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| Asian Week
/ NCM New bill promises illegals higher education while stiffing Americans As talk turns to tightening immigration, a bill scheduled for introduction this month in the U.S. Senate would enable undocumented students to qualify for federal aid and gain admission to college, reports AsianWeek. -- The Children's Adjustment, Relief and Education Act would repeal legislation that denied in- state tuition for college- age [illegal] alien students. A reversal of the law is in the California legislature now, but is likely to be vetoed again by Gov. Gray Davis. [Another bill is in the mill in Illinois, thanks to Dick Durbin.] |
| Newsday 2 Salvadoran migrant gangsters held in Westbury slaying Two "self-admitted" MS-13 gang members were arrested and charged with murder for the August drive-by shooting of a New Cassel girl, Nassau homicide Det. Sgt. Daniel Severin said yesterday. -- Jennifer Grimes was shot on a curb several blocks from her house because a male friend standing near her was wearing clothes with bright red lettering, the colors of the rival Bloods gang, Severin said. -- "They were out hunting for Bloods," the detective said of the two arrested. |
The News
- Mexico City Mexican Court limits extraditions The Supreme Court has ruled all extraditions of Mexican citizen will require a guarantee the prisoner will not be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison. -- The supreme court justices said the government will continue to hand over criminals wanted for crimes in other countries only if the death penalty does not apply because this would be a violation of the constitution. The maximum prison term in Mexico is 40 years, although in some instances accumulated sentences could reach 60 years. |
| Charlotte
Observer Arab-Americans worry their rights could be lost As Congress moves closer to passing new anti-terrorism legislation, some Carolinas immigrants and attorneys fear terrorists won't be the only ones facing increased scrutiny. -- The FBI says about 10 people have been detained in North Carolina - none in South Carolina - in connection with the terrorist attacks in New York and near Washington last month. Proposals moving through Congress this week...... |
Star Tribune
(MN) State temporarily suspends using refugee card as primary ID The state, reacting to the terrorist attacks on the East Coast, has temporarily suspended accepting a certain federal form as primary proof of identification in obtaining driver' s licenses and state identification cards. -- Some of the terrorists believed to have been involved in the attacks Sept. 11 used the I-94 arrival-departure form of the INS to fraudulently obtain identification cards and driver' s licenses in Florida, according to DMV Administrator Roger Cross. |
| Concord
(VA) Monitor State aims to prevent license fraud State officials want to add new high-tech features to drivers licenses. -- New verification systems, such as facial pattern recognition, are being seriously considered, Virginia Beecher, director of the Division of Motor Vehicles, said. -- The department is coordinating its efforts with immigration officials and developing a fraud bureau that would be staffed by people with experience in immigration law enforcement. It is also working with the FBI to educate employees. |
The News
- Mexico City U.S. and Mexican envoys perform damage control President Vicente Fox jetted to Washington to mend fences after Mexico's ambiguous, contradictory, and confusing reaction to President Bush's call for an international war against terrorism. Fox's task was made considerably less arduous, thanks to skillful diplomacy by envoys in Mexico City and Washington. -- Mexico drew scorn for its Keystone Kops response to Bush's post - September 9 call to arms. |
| Charlotte
Observer Arab-Americans worry their rights could be lost As Congress moves closer to passing new anti-terrorism legislation, some Carolinas immigrants and attorneys fear terrorists won't be the only ones facing increased scrutiny. -- The FBI says about 10 people have been detained in North Carolina - none in South Carolina - in connection with the terrorist attacks in New York and near Washington last month. Proposals moving through Congress this week...... |
Carl Leubsdorf
/ DallasNews.com GOP suffers setbacks with Hispanic voters ...The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon came just days after Mexican President Vicente Fox's highly publicized visit to the United States, which included a joint appearance with President Bush before a heavily Hispanic audience in Toledo. -- The visit underscored the likelihood that the two presidents' close relationship would lead to an agreement on liberalizing immigration laws long sought by Mexican- American groups. |
| Detroit
News Change in Michigan license application sought Illegal immigrants won't be able to get a Michigan driver's license if Secretary of State Candice Miller gets her way. -- Driver's license applicants in Michigan need only show identification, such as a passport, and demonstrate they are qualified to drive a car. A 1995 attorney general's opinion says the state can't refuse an otherwise qualified person a license just because he or she is in the country illegally. Miller said Thursday she will ask the Legislature to change the law, requiring foreign applicants to produce a green card or other proof they are legal residents. |
| Bergen Record Measure aims for crackdown on driver's license fraud A new state Senate bill is designed to eradicate driver's license fraud by stiffening penalties and requiring photo identification every step of the way. -- State Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Demarest, said Thursday that his proposal calls for higher fines and longer jail time for anyone who shows fraudulent identification to try to get a license from the state Division of Motor Vehicles. The bill also targets middlemen who participate in the fraud. [Some hijackers got their licenses in NJ.] |
Associated
