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- South Carolina Attorney General Condon Urges Ashcroft to Require Additional Photo ID's From Four States Which License Illegal Aliens To Drive Attorney General Charlie Condon today warned that illegal aliens and would-be terrorists are boarding jetliners using nothing more than drivers' licenses obtained from states which grant drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. In a letter to United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, Condon called for the requirement of additional photo identification for those passengers using North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Utah drivers' licenses as a means of identification for boarding. |
| L.A. Times Hahn Proposes Tougher Port Security Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn is proposing tougher security standards at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and still-unspecified background checks on the 25,000 people who work at the nation's busiest harbor complex. -- Any effort to deeply investigate the immigration status and possible criminal records of port workers and truck drivers who pick up cargo, however, will run into opposition from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. |
Citizen-Patriot
(Jackson, MI) Jackson's new melting pot ...That is true across the United States, where Indian people are the fifth-largest ethnic group, excluding blacks and Mexican Americans. There are about 3.2 million Indian Americans. -- Most of the local doctors from India went to school in India and were trained in America. Most become American citizens after working on a green card for five years, Ananthram said. -- They are generally Hindu and worship in their homes, although there are temples in Detroit and Lansing. |
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| Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Visas put U.S. jobs at risk As millions of Americans lost their jobs in an economic slowdown, U.S. companies hired a record number of skilled foreigners under a special visa program. -- At the strong urging of the technology industry, Congress raised the cap for such six-year H-1B visas, designed for professionals with skills that employers say are in short supply among U.S. workers. -- But with Americans going jobless, critics of the H-1B program are raising new questions. |
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Post Chuck's 'chilling' warnings Only a minuscule 2% of the cargo that passes through America's seaports is inspected, leaving terrorists an easy smuggling route for weapons of mass destruction, Sen. Charles Schumer warned. -- "The statistics are chilling," said Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is calling for additional federal funding of seaport security. -- "Ninety-five percent of U.S. overseas trade is conducted at our 361 ports. On an average day, 400 ships will arrive in the [Port of NY], and about 11 to 16 will be inspected. |
| Miami Herald Illegals face heightened peril It's a perilous new world today for foreigners in the United States, as they increasingly encounter sharpened scrutiny and everyday hurdles in traveling, obtaining driving permits, opening bank accounts and even getting married and renting apartments. -- Since Sept. 11, sweeping new rules and procedures designed to root out "illegals'' have made life more tenuous for noncitizens. Those from the Middle East in particular have become targets of what critics say is profiling by federal agents... |
Miami Herald Florida police seek power to arrest illegal immigrants Florida's top law enforcement agency wants the state's 40,000 police officers to have emergency powers to investigate, detain and arrest illegal immigrants -- authority that now rests solely with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- Tim Moore, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said Friday that deputizing local police agencies -- particularly those represented in nine regional newly created anti-terrorism task forces -- could help deter terrorism.... |
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Orange Co.
Register - Unpublished Re: "Rally Becomes Brawl" For shame! A newspaper should champion our First Amendment rights. Your story of December 9, 2001 describes a gang of fascist thugs assaulting people petitioning their government for redress of grievances as "anti-racists"... |
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/ Kathleen P. Jachowski Prostitutes On Parade - Union leaders divide the nation It was just too much to ask, too much to expect - that partisanship would take AND keep a back seat to patriotism so our nation's war on terrorism would have a chance to succeed and bring American life back into relative balance. -- Reading the remarks of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney at the Las Vegas held biennial convention, only reconfirmed why I walked away from the so-called Democratic party at the age of 20 --- which was 36 years ago. |
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Defense of America" Rally It was a tremendous honor to stand with you and all of the true Patriots of this country on Saturday. Our cause is just and the fight will not be easy. But I strongly feel we will prevail in the end. No matter who opposes us and the truth. |
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- CNN INS Commissioner Ziglar and John Ashcroft announce that the largest commercial illegal alien smuggling ring in U.S. history has been busted. Golden State Transport, a bus company based in L.A., was at the heart of this case involving smuggling great numbers of illegals into the country from Mexico. 37 of the 39 indicted have Hispanic surnames. The investigation was centered mainly in the Tucson, AZ Border Patrol sector, but also involved busts in several other states. More news when available. |
