guarding 180 miles of land border and 109 miles of river border. About 1,200 agents cover the area, and an unprecedented addition of 240 agents is scheduled to join the patrol this fiscal year, said Border Patrol Public Affairs Officer Doug Mosier...

BBC US smashes sex trafficking rings US police have broken up two human trafficking rings which smuggled hundreds of South Korean women into California to work as prostitutes. -- They arrested about 50 people and are questioning around 150 women after taking them into protective custody.

Corpus Christi Caller-Times Border project to meet The leader of the Goliad chapter of the Minuteman Project said 75 to 100 people are interested in joining the group, and that they plan to meet next week to organize a civilian-led border watch that would start in October. -- Bill Parmley, president of the newly formed Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of Texas-Goliad Chapter, said members will meet at 7 p.m.

Touché

KRON-TV -- San Francisco Arrogant Fox spokeshole lashes out at U. S. activists A spokesman for Mexico's president says critics of a postage stamp with a caricature of a black cartoon character are either ignorant or "want publicity." -- Black activists are demanding that Mexico withdraw the stamps that honor the Memin Pinguin cartoon character. They depict a man with exaggerated features and thick lips.

Associated Press Proposition 200 voter ID proposal going to governor Secretary of State Jan Brewer and other Arizona leaders said yesterday that they have agreed on a plan to carry out Proposition 200's requirement that residents show identification before voting at the polls. -- The plan gives voters more ways to prove their identity. But those with no identification could not be able to vote.

Eminent Domain and The "Migrating" Hordes Eminent domain (from Latin dominium eminens meaning: supreme lordship) is the power of the state to appropriate private property for its own use without the owner's consent [Wikipedia]. It gives the state, and - therefore - whoever controls it, powerful, and in some countries, draconian means to redistribute private wealth among, supposedly...

George Putnam

Newsmax.com The ACLU vs. the Minuteman Project It is this reporter's opinion that the Minuteman Project is not a call to arms, but rather a call to patriotic American voices seeking a peaceful, respectable solution to the chaotic neglect by members of our local, state and federal governments who have taken an oath to apply U.S. immigration law and protect the sovereignty of the United States of America.

Angus Reid Consultants Invaders allegedly held captive At a home on Austin street in Roma border patrol agents say a smuggler was holding 26 illegal immigrants against their will. -- They were called here by a concerned citizen who says a Honduran immigrant begged them for help.

Angus Reid Consltants Arizonans Ponder Options to Curb Immigration Many adults in the Grand Canyon State believe more officers are needed to enforce federal immigration laws, according to a poll by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University released by KAET-TV. 59 per cent of respondents support relying on state and local agents.

KVOA-TV -- Tucson Minutemen celebrate early Independence Day The Minuteman Project continues to gain momentum. The group hosted a large pre-Independence Day rally at the state capitol Friday. -- What was supposed to be a small event to show patriotism turned into a large rally to secure our border. [See this photo submitted by Bob Park]

Gonzales

El Paso Times O'Connor's exit opens door for Bush to select Hispanic The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- the first woman appointed to the nation's highest court -- has some hopeful that President Bush will make another milestone appointment and nominate a Hispanic to the post. -- Several names, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, federal court of appeals Judge Emilio Garza...

D. A. King

VDare.com In Georgiafornia In Georgiafornia, the joke starts out: "The one-room grocery Narciso Vazquez owns on Hancock Avenue is packed. Produce bins sport papayas, mangos and cilantro. Shelves brim with cereals, canned goods and boxes of Spanish- labeled cookies...

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 'Bubba' Clinton spews hooey at ethnic hustler soiree The Bush administration should consider legalizing hundreds of thousands of immigrants as a way to bolster Social Security, former President [and good buddy of the Bush's] Clinton told the nation's largest Hispanic organization Friday. -- Addressing more than 1,200 people at the League of United Latin American Citizens...

American Border Patrol Photo of the Day American Border Patrol captured this image of the Naco Border Patrol Station this last week. Note how many Border Patrol vehicles are parked in the lot. Is this because most are used at night?

Tucson Citizen Wounded Border Patrol agents stable after surgery Two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were shot and wounded this week near Nogales are recovering at a hospital following surgery, a Border Patrol spokeswoman said. -- Border Patrol Agent Andrea Zortman would not name the agents or the hospital where they were taken, each with a single gunshot wound to the leg.