Friday, November 21, 2003

Tancredo Introduces 'Get Real' Act Featured on Lou Dobbs on CNN - America's New Hero Lou Dobbs of CNN takes illegal alien issue away from O'Reilly. The Get Real Act for America Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN -- 11/20/03) Lou Dobbs: "He introduced legislation this week. It is known as the Get Real Act. And joining me now is Congressman Tom Tancredo. Good to have you with us congressman. " Tancredo: "Lou, it's a pleasure." Dobbs: "Your legislation that you have introduced, how will that protect our borders?" Tancredo: Well, it's a pretty comprehensive bill, Lou, and it recognizes one fact, and that is this: The primary responsibility of the federal government of the United States is not to educate anybody's children , it is not to build anybody's roads, or to provide social service benefits, the primary responsibility for this government is to provide security for this nation." Watch Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Joe Guzzardi

VDare.com Mexico Ignoring U.S. On Extradition-With Help From Its American Friends In October, U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi headed a Congressional delegation of nogoodniks- Representatives David Hobson (R-OH); Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; Sam Farr (D-CA); Hilda Solis (D-CA); and Linda Sanchez (D-CA). - to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox on his home turf. -- Purpose: butt kissing....

Denver Post Proposal targets Latinos, foes say Community groups say Hispanics are the target of a City Council attempt to crack down on large groups of people living in single-family homes and apartments. -- A draft measure would limit the number of people who could live in a house to one person for every 200 square feet. [Some say immigrants will be affected.]

North County Times -- Rick Reiss Baja's absurd edict Recently, the state Legislature of Mexico's Baja California Sur announced its intention to declare our new California governor "persona non grata." This ridiculous act is in response to the governor's intention to terminate SB 60, the California law that grants driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Baja California legislators also decry Arnold Schwarzenegger's support for Proposition 187.

Frosty Wooldrige

Rense.com The Mexican Conquest of America In the past few months, illegal immigration and unrestricted legal immigration have been getting front page attention. Why? Because more and more of them are causing worsening problems. California is near death as an American State. Other states are next. Whether they bring in diseases, abuse our taxes, bankrupt our hospitals, kill our police officers...

Associated Press New Mexico Governor backs amnesty, sham IDs Nearly a decade after NAFTA opened up trade along the U.S.-Mexico border, the agreement has created jobs and boosted trade but hasn't fulfilled promises of ''cleaning up the border,'' Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday. -- The governor, who serves as chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Border Governors Conference...

UPI Give illegals drivers' licenses, suit asks An Iowa lawyer has filed a lawsuit to obtain drivers' licenses for thousands of illegal immigrants whom he contends have been treated unfairly. -- The lawsuit claims illegal immigrants have been denied equal protection of the law by Iowa's refusal to let them drive legally.

Tom Tancredo

Imperial Valley Press -- El Centro, Calif. New bill prohibits permanent resident status ...The bill, introduced by Rep. Thomas Tancredo, R-Colo., comes seven months after his earlier bill, which would have imposed a moratorium on all immigration for one year in an effort to reduce the number of illegal aliens, was defeated by a House committee. A staunch critic of the so-called amnesty programs that grant citizenship...

Mark Krikorian

National Review Arizona Amnesty -- Rewarding Illegal Aliens The border state of Arizona recently completed an amnesty that allowed violators to get right with the law. Those who did not take advantage of it will now face extra enforcement officers using new computer systems. -- But it wasn't for illegal aliens - it was a tax amnesty. It allowed people who hadn't paid their taxes to make arrangements by November 1 to pay up without penalty....

Denver Post Sen. Campbell backs away from invader reward bill (DREAM Act) U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell has backed off his support of a controversial bill that would give illegal immigrants a legal and cheaper way to go to college. -- Campbell withdrew his co-sponsorship of the Dream Act earlier this month after signing onto the bill in October.

Lodi News Repealing invader licenses causes consternation Granting drivers licenses to California's illegal immigrants is fast building into a galvanizing political issue among state legislators, political advocates of Latino rights and California's voters. -- The attack on SB 60... has motivated several Latino political organizations in the state to organize in support for the law.

Star-Ledger -- New Jersey Man found guilty of bribing INS for a green card A West Orange man was convicted yesterday of bribing federal immigration workers to issue a fraudulent green card for an illegal immigrant who paid him $10,000. -- Jerome Audige became the fifth person convicted in a federal corruption probe of the immigration offices in Newark. He was found guilty of two counts of bribery and one count of document fraud ...

Salt Lake Tribune Cheap Tuition: Invaders try putting bite on taxpayers again ...Among the primary concerns of [invader] Vaca and other Latino parents in the room is finding a way to enroll their undocumented children [criminals] in state universities, and once that hurdle is overcome, paying for their education. -- "Where am I going to be able to afford $50,000 for tuition?" [one invader] asked. [Also see: Importing Poverty]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sen. Miller backs CLEAR Act - La Raza rants, as usual ...Zell Miller (D-Ga) teamed up with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Al) on Thursday to introduce a bill that would deputize local police officers to arrest undocumented immigrants [criminals] for deportation. -- The National Council of La Raza (The Race) frets that turning police officers into enforcers of immigration law would hurt their relationships with "immigrant communities".

Garza

Associated Press - WFAA (Free Registration) Bush crony Garza: Relations with Mexico strong as ever America's relationship with Mexico has never been stronger, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said Thursday night in a return to his border hometown. -- "We went through this arc of a relationship that I tell people is somewhat like watching a flight," he said of President Bush's relation with Mexican President Vicente Fox.

Los Angeles Daily News Editorial Special Order 40 ties LAPD's hands in war on gangs For too long, the Los Angeles Police Department has had to wage its fight against gangs with one arm tied behind its back hampered by Special Order 40, the 20-year-old policy that prohibits police officers from asking suspects, witnesses and victims about immigration status....

Reuters Annan backs global approach to immigration woes Lamenting that "stronger borders are not necessarily smarter ones," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged governments on Friday to work together to harmonize their immigration policies. -- Some 175 million people, or 3 percent of the world's population, live outside the country where they were born, Annan said in a lecture at New York's Columbia University....

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)  Reconquista fanatic may be next Calif. Assembly speaker Two of three contenders for the top post in the state Assembly dropped out Thursday, leaving freshman Fabian Nuñez, a left-of-center Democrat and former union organizer, as the likely next leader of the Legislature's lower house. -- Nuñez, one of a dozen children of immigrant day laborers, is the favorite pick of current Speaker Herb Wesson...

QuePasa.com More on reconquista's effort to defend dangerous SB60 ..."Upcoming December 12 we will paralyze Los Angeles and the State with our protests, a sign of our change in strategy, using our personal and family economy to demand that these attacks be ceased," stated Nativo López, the leader of [MAPA] (and of Dornan-Sanchez vote fraud fame), in an interview by the Mexican daily "El Universal". [See: Repeal SB60]

Des Moines Register Hutchinson claims U.S. border is more secure The federal government has beefed up border patrols and taken several other steps to prevent a repeat of the October 2002 death of 11 immigrants found inside a rail car in Denison, a top homeland security official said Thursday in a visit to Iowa. -- "We've set up teams, invested very significant resources in targeting the human smuggling organizations," said Asa Hutchinson...

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

Associated Press Arrogant agitators bewail deportation of Mexican illegals A human rights group demanded Thursday that the J.C. Penney Co. apologize for what it called a racial-profiling case that resulted in two Mexican shoppers being deported after their relative was detained as a suspected shoplifter. -- The American Friends Service Committee contends that store personnel wrongly targeted Antonio Flores Noyola...