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HATE AMERICA RALLY - Washington, D.C.
We are in real trouble

It is ... sheer hypocrisy for the ...United States to say that they are the victims of terrorism......
"Companeros y companeras, I have a message from Ismael Guadalupe from the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques. When he called to dictate this message to us, I could hear the bombing of the U.S. Navy in the background. And the message reads: Greetings from Vieques. The committee for the rescue and development of Vieques has always been consistent in our call for peace. We want peace because our island and our people have been the victims of the constant aggression by the U.S. military for sixty years. It was in Vieques where the U.S. Navy has practiced for the invasion and aggression against many countries. Against Korea and China in the fifties. Against Guatemala. Using the aggression of the Bay of Pigs and Grenada. Against Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, and now in the confrontation against Afghanistan. It is therefore sheer hypocrisy for the government of the United States to say that they are the victims of terrorism when they have been the major promoters of terrorism "
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 WE MUST HALT ALL IMMIGRATION AND DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS

DotPoll Results: What do you think should be done about the U.S. borders?
DotHow They Voted: House OKs plan to put soldiers back along border

Philly Inquirer
Fingerprints for Mexicans' IDs
Congress' 1996 mandate that Mexicans routinely entering the United States use ID cards with fingerprints takes effect tomorrow - even though immigration authorities have yet to install machines needed to read them. -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service asked Congress two years ago for money to buy the machines, but was turned down because it did not know exactly what kind of equipment it needed, INS spokesman Russ Bergeron said. -- Now it knows what it needs to scan the border cards but doesn't have the money, he said.		 Bakersfield Californian
Illegal alien driver's license bill awaits OK
Assembly Bill 60 would allow immigrants in the process of becoming legal residents to qualify for a driver's license. -- So far, Davis has not given a position on the bill, though last year, he vetoed a similar proposal, voicing concerns of fraud. The author of the bill, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, said AB 60 has gone through changes this year to meet security concerns. -- He said one of the bill's rules requires that the DMV verify the applicant's pending legal residency status with Immigration and Naturalization Service officials. [E-Mail Gray Davis]

LTE
LA Times
 Tracking Visa Holders
Your Sept. 25 editorial states: "We are a nation of immigrants." We are also a nation of laws. Our immigration policy is ineffective and encourages lawbreakers by failing to require control of visa-holding visitors. Congress should immediately enable the INS to implement the visa-tracking system that was killed in the last session.....

San Jose Mercury News
Future dim for day-labor center
Some weeks, Jesus Altamirano spends almost as much time commuting from Pescadero to Los Altos in his sister's car as he does on the jobs he picks up at the day laborer center. -- By the end of October, his sole link to steady work may be even more tenuous. The St. Joseph the Worker Center at 4898 El Camino Real is grappling with ongoing money problems, a looming eviction and a proposed move to Mountain View that is in doubt. The center's lease runs out Oct. 31....		 Bergen Record
For sale: N.J. licenses
Hundreds of illegal immigrants are obtaining authentic New Jersey driver's licenses from the Division of Motor Vehicles through a thriving black market whose tentacles reach from Ridgewood to Camden. -- From scores of interviews, The Record has learned that the immigrants commonly pay $2,000 to brokers who shepherd them through the process, sometimes right up to the windows at the DMV. -- "It's a big, big business," says Detective Thomas Clayton of the Eatontown PD...

Las Vegas Review-Journal
Overlooking crime: Las Vegas cops fail to deal with illegals
....[LVPD officer] Sutton said he pitched the idea a year ago when he transferred into the Downtown Area Command, where the population is largely Hispanic. He said he learned how illegal immigrants were preyed upon, and that the crimes weren't reported because the victims feared deportation. -- Sutton, the grandson of illegal Russian immigrants, said he soon took a personal interest in pursuing the tips. -- "The building (my grandfather) worked in collapsed and he was struck by falling debris and paralyzed," Sutton said.		 Human Events
U.S. Encourages Immigration From Terror-Sponsor States
The U.S. State Department runs a quota system designed to encourage immigration from all seven countries on the department's own terrorist watch list. -- The "Diversity Immigrant Visa Program" has the goal of issuing highly prized permanent residence visas to 50,000 foreign nationals from countries that send relatively few immigrants to the United States. These visas are specifically designed to increase the diversity of the U.S. immigrant pool and are in addition.... [Also see the Free Republic]

San Francisco Chronicle
Attacks redefine border strategy
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have triggered calls to beef up America's borders, but policymakers are beginning to suggest a much broader approach: a security zone around the entire North American continent. The concept is simple. Because it's nearly impossible to stop those with evil intent from crossing our vast borders once they arrive anywhere in North America, the goal will be to stop them before they even step foot on the continent.		 Orange Co. Register
Putnam skips own farewell party
George Putnam did it his way Friday - not showing up for a final broadcast recapping his 27-year career at KRLA/870 AM. -- "I said 'stuff it' when they called to say come in for a farewell party," an angry Putnam said by phone. "They wanted to put me on with taped comments from the audience. I wouldn't do it," he said. -- Putnam's final 3-5 p.m. live "Talkback" show was Sept. 21.

