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Wednesday, October 10, 2001

TANCREDO EXPOSED MEXICAN
ANTI-AMERICANISM LAST NIGHT ON HOUSE FLOOR

"President Fox asked us to trust him." "Mexico ranked next to last in terms of countries supporting the United States after the attack."
Rep. Tancredo Speech on floor of House of Representatives, October 9, 2001
   "It is interesting to me to see what one, quote, friend, is doing for us. After the attack on September 11, scores of nations rushed to help us. One was conspicuous by its absence. That, of course, was the country of Mexico." Tancredo said.
   Tancredo suggested that the Hispanic Caucus, instead of trying to divide America, ask Vicente Fox to support America in its fight against terrorism.
   "Mexican nationalism has often been defined as anti-Americanism," Tancredo said.

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Start -- 14:20 -- Hispanic separatism in the U.S.
14:20 -- 41:30 -- Mexican anti-Americanism

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I like and support all of the so-called "redneck" issues! I prefer to hear them discussed by talk-show hosts that are more than just emotional machines driven by their own egos.

Associated Press
US-Canada Border Closed After Threat
Highgate, VT - A bomb threat made to a business near the U.S.- Canada border and a suspicious truck prompted federal officials to close two major border crossings for several hours Wednesday. -- Vehicles heading toward the ports of entry at Champlain, N.Y., and Highgate were stopped by police and directed to smaller crossings, said Craig Jehle, port director in Highgate.		 AlterNet.org / James Garcia
New War Recasts Mexico Agenda
Mexico's President Vicente Fox didn't quite seem himself. -- During a recent appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, Mr. Fox was uncharacteristically nervous, uncertain, even uncomfortable. -- It wasn't anything Mr. King was doing that made Mexico's first- year president appear shaken. No, Mr. Fox simply looked like a man unused to the notion of having a golden opportunity slip through his fingers.

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 Open letter to Arizona Governor Hull
In recent weeks, has the light of reality shone on you sufficiently to awaken you to the fact that you have not been prudent, to say the least, in your total lack of regard in protecting our southern border?

Boston Globe / AP
King asks president for more guard units at border
Gov. Angus King wants President Bush to authorize federal funding for more National Guard troops at Maine's border crossings to Canada to help alleviate long lines and trade disruptions. -- ''I know from discussions with other governors that this is a growing problem in other border states, both north and south,'' King says in a letter to Bush dated Tuesday. -- King said temporary National Guard assignments at border checkpoints would be similar to those at airports.		 Asian Week / NCM
Acts of P.A.T.R.O.I.T.ism -- Fears of Terrorism Incite Reactionary Policy
The Sept. 11 attacks have left two cities devastated and a nation of people conflicted. Americans are resolute in their pursuit for justice yet wary of the future. From our renewed sense of patriotism, a nationalistic fervor is beginning to emerge, most evident in the hate crimes committed against those who look Arab. -- In this atmosphere of uncertainty, legislators and the Bush administration have sought to expand their powers for the sake of national security.

Associated Press
Bill would hike border patrols
The number of agents patrolling the U.S.- Canadian border would triple in the wake of the WTC attack under legislation Congress is expected to approve this week. -- Sen. Charles Schumer, a NY Democrat, said yesterday the security increase would be the largest in the history of the northern border, one of the most open international frontiers in the world. The anti- terrorism bill would provide $711 million for the northern border....		 Aspen Times
Intensive investigation led to arrest of Honduran
A multi- agency, four-month investigation culminated in the arrest last week of a Honduran native on charges that he and others were forging and cashing bogus payroll checks. -- According to court documents, as many as 11 people were involved in a scheme to print counterfeit payroll checks ostensibly issued by the Mountain Temps employment agency, last spring and early summer.

What All State Attornies General Should Consider
FAIR Supports Actions of South Carolina Attorney General
The September 11th attacks against the United States of America have graphically illustrated the glaring weaknesses of our nation's immigration policies and enforcement capabilities, and the need for all levels of government to cooperate in the is area of law enforcement. -- Attorney General Charlie Condon's decision to authorize all South Carolina law enforcement agencies to begin enforcing immigration laws is an important step in the national effort to combat terrorism.| SEE S.C. AG CHARLIE CONDON'S PRESS RELEASE ON THIS MATTER

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 2:01 PM - CNN
Delta flight enroute from Atlanta to L.A. escorted to Shreveport by USAF F-16's due to a 'disturbance'.

