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Latest Articles: Immigration
Study shows Mexican migrants have high rates of HIV
Post Date: 2005-06-14 21:24:25 by robin
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LOS ANGELES - Mexican migrants are infected with HIV at a higher rate than the general population in California and Mexico, according to two studies released Monday. The findings marked a significant change from past research that found migrants engaged in high risk behavior but were unlikely to contract the disease. A study of Mexican migrants in California found that 0.6 percent were infected with HIV. That compares to numbers released Monday by the CDC, which put the prevalence rate as of 2003 at around 0.4 percent in the general U.S. population. A separate study of migrants in their home states in Mexico found the rate of infection was even higher, at 1.1 percent, compared to 0.3 ...
1 in 2 new Americans since 2000 is Hispanic
Post Date: 2005-06-11 17:31:30 by Zipporah
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The nation's Hispanic population has expanded by 6 million people since the 2000 census, equaling the growth of all other minorities and non-minorities combined. Census Bureau estimates being released today show a Hispanic population of 41.3 million as of July 1, 2004. With that 17 percent growth since the official census date of April 1, 2000, Latinos continued to widen their margin as the nation's largest minority group. Immigration accounted for nearly half of the increase, and a high birthrate the rest.Observers say the continuing rapid growth has broad implications on fronts ranging from the economy and race relations to politics and education. "Now we are everywhere," said ...
Teen reporter targeted for immigration column Oregon high school hosts pro-Mexico protest in response to op-ed piece
Post Date: 2005-06-10 08:26:34 by Zipporah
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A 17-year-old student who wrote an anti-illegal immigration column in his school newspaper was targeted by a radical Hispanic group that sponsored a protest where students marched through campus behind a Mexican flag. Trent Demarest of Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Ore., tells WND he decided to make his last column of the school year about what he considers one of the most important public-policy issues facing the U.S.: illegal immigration. "It wasn't the first time I've written a controversial opinion piece," Demarest said, "because I'm the only conservative on the high-school newspaper staff in a very liberal town." Demarest said he was taken aside by his ...
New Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges
Post Date: 2005-06-10 08:10:52 by crack monkey
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New Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges By Michael Powell Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 10, 2005; A01 NEW IPSWICH, N.H. -- The police chief of this tiny whitewashed New England town has crafted his own border-control policy -- he has charged illegal immigrants from Mexico with trespassing in New Hampshire. The novel legal strategy has made a minor celebrity of W. Garrett Chamberlain. The 36-year-old police chief hops to his feet and deposits a pile of letters on his desk, from Alaskans and Californians, Border Patrol agents and soldiers in Iraq, all applauding his initiative. Fox News commentators have called, too, seeking his views on national immigration ...
Let's grab a cab to the United States
Post Date: 2005-06-08 13:27:31 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Let's grab a cab to the United StatesCoast Guard intercepts Cubans in floating taxi The Associated Press Updated: 8:54 a.m. ET June 8, 2005 MIAMI - A vintage blue taxicab converted into a seagoing vessel and carrying several Cuban immigrants was intercepted Tuesday off Key West by the Coast Guard, a television station reported. Footage from NBC-6 in Miami showed Coast Guard officers boarding the blue vehicle, which had been modified with a boat prow in front and appeared to have at least four immigrants aboard. The Coast Guard declined to comment. "Under U.S. government policy, we cannot discuss migrant interdiction operations until disposition is complete," said Petty Officer ...
Mesa Latino activist calls for boycott of auto dealer over Prop. 200 support
Post Date: 2005-06-08 10:53:21 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Mesa Latino activist calls for boycott of auto dealer over Prop. 200 support Yvonne Wingett The Arizona Republic Jun. 8, 2005 12:00 AM A Mesa activist on Tuesday called for a boycott of a business owned by one of Proposition 200's key champions. LULAC member Jon Garrido's appeal to withhold patronage of Randy Childress' auto dealership is the latest in a series of protests, boycotts and marches in response to the Nov. 2 passage of the immigration law, also supported by many Latinos. Some of the events have drawn thousands onto city streets and the state Capitol and they have been praised as impressive symbolic public demonstrations. But they've also been sporadic and mostly ineffective ...
