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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
 
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Workers'
Comp Executive
Court
Says Invaders Get Benefits
The Second District Court of Appeals
ruled late yesterday that illegal aliens who obtain employment
dishonestly are still entitled to workers' comp benefits. The
ruling (Farmer Brothers' Coffee v. WCAB, Rafael Ruiz) leaves
employers, even those who do not knowingly hire illegal aliens,
on the hook... |

Yeh Ling-Ling |
Daily Illini
Immigrate
destiny?
...Mexico has been pushing for benefits
and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Those amnestied aliens,
once naturalized, could vote in U.S. elections. Children born
here of illegal aliens and guest workers are also U.S. citizens
and future voters. |
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Associated
Press
Lawyers
file suit, demand visas for certain squatters
Lawyers for [illegal
aliens... criminals] who've been victims of violent crimes
filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the DHS for failing to
issue protective visas Congress created five years ago. -- The
2000 law approved visas for victims of violent crimes who cooperate
with law enforcement investigations or prosecution of crimes. |

Tom Tancredo |
American
Chronicle
Latest
Bush hoodwink out of touch with mainstream America
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) criticized
President Bush's guest worker plan as poor public policy and
contrary to American public opinion. Secretary of Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff and Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao presented
in greater detail the President's guest worker plan to the Senate
Judiciary Committee today... |

Beelzebub |
James Varney
-- Times-Picayune -- New Orleans
Nuevo
Orleans?
...The huge influx of Hispanic laborers
has some officials, Mayor Ray Nagin among them, worried about
New Orleans' changing demographics and wondering why more of
their jobs haven't gone to locals. -- Ironically, the London
Lodge job has gone local. It's being handled by Oscar Rojas,
whose Modeco contracting company in LaPlace has quintupled in
size since the storm... |
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The White
House
Bush
boasts about how great his administration is in border security
..."Stopping people from crossing
our borders illegally is only part of the strategy. The other
part of our strategy is enforcing our immigration laws. Since
2001, we've increased funding for immigration enforcement by
35 percent. We've added nearly 1,000 new agents and criminal
investigators to help us find and return illegal immigrants..."
[Meanwhile the invasion has reached epic proportions.] |
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WTVD --
Raleigh
Illegals
arrested at defense contractor's facility
Federal immigration agents swept into
a Durham semi- conductor company Tuesday, arresting 35 alleged
[illegal aliens... criminals]
working there. -- The sweep began around 5 a.m. and lasted for
nearly 31/2 hours. Eyewitness News was there as agents from ICE
rounded up alleged [illegals] from Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia,
Gambia, Congo, Kenya, Mexico Guatemala and El Salvador. |
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Huntsville
Times
Usual
suspects bewail local enforcement plan
A proposal to get Huntsville police officers
federally trained to investigate illegal immigrants in the city
has been greeted with a less- than- enthusiastic response by
local Hispanic advocates. -- Huntsville Police Chief Rex Reynolds
said he made the request to the federal ICE on Sept. 20, less
than a month after the fatal shooting of officer Daniel Golden
by [illegal alien... criminal]
Benito Albarran.  |
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Norwich
Bulletin
Teen
invader charged with attempted murder
Norwich, Conn.-- A city teen charged
with attempted murder was ordered held on $500,000 bond Monday,
two days after police said she tried to kill her ex-boyfriend.
-- Odalia Martinez shuffled before Judge Hilary Strackbein to
her mother Norma's side Monday in Norwich Superior Court, her
ankles and wrists shackled. |
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Nashville
City Paper
Lawmaker:
Driving tests should be English only
...In February, state Sen. Bill Ketron
introduced legislation that would require written drivers' license
tests be given in English. The proposed law remains up for consideration
in January when the legislature reconvenes. -- Ketron's reasoning
centers on safety. With all of the state's road signs printed
in English... |
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Jon Dougherty
-- WorldNetDaily.com
Feds
crack down on immigrant child offenders
A federal effort aimed at cracking down
on immigrant child sex criminals has resulted in the arrest of
more than 6,000 people, officials say. -- Known as "Operation
Predator," the law enforcement effort is part of a DHS initiative
carried out by the agency's Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement... [More
'Family Values'] |
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El Paso
Times
Minuteman
sent home for aiding immigrant
In a strange turn of events, a Minuteman
has been dismissed from the volunteer border patrol group for
giving a ride, food and water to two [illegal
aliens... criminals], officials said. -- The incident, which
occurred two weeks ago near Hachita, N.M., led the Border Patrol
to investigate whether the patroller from the Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps... |

'The Boot' |
Associated
Press
Accused
Mexican invader's deportation hearing today
A hearing is scheduled today on the government's
attempt to deport a Mexican immigrant over a 1999 assault conviction.
-- That's even though immigration officials decided at the time
not to try to deport Omar Lezama de la Rosa -- and even though
he and his American- born wife have started a family since then
[which is irrelevant]. |

Public
Enemy #1 |
The Stein
Report
Conservative
Scholar Hits Bush on Immigration, Gets Fired
"In the latest sign of the deepening
split among conservatives over how far to go in challenging President
Bush, Bruce Bartlett, a Republican commentator who has been
increasingly critical of the White House, was dismissed on Monday
as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis,
a conservative research group based in Dallas," the New
York Times reports. |
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Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
More
on Monday's rally at the Georgia State Capitol
Opponents of illegal immigration rallied
at the state Capitol on Monday, stepping up their push for legislation
denying state benefits to illegal immigrants and urging Gov.
Sonny Perdue to get involved. -- "If legal Georgia residents
are not first in line for taxpayer services, then who is?"
state Sen. Chip Rogers... |

Chertoff |
Fox News
Chertoff:
End 'Catch and Release' at Borders
Washington -- Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff promised Tuesday to end the "catch and
release" policy that has allowed tens of thousands of non-
Mexican illegal aliens to disappear within the United States.
-- "Return every single illegal entrant - no exceptions,"
Chertoff said in prepared testimony to a Senate Judiciary Committee... |
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Cox News
Service
GOP
voters like entrants' work visas, a path to citizenship
A majority of Republican voters favor
an immigration plan that would allow illegal immigrants to apply
for temporary work visas and have a path to permanent residency,
a poll released Monday found. -- The poll suggests that the party's
rank-and-file are not divided on immigration the way their leaders
in Congress are... |

¡México! |
El Paso
Times
Mexico
says crime starts on both sides of border
The Mexican foreign ministry reacted
to the border
security plan from Gov. Rick Perry, saying it "will
be alert to make sure that the rights of Mexicans are respected,"
a statement read. -- Perry announced last week that he would
give border law enforcement agencies $9.7 million to beef up
security. |
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Associated
Press
Agents
seize 328 pounds of cocaine from bus
Hidalgo, Texas -- Federal agents in South
Texas have seized $4.5 million worth of cocaine that was hidden
on a passenger bus. -- Authorities today announced the seizure
of 328 pounds of cocaine during the search of the vehicle at
the Hidalgo International Bridge. |

Dean |
Associated
Press
Dean
trolls enemy territory with vehement reconquistas
Mexico City -- Howard Dean traveled south
of the border to meet with Mexico's presidential contenders Monday,
and lashed out at the Bush administration's policies on Mexico.
-- Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, claimed
President Bush "turned his back on Mexico" after it
refused to support the Iraq war. |
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