Minuteman Project

Minuteman's message
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Despite harsh criticism and insipid labels -- some call the volunteers "vigilantes" -- the Minuteman Project is spreading across the land, from California to ...

Minuteman's message
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... the volunteers "vigilantes" -- the Minuteman Project is spreading ... up since the initial project rallied hundreds ... co-founded by Vietnam vet Jim Gilchrist, isn't ...

"Jan Herron"

Desperate Housemembers
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
By Jan Herron. That President George Bush found 217 traitors to vote "YES" on CAFTA is truly appalling. The voting passed a so-called ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... [Bill Fancher]. ...Robert Vasquez, an Idaho county commissioner who is concerned that his region is being inundated with illegal aliens, is seeking the ...

"ACLU"

Federalist Society no worse than ACLU
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... Contrast this with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's association with a legal group who many feel, including myself, is on the far left of public opinion, the ACLU ...

Proposed city ban concerns ACLU
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
... "We have about 40 of these ordinances that are under review" throughout the state, said Alessandra Meetze, ACLU communications director. ...

ACLU Should Leave Boy Scouts Alone
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
The Boy Scouts have done more for the youth of this country in 95 years than the ACLU can possibly hope to do in its lifetime. The ...

Un-Cabaret Presents The Other Network, ACLU Benefit and More
Comedy Newswire - USA
On Saturday, August 27th, join Un-Cabaret for a Special ACLU Benefit Show. ... This show will be filmed for a new ACLU documentary series. And it's only ten bucks. ...

Teens unlock secrets of youth justice system
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
... sees the problems affecting many young people but wants to understand, on a broader level, what's happening and hopes to find this depth in an ACLU program for ...

Public Surveillance Cameras Debut in SF
KRON 4 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The ACLU thinks that the cameras are more a waste of resources than an invasion of privacy. "Video cameras are not the solution," said ...

Backing up the Boy Scouts
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... The ACLU busies itself in filing and prosecuting suits against all evidences of governmental backing for the scouts' "exclusivist" religious ideals -- ie, no ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Feds Round Up 14 Alleged Gang Members In SA
ClickonSA.com - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Among the arrests locally that occurred two weeks ago included four suspected members of the Mexican Mafia and one suspected member of MS-13, or Mara ...

Feds arrest 582 alleged members of gangs
Seattle Times - United States
... members in 27 states of what they considered to be the most violent street gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; Latin Kings; and the Mexican Mafia. ...

CAFTA

CAFTA battle casts doubt on future pacts
BusinessWeek - USA
... for intellectual property. "CAFTA is more than a trade bill," said Bush, suggesting national security implications. He said the ...

CAFTA to Become a Law
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By The Associated Press. WHAT IT MEANS: President Bush signs the hard-won Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is supposed ...

Recent CAFTA vote spurs mixed reactions from residents
Cedartown Standard - Cedartown,GA,USA
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) passed the US House Wednesday night in a highly divisive vote of 217 for and 215 against. ...

CAFTA passes despite defections in NC delegation
Yes! Weekly - Greensboro,NC,USA
The bill popularly known as DR-CAFTA, whose formal title is ‘Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement,' will result in the ...

Bush Signs CAFTA Bill
All Headline News - USA
Washington, DC (AHN) - President Bush signs CAFTA, the pact with five Central American nations and the Dominican Republic, which he says will "advance peace ...

CAFTA fallout stirs debate in Fort Payne
WAFF - Huntsville,AL,USA
The fallout from the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, is the hot topic in Fort Payne. ... Many believed Aderholt was against CAFTA. ...

Bush Signs CAFTA Into Law
Champlain Channel.com - Plattsburgh,NY,USA
... for intellectual property. In pushing for CAFTA's approval, the president stressed the deal helps national security. He said it ...

CAFTA passed by too few votes
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
... Votes against CAFTA were particularly obnoxious because it was the Latin American countries that were making most of the concessions after years of negotiations ...

Media Elitists Aren't Championing 15 Mavericks' Vote For CAFTA
Opinion Editorials - Fairfax,VA,USA
... It didn't take long before the media were pooh-poohing the passage of CAFTA and castigating every Republican who voted for the legislation, specifically ...