| Las Vegas
Sun Court Won't Clarify Immigration Laws The Supreme Court declined on Monday to consider whether some immigrants were wrongly blocked from seeking citizenship before a major rules change. -- The justices had been urged to use a Peruvian family's case to clarify the rights of immigrants whose cases were pending when Congress rewrote the rules. -- The Villarreals argued that they would have qualified to become American citizens if not for confusion over the 1996 changes. |
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/ The News - Mexico City Mexican job prospects looking bleak Millions of Mexicans are probably thinking if their personal prospects do not improve in the current no- growth economy, they might try to emigrate to the U.S. A report issued last week by the National Population Council predicts, in the foreseeable future, as many as 400,000 to 500,000 Mexicans will emigrate north each year to escape poverty. -- If so, the Mexican population living in the United States will swell to 18.2 million in 2030... [Discuss on Free Republic] |
| Charlotte
Observer New immigration tactic feared The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court six weeks ago for a broad ruling to authorize the use of secret evidence in cases in which it is trying to detain or deport immigrants it contends are in the country illegally. For national security reasons, the government argues it should share secret evidence with only immigration judges and not with the immigrants and their lawyers. |
Press-Herald Maine immigrants react to increase in police scrutiny Many Maine residents have been calling police, asking them to check out foreign- born people who are behaving in ways that seem strange to them. -- "Many, many people are going to their embassies to get papers to return to their country," said John Connors, Maine director of LULAC... |
| Dallas
Morning News Debate over protections for non-citizens expected to land in high court As civil liberties advocates battle the Bush administration over new national security tactics, court rulings involving each of these men are emerging as critical legal measures of just how far government can go to crack down on foreigners on U.S. soil. -- Critics on both the political right and left say many law enforcement rules issued after Sept. 11 are trampling on basic American rights and freedoms. -- The heart of the debate is whether noncitizens within U.S. borders who are suspected of being enemies of America have the basic legal protections afforded citizens. |
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Times Appeals panel, judge differ on fate of nanny The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals has yet to schedule a hearing on a 4- month- old request by U.S. immigration officials that a Haitian nanny convicted in the killing of an 18- month- old baby be deported. -- The INS asked in August that the full 18-member appeals board review a decision by a three- member panel, who ruled that the baby's fatal beating - described by one law enforcement official as the "worst I have ever seen" - was not a crime of violence. |
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(Free Registration) Restructured INS may face same woes ...Frustrated with the huge backlog and the agency's dismal reputation, the Bush administration last month unveiled a top- to- bottom restructuring plan to split the INS. -- One arm would concentrate on guarding the border to keep out illegal immigrants; the other would welcome new immigrants, providing faster and more efficient service. -- Immigration advocates said the federal government has long ignored millions of legal immigrants who follow the rules. |
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LTE - L.A. Times Re: Fight Erupts at Anti-Immigration Protest Tina Bogatta's article, "Fight Erupts at Anti-Immigration Protest," fails to identify the reasons behind the protest. The fact that Anaheim is recognizing an identity card isssued by a foreign government, allowing illegal aliens to remain in the country, is not only against federal law, but a dangerous practice. With the nation on "highest alert," the people who have these identity cards, are not only illegally in the U.S., but have never been given a security check to determine if they have a criminal record. |
L.A. Times Fight Erupts at Anti-Immigration Protest A protest by two anti-immigration groups in Anaheim turned into a shouting match and fistfight Saturday, but the crowd settled down before police arrived. -- Nobody was arrested, though several men were bloodied and bruised early in the demonstration, which drew about 200 people. Among the crowd were several people in black-hooded sweatshirts and bandanna masks who called themselves anarchists. They and others confronted the protesters, yelling, "Nazi scum!" and "Fascists!" |
| L.A. Times Consultant Accused of Misleading Illegals The district attorney's Consumer and Environmental Protection Unit filed a complaint last week against Gaston Corral and Consultorio Internacional Inc. It alleges the defendants made misleading guarantees that they could obtain legal residency for customers, gave legal advice without being qualified to do so, failed to give customers written contracts as required by law and failed to provide services for which they were paid. |
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