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MEXICO INVADING THE U.S. |
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Conquering the southwest using demographic warfare Latino babies thrive "In 1848, Mexico lost the war," said David A. Lopez,
a sociologist at California State University, Northridge, who
studies Latino issues. "But in 2050, Mexico will have reclaimed
what was rightfully theirs." |
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| Houston
Chronicle Bank opens door to illegal immigrants Illegal immigrants might not qualify for a Social Security card or a driver's license, but they can now open a checking account in Houston. -- MetroBank, a local institution that targets Asian and Hispanic immigrants, announced Thursday that it will allow Mexicans to open accounts by using an identification card issued by the Mexican Consulate, known as a matricula. -- The immigrants are not required to have any document issued by the United States government, such as a visa, a Social Security card or a taxpayer identification number. [Discuss] |
| Orange Co.
Register More than 58% of Hispanic moms give birth at taxpayers expense Dr. Manuel Porto, director of maternal-fetal medicine at UCI Medical Center in Orange, agreed, saying Hispanic babies born in Orange County tend to be quite healthy because there's "little in a way of disincentive, even for those here illegally" to access prenatal care. -- More than 58 percent of Hispanic mothers relied on the state program to pay for their deliveries - a higher percentage than any other ethnic group. |
Associated
Press Agents Arrest 30 Portland Airport Employees In the latest immigration sweep at a U.S. airport, federal agents arrested 30 employees of the Portland airport Thursday on charges of using fake documents to get their jobs. -- Authorities said the arrests were not part of the government's anti-terrorism investigation. -- "We will use every tool and resource at our disposal - from our inspectional authority to the immigration provisions covering the work site,'' .... |
| Honolulu
Advertiser Mexican drug ring busted Ninety federal, state and county officers yesterday conducted 17 raids on the Big Island and O'ahu to shut down a major Mexican heroin distribution ring. -- Operation Island Pipeline, a 13- mo. surveillance effort by a dozen agencies, "totally dismantled this organization," said Lt. Henry Tavares, Big Island vice commander. -- They also tracked the money going back to Mexico... [Discuss] |
The Oregonian Latino influx reshapes schools The number of Latino students in Oregon grew by 11 percent this fall compared with a year ago, continuing a decade- long trend of growth, according to the state's 2001 enrollment report. -- The students account for half the new students in Oregon schools since 1987, shaping profound changes in school culture and the way students are taught across the region, teachers and administrators say. |
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Tyson Gotcha! I can only hope that my letters to INS and our politicians had at least a small part in disclosing that you have been blatantly and deliberately breaking the laws of this nation, all in the name of increased profit and to hell with the harm it does our country and its citizens. |
| Newsday Residents, day laborers are at odds in Brooklyn Even as the cold of winter sets in, hundreds of immigrant day laborers are showing up on the streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. -- Citing growing tensions in the community, one local politician said he fears there could be an outbreak of anti- immigrant violence. --"It can become like Long Island, here in Bensonhurst," said Assemb. Peter J. Abbate, Jr. (D-Brooklyn), referring to the case of two white men who viciously attacked a pair of Mexican day laborers in Farmingville last year. |
Newsday H-1B Visa Statuses At Risk The day Leo Flores lost his job was the day he lost his right to stay in this country. -- Like 4,000 others, Flores was laid off from Enron Corp., the Houston- based energy giant that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. Among the layoffs are hundreds like Flores, whose stay in the United States hinged on their employer's sponsorship of their visas. -- "We are not here to take Americans' work," said Flores, 40, a Filipino immigrant who worked at Enron as a computer programmer. "We are not tourists or illegal immigrants..." |
| Chicago
Tribune Immigrant sentenced for visa fraud A Russian immigrant was sentenced to 21 months in prison Wednesday for a fraud conviction stemming from his helping several Eastern European women get tourist visas when they were actually in the U.S. to work. -- Two years ago, a federal jury acquitted the defendant, Vadim Gorr, on the central charge of forcing the women to work as exotic dancers under conditions that were alleged to have amounted to slavery. |
L.A. Times Union Files Complaint Against Loews Hotel A hotel workers' union filed a civil rights complaint against Loews Santa Monica Beach hotel Wednesday, claiming managers illegally asked employees for proof of citizenship or legal residency when workers were called back from temporary layoffs. -- Loews spokeswoman Sara Harper said all returning employees were "treated like any new hires" and that the hotel was merely complying with federal law. The complaint, she said, was invalid. |
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Canberra
Times Crackdown nets 14,000 overstayers An Immigration Department crackdown netted more than 14,000 visa overstayers in the past financial year, many from the United States, Canada and Britain. |
| Salt Lake
