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Press / Canoe U.S. Congress plans to triple number of government agents on Canada's border The number of agents patrolling the U.S.-Canadian border would triple in the wake of the World Trade Center attack under anti-terrorism legislation Congress is expected to approve this week. -- U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Tuesday the security increase would be the largest in the history of the northern border, one of the most open international frontiers in the world. |
| Cal Thomas U.S. Should Stop Playing Host to Foreigners Who Oppose Our Values It is simultaneously comforting and disconcerting to see armed troops at America's airports. It is frightening to hear political leadership flatly predict there will be another terrorist attack following American and British strikes against suspected Taliban positions in Afghanistan. President Bush has properly balanced righteous anger with redemption by dropping ordinance on our enemies and food and medicine on those Afghanis who are not. |
Alamance
Independent Anti-immigration activists in N.C. switch to national-security issue The Council of Conservative Citizens - which is the leading group in the fight for sane immigration policy here in North Carolina - has just announced that its next two anti- immigration rallies will have national security, rather than job loss, as their theme. Both will demand the borders be closed - and that all illegals be deported. -- This Saturday, CofCC will hold the first in these upcoming "national security rallies"; it will be in downtown Morganton. |
| Boston Globe Canada resists push for continental policy The United States' northern border, once a neighborly ribbon of pine trees and tranquil prairie, is now fortified by set-jawed soldiers who pop open car trunks, poke through packages, and symbolize a steely new security frontier that is testing US- Canada relations. -- ''For the longest time, a lot of people looked at Canada almost as visiting another state,'' said Mark A. Flick, the US Customs port director here on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, south of Ottawa. |
Rochester
Democrat-Chronicle Attacks freeze immigration law overhaul A month ago, President Bush and members of Congress were discussing plans to loosen immigration laws and possibly legalize an estimated 3 million undocumented Mexican workers. -- Now those proposals have been shelved indefinitely. -- "The big push before the Sept. 11 attacks for approving an amnesty for illegal aliens in this country is derailed," said Jack Martin, spokesman for FAIR, a Washington group that wants new laws to stop illegal immigration and limit legal migration. |
| Arizona
Daily Star Trauma unit closing (after AZ approves $20M for illegal alien health care) Southern Arizona will lose all top-level trauma care by the end of the year, now that University Medical Center has decided it cannot provide that service alone. -- UMC's surprise announcement Monday follows Tucson Medical Center's decision two weeks ago to shut down its trauma service, also by Dec. 31. -- Together, TMC and UMC have jointly provided "level-one" trauma care for the entire Southern Arizona region for nearly 20 years. |
Attorney
General of South Carolina Condon Proposes Two-Pronged Attack on Illegal Immigration AG Charlie Condon today proposed a "two-pronged attack on illegal immigration" in SC. In addition to offering legislation empowering SC law enforcement officers to makes arrests for criminal violations of the federal immigration laws, Condon said that his office is currently in preliminary discussions with the INS to reach an agreement allowing SC law enforcement officers to be deputized as INS agents for full enforcement of the federal immigration laws. |
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San Francisco Oct. 13 - Reconquistas Rant for "Papers For All" Image of flyer (154K) |
| Brownsville
Herald INS plans media blitz assuring Mexicans that U.S. bridges are open The Immigration and Naturalization Service is preparing a blitz of Mexican media outlets to reassure potential visitors that border ports of entry are open despite the war in Afghanistan. -- Harlingen-based INS spokesman Art Moreno said he had to move fast Sunday to correct erroneous reports on Mexican radio stations that international bridges were being closed as part of a heightened national security alert in the United States. |
San Diego
Union-Tribune Tighter monitoring of noncitizens sought As Tom Ridge was being installed as the chief of homeland security in Washington yesterday, immigration control activists in San Diego County were demanding tighter U.S. borders and a better system to monitor the whereabouts of noncitizens. -- "I'm here to tell you there is no homeland security unless we do something about our immigration laws," said Jim Dorcy, a former BP agent and an adviser for FAIR, which for years has been calling for a reduction in immigration. |
