Monday, November 6, 2006

A Critical Choice Iraq May Shut Off Important Opportunity Washington Times -- November 2 Bush May Find an Ally on Immigration Immigration is the one major issue on which President Bush is likely to fare better next year if Democrats win control of Congress. [...] If the Republicans maintain control in the House, the Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee probably would be Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texan who is a strong advocate for enforcement and has argued that a guest-worker program hurts American workers. However, Rep. John Conyers Jr., the Michigan Democrat in line to become chairman if his party wins control, supports a broad legalization. Comment: Lamar Smith knows all about the bureaucracy that runs immigration in Washington. He could rip them to pieces. Conyers would give them carte blanche. Past Features   American Border Patrol Updates

KGBT-TV -- Harlingen Invaders supposedly 'rescued' from car trunks U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found a number of illegal [aliens... criminals] in the trunk of cars in the past few days. -- The first rescue happened Friday afternoon when agents saw several people get out of two cars in Rachael. They found two [illegal aliens... criminals] locked in the trunk of one of the cars...

KTEN-TV -- Ada, Oklahoma Immigration one of Oklahoma's top voting concerns The 2006 National midterm elections are one day away, and early voting in Oklahoma just wrapped up. A new poll released by "The Tulsa World Newspaper" said that education is the number one concern for Oklahomans, and immigration ranks second. KTEN's Kristi Branam was in Bryan County Monday, and asked voters their opinion...

Jeremy Schwartz -- Austin American-Statesman Anger over border fence means support for Dems Many Mexicans are rooting for the Democrats in Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, but judging by the tone of news stories and editorials here, most aren't holding their breath that the Dems can achieve a far-reaching immigration accord. -- Mexicans enthusiastically reject the recently approved border fence...

ATTENTION! American Border Patrol Notice Dog Lost in McNeal, Arizona

Associated Press Judge extends block on anti-invader law Scranton, Pa. -- A federal judge's order temporarily blocking the city of Hazleton from enforcing a crackdown on illegal immigrants was extended Monday to give both sides time to prepare for a trial. -- U.S. District Judge James Munley, whose temporary restraining order was due to expire Nov. 14, extended it for up to 120 days...

KGPE-TV -- Fresno Republicans gain ground ahead of elections Republicans have gained ground in the polls ahead of U.S. midterm elections dominated by the war in Iraq and national issues. -- Recent polls have showed the Democrats' nationwide lead narrowing, with one Washington Post-ABC News poll suggesting the gap had shrunk to 6 percentage points and a Pew Research Center poll...

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 | Review

Financial Times -- Germany Battle lines drawn along Mexico border Rivals take opposing approaches to Arizona's porous frontier and the migrants who cross it. The loudest argument is that America's porous southern border undermines national security. -- Every night between 6,000 and 6,500 foreigners try to cross from Mexico into the US, most of them into the desert state of Arizona. Some two-thirds of them succeed.

El Paso Times Hispanic get-out-the-vote organizers make push in west ...Activists and volunteers with several grass-roots groups have spent months manning phones and walking Hispanic neighborhoods in Denver, Tucson, Ariz., and elsewhere, registering voters and encouraging them to vote early. -- The response has been strong, organizers say, particularly in Colorado, Arizona and other Western states...

Heather MacDonald

City Journal -- New York Mexico's Undiplomatic Diplomats It's a strain being a Mexican diplomat in the United States these days, as the plaintive expression on Mario Velázquez- Suárez's dignified features suggests. Diplomacy may be the art of lying for one's country, but Mexican diplomacy requires taking that art to virtuosic heights. Sitting in his expansive office in Mexico's L.A. consulate...

Reuters Hispanics may swing some close U.S. elections Hispanic voters in the United States, a growing bloc, could play a key role in deciding close races in at least four states on Tuesday, experts said. -- Although they won't play a decisive role in key races being fought in states with smaller Hispanic populations, they could influence the outcome of a key Senate race in New Jersey...

American Border Patrol Low-budget Mexican choo-choo? 8:34 am PST -- American Border Patrol reports that the Border Patrol is chasing illegal aliens along a railroad track near Naco, Arizona. They had modified a pickup truck to run on the tracks.

WorldNetDaily.com Mexico ambassador: We need N. American Union in 8 years There have been conferences, academic papers, mock student parliaments and secret meetings on a confederation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into future North American Union, but, until now, few officials of any of the three countries have publicly called for the creation of a European Union-style merger...

Alvaro Vargas Llosa -- TCS Daily How would Latin Americans vote on Nov. 7? Many Latin Americans quip that they should get a chance to vote in U.S. elections since the outcomes have a huge impact south of the U.S. border. So, who are Latin Americans rooting for with regard to the midterm elections in the U.S.? Who stands to win and who stands to lose if the Republicans fail to keep control...

Hutchinson (Kansas) News Minutemen group, public sound off on border control Ed Hayes came to Hutchinson recently, hoping to be heard. -- As president of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps' Heart of America chapter, Hayes traveled from Johnson County to present his group's side of the illegal immigration issue during the Project Aware meeting Oct. 28 at Hutchinson Community College.

Ramos & Compean

Washington Times Border agents seek new trial Two U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to lengthy prison terms for shooting a drug- smuggling suspect as he fled across the Rio Grande want a new trial, saying three jurors claim they were pressured into returning guilty verdicts. -- Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos were sentenced Oct. 19...

Winston-Salem Journal Hispanics' immigration to South raises tensions with blacks Atlanta -- Rumors of racial hatred swirled around the small farm town of Tifton, Ga., last fall after four blacks were arrested in the deadly robberies of six Mexican immigrants. In a single night at different trailer parks, the men were shot and beaten to death with a baseball bat as they slept.