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Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
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on KMSB-11, Tucson (Fox Network) February 4 |
Media
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MSNBC -- 11 AM Pacific - |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The U.S. Department of Justice is expanding
a controversial initiative that requires men from several largely
Muslim nations to be fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed
by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- Students, tourists
and businessmen from Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and
Kuwait will join visa holders from 20 other countries required
to register, according to documents to be published today in
the Federal Register. -- The government also is giving a second
chance to foreign nationals, mainly from the Middle East, who
missed recent deadlines to register. |
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Christian
Science Monitor
Mexico's President Vicente Fox apparently
realizes that his migration-policy desires must finally adjust
to a post-Sept. 11 world. -- The appointment of a new foreign
minister last week, following the resignation of Jorge
Castañeda, indicates a new, go-slow approach to border
issues, say experts. -- Since joining the Fox administration
in 2001, Mr. Castañeda tried to forge a wide-ranging migration
policy with the United States that would have opened the border
to workers, trucks, and trade..... |
Chicago Tribune (Free Registration)
Pakistan's ambassador to the United States
warned Tuesday that new immigration requirements have caused
a backlash among Pakistanis locally and in his home country.
-- In a meeting with members of the Tribune's editorial board,
Ashraf J. Qazi said he is pushing U.S. officials not to punish
Pakistanis who might have lost their legal immigration status
but are otherwise not a security threat. -- A new U.S. policy
requires males 16 and older from 20 countries, including Pakistan,
to register with the local office of the INS. The requirement
does not apply to U.S. citizens or holders of green cards. |
Associated Press
A judge has ruled that 17-year-old sniper
suspect John
Lee Malvo [a Jamaican illegal] can be tried as an adult,
making him eligible for the death penalty. -- Juvenile Court
Judge Charles Maxfield issued his decision after a two-day hearing
in which prosecutors said evidence tied Malvo to three fatal
attacks and that he tried to extort $US10 million from authorities
during last fall's killing spree. -- Malvo and John Allen Muhammad,
42, are accused of killing 13 people and wounding five others
in Alabama, Georgia..... |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
The U.S. government dramatically increased
the deportation of people from Muslim nations in the year after
Sept. 11, 2001, even as it eased up on illegal immigrants from
Mexico and other countries. -- The numbers of foreign nationals
expelled to their native countries in North Africa, the Middle
East and South Asia multiplied faster than for citizens of nearly
all other nations from October 2001 to September 2002, according
to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution computer analysis of INS records. |
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Associated
Press
President Bush, stepping into a major
affirmative action case, asserted today that was "fundamentally flawed"
and unconstitutional. -- The program "amounts to a quota
system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students
solely on their race," Bush said in announcing that his
administration would file a legal brief in the case with the
Supreme Court on Thursday. |
Sierra Vista Herald Editorial [Short-lived link]
There is no doubt many efforts have been
made to get more Americans to vote. -- Voter registration drives,
such as the one currently being undertaken by the Greater Sierra
Vista Area Chamber of Commerce, are good. They inform prospective
voters of why they should register and vote. --- And --- For
that reason, we support state lawmaker Linda Gray, R-Glendale,
and her -- Some will claim it is offensive
to show ID to prove you're a citizen and have the right to vote.
-- We say hogwash. |
We Get
E-Mail |
Open
Letter to Bush, Ashcroft, Congress
What will you do about this? Clearly, Mexico
has no business having as many consular offices in the United
States as they do. Illegal aliens are not supposed to be here.
