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Friday, October 19, 2001

"Immigrants are not terrorists."
-- INS Director Ziglar
TERRORISM
Intimidating the public in order to influence governmental policies.

LATINOS who attacked VCT on July 4, 1996 are terrorists    Listen
MARIO OBLEDO
Co-Founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund is a terrorist.
"The Nazi techniques used by the Latino activists were anything but a victory for America."
Letter in L.A. Times, June 29, 1998
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Juan Jose Gutierrez is a terrorist
Gutierrez says SEIU would shut down Los Angeles to get amnesty for illegal aliens. That is a terrorist threat. Listen

July 4, 2000 July 4, 2000 The Mexicans who attack us on July 4, 2000 are terrorists.

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Our new video, "Conquest of Aztlan", will be shown at.....
UROC Convention - Monrovia - Oct. 27

WorldNetDaily.com Poll
Why is the U.S. government taking little to no action on its borders?

Washington Times
Welcoming new terrorists every day
Attorney General John Ashcroft should be congratulated for detaining 700 terrorist suspects including at least 10 linked to al Qaeda, bin Laden's terror network. -- But just as we round up some, more terrorists are entering America each day - part of a Washington bureaucratic oversight which may well border on negligence, or worse. -- First, we should understand that the 19 suicide terrorists who destroyed the Trade Center were not immigrants to the Unites States, people who are thoroughly checked. [See reader comment]

Miami New Times
Admitting Terror (INS incompetence)
The INS had terror ringleader Mohamed Atta in its grasp before the September 11 attacks. Then the agency, which stands at the domestic frontline in the war on terrorism, let him go. -- The 34-year-old Egyptian arrived at Miami International Airport earlier this year on a flight from Spain. His intention, he told immigration inspectors, was to learn to fly planes. Because he planned to go to school, the tourist visa he had used on a previous visit was invalid; the law required that he obtain a student visa from a U.S. consulate before entering the country. Following INS procedure, an inspector stopped Atta at the immigration line......		 El Clarin de Agua Prieta
Arab Terrorists were here
Before and after the airplane attack which destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, and a section of the U.S. Pentagon, several groups of foreigners of Arab origin were hidden in Agua Prieta and then crossed illegally to the United States. -- This comes from investigations made by the FBI, that arrested at least three Yemenites, who in their way to the neighboring country arrived to the border, and they are linked to the bloody events of September 11, and its said that they were smuggled by a band of "polleros" who operated at the border, and was presumably headed by the Giron brothers, who managed to escape.

Seattle P-I
Help at last is headed for the Canadian border
For generations, the U.S.-Canada border has been an unguarded, understaffed afterthought for policy-makers. But now, the 4,000-mile frontier is finally getting noticed. -- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks did what drug- and people-smuggling couldn't. Not even terrorists crossing into Washington state intent on bombing the New York subway system and Los Angeles International Airport could focus the nation's attention for long on northern border security.		 Seattle P-I
Arrest of Sea-Tac worker raises questions
The arrest of a Sea-Tac Airport security screener on an immigration charge raises questions about whether the companies that hire such workers are conducting adequate background checks -- even after last month's terrorist attacks. -- An Immigration and Naturalization Service audit of the local offices of one of those companies has found at least one illegal immigrant who had been working as a screener -- checking passengers and their baggage for weapons and other suspicious items -- since last summer.

Miami Herald
Terrorist faced questions about visa at Miami airport
Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was almost denied entry to the U.S. earlier this year when an immigration inspector at Miami Airport became suspicious that he wanted to take flight lessons while on a tourist visa. -- The inspector ordered Atta out of the regular immigration line so a second officer could question him at length. After a delay, the second inspector cleared Atta into the country as a tourist, the official said.		 TV-10 News - San Diego - POLL
INS Starts Checking All IDs At Border
Pedestrians older than 14 must show identification while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona, officials with the Immigration and Naturalization Service said Wednesday. -- The new security measure, effective immediately, is expected to result in lengthy delays at border crossings. -- It will permit immigration inspectors to use a nationwide law enforcement database to check the names of all border crossers for any arrest warrants, INS spokeswoman Virginia Kice said.

