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| Miami Herald Security must be continental, migration experts say Along the border between Montana and Canada, U.S. immigration inspector Frank Bailey sees "wide open prairie'' all along the horizon. "Just look at the spaces out here,'' he said during a telephone interview as he scanned the view from his tiny border outpost in Raymond, Mont. -- Asked how the Bush administration might halt terrorists at the border, Bailey said: "You'd have to put out the Army every couple of miles.'' |
Wall Street
Journal / Free Republic States tighten license, ID procedures, focusing on foreign-born applicants Many states are moving to tighten procedures for issuing driver licenses and identity cards amid concern that the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11 as well as their suspected accomplices obtained the documents too easily or under false pretenses. -- While the changes may be modest in scope, a pattern is emerging: Foreign-born people will be singled out for tougher scrutiny by state licensing agencies. |
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House
OKs plan to put soldiers back along border A militarized border and proposed greater powers for U.S. immigration officials are two of the latest measures taken in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the nation. |
| WorldNetDaily.com 3/4 polled want stricter border control In the first such poll released since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a majority of Americans believe the U.S. government is not doing enough to control the nation's borders and screen individuals who attempt to gain entry. -- The Zogby International poll, released yesterday by the Center for Immigration Studies, indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the lack of border control make it easier for terrorists to enter the country. Those responding think a greater effort in controlling immigration would go a long way in preventing future terrorist assaults on the nation. |
Dallas Morning
News LULAC leader handcuffed after 'losing it' at school board meeting A Dallas school board meeting broke up Thursday night after an opponent of proposed voting boundaries [the local LULAC leader, Jesse Diaz] shouted at trustees and knocked over a lectern before being dragged away by district police. -- "That behavior was way over the top," said trustee Rafael Anchia, who supports a third district for Hispanics. "I was disappointed at the way this meeting went down. I'm shocked. I've only seen this on WWF.' -- Thursday night's session dissolved into chaos shortly after Diaz began shouting at trustees. |
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| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) INS yet to install machines to read higher-security border cards Congress' 1996 mandate that Mexicans routinely entering the United States use ID cards with fingerprints will take effect Monday - even though the immigration service has yet to install machines needed to read them. -- The INS asked Congress for money to buy the machines two years ago, but was turned down because it didn't know exactly what kind of equipment it needed, INS spokesman Russ Bergeron said. |
Associated
Press Audit shows Calif. DMV doesn't have tools to fight identity fraud A state audit reveals that the Department of Motor Vehicles suffers from a "major weakness" to combat identity fraud because it lacks certain technology. -- The auditor's report released Thursday comes as authorities investigate possible use of fake identification by hijackers who were involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. State Auditor M. Elaine Howle believes DMV officials should upgrade its fraud detection efforts. |
| Throw-Away Rag L.A. New Times goes after activist Netkin Government-basher Hal Netkin loves his country. OK! So much so that he's been warning us of the dangers from without for years. Nobody in public office would listen. They considered him a nut case. And then the World Trade Center and the Pentagon got attacked...and they still consider him a nut case. -- You may remember Netkin as the man who, uh, saved us from Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mexican- American who thought he could be mayor. [See MayorNo.com] |
San Diego
Union Tribune / Joseph Perkins Reforming the role of the INS in fighting terrorism A handful of readers thought a column of mine unfair that singled out the Immigration and Naturalization Service as the worst- managed agency in all of government. -- And more than a few letter writers found uncharitable another column in which I called for the resignation of Doris Meissner, Bill Clinton's INS chief. -- Several years later, it gives me no great pleasure to remind those readers, those letter writers: I told you so. |
| USAJewish.com We've seen the enemy and he's Colin Powell We accuse Sec. of State Colin Powell of undermining Israel and the Jews, by seeking partnership with the world's worst terrorists -- against some loosely defined "really bad terrorism," while giving legitimacy to the murder of Jewish civilians by "good terrorists." -- It's time to condemn the son of a bitch! He is an enemy, and will most certainly cause Jewish deaths, here and in Israel. Point him out, speak up, don't let it remain a secret. Colin Powell: You are one dangerous dude. Your boss can't fire you, on account of your being Black, so we understand you're there for the duration. But we're not stupid. We know our enemies when we see them. |
