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Tuesday, November 27, 2001

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Poll
Should illegals be given amnesty?

Mexican ID Cards Drawing Criticism

Los Angeles Times - November 26
...The American Patrol and the California Coalition for Immigration Reform take a hard line against illegal immigration. "Our concerns are that the police in Orange County seem to be taking it upon themselves to assume the responsibility for foreign affairs," said Glenn Spencer, president of the Sherman Oaks-based American Patrol. -- "The only persons, it would seem to us, who need to get the special consular documents are persons who are in the country illegally."

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Reuters
Castro Leads Protest Over U.S. Immigration Policy
President Fidel Castro, wearing a black arm band, led Cubans in a rally in front of the U.S. diplomatic mission on Tuesday to protest the deaths at sea of 30 Cuban migrants, which Havana blames on Washington's immigration policy. -- "The Cuban Adjustment Act is not only a murderous law, but also a terrorist law of the worst sort that consciously kills without the least remorse innocent children,'' Castro said, closing the late-afternoon rally with his back to the U.S. Interests Section.

Washington Post
Oregon AG Goes With Terror Probe
The Oregon attorney general cleared the way Tuesday for state police and prosecutors to question foreign visitors as part of the federal terrorism investigation, a step made after Portland police refused to do the interrogations. [See previous feature on this issue.]

Bakersfield Californian
UC to Consider In-State Tuition for Some Illegals
The UC Board of Regents is expected to consider in January a policy that would allow undocumented immigrants who live in California to pay in-state tuition at UC. -- Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill in October that dictates such a policy for California state and community colleges, but the decision to adopt the tuition exemption policy at UC is left to the UC regents. UC has been consistent in following state tuition policies in the past, according to a UC statement.

Orlando Sentinel
Some noncitizens could face tighter rules to wed
It could become harder for some immigrants and visiting foreigners to get married in Florida if laws change to require a valid visa, passport or resident alien card in order to apply for a marriage license. -- In a special session that begins today, the House Security Committee hopes to take up a proposal that would prevent noncitizens from using expired identification when they apply to marry. --

Pioneer Planet
19 illegals arrested at factory
...Many of those arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service - 15 men, three women and one teen-age boy - will return to their home countries of Mexico and El Salvador as early as Wednesday, INS officials predicted. -- Monday's action is an uncommon move for the Immigration and Natural Service. The agency's policies have shifted in recent years to finding undocumented people engaged in criminal activities...

BBC
Denmark has new minority government
A minority right-wing coalition has been formed in Denmark, a week after the old Social Democrat-led government was voted from office in a general election. -- Liberal Party leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced in Copenhagen that, as expected, he had formed an alliance with the Conservatives, which he will lead as prime minister. -- Mr Rasmussen was presenting his new government to Queen Margrethe on Tuesday. -- He has previously pledged to embark on a programme which will include tightening immigration rules.

WorldNetDaily.com / Pat Buchanan
Is America ashamed of its Christian past?
Five days after declaring war on terrorism, the president urged Americans to be patient: "This crusade ... is going to take awhile." Immediately, the cry arose, "How could he be so cruelly insensitive!" -- Bush was scourged and admonished that he had insulted the Islamic world. Did he not know the Crusades were wars of criminal Christian aggression marked by pillage and massacre? The president apologized, and no one has since embraced the dreaded term.

Des Moines Register
Bernard Ortiz has a mission to organize new wave of Hispanics
...As the new Hispanic outreach coordinator for the Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Laborers' District Council, the 39-year-old native of Zacatecas, Mexico, is about as welcome at most construction projects as an undertaker at a wedding. -- "They're not used to having some Hispanic go to the job site and start asking them questions," Ortiz said with a trace of satisfaction. -- Reaching out to Hispanic workers has become a major focus of all unions, not just the Laborers'.

Arizona Daily Star
English funding creates impasse
Improving education for students with limited English skills is proving elusive at the Legislature, where plans to increase money spent on English instruction failed to gain a majority Monday. -- Lawmakers are under a U.S. District Court order to fix what the court found was an "arbitrary" funding system that left struggling students in crowded classrooms with high failure rates. They must fix the system by January, or the end of this special session, whichever comes first.

ToogoodReports.com
The Only Things Absolutely Certain Are Death, Taxes And Amnesty
...Here we go again. Mexican President Vicente Fox hosted Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt at his ranch in central Mexico to discuss, among other things, how to handle the 3 million Mexicans currently living in the United States without visas. Then, of course, there are millions more from Central and South America as well as from nations in the Middle East and India. [Discuss]

BBC
Migration: Can it be controlled?
A major international conference is taking place in the Dutch city of Rotterdam this week to discuss the current global movement of migrants. -- Delegates from more than forty countries will examine the differences in admissions policies of various countries...

