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Latest Articles: Immigration
Feds bust tunnel under U.S.-Canadian border
Post Date: 2005-07-21 16:34:29 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Feds bust tunnel under U.S.-Canadian border By GENE JOHNSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEATTLE -- Federal agents have shut down a drug-smuggling tunnel built under the U.S.-Canadian border north of Lynden, Wash., federal officials said Thursday. Authorities had been monitoring construction of the tunnel for eight months and sealed it shortly after it opened Wednesday, making three to five arrests in the process, a government employee who had been briefed by local law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The source spoke Wednesday on the condition of anonymity because the news had not been made public. A news release Thursday morning from U.S. Attorney John McKay confirmed the ...
Gov't Considers Using Border Patrol Volunteers
Post Date: 2005-07-21 16:20:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Gov't Considers Using Border Patrol Volunteers POSTED: 4:32 pm PDT July 20, 2005 UPDATED: 4:40 pm PDT July 20, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- The federal government is thinking of training volunteer border patrol groups such as the Minuteman Project and organizing them into a kind of Border Patrol auxiliary. Robert Bonner, head of Customs and Border Protection, said the idea's in a very preliminary stage. He said auxiliaries are common among police and fire agencies, even the military, so why not for the Border Patrol? Bonner said his agency "welcomes the eyes and ears" of citizens, as long as they help "in a responsible way." Until now, Border Patrol officials have generally ...
Police shot dead in Mexican city (BBC reporting on Nuevo Laredo)
Post Date: 2005-07-21 00:28:48 by robin
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Police shot dead in Mexican city Two police officers have been shot dead in a northern Mexican border city which is the focus of a major crackdown on drug trafficking. It raises to five the number of officers murdered this week in Nuevo Laredo, an important transit point for drugs entering the US. The Mexican army and federal agents have been sent in to restore order and investigate police corruption. The operation has resulted in 1,000 arrests but few cocaine seizures. Turf war Ricardo Uvalle Escobedo and Jose de Jesus Morin Salinas were killed by gunmen in separate incidents on their way to work on Wednesday. On Tuesday night, two other officers, Daniel ...
Minuteman Supporters ejected from La Raza Event. Illegals run out the back door
Post Date: 2005-07-20 22:30:49 by Zipporah
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ALIPAC NOTE: Rumor has it that La Raza coordinators noticed the Minuteman supporters when almost one third of their La Raza attendees ran out the back door in a hurry! Three Pennsylvania Minutemen accompanied by that coast-to-coast activist VigilAnnie1 and the Chairman of the New American Independent Party were escorted from the La Raza convention this afternoon by Philadelphia Police for wearing clothes that supported the United States Border Patrol. Only VigilAnnie1 and I were wearing obvious Border Patrol gear. VigilAnnie1 had her undocumented BPA shirt on and I was wearing USBP hat. A third Pennsylvania Minuteman was wearing a hat she picked up on MMP that had a US flag and 'I support ...
GOP bill would force illegal aliens to leave [another amnesty plan] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-07-20 16:21:49 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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GOP bill would force illegal aliens to leave By PATRINA A. BOSTIC COX NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON -- Two border-state Republican senators proposed legislation yesterday that would require every illegal immigrant -- estimated at 10 million -- to leave the United States and return to the nation they came from within five years. The bill, by Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Jon Kyl of Arizona, would establish temporary work permits renewable for up to six years and would require employers to provide health insurance to workers. It also calls for tougher border security and law enforcement measures. Undocumented immigrants would be required to depart the United States voluntarily and re-enter ...
MS-13 racketeering trial begins in Hempstead
Post Date: 2005-07-19 22:10:15 by Zipporah
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The white van rolled up next to him as he and his friends stood outside a Hempstead laundry on a hot summer evening two years ago, Douglas Sorto, then 16, recalled Tuesday. Someone screamed "La Mara," short for the Hispanic gang MS-13, uttered an insult in Spanish and opened fire, Sorto said. The shot passed through his left leg, Sorto testified in U.S. District Court in Central Islip. Federal prosecutors Richard Donoghue and Wayne Baker said the shooting was the first of three in Hempstead and Freeport that night by two members of MS-13 as they sought to target members of rival gangs. None of the shootings were fatal. David Vasquez, 26, and Ledwin Castro, 23, both of Freeport, ...
