ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Minuteman Project

Where Laborers Go, They Will Follow
Washington Post - United States
... taxpayer-financed day-laborer center is scheduled to open tomorrow in Herndon, and the president of the local chapter of the Minuteman Project said yesterday ...

REGION ROUNDUP
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... privacy.". The Minuteman Project would like to start an official border watch in North Dakota by June, Simcox said. The citizen's ...

Opinion by Ernesto Portillo Jr.: Maverick legislator, 29 ...
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... She was in town to promote a documentary video critical of the Minuteman Project, the civilian border watch group. I caught up with ...

Illegal Immigration - A Native American Indian's View
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... are Mexican, but because of the lack of minority involvement in such endeavors as the Minuteman Project, the organization of the California Border Patrol, etc. ...

Texans Want Cops to Enforce Immigration Laws
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... In April, more than 800 volunteers participated in the Minuteman Project, guarding the Arizona-Sonora border and reporting illegal activity to federal agents. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Federal Judge Clears Way For Border Fence
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... barrier to completing a border fence meant to thwart illegal immigrants in the southwestern corner of the US Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo supports the ...

'Birthright' in US Could Be Ended By the Congress
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... "It is not the way that aliens should become citizens of this country," the chairman of the House immigration reform caucus, Rep. Tom Tancredo, said. ...

Rules panel likely to reject guest-worker legislation
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... Adams, spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a conservative who has been pushing to reinforce border security. Tancredo has been ...

Guest-worker bill faces rejection
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a conservative who is pushing to reinforce border security, said: 'The White House has lost a lot of credibility on this issue, and they ...

Officials discuss immigrant ‘invasion'
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is backing a federal measure to remove the legal promise of citizenship to anyone who's born in this country. ...

White House Watch: RNC chair plans Hispanic outreach
U.S. News & World Report - USA
... "Mehlman is concerned that we might become the party of Tom Tancredo on this," says a GOP insider, referring to the Colorado Republican representative who has ...

Border Patrol

Apptis Wins $5M Customs & Border Patrol Contract
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... announced it has won a $5 million contract from the US Customs and Border Patrol to provide support services to the Program Integration Division. ...

State border police initiative fails
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... including some North County politicians and the Escondido City Council, said the state needed a border police force because the US Border Patrol was not doing ...

Immigration smuggling

Man pleads guilty in smuggling ring case
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which conducted a three-year undercover investigation codenamed Operation Tortuga, said Asaifi, his wife and others ...

PAKISTAN: CAMPAIGN TO CURB HUMAN SMUGGLING LAUNCHED
AKI - Rome,Italy
... document which will help recognise government efforts to curb human smuggling at the ... be installed at all entry and exit points, as well as immigration counters ...

Mexican official calls House immigration bill 'wrong,' calls for ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- A bill that would toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong ... in border areas for assistance in combatting alien smuggling and illegal entry. ...

Man Given Four Months For Smuggling Illegals
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... The migrants told US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents they paid $3,000 each in smuggling fees, authorities said. According ...

83 Years For Cocaine Smuggling Gang
UK Security (press release) - Tiverton,Devon,UK
... Richard Riley monitored the arrival of the couriers through immigration and into the ... at their homes for their role in masterminding the smuggling operation. ...

Derbez slams US bill on immigration
El Universal Online - Mexico
A bill that would toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong" and US ... law enforcement in border areas for assistance in combatting alien smuggling and illegal ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

House Poised to Approve Tough Border Security Measure
New York Times - United States
... in Congress as vital to combat illegal immigration and tighten the ... including human traffickers, employers who hire illegal aliens and alien gang members ...

Birthright and Wrong
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
It's going to be quite a week for immigration reform in Washington ... a bug lamp, bad amendments seem to be gravitating to this piece of legislation, proving that ...

Western state legislators frustrated with feds
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... Business Perspective on Comprehensive Immigration Reform," Monday, Dec ... ve seen more and more legislation as frustration ... Ann Morse, an immigration policy analyst ...

History's Highest Immigration Levels
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... is consistent with those prepared by the Census Bureau, Immigration and Nationalization Service ... whether a respondent in the survey is an illegal alien with 100 ...

Ex-Border Patrol agent gets five years for smuggling drugs
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN DIEGO -- A former Border Patrol agent in El Centro who tried to smuggle nearly 750 pounds of marijuana across the border in his patrol vehicle was ...

Fear of Exile Vexes Many in South OC
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... When rumors spread that the US Border Patrol is in town, parents say school attendance drops, mothers ask those who are US citizens to walk their children home ...

US in major crackdown on illegal immigrants
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... group, the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), Belfast ... by Senator Ted Kennedy's immigration spokeswoman Esther ... horrible" piece of legislation that could ...

National Policy Institute Calls for Mass Deportation of Illegals
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
... in the labor force due to immigration results in ... taxpayers and workers, of deporting illegal aliens. ... provides convincing evidence that the alien problem could ...

Chambliss to introduce bill today for farm guest workers
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia will introduce legislation today that would grant ... Republicans in Congress pushing for some variety of immigration reform, though the ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

House Poised to Approve Tough Border Security Measure
New York Times - United States
... measures that were "a vital component to immigration reform." But she said the Bush administration would still push for broader immigration legislation. ...

Border security measure opened to wide-ranging changes
GovExec.com - USA
... Democrats to defeat the rule, effectively killing the legislation for the ... director of government relations for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. ...

Detainee Treatment Tops US Congress's Pre-Holiday Agenda
Voice of America - USA
... trouble on the horizon on another key piece of legislation, renewal of ... action by the full Congress next year on another of his priorities, immigration reform.

U.S. Immigration legislation

Mexican official calls House immigration bill "wrong"
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY A top Mexican officials says legislation to toughen US immigration enforcement is "wrong.". Mexico's Foreign Relations ...

Immigrants make up 12.1 percent of US population, report finds
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... account for 12.1 percent of the total US population, compared ... Lawmakers will debate hotly contested immigration legislation in coming weeks, including a border ...

Showdown looms on immigration
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... penalties for alien smugglers, require all US employers to ... ve got to do with immigration," Rep. ... lawmakers also hope Congress approves guest worker legislation. ...

US in major crackdown on illegal immigrants
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... as a "horrible, horrible" piece of legislation that could ... 25,000 illegal Irish immigrants living in the US. ... to pass the McCain Kennedy immigration bill, which ...

NCSL hosts immigration conference at Statehouse
Denver Business Journal - Denver,CO,USA
... Congress is considering legislation that would require all employers to comply with a ... play an important role in the US economy ... "Without immigration, our ability ...

End Immigration Anarchy
CBS News - USA
... for perhaps one-third of illegal aliens, this ... as well as increased penalties for alien smuggling and ... local police and federal immigration authorities, ensuring ...

Showdown looms on immigration
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... House bill would set tougher penalties for alien smugglers, require ... things we've got to do with immigration," Rep. ... to the US-born children of illegal immigrants ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Authorities holding 18 suspected illegal immigrants
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
Mansfield police officer Boyd Farmer said agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had been investigating workers at the Travis Lumber Co. ...

Law News - Former Orange County Judge pleads guilty to possession ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... was then conducted by Irvine police and agents with the United States Customs Service, who are now part of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US Customs and Border Protection Intercepts More than $11.4 ...
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... In all, US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 8,022 seizures of goods for intellectual property right violations ...

Coke Bust In Puerto Rico
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Gustavo Lacen-Berrios and Victor Maracayo De la Cruz of the Dominican Republic yesterday after a US ...

Jordanian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Smuggle Aliens into ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... L. Wainstein of the District of Columbia, and Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Clark for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today. ...

US deports Saudi director of Virginia Muslim charity
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... who served as director of the Virginia office of the Muslim World League (MWL) has been deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on ...

Latino advocate reacts to arrests
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... which began at 4:15 pm that day and lasted for nearly three hours while agents searched the premises - included the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center and The Gerda and Kurt Klein ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in cooperation with The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation today announced that requests for their ...

(PRN) - OSS CEO Announces 100 United Nations Scholarships, 100 ...
Bolsamania.com - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
(PRN) - Southern Poverty Law Center and The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation Launch Tolerance Project ... [+. PRN) - Synova Healthcare, Inc. ...

The New Dream Team: White Power and Radical Islam
Freezerbox - USA
... When Oregon skinheads beat a black Ethiopian immigrant to death, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League filed a lawsuit against Metzger ...

"MS 13" Gang

Richland Co. sheriff warns of new gang entering Columbia
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
... Columbia. The gang is called "MS-13," or the "Mara Salvatrucha" gang. Police say it's the most dangerous gang in the country. It ...

Washington Legal Foundation

American Justice Partnership Launches New Web Site; Includes News ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... AJP partners include the American Tort Reform Association, Washington Legal Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Center for Individual Freedom, American ...

"Mexico"

UPDATE 1-Mexico 28-day T-bill yield tumbles to 8.14 percent
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The yield on Mexico's benchmark 28-day Cetes, or T-bills, tumbled 28 basis points to 8.14 percent on Tuesday as markets reacted ...

In Mexico, young authors look beyond El Boom
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Guadalajara, Mexico -- Little is known about the following people: David Toscana, Ignacio Padilla, Mario Bellatín and Mónica Lavín. ...

Mexico aims new law at old profession
International Herald Tribune - France
TIJUANA, Mexico She arrived at the clinic at noon, dark sunglasses covering her eyes and a baseball cap pulled down low. She clutched ...

Pawning Helps Pay for the Piñata in Loan-Poor Mexico
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Aurora Rico Torres is hosting a big holiday party this week, part of a nine-day celebration leading up to Christmas. ...

LULAC

Supreme Court to review Texas redistricting map
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA
... down the middle, totally diluting the Mexican-American vote" said Luis Vera, general counsel for plaintiffs League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). ...

"ACLU"

ACLU Calls for Vote Against Cloture on Patriot Act Compromise ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... saucer that cools the tea,' and reject pressures to hastily pass a faulty bill," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office ...

ACLU Steps In to Protect Student's Free Speech
CBS 3 - Philadelphia,PA,USA
(AP) LANSDALE, PA A Montgomery County High School student is off the hook for wearing an outrageous political t-shirt to school, after the American Civil ...

