Thursday, January 5, 2006

Defending Lawlessness Radicals Seek Anarchy Coyotl Tezcalipoca of the Tonantzin Collective Lou Dobbs Tonight - CNN - Jan. 4 Casey Wian: Police broke up a hostile protest by supporters of illegal alien rights Tuesday night in Costa Mesa California. Protesters are angry that the city council last month approved a measure allowing the local police department to train officers to help enforce federal immigration laws. Coyotl Tezcalipoca: We are not going to let this pass. Wian:This protester tried to take over the meeting and was forcibly removed and arrested by police. He is charged with disrupting an assembly and obstructing an arresting officer.    Watch  Transcript Note:We have seen this for years. We can expect much more violence in the future. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

What Homeland Security?

San Diego Union-Tribune Chertoff visits San Ysidro Port of Entry San Ysidro, Calif. -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced a crackdown Thursday on human smuggling at San Diego's two border crossings. -- The initiative will consist of more inspection officers at the ports of entry at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa and more technology, cameras and police dogs...

¡México!

El Universal -- Mexico City Mexican politicians will lobby U.S. Senate Mexican lawmakers will ask their U.S. counterparts to move up a scheduled meeting on immigration to February from March, Mexico´s speaker of the lower house of Congress said. -- Congressman Heliodoro Díaz said Mexican senators and representatives will form a joint committee to lobby the U.S. Senate to reject a bill... [See: Meddling Mexicans]

Chicago Tribune Update on fiasco over shooting of alleged Mexican coyote ...On Thursday, Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said he and Mexico's interior secretary had received calls from Condoleezza Rice and Michael Chertoff, who promised to conduct investigations of the shooting. -- The incident could fuel arguments in favor of toughening U.S. border policy after Border Patrol officials alleged that Martinez was not an innocent immigrant...

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'The Boot'

KARE-TV -- Minneapolis - St. Paul School squatter leaves, determined to return legally With his attorney, he walked to the American Airlines ticket county <sic>, plopped his bags down, and smiled at reporters. -- Francisco Serrano was leaving the U.S. voluntarily, hoping immigration authorities would look kindly on him. -- Last January, the Mexican national had been found living in Apple Valley High School...

Boston Globe Court records outline scheme to issue fake licenses A criminal enterprise that issued more than 1,000 fraudulent licenses through a Bridgeport Department of Motor Vehicles Office also involved a stripper and motorcycle gang members, according to court records released this week. -- Investigators say they believe some went to [illegal aliens... criminals] and others to at least two fugitives wanted in other states...

Myers

D. A. King -- VDare.com Julie Myers Appointed To Guard America -- Feel Safer? Yesterday, President Bush took advantage of the Congressional recess and appointed that weathered veteran of immigration, customs and law enforcement, Julie Myers, as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (ICE). -- That's right, she is in. Julie Myers, age 36, is - at least until the end of this year...[Related item]

Alpine (Texas) Avalanche CBP agents seize pot at Sierra Blanca Agents of the Marfa Sector Border Patrol's Sierra Blanca Checkpoint found over a ton of marijuana hidden in a load of candy last Friday. -- Agents discovered the 2,027 lbs. of pot hidden among pallet loads of candy in the trailer of an 18-wheeler driven by a naturalized U.S. citizen from Mexico. Another naturalized U.S. citizen was in the cab as well.

Reuters US agents shot at, tension mounts on Mexico border U.S. Border Patrol agents have come under fire twice along the Rio Grande in Texas in recent days amid rising tension on the frontier with Mexico, although no one was reported wounded, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. -- A Border Patrol spokesman said unknown gunmen fired on agents on patrol in Brownsville...

Washington Times Gang terrorizes train in France Paris -- A gang of more than 20 youths -- thought to be North African immigrants -- terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year's Day, French officials said yesterday. -- The five-hour-long criminal frenzy was "totally unacceptable..."

