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L.A. Times TV Reporters Face Fines for Border Trips Two television reporters are facing $5,000 civil fines for allegedly crossing from Canada into the United States illegally. |
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| Cleveland
Plain Dealer Ex-motor vehicles bureau worker arrested in illegal alien license scam A former state driver's license employee was charged yesterday with issuing phony licenses to illegal immigrants in Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties, the Ohio Highway Patrol said. -- Jamie G. Ornelas-Soto, 20, of N. State St., Painesville, a former worker at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office on N. Ridge Rd. in Perry Township, was arrested yesterday by troopers. -- He was charged in Painesville Municipal Court with two counts each of tampering with government records and forgery. |
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L.A. Times TV Reporters Face Fines for Border Trips Two television reporters are facing $5,000 civil fines for allegedly crossing from Canada into the United States illegally. |
| Miami Herald INS: Application for pilot visa made suspect's U.S. entry legal Miami International Airport immigration inspectors did not deport Mohamed Atta in January because they concluded he could enter the U.S even if he lacked a visa for foreign student pilots and had previously stayed in the country longer than authorized, according to the INS. Atta, believed to be the ringleader in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was detained at MIA for 57 minutes... |
Las Vegas
Review-Journal International visas: INS says it has tough task With visas and passports in hand, they line up nearly every day in the international terminal of McCarran International Airport. -- They've come from all across the world to spend money in our casinos, visit family or even study at a local university. -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service reports that 319,000 of them entered the country at McCarran last year. |
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Anchor babies There's an interesting point made in an article to which you have a link today. Mexican women are going INTO LABOR waiting at the border. "Why" a reasonable person might ask, "would a woman on the verge of giving birth be leaving her country? (Also see this e-mail) |
| Chicago
Tribune Immigration in the wake of terror It may take years to fully assess all the damage caused by the Sept. 11 attacks, but an early casualty -- and largely for all the wrong reasons -- appears to be the Bush administration's hopes to reform the U.S. immigration system. -- The impulse to blame immigrants and immigration for the terror assaults is widespread. It has spilled from the streets, where a few citizens took it upon themselves to vandalize mosques and beat up anyone who looked Arabic, to the halls of Congress, where a few knee-jerk proposals already have popped up... |
Associated
Press Immigrants concerned by AG's call for crackdown The INS reported in 1996, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were between 4.6 million and 5.4 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. Approximately 4,800 of those were believed to be living in South Carolina, INS said. While there are no nationality numbers available for individual states, INS estimates that more than half of illegal aliens in this country are from Mexico. The largest Middle Eastern group here illegally is believed to be Pakistani... |
| Orange Co.
Register Immigrants face a deadly mix Raul Pineda crossed the border dreaming of a house with a garden for his wife and two daughters. Instead, he met his death in a vat of hot chemicals at a metal- plating shop in Anaheim. -- Jose Gonzalez came to California to scrape together enough money to start an ironworks business in Mexico City. He died, choking on his blood, in his son's arms after plunging 14 feet from a wire rack he was building at a Buena Park warehouse. -- Their stories illustrate the growing plight of migrant workers, who in their search for a better future pay smugglers to cross the border, take difficult, low-paying job... |
Wichita
Eagle Immigration drives growth -- but can U.S. afford it? Immigrant labor, both documented and undocumented, is responsible for much of the nation's economic growth over the past 20 years. -- In Kansas, which has enjoyed unemployment rates lower than the national average, immigrants have provided a much-needed supply of labor, particularly in meat-packing and agriculture. -- "People who used to do certain kinds of work previously are no longer available for those kinds of jobs," said Janet Benson, a Kansas State University associate professor who has researched the immigrant presence... |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Some germ banks give away anthrax Two germ banks tucked away in the smog and sprawl of the hemisphere's largest city stock dozens of petri dishes filled with anthrax, the bacteria that have sparked a worldwide panic. -- But there are no armed guards, no security cameras and no health officials tottering about in germ-proof space suits. In fact, these labs sell, swap or even give away the potentially deadly microbe to those with scientific credentials. |
Al Knight
- Denver Post Immigration's new look The national news media have been so absorbed with anthrax lately that they have had little time or inclination to discuss immigration and how the events of Sept. 11 have changed things. -- Still, there are abundant indications that things have changed. It will, for example, be a long time before any political leader in this country again proposes "open borders," a phrase often heard prior to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. |
