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Press Senators Offer Truck Compromise Sens. Patty Murray and Richard Shelby offered a compromise on new rules governing the safety of Mexican trucks in the United States, hoping to avoid President Bush's threatened veto of a $60 billion transportation bill. -- Todd Webster, a spokesman for Murray, D-Wash., chairwoman of the Appropriations transportation spending panel, said the plan softens requirements for insurance and safety inspections. -- Due to safety concerns, trucks from Mexico are restricted to a commercial zone that generally runs up to 20 miles inside the U.S. border. |
Boston Globe In Mexico, fortunes go south for Fox The political cartoon showed two newspaper airplanes flying straight toward a pair of giant cowboy boots in the shape of the twin towers. From inside one of the buildings came the panicked cry: ''They want to bring us down!'" -- The commentary was aimed at Mexico's rancher-turned-president, Vicente Fox, whose once sky-high popularity has taken a beating since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. -- Fox blames the media, which have joined forces with the largely hostile and divided Mexican Congress, in attacking him at a time when he is at his most vulnerable. |
| Newsday Moratorium Hurts Refugee Agencies At refugee resettlement agencies throughout the United States, the dreaded "layoff" word is being batted around, if not openly, then in private discussion within management. -- As part of the cascading effects of the U.S. clampdown on people entering the country since Sept. 11, there has effectively been a moratorium on refugees arriving in the United States. For resettlement agencies whose federal funds are tied to the number of people coming to the United States - $800 per refugee - this has meant a a subsidy drought. |
Washington
Post Limit on Spanish at Va. School Sparks Clash ...One woman said she was fired for continuing to speak Spanish after the memos. And the county's Hispanic community, one of the largest in the Washington area, has become angry and frustrated by what it says is an unfair and surprising reaction from a school system that usually tries to hire Spanish speakers, not fire them. -- The conflict and others like it show how living and working in an increasingly multilingual country can cause institutions difficulty... |
| L.A. Times Illegals in Anaheim: Police, Residents Discuss Deportations It's an issue that has been simmering in Anaheim for months. And Sunday, more than 260 residents took their concerns straight to Anaheim police, telling Community Affairs Sgt. Mike Hidalgo their biggest fear: They don't want to be deported for a minor traffic violation simply because they don't have proper identification. -- Sunday's forum at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim was the result of a months-long process by community members, who listed fear of deportation and police interaction as one of their most pressing concerns. -- "The undocumented community fears every time the police stop them," said Anaheim resident Reina Gonzalez, a member of St. Boniface Church. |
| Miami Herald U.S.-Mexico border tops security agenda Mexico's top national security official will travel to Washington on Nov. 19 to begin discussions with homeland security chief Tom Ridge on securing the porous U.S.-Mexico border, amid concerns that it is a weak flank in the war on terrorism. -|- "If a Mexican day laborer can get through on the southern border, so can an al Qaeda terrorist,'' said John Keeley, a researcher with the Center for Immigration Studies, a immigration policy research center... |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) In Sweeping Campus Canvasses, U.S. Checks on Mideast Students In the two months since the attacks of Sept. 11, federal investigators have contacted administrators on more than 200 college campuses to collect information about students from Middle Eastern countries, the most sweeping canvass of the halls of academia since the cold war, the colleges say. -- The agents have asked what subjects the students are studying, whether they are performing well and where they are living. |
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- CNN Sky marshals divert flight bound from Pittsburgh to Reagan National to Dulles due to an unknown problem CNN reports that the plane is now on the ground. 3:10 PM: The problem was an "unruly passenger" per CNN. |
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South reverts to old habits: Slavery Georgia governor, Roy Barnes, yesterday acknowledged that Mexican immigrants have driven the United States economy. -- I guess he means all the American citizens can retire and go fishing because the Mexican illegal aliens are doing everything. I really think Gov. Barnes must think we are stupid because this comment could not be more ridiculous. |
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Feinstein, Jon Kyl We Can't Afford to Be Cavalier About Our Borders In this two-front war, the U.S. must do a better job of protecting the home front--and that means preventing terrorists from entering or operating in the U.S. -- All 19 of the Sept. 11 hijackers were foreign nationals who should not have been in the country but who used loopholes in our immigration and visa system to infiltrate the U.S. Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the attack, was allowed back into the country through the Miami airport... |
| L.A. Times Unruly Soccer Fans Arrested Unruly fans celebrating Mexico's victory in a soccer match Sunday tossed rocks and bottles and smashed store windows in Huntington Park before being dispersed by police, authorities said. Four people were arrested. -- The melee began around noon when about 1,000 soccer fans streamed into the city's central business district to celebrate Mexico's 3-0 win over Honduras, qualifying the team for the World Cup soccer finals... |
Orange Co.