| Roanoke
Rapids Daily Herald Illegal charged in murder-for-hire deported A Roanoke Rapids man charged in a murder- for- hire plot has been deported to his native Pakistan, a city detective said Thursday. Dasharat Ali "Jimmy" Minhas, the former owner of Roma's Pizza, was in custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service since June after local authorities discovered a deportation order was issued because he was an illegal alien. |
| Pasadena
Star News Vigilance up, security tight on homefront As the U.S. continues military action in Afghanistan, homefront security vigilance in the San Gabriel Valley has heightened. -- With law enforcement and city officials exercising extra caution, occurrences that in peacetime wouldn't be noticed can be cause for alarm. -- For instance, in Temple City about 200 residents were evacuated from their homes Monday morning after a "suspicious package" was reported at a gas station... |
Trib.com
- Casper, WY Murder trial delayed because of backlash against immigrants A Pakistani immigrant accused of shooting his girlfriend to death has been granted a delay in his trial because of the terrorist attacks. Seventh District Court Judge Thomas Sullins granted the request for a 90-day delay in the trial Friday. -- Sullins said while he had "great faith" in jurors' ability to not be prejudiced, the delay seemed appropriate. The suspect, Rehan Bhutto, has lived in Casper for 10 years. |
| Newsday Spouses, children of attack victims left in immigration limbo Days after her husband was presumably killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the news got worse for Deena Gilbey -- she learned that she might be deported. -- The Chatham Township woman and her husband, Paul, were British nationals who had lived in America for eight years. Their two young sons were both born in the United States. -- Paul, a money trader with the Euro Bank, worked on the 84th floor of the South Tower. |
H. Millard Little European-American girl murdered, illegal alien (?) sought... On September 21, sixteen year old European American Ceceline Godsoe was murdered in Costa Mesa. Her bludgeoned body was found in a park in the illegal alien infested Westside section of the city. Police have named Victor Manuel Garcia, also known as Victor Garduno and as Pumpkin Head, as the suspect. Senor Garcia/Garduno/Pumpkin Head is still on the loose and local police suspect that he has fled to Mexico. |
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L.A. Times Federal Grant will fund Cal Poly outreach Your tax dollars at work: ...The program will provide people in the Angela Chanslor area of Pomona with job training and increased access to social and health services and offer educational opportunities for residents. -- Many of the area's residents are newly arrived Mexican immigrants. Many are unemployed and have not completed a high school education. [Are they here legally?] |
| L.A. Times Tough Times Predicted for State Budget Spending: A looming revenue shortfall could mean lawmakers will face gravest financial crisis in a decade. Rarely has the California budget faced such a convergence of threats as the trio now bearing down on the state government: The economy was shaky even before Sept. 11, terrorism is undermining the tourist industry, and the financial implications of the energy crisis continue to overshadow the state treasury. -- Add to that the fact that Gov. Gray Davis faces reelection next year, and some experts believe that state spending could face its gravest crisis in a decade. [Also see: State budget crisis looms - This time it will be really bad - American Patrol, Sept. 28] |
| Associated
Press Hijackers' bogus ID cards prompt scrutiny The deal struck in a suburban Washington parking lot was simple, authorities say: For $50, day laborer Herbert Villalobos agreed to sign forms that a Middle Eastern man needed to obtain a Virginia identification card. -- The man in search of an ID card was Abdulaziz Alomari, the FBI says, one of the hijackers who crashed an American Airlines jet into the World Trade Center. -- According to the FBI, Villalobos, using a fake name, signed a sworn statement that Alomari lived in Virginia. Villalobos, through his attorney, has denied the charge. |
The News
- Mexico City Mexican press criticizes Bush, questions Fox Many Mexican newspapers reacted to the first strikes by the United States and England against Afghanistan by criticizing Bush and questioning Mexico's governmental support.-- Daily La Jornada printed an editorial saying the attack "was not about justice or international law, it was a unilateral and arbitrary act of revenge." -- The editorial called the act, "Bush's holy war." And said, "it is the start of a war in which Mexico has no moral, political, or military reason to participate." |
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