Man With [bloody] Chain Saw Allowed to Enter U.S.
Post Date: 2005-06-07 17:42:17 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Man With Chain Saw Allowed to Enter U.S. By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) -- On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States. The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His ...
Mexican Insurer Covers Cost of Shipping Home Bodies of Migrants Killed in U.S.
Post Date: 2005-06-06 17:03:54 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Mexican Insurer Covers Cost of Shipping Home Bodies of Migrants Killed in U.S. By Will Weissert Associated Press Writer Published: Jun 6, 2005 MEXICO CITY (AP) - They live and die in the United States, but for the families of many Latin Americans, burial must be in their home country. It is a journey that can be delayed for months by the expensive and confusing process of negotiating international borders. Now a Mexican insurance company is selling low-cost policies to Latin Americans, promising to pay to embalm a body, get it to even the remotest of hometowns and pay funeral costs. With offices in Mexico City and Lynwood, Calif., Grupo Servicios Especiales Profesionales offers ...
Dramatic birth in border crossing [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-06-06 12:47:27 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Dramatic birth in border crossing Baby born on helicopter Susan Carroll Republic Tucson Bureau Jun. 6, 2005 12:00 AM TUCSON - Elva Hernandez's contractions were getting closer. Every 90 seconds. Every 80 seconds. At seven months pregnant, she was about to deliver a premature baby in the middle of the Arizona desert. Her eldest son, 14-year-old Alejandro, and a cousin had already gone off three hours earlier, searching for the U.S. Border Patrol to bring help. Her husband stayed with her as the contractions started getting closer. She prayed, bargained with God, swearing her seventh attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally would be her last. "I promised if everything went ...
The Mexican Connection
Post Date: 2005-06-05 17:13:32 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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The Mexican Connection Sunday, June 05, 2005 STEVE SUO MEXICO CITY -- America's methamphetamine crisis is now rooted in Mexico, where drug cartels are illicitly obtaining tons of pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient needed to make the potent stimulant. Mexico's imports of the cold medicine have vaulted from 66 tons to 224 tons in the past five years, customs records show. That's roughly double what the country needs to meet the legitimate demands of cold and allergy sufferers, an analysis by The Oregonian found. U.S. officials say meth production in Mexico is rising because Mexican traffickers can no longer easily obtain pseudoephedrine in the United States and Canada, which have cracked ...
Border agent wounded while halting drug-laden truck
Post Date: 2005-06-03 18:32:55 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Border agent wounded while halting drug-laden truck By Gregory Alan Gross UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM 11:47 a.m. June 3, 2005 LIVE OAK SPRINGS ? A U.S. Border Patrol agent was wounded in the leg by a shotgun blast Friday morning when he tried to intercept a pickup truck loaded with hundreds of pounds of narcotics. The unidentified agent, who is based in Campo, was taken by ambulance to a hospital. His wounds were not life-threatening, according to a Border Patrol spokesman. Heavily-armed Border Patrol agents, backed by Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers, sealed off an area south of Interstate 8 between Live Oak Springs and Crestwood Road. Officers searched ...
Dallas Principals Face Spanish Principle
Post Date: 2005-06-03 18:18:32 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Dallas Principals Face Spanish Principle Wednesday, June 01, 2005 DALLAS - A proposed solution to a lack of communication between English-speaking school principals and Spanish-speaking parents has a lot of people talking in Texas. Some Hispanic Dallas moms say they're often in the dark about how their children are performing in school because they don't know English, and the principal doesn't know Spanish. A new proposal before the school board would force principals to learn the native language of the majority of students ? for 43 percent of pupils at Dallas schools that language is Spanish. Critics argue the plan is a threat to the official language of America. The Dallas Council of ...
Police meet with South Park residents about gun violence
Post Date: 2005-06-02 12:37:48 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Police meet with South Park residents about gun violence By HECTOR CASTRO SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Frustrated South Park residents, upset over yet another teenage shooting victim in their community, heard police officials yesterday say they have plans to combat the gun violence. "It's come to the point where it's a serious crisis, and we need to put an end to it," Seattle police Deputy Chief John Diaz told a group of about 50 mostly Latino residents who gathered at the South Park Community Center. Today, officials plan a press conference at Seattle police headquarters to discuss a task force of sorts involving federal and local law enforcement agencies and officials ...
