ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

Immigration clash at Capitol
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Their leader is Jim Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo, founder of the Minuteman Project and now campaigning to represent Orange County in Congress. ...

Minuteman: We'll remain until US relieves us
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... Garza said he believes the group has reported about 300 sightings to the Border Patrol, and about half of those were detained. Vickers ...

Debate Over California Border At Capitol - {Notice how the ILLEGAL Aliens surrounded the capital building? To intimidate and block Illegal immigration reformistn from exercising 1st Amendment rights?!}
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Demonstrators opposed to the Minuteman Project marched around the Capitol grounds Saturday. Supporters of the citizens' patrol rallied ...

Immigration clash at Capitol
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Their leader is Jim Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo, founder of the Minuteman Project and now campaigning to represent Orange County in Congress. ...

Nevada businesses, unions team up for immigration reform
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
... would agree to accept its nationals within three days after deportation, would work with US officials to control illegal immigration and smuggling and provide ...

Interior Enforcement

The Clear Law Enforcement Act - 2005    7 new cosponsors this week

H.R. 2671 the Clear Act is now HR3137 in 2005.

H.R.3137
Title: To provide for enhanced Federal, State, and local assistance in the enforcement of the immigration laws, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, to authorize appropriations to carry out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, and for other purposes.

To read details of bill go to

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.3137:

Sponsor: Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9]    (introduced 6/30/2005)    

Cosponsors (74) week ending  9/25/05
Cosponsors (78) week ending 10/2/05

Cosponsors (82) week ending 10/9/05
Cosponsors (82) this week ending 10/16/05-no new cosponsors

Cosponsors (97) week ending 10/23/05

Cosponsors (104) week ending 10/30/05

New Cosponsors - 7

Rep Foley, Mark                                 [FL-16] - 10/25/2005
Rep Boehner, John A.                        [OH-8] -  10/25/2005

Rep Carter, John R.                            [TX-31] - 10/25/2005
Rep Herger, Wally                              [CA-2]  -  10/25/2005

Rep Rehberg, Dennis R.                     [MT] -      10/26/2005
Rep Whitfield, Ed                               [KY-1] -    10/26/2005

Rep Turner, Michael R.                      [OH-3] -    10/28/2005

Listing of all cosponsors

TAKE ACTION

If your Congressman is not on the cosponsor list

call him and tell him to support this enforcement legislation.

and send a fax at:

http://www.numbersusa.com/contactcongress.html

Southern Poverty Law Center

Incident may be sign of hate
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
... Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based civil rights law firm that tracks hate ...

The significance of 'Change'
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... He has the credit for making it our song.". Bond, 65, became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center when it was established in 1971. ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Working the problem: It's not as simple as immigrants vs. natives
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... director of research at the Washington, DC-based ... the American Immigration Law Foundation, noted in ... their undocumented counterparts, many legal immigrants enter ...

Grand old crackup?
LaSalute.net - Udine,Italy
... in doing that, energize the conservative base for the upcoming legal woes that ... strategist for both the Christian Coalition and the Heritage Foundation and the ...

More companies, even in Utah, cover domestic partners
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... definition of "domestic partner" or legal requirement to ... by The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the ... has 176 employees in Utah, Washington and California ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

The Magnificent Twofer: Illegal Aliens and Courts
ChronWatch - Alamo,CA,USA
America could fix the illegal alien problem and ... deal with epochal changes of illegal immigrant invasion ... new Federal District, Appeals, Immigration and Homeland ...

US Missile Base Invaded by Illegal Immigrants?
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Federal agents also teamed up with the White Sands Missile Range Police Department to arrest an illegal alien trying to enter the White Sands Missile Range in ...

Border burden
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of ... If the immigration court merely determines that ... status as a deportable alien, according to a ...

This border door wide open to US
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... After dark, he leaves policing of the river to the nearby US Border Patrol station, which watches the reservation waters on the American side. ...

Immigration debate on Arkansas' doorstep
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
... Jeremy Hutchinson said they also intended the law as a "force multiplier" to help the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau round up run-of ...

Sex.com hijacker arrestedUntying the knot of immigration
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Senate will take up immigration legislation early next year. It's a welcome - and overdue - promise to tackle a monumental task. Immigration reform will take a ...

Illegal aliens nabbed trying to work on construction project
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... "During the last month, we've detected 12 guys who didn't have proper documentation, so we called ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)," Furrow said. ...

Kennedy urges Congress to act on immigration reform plan
Eyewitness News - East Providence,RI,USA
... Illegal alien workers would be allowed to stay in the US for as long as six years, and ... The Senate is expected to tackle the issue of immigration early next year ...

Judge denies bond in drug smuggling cases
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they saw all five Brownsville residents participating in the foiled smuggling attempt. ...

Constant watch
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... There are so few officers that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials decline, citing security reasons, to say how many are assigned locally, except to ...

US Missile Base Invaded by Illegal Immigrants?
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
Just recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Department of Defense security officials captured dozens of illegal aliens who were working at ...

Undocumented immigrants: Boon or bane to economy?
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
... US Rep. Mary Bono, R-Palm Springs, is among this legislation's 150 ... The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors strict immigration policies ...

Illegal aliens nabbed trying to work on construction project
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NM -- An illegal alien from Mexico was nabbed when he ... didn't have proper documentation, so we called ICE (US Immigration and Customs ...

