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BUSH ASKS NATION FOR PATIENCE 10:05 AM -- The United States launched
an attack against Afghanistan on Sunday in retaliation for the
September 11 terrorist strikes on New York and Washington. Explosions
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(Free Registration) The 2 Worlds of Muslim-American Teenagers ...To be young and Muslim in the United States today, to hear students at Al Noor School in Brooklyn tell it, is to be both outsider and insider, to revel in both roles but see neither as the ideal. It is to be consumed by causes abroad and removed from politics at home, to feel righteous and also confused, to alternate between gratitude and resentment toward the world outside their classrooms. |
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Press Ontario police squad on immigrants won't help security, experts say Ontario Premier Mike Harris says a new police squad dedicated to tracking down illegal immigrants will make Canada's most populous province a safer and more secure place in the wake of last month's horrific terrorist attacks on the U.S. -- But the experts are scoffing at his claims. Those who work on the front lines in the legal and immigration fields said the task force, announced last week with great political fanfare.... |
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Press Police arrest 9 illegal aliens in Philippi, WV Nine illegal aliens working at a Barbour County construction site have been turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- Police removed the workers, who are from Mexico, from the Maple Terrace Apartments site in Philippi on Thursday following an investigation by the Philippi Police Department and the U.S. Department of Labor, Police Chief Mitchel Payne said. |
| The Trentonian Investment for bogus ID can reap benefits For an immigrant from Ecuador or any place else, $1,500 for an authentic New Jersey driver's license is a small price compared to the benefits. -- "Doors swing wide open because of this," one Ecuadorian in Newark said, smiling triumphantly. -- With the license he was able to get a job driving for a living, open a bank account and get credit cards. He didn't mention being able to buy an airline ticket. -- The immigrant --- said a friend told him about brokers who would help him get the license after he paid up. |
Agence France-Presse America under surveillance As they pursue a massive hunt for terrorists, US authorities have asked Congress for wider police and judicial powers to ensure they do not get bogged down in a quagmire of legal restrictions. -- Almost four weeks after the September 11 terror attacks, the legislative branch was likely to agree to the request, following arduous negotiations centered on the delicate balance between the broader powers the administration wants and the protection of civil liberties the US Constitution guarantees. |
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Migration Woes Illegals dump children, themselves overboard The Federal Government would not be bullied into changing its policy to turn back boat people after some threw children and themselves overboard yesterday. -- The Royal Australian Navy forced a boat carrying 90 men, 42 women and 54 children to turn around after it entered Australian waters 100 nautical miles north of Christmas Island without permission. Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said people wearing lifejackets threw children and themselves overboard when crew of the frigate HMAS Adelaide boarded the boat. |
BBC Bin Laden warns US Osama Bin Laden has warned the United States that it will never enjoy security unless Islamic territories are also safe. -- In a statement on Al Jazeera television, thought to have been recorded during daylight hours on Sunday, Bin Laden said the United States had declared war on Islam and called on Muslims to support their religion. -- The statement was broadcast on CNN television shortly after US President George Bush had announced that retaliatory attacks on Afghanistan had begun.  Video
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| Copley News
Service Mexico seeks tight security, but without hurting trade A top Mexican official acknowledged that the U.S.-Mexico border is vulnerable to terrorist infiltration and said Mexico's government is seeking ways to shore up security without choking off commerce and human traffic. -- Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the administration of President Vicente Fox has worked with a new sense of urgency to improve Mexico's security, said Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexico's national security adviser. |
LA Times 3 Yemeni Siblings Get Caught Up in Immigration Sweep The knock on the door of the Silver Lake apartment came shortly after 3 a.m., Sidqi Sobhi recalls. -- It was the FBI and the agents wanted answers, he said. Why did his name and address appear on an insurance form for a man somehow linked to one of the Sept. 11 hijackers? -- By sunrise, he and his brother and sister -- all Yemeni nationals who have shared the apartment for years -- had been handcuffed, arrested and hauled off to the basement of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. |
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AM U.S. launches attack on Afghanistan The United States and Britain launched attacks on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Sunday in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, President Bush said. |
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10:05 AM Bush addresses nation, asks Americans for patience. |
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/ Fox News Kabul area under attack. Bush to speak at 9:50 AM or shortly thereafter. |
| Washington
