ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Minuteman Project

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ACLU opposes Rio Rancho intelligent design policy
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA
The group's director, Peter Simonson, said Tuesday the ACLU will go to court if the policy leads to the teaching of "intelligent design.". ...

ACLU argues shopping center violated free speech laws {For FREE SPEECH?}
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
... They argue the breach could hurt other political candidates running this fall. Kent Willis is executive director of the Virginia branch fo the ACLU. ...

Abstinence Group's Federal Funding Withheld
Ms. Magazine - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Earlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against HHS for allowing over $1 million of federal money to go to the Silver Ring ...

Minutemen prep for trip to NM {AGAINST FREE SPEECH!}

Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... While the Minutemen get ready for their duty, ACLU members today will start training legal observers, who will follow, photograph and videotape the Minutemen. ...

COMMENTS:

Undocumented Victims Awarded Vigilante Ranch

According to a New York Times article, two undocumented aliens were awarded a 70-acre ranch to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit against a vigilante group that promised to use force to keep
undocumented immigrants from sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border. "Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and
chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which represented the immigrants in their lawsuit.  The immigrants said the ordeal, in which they feared that they would be killed by the men they thought were soldiers, had left them with post-traumatic stress. Mr. Dees said the loss of the ranch would "send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to useviolence."

As this lawsuit illustrates, allowing armed civilian vigilantes to take enforcement of immigration laws into their own hands is a throwback to the wild wild west and a surefire recipe for violence and mayhem.  This incident is just one of many symptoms (e.g. the Minuteman vigilante coalition, Arizona and New Mexico
state of emergencies) of our nation's woefully inadequate immigration system. It is up to Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform so that our immigration laws reflect the reality that large-scale immigration is a part of modern America's landscape.

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US to Beef Up Border Force
Washington Post - United States
... DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff said Immigration and Customs ... to border security that echo in legislation proposed by ... immigrants to work jobs that US citizens do ...

Immigration reform
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Mr. Núñez has sponsored state legislation for tax relief ... defuse the contentious issue of illegal immigration in the ... In the US, the top rate is 38.6 percent ...

Illegal Immigration, Treason, and Buffet Restaurants
The Conservative Voice - USA
... to Fallon, our own Immigration and Naturalization ... for naturalization, and after obtaining US citizenship, vote ... and federal) are "quashing legislation that would ...

Virginia governor urged to declare immigration emergency
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... get the federal government to help us fix the ... of emergency, it should accompany legislation that takes ... for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said ...

Address illegal immigration now
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... of illegal drugs across the US border with ... the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act." Introduced ... Senate and House members, the legislation borrows from ...

Alleged illegal alien arrested after hit-and-run traffic accident
Herald & Review - Decatur,IL,USA
... of obstruction of justice and possession of a fictitious drivers license after two ... a detective, the man allegedly said a resident alien identification card ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

The Rise Of The Anti-Immigrant Right
TomPaine.com - Washington,D.C.,USA
... "Horowitz gets crazier by the day," Mark Potok, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., told me ...

Poetic Injustice
Voices Magazine - Jefferson City,MO,USA
... The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal aid group along the lines of the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union, represented the illegal Salvadorans. ...

Rohrabacher hopes feds won't attempt to delay investigation into ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... withholding evidence it may have of a failed sting operation at Elohim City involving the FBI and informants working for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC ...

Domestic terror: Who's most dangerous?
CNN - USA
... "It is simply ludicrous to describe animal rights and eco-terrorism as the No. 1 threat," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...

LULAC

Around the valley
Russellville Courier - Russellville,AR,USA
... The Arkansas River Valley League of United Latin American Citizens, Council 766, is holding a "Learn about LULAC" event on Sept. 2 at the Holiday Inn. ...

IDENTITY THEFT

ID theft becoming commonplace, survey shows
SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA
... 30374. www.equifax.com. Experian National Consumer Assistance. PO Box 2104, Allen, Texas. 75013-2104. www.experian.com. ... Chester, Pa. 19022. www.transunion.com. ...

The Rise Of The Anti-Immigrant Right
TomPaine.com - Washington,D.C.,USA
... The speaker likely to garner the most buzz is Jim Gilchrist, a co-founder of The Minuteman Project, who comes to the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel from having ...

17 candidates meet deadline to run for Cox's congressional seat
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Jim Gilchrist, 56, who gained notoriety with his Minuteman Project to patrol portions of the US-Mexico border, is running as an American Independent Party ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Mary Conroy: Roberts is no friend of working people
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... conservative Republican National Lawyers Association and the National Legal Center for the Public Interest and the Washington Legal Foundation, groups friendly ...

