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Antonio Villaraigosa, MEChA boy

Gregory Rodriguez should be Villaraigosa's campaign manager. Perhaps then he can help explain how Villaraigosa's relationships with Mexican president Zedillo and Gov. Davis led to the death of Prop. 187, which was not a scapegoating measure, but an effort to control the illegal alien invasion in this state. Reports estimate that as many as 3 million illegals live in L.A. Are we to believe that NONE of them voted? An investigation by Soboroff probably would reveal massive voter fraud, the true explanation for Villaraigosa's first place finish. If Villaraigosa is elected Mayor, you will see an illegal alien invasion like never before.

Clinton's Treachery - 245(i)

Thousands of immigrants [illegals] attend seminar as deadline looms

A coalition of immigration groups organized the seminar, which was advertised locally on [Mexican propaganda outlet] KMEX-TV, a popular Spanish- language station that is the flagship of the Univision Television Group. The event drew thousands who crammed into the cavernous convention center and waited for hours in long lines that snaked through the building to receive the proper paperwork and to learn the guidelines for obtaining legal status. The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates there are about 640,000 people nationwide who are eligible to become citizens under the law.

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CALPERS in trouble?

The Current Yield column from the current BARRONS says that the assets of the California Pension system are at 171 billion dollars....just where they were in 1998. During the years 1999 and 2000 CALPERS required no contributions from local government since the strong stock markets were keeping the pension funds actuarially sound. -- Since most ....or at least many feel that....stocks just normally rise 20 percent a year and between 1998 and the peak last spring the NASDAQ increased 35% a year, it is rather awesome to consider the amount of money that CALPERS has lost for hardworking government employees.

Inmates Running The Asylum

DPS reaches accord with Mexican truckers

The Department of Public Safety says it has reached an agreement with Mexican truck drivers who blocked the Mariposa Port of Entry cargo lanes Monday to protest citations for safety violations. About 75 Mexican long-haul drivers and contract drivers who then bring the produce across the border to Nogales- area warehouses had accused the DPS of "unjust inspections of commercial vehicles," claiming that the trucks "are put out of service for insignificant deficiencies, and the drivers are issued extremely high fines." The drivers said the fines reached up to $11,000, but were against drivers instead of truck owners.

Narco State Next Door

Jesse Helms Visit to Mexico Signals New Opening

The Mexican Senate's foreign relations panel is to host the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee starting on Monday, a meeting that analysts say signals a further warming in the sometimes cool relations between the two neighbors. The U.S. committee headed by Sen. Jesse Helms, the conservative N.C. Republican, is scheduled to arrive in the Mexican capital on Monday for a three- day visit that will also include talks with President Vicente Fox and Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda [a self- proclaimed 'former Marxist'], government officials said.

Illegals As Victims

INS deports fraud victims, lawsuit says

Immigration attorneys filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court against the Chicago office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, alleging the office is deporting victims of immigration fraud. Attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of 19 Mexican immigrants who said they were defrauded by immigration consultants who charged them hefty fees for the 245(i) program and then improperly submitted their paperwork to the INS. The immigrants were not eligible for the program to become U.S. residents by paying a $1,000 fee and now face deportation. [See: Illegal immigration is a crime.]

Pricey Illegal Aliens

Arizona border counties could lose $700K in aid

President Bush's proposed budget would slash federal funding to border counties and leave southern Arizona taxpayers responsible for a greater share of the cost of jailing illegal immigrants, local politicians say. Bush has proposed cutting the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program from $585 million to $265 million. The program reimburses counties for the cost of jailing illegal immigrants. If the budget is adopted, Arizona would lose at least half the $1.3 million the federal government paid to its four border counties last year. The federal government, which pays Arizonans about 30 cents on the dollar for the cost of jailing illegal immigrants, would under Bush's proposal pay little more than a dime.

Baker City, OR

INS busts Oregon's largest illegal alien smuggling ring

The INS believes it has broken the state's largest migrant [illegal alien] smuggling ring with the arrest of two Mexicans. According to INS assistant district director Anthony Ho, Marzo Meraz-Jimenez, 22, and Sergio Guerra-Lopez, 30, allegedly brought up to 80 Mexicans a week to Oregon from Nevada and helped them obtain Oregon identification cards. Ho said the illegal immigrants [aliens] would be driven back to Nevada to exchange their Oregon ID cards for Nevada ones. Obtaining identification in Oregon is easier than in many other surrounding states. The illegal immigrants [aliens] then would be driven back to Nevada to exchange the Oregon cards for Nevada identification.