Suspect in Three Ariz. Killings Arrested
Post Date: 2005-07-19 12:02:04 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Suspect in Three Ariz. Killings Arrested [in Mexico] By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) -- A man suspected in the abduction of his two children in Arizona and the killings of the youngsters' grandparents and an uncle has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said. The children, 18-month-old Bryan Cervantes and 3-year-old Jennifer Cervantes, appeared to be unharmed and were in the custody of Mexican authorities, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said. Deputies planned to fly to Mexico on Tuesday to return the children, both of whom are U.S. citizens, to Arizona to be reunited with their mother, the sheriff said. Their father, Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala, was arrested ...
AMERICA’S LOSS OF THE RULE OF LAW
Post Date: 2005-07-18 20:33:18 by Zipporah
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“California, essentially lost its sovereignty," said Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca. "There are 40,000 illegal aliens in the state prison system here. Twenty-three percent of the jail population in Los Angeles County is illegal aliens." Those words from the top cop in California illustrate the loss of the rule-of-law in America. Over three million illegal aliens operate in the Golden State. With an estimated 20 million free roaming illegal aliens and 10,000 ‘making it’ over our borders 24/7, this country is in trouble. When Border Patrol agents catch illegal aliens, they let them go. In January, 2004, agents caught 96,000 border jumpers. After arresting them, ...
Chinese labor for oil drilling eyed in Colo.
Post Date: 2005-07-18 12:58:27 by Zipporah
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Canadian oil giant EnCana is considering bringing in Chinese companies to construct and operate drilling rigs in the Colorado Rockies, as the region struggles to keep up with demand and rising energy prices. EnCana, a major player in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado, said Chinese labor is cheap and the workers are well-educated. The move would be scrutinized in Washington, where politicians are uneasy about allowing Chinese workers to acquire access to U.S.-based oil and gas facilities. "I am totally against the Chinese government running the jobs in our country," said Rep. John Salazar, Colorado Democrat, whose district is most affected by drilling. "With the ...
Anti-[illegal]Immigration Groups Head to Interior
Post Date: 2005-07-18 11:57:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Anti-Immigration Groups Head to Interior July 17, 2005 6:39 PM EDT MORRISTOWN, Tenn. - A volunteer movement that vows to guard America from a wave of illegal immigration has spread from the dusty U.S.-Mexican border to the verdant hollows of Appalachia. At least 40 anti-immigration groups have popped up nationally, inspired by the Minuteman Project that rallied hundreds this year to patrol the Mexican border in Arizona. "It's like O'Leary's cow has kicked over the lantern. The fire has just started now," said Carl "Two Feathers" Whitaker, an American Indian activist and perennial gubernatorial candidate who runs the Tennessee Volunteer Minutemen, aimed at exposing ...
Anti-Immigration Groups Head to Interior
Post Date: 2005-07-17 20:11:18 by Zipporah
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A volunteer movement that vows to guard America from a wave of illegal immigration has spread from the dusty U.S.-Mexican border to the verdant hollows of Appalachia. At least 40 anti-immigration groups have popped up nationally, inspired by the Minuteman Project that rallied hundreds this year to patrol the Mexican border in Arizona. "It's like O'Leary's cow has kicked over the lantern. The fire has just started now," said Carl "Two Feathers" Whitaker, an American Indian activist and perennial gubernatorial candidate who runs the Tennessee Volunteer Minutemen, aimed at exposing those who employ illegals. Critics call the movement vigilantism, and some hear in the ...
Illegals' squalid housing transforms cities
Post Date: 2005-07-17 18:53:40 by robin
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Sewage flows in streets as landlords cram up to 64 in single-family homes The impact of uncontrolled immigration is coming home for residents of many Long Island, New York, communities as landlords turn single-family homes into filthy, overcrowded tenements holding as many as 64 renters – causing health and fire dangers and transforming neighborhoods. Illegal rooming houses, serving both documented and undocumented immigrants, are increasingly appearing across Long Island, as landlords fill a niche created by the demand for and availability of cheap foreign labor. "It's definitely spreading," Brookhaven Councilman James Tullo, who heads a task force investigating 300 illegal ...
