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Saturday, October 29, 2005 |

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Brownsville
Herald
First
U.S. dengue cases found here
State health officials have confirmed
two cases of dengue fever in the Brownsville area, the first
contracted in the United States. --- Health officials are focusing
on suspected and confirmed cases in the Brownsville area, explained
Brownsville Public Health Director Josue Ramirez... |

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KESQ-TV
-- Palm Springs
Coyotes
driving the wrong way on freeways to avoid cops
A major safety crisis tonight involving
illegal immigrants. There's not only been a rise in cases, but
many of them are drug traffickers and they're driving the wrong
way into the country. -- Interstate 8, about 40 miles east of
San Diego is the place. Border Patrol agents say smugglers are
trying new tactics to avoid the checkpoint on Interstate 8. |

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KGBT-TV
-- Harlingen
Open-borders
crowd tosses tantrum, baby-waving involved
Falfurrias, Texas -- Passionate politics
have invaded the small town of Falfurrias. But the battle march
through these streets is now being led by those who oppose the
minutemen's presence in South Texas. -- But what may be just
noise to some is a family affair for Rolando and Belia Zepeda,
who brought their children here all the way from Edinburg. |
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News-Review
-- Roseburg, Oregon
Led
by Hispanics, births to U. S. unmarried mothers soar
Nearly 1.5 million babies, a record,
were born to unmarried women in the U.S. last year, the government
reported Friday. And it isn't just teenagers any more. -- "People
have the impression that teens and unmarried mothers are synonymous,"
said Stephanie Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics.
[See: Anchor
Babies] |
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KWQC-TV
-- Davenport
Mexican
imprisoned for transporting invaders
Cedar Rapids, Iowa -- A Mexican citizen
has been sentenced to 20 months in a federal prison for transporting
illegal immigrants into the U.S. -- Severiano Alejo- Villanueva
was last Wednesday in U.S. District Court. -- He pleaded guilty
to the charge, admitting that on April 27th he was transporting
nine [illegal aliens...
criminals] from Mexico. |
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Curt Dale
-- Colorado Community Newspapers
When
Tancredo's convinced, I'll believe promises about borders
It's about time! I'm usually one of Bush's
strongest supporters, but regularly criticize our failure to
control illegals pouring across our southern border. I'm disappointed
at the cavalier treatment given the Minutemen who showed how
border control is possible and provided chilling insights into
the magnitude of the problem. |
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Daily Record
-- Dunn, North Carolina
Usual
suspects busted in child prostitution operation
A Harnett County landlord said he was
shocked to hear that one of his rented mobile homes was used
as a brothel by three suspects arrested on sex trafficking charges.
--- The federal jury indicted Valente Chavez Sanchez, Melania
Corcino, and Jose Altagracia DeLeon Corcino, all of Raleigh on
charges of sex trafficking of minor children... |
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Associated
Press
Drug
/ sex criminal getting the boot back to Mexico
An award-winning charity worker was taken
into federal custody and will deported to Mexico for 1997 drug-
and sex- crime convictions. -- Luis Armendariz, 58, of Huntington
Beach, Calif., surrendered Friday to immigration authorities.
-- Armendariz dedicated the past seven years full- time to driving
"Jesus trucks'' to motels... |
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Tucson Citizen
Ex-agents
admit ties to invaders
A former border agent and Homeland Security
officer have pleaded guilty in separate cases to harboring [illegal aliens... criminals].
-- Christopher E. Bemis, formerly of Sierra Vista, and Ramon
M. Sanchez Jr., of Tucson each face up to five years in prison
when they are sentenced in January... |

Hasta la Vista! |
Yuma Sun
Border
Patrol apprehends 27 Friday
Yuma sector Border Patrol agents apprehended
27 illegal aliens Friday morning after three vehicles crossed
the border near the Cocopah Reservation. -- At 8 a.m., agents
responded to the area. When they began following, two of the
vehicles stopped and the occupants fled on foot, said Michael
Gramley, spokesman for Border Patrol's Yuma sector. |
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The Business
Journal of Milwaukee
Invader
employer gets slap on wrist
A Green Bay restaurant owner has been
sentenced for hiring [illegal
aliens... criminals] to work in his three restaurants and
for providing them with false identity documents, according to
U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic in Milwaukee. -- Steven Metzler
was sentenced to five years' probation and six months of house
confinement. |
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Washington
Post
Ad
Attacks Kaine on Immigrant Issues
Richmond, Va. -- Republican gubernatorial
candidate Jerry W. Kilgore
unveiled a television ad Friday evening that focuses on immigration
and blasts Democrat [and fluent Spanish- speaker] Timothy
M. Kaine for supporting taxpayer-financed day-laborer centers
and in-state tuition discounts for undocumented immigrants. |
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Longmont
Daily Times-Call
Invader
facing the boot (shameless baby-waving involved)
..."It's true that people with illegal
presence are encouraged not to leave the United States while
they're lawfully awaiting adjustment of status," Sharon
Rummery, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
said in an e-mail to the Times-Call. "If they do, they're
apt to run into problems." |
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