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Tuesday, October 30, 2001

DOES THE CONGRESS BELIEVE IN U.S. SOVEREIGNTY?
(Sounds like a silly question, but it isn't.) 
A Constituent (Luppi) Asks His Congressman (McInnes - Colorado)
"You will recall that I wrote to you on October 5, 2001 relative to my calling upon you to co-sponsor House Concurrent Resolution 220: 'The Sovereign American Borders Resolution'"
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"If I do not hear from you within fifteen (15) days of the date of this letter, I shall assume very correctly that you are opposed to co-sponsoring the same."
Call McInnes
Washington 202-225-4761
How to contact your representative to ask the same question		 Rep. Tom Tancredo heads the House Immigration Reform Caucus. His caucus web site links to American Patrol
 

Past features

Coming Up Oct. 31 - Glenn Spencer on KPDQ - Portland - 3 PM Pacific
Nov. 3 - Glenn Spencer on KSCO-1080 - Santa Cruz - Noon to 1 PM
also Nov. 3 - Glenn Spencer Presentation at Chehalis, Washington
Nov. 4 - Glenn Spencer Presentation at Gig Harbor, Washington
American Renaissance Conference Info - February, 2002 - Herndon, VA

Associated Press
Eight Syrians Plead Guilty to Illegal Immigration in U.S.V.I.
Eight Syrians pleaded guilty to immigration violations on Tuesday, saying they entered the U.S. territory by boat from a neighboring island and feared religious persecution at home. The men told the court they arrived in August from French St. Martin.

Re: Does the congress believe in U.S. sovereignty?
I read with interest, Mr. Luppi's letter to you on AmericanPatrol.com. I would hope that you take this letter seriously and support Mr. Luppi's efforts. Also, I hope that you support Congressman Tancredo in his efforts with regard to the immigration issue. Is he the only one from Colorado who is not clueless with regard to the immigration issue?

Nogales International (AZ)
Open meeting Wednesday about illegal immigration
A group of state legislators will visit Nogales on Wednesday to learn about the negative impacts of illegal immigration on the area's economy. -- The Ad Hoc Committee on Immigration has scheduled a meeting open to the public at 10 a.m. at the Santa Cruz County complex. -- Scheduled to attend are committee members Sen. Chris Cummiskey, Sen. Tom Hellon, Rep. Carol Somers and Rep. Victor Soltero.		 Asheville Citizen-Times
Forum focuses on Hispanics
A number of Hispanics have allegedly been victims of discrimination since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, so a local organization held a forum Monday night to show Spanish- speaking people some of the agencies available to help. -- About a dozen agencies set up booths at the Salvation Army community center on Monday, and although turnout was low, Bob Smith, the executive director of the sponsoring Asheville- Buncombe Community Relations Council...

WTAE-TV News
Man With Box Cutter Arrested
A Lebanese national was arrested Sunday at Pittsburgh International Airport for trying to board a plane with a box cutter, police said. -- Salam Ibrahim El Zaatari (pictured on link) of Pittsburgh's Beechview section, was taken into custody without incident Sunday, Paul Van Osdol reported. El Zaatari was being held at Allegheny County Jail on $100,000 straight bond, charged with carrying a prohibited weapon.		 AmericanReformation.org
Homeland Defense: Whose home is this anyway?
You awaken to discover that there is someone living in your basement. And not just one, but a multitude of strangers are living quite comfortably in the basement of your home. As shocking as that discovery is, it is nothing compared to the realization that another group of people are coming and going freely through your home's attic entry. What is going on here?

Washington
Bill King among guests at November CIS discussion
Politicians, pundits, and policy analysts have had much to say since September 11 about the failure of our immigration policy in promoting homeland security. But there has been little input from people who have worked to implement U.S. immigration policy -- men and women who have actually processed visa applications, guarded our borders, or prosecuted immigration law breakers. [More Details] 		PR Newswire
CAPS launches TV campaign
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a non-profit, non-partisan, member-based organization that was formed in response to California's explosive population growth, is calling for an immediate reduction in immigration as a major weapon in the war on terrorism. CAPS says that the nation's immigration system is out of control, resulting in de facto open borders. Among the problems cited by the organization is the overwhelming number of inadequately....

