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Latest Articles: Immigration
[Illegal] Immigrant Copes With Deaths of Pregnant Wife, Children in Smuggler's Van Crash
Post Date: 2005-07-08 15:01:52 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Immigrant Copes With Deaths of Pregnant Wife, Children in Smuggler's Van Crash By Elliot Spagat Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 8, 2005 SAN DIEGO (AP) - Galdino Perez was crouched in the fetal position on the floor of a minivan when his dream of bringing his family a life of opportunity in America ended. The smuggler who was driving Perez and his three-months' pregnant wife and two children fled when confronted with a Border Patrol checkpoint, swerving into oncoming traffic. Perez remembers the van ceiling illuminated by a patrol car's flashing lights. He clutched his wife and 11-year-old daughter as the out-of-control smuggler "went faster, passing more cars, passing more ...
Group tracks day labor employers: Citizens claim illegals hurt local contractors
Post Date: 2005-07-08 11:37:24 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Group tracks day labor employers Citizens claim illegals hurt local contractors By Eugene Driscoll and Jaime Garzon THE NEWS-TIMES DANBURY ? Frustrated by the lack of enforcement of immigration laws, members of the Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control are compiling a list of license plates belonging to contractors who pick up day laborers at Kennedy Park. People from the group's Danbury chapter plan to trace the plates through the Department of Motor Vehicles, turn the information over to police and boycott the contractors who hire illegal immigrants. "The purpose is twofold. First, the contractors who pick up these illegal aliens are breaking the law by employing them, ...
Mexican Officials Arrest Migrants Who Posed as Clowns
Post Date: 2005-07-07 15:25:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Mexican Officials Arrest Migrants Who Posed as Clowns The Associated Press Published: Jul 7, 2005 VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Two Honduran migrants who tried to make part of their way to the United States in clown disguises were detained Thursday when bus passengers feared they might be masked bandits, police said. Local police said Esdras Abacut Diaz and Edgar Alexis Sanchez Ulloa boarded a bus bound for the U.S. border early Thursday in the Gulf coast port of Veracruz. Manuel Diaz, coordinator of Veracruz intermunicipal police, said the men dressed as clowns, frightening relatives of other passengers who feared they might be bandits and alerted officers. Police stopped the bus as it was ...
Students may leave, not be deported
Post Date: 2005-07-07 11:42:19 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Students may leave, not be deported Daniel Gonzalez The Arizona Republic Jul. 7, 2005 12:00 AM Four Phoenix students who were apprehended by immigration authorities during a field trip to Niagara Falls three years ago will likely volunteer to leave the country rather than be deported, their attorney said Wednesday. The students will request voluntary departure during a July 21 hearing to avoid stiffer consequences of being deported, which would prevent them from coming back for at least five years. "It's typically better to have a voluntary departure than an order of deportation, but the bottom line is these kids are going to have to leave the country," said Judy Flanagan, ...
Jobs Americans Won't Do? An Open Letter To President George W. Bush
Post Date: 2005-07-07 00:35:26 by robin
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From Peter Gadiel George W. Bush President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. Dear George: You have often said that, because Mexicans are "doing jobs Americans won't do", you won't enforce the laws on immigration that you swore an oath to uphold. I thought you needed some enlightenment, so the following is an actual, nearly word-for-word record conversation I had recently while filling my gas tank in Danbury, Connecticut. At the next pump, a fellow was filling his truck's tank. On the door was the name of a landscaping business. I asked him if competition from competitors who hire illegal aliens was damaging his business. ...
Calif. Assembly Rejects Anti-Illegal Immigration Amendments
Post Date: 2005-07-06 18:53:44 by Zipporah
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An Assembly committee rejected proposed constitutional amendments seeking to deny a series of benefits to illegal immigrants and create a state border police force, but both could resurface next year as ballot initiatives. The Judiciary Committee voted 4-2 Tuesday to turn down an amendment by Assemblyman Mark Wyland, R-Del Mar, that would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving any health care or social services not required by federal law. The committee also voted 5-2 to reject an amendment by Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta, that would create a state border police force to supplement federal efforts to enforce immigration laws, including the ban on hiring illegal immigrants. ...
