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Thursday, November 15, 2001

U.S. Policy on Illegal Aliens "Hall and Olson said the agency does not require criminal background checks before releasing those who cross the border illegally."
Sen. Carl Levin		Security on borders still lax, agents say U.S. Border Patrol agents testified Tuesday that, despite promises of tighter security, enforcement of immigration laws has been lax since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- Many illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the border are routinely released into the community with no more than a request that they show up for deportation hearings later, agents said. Read transcripts Listen: Part 1 -- Part 2
"These are people arrested by the Border Patrol for illegally entering the country," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). "We don't even run a criminal background check? I find that incredible." Past features Discuss on FR

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Charlotte Observer
INS law enforcement made into own bureau
Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major reshaping of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Wednesday, creating separate bureaus for law enforcement and immigrant services. -- The move comes a week after Ashcroft ordered a reorganization of the FBI to focus on preventing terrorism and two months after terrorist attacks exposed widespread problems with the INS's ability to track immigrants.

Associated Press
Mexico's economy going in the tank
Mexico's economic activity sank in the third quarter, showing its most dramatic decline since the last quarter of 1995, when the nation was mired in its deepest recession in recent memory. -- The Finance Ministry said Thursday that gross domestic product dropped 1.6% from the same period last year and declined 0.22% from its second-quarter total. -- The decline mirrors Mexico's dependence on the U.S. economy. About 90% of Mexico's manufactured exports are sent to its richer neighbor to the north...

Houston Chronicle
Mexico has no water left to repay Texas farmers
Texas officials who flew over lush irrigated fields in northern Mexico said there is no water left in reservoirs to repay drought-ravaged farmers in the Rio Grande Valley the billions of gallons Mexico owes them. -- Mexico, it appears, has used almost all of it. -- From the air, Texas officials recently viewed thousands of acres of pecan orchards, green fields of alfalfa, huge dairy farms as they flew over irrigated valleys...

Michelle Malkin
An INS horror story
The INS bureaucracy is a cesspool of elbow-rubbers, string-pullers, chest-puffers, and cover-uppers who care more about protecting their backsides than upholding the law. -- Look no further than the man who currently heads the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's counterterrorism unit. His name is Walter D. Cadman. As you read his stomach-churning story, remember what internal whistleblowers at INS have been warning for years...

Bergen Record
N.J. tightens license process
In an effort to combat fraud, the state Wednesday stopped issuing driver's licenses to foreigners whose visas expire in one year or less. -- The move comes amid nationwide concerns that foreigners who enter the country illegally, or who overstay their visas, are using state- issued driver's licenses to mask their unlawful status in the United States. -- The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon highlighted the ease with which foreigners can obtain driver's licenses and state IDs.

The News - Mexico City / EFE
Border Patrol agents redeployed to boost security
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been deployed to entry points along the U.S.- Mexican border to help implement stricter security measures, including vehicle searches. -- A group of 20 agents were assigned Tuesday to San Ysidro, California, where they will assist immigration and customs officials in the so- called "operation maximum alert No.1," intended to increase security in the face of terrorist threats.

Omaha World-Herald
One dies, 8 hurt in I-80 accident
One person was killed and eight others were injured Wednesday when a van rear- ended a semitrailer truck at an Interstate 80 rest stop near Milford, Seward County Deputy Randel Muhm said. -- The van's driver was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide and was being held at the Seward County Detention Center pending a court appearance. -- Most of the people inside the van were suspected of being undocumented immigrants, Muhm said.

ThisIsLondon.com
Mullah has a "a big plan" for the destruction of America
Taliban leader Mullah Omar said today he would fight on and choose death before surrender to the Americans. -- He said the Taliban still holds Kandahar and four provinces in Afghanistan. His forces, he says, will counterattack soon, and he has a "a big plan" for the destruction of America. -- But the mullah gave the appearance of preparing to make a last stand at Kandahar. "We would prefer death to the government of fascists," he told the BBC...

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Ashcroft Says I.N.S. Will Be Split...
Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that the INS would be split into two bureaus to streamline its border enforcement and service responsibilities. -- "Our objective is to build a leaner and more efficient, mission-focused department capable of meeting the threat of international terrorism, while at the same time fulfilling our traditional justice function of upholding the rule of law and protecting the freedom of all Americans," Mr. Ashcroft said at a news conference.

WorldNetDaily.com
America's 'Palestinians'
President Bush says he wants to see a Palestinian state carved out of Israel. -- He may be surprised some day soon when that statement and his recent actions in support of it come back to bite him. -- Why? -- Activists who see themselves as "America's Palestinians" are gearing up a movement to carve out of the southwestern United States a region (called Aztlan) including all of Bush's home state of Texas a sovereign Hispanic state called the Republica del Norte.

