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Los Angeles Foreign leader lauded by reconquista organization He was applauded, praised and, without a doubt, Fox was the man of the night in the twenty-sixth anniversary dinner of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). The man of the night was Vicente Fox, president elect of México, who is making his third visit to the United States since his Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN) defeated the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Fox arrived around six p.m. and was met at the airport by governor Gray Davis in a limousine. They then traveled to a hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where the California governor introduced him his wife Sharon, in Spanish. At the hotel, Fox met behind closed doors with 150 people, among them lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, and he spoke with several local assemblymen. (Translated La Opinion article) |
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Presidential Election Immigrant voter fraud alleged in Florida Based on discussions with an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) source, Judicial Watch said today that the Florida District of the INS has engaged in a systematic program of rushing aliens through the naturalization process to meet INS headquarters "goals" by October 1, 1999 and October 1, 2000. In Florida, a new citizen can register to vote up to October 10th. An INS source told Judicial Watch that the program is nearly identical to the now infamous 1996 "Citizenship USA" program, wherein thousands of aliens some with criminal backgrounds were improperly and illegally rushed through the naturalization process in order to obtain Democratic votes for the presidential election. |
Press Release - Santa Ana Families Who Care Families to protest Nativo Lopez at next Santa Ana School Board meeting Beatrice Salas, a parent of a student enrolled in special education coursework at Santa Ana High School, will lead other local families in a protest at the next Board Meeting of the Santa Ana Unified School District. The meeting will take place next Tuesday, November 14, in Santa Ana, Calif. (see press release). Salas has testified at recent hearings conducted by State Department of Education officials who are investigating her claims, and those of other area parents. Salas also actively campaigned this year on behalf of Rosie Avila, who successfully was re-elected to the Santa Ana School Board on November 7. Santa Ana School Board Member [and rabid reconquista] Nativo Lopez, who has been the main target of Salas' complaints, appears to have lost his re-election campaign..... |
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Orange County, Calif. Latino Groups Form Legal Team to Press Voter Abuse Claims A coalition of Latino leaders announced Thursday it has formed a legal team to investigate allegations that voters were harassed, intimidated and-- in some cases-- turned away from the voting booth Tuesday by poll workers. The group-- which includes Hermandad Mexicana Nacional -- will seek a Department of Justice investigation, coalition members said during a news conference Thursday. Hermandad itself was accused of election day wrongs four years ago, but after a yearlong inquiry a grand jury declined to return indictments against the organization. |
Costa Mesa, Calif. Immigration Reformer Wins City Council Seat Christopher (Chris) Steel whose campaign literature talks of the problems Costa Mesa is experiencing due to the "magnet" policies for illegal aliens, won election to the city council and also received more votes than any of the other 11 candidates running for the three seats that were up for election. Steel was supported in his effort by the Improvement Movement that was started in Costa Mesa about a year ago and which includes groups such as the Westside Improvement Association and Citizens for the Improvement of Costa Mesa. Steel is demanding that Costa Mesa city's government require those seeking city services to prove that they are U.S. citizens. |
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Jim Boulet, Jr. - Opinion Will Noncitizens Decide the Election? Americans who believe that Al Gore will graciously accept defeat should remember one thing: Al Gore helped Bill Clinton trade permanent U.S. citizenship for Democratic votes in 1996 and beyond. A Gore reinvention of a government program called Citizenship USA has been getting a closer look of late, thanks to David Schippers's book, Sell Out. Schippers reports: Our sources inside the INS revealed that, in preparation for the 2000 elections, INS agents in the district offices were directed to relax the testing for English, complete every interview within twenty minutes, and ensure that all applicants pass the Civics test by continuing to ask questions until an applicant got a sufficient number right. Sometimes it was necessary to ask twenty or twenty-five questions before four or five were answered correctly. |