The ACLU Are Well Organised Extremists Copying Off the Same Page
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
... Who called Christian organizations defending Christmas, "Well organised extremists out to demonize the ACLU, crush religious diversity, and make a few bucks ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles Mecha' Mayor

Kotkin Versus Villaraigosa: Whose Los Angeles?
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is hailed by New Urbanists for his calls for ... economies that have been creating fewer jobs and opportunities than Los Angeles. ...

NEW LA PORT CHIEF NAMED
CalTrade Report - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... relations, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has tapped Long Beach's veteran port administrator to be general manager of the Port of Los Angeles, reports the Los ...

Proposed Posting of 'Use of Force'
abc7.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to ask the Police Commission to adopt a policy today that would allow for greater transparency during ...

Mother Of Slain Girl Sues City And Chief Bratton
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... said the LAPD had no comment on the Los Angeles Superior Court suit brought on behalf of Lorena Lopez. Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named a Board of ...

Chanukah To Light Up Universal Studios
Chabad-Lubavitch - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... In the past Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Red Sox right fielder Gabe Kapler were hoisted up by cherry picker to light Chabad's 18-foot tall ...

ACLU Condemns Hidden Provision that Would Impede Freedom of Speech ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today denounced a provision contained within legislation created to reauthorize the Patriot Act that would make ...

Persons of the Year, ACLU Style
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
... For reasons that I won't argue here, one of the people solicited was Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU. Now, do ...

ACLU challenges Fla. county's speech-zone rules
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
... The ACLU argues the rules are unconstitutionally exclusionary in a lawsuit filed Dec. 9 in federal court in Tampa. "The problem is really very simple. ...

American Communist Litigation Union (ACLU)
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... the American people information that could help put the US Fifth Column in political perspective, the formation, agenda and tactics of the ACLU requires some ...

ACLU Opposes Patriot Act Provision
Washington Post - United States
... To the ACLU, the changes would open the door to even tighter security restrictions at major events and would subject protesters to harassment from federal law ...

The war on Christmas
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... School Superintendent Karl Springer banned it after the ACLU told him that the nativity scene and maybe even "Silent Night" could violate the First ...

Police dumbfounded as serial killer stalks Mexico
Taipei Times - Taiwan
This much they know: Someone has been murdering older women in Mexico City, strangling them in their homes, pocketing a keepsake and vanishing into the city's ...

The faithful honor Mexico's holy patroness
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
According to tradition, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a 55-year-old peasant named Juan Diego near Mexico City on December 12, 1531. ...

Mexico stocks hit record high, T-bill yields tumble
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks rose to a record high close on Tuesday, driven by telecoms and retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico, while the peso ...

Newfield Reports on Resumption of Gulf of Mexico Production ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX - News) today provided a progress report on the resumption of its production in the Gulf of Mexico following 2005 ...

CentAm Energy Summit in Mexico
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Mexico, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) Central American presidents are meeting this Tuesday in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss energy plans and agree on a project to build ...

SSA Global Customer, HSBC Mexico, Wins Gartner CRM Excellence ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... FirstCall/ -- SSA Global(TM) (Nasdaq: SSAG), a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, today announced that HSBC Mexico has won the ...

CAFTA

Vehicles, equipment tax exempt with DR-CAFTA
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo.- Once the Free Trade Agreement with the US and Central America (DR-CAFTA) is implemented, various categories of vehicles and transport and parts ...

Letters: Poverty ‘trickles down' via CAFTA
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
The impact of CAFTA on at least the 73 percent of Nicaragua's population that make less than $2 a day is ominous. Advocates of ...

"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. ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

'Minuteman' gears up for Calif. election
United Press International - USA
... co-founder of the Minuteman Project of armed citizen border patrols stepped up campaigning Monday for a special congressional election. Jim Gilchrist, a 56-year ...

Voter disaffection an opening for third party?
MSNBC - USA
... On Tuesday, voters' willingness to back a third-party candidate will be put to the test as Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project which patrols the ...

Vietnam vet holds vigil on border
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Mr. Craig's group, the California Minutemen, was organized by James Chase, one of the founders of the Minuteman Project in Arizona in April, which successfully ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

Illegal Alien Invasion Deadlier Than Iraq
Human Events - USA
... remain obscure, or other factors reduced the murder rate in the illegal alien population to ... in lives for our abject failure to enforce our own immigration laws ...

Dr. Paul J Dean
Crosswalk.com - Chesterfield,VA,USA
... those who say we cannot tolerate illegal immigration of any ... your own country and the immigration laws of ... or thirsty, or a stranger (alien; foreigner; immigrant ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Sensenbrenner Statement on Immigration Reform Legislation
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) issued the following statement today regarding immigration reform legislation: ...

How is immigration reform none of Mexico's business?
El Universal Online - Mexico
... Is that what passes for enlightened immigration reform these days ... in favor of reasonable legislation, and that ... Working without Mexico on immigration and border ...

Dreier still under fire for immigration stance
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... House Speaker Dennis Hastert has committed to giving Dreier a visible leadership role if and when comprehensive immigration reform legislation begins to take ...

Border Patrol

We can't hire enough Border Patrol Agents?
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
I've got an idea…I keep hearing how President Bush was provided plenty of money by Congress to hire more than enough Border Patrol agents to address our ...

ON THE BORDER
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... Craig was the only member whose cell phone got a signal. Anyone who spotted migrants or drug smugglers was to radio him, and he would phone the Border Patrol. ...

Immigration smuggling

Panel recommends filing of charges vs execs
INQ7.net - Philippines
... The panel recommended that officials on duty from the Bureau of Immigration, Bureau of ... in the midst of the growing concern over terrorism, smuggling and human ...

Pa. volunteers reach out to asylum-seekers
Baltimore Sun - United States
... Long Island, NY Their high-profile cases propelled the issue of human smuggling and detention ... skeptic with a dry wit who had never worked on an immigration case ...

Getting tough on illegals? Hah!
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
I've often said of government officials concerning illegal immigration: "They just don ... Arizona Republic, the increase is due to increased drug smuggling and the ...

Immigration cases on the rise
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... The prime minister has also established an inter-ministerial committee on human trafficking, smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

DHS review of Italy and Portugal spurs speculation
Travel Weekly (subscription) - Secaucus,NJ,USA
... noted that such reviews consider, among other things, information relating to terrorism, criminal activities, illegal immigration and alien smuggling. ...

Antiguan WPC drug courier goes to court in England
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
... to question whether or not customs, immigration and police officials in Antigua and Barbuda are in anyway involved in the organised smuggling of drugs into ...

"Tom Tancredo"

ICE, Colombians Work Together To Dismantle Norte Valle Cartel

Around noon on October 29, thirty members of the Colombian National Police (CNP) special "Jungla" unit, working with the ICE Attache Office in Bogota, stormed a ranch in northwest Colombia. Following a firefight in which a Colombian officer was wounded, the CNP arrested Jhonny Cano-Correa, aka "Flechas" or "Santiago." It was the latest victory in a 10-year battle that has led ICE to the heart of Colombia's largest and most dangerous drug smuggling organization - the Norte Valle Cartel. More

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ICE Represents U.S. On Global Task Force To Protect Children

BELFAST, U.K. - Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Clark announced November 15 that ICE will serve as a board member and the primary U.S. law enforcement representative to the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an integrated network of law enforcement agencies from different nations created to combat online child abuse. More

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ICE Deports Man Wanted For Inciting Racial Hatred In Germany

CHICAGO - A man wanted in Germany for inciting racial hatred by denying that thousands of Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz was deported by ICE November 14. More

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ICE Arrests Eight In Houston For Sex Trafficking Scheme

HOUSTON, Texas - Eight Salvadoran nationals were arrested by ICE agents November 13 for their alleged roles in an organization that trafficked Latin American females, including minors, into the United States and forced them into sexual servitude. More

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ICE Efforts Bring Ancient Work Of Art Back To Italy

LOS ANGELES - A 2,300-year-old vase that was allegedly smuggled out of Italy and ended up in the Getty Museum's antiquities collection arrived in Rome last week, capping a joint effort by ICE, Italian authorities and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles to return the artifact to its original home. More

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ICE Arrests 125 Illegal Aliens At Wal-Mart Construction Site

FRACKVILLE, Pa. - ICE agents executed federal search warrants November 17 on trailers belonging to five subcontracting companies working at the construction site of a new Wal-Mart Distribution Center in Butler Township, Pa. More

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ICE MOST WANTED

Daniel CERCAS-Manilla is wanted for questioning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in connection with the May 2001 smuggling attempt that resulted in the death of 14 illegal aliens south of Welton, Arizona. More

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Border Tunnel

An ICE agent examines the entrance to a border tunnel discovered late in the day November 16 near San Diego and the Otay Mesa port of entry. The tunnel investigation is a coordinated effort involving ICE, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Border Patrol, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Agents determined the primitive passageway, which originated in Mexico, and extended about 90 feet into the United States, was not complete. Since 9/11, federal authorities have discovered at least 16 cross border tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border in California and Arizona. More

Then and now: how they feel about war
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Tom Tancredo might have voted against the war in Iraq. ... Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, supported Iraq invasion, with reservations. ...

Are "conservative" open-borders supporters mainly libertarian ...
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
... core. The closest person we have to a traditionalist conservative is Tom Tancredo (and a few of his followers in the House). While ...

GOP mood grows darker with dream of durable majority in danger
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Tom Tancredo of Colorado, contended on Fox News the other day that Bush is "putting lipstick on a pig" by talking tough about the border while, in reality, the ...

Challenges facing OIC Summit
Morocco Times - Casablanca,Morocco
... Last July, US Republican Tom Tancredo has even suggested bombing the Holy site of Mecca, but very few Muslim organizations, and not States, have demanded an ...

AMERICA'S IMMIGRATION CRISIS: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Call your representatives and demand they join the Immigration Caucus with Tom Tancredo from Colorado. Where do you go to start? ...

Squalor, Superstitions And Fatalistic Sloth
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... Don Collins, Peter Brimelow, Dan Stein, Dr. John Tanton, John Rohe, Jim Gilchrist, Lupe Moreno, Angie Morfin, Luca Zanna, Robert Vasquez, and Tom Tancredo. ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Bush's immigration reform falls flat
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is apprehending an increasing number of Other Than Mexicans at the border, including residents of countries known to ...