KCBS-TV
News Feinstein To Propose Ban On Foreign Students California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is making a controversial proposal to institute a six-month, temporary ban on international students coming into the United States. -- Federal investigators revealed that at least one of the suspected highjackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon came to the United States on a student visa. -- Feinstein said that she wants immigration policy authorities to have time to create a better system for background checks and for tracking students after they have entered the country. |
| Agence France-Presse As US and Russia converge on terror, seed of 'new world order' seen Terror attacks in the United States this month instantly thrust Washington and Moscow into common cause on a top strategic priority, a historic shift presaging a genuine realignment in world order, according to US and European experts in geopolitics. -- In the days since jets plowed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, both countries have made dramatic shifts that put them strikingly in sync on the US- declared war against terrorism...... |
Washington
Times Haider: Curtail immigrants to fight terrorism Austria's controversial far-right leader Jorge Haider on Thursday called for severely restricting asylum rights and immigration to his country -- as well as all Europe -- as a means of fighting terrorism. -- Haider said new border limits were needed to stop terrorists from "infiltrating" Europe. Without giving statistics, he also questioned why "so many" people from Afghanistan have applied recently for asylum in Austria. -- "Why don't so many Indians come?" he asked. |
| Joe Guzzerdi
- Lodi News America will never be safe with open borders On Jan. 25, 2000, terrorist expert Steven Emerson testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on "International Terrorism and Immigration Policy." -- Re-reading Emerson's testimony is chilling. But it also is infuriating because Emerson laid out chapter and verse how terrorists enter the U.S. -- Emerson virtually predicted the attacks. |
San Jose
Mercury News Colleges decry plan to curb visas As this month's terrorist attacks renew calls for a crackdown on student visas, colleges fear that new proposals will discourage applicants and threaten a $12.3 billion international education business. -- Educators agree that student visas need better oversight. But they say proposals to suspend or delay new visas would drive away international students that many colleges depend on for revenue while doing little to keep out terrorists. |
| N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
With War in the Air, Home Is but a Dream The Mexicans here are holding their fingers into the winds of war. If they are gauging it correctly, this year's Christmas is shaping up to be a lonely and indigent one. -- Normally, the migrant men who work illegally on Long Island's East End would be making travel plans. The summer construction and landscaping jobs are drying up, and the holidays are approaching. This is the time they begin drifting back to Mexico with money orders in their wallets and chocolates for their women. |
Reconquista
Ruben Navarrette Where is Mexico in war on terror? Where is Mexico? The question is less about a country's place on a map than its place in the world. -- Before Sept. 11, Mexican President Vicente Fox challenged the United States to sign an immigration accord by the end of this year. I wrote that President Bush who had made much of his friendship with Mr. Fox ought to put up or shut up. -- Since then, horrifying events in the United States have the nations of the world choosing sides. And now, it is Mexico's turn to put up or shut up. |
| Bergen Record Illegal alien child killer suspect indicted A grand jury indicted a day laborer Wednesday on charges of sexual assault and murder in the death of a 10- year- old Morristown boy. -- Porfirio Saravia Jimenez is accused of killing Walter Valenzuela Contreras, whose battered body was found near a wooded road on May 20 after the boy disappeared from a carnival. -- About two weeks later, police arrested Jimenez after matching DNA from semen taken from the boy's underwear with a culture produced from Jimenez's saliva. [This 6/9 NYT article refers to the suspect's "status".] |
LARadio.com
/ FreeRepublic George Putnam Tells Salem to "Stuff It" ...During his show last Friday, George mentioned that he would be leaving in a week. This triggered a firestorm of on- and off-air comments. Dave Armstrong, gm at KRLA and head of the Salem/LA cluster, didn't want four more days of complaint shows, but wanted to do the tribute show today. As soon as the word spread last week, the Web site americanpatrol.com suggested Putnam's removal was due to his strong views opposing illegal aliens entering the U.S. and quoted Putnam as calling Salem's owners "bastards.'' |
| The News - Mexico City Fox may travel to U.S. in October Under pressure to show his unconditional support for the U.S. in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, President Vicente Fox may make a second trip north of the border next month, the Foreign Secretariat said. -- Unlike many of his European counterparts, Fox has not been to Washington since terrorist attacks because he had already visited the U.S. "a few days before this tragedy," said spokeswoman Liliana Ferrer. -- She also rejected statements made by a British weekly that considered Mexico's support of the United States to be "weak." |