N.Y. Post
Mayor-elect Bloomberg jets to Santo Domingo
...Michael Bloomberg also voiced muted support for amnesty for illegal immigrants so they can bury their dead in the Dominican Republic and return to New York. -- The White House opposes an amnesty. -- Looking more like a diplomat than a New York mayor, Bloomberg said he invited Dominican President Hipolito Mejia to Gracie Mansion next spring, and he expects the two will meet often. [Also see this article in today's Newsday]

Buffalo News
Group forms lobbying strategy to overhaul border policy
A smoothly functioning border in the post-Sept. 11 era has become a top priority for government and business leaders in both Ontario and New York. -- Leaders from both sides of the border met in Buffalo on Monday to begin forming a joint lobbying strategy seeking to overhaul U.S.- Canada border policy. -- Border crossing times have become a bigger business issue for many companies trying to meet delivery deadlines.

Washington Post
Abraham Shuns Position as Spokesman for Arab Americans
The secretary of energy's message of the day was of war and tolerance. He was in a fifth-grade classroom at a school in Arlington one recent morning, where the students were about to send e-mail messages filled with questions to another class of students at a school in Karachi, Pakistan. -- Spencer Abraham talked about what has been happening since Sept. 11. -- "It's a war against some bad people," he said, "but we're not at war against people whose religion is Muslim...."

The News - Mexico City
NCLR's Yzaguirre diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease
[NCLR] Chairman Raul Yzaguirre, one of the United States' most outstanding fighters for Hispanic rights, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he announced. -- Yzaguirre's doctors said the disease is in its initial stage and that there is no reason to believe that this situation will prevent him from continuing his activities in favor of Hispanic civil rights. -- Specialist Jonathan Pincu at the Georgetown University Medical School is heading up Yzaguirre's treatment.

El Paso Times
Border crossings dip in month after terror attacks
Vehicle traffic between bridges connecting Texas and Mexico declined by as much as 27% in the first full month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, new statistics show. -- Numbers examined by the Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International Univ. revealed that border crossings were down significantly at several Texas cities.

N.Y. Times (Free Registration)
U.S. Pressures Foreign Airlines Over Manifests
The United States has told Saudi, Russian, Chinese and other foreign airlines that their passengers arriving in this country will be put through extremely rigorous, lengthy searches, starting Thursday, if the airlines did not provide information needed to identify potential terrorists. -- The new aviation security law, signed by President Bush on Nov. 19, requires foreign carriers to cooperate.

Coalition Update
The president of Mexico killed California Proposition 187. The Mexican government has negotiated its way into partial control of all of Orange County (CA) police departments. Seventy-four percent of the residents of Santa Ana speak Spanish. Mayor Hahn goes to Mexico and says Los Angeles is a Mexican City.

Arizona Daily Star
Latinos gaining presence in politics
Perez, Garcia, Diaz and Garza. Remember these names. They are the up- and- coming stars of Latino politics in the United States. -- These men were recently elected mayors of major U.S. cities. In some cases, the elections made history. In all cases, they showed the growing importance of the Hispanic vote. -- Eddie Perez became the first Hispanic mayor of Hartford, Conn., [a city that is 40% Hispanic.]

Associated Press
More drugs seized at border
The amount of illegal drugs stopped at the U.S. border rose 16% in the past year, the Customs Service said Monday. -- Customs inspectors confiscated 1.79 million pounds of illegal drugs in fiscal year 2001, which ended Sept. 30. During the previous year 1.54 million pounds were seized. -- The figures include cocaine, heroin and other opiates, methamphetamine and marijuana, but not the hallucinogenic drug Ecstasy.

The News - Mexico City / AP
Gov't warns of mass return of Mexicans from U.S.
The Interior Secretariat on Monday warned the nation's poor economy means millions of migrants expected to return home from the U.S. for the holiday season will have little hope of finding jobs if they decide to stay. -- Several government officials have predicted tightened security and massive layoffs brought upon by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would cause many migrants to stay home until conditions in the U.S. improve. [Discuss]

The News - Mexico City / AP
Trial begins for man accused of beating illegals
A prosecutor said Monday that Ryan Wagner and another man hatched a "plan to lure two unsuspecting day laborers to their death" and carried out the hate crime in an abandoned warehouse. -- The laborers survived the brutal beating. -- The beatings took place amid tensions in several Suffolk County communities - in eastern Long Island - over an alleged influx of illegal migrants from Mexico.

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