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Thursday, November 1, 2001

 Arizona Sheriff Calls for Troops on the Border
Larry Dever attended May 13, 2000 American Patrol rally in Sierra Vista

Sheriff Dever
"Watch out for your neighbor. Be a good friend and be a good neighbor. Report things that you see. Don't give up. The biggest heartbreak of this whole thing is that I see hard working hard driving fighters giving up. They've had enough. They can't do this anymore. Don't do that please. "
Larry Dever, American Patrol town hall meeting and rally -- Sierra Vista Arizona, Saturday, May 13, 2000.

Hull seeks to speed crossings

Opposes use of Guard against entrants, wants units at border to aid commerce

(Larry Dever, sheriff of Cochise County): "Control to the INS means something different than it does to me. The INS has minimized the flow, but here are still a lot of people coming through," he told the committee. "We have to stop illegal immigration, and it has to be done, be it by the military or the National Guard."

Send a message to Rep. Tom Tancredo

Spencer dispelled dispute with Dever -- supported right of police to arrest illegal aliens.

 Past features

Nov. 3 - Glenn Spencer on KSCO-1080 - Santa Cruz - Noon to 1 PM
[KSCO can be heard live on the internet]
also Nov. 3 - Glenn Spencer Presentation at Chehalis, Washington
Nov. 4 - Glenn Spencer Presentation at Gig Harbor, Washington
Nov. 9 - Protect Our Borders Rally - Phoenix
American Renaissance Conference Info - February, 2002 - Herndon, VA

American Patrol Head to Address Washington State Meetings On Illegal Immigration
Details: Chehalis | Gig Harbor

Open letter to Rep. Tom Tancredo
Thank you for your tireless efforts at reforming immigration through your ongoing work and as founder of the House Immigration Reform Caucus. There must be something special about Colorado that it has produced yet another great visionary, like Dick Lamm, who sees with such acuity the developing tragedy of U.S. immigration policy.

Associated Press
Hijackers Had Social Security Nos.
All 19 terrorist hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks had Social Security numbers and 13 obtained them legally, the government says. -- The Social Security Administration 's inspector general told House members Thursday that the government needs to tighten the process it uses to issue the numbers. -- "We have learned that the risks inherent in failing to adequately protect the integrity of the Social Security number may have serious consequences,'' said James G. Huse Jr. 		N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
U.S. Says 3 Detainees May Be Tied to Hijackings
Attorney General John Ashcroft disclosed for the first time today that the government had apprehended suspects who were believed to have had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 hijackings. -- Mr. Ashcroft said that three Arab men who lived in Michigan had been found in possession of airport diagrams, as well as false immigration forms, a fraudulent American visa and a false alien identification card...

National Post (Canada)
Border deal imminent: U.S. envoy
Canada and the United States could launch a joint immigration control network within one year to stop potential terrorists from entering North America, says Paul Celucci, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada. -- In an interview with the National Post, Mr. Celucci said Canada and the United States urgently need to negotiate a border security deal that would include the creation of binational customs and immigration teams to screen foreign air travellers at international airports.		 Washington Times
New law contains ID-card proposal
Tucked quietly into the counterterrorism package that President Bush signed into law last week is a measure that could require foreigners to use identification cards to enter the United States. -- A spokesman for Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican, confirmed yesterday that his ID-card proposal was included in the legislation at the last minute before the House and Senate gave final approval to the overall bill. The addition of the measure escaped the attention of the media..

Rocky Mountain News
Affirmative Action: Contractor back before high court
What can the Supreme Court do with a white contractor's 12-year fight to kill affirmative action in federal programs when the programs have changed so much that no one agrees on the facts or what the fight is about? -- That's what Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wanted to know Wednesday. -- "All of this is new -- what are we supposed to do?" she asked lawyers....		 L.A. Times
Toyota Plant Baja Bound
Toyota Motor Corp. is leaning toward building a major automobile factory in Baja California, a facility that could start a wave of heavy industry and investment in the border state, Mexican officials said Wednesday.-- Ernesto Ruffo Appel, commissioner for border affairs for President Vicente Fox and a former Baja governor, said Toyota officials told him the Japanese company will announce details of its new facility within days.

GovExec.com
Lawmaker favors scrapping INS, creating new agency
The INS should be abolished and a new border security agency should take its place, lawmakers said at a press conference Wednesday. -- "It appears INS is not getting the message," Rep. Tom Tancredo told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday. "It is clear that if we are going to secure our borders and protect our country, then we must end INS as we know it, and form a new agency that has the ability and the will to enforce the law."		 Journal Gazette
INS says it lacks money to track visa violations
Immigration officials don't have enough people or money to keep track of the 570,000 foreign students who got a visa last year to study in the United States, the agency told Congress Thursday. -- "It's like the goalkeeper in hockey. People only remember the one that gets through," said Michael Becraft, acting deputy commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Orange Co. Register
ID fraud: Two indicted
Two Orange County men are among 13 people indicted this year for allegedly defrauding bankruptcy courts in Southern California, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday. -- In eight of the cases, the suspects are accused of identity theft -- a growing problem for the busiest bankruptcy court in the nation, authorities said.		 Cal Thomas - Washington Times
A time for confidence- building
...A bigger threat than anthrax is the huge number of illegal aliens in this country; the U.S. Census Bureau estimates there are 8 million of them. While blame for this can be equally shared by Republicans and Democrats, the Bush administration should order a massive roundup, deporting illegals to their countries of origin.

