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Wednesday, November 21, 2001

ARAB TERRORISTS FLOODING
ACROSS MEXICAN BORDER

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 AMERICA'S MOST WANTED REPORTS ON THE BORDER
SATURDAY, NOV. 17 -- "We do know that terrorists sneak across borders pretty easily and we've been trying to figure out how they're getting into the United States. Our Ed Miller has a surpising report on where they may be coming from and how they're trying to get passed the U.S. Border Patrol."
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Siegel JOHN SIEGEL, Resident of Cochise Co., AZ
"If these aliens can bring in sixty-five pound bails of pot on their back, they can easily bring in cylinders of sarin or nuclear devices."
(Audio includes report from Larry Vance of Douglas, Arizona. Larry's video clips of illegal aliens crossing the border were used by America's Most Wanted.)
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Upcoming Events
Protest at Anaheim City Council Meeting - Changed to 12/4
Protest Mexican ID Acceptance at Anaheim City Hall - 12/8

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

Coming Monday, November 26 -- George Putman Returns! - Noon Pacific
KPLS - 830 AM - Orange / Los Angeles, CA

UK Telegraph
Concern over catch- all EU arrest warrant
Racism would be a crime for which British citizens could be extradited to other EU countries for trial under plans for a new European arrest warrant. -- Xenophobia also features on a list of more than 20 offences covered by the proposed system. -- The warrant is being rushed through as part of a Europe-wide response to the terrorist threat from Osama bin Laden. -- But the idea has been around for several years...		 NY Daily News
Foreign-Born Make Up 36% Of Those in City, Census Says
More than a third of New Yorkers were born in another country, and 47% of them are not proficient in English, the Census Bureau said yesterday. -- The data - taken from a sample survey of 700,000 households nationwide last year - offers yet another glimpse at how diverse New York City has become. -- The city had the largest number of foreign-born people in the nation - 2.8 million, or 36% of the city's population of 8 million.

Toronto Sun
Border Patrol school will move from Georgia to S.C.
A tug of war between Georgia and South Carolina lawmakers over where Border Patrol agents should be trained has ended with a Brunswick facility moving to Charleston next year. -- The INS said this week it will move its Border Patrol school housed at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to South Carolina in March. -- "I'm disappointed in this and was surprised by an apparent behind- the- scenes deal which brought this about," said Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah.		 Seattle Times
Immigrants urged to exercise rights
Immigrant and civil-liberty advocates are warning local Arabs and Muslims not to answer questions unless presented with a subpoena or search warrant after an announcement by the U.S. Justice Department that it will interview 5,000 men nationwide as part of its war on terrorism. -- "There is no law that requires you to answer questions. My advice is that if they don't have a piece of paper that says they can talk to you, then to just say, 'I'm sorry, I can't talk.' And just shut the door," said Leah Iraheta...

NY Daily News
Report Visa Violations, Feds Tell 9/11 Probers
Federal officials want investigators to report any immigration violations they find during their probe of the Sept. 11 attacks. -- The investigators are working through a list of 5,000 foreign students and visitors in an effort to gain more information about the terrorists who carried out the suicide hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
Man Linked to Hijackers Gains Bail
A Yemeni student who federal officials say provided assistance to three of the hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was granted bail today after members of the Muslim community here agreed to put up $500,000 on his behalf. -- The student, Mohdar Mohamed Abdoulah, has been charged with two counts of lying on an application for political asylum. -- Mr. Abdoulah has not been charged with any crimes...

Toronto Sun
Border alert issued
Canadian border officials are on the lookout for dozens of foreign students from the Middle East who may try to flee here from the U.S. to avoid being questioned by police. -- U.S. police have ordered 5,000 non-immigrants on student and tourist visas to voluntarily show up for questioning to determine whether they've been recruited by -- or are supporters of -- Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaida terrorist network.		 Wall St. Journal - Linda Chavez
Don't Seal the Borders
U.S. immigration policy was in need of a major fix before Sept. 11, but the issue has taken on new urgency in light of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. However, Americans won't be any safer from terrorist attacks by drastically limiting the number of Indian engineering students or Mexican poultry workers who come here, or by preventing the parents or children of Chinese immigrants... [Discuss on the Free Republic]

San Jose Mercury News
Latino suspect sought in killing of state senator's son
San Francisco police on Sunday were still searching for the killer of state Sen. Bruce McPherson's son, Hunter, who was gunned down Saturday during what appears to have been a random street robbery in his Potrero Hill neighborhood. -- In a press conference late Sunday, police officials made a plea for public help in finding the murder suspect, described as a Latino male in his mid- 20s, between 5- foot- 8 and 5- foot- 11, and 160 to 180 pounds.

