NAACP BACKS AMNESTY FOR ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS

WASHINGTON, D.C. (8/27/01--C-SPAN) Julian Bond, Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), called on president Bush to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.
 Listen to press conference Q&A. (First voice heard is Eliseo Medina, SEIU.)
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Coming Up August 30

New Harris Poll on Amnesty, Immigration to Be Released
The Federation for American Immigration Reform will release a new, national Harris Poll demonstrating voter opposition to an illegal alien amnesty. FAIR Executive Director Dan Stein will analyze the upcoming amnesty/guestworker issue, discuss FAIR's plans, and highlight key aspects of the debate that are not currently being brought to the public's attention.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Hispanics find work in tri-states
It is not difficult to find work in Mexico, but it is difficult to find work that pays enough money to survive, said Anna Torres through an interpreter. She said she worked in an office but lived in poverty. -- Torres, formerly of Veracruz, Mexico, has lived in Galena for about one year. Like most recent Latin American immigrants, she came here to work. She holds two jobs, one as a housekeeper at the Goldmoor Inn south of Galena and one at the Desoto House Hotel in downtown Galena.

Arizona Republic

Illegals sue Pinal County farm owner
Eight undocumented immigrants have filed a lawsuit against a Pinal County farmer, claiming they were threatened at gunpoint after being denied pay. -- But the farm owner said the migrants were employed by independent contractors, whom he said wouldn't threaten workers. He contended Monday that an accounting error resulted in the bouncing of several subsequent payroll checks. -- "This is a huge misunderstanding that has been totally blown totally out of proportion," said Vic Curriere, owner of Santa Rosa Farms...

Newsday

Language is Key to Hispanic Vote
The political importance of Hispanics is growing, and so is the number of politicians learning Spanish to try to tap into that voting bloc. All over Capitol Hill, lawmakers are picking up audiotapes and textbooks to learn Spanish so they can use it to chat with voters, deliver speeches or give interviews to Spanish- language television, radio and newspapers. "It's a very quick and easy way for a candidate to indicate that they're simpatico," said Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza........

Human Events Online

Latino Strategy Could Backfire
How far will the White House and some of its eager pro-immigrant Republican allies go to try to capture the Hispanic vote? The short answer: We don't know yet. -- Much will depend on the results of George Bush's high- stakes visit with Mexican President Vicente Fox on September 5, when he is expected to lay out his plans for dealing with the huge number of Hispanic illegals in the United States, now estimated to be at least 6 million. -- Republican concern about the Hispanic vote is intense.

Arizona Republic - Opinion

Only Mexicans can make Mexico prosper
Both sides of the immigration debate in the United States agree that the long-term solution is an improved Mexican economy. -- Some - surprisingly mostly from among those arguing that existing immigration patterns benefit the United States - propose that the United States try to jump start Mexican economic growth with foreign aid or targeted investment. -- A better place to begin is with the insights of Hernando De Soto, head of a Peruvian think tank, in his book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. (AZ Rep. - Free Reg.)

Arizona Republic / Stein Report

Arizona Republic In Depth Immigration Coverage
The Arizona Republic ran a special 12 page report in Sunday's paper dealing with immigration from Mexico and a potential amnesty. Along with the Republic, a local TV station conducted a poll of Arizonans and found substantial support for tougher border controls. Respondents also were concerned about the high rate of welfare use by illegal aliens. "We're helping illegals to have their kids here, but we should help our own people first," said one woman facing a $70,000 dollar debt for surgery.

Stein Report

New York, D.C. Freep'ers Set for No Amnesty Rally
The New York Tri-State chapter of FreeRepublic.com is staging a no-amnesty rally this Saturday. The rally is at the Mexican Mission to the U.S. at 27 East 39th Street, NYC, from 12-3pm. Organizers have a sound permit and the local media is expected to attend the protest. And other Freep'ers will be protesting in Washington DC on Saturday.

Daily Hampshire Gazette - Editorial

Hispanics pan immigration plan
Haydee Pavia of West Hills, Calif., was born in Latin America and has worked as a bilingual nurse. She is an honors graduate of the get- to- the- point school of political thought. Consider a portion of the letter she dispatched to the Las Vegas Review- Journal: "American workers are losing their jobs to illegal immigrants, and taxpayers have to pick up the tab for more schools for their anchor babies and for social services," wrote Pavia.

