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Migration frustration
Dear Elected Officials: I have lived for nearly 70 years in these United States, and I have seen every scam, usury, and manipulation man can devise to achieve his political ends or her political ends by using a constituency in this country. (The his/her construction is ugly and has always struck me as a NOW invention to destroy the structure of the English language in favor of making little boys and little girls exactly alike.) -- There was a time when I would talk back and call for a moratorium against such abuse. -- Finally you wore me out, along with millions of other silent Americans.

Dallas Morning News

Immigration issue faces complexities, Bush says
President Bush said today the high-level immigration talks between the United States and Mexico have developed into a complex series of negotiations that will take much more time to forge a compromise that could pass Congress. -- "This is an issue that is complicated not only by the relationship between America and Mexico. It's complicated by the fact that we've got immigrants from different countries. [Also on the Free Republic]

American Patrol

500 Expected at American Patrol Amnesty Meeting
More than four hundred have already reserved seats for a meeting on amnesty to be held this Sunday at the Beverly Garland Hotel prompting sponsors to predict a sellout crowd. -- The meeting, sponsored by American Patrol of Sherman Oaks, will focus on the effects of a new amnesty or regularization program for illegal aliens presently in the United States. -- Guest speakers will include Bill King, former director of the 1986 amnesty program for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Associated Press

Jury Convicts Mexican Coyote
A Mexican border- crossing guide was found guilty of second- degree murder in the death of a 13- year- old boy during an Arizona desert trek. Alfredo Cabrera Miranda was found guilty Wednesday in the death of Jonathan Saldivar. The jury also found him guilty of endangerment in the near-death of the boy's mother, Maria Saldivar. Miranda told the court he led the Saldivar family, including the boy's father, across the border into the Arizona desert last August. -- Miranda's sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 26.

Newsday

Dominican Republic a Hotbed of Visa Fraud
The U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic experiences high incidences of fraud associated with visa applications, State Department officials said yesterday. "The U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo is considered a high- fraud post when it comes to visa applications, and that has always been the case," said an agency official speaking on the condition of anonymity. Because of that, the State Department has had an anti-fraud unit at the embassy for some time, the official said.

Center for Immigration Studies

Background Information for Fox Visit
During his state visit next week, Mexican President Vicente Fox will meet with President Bush to discuss a possible guestworker amnesty for illegal Mexican immigrants. A report released last month by the Center for Immigration Studies provides detailed background information on the impact of Mexican immigration on the U.S. Based on data collected by the Census Bureau in 2000, the report contains extensive information on the Mexican immigrant population, both legal and illegal, including where they are in the U.S....

Washington Post

Mexico's New Envoy Energized By Fast-Changing Ties With U.S.
For generations, migration has been at the forefront of conflicts in U.S.-Mexico relations, but now the two countries are talking about amnesties and regularizing illegal workers. "We can have a close relationship, while both countries pursue their own national interest," Juan Jose Bremer observed. "The greatest enemy of change is prejudice and misperception as our countries transit from distant neighborhood to partnership." -- "There are times when this is business as usual and at times the gates open to let in floods of change," Bremer said with relish. "This is a never- ending story."

Salt Lake Tribune

Reconquista: This land is our land!
Susan C. Carreon, writing in the Salt Lake Tribune, says that opponents of amnesty are ignorant of the true facts. Carreon writes " . . . we are an indigenous people residing in our ancestral homelands which are now occupied and controlled by the U.S. government." "We believe that we are the red-brown people from the red-brown Earth of the New World Land: This includes the entire Western Hemisphere."

Translated La Opinion Article

English Only Policy Confirmed
A San Francisco Federal Court rejected yesterday a petition to modify a section of Proposition 227, which says that any parent or guardian could sue a teacher, administrator or members of the Board of Education if they don't teach English. -- "That is ridiculous, it is as if they took away a tool that we as teachers have to teach students who don't speak a word of English, commented Mister Kessler.....

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An E-Mail from Walter Ewing
To an American Patrol supporter: I think that it is important to remember the history of the United States when thinking about immigration. We are a nation of immigrants. One hundred years ago, the Italians and Irish who came to the U.S. were viewed as separate *races* not as good as "natives" and were subject to the same prejudice and discrimination as many immigrants are today. But now, the Italians and Irish are considered *white* members of U.S. society and are widely credited with helping to build our nation.

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Re: Professor Raul Hinojosa- Ojeda
...His background indicates he is a typical "global socialist" pawn of those who seek to incrementally inject our Nation with the cancer of "Tolerance for Global Socialism". In this case, it is through encouraging illegal immigration under the pretext the need for unskilled workers and the safety of these workers. --- Hinojosa- Ojeda is typical of the "Cultural- Marxists" that have been handed control of our Nation's education system by our Nation's Establishment Insider, Global- Socialist, social engineers.

L.A. Times

Jury Selection Begins in Cher Case
Jury selection has begun in a lawsuit accusing Cher of firing an accountant for noting labor violations, including the hiring of illegal immigrants, during construction of the entertainer's Malibu mansion. Salvatore Sampino sued Cher in July 2000, alleging wrongful termination. He said he was fired in May 2000. "All I can say is the truth is the truth. I'll defend myself in there," Cher said before entering court Thursday. Cher and her attorneys have denied the accusations, saying Sampino wasn't fired but quit.

USA Today

Fox and Bush have agenda cut out for them
Fox, guest of honor at Bush's first state visit in Washington, plans to spend Wednesday and Thursday with his fellow rancher and former border-state governor. The two men will lead Cabinet negotiations on immigration reform, border safety, drug interdiction and trade as they set their agendas for the next several years. And they will visit a Mexican- American community in Toledo, Ohio. -- "It's a very complicated negotiation - very entangled - with delicate political equations in the United States and in Mexico," Jorge Castaneda says.