L.A. Times   
7 Arrested in Gang Sweep
Targeting a small but increasingly active south Oxnard gang believed responsible for a series of recent shootings, the city's Violent Crimes Task Force conducted a predawn raid of 11 houses Wednesday and arrested several leaders of the organization, police said. -- Though the gang is relatively small -- 60 members, compared with 1,500 in the city's largest gang -- its members are suspects in shootings, robberies and assaults since last November, FBI Special Agent Rick Kelly said. -- Some of those arrested are considered leaders of the gang, Kelly said.		 Desert Sun
Mexican drug smugglers boosting border shipments
Stepped-up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border -- including Calexico's port of entry -- immediately following the terror attacks of Sept. 11 had cut heavily into the drug trade. -- But more than a month after the attacks, the border drug business is again on the rise -- impatient smugglers have begun to move their supplies. "They have payrolls to meet like anyone else, and they know there's a market on this side of the border," said U.S. Customs spokesman Vince Bond.

NPR / Stein Report
NPR Report: How the Virginia DMV let terrorists get driver's licenses
From the NPR site: Robert Siegel reports on the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Commonwealth of Virginia, where a liberal policy for obtaining a driver's license or state identification card has led to years of fraud and corruption. It took the events of Sept. 11 to finally put an end to the policy, when the FBI learned that at least seven of the hijackers had gotten Virginia I.D. cards. Law enforcement officials have concluded that for the past several years, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants were able to get legal driver's licenses or identification cards from Virginia. (Real Audio, transcript)

Wall St. Journat / Peggy Noonan
Profiles Encouraged
Suddenly to our right, on the sidewalk, we saw two "Mideastern looking men," as we all now say. They were 25 or 30 years old, dressed in jeans and windbreakers, and they were doing something odd. They were standing together silently videotaping the outside of St. Pat's, top to bottom. We watched them, trying to put what we were seeing together. Tourists? It was a funny time of day for tourists to be videotaping a landmark -- especially when the tourists looked like the guys who'd just a few days before blown up a landmark.		 Associated Press
Calif. Student Charged in WTC Probe
A college student was charged Friday with lying to a grand jury when he denied knowing two men suspected of hijacking a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. -- The charges against Osama Awadallah were brought in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where a grand jury has been hearing testimony related to the investigation of the Sept. 11 disaster that toppled the twin towers. -- Awadallah, a student in San Diego, was charged with two counts of making false statements when he denied knowing suspected hijackers....

Traitor Gray Davis' budget crisis
So our traitorous governor faces a budget crisis, and states: "I have to balance the books. I now believe we have to prepare for the worst."

Editorial - Arizona Daily Star
Trauma Center bailout
Finally, a proposal is on the table that could save a much needed trauama center for Tucson. -- Mayor Bob Walkup and county officials have taken the lead toward generating stop-gap funds to keep a trauma center operating in Tucson. Reports on Thursday indicated the city and county will provide interim funding to relieve the financial burden that led to announcements that both Tucson Medical Center and University Medical Center would close their trauma centers.		 AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Border death inquiry widens
Prosecutors have expanded their probe of a smuggling ring that led 14 illegal immigrants from Mexico to their deaths near Yuma, while the ring's most visible member pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges that could put him behind bars for life. -- "This is far from being over. This is only the beginning," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby said, suggesting that those who intended to hire the immigrants in the United States also might be targets of the probe.

Star Tribune
Alleged birth certificate scheme prompts investigation
State and federal authorities are investigating a British man charged this week in an elaborate scheme to obtain a Wisconsin birth certificate using bogus information. -- Aaron O'Brien -- if that's his real name -- was charged Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court with aggravated forgery. He also is being detained by the INS for overstaying his allotted 90- day visiting period.		 So. Florida Sun-Sentinel
Migrant advocates fear anti- terror bill
Chafing at details of a federal anti-terrorism bill, some immigrant advocates have launched an 11th-hour blitz to soften its sharper edges before Congress approves the final version next week. -- But it may be too late. Legislators already have approved the proposal's general outlines. And with the Capitol gripped by anthrax fears, there is momentum building to stamp out any future possibility of terrorism at home.

