Saturday, November 15, 2003

Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Mechistas perturbed over professor's e-mail ...The group, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, objected to an e-mail sent Oct. 13 by math instructor Walter Kehowski, in which he took issue with a recent Dia de la Raza [Day of The Race] celebration. Kehowski said students promoted racism by praising separatism [and the Mechistas have the nerve to claim that Kehowski's comment was 'racist'. Go figure.]

Dave Gorak

MichNews.com "What is going on?" ...The Mexican government, which is the lead horse in this well-orchestrated effort (instate tuition, matricula consular) by a growing number of foreign governments to subvert our immigration laws and undermine our national sovereignty, also argues that a license will improve our national security. (Take that, Osama bin Laden!)

Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze Crisis brews for region's medical system Los Angeles County's crisis-prone emergency medical care system, where ER waits often stretch past 10 hours, can expect to be hit with a "perfect storm" of overwhelming financial and staffing troubles in the new year, health officials said Thursday. -- Some of the circumstances have been brewing for years... [We told you so. Also see: Sinkhole de Mayo, --- Killing 187 will kill Californians, Immigration Destroying Calif., and Importing Poverty]

Invasion

Valley Morning Star -- Harlingen, Texas Network of coyotes growing Along some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, smuggling humans has become more profitable than illegal narcotics and often carries lighter prison sentences. -- Gangs that used to deal primarily in drugs have shifted heavily into human cargo, federal agents say. While smugglers, or coyotes, have never been reliable couriers for undocumented immigrants...

Northwest Arkansas News Judge approves city's settlement in 'Hispanic' suit A federal judge approved a settlement Friday between the city of Rogers and Hispanic motorists who had sued the city's police department in March 2001, claiming that it practiced racial profiling. -- The requirement to limit inquiry into a stopped Hispanic's immigration status angered Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform....

The Daily Herald -- Snohomish County, Washington Fake Mexican IDs intricate, agent says The fraudulent documents allegedly manufactured by four Mexican nationals are "intricate and sophisticated" and illustrate how adept criminals have become at making phony documents, investigators said Friday. -- [One] man had a fraudulent Mexican consular card, which he used to get a Washington state driver's license...

Orange County Register (Free Registration) -- Andres Oppenheimer Mexican dislike for U.S. growing The most troubling news about a new Latin America-wide poll is that the near-universal dislike of President George W. Bush in the region is beginning to extend to the United States as a nation, including in key countries such as Mexico. -- Until recently, U.S. officials shrugged off Bush's dismal image ratings in the region, saying it was a natural side effect of the war with Iraq and some unpopular U.S. antiterrorism measures.....

Chicago Sun-Times Candidate Oberweis supports CLEAR Act Jim Oberweis is breaking out of the six-member GOP senatorial pack today by endorsing a tough bill that cracks down on illegal immigrants and withholds federal funds from cities that decline to prosecute illegal immigrants. It is a position from which many moderates and liberals shrink in fear.

Valley Morning Star -- Harlingen, Texas Mexican invaders taken into custody after raid Mission - U.S. Border Patrol agents and Hidalgo Co. sheriff's deputies raided a house near Mission early Friday and took 16 undocumented immigrants [criminals] into custody. -- "Fourteen have been granted a voluntary return to Mexico. Two are being processed for crossing illegally because they have a history of multiple entries coming up on the computer system."

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix Meddlesome Phoenix Mexican heads for Hahn's 'Mexican City' Rubén Beltrán, the Mexican consul general of Phoenix, is being reassigned to head Mexico's consulate in Los Angeles, the most important of Mexico's 47 consulates in the U.S. -- Only the Mexican Embassy in Washington is more important than the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, which serves the largest Mexican population in the U.S....

Associated Press Pa. Hepatitis Cases Climb Past 500 The number of people infected in a hepatitis A outbreak linked to a western Pennsylvania restaurant has exceeded 500 and is likely to continue rising for another week, state Health Department officials said Saturday. -- Three people infected with the virus have died, and thousands have lined up for inoculations since the outbreak was reported...

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

The Tennessean -- Nashville  Mexicans doling out bogus IDs on public school property The Mexican Consulate in Atlanta is setting up shop in an Antioch high school cafeteria today to distribute an identification card that has been the subject of controversy in Tennessee and nationally. -- The so-called ''matricula consular'' cards are sought by undocumented immigrants [Mexican criminals] who have no other legitimate form of identification.

KFOX-TV -- El Paso / La Cruces Five Immigration Agents Arrested Five immigration enforcement agents are arrested on alien smuggling charges. -- A federal grand jury indicted Mario Fernandez, Bobby Torres, Horacio Ventura, Joselino Ruiz and Sylvia Licon. -- The five allegedly engaged in a conspiracy to transport and shield a female illegal alien.

Press Release -- Mexican American Political Association Nativo Lopez's MAPA launches 'Save SB60' website ...Reconquista Nativo says, "We're not going to stand for the hateful and ignorant rhetoric spewed out by the right-wing, anti-immigrant factions of the Republican Party. Former Governor Pete Wilson accented his re-election campaign with divisive, wedge-issue politics nearly 10 years ago and it seems as though those same political forces are spoiling once more for another battle..." [See: Repeal SB60]

Stockton Record San Joaquin Democrats flip on immigrant licenses San Joaquin-area Democratic lawmakers Barbara Matthews and Michael Machado are seeing the Republican light -- at least when it comes to giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. --- "We need to keep the option open how to deal with the problem of unlicensed drivers," Machado said. [How about deporting them if they're in the country illegally?]

Tucson Citizen 1,500 suspected invaders nabbed on I-10 this week More than 1,500 suspected illegal immigrants have been caught in the first week of a new Border Patrol operation at two airports and along Interstate 10. -- Among them were 550 smugglers, and $750,000 worth of their cash and assets were seized, according to Andy Adame, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson sector.

Sacramento Bee Speier feels the heat, agrees to repeal of invader license bill State Sen. Jackie Speier has added her name to a list of Democratic legislators willing to reverse their votes on the controversial measure allowing illegal immigrants to get state driver's licenses. -- Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for the Legislature to rescind the law, SB 60, during a special session set to begin Tuesday.

Grijalva Watch

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Grijalva, BAN balk at idea of armed Customs choppers Rep. John Shadegg says arming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Black Hawk helicopters with a .50-caliber machine gun would allow a gunner on board to fire one well-placed round into the engine block of a smuggler's car. [Illegal alien-booster MEChA-boy] Rep. Raúl Grijalva... rejected the proposal. -- "I find the idea to be ridiculous and desperate," Grijalva said. [Reconquista Jen Allen is also carping over the idea]