Saturday, December 31, 2005

Slave Trade Booming Drug Smugglers Move to Human Cargo Shadegg goes after false documents and coyotes. Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - December 29 Lisa Sylvester: Drug smugglers have found another lucrative business, human smuggling...topping ten billion dollars a year... Representative John Shadegg has offered proposals to deal with these cartels. Rep. Shadegg: In order to deter this kind of criminal conduct, where these syndicates set up in Mexico, bring people to the border, then bring them across the border, transport them and get them jobs, we need penalties that count.    Watch  Transcript Note: $10 billion for human smuggling is 1/2 of remittances going to Mexico. Most of the money going south is for criminal operations. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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Harold Meyerson -- The American Prospect War on "immigrants" The conventional wisdom is still unpersuaded that the Republican Party is about to mount a full- force attack on American's undocumented immigrants -- of whom, by some counts, there are 11 million. After all, the Republicans are the party of employers -- large (agribusiness), medium (construction companies), and small (restaurateurs)...

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Biloxi Sun-Herald Lauderdale deputies seize 1,100 ecstasy tablets Meridian, Miss. (AP) -- An illegal immigrant from Vietnam is being held without bond in the Lauderdale County Jail after he was found in possession of 1,100 tablets of ecstasy during a routine traffic stop, officials said. -- Ecstasy, also referred to as MDMA, is the street name for methylenedioxymethamphetamine...

Daily Herald -- Arlington Heights, Illinois Local immigration activist gets national stage Debate surrounding illegal immigration in Illinois that sparked protest in Arlington Heights, packed an American Legion hall in Elgin and emerged as a political hardball in the governor's race hits prime time this week. -- Activist Dan Kairis of South Elgin will appear Monday on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" program...

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Washington Post Maryland man accused of document fraud A cook at a naval facility in West Bethesda was arrested this month for allegedly selling a fake Social Security card and an immigration document to a police officer posing as an undocumented Panamanian. -- Montgomery County police charged Wenceslao Ramos- Andrade, of Hyattsville, with sale of a false identification card...

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VDare.com Illegal Alien Employer Capitulates - Most Important Victory Since Proposition 187 I said yesterday to watch this space and the Yakima Herald-Republic for news of the Zirkle Fruit illegal immigration class action. And today Leah Beth Ward has proved me right...

Victor Davis Hanson

Wall Street Journal Mi Casa Is Su Casa "Shameful," screams Mexico's President Vicente Fox, about the proposed extension of a security fence along the southern border of the U.S. "Stupid! Underhanded! Xenophobic!" bellowed his Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez, warning: "Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall."

Associated Press Law will bar invaders from receiving Virginia benefits Richmond, Va. -- A new Virginia law bars [illegal aliens... criminals] from receiving state-funded benefits, the latest legislative effort to harness the state's growing illegal immigrant population. -- The law, effective Jan. 1, restricts anyone unable to furnish a Social Security number from tapping Medicaid...

San Diego Union-Tribune News Briefs Man shot, wounded by Border Patrol San Ysidro, Calif. -- One or more Border Patrol agents shot and wounded a man near the border crossing and U.S. Customs building last night, authorities said. -- The wounded man ran across the border into Mexico and was being treated at a Red Cross medical clinic, San Diego police said.

American Daily War on Terror Begins at US-Mexico Border! It's time to recognize that America's war on terror is being fought in places other than Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, our most critical theater of war is being fought at the US-Mexico border. -- Our enemies are unlawful migrants who willfully violate our borders and thumb their noses at U.S. immigration laws.

American Border Patrol Photo of the Day While testing out the Border Hawk M on December 30, 2005, American Border Patrol came across a U.S. Army Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle near the border in Southeastern Arizona. While maintaining visual separation according to Federal Aviation Regulations...

No Illegals!

Bloomberg Calif. students, caught between two laws, seek tuition cut Suzanne Kattija-ari got her undergraduate degree at the University of California Davis for annual tuition of about $16,000. Now she wants a refund. -- To get it, Kattija-ari, from Kaneohe, Hawaii, joined 41 other students in suing California's state colleges and universities.

Washington Post Editorial Manassas's war on illegal aliens Writing for the Supreme Court, Justice Powell sensibly struck down a singularly ludicrous municipal attempt to define family living arrangements so strictly that it would criminalize a grandmother's choice to live with her grandson. Now comes the city of Manassas with an equally outrageous zoning ordinance.

The Oklahoman Group to focus on illegal workers A Moore man who spent two months this year guarding the U.S. border in Arizona and Texas hopes to organize Oklahoma regional chapters of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. -- The local groups will focus on Oklahoma projects such as photographing and videotaping locations where employers hire day laborers...