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Saturday, November 12, 2005 |
The Great Intelligence
Cover-Up
Who Was Really Behind So-Called "Errors"?

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Washington
Post
Fractured
GOP Moves on Divergent Paths
In the face of declining approval ratings,
the White House and Republican congressional leaders are scrambling
to revise their political agenda, moving out on separate tracks
that may only exacerbate the divisions surfacing in the party.
-- With President
Bush stumbling politically, the administration is attempting
to reshape its agenda... |
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Washington
Post
Open-borders
rag defends invaders... again
Unwittingly, the leader of a local group
whose self-appointed mission is to photograph, spy on and bother
undocumented day laborers
[illegal
aliens... criminals] in the town of Herndon, put his finger
on the dilemma of illegal immigration the other day. "What
we want, bottom line in Herndon, is for the illegal aliens to
leave," said George Taplin... |
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Winston-Salem
Journal
Hispanic
students a pressure on schools?
Two Forsyth County commissioners raised
questions yesterday about the number of Hispanic children coming
into the school system, after educators said they would need
$405 million for new schools and renovations over the next 10
years. -- Commissioner Beaufort Bailey first raised the issue
by asking for an ethnic breakdown of the student population... |
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Jim Kouri
-- Voices Magazine
Border
Security: Feds to Increase Safeguards Against Visa Fraud
Issuing a United States visa to a foreign
citizen in exchange for money or something of value is a crime
that can facilitate entry into the United States of unqualified
persons, including those who may wish to do our country harm.
-- According to Immigration officials, internal controls make
it difficult for an employee to commit visa-related crimes without
being detected... |
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Courier
News -- Chicago
Elgin
police defend calling up riot squad
Elgin, Ill. -- For the most part, city
police officials said, those gathered outside the American Legion
hall Thursday night were a peaceful group. -- Between 75 and
100 people gathered outside the hall to protest - some in a candlelight
vigil, some more vocally - a gathering of the Illinois Minuteman
Project. |

Alvaro Lima |
Boston Globe
Invaders
would lift economy, agency says
Providing in-state college tuition to
undocumented immigrants would be an economic boon to Massachusetts,
because college graduates pay far more in income taxes than high
school graduates, the Boston Redevelopment Authority says in
a new study examining the impact of a controversial bill pending
on Beacon Hill. |

Rep. Shadegg |
East Valley
Tribune -- Mesa
Shadegg
discusses border issues
An Arizona congressman charged with uniting
the views of his fellow Republicans on immigration said a comprehensive
reform package will likely be introduced early next year. --
Rep. John Shadegg spoke Friday to members of the Arizona Farm
Bureau, a nonprofit organization that represents more than 4,000
farmers... |
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Charlotte
Observer
Time
to end the anchor baby syndrome
Among the many broken parts of U.S. immigration
enforcement, one stands out as relatively easy to fix. It is
the problem of expectant mothers who come into the country for
the purpose of giving birth so their children, once born here,
automatically have American citizenship. When foreign family
members have an "anchor child" as a U.S. citizen... |
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Richmond
Times-Dispatch
Minutemen
target employers in Herndon
The Minutemen, a national organization
that seeks to limit illegal immigration into the United States,
has set up shop in Herndon and is adding fuel to the debate on
how to handle the day laborers who seek work at informal sites
throughout Northern Virginia. -- Between 40 and 50 laborers wait
daily outside the 7-Eleven on Elden Street... |

Poll Info |
Newsweek
Bush
approval rating circling the bowl
...Now is the autumn of Bush's
discontent, according to the Newsweek poll, taken by phone
of 1,002 Americans over Thursday and Friday nights. The president
can take some solace in the fact that 42 percent of Americans
believe he is honest and ethical. Only 29 percent believe that
Vice President Dick Cheney is... |
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Magic City
Morning Star
Assimilation
Breakdown
..."Family
values don't stop at the Rio Grande," George W. Bush
has often said. Of course, he's right. Compassion, friendship
and basic human decency don't stop at the Rio Grande either.
But none of these qualities are unique to being an American.
People love their families all over the world without necessarily
wanting to become Americans. |
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Associated
Press
Police
arrest four suspected Mexican coyotes
Four men were arrested for investigation
of alien smuggling after a person told police one of them had
demanded a ransom for transporting several of his relatives to
the US. -- Police received a call Wednesday from the man who
said a smuggler threatened to harm one of his three Mexican relatives
if he failed to pay $5,400. |
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