Sunday, December 4, 2005

What's Worse, Mexico or Iraq? Officials Tape Terrorist -Style Execution Mexican hit-man is executed on camera. Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 2 Casey Wian: ...The men appeared terrified, often looking off camera at their captors. At the end of the DVD video pistol appears and one hit man is shot in the head....law enforcement officials in the United States and Mexico have been aware of the video for months, but only after it became public this week did Mexican authorities arrest eleven federal agents on charges of murder and kidnapping. Jose Luis Vasconcelos: We are able to determine the participation of certain federal agents. (Video below includes segment featuring issue-dodging David Gergen.) Watch Transcript Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Houston Chronicle Sordid tales of invader flop-house operation ..."Don Carlos" is really Carlos Lopez, a local landlord who has five old houses in the neighborhood along Washington a few blocks east of Shepherd that cater to day laborers. -- Lopez will house almost anyone who can pay $50 per person per week, provided they don't mind bunking on a bare and soiled mattress in a room with two or three other workers...

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent Aspen coke bust the tip of the iceberg Cocaine busts at two watering holes Friday may be only the tip of the iceberg, authorities say. -- "What we saw on Friday is just one sliver of this investigation," said Drug Enforcement Agency spokeswoman Karen Flower. "There will absolutely be more search warrants, arrests and seizures stemming from this investigation."

It's Not Amnesty!

Bill Thompson -- Ocala Star-Banner "Guest worker" scheme the stuff of fairy tales In case you missed it, someone finally woke up President Bush on the issue of illegal immigration. -- Last week, the president spent two days trumpeting his prescription to cure the federal government's long-standing failure to police our borders. Bush proposed hardening our southern border with more guards, more gadgets and more low-tech solutions like fences.

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Roger Hernandez -- NorthJersey.com Just call it what it is: Amnesty If George W. Bush intended to bring all sides of the immigration issue a little closer together with his speech Monday, he succeeded. Sort of. -- The president got just about everybody to agree he's blowing hot air. The we- have- too- many- immigrants crowd called it a song out of "Mary Poppins." "A spoonful of enforcement helps the amnesty medicine go down..."

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East Valley Tribune -- Mesa Minutemen picket day-laborer pest lounge Minutemen activists have expanded their campaign against illegal immigration from the barren desert near Mexico to the streets of Phoenix. -- On Saturday morning, members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps' Phoenix Chapter gathered for the third weekend in a row near the Home Depot at 36th Street and Thomas Road...

Goldwater for Governor

Don Goldwater -- PHXNews.com Wickenburg Republicans hear Goldwater's gubernatorial plans Republican gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater delivered a very clear message to Wickenburg Republican Club members Monday evening that there will some major changes at the state capitol when he takes the Governor's chair away from Janet Napolitano. -- Goldwater promised to bring a halt to the current invasion of illegals by putting National Guard...

Athens Banner-Herald Debate over border-jumping squatters taking off It's more than a month before the first words of debate about [illegal aliens... criminals] will be heard in the Georgia General Assembly. -- But already, the topic has generated a flurry of activity around the state. -- A U. of Georgia junior from Honduras is passing around petitions. An anti- illegal alien activist in Marietta is researching federal immigration laws...

Hogwash

Toledo Blade -- Pro-Invasion / Orwellian Swill Alert! Immigration limits invite violations, local experts say ...On Monday, President Bush announced an immigration-reform proposal that would tighten border security and establish a temporary guest worker program. It also would reject complete amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country [highlighted text is a bald-faced lie by Bush... see this item]. [Also see: Propaganda Watch]

Northwest Indiana Times Police battle illegal drug trade along route It's an illicit narcotics pipeline with tributaries that begin in a violence- ravaged Mexican border town and end in our back yard: Merrillville. -- In the small border town of Nuevo Laredo, feuding drug cartels prepare drugs for shipment into the United States while exchanging gunfire and leaving bloody paths in their wake...

Seamus McGowan -- Clarion-Ledger -- Jackson, Mississippi Invasion harming America ...I spent my entire life in California, and I lived in ground zero of illegal immigration. -- While there, I saw what uncontrolled illegal immigration has done to that state. -- When I was growing up, California's public school system was No. 1 in the nation; now it's last. -- The state spends over $10 billion a year...

