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Williamson, Jr. / VDare.com Do Illegal Immigrants Have More Rights Than Americans? For decades, the desert between Naco and Douglas, Arizona and the mountainous country between Douglas and Cloverdale, New Mexico have been busy crossing points for drug smugglers and "ordinary" illegal aliens. Since the Border Patrol cracked down on the major southwestern migrant thoroughfares of Tijuana, Tucson, and El Paso in the 1990s, the volume of human traffic coming through the vicinity of Douglas in Cochise County has increased dramatically.... |
| Capitalism.com By the Word or by the Sword The President has gone out of his way to assure Americans that they have nothing to fear from the religion of Islam. "These acts of violence against innocents," declared President Bush, "violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith." Is the President right? Is Islam fundamentally a peaceful religion? |
Baltimore
Sun County school system reflects new diversity Five years ago, Pointers Run Elementary School in Columbia's River Hill village counted 74 Asian-American children. This year, there are 274. -- That change is the most striking example of a trend in Asian and Hispanic enrollments that is making Howard County schools more diverse... |
| El Paso
Times UTEP to mark '71 Chicano - MEChA uprising "The takeover is one of the most important events in the history of the university," said Antonio Arispe, a student at UTEP and a member of MEChA. "It's because of the demands made at that time that we have a lot of the services and programs that the university now boasts about. That takeover was radical, but it was something that needed to be done." |
Chicago
Tribune Citizenship drives draw crowds Beltrain Gulmaro always meant to become an American citizen. He has had plenty of time to do it, having moved here in 1977 as a teenager. But the citizenship process was "one of those things you always say you'll do later," Gulmaro said. -- A couple of days ago, a Spanish-language newscast caught his attention. U.S. Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) would be conducting a citizenship workshop Saturday on the Northwest Side. |
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L.A. Times Balancing Immigration With Job Openings Even as unemployment rises, Frank del Olmo presses for a guest-worker program ("Quick Fix Isn't Enough to Cure the INS," Commentary, Nov. 18). "Who," he asks, "could have foreseen the demand for foreign computer specialists by companies such as Microsoft?" Well, Congress thought it foresaw the demand. It let in a flood of computer programmers just in time for the high-tech crash. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Mexican judges are nervous The three couples were on their way to a baseball game on a Sunday afternoon this month. Jose Manuel de Alba and two other federal judges were looking forward to a break from their heavy workload. They stood chatting in front of de Alba's bungalow, waiting for his wife, when a red Chevrolet pulled up. Out stepped a man who leveled an AK-47 assault rifle and sprayed them with at least 40 bullets. -- In seconds, two judges and the wife of one lay dead. -- De Alba escaped by running into his garden. |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Foreigners hired as layoffs surge in U.S., tech workers say Amid a massive wave of tech layoffs, U.S. companies 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. -- Although the number of approved visas under the H-1B program fell short of the 195,000 allowed annually, the hiring binge in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 has still caused a furor in an industry... |
| Washington
Post / MSNBC New immigrants feel chilly reception Every flag, every "God Bless America" sign flashing at every barbecue joint reminds Alma Chavez that she is suddenly on the outside. Again. -- "Something weird is going on," she says, gunning her Chevy Silverado to work one November morning. Chavez recently started a $9-an-hour job as a receptionist at a storefront law office in an industrial section of Greensboro. The lawyer wanted to tap into Guilford County's exploding Hispanic population... [Discuss] |
Associated
Press Long border poses a big challenge Hyder, Alaska, is a tiny dot at the extreme southern corner of Alaska's panhandle lying next to Canada. At the headwaters of the Portland Canal, it's an international cul-de-sac where the line between the countries is blurred. -- American flags hang from the houses and car antennas, but the money in residents' pockets is just as likely to be Canadian "loonies." The bars are in Hyder; the jobs are in Stewart, British Columbia, two miles up the road. -- In fact, you have to drive through Stewart to reach Hyder. |
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