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Latest Articles: Immigration
Maybe they're nuts but Minutemen have been effective
Post Date: 2005-04-03 19:17:52 by Zipporah
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Say what you want about the Minuteman movement. Call the people involved vigilantes. Call them gun nuts. Call them crackpots in camouflage. I'd call them fairly effective. Before they even set foot among the scrub oak and chaparral of southeastern Arizona, they have done what politicians and policymakers in this part of the country have been unable to do. They have, as advertisers like to say, reached their target audience. On Wednesday, just two days before the Minutemen assembled on the Arizona-Mexico border, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection hightailed it to Tucson to announce a "comprehensive strategy" to secure the border. Suddenly, Arizona is getting 534 new ...
There's nothing cheap about immigrant labor
Post Date: 2005-04-03 16:42:34 by robin
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The Denver Post richard d. lamm There's nothing cheap about immigrant labor By Richard D. Lamm Sunday, April 03, 2005 - It is easy to see why illegal immigrants are attractive to employers. These are generally good, hard-working people who will quietly accept minimum wage (or less), who don't generally get health or other benefits, and if they complain, they can be easily fired. For some employers it is an abused form of labor. Even minimum wage is attractive to workers from countries whose standard of living is a fraction of ours. But it is not "cheap labor." It may be cheap to those who pay the wages, but for the rest of us it is clearly subsidized labor, as we taxpayers ...
Mexican Women Set to Testify Against Alleged Sex Traffickers in New York Trial
Post Date: 2005-04-03 15:52:29 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Mexican Women Set to Testify Against Alleged Sex Traffickers in New York Trial By Tom Hays Associated Press Writer Published: Apr 3, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) - The poor, uneducated teenager met Josue Flores Carreto at a pastry shop where she worked in central Mexico and, amid promises of a better life, they wed in 2001. What followed, federal prosecutors say, were beatings, threats and sex with strangers far from home. The young woman's story, which Carreto disputes, is crucial to a federal case alleging he and a gang of fellow predators forced Mexican women like his bride into prostitution. Authorities say some of the victims were smuggled into New York in a scheme that made the gang ...
"Follow the Money" to Oppose Home Depot!
Post Date: 2005-04-03 12:36:07 by Zipporah
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Home Depot's announcement of its "partnership" with the National Council of La Raza and its plan to give hiring preference to Spanish-speaking employees is a signal that yet another corporation feels able openly to hire illegal aliens. Home Depot also indirectly supports alien employment by funding day-labor centers. Joe Turner describes this practice on California's Save Our State website. Many Americans have protested through Home Depot's website—only to receive notes from a low-level "Customer Care Representative." The reply I received from from "Shelby" (See Reply From Home Depot) proves that Home Depot is as indifferent to Americans' ...
Border-crossers in Mexico undeterred by Minuteman Project
Post Date: 2005-04-03 07:52:33 by Zipporah
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NACO, Mexico ---- Sitting near the U.S. border with Mexico, 36-year-old Alberto Gonzalez said he was concerned but not deterred by the Minuteman Project, a civilian border-watch group that aims report illegal immigrants coming across the Arizona border with Mexico. "I think they should leave that work to authorities," said Gonzalez, who said he was contemplating crossing the border illegally. Thousands of illegal immigrants cross the border through Arizona each year. The members of the Minuteman Project said they want to call attention to the problem and to have the federal government increase resources to the U.S. Border Patrol. Last year, more than half of the 1.1 million ...
Volunteers Begin Arriving in Effort to Use Volunteer Civilians to Patrol Arizona-Mexico Border
Post Date: 2005-04-01 16:47:56 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Volunteers Begin Arriving in Effort to Use Volunteer Civilians to Patrol Arizona-Mexico Border By Jacques Billeaud Associated Press Writer Published: Apr 1, 2005 TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) - At least 100 volunteers registered by Friday afternoon for a monthlong effort to patrol the Mexican border for illegal immigrants and smugglers, an organizer of the project said. The idea, according to organizers of the Minuteman Project, is for the volunteers to fan out across 23 miles of the San Pedro Valley to watch the border and report any illegal activity to federal agents - an exercise that some law enforcement authorities and others fear could lead to vigilante violence. Many of the volunteers ...