Cal Thomas / Tallahassee Democrat
How will we respond to the next attack?
...Before we consider suspension of civil liberties, let's get serious about enforcing the U.S. immigration laws already on the books and empowering our leaders to fight the war that has been all but officially declared. -- The New York Times reported last Saturday that one of the alleged conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Algerian, was arrested Aug. 17 on charges of violating immigration laws.

Associated Press
AeroMexico unit leaves three U.S. cities in wake of attacks
McAllen, TX -- A subsidiary of AeroMexico that operates the only air service into Mexico from McAllen has canceled its service amid the downturn in the wake of the terrorists' attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. -- An executive of AeroLitoral said Monday that the carrier has closed operations at McAllen - Miller International Airport and in Houston and San Diego. John Jones said service ended Oct. 1. AeroLitoral started operating out of McAllen on Sept. 3, he said.		 Bergen Record / Opinion
Menendez says nation must guard its people and their rights
He says we must protect our people and our homeland by using "every single tool available to us in this great democracy" to combat those who committed the heinous attacks on America on Sept. 11. -- But Rep. Robert Menendez, D-Union City, says "we can secure America and still secure our Constitution." -- "We can't allow those who had an anti-immigrant attitude before Sept. 11 -- those who suffer from xenophobia -- to paint all our immigrants with the same brush," Menendez says.

The News - Mexico City
Federal deputies protest outside Foreign Relations Secretariat
Congress might create a joint commission to closely watch the president and the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) "to keep them from committing Mexico in the present armed conflict" triggered by the terrorist attacks in the United States. -- The warning came during a protest by federal deputies in front of the SRE building, government news agency Notimex reported on Tuesday. -- "We will not permit the SRE to involve Mexico in this war," the protesters said while waving placards denouncing the ongoing U.S. strikes in Afghanistan.

Newsday
INS will not act against foreign nationals affected by attacks
Foreign nationals who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 attacks, including a British woman whose immigration status was uncertain after the presumed death of her husband, will not face deportation, federal officials said Wednesday. -- Chatham Township resident Deena Gilbey feared she would be have to leave the country since her husband was lost in the attacks on the WTC. Both are British nationals......		 Contra Costa Times
Feinstein softens warnings about cells of terrorists
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday tempered her earlier warnings of Bay Area terrorist cells and backed away from her threat to seek a six-month moratorium on student visas for foreign college students. -- In her first public comments since the United States launched airstrikes into Afghanistan, California's senior senator called on President Bush to fund electronic tracking of foreign students.

What All State Attornies General Should Consider
FAIR Supports Actions of South Carolina Attorney General
The September 11th attacks against the United States of America have graphically illustrated the glaring weaknesses of our nation's immigration policies and enforcement capabilities, and the need for all levels of government to cooperate in the is area of law enforcement. -- Attorney General Charlie Condon's decision to authorize all South Carolina law enforcement agencies to begin enforcing immigration laws is an important step in the national effort to combat terrorism.| SEE S.C. AG CHARLIE CONDON'S PRESS RELEASE ON THIS MATTER

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Lodi News
 Guzzardi on target by aiming at media
Joe Guzzardi was on target when he named the media as high on the list of the culpable for the Sept. 11 atrocity ("America will never be safe with open borders," News-Sentinel, Sept. 30).

AZ Republic (Free Registration) 8:28 AM
THIS JUST IN: Motorola to cut another 7,000 jobs
Slumping tech giant Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is cutting another 7,000 jobs as it confirmed it is headed for a fourth straight money-losing quarter. The announcement Wednesday came a day after the cellphone and semiconductor manufacturer reported a $1.4 billion loss for the quarter ended Sept. 30. -- Motorola is the second largest private employer in Arizona.		 NCM Online
Terrorism Campaign: Mexico Divided
Mexico's political class is deeply divided over its stance in the U.S.-led anti-terrorist campaign, according to the Mexican weekly Proceso. -- The country continues to mourn the loss of half of its territory to the U.S. in the 19th century. That translates into a residual nationalism that makes Mexico loath to march to Washington's tune. Two of the country's three major parties -- the PRI and PRD.....

Orange Co. Register
Mexican group aims to lower money-wiring cost
Mexican officials Tuesday introduced a service that seeks to monitor wire transfers from the U.S.s and make it easier for immigrants to send money to their native countries. -- "We have created a system designed to lower costs so that the consumer will benefit," said Jorge Romo Martin, adviser for the new Association of Service Providers for Family Remittances. He was among a delegation of Mexican officials who unveiled the plan Tuesday during a visit to the Mexico Trade Center in Santa Ana.		 NewsMax.com
P.C. Madison, Wisconsin Bans Pledge of Allegiance
The intolerant, P.C.-crazed college town of Madison, Wis., has banned recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. And it is censoring the lyrics of the national anthem to boot. -- The school board of Mad Town, infamous as the most left- wing city in the Midwest, made the decision Monday to circumvent a recent state law requiring government schools to offer a daily "moment of patriotism." -- "We do have staff members that are as adamantly opposed to the national anthem as they are to the pledge," Superintendent Art Rainwater said..

Arizona Daily Star
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...When there is a serious car wreck or a plane crash, the victims need care immediately. Insurance carriers never pay the full cost of the care, and many consumers are unable to pay the uncovered portion. Because of Tucson's location near the Mexican border, the problem is compounded by the cost of saving the lives of undocumented workers found abandoned and half dead in the desert each summer.		 Arizona Daily Star
2 guilty of helping move tons of coke
A federal jury found two men guilty Tuesday of helping move tons of cocaine from a cross- border tunnel in Naco through Tucson. -- Sun Tran bus driver Richard Valenzuela allowed his Southwest Side home to be used for storing 12,000 pounds of cocaine, the jury decided after a day's deliberation. -- The panel also found that Naco, Ariz., resident Marcos Dagnino helped move a load of 3,000 pounds of cocaine by conducting surveillance of the smuggling route from Naco to Sierra Vista.

AZ Republic (Free Registration)
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The Border Patrol credits its prevention efforts for this year's sharp drop in border arrests and rescues. But others say that's only part of the story and criticize the agency for this year's record number of immigrant deaths. -- Both of Arizona's patrol sectors, Tucson and Yuma, had declines. Immigrant arrests were down 32% in the Yuma area and 27% in the larger Tucson sector, which stretches from the New Mexico line on the east to the Yuma County line on the west.		 AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Illegal-migrant border arrests fall drastically
For the first time since the United States began strengthening security along its Mexican border, arrests of illegal immigrants have dramatically declined. -- The Border Patrol reported Tuesday that 1.24 million undocumented migrants were caught along the entire Southwestern border during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to Laurie Haley of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Christian Science Monitor
Lawmakers seek new ways to track foreign students in US
As a trickle of Middle Eastern college students head back home from the United States, officials are looking for better ways to track the ones who remain behind. -- In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, police swooped down on campuses throughout the United States, prompted by revelations that one of the alleged hijackers who crashed into the Pentagon entered the country on a student visa.		 Houston Chronicle
Immigration rights now take back seat
Vicente Fox, the man who once advocated open borders, came to Washington recently to assure Americans that border security is now his priority numero uno. -- Like most people in Washington, Fox seems to recognize that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 brought a sudden and dramatic shift in the way this country looks at the politics of immigration. The amnesty for illegal immigrants for which Fox lobbied at the Capitol just a month ago now appears on hold, maybe even dead.

The News - Mexico City
Situation bleak for Mexicans living in New York
Some are wandering the streets looking for work, while others have packed their bags and are ready to come home. These are the circumstances hundreds of illegal Mexican immigrants are living in the wake of the terror attacks in New York, their livelihoods buried under a million tons of rubble. -- The vast majority of undocumented Mexicans went to [NY] in search of --- employment that did not exist for them at home.		 The News - Mexico City
Mexican reaction to attacks mixed, most favor dialogue
..."They shouldn't have attacked in that way because a lot of innocent people are going to die," said 52-year-old Teresa Hernandez, repeating a belief widely expressed on the streets of the capital. -- "With all the resources the United States has, it should have worked for a truce, it should have tried dialogue," said Hernandez, an assistant at an elementary school located around the corner from Del Valle's stand. [Also see this feature item]

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