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| Rocky Mountain
News Mexican diplomat cautions against militarizing border U.S. and Mexican officials must work together on border enforcement and should question whether it is in the interest of both countries to militarize the frontier, a top Mexican diplomat said Thursday. -- Rodolfo Elizondo, Mexican President Vicente Fox's coordinator for the Citizens Alliance, held a news conference at Mexico's consulate office in Denver to respond to proposals to add troops to the 1,962-mile border. |
Engineering
News Record The Open Door Is Swinging Shut ...Then the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., turned immigration priorities inside out. Instead of letting illegal aliens off the hook so that they can satisfy the country's demand for cheap labor, the U.S. is preparing to plug holes along its porous southern and northern borders in the name of national security. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is at least temporarily vigilant and on the defensive as critics note its slip-ups involving the Sept. 11 attacks.. |
| Associated
Press Service Layoffs Hit Immigrants Hard ...Americans have stayed close to home since the attacks, causing a downturn in the hotel business that has been particularly hard on immigrants in low- wage jobs, including cooks, maids and dishwashers. Living paycheck to paycheck, such workers can't afford long layoffs. -- The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union estimates that more than 87,000 of its members across the country have lost their jobs since the Sept. 11 attacks (most are migrants). |
Washington
Post IDs All Around With apologies to the old American Express commercial, Who am I? -- It's a cinch no one at the airport here knows. I have shown my driver's license at the ticket counter, the security checkpoint and once again before boarding the airplane. But while the picture is certainly of me, that does not mean that I am who I say I am. For that, I would need a more sophisticated identification of the sort used in some European countries. [See reader comments] |
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to National Public Radio Re: Illegal Immigration -- by NPR's Claudio Sanchez The segment, "Illegal Immigration" by NPR's Claudio Sanchez, Monday Oct. 23, was outstanding. There was, however, one glaring omission from your list of those who undermined earlier efforts to deter illegal immigration (growers, La Raza, hotel industry, Libertarians, etc.). This was NPR itself. |
| The News
- Mexico City Record-breaking amount of money enters Mexico from U.S. The amount of money Mexicans living in the United States have sent home has reached an all time high this year, reports Mexican daily Reforma. -- In an average year between 5 and 6 billion dollars enters Mexico from family and friends working in the U.S., already this year the total has surpassed 8 billion dollars. -- Following annual reports from Banco de Mexico, the amount of wages being sent to Mexico has been increasing every year.... |
The News
- Mexico City Border security The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) might ask for military help to improve inspection of cars and people crossing the Mexico-U.S. border, government news agency Notimex reported Monday. -- INS spokesman Johnny Williams said his office "was analyzing the possibility" of deploying members of the National Guard to beef up security along the 2,000-mile divide. Williams said such assistance would ease the burden on U.S. Border Patrol and Customs officials and decrease long wait times at busier entry points. |
| S.D Union
Tribune / Patrick Osio, Jr. New urgency for immigration reform It seems like an eternity ago that the national debate was whether the United States should grant amnesty allowing legal immigration status to the approximately 3 million illegal Mexican nationals plus institute a guest worker program for an untold number. The debate and headlines occupied us through Sept. 10. -- Terrorism's declaration of war on Sept. 11 removed from our minds all other issues that in retrospect now seem petty in comparison. [See reader comments] |
Tucson Citizen Sonoran town of Altar makes its living off migrants, smugglers ...Guiding undocumented immigrants across the border is a crime on both sides. Smugglers, known around here as polleros, or "chicken dealers," have been branded as ruthless criminals in the wake of dozens of crossing deaths in the Arizona desert. -- But you couldn't tell that in Altar. This rustic town of 15,000 about 60 miles south of Nogales hums with smuggling activities. Smugglers are viewed differently here. |
| Tucson Citizen Tucsonan with Latino group to meet with Fox Local businessman Jose Canchola will be among a delegation of Latino business people meeting with Vicente Fox this week in Mexico. -- Canchola, owner of seven McDonald's franchises in Tucson and Nogales, was invited by Fox to discuss border issues. -- "I'm guessing we'll talk about trade and maybe immigration," Canchola said. "If immigration doesn't come up, I'll bring it up." |
Associated
Press Illegals fear INS crackdown during the Olympics Some of the undocumented immigrants working in this resort community fear heightened security concerns for the 2002 Winter Games in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will bring federal agents down on them. -- They feared there will be increased demands for identification and possibly raids by the Immigrations and Naturalization Service. [Related article.] |
| National
Post (Canada) U.S. border plan forces all visitors to register 'Check-in, check-out' The United States is proposing a "check-in, check-out" system for its borders, a measure that would require visitors -- including those from Canada -- to have their names recorded every time they enter and leave the country. -- A coalition of Canadian businesspeople says the move would cripple cross-border trade. -- James Ziglar, the commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), has told the U.S. Senate he plans to put the entry/exit system in place at airports and seaports by 2003 and at the 50 largest land entry points by 2004. |
| Arizona
Daily Star Get ready for reductions, Hull warns Gov. Jane Hull warned Arizonans Monday they should not expect the same level and range of services they get now once the budget is cut. -- But she won't say what services state residents can expect to do without. -- Hull said it is unreasonable to ask state agencies to do as much as they are doing now if their spending authority is slashed further when lawmakers meet in special session next month. She said that means finding those programs that lawmakers want to protect...[Reader note] |
Washington
Post Lack of Funds For New Agents On Border Draws Criticism Although Congress recently approved anti-terrorism legislation that would triple U.S. Customs and Border Patrol manpower along the 4,000-mile U.S.-Canadian border, the administration has decided against using any of the $20 billion in new emergency funds available to hire additional Customs agents. -- Lawmakers and a major public employees union complained yesterday that the administration was reneging on its commitment to beef up patrols and inspections along the northern border... |
| Miami Herald Lawyers: Immigrants losing rights after attacks Limited rights for defendants in immigration court are vanishing in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, immigration lawyers complain, saying it's harder to access detained clients or find out the charges they face. -- "We've got to protect our country and find out who the bad guys are, but we don't do that by abandoning our Bill of Rights to walk all over people of Middle Eastern descent or the Islamic religion,'' said Justin Meehan, a lawyer volunteering for the Islamic Center... |
Diane Alden
- Newsmax.com How Many American Elite Does It Take to Screw In a Lightbulb? Even while courage and American can-do are being exhibited and celebrated hither and yon among the common folk, America's evil, banal and stupid other self is still running true to form. -- In Washington, the bureaucrats, academe, politicos, celebrities, the media, and ninnies of various kinds -- our elite -- are once more showing us that America's "brightest and best" have a very difficult time learning life's lessons. |
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