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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Associated Press
Suspect in pregnant Marine's death may be in Mexico
Jacksonville, NC -- The key suspect in the slaying of a pregnant Marine may have fled to Mexico, and the FBI is working with Mexican authorities to track him down, authorities said today. -- A wide-ranging manhunt for Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean began last week, after authorities said he fled North Carolina...  |
Reuters
Invaders increasingly go north
Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mex. -- Illegal immigrants from Latin America are heading deeper into the United States to find work and avoid deportation as crackdowns in border states like Texas and Arizona make life more difficult for them. -- The U.S. Border Patrol has ramped up surveillance along the porous Mexican border aided by National Guard troops since 2005... |
Conservative Cajun -- Louisiana Conservative
Only candidate to act on invaders is trailing
In a time when many Americans, especially Republicans and other conservatives, talk about the current illegal immigration problem, many either don’t realize or don’t care that the only presidential candidate who has actually done something about securing the border is polling about 1 percent and... |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
Ariz., federal officials battle over proof-of-citizenship requirement
Arizona's requirement that people registering to vote prove they're citizens has ignited a battle with federal election officials over whether to include the requirement on the national voter registration form. -- So far, the Election Assistance Commission hasn't changed the form, created by... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Court gives US access to Texas city's land in border fence suit
A federal judge has ordered a small border city in Texas to temporarily turn over its land to the federal government so it can begin to build a border fence. -- U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludlum ordered the city of Eagle Pass... to "surrender" 233 acres of city-owned land... |
El Paso Times
Mexican actress drops anchor baby in Texas
Mexican actress Vanessa Guzman has become a mother for the second time after giving birth to a boy Thursday at a private hospital in El Paso. -- It is the first child together for the star and her boyfriend, Uruguayan actor Uberto Bondoni. |
Newt Gingrich -- Washington Times
Reform immigration policy
Our current immigration troubles are almost entirely problems of success. Our challenge is to seize that success and turn it into a boon for America, rather than allow bureaucrats to turn it into yet another failure. -- America has the best economy in the world. America has the greatest opportunity... |
Jerome R. Corsi -- WorldNetDaily.com
Treason Watch: 7-year plan aligns U.S. with Europe's economy
Six U.S. senators and 49 House members are advisers for a group working toward a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015. -- The Transatlantic Policy Network – a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels – is advised by... |
Lou Dobbs -- CNN
Campaign a lot of partisan nonsense
Remember how excited everybody was just a short while ago that this presidential campaign was the first in 80 years to be wide open, without a president or vice president in the campaign? -- Remember how excited we all were that American presidential politics had matured to the point that a woman... |
Washington Times Editorial
Deporting lawbreakers
The federal government is finally tackling another law-and-order aspect of immigration: deporting convicted criminals. While each of the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States is breaking the law by residing in this country, the urgency to apprehend aliens who are convicted criminals... [See this feature] |
East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix
Federal judge raises questions on sanctions law
A federal judge is raising some last-minute questions about Arizona’s new employer sanctions law that could provide the grounds for him to declare it unconstitutional. -- A hearing is set today on the controversial law, and on Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake told attorneys to explain to him what appeal rights... |
Washington Times
On invaders, Hillary adapts for audience
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Iowa often talked tough about illegal aliens and called for them to learn English. But as she shifted the campaign westward, her language has softened. -- Like the other Democratic presidential candidates, Mrs. Clinton tells crowds she favors "comprehensive immigration reform," which includes... |
Arizona Republic -- Phoenix
Group worries new laws will keep restaurant openings down
The Southeast Valley won't have as many restaurant openings this year as it has in the past two years, according to the Arizona Restaurant & Hospitality Association. -- "You won't necessarily see restaurants going out of business, but I don't think you'll witness as rapid of growth by way of expansion..." |
KRVG-TV -- Harlingen, Texas
Report: Border Patrol pilot in crash not fully-trained
A National Transportation Safety Board report on a fatal crash on April 25, 2007 didn't list a cause for it. But the report did point out several flaws in training. -- he pilot, Clinton Thrasher, was helping agents catch a number of illegal [aliens.. criminal] at the time of the crash. |
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MooreIsBetter.com
Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. Mayor
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... [Watch this video] |
Deseret Morning News -- Salt Lake City
Utahns favor local immigration laws
When it comes to illegal immigration this legislative session, lawmakers will have their hands full as they evaluate a slate of bills and decide what role the state should play in enforcing federal immigration law. -- If a new Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll is any indication, public opinion seems to be on the side of state action... |
Sandra J. Miller -- American Chronicle -- Beverly Hills
What's so different about Ron Paul?
