Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Davis Will Be Gone Polls Show Recall Will Succeed McClintock in '06 Seeing that trying to fool voters by running phony polls showing the recall in doubt was not working, the Los Angeles Times released some honest numbers for a change. The new Times poll shows Davis being recalled and Schwarzenegger winning. If so, and Arnold fails to address the illegal immigration issue, nothing will change and California will continue into "Sinkhole de Mayo." This will open the door for Tom McClintock, a real American, to come to the rescue in 2006. Past Features    ABP Updates  Latest Updates from Joe Guzzardi

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Stupid Moves

Cybercsast News Service Ankle Monitors Being Tested on Illegal Immigrants in Three Cities Illegal aliens awaiting deportation hearings may no longer have to wait it out in custody under a new program being tested in three U.S. cities. -- "What we're trying to do is address some of the problems we had when we were the Immigration and Naturalization Service," ICE spokesperson Garrison Courtney said.

Associated Press CLEAR Act: Proposal meets mixed reviews at hearing Georgia Rep. Charlie Norwoods efforts to broaden the police authority for arresting illegal immigrants faced a divided House panel Wednesday, with some lawmakers heralding it as a huge step in the war on terror and others dismissing it as an impossible burden on local governments.

Associated Press Update on scofflaw bus brigade Hundreds of immigrant workers [read: illegals who are barred by law from working in the U.S.] and their supporters rolled into the nation's capital Wednesday, bringing their "freedom ride" for better treatment to the halls of Congress. -- "This is to show that there are bad laws hurting good people," said Dave Glaser, national director of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. [Also see: Aiding and abetting illegals is a crime. Glaser should be in jail.]

FAIR Fight Against Illegals Involved in "Freedom Ride" A coalition of illegal alien advocacy organizations is sponsoring a "Freedom Ride" consisting of illegal aliens demanding worker rights, driver's licenses, in-state tuition benefits, general public assistance, amnesty, and open borders....

San Diego Union-Tribune Trial set for Mexican illegal alien cop killer suspect ...Vista Superior Court Judge Marguerite Wagner found sufficient evidence to hold Adrian Camacho, 28, over for trial for the June 13 shooting death of Tony Zeppetella, 27. -- Camacho, who has been deported to Mexico three times, could face the death penalty if convicted of murder and a special circumstance allegation that Zeppetella was killed while doing his job.

Save Our License Citizens Opposed to California Driver's Licenses for Illegals Link opens new window

Tom Tancredo

United Press International U.S. Rep. Tancredo seeks to abolish race caucuses ...Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., says he intends to introduce a change to the House rules that would ban caucuses organized around the race or ethnicity of its members, The Hill... reported Wednesday. -- "You should not have any organization, a caucus especially, based solely on race," Tancredo told the newspaper. [The usual suspects decried the suggestion, as usual.]

Reuters Opposition to mass immigration, newcomers growing in U.S. Opposition to mass immigration and resentment against newcomers appear to be growing in the United States, fueled by economic insecurity as well as fears arising from the Sept. 11 attacks, immigration experts say. -- In response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon two years ago, U.S. authorities have tried to tighten the nation's borders..... [really?]

FILE, Terry Anderson, Hal Netkin FILE files suit in L.A. to compel immigration fairness ...In today's filing, plaintiffs Terry Anderson and Hal Netkin, both taxpayers and residents of Los Angeles County, have filed suit in LA County Superior Court under Section 526a of the California Code of Civil Procedure, seeking to compel the county's Department of Health Services (DHS) to seek reimbursement from the sponsors of legal immigrants for public health services the immigrants use but don't pay for.

¿El Gran Wizard?

Bill Whalen -- The Weekly Standard Mechista Cruz sits watching as his campaign implodes Next Tuesday, I'm voting for Cruz Bustamante -- on one condition: his sister has to be the headline act at his inaugural. That would be Nao Bustamante, a San Francisco-based "performance pioneer" whose creative spark could make even porn star/recall candidate Mary Carey blush.

San Joaquin News Service  [Short-lived link]  San Joaquin Co. may take fallacious Mexican IDs Even as driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants appear on the horizon, members of the San Joaquin Co.Board of Supervisors will tackle the thorny issue of matricula cards again later this month. -- With many Republican members of Congress and the FBI against the card because of national security issues, the effort to accept the Mexican-government issued identification card for Mexican nationals appears doomed.

Eweek.com H-1B Visa Cap Falls to 65,000 With skyrocketing IT unemployment as a backdrop, the U.S. Congress let the H-1B visa limit drop back to 65,000 on Tuesday. -- The limit on H-1B visas had been boosted to 195,000 in 2000 in response to companies that claimed they couldn't hire enough domestic talent to fuel the dot-com bubble.

Sacramento Bee -- Daniel Weintraub Señor Busta-MEChA plays the race card Cruz [Bustamante] has played the race card -- in an interview in Spanish with Xochitl Arellano on KUVS, the Univision Television affiliate in Sacramento. The station has translated the interview and sent a transcript to reporters covering the campaign: -- "No one is asking me how much money I get from the Latino community...."

