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Veterans Day Tribute with Tom Tancredo - Englewood, CO  VETERANS DAY 2001 |
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Telegraphic Agency Mexicans, Jews share migration as a common link, Fox contends When Barry Jacobs, a Foreign Service officer for 28 years and now director of strategic studies for the American Jewish Committee, learned that Mexican President Vicente Fox was to speak at the group's annual dinner, he was more than surprised. -- "It's mind-blowing," said Jacobs, who serves as the AJCommittee's liaison to the Mexican-Jewish community. "It was an incredible honor that he flew up for this event." |
| L.A. Times Mexican ID Cards Now Valid in O.C. Cards issued by the Mexican government will be accepted as a proper form of identification during police stops, Orange County law enforcement leaders announced Friday. -- The Orange County Assn. of Police Chiefs agreed to accept the cards as a form of identification after meeting with Mexican Consulate officials last month. Until now, police departments differed on what types of identification are valid. Friday's decision creates a uniform policy countywide. |
San Diego
Union-Tribune Five reputed members of gang cleared of homicide L.A. -- The federal government's lengthy prosecution of the state's most notorious prison gang, the Mexican Mafia, ended yesterday with five reputed members acquitted in the 1998 shooting deaths of three people. -- "We're disappointed that the jury didn't see the murder side of the case the same way we did," U.S. Attorney John Gordon said in a written statement. [The Mexican Mafia is also known as "La Eme".] |
| Columbus
Telegram Influx of Latinos can be a blessing The influx of Hispanics into what once were predominantly white Midwestern farm towns should be seen as a potential boon instead of a problem, an expert on Latino immigration said Thursday. -- "It presents an incredible amount of pressure on local communities, but I firmly believe it's an opportunity," said Sylvia Lazos, a law professor at the University of Missouri. -- Lazos said many Americans do not realize that these workers are important cogs in the U.S. economy. |
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(ND) Herald Border Patrol awaits help Border Patrol officials are awaiting word on when security will be fortified between North Dakota and Canada. -- Officials in Fortuna declined comment, but referred Williston Herald staff to the Immigration Naturalization Service Office in Minneapolis. -- "The positions have been authorized, but not appropriated," said Tim Counts, public affairs officer for the INS. "The appropriation process has not started." (Short-lived link) |
WorldNetDaily.com The press and 9-11 ...Post-mortem analyses of the attack have pointed out significant weaknesses in immigration policies and practices, which terrorists were able to exploit in order to embed themselves in our society and operate beneath the radar. (According to the INS, three of the 19 hijackers were here illegally on expired visas, another six had no visas at all, and a few who were able to obtain valid visas were on U.S. intelligence agency watch lists.) |
| The Associated
Press Pact allows cross-border hazardous spill response From now on, the city of Douglas will respond to chemical spills and other hazardous emergencies in its sister city Agua Prieta if Douglas' environment is threatened. Agua Prieta will do the same. -- Douglas Mayor Borane and Agua Prieta Mayor Irma Villalobos de Teran signed a hazardous- materials emergency response plan yesterday evening in a ceremony at the border. These became the third set of sister cities in AZ and Son. to do so. |
Reuters Mexico, U.S. to renew migration talks this month Mexico and the United States will resume talks on a deal for Mexican migrants this month, after the issue was put on the back burner following the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, a senior Mexican official said on Friday. -- Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda told reporters during a visit to New York with Mexican President Vicente Fox that officials from both governments would renew talks on migration on Nov. 20. |
| Chilton
Williamson, Jr. / VDare.com Do Illegal Immigrants Have More Rights Than Americans? For decades, the desert between Naco and Douglas, Arizona and the mountainous country between Douglas and Cloverdale, New Mexico have been busy crossing points for drug smugglers and "ordinary" illegal aliens. Since the Border Patrol cracked down on the major southwestern migrant thoroughfares of Tijuana, Tucson, and El Paso in the 1990s, the volume of human traffic coming through the vicinity of Douglas in Cochise County has increased dramatically.... |
| Pat Buchanan Architects of American vulnerability ...Can we still say it was wise to remove all the locks and doors to our lovely home, so strangers could enter at will? -- Two months ago, President Bush floated the idea of an amnesty for illegal aliens and opening America to all the trucks from Mexico. Today, Bush ruefully admits, "Never did we realize that people would take advantage of our generosity to the extent they have." -- Intending no disrespect, Mr. President, some people did. |