It's one of the most frequently voiced concerns about illegal ...
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... workers whose jobs were lost to competition from an illegal alien working for lower wages. For Carlos Monge of Ontario, the cost of illegal immigration was a ...

Immigration debate on Arkansas' doorstep
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
... officers to bear on the mushrooming illegal-immmigration problem ... have "inherent" power to enforce the immigration laws, even when the alien hasn't ...

"ACLU"

ACLU wants schools to better inform parents on recruiting matter
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A civil-liberties activist says school officials should better inform parents of their right to keep their children's ...

Immigration smuggling

Gang Uses Deportation to Its Advantage to Flourish in US
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... the most hard-core engaging in extortion, immigrant smuggling and racketeering. ... this year under a new enforcement campaign that US immigration authorities say ...

Judge denies bond in drug smuggling cases
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they saw all five Brownsville residents participating in the foiled smuggling attempt. ...

Man detained in SD accused of getting ship to drug runners
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... on charges of supplying another ship to a European drug-smuggling group ... had been logged on Interpol, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs ...

Man of cloth and clout
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... to evangelicalism to his days as a young man smuggling Bibles behind ... as abortion and gay marriage but also poverty, education, taxes, welfare and immigration. ...

Local News Briefs
Odessa American - Odessa,TX,USA
... Working with Union Pacific, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents determined that the ... on the train, as the "coyotes," or smuggling ringleaders, and ...

LULAC

National organization's WNY office hosts fundraising masquerade
Union City Reporter - Union City,NJ,USA
They are the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and they have been serving people of all Latino nationalities in America for 75 years. ...

Group protests Minutemen in South Texas
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... Marlen Tejeda, with president of the Conroe LULAC chapter, said, "This is a federal issue. This is not an issue that belongs to the Minutemen. ...

Activist: CNN ignored Spanish speakers
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... groups, too, though in the last decade he had canceled his membership with the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC. ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Camp Pendleton to face immigration enforcement
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... will take four months to half a year once it starts, Michael Unzueta, acting special agent in charge of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office in ...

Immigrant arrested on way to work at base
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... arrested Thursday trying to enter White Sands Missile Range to do contract work at the military facility, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said ...

2 arrested in '03 Laredo killing
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Terry Garrett said Laredo police and agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had tracked down the slaying suspects -- 24-year-old Jose De Luna ...

$13M worth of cocaine seized at border
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... Although no arrests have been made, special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement are in charge of the investigation. ...

Suspected Illegal Workers Detained at US Bases
Washington Post - United States
... a dozen suspected illegal immigrants doing contract work at US military facilities across the country, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said yesterday. ...

Man Indicted for Procurement of Naturalization Contrary to Law ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England, announced today ...

Police say crime ring put out of business
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... That task force is made up of Tampa police, Hillsborough County and Polk County sheriff's deputies, the FDLE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Florida ...

"Tom Tancredo"

House GOP targets shale plan
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Unfortunately, another Coloradan on the committee, Republican Tom Tancredo from the 6th District, voted against Udall's amendment. ...

Rowdy Colorado Immigration Forum Highlights Touchy Issue
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... Congressman Tom Tancredo has been thrust into the national spotlight as the outspoken leader of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucaus, seeking to ...

Caldara Says State's Future Is At Stake With C & D
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... A position at a free market think tank, the conservative Independence Institute, came open after then-president and fellow iconoclast Tom Tancredo decided to ...

Immigrants' employers are just as responsible
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Of course, there are voices calling for enforcement against employers even among vocal illegal-immigration critics like Mark Krikorian, Tom Tancredo and Jim ...

"Mexico"

Mexico joins International Criminal Court
Houston Chronicle - United States
UNITED NATIONS - Mexico became the 100th nation Friday to ratify the 1998 treaty creating the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent ...

Mexico Takes Boxing World Cup: 5-1
15rounds.com - USA
... 30, 2005) -- Team Mexico swept four titles from Team Thailand and went on to win the first ever Boxing World Cup before a sellout crowd of 1,800 at the Desert ...

Source: Wal-Mart de Mexico
Houston Chronicle - United States
TULTITLAN, MEXICO -- Since Wal-Mart began swiftly weaving its way into Mexico's retail fabric 18 years ago, it's largely avoided neighborhoods like this one ...

Zwolsman lands Mexico Champ Car ride
Motorsport.com - Canada
... His first taste driving a Champ Car will come on the 2.786-mile Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City -- a road course that is not only tricky ...

HB charity icon deported to Mexico
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
HUNTINGTON BEACH -- An award-winning charity worker was taken into federal custody and will be deported to Mexico for 1997 drug-and sex-crime convictions. ...

Local couple still stranded in Cancun Mexico
Bristol Herald Courier - Bristol,TN,USA
KINGSPORT -- A Tri-Cities couple remain among the Americans stranded in Cancun, Mexico, more than a week after Hurricane Wilma ravaged the popular tourist ...

Mexico Sweeps Thailand To Win The Boxing World Cup
BoxingScene.com - Rudy,AR,USA
It was warfare between two countries and on this night, Mexico triumphed over the fighters from Thailand, but every single fighter gave his all. ...

Ariz., Mexico team to fill void in construction labor
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Educators in Arizona, Florida and Mexico are developing a first-of-its-kind training program to fill a growing lack of skilled construction workers across the ...

