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New California
Media
Mexican
Propaganda: La Opinión is King of the Hill
...La Opinión is no longer simply
a paper for the Mexican community. It is also a staunch defender
of the larger Latino community, which includes immigrants from
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and parts of South America.
-- "They're people who have established roots," says
Monica Lozano. "They really have become a part of the social
fabric of the area..." [This rag is owned in part by the
Los
Angeles Times]  |
Caribbean
Calamity |
Miami Herald
More
invaders aiming for U.S. via Puerto Rico
...Dominicans have long tried to reach
the United States by hiring smugglers to ferry them across the
shark-infested and turbulent waters of the Mona Passage to Puerto
Rico, a U.S. commonwealth, aboard open-deck fishing boats known
as yolas. -- But over the past year, record numbers of Dominicans
and migrants from other countries have been risking their lives
to make the crossing... |
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Billings
Gazette
Mexican
invader gets 10 years for methamphetamine possession
An illegal alien from Mexico who was
barred for life from entering the United States will spend 10
years in federal prison after he was caught at the Billings bus
station with methamphetamine. -- U.S. District Judge Richard
Cebull on Thursday sentenced Manuel Antonio Salas-Meza to the
minimum mandatory 10-year term.... |
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Houston
Chronicle
Candidates
split on immigrant [read: invader] aid office
Mayoral candidate Orlando Sanchez distanced
himself from opponents Bill White and Sylvester Turner on Thursday
night regarding city assistance to immigrants, saying money spent
on the Mayor's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs could
better be spent elsewhere. |
Open
Borders
Gang |
Wall
Street Journal Editorial
Time
to put immigration reform back on the Bush agenda
Federal agents arrested more than 300
illegal immigrants at 60 Wal-Mart stores across the country yesterday.
We'll wait to see if there are terrorists hiding behind those
blue smocks, or merely striving Mexicans working for $10 an hour.
But we already know the case will demonstrate once again the
need to fix our immigration laws. [How about enforcing current
laws?] |
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Associated
Press
Wal-Mart
knew about illegal workers, sources say
Evidence including recordings indicates
that Wal-Mart had direct knowledge of immigration violations
involving its cleaning contractors at stores across the country,
federal law enforcement sources said. -- Federal agents raided
Wal-Mart's headquarters and 60 of its stores across the nation
Thursday... |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Mexican
held in homicide at taco shop
Police arrested a suspect Wednesday in
a murder and shootings at a west Phoenix taco shop. -- Rosalio
Perez was booked on one count of murder and three counts of aggravated
assault. -- "We believe Perez had some role in immigrant
smuggling," Phoenix police Sgt. Randy Force said. |
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Jersey Journal
Guilty
plea in credit card fraud operation
Newark, NJ - A Jordanian man admitted
yesterday to a judge that he recruited dozens of others to commit
credit card fraud... -- Ali Qaraeen, an illegal immigrant from
Jordan, conceded that since 1995 he recruited people to perpetrate
credit card schemes resulting in about $6.8 million in fraudulent
purchases of merchandise and cash advances... |
Catch
and
Release |
Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
Stein:
Wal-Mart raids 'a charade'
Thursday's arrest of 300 undocumented
workers [criminals] at 60 Wal-Mart stores across the country
drew sharp criticism from advocates on both sides of the immigration
divide. -- "This whole exercise is a charade," said
Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR.
"The evidence is there is no real interior enforcement by
the federal government." |
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Washington
Post
Clerk
Accused Of Selling Licenses
A D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles clerk
was charged yesterday with illegally selling driver's licenses,
part of what authorities described as a wide-ranging federal
investigation into the operations of the 340-employee agency.
-- Dewan Vines-Sails... allegedly sold city-issued licenses for
$350 to $500 apiece.... |
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Newsmax.com
Bloomberg
Blasted for Blacklist of 'Fellow Republicans'
Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg
didn't want to compete in the Dems' tough mayoral primary in
New York City, so he claimed to be a Republican after suddenly
and miraculously seeing the light. -- And what sort of "Republican"
is the tax-crazed, fanatically anti-smoking mayor? His latest
stunt is creating an enemies list of congressmen who are actual
Republicans...... |
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Santa Maria
Times LTE -- Michael S. Rivera
MEChA
plan is misguided
...Cronin is misguided in her defense
of MEChA and Cruz
Bustamante. What is it about La Raza, the race, or "For
the Race everything. Outside the race, nothing," and the
term Aztlan, the separate
Chicano state this group advocates, that Consuelo cannot understand?
-- Apologists
for MEChA would like you to believe this movement is just
nice people concerned about education. |
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Billings
Gazette
Study
shows Montana hurt by illegal aliens
Counting illegal immigrants in the federal
census cost Montana a U.S. House seat in 1990 and denied it a
new House district in 2000, a study by a group that favors immigration
restrictions concludes. The study, by the Center
for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that
backs tougher restrictions on immigrants... |
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Courier-Journal
-- Lexington, Kentucky
Candidate
clarifies remarks on invader licenses
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben
Chandler said yesterday that Kentucky shouldn't issue driver's
licenses to undocumented
migrant workers [illegals
are prohibited by law from working in the U.S.]
unless law-enforcement officials say the step is needed for safety
and security. |
Steve
Brown |
Cybercast
News Service via Newsmax.com
Feds
Let Illegal Aliens Steal Congressional Representation From Citizens
The heavy influx of immigrants cost the
Republican Party nine House seats during the 2000 political redistricting
process, according to a report released Thursday. At least one
of those seats was lost as a result of illegal aliens being counted
as part of the national population by the U.S. Census Bureau,
the report's authors said. |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
2
Phoenix ID cases end in arrests
In late 2002, Phoenix police finally
caught up with an undocumented
immigrant who had assumed the identity of a college student
from Texas. -- Officials with Phoenix Documents Crime Detail
say the young woman, who lost her purse a few years ago, requested
a copy of her credit report shortly before she was scheduled
to be married..... |
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San Diego
Union-Tribune
Lawmaker
knocks state on licenses
California should be punished if it doesn't repeal
its law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses,
a leading immigration control advocate in Congress said in San
Diego yesterday. -- "The federal government has a responsibility
to say that if you do this, we will in fact penalize you in some
way," Colorado Republican Tom
Tancredo said. |
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Washington
Times
Another
Mexican spouts off over Arnold's stance on invaders
...Arturo Montiel (a Mexican state governor)
urged the U.S. to do more to help illegal immigrants here and
criticized California Gov.-elect Arnold
Schwarzenegger for his immigration policies. Mr. Schwarzenegger,
for example, opposes a California law that grants driver's licenses
to illegal immigrants, calling it a security risk. -- "There is a large population of Mexicans [in
California] that could be a problem for him," Mr. Montiel
said... |
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Gannett
News Service
Senate
committee OKs scafflaw DREAM Act (rewards invaders)
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant
children [these are are adults in most cases -- all are illegals]
could gain legal residency and become eligible for in-state college
tuition under a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary
Committee. -- The bill's approval by the committee was good news
for four Phoenix students facing deportation to Mexico... [Contact your senator] |
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El Paso
Times
Mexicans
arrested after pot, cocaine discovered
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials
found 8,053 pounds of marijuana hidden in a tractor-trailer Tuesday
at the Bridge of the Americas. Guillermo Raul Carrillo Covarrubias
of Juárez was arrested. -- Also Tuesday, inspectors at
the Paso del Norte Bridge found 159 pounds of cocaine in a false
compartment of a 2004 Chrysler Cirrus... |
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