Monday, May 16, 2005

Does L.A. Need a Mayor who Reports to Mexico City? If Not, Vote for Jim Hahn on Tuesday, May 17 L. A. Times -- August 4, 1999 Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times Sunday, August 8, 1999     What am I missing here? Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa thanks Mexico's President Ernesto Zedillo for helping kill Proposition 187, which denied benefits to Mexicans who broke our laws to live in California illegally...We know who Zedillo works for. But who does Villaraigosa work for? ---DOREEN HIRSCHFELD The above letter was part of an ad that was to be published in the L.A. Daily News paid for by American Patrol. The ad was never published [see this feature]. Also See: MayorNO.com More information on MEChA-boy Villaraigosa The Real Tony Villar - Bruin Alumni Assn. Past Features American Border Patrol Updates

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San Bernardino County Sun Authorities target illegal street vendors Rafael Guerrero's office is a sun-drenched sidewalk. -- He makes a living hawking oranges, mangoes, strawberries and cherries to passing motorists and pedestrians. --- Guerrero is one of a growing number of illegal vendors scratching out a living on street corners and sidewalks in San Bernardino County.

El Presidente

J. Grant Swank, Jr. -- MichNews.com Mexican Invasion: Too bad Vicente is ticked off America simply cannot absorb properly all the immigrants flooding across the border. It's unreal. It's stupid. It's bordering on suicide - not for Mexico but for American sensibilities. -- Therefore, if Mexican President Vicente Fox gets ticked over the latest Congressional measures pulling back the flood, too bad. Just too bad.

Onslaught

Arizona Daily Star Invasion to occupy part of Arizona's political debate in future Phoenix -- Once considered a black hole that few elected officials wished to enter, illegal immigration has taken a more prominent role in Arizona politics, thanks to a growing frustration that the federal government hasn't done enough to secure the country's porous southern border.

KUSA-TV -- Denver Group rallies for tougher policies toward illegal aliens Denver -- A local group says Denver should have tougher policies for arresting and detaining illegal immigrants [aliens -- criminals]. -- The Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform held a rally Monday afternoon at the Denver City and County building. The group believes that if the city and county stopped its so called "sanctuary policy"...

¡México!

Reuters Mexico protests to U.S. in immigration furor Mexico formally complained to the United States on Monday in an escalating dispute over immigration that led President Vicente Fox to make remarks last week that were widely condemned as racist. -- Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters that Mexico had sent Washington a diplomatic note, a form of official protest between two countries.

Tucson Sector PIO Press Release U.S. Border Patrol arrest criminal alien and alleged gangster Tucson, AZ - This weekend, Border Patrol agents arrested one individual with ties to the well-known gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and one individual with a warrant out of Santa Ana, California for sex with a minor. -- On May 14 at 8:30 a.m., agents from Border Patrol Air Operations and Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue...

Coming Up May 27-29 Mark Edwards of KDWN -- Las Vegas Wake Up America Foundation Summit

Jackson Lee

Houston Chronicle Jackson Lee urges Perry to 'disinvite' Minutemen U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, called for Gov. Rick Perry to ask the Minutemen not to expand militia patrols of the U.S.- Mexico border from Arizona to Texas. -- "I urge the governor to disinvite the Minuteman Project. Ask them not to come here," Jackson Lee said Sunday....

Barbara Simpson -- WorldNetDaily.com Continued freebies for illegals Did you make up your mind yet about President Bush's Social Security proposal? -- Do you want some control over your future retirement or do you want to rely on the government to take care of you? -- Heads up! If Social Security faces financial problems in the near future, look again at Medicare-Medicaid. Hold your breath...

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.com Border betrayal It's bad enough Washington has denied Border Patrol agents the funds, manpower and tools they need to do their jobs effectively and safely. -- What's worse are the messages they are sending the loyal, brave, front-line defenders of this country: Don't do your job! -- In case you haven't heard, Border Patrol agents in the Arizona area guarded by the civilian Minuteman organization...

Fox Watch

Associated Press Mexico's Fox Defends Comments About Blacks President Vicente Fox refused to apologize Monday for saying Mexicans in the United States do the work that blacks won't - a comment widely viewed as acceptable in a country where blackface comedy is still considered funny and nicknames often reflect skin color.

Sierra Vista Herald-Review UAV unit, agents team up along border Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. -- Unmanned aerial vehicles are important to the Army and the U.S. Border Patrol. -- That connection is being demonstrated at this Southern Arizona Army post and the Border Patrol's Naco Station as soldiers and agents work together on reconnaissance flights near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Magic City Morning Star Aren't Canadians Human Too? Ever since I returned home from the Minuteman Project, I've been having trouble adjusting to "normal" life. -- Almost every newspaper in the nation carried stories about "armed vigilantes" on the border, as if we were aliens from outer space. Most of the stories used language that left me with the impression that we had broken some laws...