Michigan State Lawmakers Consult Mexican Officials on Migration
Post Date: 2005-07-06 17:27:45 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Michigan State Lawmakers Consult Mexican Officials on Migration The Associated Press Published: Jul 6, 2005 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican foreign relations officials on Wednesday met with Michigan legislators to discuss the living conditions of Mexicans living in the United States, authorities said. Republican State Sen. Valde Garcia led the bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to Mexico City to meet with Mexican Deputy Foreign Secretary Geronimo Gutierrez and Mexican Consul in Detroit Antonio Mena, according to a statement from the Foreign Relations Department. The Michigan leaders also plan to consult with members of the Mexican Senate and House, the Economy secretary and academics during ...
Spike in border crossings could further endanger rare pronghorn
Post Date: 2005-07-06 10:41:19 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Spike in border crossings could further endanger rare pronghorn Associated Press Jul. 6, 2005 12:00 AM TUCSON - Biologists are concerned that an increase in migrant traffic on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge could have deadly consequences for the endangered Sonoran pronghorn. The biologists say they have noticed a spike since early spring during which traffic has gone from a handful of crossers a night to 200. The number of Border Patrol agents in the refuge has doubled. The refuge shares a 60-mile border with Mexico, but the increased migration has been funneled though a single, narrow valley. That's the same area where biologists and volunteers have been installing ...
Men who shot Border Patrol agents wore black military-style garb
Post Date: 2005-07-06 10:35:29 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Men who shot Border Patrol agents wore black military-style garb July 4, 2005, 10:59 PM There's new information about two Border Patrol agents who were wounded in the line of duty last Thursday. Both officers were shot in the leg and Eyewitness News 4 has learned that the assailants were wearing black military-style uniforms. Sources say that investigators found food, water, and supplies. It's believed there were more than two shooters. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada says the assailants were dressed in commando-type clothing. "People don't dress like that unless they really know what they're doing and what they want, which is even worse," Estrada says. Could those ...
A Second Independence Day: Summary Deportation Now (Or Counter-Insurgency Later?)
Post Date: 2005-07-05 09:50:10 by robin
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By Juan Mann From the Arizona desert to the halls of Capitol Hill, there is a growing realization that something had better be done about the criminal alien invasion of these United States before it’s too late. Here’s the Hobson’s choice: summary deportation now—or counter-insurgency later. Just as the legal paradigm of the criminal justice system provides no defense whatsoever against crazed Jihadist suicide bombers, so also clinging to the "alien rights"-based framework of court hearings within the litigation bureaucracy of the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and the federal courts—while ...
U.S. Policy Lets Illegal Immigrants Go
Post Date: 2005-07-04 13:43:03 by Dude Lebowski
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HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - Several times a day, a chain-link gate rolls open and dozens of illegal immigrants stroll out of the U.S. Border Patrol station here, blinking into the hot Texas sun as they look for taxis to the bus station and a ticket out of town. Each holds a piece of paper that Spanish-speakers call a ``permiso'' - permission, courtesy of the U.S. government, to roam freely anywhere in the country. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, more than 118,000 undocumented migrants who were caught after sneaking over the nation's borders have walked right out of custody with a permiso in hand. They were from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil. But also Afghanistan, ...
TANSTACL (There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor)
Post Date: 2005-07-03 01:14:48 by 1776
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How can it be cheap if it costs us the most precious thing we possess -- our genetic future? ACCORDING TO a recent news report, tighter controls at the Mexican border (Huh?) have caused a shortage of strawberry pickers in Oregon. This has caused some growers to whine that they need more slaves, ah, illegal aliens, er, immigrants, or the whole friggin' world is going to collapse as the strawberries rot in the fields. It's a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Good God! We have to open the borders and let in more illegal aliens or America is going to collapse! The story sounds phony -- probably planted by an open borders Bush operative -- because there doesn't appear to be any real ...
Minuteman rally brings out intense passions
Post Date: 2005-07-03 00:03:26 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Minuteman rally brings out intense passions by Bill Hess Saturday, July 2, 2005 2:17 PM MDT Herald/Review PHOENIX - If anything could symbolize the tensions about border issues in Arizona, it was a line of police officers separating a man carrying the Mexican national banner from those who held high American flags on the capitol grounds. On Friday, organizers and supporters of the Minuteman program held a rally, loudly touting their success in April when they brought volunteers to Cochise County, declaring the movement is growing throughout the nation and challenging politicians to either get aboard the fast moving train of people wanting the borders secured or face defeat in next ...