Press Illegal alien released on bond over government's protest The Pakistani manager of a Rayville tobacco store was released from jail on $10,000 cash bond Thursday after a federal magistrate refused the government's request to hold him without bond as an illegal alien. -- Aftab Krishna, 25, of Rayville, was charged in U.S. District Court on Tuesday with making false statements about his citizenship status to a federal agent, Clyde Jones, special agent with the INS, testified in U.S. District Court. |
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L.A.'s Special Order 40 This item was faxed to all councilmembers by a reader today. |
| Joel Connelly
/ Seattle P-I Congress must act to plug porous Canadian border During his years as deputy chief U.S. Border Patrol agent in Blaine, Gene Davis had the unenviable job of explaining government priorities that on their face were absurd. -- Davis would detail emerging threats along the U.S.-Canada border -- "snakeheads" bringing in illegals from China, apprehension of potential terrorists, the blossoming of "B.C. Bud" marijuana smuggling by organized criminal rings -- and then report that more of his agents had been transferred to the Mexican border. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Move to offer immigration amnesty fades following attacks Terrorist attacks, launched by suspected hijackers from abroad, have all but silenced for the moment a movement to relax U.S. immigration laws and open borders to more foreigners. -- Perhaps nothing symbolizes the change more than the visit Thursday by President Vicente Fox of Mexico. -- Only four weeks earlier, Fox lobbied for amnesty for millions of Mexicans living illegally in the United States. At that time, the White House, leaders of both parties in Congress and business and labor organizations were behind him. |
| Nationaljournal.com Nation's borders still aren't secure, agents say Top officials of a labor union that represents BP agents said this week that the agents did not have an emergency response plan when terrorists struck New York and Washington on Sept. 11, and that even now - more than three weeks after the attacks - the country's borders are not secure. -- In interviews with GovExec.com, three regional vice presidents with the NBPC, all agents themselves, said that morale was extremely low... |
Bergen Record Lawyers say INS detainees denied bail Some of the immigrants rounded up following the Sept. 11 terror attacks have been incarcerated without bail on minor immigration violations, their lawyers said Thursday. -- The detentions have left two struggling immigrant families in Jersey City without their sole providers. -- "This is destroying lives," said Lamiaa Elfar, a Hackensack lawyer. "It seems to me they are pretty much detaining people who fit a certain profile....." |
| FAIR News
Release 199,000 Reasons to End Mass Immigration The U.S. Department of Labor is reporting the largest job loss in more than a decade - 199,000 in September. The latest figures for September do not capture the more than 200,000 layoffs in the airline and travel industries that occurred after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The ripple effects of those attacks are likely to result in still higher unemployment in the coming months. |
From Tom
Tancredo House Concurrent Resolution 220 I recently received your comments about immigration and the state of our nation's borders. I appreciate hearing from you and, as you know, I wholeheartedly believe that American immigration policy is far too lax, and is in need of serious reform. The question that so many people have asked me is "What can be done?" During President Fox of Mexico's recent visit to Washington, I introduced House Concurrent Resolution 220.... |
| Letter to
the Tucson Citizen Baldenegro sworn foe of U.S. Thanks so much for the little Oct. 2 lecture on the Constitution of the United States from one of its sworn enemies, Salomon Baldenegro. -- Since Baldenegro is a member of the Mexican Separatist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), which advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the "foreigner Europeans," meaning the white Americans, it's truly charming to read his epistle....... |
Tucson Citizen Drug trade rises again along the border Drug seizures along the U.S.- Mexico border dropped drastically after last month's terrorist attacks, but business is booming again, federal agents said. That's despite heightened security along the border. -- And agents expect drug runners will grow more desperate to move shipments across the reinforced border as the marijuana harvest season south of us ends. |
| L.A. Times Migration Issues Take Back Seat in Fox Visit President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday stressed the need for continued cooperation on border security, but some immigration experts say they're pessimistic that the two can make any headway while the U.S. administration's attention is focused on terrorism. |
NY Post Day-labor beater gets 25 years Tattooed tough guy Christopher Slavin was sentenced to 25 years in jail yesterday for the bias beating and stabbing of two Mexican day laborers. -- The Holbrook, L.I., man - who has swastikas and Nazi lightning bolts on his body- showed no emotion when Suffolk County Criminal Court Judge Charles Cacciabaudo imposed the sentence. |
| Evansville
Courier & Press Key meth player gets life in prison A federal judge Wednesday sentenced Miguel Angel "Mike" Quintanilla to life in prison. Quintanilla was a key player in an operation that funneled Mexican- produced methamphetamine via Texas into Southern Indiana. Quintanilla read a statement just prior to his sentencing. In it, he complained about his legal representation and wondered if he had been discriminated against "because of my Hispanic culture." |
Washington
Post Commerce at Crawl on Mexican Border ...The attacks took place thousands of miles from Tijuana, which sits across the border from San Diego. But they are still causing economic aftershocks that have cut sales at almost every business by 50 to 80 percent. Even the prostitutes in the downtown red-light district say business is way down. -- The general decline in U.S. consumer spending was felt here before the attacks. But now things are much worse. |
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AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Cochise County site of 1 in 4 arrests for crossing U.S.- Mexico border |
