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Press Drug Smugglers Resume After Lull At the Santa Fe International Bridge in El Paso, customs inspectors looking for terrorists are flinging open hoods and trunks, knocking on body panels and getting down on their hands and knees to peek under vehicles. -- The seizure illustrates what Customs Service and Border Patrol officials are seeing: Drug smugglers are getting back to business - and drug seizures are up sharply - after a lull prompted by the stepped-up security along the U.S-Mexican border that followed the terrorist attacks. |
| Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Ruling to make more Latinos due for jury duty For a decade, Gainesville lawyer Dan Summer tried unsuccessfully to convince Hall County judges that Latinos were underrepresented in the county's jury pools. --- It's only a matter of time, said Summer, the Gainesville attorney, before jury commissioners don't have to worry as to whether Latinos are U.S. citizens. The American- born children of the undocumented immigrants will take care of that. -- "In less about a decade, they'll all be voters and eligible to serve on juries." |
Rocky Mountain
News Wiretap helps fell Mexican-run drug ring A federal wiretap provided a multiagency drug task force a peek into a complex narcotics empire operating out of Larimer County. -- Authorities say 1,647 of 2,220 local calls made during a 23-day period last spring were about the sale and distribution of drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. --- The yearlong investigation, dubbed "America's Town," resulted in the arrest of 49 suspects, including Benjamin Escobar-Ortega, 24, the reputed kingpin. The Mexico native was living in Colorado. |
| Review Appeal
(Franklin, TN) Mexican immigrant convicted of Valentine's Day rape A 19-year-old Mexican immigrant was found guilty of rape and assault charges in Williamson County Circuit Court on Friday. A jury found defendant Rolando Rosas Contreras of 1435 Columbia Ave., Apt. 37 guilty of raping a Franklin woman on Valentine's Day. -- The jury, which went into deliberation after closing arguments on Thursday afternoon, came back Friday to find Contreras guilty on three counts of aggravated rape and two separate counts of aggravated assault. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 11. |
Chicago
Tribune Fraud, ID theft finance terror As the U.S. government moves to choke the financial network of terrorists and their supporters, law-enforcement authorities are focusing on a growing and seemingly easy source of money for terrorists: credit card fraud. -- Suspected terrorist cells operating in the United States, Canada and Europe have employed a variety of scams to steal millions of dollars from credit card companies. They then use the proceeds to support their activities and to funnel money to Middle East terrorist groups, according to congressional testimony, court records and FBI interviews... |
| Chicago
Tribune O'Hare weapons suspect an illegal A 27-year-old Chicago man who allegedly tried to bring knives and other weapons aboard an airliner at O'Hare International Airport was ordered held without bond today on a federal weapons charge. -- Assistant U.S. Atty. Edward Kohler said in court today that Subash Gurung, the suspect in this case, was in the country illegally, his student visa having expired, and that he was a danger to the community and a risk to flee. -- If convicted, Gurung faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine... |
Detroit
Free Press Crackdown could create seasonal-worker shortage Stepped-up efforts by Michigan law officers and U.S. immigration officials to find and deport illegal immigrants could create a shortage of seasonal workers in the state. -- The crackdown is part of a nationwide response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. -- The efforts could create a shortage of migrant farm workers and seasonal factory employees next spring because many live illegally in Michigan and other states, law enforcement officials and migrant leaders..... |
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Disruption of planned meeting in Chehalis, WA I just called the manager of the Kit Carson Restaurant and asked them why American Patrol was not allowed to conduct a lawful meeting at this establishment. I talked to a male figure but asked for Claudia Blankenship. |
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to the St. Petersburg Times Cut
back on immigration and step up screeningImmigration
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| We Get E-Mail Concern expressed about immigration and Sen. Wellstone (D-MN) E-Mail to Wellstone: I just read a letter that is alleged to have been written by you concerning immigration matters. I realize that I am not one of your constituents, but I was born in your state, and immigration affects all of us equally. -- In a word, Senator Wellstone, you are, at best, misguided. A couple of things appear obvious. You do not have a solid grasp of what truly happens in the underground society of illegals. Neither do you have a particularly strong appreciation of the laws of these United States. |
Insight
Magazine U.S. Government Finally Waking Up to Threats Steven Camarota: The president and Congress have begun to realize the importance of immigration control in reducing the terrorist threat. On Oct. 31, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced creation of a task force on foreign terrorism whose job it will be to keep out members of terrorist organizations or those who have supported them. Other changes under consideration include more-vigorous background checks and the gathering of fingerprints from all visa applicants, a system to record all entrances and exits... |
| A BBC survey revealed that 40% of Muslim living in Britain agree with Osama bin Laden's attack on the United States, according to a report aired on PRI Radio this afternoon. |
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| Washington
