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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
Beltran |
Associated
Press
Mexican
government nuisance carps about border wall
Mexican
immigrants have been wrongly excluded from the immigration
reform debate, and building more fence along the U.S.-Mexico
border could exacerbate migration problems, said Ruben Beltran,
Mexico's consul general for Los Angeles. -- During an interview
Wednesday, Beltran blamed the exclusion in part on vocal anti-
illegal immigration groups... |
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Reuters
Calif.
city may bar invaders from renting
Escondido, Calif. -- Local authorities
in this California city are set to vote on a controversial measure
on Wednesday [tonight] to prohibit landlords from renting to
illegal [aliens... criminals],
a law opponents say is racist. -- The city is the latest of several
from California to Pennsylvania which have passed laws in recent
months... |
Invasion |
Midland
(Texas) Reporter-Telegram
Meddlesome
Russian gasbag compares border wall to Berlin Wall
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
compared the United States' proposed 700-mile wall on the U.S.-Mexico
border to the Berlin Wall during a Tuesday visit to Midland.
-- Addressing a Tuesday news conference at UTPB's Center for
Energy and Economic Diversification, the JBS Public Leadership
Institute Distinguished Lecture Series speaker... |
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Pine Bluff
(Arkansas) Commercial
Ark.
candidates criticize Mexican sham ID cards
Little Rock, Ark. -- Identification cards
provided by the Mexican government for citizens of that country
who are in the U.S. are drawing criticism from two Arkansas Republican
candidates, and one of them questioned plans to open a Mexican
consulate at Little Rock. |
Castañeda |
Frank Gaffney
Jr. -- Front Page Magazine
Latin
America's Leftist Menace
...As a new analysis by Fredo Arias-King
just released by the Center for Security Policy makes clear,
Mr. [Jorge] Castaneda
and his team (including such figures as Mexico's former consul
in New York, Arturo Sarukhan, Mr. Castaneda's controversial half-brother
Andres Rozental and Ricardo Pascoe, former Mexican ambassador
to Cuba)... |
Poll Info |
Washington
Times
Border-fence
bill awaits signing
The White House is pleading with Congress
to send over the bill authorizing 700 miles of fence on the U.S.-Mexico
border so the president can sign it immediately, but Republican
leaders on Capitol Hill want to wait until closer to the election
and to have a public signing ceremony. |
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Washington
Times
Smugglers
seen getting 'sophisticated, organized'
Law-enforcement authorities along the
U.S.-Mexico border are outgunned and outmanned by drug smugglers
armed with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, bazookas, improvised
explosive devices and state-of-the-art communications and tracking
systems, a congressional report said yesterday... |
Waah! Waah! |
East Valley
Tribune -- Mesa
Health
insurance held up over citizenship rule
Health insurance for hundreds of low-income
Arizonans is in limbo, and thousands more await word that they've
been reauthorized under a new federal requirement to prove U.S.
citizenship. The state has hired more than 80 new eligibility
workers to scour databases, hospital records and other documents
that would show where people were born... |
Compean |
Inland Valley
Daily Bulletin
Border
agent's family waits, worries
El Paso -- Virginia Orwig stood in the
kitchen, preparing homemade apple and cherry pies. With each
turn of the crust, tears fell from her eyes. -- Cooking is her
therapy. -- She was baking for her son, Border Patrol Agent Ignacio
"Nacho" Ramos, and his family. It might be more than
10 years, even as many as 20, before she bakes for him again... |
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Fighting
Immigration Anarchy - by Daniel Sheehy |
"This book is not
just informative but inspiring. Readers will want to join up."
Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation and editor of VDare.com
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Review |
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Hardbeat
News
Poll:
Immigration too high for most Americans
A Washington-based public policy group
claims 68 percent of voters nationally think the immigration
rate to the U.S. is too high. -- The poll comes on the same day
the U.S. population reached a milestone of 300 million, of which
the foreign-born population was put at 34.3 million. |
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Edwin S.
Rubenstein -- VDare.com
Immigration
diagnosed in ER emergency
Emergency rooms are on the verge of collapse
at many hospitals, raising questions as to their ability to treat
victims in a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. That's according
to a new federal study. -- About half of all ERs experienced
crowding in 2003 and 2004, the study by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention found. |
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Houston
Chronicle
Border
crimes down by 60%, Perry says
Austin -- A crackdown on illegal border
crossings has produced a "stunning" reduction in crime
for 27 Texas counties, Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday. -- "Borderwide,
we experienced an average crime reduction of 60 percent because
of intensive operations under Operation Rio Grande," Perry
said of the border security effort. |
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Voice of
America
US
to accept 10,000 Burundian refugees from Tanzania
The United States says it will accept
around 10,000 Burundian refugees from Tanzania, many of whom
have lived outside their home country for more than three decades.
