Friday, October 3, 2003

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Chuck Baldwin

Too Good Reports Schwarzenegger Candidacy Illustrates The Republican Party's Lack Of Commitment To Conservatism If there is anyone left who truly believes the Republican Party is committed to genuine conservative principles, the candidacy of bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's next governor should be enough to set the record straight.

Washington Times Michigan charges Arabs in baby scam The Michigan Attorney General's Office has charged 23 Arab women with fraudulently using American social-service money to pay for childbirth before returning to their native countries of Lebanon, Syria and Yemen with a total of 34 babies. -- The suspects, whose children are now U.S. citizens by virtue of being born here [anchor babies]...

Imperial Valley Press Bill seeks local immigration enforcement Police officers in Imperial County and the rest of the United States have the power to detain undocumented immigrants, but their authority would be expanded under a proposal being considered by a House committee to enlist state and local police in making arrests.

Newsmax.com Fake IDs a Genuine Risk to Homeland Security Almost two years to the day after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released an astonishing report stating that its undercover investigators were 100 percent successful in obtaining valid state driver's licenses using fake identities...

Associated Press Mexico Edging Away Closeness With U.S. Two years and two wars after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mexico is trying to pull the hemisphere's security policy away from its northern neighbor's strict focus on terrorism. -- Foreign Secretary Ernesto Derbez said in a speech this week that the U.S. idea of "one for all and all for one'' was an outdated, World War II concept.

¿El Gran Wizard?

Alec Rawls -- Newsmax.com Writer-author rails on señor Busta-MEChA ...Bustamante is Mechista to his core. He is a racist national socialist (for the nation of Aztlán). In fact, he has made it semi-explicit that he is running for governor, not of California, but of Aztlán. When asked to name what state services he would deny to illegal aliens, he answered that people who are here illegally have "a right to citizenship" so long as they work and pay taxes.

Joel Kotkin

Jewish Journal The Cost of Latinization ...By signing a bill to allow illegal aliens to receive driver's licenses, something he had hitherto strongly opposed, Davis has opened the door to a massive debasement of citizenship itself. Once allowed driver's licenses, there seems little to prevent illegal aliens - many of whom have only marginal attachment to the nation - from becoming full participants in our political culture, including the right to vote.

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald Review Agency's illegal alien figures don't surprise local residents ...Glenn Spencer, head of the American Border Patrol, said the bill Kolbe wants to have Congress pass "is complete nonsense. It's amnesty." -- The problem is the U.S. government has not done its job, and the Mexican government is doing everything it can to have more of its people come to the United States, Spencer said.

Fox News Bush Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month "Mi casa es su casa (My house is your house)," Bush told the audience, a who's who of Hispanic musicians, sports figures, government officials and celebrities. --- Bush sprinkled Spanish phrases throughout his remarks, calling out "Donde esta?" as he looked for prominent figures in the crowd.... [Transcript, links]

Meddling Mexicans

Wall Street Journal Meddling Mexicans pushed for bogus ID acceptance After the U.S. Treasury Department said recently that it would continue to allow banks to accept Mexico's consular card as a legitimate form of identification, the Mexican government issued heartfelt thanks to the banks, community organizations, unions, churches and immigrant-rights groups whose efforts helped sway the department's opinion.

Brownsville Herald Mexican charged in death of child was previously deported Tears streamed from the eyes of Mexican national Carlos Jaramillo on Wednesday as he was arraigned for the hit-and-run collision that knocked 5-year-old Felix Leon off his bicycle Monday and killed him. -- Municipal Judge Ben Neece set bond at $1.3 million on one felony count of manslaughter and one felony count of failure to stop and render aid.

Mechista

Sacramento Bee Bustamante is being asked to consider giving up race Sensing that their last hope of holding onto the governor's office may lie in getting Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante out of the race, some prominent Democrats have called him to discuss whether he is willing to drop out. -- Bustamante... gave no sign Thursday that he had such plans, appearing at a Los Angeles debate...

Imperial Valley Press Mexican load vehicle driver suspects charged Two Mexican nationals were arraigned in federal court Wednesday in the wake of a crash Sunday evening that killed four people and injured as many as 20. -- The men are suspected of being drivers of two vehicles used to transport undocumented immigrants through Imperial County Sunday.

¿El Gran Wizard?