Austin lawyer expected to be appointed to Texas Supreme Court
Houston Chronicle - United States
... his work helping Bush establish faith-based programs in Texas and Washington. ... bono for the Institute for Justice, a Libertarian legal foundation that advocates ...

Texas' tuition policy challenged
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
The Washington Legal Foundation has filed a formal discrimination complaint against the state of Texas for a policy that offers in-state college-tuition rates ...

Labor Day 2005: Employees May See Benefit Changes as Employers ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... of a changing workforce have met legal challenges ... at 1015 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005 ... The Employment Policy Foundation is a non-partisan ...

The Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys Joins The ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON, Aug ... Massachusetts, we understand the importance of having a foundation such as ... relationships and strengthen our participation in the legal community ...

North County school briefs: Fallbrook resident earns scholarship
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... school calendar in terms of legal and local ... Deacon Al Graff, the Lyle Foundation, Kathleen Stowell, the ... National Young Leaders Conference in Washington DC With ...

Abortion battles waged mostly at the edges
USA Today - USA
WASHINGTON -- During her confirmation hearings for a Supreme ... in the abortion debate say legal disputes over ... broader case that challenges the foundation of Roe ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

20 Meet Deadline to Run for Cox's Seat
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Jim Gilchrist of Mission Viejo, who gained notoriety earlier this year with his Minuteman Project to patrol portions of the US-Mexico border, is running in the ...

In The News!

Do you have I-9 blues?
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... You are concerned that your employee is an illegal alien. You do not want a run-in with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. ...

FBI Agents' 'Wedding' Is a Bust for Guests
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... of contraband imaginable," said John P. Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security. ...

Fire Warning Issued for All Suffolk Parks
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
The warning is being issued due to a drought and a significant drop in humidity, according to the office of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. ...

Sunny savings ahead?
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... governments were given the option of exempting the equipment from their own portion of sales taxes, and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said yesterday that ...

Man Arrested in Seattle, Suspect in Threat
Washington Post - United States
... but we cannot afford to take chances," said Ian Canaan of the Federal Protective Service, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that provides ...

Feds propose working with state on border issues
Arizona Daily Sun - Flagstaff,AZ,USA
... In a letter Monday to the governor, Michael Chertoff told Napolitano he wants the DPS to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in enforcing ...

San Diego Men Arrested For Smuggling, Counterfeit Money
10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
The weekend arrests were among 59 in the United States and Canada involving the FBI, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies, federal ...

Here comes the bride - and jail
The Standard - Hong Kong
... homeland security threat that we are happy to close down today,'' John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the ...

5 ILLEGAL ALIENS INDICTED FOR THE FRAUDULENT USE OF IMMIGRATION ...
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
By US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Savannah, GA--Lisa Godbey Wood, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia ...

Alone In America
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... However, Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, disputed that claim, and said that every child arrives at an ORR facility with a ...

AIR FORCE PERSONNEL WARNED OF PERSONAL DATA BREACH
The Air Force has begun notifying more than 33,000 airmen throughout
the service that much of their personal information was stolen from
the online Assignment Management System.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36740-1.html



DHS LOOKS AT BIGGER PICTURE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION R&D
The National Plan for Research and Development in Support of Critical
Infrastructure Protection recognizes that many different sectors are
vulnerable to the same threats and that interconnections between
sectors must be addressed.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36739-1.html

Alleged illegal alien arrested after hit-and-run traffic accident
Herald & Review - Decatur,IL,USA
... When interviewed by a detective, the man allegedly said a resident alien identification card in his possession was a fake that he paid $100 to obtain.

Time running out for plans to improve border security
Houston Chronicle - United States
... of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors ... worker plan and other immigration proposals have ... been incorporated in legislation introduced in ...

Illegal Immigration, Treason, and Buffet Restaurants
The Conservative Voice - USA
... officials in congress (both state and federal) are "quashing legislation that would ... to protect billboards in Los Angeles calling for immigration reform or to ...

Mature debate stalled by racism accusations
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Blog has argued that a robust debate about immigration policy is critical if the United States hopes to adopt workable reform legislation that satisfies a cross ...

Chertoff assures Arizona of help on border
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Janet Napolitano because of illegal immigration, says it wants to help Arizona combat alien smuggling, ease related prison overcrowding and train state police ...

gypt Gaza border patrol agreed
BBC News - UK
Israel and Egypt have finalised a deal under which Egyptian border guards will patrol the southern Gaza border, according to reports. ...