Valley congressmen right to defy party and vote for CAFTA, jobs ...
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... We are happy to report that two of the Rio Grande Valley's congressmen -- Solomon Ortiz and Ruben Hinojosa -- voted in favor of CAFTA and resisted intense ...

In the NEWS!

Why The Border Patrol Can't Do Its Job
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... Do they catch the diseases like the 30 school kids who contracted tuberculosis from unscreened illegal alien kids in Michigan? How ...

"Maple Palm" - An Intense Independent Feature Film Dealing with ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... One is an Illegal Alien. ... are forced apart by deportation or forced to flee their homeland to live together in a country that supports same-sex immigration. ...

Stu Bykofsky | Time is past to deport de la Rosa
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Immigration had two clear chances to return Omar to his native land. It didn't when he was an illegal alien, and it didn't after the felony, for which Omar got ...

Leave border patrol to the professionals
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... a beat when an old Minuteman statue, caked in alien goop, made a ... volunteers patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border to thwart illegal immigration is spreading to ...

Latino gang crackdown focuses on MS-13
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Illegal alien should have been deported (June 4, 2005) -- US federal officials have admitted they failed to deport an illegal alien acquitted of murder in a ...

Princeton immigrants charged in fake-ID ring
Princeton Packet - Princeton,NJ,USA
... She said the impossibility illegal immigrants face in obtaining valid drivers' licenses results in ... selling Social Security cards, resident alien cards and ...

Tancredo gets back on track
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... politicians of "Hispandering" to Hispanic voters by refusing to take a hard line on immigration or even use the word "alien" when describing illegal immigrants ...

(Nicholas Roberts / AFP / Getty Images)
Seattle Weekly - Seattle,WA,USA
... They sit at those posts on lawn chairs with binoculars and cell phones, and when they see anything suspicious, they call the Border Patrol. ...

CSIA ADVISES FEDS TO PROMOTE TELEWORK AS CONTINUITY MEASURE
Federal agencies should do more to allow their employees to work at
home so that government can continue operations in the event of a
terrorist attack, according to a network-security policy group. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36567-1.html


WIRELESS ACCESS SECURITY TOOL MOVES PAST PROTOTYPE STAGE
WaveSEC, an open-source tool that uses the IP Security protocol to
encrypt IP connections between hosts, is moving toward implementation.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36558-1.html 

'GOOGLE HACKING': EVERYTHING YOU WANT SOMEONE TO KNOW , AND MORE
The functionality that has made Google a top search engine also can be
used to reveal sensitive personal data, vulnerable servers and other
details about network architecture.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36557-1.html


DIGITAL FORENSICS MOVING FROM AN ART TO A SCIENCE
The Defense Cyber Crime Center is seeing a growing demand for its
forensics services, and a growing demand for professionalism on the
part of investigators.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36556-1.html


HONEYNETS EXPANDING THEIR CAPABILITIES
LAS VEGAS--A global consortium of cybersecurity researchers has
released a new tool to make it easier to track and analyze the
activities of hackers.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36518-1.html 

The Cornyn-Kyl Bill (S. 1438)--The Same Old Arizona Amnesty Sham!
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
Beware the "temporary" worker, the "departing" illegal alien, and smoke-and-mirrors ploys of feigned immigration law enforcement. ...

Frist's stem cell flap
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... John McCain's (R-Ariz.) reform legislation was significantly altered during a committee markup. Immigration reform is a divisive issue for Republicans, with ...

POLITICS-US: It's That Pesky Prisoner Abuse Scandal Again...
Inter Press Service (subscription) - World
... Act, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, immigration reform, and consideration ... the president would veto the defence-spending legislation if this ...

Hillary Clinton's amorphous world
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... mentioned nary a word about immigration and all ... Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minorities Act ... rates for the children of illegal immigrants, as ...

In the US Army now
India Monitor - Whalley Range,Manchester,UK
... H1-B visas for skilled workers, illegal immigrants, green ... of the current fiscal year, the immigration service has ... In fiscal 2004, 7,627 alien soldiers, sailors ...

