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Wednesday, November 14, 2001

 U.S. Policy on Illegal Aliens
"Hall and Olson said the agency does not require criminal background
checks before releasing those who cross the border illegally."
 Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
Sen. Carl Levin		 Security on borders still lax, agents say
U.S. Border Patrol agents testified Tuesday that, despite promises of tighter security, enforcement of immigration laws has been lax since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- Many illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the border are routinely released into the community with no more than a request that they show up for deportation hearings later, agents said. Read transcripts
Listen: Part 1 -- Part 2
"These are people arrested by the Border Patrol for illegally entering the country," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). "We don't even run a criminal background check? I find that incredible."  Past features      Discuss on FR

Action Alert and Other News from American Patrol
Orange Co. Police now reporting to Mexico City
Would you support organizing a protest?

Daily Californian
Bill to Restrict Some Student Visas Faces Protests
UC Berkeley students are joining protests against a proposed anti-terrorist bill that would prevent foreign students from countries that sponsor terrorism from studying in the United States. -- Because one of the suspected terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks entered the United States on a student visa, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., co-sponsored a bill to stop up the "loopholes" in the visa system.		 Deseret News
Terrorist ties to Mexico worry U.S., envoy says
Short-circuiting terrorist connections to Mexico is now the U.S. government's "top priority" in that country, where immigration, narcotics and trade were the most pressing issues, a U.S. official said. -- Jeffrey Davidow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said the "possibility does exist" for terrorists to use Mexico as a base for terrorist attacks, though currently he sees no evidence of it. Davidow made the comments Monday after speaking on immigration issues..

CNSNews.com
Immigration Reform a 'Public Safety' Issue
As the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have demonstrated, the need for immigration reform has gone beyond the familiar territory of crime, education and taxes and become an issue of public safety as well, a longtime congressional champion of immigration reform said Tuesday. -- Only nine of the 19 terrorists who took part in the Sept. 11 attacks were in the country legally, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), crime subcommittee chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told a group of reporters and policymakers. Ten of the terrorists had overstayed a temporary visa and were in illegal status on that day. [Discuss on the Free Republic]

Stein Report
Americans nearly unanimous in wanting tighter immigration restrictions
According to a new study conducted by McPheters & Company of Manhattan and Beta Research of Syosset, New York, there is near unanimous public support for more restrictive immigration policies. The companies' new report, "Changing American Lives," found that 84 percent of the public favors tighter immigration policies.

Re: John Ashcroft on INS restructuring
I listened to U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft's remarks about immigration and terrorism and all I heard is that we are a country of immigrants and that we will never close our borders to immigrants only to those who want to harm us with terrorism. Not a word about our vulnerable borders and illegal immigration.....

 ASHCROFT FALLS PREY TO HIJACKING

The Statue of Liberty was never intended to be a porch light. It was intented to show the world the way to freedom, not the way to America. It was hjacked by Emma Lazarus.

Listen to explanation
And we are not "a nation of immigrants." An immigrant is an alien who immigrated to the United States. Most Americans were born here.

Associated Press
Administration to Divide INS Districts Around the Country
The Bush administration plans a major restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that would separate law enforcement and service duties. -- The move would fulfill a campaign pledge by President Bush to reduce the long waits endured by people who apply for benefits such as naturalization or permanent residency. It also seeks to address deficiencies in how the INS tracks foreigners who enter the country.

10:45 AM
Ashcroft announces restructuring of INS
Ashcroft says, "This is a nation of immigrants...", remarks on Emma Lazaurus, a poet, lauds new INS Commissioner, James Ziglar. Ziglar has no law enforcement experience. Check back for details later when they become available.

National Review / Jim Boulet, Jr.
Catch-22 on Language - The EEOC, employers, and "English-only"
Thanks to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employers preferring to avoid lawsuits face a remarkable catch-22 on language matters. -- Any worker offended by the words of a single employee can sue his employer for damages. Accordingly, many employers have adopted "English-only" rules for their employees, in order to better supervise employee comments. -- Yet the EEOC also insists that employers can be sued by any employee who takes offense to an "English- only" policy.

MayorNo.com
LAPD commander upset with activist Netkin
San Fernando Valley activist Hal Netkin has been fighting for the repeal of LAPD's Special Order 40 for years along with American Patrol and other groups of concerned citizens. Mr. Netkin reports that an irate LAPD commander called him yesterday ranting and raving, accusing Netkin of not being truthful in his campaign to get Special Order 40 overturned by the L.A. City Council. See the link above for details.		 Rocky Mountain News
Fox Lobbies Colo. Governor for "Guest Worker" Sham
Gov. Bill Owens and Vicente Fox spent a half- hour Tuesday chatting about economic development, immigration and the Sept. 11 tragedy. -- "We had a very productive exchange," Owens said in a telephone call from Mexico City. "He's very engaging, very impressive and very charismatic." -- Fox told Owens privately, then later with the group publicly, that he hopes Mexico and the U.S. can develop a "guest worker" system...

