MINUTEMAN PROJECT

THE WRONG TARGET
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... The place where the Minutemen should focus their efforts is Washington, DC, where Congress has yet to approve immigration reform legislation. ...

Coloradans heed call for border patrols
Longmont Daily Times-Call - Longmont,CO,USA
... The Minuteman Project has already brought hundreds of people to Arizona to go on civilian patrols, report illegal crossings to US Border Patrol agents and ...

Officials prepare for visit by Minutemen
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... special agent in charge for the FBI in Houston; and Scot Hatfield, assistant special agent in charge for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. ...

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Border patrol ambush kills 10
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed a border patrol in the desert near the frontier with Pakistan, killing and beheading 10 Afghan ...

Church groups patrol southern US border for second summer ...
Spero News - USA
... Experts believe about 2,600 men, women, and children have lost their lives trying to cross the US-Mexico border since 1998, when the US Border Patrol enacted a ...

Many illegal immigrants are caught and released
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
HARLINGEN, Texas - Several times a day, a chain-link gate rolls open and dozens of illegal immigrants stroll out of the US Border Patrol station here, blinking ...

COYOTE CROSSING: Journey takes two days and $3,600
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... he borrowed from his brother-in-law, Antonio, for ... he had a chance to get legal immigration documentation -- his ... he said, and doesn't trust lawyers, as he ...

Clean up NC's lobby laws
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... to cheap labor and we're left with rampant illegal immigration and reckless ... In April, the Senate passed comprehensive lobbying reform legislation by a 49-0 vote ...

Euro-Jihadists Can Beat Our Border Security
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... DHS cannot be said to have the illegal alien situation under control as it is. What will it do when its own immigration supercomputer specifically identifies ...

Enforce Immigration Law, or Change It? Answer May Be Both
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The principal immigration reform proposal so far introduced in ... R-Colo.), a leader among immigration skeptics, plans to introduce legislation that will ...

Justice system is broken
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... Baca, LAPD Chief William Bratton and county District Attorney Steve Cooley should lead the charge against a broken parole system and lenient judges which ...

Bold steps are needed on immigration policy
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... agents who would target the smuggling of illegal immigrants. In this proposal, DPS would dedicate up to 12 officers to team up with Immigration and Customs ...

Subject : US Agents Dismantle Korean Sex Ring
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... the horrific, demeaning and oftentimes brutal practice of smuggling and trafficking of ... including the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, immigration and customs ...

OhmyNews International
OhmyNews International - South Korea
California- Two criminal syndicates suspected of smuggling hundreds of South Korean ... investigation was launched two years ago by US Immigration and Customs ...

Britain threatens to ban Pakistan airlines' flights
Hindustan Times - Delhi,India
Under pressure to check human smuggling from Pakistan, Britain has threatened to ... unless a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on "managed immigration of illegal ...

MS13's growing threat
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Sometimes immigration officers move in and scores of gangstas are deported ... its choice of crimes: drug transportation and dealing, people-smuggling, theft, truck ...

Birmingham evacuated, following security alert
Central Chronicle - Bhopal,India
... Islamabad, July 10 Under pressure to check human smuggling from Pakistan, Britain ... unless a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on "managed immigration of illegal ...

Packing the past, facing the future
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... and schools close to Washington, DC, to be near the legislation that will ... "I want to continue to fight," Gonzalez said about the US immigration system. ...

Immigrants shaped Birmingham, too
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
... offered an opportunity for all of us to reflect ... with the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act ... This legislation presents the first serious chance in years ...

Fiery voice for immigrants
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... believes legislation introduced in the US Senate by ... The legislation calls for a temporary worker program that ... Gutierrez would couple the immigration bill with ...

The battle to stop freedom falling victim to terrorism
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... brought in; we could see new legislation of acts ... the media have been banned from immigration court hearings of ... US citizens suspected of terrorism can be held ...

Iron will brings perils, payoffs for Sensenbrenner
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... with some Bush officials, most notably former US Attorney General ... out a large flow of legislation and a ... package of border and immigration measures, including ...

Beyond remembering
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... Since 2003, a special unit of the office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has been tracking them down, taking them to court, jailing and then ...

B-1 Bob Dornan Running for Congress
Outside the Beltway - VA,USA
... California until being ousted with the help of massive illegal alien voting in ... Anti-immigration activist Jim Gilchrist -- founder of the high-profile civilian ...

Federal judge: Illegal immigrants qualify for tuition breaks
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Legislature attempted but failed this year to pass legislation that would have ... of the Washington, DC-based Federation for American Immigration Reform, vowed to ...

Not an easy task to have illegal deported
Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown,PA,USA
... the USCIS, said it is difficult to comment on the circumstances in which immigration officials would advise local police to let an illegal alien go, noting ...

Pipelines funnel illegal immigrants into the US
Lexington Herald Leader - Lexington,KY,USA
... Here, in this alien border land, it was the ... not long after 9/11, US Immigration and Customs ... Even when caught, illegal immigrants from those countries and other ...