The Stein Report

Polls show low support for amnesty going into Fox-Bush meeting
Union and ethnic activists staged protests yesterday as part of an effort to pass an illegal alien amnesty. The protests come before next week's meeting between Mexican President Vicente Fox and President George W. Bush. Yesterday, FAIR released the results of a Harris poll about amnesty that show a majority of Americans oppose so-called legalization efforts and support more border enforcement. The results as similar to those of a USA-Today poll last weekend that found two-thirds of Americans oppose making it easier for illegal aliens to get citizenship.

Associated Press

Official says illegal alien ballplayer is 14
Little League star pitcher Danny Almonte is 14 years old, not 12, a Dominican official said Friday in a finding that could strip the Bronx team of its third- place finish in the World Series. A birth certificate suggesting the boy was 12 was not convincing, said Victor Romero of the government records office. -- Little League officials have said his immigration status did not affect his eligibility since all that is required is that a child be of age and that a parent or legal guardian live in the community he represents.

Arizona Daily Star

Former Mexican film star discourages illegal entrants
A former star of Mexican soap operas and movies is sending a passionate message of warning to potential border crossers and family members in the United States. Olga Breeskin is the U.S. Border Patrol's latest recruit to appear in public service announcements asking her countrymen not to cross the border illegally. In one of the four new spots - the latest in a series put out by the agency - Breeskin addresses family members in the United States as well.

Associated Press

Minivans Hot Propery Along U.S.-Mexican Border
The couple lived in Southern California only a few months before they had what some view as a quintessential border experience: Someone stole their minivan. More specifically, someone stole their van to transport illegal immigrants from Mexico into the United States across the world's busiest border crossing. The minivan vanished after Trina Kleist parked the 1992 Plymouth Voyager outside a museum in Balboa Park. When she returned two hours later, it was gone.

VCIR News

Month-Long Vigil Held at Justice Dept. Against the Proposed Amnesty
Starting today, a coalition of concerned citizens coordinated by the Virginia Coalition for Immigration Reform (VCIR) will begin a month-long vigil outside the Justice Department demanding enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. Event organizers include the groups Descendants of Slaves, The Urban Voice, The Soul Patrol and others concerned about the impact of illegal immigration in their communities. [Also see this Free Repblic item] [More information]

Rogers, AR

Debate on immigration needed, Tancredo says
If the people of the United States want 40,000 immigrants a week, so be it, but there should be discussion first, U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo told about 50 people Thursday in a midafternoon forum in Rogers presented by state Sen. Gunner DeLay, a candidate for Congress. Tancredo is the leader of the Immigration Reform Caucus, made up of 17 members of Congress who want more discussion of U.S. immigration policy. DeLay's campaign flew Tancredo to Rogers. DeLay has called illegal immigration a defining issue in the campaign......

New York Times

After Remarks on Migrants, an Apology from L.I. Legislator
A Suffolk County legislator's comment at a public hearing this week - that if his town were "attacked" by an influx of Hispanic day laborers, "we'll be out with baseball bats" - has touched off a storm of condemnations in this county, where two Mexican workers were beaten with construction tools last fall. -- The legislator, Michael M. D'Andre, a Republican of Smithtown, apologized today for the remark, but there were calls for his resignation from local immigrant advocates and criticism from top elected officials.

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No habla? No job
...The Baldwin Park Unified School District is hiring and has several clerical positions available. I took their tests and "aced" them. I have tremendous administrative assistant/office manager experience. However, of all the positions available, I was turned down on all of them for an interview. I called their HR Dept. to find out why, given the fact that I probably had more experience and skills than 98% of the applicants. The gentleman I spoke to told me it probably was because I wasn't "bi-lingual" (English/Spanish). (Read Glenn Spencer's remarks in the Daily Bruin, 1997)

The News - Mexico City

Meddlesome Mexican border czar to ask Bush to name counterpart
Border Commissioner Ernesto Ruffo announced late Wednesday that he will participate in the meeting between Bush and President Vicente Fox next Wednesday and Thursday. -- Ruffo said a U.S. border czar is needed to speed development of the border between the two countries, where shantytowns have grown on both sides as people have flocked to the region to seek work in its booming industrial sector. Ruffo also said that Fox will continue to push for illegal alien amnesty, financing schemes for economic development in Mexican communities, etc.

L.A. Times

Anaheim Gang Raid by Police, INS Nets 7
Hoping to end mounting gang violence in Anaheim, a task force of local police and immigration officials arrested seven alleged gang members Thursday during an early-morning raid. Anaheim detectives asked the INS to help after determining that four of the suspects had been deported for other crimes but reentered the country illegally, police officials said. The raid was part of an investigation into two shootings that left at least two gang members wounded in the last month as tensions have flared between local gangs.

L.A. Times

Activists Push for Fox-Bush Deal on Immigration Amnesty
Union activists and others advocating amnesty for illegal immigrants gathered outside a Los Angeles supermarket Thursday as part of a swelling public relations campaign aimed at influencing upcoming immigration talks between President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox. -- "Immigrants give far more than they take," said the author, Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, a professor of urban planning in the School for Public Policy and Social Research.

LewRockwell.com

The New Manifest Destiny
On April 21st, 1836, Sam Houston of the Texas Republic mounted a surprise attack on Mexican General and Dictator Santa Anna near Galveston Bay. Santa Anna was captured and forced to sign documents surrendering his army and recognizing the independence of the Republic of Texas. Thus ended an independence movement that had grown out of a careless immigration policy enacted a decade before. -- The immigration problem that Texas posed to the Mexican government in the 1830s is instructive to us today and serves as an excellent reminder of the central role of demographics in the maintenance of sovereign societies.