Washington Post
U.S. and Mexico to Resume Talks on Immigration Policy
Mexican and U.S. officials are relaunching talks on immigration reform that stalled after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, recasting the issue more as a matter of national security in light of Washington's new priorities. -- Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), who will travel to Mexico on Friday for a meeting with President Vicente Fox, said today in Washington that their basic commitment to immigration reform had not changed since the attacks. [Discuss on the Free Republic]

LTE - AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Bisbee border humor
Along with their outrage at the virtually unchecked flood of illegal immigrants crossing the nearby Mexican border, the citizens of Bisbee have retained their sense of humor. -- Last week, as we drove into Bisbee from the Naco highway, a professionally painted sign on a 4- by 8-foot sheet of plywood said, "If this was Scottsdale the National Guard would be here." -- [Note: This is humorous?] - See other photos

This is about the Canadian border versus the Mexican border. Our corrupt politicians are paying attention to the Canadian border instead of Mexico's border because we don't get millions of cheap labor from Canada. Even a 4th grader would know how good the chances are of terrorists coming through Mexico. Let's face it, Mexico is a sacred cow to politicians. Greed comes first. -- HP - West Hills, CA

The Monitor
Mexicans to siphon from Rio Grande
The governor of Mexico's Chihuahua state has told Texas officials of plans to siphon off even more water that should be going to drought-stricken Rio Grande Valley farmers. -- Chihuahua Gov. Patricio Martinez said a pipeline was being built to transfer water from the Luis L. Leon Reservoir, just south of Presidio, to Ford and Motorola maquiladora plants in the city of Chihuahua. The dam takes water from the Rio Conchos, a tributary of the Rio Grande.

CBS News
60 Minutes II: Educating The Enemy
One of the bitter ironies of Sept. 11 is that the hijackers who committed mass murder relied on skills they learned in America. -- It's such a troubling fact that just yesterday President Bush signed an order to pick up and question more than 5,000 mostly Middle-Eastern men, many of whom entered this country legally on student visas. -- Most foreign students have only goodwill in mind. But the U.S. has also been educating the enemy - and we have been doing it for years...

AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Some crash victims' kin are fearing deportation
Fearing deportation, some relatives of the victims of American Airlines Flight 587 are afraid to claim the bodies of their loved ones or leave the country to bury them, family members and community leaders said Wednesday. -- They called on the federal government to grant an amnesty so that those in the United States illegally can regain entry into the country if they return to the Dominican Republic to bury their dead.

Associated Press
Mexico Says Its Ready to Cut Its Oil Production
Mexico will cut oil exports up to 100,000 barrels per day in 2002 as part of OPEC's efforts to reduce oversupply in the world market, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday night. -- The decision comes after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in Vienna on Wednesday to cut its quotas by 1.5 million barrels a day beginning Jan. 1, a move the group says is dependent on Mexico and other non-OPEC producers following its lead.

Associated Press
Davis Orders Emergency Legislative Session to Address Budget Mess
Faced with the state's steepest revenue decline since World War II, Gov. Gray Davis proposed $2.24 billion in cuts to the current state budget and called an emergency session of the Legislature to address the crisis. -- A report released Wednesday forecasts a $12.4 billion shortfall - or 15 percent - during this budget year and next. Shortages could linger until 2007.

ABC News
Foreign Students Often Remain After Their Visas Expire
When Bangladeshi student Omar flunked out of the U.S. college he was attending, his student visa became invalid. -- He was supposed to leave the United States and go back home, but no one forced him out, so he stayed. -- "I didn't get contact from anyone, not from the school, not from the government agency, when my paper got expired," said Omar, who asked that his last name not be used.

The News - Mexico City
Canada not Mexico faces U.S. border scrutiny
U.S. lawmakers are shifting their focus away from the Mexico-U.S. border in favor of upping security along the U.S.-Canada border in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. -- Sen. Susan Collins called the U.S.' northern border "the entryway of choice for a number of terrorists" during a subcommittee hearing Tuesday. A retired Border Patrol agent called U.S. immigration policy "a flooded, sinking ship."

The News - Mexico City
U.S. anti-drug czar says Mexican consumption growing
U.S. drug chief Edward Jurith said Wednesday that cocaine use is rising in Mexico and other parts of Latin America -- an increase that officials suggested might result from tightened U.S. border security. -- In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the United States increased security on its borders, making it harder to smuggle drugs and apparently leaving Mexican traffickers with more drugs on their hands.

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