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Monday, December 23,
2002 |
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Project
USA
Update |
ProjectUSA
wins free speech settlement in NY lawsuit
Readers of this ezine will remember that in October 2000,
ProjectUSA erected a billboard at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in
New York City reading, "Immigration is doubling US population in our
lifetimes." It pictured two children and cited the Census Bureau as
its source. -- The board lasted just thirteen days. The owner of the
property on which the billboard sat, the Port Authority of NY/NJ,
ordered the board removed after, according to the New York Times,
"an authority employee noticed it and told his
superiors." |
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Newsmax.com
Merry
Christmas - And Bush Is Planning to Give Social Security to
Mexicans
If The Bush administration caves
in to pressure from the Mexican government thousands of Mexicans
living south of the border will be getting an estimated $1 billion
in Social Security checks annually. -- Both the White House and
Mexican government insist that negotiations on the matter are
informal and still in the preliminary stages. -- And Miguel
Monterrubio, a spokesman for the Mexican embassy, told the Post that
several meetings have taken place between the Social Security
Administration and its Mexican counterpart since November 2001, but
he too called them informal. |
We Get E-Mail
Open
letter to L.A. Co. Supervisors
It is my
understanding that your group has voted to close 16 community
clinics, reduced by 25% funding for our network of private clinics
partnering with the County to provide care, and approved the
transition of High Desert Hospital to an ambulatory care center. --
It is my further understanding that within the last decade, 50
emergency rooms and 17 trauma centers throughout Southern California
have closed their doors, all because they couldn't afford to keep
them open because of the ever increasing numbers of
uninsured. |
L.A
Times (Free Registration)
State
Park Rangers in Harm's Way
...Patrolling
can be especially risky in the Southwest, where border crossings by
illegal immigrants and drug runners have led to fatal encounters
with park rangers. Rangers have begun wearing body armor and
carrying automatic weapons. -- Last year, a ranger at Organ Pipe
Cactus National Monument was killed while helping Border Patrol
agents track fugitives from Mexico. He was the third National Park
Service ranger killed on the job in four years. For the second year
in a row, a park rangers' organization has named Organ
Pipe.... |
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H.
Millard |
Eeeeeek!
Citizens Are Performing Public Service
(Senor Grijalva Goes to Washington)
Out in the Southwest scrublands of
Arizona and Texas, some hardy Americans have been trying to make a
living punching cows and doing those other things close to the earth
that many people in the East long ago stopped doing and which they
seem to have forgotten is the way those steaks make it to the tables
of the fou fou yuppie restaurants they haunt. -- Unfortunately, it's
much harder to ranch, or even live in many areas of the Southwest,
these days, thanks to the foreign invaders, mostly from Mexico, who
are trying to take over the U.S..... |
Metropolitan
News-Enterprise
L.A. Co.
unveils program to identify illegals who commit other crimes
A county program to quickly identify
criminal suspects who are in the United States illegally was
unveiled Friday by law enforcement officials. Sheriff Lee Baca said
the High Intensity Criminal Alien Apprehension and Prosecution
program will help officers determine whether
suspects they arrest have illegally re-entered the country after
having been deported. -- L.A. County
Supervisor Mike Antonovich has said illegal aliens committing crimes
here account for 25 percent of the county jail population. He said
the prosecution, defense and incarceration of deportable aliens cost
the county $150 million in 2001, including court
costs. |
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Hispanic Business
Journal
N.M.
Governor-Elect Nominates Hispanics
Gov.-elect Bill
Richardson on Friday appointed five Hispanics to various
positions, including naming former Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca as the
state's natural resources trustee. -- "I want a Cabinet that looks
like New Mexico, and this one does," Richardson, a Hispanic, said at
a news conference at the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. --
Richardson, a Democrat whose term begins Jan. 1, also nominated John
M. Garcia of Albuquerque to be director of the state Veterans'
Service Commission. |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Scofflaws
whine about paying high college tuition
The
solicitations from colleges are sent to her home weekly, not
surprising since she is a standout athlete, earns all A's and is one
of the top students at Lane Tech. She dreams of studying at
Northwestern to become a math teacher. -- But as an undocumented
immigrant who came to Chicago from Mexico at the age of 5, Brenda
will most likely not be able to afford the costs of attending a
private school since she is not eligible for financial aid. She will
even have trouble attending a state institution, since many don't
accept illegal immigrants, and others would charge her out-of-state
rates. -- "The only thing holding me back is I won't be able to
afford it,'' said Brenda, who asked that her last name not be used.
