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Protest Mexican ID Acceptance at Anaheim City Hall |
| Debbie
Schlussel / WorldNetDaily.com Do you believe 'Jihad Darrell'? Every six months, a snake crawls out of its old skin, but it is still a snake. Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., "Jihad Darrell" should know this. -- But while he tries to wriggle out of his recent pro-terrorist comments and actions abroad, he thinks he can fool us into believing he's a new creature. -- Jihad Darrell made laudatory comments about Arab terrorist group, Hezbollah, while he was in Lebanon, his third trip in only a few months. It was reported by a number of Arab sources and newspapers, including the Tehran Times. |
| National
Review - Rich Lowry Guilty of Enforcing the Law Let's take an up-close-and-personal look at John Ashcroft's supposed crusade to curtail our civil liberties, which Al Hunt today compares to A. Mitchell Palmer's campaign to lock up radicals and left-wingers in 1919-20. -- Hunt, in his bill of particulars, complains that the reason for Ashcroft's "unacceptable secrecy" in not revealing the list of current detainees is that he "is on a fishing expedition; if actual details, names and faces were made public, it might be embarrassing." |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Court upholds translation law A Norcross ordinance that required ethnic business signs to include English translations has survived its first test in court. -- The recent ruling by a federal judge has forced Latino advocates to seek another tactic in their attempt to strike down the measure they say unfairly burdens merchants in their communities. -- "This has implications for Hispanic businesses, so [opposing the ordinance] will definitely be a community project," said Maritza Soto Keen... |
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WRTV - The
Indy Channel Indy Mayor To Work On Spanish Skills In Mexico Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson and 22 public safety employees will go to Mexico next year to improve their Spanish, officials said Wednesday. |
| L.A. Times 6 Charged With Operating Sex Ring Federal authorities have charged six men with smuggling women and girls from Mexico and forcing them to work as prostitutes among the thick reeds of a riverbank in northern San Diego County. -- The men, arraigned Thursday, were named in a federal complaint in U.S. District Court alleging that they recruited customers at an Oceanside swap meet and took them to a brush-choked area along the San Luis Rey River for sexual encounters with the young women, some of whom were minors. [References: Article 1 | Article 2] |
| Milwaukee
Journal Wisconsin AG's office questions INS deportation plan Federal officials want local law enforcement to arrest and detain people who stay in this country after they have been ordered deported, but Wisconsin's attorney general's office said Thursday that it's not clear that state law allows that. -- "The law is clear if there's an outstanding criminal warrant they can assist," said Randy Romanski, spokesman for Attorney General James Doyle. It is less clear in non- criminal cases - as most deportation order violations are - that local enforcement has that same authority, he said. |
Miami Herald Tracking down illegal immigrants a tall order for police Thousands of foreigners in the United States who evade deportation orders -- a group once largely ignored by perennially overwhelmed immigration authorities -- could be snared by local police under a federal decision to put their names on a national crime database. -- The new policy represents an unexpected change of course for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which has come under fire in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks for failure to track the millions of illegal immigrants in the country. |
| Associated
Press Hijacker Helper Exaggerated Claims Prosecutors say a man accused of helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers fraudulently obtain Virginia identification cards also exaggerated his connections to the men and misled FBI agents into believing other attacks were imminent. -- Luis Martinez-Flores, 28, pleaded guilty to document fraud for signing forms falsely certifying that Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar, hijackers on the flight that crashed into the Pentagon , were state residents. The hijackers paid him $100. Martinez-Flores is one of four people who have pleaded guilty to document fraud... |
Boston Globe
/ Stein Report A nation of immigrants faces the challenge Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KN) co-authored an op-ed in the Boston Globe. "Immigration is not the problem; terrorism is," the two argue. The Senators argue that there is no need to "obstruct the entry of the more than 31 million [foreign visitors]; nor need we frustrate the millions of others [who cross daily]." Kennedy and Brownback state that in addition to enhancing intelligence sharing among federal agencies, consular screening should be toughened. They also call for the creation of a "North America-wide perimeter" through co-operation with Canada and Mexico. |
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"Missing"
Deportees and Mexican Sham ID's ...My, my! It's absolutely incredible to me that we can lose 314,000 human beings --- the size of a small city! -- Just wait....when they get sick, have a few babies, or need public assistance, they'll surface with their brand new matricula consular, the ID issued by their local Consulate! |
| Associated