Associated Press
Strip-mining America: Panel to Help Mexicans Send Money
Mexico will form a commission to help Mexicans living in the United States send money to relatives back home, President Vicente Fox said Tuesday. -- The panel will work with more than 200 Mexican and American banks and brokerage houses to lower transaction costs involved in sending cash to Mexico.

Washington Post
Border Agencies May be Merged, Ridge Says
The Bush administration is seriously considering a merger of the federal agencies responsible for protecting the nation's borders, Tom Ridge, the director of the White House Office of Homeland Security, said yesterday. -- Ridge told The Washington Post in an interview that "there is an appetite to do that" and "there is a good possibility" that President Bush will propose it as part of January's budget. -- "There ought to be greater harmony, greater efficiency," he said.		 Sierra Vista Herald
Guardsmen at border in Douglas
The U.S. Customs Service is fine-tuning how it uses the services of Arizona Army National Guard soldiers at the port of entry in this border community, an agency spokesman said. -- Customs Service spokesman Roger Maier said soldiers will be used in the secondary inspection lanes to help speed up passenger vehicle traffic coming into the United States from Agua Prieta, Sonora. -- Douglas Mayor Ray Borane said the initial use of the soldiers for inspecting cargo at the port was misdirected... [Link will expire late 11/14]

Re: Rally Against Lawless Orange County Cops
I am very interested, and willing, to attend a rally to protest the Mexican ID cards. -- I wonder, how many Orange County residents were aware of the "immigrant community meeting" held at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim on Sunday. It wasn't publicized anywhere! However, 300 illegal aliens showed up to have milk and cookies with their new friends, and allies, the Anaheim PD!

Associated Press
Food Stamp Program to be Expanded
Congress is considering restoring food stamps to thousands of legal immigrants who were cut off from benefits in the 1996 welfare overhaul.-- The Senate Agriculture Committee was expected Wednesday to approve an expansion of the food stamp program as part of a larger revision of farm and nutrition policy. The food-stamp provisions would cost $6.2 billion over 10 years.

 Arizona Daily Star
U.S.-Mexican border traffic down
Nuevo Laredo, Mex. -- Times are tough for the tattooed man who gives his name only as Javier, frying chicken on the grassy banks of the Rio Grande at sunset while waiting for customers to appear. -- Javier says he has been smuggling migrants into the United States for half his life and he's never seen a lull like the one that followed the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. -- Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the Mexican border fell to 37,811 in October...		 WorldTribune.com
U.S. imposes immigration restrictions on Arab males
The United States has tightened visa restrictions on applicants from a range of Arab and Islamic countries. -- U.S. officials said the government has drafted a profile that matches that of Islamic suicide attackers who destroyed the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon on Sept. 11. The officials said scores of people from Arab and Islamic countries have already been placed on a black list and are ineligible to enter the United States.

From NumbersUSA
ACTION ALERT --  245(i) is back. Immediate action called for
We have just obtained information that the White House is pushing the House leadership to quietly put an extension of Section 245(i) on the House Suspension calendar, possibly as soon as this week! -- Thanks to all of you who responded to our Action Request last week and called the CJS conferees, an extension of Section 245(i) was dropped from the Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations bill. This was a major victory given the enormous pressure being exerted on the CJS conferees from the White House for an extension. However, as we warned you last week, the battle is not yet won!

 THE UNITED KINGDOM - KILLED BY IMMIGRATION


Death of a once proud England
 Muslim youths in Blackburn hold pro-Bin Laden march
Police bar banners calling Blair a child murderer
Monday November 12, 2001
The London Guardian
More than 150 young Muslims marched through Blackburn, Lancashire, at the weekend in support of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Chanting "Tony Blair, you will pay with your blood", they marched to the centre of the town, the constituency of the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, for a noisy but trouble-free rally at the town hall. A succession of young men denounced "a Judaeo-Christian war against Islam and the Muslim world".
Email to American Patrol from the UK...
Hi Sheri,....
   Immigration has destroyed my country. The areas near where I live - once beautiful - are now crime ghettos. The situation is repeated all over the country. The problem - which wasn't apparent for many years suddenly went exponential. That is what is coming to you. The UK is finished. The US is the last bastion of decency and liberty standing. If your country falls - everything goes.

Associated Press
INS must upgrade Nashville office
A congressional panel directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to upgrade its Nashville office to better serve a growing immigrant population but did not provide funding for the changes. -- Improvements to the Nashville office were endorsed by the panel last week after House and Senate members reached a compromise on bills funding the Commerce, Justice and State departments. Details were released yesterday.		 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hearing: Security on borders still lax, agents say
U.S. Border Patrol agents testified Tuesday that, despite promises of tighter security, enforcement of immigration laws has been lax since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. -- Many illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the border are routinely released into the community with no more than a request that they show up for deportation hearings later, agents said. [Testimony]

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