Border Volunteers Not So Welcomed in Texas
Post Date: 2005-06-02 11:12:09 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Border Volunteers Not So Welcomed in Texas By LYNN BREZOSKY, Associated Press Writer Thu Jun 2, 6:40 AM ET HARLINGEN, Texas - The controversial civilian patrol group that helped capture hundreds of illegal immigrants along the Mexico-Arizona border and won praise from California's governor is getting a pre-emptive cold shoulder in Texas. Minuteman Project organizer Chris Simcox warned that if Congress didn't buttress the U.S. Border Patrol with National Guard or other military troops this summer, the patrol would deploy to California in August and Texas in October. But although Minuteman organizers said nearly 1,000 volunteers from around the country were ready, Texas civil rights ...
Border agent indicted in drugs, weapons, bribery case
Post Date: 2005-06-02 10:47:01 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Border agent indicted in drugs, weapons, bribery case Susan Carroll Republic Tucson Bureau Jun. 2, 2005 12:00 AM TUCSON - A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 17 counts of drug trafficking, weapons and bribery charges, according to court records unsealed Wednesday. Juan L. Sanchez, 28, who worked at the Nogales Border Patrol station, appeared in U.S. District Court in Tucson on Wednesday for an initial hearing. A federal grand jury indicted Sanchez on May 18 on charges including conspiracy with intent to distribute more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of up to life in prison. According to the indictment, Sanchez also faces charges for ...
DEA arrests 15 in raid of Ore. meth 'super lab'
Post Date: 2005-06-01 16:05:20 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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DEA arrests 15 in raid of Ore. meth 'super lab' 12:07 PM PDT on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 By KGW and AP Staff BROWNSVILLE, Ore. -- Federal investigators late Tuesday announced the arrests of 15 people linked to what they're calling a methamphetamine "super lab" in the Salem area. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the lab located in a small, unassuming mobile home north of Brownsville in Linn County was capable of producing more than 90 pounds of meth in under three days time -- enough to intoxicate the entire adult population of Portland. Ninety pounds of pure meth would make 400,000 doses. If cut to street purity of 50 percent, it would make 800,000 doses. Agents ...
Border Patrol investigation over kickbacks is criticized
Post Date: 2005-06-01 14:53:15 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Border Patrol investigation over kickbacks is criticized Susan Carroll Republic Tucson Bureau Jun. 1, 2005 12:00 AM TUCSON - The U.S. Office of Special Counsel on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Border Patrol's investigations into allegations that agents in Arizona ran an extensive kickback scheme, calling a series of inquiries "deficient." The Border Patrol's investigations stemmed from whistle-blower complaints that agents temporarily stationed in the border city of Douglas submitted doctored receipts for reimbursement or made kickback deals with landlords from January 2000 to April 2002. Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., estimated in 2003 that the fraud, investigated by the Office of ...
Hispanics struggle with state testing scores
Post Date: 2005-05-31 22:47:42 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Hispanics struggle with state testing scores By The Associated Press INDEPENDENCE — Hispanic students at Central High School take the same classes their non-Hispanic classmates do. But there, the similarity seems to end. Of 200 Hispanic students, just 5 percent passed annual statewide tests last year, the raw statistics show. The situation is as bad — or worse — across Oregon. All but about 35 of the 278 secondary schools failed to teach their Hispanic students up to federal standards in reading and math. "You can't deny the numbers," said State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo. "It's awful. The gap at the high school level is very serious.'' The ...
A Battle Against Illegal Workers, With an Unlikely Driving Force
Post Date: 2005-05-30 00:05:53 by robin
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CALDWELL, Idaho - To hear people who call into Idaho's leading conservative talk radio station, Robert Vasquez is a hero: one of the few politicians to tell it straight. Mr. Vasquez, 55, a Republican county commissioner and Mexican-American in a region where Latinos are ascendant, has been on a crusade against illegal immigration - what he calls "an imminent invasion" from south of the border. Mr. Vasquez has tried to get Canyon County declared a disaster area because of the strain from illegal immigrants. He has also sent a bill to the Mexican government for more than $2 million; that is the cost, he said, of Mexicans who are in the county illegally. Mr. Vasquez says the ...