Homeland Security Union Supports 9/11 Commission Findings
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... The three components of One Face -- Agriculture, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- are highly specialized and require ...

Gang Task Force arrests 45 on drug, weapons charges
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... and even illegal immigration. So the task force includes the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE); Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Bureau ...

GOP watching Calif. 'Minuteman' election
USA Today - USA
... by Rasmussen Reports says 75% of Americans consider immigration to be ... He calls for increasing federal Border Patrol and customs enforcement spending fivefold. ...

GMS student upgraded to serious at Pitt
Goldsboro News Argus - Goldsboro,NC,USA
... identity and citizenship status are being investigated by local law enforcement with the help of officials from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm ...

Illegal Alien Invasion Deadlier Than Iraq
Human Events - USA
... the sort of thing the FBI would keep track of, and so he gave me the phone number of a representative of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division ...

Doug Moe: Accused 'terrorist' deported
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... The Akron reporter reached Michael Gilhooly, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "We are moving ahead with the removal order," Gilhooly said. ...

Immigration Law, Immigration Lawyers, Immigration Fraud

State editorial roundup
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... which law firms donate pro-bono lawyers for six ... The Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act of ... that companies knowingly violate the law has proven ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

State editorial roundup
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... One of the difficulties of moving comprehensive immigration reform legislation through Congress is that the president's own party is fractured on what to do ...

Time to dance for justice.
Kansas City Dos Mundos - Kansas City,MO,USA
... anyway to support the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform! ... is a leader in education reform, having passed the ... giving new life to legislation that has ...

Farmers Worried About Lack of Laborers
Hollister Free Lance - Hollister,CA,USA
... low-cost laborers to harvest their crops, without federal legislation to ease ... is co-chairwoman of the Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, said that ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

Bush's immigration reform falls flat
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... country who are here to cause us harm. ... be endorsing the only comprehensive immigration reform bill ... This legislation, and anyone serious about immigration reform ...

Better work, housing key components that draw illegal immigrants
Longmont Daily Times-Call - Longmont,CO,USA
... Colorado, where Cahoon hopes to open his next office, the US Immigration and Customs ... We look with great interest to Washington and proposed legislation on guest ...

State editorial roundup
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... of moving comprehensive immigration reform legislation through Congress ... requiring Bush to ally the immigration-reform moderates ... The bill sponsored by US Sens. ...

"ACLU"  "Know thy Enemy"

"Merry Christmas" to the ACLU
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
... The ACLU has taken it upon themselves as a badge of honor if you will to attempt to systematically expunge the terms, definitions, and in many cases the ...

ACLU Dismayed by Justice Department Decision on Texas ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed serious concerns that the Justice Department potentially allowed political considerations to ...

ACLU Protecting Pedophile Predators
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
... see happening in the news all the time.". The ACLU's view on this isn't really suprising. After all we are talking about the ...

ACLU faults local school Essay contest content at issue
Farmington Daily Times - Farmington,NM,USA
FARMINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently received a complaint against Piedra Vista High School for offering students the option to ...

ACLU or ACLJ - The Difference Is Like Night And Day
Post Chronicle - USA
... That is one of the ACLU's greatest strengths. ... The ACLU has championed many causes since it was founded in 1920 by Mr. Roger Baldwin. ...

Tis' the season to remember Allegheny v. ACLU
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... 3086 (1989) ("Allegheny v. ACLU"), where the Supreme Court ruled that a nativity scene in a government building violated the Establishment Clause of the First ...

Justice Department Continues Offensive on National Security ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... assaults on reports that are embarrassing to the administration are regrettably reminiscent of the Nixon era," said Lisa Graves, ACLU Senior Counsel for ...

GFA Missions Update
Crosswalk.com - Chesterfield,VA,USA
MERRY CHRISTMAS ACLU, NEW SHOW TIMES: I am excited that today is the day we are dipping deeper into New York City's rush hour. Formerly ...

Fidelis Launches Christmas Ad Campaign; Celebrates America's Judeo ...
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Screen goes black. "ACLU sued to remove display" slowly dissolves up. ... Judge Alito ruled against the ACLU's attempt to scrub away our religious heritage. ...

Zell Miller's Spitballs Increasingly Likely
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... Democrat leaders continue their drumbeat and mantra of "Pull out the troops--pull out the troops", they are joined by their mainstream media and ACLU. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Local Weekly "J" Publishes Hate Group Apologetic
SF.Indymedia.org - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Jewish people". The FBI, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and the Southern Poverty Law Center think otherwise. ...

CAFTA

Our economy: CAFTA is raw deal for Central America
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
While CAFTA is praised for opening markets to US producers, that benefit should be balanced with CAFTA's effect on countries including Costa Rica, El Salvador ...

Mexico is gaining momentum in Latin America
Mexidata.info - San Diego,CA,USA
... As well, Bolanos said that once the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) becomes law next year, "we can make progress in negotiating a free trade ...

Create economic equality for the holidays: Students should contact ...
Daily Utah Chronicle (subscription) - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... but he and only eight other Democrats also joined Republicans for a crucial tie-breaking vote in support of Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles Mecha' Mayor

Los Angeles Mayor Puts the Final Touches on the Hollywood Sign
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
5 /PRNewswire/ -- The last brushstroke of "Hollywood White" paint was applied to the Hollywood Sign today by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

BETTY WHITE DEFENDS ZOO'S ELEPHANT EXHIBIT
Contactmusic.com - Burley in Wharfdale,Ilkley,UK
... response to a study ordered by the city's mayor, ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, to determine ... But fans say the Los Angeles Zoo's elephants - named BILLY, GITA and RUBY ...

Mayor Gains Strength in Wage Talks
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Antonio Villaraigosa appears to be gaining ground, at least for now, in his battle with a union ... A protest at Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. ...

Email an Article to a Friend
Aero-News Network - FL,USA
... that allows for sensible improvements for the people of Los Angeles and millions of world travelers who depend on it," said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, as was ...

Chick gets tough with LAUSD, may be state candidate
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
If the Los Angeles Unified School District was worried about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his attacks on it, they haven't seen anything yet. ...

Mexican Consulate

They're Heading Home, With His Directions
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A savvy sidewalk map seller tells Christmas travelers how to navigate the Mexican Consulate and get a driver permit. By Sam Quinones, Times Staff Writer. ...

Counselor serves as a guiding light for immigrants
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... And here, in this small office at the Mexican Consulate on a busy Santa Ana, Calif., street, she found herself being rescued again. ...

 

Mexico says drug trafficking DVD won't cost federal investigators ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor will not lose his job despite doubts about whether federal agents were involved in the videotaped beating and ...

How is immigration reform none of Mexico's business?
El Universal Online - Mexico
... work their way through both houses of the US Congress, President Bush delivered a long-awaited major speech that left no doubt about how Mexico's neighbor and ...

Maldonado Crowned King of Mexico
European Tour - UK
Mexico's Antonio Maldonado celebrated winning the 48 Abierto Mexicano Corona, the first event of the 2006 European Challenge Tour season, in some style with ...

BHP could face write-offs from Gulf of Mexico hurricane damage ...
Forbes - USA
... AFX) - BHP Billiton may be forced to write off its Typhoon oil and gas platform after extensive damage caused by hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this ...

Thacher Proffitt's Mexico Office Announces New Partner Luis ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
5 /PRNewswire/ -- Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, a 150-year- old law firm, announced today that Luis Enrique Graham has joined its Mexico City office as a Partner ...

Stockton-Mexico airline service may be approved
Central Valley Business Times - Stockton,CA,USA
AeroMexico Airlines could begin flights from Stockton to Guadalajara, Mexico, in the spring if San Joaquin County supervisors vote to approve the plan on ...

Chilean president calls Mexico's international voice crucial
Mexidata.info - San Diego,CA,USA
Mexico and Chile have been called to play a crucial role in encouraging the union of Latin American nations, through innovative instruments such as the ...

Former Mexico City police chief named mayoral candidate
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party has nominated a controversial former Mexico City police chief as its candidate for mayor. ...

KCS Renames Mexican Railroad 'Kansas City Southern de Mexico, SA ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... City Southern (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) today announced that it has changed the name of its Mexican subsidiary, TFM, SA de CV, to "Kansas City Southern de Mexico, SA de ...

Long Island From Long Island to Mexico, with Love
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY BART JONES. The electrical system in rural Tenango, Mexico, was so bad Martha Bernal Estrada couldn't iron clothes and watch television at the same time. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Woman identified in stabbing death
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... and called police. Villa told police that a dead person was behind him and that the Mexican Mafia was trying to kill him. His body ...

Gangs take innocent lives in many ways
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... Surenos. They have ties to the Mexican Mafia and are largely run by incarcerated felons in the prison system the prison gangs. The ...

Today in the News

Minuteman Project

Mexico envoy's visit draws demonstration
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... is not the way to solve problems among neighbors," said de Icaza, whose two-day visit ended with a demonstration by the Utah Minuteman Project outside the Utah ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Fix immigration on outside, inside
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
By TOM TANCREDO. We all watched President Bush's speech in Tucson last Monday with high hopes. ... US Rep. Tom Tancredo is a Republican from Colorado. ...

Flight 93 memorial changes lauded
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., noted the crescent has been used as an Islamic symbol and said its use in the memorial would honor the radical Muslim hijackers. ...

US asked to probe labor center
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, a letter accusing Herndon officials of conspiracy in seeking to aid illegal aliens, the congressman's office said. ...

Out Of Many, More Than One?
TheDay (subscription) - New London,CT,USA
... like Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, who has been the most vocal proponent of sealing US borders to illegal aliens. Ninety ...

News in brief from western Pennsylvania
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... The new plan closes the circle of trees to answer complaints, including those of McRae and US Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado. HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. ...

Wiley: Madam President, what about the illegal immigrants?
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... illusion, and we all know that. US Rep Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is right when he says we need tighter borders. Noorani agrees that we must ...

frosty wooldridge

TITANIC AND THE UNITED STATES
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents in the ...

GUEST WORKER PROGRAM ILLUSION
NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA
By Frosty Wooldridge. President Bush finally made a limousine tour of our broken borders. His cosmetic stops at the border presented ...

single feature archives : Houston Indymedia
Xenophobic speaker Frosty Wooldridge confronted at University of Houston.
On Wednesday November 16th a man named Frosty Wooldridge came to the University of ...