Santa Ana, CA

DMV crackdown pays off

A Department of Motor Vehicles crackdown - aimed at stopping driver's license fraud - has snared 390 people who used false Social Security numbers or bogus documents to get a license, according to DMV records. The enforcement represents a nearly 60% increase over past years in the number of people who have been arrested or issued criminal citations for committing fraud in their efforts to secure a license. A 172% jump was seen in the DMV investigative unit that includes all of Orange County. Department records show 91 people were arrested and 299 were given citations and asked to appear in court on mostly fraud and perjury charges. Criminal charges have been filed against 103 people. Also see: Rabid reconquista Nativo Lopez upset.

Banana Republic

Miami fears violence by Cubans

The authorities in Miami have asked the organisers of an international football tournament to move the event out of the city. They fear that the Cuban national team's participation may lead to violence by the Cuban exile community. A Miami official said it was a matter of public safety. A spokesman for the organisers said the game might instead be played in Trinidad and Tobago where the quarter-finals are being held May 16-21. The Cuban squad is one of eight remaining teams in the Copa Caribe and has a good chance of reaching the semi-finals, which are scheduled to be played in Miami late May. Last year, riots erupted in Miami after the Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was taken by federal agents from the Florida home where he was staying.

Sure, We Need Mexican 'Guest Workers'

Kern unemployment rate climbs to 12.9 percent

Kern County's unemployment rate jumped to 12.9 percent in March, with the biggest job losses in farm services and farm production, according to preliminary Employment Development Department numbers. The government added 1,400 jobs, the highest monthly gain. Half of those were in local education. Statewide, the unemployment rate came in at 4.8 percent; the national rate for March was 4.6 percent -- unchanged from February. Unemployment in the city of Bakersfield hit 9.6 percent in March. Kern Co. has the 13th highest unemployment rate statewide. Colusa County has the highest unemployment at 24.7 percent, and Tulare County has the second-highest rate at 18.5 percent.

Aiding and Abetting Illegals

More using IDs on taxes

As another income tax deadline looms, immigrant advocates say more Inland undocumented workers [illegals] are filing their taxes. Wage- earners who lack SS numbers are instead using federal tax identification numbers. The ID numbers ease the confusion caused by illegal workers [aliens] filing taxes under black- market SS numbers, IRS officials said. -- Inland opponents of illegal immigration argue the practice acknowledges people living in the U.S. illegally without doing anything about it. They say the IRS should help immigration agents deport illegal workers [aliens] who apply for the special numbers. "One part of the government is receiving money from these people and the other part of the government doesn't know they exist," said Gerald Burchell. "I think that's wrong."

Feel The Warmth of Mexico

Narco state customs extorts another U.S. tourist

Some El Pasoans have found out the hard way that forgetting to check the trunks of their cars can result in hefty fines and unpleasant run-ins with Mexican customs at the international bridges. Maria Salazar said Mexican customs officials held her 29- year- old son, Fernando Salazar, and his car at the Bridge of Americas for five hours April 6 because he failed to tell them he had a compact disc changer in the trunk of the car. The customs officers refused to give Fernando Salazar, a U.S. citizen, his 2001 Saturn back "until we returned the next day with the rest of the money," she said. According to Mexican customs officers in Juárez, Salazar and her son had to pay about $263 to get back a CD changer and speaker worth about $150.

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Migrants [Illegal aliens] seek right to drive [breeder documents]

''We are like ghosts in society, but we do exist,'' said Alejandro Chavez, who works as a mover in San Antonio and was undocumented until he returned to the United States from Mexico a few weeks ago with a tourist visa. ''We pay taxes and drive to work. We are visible in the communities in which we live and we participate in those communities" [the guy is an illegal alien]. Since 1995, when the Texas Department of Public Safety began requiring Social Security numbers to get a driver's license, undocumented immigrants in Texas have had little chance of getting a driver's license. But a bill in the Texas Legislature would change that.

Columbus

Ohio alien rejoices....at INS's incompetence

Because of a judge's order, immigration officials last night released a woman who has been jailed in Kentucky for two months. In addition, officials must explain why they refuse to revisit her convoluted case, which includes a deportation order that went unenforced for nearly a decade. U.S. District Judge James L. Graham yesterday ordered the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to release Marta Tekle, an Ethiopian woman who was seized and jailed in Columbus on Feb. 12 during what she thought was a routine visit to check on her application for permanent resident status. Graham further ordered the agency's head lawyer in Washington, D.C., and the district counsel for Ohio to explain agency decisions in the case.