Sunday, June 18, 2006

It's About Damn Time Law Enforced in Texas - Illegals Detained "I didn't think it was this difficult to cross into your country." (See larger map) Washington Post Along Part of the Border, A Zero-Tolerance Zone     Del Rio, Texas -- On June 1, the three Ordaz-Valtierra brothers from Mexico illegally crossed the Rio Grande with the same dream that so many other Latin American immigrants have: head north from the border, get jobs and start sending money home [to smuggling organizations.].     Their journey, instead, ended in a federal courthouse here, where, dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, each was charged with the federal misdemeanor crime of entry without inspection. [Remember when Rep. Kolbe told a TV audience that illegal entry isn't a crime?] Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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WorldNetDaily.com Mexican drug cartels take over U.S. cities Mexican drug cartels operating in cities in the U.S. are buying up legitimate businesses to launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and personnel decisions of their police forces, according to Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who has led the fight...

Associated Press -- Arizona Invasion costs strain national parks Drug smugglers fleeing Mexican police crossed into this desert park and fatally shot a ranger four years ago, prompting officials to build a 30-mile vehicle barrier. -- That steel-and-concrete wall stops most cars from speeding in from Mexico. But drug and human traffickers have switched to rural entryways into Arizona....

KNSD-TV -- San Diego Anti-invader protest held in San Diego Anti-illegal immigration bikers on the 21st Century Paul Revere Ride made a stop in San Diego on Sunday for a rally with kindred spirits. -- The rally began at 11 a.m. at a county administration building. -- Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project; state Sen. Bill Morrow, R-San Juan Capistrano; Ted Hayes of the Crispus Attucks Brigade...

George F. Will -- Arizona Daily Star Immigrant issue tough for GOP Geographically, Pennsylvania is a long way from Laredo. But politically, every state may be a border state this year. -- As evidence, consider a radio ad being run by Rick Santorum, a Republican seeking a third U.S. Senate term in a state that has voted Democrat in the last four presidential elections. Titled "He Needs Glasses," the target...

George Putnam

NewsMax.com Illegal alien sex crimes It is this reporter's opinion that aside from all of the well-known violations of our sovereign society, illegal aliens are guilty of 1 million sex crimes a year. Based on a one-year in-depth study, the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States...

Boston Globe Fake IDs are rife at state job sites While Republican lawmakers in Massachusetts have called for a crackdown on companies that hire [illegal aliens... criminals], the state has provided millions of dollars to contractors who employed those workers, records indicate. -- A Globe analysis of nine recent public works projects -- from dormitory construction...

Associated Press Invader round-ups spread through Linda Vista San Diego -- Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half. The sidewalks are quieter. -- A sense of unease has spread in this community...

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López Obrador

New York Times Mexican candidate takes hard line vs. NAFTA Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mex. -- Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took his hardest line yet against free trade with the United States, saying for the first time Saturday he would not honor Mexico's commitment under NAFTA to eliminate tariffs on U.S. corn and beans.

New York Times Mexico worries about its own southern border Tapachula, Chiapas, Mex. -- ... Here at Mexico's own southern edge, Guatemalans cross legally and illegally to do jobs that Mexicans departing for the north no longer want. And hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from nearly two dozen other countries, including China, Ecuador, Cuba and Somalia, pass through on their way to the US.

Deseret Morning News GOP rival stresses border control Orem, Utah -- ... [John] Jacob certainly has attacked [MALDEF water boy Chris] Cannon on immigration. Cannon told the Deseret Morning News he can lose only if Jacob can beat him on immigration. Jacob assiduously avoids the appearance of a one-issue candidate, but he and Cannon are very similar on most other issues. [Hear radio ad]

Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail 'Illegal means unlawful' Immigration law falls within the federal government's domain, and the state has a statute against hiring illegal aliens. -- But neither bothers much with enforcement. -- Last month, Ohio County Sheriff Tom Burgoyne's deputies arrested three self-admittedly [illegal aliens... criminals] from Mexico whom they found on a work site in Wheeling...

Navarro

San Bernardino County Sun   Rabid Reconquista: San Bernardino a 'tinderbox' With a brewing fight over illegal immigration, the summer of 2006 here is in the historic league of the civil- rights battles 50 years ago in Montgomery, Ala. -- "San Bernardino has become a tinderbox," said Armando Navarro, a UC Riverside professor who is coordinator for the advocacy group. "This is our Montgomery in many ways."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Prenatal care for 'immigrants' bankrupting Arkansas At $6.5 million per year, a Medicaid program that pays for prenatal care for immigrant women is costing the state more than five times what officials predicted two years ago. -- The unexpected higher cost stems from Medicaid officials underestimating the number of women who would qualify and failing to factor in the cost of prescription drugs...

KFOX-TV -- El Paso / Las Cruces Senator grouses about National Guard on border The first group of National Guard troops are expected to arrive in El Paso this Monday. -- Almost half of the troops will be assigned to simply observe the border and alert border patrol of anything suspicious, similar to the work currently being done by troops monitoring the border in New Mexico.