American Daily - Frosty Wooldridge
American Daily: Conservative oriented political commentary and opinion. Daily updates
include foreign policy, domestic affairs, and humor articles on ...

Border Patrol

Former Border Patrol agent sentenced to 2 years probation for ...
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced in Tucson on Thursday to two years of federal probation for harboring an illegal entrant for four years. ...

Illegal immigrant sues Border Patrol
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Honduran man who claims US Border Patrol agents nearly beat him to death and cost him his ability to work as a laborer has filed a ...

Immigrant sues, alleges brutality from Border Patrol agents
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
December 3, 2005 -- A Honduran man claims in a federal lawsuit that US Border Patrol agents beat him up to the point that he was hospitalized for two weeks in ...

Immigration smuggling

Bush Says Congress Should Revamp Immigration With Rules, Visas
Bloomberg - USA
... Concerns heightened over border control after smuggling and violence in the Southwest ... for border security and stricter enforcement of workplace immigration laws ...

Cutting flow of illegal aliens
Buffalo News - NY, United States
... Since then, smuggling operators appear to have stopped funneling people across ... entering the country illegally, has been released to immigration officials and ...

ON THE BORDER
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... As border controls toughened in urban areas beginning in 1994, illegal immigration and drug smuggling shifted to this remote land, forcing US Border Patrol ...

The Global Underworld
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
... live in developing countries, for instance, can benefit from illegal immigration as well ... Smuggling has been with us since time immemorial, but the black market ...

Foreign nationals peril in jails
Narinjara News - Dhaka,Bangladesh
... For this, the jail staff and immigration officials need to be trained up. ... are fishermen who trespassed into Bangladeshi waters or were arrested for smuggling. ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

Over 40 Illegal Aliens Arrested at Secure Facilities
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement first began checking documents at Kirtland AFB ... Sands Missile Range Police Department to arrest an illegal alien trying to ...

Washington Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Illegal Immigration Scams
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... and submitted to the Department of Labor and/or United States Citizenship and Immigration Service more than 100 Applications for Alien Employment Certification ...

Police still seeking illegal alien in fatal crash
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
... Sheriff's officers quickly suspected he was an illegal alien, but without confirmation from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, and without a ...

Immigration reform rhythms
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... with Peter Brimelow, author of "Alien Nation" and one of the staunchest immigration critics ... his own foreign roots, "we could end illegal immigration at once ...

Bill Birkett
Federal Times - USA
... illegal alien. It contained documents dating back years that recorded the alien's past convictions, applications for relief from deportation, and immigration ...

No services for illegals?
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... hope to please with a raft of anti-illegal immigration legislation headed for ... The estimate comes from the Federation for Immigration Reform, a Washington group ...

All Work, No Pay, Makes George's Day
The New American - USA
... right into the hands of President Bush and his wish to allow unchecked immigration. ... goals, he'll be able to point to the number of illegal alien workers on ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

No services for illegals?
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... hope to please with a raft of anti-illegal immigration legislation headed for ... "You can't enact any immigration policy without affecting US citizens.". ...

US Senator Visits Lubbock
KAMC ABC 28 - Lubbock,TX,USA
... spoke about the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, a piece of legislation that he`s ... too dangerous to have immigrants crossing US borders illegally. ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Text of President Bush's Radio Address to the Nation for December ...
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Comprehensive immigration reform also requires us to improve ... In October, I signed legislation that more ... increase the number of immigration enforcement agents ...

In Desperate Search For Jobs
Hartford Courant - United States
... Yet the obvious hasn't sunk in on Capitol Hill, where immigration legislation has been ... One bill would deploy an already-strapped US military along the Mexican ...

Underground economy growing as illegal immigrants head to new ...
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... Instead of enacting some type of legislation that forces them to become ... of the immigration system, with several bills proposed to address immigration reform. ...

College keeps eye on proposed state immigration bills
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
... Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, proposed legislation that would require anyone ... a resolution urging the US Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Former Ecuadoran priest deported from Miami after his appeal is ...
Miami Herald - FL,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and removal officers in Miami today deported a former priest from Ecuador who also once served as a customs ...

Government Gets Poor Marks in Deterring Illegal Hiring
Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose responsibilities include combatting illegal hirings, disputes that conclusion, saying it does plenty of employer ...

US: Federal authorities break up ring that paired debtors with ...
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
... a losing streak who would be willing to do something illegal for the right price," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Lowell arts-community leader held on immigration charge
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... formed Second World Productions, was arrested on Hurd Street Wednesday morning by agents assigned to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. ...

Immigration reform splits GOP, businesses & conservatives at odds
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... like any law enforcement we have priorities" that also include counterterrorism, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Man held in Ohio drops deportation fight
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Mike Gilhooly, spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would not say when the government planned to deport Al-Jailani. ...

Bust shuts down restaurants
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... A dozen or so police vehicles carrying officers from the Aspen police, federal Drug Enforcement Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles' MECHA MAYOR!

Los Angeles mayor to give last paints to new Hollywood sign
Xinhua - China
2 (Xinhuanet) -- Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa will put the finishing touches on the Hollywood sign's new paint job next week to celebrate the ...

Mayor narrows port candidates' list
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has winnowed the list of candidates for the top job at the Port of Los Angeles to three people -- all of whom have experience with ...

Council Fiddles, Tenants Burn
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Which is more important to the Los Angeles City Council -- dealing with tenants ... serious mode for about 20 minutes after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appeared. ...

Bruins vs. Trojans bets fly on council
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Most officials targeted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a University of California, Los Angeles, graduate, with University of Southern California graduates ...

Choice of holiday greetings a touchy issue
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... "The city of Los Angeles symbolizes all the ... The same goes for Olvera Street, where Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended the holiday tree lighting Friday night. ...

Officials negotiating on San Fernando complex
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has fully funded the city's $100 million affordable housing trust fund for the first time, and about 3,300 units are now ...

Mayor Puts Finishing Paint Touches On Hollywood Sign
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will put ... retaining the film industry, which generates nearly $35 billion for the state's economy, with Los Angeles receiving about ...

"MS 13" Gang

Maid allegedly recorded telephone conversations
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... The agents identified him as part of the violent MS-13, or Salvatrucha, gang from Central America after seeing the gang tattoos on Sandoval's body. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Documentary goes inside Nuestra Familia
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... "NF," as it's called for short, is Northern California's answer to Southern California's Sureño gangs and their parent, the Mexican Mafia. ...

CAFTA

CAFTA blamed for layoffs at Edenton textile plant
Boston Globe - United States
... The Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, is between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. ...

CAFTA blamed for layoffs at Edenton textile plant
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington,NC,USA
EDENTON, NC A long-time textile plant in Edenton will lay off 203 workers starting in April. And Edenton Town Manager Anne-Marie ...

SUGAR INDUSTRY: Sugar prospects good, if politics don't interfere
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... Gutknecht's district includes pork producers who had supported CAFTA and no sugar acres, but he voted against the agreement anyway. ...

"ACLU"

ACLU to take CIA to court
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... In a press release, the ACLU charged the CIA with violating US and international human rights laws by transporting terrorist suspects to other countries to ...

Rice to defend US treatment, transport of detainees as ACLU ...
JURIST - USA
Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [official website] says it is preparing to file a lawsuit against the CIA on behalf of a man allegedly ...

ACLU, Denied Use of Free Speech Zone, Considers Suit
Lakeland Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... The ACLU, which objects to the steep insurance requirement, immediately began considering a lawsuit after being notified of the denial Friday, according to ...  [Where were they when the MMP were denied?]

ACLU says T-shirt tied to free speech
Boston Globe - United States
... which is fundamentally inconsistent with the constitutional guarantees of freedom of _expression," John Reinstein, legal director for the ACLU of Massachusetts ...

ACLU to Sue CIA
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
By Sher Zieve -- The ACLU has announced that it is suing the CIA. It will take to organization to court for transporting terrorist ...

ACLU opposes Milford move to redefine families: Town hopes to ...
Milford Daily News - Milford,MA,USA
... However, Worcester-based ACLU attorney Ronal Madnick said he believes it is unfair to create legal distinctions that place greater value on biological ...

US media ignore torture reports
Mathaba.Net - London,UK
... Prof Peter Phillips, director, Project Censored, a press release on these deaths by torture was issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on October ...

Conservative religious legal firm fights 'culture-shifters' in ...
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... It accuses the ACLU of intimidating Christians and other religious people, to the point of attacking Christmas celebrations. ACLU ...

In need of change?
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The ACLU feels differently, saying the new laws "are recipes for discriminatory selective enforcement.". The ACLU of Colorado is ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

DAVID IRVING WILL SPEND CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRIAN JAIL IN ISOLATION
Indymedia Argentina - Rosario,Santa Fe,Argentina
... were hanging around, so Irving started to drive toward the Southern border and ... director of the American Jewish Committee, The South Poverty Law Center, ADL, etc ...

Washington Legal Foundation

The gift which carries on giving
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... scholarship programme for the University of Washington School of ... after graduation, such as for a legal aid or ... a meeting at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ...

Court ruling favors town
Tasley Eastern Shore News - Tasley,VA,USA
... The court found that legal requirements were met in ... appeal the decision, Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Virginia press ... via an article in The Washington Post, Epps ...

Judge dismisses art groups' claims
Indianapolis Star - United States
... Americans for the Arts of Washington, DC, and the Poetry Foundation of Chicago, both ... The bank's attorneys, in court filings, said they had no legal duty to ...

Holiday Wish List
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Business Journal, 41 E. Washington St., 46204 ... Publishing services, artistic services, legal real estate services ... G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation of Indianapolis ...

State finds claims of raw milk's benefits hard to swallow
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA
... The sale of raw milk is legal in 28 states, according to the Weston A. Price Foundation, a raw-milk advocacy group based in Washington, DC While other states ...

Minuteman Project

NBC show portrays civilian border patrol as 'Countrymen Project' ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... As WorldNetDaily reported earlier today, Minuteman Project co-founder Chris Simcox had sent a letter to NBC demanding the network "cease and desist" airing the ...

