Sunday, November 9, 2003

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Stamford (Connecticut) Advocate Group looks to corral day laborers Neighborhood activists want to move the city's day laborer pickup site indoors to ease tensions between the Hispanic men walking on the East Side looking for work and store owners who say they scare customers away. -- An estimated 150 to 200 men, many recent immigrants from South America, congregate seven days a week under Interstate 95 in a city-designated labor pickup spot.

Edward S. Rubenstein

VDare.com Diversity Is Strength. It's Also Car Theft Tuesday's wild car chase and gun battle between rival alien smuggling gangs on Interstate 101 near Phoenix-four dead, several injured, including passing motorists-conveniently occurred right when Mexico's President Vicente Fox was in Arizona "to discuss migration issues" i.e. negotiate America's piecemeal surrender to, in effect, the smugglers.

Associated Press El Paso FBI chief retires abruptly after Mexicans grouse The head FBI agent in El Paso has abruptly retired amid complaints against him from Mexican officials, a newspaper reported Saturday. -- During Crawford's tenure in El Paso, Mexican officials criticized him for an FBI operation targeting thieves who crossed the border to steal from Union Pacific trains. -- ....U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza ordering Crawford not to make any more public statements about Mexico.

Tom Tancredo

Houston Chronicle Let's be partners, not patsies with Mexico ...The Mexican government has sent in the "first string" to bolster its faltering efforts to have state and local governments make life easier for illegal immigrants living in the United States. The problem is, such lobbying efforts by President Fox only spotlight the failures of his own economy. -- Fox's time would be better spent in Mexico working to fix his country's failed socialist economy.

NJ.com / The Times Illegal aliens seek in-state tuition ...[Illegal alien Dina] Ochoa, Rodriguez and several other current and former Trenton High Students - some here legally, others not - are among those lobbying for in-state tuition to be made available to anyone who can demonstrate three years attendance at a New Jersey high school...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Murders go unsolved as smuggling grows ...Police officials blame an increase in immigrant and narcotics smuggling and the state's lax gun laws for much of this year's rise in homicides and the corresponding drop in the clearance rate. -- The influx of immigrants also makes it difficult to find witnesses who know anything and are willing to tell.

WINS - New York Freehold to Close Day Laborers' Site Monday Freehold, NJ -- A meeting place for day laborers and the contractors who hire them soon will not be available anymore. -- "The hazards and nuisances that have been generated by the influx of these day laborers and employers far outweigh the intended benefits," Mayor Michael Wilson told the Asbury Park Press.

Denver Post -- John Aloysius Farrell Tancredo threatens grand plan (according to Norquist) My pal Grover Norquist [shown at left] is sitting on top of the world. The White House and the Congress are in the hands of tax-cutting Republicans. The GOP is making historic inroads into state capitals. Democrats are in disarray. --- "When you have Tom Tancredo spewing hatred against immigrants, that doesn't win votes," Grover says.

Senior Citizens League No benefits should go to illegal aliens ...Not only are aliens able to receive Social Security benefits based on illegal work in the United States, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO), but also significant numbers of them may be receiving improper Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits outside the United States.

Vicente Watch

PHXNews.com -- Joyce E. Downey Presidente Fox is a Macho, Macho Man ...While it may be factual, we should no longer tolerate the hue and cry that these poor folks only want a better life. People are dying and Presidente Fox calls on us to fix it as if the fault lies only north of the border. --- You've got to hand it to him for chutzpa. The legendary Macho Mexican Male image is alive and well in Presidente Fox.

KPAX-TV -- Missoula Smugglers found guilty (Third item down) - Two South Korean men pleaded guilty Friday in Missoula Federal court to smuggling illegal immigrants across the Canadian border, in far northwestern Montana. Police say they caught Sang Bong-park and Jae Kung-jung helping immigrants get across the border near Yaak.

Invasion

MEChA-Boy del Olmo -- Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) 'Blame America' Mechista suggests U.S. cave in to Fox's demands Mexican President Vicente Fox surely did not intend for his most recent trip to the United States to begin with such a bang. Or, to be precise, so much bang-bang. -- However, a bloody shootout Tuesday outside Phoenix - at almost the hour of Fox's arrival in that city - put an exclamation point on the need to bring the flow of migrant workers across the Mexican border into the open....

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

Letters to the Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) Immigration Reform Calls for Change Within Mexico ...It's definitely in American interests to assist Mexico in solving its northward migration problems, but not on American soil. This must happen in Mexico. A first step in this regard is for the U.S. to seal its borders. Vicente Fox's Push for Immigration Reform Fox doesn't want immigration "reform" in the U.S. He wants immigration capitulation by the U.S. -- Fox deserves a firm response: "No. Go home and build a society your people won't desperately seek to escape."

Sacred Cow Burgers Parody Cartoon: Meddlesome Fox visits his American pals "...You should know most of them by now. My country is so corrupt, I am forcing them [Mexican invaders] all to illegally enter your country by the millions! --- ...Any other nation on earth would tell me to go pound sand. But, fortunately for me, you Americans have your fair share of corrupt political leaders, too. -- And, uh... oh, yeah.... if you don't like it, then you're a filthy little racist."

Tom Tancredo

Denver Post English-only rules are plain silly... But border policy is not ...Here are some facts that should cause some concern to citizens trying to understand the national security implications of open borders. This information comes from reliable sources inside the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. -- From 1999 to 2002, an average of 1.3 million illegal aliens were apprehended trying to enter our country each year....