AZ Republic (Free Registration)
AHCCCS cuts care for 10,000
Starting today, undocumented workers and their families who are chronically ill may not have their care paid by the state. -- Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Arizona's Medicaid system, has told more than 10,000 patients who received services ranging from dialysis to chemotherapy that it won't pay for such services unless they are deemed an emergency. But what is considered an emergency is open to interpretation.		 WorldNetDaily - Homeland Insecurity
Arab flight students stream into U.S.
Fourteen Algerian nationals entered the U.S. over the weekend to train at a Texas flight school, immigration inspectors told WorldNetDaily. They followed on the heels of 14 Syrian nationals who arrived for flight school less than two weeks earlier. -- Like the wave of Syrian men before them, the Algerian men, also in their 20s, flew into Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport where they were processed by the INS.

Re: MALDEF Lawsuit Is Racially Divisive
...When it suits MALDEF, it insists in racial integration. But when it suits MALDEF, it also wants racial segregation. This is a true racist organization that plays race as its strongest card.

Mercury News
Sikhs say they are being forced to remove turbans at airport security checkpoints
Followers of the Sikh faith say they have been unfairly singled out for elaborate security checks at airports, sometimes being forced to remove their turbans, an integral part of their religious identity. -- Some say racial profiling at airports has been part of a backlash against people of Middle Eastern appearance since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which have been blamed on Islamic extremists.

James Garcia / AlterNet.org
Mexico's Agents of Terror
As the eyes of the world focus on Afghanistan and the war against international terrorism, a single and horrific act of terror has played out in Mexico. -- Human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa was murdered nearly two weeks ago in her downtown office in Mexico City. Ochoa, 38, was a fearless crusader who defended peasants, environmentalists and rebel sympathizers. She was found shot in the head on Oct. 20. [See this recent feature on Vicente Fox on National Public Radio]		 Washington Times
Localities get funding for jailing illegal aliens
The Justice Department yesterday said all 50 states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories will receive more than $550 million to help pay incarceration costs of illegal aliens convicted of serious crimes here. -- Department officials said the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, authorized under the 1994 Crime Act, provides financial assistance to states and localities for paying the costs of incarcerating illegal aliens...

Newsday endorses another illegal immigration cheerleader for the Suffolk legislature -- Paul Tonna
Tonna, 43, strongly backed a hiring center for immigrant workers in Farmingville and would reluctantly raise property taxes to close Suffolk's budget gap because the county is already too dependent on the sales tax.

L.A. Times
Letters: Legal Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens
What part of "illegal alien" and "sovereignty of the land" doesn't Davis understand? He's now allowed a law to pass that grants driver's licenses to illegal aliens. We are being attacked from within. We are at war, and facilitating the access of terrorists and other undesirables to our legal residents is a blatant act of treason. Davis, if not impeached, should never hold another public office again for this breach of public trust. --[Also see this feature item from 10/25]		 L.A. Times
MALDEF Lawsuit Is Racially Divisive
MALDEF's lawsuit challenging the recently redrawn boundaries for congressional and state Senate seats is frivolous and racially divisive. -- The lawsuit seeks to overturn a bipartisan redistricting plan that took special care to respect the rights of minorities. -- Thirteen seats (seven state Senators; six members of Congress) currently held by Latinos are maintained or strengthened, and a new heavily Latino congressional district is created in Los Angeles County.

Arizona Daily Star
Gov. says 'No' to guard on border
Gov. Jane Hull remains opposed to the deployment of the Arizona National Guard to provide an enforcement role against illegal immigration. -- But she is negotiating with federal authorities on a plan that would put Arizona Guardsmen at the ports of entry to help speed the flow of people and commerce through the facilities, her spokeswoman said. [Reader comment: Hull clearly places commerce before country. Shameful.]		 L.A. Times
Tighter Immigrant Policy Announced
The Justice Department moved Wednesday to crack down on foreigners with suspected terrorist ties, broadening the federal government's power to deny visas or deport immigrants who "endorse" terrorism. -- It was the department's first policy step toward implementing a sweeping anti-terrorism package that President Bush signed into law Friday after weeks of rigorous debate in Congress.

L.A. Times
Mexico's Harsh Bribery Reality
Bribery is so entrenched in Mexico that more than 200 million shakedowns occur a year--or two for every citizen, a nationwide survey reports. -- The survey of 13,790 heads of household, released Tuesday, reveals the extraordinary reach of bribery in return for public services, and the costs it extracts. The findings suggest that nearly 214 million acts of extortion or bribery occur each year in this nation of almost 100 million people. [Reader comment: Corruption in Mexico? Hard to believe.]		 The News - Mexico City - EFE
Reconquista Castañeda: Closing embassies "bad idea"
Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda said it was "a bad idea" to close 45 diplomatic legations to cut expenses for 2002, but he acknowledged the idea "had its logic." -- Castañeda told Monitor news radio that the Finance Secretariat and the Presidential Planning Office were preparing a proposal, but he has not been officially informed except through the newspapers. The minister said the idea made a certain amount of sense because "if there is a Mexican embassy in Italy..."

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