The Minuteman Song?
UCW Entertainment Newswire - USA
... Zell will be at the reigns of coordinating an effort at locating bands to review their demos and select the group that will be named The Minuteman Project. ...

Letter: Please, no referendum on Battle Green Inn
Lexington Minuteman - Lexington,MA,USA
... Green Inn (BGI) proposal be approved, some not agreeing with the project might take ... Meeting members left Cary Hall and in the article in last week's Minuteman. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

A move to deny citizenship to US-born kids of illegal immigrants
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... To Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and others on a House immigration task force, that effectively rewards those who break immigration laws. ...

Tancredo fights for repeal of immigrant law
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Tom Tancredo on Wednesday moved to repeal a new law crafted by a Utah senator that exempts religious groups from some immigration laws, and rebuffed the ...

Dietary Supplement Marketing Company Joins Nationwide Effort to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... R-TN), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Dan Burton (R-IN), Jeff Miller (R-FL), Butch Otter (R-ID), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Tom Tancredo (R-CO ...

Are Muslim leaders derelict in not denouncing acts of terrorism? ...
Provo Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
... Similarly, some Jewish commentators and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have called on the United States to bomb Islam's holiest city, Mecca. ...

New immigration laws by next year
Philippine News Online - Philippines
... Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Lamar Smith (R-TX) and John Hostettler (R-IN) have expressed their opposition to the guest worker plan of the White House and insisted ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Fox: Americas Trade Deal Still on Track
Forbes - USA
... Fox said he spoke individually with US President George W. Bush about bilateral trade, border issues and US immigration reform legislation pending in Congress. U.S. Immigration legislation

What's wrong with Bush's ‘immigration reform' plan?
People's Weekly World - USA
... she specifically declined to endorse any existing legislation, it is ... how the world works and why immigration happens ... ignores the fact that the US government and ...

FreedomWorks: Senate Tax Bill Is 'Retreat on Reform'; Complicated ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
17 /US Newswire/ -- The tax reconciliation bill currently on the Senate floor is largely devoid of pro- growth tax relief and substantially complicates the tax ...

Bill that would do right thing has uphill fight
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
... US Sen. Johnny Isakson says that "after Iraq, the No. 1 issue in Georgia is immigration" and intends to introduce federal legislation seeking to stem the ...

The Untouchable Narco-State
The Texas Observer - Austin,TX,USA
... under a section of the Immigration and Nationality ... as Ortega Menaldo did, to the US drug allegation ... another retired army general, introduced legislation in the ...

State GOP hosts hearing about illegal
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
... that would force people to show proof of US citizenship to ... of Americans who want to see federal and state legislation stop the flow of illegal immigration. ...

Program to expedite deportation of migrants in EP
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... "We're going from catch-and- release to catch-and-return," said Leticia Zamarripa, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso. ...

Congressional battle over border security begins
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... The panel avoided a showdown on combining the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection agencies, though one seems imminent. ...

Reimbursement grant announced for custody of undocumented aliens ...
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has granted Rockland County over $231,000 for reimbursement of correctional officer salary costs for ...

Immigration Agents Arrest 18 in Nassau Co.
1010 Wins - New York,NY,USA
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced they have arrested 18 predators and sex offenders in Nassau County. ...

More than 100 workers arrested at Wal-Mart construction site
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
The workers were detained on suspected immigration violations and loaded onto buses to be taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers for ...

Letters for Friday
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... public and protect criminals instead of using the appropriate term -- illegal alien. ... to perpetuate the myth that there is no illegal immigration problem in ...

Washington wire
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA
... House leaders push ahead on immigration-law overhaul; Senate Leader Frist ...

Border Patrol

Border Patrol agents charged with conspiracy
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
Two US Border Patrol agents were indicted Thursday on accusations that they caught a person with 60 pounds of marijuana, let the suspect go, and concocted a ...

Border Patrol Searching For Pair Of Believed Haitian Migrants
Click10.com - Miami,FL,USA
Local 10's Yvonne Nava said the US Customs and Border Protection have found four Haitian men soaking wet on the 1200 block of South Ocean Drive. ...

Bush considers visiting Border Patrol during Ariz. trip 

{Too Little to LATE!}

Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
President Bush is considering a visit with Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector when he comes to Phoenix for a fund-raiser on Nov. 28. ...

Federal report: Border Patrol faulted in vehicle sales
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
By: North County Times wire services SAN DIEGO - A federal report says the Border Patrol's San Diego sector mismanaged the disposal of its aging vehicle fleet ...

Border Patrol, ICE, Terrorism, terrorists

There's a lot more than gifts to be excited for this season - for ...
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... The Ice Harvest: On a snowy Christmas eve, two men ... of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism. ... Pepper co-stars as a trigger-happy border patrol officer. ...
illegal alien, illegal immigration

Another illegal immigration loophole
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... week the Colorado Republican and head of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus ... under any circumstances allow a terrorist or any illegal alien any kind of ...

Borderline win
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... the border security legislation, said, "I'm afraid if we move a border security bill, we won't get a bite of the apple with respect to immigration reform.". ...

No turning tail
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... So here's the clarification: Immigration reform has to deal with the tough stuff. ... Immigration reform demands more than a sound-bite solution.

Border Patrol tightens screening for agents
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Border Patrol, which unknowingly hired an illegal alien after a ... He was accused of smuggling illegal aliens in his ... at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

Border Patrol Agents Indicted
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
Two US Border Patrol agents from Vermont are facing criminal charges. Prosecutors say Steven Garceau, 32, and Ross Schofield, 33 ...

Immigration smuggling

Napolitano to seek money to fight immigration-related crime
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... creating a state crime of migrant smuggling. She vetoed another GOP-backed measure to give police even broader authority to enforce federal immigration laws. ...

799 foreigners held in Pakistan on drug smuggling charges
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
... The minister said that a number of measures had been taken to arrest the trend of drug smuggling: some of these are immigration check-posts on all authorized ...

Guilty plea on people smuggling charges
CBC Newfoundland - Newfoundland,Canada
... Each person paid thousands of dollars to make the journey. Immigration lawyer Nick Summers says that doesn't justify keeping them locked up. ...

Napolitano seeks funds to combat immigration-related crime
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
... agencies tackle immigration-related crime and safety problems. That includes drug trafficking, vehicle theft, property crime, human smuggling, prostitution and ...

Another step in securing borders
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... If lawmakers extended this bill into other areas -- for instance, by increasing smuggling fines, as some ... "This bill is not about immigration reform," Los ...

The Untouchable Narco-State
The Texas Observer - Austin,TX,USA
... after the arrests, the military merely moved the same smuggling operation to a ... A. Boucher in March 2002, "under a section of the Immigration and Nationality ...

DEA Dismantles International Ecstasy Trafficking Groups
US Department of Justice (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... international Ecstasy and marijuana trafficking rings whose drug smuggling and money ... in twelve separate judicial districts, the US Immigration and Customs ...

US Government Seeks to End Litigation Undermining Expedited ...
US Department of Homeland Security (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... allows DHS to remove an illegal alien with false documents, or no documents, without the need for that alien to attend a hearing before an immigration judge. ...

Post-Katrina Abuse

Post-Katrina rebuilding efforts have created a breeding ground
for the exploitation of undocumented workers. Halliburton/KBR is
the general contractor with overarching responsibility for the
federal cleanup contracts covering Katrina-damaged naval bases.
According to a Salon.com article, Halliburton and its
subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino workers to
clean up after Hurricane Katrina, only to mistreat them and throw
them out without pay. For the full story, see here.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/15/halliburton_katrina/

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"Mexico"

Mexico-Venezuela row: Readers' reaction
BBC News - UK
Mexico and Venezuela's presidents, Vicente Fox and Hugo Chavez, are locked in a row, which could have serious consequences for relations between the two nations ...

Lopez Obrador's Lead Cut in Mexico Presidential Poll (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
17 (Bloomberg) -- Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the frontrunner in presidential opinion polls for more than two years, lost ground in a ...

Mexico Urges US to Improve Cross-Border Security
Voice of America - USA
... Martha Ramirez reads names of 3,600 migrants died while crossing into US during a memorial event at US-Mexico border wall on September 30, 2005. ...

Mexico battles to rid Cancun of hurricane scars
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
CANCUN, Mexico, Nov 17 (Reuters) - All along Cancun's famed hotel strip, laborers are working flat out to patch up the wounds inflicted by Hurricane Wilma ...

Low-Cost Airline to Take Flight in Mexico
Forbes - USA
A joint venture to launch a new low-cost airline in Mexico modeled after Brazil's wildly successful Gol will take to the skies next year with domestic flights ...

Shell Swaps Stake in Gulf of Mexico Field
MSN Money - USA
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Thursday it will swap its 17 percent non-operated stake in the Gulf of Mexico's Tahiti field for Total ...

Google opens offices in Brazil, Mexico
Reuters - USA
on Thursday said that it has opened offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Mexico City, as it looks to accelerate growth in Latin America. ...

Truck, bus crash kills 38 in Mexico
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Mexico: Helicopter crash kills minister (September 21, 2005) -- A helicopter crash has claimed the lives of both the Mexican public security minister and the ...

Bulgaria beat Mexico 3-0 in friendly
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Mexico continued their poor form against European opposition when they lost 3-0 to Bulgaria in a friendly in Houston on ...

Bus-Tanker Crash in Mexico Kills 38
ABC News - USA
Rescue workers work in the place where an accident in highway occurred between Mexico City, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005. The accident ...

LULAC

Por Un Amor
Media Channel - New York,NY,USA
... Seems the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the country, the League of United Latin American Citizens or LULAC, is weighing in on the side of the ...

Fallen through the cracks
San Antonio Current - San Antonio,TX,USA
... At a November 3 SAHA board meeting, George Alejos, LULAC District XV affordable-housing director, asked SAHA to transfer ownership of the home back to Segundo. ...

Community leaders plan to call for boycott
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Church; Dr. Peter Traber, president, Baylor College of Medicine; Sylvia Brooks, president, Houston Area Urban League; Mary L. Ramos, LULAC; and Serbino Sandifer ...

Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy

Law And Disorder
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
... Suffolk law enforcement officials declined to comment on the case, saying it was ... to comment on pending litigation, but even County Executive Steve Levy came to ...

Scared On Long Island?
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
... But Broxmeyer, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, Suffolk District Attorney Tom Spota and Police Commissioner Richard Dormer invited members of the press ...

