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Wednesday, December 26, 2001

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Should illegals in Georgia get driver's licenses?
Allstate Teams Up with Reconquistas
American Patrol Supports Tyson Boycott

Christian Science Monitor Editorial
Law and Illegals
A culture of corruption and lawlessness ranks high among Mexico's challenges. President Vicente Fox has repeatedly promised, during his first year in office, to take up this challenge. A few days ago he spoke in Tijuana of the need to stop shakedowns of immigrants crossing back into their homeland for the holidays by bribe- minded Mexican border guards. -- But dodging the law happens north of the Rio Grande, too. The recent indictment of Tyson Foods executives...

KTVU
Feinstein Celebrates Passage of Bill to Ease Visa Process
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is celebrating the passage of a bill designed to help immigrants continue to apply for a visa even after the immigrant's sponsor dies. -- Under current law, an immigrant applying for a visa must restart the entire process should that person's sponsor pass away. However, Feinstein, D-Calif., teamed up with Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, to write a bill designed to sweep away this particular bit of red tape.

Outlaw Salt Lake City Mayor (Fax to U.S. Attorney)
...Seriously, I find it impossible to believe that your office can't find anything to prosecute this guy for. There are millions of citizens like me who want illegal aliens rounded up and deported, not encouraged and protected as if they were law-abiding U.S. citizens.

Miami Herald
Cubans booted, smuggling suspect goes to Krome
A man suspected of trying to smuggle 30 Cubans to the U.S. last week was taken to the Krome Detention Center on Saturday, the same day the entire boatload of refugees was repatriated.

Sun-Sentinel
Protesters seek release of Muslims detained since Sept. 11
Nearly 30 people gathered Christmas Day in downtown Miami to protest the detention of 52 Muslim and Arab men at Krome Detention Center following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. -- The men are being detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in connection with the federal government's terrorism investigations.

Arizona Republic
Gilbert residents forced out of trailer park
..."We're very sad about this. It has really affected our holiday spirit," said Juan Martinez, a construction worker who moved to the Casa del Camino trailer park nearly two years ago from Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife, Maria Antonia, and their daughter Gabriela. -- "When you're an immigrant it's sometimes hard to feel welcome. But this community feels like family," he said. [Reader comment]

Re: Aiding and abetting illegal aliens in Seattle
What you are doing is a violation of federal law; the same thing that Tyson foods was doing. I hope that those angels.... the INS... comes down on you to the same extent that they are doing to "Slick Willie" Clinton's crony, Don Tyson.

Associated Press
Illegal Mexicans Losing Hope
Illegal Mexican immigrants had high hopes last summer of receiving amnesty from the U.S. government. But now, after Sept. 11, the cause seems lost amid clamped- down border security and greater suspicion of foreigners. -- Months ago, President Bush had signaled a commitment to grant legal status to undocumented Mexicans, perhaps through a guest worker program linking employer with employee. By November, though, U.S. officials were telling Mexico that because of fears of terrorism, the immigration laws are unlikely to change anytime soon.

LTE - Tucson Citizen (Unpublished)
Re: Our opinion - The right way to battle illegal immigration
Your editorial rightly points to work site enforcement as a vital element in the effort to stop illegal immigration. However, your inference that lettuce might cost $5 a head if we enforced our laws defeats your purpose. Before employing a fear tactic favored by open borders advocates, why not ask yourself how much of the cost of a head of lettuce goes to pay field workers?

L.A. Times
Tyson case shows INS is getting serious
The worker- smuggling indictment handed down last week against the nation's largest meat processor was a dramatic advance for federal authorities, who have worked since the late 1990s to crack down on employers who collaborate in schemes to recruit illegal immigrants.

From a Border Patrol Agent
Stop the PCBS
...We've got the tools to completely shut down our borders and severely punish law-breakers, but are hamstrung by whiny, politically correct, 'don't step on any toes' leadership...

Arizona Daily Star
Illegals batter reservation land, homes, resources
David Garcia is tired of having his home vandalized. -- But illegal immigrants crossing through the Chukut Kuk district of the Tohono O'odham Reservation along the Mexican border have often found it an inviting target. -- "If you leave home, most of the time your home gets broken into," said Garcia, a member of the tribal council who has suffered four break-ins in the last 12 months. "They take mostly food. Food and clothes and what-have-you."

Tucson Citizen
Our opinion: The right way to battle illegal immigration
Last week's worker-smuggling indictment against Tyson Foods Inc. represents one of the rare strategic moves in this nation's battle against illegal immigration. -- The indictment is one of the few times the government has gone after those who drive the demand side of the illegal immigration trade, not just those who supply it. -- The law of supply and demand is a powerful one - even more powerful than the federal government. That is a truism that should have been learned...

Letter to Newsday (Published)
Stop Harping
Regarding the article about Bensonhurst and the illegal aliens, aka day laborers. -- In the article, you mention that it is feared there will be violence against illegal aliens as in Farmingville, Long Island. It is amazing how you keep on harping on one incident perpetrated by two jerks...

Daily Breeze
Bridging the language gap
...A new class offered by Hamilton Adult Center aims to give these Citizen Watch employees a chance to learn English without ever leaving their workplace, part of a growing trend among adult schools to branch out into the community rather than waiting for students to come to them.

Salt Lake City Illegal Alien Cheerleader
Dear Mayor Anderson........
I just finished listening to one of my favorite pastimes, the Sunday evening Terry Anderson radio program here in Los Angeles, no family connection I'm sure. If, what was reported on his show, and was accidentally confirmed by a Mr. Ewing who came on as your apologist, is accurate, you, as a responsible Mayor of Salt Lake City might well and properly be under detainment awaiting trial for harboring criminals and for aiding and abetting enemies of the United States of America.

Associated Press
Latinos fear using bus line busted for running illegals
Human smuggling charges against a bus company that is popular among Spanish- speaking immigrants - and is facing criminal charges in Arizona - have raised concern among Latinos who rely on the service. -- Immigration agents raided the company Dec. 10, and charges have been filed against 32 officers, etc. -- "People are afraid to leave," said Hilary Stern, executive director of Casa Latina in Seattle, an agency that helps undocumented workers find jobs.

Cox News Service
Tight borders keep migrants [read: illegals] from homes
The buses of Garcia Tours, bound for Mexico every day for the past five years with a cargo of returning sons and husbands, embark emptier now. -- The change can be seen in this corner of America, where it has become quieter since Sept. 11. It is a corner where immigrants, long- distance commuters in Central Texas' once- whirring economy, catch shuttles from jobs here to homes hundreds of miles south, in another country. [Click if above link has expired]

New York Times (Published)
Close the Borders
...Our open-borders policy has caused Americans to work harder for less and welcomed terrorists. The question is when will Congress close America's porous borders to protect both our incomes and our lives. [Discuss]

Arizona Daily Star
Many Mexicans stay in U.S. for yule
A slowing U.S. economy and increased border security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have many Mexicans, legal and illegal, staying put in the U.S. this holiday season. -- The annual Christmas pilgrimage of Mexicans living in the United States to their homeland appears to be only slightly ahead of last year, when 2.2 million Mexicans and Mexican- Americans made the trip. -- After the number slipped about 10 percent in 2000, Mexican immigration officials had predicted about 2.5 million people, an increase of nearly 14 percent, would journey to Mexico this holiday season.

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