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Tuesday, November 20, 2001

 Utah Sheriff Says Locals Can Enforce Immigration Laws
Sheriff Smith Airs Views in Civil Rights Commission Forum

 
 Transcript from Nov. 16 meeting.
Michael Martinez: So if you believe that someone has committed the crime of being in the country without documentation, your officers are told they can arrests them.
Sheriff Smith: We are not telling them, we are allowing them to do it and we are not correcting them. They understand as we do, the appellate was very clear in its decision. If you stop a person for a speeding violation and through the course of your investigation you determine that that person or someone in the vehicle for that matter then you do have the authority [ to arrest them for violation of immigration laws.]
See this November 5 item form the Deseret News

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Friday, Nov. 23 -- Glenn Spencer on the Alex Jones Show - 10 AM Pacific

Washington Post
President Hosts Ramadan Iftar Dinner
President Bush said yesterday that his order allowing foreign terrorism suspects to be tried in military tribunals is "the absolute right thing to do," despite fears expressed by both liberals and conservatives that long-cherished principles of American justice could be compromised. -- "I need to have that extraordinary option at my fingertips," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting yesterday. "I ought to be able to have that option available should we ever bring one of these al Qaeda members in alive.		 Associated Press
Reform Is Dead for Now
A comprehensive immigration agreement between Mexico and the U.S. will have to be deferred because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, administration officials said Tuesday. -- The officials, asking not to be identified, said they notified a visiting Mexican delegation that security concerns will have to take a higher priority in cross- border relations. -- Vicente Fox has been a harsh critic of the current system, in which Mexican migrants who come to the U.S. are unable to escape their illegal status.

Washington Times
Financial concerns stall student-visa limits
Congressional efforts to impose immediate restrictions on student visas in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks have stalled despite worries that the system could let terrorists slip into the United States. -- Now that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, has backed off plans for a moratorium on student visas, changes to the current procedures will be more limited, say congressional staffers and immigration analysts.		 Washington Times
Pass the salt
Democratic congressional leaders Sen. Daschle of SD and Rep. Gephardt of MO are being condemned for visiting Mexico this past weekend and conveying to Vicente Fox their intentions to "legalize" the status of nearly 4 million illegal Mexican workers in the U.S. -- Scott A. Lauf, executive director of CitizensLobby.com, says it is "frightening to see that the Democratic leaders of Congress have not learned the tragic lessons of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." (Click link, scroll down)

To the L.A. Times (Unpublished)
Re: Block Grants Went Unspent Under Riordan
This deal over the block grants is a scheme dreamed up by HUD's Martinez , Hahn and Riordan to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into Los Angeles before the poor Mexicans revolt due to lack of adequate housing.

L.A. Times
Block Grants Went Unspent Under Riordan
During the end of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's administration, the city government allowed millions of dollars in federal grants for poor neighborhoods to accumulate unspent, building up an account that violated federal guidelines and jeopardized the city's ability to secure future funding. -- Aides to Mayor James K. Hahn discovered the surplus when they took over in July. Since then, they have rushed to spend the money to avoid angering the federal government.

John Derbyshire - National Review
Workin' at the INS Blues
...All these cases, though, illustrate two key facts about U.S. immigration laws. First, they are routinely bent, or changed ad hoc, by politicians for reasons sometimes good (Mrs. Gilbey, for my money) and sometimes bad (the Dominican illegals, as much as we pity their grief). Second, they are administered with a maximum of incompetence and inefficiency. Nobody much favors their absolutely inflexible application...		 Oakland Tribune
1 in 4 County residents are from abroad
More than a quarter of Alameda County's population was born in a country other than the United States, and more than a third speak a language other than English at home, according to census data released today. -- The foreign-born numbers could indicate a rise in immigration levels not seen since the early 20th century, said Hans Johnson, senior fellow at the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California.

U.S. News
Universities cringe as foreign enrollees face a visa crackdown
...Seeking to close the loopholes that allowed one of the September 11 hijackers to remain in America on an expired student visa, the Bush administration and some legislators are looking to change the way foreign students are admitted and tracked. Congress is weighing a spate of proposals, from creating a foreign-student database to a moratorium on new visas. Under new State Department measures, males ages 16 to 45 from 26 countries, most in the Middle East, now face a background check of up to three weeks for visas that once took mere days.

L.A. Daily News
Mexico arrests suspect in '96 Valley party beating
The suspected leader of a North Hollywood street gang was tracked to Mexico and arrested for allegedly beating a U.S. Marine into a coma during a San Fernando Valley party five years ago, police said.

LTE - Tucson Citizen
MEChA racist toward Anglos
Recently I was asked if I wanted to join an after school club at my high school named MEChA. I had little idea what MEChA's purpose was, but I wanted to keep an open mind, and it seemed to hold some appeal. In the meantime, I went on the Internet and looked up MEChA and one site drew my attention. -- As I read I was appalled by the racism of MEChA towards Anglos, not to mention Mexicans who did not hold their same views on particular issues such as bilingual education, police brutality toward Mexicans, and the so-called oppression by "the white man."		 Tucson Citizen
'60 Minutes' targets Border Patrol in Arizona
A "60 Minutes" report that scalded the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona, saying murder and rape allegations here are escalating but not being investigated, is "inaccurate," according to agency officials. -- But U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe, while critical of the No. 1-rated television news magazine's professionalism, essentially substantiated the report. -- "Generally speaking, it was an accurate portrayal," Kolbe said of the CBS report. "Typical of '60 Minutes,' they decide what their position is and they only show the footage that supports their position..."