Help For Those In Need Of Heat State Begins To Take Applications
Suffolk Life Newspapers - Riverhead,NY,USA
... The recently passed Suffolk County budget kicks back even more. "I'm supportive of the extra money for HEAP," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. ...

Dems Win Big Across Suffolk GOP Loses Stronghold In Legislature
Suffolk Life Newspapers - Riverhead,NY,USA
... "I've worked very closely with [County Executive] Steve levy on a number of bills that have been bottled up [in the Legislature].". ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Judge reduces bond of man accused in death of Harlingen woman
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
November 17, 2005 -- A state district judge on Tuesday reduced the bond for one of nine alleged members of the Mexican mafia accused in the November 2003 ...

"ACLU"

ACLU opens San Jose branch
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... The office, which opened Wednesday, will be the only ACLU branch in the country with a lawyer dedicated full time to that issue. ...

ACLU sues police over tactics in Miami trade talks protests
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... important duties - ensuring the safety of the community and at the same time protecting everyone's constitutional rights," said Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida ...

ACLU Sues To Expand Bible Tax Break To All 'Good And Evil' Books
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Atlanta Georgia Law -- The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit arguing that a state law exempting only the Bible from sale taxes is ...

Christian Activists to Hand-Deliver Letters Demanding ACLU Back ...
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... 17 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Reverends Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) and Patrick J. Mahoney will visit ACLU headquarters tomorrow to hand-deliver more ...

ACLU Report Uncovers Racial Profiling and Poor Police Work in ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The ACLU called the search practices poor police work because, according to the statistics, white drivers are more likely to be found with contraband. ...

ACLU Wants People On Parole To Vote
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... sentence. The ACLU said the state Constitution says that offenders lose their right to vote only while they're serving time in prison. ...

ACLU of Utah Backs Domestic Partner Benefits for Salt Lake City ...
247gay.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... 21, it may take a court order before Goodliffe and other Salt Lake City employees can enroll their partners in the health insurance benefits plan, the ACLU said ...

Christian Activists to Hand-Deliver Letters Demanding ACLU Back ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... 17 /US Newswire/ -- The Reverends Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) and Patrick J. Mahoney will visit ACLU headquarters today to hand-deliver more than 20,000 ...

ACLU's War Against National Security
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
In conjunction with the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the ACLU has lobbied hard against Arab-profiling at airports for years. ...

Men and Women at Orleans Parish Prison Detail Chaos Following ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The ACLU said that the scores of testimonials it has obtained from prisoners contradict public statements made by Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman that the prisoners ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Mix It Up promotes tolerance Diversity-themed events provoke
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
... The Mix It Up campaign is promoted by Tolerance.org, a Web project of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. Boardman High's ...

Beating of homosexual man in Montgomery draws hate crime concerns
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
... than those against others listed in Alabama's hate crime code, said Mark Potok, who tracks hate crimes and organizations at the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...

US senator forecasts investigation by Congress
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... The FBI says that details of the undercover operation involving FBI special agents and a private charity, the Southern Poverty Law Center, should remain secret ...

SPIEGEL SPECIAL: GLOBALIZATION, THE NEW WORLD Cheap and Cheerful?
Spiegel Online - Berlin,Germany
... some 300 million Chinese out of abject poverty. ... Erbach." The venerable brand from southern Germany's Odenwald ... pregnant and, according to the law, could not be ...

Mexican Consulate

District's report details widespread misconduct
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... Mohs violated district policy and grant provisions by buying educational materials known as Telesecundaria from the Mexican Consulate, then adding a ...

Migrants may swing election
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... The Chivas USA soccer team visited the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles to publicize the new program, and race car driver Adrian Fernández made a similar ...

AROUND KENTUCKY
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... On Dec. 3, representatives from the Mexican consulate in Indianapolis will be at a Latin women's health fair at 2598 Liberty Road, issuing matricula consular ...

Holding the Line
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Garza adds that unaccompanied minors are either turned over to the Mexican consulate or Arizona's Child Protective Services division. ...

CAFTA

Andean Nations Seek US Patent Protection for Native Medicines
Bloomberg - USA
... rules. The Andean deal ``has got to be stronger than what we got in Cafta,'' Grayson said. ``We need more effective patents.''. The ...

Immigration smuggling

8 people accused of smuggling girls for prostitution
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The US Attorney's Office accused eight Houston residents of smuggling girls and ... women from Central and South America were arrested on immigration charges by ...

Six charged in Houston prostitution ring
United Press International - USA
... into prostitution with threats of harm to their families to repay the $8,000 to $13,000 smuggling fees, the ... The 100 women also were held on immigration charges ...

Making the Sea Safe From Pirates, Smugglers
This Day (subscription) - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
... enhancing Anti Smuggling Operations in Nigerian Waters", comprised personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Army, the Customs Service, Immigration and the ...

Immigration absurdity survives the election
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
... Other illegal immigrants would turn to human smuggling through checkpoints. ... Illegal immigration is a complicated challenge that will require effective law ...

Man charged in alleged Chinese smuggling ring says he's committed ...
Ottawa Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... group, although he appeared in court with a Cantonese translator. He faces three charges under the Immigration and Refugee Act.

Man charged in trying to help Chinese enter Canada says he's ...
940 News - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... nationals jump ship in Halifax says he's being unfairly targeted by Immigration officials intent on showing they're cracking down on an alleged smuggling ring. ...

BPS Reports -- Protecting our Borders Through Biometrics, RFID ...
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK
... President Bush has made addressing problems with illegal immigration, terrorist activities, and illegal smuggling of weapons and drugs a high level priority of ...

Illegals run for the snow after wreck
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
... t know where the immigrants were headed, but said I-70 is a popular smuggling route ... held until they are taken to Denver for a hearing before an immigration judge ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

TRUE Enforcement Act of 2005 Introduced
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR ... rewards for breaking our immigration laws and ... enforcement will back this legislation." Besides enhanced ...

Chairman King Introduces Border Security Bill
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US ... review of the current Border Patrol training protocol ...

Legislation would harshen illegal immigrant laws
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington,NC,USA
... The legislation is called the Scott Gardner Act ... She says there needs to be more border patrol, with revised immigration laws, allowing ... We have to reform the laws ... {Harshen Away!}

U.S. Immigration legislation

GOP RIGHT-WINGER MOVES TO STRIP
ILCA Online - Washington D.C.,USA
... W. Bush's nomination of Alito to the US Supreme Court. But Tancredo's scheme may come up before then, if Congress takes up immigration legislation this year ...

Immigration Supporters Call For Public Hearings
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... Dick Lamm and other speakers who are calling for a reform of immigration ... went to Arizona in October to learn about that state's immigration legislation and to ...

Man Deported For Alleged Nazi War Crimes
NBC5.com - Chicago,IL,USA
... 41, was deported around 6:30 pm Monday by US Immigration and Customs ... He was wanted for violating Germany's Holocaust denial legislation, which was enacted to ...

Chairman King Introduces Border Security Bill
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... D-CA) are original cosponsors of the legislation. ... that will help deter illegal immigration and protect ... All Borders and Ports: * Requires the US Department of ...

Immigration Supporters Call For Public Hearings
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... It is modeled after the powerful Republican Study Committee in the US House of ... to Arizona in October to learn about that state's immigration legislation and to ...

Legislation would harshen illegal immigrant laws
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington,NC,USA
... The legislation is called the Scott Gardner Act ... be more border patrol, with revised immigration laws, allowing ... keep them from reentering the US, with increased ...

TRUE Enforcement Act of 2005 Introduced
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The solution to fixing America's broken immigration policies is now before the US Congress with the ... The new legislation, introduced by House Armed Services ...

Law lets churches hide terrorists, Tancredo says
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... it to the agriculture appropriations bill because that was the first available legislation. ... But Tancredo, a leading critic of US immigration policy, said "a ...

Australian Anti-Terror Laws Target Muslims, Media & Intellectuals
Media Monitors Network - CA,USA
... critical of the Australian, UK or US governments, their ... to introduce explicit "White Australia" legislation but was ... to bring in the 1901 Immigration Act that ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Some Insights Into the Pitfalls of Making a Bureaucracy
Washington Post - United States
... today, focuses on the lack of coordination between two of the department's agencies: Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Illegals run for the snow after wreck
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
... they followed the footprintS the illegal immigrants had left in the snow, said Tim Counts, the spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of ...

World first to fight internet perverts
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
... The only successful prosecution of criminals who operated a child porn site was secured by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the US Department ...

Border Patrol expanding infrastructure in southern Ariz.
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... In Tucson, the Border Patrol will bring together its garages, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, and its search and rescue teams, said Al ...

Agents seize 136 pounds of heroin, arrest 2 Ghana men at Staten ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Island storage facility, where they had begun dismantling the crates, said Martin Ficke, special agent in charge for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Chairman King Introduces Border Security Bill
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... to address the inefficiencies and poor communication between the two main border security agencies within DHS, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ...

Italy Aims to Empty US Museums of Loot, Puts Curator on Trial
Bloomberg - USA
... antiquities are imported with false documentation or false claims of country of origin, Robert Stiriti, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement attache to ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Tom Tancredo is correct
RedState.org - Mclean,VA,USA
That impression was highly misleading. The fact is, Bush's immigration plan ignores the greatest source of illegal immigrants to ...

Tancredo: New Law Would Shelter Terrorists
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... religious groups from prosecution if they employ illegal immigrants as volunteers protects potential terrorists, says Colorado GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo. ...

GOP RIGHT-WINGER MOVES TO STRIP
ILCA Online - Washington D.C.,USA
... Thus, the child, like his parent should be deemed to be an illegal alien," Tancredo said, speaking as chair of the "Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus ...

TRUE Enforcement--Good News?
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... But I'm still waiting with bated breath for the details. I'ma great fan of Congressman Tom Tancredo too, but I didn't like his HF 3333 when I saw it. ...

Lawmaker to lead anti-illegals meeting
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican who is testing the presidential waters on an anti-immigration platform, is not just coming from the far left. ...

Guatemala: too risky to return
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., an outspoken critic of immigration policies. Since 1990, immigrants from at least a dozen countries have been granted TPS. ...

