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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
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Reuters
US
Bars Mexican Onions Due to Hepatitis a Outbreak
The United States has halted imports
of Mexican green onions suspected of causing an outbreak of hepatitis
A that has sickened more than 500 people in Pennsylvania, a Food
and Drug Administration official told Reuters on Wednesday. --
Health officials believe Mexican green onions served at a Chi-Chi's
restaurant were the source of the Pennsylvania outbreak. |
Wooldrige
and
Cavallo |
MichNews.com
American
Politicians Serving Foreign Constituents
Polls across America reveal that Americans
want to preserve their language and culture. The message is loud
and clear but politicians, elected by you to serve you, and paid
with your taxes, are ignoring American citizens at every opportunity.
It is obvious that the "fix" is in....  |
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Associated
Press
Bush
to Get Immigrant Background Bill
After dealing with privacy concerns,
the House agreed Wednesday to expand a program giving employers
access to a federal database to help them confirm that their
workers are not in the country illegally. -- The legislation,
already approved by the Senate and now heading for the president's
signature, extends and expands a 1996 law... |
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Sierra Vista
(Arizona) Herald Review
Cautious
County, AZ: Agents target invasion routes
The U.S. Border Patrol began Operation
Pipeline Monday, an effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants
and drugs through the many trails in the Huachuca Mountains and
along major highways in Cautious and Santa Cruz counties. --
The increased emphasis to counter the use of the mountain range
and roads... |
David Garcia |
KNBC-TV
-- Los Angeles
Suspect
In Officer's Shooting Remains At Large
Police continue to search for an alleged
cop killer who has been evading arrest, though seven others,
including the man's twin brother, are in custody for allegedly
helping him. -- [David Garcia, 19, is described as 6 feet, 1
inches, about 220 pounds, with a shaved head and brown eyes.]
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Associated
Press [Short-lived
link]
Analysis:
Feds rarely prosecute companies for hiring illegals
While federal officials are cracking
down on illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona-Mexico border,
statistics show that businesses that knowingly employ those immigrants
are rarely pursued through the courts. -- Over the past four
years, just nine cases were prosecuted through the U.S. Attorney's
Office in both Phoenix and Tucson... |
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MetroWest
Daily News -- Framingham, Massachusetts
Anti-illegal
immigrant group draws ire
A group of Framingham residents who banded
together last week to oppose illegal immigration is already drawing
the ire of some community activists. -- Called CCFILE (Concerned
Citizens and Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement), the group
drew about a dozen residents to its first meeting last week.
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Associated
Press / CBS
Pennsylvania
hepatitis strain traced to Mexico
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. --- Agriculture officials have
traced the strain of the virus back to Mexico, the Post-Gazette
reports. |
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Sierra Vista
(Arizona) Herald Review
Illegal
alien found dead Tuesday
The U.S. Border Patrol located the body
of an undocumented immigrant near the San Pedro River and Highway
92 Tuesday morning. -- According to the County Medical Examiner,
the Mexican national appeared to have died earlier that morning
as a result of a preexisting medical condition... |
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Tucson Citizen
Building
industry depends on illegal labor
...Peter Aronoff, president of A.F.
Sterling Homes, was the only one of 11 home builders from
whom the Citizen sought comment who agreed to be interviewed.
-- Although he said he wasn't aware of the exact number of illegal
immigrants in the home building industry, the practice does not
concern him. -- "No, it doesn't bother me..."
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Associated
Press
Suspected
coyote killed, likely illegals injured on I-5
The driver of a car was killed when he
swerved across four lanes on Interstate 5 Tuesday and rear-ended
a truck creeping toward a weigh station. Three men found hidden
in the car's trunk were hospitalized. -- The 12:43 p.m. accident
occurred about two miles south of a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint...
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Los Angeles
Times (Free Registration)
U.S.-Mexico
Migrant Deal Never a Possibility, Ex-Envoy Says
Mexico City - An ambitious agreement pushed by
President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox to legalize
the status of illegal immigrants was doomed from the start, says
a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico. -- Jeffrey Davidow, who has
written a controversial book spanning his stint in Mexico from
1998 to 2002... |
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Arizona
Republic -- Phoenix
198
arrested in I-10 sweep for 'coyotes'
Federal agents have arrested almost 200
smuggling suspects and thousands of undocumented immigrants along
Interstate 10 in the aftermath of a deadly shooting incident
earlier this month, authorities said. -- The U.S. Bureau of Customs
and Border Protection started intensified patrols Nov. 7 as part
of "Operation Transguard"... |
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El Universal
-- Mexico City
PRD
backs Zinser in 'U.S. back yard' remarks
U.N. Ambassador Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
should have been congratulated, not kicked out of his post, for
saying that the United States treats Mexico as its "back
yard," analysts and leaders of the diplomat's former political
party said Tuesday. --- Aguilar Zinser was only echoing what
most Mexicans believe, they said. By letting him go, President
Vicente Fox and Foreign
Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez merely kowtowed to the interests
of their powerful northern neighbor... |
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New York
Times (Free Registration)
Report
Finds Few Benefits for Mexico in NAFTA
As the North American Free Trade Agreement
nears its 10th anniversary, a study from the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace concludes that the pact failed to generate
substantial job growth in Mexico, hurt hundreds of thousands
of subsistence farmers there and had "minuscule" net
effects on jobs in the United States. |
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