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South Lyon, Michigan Immigration sign remains in place Ron Bodnar is being ticketed $500 for every day a sign about immigration remains in place outside his South Lyon commercial building. To date, he owes thousands in fines, and the toll is still rising. Bodnar says the sign is an issue of free speech, and that its message - "IMMIGRATION WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION IN YOUR YOUR CHILD'S LIFETIME" - is a U.S. Census fact and not a racial slur. That it's outside the business of one of his tenants, a Tae Kwon Do studio operated by Korean immigrants with whom he's had small business disagreements, he says, has nothing to do with it. Bodnar has a Nov. 28 date to appear in court in Novi to respond to the tickets, at which time his attorney Daniel Ambrose said he will seek a formal hearing on the matter. |
James P. Pinkerton Bush Should Rethink His Opposition to a New Election in Florida Today, Florida requires merely an "indication" that a would-be voter is a citizen. Bush should demand strict identification procedures-- and stand firm when Democratic constituency groups howl. Second, since Florida is heavy with immigrants, Bush might remind Americans that, four years ago, Vice President Gore's office spearheaded the creation of 1 million new citizens in time for election day 1996. Yet in that pell-mell process, the Justice Department neglected to perform fingerprint checks on 180,000 applicants. A later review found that at least 80,000 had criminal records, and 6,300 had committed serious crimes, which presumably would preclude many of them from voting. Nor have such insta- citizenship efforts stopped. |
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Kowtowing in Milwaukee Some cases from Mexican celebration to be dropped More than 50 citations issued to revelers during an impromptu Mexican Independence Day celebration will be dismissed, Deputy City Attorney Charles Theis said Thursday. The citations to be released involve those given to motorists for flying large Mexican flags out of vehicle windows or for excessively sounding their horns during the celebration, Theis said. "We're in the process of dismissing the ones attributed solely to celebration- type activity," Theis said. "Celebrations sometimes involve those kinds of things. It was felt we could do that without jeopardizing any law enforcement efforts." |
San Diego Tijuana officer living in San Diego area accused of smuggling A Tijuana police officer who owns a home in Otay Mesa is accused of directing a smuggling ring that regularly moved loads of marijuana across the border. Rosalio Daniel Martinez Fajardo, 30, was arrested Wednesday at his Otay Mesa home, where U.S. authorities seized more than 1,100 pounds of marijuana, officials said. His wife, a U.S. citizen, was also arrested. And a number of other people were indicted in the case. In two indictments unsealed yesterday, Martinez is accused of recruiting drivers to move small loads of marijuana across the border between November 1998 and February 1999. |
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San Diego Activists Say Shooting by Border Agent Unjustified Rights advocates from both sides of the U.S.-
Mexico border charged Thursday that a U.S. Border Patrol agent's
shooting of a suspected illegal |
Washington US, Mexico head for trade dispute The US and Mexico could be facing a damaging trade dispute following US decision this week to seek arbitration before the World Trade Organisation over trade barriers in Mexico's telecommunications industry. Luis de la Calle, Mexico's deputy trade minister, said the US action showed a disregard for Mexico's judicial system and the legal rights of its companies. The US took the step after negotiations broke down over its demands that the Mexican government curb the market power of Telmex, the Mexican telecommunications company. Charlene Barshefsky, US trade representative (USTR), said that WTO arbitration was necessary because Telmex was seeking in court to block new rules that would curb its dominance. |
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Prop. 203 Fallout in Arizona Bilingual ed loss hitting hard, according to the Daily Star "As parents, we have to support (our children) in their education, but now it will be difficult," Mirna López said during a break in her weekly English-language lessons at Hollinger Elementary School. Slightly more than 823,000 voters decided that parents no longer have the right to place their children in bilingual education classes. Is this a swell state or what? "We have been discriminated against," parent Elia García said. And bilingual education teachers have been ignored, Hollinger teacher Lydia Gonzáles said. "It's a tyranny of the majority," Borton bilingual education teacher Caryl Crowell said. |
Reconquista Soiree L.A. Welcomes Next President -- of Mexico Vicente Fox, elected president of Mexico on July 2, flew in to address a Los Angeles banquet of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and to meet with Gov. Gray Davis. In a downtown hotel ballroom crowded with Latino leaders and luminaries, Fox vowed to forge deep political, social and commercial ties between Mexico and people of Mexican heritage in the United States, especially California. "Mine will be the first Mexican administration to sincerely honor the ties that bind people of Mexican descent to the United States," Fox said in prepared remarks. "My goal is to build a relationship of equals, of neighbors, of partners in progress." |