Border watch project raises concerns (San Diego)
Post Date: 2005-05-29 18:33:29 by robin
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Ron Hoebeck`s home is only 243 feet from the U.S. Mexico border. While moving a rattlesnake off the road on Tuesday he spoke about past problems he has had with drug trafficers and illegal aliens using this section of his property to enter the U.S. BOULEVARD ---- Ron Hoebeck's home sits just 243 feet from the U.S. border with Mexico. It has a bullet hole through the roof and another in the wall by his bed, the mark of a shot he says was fired from a hillside on the other side of the border.He's been shot at seven times during the eight years he has been living on the property, Hoebeck said, by what he believes were drug dealers and smugglers that prey on immigrants. These days he keeps ...
Immigration Activists Gather
Post Date: 2005-05-29 12:36:59 by robin
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Buoyed by last month's Minuteman border patrols, leaders from around the U.S. call for a multi-state coalition to advance their goals. LAS VEGAS — Prominent anti-illegal-immigration activists joined this weekend to call on public officials to enforce federal immigration laws and protect the country's borders. Buoyed by last month's Minuteman Project citizen border patrols in Arizona, leaders made plans for a multi-state coalition of organizations that could be called the Minuteman Campaign USA. The groups called for the creation of a legal defense fund, a campaign to target employers who hire undocumented workers, and increased apprehension of illegal immigrants who commit crimes. ...
Violence against border agents at record pace Increase in assaults comes amid government security crackdown
Post Date: 2005-05-29 08:15:09 by Zipporah
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SAN DIEGO - Newton’s third law of physics says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and it’s being played out in violent fashion along the nation’s southwest border.Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol agents along a 260-mile stretch of the Arizona/Mexico border known as the Tucson sector, a desolate expanse of territory that is the nation’s major artery for illegal immigration, are on a record clip. In the first eight months of fiscal year 2005 there have been 163 recorded acts of violence against border agents compared with 118 for all of fiscal year 2004, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Border patrol officials in other sectors contacted ...
Fla. Child-Rape Suspect in U.S. Illegally
Post Date: 2005-05-27 13:08:28 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Fla. Child-Rape Suspect in U.S. Illegally WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A teenager charged with raping an 8-year-old girl and leaving her for dead at an abandoned landfill is in the United States illegally - status that escaped notice despite three arrests, officials said. Milagro Cunningham became illegal after arriving from the Bahamas on a visitor's visa in 2003 and overstaying the short-term limit, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Manny Van Pelt said. Cunningham, 17, had three burglary arrests last year but escaped the notice of immigration authorities because his cases were handled in the juvenile justice system, said Art Bullock, Border Patrol chief in West Palm ...
U.S.: Black Immigration Surging
Post Date: 2005-05-27 12:50:39 by 1776
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News/Comment; Posted on: 2005-05-26 13:29:39 More Africans arriving in U.S. than in peak days of the slave trade; will this make the Black population 'Blacker'? by Ann Hendon THOUGH OVERSHADOWED by the much larger (and still increasing) tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States, Black Africans are coming to America in ever-greater numbers, placing an additional burden on White taxpayers and filling what used to be White living space -- the constantly-diminishing places where White families can live and raise children in peace and security. According to GhanaWeb and the New York Times, Black Africans are arriving in numbers exceeding even those of the peak years of the ...
Mexican reparation bills pass in Senate and committee
Post Date: 2005-05-27 10:02:57 by Grumble Jones
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. The California Senate has voted to formally apologize for the deportation of Mexican-American citizens between 1929 and 1944. The expulsions were part of a program designed to create jobs for citizens during the Depression. About two (m) million Hispanics -- including 400-thousand Californians -- were sent to Mexico during that period. The program was devised by the Hoover administration to get rid of illegal immigrants and open up jobs. But a state senator says most of the people deported were American citizens or legal immigrants. The Senate passed the measure 27-to-five, sending it to the Assembly. Meanwhile, a state Senate committee approved a separate bill to ...
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