IS THERE ANY DOUBT THAT
Ether Zone - Princeville,IL,USA
... Bush will finally take action on the immigration problem by asking Congress to pass legislation prohibiting any illegal alien from entering the United States ...

SENATE SIGNS OFF ON SEVERAL DEFENSE APPOINTMENTS
Senators confirmed Phillip Jackson Bell as deputy undersecretary for
logistics and materiel readiness, Ronald M. Sega as undersecretary of
the Air Force and Keith E. Eastin as the assistant secretary of the
Army.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36577-1.html 

LEADERSHIP CHANGES AT DEFENSE BIOMETRICS OFFICE
John Woodward Jr., who has been serving as director of the BMO since
fall 2003, has resigned. Joseph Guzman has been named acting director.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36568-1.html


CSIA ADVISES FEDS TO PROMOTE TELEWORK AS CONTINUITY MEASURE
Federal agencies should do more to allow their employees to work at
home so that government can continue operations in the event of a
terrorist attack, according to a network-security policy group. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36567-1.html 

Border Patrol agents find gravely wounded shooting victim
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- Border Patrol agents making their morning rounds near the US-Mexico line Tuesday came across a gravely wounded shooting victim, authorities ...

Traffic stop near Jamestown turns up lots of cash
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... One of the two men in the van was released after the traffic stop Friday, but the Highway Patrol turned the other man over to the Border Patrol in Grand Forks. ...

The "unConstitutional" Transfer of Power
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... consanguinity" and actually encourages mass immigration threatening national ... refuse its consent." All legislation since 1913 ... is "An Act to reform & reorganize ...

Police arrest suspects with fake credit cards
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
... "When a card is swiped and it isn't reading, that's one of the red flags," Anderson Police Detective Terry Sollars said. ...

Bush has 'confidence' in Rove
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Mr. Bush -- who has also been interviewed by US Attorney Patrick ... his administration is working with Republican sponsors of competing immigration legislation. ...

Hybrid drivers wait to use area car-pool lanes
San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco,CA,USA
... 1, a question over whether it conflicts with federal legislation has kept ... street gang members and associates have been arrested by US Immigration and Customs ...

Before a kangaroo court
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... As for retrospective legislation, it's a bad principle, but ... is between that and a US military commission ... of a piece with treatment of immigration detainees and ...

Bush is mum on reforming immigration
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act introduced by ... five weeks ago, and the legislation introduced just ... and tighter coordination among US agencies as ...

Bush says he'll approve BRAC, vows to work with Congress on ...
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... the missions of hundreds of US military installations. ... work with lawmakers to craft legislation to address the complex problems surrounding immigration reform. ...

After the London bombings: Australian prime minister advocates ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... Other legislation being considered by Blair includes the ... reduce, indeed virtually halt, Muslim immigration flow" and ... values that have served us well and ...

Experts to make new request regarding Uspaskich's diploma
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
... Finally, however, the legislation moved forward after two other ... were being worked out by both US officials and ... to proposed amendments to the immigration law. ...

Human smuggler sentenced to time served
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... since his arrest, and ordered him to be turned over to immigration officials for ... Bum Suk "Michael" Kim, 33, has also pleaded guilty to smuggling the illegal ...

Hundreds Held in Anti-Gang Crackdown
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The involvement of gangs in immigrant smuggling, gangs' sophisticated ability to ... authorities and Congress to place renewed emphasis on immigration law as a ...

BNP member caught smuggling illegal immigrants
libcom.org newswire - London,UK
... drugs. "He could hardly admit to his BNP mates that he had been smuggling in asylum seekers," said an immigration source.". Boylen ...

A welcome return to enforcing labor laws
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... these workers usually arrived here in global human smuggling operations charging ... program that stressed that workers, no matter their immigration status, were ...

Gang sweep nets 23 in area
Detroit Free Press - United States
... to target gang members, narcotics smuggling and money laundering. Operation Community Shield, an ongoing antigang effort, partners immigration officials with ...

