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Saturday, January 7, 2006 |
Will Chertoff Endorse
Fence?
Hunter Presses DHS Chief
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Scare
Tactics |
Washington
Times
Hype,
hysteria and immigration
In an apparent effort to kill any immigration
reform bill in the Senate, open- borders advocates have gone
to the P.R. playbook and come up with an old standby: trying
to scare people into falsely believing that the Bush administration
and the evil House Republicans are trying to persecute priests
and nurses who provide humanitarian help to an illegal immigrant. |
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Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Voters
press for action on immigration
Do something about illegal immigration.
-- That's the message Georgians are sending to state lawmakers,
through a new poll conducted for The Atlanta Journal- Constitution.
-- A majority of Georgians want the Legislature --- which convenes
on Monday for its annual session --- to tackle the issue, the
Zogby International poll indicates... |
Hooker |
KCBS-TV
-- Los Angeles
Man
Arrested For Running O.C. Prostitution Ring
Santa Ana, Calif. -- Police in Orange
County have arrested a man they say ran a prostitution ring linked
to a national human trafficking operation. -- Duc Tuan Dinh of
Santa Ana was picked up Friday on suspicion of pimping and pandering.
Dinh is suspected of running about 10 brothels across Orange
County. |
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Orange County
Register
Protests
resume in Laguna Beach
A line of passing motorists -- showing
their approval or disapproval with a honk of the horn or the
occasional obscene gesture -- divided opposing sides in an ongoing
immigration debate in Laguna Beach today. -- Dozens from anti-illegal
immigration groups like the Minutemen and the California
Coalition for Immigration Reform... |
Fox Watch |
Conor Friedersdorf
-- San Bernardino County Sun
Mexico's contradictions
playing U.S. for fools
Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, our
neighbor to the south has chosen exactly one leader in a fair
election, current President Vicente Fox. -- He presides over
a nation where disparities of wealth between the working poor
and the politically connected corrupt are as disheartening as
the 40 percent of citizens living below the poverty line... |
Napolitano |
Capitol
Media Services
Governor,
GOP likely to clash on immigration
Phoenix -- Gov. Janet Napolitano is finally
ready to ask state lawmakers to do something about the problem
of people crossing the border illegally and staying here. --
But none of them go nearly far enough to satisfy key Republican
legislators. They intend to send her more comprehensive measures... |
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Pioneer
Press -- Minneapolis
Illegal
aliens create ID crisis
Austin, Minn. -- In Minnesota towns where
hogs and turkeys meet their ends at the hands of workers from
foreign lands, local officials often find themselves asking newcomers
a simple question. -- A worker with questionable immigration
status may be carrying equally questionable identification... |
Pest Nest |
Morris News
Bee -- Morris Plains, New Jersey
Back
In Charge Cresitello takes helm
..."Morristown will no longer be
a place to pick up day laborers," [Mayor Donald] Cresitello
said. "Today is the day we take back our town." --
He said he would issue a policy to have police take down the
license plate numbers of contractors who pick up day laborers
and send whatever information they uncover to the state Department
of Labor. |
Pest Nest |
NorthJersey.com
Beware
of 'bigots,' day laborers told
Activists who favor easing restrictions
on [illegal aliens... criminals]
warned day laborers in Palisades Park to stay home today to avoid
"hostile bigots" who are planning a nationwide demonstration
against them. -- "There are groups that don't see the value
of immigrants, and they want to go to where day laborers are
and provoke them," said Analicia Mejia to the laborers... |
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La Jornada
-- Mexico City
Border
walls "irritate the bilateral relationship": Derbez
...In other statements, the chancellor
[Luis Ernesto Derbez]
informed that the governments of Mexico and The United States
will commit to respect the human rights of undocumented migrants
with the signature of an accord in a matter of no more than 30
days, under which American authorities will be
obligated to notify the consulates about the detention of any
undocumenteds... |
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Newsday
Opposing
sides in immigration fight rally on Long Island
Farmingville, N.Y. -- Critics and supporters
of the growing number of day laborers on eastern Long Island
held opposing protests Saturday in this community that has become
an epicenter in the national debate on illegal immigration. --
The protest by about a dozen opponents of illegal immigration
was one of many... |
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Islam Online
French
Rights Groups Slam "Racist" Immigration Bill
A cohort of French human rights groups
have branded as "racist" the new immigration draft
law, saying it was a black stain on the country. -- "The
proposed bill is a blatant violation of immigrants' rights and
is based on a selective racist approach," eight rights groups
led by the French League for Human Rights (LFRH) said ... |
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WJLA-TV
-- Washington
Protesters
Gather at Herndon Day Labor Site
Herndon, Va. (AP) -- Protesters have
been gathering Saturday near a publicly funded day labor center
in Herndon. -- The demonstration by the group Help Save Herndon
was one of a series of protests in about 20 states Saturday calling
for tougher enforcement of immigration laws. |
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Jill Stewart
-- San Francisco Chronicle
Smoke,
pay for immigrant health care
...This proposal diverts most of the
$2.1 billion tax to emergency-room care and to health coverage
for children -- two services that, in California, provide outsized
assistance to illegal immigrants. It's a political ploy backed
by the American Cancer Society, California Hospital Association,
American Heart Association... |
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Journal-News
-- White Plains, NY
Dueling
groups to demonstrate over immigration
In response to a "Stop the Invasion"
protest planned for this morning at day-labor hiring sites, immigrant advocates
in Rockland County will show up with their own message. -- They
plan to gather nearby on a stretch of Route 59 in Spring Valley
while a local group called the Citizens Civil Defense takes part
in a national protest... |
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