Tucson Citizen - Louis Caldera

Amnesty plan needs to include students in U.S.
The Bush administration is exploring ways of putting permanent resident status within the reach of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, perhaps as part of an agricultural guest worker program. These efforts raise a separate but related issue - the plight of undocumented adolescent students in our country - that should be addressed as part of any such initiative. [Note: Caldera, an illegal alien cheerleader, was Secretary of the Army under Bill Clinton.]

H-1B Dilemma

Independent programmers say can't compete against cheaper foreign labor
Minneapolis (AP) -- Independent computer programmers in Minnesota have joined a national effort to prevent their jobs from being outsourced to cheaper foreign contractors. The Minnesota chapter of the Programmers Guild, made up mostly of people who work as independent contractors for companies, say they've had to cut their rates as much as 50 percent. "We' re up against foreign markets," said Steve Millman during a recent Programmers Guild meeting.

El Paso Times

County backs hospital district in caring for illegals
El Paso County Commissioners Court voted Monday to support the El Paso County Hospital District Board of Managers in its decision to continue providing free and discounted preventive health care to undocumented immigrants who live in El Paso County. -- The decision was made despite a July 10 opinion by Texas Attorney General John Cornyn that county hospital districts can't legally provide preventive health care to undocumented immigrants, even if they live in the district.

Associated Press

More Workers to Help Lighten INS Caseload
Des Moines - Six more immigration workers will be added to the Iowa staff of the INS. Sen. Charles Grassley said the new staff members will help manage a steady increase in immigration casework. "We need more INS service workers in Iowa to help naturalize citizens, adjust immigration status applications and authorize employment," said Grassley, R-Iowa..... [Reader comment: Proof that the flood of immigrants and illegals is deluging a part of America once seemingly immune to the ongoing invasion.]

Las Vegas Sun

Summer Program Aims to Enrich Migrants
Ramona, CA - Like a reverend trying to save a soul, Guillermo Cruz speaks with passion to the 14 teen- agers - children of migrant farm workers - on the verge of entering high school. -- The goal of this day's crash- course on Mexican culture and history, and the local Migrant Education Program, is to help build the students' self-esteem - and help keep them in school. "Many things of our culture have been lost," Cruz says.

Associated Press

Cops: Drunken Mexican illegal killed good Samaritan
Folsom, NJ - A good Samaritan directing traffic near the scene of a fire was killed over the weekend when he was struck by a drunk driver in a van, police said. Genaro Ramirez, 20, of Buena Vista Township, was being held on $200,000 bail on manslaughter and driving- under- the- influence charges in the death of Joseph Ingemi, 38, of Folsom. -- Ramirez is an illegal alien from Mexico.

WorldNetDaily

Bilingualism furthers our divide
You may remember Broward County, Florida, as one of the counties involved in the controversial Al Gore ballot "count-a-thon" last November. But now, Broward County officials are back in the news for a different ­ albeit equally disturbing ­ reason. According to Monday's Miami Herald newspaper, Broward County officials say they will make government "bilingual" in order to "better serve" the region's burgeoning Hispanic population. -- Is this "political correctness" gone amok? Yes. And no.

Palm Beach Post

NAACP: Don't limit amnesty program
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond joined union leaders Monday to urge the Bush administration to include people of all races and nationalities in any plan to legalize undocumented immigrants. "We cannot have one immigration policy for people originally from Mexico and another for people originally from Jamaica, or Haiti, or the Dominican Republic, or Somalia, or Ethiopia," he said. "We've seen too much of that in the history of our country...." [See feature on this]

The News - Mexico City

Deputies take migrant law to (Mexican) high court
Under pressure from grass roots organizations, federal deputies have taken a Baja California law that allows police to impede migrants from illegally crossing the U.S. border to the Supreme Court. A chorus of rights organizations, including the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), argue the law is ineffective and dangerous because in an effort to elude authorities, migrants will look for new routes in more remote and harsher areas in their quest to reach U.S. soil. This week authorities from the state's Civil Protection Unit will begin surveillance missions of the border and detaining migrants.

New York Times

U. of Georgia Cannot Use Race in Admission Policy, Court Rules
A federal appeals court panel ruled unanimously today that the admissions policy of the University of Georgia, which gives a slight preference in bonus points to nonwhite applicants, was unconstitutional. -- The three judges on the panel said the university failed to prove that having more nonwhite students on campus would lead to a more diverse student body. Under some interpretations of the United States Supreme Court ruling in the landmark 1978 Bakke case, the creation of a more diverse student body might have justified the university's giving black students extra points in its admissions calculations. But the federal appeals court rejected that logic.