More Minnesotans trapped in Mexico
KTSP.com - Saint Paul,MN,USA
Thirteen travelers are stuck in Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula. They had originally planned to be on vacation for 4 days, but ...

Mexico Wins Them All On HBO Latino
ringsidereport.com - Woodbridge,VA,USA
... La Hoya's Golden Boy Productions put on an exciting round of fights together featuring some of the best in the lighter weight classes from Mexico and Thailand ...

US and Mexico at odds over tribunal
Seattle Times - United States
UNITED NATIONS -- Mexico became the 100th country to ratify the treaty founding the world's first permanent war-crimes tribunal, which the United States has ...

Deal with Mexico returns fugitive to Valley
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
A man accused of slaying three Queen Creek residents in July before fleeing with his two children to Mexico was returned to the United States on Friday -- but ...

Los Angeles

El Salvador's president urges LA mayor to back immigration reform
San Jose Mercury News - United States
LOS ANGELES - Salvadoran President Tony Saca urged Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday to support national immigration reform, saying resolving ...

CAFTA

CAFTA Could Lead to Unrest in Costa Rica
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
San Jose, Oct 29 (Prensa Latina) The draft President Abel Pacheco submitted to Congress to approve the Free Trade Area for Central America (CAFTA) has been ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

It's The Law Mr. President And Congress: Enforce It!
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall ... states: "Any person who knowingly hires/harbors/transports any illegal alien is guilty ...

Withdrawal leaves President at odds with conservatives
New Philadelphia Times Reporter - New Philadelphia,OH,USA
... attacking illegal immigration and congressional spending. "If he names a bad person to replace Miers, if he pushes for his illegal alien amnesty plan rather ...

Weekly News | Christian Views
World Magazine - USA
... Rio Grande--an unlikely place to make a stand against illegal immigration so far ... to capture migrants before they drive away--aided by alien smugglers known ...

US Attorney reports Federal and State Law investigators search ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... The defendants allegedly harbored illegal alien women from Asia at the houses of ... and that Song threatened to withhold the women's immigration papers until ...

Trial ordered in three killings
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
... Opferman of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly Immigration and Naturalization ... but told the court, "Mr. Padilla is an illegal alien and an ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Immigrant, Minority Leaders Join Minuteman Rally in Sacramento Oct ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... co-founder of Latino Americans for Immigration Reform whose son ... in addition to enforcing existing immigration laws. ... should also adopt new legislation making it ...

Editorial views from across the state
Seattle Times - United States
... Gregoire is the latest vocal supporter of AgJobs legislation that continues ... add our editorial voice to their chorus, backing this immigration reform that has ...

Immigration Reform Up For Senate Debate Next Year {Give me a Break}
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... Sharry, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, says, "To fix our dysfunctional immigration system, immigration reform legislation has to ...

Tom Tancredo"

Congressman says border security is key to protecting US
KOAA - Pueblo,CO,USA
President Bush approved a bill allotting $32 billion to improve border security last week. Colorado's congressman Tom Tancredo is optomistic about the funding. ...

House right adds its voice to opposition
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... associate-justice position.". Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), the first lawmaker to oppose Miers, was less reserved. He claimed that ...

President Sends Right Message on Border Security
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
... here for years. As Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) recently noted that enforcement must come before guest workers. "The American people ...

Visa in the crosshairs
Irish Echo - New York,NY,USA
... Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican who founded, and chairs the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, a group that not only opposes any easing of penalties ...

Senate Plans To Sell Immigration Visas To Fix Budget
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressmen John Hostettler (R-IN), Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and Lamar Smith (R-TX) questioned the Senate Judiciary Committee's plan to ...

Stopping Terror At The Border
CBS News - USA
... terror group. On a visit to the Arizona border, Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo got a firsthand look at smuggling routes. "We've ...

Colo. oil shale bill endorsed by committee
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... "The technology has gotten to the point where we have to do something," Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, said in support of the shale legislation. ...

Border Patrol

Weekly News | Christian Views
World Magazine - USA
... A nearby US Border Patrol checkpoint has made his Texas ranch near Falfurrias a main track on an underground railroad where thousands of illegal immigrants ...

VDARE.com: 10/17/05 - "How Can I Tell My Children I Won't Be Home ...
... DHS decided that maybe Border Patrol should start processing these folks for
... [Inspectors watch as illegal aliens sneak in through cross-border lake ...

Border Patrol Shooting
XETV FOX6 San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
An investigation was under way Thursday into the shooting of a suspected illegal immigrant by a US Border Patrol agent. The 37-year ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

New immigration unit has caught 1,400 lawbreakers
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... Until May, no one was the wiser. But a match of his fingerprints tipped US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he was a wanted man. ...

Federal agent faces charge of exposing self to teenage girl
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... He is the special agent in charge of nine US Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices throughout Central Florida, including Tampa. ...

Cost to jail illegal aliens is more than $71,000
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
Following through on a threat made last week, Jones on Wednesday mailed a bill for $71,610 to the US Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the ...

Seven Green Bay gang members, associates arrested in federal sting
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested seven members and associates from two gangs early Tuesday in Green Bay as part of a multiagency ...

Law Enforcement Personnel System Concept Paper Cause for Concern ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... including the largest constituency of DHS employees, comprising Border Patrol, Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement officers; FEMA ...

