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Press Small anti-war demonstration in front of U.S. Embassy in Mexico About 30 protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City Sunday to denounce the U.S.-led bombing of targets in Afghanistan. -- Most of the protesters appeared to be socialist university students, who shouted chants such as: "Not a single proletarian to the imperialist war!" while holding up signs that mingled Nazi swastikas with the U.S. flag. -- The protest coincided with the arrival at a nearby monument of soccer fans ..... |
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Diego Border Task Force Addresses Terrorism A group advocating a tighter border said Monday it hopes the new head of homeland defense can fulfill his plan to improve communication between departments when it comes to immigration agencies. -- Ira Mehlman, head of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said that former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge will have his work cut out for him when it comes to opening the lines of communication. [See: Ridge sworn in as homeland security chief] |
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Journal-World Wanted in Wichita: Bilingual police A boom in Wichita's non- English- speaking population has the police department actively recruiting bilingual officers. -- "It's a big problem when residents feel uneasy about police because they feel they can't communicate," Deputy Chief Tom Stolz said. -- Only 17 of the department's 650 officers serve as official translators - meaning they've passed language proficiency tests and are summoned to calls involving a language barrier. |
L.A. Times Mexican Border Factory Output Is Slowing For the first time in more than a decade, employment and output at the foreign-owned factories along the U.S.-Mexico border are in decline. This has prompted concerns that investment in Mexico's manufacturing sector could slow, rippling across the broader economy. -- After 12 years of steady growth, the output at these factories, known as maquiladoras, could slide by 3% for all of 2001, said Rolando Gonzalez Barron.... |
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News Americans warned of retaliation ...As of last week, the Justice Department had analyzed 240 new threats that it deemed serious and credible. In response, the government arrested or detained more than 500 people, many of them held on immigration violations to keep them off the streets. -- The terrorists could revert to form and strike Americans overseas. The State Department issued a worldwide alert Sunday, warning of the possibility of "strong anti-American sentiment and retaliatory actions against U.S. citizens and interests throughout the world." |
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/ Washington Post Long unguarded stretches present challenge With 4,000 miles of rugged, often unguarded wilderness, a shortage of security resources, and more than 100 million travelers annually, the U.S-Canadian border is a daunting challenge. -- Just 334 agents police the northern border, or one U.S. Border Patrol agent about every 12 miles. Some stations do not have 24-hour coverage, leaving the border unguarded from midnight to 8 a.m. At some entry points, agents put out orange rubber cones at night to dissuade travelers from crossing unchecked into the United States. |
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Editorial (Free Reg.) Mr. Ridge Goes to Washington Tom Ridge, who resigned Friday as governor of Pennsylvania, takes up his new duties today as commander of the nation's "homeland security." His portfolio is enormous, but his authority is vague. He will immediately plunge into a debate over how much power should be given to his office, which has been talked about for years by policy makers and bureaucrats but never, until last month, with much urgency. -- Mr. Ridge is supposed to both prevent terrorism within the nation's boundaries and prepare for response in case disaster strikes anyway. |
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/ Townhall.com Berlusconi backs western civilization Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's comment that Western civilization is superior to Islamic culture, while obvious to all whose minds aren't locked in a prison of political correctness, took guts to say. -- That Europeans reacted to Berlusconi -- a bright light on a continent of dim bulbs -- with outrage and horror is symptomatic of the malaise afflicting the West. -- "We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity ... |
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Times Proposal for identification cards praised A Senate proposal requiring foreigners to carry identification cards is being praised by immigration reform proponents as long-overdue legislation and a needed protection against terrorist attacks. -- "It would be criminal not to enact, at the very least, this initial proposal," said Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR. -- The legislation authored by Sen. Christopher S. Bond seeks to close immigration loopholes exploited by the terrorists who attacked the Pentagon and the WTC. |
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Chronicle Arab anger at U.S. lies under surface Despite fears that U.S. military action against Afghanistan would set off angry demonstrations in the Middle East, the initial reaction to yesterday's air strikes was subdued in Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world and a longtime focal point of Islamic activism. -- In coffee shops, small clusters of people gathered around TV sets, quietly watching broadcast news on Egyptian and other Arabic stations -- most of which carried the same footage as CNN and the BBC. |
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7:20 AM California, Los Angeles On Alert Across California, police and emergency officials remain on alert today after strikes on Afghanistan Sunday. Officials say retaliatory terrorist attacks are possible, but report no specific threats. |
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News - U.C. Berkeley Terrorism ..The 19 men who hijacked the planes were foreigners who had been in the US from a week to several years. At least 16 entered at US ports of entry, with student or tourist visas; some of their visas appear to have expired before September 11, 2001. About half of the 8.5 million unauthorized foreigners in the US similarly entered with seemingly valid visas, but did not abide by the terms of their visa by, for instance, departing within 90 days. |
MaineToday.com State's border with Canada: long, neglected, easy to cross The Canadian border quickly blends into the vast stretch of wilderness across northern Maine. -- The only way you'd know you were on the border, short of a global positioning system, would be if you stumbled across a marker on the ground. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't realize you'd just crossed into another country. -- The U.S. has three underfunded and understaffed teams devoted to maintaining the 5,525- mile border. |
| Free Lance-Star Closing immigration loopholes is first step in fighting terrorism Civil libertarians fear that establishing a war footing against so elusive an enemy as international terrorism will mean surrendering freedoms Americans have fought to establish and protect for more than 200 years. -- Those are the healthy reflexes of a remarkable nation. This country accords more rights to accused criminals than many governments give to citizens in good standing. It is perhaps America's greatest virtue. [Free Republic item] [Source URL] |
Human Events Law Says Membership in Terrorist Group No Bar to Immigration A 1990 law, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-MA), instructs State Department employees that "mere" membership in a terrorist organization or advocacy of acts of terrorism should not exclude foreigners from receiving U.S. immigration visas. -- Under the law as it is written, someone who belongs to a Middle Eastern terrorist group and has publicly stated a desire that the WTC be blown up cannot, on those grounds alone, be denied permission to legally enter the U.S. as a prospective citizen. |
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Times Mexico moves on border security Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexico's national security adviser, said Mexico was working towards "interdependent security" with the US and Canada in a bid to reinforce North American borders following last month's attacks on the US. -- Mr Aguilar, who accompanied Mexican President Vicente Fox to Washington last week, said no formal discussions had begun with US authorities but that measures would include more coordinated customs procedures and increased intelligence gathering. |
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