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Daily Tribune Visa trouble lands Israelis in KC immigration office Visa violations have brought 29 Israeli citizens into the custody of the immigration services office in Kansas City. -- They are part of a larger group of Israelis detained nationwide since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Published reports have put the number at close to 100 Israelis detained, mostly young adults held on charges on violating their tourist visas by holding jobs in the United States. |
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L.A. Times
- Not Published Re: Vendors Aim to Invigorate Neighborhood Since Mayor Hahn has proclaimed Los Angeles a Mexican city, street food vendors are a MUST. Please let us know when the donkeys pulling carts, cockfights and pitbull fights get here. Wonder how long it will be until we get to see our first Los Angeles bullfight? |
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Concerned
in Missouri I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that immigration enforcement in Missouri is almost non-existent. As a law enforcement officer who regularly has contact with INS Special Agents in Missouri. I was amazed to find out that 24 agents are responsible to cover the entirety of the entire State, and some of those agents have areas of responsibility located in Kansas. |
| L.A. Times Vendors Aim to Invigorate Neighborhood ...From a wooden cart decorated with a white-and-yellow sign advertising "Central Mexican Tamales" at the edge of MacArthur Park, Mojica served more than 300 of her creations Saturday on paper plates with a napkin on the side. She is one of the first legal vendors to sell hot food on the streets of Los Angeles. -- Across 7th Street from the park, a new restaurant, Mama's Hot Tamales, was selling Mojica's tamales too... |
Columbus
Dispatch Mexican truckers could be restricted because of Sept. 11 Security concerns after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may determine under what conditions Mexican truckers will be allowed to drive into America's heartland. -- Mexican truckers were supposed to have full access to U.S. highways beginning Jan. 1. But federal transportation officials said they will delay the cross-border deliveries until funding is worked out for several new truck- inspection stations. |
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L.A. Times With No Immigration Laws, There's No U.S. ...Without the deportation of illegal aliens, immigration and visa laws are useless. Without immigration and visa laws, national borders are useless. Without national borders, national sovereignty does not exist. |
| Chicago
Daily Herald Banks broaden ID requirements Firstar banks in the Chicago area have joined a growing number of banks that are accepting Mexican- issued identification cards to open checking and savings accounts. -- The subsidiary of Minneapolis-based US Bancorp began its new policy at about 15 of its 42 local branches on Nov. 1. -- The action is seen by a growing number of banks as a way to break down another barrier to banking in the burgeoning Hispanic community. |
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Aztlan - America's Palestine ...We Southern Californians sometimes hear silly comments that the United States stole the American Southwest from Mexico. Those holding such beliefs need to examine the validity of Spain's claim of ownership of the American Southwest. |
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L.A. Times Consider a National Identification System A Nov. 14 letter commented negatively about the possibility of national ID cards. However, if based on the Social Security system, a photometric card could be backed by its national database. |
| Pravda Aztlan - America's Palestine A new movement calling for the independence of the south-western States of the USA in a "Republica del Norte" has emerged. -- The region is called Aztlan, an area which includes all the territories conquered from Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century (1848) (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The State is to be called "Republica del Norte..." [Discuss on the Free Republic] |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Economy on border addressed Though the U.S.-Mexican border still needs tight security, regulations must be tweaked to reverse the economic dive, officials from both countries agreed Saturday. -- From tourism to commerce and the environment, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have taken their toll on the Arizona-Sonora border. Members of the Arizona- Mexico Commission met for more than two days to come up with ways to ease the pain. |
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Press Hispanics absent from many GA juries In Gwinnett County in suburban Atlanta, judges halted five death-penalty cases last summer until the county adjusted its jury pool list to include more Hispanics, whose local numbers have risen 650 percent in a decade. A hearing next month will gauge whether efforts have been successful. -- None of the defendants whose cases have been delayed are Hispanic. -- Nevertheless, more Hispanic defendants are inevitable as overall Hispanic populations grow..... |
Miami Herald Driver ID rules tightened to block road to terrorism Some of the most significant security changes since Sept. 11 are not aimed at airports or nuclear plants, but at a piece of plastic held by almost every adult in America -- the driver's license. -- Before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the nation's primary form of identification had been issued under a hodgepodge of loosely enforced standards set by each state. [Discuss on the Free Republic] |
| The News
- Mexico City Fox , Dems promote immigration agenda Mexican President Vicente Fox and U.S. Democratic leaders Sen. Tom Daschle and Rep. Richard Gephardt on Saturday discussed ways to legalize the immigration status of up to 3 million Mexicans living without visas in the United States, Fox's office reported. -- The Mexican president met with the U.S. congressional leaders at his ranch in the central state of Guanajuato. -- The meeting "represents the reintroduction of issues to legalize... [Discuss on the Free Republic] |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Air marshals drawing from Border Patrol Federal officials hope the nation's new air marshal program, announced after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will help millions of passengers feel more secure in the air. -- It also is giving hundreds of unhappy Border Patrol agents a chance at a job with better pay. -- "There has been a flood of applicants," said Edward "Bud" Tuffly, president of National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, the union representing about 1,600 agents in the Tucson Sector. |
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