Tribune No Punishment Expected In Airport Security Lapse ...The private firms that hired the employees could lose their contracts with the airport, but Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson said Wednesday that there were no plans to drop the contracts. Of the employees caught in the Dec. 11 security sweep, 68 face federal charges for either providing bogus Social Security cards or false personal information to get work. Most were undocumented workers. [Also see this article about Anderson and the illegals]. |
Deseret
News Editorial favors guest workers ...Would a full-blown amnesty work? Probably not. If people come here to make money to send home to their families, it follows that they probably would like their families to join them in the United States. Amnesty would make it difficult to stem that tide. -- What is needed is a sensible work permit process that not only encourages economic immigrants to enter the country through legal channels, but helps the government get a handle on the number of workers in this country and take steps to ensure they are not exploited. |
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House
Immigration Reform Legislation Gives America a Fighting Chance
Against Terrorists The Federation for American Immigration Reform applauded the House vote yesterday passing legislation to tighten border controls in an effort to secure our nation against terrorists. |
| Arizona
Daily Star State gives bilingual ed $49M boost State lawmakers approved a $49.2 million plan to improve instruction for students learning the English language Wednesday, paving the way for a new court fight. -- The measure squeaked through the House of Representatives with the minimum 31 votes. The Senate gave its blessing moments later 20-3, wrapping up the special session that began Nov. 13. -- House Speaker Jim Weiers pushed colleagues to support the English legislation, saying it is the best deal available. Some Democrats also went along. |
El Paso
Times Texas likely to become majority Hispanic in 2030s Texas will probably not have a majority race or ethnicity by 2006 and will be more than 50 percent Hispanic by the mid-2030s, according to projections by the state's demographer. -- The Texas State Data Center has released three sets of projections: a baseline scenario of no in-migration, which assumes that no one moves into Texas for the next 40 years; one in which the in-migration rate is half that of the 1990s; and a third in which the rate is equal to that of the 1990s. |
| Brownsville
Herald Laser visa deadline extended The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to extend the deadline for Mexican citizens to replace border- crossing cards with laser visas. -- The measure, the Enhanced Border Security Act and Visa Entry Reform Act, now goes before the Senate for approval. -- The House version of the bill extends the deadline for obtaining a laser visa to Oct. 1, 2002. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure Friday. |
Reuters Silicon Valley a Leader in Pot "The fact that marijuana is grown in Santa Clara County doesn't mean that the product ends up being used there,'' said Michael Van Winkle, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office. -- He said the state was increasingly finding massive plots of marijuana plants that employed immigrant labor and appeared to be affiliated with big Mexican drug cartels. Newer plant hybrids are also more resistant to sun and can thrive without tree cover, he said. |
| Washington
Post Attacks Shelve GOP Effort to Woo Hispanics ...National opinion about immigration is, if anything, headed the other way. Pollster John Zogby found that 76% of Americans believe the country is not doing enough to control its borders, and 85% think immigration laws are too lax. Such questions produced 50- 50 splits before Sept. 11. "This is one of those xenophobic moments in our history," Zogby said. "It's not a good time to expand services to immigrants or to have more open borders." |
Associated
Press Court rules on deportee flight risk hearings Rejecting arguments that most deportees are flight risks, a federal appeals court said the Immigration and Naturalization Service must offer individual detention hearings to criminal aliens while they are waiting for deportation hearings. -- In a ruling that could affect thousands of detainees, the court ordered the INS to hold a detention hearing for Vinodbhai B. Patel, a St. Louis, Mo., business owner jailed since September 2000 after employing and housing an alien. |
| L.A. Daily
News Editorial Los Angeles: Asylum City WHEREAS the Los Angeles City Council, in its relentless effort to pander and play ethnic politics, has unanimously passed an absurd resolution on illegal immigration; and -- WHEREAS said resolution calls for the federal government to issue broad legalization to nearly 10 million illegal aliens, a disproportionate percentage of whom live in Los Angeles; and -- WHEREAS the document implicitly calls for local governments, such as the city of Los Angeles and the state of California, to pay for the education... |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) U.S. Accuses Meat Processor of Recruiting Illegal Workers Tyson Foods Inc. was indicted yesterday with six employees on charges that it conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mexican border to work in its processing plants. - The 36- count indictment, which was unsealed at Federal District Court in Chattanooga, Tenn., accuses Tyson of arranging to transport illegal immigrants across the border and of helping them to get counterfeit work papers for jobs at more than a dozen Tyson poultry plants. [More info] |
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