Monday, November 17, 2003

Senator Cornyn Says Mexican Reconquistas are No Threat Texan Says Mexican Invasion "Benign" Zedillo said Mexico extends into the U.S. "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders..." Mexican President Zedillo Osuna said Mexico is conquering California. "...I think we are practicing la Reconquista in California." Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General of Los Angeles Mario Obledo said Americans should leave California "California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave." Mario Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF Sen. John Cornyn (Tx) says we should open borders to Mexicans. Guests Who Pose No Threat -- Washington Post - 11/17/03 -- "Our immigration system must distinguish between the benign and the dangerous, and our law enforcement resources must be dedicated to hunting the real bad guys." -- Sen. John Cornyn. Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Sam Francis -- VDare.com Lateral removal plan may return in spite of grousing Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, a U.S. Border Patrol program that shipped undocumented Mexican immigrants from Arizona to Texas for deportation could be resurrected next year. The reason: GOP Rep. Henry Bonilla's efforts to cut off funding for the "Lateral Repatriation Program" failed this month in Congress.

Vicente Watch

Sam Francis -- VDare.com Fox Should Be Arrested And Thrown Out Of U.S. For Good While President Bush was explaining why Americans must export democracy to the rest of the planet last week, Mexico's President Vicente Fox was practicing his own version of democracy inside the United States. -- Virtually unreported in the national media, Mr. Fox's brazen lobbying of American elected leaders to advance his own agenda for amnesty of illegal Mexican aliens comes very close to constituting an act of aggression.

Reuters Hepatitis outbreak: Did suspect onions come from Mexico? ...Raw or lightly cooked green onions were linked to cases of the liver disease in Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia in September, but the source of the Pennsylvania outbreak is still unknown, the Food and Drug Administration said. -- The green onions implicated in the Tennessee outbreak apparently came from Mexico, the FDA said.

Associated Press Mexico gives Zinser the heave-ho over remark Mexico's U.N. ambassador will step down at the end of the year, bowing out of President Vicente Fox's government after saying the U.S. treats this country like a "backyard," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said late Monday. -- Derbez called a hastily organized news conference to announce that Adolfo Aguilar Zinser [shown at left] agreed to resign after conversations with President Vicente Fox.

The Star-Ledger -- New Jersey Illegals continue to shamelessly flout U.S. laws with impunity It didn't take Eunice Gomez long to find work. -- Less than two weeks after being arrested by federal immigration agents as she finished the night shift cleaning the Wal-Mart in Old Bridge, the illegal immigrant found a new job cleaning the classrooms of a local school. [So much for the fed's worthless 'catch and release' scam]

Washington Post N.Va. Group Is Battling the 9/11 Backlash ...Muslims are not the only ethnic group in the area experiencing a backlash. Latinos say they are worried about stricter immigration regulations, such as a new Virginia law requiring applicants for driver's licenses to prove that they are in the country legally. -- Concerned about such tensions, civic and religious leaders in the McLean area are trying to start a series of community discussions...

Schwarzenegger

Sacramento Bee Text of Schwarzenegger's swearing-in remarks ...I will issue a proclamation convening a special session to reform our workers' compensation system. I will call on the Legislature to repeal SB-60 and I will work to reform government by bringing openness and full disclosure to public business. -- I will enter this office beholden to no one except you, my fellow citizens.

Fresno Bee What lies ahead for Señor Busta-MEChA ...Weeks have passed since Dinuba-born [MEChA-boy Cruz] Bustamante lost the Oct. 7 recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who [was] sworn in today as California's 38th governor. But it will take several months -- if not years -- before the buzz dies down in Sacramento. -- No one is immune. Not even Bustamante...

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

63 Members Sign Hayworth Letter Sixty-three House Republicans co-signed a letter by Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) urging President Bush to support an immigration policy with Mexico that "secures our borders, draws a bright line between legal and illegal aliens, and rejects any and all forms of amnesty."

Associated Press [Very Short-lived link] Mexican consul in Tucson is transferred to Phoenix The Mexican consul in Tucson is being reassigned to Phoenix to replace departing consul Ruben Beltran. -- Beltran will be moving to Los Angeles. -- He will be replaced by Carlos Flores Vizcarra, who has been the consul in Tucson for about 2-1/2 years. -- No Tucson replacement has yet been named.

Santa Rosa Press Democrat Cal. Coast lawmakers wary, but vow cooperation ...State Sen. Wes Chesbro, D-Arcata, said he is willing to amend the [invader driver's license] law to include additional security safeguards, including background checks, but said the legislation is worth protecting. He also reminded voters and legislators alike that a similar law was on the state books only 10 years ago.

Associated Press Pandering Gray Davis is out of here at last Webmaster's Note: Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th Governor of California today, Monday, November 17, 2003, at 11:22:27 am in Sacramento, replacing Gray Davis, by far the most destructive and incompetent governor California has ever seen. Mexico must be in mourning today. -- Schwarzenegger said that he would ask the legislature to repeal SB60 [the invader driver's license law] quickly.