Re: Profiling in Washington County? Accusations are false, sheriffs office says
Again our Utah INS officer in charge, Steven Branch, has put his foot in his mouth. He is questioning the Washington County Sheriff's Office ability to detain and arrest illegal aliens, even after the 10th Circuit Court has issued their ruling that local law enforcement officials have every right to do so.

Miami Herald
51% in Miami- Dade were born in other nations
More than half of Miami-Dade County residents are now foreign born, according to a Census report released today -- placing the county first in the nation among the major metropolitan areas surveyed. -- About 51% of Miami-Dade's 2.2 million residents were born in another country, as were an estimated 61% of Miami residents, according to the survey, which tracked some 900,000 households in 1,203 counties nationwide last year.		 Washington Post
International Visitors Staying Away
The number of foreign citizens traveling to the United States appears to have dropped across a range of categories since Sept. 11, with fewer coming to sightsee, learn English or even eke out a living working illegally as a busboy or maid. -- The decline may last only a few months, but it is causing distress to families and to businesspeople who have catered to the growing wave of foreigners arriving in recent decades. -- The slowdown is clearly visible in the Washington area, a magnet for immigrants and tourists alike.

San Diego Union-Tribune
Not the time to revisit guest-worker program
Resuming talks with Mexico regarding a guest-worker program is a bad idea. Between the Sept. 11 disaster and the recession, the timing is awful.

Phyllis Sears Gives Martinez a Civics Lesson
Community Forum: Impact of Immigration and Demographic Changes in St. George, Utah and Washington County Sheraton Four Points Hotel, St. George, Utah -- Friday, November 16, 2001

Phyllis Sears
 Phyllis Sears (Resident of St. George, Utah)
   A democratic republic only functions when we all agree to have our representatives make our laws and then we agree to live by those laws. And if we don't like those laws then we go to congress and get them changed. Otherwise, you have anarchy when you pick and chose which laws your are going to enforce and which laws you are not.
Listen as Sears describes murder by illegal alien in St. George | See Nov. 19 feature item.

Press Release
Simon Wins Endorsement of Major Republican Group
Bill Simon's campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination today received another huge boost as the California Republican Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed his candidacy. The CRA is recognized as California's largest and most active conservative Republican grass roots organization. Simon defeated handily both of his major primary opponents...		 Paul Craig Roberts
What Multiculturalism Hath Wrought
Do you know that there are 15,000 Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces? Are you aware that the U.S. military has Muslim imams? -- Following Sept. 11, Capt. Abd Al-Rasheed Muhammad, imam of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., asked the North American Islamic Jurisprudence Council if it is permissible for Muslim troops in the U.S. military to fight other Muslims in the war against terrorism.

Dan Walters - Sacramento Bee
Is growth an issue? Survey shows mixed results on vital topic
California's population growth is fairly constant, running around 550,000 to 600,000 a year, driven primarily by the state's high foreign immigration and birth rates. -- The outward manifestations of that growth, such as traffic, housing construction and commercial development, are not constant, however. During periods of high economic activity and employment, all of the physical aspects of growth become more apparent. During recessions, however, construction and other growth-related activities diminish.

Chicago Tribune
Illegal aliens will be able to open bank accounts
Because Cesar Sifuentes is an undocumented immigrant, he must live on the fringes of the financial system. He can't open a bank account, so he hides his earnings in his apartment or pocket. He can't write checks to relatives in Mexico, so he relies on a wire- transfer agency that charges for the service. -- But on Monday, a Chicago-based bank joined a growing number of U.S. financial institutions that are sending undocumented immigrants a welcome message....		 Detroit News
FBI will question fewer Arabs
Fewer than 575 Arab men will be interviewed in Michigan as part of the federal government's investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, substantially less than the officials originally said. -- U.S. Attorney Jeffrey G. Collins said Monday that the number to be interviewed was fewer than 575 -- not the 800 to 850 men FBI officials said last week would be interviewed. Those voluntary sessions with local law enforcement won't begin before the end of the week at the earliest, Collins said. Collins declined to say why...

Arizona Illegals
...Governor Hull, why after more than two months after the 9/11 attack are our flanks are still wide open? You have it within your state constitutional power to declare an emergency and put the National Guard in place. Please do your job.

L.A. Times
Santa Ana No. 1 in Spanish
Santa Ana has the highest concentration of Spanish-speaking residents in the nation, with about 15% of those 18 to 64 speaking no English -- nearly four times the California average, according to Census Bureau estimates released today. -- Spanish is so much a part of life in Santa Ana that 74% of the city's residents speak it, according to the government's Supplementary Survey, a detailed 40-question form sent out last year to 700,000 households in 1,203 U.S. counties.		 L.A. Times
U.S., Mexico Focus on Immigration
After talks on enhancing security cooperation along their 2,000-mile border, the United States and Mexico are turning to Mexico's quest for kinder treatment of undocumented Mexicans who are U.S. residents. -- President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox agreed in early September to work toward that goal, but momentum dissipated after the terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon. The administration is more interested in border security.

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