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Charter School in Los Angeles Unified School District Community activists in East Los Angeles have petitioned the Board of Education for a new charter school. It is to be Kindergarten through 12th grade - a dual immersion "50/50" school - 50% English instruction and 50% Spanish instruction. |
| Associated
Press Ashcroft Seeks to Strengthen Border Attorney General John Ashcroft said Sunday he has asked that several hundred National Guard members help with inspections at U.S.- Canadian crossings and wants military helicopters to patrol the border. -- Tighter security since Sept. 11 meant the government had to transfer agents from other duties to man checkpoints along the 4,000-mile border. Ashcroft said the addition of the National Guard would relieve those Immigration and Naturalization Service workers and let them return to regular duties. |
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"Diverse
Spots" A list of places in the United States showing the percentage of residents who speak a language other than English at home. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Fake papers aided suspect A Maricopa County Attorney's Office investigation spells out exactly how tRedouane Dahmani moved from country to country, and then state to state, getting phony documents and changing his name for the past five years. -- The saga began sometime before 1996, when Dahmani purchased a phony French passport under the name of Halim Lalami. According to investigators, Dahmani explained that he could not fly to America as an Algerian, "but a French citizen can just hop on a plane and you're there." |
USA Today Houston mayor wins re-election for third term Mayor Lee Brown held off City Councilman Orlando Sanchez in a tight race Saturday to win re-election to a third term and derail Sanchez's bid to become Houston's first Hispanic mayor. -- Overwhelming support for Brown in several late-reporting and predominantly black Fort Bend County precincts put the incumbent over the top after the two candidates to lead the nation's fourth- largest city swapped the vote advantage repeatedly throughout the evening Saturday. |
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Letter to the O.C. Register Re: Center aims to aid, abet illegals Carlos Olamendi, restaurant owner and self-proclaimed illegal alien supporter, should be arrested and jailed for aiding and abetting illegal aliens. Mr. Olamendi sees nothing wrong with helping illegals who are violating our immigration laws. |
| Washington
Post Border Agents Answer Higher Call Keith Weeks has spent the past six years as a federal agent guarding the border with Mexico. He speaks with enthusiasm about his job and, until recently, had no serious plans to leave it. Then he heard about the perks of becoming an air marshal. -- More money. More mobility. A new challenge. Weeks, 35, has applied. "I like the work I do now," he said. "But I feel like I have to check out this option. It could lead to a better quality of life." |
L.A. Times Congress Mulls Visas, Borders Four senators have combined competing versions of legislation that would tighten border security and visa screening in an effort to pass the bill this year. -- Sens. Ted Kennedy and Sam Brownback, joined with Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Jon Kyl to draft the new legislation. They said the bill would build on laws passed since Sept. 11 to prevent terrorists from entering the United States through loopholes in immigration laws and the nation's visa system. |
| Salt Lake
Tribune - Commentary Racist Editorial Was Wrong... ..."While excluding east-side transfer students from the closure equation, the district has focused heavily on west-side growth that is driven in part by the ultimate out-of-district students: illegal immigrants." He further complains that illegal immigrants are being treated better and given preference over "legitimate" east-side students. These are the reasons why his argument is both bogus and racist. -- The term itself, illegal immigrant, is a choice term. It helps to paint a picture of criminality... |
Des Moines
Register 80% of blacks, Hispanics in D.M. schools are poor Eighty percent of African-American and Hispanic students in Des Moines schools live in families whose incomes are at or near poverty levels, officials learned for the first time this fall. -- About one-third of the district's white students face similar economic struggles. -- Community activist Jonathan Narcisse said the alarming poverty levels show the school district must change how it educates minority students. School officials disagree. |
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This is about the article: "Tight borders spurs drug abuse in Juarez." There we go again. It is the gringos' fault that Mexicans are taking drugs! If we would only open our borders, all that nice "stuff" would come to the gringos and the wonderful Mexicans would be again drug- free hard working people. Well, I say: "Better they than us!" :-) --H.P. |
| L.A. Times
- Opinion Put Mexico Relations Back on Front Burner It seems hard to remember now, but the first White House state dinner of President Bush feted not Russia's Vladimir V. Putin, Britain's Tony Blair or Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf, all heads of state who are now vitally important U.S. allies. Rather, that first dinner was for Mexico's President Vicente Fox. One week before the Sept. 11 attacks, 2001 was shaping up as the Year of Mexico, a time for growing common interests and new levels of cooperation. |
The News
- Mexico City Castañeda: Sept. 11 did not alter course of history The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington may have changed the United States' perception of the world, but they did not mark a fundamental change in the course of history, according to Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castañeda. -- "I don't underestimate the importance these events have had or may yet have on the United States' perception of the world. They may cause increased isolation or, on the other hand, multilateralism..." |
| El Paso
Times Tight border spurs drug abuse in Juárez Tightened security at the border after the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks has caused illegal drugs to pile up in Juárez, where traffickers are finding new customers and creating more addicts, officials said. -- Customs Service, INS and Department of Agriculture agents at the El Paso international bridges have received help from the National Guard and the Border Patrol to conduct more stringent inspections... [American Patrol comment: We are waiting for Jorge Castañeda to demand we open the borders so they can get the drugs out of Juarez.] |
Arizona
Daily Star Decline in test scores expected as English mandated All students must take the AIMS and Stanford 9 tests - designed to test their knowledge of academics - in English this year, even if they do not yet fully know the language, according to a new state law. -- The results will likely lower schools' scores on the annual assessment tests, local educators say. -- "I think it's going to be somewhat of a paradox for the first couple years - educators want students to take the tests and be prepared. But I think now scores will be somewhat lower, in terms of group scores, across the board..." |
| Arizona
Daily Star Mexican court blocks Ariz. extradition in cop killing A ruling by Mexico's Supreme Court is blocking Arizona efforts to bring a man to trial in the killing of a Phoenix police officer 13 years ago. -- Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano said Mexico's high court concluded recently that it will extradite accused criminals only to countries - and states - that have a similar sentencing structure to Mexico's. -- The court said the Mexican constitution provides that all sentences must be for a specific number of years, said Napolitano. |
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