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)   Mexican invader found guilty of identity theft ...Jorge Quezada..was found guilty of buying a house, obtaining a mortgage of more than $100,000 and securing a credit card with the other man's name. -- Circuit Judge Timothy Sheldon is scheduled to sentence Quezada on Nov. 13. Quezada, reportedly an illegal immigrant from Mexico, could be deported [could be deported?].

New York Post Aztlan Express: Cops score $11m coke bust Cops smashed a major cocaine ring by arresting five people and seizing $11 million worth of the drug at a Bronx warehouse, police said yesterday. --- Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the truck had entered the United States from Mexico on Sept. 25 and the cocaine was destined for distribution in Washington Heights and The Bronx.

Houston Republicans Support Cooperation between Local Police and Federal Immigration Officers Houston - The Harris County Republican Executive Committee voted to support law enforcement cooperation between the Houston Police Department and federal immigration officials at their regularly scheduled quarterly meeting Monday night...

Juan Mann DeportAliens.com

VDare.com The ICE Meltdown: We Name The Guilty Bureaucrats! D.A. King's experience trying to report illegal aliens, just reported on VDARE.COM, says it all: An immigration enforcement meltdown is underway. -- The signs are now crystal clear that the new Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE-now shortened apparently for marketing purposes to ICE) is following the same non-enforcement policies....

Pat Buchanan

World Net Daily Mass immigration: Suicide pill of the GOP Normally, the Census Bureau releases its Current Population Survey on a Tuesday, late in September, at the National Press Club. This year, the survey was released Friday afternoon, at the Census Bureau suburban headquarters in Suitland, Md. -- When you see the numbers, you can appreciate why Karl Rove would want to get this behind us and move on.

Phoenix Business Journal 'Protect Arizona Now' referendum drawing conservatives' attention A controversial referendum aimed at curtailing illegal immigration may not be getting support from the state's political establishment. -- But the Protect Arizona Now proposition and the state's porous border with Mexico is garnering attention from conservative national media.

FAIR Help Defeat Illegal Alien Farm Worker Amnesty Legislation Take Action Now! Urge Your Elected Officials to Oppose S.1645 and H.R. 3142 On September 23, Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representatives Chris Cannon (R-UT) and Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced companion farm worker amnesty bills, S.1645 and H.R. 3142.

Kris W. Kobach -- New York Post A Phony, Absurd 'Freedom Ride' The "Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride" descends on Washington today in what participants claim is a civil-rights protest like the original Freedom Ride of 1961. They insist that illegal aliens in America today face "injustices" akin to those faced by African-Americans in the segregation era. Not only is their analogy absurd, their proposals are ill-conceived.

Yuma Sun Protest to support Americans charged with detaining invaders The Yuma County Courthouse will again be the scene of a protest on Friday when local and Tombstone-area residents are expected to gather in support of three men accused of detaining six illegal immigrants at gunpoint. -- Matthew Hoffman and [Alexander] Dumas are scheduled for a mitigation hearing...

Rumor Mill

American Patrol Border conditions continue to worsen October 1, 2003 - Cochise County, Arizona -- Conditions along the border continue to deteriorate. Budget problems have forced the Border Patrol to return "detailers" (agents temporarily detailed to Douglas and Naco Border Patrol stations in Arizona) to their original assignments. This has left NACO with as few as fifteen agents per shift.....

Sacramento Bee Pending state bills offer more to undeserving scofflaws After granting illegal immigrants the right to obtain driver's licenses [which outrageous and will definitely be challenged], California Gov. Gray Davis now must decide whether to sign bills qualifying them for free community college tuition and requiring local government to honor identification cards issued by the Mexican government.

World Net Daily Iranian immigrants arrested near nuke plant Three Iranian immigrants were arrested and interrogated by federal and local authorities after being caught with camera equipment in the area of a nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Mass. -- The men, who said they came to the U.S. as teen-agers, were discovered in a restricted zone surrounding the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station...

El Paso Times Lateral repatriation program ends 'for now' ...Critics, who said the program was cruel and too expensive at $28,000 a plane load, applauded its end. But Border Patrol officials said it's only the end "for now," although there are no immediate plans to repeat the program and there is a bill by U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-San Antonio, to prevent its continuation.

Raymond Batz -- Desert Sun -- Palm Springs, Calif. Señor Busta-MEChA decried, Prop. 54 support urged ...According to the Jewish Task Force, (Sept. 24, 2003) Mr. Bustamante continues "to publicly defend his membership in a Mexican Nazi organization (MEChA) that preaches vicious hatred against whites, Jews, and all non-Hispanics." MEChA's slogan is, "For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing."

Sham IDs

Chicago Sun Times County Board votes to recognize bogus foreign IDs Some 200,000 Latin American immigrants -- both legal and illegal -- could soon rely on consular identification after the Cook County Board on Monday voted to officially recognize the controversial cards. -- The board voted 9-3 in favor of recognizing the "matricula consular," often the only way immigrants can access [tax funded services to which they are not entitled]....