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| Charleston.net Immigrants say driver's license policy discriminates Recent tightening of the state driver's license policy allows the Public Safety Department to discriminate against people from other countries, some immigrants and their advocates say. -- Immigrants who have Social Security cards and have tried to renew their driver's licenses in the past month say they have been turned away by the Division of Motor Vehicles after they were unable to produce a student or work visa. -- They also say federal immigration paper work or Social Security cards have been confiscated after DMV employees said they were fake. |
| Arizona
Daily Star Student picked a bad time to cash a hot check It was "bad timing" that led to Walid Khaled Shehadeh's arrest and indictment for trying to cash a phony $30,000 check just nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a case prosecutor. -- Shehadeh, 24, recently a student in the University of Arizona's College of Architecture, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft by control, appearing before Pima County Superior Court Judge Michael Alfred. |
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News Mexican nationals busted in meth 'super lab' discovery Sheriff's officials said the bust of a "super lab" with enough chemicals to produce nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine could have a major impact on Antelope Valley drug sales. -- Raided Thursday by officers from two methamphetamine lab task forces, the lab was discovered in a house on Angeles Forest Highway, just outside the Angeles National Forest boundary. -- Five men, all described as Mexican citizens, were arrested. |
| El Paso
Times INS worker, wife jailed in smuggling case An INS inspector and his wife are in jail accused of participating in an international drug smuggling operation that imported tons of marijuana into El Paso from Juárez. -- Customs Service Agent in Charge John C. Kelley said his agency led a multi-agency task force investigation resulting in the arrests Thursday of INS inspector Raymond Monroe Allen II, 39, and his wife Maria Luisa Olivas Allen, 36. The Allens are being held in the El Paso County Jail without bond. |
L.A. Times INS Hunt Not Seen as Issue for LAPD The federal government's decision to enlist local authorities in tracking down more than 300,000 illegal immigrants ordered deported does not appear to pose a conflict with long- standing Los Angeles police policy, an LAPD spokesman said Friday. -- A 1979 LAPD directive, known as Special Order 40, bars officers from questioning people only because of their immigration status. Civil rights advocates have praised it as a model compromise. |
| World-Herald Jailed Turk says he's victim of 9/11 profiling After 37 days in a Washington County jail, Recai Cevik dropped to his knees and prayed. -- The Turkish Muslim was relieved to be out, yet also felt sad and confused at being swept up in what he and supporters say was post-Sept. 11 profiling. -- "It was my dream since high school to get my education in the United States," said Cevik. "Now I just want to go home." -- [The INS says is a visa overstayer.] |
Arizona
Daily Star Border waits back to normal In its first month at the ports of entry, the Arizona National Guard has had mixed results in cutting wait times for vehicles and people crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, an examination of U.S. Customs Service data shows. -- Customs Service figures show average wait times for vehicles at the ports increased sharply shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, to nearly an hour at downtown Nogales and more than 50 minutes at Douglas and Nogales' Mariposa cargo port. |
| Los Angeles
Times Americans to protest Mexican ID cards ...Critics also planned a "Defense of the Homeland" rally outside Anaheim City Hall today. Many are critical of what they call lax U.S. immigration policies, adding that accepting the IDs offers de facto citizenship to foreigners who don't deserve the privilege. -- They also say any law enforcement officer who receives such an ID should consider the person undocumented and arrest him under U.S. immigration laws. -- But San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval called that argument nonsense, saying Americans are only shooting themselves in the foot by making life hard on immigrants who play such a vital role in the nation's service economy. |
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