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Tribune Employment for illegals drying up ...Community advocates say more undocumented Hispanic workers are departing the Chicago area rather than struggling to find jobs in the service and manufacturing industries, which have been hurt by the stagnating economy and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. -- No one can quantify how many have left, but Ric Estrada of the Erie Neighborhood House in West Town, which serves thousands of Mexicans a year, estimates that immigrants are twice as likely now to make that choice because of the economy. |
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"In
Defense of America" Rally The Orange County Register's story about the protest rally at the Anaheim City Hall against Mexican I.D. cards being used by the police was all wet. In the story "Rally becomes a brawl" by Page Austin, he says "little was actually said about the I.D. cards at the rally". This is a huge lie. |
| El Paso
Times Mexican consulate to cut services The Mexican Consulate General in El Paso will cut services to clients in the region and close its Midland-Odessa office as part of budget cutbacks by the Mexican federal government, officials said. -- "These decisions are the result of a 12 percent reduction in next year's budget approved by the Foreign Ministry, which oversees the Mexican consulates abroad," Consul Antonio Meza said. |
Duluth News UW-Madison likely to settle janitors' discrimination case The University of Wisconsin-Madison has agreed to a tentative settlement with janitors who were fired after they were singled out for background checks because of their Hispanic- sounding names. -- The university has agreed to pay $24,000 over 18 months to the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin to settle the case, said Jonathan Rosenblum... |
| Associated
Press Request for Visa Info Held Up Florida investigators are frustrated by their inability to obtain federal immigration records of foreigners who remain in the country with expired visas, information officials believe could help stop terrorists. -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service for a list of anyone whose nonimmigrant visa has expired as well as anyone who obtained a visa and listed Florida as their destination. |
AZ Republic
(Free Registration) Non-citizen airport screeners facing layoffs ...The Aviation and Transportation Security Act signed by President Bush last month will make the country's 28,000 airport security screeners federal workers. Screeners are welcome to apply to keep their jobs, but only citizens qualify. -- "I'm not too concerned because I'll be able to get another position with the company," said [Ukranian immigrant Rafayel] Pinkhasov, who has been a screener for three years. "But I think we're all the same. We all have to serve our nation." |
| Arizona
Daily Star - Series Chapter One: City a vital link in drug trade "Historically, there have been connections between people in Southern Arizona and people in Mexico in the marijuana distribution network. Over time that's just grown," said Raymond L. Vinsik, director of the Arizona High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federal intelligence and anti-drug coordinating center known as HIDTA. -- Traffickers working here spend money like anyone else - on business and personal costs such as housing, vehicles and food. |
Fox News Prisoner Exchange Program Questioned After Arrest After the drug arrest this week of a convicted murderer who was freed in the middle of his life sentence, authorities are examining the prisoner exchange program that led to his early release. -- Juan Martin Cantu served only two years of a life sentence for murder in Texas before being transferred to a Mexican prison in 1978. -- Four years later he was released from jail and returned to Texas. -- This week, Cantu was arrested on felony marijuana charges. |
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"In
Defense of America" Rally My Husband and I attended the rally (Dec 8, 2001) on Saturday! It was the first for both of us. It is disturbing to see with our own eyes what certain government leaders are doing against the American people. Everything you and Barbara Coe has been telling us is the complete truth! |
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"In
Defense of America" Rally To Glenn Spencer: ...You did an excellent job today, thank you for your time and efforts. It's appreciated by more people than you think. |
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on the "In Defense of America" rally Should anyone be surprised at the biased reporting in the Los Angeles Times and Daily News? The "In Defense of America" rally was organized by American Patrol together and the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. It was to be a peaceful rally, as all of our rallies are. The Orange County Register opens with "If they came looking for a fight, they sure got one." We did not come looking for a fight, we came to demand enforcement of our immigration laws. |
| Alamance
Independent What nation's government schools are North Carolina's? Last Tuesday, the state school bureaucracy announced that, by last Thursday, their giant headquarters building in Raleigh would temporarily be home to a traveling art exhibition - one entitled "This Is My Mexico." -- The exhibition of oil paintings, colored-pencil drawings, and watercolors was opened Thursday morning... |
San Diego
Union-Tribune Filner stays focused on border issues If Rep. Bob Filner has his way, there will be demonstrations someday at the San Ysidro border crossing to protest lengthy waiting lines and lack of immigration inspectors. -- Then again, as a minority party member of the House of Representatives, the San Diego Democrat does not get his way very often, especially on border issues... |
| Fresno Bee Mexicans going home and staying Salvador Preciado, an undocumented farmworker in Porterville, hasn't visited his native state of Michoacán, México, in eight years. This week, he will travel by bus for four days to reach the coastal village of Coahuayan to meet friends and relatives. -- for four days to reach the coastal village of Coahuayan to meet friends and relatives. -- for four days to reach the coastal village of Coahuayan to meet friends and relatives. What makes this trip unique is that Preciado doesn't think he'll be returning to the United States any time soon. |
El Paso
Times INS push moves cars over bridges more quickly The INS began a program Saturday morning that could cut 30 minutes off the waiting time for holiday commuters traveling to El Paso from Juárez at the Paso del Norte Bridge and Bridge of the Americas. -- The program, called the double-time and triple-time push, allows two or three cars to be inspected at the same time by INS and Border Patrol agents at El Paso's two busiest bridges. [Reader Comment: Mexicans are now dictating our security measures. I work for INS in El Paso] |
| Orange
Co. Register Rally over Mexican ID policy becomes brawl If they came looking for a fight, they sure got one. -- A brawl broke out Saturday morning in front of Anaheim City Hall, as 20 to 30 members of opposing protest groups shoved, kicked and punched each other before the start of a rally called to denounce the Anaheim Police Department's decision to accept Mexican consulate cards as valid identification. -- The California Coalition for Immigration Reform organized the rally. As is typical for the coalition's events, counterprotesters, including members of the Los Angeles-based Anti-Racist Action and People Against Racist Terror, also showed up. The groups have clashed violently at past rallies. [What really went on? Compare L.A. Times photo to American Patrol photo] |
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