Portland protects potential terrorists
Lawlessness spreads to Portland cops

Web site says The real chief of Portland Police is Mark Kroeker

Chief on
Vacation

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 A Police Force Rebuffs F.B.I. on Querying Mideast Men
The Portland, Ore., police will not cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its efforts to interview 5,000 young Middle Eastern men nationwide because such questioning violates state law, the department's acting police chief, Andrew Kirkland, said yesterday.
   Portland has a large immigrant population, and Acting Chief Kirkland said the city had historically passed through periods when immigrants were targets of political and police persecution.    
  Mr. Kirkland, who is black, said his own background had also played a role in his decision. "I grew up in Detroit," he said, "and I hated the police with a passion. They were always stopping and bothering me." -- UPDATE: On KCRW's "To The Point" today reporters said they found no legal basis for the actions taken by Kirkland. The mayor supports the decision, however. Click here to listen.

El Paso Times
DEA chief urges extra efforts in Southwest
Despite recent progress, the Southwest border still needs more resources to halt the flow of drugs from Mexico into the United States, the nation's chief drug-law enforcer says. -- El Paso is the second- largest gateway for drugs in Texas, after Laredo, and 70 percent of drugs coming into the United States enter through the Southwest border, Asa Hutchinson, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday in El Paso. -- "This is a principal point of entry for drugs in the United States," said Hutchinson, whom President Bush picked three months ago to lead the DEA.

Caller-Times
Trooper finds $1.5 million in cash inside SUV - 2 busted
During a traffic stop in Falfurrias, a Department of Public Safety trooper found $1.5 million in cash Tuesday morning inside two locked suitcases in the back of a 2002 Ford Expedition headed south on U.S. Highway 281. -- Two men inside the SUV - a Mexican citizen and an Arizona resident - were arrested on illegal investment charges Tuesday night. It took officers with the Department of Public Safety and Brooks County Sheriff's Department six hours to count the money at a Falfurrias bank.		 L.A. Times
U.S. Tech Firms Abusing Visa Program, Critics Say
Amid a massive wave of tech layoffs, U.S. firms obtained government approval to bring in a record 163,200 foreign workers under a controversial program that critics say is being abused to hire cheaper overseas talent. --- "At a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans are out of work, many employers are rubbing salt in the wound by hiring foreign workers," said Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington group that has long sought to curtail immigration to the United States.

New York Post
Melting pot goes nationwide
New York City may still be a melting pot, but more foreigners immigrating to the United States are settling in other cities. -- U.S. Census estimates released yesterday reveal that while the Big Apple continues to have the nation's greatest number of foreign-born residents, a number of midsize cities in the South and Midwest have been attracting higher percentages of new immigrants.		 Boston Herald
Two more charged in scheme to smuggle illegals
Providence, RI -- wo more men have been charged in what federal authorities said was a scheme to smuggle illegal immigrants to the East Coast from Texas. -- Uriel Cortes Gomez, 23, of Houston, Texas, and Luis Martinez, 30, of Brownsville, Texas, were charged by a federal grand jury in the case. Both have pleaded innocent and are being held in state prison.

Cal. Gubernatorial Race
Bruce Herschensohn endorses Bill Simon
"I am endorsing Bill Simon because I know him to be a man of principle who never surrenders the ideals of the United States for political expediency," Herschensohn said.

UK Independent
World plunges into recession for first time in 20 years, says OECD
The world has plunged into recession for the first time in two decades in the wake of the 11 September attacks that delivered a "severe shock" to the global economy, an international body said yesterday. -- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said its 30-nation zone would contract "slightly" in the second half of this year and was forecast to stay weak into 2002.