CALIFORNIA MELTDOWN
CAPITOL WATCH
   Pressure mounted for a state budget Special Session. Gov. Gray Davis came under increasing pressure to call a Special Legislative Session to deal with the state's burgeoning budget crisis. Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Steve Peace and Assembly Budget Committee Chairman Tony Cardenas both estimated the deficit at approximately $11 billion to $12 billion. The Orange County Register reported the governor now wants an immediate state hiring freeze, limits on official travel, and a freeze on all nonessential purchases.
  Davis, quoted by the Register, said, "I have to balance the books. I now believe we have to prepare for the worst." -- SEE VCT analysis from Bonds of Our Union

Wichita Eagle
Anti-immigrant acts help unify Latino, Muslim groups
Members of the Latino and Middle Eastern communities met Thursday night to talk about anti- immigrant sentiment since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to search for unity between the two groups. -- "Yes, we may have our own culture," said Nabil Seyam, president of the advisory board for the Islamic Society of Wichita. "But we are Americans." -- The meeting also dealt with immigration reform, an issue that had been at the top of Bush's agenda in the months before the attacks.		 Washington Post
Illegal Immigrants Feel Attacks' Economic Fallout
Santa Monica -- The line of Mexican immigrants began forming even before the makeshift relief center opened at a small church here a few days ago. Out of work, bewildered by their sudden change of fortune, they came seeking bags of food, help to pay the rent and hope for new jobs. -- Soledad Garcia, who until a few weeks ago had cleaned rooms at a beach hotel, said that she lives with eight other immigrants, all of whom also have just been dismissed.

Michael Savage
The Aliens Amongst Us
Hellooooo infidels! I feel as though I am living in a science fiction movie of the 1950s. You know - where the aliens have invaded and they're killing us. That's where the analogy with the 1950s science fiction movie ends. You see, in the 1950s science fiction movies, when the thing invaded us, or when the aliens invaded us, we called out the military and they threw everything they had at the aliens. We have been invaded by the aliens who are killing us, and yet we act as though we do not know what they look like, nor where they live.		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Day Laborers at Ground Zero Say They Are Not Being Paid
The state attorney general's office is investigating complaints that day laborers hired to clear debris from office buildings surrounding the site of the World Trade Center have not been paid, some of them for up to two weeks of work. -- The complaints here are hardly unusual. Day laborers are frequently illegal immigrants who are promised payment in cash. They have no formal employment contracts, and they know their employer only through a crew leader who hires them...

San Francisco Chronicle
Poll finds voters uneasy with migrants
Many San Francisco voters harbor doubts about electing immigrants to office and feel one Asian on the 11-member Board of Supervisors is enough, according to a new citywide poll. -- On the other hand, the poll commissioned by the Chinese American Voters Education Committee found San Francisco voters are largely favorable toward Asian Americans, who constitute about one- third of the city's population. -- The results differ markedly from a national poll......		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Behind Las Vegas's Glitter, Heavy Losses and Layoffs
Although the Bellagio's brilliantly lighted fountains still dance magically each night and the gondoliers at the Venetian still serenade tourists with arias, this city's tourism machine has sputtered badly since Sept. 11. -- Business has fallen so sharply that the casino hotels have laid off enough housekeepers, waiters, bellhops, receptionists and croupiers to populate a good- size town, 15,000 in all.

The News - Mexico City
Mexico, U.S. bishops shaping immigration statement
Roman Catholic bishops from Mexico and the United States are working together to shape a joint pastoral statement spelling out problems involving migration between the two countries. -- "We want to influence public policy. We want to make people constantly aware of the issue," said Bishop John Manz of Chicago. "The movement of people is an international issue and we want to face that together." -- The bishops began their meetings in San Diego on Wednesday.		 WorldNetDaily.com
Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico
The U.S.-Mexican border here is the most heavily used corridor for illegal alien traffic on America's southern boundary. With its difficult topography that is folded, creased and convoluted, it is a land that yields well to smuggling. The Huachuca, Chiricahua, Dragoon and Whetstone Mountains are riddled with hundreds of deep canyons, caves and arroyos that offer superb concealment for the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens that annually cross here.

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