Combined Authorities Increase ICE Effectiveness In Law Enforcement 

ICE Deports Egyptian Linked To '93 WTC Bombing

ICE Budget Gains 6.3 Percent In FY 06 DHS Spending Bill

ICE Most Wanted

ICE Plays Key Role In Secure Border Initiative

ICE Arrests 106 Illegal Workers At Washington Warehouses

Operator Of National Sex Business Pleads Guilty To Obscenity, Tax Charges

Cooperation Between ICE, State Leads To Arrest Of N.J. Gang Member

Four Charged In Scheme To Sell 30,000 Counterfeit Luxury Items
ICE Thanks Von Amelunxen Foundation

 

On November 9, ICE agents arrested 12 persons in Arizona after a nine-month undercover investigation targeting members of the motel industry who were supporting violent human smuggling organizations. Federal authorities will also seek forfeiture of five motels.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-ICE officers have deported Mohammed Abouhalima, a 41-year-old Egyptian national who was convicted as an accessory after the fact for helping a 1993 World Trade Center bomber escape the United States following the attack.

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President Bush signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Homeland Security Appropriations Act on October 19. The legislation adopts many of the changes called for in the Secretary's Second Stage Review and provides a total of $3.9 billion in direct appropriations and fees for ICE.

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Luis MONTIEL-Cercas is wanted for questioning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in connection with the May 2001 smuggling attempt that resulted in the death of 14 illegal aliens south of Welton, Arizona.

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ICE will play a key role in the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) unveiled November 2 by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who called the program "an ambitious effort to address a serious threat to our nation's security-the continual influx of illegal migrants across our borders."

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SEATTLE-ICE agents served a federal civil warrant at a worksite near Seattle November 2 and arrested 106 aliens believed to be working in the United States without authorization.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-A man from Littleton, Colo. who oversaw a nationwide obscenity enterprise called Goalie Entertainment Holdings, Inc. pleaded guilty November 3 in Dallas for various federal obscenity and tax violations.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-Four Massachusetts residents were charged November 3 in federal court with money laundering and trafficking and conspiring to traffic in more than $1.4 million of counterfeit luxury handbags and wallets, as well as the materials needed to make these counterfeits.

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"ACLU"

ACLU sues to expand Bible tax break
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Apple and ACLU attorney Maggie Garrett said the lawsuit is aimed at ending discrimination against religious faiths outside the mainstream and extending the tax ...

Senate Restores Some Rights for Detainees: ACLU Says Move Welcome ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"Last Thursday, the Senate voted to turn Guantanamo Bay into a legal no-man's land," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative ...

Why allow ACLU to set public policy?
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... It opposes high school coaches who conduct pre-game prayers. Our Declaration of Independence clearly indicates we were endowed by our creator, not the ACLU. ...

Stop The ACLU Interviews Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit)
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
Many of you may remember our reaction to Glenn Reynold's sympathy for the ACLU. We recieved a lot of flak for this reaction, and suprisingly a lot of praise. ...

Charles Mix County panel begins redrawing commissioner districts
Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA
... A lawyer for the ACLU, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Indian voters, said one of the three options appears to be a plan the ACLU submitted earlier. ...

Lion Cages??
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
... The Iraqis are part of a civil suit by the ACLU against Donald Rumsfeld and top military brass. ... The ACLU site about the lawsuit is here.

Debate draws large student crowd
Red and Black - USA
"Under the ACLU plan, we would have no right to ... "Many conservative icons agree with the ACLU," she said."The policies violate conservative ideals.". ...

Breaking the Leg of Every Arab
Dar Al-Hayat - Saudi Arabia
These accusations haven't been made by al-Qaida, but appeared in a report at the end of last month by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and it gives ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Another Teacher's Union is Criticized For its Spending
Family News In Focus - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... an eye on the political spending of the Washington Education Association ... Landmark Legal Foundation charges that the Florida Education Association violated the ...

Executions, death sentences fewer in 2004, report says
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... said Michael Rushford, president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento ... of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, said jurors ...

Wedded Bliss for All or None
Washington Post - United States
... his conscience would not allow him to continue performing legal marriages on ... would seek to undermine traditional marriage, which is the foundation of American ...

Confirm Alito, replace Ginsburg with Wendy Long
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times ... College, then a three-year program supported by the Ford Foundation. ... Thomas More Institute for Legal Research ...

New Non-Fiction: "Lawless World" By Philippe Sands
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... and laws to serve as the foundation for a ... plotted to remake the international legal order. ... president of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, he ...

Next Conservatism #18: Immigration
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... illegal immigration and cut back on legal immigration, at ... founding president of the Heritage Foundation, and the ... The New York Times, The Washington Post, and ...

Mexican Consulate

Driver in Bus Blast Avoids Indictment
Washington Post - United States
... Officials at the Mexican Consulate in Houston expect Robles to be released on bond by Tuesday. He has been detained as a material ...

Ranger concedes faulty testimony in slaying trial
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... The Dallas lawyers, who took the case pro bono at the behest of the Mexican Consulate, and state prosecutors will return to a Lubbock courtroom Dec. ...

BU, Mexican Officials To Discuss Effort To Identify Remains Of ...
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
... immigrants' remains for DNA analysis from medical examiners' offices and reference samples from families from Mexican consulate offices," said Dr. Lori ...

LULAC

Governor Blagojevich signs landmark legislation to provide ...
IGNN (press release) - IL,USA
... "On behalf of our Illinois LULAC members, we commend all those individuals that listened to our call for supporting the All Kids bill and ensured that our ...

"MS 13" Gang {Mexican Terrorists!}

Teen on trial for gang beating
Potomac News (subscription) - Woodbridge,VA,USA
... Several members of Mara Salvatrucha, a street gang better known as MS-13, attacked the boy Feb. 23 as he walked home from a Stonewall ...

TRUE or False, the Choice is Yours

President Bush is at it again.

FAIR has learned that President Bush is working behind the scenes with sympathetic members of the House leadership to fool you into believing they are getting serious about immigration enforcement and border security. They are devising a weak bill they hope to introduce to take the limelight away from the TRUE Enforcement and Border Security Act, H.R. 4313, introduced by Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Virgil Goode (R-VA). Following this slight of hand, the White House will demand that this limp-wristed “enforcement” bill be coupled in January or February with a Senate bill containing a massive amnesty/guestworker program. Unfortunately some well-known members of the House are aiding the President. Unless stopped now, this plan will sell out the American worker, homeland security, and the hope of finally bringing illegal immigration under control.

Don’t Be Fooled by a Fake Enforcement Bill

Don’t let them get away with this ruse. Please contact your House member immediately! Tell him/her you are not fooled. Tell them the only way to prove they are serious about enforcing immigration laws and controlling the borders is to sponsor and support the TRUE Enforcement Act. See our summary of the TRUE Enforcement bill and earlier alert for talking points. Unless the TRUE Enforcement bill is passed, the Bush-backed bill will win out and they will have pulled the wool over the eyes of the American people—all for special interest business groups and cheap foreign labor.

TRUE Enforcement is the Only Answer

True Enforcement is the ONLY comprehensive bill that provides the solution to the illegal immigration crisis. Anything else will be weaker and not solve anything. It’s either TRUE or false reform. This is our do-or-die moment to give the nation immigration enforcement that stops illegal immigration and causes those here illegally to go home.

Either Support TRUE Enforcement or Stop Pretending

As you have seen time and time again, when the general public demands meaningful action, congressional leaders opt reflexively to give you the old Potomac two-step. They give you a pacifier then give away the ranch to the cheap labor business community. Never before has the general public been as clearly focused on the vast loopholes in our homeland security resulting from inaction to enforce immigration laws and control our borders. Never before have rank and file members of congress heard so much angst, so often from their constituents on this issue. In order to prevent the White House from enacting its ruinous immigration proposals, you must make your voice heard now and you must make clear the urgency of resolving this issue favorably.

Don’t let anyone sell out homeland security, the American worker, and the American middle class—make TRUE Enforcement the litmus test for Congress.

Here's How YOU Can Help:

1) Call your House representative's DC and DISTRICT offices in support of the bill. Tell him/her you are not fooled. Tell them the only way to prove they are serious about enforcing immigration laws and controlling the borders is to sponsor and support the TRUE Enforcement Act.  (Find your representative's office numbers here on our web site.) 

• During your phone call, ask for a written response to your request to cosponsor the bill.
• House members interested in becoming cosponsors should contact Lorissa Bounds in Rep. Hunter's office at 202-225-5672.
• Share your experience - let us know how your efforts to contact Congress are going.

2) Send a free fax to your representative in support of TRUE Enforcement from our web site.

3) Sign FAIR's on-line petition to President Bush and congressional leaders in support of the bill. 

4) Support our efforts by making a contribution to FAIR.  Your donation will help us continue fighting for TRUE enforcement of our immigration law! 

5) Get the word out! Help build grassroots support for TRUE Enforcement by forwarding this alert to others.

LEGISLATIVE TOOLKIT: 

How TRUE Enforcement Fixes Mistakes of the Past (PDF)

Bill Analysis, Section by Section with Talking Points (PDF)

The Hidden Dangers of McKennedy: Why the Kennedy-McCain Amnesty Bill Endangers America (PDF)

CAFTA

USA: Trade Groups Call For Textile Sectoral In Doha Round
just-style.com - UK
Thirteen textile and apparel trade groups from 11 NAFTA, CAFTA and Andean region countries are calling on their respective governments to insist that textile ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Terror, Lies & Memos
The New American - USA
... assets." Some of the most significant references in Louis Freeh's secret January 1996 FBI memo pertain to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which ...

Group tied to Klan ignites outrage
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Joe Roy, chief investigator for the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala., tracks more than 750 hate groups. ...

Tuesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International ...
FinFacts Ireland - Ireland
... Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California Law School ... pull an estimated 25 million Russians out of poverty, it has ...

"Mexico"

War of words between Mexico and Venezuela
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Mexico's Foreign Ministry responded, saying it would withdraw its Ambassador to Venezuela unless it received a formal apology. "The ...

UPDATE 1-Mexico Congress OKs $184 bln balanced 2006 budget
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Mexico's Congress on Tuesday approved a $184 billion balanced budget, the first spending plan in a decade with no deficit, but ...