They have circumvented the law, and the Mexican Government is
aiding and perpetuating the situation. -- Now, it seems, they
have taken their meddling to a whole new level. The Mexican Government,
as a foreign governmental entity, is now interfering with our
law enforcement procedures. |
New York Post -
"Before this year, [New York] residents
paid $3,400 annually to attend [SUNY.] If you were from out of
state, no matter if your ancestor rowed the Mayflower over here
or if your father was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner,
you paid double: $6,800 annually. Illegal aliens living in New
York also paid double. This year the Mayflower rower's great-great-great-grandson
and Medal of Honor [winner's] son will pay $6,800, but the illegal
alien? The same as a state resident - $3,400. Why should [New
York] taxpayers be forced to underwrite the college education
of illegal aliens?" |
Sham
ID Cards |
Cybercast
News Service
Identification cards issued by the Mexican
government are gaining greater legitimacy in the U.S. That has
some people worried that illegal aliens will be able to better
conduct terrorist activities on U.S. soil. -- "You had zero
leadership from the Bush
administration or from any federal officials about the dire
consequences of ... state and local governments treating these
documents as credible," said David Ray, spokesman for the
group, . |
KNBC - Los Angeles
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower
court's ruling that Democratic state legislators did not violate
the civil rights of Hispanic voters in 2001 when they redrew
district lines for the San Fernando Valley's two congressional
seats. -- On Monday, the justices accepted a June ruling by a
U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles and rejected an appeal
of a lawsuit brought by the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Education Fund. |
Star
Tribune
The No. 1 item on the agenda of the House
Republican majority -- driver's license changes intended to track
foreign visitors -- sailed through its first committee hearing
on Tuesday with only a few dissenting DFL votes. -- Olmsted County
Sheriff Steve Borchardt told the House Transportation Policy
Committee that the Minnesota Sheriffs Association supports the
measure as "a real common-sense approach to keeping our
country safe." [] |
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Detroit
News
His wild driving left Tricia Taylor nearly
dead, with one pint of blood in her veins, no blood pressure
and ultimately no legs. -- But four months after the devastating
accident, 18-year-old Taylor emerged a survivor. On Monday, it
was her turn to leave Jose Carcamo to his own fate: prison. --
Surrounded by two dozen family members and friends, Taylor wheeled
herself into an Oakland County courtroom to ask Circuit Judge
John J. McDonald to give Carcamo, who smashed into Taylor and
her friend Noah Menard as the pair walked down a Pontiac street
on Aug. 31, 2002, the maximum sentence for his crimes. |
Tucson Citizen
Eight recent seizures of marijuana in
southern Arizona by Native American trackers, known as the Shadow
Wolves, totaled 3,660 pounds and resulted in 11 arrests. -- The
seizures, which began Friday, have an estimated street value
of $3.66 million, said Customs spokesman Roger Maier. -- The
trackers are based in the U.S. Customs office in Sells. -- The
largest seizure was Sunday, when officers seized 1,598.3 pounds
near Vamori. Maier said that load, which was backpacked into
the United States may be the largest backpack load ever seized.
But no arrests were made. |
Press
Release |
Federation
for American Immigration Reform
The continuing silence by the federal
government regarding the growing acceptance of the Mexican
government-issued matricula consular identity documents is
yet another indication that in spite of the Bush Administration's
promises to deal seriously with border security and illegal immigration,
the official policy is still to look the other way at massive
violations of our immigration laws, charges the . |
Houston Chronicle
A Miami man received a prison sentence
Tuesday for acting as a middleman in a bribery scheme in which
an estimated 100 unqualified truck drivers obtained commercial
driver's licenses in Florida. -- In federal court in Chicago,
U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman told Peter Gregus that he had
endangered thousands of drivers by helping unqualified truckers
obtain their licenses. The judge said the unskilled drivers became
"10-ton torpedoes" on the nation's highways. |
The
Arizona Republic
National security soon could be jeopardized
because thousands of immigration agents, including members of
the Border Patrol, would quit before facing new regulations stripping
them of all employee rights... -- The new Department of Homeland
Security, which will officially begin doing business Jan. 24,
assumes the duties of 22 federal agencies. -- The merger includes
the INS, which is scheduled to be split into two new branches,
one for immigrant services and another for law enforcement, on
March 1. |
Sham
ID Cards |
L.A. Daily
News
L.A. Co. will continue to accept matricular
consular cards from illegal
Mexican immigrants seeking services despite the district
attorney's warning of potential security risks associated with
the IDs. -- District Attorney Stephen Cooley and Supervisor Michael
Antonovich expressed concern about security, noting that the
consulate does not conduct fingerprint or criminal background
checks or require sufficient verification. -- County
Supervisor Gloria Molina disagreed the cards would be used
for anything other than matching a face and name to perform regular
tasks... |
WorldNetDaily.com
Mexican consulate staff posing as U.S.
immigration agents interfered with a murder and smuggling probe
following a .-- The incident, which appears to be
a breach of national sovereignty and security, began last Thursday...
--- "We only suspected Mexico was running our immigration
policy, but now we have it actually happening," said , author
of the recently published book, "Invasion, How America Lets
Terrorists, Torturers, and Other Foreign Criminals Right Through
the Front Door." [See Michelle this month in New
York on the 15th, or Tempe, AZ on the 25th] |
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EFE
The governor of Arizona promised visiting
Mexican lawmakers that she would sign legislation that would
allow undocumented immigrants
[foreign lawbreakers] in that state to obtain driver's licenses.
-- Janet Napolitano met with five members of the Mexican Chamber
of Deputies' Foreign Relations Committee last weekend, just days
before she was scheduled to be sworn in as governor of Arizona.
-- Granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants was
a campaign promise Napolitano made to the state's Hispanic community.
[Also see: Aiding,
abetting illegals is a crime.] |
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