Monday, December 19, 2005

Border Bill a Trojan Horse? FAIR Warns Americans Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 16 Lisa Sylvester: Some Republicans and border enforcement groups ironically oppose the bill because they worry it will be used as a Trojan Horse. Dan Stein: The bill they're starting with, in our view, remains probably too weak to try to risk conferencing with what the Senate is going to pass. And at the end of the day, unless people are very vigilant and demand no amnesty or guest worker, they've got to be vigilant to make sure we don't make the situation worse. Watch Transcript  Note: During Monday's press conference, Bush again pushed for the temporary worker program. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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Mac Johnson -- Human Events A Nation of Widgets: The Wall Street Journal and Open Borders It's seldom a good idea to elevate a single editorial to the status of representing an entire side's thinking in a major debate, such as the current debate over illegal immigration. This is especially true when the editorial is really quite bad. -- But, just occasionally, a piece appears that is so poorly argued, so broad...

Center for Immigration Studies The Bottom of the Pay Scale The temporary visa program known as H-1B enables U.S. employers to hire professional- level foreign workers for a period of up to six years. According to the law (8 U.S.C. § 1182(n)), employers must pay H-1B workers either the same rate as other employees with similar skills and qualifications or the "prevailing wage" for that occupation and location, whichever is higher...

Press Release Usual suspects miffed over anti-invader bill The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) vehemently opposes the anti- immigrant Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437), which has been introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).

KGTV -- San Diego Man Driving Fake SDG&E Truck Arrested San Diego -- A vehicle bearing SDG&E stickers and loaded with 551 pounds of marijuana crashed during a pursuit in East County Monday, and the driver was taken into custody, authorities said. -- The chase began when the suspect refused to pull over for Border Patrol agents on Jewell Valley Road in Boulevard about 8 a.m., Agent Dora Doyle of the Border Patrol said.

VDare.com Mexican Terrorist Camps Noted There were many memorable statements made during the House immigration enforcement debate Dec. 15-16, but the speech of Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) spotlighted a topic that many in Washington prefer to ignore. -- Rep. Culberson has been a strong voice warning that the open Mexican border is a welcome mat for al Qaeda terrorists.

San Bernardino County Sun Drug trade intertwined with illegal immigration It's dangerous enough to enter the United States illegally through the Arizona desert. Temperatures can top 100 degrees Migrants often don't carry enough water to remain hydrated for the days-long hike. And unscrupulous smugglers have been known to abandon their charges if they've already paid the crossing fee.

Yuma Sun Most agree cash payment attracts the undocumented A daily cash advance pay system offered by some Yuma-area growers and labor contractors could attract undocumented or falsely documented workers, opponents say. -- The system, known as "la tira," gives those undocumented workers the security of cash in hand at the end of the day, when the possibility of deportation...

Rocky Mountain News 'White flight' in Boulder Boulder, Cola. -- The neighborhood around Columbine Elementary School is 87 percent Anglo. But enrollment numbers indicate that many neighborhood kids are going elsewhere. This year, the school in northeast Boulder is 82 percent Hispanic. -- "Most of the parents who are involved in this would not say they were (engaged in) 'white flight'..."

WCCO -- Minneapolis Immigration Report Provokes Strong Reaction Many immigrants are upset about a state report on the cost of illegal immigration in Minnesota, and they met to share their reaction Sunday. -- The report calculated the cost at roughly $175 million, and that had some immigrants and community leaders speaking out at a gathering held inside a Minneapolis school.

Steve Sailer

VDare.com "Human Directionals" - The Cheap Wage/Expensive Land Economy Personified America's proud history as a middle class country rests fundamentally on two advantages of settling a mostly empty continent: a small supply of labor and a large supply of land. -- This meant relatively high wages and low land prices...

Marty Lich

Marty Lich -- WEBCommentary.com It is all in the words - Read the Fine Print ...I listened to George Bush's Address to the Nation on November 28, 2005. -- Mere words cannot express how I feel. -- But let me try. -- I think he is singing the same song with a different tune. Only the border lyrics are sounding better. -- Something is missing in here. For whatever reason, Mexican illegal aliens are exempted...

Washington Times Suspect avoided losing citizenship The naturalized citizen charged as the head of a ring that has smuggled 200 mainly Iraqi illegals into the United States since 2001 could have been stripped of her citizenship and deported after an earlier conviction on similar charges more than 10 years ago. -- Iraqi- born Neeran Hakim Zaia was indicted in October 2004 along with her husband...