Rekha Basu -- Des Moines Register The high cost of free trade Tomorrow marks 10 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement got a green light in the U.S. House, after the first President Bush and Bill Clinton pitched it as the answer to most of our problems. --- But nine years after NAFTA took effect, you'd be hard-pressed to conclude most Americans or Mexicans are better off. The U.S. unemployment rate reached its highest in nine years this year....

Mark Andrew Dwyer

Reason There was an article "Re-Propping 187: California's controversial 1994 measure makes a comeback" published in August 14, 2003, issue of "Reason" by its associate editor, Matt Welch, insinuating that the main objective of Proposition 187, baring the State of California from providing free public services to illegal aliens...

Wall Street Journal On trips to Mexico, Americans bring back Mexicans Daniel Jon Crawford, a 35-year-old store clerk who lives in a suburb of San Diego, likes to go to Tijuana to drink cheap beer and meet women. One recent Saturday night he found himself broke and unable to resist when a man calling himself Jose offered Mr. Crawford $375 to drive a dirty white Saab to a parking lot on the U.S. side of the border....

Associated Press High Court Won't Hear Death Penalty Case Despite the concerns of two justices, the Supreme Court refused Monday to be drawn into an international death penalty debate over the legal rights of a Mexican on Oklahoma's death row. -- The court was asked to consider whether American prosecutors are violating a 1963 international treaty when they do not notify foreign governments...

Yuma Sun Arizona church aiding illegals, BP won't intervene Flario Dominguez hopes to get enough rest and money to continue his trip to California, where his daughter has been waiting for the past two years. -- Dominguez spoke to The Sun while standing in the back yard of a Somerton home maintained by the Catholic Church, where illegal aliens are given food, clothes, shelter and almost anything else they may need before continuing north from Mexico...

San Francisco Examiner One of the D.C. sniper suspects found guilty of murder A jury convicted John Allen Muhammad of capital murder Monday, concluding he used a rifle, a beat-up car and a teenager who idolized him to kill randomly and terrorize the Washington area during last year's sniper spree. -- Jurors will now decide whether the Army veteran should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Immigration policy a 'politically sensitive issue' during summit If free trade were really on the table for the Americas, people would join goods and services atop an open borders buffet. -- But when trade ministers talk tariff trimming and regulation reduction at Miami's upcoming Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting, immigration policy is strictly off the menu. -- "It's a very politically sensitive issue," said Dan Griswold of the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington.

D.A. King

MichNews.com "Habla Newspeak" ...Not long ago illegal aliens became "undocumented-immigrants", so as to be politically correct. Now in the current apparent "Newspeak" of many of our journalistic elite the 12 million plus horde that flaunt our laws and demand "civil-rights" and citizenship because they were able to successfully cross our virtually open borders....

Associated Press Feds: Fewer invaders caught sneaking into New Mexico Federal officials say fewer illegal immigrants were nabbed this fiscal year along the New Mexico-West Texas border with Mexico. -- The U.S. Border Patrol says 88,944 undocumented immigrants were captured in the agency's El Paso sector in the fiscal year that ended September 30th.

El Paso Times Poll: Texas border dwellers against deportations A controversial Border Patrol experiment this year got a dire review from El Pasoans, an El Paso Times/KVIA-ABC 7 Poll indicates. -- On Sept. 8, Border Patrol agents started loading hundreds of undocumented immigrants [criminals] captured in Arizona onto planes headed for Texas border cities, including El Paso, for deportation....

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration) Clueless Davis still doesn't get it, threatens to return ...He [disgraced soon-to-be-former Gov. Davis, the clown who killed Prop. 187 and signed the national security-threatening SB60] has hinted at a political comeback - sometimes in a joking fashion, at other times seriously - noting that his removal from office so early in his second term means he still could serve another term as governor, said people close to Davis, all speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Indianapolis Star Meddling Mexicans dole of bogus IDs in Ft. Wayne About 1,500 Mexican immigrants living in northeast Indiana showed up outside a mobile consulate Saturday to obtain new identification cards intended to ease their life in the United States. -- The Mexican government issues the "matricula consular" cards to immigrants regardless of whether they are in the country legally or not.

David Garcia

KNBC-TV -- Los Angeles Burbank Police Search For Man Who Killed Officer ...The man killed by police was identified as Ramon Aranda, 25, of Los Angeles' Sun Valley area. Police believe the man with him was David A. Garcia, 19 [pictured at left]. He was described as 6 feet, 1 inches, about 220 pounds, with a shaved head and brown eyes. -- Police said officers in the small suburban department had been looking for him nonstop since the shooting.

Dave Gorak

Illinois Leader Illinois legislators work for Mexican government, not us ...As was the case with the passage of the in-state tuition bill in the spring, Illinoisans are not getting the whole story from their state legislators. Like the tuition bill and the matricula consular, the driver's license is part of Mexico's strategy to circumvent our immigration laws and undermine our sovereignty...

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Border law officials say bill on entrants poses burden A proposal that would require law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws has police in border cities worried that the burden to guard the border will fall on them. -- The bill, called the CLEAR Act, for Clear Law Enforcement for criminal Alien Removal, requires law enforcement agencies to check the immigration status of anybody they encounter...