Dust from the November 2006 election had barely settled when presidential candidates began assembling for the 2008 campaign. With the exception of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), most were known quantities. Lots of "folklore" has been circulated about Congressman Paul, but how much is actually fact vs. "factoid?" |
Associated Press
Against the trend, U.S. births way up
... Fertility rates often rise among immigrants who leave their homelands for a better life. For example, the rate among Mexican-born women in the U.S. is 3.2, but the overall rate for Mexico is just 2.4, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based research organization... |
John Ross -- Counterpunch.org
NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse: Zero Hour
...If they build steel walls to keep our people from entering the United States, we will make walls of people to keep their products out of Mexico," a grizzled leader of the militant farmers' front El Barzon Popular growled into his bullhorn as the protestors spread out in the frigid dark to block the lanes of... |
Straight Goods -- Golden Lake, Ontario
CUPE turns up the heat on the Security and Prosperity Partnership
CUPE and other union activists will soon be hearing more about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), an agreement signed in 2005 by Presidents Bush and Fox, along with then-Prime Minister Paul Martin, that could have a profoundly negative impact on Canadian sovereignty... |
Asbury Park Press
Invader charged with assaulting ex-girlfriend
Police arrested a man who threatened his female roommate, charging him with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and possession of a weapon Sunday morning. -- Marcello Naranjos Hernandez... threatened a woman who is also his former girlfriend... [More 'family values'] |
KTAR -- Phoenix
Chandler Rapist could get 250 years in prison
The man suspected of being Chandler's serial rapist has been charged with 47 felony counts which could carry sentences totaling 250 years in prison. -- Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas detailed the charges against Santana Batiz-Aceves on Tuesday, four days after his arrest on charges of raping five young girls and attacking another... [More 'family values'] |
Los Angeles Times
Ron Paul, Dr. No-body, beats Rudy and Fred -- again
Well, he's hanging in there. Not only that, but Rep. Ron Paul thumped two reputed Republican heavyweights in the Michigan primary -- former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. -- Who'd have predicted that a couple of months ago? |
Village Voice -- New York
Giuliani's immigration problem
...Giuliani is not just a former New York mayor who has to answer to the GOP for policies that were benevolent to immigrants. Nearly three decades ago, when he was the third most powerful person in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, he was also its point man on immigration... |
Gainesville (Georgia) Times
Mills’ legislation targets vehicles of invaders
The dean of Hall County’s legislative delegation has proposed a bill that would be another step in the state’s effort to enforce immigration laws. -- Rep. James Mills, R-Chestnut Mountain, said his bill would allow law enforcement agencies to confiscate the vehicles of illegal [aliens.... criminals]... |
Tucson Citizen
Meddlesome Mexicans bemoan Arizona employer sanctions law
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona's new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. -- At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora - Arizona's southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand... |
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Get tougher on gangs in Florida, grand jury urges
While painting a sordid picture of how gangs operate in Florida, using assault weapons and fists to intimidate, the 56-page report delivered to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday said gangs are growing at an "increasingly alarming" rate, and placed much of the blame on illegal immigration. |
Arizona Daily Star
Judge raises last-minute questions over sanctions law
A federal judge raised last-minute questions Tuesday about Arizona's new employer sanctions law, questions that could provide the grounds for him to declare it unconstitutional. -- Judge Neil Wake on Tuesday told attorneys to explain to him at Wednesday's hearing what appeal rights — if any — companies have... |
WOAI -- San Antonio
Group plans protest at day-laborer hangout
A citizens group which draws attention to illegal immigration says it plans to begin a series of demonstrations at a popular day labor pick up site just west of downtown San Antonio this weekend, 1200 WOAI news reports. -- Curtis Connor, president of the group U.S. Border Watch, says Saturday’s protest... |
Connecticut Post
Smuggler in court for allegedly raping illegal alien minor
A man accused of raping a 14-year-old Mexican girl he was smuggling into the country may enter a plea to several felony charges this morning in Milford Superior Court. -- Francisco Pascual, 25, a Maryland resident, was arrested Dec. 29 after the girl was found wandering at a Boston Post Road service station. |
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