Fairfax
Journal Lawyer jailed in illegal alien ID scheme A Fairfax County lawyer has been sentenced to five months in jail for his role in a scheme to help immigrants illegally obtain Virginia identification. -- Michael E. Ford, of Reston, and Manassas Park real estate agent Jennifer Wrenn signed falsified identification affidavits that allowed immigrants to get Virginia drivers' licenses or ID cards without proof of residency or identification. -- Ford was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. |
| Detroit
Free Press Illegal aliens skip court Hundreds of illegal immigrants in Michigan have failed to show up for deportation hearings in the past year. Many of them had been arrested by border patrol agents as they tried to sneak into the United States from Canada, and then were released. -- The situation concerns U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., whose Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations will conduct a hearing on the matter Tuesday. |
Chicago
Tribune Money flow to Mexico on the rise Mexican immigrants in the U.S. have sent more money home in the first nine months of 2001 than all of last year, a government official said Friday. -- At the end of September, that population had sent $6.7 billion home and is expected to transfer a total of $9.2 billion by the end of the year, up 40 percent from $6.6 billion in 2000, said Juan Hernandez, Mexico's director of migrant affairs. [Hernandez is a US citizen]. |
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Orange Co.
Register "Benefits" of overlooking foreign criminals touted by cops Orange County police envision fewer unreported crimes and more cooperation from witnesses under a program, formally announced Friday, to accept cards issued by the Mexican government as identification for those who come in contact with police. |
| San Francisco
Chronicle Jump in unemployment hitting close to home California unemployment surged in October as the slumping national economy prompted a broad range of industries to shed workers. -- The state jobless rate rose to 5.7 percent, up from 5.4 percent in September. The October rate is 1.2 percentage points above the three-decade low of 4.5 percent registered in February, the Employment Development Department reported yesterday. About 21,000 private sector jobs disappeared during the month.... |
Omaha Herald Balkanization: Latino officers have official office For the first time in a history that spans at least 15 years in Omaha, the Latino Peace Officers Association has an official residence. -- "It means progress," Police Lt. Mark Martinez, association president, said Friday. "It means we can be that much more involved with the community." -- Nearly 80 visitors, including Mayor Mike Fahey and Police Chief Don Carey, attended an open house that drew school principals, agency leaders, ministers and residents of the area. |
| Omaha Herald Hispanic defendant cites language barrier An Iowa City man charged with kidnapping has asked a judge to toss out his statements to investigators because he claims he barely understands English. -- the help of an interpreter in Johnson County District Court on Thursday. -- The El Salvador native awaits a Dec. 10 trial on first-degree kidnapping charges. -- Through an interpreter, Lemus allegedly confessed to various elements of the attack... |
Tampa Tribune The Clearwater Police Department has done much to forge a bond with the city's burgeoning Hispanic population, from hiring interpreters to arranging for Spanish lessons for patrol officers. But to break down stubborn cultural barriers, they acknowledge they've had to make it clear to their "undocumented'' residents that they are in no way interested in sending them back to their homelands. |
| Townhall.com
/ Debra Saunders Safety is as safety does On Saturday, an unemployed Nepalese national and illegal immigrant named Subash Gurung, 27, made it past airline screening at O'Hare airport with seven knives, a stun gun and a can of pepper spray in his carry-on bag. If that wasn't bad enough, it seems that a private security firm's screeners didn't search Gurung's bag, even though they had found two other knives on Gurung's person. |
| Pat Buchanan Let the "Ashcroft Raids" begin In 1919, with President Wilson felled by a stroke, anarchists detonated a bomb outside the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. For the anarchists, not a wise move. -- On Jan. 2, 1920, there began what historians call "the Palmer Raids." U.S. agents swooped down on immigrant enclaves, collared anarchists, roughed them up and booted 3,000 out of the United States. The raids were led by 25-year-old John Edgar Hoover... |
The News
- Mexico City Mexico to link security, immigration in talks with U.S. Mexico will seek to link immigration with security as it works to relaunch its bilateral agenda with the United States, [rabid reconquista and Marxist] Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda said Friday. -- "The agenda has begun to resurface," said Castañeda, who is accompanying President Vicente Fox to the opening of the UN General Assembly. |
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