Star Tribune
Low-budget program maintains the long Canadian border
Vita, Manitoba -- Leaning into last week's wind-driven snow, Garry Macham stood on his land in Canada, miles from nowhere and 6 inches from the United States. -- "This is the border -- that's Minnesota," he said, standing so close to the imaginary line in the snow that his hand no doubt crossed into U.S. airspace as he gestured south, toward a deserted field identical to his. -- No buzzer went off. No helicopter swooped in. It seemed anybody could walk across, as unseen and unmolested as the wind.		 Associated Press
Report: Orange County diocese more than $14 million in red
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County had more than $14 million in debt during the most recent fiscal year primarily due to a sagging stock market and spending money to help the poor.. -- Diocese officials released the financial report Monday that showed the diocese's first budget deficit in its 25-year history for the fiscal year ending in June. -- The short-term outlook doesn't look much better. The diocesan investment portfolio has lost $10 million since July.

Naples News
Giuliani says FBI must share data; Gov. Bush asks for INS reform
The FBI should be required to share information on counterterrorism with local law enforcement in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Monday. -- Testifying in City Hall at a field hearing of the House terrorism subcommittee, Giuliani proposed that Congress pass a law requiring the FBI and other federal authorities to share their intelligence with local police and government officials, especially in a crisis.		 BBC
US criticised for 'secret arrests'
American civil liberties groups have criticised the government for failing to release information about individuals detained after 11 September. -- More than 1,000 people have been detained since the attacks on the United States, most of whom remain in custody according to Justice Department figures. -- A department spokeswoman said they were slowly giving information about the arrests, but were prohibited from doing so in some cases, and not required to in many others.

Orlando Sentinel -- Myriam Marquez -- Opinion
Hispanic Council gets no respect
The abysmal dropout rate for Hispanic students makes me cringe. Then I get angry. -- I cringe because to point to the kids who don't make it generates an unfair stereotype. It ignores the thousands of Hispanic students who are moving on up in Central Florida, going to college or technical schools and pursuing the American dream with gusto and verve. -- Yet we can't in good conscience ignore that Hispanics, as a group, are failing today at a higher rate than other students. Why is that?

We Get E-Mail
Pandering politicians
For years, self-appointed "spokespersons" "activists" and "civil rights leaders" of varying ethnic background have presented the case, in no uncertain terms, that "whites" are the racists in this society. We're blocking their progress, and maintaining minority groups in single-race ghettos, they say. BUT, when Congressional representatives, elected from districts that are overwhelmingly African American or Mexican have those power-bases threatened by redistricting...		 Orlando Sentinel
Activists, U.S. Arabs demand answers
Arab-American and human-rights groups, alarmed at the detention of hundreds of people in the anti-terrorism investigation, demanded Monday that the government reveal who is jailed, where they are being kept and on what charges. -- The coalition of 21 groups filed a Freedom of Information request and held a news conference to decry what it called the "unprecedented" secret detention of about 1,000 residents, many of them immigrants.

DelawareOnline.com - Opinion
Take Latin trade pact off fast track
The expansion of free trade in the Western Hemisphere has been a White House priority for the last decade, and President Bush's administration is no exception. He would like to see the entire hemisphere united as the Free Trade Area of the Americas, just as the United States, Canada and Mexico united in the North American Free Trade Agreement since 1994. -- Based on a working copy of the agreement, FTAA will extend NAFTA's policies to the rest of the Americas except Cuba.		 Washington Post
Border Officials Focus on Fake IDs
Tijuana -- The two gunmen ambushed the delivery van in broad daylight. It was a professional heist with one target: bundles containing 6,000 identity cards. -- This border city, where the theft occurred in April, is no stranger to robbery and drug trafficking. But hijacking ID cards was new. The theft seemed odd until word got out that the cards, issued by the U.S. government and allowing entry into the United States, were worth more than $1 million on the black market.

Balint Vazsonyi - Washington Times
Taboos we can't afford
...First, we need to review the policy of multilingual education and, generally, catering to immigrants' assumed comfort, instead of requiring them to learn English as fast as they can. The English language is not only the sole avenue to commonality but, significantly, carrier of our legal concepts and traditions which, for the most part do not exist in other languages. Without English, the immigrant will not comprehend what it means to be American.		 Newsday
Endorsements: Newsday supports lawbreaker cheerleaders
Guldi's Republican challenger is Diana Weir, 58, of Wainscott, a high-energy East Hampton councilwoman. --- She's good on environmental preservation. As an Hispanic, she understands the plight of immigrant day workers [criminals by definition]. We endorse Weir. [Newsday also endorses Brian Foley, another illegal alien cheerleader who fought to waste $80,000 in tax funds on a hiring hall.]