Civilian Group Patrols Mexico Border
Post Date: 2005-07-17 09:35:49 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Civilian Group Patrols Mexico Border CAMPO, Calif. (AP) -- Volunteers began patrolling remote mountains outside San Diego on Saturday, watching for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers as part of a campaign to draw attention to the nation's porous border with Mexico. About 30 volunteers joined the first patrol of a 26-mile stretch of rolling hills from Jacumba to Tecate. The patrols, called California Border Watch, are modeled on a similar effort in the Arizona desert earlier this year. Jim Chase, a former Arizona Minuteman volunteer who cut ties with that group, is leading the California patrols, which will continue through Aug. 7. He said volunteers will call the Border Patrol if they ...
Man Who Used Daughter as Shield in Gun Battle Was Illegal Alien
Post Date: 2005-07-16 16:48:22 by Zipporah
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The man shot by LAPD SWAT officers in a gun battle in which his 19-month-old daughter was also killed was in the United States illegally and had an extensive criminal record, reports KFI-Radio. According to the Department of Homeland Security Jose Raul Pena had never been in the US legally and was actually deported to El Salvador in 1995 after being arrested for sales of cocaine. Pena snuck back into the US in 1996 and has had at least four run-ins with police since then, including two convictions. Each time he could have been convicted and deported but court records show Pena was instead given probation and allowed to stay. A videotape released Friday shows Jose Raul Pena holding ...
Hospitals 'Mugged' by Illegal Aliens
Post Date: 2005-07-16 16:01:18 by Grumble Jones
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"A peaceful mass of people, hardworking, carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable [illegal alien] invasion, the most important in [Mexico's] human history. You cannot give me a similar example of such a large migratory wave by an ant-like, stubborn, unarmed, [illegal aliens] and carried on in the face of the most powerful and best-armed nation on earth [America]."(1) "But neither barbed-wire fences, nor aggressive border guards, nor campaigns, nor [un-enforced American Immigration] laws nor police raids [not unless you commit ANOTHER crime] against the undocumented [illegal aliens], have stopped this movement of the masses that is unprecedented in any part of ...
Idaho County Sues Over Immigrant Workers
Post Date: 2005-07-16 15:57:08 by robin
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11:47 AM PDT, July 16, 2005 BOISE, Idaho — Faced with the costs of coping with illegal immigrants, one county is looking to the courts for help -- by filing a racketeering lawsuit against the businesses that hire these workers. The legal theory: that a pattern of immigration violations by employers is costing Canyon County millions for law enforcement, education and social services. "Their presence lowers the labor wage for American citizens and removes employment opportunities," county Commissioner Robert Vasquez, an ambitious politician who just started a bid for Congress, said of the illegal workers. "Certainly it uses tax dollars to provide them with educational ...
Rape Spurs Anti-Hispanic Backlash in Ohio
Post Date: 2005-07-16 15:54:56 by robin
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10:43 AM PDT, July 16, 2005 HAMILTON, Ohio — It started with the spray-painted, misspelled "Rapest" on the house of a Hispanic man accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old white girl. Then the house went up in flames in a suspected arson. Confrontations, name-calling and threats against Hispanics followed. Men roamed the streets wearing pillowcases with eye holes, and Ku Klux Klansmen in hoods and robes showed up to pass out pamphlets. There were rumors of assaults and beatings. Now this small Ohio river city's booming Hispanic population is cowed, the streets in their neighborhoods nearly deserted. Outside the office of the Living Water Ministry, which two months ago ...
Business owners in Mesa discuss day-laborer issue
Post Date: 2005-07-14 11:28:33 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Business owners in Mesa discuss day-laborer issue Justin Juozapavicius The Arizona Republic Jul. 14, 2005 12:00 AM MESA - If the day-labor explosion here had a ground zero, this would be it. Business owners and landlords at Broadway and Gilbert roads met this week to figure out a new solution to an old problem: suspected undocumented immigrants congregating on street corners waiting for work. But it doesn't stop there. Owners in a recent survey said they also do battle daily with panhandlers and transients in the area, often coming across plastic bags that appear to have had drugs in them and finding people going to the bathroom by trash bins. "It's like they come out of the ...
Judge rules U.S. government not liable for migrant deaths
Post Date: 2005-07-14 11:23:59 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Judge rules U.S. government not liable for migrant deaths Michael Kiefer The Arizona Republic Jul. 14, 2005 12:00 AM A federal judge in Tucson refused Wednesday to hold the U.S. government responsible for the 2001 dehydration deaths of 11 undocumented immigrants just because two of its agencies refused to allow a humanitarian group to leave water drums on a national wildlife refuge bordering Mexico. U.S. District Judge John M. Roll ruled that he had no jurisdiction in the wrongful death lawsuit because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the administrators of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge acted within their discretion when they denied an application by the group Humane ...
