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| Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Union support of amnesty for aliens criticized The U.S. labor movement is preparing to take a ''real gamble'' as it sides with immigrants who compete with low-skilled American workers, a Cornell University economist and labor historian said Friday. -- ''Every study that I know of that has looked at the effect of immigration on the labor market has shown that the impact is most severe on low-skilled workers,'' Vernon Briggs said during a debate over an historic about-face for organized labor. |
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Concerned
about illegal immigration ...I am a nurse and have worked in the field of obstetrics for many years in California. I saw first hand how our health services are abused by illegal immigrants. Pregnant women come to this country hoping to deliver their babies here and have an American citizen child. |
| Tucson
Citizen Fox's first year: New era, old problems Nogales, Son. - When Vicente Fox Queseda won Mexico's presidency, jubilant throngs took to the streets here chanting "¡Viva México, Viva Fox!" -- Today, on the first anniversary of his inauguration, some Mexicans say they are struggling to see how Fox's "Government of Change" has changed their lives. --- Political observers attribute Fox's popularity in the United States largely to his efforts to reach out to "paisanos," the estimated 20 million Mexican citizens living in the country, and the Fox administration's push for immigration reform. |
| L.A. Times Councilwoman Denies Voter Fraud Compton City Councilwoman Leslie Irving denied in court Friday that she registered noncitizens to vote in that city's controversial June election, testimony that conflicted with that of two immigrant women the day before. -- Irving testified in the Compton election fraud trial in L.A. Co. Superior Court that she never went to the trailer park where Elvira Andrabe and Anatacia Boap lived and that she did not know either woman. |
L.A. Daily
News Jail staff on alert for gang attacks Guards at the Pitchess Detention Center are on an increased security alert after word surfaced that the Mexican Mafia had ordered members who are county jail inmates to kill supervising sheriff's deputies and staff. -- Deputies monitoring cell areas are working in pairs since the order from the prison gang was uncovered two weeks ago. Security increased still more after three inmates attacked deputies Wednesday at a Los Angeles jail. |
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Rocky Mountain
News Tancredo right in fight to address immigration I believe the Rep. Tom Tancredo bashers really do not understand the immigration issue and the congressman's efforts in controlling our borders. Perhaps if they would study and research this monumental problem, they would come to a different conclusion. [There is a message board on this site] |
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Nebraskan speaks out on immigration I saw where Mr. Spencer left a comment on the immigrant and illegal alien loving Omaha World-Herald message board about one of the stories. What an honor!!!!!! I do my best to post informative notices. I try to be as bland as possible but even the most innocuous postings are not allowed by the reviewing editor. Some make it, some don't. |
| Durango
Herald Illegal alien arrested in meth bust Area law enforcement agencies have arrested three people in a methamphetamine crackdown, and more arrests could follow, according to a news release from the La Plata County Sheriff's Office. -- Officials seized 3/4 of a pound of methamphetamine during the arrests made last week, said Lt. Dan Bender in the news releases. -- The Southwest Drug Task Force arrested Lloyd "Glenn" Groomer, of Farmington, N.M., in Durango. Teresa Escobel-Marez, of Farmington, and Martin Bailon-Apodaca, of Mexico, were arrested at the Sky Ute Casino in Ignacio. |
| El Paso
Times Coyote who made million gets prison A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former Mexican immigration agent to two and a half years in prison for his role in a global immigration smuggling organization that brought hundreds of Iraqis and Palestinians into the country through El Paso, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice said. -- Angel Salvador Molina-Paramo was sentenced for his role in the global organization... |
Sacramento
Bee AIDS spreading among California Latinos Latinos, despite an increased understanding that AIDS is a killing disease, appear less likely than others to practice safe sex and avoid drug needle sharing, according to new findings. -- Latinos in California are spreading HIV-AIDS to family and friends in Mexico and other Latin American nations, said Diana Bontá, director of the California Department of Health Services. |
| Californian Hispanics challenge districts Rep. Bill Thomas' congressional district should be redrawn so a Latino candidate would have a better chance to win the seat, according to a new legal challenge to California legislative and congressional districts. -- State Sen. Jim Costa's heavily Latino district should also be reconfigured to help create a second Hispanic Senate district running from Fresno to Modesto, the critics say. -- A coalition of Hispanic groups filed the challenge under the U.S. Civil Rights Act... |
Opinion
- AZ Republic - (Free Reg.) Report card on role of race in education Parents in the Scottsdale Unified School District need not fret over the school bond issue being defeated. The district will continue to lead the state in test scores, regardless of spending, for one simple reason: It is predominately White. -- It is clear from state and national statistics that Whites and Asians outscore other races on average. Consider last year's AIMS test results for eighth- graders... |
| Orange Co.
Register Center aims to aid, abet illegals A new business is aiming to fill the needs of immigrants who struggle to find affordable health care, cheap ways to send money across borders and check cashing that doesn't take a large chunk of their pay. -- Carlos Olamendi, a Mexico native, is one of three businessmen investing in the center, one of three that recently opened in the state. The others are in Fresno and Salinas, which, like Santa Ana, have large immigrant populations. [Discuss] |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Phoenix homicide rate climbs Murders are on the rise in Phoenix this year, but police officials say it was last year that was the anomaly. -- In 2000, Phoenix logged 172 homicides. So far this year, detectives have investigated 224 homicides, and a month is still left. -- During the past few years, police say about 60 percent of the homicides have involved people from Mexico involved in both smuggling drugs and people, homicide Lt. Jim Farris said. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) More Cubans try to enter U.S. through Mexico A little more than a year ago, Sandor Castillo and a group of friends snatched a boat on Cuba's southern coast and set out to sea. They hoped to get to the U.S. but decided to try an unusual route. -- Instead of heading around the island to the Florida Keys, they steered their tiny craft toward Central America, climbing ashore in Honduras, where they quickly won refugee status and found jobs. Then, in June, they headed north for Mexico and the U.S. border. |
Arizona
Daily Star Nogales drug tunnel is used again; 4 arrested Federal agents on Friday arrested four men who allegedly smuggled marijuana through a previously used drug tunnel running from the Nogales Wash storm drainage system into a home. -- Four men from Mexico, ages 21 to 29, were held in the Santa Cruz County Detention Center, facing charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, Customs spokesman Roger Maier said. All will appear Monday before a federal magistrate in Tucson. |
| 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.... [Discuss on the Free Republic] |
| Agence France-Presse Mexican truckers celebrate U.S. decision Mexican truckers and businessmen celebrated a U.S. congressional agreement Friday that will allow trucks from this country to circulate in the United States. -- "There are still obstacles that are in the way of having free passage between the two nations, but in terms of the border crossing and points close to the border, this measure will lower (our) costs," said Miguel Bres... |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) House OKs rules for Mexican trucks The House approved restrictions Friday on Mexican trucks driving into the United States that are stricter than President Bush wanted and will delay the vehicles' entry into this country, probably for months. -- The new rules, which include safety inspections, driver's license verification and other checks by U.S. inspectors, are in a transportation spending bill that the House approved 371-11. |
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