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Republic Migrants [read: illegals] told it's too cold to cross border Immigrations officials are warning illegal immigrants of the dangers of crossing from Mexico to the United States this holiday season. -- Roberto Gonzalez, Mexican consular spokesman in San Diego, says immigrants may try to cross on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in the false hope that fewer U.S. Border Patrol agents will be on duty. |
| KGW-TV-8
/ Portland Hispanic Candidate Hopes to Mobilize Voters Hispanic voters exercise little political clout even though they are Oregon's fastest- growing minority. Anthony Veliz is hoping that a Hispanic name -- his -- on the May primary ballot will help bring about a change. -- "Hispanic voters are not disenfranchised," said the Democrat. "They are disengaged." -- Hispanics' opportunity to become a political force has come with the creation of House District 22, established under a new redistricting plan. |
Boston Globe Mexican police promotion shines a light on corruption Want to be top cop in Mexico? Do what the boss says, no matter how unethical. Keep your head low. And get a good lawyer. -- That's the secret of Jeronimo Osorno Lara's rise to power in this central Mexican state, where the career police officer was named to the coveted and powerful post of director of state judicial police. -- Never mind that Osorno was twice fired for unethical behavior and resigned to avoid being laid off a third time. |
| Houston
Chronicle Street kid, 13, deported while awaiting appeal Lawyers representing a Honduran street kid say the U.S. government mistakenly deported him to Central America before his asylum case could be tried on appeal. -- The attorneys contend the child, Isau Flores-Portillo, could be tortured back on the streets of Honduras -- which was why he escaped the country in the first place. He has not been heard from since his deportation in November. -- The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights has prepared a federal lawsuit against the government... |
Salt Lake
Tribune Salt Lake Mayor to Other Mayors: Warn Migrant Workers Mayor Rocky Anderson is urging other U.S. mayors to do what he did not have a chance to do: warn undocumented airport workers to leave their jobs. -- In a letter sent this past weekend to dozens of mayors with major airports, Anderson laments the human toll of a raid earlier this month at Salt Lake City International, when 69 workers, many of them immigrants, were arrested. -- [What the mayor is doing sounds like a crime - Contact info on mayor, U.S. Attorney] [Deseret News item] |
| L.A. Times Couple Accused of robbing laborers A couple who posed as police officers and targeted Latino dayworkers in 30 or more robberies were arrested over the weekend at a Stanton restaurant, sheriff's officials said Monday. -- Deputies said they found cash, a loaded weapon, wigs and police paraphernalia that included a fake badge and T-shirt with "Police" on it when they arrested David Gilmore Bingham, 27, and Amber Michelle Vanhorn, 33, both of Stanton. [See O.C. Register item] |
Associated
Press Attacks Scramble Bush's Goals The whisper came from top aide Andrew Card, who quietly told Bush in a Florida classroom that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. America was under attack, Card said. -- Those simple words swiftly transformed Bush's goals and priorities... -- Other priorities have slipped away. For example, his pre-Sept. 11 goal of providing some form of amnesty for illegal workers from Mexico withered after authorities learned how foreign terrorists had exploited immigration loopholes... |
| Seattle
Times 'El Golden' bus line mired in trouble Toppenish, Wash. -- Until recently, shoppers at Las Dos Victorias could purchase not only tamale steamers, piñatas and pan dulce but tickets for a Golden State Transportation bus as well. -- The bus company, popular with Latinos, picked up passengers here at the store's First Avenue parking lot, next to a tiny espresso stand, and ferried them south to Oregon, Los Angeles and across the border into Tijuana. |
We Get E-Mail Job-thieving, wage-depressing illegals In the Omaha Nebraska area I hear the old-timers tell of the times 20 years ago and more when workers at the packing plants earned enough to live the American Dream: buy a home, a car, raise a family on the man's wage while the wife, if she chose, could stay home and raise the kids. Nowadays the people working in those packing plants do NOT buy homes and raise a family on the one wage. What's changed? |
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