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Spencer Will Tell Anaheim: Mexican IDs Illegal; Likens Police
Action to Fight Against Integration Glenn Spencer, president of AmericanPatrol.com will inform the Anaheim City Council that acceptance of Mexican issued consular metricula cards as valid identification to avoid arrest and possible deportation is a violation of numerous federal laws and statutes. [See full statement] |
| Christian
Science Monitor Fox falls short on tall pledges ..."I don't know why many people are expecting that we would respond in six months to what we committed to do in six years," Mr. Fox said in an interview last week, referring to Mexico's six-year presidential term. "We have not forgotten a single one of our commitments to the people. We are attaining each and every one of them with actions that will produce results very soon." -- But recent polls indicate the Mexican people aren't so patient. Fox's approval rating has dropped to around 50 percent from more than 75 percent when he took office last December. |
| L.A. Daily
News Language classes to blend Taking advantage of its multicultural staff and student body, Edison Elementary School is working on creating the first Spanish- English dual- immersion program in the Glendale [CA] Unified School District. -- Under the proposed Project Aguila, equal numbers of Spanish- speaking students and English- speaking students will be placed in the same classrooms, learning side- by- side. -- Students would stay in the program for five years, by which time they are expected to be literate in both languages. |
CNS News New Round of US-Cuba Immigration Talks Begin Monday The bi-annual round of immigration talks between Cuba and the U.S. takes place Monday in Havana. -- Senior Cuban and U.S. officials plan to meet for one day of talks on the issue of illegal immigration -- people who flee the communist-run island for freedom in the United States. -- Such talks have been going on for six years, with the Castro government blaming U.S. immigration policy for the exodus of "boat people" from Cuba. U.S. officials say the exodus stems from Cuban policies. |
| Las Vegas
Review-Journal Undocumented workers struggle with lack of benefits, terrorism backlash The little guy with the easy smile and dark hair that parts in the middle made his way up the Paris Las Vegas platform to briefly visit his mother, who sat at the head table. -- For more than an hour Sunday afternoon, the 4- year- old repeated the short walk as speaker after speaker detailed the plight of undocumented workers in post-Sept. 11 America. -- They are ineligible for welfare benefits, food stamps and unemployment insurance. [See this feature on baby-waving] |
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Davis in Mexico to Meet With Fox, Boost Trade and Tourism ...As for Mexican "visitors," Davis calls them tourists and we call them illegal aliens. Where are these hundred thousands of wealthy Mexicans that come to the U.S. as tourists and leave their money here to boost our economy? |
| North County
Times Illegal alien prostitution ring busted Special immigration agents arrested 25 to 30 people Sunday in east Oceanside after a five-month task force investigation into an alleged prostitution ring that smuggled women into the United States, officials said. -- Another 16 women and girls who were smuggled in from Mexico to be prostitutes in the San Luis Rey River bed are being treated as victims, said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. |
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Press Gray Davis seeks to speed border traffic California Gov. Gray Davis said Monday his government is looking for ways to speed traffic across the border during his two- day visit to Mexico City. -- Although Davis said border security was still the highest priority, he added that California's secretary of business, transportation and housing, Maria Contreras- Sweet, would be meeting Monday with Mexican Cabinet members to look for ways to help ease the long waits endured by many to cross the border. |
| L.A. Daily
News Language classes to blend Taking advantage of its multicultural staff and student body, Edison Elementary School is working on creating the first Spanish- English dual- immersion program in the Glendale [CA] Unified School District. -- Under the proposed Project Aguila, equal numbers of Spanish- speaking students and English- speaking students will be placed in the same classrooms, learning side- by- side. -- Students would stay in the program for five years, by which time they are expected to be literate in both languages. |
CNS News New Round of US-Cuba Immigration Talks Begin Monday The bi-annual round of immigration talks between Cuba and the U.S. takes place Monday in Havana. -- Senior Cuban and U.S. officials plan to meet for one day of talks on the issue of illegal immigration -- people who flee the communist-run island for freedom in the United States. -- Such talks have been going on for six years, with the Castro government blaming U.S. immigration policy for the exodus of "boat people" from Cuba. U.S. officials say the exodus stems from Cuban policies. |
| Reuters Boat full of illegals runs aground A wooden sailboat carrying more than 180 Haitian migrants ran aground in Biscayne National Park in southeast Florida early on Monday, park rangers and the U.S. Coast Guard said. -- The 30-foot vessel ran aground in 3 feet of water at the southern end of the park at the tip of the Florida peninsula. Park rangers described it as "grossly overloaded" and "in real poor shape." |
