Monday, December 13, 2004

The Evidence Mounts Mexican Gangsters Linked to Middle Easterners Brownsville Herald Bangladeshi Fakhrul Islam found with Mara Salvatrucha gangster "The records said a man later identified by Border Patrol agents as a member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang was traveling in the same group as Islam." American Patrol: As ABP proved, well-trained terrorists can easily smuggle a WMD across the border. Their chances are increased if they work with Mexican / Central American gangsters. Saddam and W - A parallel denial: Saddam Hussein refused to believe the Americans would cross the Kuwait border and attack him. George Bush refuses to believe that terrorists, working with Mexican/Central American gangsters, would cross the Mexican border and attack the U.S. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

Sault Sainte Marie (Mich.) Evening News Border agency seeks public understanding Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. -- Substantially enlarged since the Sept. 11 attacks, the local U.S. Border Patrol contingent labors under a fair measure of public misapprehension, despite its newfound visibility. -- Brian Hastings, agent in charge of the Sault Ste. Marie unit, is well aware of some misunderstanding. "A lot of people think we work at the border crossing. Our job is specifically to patrol between Ports of Entry, not at them," he said...

McClellan

WorldNetDaily.com White House Spokeshole: Bush has 'improved' border security At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the Bush administration's record on illegal-immigration control. -- WND: Page 1 of this morning's Washington Times quotes the leader of the draft Hillary for president organization as saying, "Bush has done everything he can to leave the doors wide open for illegal immigration. Hillary is the only one taking a position on immigration."

Onslaught

USA Today Buildings to go up like never before Residential and commercial development in the next quarter-century will eclipse anything seen in previous generations as the nation moves to accommodate rapid population growth, according to a Brookings Institution report Monday.About half the homes, office buildings, stores and factories that will be needed by 2030 don't exist today...

Associated Press More on Nativo Lopez's latest hare-brained scheme Hispanic activists on Monday called for a weekly boycott of California gas stations as a way to resurrect an immigrant [invader] driver's licenses bill vetoed earlier this year by Gov. Schwarzenegger. -- Pro-immigrant [Mexican invasion] groups urged motorists to avoid buying gas every Monday through next year or until lawmakers allowed illegal immigrants to apply for licenses.

Arizona Republic Arizona A.G.: Opposition to Prop. 200 meritless Efforts to block a voter-approved initiative to deny illegal immigrants some public benefits are without merit and should be denied, the state attorney general's office said Monday. -- Attorney General Terry Goddard's staff filed a 19- page motion with U.S. District Judge David C. Bury urging him to approve enactment of the initiative voters approved Nov. 2.

Brenda Walker Click for Website

VDare.com Blog Ethiopian Family Values Here is another heartwarming family-values item for the diversity file: Ethiopians place so much importance on marriage that many encourage their tiny daughters to get an early start, with parents thoughtfully arranging weddings for girls as young as seven...

Dan K. Thomasson

Washington Times Irrational immigration laws Isn't it amazing a nation built on the minds and muscle of immigrants has no coherent policy to deal with what may now be close to the top of its most pressing problems - immigration? For decades, interpreting laws dealing with aliens was left up to a thoroughly discredited agency, the Justice Department's old Immigration and Naturalization Service.

American Border Patrol Video from Today's American Border Patrol Mission Click the headline above to view video taken from American Border Patrol's UAV near Palominas, Arizona this morning. Requires Free Windows Media Player 9x

Public Service Announcement The Minuteman Project Wants You! Volunteers sought..... Are you interested in spending up to 30 days along the Arizona border as part of a blocking force against entry into the U.S. by illegal aliens early next spring? -- I invite you to join me in Tombstone, Arizona from April 1 - 30, 2005 to protect our country from a 40-year-long invasion across our southern border with Mexico... [12/12/04 - See Latest Update on the New Air Wing]

L.A. Daily News Hope hasn't expired yet on invader license bill Stopping illegal immigrants from obtaining driver's licenses may be an impossible task for Congress next year, supporters of immigration reform say. -- Their pessimism stems from a recognition that the issue isn't nearly as popular on Capitol Hill as it is among some members of the public. -- "This is where the American people are well ahead of their representatives," said Michael Franc...

Onslaught

Minnesota Public Radio Invasion aggravating citizens in Minnesota St. Paul, Minn. - Researchers conducted surveys and focus groups that reached more than 1,200 Minnesotans living in urban, exurban and rural areas. The harshest criticism of immigrants were exhibited by some of the white exurban residents in the focus groups. -- A woman from Anoka County said immigrants "should stay home." A woman from Scott County said immigrants "are only up here to have their babies to get the money."

¡Viva México!

Vermont Guardian Mexico charges U.S. with labor violations Mexican officials have charged that the United States is violating labor rules of the North American Free Trade Agreement by failing to protect workers from dangerous work conditions or to ensure that those hurt on the job receive timely, adequate compensation and medical treatment for their injuries and illnesses.