What's behind a phone call from Newt Gingrich?
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... It's called the "Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act," and boy ... Cornyn-Kyl bill increases criminal penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud ...

Federal sweep nets 1,000 gang members; 18 from Charlotte
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... They are often involved in money laundering, drug trafficking and people smuggling. ... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ran the operation that netted the ...

Nationwide crackdown on criminal activity nets 582 suspects; some ...
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... gang members often are involved in smuggling guns, drugs and people into the country, said Brian Moskowitz, special agent for the Immigration and Customs ...

Customs Jails 1,000 Suspected Gang Members
Washington Post - United States
... The campaign, dubbed Operation Community Shield and overseen by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, has resulted in arrests of 1,057 ...

Official: Housing detainees downtown to save $1.5M
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
After renting the Port Manatee jail annex from the sheriff's office for more than a decade, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and Manatee County ...

582 arrested in gang roundup, three in the area
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... from the El Paso area face deportation to Mexico as part of a national crackdown on street gangs by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, officials ...

National Gang Sweep Nets 13 Bay Area Suspects
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... News) SAN FRANCISCO Over the past two weeks, 13 street Bay Area gang members and associates have been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE ...

Deadly Apartment Fire Update
WPVI - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... out. Police say the immigrants were turned over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after the fire was out. A ...

Watchdogs Probing FBI Changes After 9/11
Washington Post - United States
... Webber, the senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston, needed a wiretap to develop more leads on a promising terrorism financing investigation ...

Security sweep leads to arrest of 22
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA
... be attributed to Operation Community Shield, a probe first launched in March by the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative ...

Federal sweep nets 1,000 gang members; 18 from Charlotte
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
In the last two weeks agents arrested 18 gang members in Charlotte and 59 in Raleigh, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced on Monday. ...

Deportations punch hole in Arkadelphia
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said that agents notified the sheriff's office once the raid got under way and that Arkansas State ...

frosty wooldridge

Why The Border Patrol Can't Do Its Job
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
by Frosty Wooldridge. LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 08/02/05 -- What do 20 million illegal aliens mean to Americans? ... 

"MS 13" Gang

Feds gang up on MS-13, nab 63 alleged members
Boston Herald - United States
... "There was an MS-13 gang member in Boston whose criminal history includes assaulting a police officer, and assault and battery with a weapon," said Forman. ...
 

FBI Launches Raid on Violent MS-13 Gang
All Headline News - USA
Washington, DC (AHN) - The FBI has launched a massive sweep of a Hondouran street gang known as MS-13, which has recently been linked to Al-Qaeda terror cells ...

Feds nab alleged gang members
Montgomery Journal - Rockville,MD,USA
Immigration and Customs agents rounded up 11 MS-13 gang members in the Washington area as part of a nationwide sweep that netted hundreds of gang arrests ...

Federal sweep puts hundreds of gang members behind bars in last ...
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... A few days before that and you'll find an indictment against four MS-13 gang members for carjacking and murder after two bodies were left in the woods and a ...

Latino gang crackdown focuses on MS-13
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... should have been deported (June 4, 2005) -- US federal officials have admitted they failed to deport an illegal alien acquitted of murder in a recent gang trial ...

Latino gang crackdown focuses on MS-13
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
More than 500 members of Salvadoran gang MS-13 have been arrested in a federal crackdown on violent Latino gangs, the US Department of Homeland Security said. ...

Gang crackdown nets several Houston suspects
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... 1996; Mar. 1997; and Aug. 2001. 2. HPD arrests five suspected MS 13 gang members on April 14, 2005 after a 12 hour standoff. ICE ...

US anti-gang sweep nets 13 from Bay Area
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... When the program started earlier this year, it had one target: the MS-13 gang, or Mara Salvatrucha, a violent gang rooted in Central America and reported to be ...

National Gang Sweep Includes Iowa
KWWL - Waterloo,IA,USA
... Shield began back in March of this year with an intensive two-week operation that led to over 100 gang members from the very violent MS-13 gang being arrested ...

"Mexico"

Mexico Soccer Won't Appeal FIFA Sanctions
Washington Post - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's soccer federation will not appeal sanctions by FIFA for failing to follow anti-doping procedures. The federation ...