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Billerica Minuteman -- Concord, Mass. Carpenters allege use of illegals in development project Area carpenters are alleging that developer Hanover Company and its contractor, Samuel Lecomte's Multi Building Inc., have used [illegal alien... criminal] labor and evaded taxes in several projects in the region, including Villas At Old Concord Road, a condominium development off Old Concord Road.

Arizona Republic Hayworth book takes on immigration To J.D. Hayworth, conservative Republican congressman from Scottsdale, Americans are acting like "a bunch of defeatist wimps," unwilling to stand up for the country's culture, its borders, its security and its own laws. -- But in Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror...

Tucson Citizen Bandits increase border violence Bandits armed with guns easily purchased in the United States are making the border more dangerous for [illegal aliens... criminals], law enforcement agents and those who live, work or visit along the border. -- Reports of attacks began coming across Mitch Ellis' desk a year ago when he became manager of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge...

The Monitor -- McAllen, Texas Colonias get free sewer hookups Colonia residents living just outside Mission city boundaries can stop worrying about their old septic tanks later this year, when they tie into city sewage lines - for free. -- Thanks to two state grants totaling $1 million, the city of Mission is footing the bill for yard lines and sewer hook-ups in 22 of the 44 colonias...

American Border Patrol American Border Patrol Detained Members of the American Border Patrol were detained at Bisbee airport last evening following a flight of the Border Hawk M. Glenn Spencer and Mike King were held for nearly an hour next to the Cessna TU-206 while the Border Patrol checked them out. "I don't understand why this happened," said Spencer, head of ABP... More

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The Journal-News -- White Plains Dozens of Brewster parents ask for action on invaders Parents of elementary school children came out in force last night to a meeting hosted by the Brewster Central School District to continue the emotionally charged discussions about illegal immigration in their community. -- More than 120 people gathered at Garden Street Elementary School to express concerns about the safety of their children...

Holtzman for Governor

Longmont )Colo.) Daily Times-Call Gubernatorial candidate focuses on immigration Republican Marc Holtzman promised Wednesday to use the governor's office to fight illegal immigration if he's elected in November. -- Holtzman said he stands with U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo and other immigration-reform advocates. "In a state of 4.2 million people," he said, "400,000 people living here illegally is simply unacceptable."

KVIA-TV -- El Paso / Las Cruces Border Patrol reports increase in shootings against agents Brownsville, Texas -- Border Patrol agents say they have dodged bullets fired at them from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande in two shootings within the past week. -- Federal authorities were investigating the shootings and say they signal an increase from last year.

Dominican Today Latin Americans to respond to US plan for border wall Guatemala's foreign minister said here Wednesday that he and his counterparts from the region plan to use their meeting next week in Mexico to craft a "comprehensive" immigration initiative in a bid to head off U.S. lawmakers' plans for new barriers along their nation's southern border. [More foreign meddling]

Hogwash

Riverside Press-Enterprise Chertoff touts the Patriot Act and a guest-worker plan U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday in Palm Desert that the Bush administration's proposed guest- worker program would strengthen border security, and he defended the controversial Patriot Act as a way to keep up with terrorists' new high-tech methods. [Also see: Propaganda Watch]

MetroWest Daily News Unanticipated influx of Brazilian students taxes school budget Framingham, Mass. -- An unexplained influx of new Brazilian immigrant students in recent months has forced the school district to open two new bilingual classes in the kindergarten and first grade. -- The surge is surprising school officials, who have seen the town's Brazilian population level off since 2001, and is crimping an already tight school budget.

Reno Gazette-Journal Invader-operated meth ring busted, 7 jailed A three-deputy team of narcotics investigators in Lyon County recently made its largest drug bust, showcasing the county's growing methamphetamine "epidemic," authorities said. -- Since late December, the Narcotics Division arrested three suspected methamphetamine traffickers and three suspected dealers -- including a 60-year-old man...