American Border Patrol ABP night mission video clip Watch this brief clip from last night's mission. Border Hawk M spots three cows in San Pedro River. If this had been a group of, say, ten people, they would have been spotted, despite foliage.

Coming Up January 7 CT Citizens for Immigration Control is organizing a National Day of Protest -- Stop the Invasion

Yuma Sun Border Patrol to sponsor classes for citizens It's not the same as putting on a badge and gun and guarding the border, but a new citizens' academy will provide 20 area residents a look at illegal immigration and drug smuggling from the perspective of the U.S. Border Patrol. -- The Border Patrol's Yuma sector is the latest area law enforcement agency to sponsor a citizen academy...

American Border Patrol ABP night mission successful American Border Patrol reports that last night's test of nighttime streaming video was a complete success. With Glenn Spencer at the controls of the Border Hawk M, ABP's Mike King sent infrared video back to the border home office where Mike Christie sent it out streaming over the Internet.

Kelly Arthur Garrett -- El Universal - Mexico City Hatred and retaliation won't fix the migration problem What a sad commentary on the state of the migration policy debated when a simple call for bilateral cooperation loosens an avalanche of anti- Mexico vitriol from misguided Americans who confuse sword rattling with patriotism. -- Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about how disappointed most Mexicans... [Reader response to Garrett's tommyrot]

San Bernardino County Sun Immigration laws largely unenforced in nation's interior Border Patrol agents have an unofficial adage about the undocumented immigrants they see crossing illegally into the United States. -- For each one they catch, they say, three more make it through unscathed. -- The agents aren't to blame, said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council.

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Border Patrol fears run-ins with Mexican military In the Sonoran desert along the Texas border, Border Patrol agents say they're often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units in the employ of violent drug smugglers. -- These run-ins have become so regular that the DHS eventually issued written directives a "what to do" list, of sorts" that agents carry with them while patrolling the area.

Waah! Waah!

American City Business Journals Businesses oppose verification plan for workers Employers may have to get Uncle Sam's permission to hire future workers. -- That's the effect of a new requirement in the House's immigration reform bill. Two years after enactment, employers would have to submit the Social Security numbers or alien identification numbers of new hires to the federal government, which would compare...

Financial Times -- London LA's hidden economy threatens region The Los Angeles area is home to a vast, fast-growing underground economy, employing almost 680,000, that threatens the region with a "downward spiral", according to a study just published. -- The Milken Institute, hired by the city to find practical ways to bolster the economy, said people employed in cash-only occupations... [Related item]

Augusta Chronicle Send illegals to prison, lawmaker says Charleston, S.C. -- Illegal immigrants would spend five years in prison and lose their cash and cars under legislation a Charleston lawmaker is pushing. -- "My message is South Carolina is not going to be a haven for illegal aliens. Go visit and live in some other state," said Rep. John Graham Altman, a Charleston Republican.

Invaders

Aspen Times Surge from the south America, we often remind ourselves, is a nation of immigrants. And Colorado, as much as any other state, was settled mostly by newcomers to the U.S., as well as those from other parts of the country. -- But when it comes to reconciling that fact with the current wave of immigration - mostly from Mexico...

John W. Lillpop -- MichNews.com Being Mexico's Good Neighbor: Bad for America? Common sense appears to have gone missing in Washington, D.C recently, particularly in efforts to combat the tandem evils of terrorism & illegal immigration. -- But, Joy to the World! Common sense may be staging a dramatic comeback, as signaled by legislation passed last week by the US House. Lawmakers, it seems, are FINALLY...

Gang News

Los Angeles Times L.A. County Targets Racial Gang War Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies working to end a deadly racial gang war in an unincorporated neighborhood just north of Watts have made 230 felony arrests and seized 130 weapons since April, Sheriff Lee Baca announced Friday. -- The law enforcement push was made possible by a 57-member task force assembled...

El Presidente

Reuters Fox to Americans: Don't forget your "immigrant roots" Angered by a bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at cracking down on [illegal aliens... criminals], Mexican President Vicente Fox urged Americans on Sunday not to forget that many of their ancestors emigrated to the U.S. -- "It's a very bad sign, which does not speak well of a country that is proud of being democratic, proud of being a country of immigrants," Fox said...