Senate opens door to alien amnesty
Post Date: 2005-04-01 12:00:25 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Senate opens door to alien amnesty By Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Senate is bracing for its first fight over amnesty for illegal immigrants in nearly 10 years after the chamber's parliamentarian ruled that a debate over granting legal status to illegal agriculture workers will be allowed on the pending emergency spending bill. The $81 billion spending bill covers costs associated with the war on terror, and the House already passed a version with provisions restricting asylum claims and cracking down on illegal immigrants' ability to use driver's licenses. The parliamentarian said those provisions open the door for Sen. Larry E. Craig, Idaho Republican, to offer as an ...
Don Quijote de Califas y su mil Sanchos en Arizona
Post Date: 2005-04-01 10:54:37 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Don Quijote de Califas y su mil Sanchos en Arizona by Emanuel Anthony Martinez The afternoons in Guanajuato are mild and warm, cool in the mountain mornings and cool in the rainy evenings. At dawn the campañas ring and the men carrying heavy rusted propane canisters shout ?Gas! Gas!? for any family needing a replacement. For a few months I worked at La Pieza, a bar the size of a closet, off of Cantarranas street. Claudia, the owner, paid me about fifteen pesos an hour. In a morning, that came out to about eight dollars minus tips. It was barely enough to stay afloat, so I needed another job. I took on extra work teaching English at one of the language institutes up the road, by ...
Legislators set out to confront Minutemen
Post Date: 2005-04-01 10:46:21 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Legislators set out to confront Minutemen By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services A number of Hispanic state lawmakers are going to Cochise County on Friday to confront armed civilian volunteers from the newly formed Minuteman Project and spread the message that immigrants are good for the country. Rep. Ben Miranda, DPhoenix, said there is a need to present some balance in what is happening in southern Arizona. The Minuteman volunteers intend to start patrolling Friday along a 40-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border and report sightings of illegal crossings to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Miranda said all the publicity so far has been about how these volunteers are needed to ...
Guest Opinion: Minutemen's weapons are cell phones and cameras
Post Date: 2005-04-01 10:35:19 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Guest Opinion: Minutemen's weapons are cell phones and cameras TOM TANCREDO Tucson Citizen President Bush criticized the Minutemen, the estimated 1,000 citizens who are gathering on the Arizona-Mexico border today to protest the government's failure to secure our borders. Bush called these patriots "vigilantes" and offered his alternative to citizen protest: "rational enforcement of our laws." That is an odd thing for him to say in this context. Rational enforcement of our laws would mean stopping illegal immigrants at the border, something he is unwilling to do. The name "Minutemen" may be an unfortunate choice since these volunteers plan to carry ...
ACLU ambuscade
Post Date: 2005-04-01 10:32:11 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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ACLU ambuscade By Michelle Malkin Today, April Fools' Day, the American Civil Liberties Union will show us what a joke its commitment to American civil liberties really is. Today, if you haven't heard, is the launch date of the Minuteman Project, an all-volunteer effort by law-abiding American citizens to call attention to the nation's wide-open southern border. Hundreds of Americans from New York to Michigan to California will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border for a month to monitor illegal aliens and alert immigration enforcement officials if they witness lawbreaking. Call it the mother of all neighborhood watch programs. In doing so, the Minutemen will exercise their constitutionally ...
Passengers Cheer When Illegal Immigrants Are Taken Off Plane At RDU
Post Date: 2005-04-01 05:19:20 by Zipporah
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An air marshal who was on the flight overheard some people talking about being smuggled into the US. Morrisville, NC -- Nearly a dozen passengers were escorted off a Southwest airlines flight Tuesday night and taken into custody, suspected of being illegal immigrants. Eleven people were taken off Southwest flight 2340 from Chicago at RDU International at 6:40pm Tuesday. Authorities said an air marshal who was on the flight overheard some people talking about being smuggled into the US The air marshal then contacted INS and customs officials who met the plane. The 11 Mexican nationals were taken to the Johnston County jail where they were held overnight and are still being interviewed. ...
