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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
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New York
Times (Free Registration)
Hispanic
Day Laborers Sue New Jersey Town
A group of Latin American day laborers
filed suit in Federal District Court on Tuesday, contending that
this borough is restraining their First Amendment rights by preventing
them from congregating at a vacant lot to solicit work. -- A
local church has offered to serve as a temporary hiring hall
for the workers...  |
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KTVA --
Anchorage, Alaska
A
Murdered Son, A Kidnapped Daughter: One Mother Speaks
...Cano Eduardo, a reporter for Azteca
TV, a major Mexican network, has come to Alaska, saying this
is a form of corruption all too common in Mexico, "The corruption
is everywhere so what we're trying to do is to document these
types of stories to evidence that corruption, something in this
story is illegal...." |
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FinalCall.com
Mexicans
in N.Y. call attention to their culture and "plight"
"Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!"
shouts Gelacio Vargas. ("Long Live our Lady of Guadalupe!")
"Que viva!" hundreds of Mexicans shout back in support,
standing on the steps of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
-- Mr. Vargas is waving a Mexican flag in his right hand. In
his left, he holds a torch, which he escorted from the Basilica
of Guadalupe in Mexico City... |
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Napa News
Latino
community made presence felt Upvalley
...In January, Latinos packed the Calistoga City
Council chambers, pressuring the city to heed Dick's call regarding
the card commonly known as the matricula
consular. Calistoga became the first city in Napa County
to formally accept the card as a valid form of identification.
City officials did so in part because the cards have holographic
security features... |
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Nashville
City Paper
Driving
should be reserved for legal residents
Should those who are issued a Tennessee
driver's license be legal residents of the United States? The
answer, we think, is yes. -- The issue will come up again in
January when state Sen. Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro) and state
Rep. Donna Rowland (R-Murfreesboro) renew work on a bill requiring
potential motorists to provide Social Security numbers... |
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Associated
Press
Beefed-up
patrols on Canadian border
U.S. authorities over the course of 2003
added more than 340 agents to patrol the border with Canada to
help keep out terrorists, drugs and illegal immigrants, the U.S.
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. --That
brought the total to roughly 1,000 agents who are now working
the northern border, the bureau said. |
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Sierra Vista
(Arizona) Herald Review
Illegal
dies due to the cold
Bisbee, Ariz. -- An illegal immigrant
rescued from the early morning cold Tuesday near milepost 344
on Highway 92 died at the Copper Queen Community Hospital later
in the day, succumbing to hypothermia. -- Chan Tiburcio, of Oxkutzcan,
Mexico, was discovered at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday... |
Michelle Malkin |
VDare.com
Whiners
Of The Year (Including Assorted Illegal Aliens)
They made us groan. They made us grumble.
They made us a global laughingstock. The whiners of 2003 embarrassed
themselves-and the nation-with their unrivaled sense of entitlement,
arrogance, and shamelessness. -- Let's send them off with a 21-hankie
salute and a collective kick in the pants.... |
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Washington
Times
Hispanic
voters divided, more Democratic
Hispanics in the United States remain
more Democratic than Republican, despite George Bush's efforts
to woo the country's largest ethnic group. -- At the same time,
most Hispanics do not have strong ties to any political party,
making them a bastion of potential swing voters, according to
results from a recent survey... |
Jim Cooper |
Benson (Arizona)
News-Sun -- LTE
Outrage
level rising
The outrage level is rising fast, as
the letter by Jim Tenney, in Willcox and Ranch Rescue article
regarding James
Cooper show just how worthless and useless the millions of
dollars spent the last two years on beefing up so called border
patrol and adding eight new people to Sheriff Dever's department
has been... |
Terence P.
Jeffrey |
Human Events
Mexican
Diplomat Charged With Helping Smuggle Arabs Into U.S.
The real life horror story that began eighteen
months ago when an Arab illegal alien named Youseff Balaghi showed
up at a San Diego hospital, dying from what the Border Patrol
initially-and erroneously-feared was radiation sickness, has
now reached high into Mexico's foreign service.... |
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The Oregonian
-- Portland
Illegal
Mexican alien pleads not guilty in shooting case
Vancouver, Wash. -- A 28-year-old man
pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree manslaughter in the
shooting death last month of a Mexican teenager. -- Judge John
P. Wulle of Clark County Superior Court set a March 17 trial
date for Ernesto Rodriguez Vera, who in earlier court papers
was called Ernesto V. Rodriguez. |
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Franklin
Park (Illinois) Herald-Journal
City
takes fallacious foreign IDs a step farther
About year after approving an identification
card for Mexican citizens as an acceptable form of identification
in Northlake, the City Council has taken that idea a step farther.
-- Northlake now also will recognize the identification cards
of other foreign consulates that create an identification system
meeting the high standards of security established by the Mexican
Consulate as valid ID in the city. |
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FAIR
Bush
to Propose Broad Amnesty
We regret having to interrupt your holiday
season with bad news on the immigration reform front, but the
Washington Post reports this morning that President Bush and
Karl Rove-in order to appeal to Hispanic voters-are poised to
announce a sweeping amnesty plan during the second week of January....
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Lowell
Ponte |
FrontPageMagazine.com
Mexamerica
...Today the Mexican Department of Tourism
reaches out to Americans with this slogan: "Mexico: Closer
Than Ever." Indeed, one might say that the line separating
the United States from Mexico is vanishing. -- American Hispanics,
58 percent of whom are of Mexican ancestry, a year ago surpassed
African-Americans as the largest minority... |
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Associated
Press
DMV
rules make it harder for invaders to get licenses
The state Division of Motor Vehicles
has announced guidelines that make it more difficult for illegal
immigrants to obtain North Carolina driver licenses. -- Beginning
Feb. 2, the DMV will limit forms of approved identification to
documents such as valid licenses from other states or Canada,
Social Security cards, valid immigration papers... |
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Associated
Press
Man
is charged in drowning death of Border Patrol agent
SanDiego - A federal grand jury indicted
a man on immigrant smuggling charges in connection with the death
of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, prosecutors said Tuesday.--Jose
Antonio Vasquez Villasenor is charged with trying to smuggle
at least three Chinese nationals into the United States on Dec.
16 by sneaking across the Colorado River... |
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