| Miami Herald FBI examining Conch 'passport' link They are touted as being tongue- in- cheek but look authentic: navy blue and red ''passports'' embossed with a ''Conch Republic'' crest -- complete with photo, blank official- looking pages for immigration stamps, personal identification information and expiration dates. -- Now federal investigators are trying to find out whether Mohamed Atta, one of the men believed to be a key player in last month's terrorist attacks against the United States, added one of these novelties to his collection of travel documents. |
Joe Guzzardi Immigration policy paved way for Sept. 11 attack As the truth leaks out about how the U.S. government ignored ample evidence that insane immigration policies might lead to disaster, more and more bad guys are turning up in white hats. -- The bad guys in white hats, wearing Old Glory pins in their lapels and giving pious speeches from behind podiums flanked by dozens of American flags, are your congressional representatives. -- In their red, white and blue ties, these folks (to borrow from Bush) have been lying to us for years. |
| San Francisco
Chronicle Feinstein: Terrorists active in Bay Area Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has warned that terrorists may be operating in California, said for the first time yesterday there were active terrorist cells in the Bay Area. -- In an interview with The Chronicle about anti-terrorism legislation moving through the Senate, the California Democrat said the public should understand why law enforcement needed stronger tools to counter the threat of more attacks. |
Ann Coulter
- FrontPageMag.com Don't Just Profile. Deport. House leaders recently rejected the Bush administration's request for authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely. Under the House plan, the government could hold immigrants suspected of terrorism for only seven days without bringing charges. -- Let's hope seven days is enough for the government to perform a thorough intelligence- based investigation of a million Muslim immigrants!-- Oddly, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them. |
| Nashville
Tennessean Illegal alien bus slasher said to have had mental problems The man accused of triggering Wednesday's fatal bus crash suffered from mental problems rooted in his military service in Croatia in the 1990s. -- All agreed that Damir ''Dado'' Igric suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome - a problem suffered by many war veterans, but which Igric refused to treat because he thought it would hurt his chances to get a visa to the United States, one friend said. |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) Testing the System of Relief ...Those workers, among hundreds who stream into the offices of Associacion Tepeyac [reconquistas] day after day, are among those who worked off the books. They have no Social Security numbers. Most lack a driver's license. They have no pay stubs; they were paid in cash. -- As a result, they have had a thornier trip through the maze of disaster relief than most have. For those who worked off the books, seeking relief can mean openly declaring their illegal immigration status. |
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Ben Nighthorse Campbell on Airport Security |
| Chicago
Tribune Senate measure calls for strict immigration controls A bipartisan trio of senators on Thursday introduced a bill calling for tighter controls on U.S. visas in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a proposal they called a common-sense effort to keep potentially dangerous foreign nationals out of the country. -- The measure is designed to aid identification of people with known ties to terrorist cells overseas and prevent them from obtaining their own visas or using someone else's visa, lawmakers said. |
Newsday JFK Airport Ticket Agent Arrested An Egyptian- born ticket agent at Kennedy Airport has been arrested after he slipped his wife and two children past airport immigration checkpoints on the day before the WTC attacks, federal officials charged. -- It was unclear yesterday how the ticket agent, Mohammed Maddy was able to get his wife past the immigration checkpoints on Sept. 10, as alleged by prosecutors. Neither his wife nor his children, who arrived together on a flight from Egypt, had clearance to enter the United States. |
| Associated
Press Poll: Mexicans unsure on response to attacks [Here comes the spin] A poll published in the Mexican press Thursday showed Mexicans are unsure about what role their country should play in the U.S. anti- terrorism campaign, but a majority agreed that it is also Mexico's conflict. --- 24% said the historic harm done by Americans to Mexico justified withholding support, an apparent reference to the two U.S. invasions of Mexico and mistreatment of Mexican migrants. |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) Terrorism and Immigration Sept. 11 must not become a tombstone to the nation's proud tradition of openness to foreign visitors. The terrorist attack exposed frightening weaknesses in immigration practices, as it did with airport security and intelligence- gathering. The best way to preserve the American people's commitment to keeping their doors open to the world is to crack down on lax enforcement of the immigration laws, with a sense of urgency. |
| We Need
Guest Workers? Nearly 200,000 jobs cut The U.S. economy shed nearly 200,000 jobs in September, the government said Friday in a report that showed a sharp weakening in the job market even before the impact of the Sept. 11 attacks - but the unemployment rate managed to stay steady at 4.9 percent. -- The Labor Department said the number of workers on U.S. payrolls plunged by 199,000 in September, the biggest job loss since a 209,000 drop one year ago. |
The News
- Mexico City Fox, Bush confirm Mexico- U.S. issues still on the agenda President Vicente Fox and U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday promised in an Oval Office meeting they would not allow the Sept. 11 attacks to interfere with cooperation on trade and other bilateral issues. -- Although talks on immigration and trade have stalled since the attacks shifted U.S. priorities, Bush made it clear the two nations would continue to work on these issues. |
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