Associated Press
Critics say immigration system needs tightening
In the aftermath of the terror attacks, critics of U.S. immigration policy are talking about toughening scrutiny of the 350,000 immigrants and 31 million temporary visitors who enter the country each year. -- A 1996 immigration law called for a new computerized entry and exit tracking of all temporary visa holders. But lawmakers from Michigan and other states blocked its implementation......		 Knight Ridder Newspapers
INS letting foreigners slip through cracks
The detention of dozens of noncitizens as part of the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is a reminder of how little the INS does to track foreigners once they're in the United States. -- What more can be done isn't clear. -- "We're not a totalitarian state,'' said Russ Bergeron, a spokesman for the INS, which is part of the Justice Department. "We don't follow people around. We operate as a free society. We don't assume people are criminals or terrorists.''

The Observer - UK
Resentful west spurned Sudan's key terror files
Security chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic repeatedly turned down the chance to acquire a vast intelligence database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network in the years leading up to the 11 September attacks, an Observer investigation has revealed. -- They were offered thick files, with photographs and detailed biographies of many of his principal cadres, and vital information about al-Qaeda's financial interests in many parts of the globe.		 Boston Globe
Lax, outdated system at root of INS troubles
With its borders so porous and its recordkeeping so unreliable, the United States has little ability to keep all criminals - or terrorists - out of the country and has no system to track them once they're here. At least 16 of the 19 hijackers who carried out the worst terrorist act in US history on Sept. 11 exploited one of the most enduring tenets of American freedom: its open society. They crossed US borders holding legal papers granted to them by a US State Department perhaps fooled by phony documents.

The News - Mexico City
Expert places U.S. expats living in Mexico at 1 million
There are currently about 600,000 U.S. citizens living in Mexico City, according to social anthropologist Mary Alcocer. -- "Mexico City has the largest U.S. expatriate community in the world," Alcocer told a gathering of the American Society last week. -- "In the country, there are about a million U.S. citizens." -- Most of the U.S. citizens who move to Mexico do it because of job opportunities, she said......		 Houston Chronicle
Valley citrus farmers say Mexico hoarding water, harming crops
Earlier this month, longtime citrus farmer Jimmy Steindinger did the unthinkable and plowed up 20 acres of prime grapefruit trees. -- The 10-year-old grove of Rio Red grapefruit were at the height of their productivity, but in the past six months they had withered from a lack of water. Steindinger does not have enough water to maintain all 180 acres of his citrus farm outside Donna.

Jorge Amaya - Denver Post
Mexico is not our enemy
Recent efforts by the administrations of Mexican President Vicente Fox and U.S. President George W. Bush to introduce liberalized immigration reform received a serious but temporary setback as a direct result of the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks against American cities. -- The attacks immediately required the placing of tighter controls on U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. -- [The writer goes on to attack Rep. Tom Tancredo and his stance on the situation with the sieve of a Mexican border.]		 National Post (Canada)
'I want to kill all the Americans'
Robert Teubner was reading a newspaper in the Los Angeles International Airport when a man in a yellow shirt sat on the bar stool beside him and ordered a glass of red wine. -- "He clinked glasses with me," Mr. Teubner said yesterday. "I assumed he had a bit to drink already. He was on the edge, but not over the edge." -- After a few seconds of idle small talk, the dark-haired man ventured back to a Terminal 2 waiting area, where on Thursday afternoon passengers were boarding Air Canada Flight 792, bound for Toronto.

Steven Camarota / Denver Post
Open borders: the high cost of cheap labor
Although the horrific attacks of Sept. 11 have made it very unlikely that Congress will pass an amnesty for illegal immigrants any time soon, the issue will almost certainly come up again. President Bush has already indicated that he still intends to move ahead with plans for amnesty. -- Talks last month between Secretary of State Colin Powell, Attorney General Robert Ashcroft and their Mexican counterparts may have produced the broad outline of an agreement on immigration.		 Boston Globe
Mexico musters only tepid expressions of support for US
In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, support for the United States has poured in from around the world in the form of prayer vigils, state visits, and pledges of armed cooperation. -- The response from its southern neighbor, however, has been surprisingly lukewarm. Of 15 nations surveyed, including several in the Arab world, only Iraq and Cuba made fewer public displays of solidarity, according to a tally by the daily newspaper Reforma.

The News - Mexico City
Mexico pledges full support in anti-terror push
Mexican President Vicente Fox said that his country's support to the United States will go "as far as necessary" within the antiterrorist coalition, but not in military matters, because his country does not have "a strong army." -- Fox reaffirmed from Mexico City in an interview with the "Larry King Live" program of the CNN television network Mexico's commitment "to fight at the side of the United States against terrorism and make sure that we will end with this cancer."		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Lawsuit by Day Laborers Seeks to Tie Attackers to Hate Groups
A year after two Mexican day laborers were violently attacked by two men posing as employers, lawyers for the victims have filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit on their behalf. -- The suit, filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 17, names the two men charged in the attack as well as several groups that it claims gave the men "material and ideological" support, promoting "hatred and intolerance against immigrants and day laborers."

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