Mexico Sells 20-Year Peso Debt to Yield 9.7 Percent (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
2 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico, the nation with Latin America's biggest economy, paid its lowest borrowing cost since April 2004 at a government auction of 20-year ...

Mexico vows tighter border security after US move
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico promised to tighten security on its US border on Tuesday after Washington closed a consulate in the lawless city of Nuevo Laredo ...

Mexico states want Fox to veto Pemex tax reform
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Vicente Fox is under pressure to veto a much-vaunted law to ease taxes on state oil monopoly Pemex, as state governors ...

Merrill Lynch opens Grupo Mexico cover with "buy"
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch began coverage of Mexican copper giant Grupo Mexico with a "buy" rating on Tuesday, pointing to strong prices, a ...

Q2 2005 Telefonos De Mexico Earnings Conference Call - BRIEF
Research and Markets (subscription) - Dublin,Ireland,UK
The Co. reported that 2Q05 consolidated revenues rose 27% to Mex$40b. In 2Q05, EPS was Mex$0.28 and earnings per ADR were $0.52, up 47% and 62% respectively. ...

Dad held in Mexico in death of baby
Chicago Tribune - United States
... The indictment had been kept under seal until Lake County prosecutors got word Monday afternoon that Hernandez was in custody in Mexico, Chancey said. ...

Mexico's Economy Expands 4% in Quarter
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Mexico's economy picked up speed in the second quarter and grew about 4% over the same period last year, helped by strong consumer spending and export growth. ...

Grenades kill 4, hurt 25 at cockfight in Mexico
Detroit Free Press - United States
TONALA, Mexico -- Assailants threw grenades into a crowded cockfighting ring early Monday, killing four people and wounding 25 others, investigators said. ...

Frank's Mexico journal
Janesville Gazette - Janesville,WI,USA
EDITOR'S NOTE: Janesville Gazette reporter Frank Schultz spent a week in Mexico in June with a group of fellow Americans, mostly Janesville teachers. ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexican Consulate swamped with migrant crosser deaths
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The Southern Arizona map that adorns a wall at the Mexican Consulate Office in downtown Tucson is quickly becoming cluttered. Fifty ...

Mexican presidency doesn't feel pressured by closing of US ...
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY Mexican President Vicente Fox disagrees with the US decision to shut down the US consulate in the border city of Nuevo Laredo temporarily. ...

Mexican presidency unmoved by closing of US consulate
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
President Vicente Fox does not agree with and will not feel pressured by the US decision to temporarily shut down its consulate in Nuevo Laredo given a wave of ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" The Mecha Mayor!

Villaraigosa Names Public Safety Deputy
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed a former federal civil rights prosecutor as his deputy mayor for homeland security and public safety, one of ...

Villaraigosa Backs Huizar for Council
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Los Angeles City Council candidate Jose Huizar won the endorsement of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday, an advantage that helps position Huizar as the front ...

New LA Mayor Spent $5.2M on Election
Guardian Unlimited - UK
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Antonio Villaraigosa spent twice as much as his opponent, incumbent James Hahn, in winning the mayoral runoff election in May, campaign ...

Morning Headlines
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Velasco, who was tapped by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to serve as one of seven commissioners overseeing Los Angeles World Airports, headed the ...

DWP Board to Weigh Higher Pay for Workers
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Los Angeles Department of Water and Power workers would see their pay increase ... contract poses a challenge for newly elected Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was ...

News briefs from Southern California
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former Assistant US Attorney Maurice Suh was appointed deputy mayor for homeland security and public safety. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on ...

Banding Together For National Night Out
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Figueroa St., in the Highland Park area. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be at events in South Los Angeles and Garvanza.

Toddler killing should unite, not divide, Blacks and Latinos
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
... and Latino students at several Los Angeles high schools. The wariness of many Blacks toward Latinos even extended to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during the city ...

Sharpton Promotes Racial Harmony in LA
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... of California, Los Angeles, said the formation of the group was another sign of growing alliances between blacks and Latinos. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the ...