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Sunday, September 14, 2008
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Reconquistas Favor Obama
See Better Chance of Overwhelming Gringos
Las Vegas Sun-- September 14
Richardson says Hispanic voters are key to Obama win
....The battle is heating up.
Obama seized on a sore spot with Hispanic activists last week: the Republican Party platform takes a hard line on immigration and rejects "en masse legalizations." Although McCain co-sponsored a failed immigration overhaul bill two years ago, he has since adjusted his position, putting border security ahead of other changes.
"You've got to ask yourself: If Sen. McCain won't stand up to opponents of reform at his own convention, how can you trust him to stand up for change in Washington?" Obama said to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Dallas Morning News-- September 14
Texas Watch: Immigration issue expected to resurface when debates start
Last week, Democratic pollster Sergio Bendixen [Reconquista] released data showing that in all those states but Florida, Sen. Barack Obama holds a strong lead among Hispanic voters, and immigration is a key reason.
Mr. Bendixen predicted that "when the debates start, there will be a lot of discussion." The first debate is less than two weeks away, on Sept. 26 at the University of Mississippi. |
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Goshen (Indiana) News sc
ICE agents detain five workers in Goshen
Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency detained five workers at the China Buffet restaurant Saturday. -- According to patrons of the restaurant, agents entered the restaurant and began asking staff members for their identification and Social Security cards...  |
Hilton Head Island (South Carolina) Packet
Six illegal aliens arrested in greater Bluffton
Six men were arrested in University Park in greater Bluffton early Friday morning on charges they entered the U.S. illegally, according to a release from the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. -- Those arrests follow a joint investigation by the ICE Office of Investigations and Beaufort County Sheriff's Office immigration task force officers... |
Houston Chronicle
Two men accused of abducting five illegal aliens
Two men were arrested Friday after they bound and abducted five illegal [aliens] from Honduras outside Cleveland [Texas], the Liberty County Sheriff's Department said. -- The Liberty County District Attorney's office will likely bring abduction — or kidnapping-related charges — against the two men, also illegal [aliens] from Honduras... |
American Patrol Report
Obama ties to Alinsky
This morning on Meet the Press, former New York City Mayor Giuliani said, "This is -- and also, the group that recruited him was a Saul Alinsky group that has all kinds of questions with regard to their outlook on the economy, their outlook on capitalism." |
Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald
Credit cloning ring busted (illegals involved)
Local and federal authorities have cracked an identity theft ring that cloned the credit cards of people in the Athens area, allowing thieves to go on an illegal multi-state shopping spree. -- Athens-Clarke police and the U.S. Secret Service would not comment on the ongoing investigation, which started last year... |
Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald / Review
Are feds on track on fence? ABP says no!
...Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol, a non-governmental organization that performs aerial surveys of fence construction, said the figures supplied by the Department of Homeland Security are wrong. -- His group’s data shows that only 108 miles of fence have been built so far, in addition to about 161 miles of vehicle barriers, according to [www.americanborderpatrol.com].... |
Phyllis Schlafly -- Eagle Forum
We can't afford the Democrats' forum
The past two presidential elections taught the losing Democrats a couple of political lessons. They learned that attacks on guns and defense of abortion are no longer winning issues for them, and this new awakening is reflected in their 2008 Party Platform adopted in Denver... |
Newsday -- New York
Judge grants asylum to 3 on sex abuse claim
..."It's unfortunately part of a trend where asylum is expanding to areas it was never meant for," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank. -- Legal experts said they know of no previous cases in which a federal judge granted asylum to those claiming sexual abuse... |
Newark (New Jersey) Star-Ledger
Gang member guilty in barroom slaying
A member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, was convicted of murder Thursday for killing a man he thought had insulted him. -- Juan Jose Castillo, 23, a native of El Salvador who lived in Elizabeth, stabbed Manuel Rodriguez following a confrontation at the El Quixote Bar... |
San Francisco Chronicle
Two San Francisco supes criticize illegal alien arrests
Two San Francisco supervisors expressed outrage today at federal officers' handling of six [illegal alien] arrests this past week at a Visitacion Valley residence. -- Four women and two men were booked into custody, and a 15-year-old girl was questioned at the residence Thursday night, according a spokeswoman for ICE and two members of the Board of Supervisors... |
Los Angeles Times
Invasion: Latinos now outnumber blacks 2 to 1 in South Los Angeles
The small, wood-frame house in the shadow of the Watts Towers was no home buyer's dream. But back in 2004, Victor Agustiniano and his wife, Remedios, were in a frenzy to become homeowners. And despite warnings about neighborhood crime, they snapped up the two-bedroom house with the big yard for less than $300,000... |
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American Border Patrol
Photo of the day
This hole in the fence was caused by storm erosion. It is rumored that 150 people per day cross the border through this hole and that the Border Patrol does not plan to repair it until next July.... |
Gwinnett Daily Post -- Lawrenceville, Georgia
Crime by illegals up in Gwinnett County
A grand jury panel said illegal immigrants appear to be committing a "disproportionate number" of crimes in Gwinnett. -- In presentments to be published in today's Gwinnett Daily Post Legal Notices, the panel recommended the county commission and state legislature track the impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers... |
Los Angeles Daily News
LAX mechanic indicted for illegal alien smuggling
An elevator mechanic at Los Angeles International Airport has been charged with smuggling illegal [aliens] into the country by helping them evade federal inspectors and ushering them into taxis outside a terminal. -- U.S. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice says 53-year-old Roberto Amaya Canchola was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday... |
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