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Herald Journal Thurmond wants tighter tabs kept on immigrants U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond says tracking devices should be created to keep tabs on immigrants and help protect the United States from terrorism. |
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Tribune Sheriff, Rights Panel Air Bias Issues A civil rights advisory board fired heated questions at Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith on Friday in St. George over his department's practice of arresting people on immigration violations. That is a power usually reserved for the INS. -- The Utah Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights questioned Smith during a fact- finding conference on treatment of ethnic minorities in Washington County. The conference was held in the county -- which has seen a burgeoning Latino population ... [Also see this report from Glenn Spencer and these reports concerning local police and illegals.] |
Omaha World-Herald Nebraska Beef faces federal indictments A federal grand jury has named a south Omaha meatpacking plant and its parent company as defendants in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented workers into the United States. -- Nebraska Beef Ltd. and Nebraska Beef Inc. were charged in a revised federal indictment with conspiracy, misuse of immigration documents and making false statements to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- The meatpacking plant and parent company are also charged with fraudulent use of an identification document and fraudulent use of Social Security information. |
| L.A. Times Airport Bill Leaves Screeners Insecure Just as their pay and working conditions were improving, thousands of baggage screeners across the country stand to lose their jobs under a provision of the new airline security bill requiring U.S. citizenship. -- With its high proportion of immigrants, California is likely to be the hardest hit. About 40% of the screeners at Los Angeles International Airport are legal U.S. residents but not citizens, as are about 85% of those working at San Francisco International Airport, according to unions that represent them. |
Charlotte
Observer As times turn hard, Latinos head back to Mexico Facing mass layoffs and bleak job prospects, some Latino immigrants in hard-pressed areas around the Charlotte region are heading home - believing the countries they left now offer a better chance for them. -- They're leaving the factory towns in Catawba and Gaston counties in the largest numbers, but ripples also are felt in Charlotte, where jobs are still available but getting harder to find. -- Fall is a popular time of year for Latino immigrants to journey home for the holidays, but the movement started earlier this year, and in greater numbers. |
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Herald Journal Thurmond wants tighter tabs kept on immigrants U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond says tracking devices should be created to keep tabs on immigrants and help protect the United States from terrorism. |
| Chicago
Sun-Times Cops probe possible alien smuggling Chicago police said they will investigate whether Asian women arrested in a South Side prostitution sting were brought into the country illegally and were working to pay off smugglers. -- Undercover officers this week shut down two suspected bordellos and an illegal massage parlor in apartments in the Bridgeport neighborhood. -- Two women were charged with prostitution, and nine men were charged with patronizing a house of ill fame, police said. |
L.A. Times Conference aims to help Latino students Talking about stereotyping within their race, immigration difficulties, and ways to better develop positive leaders all were on the plate of Hispanic students at a gathering Friday. -- Those perhaps are big issues for college students, but that was the point. -- "It's an important event because it provides a venue for Latino students across the state to get together and expand their own community of Latino leaders," spokeswoman Angela Fernandez said of the Latino College Leadership Institute. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Arabs, Muslims outraged Arabs and Muslims expressed outrage Friday at the U.S. Justice Department's plan to interview 5,000 young male foreigners, who are not suspected of any crimes, as part of the terrorism investigation. -- Civil rights activists say the action constitutes racial profiling. -- "Unless the government has credible evidence that all these 5,000 men were involved in terrorism, which is very unlikely, then what Mr. Ashcroft is advocating is racial profiling at its most fundamental level," said Ramzi Dakour... |
El Paso
Times Border Patrol to help at bridges Border Patrol agents will help Customs speed international crossings at El Paso ports of entry starting Sunday -- just in time for the busy holiday season. -- An undisclosed number of Border Patrol agents, who normally are stationed outside the ports of entry to apprehend illegal entrants into the country, have gone through training to help INS officials with inspections, admissions and traffic management at all international bridges in the area. |
| San Diego
Union-Tribune U.S.-Mexico talks, with guest-worker focus, to resume The United States and Mexico are set to resume talks next week on an effort by President Bush and Mexico President Vicente Fox to create a temporary guest-worker program and possibly legalize millions of undocumented Mexicans. -- But the world has changed dramatically since they last talked. -- Yesterday, two top Democratic lawmakers -- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt -- traveled to Mexico City to assure Fox that they are committed to immigration reform. |
| Boston Globe Immigration flap at Logan In a dispute between newly stationed National Guard troops at Logan International Airport and federal immigration officials, a National Guard commander earlier this month accused the immigration service of failing to take custody of up to 30 persons identified as illegal immigrants. -- ''This procedure has basically become a joke,'' said Brian W. O'Hare, the top National Guard official at Logan... [Discuss on the Free Republic] |
Paul Craig
Roberts Multiculturalism's nascent stress points Do you know that there are 15,000 Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces? Are you aware that the U.S. military has Muslim imams? -- Following September 11, Capt. Abd Al-Rasheed Muhammad, Imam of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C., asked the North American Islamic Jurisprudence Council if it is permissible for Muslim troops in the U.S. military to fight other Muslims in the war against terrorism. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Hispanics assail airport rule Law requires screeners to be citizens Hispanic lawmakers had mixed emotions Friday after Congress gave final approval to an airport security bill that includes a citizenship requirement for baggage screeners. -- Although many were relieved that negotiators scrapped a proposal that screeners must be U.S. citizens for five years, some said the measure still unfairly excludes legal residents. -- "The (five-year) provision would clearly have created two classes of . . . citizens," said Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif. "That was outrageous." |
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