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Associated Press Reconquistas bent over invader license lawsuit A small Hispanic organization and a conservative legal group teamed up Monday to launch the latest attack on a law granting drivers' licenses to undocumented immigrants [criminals]. -- "These people are just using this rhetoric to stir up the same kind of wedge politics and divisiveness that is threatening to tear our state apart," Francisco Estrada, of the notorious MALDEF, said.

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Washington Times U.S. to integrate 'immigrants' The Homeland Security Department is initiating an "immigrant integration" program as part of its ongoing post-September 11 efforts to streamline and improve some still-active functions of the defunct INS. -- "This effort is historic," said Aflonso Aguilar, the newly appointed chief of citizenship for the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Houston Chronicle Visit to U.S. by meddlesome Mexican seen as limited success He came. He talked. Did he conquer? -- Vicente Fox had intended to lobby for both a Mexico-friendly U.S. immigration policy and investment on his trip to the Southwest last week. In 60 hours of speeches and closed-door meetings in the capitals of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, Fox repeatedly called for greater respect for migrants' human rights...

Arizona Daily Star Update  [Very short-lived link] Feds supposedly checking coyotes' money trail, sending more BP Financial investigators will go after the profit motive of human smuggling in Arizona, a senior official for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday. -- Dubbed Operation ICE Storm, the federal government will go after the brokers receiving the money illegal border crossers [criminals] pay to be smuggled into the United States...

Mark Andrew Dwyer

What We Stand For Today, I planned to write an article about Fox's visit to the U.S. and to comment on his ridiculous demands and hypocritical advice. I just couldn't stomach this guy's self-serving attitude so characteristic for Mexican ruling elite and their fifth-column organizations that entrenched themselves in our country. Here comes a leader of a corrupt and economically insolvent nation, whose millions of citizens violate America's border...

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CBS News Invader Smuggling Out Of Control By the time police arrived, the bloody gun battle between two speeding vehicles along one of Arizona's main highways was over. Four people were dead. -- "When you have shootouts on your freeways and in your neighborhoods and your shopping areas, things are definitely out of control," Phoenix Police Chief Harold Hurtt told CBS Correspondent Sandra Hughes.

Dallas Morning News (Free Registration)   Bush crony says U.S. ready for small steps toward deal with Mexicans The U.S. is prepared to take small steps toward achieving a migration accord with Mexico, President Bush's point man on the Americas said as the two nations prepared for Cabinet-level talks. -- Roger Noriega, the assistant secretary of state for Western hemispheric affairs, said in an interview that a piece-by-piece approach represents the best strategy for achieving a migration pact that's vital to the United States' security and economy.

Phoenix Business Journal Bill would derail driver's licenses for invaders in Arizona East Valley Congressman Jeff Flake has introduced a bill in Congress that would limit the abilities of states to give driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. -- The Republican has put forward a measure that bars federal agencies from accepting state driver's licenses as valid ID unless the state has put in place stringent identification requirements.

Quad-City Times -- Davenport, Iowa Iowa probes Wal-Mart accident, contractors The police report said Jose L. Martinez, last known address of Mexico, fell 22 feet in a work accident at the construction site of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter on West Kimberly Road in Davenport. -- Martinez' head and neck injuries were serious enough that he had to be airlifted to University Hospitals in Iowa City for treatment.....

KCRA-TV -- Sacramento Group Files Suit To Stop Drivers License Law Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that one of his first acts as governor will be to repeal SB 60, which would allow illegal immigrants to obtain a California drivers' license, but one group is taking action now to stop the law. -- The Pacific Legal Foundation is filing a lawsuit Monday in the 3rd District Court of Appeals, arguing the law is unconstitutional.

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

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San Antonio News Channel Illegal alien workforce doubles in 10 years A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies said the number of undocumented immigrants [criminals] working and living in the U.S. grew by more than a million from 2000 to 2003, but the number of people working who were born in the U.S. continues to spiral down. -- "In the past, people came and did their work and they went back," Carlos Vidali, Mexico's consul general in San Antonio, said...

Illinois State Senator Chris Lauzen Whose Country Is This? ...Legal immigration is good. Illegal immigration is not. Illegal immigration is neither compassionate nor moral for those who are exploited by trade in their misery, nor fair to current citizens and legal residents of this country. -- Until our federal government acknowledges and shoulders its responsibilities at our borders, the State of Illinois should not make matters worse.