Caption this pic
Post Date: 2005-03-31 14:14:42 by Dude Lebowski
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Man Convicted of Killing 5 Kids by Grill
Post Date: 2005-03-31 11:56:39 by 1776
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NORWALK, Calif. -- A jury Tuesday convicted a man of killing five of his children by lighting a charcoal grill inside his home and closing all the doors and windows. Adair Javier Garcia, 33, showed no emotion when the verdicts were read. He could get the death penalty. The trial's penalty phase was scheduled to begin Monday. The five children, ages 2 to 10, were asphyxiated in their sleep in 2002 as carbon monoxide built up inside the family's Pico Rivera home. Garcia and his then-9-year-old daughter survived. Prosecutors said Garcia sought revenge against his wife, who had recently left him. Police initially thought the grill was used to heat the house but became suspicious when they ...
(Cochise) County says it's ready for Minutemen
Post Date: 2005-03-29 23:01:45 by robin
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BISBEE - The Minutemen are coming, and Cochise County officials say they're ready for them. County officials gathered around a table in the Board of Supervisors' conference room Monday afternoon to fine-tune strategies for the upcoming Minuteman Project and to set aside $100,000 to cover possible expenses connected with keeping a lid on the volunteer border-control effort. As many as 1,000 volunteers from across the U.S. may show up in answer to a call to help prevent further illegal border crossings into Cochise County from Mexico. Concerned about the implications of volunteers spending up to a month along the border and the possibility of trouble during two planned demonstrations, the ...
Mexican migrants slow to seek U.S. citizenship
Post Date: 2005-03-29 11:59:57 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Mexican migrants slow to seek U.S. citizenship Daniel González The Arizona Republic Mar. 29, 2005 12:00 AM Olivia Navarro, an immigrant from Mexico, waited 13 years to become a U.S. citizen. After she finally took the oath one recent Friday, she wondered what took her so long. "I feel like the first lady of the United States," beamed Navarro, 55, a Phoenix waitress who has lived in the United States since 1971 and became eligible for citizenship in 1992. Navarro is not alone. Mexican immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens are far less likely to naturalize than other major immigrant groups, limiting their political clout at a time when the Mexican immigrant ...
IS BUSH PART OF IMMIGRATION PROBLEM?
Post Date: 2005-03-29 11:10:42 by Willie Green
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I voted for George W. Bush – both times – and campaigned for him. And I think he´s a great president. In some ways. But in some others, he´s a failure as a president. Like this statistic: Since George W. Bush became president the number of illegal aliens in the United States has increased by almost 25 percent. In hard numbers, more illegals – overwhelmingly from Mexico – have come into the United States during the first four years of the Bush Administration than there are legal Americans living in Alaska. Or Arkansas. Ditto for Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, ...
Resident tuition urged for immigrant children [ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!]
Post Date: 2005-03-29 10:30:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Resident tuition urged for immigrant children Opponents say that the plan rewards illegal immigration TARA MCLAIN Statesman Journal March 29, 2005 Natividad Silva pays taxes that subsidize Oregon students' university tuition. Yet the Mexican-born mother and community-college student cannot use that same benefit until her already-approved green card is processed. That could take years. Silva will finish her transfer degree later this spring at Mount Hood Community College. She has barely afforded the tuition while supporting her family. Unless Senate Bill 769 passes, she said, there is no way she can afford out-of-state tuition at an Oregon university, where she wants to earn a ...
Agent Seen Shredding Documents Before Fatal Shooting
Post Date: 2005-03-28 15:26:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Agent Seen Shredding Documents Before Fatal Shooting PHOENIX (AP) -- Some new details are surfacing surrounding the death of a top immigration official. Records show former acting U-S Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau chief Thomas DeRouchey was seen trying to shred a large amount of documents shortly before taking his life. A Customs Enforcement supervisor in Phoenix described to Marana police how DeRouchey had recently been seen placing documents into a shredding bin. While that wasn't unusual, the volume of documents is what raised concerns. On March 16th of last year, authorities say the 45-year-old DeRouchey was heading to Tucson from Phoenix. He was going there to ...