Post Va. Man Details Immigrant Smuggling Ring A massive smuggling ring that brought thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants to the United States, often in appalling conditions, held many of their customers under armed guard in Alexandria hotels until the full fee for passage could be collected from the hostages' families. -- Details of the ring, which allegedly worked with one of the nation's largest immigration asylum law firms, emerged.... as an Alexandria man was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in the decade-long scheme. |
| Tucson Citizen
Op-Ed Need for national IDs is now clear The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 require a rethinking of our immigration laws and their enforcement. -- Prior to Sept. 11, immigration was primarily a debate about economics and culture. Does the currently high rate of immigration in the United States help or hurt economic progress? Are current immigrants assimilating and adding to the fabric of national life or forming separatist enclaves that threaten historic and shared American values? |
Tucson Citizen Illegal alien busts plunge As America tightens its borders against terrorists and the economy slides into a recession, illegal immigration along the Southwest border continues to decline. -- Apprehensions in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector plunged by nearly two-thirds last month. Agents in the sector, which includes all of Arizona except the Yuma area, caught 11,116 illegal immigrants in October compared with 30,009 a year earlier. Nationwide, apprehensions fell 54 percent. |
| Phyllis
Schlafly Report The Threat of Terrorism Is From Illegal Aliens The act of war that was committed against America on September 11, 2001 (9/11) has changed the way we look at many things. As Bill O'Reilly told Eagle Council XXX in St. Louis on September 22, for the first time in many years younger Americans are facing the fact that certain events and people must be viewed as good or evil, not merely in shades of gray. -- I guess we won't hear much now from the conspiracy-debunkers. It had to be a criminal conspiracy that planned and carried out the simultaneous hijacking of four airliners. |
| Beacon News Mission: Get more Latinos to college The numbers don't lie, says Michael Gonzales, professor of Latin-American history at Northern Illinois University. -- In the last decade, blacks have made headway academically. So have Asians. -- Latinos, he says, were the "only group that fell behind" between 1990 and 1998. The number of Latinos who made it to college, and through college, declined. -- "As a generalization, I think it's fair to say the Latino population has fallen behind every major group... |
Chicago
Daily Herald Immigrants see fake IDs as passports to good jobs Despite the felony conviction on his record, "Joe" does not consider himself a criminal. -- Instead, the 36- year- old Mexican immigrant with a quick smile and easygoing manner sees himself as a good person who made a bad decision in an effort to help his family. -- That decision was to purchase a pair of false identification documents he believed could open the door to new job opportunities and a better life for his wife and four children. |
| Chicago
Daily Herald False ID isn't just a kiddie crime With an easily acquired false Social Security card and birth certificate, a person with no business behind the wheel of a car can get a driver's license. -- With that driver's license and Social Security card, a person with no financial background can establish a bank account, buy a car and obtain credit cards under a nonexistent -- or even someone else's -- identity. -- With that official ID and credit that need never be paid off, a person can purchase guns and sell them to gang members... |
Reuters Mexican 'Death Satirists' Turn on Bush, Blair Mexicans don't just venerate lost loved ones in their traditional Day of the Dead festival. In a bizarre ritual they poke savage fun at the rich and powerful with make believe death notices. -- While Mexicans hold vigils in cemeteries and make offerings to lure their forebears back from the afterlife for a brief encounter, newspapers across the country publish imaginary epitaphs for politicians, captains of industry and film stars. |
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Jose Mercury News Detained Middle Easterners complain Samer Bishawi overstayed his visa while living in San Leandro and paid the price in the post-Sept. 11 world. -- After 41 days in custody, he still can't leave a Yuba County jail cell, even though he says the FBI is no longer interested in his case. -- For 19 hours, he said he was questioned with his feet cuffed to a chair after investigators stopped him from boarding a flight back home to the Middle East from San Francisco Airport... |
Laredo Morning
Times Mexican lawyer arrested on international bridge Officials here Friday said they are not responsible for the behavior of a city employee arrested by American authorities at International Bridge II Monday. -- Ricardo Cruz Haro, an attorney in the City Secretary's office, was arrested by an immigration inspector under a warrant issued by a federal judge. -- He is being held in the Webb County jail, without bond, on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute... |
| WorldNetDaily.com Illegals helped alleged hijackers obtain Virginia ID cards ...The path through Northern Virginia that led to the Pentagon attack began in a meeting between an illegal Salvadoran immigrant and suspected hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar. -- Luis Alonso Martinez-Flores is a 28-year-old Salvadoran who, according to an FBI affidavit, "has been living unlawfully in the United States since 1994." --- The police can't do anything about it, said one, because they can't arrest someone merely for being an illegal alien. The INS doesn't do anything either, he added, presumably because they lack the resources. |
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