National Data - Criminal Alien Nation
Post Date: 2005-07-02 22:34:30 by robin
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June 30, 2005 National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein Criminal Alien Nation Criminal aliens—non-citizens convicted of crimes—are a growing threat. In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 non-citizens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities, as follows 46,000 in Federal prisons74,000 in state prisons 147,000 in local jails [Table 1] Approximately 27 percent of all prisoners in Federal custody are criminal aliens. The majority (63 percent) are citizens of Mexico. Other major nationalities include Columbia and the Dominican Republic (7 percent each); Jamaica 4 ...
Terror-Linked Migrants Crossing Into U.S.
Post Date: 2005-07-02 18:13:35 by Zipporah
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - The men flocked to the cafe under the sign with the cedar tree, symbol of their Mideast home. Here, in this alien border land, it was the beacon that led to an Arab ``brother'' who would help them complete their journey from Lebanon into America. They would come, sometimes dozens a month over a three-year period, to find Salim Boughader Mucharrafille - the cafe owner who drove a Mercedes and catered to some of Tijuana's more affluent denizens, including workers at the U.S. consulate only a short stroll away. His American customers were unaware that the savvy boss of La Libanesa cafe ran a less reputable business on the side. Until his arrest in December 2002, ...
Claim Filed Against Mayor of Baldwin Park for Supporting Hate Crimes & RICO Violations Against Senior Citizen
Post Date: 2005-07-01 14:45:24 by Zipporah
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BALDWIN PARK, Ca., June 30 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The law firm of Lively & Ackerman, of Temecula, CA, has filed a formal governmental claim against the City of Baldwin Park, its Mayor, and Police Department. The firm represents Murrieta senior citizen Laura "Dottie" Dalton. According to the claim, "This governmental claim relates to an incident that took place on May 14, 2005, near the Danza Indigenas monument at the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station. The Claimant is a senior citizen who attended a peaceful protest against racism engaged in by the City of Baldwin Park through its support of a monument which denounces white and other non-Latinos. Specifically, there ...
2 Iraqis held trying to cross Mexico border
Post Date: 2005-07-01 11:57:59 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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2 Iraqis held trying to cross Mexico border By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published June 30, 2005 Two Iraqis who paid alien smugglers in Mexico to help them gain illegal entry to the United States were arrested yesterday by Mexican authorities in a border town near San Diego. The Mexican Attorney General's Office said Samir Yousif Shana and Munir Yousif Shana were taken into custody by Mexican federal agents, along with two suspected alien smugglers, in the Paso del Aguila district of Tecate, some 30 miles east of San Diego. The Iraqis, according to a statement, had made contact with the smugglers in Tijuana, located south of San Diego, who then accompanied them by bus to Tecate. ...
State weighs grazing lease renewal opposed by border activists
Post Date: 2005-07-01 11:13:40 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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State weighs grazing lease renewal opposed by border activists Paul Davenport Associated Press Writer Jun. 30, 2005 01:02 PM The state Land Department is considering potential liability to the state as it decides whether to grant a grazing lease renewal requested by a Cochise County rancher who has gained notoriety for detaining illegal immigrants on land near the U.S.-Mexico border. A human-rights advocacy group, the Border Action Network, on Thursday protested the department's possible renewal of a grazing lease for nearly 14,000 acres of state trust land controlled by rancher Roger Barnett's REB Enterprises LLC. "Our argument is the state Land Department should revoke the lease ...
Minuteman organizing to 'protect' borders far from Mexico line
Post Date: 2005-07-01 10:59:04 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Minuteman organizing to 'protect' borders far from Mexico line Travis Reed The Associated Press Jun. 30, 2005 02:38 PM SALT LAKE CITY - Wally McCormick never really thought that at age 68 he'd become a political activist. But there he was last month, outside a suburban bank with about 100 people at a protest he helped organize for a cause he says he's prepared to die for. This particular action targeted banks that allow illegal immigrants to use identification cards issued by the Mexican government to open up accounts. Others are planned for businesses and even the state for allegedly hiring undocumented workers. For McCormick, a Utah Minuteman organizer, it's always about illegal ...