[It is unlawful for illegals to work in the U.S. This illegal can
get a higher education in her home
country.] |
Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial
Run
for the border
A number of activist groups,
including the Arizona Civil Liberties Union and the Border Action
Network, are asking Arizona Gov.-elect Janet Napolitano to step in
and stop private property owners along the Mexican border from
engaging in "vigilantism." -- At least three such property rights
groups are now patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border, endeavoring to
round up smugglers and other illegal alien invaders, whereupon they
turn them over to local and federal police. The property owners
targeted in this protest are not known to have committed any illegal
violence. |
Associated Press
America
still vulnerable
America was spared major
attacks in 2002, but it was far from winning the fight against
terrorism. -- Despite the killings and arrests of al-Qaida leaders,
top U.S. officials warned that a major attack was all but
inevitable. -- Warnings went out for planes and boats, landmarks and
hospitals, nuclear reactors and petroleum depots. One FBI alert did
not mention specific targets; it just said the attacks could be
spectacular. -- As the United States appeared to move closer to
invading Iraq, the chances of an attack will only rise, intelligence
analysts suggest. |
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KNSD - San Diego
[Poll On
Page]
Scofflaw
detention protests continue
A protest is
planned for Monday morning in San Diego to continue decrying what is
being called unfair treatment of foreign nationals. -- The protest,
set for Monday at 10:30 a.m. in front of the federal building
downtown, was organized by local Middle Eastern groups to protest
new government guidelines which mandated for 3,000 men with
temporary visas to register with the Immigration and Naturalization
Service by Dec. 16. |
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Latinos
getting fleeced by 'notarios'
...The
perpetrators are so-called "immigration consultants" who act like
lawyers but aren't. Using notary public, tax and even travel
agencies as fronts, these consultants charge high fees for promises
they rarely deliver on. Offering themselves as guides to the INS's
labyrinthine application process, the consultants - out of a
combination of both greed and incompetence, crime fighters say -
sign people up for residency programs they don't qualify for,
alerting immigration authorities to an alien's illegal status in the
process. |
Santa
Rosa Press Democrat
One
hurt in gang attack at mall
A young man was
hit in the face with a blunt object Sunday at Santa Rosa Plaza in
what police described as a brazen, gang-involved attack. -- Santa
Rosa resident Jaime Murrillo was on the mall's second floor with his
girlfriend shortly after 4 p.m. when about six males chanting gang
slogans and flashing gang signs attacked him, police said. -- As of
Sunday night, police had no suspects and few leads. They said they
were looking for up to six Latino males in their teens to early 20s
dressed in red clothes who fled the west side of the
mall. |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution Op-ed
Wendy
S. Johnson whines about hurting the feelings of
scofflaws
...Labeling individuals as
"illegal" before a judicial or administrative determination fails to
recognize that some undocumented persons may nevertheless be
lawfully in the country or may be granted discretionary
administrative relief. -- The term "illegal" ignores the reality of
U.S. immigration law. For example, while undocumented immigrants may
technically be violating civil
provisions of federal law, greedy U.S. employers (some
aggressively recruit immigrant workers from their homelands) and lax
border guards combine to facilitate and encourage foreign workers to
enter the country, which is also against federal law. [Johnson is in
charge of this
Atlanta-based group. | E-mail
Johnson] |
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Associated
Press
Santa
arrested after he accidentally enters U.S
A
wind-surfing Santa took a ride on the wet side Sunday when strong
winds took him across the Niagara River -- and the Canadian border.
-- The United States Border Patrol promptly arrested the Canadian
man in Buffalo. -- For 18 years, fitness instructor John Fulton has
donned a Santa suit to sail across the river at Christmas. He said
he performs the annual stunt in support of the
homeless. |
NorthwestGeorgia.com
Meth
labs shut down, pot seized in separate raids
The Whitfield County Sheriff's Office has closed down the
largest methamphetamine lab ever found in North Georgia, according
to Sheriff Scott Chitwood. -- The individuals allegedly responsible
for the operation of the lab were arrested at the scene. They were
identified as Michael Billy Smithey and his wife Sharon. -- In a
separate incident, the sheriff's office and the federal Drug
Enforcement Administration arrested Humberto Barraza Cardenas, of El
Paso, Texas, and Sergio Melendez Rios, of Dalton, around 1 a.m.,
seizing approximately 210 pounds of marijuana with a street value of
around $170,000, Chitwood said. -- Investigators say Cardenas was
getting marijuana from the area of Warsaw, Mexico, and having it
delivered to Rios. |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mixed
reviews on license proposal
The quixotic
push to let undocumented
immigrants get Georgia driver's licenses got a boost when the
police chief of the state's largest law enforcement agency signed on
as a supporter. -- Atlanta's Chief Richard J. Pennington and
five chiefs from other agencies said last week they favor
legislation that Rep. Barbara Mobley (D-Decatur) introduced last
session in the state House of Representatives. The bill, which
observers say has little chance of passing, would remove a
requirement that limits driver's licenses to U.S.
citizens... |
Fresno
Bee
Retired
judge aids invaders, joins the Mexican Colonization
Crew
Retired Fresno Co. Judge Armando
Rodríguez has seen scores of injustices committed against Mexican
immigrants during his 20 years on the bench and as a member of
various organizations. -- "I have an affinity to work with
migrants," he says. -- Rodríguez will have a chance to address those
problems as one of four San Joaquín Valley representatives to the
recently formed Consejo Consultivo del Instituto de los Mexicanos en
el Exterior [which reports to this
guy.] |
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Sham
ID
Cards |
Bakersfield
Californian
Mexican
sham ID outrage continues to reward lawbreaking
foreigners
Though the push to allow
undocumented immigrants to apply for driver's licenses has been
unsuccessful in California, some Mexican nationals have discovered
another way to identify themselves in their attempt to normalize
their lives in the States. -- In recent months, the Mexican
government has begun issuing updated identification
cards to Mexican citizens living north of the border [read:
illegal alien invaders], and it hopes the U.S. government and law
enforcement will begin to accept them as legitimate forms of
identification. | |
