Wednesday, January 1, 2003

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Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com A Patriot's New Year Resolution Here's a New Year's resolution to add to your list: If "I resolve to be more aware of the efforts of well-organized, well-funded and influential organizations whose mission it is to destroy the United States as I know and love it. I further resolve to become more active in fighting back." -- This is a column I would not have written five years ago. I may not have written it two years ago. But after studying immigration and language issues closely, it is obvious that those who want to change America beyond recognition have the access, the influence, the money and the power to do it.

Michelle Malkin

Jewish World Review Invaders on the loose You've seen their mugs plastered on TV: Abid Noraiz Ali, 25; Mustafa Khan Owasi, 33; Iftikhar Khozmai Ali, 21; Adil Pervez, 19 and Akbar Jamal, 28. -- According to intelligence sources, these five Middle Eastern or South Asian men are illegal aliens who recently snuck into America from Canada. They are allegedly part of a much larger group of invaders wanted by the FBI for questioning. Law enforcement agencies want the public's help to track them down, but both U.S. and Canadian officials are refusing to tell us exactly how and where they might have entered. [See Michelle this month in New York on the 15th or Tempe, AZ on the 25th]

Los Angeles Daily News Mayor Hahn's 'Mexican city' facing crime, budget woes in 2003 For Mayor James Hahn, 2003 is likely to be all about crime and money -- Los Angeles has too much of one and not enough of the other. -- With the consuming battle against secession behind him and a new police chief in place, Los Angeles' mayor is turning his sights on dealing with two issues partially beyond his control: a deepening state budget crunch and a surge in violent crime that gave the city the title of America's homicide capital for 2002. [Mayor Hahn told Vicente Fox in 2001 that L.A. is a Mexican city. The crime rate in Mexican cities is astronomical.]

WESH-TV -- Orlando Guilty Plea Expected In Alleged Immigration Conspiracy A guilty plea is expected Tuesday in an alleged immigration conspiracy at various businesses along International Drive. -- Saedullah Awan, a long-time manager at Bargain World stores, is set to go to federal court and admit to hiring illegal aliens, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.

Press Enterprise (Free Registration)  2003: A look ahead - Southwest U.S. Border Patrol agents in Temecula are ringing in the new year with anticipation, anxiety and optimism. -- "We know there are changes coming. But we don't know what those changes are going to be," said Rene Gonzalez, a supervisor at the Temecula station. -- Two acts of Congress, one pending and one already taken, could revamp the agency. -- Wording removed from the Border Patrol's yearly funding bill expected to pass in January would enable the Temecula station to shut down its Interstate 15 checkpoint more often....

Cox News Service Five illegals highlight INS ineffectiveness Five Middle Easterners sought by the FBI on suspicion of entering the United States illegally highlight the government's failure to stop millions of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, visitors each year. -- A little-publicized study commissioned by the INS concluded that illegal entries are common even at guarded checkpoints. One out of every 100 foreign visitors arriving at ports of entry should be turned back because of problems such as faked documents or criminal backgrounds, the investigation found.

Tucson Citizen Mexican farmers fearful of new NAFTA changes Today marks the start of a new wave of NAFTA regulations, which stirs fear among Mexican farmers. -- Critics say the changes could lead to more illegal immigration into the United States as the Mexican economy remains soft. -- Beginning today, farmers in the United States may send even more products into Mexico without tariffs. -- The reduction in costs to U.S. farmers is expected to help flood Mexican markets with cheaper U.S. products and leave many farmers in Mexico unable to compete.

Dallas Morning News Only English paper in Mexico closes Mexico's only English-language daily newspaper, The News, said adiós Tuesday after 53 years of serving expatriates and training generations of young foreigners in the craft of bilingual journalism. -- Also closing Tuesday was its Spanish-language sister publication, Novedades, which was popular in the 1960s and 1970s but had fallen on hard times in Mexico City's increasingly competitive newspaper market. Novedades was founded 65 years ago.

BBC Australian asylum protests spread Australian immigration officials have accused asylum seekers of deliberately starting fires at a detention centre in suburban Sydney. -- Migrants also tried to break out of the Villawood camp, police said, in the latest of a series of violent incidents to hit the country's centres for asylum seekers. -- Security is being increased at the camps in Australia and at a centre on Christmas Island, where detainees had an angry stand-off with guards. -- Refugee advocates say the trouble stems from desperation among migrants....

L.A Times (Free Registration)  Crime up in Hahn's Mexican city Homicides increased by 10% in Los Angeles in 2002, while total felony crimes edged up by 1.8%, according to an annual tally released Tuesday by the LAPD. -- There were 659 killings in Los Angeles as of late Tuesday afternoon, up from 596 in 2001. Homicides in the remainder of Los Angeles County also increased, rising by 6.5% in 2002 to a total of 346, according to the Sheriff's Department. [Mayor Hahn told Vicente Fox in 2001 that L.A. is a Mexican city. The crime rate in Mexican cities is astronomical.]

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Border arrests allegedly up Border Patrol agents in Southern Arizona caught 63% more illegal entrants this fall than they did over the same period last year. -- Between October 1 and Sunday, agents in the Tucson sector caught 49,263 border crossers. That's up from 30,302 over the same period last year. -- The Tucson sector includes the Arizona-Mexico border except for Yuma County. -- Douglas has been the busiest station within the sector.

AccessNorthGA.com Forysth Co., Ga. adds INS agent in fight to stop illegals Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton said the county will have its own INS agent to help in the removal of criminal aliens. -- Paxton said the agents name is confidential but that he has is currently assigned to the INS Community-based Enforcement Division. The agent has been working with the department to assist on removals, investigating alleged criminal activity involving foreign nationals and identifying foreign nationals with gang affiliations.