Missing kids' dad dodged deportation
Post Date: 2005-07-14 11:10:54 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Missing kids' dad dodged deportation Josh Kelley The Arizona Republic Jul. 14, 2005 12:00 AM Getting released from jail shortly after being arrested last year probably prevented the undocumented immigrant linked to Sunday's triple murder and kidnapping near Queen Creek from being deported. Rodrigo Cervantes Zavala, 34, was arrested March 31, 2004, by Phoenix police after stealing $3,298 worth of materials from a former employer and was released from custody the same day, according to court records. Federal immigration officials apparently did not have enough time to retain him for deportation, said Russell Ahr, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in ...
Survey: 500,000 North American Jews Could Immigrate.
Post Date: 2005-07-13 19:05:08 by Jethro Tull
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Survey: 500,000 North American Jews Could Immigrate. Israel Faxx; 7/1/2005 By Ha'aretz Some 500,000 Jews could potentially immigrate to Israel from North America over the next 15 years, according to a market survey conducted on behalf of the Jewish Agency. The survey, conducted by a U.S. market research company, Harris, is believed to be the most comprehensive study carried out till now on the subject of the immigration intentions of North American Jews. The poll was carried out among a representative sample from the some 6.3 million Jews living in the United States and Canada. Around 1.5 percent of the respondents (representing some 100,000 individuals) said there was a high chance ...
Arrests Made in Alleged Gang Rape
Post Date: 2005-07-13 17:16:20 by 1776
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LOS ANGELES — Several arrests were made in the gang rape of a 13-year-old girl. A dozen people are accused of taking part in the assault. A sheriff's spokesperson says they are just starting to crack the case open and more arrests could be on the way. Early this morning authorities rounded up suspects they believed were involved in a very violent crime against a young girl. According to the sheriff's spokesperson, several men in a park raped the young girl. There are six suspects under arrest in all, one adult and 5 juveniles. They range from 16 to 18-year-old. Apparently the incident occurred last week, July 6, at Smith Park. The victim was walking home from school and she accepted ...
Great game plan, feds: Keep the felon, deport the scholars
Post Date: 2005-07-13 12:55:32 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Great game plan, feds: Keep the felon, deport the scholars Jul. 13, 2005 12:00 AM Let's see if I've got this straight. Four high school students brought here illegally when they were tots. Never in trouble. Get good grades. Build a solar-powered boat and do it so well that they're invited to a competition in upstate New York. Nabbed while sightseeing at Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border. One construction worker sneaks across the border. Beats his wife. Steals from his employer. Has three criminal convictions and one alias. Four boat builders. One felon. Can you guess which the feds are deporting? Comes now the explanation for why federal immigration authorities have the time ...
Embracing Illegals
Post Date: 2005-07-13 12:25:55 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Embracing Illegals Companies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants Inez and Antonio Valenzuela are a marketer's dream. Young, upwardly mobile, and ready to spend on their growing family, the Los Angeles couple in many ways reflects the 42 million Hispanics in the U.S. Age 30 and 29, respectively, with two daughters, Esmeralda, 8, and Maria Luisa, 2 months, the duo puts in long hours, working 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., six days a week, at their bustling streetside taco trailer. From a small sidewalk stand less than two years ago, they built the business into a hot destination for hungry commuters. The Valenzuelas (not their real name) bring in revenue well ...
N.H. Judge Scrutinizes Trespassing Law
Post Date: 2005-07-13 11:40:04 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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N.H. Judge Scrutinizes Trespassing Law By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Writer JAFFREY, N.H. (AP) -- A judge questioned a prosecutor and defense attorneys at length about a town's use of trespassing law against illegal immigrants and expressed doubt that he was the right authority to determine someone's immigration status. "Is it really my role?" Jaffrey District Court Judge L. Phillips Runyon III asked in court Tuesday in the case of a Mexican man who was charged with trespassing in New Ipswich in April. Prosecutor Nicole Morse told the judge that local authorities were trying to protect their communities, not enforce federal immigration law. Defense attorneys said the ...
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