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letter to the L.A. Times Re: Slowdown's Silent Victims We seem to forget that some of this problem is our responsibility. If had not given amnesty to illegal aliens in 1986 we would not have 12 to 14 million illegal aliens that are waiting it out till amnesty comes again. And if we give amnesty in 2002 by 2010 we will have 30 to 40 million unemployed illegal aliens waiting for the next one. |
| Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Rep. says illegals deserve driving rights [even after Sept. 11] Rep. Mary Squires has heard from a few folks who see no benefit to issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. -- Yet the Norcross Democrat stands unfazed by those who've sent her "some type of form letter" on the matter. -- Squires plans to forge ahead with a bill that would let undocumented workers drive in the state. It would benefit Mexican nationals the most, many of whom drive anyway. [Contact info | E-mail Squires] |
| Atlanta
Journal-Constitution South Carolina offers law enforcement help to INS Amid calls for tighter border security and more scrutiny of foreign nationals in the U.S., one state is proposing a way to reinforce the thin ranks of the INS. -- Citing the "menace of terrorism" after the Sept. 11 attacks, South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon last week offered to enlist South Carolina law enforcement officers to assist the INS investigative branch. |
Sen. Christopher
Bond Safer Borders In the days following the terrible September 11th attacks in New York and at that Pentagon, we have learned that the terrorists exploited loopholes in our immigration laws. -- While nine of the 19 suspected terrorists apparently came to this country legally, three others stayed here beyond their visa deadlines. Six other terrorists somehow entered this country without leaving any records behind them. |
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Joke A Mexican man residing in Texas on Friday was fined 10,000 dollars and sentenced to 180 days in jail for mailing white powder first believed to be anthrax. |
| L.A. Times Slowdown's Silent Victims (illegals) Jose Avelar gets the good news first. After working eight years in high- end Santa Monica hotels, he qualifies for $171 in weekly unemployment benefits. -- Then, the bad news: Because his immigration status is murky, he probably won't collect a dime of it. --- The workers are still here, however, legal or not. They are hotel maids and banquet servers, dishwashers and airport concession vendors -- among those most vulnerable to the sudden economic slowdown. |
L.A. Times Several of Atlanta's suburbs crack down on day laborers When he took his place on the spit of concrete outside Country Boy Trailers, day laborer Felix Rodriguez Rodriguez was thinking he would get a lift to work in the back of a pickup. -- He rode away in a squad car instead. -- Jailed over an obscure Georgia law being used against day laborers, Rodriguez - an illegal immigrant from Oaxaca, Mexico - asked: "If it's a crime to look for a job, then what's not a crime?" |
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To:
The Orange County Register Why does the Register refuse to print anything about the actions of the Latino activists in Anaheim and elsewhere? I have witnessed vicious name-calling and verbal threats made by these people to public officials. I have sent seven letters to the Register regarding these incidents. Yet you continue to pound the police department with the baseless accusations made by these activists. [Letter not published in the Register.] |
| CBC - Canada Chrétien: North American security talks planned Canada, Mexico and the United States should sit down to discuss border security in the near future, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said Saturday. -- The issue was raised during a meeting between Chrétien and Mexican President Vicente Fox at the APEC summit in Shanghai. -- The prime minister, however, noted that Canada and Mexico have different problems along their U.S. borders. So the countries should ultimately work out those security issues with the Americans separately, he argued. |
The News
- Mexico City U.S. asks Mexico to reinforce vigilance over immigrants The U.S. ambassador to Mexico asked this country to reinforce its vigilance over immigrants from other countries who pass through Mexican territory before attempting to enter the United States because some of them "could be terrorists." -- "There are people from all over the world who use Mexico to enter the United States, and amongst them could be terrorists, although we have no information or evidence that this has occurred," Jeffrey Davidow told the Mexican press. |
| The News
- Mexico City Births, thefts rise as security ups wait at Mexico-U.S. border Delays occasioned by tighter controls at the Mexico-U.S. border have led to a range of problems, from bouts of high blood pressure to premature labor among people trying to enter the United States. -- El Paso has recently witnessed instances of women going into labor at the border after waiting in line more than two hours. -- U.S. Immigration and Naturalization (INS) spokesman Enrique Ray said health workers on both sides of the border had treated more than 20 people last weekend. |
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