2 Border Patrol agents shot, expected to live
Post Date: 2005-07-01 10:52:24 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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2 Border Patrol agents shot, expected to live Susan Carroll Republic Tucson Bureau Jul. 1, 2005 12:00 AM Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot by suspected drug smugglers on Thursday afternoon near Nogales but were expected to survive, authorities said. Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza said the agents were "ambushed" about 12:30 p.m. near Arizona 82 and Dusquene Road. Both were shot in the leg and hospitalized in "stable" condition in Tucson late Thursday. The agents were tracking a group of suspected drug smugglers near the U.S.-Mexican border, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada. Investigators believe the suspected smugglers fired on the agents as they ...
Blair 'waited until after election' to reveal scale of illegal immigration
Post Date: 2005-07-01 07:15:14 by Zipporah
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Tony Blair was accused of misleading the public over the level of illegal immigration after the first official estimate suggested that up to 570,000 unauthorised migrants are living in Britain. The Home Office study, based on a formula developed in the United States, put the number of illegal migrants at between 310,000 and 570,000. It produced a "central estimate" of 430,000 people living illegally in Britain – amounting to 0.7 per cent of the population. Before the election, Mr Blair denied there was any estimate of the number of people living illegally in Britain. The Prime Minister was asked about the issue 20 times on the BBC's Newsnight and insisted the information ...
Some counties gain more foreigners than U.S.-born
Post Date: 2005-06-30 10:57:29 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Some counties gain more foreigners than U.S.-born Southwest experiencing demographic shift Jon Kamman The Arizona Republic May. 26, 2003 12:00 AM Two migration patterns, closely linked, are sweeping across population centers of U.S. states along the Mexican border. Many counties are absorbing more migrants from other nations than from within the United States. And in an even more dramatic shift, some of the counties are seeing more U.S. residents move out than U.S. residents move in. Together, the trends are escalating the concentration of foreigners in Southwestern counties that, until the 1990s, depended on newcomers from other parts of the United States for the bulk of their growth. ...
Tensions rise in Sodo as day laborers crowd sidewalks
Post Date: 2005-06-29 13:31:33 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Tensions rise in Sodo as day laborers crowd sidewalks By VANESSA HO SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER The man pulled his truck into the parking lot of Home Depot and shouted, "I need four strong dudes!" A multitude of strong dudes soon swarmed him, along with a few hungry and eager dudes, allowing him to pick a crew for $10 an hour per person. Then he sped off to a job unloading drywall. In the next few hours, contractors, landscapers and a man in a silver Jaguar pulled up near the giant, orange-branded, home-improvement store south of downtown Seattle -- but not to shop. At least, not for supplies. They wanted muscle, and they wanted it cheap. "Everybody knows this is ...
Group rips Bush gag on border surveys
Post Date: 2005-06-29 11:29:49 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Group rips Bush gag on border surveys Billy House Republic Washington Bureau Jun. 29, 2005 12:00 AM WASHINGTON - A White House-approved gag order was imposed on U.S. Border Patrol agents regarding information that President Bush's "temporary guest worker" proposal inspired more illegal border crossings from Mexico, a group charged Tuesday. The non-profit conservative Judicial Watch said it had acquired and analyzed government documents showing that in the weeks after Bush announced his proposal on Jan. 7, 2004, as many as 45 percent of those caught arriving illegally from Mexico told agents they believed Bush was offering an amnesty program. But Bush had made no such offer, ...
U.S., Canada, Mexico Pledge Security (open borders
Post Date: 2005-06-28 07:52:19 by Zipporah
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The United States, Canada and Mexico pledged Monday to shore up security by integrating their terrorist watchlists and beefing up joint protection of borders and bridges. At the same time, they promised to expand what is already the world's largest trading partnership by developing a single program to facilitate the free flow of people and goods across their shared borders. "We are three countries, three friends living in the same neighborhood, so we have a common interest in our mutual security and our mutual prosperity," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a news conference in Ottawa after he and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts unveiled their list of targets ...
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