Times Terror package will cost nearly $200 billion The cost of the government's response to the terrorist attacks is mounting and will near $200 billion by the time Congress finishes work on an economic-stimulus package and other bills. -- The new spending threatens to wipe out the estimated $52 billion surplus that House and Senate Budget Committee officials said would be left at the end of the 2002 fiscal year and - barring a rapid economic recovery - would push the budget temporarily into a deficit. |
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Daily Star Too many illegals are dying Humane Borders is greatly concerned with the increasing number of persons who die in the deserts. -- In fiscal 2000, 74 migrants were known to have died in the Tucson Border Patrol Sector. The same year there were 617,716 apprehensions of illegal immigrants. In fiscal 2001, the known death toll was 78 when only 450,000 migrants were apprehended. -- That is actually a 69 percent increase in the rate of known deaths. Moreover, the deaths officially reported in the Tucson sector do not include the 14 migrants who died in Yuma County. |
Washington
Post Losing Track of Illegal Immigrants Over the past decade, terrorists have posed as students, slipped across the lightly patrolled Canadian border, used false passports and presented themselves as tourists to enter the US and plot deadly acts. -- Their persistence in exploiting loopholes forced U.S. officials to confront a monumental question after the Sept. 11 attacks: Can a broken system, designed to police millions of people who come to the US in search of a better life, be quickly reconfigured to capture the few who arrive in pursuit of a life of terror. |
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friendship While Jorge Amaya insists that "Mexico is not our enemy" (Sept. 30 Perspective), recent events have shown that it is certainly no friend. For example, after the recent terrorist atrocities, Mexico was remarkably absent in demonstrating any sympathy for the victims. The newspaper Reforma surveyed 15 nations and found that "only Iraq and Cuba made fewer public displays of solidarity" than Mexico." |
| Sacramento
Bee ACLU demand fuels controversy over patriotism A demand by the ACLU that Breen Elementary School in Rocklin remove a "God Bless America" sign prompted angry parents, students and administrators to rally at the school Friday evening. -- About 250 people, many clad in red white and blue, gathered to support the message, which was placed on a marquee in front of the school after the recent terrorist attacks. |
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Independent INS agent moonlights as "coyote" Last Wednesday, another in an increasingly- familiar pattern of federal prosecutions ended in a guilty plea in the border town of Brownsville, Texas - as another corrupt federal official pled guilty to taking bribes to allow smuggling. -- In INS agent Eduardo Rodriguez's case, it was illegal aliens, not dope, that he took payments to overlook the smuggling of across the Tex/Mex border. |
| We Get E-Mail Re: INS Czar James Ziglar If you had any doubts about new INS Czar James Ziglar, you can stop wondering now: In the two newspaper stories below, Ziglar personally tells illegal aliens they should claim benefits in connection with the WTC attacks. In the next story, his agency minions coldly tell a British widow she must leave the country and give up her home following her husbands WTC death. -- I hope some of you are motivated enough by this outrage to write or fax Ziglar...... |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) Legal Residency Hopes of Millions Dashed In the summer, a bolt of hope shot through this city as the Bush administration edged toward granting legal residency to millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico and perhaps other countries. -- When the movement seemed to slow, President Vicente Fox of Mexico, in talks at the White House, sought to rebuild momentum for the proposal that would give individuals and families the prospect of moving out of the shadows and into mainstream working- class life. |
| NH Union
Leader Pilots threaten to stop service if kept unarmed Commercial airline pilots will be asked to suspend air service if they cannot have trained, armed pilots in the cockpits, a New Hampshire pilot said. A resolution that will be circulated among the various councils of the 67,000- member Air Line Pilots Association this month asks federal regulations be changed to allow for the voluntary arming of flight crew members, Robert Giuda, a United Airlines captain of Warren said. |
Human Events Secure our Borders Against Illegal Immigration? Human Events Assistant Editors Timothy P. Carney and Joseph A. D'Agostino roamed Capitol Hill last week asking members of Congress an obvious question. They didn't get obvious answers. Rep. F. Allen Boyd (D.-Fla.): Q - Considering that we are at war with terrorists who operate within our territory, should Congress act to secure our borders against illegal immigration? |
| The News
- Mexico City / EFE Fox says relationship with U.S. shored up Mexican President Vicente Fox said that talks this week with his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush "confirmed the closeness between our countries in good times and bad." -- Fox traveled to Washington this week to convey in person Mexico's condolences for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, after more than two weeks of what was seen by many as vacillation and ambiguity. |
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- Mexico City / AP Supreme Court accepts case involving compensation for illegal alien The U.S. Supreme Court last week reopened debate on the rights of Mexican undocumented workers, agreeing to decide if a company should be forced to pay an employee fired for supporting a union. -- The National Labor Relations Board had urged the court to let stand a ruling in favor of the fired worker, who was in the country illegally. |
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