Sacramento Bee FPPC urged to act on Bustamante on illegal TV ads Continuing his assault on the campaign spending tactics used by Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, a prominent Republican state senator demanded Thursday that the Fair Political Practices Commission step into the controversy. -- [State Sen. Ross] Johnson urged the committee to take any possible action to stop Bustamante from using millions in campaign funds to air television commercials.

Associated Press Governor talks immigration with Vicente Fox in Mexico ...Arkansas Gov. Michael Huckabee said Thursday it was crucial to maintain firm U.S.-Mexico trade ties despite concerns over security and trade issues on both sides of the border. -- Mexico has been pushing for a migration accord with the U.S. and was stung by a recent U.S. program to deport migrants hundreds of miles away from the places where they crossed the border.

World Net Daily -- Jon Dougherty The coming national ID card A series of articles published by WorldNetDaily.com this week have proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Americans will soon have to endure more of the kind of statism normally reserved for despotic regimes in the Third World. That outrage will come in the form of a national ID card. -- The crux of the articles is about granting driver's licenses to illegal aliens...

FAIR Action Alerts Help Defeat Illegal Alien Farm Worker Amnesty Legislation Take Action Now! Urge Your Elected Officials to Oppose S.1645 and H.R. 3142... Fight Against Illegals Involved in "Freedom Ride"

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) U.S. Officials Aim to Admit More Refugees in 2004 The Bush administration on Thursday pledged to revive a U.S. refugee program that has shrunk by more than half in the last two years, chiefly as a result of painstaking background checks required since the Sept. 11 attacks. -- U.S. officials will set a goal of accepting as many 70,000 refugees in 2004, said Assistant Secretary of State...

Dallas Morning News Gate-crashing scofflaws, unions lobby Congress Hundreds of immigrants and union officials rallied Thursday at the foot of the U.S. Capitol, a key stop on their "Freedom Ride" bus tour to demand friendlier federal immigration and labor policies. -- Waving Mexican, Salvadoran, Brazilian and U.S. flags, immigrants who traveled for days by bus on a tour evocative of the civil rights Freedom Rides of the 1960s....

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) Señor Busta-MEChA flat refuses to renounce slogan ...As he has consistently throughout the campaign, he refused to denounce the [MEChA] motto: "For the race, everything; for those outside the race, nothing." -- "You know," Bustamante said when debate moderator Paul Moyer demanded an answer, "now it's getting to the point where it's a little offensive the way the question is being asked." -- Asked a third time, he said: "I think I've answered the question. I think it's important that you look at my work and who I am."

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

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration) Residents find day laborers' actions scary, unsettling ...Lisa Banuelos said her three children, ages 9, 6 and 2, already have witnessed the workers drinking, smoking marijuana and making suggestive comments to their mother. She said she was mortified last year when her youngest son last tried to copy something else he had seen the laborers do -- urinate on a tree.

Chicago Sun-Times -- Mary Mitchell Deadly tension between Hispanics, blacks ignored It has gotten to the point that the city needs to post signs warning motorists of the gang terrorists that are in control in some of the city's neighborhoods. -- The threat is considerably worse for young black males. Besides being worried that they could be shot because they are misidentified as a gang member, black males must also be leery of neighborhoods occupied by Hispanic gangs.

Associated Press Invader joins Army using fake green card, now may be rewarded The Army will help resolve the situation of Pvt. Juan Escalante, an illegal immigrant and veteran of the Iraq war, so that he can remain in the United States. -- Richard Olson, spokesman at Fort Stewart, Ga., said officials at Fort Stewart have not yet ruled on whether Escalante will be disciplined for using a fake green card to enlist.

Mark Krikorian

National Review Freeloaders -- "Freedom Ride" insults all Americans If you wanted a way of persuading Republican congressmen to support something, the last thing you'd do is have the AFL-CIO organize a bus convoy of illegal aliens appropriating the rhetoric of the civil-rights movement, endorsed by the Communist party. [Look who endorses this hijacking of the civil rights movement by foreign criminals]

Washington Post Mob of invaders descends on Washington demanding 'rights' ...The day of lobbying was a highlight of the "freedom ride," during which nearly 900 immigrants, union activists and civil rights supporters traveled on buses to reinvigorate a campaign for immigrants' rights. Momentum in the U.S. government to expand immigration stalled with the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks... [Note photo of shameless invasion cheerleader Ted Kennedy embracing a likely scofflaw].