Terror-Linked Migrants Crossing Into US
Frankfort Times - Frankfort,IN,USA
... Here, in this alien border land, it was the ... 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, US Immigration and Customs ... Even when caught, illegal immigrants from those countries ...

Border Patrol Arrests "No More Deaths" Volunteers
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The United States Border Patrol says no matter the cause for transporting illegal immigrants, the volunteers were breaking the law. ...

Despite red flags, visa was granted to Pakistani
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... Officials in Washington with Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of State had no ...

Not an easy task to have illegal deported
Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown,PA,USA
... Mike Gilhooly, spokesmen for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of USCIS, said that had police contacted the Law Enforcement Support Center ...

Child Porn Ring Smashed
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... The probe was initiated when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Newark, NJ began investigating allegations that Regpay was providing credit ...

Subject : US Agents Dismantle Korean Sex Ring
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... The cases, investigated by numerous government agencies including the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, immigration and customs enforcement agencies, and the ... 

Families of those missing at border seek help
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... Hernández Joseph said inquiries can be made or reports filed at the Mexican consulate in Laredo if people fear contacting officials in Nuevo Laredo.

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"MS 13" Gang

Gangs steadily growing in NJ
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater,NJ,USA
... MS-13, I believe, is a gang out of the California area," said Hillsborough Chief of Police Bob Gazaway. "Five years ago, we didn't see that activity.". ...

Law agencies meet to combat international gangs
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Last month's arrest of three MS-13 gang members in Lake Worth spurred lawmakers and law enforcement to hold a mini-summit on tackling gang activity that has ...



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CAFTA

CAFTA: Fair trade or raw deal?
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
The Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement, better known as CAFTA, would phase out tariffs that restrict international trade. ...

Why CAFTA?
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
By Bonnie Carey, Port Byron. The Senate has voted to pass the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). After all the jobs lost ...

Melancon calls CAFTA 'a bad deal,' 'not fair'
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... state's sugar industry. CAFTA -- the Central American Free Trade Agreement -- has already passed the US Senate. Melancon said the ...

CAFTA, China and the Carolinas
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... agreements. The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is in the New Deal tradition too many Democrats have abandoned. Poor ...

Yes to CAFTA: Trade accord will help US get right with its soul
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is one of the tools we can use to bring the fruits of democracy to the region, once labor and environmental ...

AFL-CIO:Work in Progress
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... HOUSE VOTE COMING SOON ON CAFTA--With the House of Representatives set to take up the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) as soon ...

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IDENTITY THEFT

Equifax CEO critical of ID theft response
Bothell Herald - Bothell,WA,USA
... He decried the government's plan to force Equifax and the other top credit-reporting agencies, Experian and TransUnion, to provide annual credit reports free ...

Legislature hopes law will freeze ID thieves
Bend Bulletin - OR,USA
... allow the security freeze only for new credit inquiries and would require consumers to send a certified request to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, the three ...

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"ACLU"

Those citizens! They say the darndest things
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
Last week, the ACLU had to get after both the Pierce County Council and the Yelm City Council for what it says are unconstitutional limits on public speech. ...

ACLU wades into Yelm fight over Wal-Mart
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... County city spent yesterday fielding phone calls from radio stations as far away as Los Angeles and television networks in New York because the ACLU sent a ...

The ACLU: Lost without
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... For the last five years, the ACLU has been fighting the federal departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development because of their support for the Boy ...

ACLU and National Abortion Federation Hail First Appeals Court ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... judge in New York struck down the Federal Abortion Ban in a challenge brought by NAF and seven individual physicians, represented by the ACLU and Wilmer Cutler ...

Writers as split as justices commandment displays
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... courthouse displays. The Supreme Court's 5-4 McCreary County, Ky., v. ACLU opinion (June 27), extends that shameful record. The Founding ...

ACLU Infiltrated by Anti-Immigrant Activists
Pacifica Radio - USA
A federal appeals court ruled that the ban on partial birth abortions is unconstitutional. The ban includes an exception to save ...

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"Mexican Mafia"

Jail program offers help to would-be gang dropouts
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... of Nuestra Familia, the prison patriarch of the Norteno gang; others, like Vigil, belonged to Eme, the Southern California-based Mexican Mafia affiliated with ...

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa ready for his close-up
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- In the week since declaring "I'm ready' on the eve of his inauguration, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has hit the ground running at a ...

Olvera Street's Steed
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa posed beside it, as did his predecessor, James K. Hahn. ... Paris, its tower. Downtown Los Angeles has its burro. ...

Romer's secret fund
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and then-mayoral challenger Bob Hertzberg that the Los Angeles Unified School ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa knew nothing about Romer's organization but withheld ...

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Hospital Closures

Local health clinics may close
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - West Covina,CA,USA
... Supervisor Don Knabe, who is concerned about a possible "domino' effect of hospital closures, said he doesn't support converting either Harbor or MLK into ...