Illegal arrested in hit man scheme
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... serve his time and then he would be turned back over to our custody and be deported," said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

CAFTA

Union worked with Dana
Bristol Herald Courier - Bristol,TN,USA
... direct profit out of our company. NAFTA and CAFTA have only put more pressure on American workers! Very low labor costs and substandard ...

Washington Legal Foundation

3rd Circuit Rules FDA May Order Restitution Over Unapproved Drugs
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
... In the appeal, Lane Labs was supported by an amicus brief from the Washington Legal Foundation that urged the court to reverse Bassler on the grounds that ...

Southern Poverty Law Center - {The Enemy}

School aims to crack cliques
Scranton Times - Scranton,PA,USA
... secret that the cafeteria is where social tensions at school come to a head, but could round cafeteria tables and a Southern Poverty Law Center program change ...

Klan activity on the rise in Texas
KVUE (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Klan watch group, Texas has 40 KKK chapters. That makes Texas one top 5 Klan active states in the country. ...

Rosa Parks had strength of will
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
... In the crowd were Eleanor and Maurice Hart, who came to Montgomery to celebrate the dedication of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial Center ...

ACLU"

ACLU: coach badgered player about al-Qaida
MSNBC - USA
... The ACLU, which said Ali does not want to return to the Aggies to play for Mumme, is seeking a public apology from Mumme and disciplinary action against him ...

ACLU Flaks For Terrorists
Strategy Page - USA
... The ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have been filing lawsuits ever since the first detainees have been captured. ...

Stop The ACLU Interviews Alan Sears, President of the Alliance ...
TheRealityCheck.Org - Shelton,CT,USA
What inspired you to write your new book, The ACLU vs. America? In December 2003, I appeared on the O'Reilly Factor to discuss ...

ACLU of Michigan Annual Dinner Nov. 19
pride source.com - Farmington,MI,USA
DEARBORN - The ACLU of Michigan will hold its annual fundraising and awards dinner at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn, 600 Town Center Drive in Dearborn on Saturday ...

RRPS science policy grabs ACLU attention
Rio Rancho Observer - Rio Rancho,NM,USA
... The state ACLU sent an e-mail to about 80 science teachers at the high school, Mid-High and middle schools this month telling them not to be afraid to refuse ...

Cowed by the ACLU
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
How sad it is when we are cowed by the "Anti-Civility Liberty Union," ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), to the point that we dare not say, "Hell no ...

In Victory for Voting Rights, Appeals Court Upholds Decision in ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... "We are extremely pleased with today's court decision," said Neil Bradley, Associate Director of the Atlanta-based ACLU Voting Rights Project, and one of ...

Caught in the cross hunt
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... with extra-keen eyes and powerful magnifying glasses who examine the official seals of towns and counties, looking for miniature crosses that ACLU lawyers like ...

Facts, or smear?
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
In a mass mailing this week, members of the Dover Area School Board cited the ACLU's representation of controversial groups as a reason to vote for them and ...

Stop profiling, area sheriff told
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
The ACLU said in a statement that Allen County sheriff's deputies began using profiling in August to conduct traffic stops to ask for citizenship papers. ... 

MS 13 Gang

Gang bill puts pro-youth efforts, witness protection at its heart
Somerville Journal - Somerville,MA,USA
... The legislation stemmed from a 2002 incident in which members of the Salvadoran street gang MS-13 raped two young disabled girls in Foss Park. ... 

"Mexican Mafia"

A test of faith behind bars
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... ideology is not a new phenomenon, and corrections officials point to the more entrenched prison gangs such as the Aryan Brotherhood, Mexican Mafia and Nuestra ...

Body Exhumed From Atascosa County 'Killing Fields'
ClickonSA.com - San Antonio,TX,USA
... buried. The remains are not the first to be discovered on the ranch, known as a dumping ground for the Mexican Mafia prison gang. ...

Atascosa ranch yields bones -- again
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Police have said Macias may have fallen victim to the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang for drug debts or because he was suspected of cooperating with authorities ...

NATIONAL COUNSIL OF LA RAZA - {THE ENEMY}

More American Taxpayer dollars to support the invasion!

NCLR APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF HISPANIC EDUCATION AMENDMENTS

Bingaman Amendment Increases Funding for Hispanic-Serving Education Programs

Washington, DC – The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today applauded the U.S. Senate's passage of legislation to increase funding for eight federal education programs which have been proven effective in improving the academic achievement of Latino children, ensuring that Hispanic young people graduate from college, and helping adults learn English. The amendments, whose chief sponsor was Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), were added to the Senate's Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education funding bill.

"Poll after poll shows that Latinos care deeply about their children's education. I'm pleased to see the United States Senate affirm our community's need for, and support of, these education programs and work in a bipartisan manner to address the Latino academic achievement and high school graduation gaps," said Janet Murguia, NCLR President and CEO.

The programs included in the amendments serve the children of migrant farmworkers, English language learners, parents, and adult learners. In addition, the amendments provide additional funding for Hispanic-serving postsecondary institutions.

"We are pleased that Senator Bingaman, who has consistently championed Latino education issues, was able to receive the support of senators from both parties in order to pass these amendments," continued Murguia. "We call on the Senate to also work in a bipartisan manner to ensure that these funds are included in the final education appropriations legislation."

October 18, 2005
Washington Post
Lawsuit Demands Visa for Immigrant Victims

By LAURA WIDES
The Associated Press
Tuesday, October 18, 2005; 7:35 PM

LOS ANGELES -- Lawyers for undocumented immigrants who've been victims of violent crimes sued the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday for failing to issue protective visas that Congress created five years ago.

The 2000 law approved visas for victims of violent crimes who cooperate with law enforcement investigations or prosecutors. The visas would allow them to remain in the United States and apply for permanent residency after three years. But regulations detailing how to apply for the special U-visa were never published, and none have been issued.


Photo omitted
Immigrants who have been victims of a violent crimes: brothers Jorge and Euleuterio Rodriguez Ruiz; Juana, and Carmen, both of whom only revealed their first names, from left, join a coalition of civil rights organizations as they announce their federal lawsuit Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005, during a news conference in Los Angeles, against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to issue special visas that the U.S. Congress approved in 2000. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Damian Dovarganes - AP)

"Congress enacted the law with the dual goal of making communities safer ... and as a humane gesture to those immigrants who cooperate with law enforcement agents," said Peter Schey of the Los Angeles-based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, one of three groups that filed the federal suit.

The suit was filed on behalf of nine immigrants from California, Texas and Arizona, including several children. Attorneys are seeking class action status.

Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services, which issues visas, declined to comment on the suit.

"We're looking at taking our time to ensure that the final regulations we put out are concise and clear and complete," said USCIS spokesman Chris Bentley.

Regulations for a similar visa created under the same law, which allows victims of human trafficking to remain in the United States, were issued in 2002.

Jorge Rodriguez Ruiz, 20, of Oaxaca, Mexico, is among the plaintiffs. He and six others say they were attacked by a man in April who held them at gunpoint for half an hour at a rest stop in Maricopa County, Ariz., before authorities intervened.

Rodriguez and the others gave sworn statements to police and received department certificates confirming their cooperation, though the man was never prosecuted. Rodriguez is now facing deportation.
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October 19, 2005
Los Angeles Times
Illegal Immigrants Who Aided Police Sue for Federal Visas
By Anna Gorman, Times Staff Writer

A group of illegal immigrants who were victims of violent crimes sued the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, demanding that immigration authorities issue them visas for cooperating with law enforcement.

Under a law passed in 2000, illegal immigrants are eligible for visas if they help law enforcement agencies in the investigation or prosecution of some crimes, including rape, domestic violence, murder and human trafficking. The visas would enable them to work and live in the United States without fear of deportation — and to apply for permanent residency after three years.

"It is outrageous and unconscionable that five years after the Crime Victims Act was passed by Congress, the government has not even issued an application form for crime victims to apply for visas," Peter Schey, the lead attorney for the nine immigrants in the suit, said at a news conference. "As a result, thousands of violent crimes continue to go unreported because immigrants are reluctant to cooperate with police, fearing they will be deported."

The suit was filed in federal court in Los Angeles, and the plaintiffs are from California, Texas and Arizona. Their attorneys are from three Southern California organizations that provide services to immigrants.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acknowledged Tuesday that none of the special "U visas" for crime victims have been issued anywhere in the country because the department was hammering out the procedures. Spokesman Bill Strassberger said he did not know when the agency would finish writing the regulations but stressed that it was "not on the back burner" and that they needed to be "thorough, concise and clear."
"It's unfortunate that it's been a long time," Strassberger said. The potential visa "is a good law enforcement tool. But before we get the regulations out, they need to be properly written."

In the meantime, the agency can grant the immigrants a renewable one-year grace period, during which they would not be deported. Strassberger said more than 3,000 illegal immigrants have been granted that status. The nine plaintiffs have applied for that status but have not received any response, according to their attorneys.

To qualify, the immigrants must present supporting certification from a local, state or federal law enforcement agency.

Because the government has not decided on application procedures for the visas, attorneys say, some illegal immigrants are reluctant to apply.
"There is no guarantee that they won't be deported," said Karla Pleitez, attorney for the immigrant aid group El Rescate.

Two of the plaintiffs in the suit, Jorge and Eleuterio Rodriguez Ruiz, say they were attacked by an anti-immigrant vigilante at a rest stop in Maricopa County, Ariz., in April. The attacker chased the brothers to their car and held them at gunpoint until police arrived and arrested the gunman, they said.

"We thought that we were going to be shot to death at the highway rest stop," Eleuterio Rodriguez Ruiz, 28, said in Spanish.
The men, both illegal immigrants from Mexico, cooperated with police, Schey said. But they were arrested by immigration officials and now are in deportation proceedings.

Because there is no formal application for the visa or the grace period, the men sent letters, affidavits, police reports and other documents to the federal immigration agency. They have not received any response, their attorney said.

"I hope that this case will force the United States government to start obeying the U visa law," said Jorge Rodriguez Ruiz, 20. "If our lawsuit succeeds, and immigrant victims of violent crimes are provided immigration protection, they will be more likely to report crimes."

AMERICA FIRST

Minuteman Project

Minutemen to begin surveillance of laborers
TimesCommunity.com - Leesburg,VA,USA
A local chapter of the Minuteman Project plans to begin surveillance of local day laborers and their employers in the coming days and report the findings to ...

Lady Liberty's luxuries: Immigration and America
Talon Marks (subscription) - Norwalk,CA,USA
With California's Border Police Initiative, the California Nonresident Tuition Exemption (AB540) and the controversial Minuteman project, illegal immigration ...

CALIF GOP DELEGATION WANTS MEETING WITH ATTY GENERAL TO DISCUSS ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... The letter of request follows the apprehension two weeks ago by the US Border Patrol of illegal alien Alfredo Gonzales Garcia, who has been twice convicted of ...

Tom Tancredo"

Sudan focus of new caucus in US House of Representatives
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... the Sudan Caucus along with Representatives Donald Payne (Democrat of New Jersey), Michael Capuano (Democrat of Massachusetts) and Tom Tancredo (Republican of ...

OPINION: Conservatives Give Bush An Earful
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Tom Tancredo has long been an opponent of the president's temporary worker proposal, and now it seems that other Republican politicians are joining in. ...

CapitolWatch Supports Congressman John Sullivan's Immigration ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Dan Burton (R-IN) Rep. JD Hayworth (R-AZ) Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) Rep. ...

Rice, Giuliani Top Republican Hopefuls for 2008
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... Brownback, Tennessee senator Bill Frist, New York governor George Pataki, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, and Massachusetts ...

Robert Vasquez

Journal Views: On voting, prescription drug plan and political ...
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA
... Republican Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez of Caldwell and Democrat Cecil Kelly, a Coeur d'Alene businessman, had not posted reports to the FEC. ...

Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy

Big push for Prop 2
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... 8. Flanked by more than a dozen construction workers at the Hicksville train station yesterday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Nassau Executive Thomas ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

Cost to jail illegal aliens is more than $71,000
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
... the enforcement arm of the federal Department of Immigration and Naturalization ... is billing the federal government $70 a day for every illegal alien housed at ...

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol
Austin Chronicle - Austin,TX,USA
... concerned citizens [who] consider themselves an extension of a neighborhood watch group," Sheriff Samaniego said simply, "They call the Border Patrol when they

ID Cards Are Illegal
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... It is illegal to induce an illegal alien to enter or ... ID cards an inducement, therefore they are illegal. ... Bush on down, that this mass immigration has corrupted ...

The Magnificent Twofer: Illegal Aliens and Courts James Atticus ...
Opinion Editorials - Fairfax,VA,USA
America could fix the illegal alien problem and ... deal with epochal changes of illegal immigrant invasion ... new Federal District, Appeals, Immigration and Homeland ...

Sheriff bills Immigration $71K for 'illegals’ in jail
Hamilton Journal News (subscription) - Hamilton,OH,USA
... to ICE -- the enforcement arm of the Federal Department of Immigration and Naturalization ... the federal government $70 a day for every illegal alien housed at ...

The Magnificent Twofer: Illegal Immigrants and the Courts
WEBCommentary - USA
America could fix the illegal alien problem and realign, if not correct, judicial ... Severely limit judicial review of the Immigration and Homeland Security Courts ...

Editorial for 10.27.05: County officials pick on easy target
Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA
... of Immigration and Naturalization Services to deport them -- or else he will start sending the federal government a bill for $70 a day for every illegal alien ...

Illegal arrested in hit man scheme
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
An illegal alien from Guatemala arrested on drug charges last week tried to arrange ... and be deported," said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs ...

Immigration smuggling

Private role in searches opposed
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... The union, which represents 2,000 immigration staff, said efforts to combat people smuggling could be undermined if a clause in the immigration, asylum and ...
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The Feds Do Immigration
Austin Chronicle - Austin,TX,USA
... McCain-Kennedy's Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act is more forgiving, with ... and federal-state-local coordination, technology, anti-smuggling, and other ...

Commissioner authorized to clean up immigration bureau
Sun Star - Philippines
... of the Bureau of Immigration relative to the monitoring of foreign nationals involved in human trafficking, terrorism, drug trafficking, smuggling, salting of ...

EXCLUSIVE: US Soldiers Involved in Drug Smuggling Ring
ABC News - USA
... have abused their military uniforms and authority in a drug smuggling ring, government ... In another case, a US immigration officer at the Mexican border near ...

Fire in Amsterdam airport detention cells claims 11 lives (2nd ...
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Piet Hein Donner, under whose department the facility falls, and Immigration Minister Rita ... spring of 2002 to house illegal migrants and drug smuggling suspects ...

Congressional delegation wants action on immigration policies
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The federal government has been promising to get a handle on illegal immigration for the ... said that they are limited in the number of human smuggling cases they ...

Thirteen on trial for human smuggling
Xinhua - China
... including an airline employee are currently on trial for human smuggling in Guangzhou ... at the court also indicate that a number of immigration officials involved ...

Contemplating profit, loss across US-Mexican border
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... When people talk about the "pro-illegal immigration lobby" among businesses, they ... worker program may dampen the deadly industry of people smuggling, one of the ...

State works on fight against terrorism
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
... transaction reports involving proceeds of crime, money laundering, income tax offences, immigration violations, cheque fraud, currency smuggling and other ...

Border Patrol

Border Patrol Shooting
San Diego Headline News - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO, CA - (10-26-05) A US Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a suspected illegal immigrant Wednesday morning. Agents were ...

Border Patrol catches second heroin smuggler in two weeks
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
A 36-year-old man from Nayarit, Mexico, was arrested Sunday when Customs and Border Protection officers noticed that his shoes had abnormally thick soles ...

Marta's Story
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The Cruzes decided to go for help. Raúl would stay behind to care for Marta while the others went to find the dreaded migra, the Border Patrol. ...

Enforcement

Illegal workers on guard
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Tom O'Connell, the resident agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he received about 30 phone calls Monday from lawyers representing ...

Man arraigned on China DVD piracy charges
United Press International - USA
... The indictment says that Guthrie made over $1 million from his illegal scheme before undercover agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement bought eight ...

Federal agent arrested for exposing self
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Central Florida was arrested late Tuesday after exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl, according ...

25 suspects arrested in sting aimed at disrupting gangs
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... The task force includes Dallas police and sheriff's deputies; the FBI; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol ...

Hospital tech convicted of taking unauthorized pictures to be ...
WLS - Chicago,IL,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the 24-year-old -- a Mexican national -- at his Bolingbrook home after finding out that he allegedly was ...

Men admit to transporting illegals
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... According to an affidavit given by Erick Teschner, a special agent in the Kansas City office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Barraza-Gonzalez and ...

Could It Happen Again?
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
... But, contrary to protocol, there was nobody from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the post-9/11 law-enforcement arm of what was once the Immigration ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Mexican government favors US immigration proposal from Kennedy ...
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USA
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government favors immigration legislation proposed by US senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain that would allow currently illegal ...

Jobs program tries to discourage immigration to US
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... launched in 2001 by Bush and President Vicente Fox, which mandates US investment in small ... Supporters of the proposed legislation say immigration reform is ...

Comment: Border problems made worse by Minutemen, employers
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... an employer willing to violate US law and ... employment eligibility requirements of the Immigration and Naturalization ... end, I have introduced legislation, HR 4038 ...

Jobs program tries to discourage immigration to US
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Supporters of the proposed legislation say immigration reform is desperately needed. But critics on both sides of the border argue ...

Column: Promote the American dream
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
... introduce a lot of legislation that are hostile toward ethnic minorities. The next option is the Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act sponsored ...

AILA Commends Senate's Continued Commitment to Comprehensive ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Hagel Re-Introduces Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation Senators Frist, McCain, and Cornyn Affirm Commitment to Comprehensive Solution WASHINGTON, Oct ...

Visa in the crosshairs
Irish Echo - New York,NY,USA
... "Immigration reform is perhaps the most important challenge facing ... approved by the House Immigration, Border Security ... as a piece of "close-minded" legislation. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center - The Hero's

Reflections On Rosa Parks
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
... 2) Groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center are very much in demand to help fight clear blatant acts of racial violence. It's ...

It Wasn'tA Matter Of Tired Feet
Hartford Courant - United States
... Art Ways started showing a documentary to area schoolchildren called "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks," distributed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...

Michiganders get to pay homage
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Hart and his wife, Eleanor, 66, were in Montgomery for a memorial dedication of the Southern Poverty Law Center. They had planned ...

America's Illuminati and Shadow Government
CounterBias.com - USA
... reintroduction of slavery in America, and a denial that the Holocaust ever took place. From a Southern Poverty Law Center report: ...

Homeland Security to expand biometric visitor tracking system
GovExec.com - USA
... borders with Mexico and Canada. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates about 40 such groups are now operating along the borders. ...

ACLU - The Enemy!

ACLU accuses sheriff's office of racial profiling
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
The ACLU said in a statement Tuesday that Allen County sheriff's deputies began using profiling in August to conduct traffic stops to ask for citizenship papers ...

ACLU accuses Beck of racial profiling
LimaOhio.com - OH
... Chris Link, the executive director for the ACLU of Ohio, sent out a written statement Tues-day titled "ACLU calls for Beck to end race-based profiling ...

ACLU accuses Mumme of religious discrimination
ESPN - USA
... The ACLU also asked that NMSU provide diversity training to all students and employees. McKinley Boston, NMSU's athletics director, would not comment. ...

Controversy grows over legal status of detainees
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... Anthony Romero, director of the ACLU, said: "High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed ...

: Self-Imposed Recommendations for Police Use of Stun Guns Are Not ...
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
... On Oct. 7, The Associated Press ran an article about an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report. The ACLU expressed concern ...

LULAC - Another Enemy of America!

LULAC announces scholarship winners
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora,IL,USA
... The LULAC Council of Aurora has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarship money to young college students in the organization's history. ...

US Senate to Take Up Immigration Reform Issues in November
Voice of America - USA
... Hector Flores, the national leader of the League of United Latin American Citizens or LULAC, says the economy would shut down if the US got rid of all illegal ...

Mexico - Watching the Enemy Nation!

Hurricane costs Mexico millions
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Wilma to strengthen over Gulf of Mexico (October 23, 2005) -- Forecasters expect Hurricane Wilma to pick up speed and strength Sunday as it travels towards ...

Calderón's emergence revitalises Mexico's presidential race
Financial Times - London,England,UK
Mexico's voters now have a clear indication of who the candidates for the three leading political parties in July's presidential elections will be but the ...

Mexico's Vitro warns gas prices could hit profit
Reuters - USA
MONTERREY, Mexico, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mexican glass maker Vitro on Thursday warned that high natural gas prices could hit future results and imperil the ...

UPDATE 1-Mexico's Soriana net profit falls on competition
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Soriana, one of Mexico's top retailers, saw third-quarter net profit drop 4.6 percent as sales were squeezed by stiff ...

Families greet weary Canadians on return from hurricane-ravaged ...
Canada.com - Canada
About 50 people returned from storm-ravaged Mexico to Pearson International Airport to tears and warm greetings from anxious relatives. ...

SAN FRANCISCO Mexico extradites man wanted for rape
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
FBI agents arrested a 28-year-old San Francisco man in Guadalajara, Mexico, who was wanted for rape in the Bay Area, the agency said Wednesday. ...

Young US fighters to meet Mexico's best
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
Given the demographics of California and the Bay Area, it made sense when USA Boxing officials proposed holding a United States-Mexico dual meet in San ...

Three solitudes: Canada, Mexico and the US are drifting apart. A ...
National Post - Canada
... In a speech at the New York Hilton to announce his run at the presidency, Reagan set in motion a movement that brought Mexico, Canada and the United States ...

Bilbao Profit Climbs 36 Percent on Mexico, Spain (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
... Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain's second-biggest bank, said profit rose 36 percent in the third quarter, helped by higher lending in Mexico and Spain ...

Mexico beats Uruguay in friendly 3-1
CNN/SI - USA
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -- Uruguay lost 3-1 to Mexico on Wednesday in a warm-up for next month's World Cup playoffs against Australia. ...

Hurricane costs Mexico millions
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Wilma to strengthen over Gulf of Mexico (October 23, 2005) -- Forecasters expect Hurricane Wilma to pick up speed and strength Sunday as it travels towards ...

Calderón's emergence revitalises Mexico's presidential race
Financial Times - London,England,UK
Mexico's voters now have a clear indication of who the candidates for the three leading political parties in July's presidential elections will be but the ...

Mexico's Vitro warns gas prices could hit profit
Reuters - USA
MONTERREY, Mexico, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mexican glass maker Vitro on Thursday warned that high natural gas prices could hit future results and imperil the ...

UPDATE 1-Mexico's Soriana net profit falls on competition
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Soriana, one of Mexico's top retailers, saw third-quarter net profit drop 4.6 percent as sales were squeezed by stiff ...

Families greet weary Canadians on return from hurricane-ravaged ...
Canada.com - Canada
About 50 people returned from storm-ravaged Mexico to Pearson International Airport to tears and warm greetings from anxious relatives. ...

SAN FRANCISCO Mexico extradites man wanted for rape
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
FBI agents arrested a 28-year-old San Francisco man in Guadalajara, Mexico, who was wanted for rape in the Bay Area, the agency said Wednesday. ...

Young US fighters to meet Mexico's best
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
Given the demographics of California and the Bay Area, it made sense when USA Boxing officials proposed holding a United States-Mexico dual meet in San ...

Three solitudes: Canada, Mexico and the US are drifting apart. A ...
National Post - Canada
... In a speech at the New York Hilton to announce his run at the presidency, Reagan set in motion a movement that brought Mexico, Canada and the United States ...

Bilbao Profit Climbs 36 Percent on Mexico, Spain (Update3)
Bloomberg - USA
... Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain's second-biggest bank, said profit rose 36 percent in the third quarter, helped by higher lending in Mexico and Spain ...

Mexico beats Uruguay in friendly 3-1
CNN/SI - USA
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -- Uruguay lost 3-1 to Mexico on Wednesday in a warm-up for next month's World Cup playoffs against Australia. ...

Mexican Consulate

Dallas sheriff's office now says man hasn't yet been charged in 23 ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Reports of the charges last week outraged Mexican Consulate officials. "I don't understand how he reached this conclusion so quickly ...

Illegal workers on guard
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Enforcement, said he received about 30 phone calls Monday from lawyers representing employers whose workers were absent, and from the Mexican Consulate and its ...

"MS 13" Gang

Chief: No Gangs Were At Party
Hartford Courant - United States
... One of the nation's most dangerous gangs, MS-13 has its origins in El Salvador. The gang, known for smuggling drugs and immigrants across the US-Mexico border ...

Kilgore, Kaine and illegals
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... For example, one of the most serious and growing public-safety issues in Virginia stems from the activities of MS-13, a Salvadoran gang comprised largely of ...

Distant business trips cost taxpayers $26K
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... s focus shifted when days before the delegation left, six teenagers were knifed by suspected members of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a gang with roots in ...

Queens News of the Week - October 25
About - Cities & Towns - New York,NY,USA
... Another report of gang activity has come out of downtown Jamaica where residents live in fear of a Salvadoran gang called MS-13.

"Mexican Mafia"

The Trouble With Immigration: High Crime (Part 2)
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
... The bloody gang collaborated with the Mexican Mafia--the dominant force in California prisons--on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion and drive-by ...

CAFTA

Costa Ricans March against US Free Trade Agreement
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... march took place after President Abel Pacheco sent the project for the agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the US (CAFTA) to Congress ...

Hospital Closures

Health summit calls for more time
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK
... Bed cuts, ward closures and job losses are also proposed for Ipswich Hospital and West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, in the county's health crisis. ...

IDENTITY THEFT

Police: IDs at risk at home
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
... victim of identity theft should call "anyone you have accounts with," as well as the three big credit report companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. ...