Comment on the Mexican city of L.A.
Today, Wednesday, November 21st, in the Los Angeles Daily News an editorial: "City of languages." The writer thinks that Los Angeles where 80 languages are spoken is a "truly American city." First of all, under what rock was this liberal sleeping when Mayor Hahn proclaimed Los Angeles a Mexican city? Second, doesn't he know what happened to the biblical city where the Tower of Babel was being built? If Los Angeles is a "truly American city" this country is doomed. -- HP -- West Hills, CA

Re: Lawless Orange Co. Cops and Mexican ID's
I recently had a telephone conversation with the Chief of the Laguna Beach Police Department regarding the new policy of accepting Mexican government issued identification cards. I asked the chief if this new policy in any way removes any discretion from the street officers in arresting suspected illegal aliens.

Arizona Daily Star Editorial
Trouble on the border
Criticizing the Border Patrol is getting to be a lot like fishing in a barrel. You just can't miss. At times it seems the agency was set up to create its own problems. Under enormous pressure to greatly expand its force of agents over the last five years, it sometimes hired individuals who had criminal records. -- Rep. Jim Kolbe, the Republican from So. Arizona, criticizes the agency on a regular basis, and with ample justification.		 Riverside Press-Enterprise
Illegal alien owner of rifle used in cop killing gets prison
A former Pedley resident who owned the rifle used to kill a Riverside County sheriff's deputy two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in a federal prison. -- Martin Gomez, who used the name Freddy Lopez in the United States, could have received up to 71 months in prison as an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and for fleeing the state while on bail.

San Jose Mercury News
U.S. citizenship requirement may cost screeners their jobs
More than half of the security screeners at San Francisco International Airport could lose their jobs within the next year because they don't meet citizenship requirements of the new aviation security law. -- The bill President Bush signed into law Monday makes airport security a federal responsibility and requires the hiring and training of 28,000 federal screeners within one year. Screeners must be U.S. citizens.		 N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
N.Y. Attorney General backs illegals in labor snit
...Mr. [Eliot] Spitzer announced the settlement yesterday at a news conference at the Mexican Consulate because almost all the greengrocers' employees are Mexican immigrants, many of them illegal immigrants. -- Mr. Spitzer announced the settlement yesterday at a news conference at the Mexican Consulate because almost all the greengrocers' employees are Mexican immigrants, many of them illegal immigrants.

The Decline and Fall of California
California's 4th, 8th graders nation's worst on science test
The scores of California students were among the worst in the country in a national science exam given last year to 4th and 8th graders... -- State school Superintendent Delaine Eastin said the results of the 2000 National Assessment of Education Progress "reflect the reality that in California" that science classes have not been taught regularly in many school districts. [Also see this item]		 Alamance Independent
Court rules employers of illegals can be sued by competitors
While suits against gunmakers by cities and crime victims have all gone nowhere, due to courts all ruling that companies are not liable to third parties for lawful acts - and all the class-action and other third-party suits against cigarette companies by unions, health-insurance firms, and others seeking compensation for alleged indirect costs caused by others' smoking have also been rejected on similar grounds....

L.A. Times
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
Fair housing agencies report a surge in discrimination by immigrant landlords from many nations who refuse to rent outside their ethnic group
...What happened to Barbara and Laura is a troubling twist on the old scourge of housing bias, historically practiced by whites who denied housing to blacks. Now, fair housing groups from the San Fernando Valley to San Diego, in ethnic enclaves from Chicago to New York, report a surge in cases involving immigrants who refuse to rent to people outside their group. [Remember what Mario Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF, once said (RealAudio clip)]

Associated Press
Former INS inspector charged with visa scam
A former immigration agent--who already served time for extortion -- has been charged with scamming Chinese immigrants out of $575,000 by promising them visas for their family members, officials said. -- The same federal agents who nabbed Tin Yat Chin, 44, in 1993, arrested him again Tuesday outside his Flushing, Queens home. He was charged with posing as an immigrant inspector who could obtain visas for money, Assistant Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Patricia Pileggi said.		 The News - Mexico City
Ridge praises Mexico's anti- terrorism measures
Senior Mexican officials met with Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security, and also held talks with U.S. immigration, customs and aviation officials on Monday. -- Ridge thanked the Mexicans for taking steps to stem the flow of terrorist money and strengthening control of Mexican airspace, his spokeswoman, Susan Neely, said. -- Both sides agreed they have a shared interest in tightening border security without disrupting trade, she said.

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