Homeland chief: Border no place for 'amateurs' to patrol
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... 11, 2001, for the federal government to get their act together and deploy enough Border Patrol agents or military on the border, and it hasn't happened," the ...

Locals may 'patrol' Canada's borders
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... Canadian border with binoculars, radios, search lights and cell phones -- prepared to report sightings of illegal entrants to federal border patrol agents as ...

GSA ISSUES RFI FOR DATABASE TO SHARE TERRORISM INFORMATION
The General Services Administration is asking industry to provide a
governmentwide, searchable database of information, organizations,
services and personnel related to each agency's mission in the war on
terrorism.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36746-1.html


HHS FORMALIZES HEALTH IT COORDINATOR'S AUTHORITY
The Health and Human Services Department has formalized the
organization, functions and delegations of authority for the Office of
the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36745-1.html

Mad Cow threat
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) estimates there are currently between ... births per 1,000) and the size of the illegal alien population (between ...

US to Beef Up Border Force
Washington Post - United States
... The Border Patrol will also allow its officers to help local law enforcement officials patrol main highways used by illegal immigrants. ...

Employee Files Federal Lawsuit After Being Disciplined for Pro-Marriage Stance

Orange County, CA – A computer technician has filed a federal lawsuit in Orange County after being reprimanded and demoted for expressing his support for traditional marriage. The employee is represented by Pacific Justice Institute and PJI affiliate attorney Laurie Messerly

http://www.pacificjustice.org/

Location: Dallas, TX
PanthersHuddle.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... got the job, prosecutors allege, by using someone else's birth certificate to disguise the fact that he's a Mexican citizen and, incredibly, an illegal alien. ...

MS 13" Gang

4 gang members are captured
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... The discovery of five illegal immigrants about 13 miles south of Falfurrias on Saturday resulted in the capture of another MS-13 gang member with an extensive ...

Kilgore faulted for gang remarks
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... by The Daily Progress as saying, "We need to know who is here when MS-13 is being contacted by al-Qaida, MS-13 being a huge, very violent gang organizing in ...

frosty wooldridge

Mature debate stalled by racism accusations
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Consider the first sentence of a recent article by Frosty Wooldridge, who manages the trifecta: "LOUISVILLE, COLORADO The United Kingdom suffers another kind ...

Mecha, La Raza, ACLU

Illegal Immigration, Treason, and Buffet Restaurants
The Conservative Voice - USA
... Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and National Council of La Raza (La Raza) -- champion discrimination ... of Jesus would have sent the ACLU into a ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Mother, son kidnapped in Starr County
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
... ". Gangs with ties to drug trafficking, like the Mexican mafia, are believed to have a role in the kidnappings, but authorities don't believe it is any group in ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Early birds flying White House trail
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., when asked on a radio talk show last month how the United Sates should respond if terrorists strike with nuclear weapons. ...

Lawmakers shine light on immigration reform
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs,IA,USA
"My hope is to get people in Iowa energized about this issue, to make it an issue in the next presidential race," said US Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. ...

King: Fence off Mexican border
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... King and Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado said they want candidates running for president to have clear and aggressive plans for dealing with ...

Washington Legal Foundation

FDA Turns Up the Heat on Drug Ads
Adweek - New York,NY,USA
... The increase in FDA activity will likely infuriate one group that has placed the agency under special scrutiny recently--the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF ...

Legacy Scores Legal Victory
Adweek - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON A Deleware judge has ruled that the ... said the decision would allow the foundation to continue ... to yesterday's decision, that it is legal," Sorrell said ...

CAFTA

CAFTA is catalyst for new service from Port of Houston
Houston Chronicle - United States
... CAFTA was a factor in the global shipping line's decision to start the service out of Houston and Tampa, Cooper said. NYK, Cooper ...

Making sense of CAFTA
The Illinois Leader - IL,USA
... One train is the importation of people (legal and illegal); the other the exportation of jobs to foreign countries(ie: CAFTA and China most favored nation ...

Faced with CAFTA, Sandinistas Demand Protection Laws
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... National Liberation Front (FSLN) is demanding approval of 23 bills to reduce the impact of the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), if it is ...

CAFTA is an investment in Minnesota's ag future
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... beef, which is why together with the American Farm Bureau, all their national organizations supported, and none of their state organizations opposed DR-CAFTA. ...

State textile sector loses fewer jobs
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
... "That sucking noise of jobs from Alabama and other states going to Mexico began with NAFTA and it's going to continue with CAFTA," Burkhalter said Monday. ...