Press Suspect Admits Voter Fraud A Pakistani man who federal officials say may have been acquainted with the Sept. 11 hijackers pleaded guilty Thursday to voter fraud. -- In a brief federal court hearing, Imtiaz Ahmed Siddiqui, 31, admitted he signed a voter registration form that identified him as a U.S. citizen when he got a driver's license in Durham in August. He is a citizen of Pakistan. -- "He acknowledged he made a mistake by signing the form," defense lawyer Dan Boyce said after the hearing. |
N.Y. Times
(Free Registration) Mayoral Races Offer New Lessons Democrats and Republicans got a reminder this year in mayors' races in New York, Houston and Los Angeles that Hispanic voters are a fast- growing and crucial swing vote tied more closely to ethnic than party loyalty. -- cities' mayoral races, could be important in many races next year. -- Democrats still claim an advantage of 2-to-1 or more over Republicans among Hispanics in many parts of the country, but they face a challenge in holding that edge. |
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Alexandria
Journal Immigration system in disrepair ...The notion that Congress is considering awarding citizenship to non-U.S. citizens who have have violated federal law makes a mockery of our legal system, and insults every law-abiding U.S. citizen. |
| El Paso
Times Shots fired at border agents El Paso agents with the U.S. Border Patrol said they were fired on twice from Mexico late Wednesday as they investigated a suspected smuggling near West Paisano Drive, officials said. -- "The agents took cover as soon as they heard the gunfire, but no one was hurt," Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said. -- Mosier said the Border Patrol arrested three men from Mexico and seized 158 pounds of marijuana in connection with the incident. |
Associated
Press Immigration crackdown and farm- labor shortage Tougher immigration enforcement since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has contributed to a shortage of migrant farm labor in New York state and around the country, according to farm officials. -- The harvest of New York's apple crop, short of pickers, continued into mid- November, said John Lincoln, president of the New York Farm Bureau. |
| AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Family files lawsuit over English immersion law A 7-year-old Tucson girl and her parents filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a state law that requires English immersion for most Arizona students. -- Oscar and Lizabeth Morales claim in a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson that the Tucson Unified School District denied their daughter, Jasmine, the equal opportunity to learn after the first-grader was taken out of a bilingual education class. |
San Francisco
Chronicle Bay Area police mulling new list for deportations Police agencies throughout the nation are being asked to help federal immigration authorities track down more than 314,000 foreigners who are under deportation order but have disappeared. -- About 18,400 of California's estimated 45,800 "abscondees" are in the Immigration and Naturalization Service's San Francisco district, which covers all of Northern and Central California, according to the immigration service. |
| Associated
Press November Unemployment Rises to 5.7 Percent The nation's unemployment rate took another big leap upward in November to 5.7 percent, the highest level in six years, as 331,000 more Americans lost their jobs, the government reported Friday. -- It marked the second consecutive month of massive job losses as the weak economy continued to stagger from the blow delivered by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Detainee trained as pilot Hunger striker under indictment An Arizona man who was arrested amid the FBI's anti-terror dragnet has been indicted on 36 new criminal counts, some of them stemming from his employment as a pilot- trainee for a Phoenix airline. -- According to a new federal indictment released Thursday, Malek Mohammed Seif lied about his name and Social Security number on job application forms for Mesa Air Group. |
| The News
- Mexico City / AP Mexican truckers block bridges in protest of U.S. truck decision More than 600 Mexican truckers briefly blocked two international bridges between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, to protest drivers being refused entry into the United States. -- The protest was an indication of possible problems to come when tougher U.S. inspections of Mexican trucks are implemented next year. -- Manuel Sotelo, president of the Juarez Trucking Association, who led the hour-long protest Wednesday, blamed a computer glitch for the drivers' problems. |
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Spencer.. The Hector Bywater of the 21st Century? |
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| 1925:
Bywater predicted war with Japan "The man who first conceived of the great Pacific war -- Japan's surprise attack, the seizure of the Philippines and Guam, and even the American island-hopping campaign that dominated its course thereafter -- was a convivial, pub-crawling British naval correspondent for the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun, who died under highly mysterious circumstances in 1940, a year before Pearl Harbor." |
1998:
Spencer warns of border "war" with Mexico In 1998, Glenn Spencer of American Patrol, warned of a coming "Mexican Civil/Border War" he said might begin on the border at Juarez-El Paso. He personally delivered copies of his scenario to the offices of House Majority Leader Newt Gingrich. |
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