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| Denver Post Target Colorado: Another "Ellis Island" Denver may be the "epicenter" of immigration in Colorado, but the surprising story is the growing numbers of immigrants turning up in such places as Douglas, Summit, Lake, Routt and Costilla counties, researcher Steven A. Camarota said Wednesday. -- Those five counties, along with 218 others across the nation, were christened "The New Ellis Islands" of America by Camarota's Center for Immigration Studies at a news conference here. |
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Review-Journal Woman indicted in immigration scam A Las Vegas woman was indicted Wednesday after authorities accused her of defrauding immigrants by posing as an Immigration and Naturalization Service employee. -- The indictment charges Norma Olga Benavidez with seven counts of mail fraud and one count of false impersonation of a federal employee. -- According to the indictment, Benavidez began posing in June 2000 as the personal assistant to the head of the INS's Las Vegas office..... |
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Gov. Gray Davis - AB-60 and AB-540 Now is not the time to grant drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. We thank you for that. However, never is the time to grant drivers' licenses to illegal aliens........ |
| The Advocate
- Baton Rouge Immigrant's ease in getting ID concerns federal judge An illegal immigrant from Mexico admitted in court Wednesday to using a fake driver's license to register to vote. -- Ramon Nunez- Delgado faces deportation after serving his sentence. He pleaded guilty earlier this year in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge to possession of false ID. -- The judge expressed surprise at how easy it was for Nunez- Delgado to illegally enter the country and get a driver's license and voter registration. |
Portland
Press Herald Bills aim to shore up northern border At some points along the Canadian border, an orange traffic cone is all that stands between foreign terrorists and their American targets, a Senate panel warned Wednesday. -- Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., held up a rubber cone at a hearing about northern-border security to show what meets foreigners who arrive at some checkpoints after 10 p.m. Sometimes visitors move the cones off the road, and sometimes they shred them when running over them at 60 mph, he said. |
| Ann Coulter Detainment isn't enough House leaders recently rejected the Bush administration's request for authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely. Under the House plan, the government could hold immigrants suspected of terrorism for only seven days without bringing charges. -- Let's hope seven days is enough for the government to perform a thorough intelligence- based investigation of a million Muslim immigrants! -- Oddly, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them. |
NewsMax.com There's Mexico, At Last The other day we asked "Where's Mexico," referring to our alleged close partner and neighbor's notable absence from the horde of nations expressing deep sympathy for the U.S. for the horrors suffered by the nation on Black Tuesday. -- Now, almost a month later, Mexico turns up in a full-page ad in today's New York Times, belatedly joining the family of compassionate nations in mourning America's September 11 victims and pledging solidarity with the U.S. |
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Journal-Constitution Georgia has 25 new 'Ellis Islands' Atlanta ranked second nationally in increased immigration in the 1990s, according to a new study of population changes. -- And Georgia was the state with the most counties posting large increases in immigrant populations, the study shows. -- Twenty-five Georgia counties experienced an increase of 50 percent or more in immigration from their 1990 numbers to 1998, according to the study, released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington. The private research group seeks to reduce the immigration flow. |
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Tennessean Nashville is new immigration hub, CIS study says Nashville is gaining national attention as a major hub for new immigration. -- It had the largest ratio of new to previous immigrants during the 1990s of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to a report by CIS. -- ''What we're trying to do is not look at areas that have gotten many immigrants in the past and are still getting them, like L.A. and New York, but look at where immigrants are spreading out to other areas across the country,'' said Steven Camarota..... |
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Immigration lessons For years a great number of us throughout the United States have been screaming about the lack of control of legal and illegal immigration. I have lost count of the times I wrote to your paper [L.A. Daily News] about this problem, only to be ignored..... |
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Press Four Men Indicted in License Scam Four men from Washington state were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of falsely obtaining Pennsylvania commercial driver's licenses. -- The men were among 21 of Middle Eastern descent who were arrested last week as part of an investigation of a Pittsburgh licensing office where an examiner has told authorities he helped people fraudulently obtain licenses. -- The four men and 14 of the others arrested had permits to transport hazardous chemicals. |
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Burke Bipartisan votes show America's new civility The American people have long regarded partisan politics as an obstruction to day-to-day government operations. Now it seems as if Congressional Republicans and Democrats may finally start working together thanks to September 11th's horrific events. Similarly, the Bush administration seems to be making a 180- degree turn in its willingness to work with the international community. |
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from the Georgia Coalition for Immigration Reform Pertains to HR-190 (anchor babies). |
| Tucson Citizen Border agents may leave to join marshals The U.S. Border Patrol likely will start recruitment efforts and planning to make up for agents it expects will join the Federal Aviation Administration's air marshal program that's hiring more marshals to increase air safety. -- "There is every reason to expect the (Border Patrol) is going to be in an aggressive hiring mode," INS spokeswoman Virginia Kice said yesterday from her office in Los Angeles. |