-- Some of the Burundians being considered for resettlement to
the United States left Burundi in 1972 and have lived over the
years in three separate countries - Rwanda... |
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Rep. Tom
Tancredo -- Human Events
The
barbarians are past the gate
Testifying before Congress in 2005, FBI
director Robert Mueller Jr. revealed that his agency had "received
reports that individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections
have attempted to enter the United States illegally using alien
smuggling rings and assuming Hispanic appearances." Mueller
confirmed... |
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The Daily
Dispatch -- Henderson, NC
Kittrell
trucker held for immigrant smuggling
A trucker from Kittrell was arrested
and jailed in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 3 on eight counts of smuggling
illegal Mexican immigrants in the tractor- trailer he was driving.
-- A spokeswoman for the Dallas Police Department said the rig
operated by Daylon Ray Owens of Vance County contained a total
of 300 pounds of marijuana... |
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Defend Colorado
Now
Responses
to criticism of DCN's approach
Some have contended that DCN sold out
to the open border lobby by supporting legislation passed out
of the July, 2006 special session. Responses to this criticism
follow: Did DCN sell out to the open borders lobby in July, 2006?
-- No. The legislative solution that DCN supported in July, 2006
did not preclude... |
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Media Matters Includes Video Clip
Mark
Williams tells it like it is about the invasion
On the October 16 edition of MSNBC's
Tucker, radio host Mark Williams baselessly asserted that immigrants
"by and large, the illegal immigrants mainly" are "just
here to rip off a piece and to get back to where they come from"
and added that they are "drug runners, human traffickers"
and "people who engage in slavery and prostitution." |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
Invaders
a hot issue in Ohio
Cincinnati -- Leaning on a shovel as
his three-man landscaping crew turned over sod at a local shopping
mall, Jude Adkins stewed over what he considers the personal
economic threat posed by low-wage competitors. -- "The kind
of work we do, the Mexicans are basically cutting our throats.
They shouldn't be here..." |
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Austin American-Statesman
Court
to hear arguments on criminal immigrant data
A federal court of appeals will hear
arguments today in a case that has broad implications in the
debate over illegal immigration and the public's right to know
about illegal immigrant convicts who have not been deported,
as required by law. -- Cox Newspapers is asserting that the Justice
Department should release the names... |
Waah! Waah! |
Lone Wacko
Blog
Hispanic
voter suppression letter: evidence, Arnold, hacks
...For evidence of greater weight, CCIR's
Barbara Coe says she's gotten "dozens" of calls from
supposed recipients of the letter. What percentage of recipients
would feel the need to call? At the most, it would appear that
one or two hundred letters were supposedly received. Yet, one
of the recipients is one Nellie Diaz... |
Randy Graf |
Arizona
Daily Star
Giffords,
Graf blast each other's pasts
It was a trip down memory lane for Republican
Randy Graf and Democrat Gabrielle Giffords at a congressional
debate Tuesday night. -- The two candidates for District 8 spent
much of the evening recalling their days together in the Legislature,
frequently questioning each other's votes from years ago and
attempting to defend their records. |
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CNN
Bush,
Congress tell working folk to go to hell
...Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full
amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody
really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or
20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive
immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial
Day weekend... |
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Austin American-Statesman
Court
to hear arguments on criminal immigrant data
A federal court of appeals will hear
arguments today in a case that has broad implications in the
debate over illegal immigration and the public's right to know
about illegal immigrant convicts who have not been deported,
as required by law. -- Cox Newspapers is asserting that the Justice
Department should release the names... |
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El Paso
Times
Jurors
say they were misled to convict agents
One man and two women on the jury that
convicted two former El Paso Border Patrol agents of shooting
a drug smuggler in the buttocks last year said they were misled
into agreeing with a guilty verdict, according to a motion filed
this evening. -- Mary Stillinger, the lawyer for one of the agents,
Ignacio Ramos... |
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Orange Coast
Daily Pilot -- Costa Mesa, California
County
OKs plan to enforce immigration laws
Orange County Supervisors today voted
to have between one and two dozen Sheriff's deputies trained
to check the immigration status of people booked into the Orange
County jail. -- The cooperative program with Immigration and
Customs Enforcement is one Costa Mesa council members have said
they would copy with the city's police department... |
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