House Seeks to Make English Official Language
Post Date: 2005-03-28 15:16:50 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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House Seeks to Make English Official Language PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona House narrowly approved a proposal Thursday to ask voters next year to change the state constitution to declare English as the state's official language. The measure would also require that official government functions be conducted in English. The 31-29 vote comes nearly seven years after a similar voter-approved law making English the state's official language was overturned. The law, approved in 1988, was declared unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court, which ruled in 1998 that the change violated free-speech rights. Republican Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, a staunch advocate for limiting immigration and ...
Guardsman indicted on smuggling charges
Post Date: 2005-03-28 12:45:49 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Guardsman indicted on smuggling charges The Border Patrol says he wore his uniform and told agents he had been ordered to take two illegal immigrants to Phoenix. CLAUDINE LoMONACO Tucson Citizen An Army National Guardsman has been indicted on charges that he tried to transport illegal immigrants while impersonating a U.S Army recruiter. Prosecutors believe Adrian Adolfo Santacruz, 29, of Nogales was paid a total of $400 to transport two illegal immigrants and that he wore his National Guard uniform in the hope that he would be waved through a checkpoint. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested him Jan. 30 at a checkpoint in Amado after Santacruz stopped there, according to court ...
Migrant controls pitched
Post Date: 2005-03-28 12:43:02 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Migrant controls pitched The Associated Press Barred from certain government benefits, illegal immigrants in Arizona could face more restrictions under a proposal meant to discourage people from sneaking into the country. The proposal at the Arizona Legislature would prohibit illegal immigrants from attending state colleges and adult education classes. It would bar them from receiving utility and child care assistance, college tuition waivers and financial aid that is subsidized by state money. It also would keep them from having in-state status at Arizona's public colleges, a classification that results in lower tuition. The measure builds on Proposition 200, a voter-approved law ...
Attempted bribery charges leveled at 2 Mexican officials
Post Date: 2005-03-28 12:41:05 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Attempted bribery charges leveled at 2 Mexican officials HEIDI ROWLEY Tucson Citizen Two Mexican officials have been charged with trying to bribe border officials to help them bring marijuana into Arizona. Sonora Director of Public Safety Ramon Robles-Cota, 29, and Sonoyta Police Officer Julio Cesar Lozano-Lopez, 28, both of Sonoyta, Son., were charged yesterday following recorded interactions between themselves and a border agent. According to a copy of the criminal complaint, Robles-Cota approached the federal agent on Jan. 5 and asked for help in getting drugs across the border. In subsequent meetings, which were taped and conducted under surveillance, Robles-Cota and Lozano-Lopez ...
Racially Charged Incidents Cause Unease in Booming Los Angeles Suburbs
Post Date: 2005-03-25 16:06:27 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Racially Charged Incidents Cause Unease in Booming Los Angeles Suburbs By Ben Fox Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 25, 2005 MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) - Like thousands of other Californians, Crystal Farr moved her family to the inland suburbs of Los Angeles to live in more affordable housing than she could find along the coast. She has come to question the wisdom of the move following the arrest of dozens of alleged white supremacists and a series of racially charged incidents, including an attack on her teenage son. Farr, who is black, said the arrests added to her feeling that not everyone is welcome in a rapidly diversifying region where whites are no longer a majority. "I ...
Indiana to require photo voter ID
Post Date: 2005-03-25 07:32:39 by Jhoffa_
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Indiana to require photo voter ID The Indiana House has approved a bill that would require voters to show a government-issued photo identification card before they can cast a ballot. The final bill passed along party lines with all 54 House Republicans supporting it and all 45 Democrats voting against it. During a three-hour debate, Democrats accused Republicans of suppressing votes of minorities and said the strictest voter ID law in the nation would disenfranchise some residents who showed up to vote without government-issued picture identification.They would have to sign affidavits to cast provisional ballots that would not be counted until they showed photo ID at the county clerk's ...
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