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Press Immigrant bill worries Hispanic advocates A proposal to crack down on illegal immigrants in South Carolina after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has some worried that such legislation may unfairly target Hispanic communities and other immigrants. -- "It would result in a lot more stops based purely on looks," said Adam Bowser, a Lander University student who works with Hispanic children in Greenwood. "They could say, 'Oh, they're Hispanic, so they must be illegal.'" |
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- Newsday Fear Among Immigrants ...Mexicans have found a home away from their own at the 125-year-old St. Jerome's Church. About two-thirds of the parish is Mexican, the rest other Latinos and African- Americans. -- "They are in a state of panic because they fear a crackdown by the government's immigration authorities," said Grange. "They don't trust the government when it says it won't hunt down anyone connected with the tragedy at the World Trade Center." |
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Online Illegal alien aided hijackers An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was ordered held without bond yesterday on charges he helped two terrorists with links to New Jersey get false Virginia identification cards several weeks before their Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. -- Luis A. Martinez- Flores, who does not speak English, sat slumped in a defendant's chair flanked by his attorney and a translator as U.S. District Judge Barry Poretz... |
| L.A. Daily
News Immigration lessons It's time to get serious about immigration policy. -- For the better part of four decades, the nation's leaders have been unwilling to do that. In Washington, laziness, political correctness and comfort with the status quo have led to broken immigration policy and practices that are of little benefit to immigrants or the native-born. |
Update Successful rally at L.A. City Hall Wednesday On Wednesday, October 3, more than 30 Americans demonstrated at L.A. City Hall in opposition of L.A.P.D.'s Special Order 40, and in favor of tight homeland security and militarization of the borders for the safety of all Americans. |
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Mercury News (More on the story) Driver's license bill gets yanked After receiving an apparent signal from Gov. Gray Davis that his bill was doomed over terrorism concerns, the author of a measure that would have made it easier for illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses in California withdrew the bill Wednesday. -- Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, pulled the bill, AB 60, as it was heading to Davis' desk. -- The unusual move came despite the fact that the bill was approved Sept. 14 by the state Senate and Assembly, and had the support of the Democratic Party leaders who run both chambers. [Also see this L.A. Times item] |
| Detroit
Free Press INS freezes thousands of immigration applications The Immigration and Naturalization Service has temporarily frozen potentially hundreds of thousands of immigration applications and visa petitions from those living in the United States while it conducts a national audit of immigrant applicants and assigns a bar code to every one. -- Meanwhile, up to 80,000 refugees worldwide are locked out of the United States until President Bush decides how many to accept from which countries in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. |
UCLA Daily
Bruin Villaraigosa joins UCLA faculty with new class Former Speaker of the California Assembly and mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa returned to his collegiate stomping grounds Monday, but this time as a visiting professor at UCLA. -- The course, Education 162, will explore research analysis and its relationship to the education policy- making process. -- "I hope to bring a feel for how policy makers create public policy and the process by which they deliberate and come to legislation," Villaraigosa said. |
| EFE - Mexico Human rights groups call U.S.-Mexico border "tragic zone" Human rights groups and unions in Southern California declared the U.S.-Mexico border a "tragic zone," given that 710 illegal immigrants have died there during the seven years since the U.S. Border Patrol began its Operation Guardian. -- Speaking about the recent terrorist attacks that shocked the world, Roberto Martinez, director of the American Friends Service in San Diego, said that "here we have had our own tragic zone since 1994," when Operation Guardian began. |
Notimex Baja rights chief says airport security measures are "exaggerated" The Baja California Human Rights chief called the recent escalation of security measures at local airports in the wake of terror attacks in the U.S. "exaggerated." -- "At this moment, I do not think that Mexico is under a national security threat from an outside source, person or group. The direct threat is to U.S. interests, that's very clear," said Raul Ramirez Bahena. -- He affirmed the Mexican constitution does not even include a definition of terrorism or national security... |
| L.A. Times Driver's License Bill a Victim of Terrible Timing It was legislation for 1 million immigrants [correction: illegals] and its time had come, Assemblyman Gil Cedillo believed. He wanted to make it easier for them to get a California driver's license -- and also some drivers instruction and insurance. Then came the terrorist attacks. Soon, stories were rampant about licenses and IDs being fraudulently obtained in other states, some by suspected terrorists. Gov. Gray Davis got jittery about opening up his license window to enigmatic foreigners. |
The News
- Mexico City More on Fox agenda than expressing condolence When President Vicente Fox meets with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington on Thursday, he'll have more on his agenda than expressing condolences over the Sept. 11 terror attacks. -- Lawmakers and political experts say a main priority for Fox will be to revive stalled bilateral talks on immigration, drugs and free trade. "An immigration deal is more urgent now than ever before," said Sen. Raymundo Cardenas (who also says that an amnesty for illegals would help fight terrorism.) |
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