Hoy - New York
Unemployment still low, but illegals fret
[Translated from Spanish] -- But those who work off the books they assure that "the situation has [blackened?- strange idiom about ants]", according to some day laborers speaking to Hoy reporters. -- "Because they do not have documents the situation after the 11 of September is quite difficult, because there is little work", said Carlos Cannels of the Center of Labor Rights, ["El Centro de Derechos de Laborales" in Espanol or Workplace Project as commonly called in English] indicating that among them yes it has been felt what happened in Manhattan.

N.Y. Post
Bush: Get tough on student visas
President Bush yesterday asked a new task force to crack down on terrorists who slip into the country as students or through lax border points along Canada and Mexico. -- "We're going to be very diligent with our visas," said Bush, convening the first meeting of his new Homeland Security Council, which was created to prevent a repeat of the Sept. 11 terror strikes. -- The announcement comes amid a growing realization among White House officials that bungled immigration policies played a big role...		 AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Tempe man indicted on FAA fraud charges
A Tempe man who was arrested then released by French anti-terror police earlier this month has been indicted in Arizona on charges he fraudulently obtained federal papers, including a pilot's medical certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration. -- Malek Mohammed Seif, 36, does not face any charges in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but joins a growing list of Arizona residents who have been swept up in the worldwide aftermath.

L.A. Times
Villaraigosa's Latino Backers Warming Up to Hahn
Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn was due to arrive at the El Sereno Senior Center any moment. But before the mayor walked through the door Monday morning, City Councilman Nick Pacheco issued a warning to the lively gathering of senior citizens. -- "Now remember what I said," Pacheco urged. "Just be nice." -- The center, after all, lies blocks from the Eastside neighborhood where former Ass'y Speaker Villaraigosa grew up.		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Bush Announces a Crackdown on Visa Violators
President Bush moved today to tighten immigration controls in order to keep potential terrorists out of the United States, partly by cracking down on foreigners who have stayed beyond the terms of their visas. -- The president announced the creation of a new group of officials who will work to find and deport foreigners who have overstayed visas or are otherwise in the country illegally.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police mixed on licensing illegals
Two cars collide. -- A Hispanic man happens to be the driver of one of the vehicles. -- Before the police show up, he flees, leaving his car by the roadside. -- It's a sure bet, Gwinnett County authorities say, that driver is an undocumented immigrant. And he's probably driving without a valid driver's license, much less car insurance. -- Such scenarios "happen quite frequently," said Sgt. Randy Lane, who heads up the accident investigations unit for the Gwinnett County Police Department.		 Agence France-Presse
White House: Migration agreement "not dead"
The migration agreement between the United States and Mexico negotiated before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks "is not dead," but is advancing slower than U.S. President George W. Bush had hoped, the White House said Monday. -- The migration agreement "is not dead, but clearly the agreement has not advanced at the pace the president had hoped because the two politicians responsible for drawing up the plan...

Jewish World Review
America in need of a totally new immigration policy
Our national borders are the front lines of America's war against terrorism. It should come as no surprise to anyone that our borders are being overrun. They are open doors to the easy entry, legal and illegal, of those who would do us harm. -- The facts are beyond refutation. At this moment, there are more than 31 million people living in the United States who were born in a foreign country. [Also see the Free Republic]		 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Immigration talks on hold
Teodoro Maus wished George Bush and Vicente Fox hadn't publicized their liberal immigration reform efforts so freely. -- Their display of commitment offered hope to millions of undocumented Mexicans nationwide, as well as the 100,000 or so in GA. They, more than others, stood to benefit from measures like illegal- immigrant amnesty, and relaxed borders that would make it easier to move freely between their homeland and America, said Maus, the former Mexican consul general.

Associated Press
INS detains 21 Sri Lankans
Authorities detained 21 illegal immigrants from Sri Lanka at the U.S.-Mexico border, the INS said Monday. -- The men and women came in two groups at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego and are being held while the immigration service decides whether any qualify to remain in the United States, INS spokeswoman Lauren Mack said. -- Because of privacy laws, the INS can't disclose whether any in the group are seeking political asylum, Mack said.		 Rocky Morning News
Mexican consulate's workload up
The number of Mexican citizens seeking identification cards and other aid at the Mexican Consulate's office in Denver has jumped by two-thirds since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, spokesman Mario Hernandez said Monday. -- Hernandez attributed the increase to tightened security throughout the country. -- In addition, President Bush on Monday urged tighter restrictions on the 7.5 million foreigners who enter the country each year, and increased surveillance of their activities once they arrive.

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