CNN / AP Terrorist attacks bad news for Mexico economy Mexico was already in an economic slump when terrorists attacked the United States. Now things here will almost certainly get worse. -- Perhaps no country in the world is more dependent on the U.S. economy than Mexico: nearly 90 percent of manufactured goods are exported to the United States and 60 percent of the country's foreign investment pours in from north of the border. -- President Vicente Fox insists his country's economy is basically strong. |
| Letter to
The Arizona Daily Star Fund trauma facilities, not illegal immigrants' care I am appalled at what I read in two separate articles of the Sept. 25 Star. -- One article said that Tucson Medical Center's trauma center would shut down for lack of funds ("TMC to close trauma center at year-end"). -- Several pages later, another article reported that the Arizona House of Representatives had approved allocating $20 million to health care facilities to cover health care for illegal entrants.... |
Associated
Press Extra security could make smugglers desperate America's war on terrorism appears to be helping the war on drugs, at least initially, as wary smugglers from Mexico avoid the risk of shipping their drugs across the border. -- Under tight security with many more vehicle searches, the amount of drugs seized fell 80 percent along the 1,962-mile U.S.-Mexico border in the two weeks after the terrorist attacks, compared with the same period a year ago. |
| Courtesy
Announcement National Border Patrol Council Seeks Assistance The existence of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), the union representing Border Patrol employees, is in dire jeopardy. It could be eliminated by the issuance of an Executive Order from the President of the United States, by the creation of a National Homeland Security Agency, or a combination of such actions. |
| Arizona Daily Star Coyote gets 18 years A man who led a teen-aged boy to his death while trying to smuggle a family of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. -- Yuma County Superior Court Judge Kirby Kongable handed down the sentence against Alfredo Cabrera Miranda, 24, of Mexico on Wednesday. He said it is likely the first time in Yuma that a smuggler has been convicted of second- degree murder. |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Immigrant issues not forgotten Though primarily focused on its war on terrorism, the U.S. government has not forgotten immigration problems with its southern neighbor, Mexico's top representative in Arizona said Thursday. -- Rubén Beltrán Guerrero, who runs the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, said high-level talks between both countries have not ceased because of the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., two weeks ago. |
| USA Today
- Pat Buchanan Whose war is this? In his resolve to hunt down and kill the Osama bin Laden terrorists he says committed the Sept. 11 massacres, President Bush has behind him a nation more unified than it has been since Pearl Harbor. But now Bush has been put on notice that this war cannot end with the head of bin Laden and the overthrow of the Taliban. -- The shot across Bush's bow came in an "Open Letter" co-signed by 41 foreign-policy scholars, including William Bennett, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the publisher of The Weekly Standard..... |
L.A. Times Official Warns of $10-Billion State Deficit California could face a budget deficit of up to $10 billion next year unless government regulators quickly allow the state to float $12.5 billion in bonds to recover energy costs, state Treasurer Phil Angelides warned Thursday. Voicing extreme frustration with the Public Utilities Commission, which has repeatedly delayed a series of decisions needed to clear the way for the financing, Angelides said there is now no way he will be able to sell the bonds this year. |
| Financial Times Illegal immigration becomes focus of terrorism fight As the US seeks to construct a Fortress America to guard against future terrorist attacks, attention is turning to its weak spot: Latin America. -- Hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants try to enter the US through Mexico and Central America every year and their need for false papers and passports has fueled a booming illicit industry that could have helped some of the terrorists involved in the September 11 attacks to penetrate the US. [Also see the Free Republic] |
The News
- Mexico City Mexicans mull leaving N.Y.C. in aftermath Thousands of Mexican immigrants in the United States are thinking about returning home following the terrorist attacks that shook the world's most powerful nation on Sept. 11, officials here said. -- Juan Hernandez, head of the Office of Mexicans Abroad, said Wednesday that while many immigrants have inquired about the steps necessary to return to Mexico, "there are no lines" outside Mexican Consulates in the largest U.S. cities. Hernandez attributed the immigrants' desire to return to Mexico to the shock provoked by recent terrorist attacks. |
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