Axis of Weasels

Mexidata.info Mexico publishes rules for consular ID cards With the inflamed furor in the U.S. over illegal immigration, and Mexico's recurrent ability to throw fuel on the fire as regards to its undocumented workers en route or already in the U.S., one would hope that more conciliatory and forward-looking thinkers might prevail. But the issue is just too heated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Denver Channel Report: Suspected Cop Killer's Family Flees To Mexico The search continues for [a Mexican invader] suspected of killing a Denver police officer. -- Raul Garcia- Gomez is accused of gunning down Denver police Detective Donnie Young. -- Garcia- Gomez was featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" Saturday night...

File Photo

RedState.org /Save Our State Activist In Hospital After Pro-Aztlan Protesters Turn Violent ...Everything that we argued the monument stood for was reinforced by the hundreds of activists who opposed our presence in Baldwin Park. Numerous times we were told that this land is Mexico and that they were taking it back. Numerous times racists epithets were hurled away. One person even hurled a full water bottle at our side and sent one of our activists to the hospital with bleeding in the brain. [Photos]

Waah! Waah!

Seattle Times Usual suspects whine about REAL ID Act Immigrant [read: illegal alien] advocates in Seattle see a new law designed to prevent illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses as an attack on Latino communities across the state. -- Jorge Quiroga, a board member of the Committee for General Amnesty and Social Justice, said the government continues to attack illegal immigrants. [The need to be deported]

Bloomberg First Data and Its Congressman Clash Over U.S. Immigration The political divide over U.S. immigration policy is the line down the middle of suburban Denver's Quebec Street. -- On one side is the headquarters of First Data Corp., the world's largest payment processor and owner of Western Union, which made $1.1 billion in 2004 from money transfers including funds sent by immigrants back to their home countries.

Victor Davis Hanson

Los Angeles Times A Quick Fix -- Do Your Own Dishes Open borders are a disaster. They undermine respect for the law, imperil homeland security, allow Mexico to export its apparently unwanted people rather than embrace much-needed economic reform, and preclude unionization by poorer, entry-level American workers. -- One proposed solution, a new guest-worker program, ignores why the old bracero program was scraped decades ago...

The Governator

San Francisco Chronicle Border security debate revived Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent praise of the armed citizen Minuteman Project and comments about border security have revived a long- running debate over whether the costs of illegal immigration to California outweigh the benefits. -- The last time a California governor focused so much attention on illegal immigration was 11 years ago...

ChronWatch.com Greenbacks and 'Wetbacks': Mexico's Northern Strategy ...Some may think that illegal immigrants are so poor they put thoughts of Mexico out of their mind once they cross the border to live in the shadows. In their poverty they are unable to afford even nostalgia. This is hardly the case. Ask an illegal immigrant from Mexico about their motives and this is what they will tell you: "I go north for money, not to become a gringo."

¡Viva México!

Michael Ackley What's wrong with this picture? Tourists debark cruise ships in Puerto Vallarta to find a variety of photo opportunities await ­ a collection of parrots, a huge sombrero, a burro, an automatic assault rifle. -- The latter is slung over the shoulder of a soldier, posted at the dock to make sure no Americans sneak into his country to do work no Mexican will do...

D.A. King

MichNews.com Open borders colonizers fret resistance Proof that the open borders colonizers are getting nervous... -- "...It is our intention to resist, sabotage, and destroy this project before it gets any farther down this road of organized hate and violence." -- When I read this sentence in an e-mail, I assumed that it was written by someone trying to stop some new march or action by one of the many racist Latino separatist groups.

Business Journal of Phoenix Higher disease rates attributed to influx of illegals Arizona hospitals and doctors are worried about the resurgence of some serious infectious diseases, and some believe illegal immigrants are the cause. -- A rise in diseases such as whooping cough, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and even leprosy are creating public health concerns and could hit hospitals and health care systems already financially burdened by indigent illegals...

Tom Tancredo

David Harsanyi -- Denver Post Why turn a blind eye to illegals? Congressman Tom Tancredo is abnormally blunt for a politician. -- He believes immigration law should be upheld and makes no apologies for his position. -- And just as the dreaded "vigilante" Minutemen - a group that had the unmitigated nerve to hassle a few hundred Mexicans intent on breaking U.S. law - Tancredo's very existence is traumatic to the enlightened of our city.

Washington Post Officials Fear Spread of Gang Activity From Washington On the fringes of Northern Virginia, and a little beyond, gang activity flares up only occasionally and without much violence, law enforcement officials say. Neighborhood mobs and small street gangs sell drugs and spar over territory, but it is only occasionally that police in such jurisdictions as Spotsylvania County...