Tucson Sector PIO Press Release Record Pace for drug seizures continues This past weekend, Border Patrol Agents in the Tucson Sector seized over 2,500 pounds of marijuana in three separate incidents. -- Saturday, at approximately 7:45 a.m., agents assigned to the Nogales Horse Patrol Unit spotted a suspicious vehicle in the brush near milepost 6 on Ruby Road in Nogales, Arizona. When agents approached the area...

Arizona Daily Star Hourly Update  [Short-lived link] Spike strips not at fault in deadly load vehicle crash Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP) -- Tire spikes used to halt a truck crammed with more than a dozen illegal immigrants didn't cause a deadly crash near an Army post, state authorities concluded. -- The wreck killed two Huachuca City residents traveling in another vehicle along with three migrants and the unborn baby of another illegal immigrant in the truck. Several others were critically injured.

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

Dallas Morning News Guest visas to test Bush The mini-revolt by House conservatives after immigration provisions were stripped from the intelligence overhaul bill could spell turbulence ahead for President Bush's plan to grant temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants [criminals]. -- The intelligence bill stalled for three weeks partly because a bloc of House conservatives complained that legislation...

Michael W. Cutler -- Washington Times Immigration reform delay President Bush has made it clear a major priority of his second term will be to fix what's wrong with the U.S. immigration system. He has promised leadership in addressing critical immigration issues that were in the House Intelligence bill but were absent in the bill authored by the Senate.

Peter Gadiel

Magic City Morning News -- Millinocket, Maine Many 9/11 Families Opposed to Collins' Bill Sen. Collins persists in claiming that her intelligence reform bill passed because of "the overwhelming support of family members of 9-11 victims." Our organization, 9/11 Families for a Secure America wants to tell the people of Maine that her claim is false. The members of 9/11 FSA, all of whom are relatives of 9/11 victims, represent the families of 300 of those victims.

US Border Patrol

Yuma Sun Checkpoints deter illegal workers The loss of farm labor in Yuma County, coinciding with U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints during harvest season, means some migrant workers have been working here illegally, said Chief Patrol Agent Michael Nicley of the patrol's Yuma Sector. -- "We're not going to relax our posture because (growers) are inconvenienced by a loss of workers who are in the United States illegally," Nicley said.

Nativo Lopez, MAPA, Accomplices Reconquistas running toothless boycott over licenses ...Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, the Mexican American Political Association, Centro Azteca de Informacion, and the Los Angeles Coalition Against Immigration Raids make a call to the Mexican, Mexican American and Latino communities of California to challenge the stubbornness and duplicity of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [and to toss an ongoing tantrum over invaders not getting driver's licenses in Calif.]

Tom Tancredo

Front Page Magazine Amnesty vs. Border Control President Bush announced in a meeting with Mexico's President Vicente Fox in November that he will give "high priority" in 2005 to his guest worker plan that will grant legal status to the four to six million Mexican nationals (and others) now working in the United States illegally. That proposal was first announced in January of 2004 as a set of "principles."

USA Today Fix IDs, for terror and more ...A debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get licenses nearly derailed the intelligence overhaul bill that cleared Congress last week and awaits President Bush's signature. That issue was shelved, but the bill requires national standards for licenses, now regulated by states. -- The regulations, to be issued within 18 months, will tell states which documents they must require to grant a license.

Eyewitness Report Mickey Mouse Mexican IDs protested at Temecula bank Protesters with signs and American flags stunned a Temecula, Calif. Wells Fargo bank when more than 40 protesters greeted arriving customers Saturday, December 11. -- Protesters were posted on either side of the entrance/exit driveway and spilled out along the length of the sidewalk.

Clinton

Washington Times Hillary goes conservative on immigration Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is staking out a position on illegal immigration that is more conservative than President Bush, a strategy that supporters and detractors alike see as a way for the New York Democrat to shake the "liberal" label and appeal to traditionally Republican states. -- Mrs. Clinton... is taking an increasingly vocal and hard-line stance on an issue that ranks among the highest concerns for voters, particularly Republicans.

Castañeda

El Universal -- Mexico City Reconquista Castañeda in bid for 2006 Mexican presidency Barnstorming by bus throughout Mexico, Jorge Castañeda's low-budget, independent presidential campaign is designed to be a little unorthodox. -- Castañeda, an internationally known intellectual with a long political history, said he's taking the road-less-traveled to the presidency because he not only wants the job he wants to lead an alternative political movement...

Washington Times Utahans target businesses to fight illegal immigration A newly formed group of Utah residents is fighting to curb illegal immigration by confronting local businesses that knowingly hire undocumented aliens. -- Leaders of the Citizens Council on Illegal Immigration, based in St. George, say they have watched with growing alarm as illegal aliens pour into their southwestern Utah community with little reaction from state or federal authorities.