Register Father says son stabbed man A father arrested in the stabbing of a man during a road-rage dispute Thursday identified his 19-year-old son as the attacker. -- Jose Ramirez, 39, said his son, Juan, 19, stabbed Ramon Bernal after Bernal threatened the Ramirez family. -- said Friday during an interview at the Orange County Jail. -- Bernal, 25, remained in critical condition at UCI Medical Center in Orange but was expected to recover, police said. |
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D.F.-- Georgia governor, Roy Barnes, yesterday
acknowledged that Mexican immigrants have driven the United
States economy and, therefore, encouraged the presidents
of both countries to resume as soon as possible the dialogue
to arrive to an agreement for legalization of immigrants.[Also see the Free Republic] |
Mexican immigrants
drive the United States Economy? Do Mexicans* design computers? No. Do Mexicans* develop software? No. Do Mexicans* buy computers? No. Do Mexicans* use computers? No. Do Mexicans* do anything that is irreplaceable? No. Is our economy driven by uneducated, unskilled labor? No. What in the hell is he talking about? [* - Illegal aliens from Mexico] |
| Houston
Chronicle Energy Official: 'Millennium for Hispanics' The 21st century will be the millennium of the Hispanics, a high-ranking U.S. Department of Energy official said in Houston. -- "We have been a little slow in getting there, but we're catching up. We have come a long way," Energy Department official Theresa Alvillar-Speake said. -- Declaring the 21st century the "millennium for Hispanics," she said, "This is not a pipe dream. We can make it happen." -- Alvillar-Speake is the first Hispanic woman to head the minority economic impact division of the Energy Department. [Also see this item on Spencer Abraham] |
San Diego
Union-Tribune Influx of Chaldeans at U.S.-Mexico border After months of little activity, the flow of Chaldeans from Iraq started up again last week at the San Ysidro border crossing, with the arrival of at least 53 men, women and children who turned themselves over to U.S. immigration authorities. -- "This influx is the largest number we've seen in the past year," Lauren Mack, San Diego spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said Friday. -- Though Chaldeans typically seek political asylum, Mack would not confirm whether last week's Chaldeans are seeking the protected status. |
| Charlotte
Observer Anxious H-1B's face more scrutiny ...It is an uneasy time for Sanil and about 500,000 other foreign workers in the country on H-1B temporary visas, given to skilled workers qualified in fields in which there aren't enough American workers. -- The attacks have resulted in close scrutiny of immigrants and immigration policy. And the ongoing economic downturn also translates into uncertainty for H-1B workers, who are not authorized to stay in the country if they lose their jobs. |
AZ Republic
/ AP (Free Registration) Explosion aboard jetliner may be behind NYC crash, officials say An American Airlines jetliner on its way to the Dominican Republic with 255 people aboard crashed moments after takeoff from Kennedy Airport in a residential neighborhood today, setting homes on fire. -- There was no immediate word on the number of deaths or injuries. Bush administration officials said the FBI believed there was an explosion aboard the plane... |
| Press Release
- NPG Heed Americans' Call for Lower Immigration, NPG Urges Congress In a letter sent today to the House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary, Negative Population Growth (NPG) called on Congress to follow the wishes of the American people and overhaul the United States' immigration system. -- Recent polls indicate that the overwhelming majority of Americans favor lowering legal immigration levels, as well as strengthening enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Chavez holiday at issue again Debate is back in Pima County The Pima County Board of Supervisors will debate again whether to give employees a day off to honor labor leader and rights activist Cesar Chavez. -- Board Chairman Raul Grijalva is pushing a proposal for what amounts to an additional paid vacation day to commemorate Chavez's birthday. -- Chavez, born in Yuma in 1927, is best known for forming the United Farm Workers union and leading nationwide boycotts of lettuce and grapes... |
| The News
- Mexico City Attacks on U.S. dampen life in Tijuana The Sept. 11 attacks on the United States have put a damper on fun and business in the Mexican border town of Tijuana, now stuck in the doldrums of near-empty streets and desolate bars and discos. -- The city's 1.5 million inhabitants live largely from money Americans drop in restaurants, cantinas, nightclubs and "souvenir shops." -- Southern Californians have long done much of their daily shopping in Tijuana, where they could find practically everything at lower prices than back home. |
The News
- Mexico City Fox says no overall accord with U.S. on immigration this year Mexican President Vicente Fox said here Saturday that, due to the September 11 terrorist attacks, there will be no overall accord with Washington this year on immigration or the legalization of millions of Mexicans residing without visas in the United States. -- "What is valuable and important is that, beginning Nov. 20, bilateral talks will resume," said Fox, who was in New York taking part in the U.N. General Assembly. |
| N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) Effort to Discover Terrorists Among Illegals Makes Glacial Progress.... In placing the Justice Department on a wartime footing, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered the Immigration and Naturalization Service to lead the charge in ferreting out potential terrorists among the nation's illegal immigrants. -- But on the ground, the order is being translated into reality at a glacial pace, if that, critics say. -- Even though at least three of the Sept. 11 hijackers were in the country illegally, the immigration agency has not been culling its files... |
Washington
Post Audit Finds INS Mismanaged $31 Million Automation Project INS officials mismanaged a $31 million project aimed at automating a system that monitors the entry and exit of foreign visitors and determines the number of overstays, according to a government audit. -- The review by the Justice Department's inspector general also found that during the past five years, INS officials have delayed completion dates of automation projects without explanation and increased the costs of projects "with no justification for how the funds are spent. |
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