Monday, November 3, 2003

Fox to Troll Phoenix Hen House November 4 Come Welcome Him with Us Vicente Fox, shown in file photo at left, will be visiting Phoenix on an invitation from Governor Janet Napolitano as part of a trip across the Southwest to try to peddle his illegal alien amnesty nonsense, among other things. Click for protest location, updated information Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Dahl and Woolridge

MichNews.com Illegal immigration comes to small town America Austin, Minnesota with 22,000 residents is like any other middle-class, blue-collar town in America. Soccer moms cheer from the sidelines, bake sales abound, folks play bingo on Wednesday nights, paperboys throw papers, cheerleaders practice after school and dads take their kids to the old fishing hole....

Sacramento Bee Recall rattles political (and reconquista) nerves ...At what point does accommodation become -- in the words of Los Angeles labor leader [and vehement reconquista] Miguel Contreras -- "surrender?" -- That's what Contreras and other members will begin sorting out today, when the executive board of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, meets in Sacramento. -- ...Contreras... believes Democratic control of the Assembly is threatened.

San Antonio Express-News Four sentenced in invader smuggling ring Four people have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in an immigrant smuggling ring that abandoned one person in the desert and left him to die. -- The alleged leader, Guillermo Parra-Luna, received the longest term, 14 years, for conspiring to transport illegal immigrants during Friday's sentencing. Co-defendants Santos Omar Perez, of Honduras...

Associated Press Fox lays out demands for immigration reform before U.S. visit Vicente Fox said Monday that Mexico wanted work visas, legalization and family reunification for undocumented migrants, but stopped short of calling for U.S. citizenship for them. Speaking to reporters on the eve of his Nov. 4-6 visit to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, Fox said immigration issues will be on the agenda of his visit... [Does Fox speak with forked tongue?]

Washington Post Foreign Enrollment Levels Off at U.S. Schools Enrollments by foreign students at American universities have leveled off after a period of heady expansion and may be headed downward because of visa restrictions introduced after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a report released today. -- Education represents a huge source of invisible exports for the United States...

Phyllis Schlafly

Townhall.com Illegal immigration calls into question equal representation Most Americans assume that the election of the House of Representatives is based fairly on the geographic distribution of our population. -- But if that's true, then how come after the constitutionally mandated reapportionment of 2000 it takes only 35,000 votes in a California district to win a House seat, while it takes 100,000 votes to win a House seat in Indiana, Michigan or Mississippi?

Sierra Vista (Arizona) Herald Review  Economy is a key part of Fox's visit ...[Glenn] Spencer said Napolitano is wrong to meet with a foreign head of state with part of her agenda being to develop a test guest-worker program. He said that it is "the responsibility of the federal government, not a state government." -- Illegal immigration will not stop until the United States takes back control of the border instead of allowing Mexico to dictate what is to be done, Spencer said.

Cal Thomas -- Crosswalk.com Speaking Out Against Illegal Immigration Immigration was supposed to help the Republican Party. The Bush administration was so sure of it that they had trouble speaking out against illegal immigration. The idea was that even if illegal immigrants felt welcomed they'd eventually vote Republican. To oppose immigration, even illegal immigration, was thought to be a hindrance to winning the Hispanic vote....

Derbez Watch

Iowa State Daily -- Iowa State University Meddling Mexican to speak about trade, immigration at ISU The Mexican secretary of foreign affairs, who is an ISU alumnus, will return to Iowa State to lecture on trade and immigration policies that affect both the United States and Mexico. -- Luis Ernesto Derbez, an ISU alumnus with a doctorate in economics, will present a global perspective on economic and political issues during the Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science....

Public Opinion -- Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Some county seniors unhappy with proposal ..."We (Americans) have worked under the Social Security plan to benefit us," Anna Secor said, concerning a proposed agreement between Mexico and the United States that would allow Mexicans working here to collect U.S. Social Security benefits here or in Mexico. -- The so-called totalization agreement upsets some Franklin County senior citizens like Secor.

Save Our License Referendum Citizens Opposed to California Driver's Licenses for Illegals

Sob Stories

New York Times (Free Registration) Littlest Immigrants, Left in Hands of Smugglers ...The tightened security has made it much harder for illegal immigrants to move back and forth across the border, disrupting long-established migration patterns. -- Immigrants [read: illegal aliens] who lack American documents have been forced to cross through remote desert. Smugglers who lead them, called coyotes...

Arizona Republic Editorial -- Phoenix Paper bemoans Arizona legislators support of CLEAR Act We'd like a word with three of our representatives in Congress, who lined up behind a bill to get local and state police to help in arresting undocumented immigrants. -- The word is: Chandler. -- That city's 1997 fiasco has apparently slipped the minds of Republicans Trent Franks, J.D. Hayworth and John Shadegg....

Mark Andrew Dwyer

Fires, immigration, and population growth As of Halloween 2003 night, major California fires had burned 739,906 acres, killed 20 people and destroyed 3,398 homes. This tragic disaster that ruined lives of so many could have been largely avoided should the authorities do their job rather than bureaucratically following wishful thinking policies...

We Get E-Mail Miserable practices of the ultra-liberal Denver Post Mike Soraghan called the California Coalition for Immigration Reform during the week before the November first event. I took his message from our telephone "hot line". He stated he had talked with Coe in the past and now wanted her response to being called a "hate group"....

Cincinnati Enquirer Merchants, doctors see rising need for Spanish Covington, Ky. - With the Hispanic population in Northern Kentucky more than tripling in the last decade, doctors and bankers say it's time to learn the language. -- The Kentucky State Data Center says that over the last decade, the Hispanic population in Boone County nearly quintupled to 1,512 while numbers in Kenton County more than doubled to 1,534. In Campbell County, the numbers almost tripled to 784.

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Meddling Mexican to lobby Napolitano to accept bogus IDs, etc. Mexican President Vicente Fox this week flies to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for a three-day visit meant to strengthen relations with border-state governors and migrant leaders. -- Fox is expected to push for statewide recognition of the matricula and to lobby for legislation to allow Mexican immigrants to obtain drivers licenses. -- He also is expected to reiterate concerns to Napolitano about bands of border ranchers who detain migrants...

New York Legislator Proposes Driver's Licenses for Illegals [Scroll down to find this commentary] -- Why is it necessary to keep Illegal Aliens from getting drivers' licenses? It is important to remember that in the United States, a driver's license is more than permission to drive. It is the most common proof of identity used by Americans on a regular basis. It also infers that its' holder has the legal right to be in the country....

Associated Press U.S.-Mexico Border Crackdown Failing Sasabe, Mexico - A crackdown along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to prevent terrorists from entering the United States hasn't stopped even one known militant from slipping into America since Sept. 11, an Associated Press investigation has found. [How would the AP know this since many invaders never get caught sneaking in? Article includes comments by the notorious Claudia Smith. More lousy reporting from the Associated Press.]

South Coast Standard-Times Driver's license bill draws fire A proposal that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in Massachusetts is causing mixed reaction in SouthCoast. -- The bill would allow applicants to obtain a driver's license by submitting a [fraud prone] taxpayer identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service. -- Gov. Mitt Romney said this week he doesn't feel illegal immigrants should be able to obtain driver's licenses.

Courier News -- Suburban Chicago Group rallies for driver's licenses for invaders Fresh from a victory that afforded illegal aliens who graduated from state high schools the right to in-state tuition at Illinois' public universities, a faith-based organization is rallying area residents for a new cause. -- Organized by the Chicago-based Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations, an expected 100 area residents will meet 300 others in the state capital Wednesday to lend their support to Senate Bill 67...