H. Millard Arabesque post-American America Police in both Portland and Corvallis, Oregon are refusing to interview foreign visitors as part of the federal investigation to find anyone linked to the events of 9/11. This refusal brings up an old question: Do local authorities have the right to ignore federal law and edicts? -- black civil rights movement. Then, the local authorities also refused to enforce federal law. |
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Davis in Mexico to Meet With Fox, Boost Trade and Tourism "There is no more important relationship for California than the relationship with Mexico" The despotic Gobernador de California says. Wow, that's amazing! The rest of the United States is of course, chopped liver, and out here in Alta California the deaths of 4000 gringos in Nueva York is no big deal. Especially to Mexico, which overwhelmingly said we had it coming, and smiled with satisfaction as tears flowed on the East Coast. |
| Tucson
Citizen Letter To The Editor: MEChA a "multicultural club that honors diversity" I would like to respond to the Nov. 20 letter by David Contreras, a senior at Cholla High School. David wrote that MEChA, a national student organization in high school and college campuses, is a racist club that discriminates against Anglos. (Scroll down in the "Letters" section to read this and other MEChA-related items.) |
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Davis in Mexico to Meet With Fox, Boost Trade and Tourism Governor Davis seems to forget that trade agreements are made between two separate countries, not between a state and another country. |
| Salt Lake
Tribune Utah migrants face challenges "To be brown and have a beard is difficult right now," said Marlene Gonzalez, an attorney with the Multi-Cultural Legal Center. "Just getting on a plane is an issue. Immigrants have to deal with these kinds of things now." -- Gonzalez and a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service official addressed the topic Sunday at the League of Women Voters' annual holiday meeting in Salt Lake City. The central message: Life has gotten tougher for immigrants... |
L.A. Times Santa Ana Celebrates a Mix of Cultures The Virgin Mary smiled down on the streets of Santa Ana Sunday. Not just once, but four times: at several corners along 4th Street and near a band shell in a parking lot off Spurgeon Street. -- "This is almost as big as Christmas," declared Jaime Soto, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange. -- It was the beginning of the annual feast for Our Lady of Guadalupe. The event itself is celebrated by Mexican Catholics and throughout the world every Dec. 12. |
| L.A. Times Davis in Mexico to Meet With Fox, Boost Trade and Tourism Hoping to further cement business and political ties here and in California, Gov. Gray Davis landed here Sunday for a meeting with President Vicente Fox at Los Pinos today, and to sign a trade agreement with the new governor of Baja California. -- Davis is leading an entourage of about 60 state officials and business and labor leaders on what is his fourth trip to Mexico as governor. The trip probably will be short on major developments. [Also see this article] |
| Washington
Times Amnesty for aliens on agenda of AFL-CIO Faced with declining membership, the nation's labor leaders plan to use the AFL-CIO's annual convention beginning here today to convince American workers they are the answer to rising layoffs and poor economic conditions. -- The agenda includes efforts to support amnesty for illegal immigrants, win benefits for laid-off workers, limit the president's authority to negotiate trade deals and plan a strategy to help pro-labor political candidates win votes. |
Allan Wall Tom And Dick's Big Adventure Down Mexico Way ...November 16 -18, the Republic of Mexico was graced by the presence of two gringo tourists named Tom and Dick (I guess Harry couldn't make it). -- But Tom and Dick were not your run- of- the- mill gringo tourists. -- You see, Tom and Dick were here on an all-expense paid trip (courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer) and they got to personally hang out with Presidente Vicente Fox at his private ranch. (And that's something few Mexicans are allowed to do). |
| The News
- Mexico City Rockefeller: Globalization has increased world poverty At a development forum held in western Mexico over the weekend, U.S. business mogul David Rockefeller said globalization has increased poverty over the last several decades and called current levels of poverty "unacceptable."-- Over two days, 100 economic and business experts debated development and poverty issues at the International Development Forum that took place at the University of Guanajuato. |
Sacramento
Bee Shadow Labor Illegal immigrants have integrated themselves into the U.S. mainstream, taking low-wage, unskilled jobs that employers claim they can't fill with the native work force. But the undocumented workers, who have come here out of economic necessity, live under constant fear of deportation and risk exploitation and harassment by unscrupulous employers. -- An estimated 5 million to 7 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States... |
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