Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Phoenix May Be Prime Target "Rumor Mill" Hears that Terrorists May Come Across Border Only a Rumor? The American Patrol "Rumor Mill" has learned that some in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are concerned that Phoenix, Arizona may be one of the prime targets of the Al-Quaida terrorist threats that are being advertised by Secretary Ridge. According to these sources, the DHS has canceled all leaves of Sky Marshals and others concerned with security details. These same sources expressed concern that Phoenix is particularly vulnerable because of its size and its proximity to the open Mexican border. Past Features    American Border Patrol Updates

Media Watch

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NBC11 -- San Francisco Bay Area Students To March Against Governor's Repeal Of SB60 A group of high school students from around the Bay Area gathered in Redwood City Tuesday to announce the launch of a march targeted mainly at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his policies. -- The students, most of them Latino, are hoping to organize a "Million Student March" next year with youth from around the state to support licenses for undocumented workers and to oppose a new initiative by backers of Proposition 187...

News Note

Valley Independent (Pennsylvania) Cop was correct in stir over release of Mexican illegals The federal Immigration and Naturalization Service attributed the release of 13 possible illegal immigrants in Bentleyville Sunday to miscommunication. -- Garrison Courteney, a spokesman with the service's Washington, D.C., office, said Bentleyville Police Lt. Mark Kavakich reacted correctly Sunday afternoon after discovering 13 hispanic men and women in a van at the Pilot truck stop in Bentleyville....

Associated Press Feds Will Fingerprint Foreigners Major U.S. airports and seaports are preparing to begin using fingerprints and photographs to keep track of when foreigners enter the country and when they leave. -- The program, to be up and running on Jan. 5 at all 115 airports that handle international flights, will let U.S. Customs officials instantly check an immigrant or visitor's criminal background.

Imperial Valley (Calif.) Press Funds launch infectious disease warning system The U.S. Health and Human Services department recently gave the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission a $5.4 million funding infusion. -- The money will be used to create an "early-warning infectious disease surveillance system" all along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)   Immigrant Smugglers Get 3 Years in Prison A onetime senior inspector with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and his former girlfriend have been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to smuggling illegal immigrants from the Philippines into the United States through LAX....

Michelle Malkin

Desert Dispatch -- Barstow, Calif. Back on the homefront, Bush still has work to do ...More than two years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the federal government is only now getting around to comprehensively assessing its biodefense spending priorities. According to The Washington Post, a classified report cataloguing gaps in the nation's safeguards against biological attack is "nearly finished" and that "first steps" toward reducing the bioterror threat are finally being taken.

Juan Mann DeportAliens.com

VDare.com SOS-New Prop. 187 Petition Drive Now Underway In California! ...The original Southern California authors of the historic Proposition 187 have launched another signature-gathering campaign for the "Save Our State" (SOS) initiative-a hopefully tamper-proof amendment to the California state constitution to deny public benefits and services to illegal aliens once and for all.

Save Our State 'Save Our State' Petitions Ready for Downloading Now See the Save187.com website home page for other pertinent information on this "Son of 187" initiative. Read all instructions carefully.

Statement of Barry Hatch, Candidate for U.S. Senate ....The first priority as your Senator will be to make a call on our President and inform him that California as well as most of the nation demands as end to illegal immigration. I will inform him of a pending federal imitative that will allow the entire nation to vote on the immigration issue....

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Troopers find 15 aliens in I-20 bust Fifteen wet, cold undocumented immigrants were found padlocked in the back of a refrigerated 18-wheel tractor-trailer rig Monday after a state trooper stopped the truck on Interstate 20 for not having mud flaps, the Department of Public Safety reported.

Jeffrey Harder

American Daily License To Deal Over the last few months Americans have been barraged with a spin cycle of information concerning driver's licenses for subsidized illegal aliens within various states. The Pan-American, open borders crowd and their lawyers are at full throttle in many of our state legislatures, exercising their pious right to make us grant our legal state IDs to those here illegally.

Tampa Tribune Editorial A Misguided Effort To Give Noncitizens The Right To Vote Millions of foreigners living in the United States illegally have had little trouble finding work and avoiding deportation. -- They are raising families here, driving cars, sending their children to public schools, buying property and paying taxes. Now that they have done all that for so long, they and their advocates are raising an obvious question: Why aren't they also allowed to vote?

NewsMax.com Mexican Troops Fire on U.S. Border Watchers An official with a civilian border group says a squad of Mexican soldiers opened fire on a position only moments after it was vacated by group volunteers patrolling private property near Douglas, Ariz. -- Jack Foote, national spokesman for property protection group Ranch Rescue, told NewsMax a reconnaissance squad of his volunteers spotted two armed Mexican soldiers...

Tucson Citizen Arizona border crackdown called success by Border Patrol A recent crackdown on illegal border activity in Cochise County was a success, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman said. -- When the agency launched Operation Pipeline on Nov. 17, agents were averaging 320 illegal immigrant apprehensions daily, agency spokesman Andy Adame said. When it wrapped up Thursday, apprehensions were down to 23.

Project USA Update

Cannon's office scoffs at ProjectUSA campaign The Provo (UT) Daily Herald carried an article Sunday about ProjectUSA's campaign to raise the immigration issue in nine targeted congressional districts. (One of the districts includes Provo, and is represented by Congressman Chris Cannon.) -- The article, "Group criticizes Cannon's stance on immigration," reported that ProjectUSA...

News Note

Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer Illegal workers part of growing problem in N.E. Two Mexican workers at the Brattleboro Union High School renovation project who were detained last week are the proverbial tip of the iceberg of a burgeoning illegal immigrant problem in New England, according to Tim Craw, of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters....

Newsday -- New York Stray Bullet Kills Mom (More gang nightmares) A Brooklyn woman was killed in front of her children early yesterday as a long-simmering dispute between two gangs erupted in gunfire outside a nightclub, police said. --- Without warning at 2:15 a.m, members of Niños Malos (Bad Boys) opened fire on Javier Garcia and a friend, both described by sources as members of Chicano Nation.

Arizona Daily Star Border Edition Driver who fled, injuring 40 illegals, gets 4 years The driver of a pickup truck that crashed last year while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents, injuring 40 illegal border crossers, was sentenced Monday to four years in prison. -- Leonardo Bermudez-Tiznado, a Mexican national who also uses the name Hector Hernandez-Luna, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Tucson to a charge of transporting illegal entrants.

Miami Herald Three indicted in plot against illegal arrivals More than 200 illegal immigrants paid a minimum of $5,500 each for phony work permits in a scheme run by a federal immigration worker and two community ''recruiters,'' according to a federal grand jury indictment. -- While the fate of the people who bought the bogus permits is unclear, the three people arrested in the scheme face prosecution...

FAIR Ridge Endorses "Legal Status" for Illegal Aliens Your help is needed to fight off an apparent attempt by the Bush Administration to get the amnesty wheels turning. Please contact the White House and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today and through the next week to voice your strong objection to granting legal status to people who have broken our immigration laws...

Amarillo Globe News Police arrest Mexican national wanted in killing of Amarilloan Mexican national wanted for killing an Amarillo woman was arrested Monday in Georgia. -- Amarillo Police Department Sgt. Kevin Dockery said Miguel Angel Osuna Cervantes was linked to the death of Maria Manquero, 59, by a bus ticket and a jacket.

Associated Press Border county shouldering the cost of jailing invaders Brownsville, Tex. ­ Housing undocumented immigrants has become a financial burden for the Cameron County jail system because money collected from the federal government doesn't cover expenses. --- "It shouldn't be up to us local taxpayers to pay for housing these prisoners," said U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi.