"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

Week in Review
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... of the votes, and American Independent Party candidate Jim Gilchrist, who snagged ... Although Gilchrist -- founder of the Minuteman Project -- lost the election ...

East Valley news briefs
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... MESA - JT Ready, one of the founding members of the Arizona Minuteman Project, has picked up organization papers to run for the District 4 City Council seat. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Knee-jerk immigration reform
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Knowing a guest-worker program would have trouble getting past the House immigration caucus, led by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, lawmakers plan to ...

House to Take Up Stricter Immigration Measure
Washington Post - United States
... all but charged the congressman from his neighboring district with grandstanding, linking him to the House's anti-immigration firebrand Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). ...

Some Conservatives Seek to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., wants to attach an amendment revoking birthright citizenship to a broader immigration bill scheduled to be taken up sometime next week. ...

Edwards will be speaker at QC event
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... visited the Quad-Cities. They are US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., New York Gov. George Pataki and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Cracks in the Melting Pot
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... worry. In Congress, for example, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has proposed getting rid of entire categories of work visas. Business ...

Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy

Boughton forms group to reform immigration laws
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Suffolk County (NY) Executive Steve Levy announced the formation of Mayors and Executives for Immigration Reform, a group that ...


illegal alien, illegal immigration

New program helps poor and immigrant families buy homes
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... can an illegal alien be if the government is subsidizing his mortgage?" said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration ...

Arrested illegals at mercy of feds
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
... Agents choose who to bring before an immigration judge for removal ... agency's duties include " identifying and removing all high-risk illegal alien fugitives and ...

Why "Guest Workers" Won't Work
WEBCommentary - USA
... While the two principal reform proposals competing in ... Wis.), who has jurisdiction over immigration issues, has proposed security legislation without guest ...

Outdated "Baby-boomers" in America. By Rafael Briones
Opinion Editorials - Fairfax,VA,USA
... Data indicates that immigration is not a problem. ... It's well known that among the Hispanic population using the term "illegal alien" is offensive and ...

illegal immigration
George Bush, President, Congress, laws, crimes, security, Border Patrol, ...
DHS, Money, Americans,Illegal Aliens The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Immigrant report fails to document accurate picture
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... seems calculated to whip up anti-immigration sentiment and to ... The official term is "undocumented alien." Pawlenty knows that, but "illegal immigrants" is ...

Man's case shows gaps in security
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... He's this other person and he's a criminal, illegal alien who was deported on ... noted the federal government has four agents to handle immigration violations in ...

Border fence is first obstacle to illegals
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
... a permiso, a document charging them with illegal entry and ... of failures to appear at one immigration court in ... are added to the list of alien absconders with ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

Most say illegal immigration is a big concern
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... that 86 percent believe that US businesses are ... to the surge of illegal immigration by hiring ... The legislation, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman ...

Death comes too soon
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Port-of-Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
... to leave Iraq as a US citizen," Staff Sgt ... active-duty soldiers, including new legislation in Frederick's ... Chertoff-whose agency oversees immigration-apologise to ...

Bush moves to open US doors to more Immigrants
Daily Sun - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
By Sam Omatseye reporting from US. ... visa lottery alone, if the wave of immigration proposals before ... is staking out an even more sweeping legislation, which will ...

Govt draws up travel ban hit-list
ZWNEWS.com - UK
... General, Cde TT Mudede." Mudede's letter to Immigration, dated 24 ... The 17 of us are being used as an ... yesterday said there was no enabling legislation that would ...

Lobby group to help illegal Irish in US
RTE.ie - Ireland
... It is likely that elements of all three will go into legislation aimed at tackling the biggest immigration problem the US has ever faced. ...

A Comprehensive Border Security & Immigration Policy
Post Chronicle - USA
... so is far outweighed by the costs of illegal immigration. ... There is presently legislation pending in congress to deny ... child of a mother who is a US citizen or ...

illegal alien drivers license

Man's case shows gaps in security
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... other person and he's a criminal, illegal alien who was ... agents concentrate on serious felons, not bad drivers. ... to get a full-fledged driver's license from the ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Waiting for the smoke to clear
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... proposal, the mayor's initiative would have authorized the training of Costa Mesa police officers by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to screen ...

Soccer pioneer can't shake past
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Paul Hunker, chief counsel for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, said he could not comment on Mr. Griffith's case specifically. ...

Week in Review
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
The City Council early Wednesday voted to work with Orange County officials and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have city police trained for ...

Activists shift to urging firms not to hire illegal immigrants
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials evaluate the groups' tips and footage, but often the reports cannot be verified, said Bill Riley, ICE's chief ...

A conversation with Jon Kyl
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... taken into custody by Tucson PD, or DPS, or Phoenix PD, they (law enforcement) need to be able to call ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or Border ...

More criminals crossing border
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... The job of pursuing such immigrants falls to another Homeland Security agency, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the nation's second-largest ...

US District Court doings
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... authorized immigration official for deportation. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Tracking the Bloody Footprints in the House of Death: Part II
The NarcoSphere - New York,NY,USA
... were carried out with the assistance of a US government informant under the watch of a US prosecutor and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in El ...

Hooked on cheap labor
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... But since the Immigration and Naturalization Service disbanded and Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created in 2003, the focus has switched to criminal ...

Policy will make our city safer
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... The authority comes from a law passed by Congress, and the training would be done through and under the guidance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US border officers seizing tons of potent Canadian marijuana
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... "There don't seem to be profiles any longer," said Vincent Salvatore, group supervisor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US Enforcement Agency Joins Virtual Global Task Force
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
by Jim Kouri - Immigration and Customs Enforcement will serve as a board member and the primary US law enforcement representative to the Virtual Global Task ...

Police will target 10 Hub ˜red zones' to stem city violence
Boston Herald - United States
... by "red-zone teams," composed of city cops and federal agents assigned to the FBI, DEA, ATF and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, but ...

Couple accused of plot to launder money
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Lauren Mack, spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency's currency-sniffing dog swept through the house on Misty Creek, and agents ...

Police train efforts on 'red zones'
Boston Globe - United States
... District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, and top officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the US ...

Immigration smuggling

Minister unaware of Tekriti's aid in trial
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Justice Minister Chris Ellison, responsible for the Australian Federal Police, praised the joint police-immigration People Smuggling Strike Team operation that ...

600 immigrants died in Med last summer
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
Dr Borg was making a point on human smuggling at the closing of an EU-sponsored, two-day symposium on illegal immigration, which brought together academics and ...

Illegal migrant captures surge
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... "Immigration remains a federal responsibility. But our concern at the county level remains with the crime that increasingly accompanies the smuggling of ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... Judiciary Committee, real solutions for the nation's immigration problems are ... would stiffen sentences for people convicted of smuggling undocumented immigrants ...

Palm Beach County news briefs
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... may have been involved in "smuggling event," US Border Patrol spokesman Steve McDonald said. Border Patrol, the Sheriff's Office and Immigration and Customs ...

Army drones keep an eye on the border
Swissinfo - Switzerland
After successful test flights, Swiss border guards asked for permission to use the drones in the fight against smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

How Saddam's man was cleared
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... It is now in his Immigration Department file. ... After Asfoor's conviction on 12 counts of people smuggling was overturned on appeal, a retrial was ordered. ...

US border officers seizing tons of potent Canadian marijuana
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... to be profiles any longer," said Vincent Salvatore, group supervisor for Immigration and Customs ... suspected of being part of one Canada-to-New York smuggling run ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles MECHA' MAYOR

LA's mayor is latest to tackle school reform
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Joining a coterie of big-city mayors, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles's new chief executive, is moving to assert more control over troubled ...

Welcome, comrades, to Moscow on the Pacific
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MAYOR ANTONIO Villaraigosa is learning what it feels like when a revolution starts ... In Los Angeles, they could represent engineers, sanitation workers and cops. ...

Dropout miscount
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... the graduation rate for "minority" students in the Los Angeles Unified School ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa evidently believes the number and routinely cites it ...

The Train Wreck in Our Backyard--Lincoln Place
VenicePaper - Venice,CA,USA
It was at the end of the business day in Colorado, when Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and District 11 Councilman Bill Rosendahl spoke to the CEO of ...

Leaders hope to attract jobs to Times plant
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... attract high-paying jobs to the 26-acre Los Angeles Times printing ... some business executives and city officials, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, agree the ...

Villaraigosa Nominates LAHSA Board
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last Wednesday announced his picks for the 10-member commission of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), and it ...

What's in a name? Hopefully, not memories of stripper scandals
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA
... "Now, you actually know what they do," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the Times. You mean with the exotic dancers? Oh, wait. ...
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Kearin's return speaks volumes
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... So would being scheduled in between well-respected real-estate developer Nelson Rising and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

News briefs from Southern California
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... LOS ANGELES (AP) - The area film permit organization is shedding its cumbersome ... "Now, you actually know what they do," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday. ...

"ACLU"

Foe puts ACLU on Christmas card list
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... for its alleged "War on Christmas" (as it's called in the title of a new book by Fox News' John Gibson) McCullough's "Merry Christmas ACLU" campaign takes a ...

Picture-perfect police cars
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... not foolproof. ``The caveat is that it's not going to capture everything,'' said ACLU attorney Mark Schlosberg. ``Police managers ...

FBI Labels Nonviolent Protesters Terrorists
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
As reported by The Gazette website, the ACLU was able to obtain the information through the Freedom of Information Act on protests in Colorado Springs in 2002 ...

ACLU Says You Have a Right to Life
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
If you're an innocent unborn child, you don't have that luxury. The ACLU has announced their continued opposition to Capital Punishment. ...

ACLU Sues Polk Over Speech Zone
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... policy. The lawsuit comes a week after the county officials denied the ACLU use of the site because it did not provide the insurance. ...

ACLU Wants TASERs Taken From Cops
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
By Sher Zieve -- The TASER, used on criminals by police instead of guns, has come under fire from the ACLU. The Northern California ...

US Army Releases Thousands of Documents to ACLU
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... In addition, the Army has released over 56,000 pages of documents relating to detainee operations to the ACLU and conducted more than 500 investigations into ...

An Exchange of Letters
South Carolina Headlines - Greenville,SC,USA
"Here's a riddle: How do you get the ACLU to stop defending terrorists, pedophiles, and atheists? Tell the Aclu their clients are ...

LULAC

Texans split on border patrols
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... broader issues of national security. Lemus said LULAC supports a recommendation made by the Sept. 11 Commission to improve communication ...

LULAC state board meeting on isle today
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA
... Oscar Moreno of Galveston, Texas LULAC parliamentarian, said immigration reform would likely be discussed. "That is a hot topic ...

The poop on SARA's watershed-protection plan
San Antonio Current - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Instead, he offered to convey title of the house to LULAC --which has advocated on behalf of Segundo--"for a nominal fee," with the restriction that the ...

Grand jury clears area police chief of assault
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Garate, 29. Rick Dovalina, LULAC's District 8 president, said he was not aware the grand jury had reached a decision Friday. He ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Human Rights Education Institute Opens In North Idaho
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
More than a five years after a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center brought an end to the Aryan Nation's existence in North Idaho, and one year ...

Gauging the Allen case's legacy
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
... According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pennsylvania, with 32, is ranked seventh among US states in the number of hate groups based within state borders. ...

Down syndrome barriers falling
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Act of 1975, the federal law that became ... is that current statistics equal unemployment, poverty and isolation ... similar to the University of Southern Maine and ...

Anti-immigration groups on the rise in Las Vegas
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... hotbeds" for anti-illegal immigration groups, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Nevada Poverty Law Center, an organization ...

"Mexico"

Mexico axes death penalty
News24 - South Africa
Mexico City - Mexico has outlawed its long-dormant death penalty, setting itself apart from its northern neighbour - the United States. ...

Mexico glad to have only one European opponent
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe is relieved that his side have been drawn with only one European opponent in their World Cup group ...

Two alleged kidnappers arrested in police raid in Mexico
Xinhua - China
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Two alleged kidnappers were arrested and three kidnapping victims rescued when police on Friday ...

Mexico outlaws death penalty
Houston Chronicle - United States
By MARK STEVENSON. MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government formally abolished the last vestiges of its death penalty on Friday. President ...

In Mexico, Junkyard Dogfight for Presidency
Washington Post - United States
MEXICO CITY -- The race for Mexico's presidency has featured mudslinging, backstabbing, revelations of a questionably obtained Miami penthouse, videotapes of ...

Group D looks good for Mexico
TSN.ca - Canada
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Mexico was considered to be the weakest team seeded for Friday's World Cup draw. After the 32 finalists ...

Mexico sentences cardinal killer
BBC News - UK
A former police commander in Mexico has been jailed for 40 years for the 1993 murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal at Guadalajara airport, officials say. ...

Fort Pierce child pornographer ran to Mexico but couldn't hide
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... knew authorities couldn't do much if he cut off his electronic monitoring device -- which depended on working phone lines -- and headed for Mexico with a ...

Man ordered deported to Mexico for attempted bribery
Rome News-Tribune - Rome,GA,USA
... "There are some cultural issues there," Baldwin said. "That's how business is done in Mexico." Prosecutor Paul Jones disagreed, telling Murphy that ...

Mexico cenbank cuts key rate, peso slumps
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's central bank, fresh from driving inflation down to record lows, cut a key interest rate sharply Friday in a bid to stimulate a tepid ...

Mexico skates through first snow storm, big problems reported ...
Mexico Ledger - Mexico,MO,USA
by ZACH MORTICE. Mexico and Audrain County made it through winter's first storm, chilly, but mostly unscathed. "This has been ...

Thousands pack Mexico City plaza as ex-mayor accepts leftist ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Tens of thousands filled the Mexican capital's massive main plaza Saturday as a fiery former mayor considered the 2006 presidential race's front ...

US rules stalling trucks from Mexico
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... agriculture, office equipment and railcar industries. The company has 20 plants in the United States and Mexico with 1,500 employees.

Mexican official Morocco, an open gate for Mexico to the Arab ...
Morocco Times - Casablanca,Morocco
Elias said, on the occasion of Morocco day in Mexico City on Dec.6-9, that there are several similarities between Mexico and Morocco. ...

To Think of Leaving Mexico
Boston Globe - United States
LEQUEITIO, Mexico -- Saul climbs out of a pile of cotton. He wants to be a doctor. ... In the desert of northern Mexico, the rain is dust, thrown by wind. ...

Who's Trying to Cross Our Southern Border? Everyone
Washington Post - United States
... Ignored in the rhetoric, as well as in US policy, is a far more complex reality -- that the southern border is no longer just a border with Mexico. ...

Terrapins end three years of frustration
ESPN - USA
CARY, NC -- Marc Burch's deflected free kick gave Maryland a 1-0 win over New Mexico in the NCAA championship game Sunday, ending three years of frustration in ...

US-Mexico pact limits lagoon development
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
LAGUNA SAN IGNACIO, Mexico - They have already passed San Diego: thousands of gray whales making their annual 10,000-mile voyage from feeding grounds in the ...

Plain PCs Sitting Pretty
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Locally made, generic computers are outselling multinational brands in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. It all comes down to price. ...

No such thing as 'temporary workers'
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... for such policies. . Mexico would "win" by exporting surplus workers who send back hard currency to their relatives. Yet these ...

"MS 13" Gang

Boston tries 'surgical approach' to crime
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Latino gang crackdown focuses on MS-13 (August 2, 2005) -- More than 500 members of Salvadoran gang MS-13 have been arrested in a federal crackdown on violent ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is a Salvadoran gang with a record of killings and kidnappings throughout Central America. It operates in Lake Worth, too. ...

More criminals crossing border
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... or MS-13, whose members are known for hacking their enemies with machetes. ICE agents in El Paso recently deported an 18-year-old Mexican gang member known as ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Couple allegedly smuggled cash
Texarkana Gazette - Texarkana,TX,USA
A Mexican couple with alleged ties to the Mexican Mafia appeared in federal court on Friday on charges of smuggling more than $230,000 in cash from the US to ...

Stop border-crossing gangsters
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... They are much more than loose-knit neighborhood alliances. MLK, for example, is a Guatemalan gang linked to EME, La Eme, the Mexican Mafia. ...

Inmates isolated for fear of gangs
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... With names like the Texas Syndicate, Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, most have written constitutions that govern members' actions. ...

Mexican Consulate

Paisanos returning home
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
... couple of days. The Mexican consulate has produced a ten minute video offering travel tips for Paisanos. They have also written ...

Oregon home unites distant neighbors
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... Although the US Census Bureau counted 260,094 Mexicans in Oregon in 2002, according to the Mexican Consulate, with the "uncounted" -- the migrant population ...

Mysterious worker's disappearance baffled police
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... The investigation sat dormant for about seven years, until Garcia's parents contacted the Mexican consulate in 2003 wondering if anyone ever determined what ...

CAFTA

Farm Bureau members hear rep defend CAFTA
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,Oregon,USA
... He said Farm Bureau used its economic analysis team in studies coming to the conclusion that CAFTA is a win-win situation for America's farm producers. ...