Reuters U.S. cautious on immigration progress with Mexico A U.S. official on Monday played down the chances the United States and Mexico will make much progress on migration issues in talks this week despite Mexico's strong desire for U.S. reforms to protect Mexican immigrants. -- Mexico's hopes for sweeping changes to U.S. immigration laws under Bush collapsed with the Sept. 11 attacks.

San Jose Mercury News Latinos add voice to invader license backlash ... [Esther] Lopez, ...whose parents immigrated legally from Mexico, is chafing against a new law that allows illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses. The law offends her sense of justice. She says Gov. Gray Davis only signed it to win Latino votes like hers. -- "How can you reward people that are illegal here?'' she asked. "I'm a Mexican, but I was brought up by laws.''

San Diego Union-Tribune Investigators look at where California's blazes began ...The Otay fire, which burned more than 46,000 acres, started about two miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Old Mine canyon, which is crisscrossed with footpaths. -- Investigators suspect the blaze may have been set by a border crosser's campfire, the cause of many fires that occur in that area.

Chicago Tribune (Free Registration) A fairy-tale notion: licenses for illegal immigrants [LTE]...Federal, state and local law enforcement and public safety organizations learned after 9/11 that we must be interconnected, no matter our authorities and local jurisdictions. Mutual cooperation and communication is a key to protecting our citizens. These proposed changes in Illinois driver's license procedures to reward illegal behavior are counterintuitive to that effort.

La Jornada -- Mexico City -- (Roughly translated by Google.com) Strip-mining America: 'Remittances' now Mexico's top source of $$$ President Vicente Fox Quesada festejó the increase of the remittances that the Mexican workers in the United States send to the country and that, in agreement with the official calculations, this year will reach 14 billion dollars. "This becomes the source number one of income in our nation. More than petroleum, more than the tourism, more than the direct foreign investment!..." [Spanish version]

Boston Globe More countries offering fallacious IDs for their invaders ...Since March 2002, when an updated version of the "matricula," containing greater security measures, was created, more than 2 million matriculas have been issued to Mexican citizens living in this country. --- Guatemala, which began offering a similar card just a few months after Mexico, has issued more than 25,000...

Washington Times New Hispanic GOP group aims to rebuild image A top Hispanic official in the Maryland Republican Party says the leader of the Hispanic Republican Caucus has degraded the minority group's image within the party. -- "It has not only been an embarrassment to the Hispanic community," says Luis Borunda, chairman of the newly created Maryland Republican Hispanic Assembly....

El Universal -- Mexico City Mexicans continue to thumb noses at U.S. laws ...[Javier] Hernandez has crossed the border illegally 16 times, and since 1995 has made his home in San Jose, California, where he welds fans, window frames and gates. Earning US24 an hour, he sends US400 a week to his family in Mexico City, enough to put his four children through private school. -- After Sept. 11 prompted a U.S.-Mexico border crackdown, Hernandez canceled his yearly visit home..realizing it would be difficult to return to California...

Notimex -- (Roughly translated by Google.com) Migration, drugs and security: subjects of Binational Meeting In XX the Binational Meeting United Mexico-Estados, to be made the next Wednesday in Washington, subjects like migration, foreign policy, power of attorney of justice, antinarcotic, border security and subjects will be boarded. -- This meeting is the mechanism of dialogue and more important cooperation... [Spanish version]

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QuePasa.com Meddling Mexican, Perry have not yet reached an agreement Following a recent tour in the U.S. by Mexican president Vicente Fox, different media in his country criticized his position confronting Texas governor, Rick Perry, who was emphatic respecting the matters of water debt with his country and the death penalty; while remaining very reserved on the proposal of using the Consular Registration [aka the bogus Mexican ID] as official identification by Mexican immigrants.

Contra Costa Times Cedillo, Nativo fret as invader license scam sinks in sunset ...Even the author of the measure, SB60, admits its future looks grim. -- State Sen. Gil Cedillo has tried unsuccessfully to meet with Schwarzenegger to work out a compromise to save the law, scheduled to take effect next year. -- "Repealing SB60 would only result in a crescendo of unlicensed, uninsured drivers in California," said... Nativo Lopez [of Dornan-Sanchez vote fraud fame].

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Plugging border's stolen-car flow Nogales, Sonora - Thousands of vehicles stolen in Arizona each year find their way to Mexico, where they disappear into a world of drug trafficking, people smuggling and insurance fraud. -- No one knows how many of the 56,800 vehicles stolen in Arizona end up in Mexico....