San Francisco Chronicle Russian immigrant jumps bail in kidnapping case A Russian immigrant and software engineer who Santa Clara County prosecutors say led an effort to threaten and extort cash from a concert promoter has fled the country rather than face charges, authorities said Friday. -- Leonid Kogan of Burlingame failed to appear in court on Friday...

East Valley Tribune -- Mesa Dems back citizenship for invading hordes The Democratic National Committee insisted Saturday that efforts to secure the nation's borders shouldn't shut out an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants and their families already living in the U.S. -- The DNC wrapped up its fall meetings in Phoenix by unanimously passing three resolutions related to illegal immigration...

Arizona Republic Labs in crime-bloated cesspool set to pour meth into Ariz. Culiacan, Sin., Mex. -- The meth lab by the seminary was exceptional, even by narco-trafficker standards. -- Equipped with cylinders of acetone, ethanol and oxygen tanks, principal ingredients of meth production, the superlab was capable of producing at least 12 pounds of crystal methamphetamine - nearly 18,000 quarter-gram doses - a day...

Post-Star -- Glen Falls, New York Police still seeking Mexican invader in fatal crash Reyer Aruero, if that's his real name, knew he was in trouble. -- So within hours after police said he cause an Aug. 25 car-motorcycle crash that killed a Kingsbury man, the illegal Mexican immigrant was long gone. -- That has left Washington County authorities scrambling trying to find ways to locate him...

D. A. King

Athens Banner-Herald 'Experts' knew little about immigration ...Because the president of the United States refuses to secure American borders - or to make any serious effort to enforce U.S. immigration or employment laws - we also suffer more illegal immigration than any other nation. -- A recent report in the Athens Banner-Herald on illegal immigration and an ill-advised piece of legislation...[Also see: Smart Fence Or Dumb DHS?]

Portland Oregonian Rallies square off over Mickey Mouse Mexican ID cards Woodburn, Ore. -- Spirited but peaceful rallies dueled Saturday over the Mexican Consulate issuing controversial identification cards to its citizens. -- The consulate's Portland branch held its final traveling weekend session of the year at the offices of Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United, processing applications... [See video on KATU-TV website] [Photos]

Gilchrist for Congress

Reuters Invasion the big issue in Calif. special election A California congressional election featuring the dark-horse candidacy of border-control activist Jim Gilchrist has thrust the issue of illegal immigration to the political forefront. -- Gilchrist became a lightning rod in the immigration debate by founding the local Minutemen volunteer border patrol and is a long-shot candidate in Tuesday's special election...

DHS

AeroNews.net UAV smoke-and-mirrors, courtesy of the Feds When President Bush announced his broader immigration initiative plan last week, deployment of additional unmanned aerial vehicles along the US-Mexico border was a major part of it. Increased coverage at lower cost in manpower and equipment to the agency were cited as reasons... however, another government agency may keep those UAVs grounded for the future...

Invasion

Professor Jan Ting -- Philadelphia Inquirer Border fence too essential to ignore Tonight, more than four years after 9/11, thousands of foreigners will covertly enter the United States. This will happen again tomorrow night, and the night after, and every night of the year, until we take the simple step of erecting an effective border fence. [Bush and his neocon cronies don't want a fence.]

Beaumont Enterprise Vicious foreign gang's number growing Port Arthur, Texas -- MS-13, a predominantly Hispanic gang, is gaining nationwide notoriety for its crimes and violence. -- And in Port Arthur -- where almost one-fifth of the population is Hispanic -- police have taken notice. -- "Hispanic gangs, overwhelmingly, are a growing problem..."

¡México!

Heather MacDonald -- Dallas Morning News Diplomats unleashed Diplomacy may be the art of lying for one's country, but Mexican diplomacy requires taking that art to virtuosic heights. -- Mexican officials here and abroad are involved in a massive and almost daily interference in American sovereignty. The millions of illegal Mexican immigrants in this country are here thanks in part to Mexico's efforts...

Aspen Daily News Usual suspects arrested in Aspen drug raid Local and federal law enforcement officers swarmed two Aspen eateries Friday afternoon in a vast crackdown on alleged drug sales, illegal immigrants and money laundering. -- Nine arrest and four search warrants were executed as police officers rounded up a list of suspects at Cooper Street Pier and Little Annie's Eating House...