Fox Separated Mexico from World, Says Madrazo
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Mexico, Nov 14 (Prensa Latina) PRI presidential candidate (Institutional Revolutionary Party) Roberto Madrazo told foreign correspondents Tuesday that Vicente ...

Project Mexico auction planned for Wednesday
Loyola College Greyhound (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA
Project Mexico will be holding its annual auction tomorrow, from 4 pm to 8 pm in McGuire Hall, with all proceeds going to fund the Project Mexico team's trip ...

Damaged barge capsizes in Gulf of Mexico
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
(11/15/05 - GALVESTON, TX) - Crews are working to stabilize a leaking oil barge after it capsized overnight in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Church bells, fireworks mingle in Mexico
CNN - USA
Getting there: Cholula is about an hour's drive from Mexico City. Express buses run frequently from the Mexico City airport or TAPO ...

Mexico's Gruma planning capital increase
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY,, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Mexican corn flour and tortilla maker Gruma will ask shareholders to vote next month on issuing new shares in an effort to ...

Mexico, Venezuela chiefs pull ambassadors
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and Venezuela pulled their ambassadors from each other's capitals Monday after the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ...

Venezuela, Mexico withdraw ambassadors over spat
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused Mexican leader Vicente Fox of being a "puppy" of President Bush and said: "Don't mess with me, sir." Fox ...

Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro lay a trap for Mexico
V Crisis - Venezuela
Miami, November 14 -- Mexico's Foreign Ministry has confirmed it will recall its Ambassador from Venezuela and request that Venezuela's Ambassador to ...

Minuteman Project

Elgin police defend calling up riot squad
Elgin Courier News - Elgin,IL,USA
... 75 and 100 people gathered outside the hall to protest -- some in a candlelight vigil, some more vocally -- a gathering of the Illinois Minuteman Project. ...

Tammy Bruce: Embrace America's Greatness
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... "The Minuteman Project is a very good example that we realize now that the government can't keep us safe," the California Democrat and one-time Los Angeles NOW ...

Texas lawman says not 'if,' but 'when,' terrorists bring dirty ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... for illegals from countries other than Mexico is "ridiculous," Gonzalez said, noting that all the other 16 Texas-border sheriffs and Border Patrol agents in ...

Lawmakers seek inquiry into Homeland Security aviation program
GovExec.com - USA
... legacy Customs unit whose historic mission was to provide support for counter-drug operations, was joined with aviation assets controlled by the Border Patrol. ...

Immigration smuggling

Indian Americans charged for human smuggling
GG2.net - UK
... Mesa and began in February 2005, the US department of Immigration and Customs ... the undercover officers on ways to conceal their smuggling activities, including ...

Friday, November 11th 2005
Virgin Islands Daily News - U.S. Virgin Islands
Michael Barton, 39, and John Bailey, 53, both of Antigua, were arrested in May and later indicted for alien smuggling, following a US Immigration and Customs ...

Police arrest 4 smuggling suspects
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement determined that the trio had been held ... Kice said the agency is considering pursuing federal charges of human smuggling. ...

As the border tightens, attacks on agents rise
Daily Journal - Caracas,Venezuela
... said Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the ... In June, two agents following a rural smuggling trail east of Nogales ...

Pregnant Woman Nabbed For Trying To 'Deliver' Duty Unpaid ...
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
... who is three months' pregnant, was arrested by the republic's Immigration and Checkpoints ... S$2,000 (RM4,400) if she was successful in her smuggling attempt. ...

'We need control of our borders'
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... A: The bills I think that had a direct impact on illegal immigration, like making human smuggling a crime, like cutting off public funds for day labor centers ...

Shadegg discusses border issues
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... On Friday, Shadegg told farm bureau members that an immigration reform measure needs ... they are somewhat equal to the penalties for drug smuggling," Shadegg said ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Continuing the Cause of Redistricting
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
... preserving their seats, they should propose serious legislation that reduces ... illegal immigration: Senator Specter circulates an immigration reform bill draft ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

No automatic citizenship for illegal aliens' children
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... the top two consensus priorities for immigration reform ... then birth alone would not confer US citizenship ... (Legislation to this effect is pending, co-sponsored by ...

When terror comes calling close to home
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
... said the non-existence of specific legislation should not ... then they will immediately inform us and we ... working with the Department of Immigration in monitoring ...

Massachusetts Immigrant Students Seek Equal Access to Higher ...
Record-Harvard Law School - Cambridge,MA,USA
... to pull immigrants into the US in response ... Given the broken federal immigration regime, the best that the ... legislature should vote on and pass this legislation. ...

Displacement is a familiar story for indigenous people
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... "US policy encouraged further immigration," said Lynn ... terrorists might be responsible set the stage for more legislation targeting illegal immigrants. ...

Governor rejects proposal to declare state of emergency over ...
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
... Members have helped patrol the US-Mexico border in ... economic impacts caused by illegal immigration do not ... and is preparing to introduce legislation next year on ...

Displacement is a familiar story for indigenous people
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... federal government crafted the Immigration Reform and Control ... the stage for more legislation targeting illegal ... of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ...

No automatic citizenship for illegal aliens' children
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Tancredo, R-Colorado, an expert on immigration law and a leading advocate for immigration enforcement, puts the number of US births to illegal-alien mothers at ...

Outlaw humorist takes on serious issues
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... ''When sociologists analyze immigration they never ... end, there is a dream of miscegenation: the audience member who admitted to sleeping with an illegal alien. ...

Some fear quick fix as House expedites immigration reform
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... something. Senate leaders already have said they will not work on comprehensive immigration-reform legislation until early next year. In ...

Illegal alien faces eviction from castle wall
Swissinfo - Switzerland
Since then, Giger's strange and surrealistic work has been on display, including his famous Oscar-winning space monsters, originally created for the film Alien ...

No automatic citizenship for illegal aliens' children
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... the entire US-Mexico border as the top two consensus priorities for immigration reform. ... (Legislation to this effect is pending, co-sponsored by about 50 US ...

Owens Criticized In Illegal Immigration Debate
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... Marge Taniwaki, a US citizen who said she was sent to a Japanese ... went to Arizona in October to learn about that state's immigration legislation and to meet ...

Garza: US-Mexico border wall a bad idea
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... with lights and sensors along the US-Mexico border ... is split over how to deal with illegal immigration. ... another wants to adopt guest-worker legislation to match ...

Pressure mounts to solve illegal immigration mess
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... weighing in on the controversial issue of immigration reform with competing legislation. ... on the Mexican border and eliminate incentives for US farms and ...

Alexandria Launches Lobbying Effort {Pound this COMMUNIST!}
Alexandria Gazette Packet - Alexandria,VA,USA
... US Rep. ... Mayor Bill Euille has requested that the delegation oppose any legislation that would seek to have local law enforcement enforce immigration laws ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

New Twists in Owad Case
Irish Voice - New York,NY,USA
... A spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the agency cannot comment on Owad in particular, but that those filing fraudulent files ...

Lawmakers seek inquiry into Homeland Security aviation program
GovExec.com - USA
... as counter-drug and counterterrorism support to other law enforcement agencies, including Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau, and ...
Indian Americans charged for human smuggling
GG2.net - UK
The criminal probe primarily focussed on motels in Mesa and began in February 2005, the US department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a ...

Canadian agents go back to work
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
... The unidentified Canadian driver was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. No other details were available Friday. ...

Torture suspect trying to stay in US
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... must certify that the visa is warranted and, if so, forwards the application to the Department of Homeland Security's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Friday, November 11th 2005
Virgin Islands Daily News - U.S. Virgin Islands
... John Bailey, 53, both of Antigua, were arrested in May and later indicted for alien smuggling, following a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation ...

Specter Draft on Immigrants Parts Ways With Bush
New York Times - United States
... with Congress to discuss realistic, comprehensive immigration reform.". ... play a role in shaping any legislation. ... floor a more restrictive immigration bill that ...

Massachusetts Immigrant Students Seek Equal Access to Higher ...
Record-Harvard Law School - Cambridge,MA,USA
Even as federal immigration reform is heating up on ... decisions at the intersection of immigration and education. ... the goals of the current legislation shows that ...

Audit urges merger of US border, immigration units
Reuters - USA
The inspector general said in a report that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) -- created in early 2003 when 22 ...

Secure Border and Immigration Strategy Announced
New York Jewish Times - New York,NY,USA
... for an additional 1,000 Border Patrol agents and includes roughly $3.9 billion in funding and fees for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this fiscal ...

Immigration officials report 15 percent rise in removals
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Authorities credited a new program at the region's federal detention facility in Batavia that allows US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to ...

Mesa motel sting nets 13 for smuggling
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... "The situations they were forced to live in were subhuman," said Roberto Medina, Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in Phoenix. ...

More Than 100 Illegal Workers Arrested at Sensitive Worksite Near ...
New York Jewish Times - New York,NY,USA
SEATTLE (ICE) -- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents served a federal civil warrant of inspection at bonded warehouses operated by Regal ...

Latinos air worries about immigration
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
... consideration by the Greeley City Council. It supports bringing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to Greeley. After the Rev. ...

Pressure mounts to solve illegal immigration mess
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... She thinks her state should have its own federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and immigration court instead of having to rely on the one based in ...

Bellingham man surrenders after standoff
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA
... sheriff's deputies, Washington State Patrol officers and a surveillance helicopter with the federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded to ...

Thirteen motel operators accused of helping illegal immigrant ...
Arizona Daily Sun - Flagstaff,AZ,USA
... the illegal workers elsewhere, said Roberto G. Medina, special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office of investigations in Arizona. ...

"MS 13" Gang

Jails Track Gang Members From Within
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA
... In August, federal authorities announced a broad indictment of 19 alleged MS-13 gang members on racketeering charges. The indictment ...

Week in Reston
Reston Connection - VA,USA
... After being indicted by a federal grand jury for one count of murder in aid of racketeering last week, Wilfredo Montoya Baires, an MS-13 gang member also known ...

Anti-Gang Efforts May Get $5 Million
Washington Post - United States
... Since then the gang, also known as MS-13, has spread to more than 30 states -- including Maryland and Virginia -- and several Central American nations. ...

Vandals Trash Burke Centre VRE Station
Burke Connection - McLean,VA,USA
... MS-13" on cars and a vending machine. However, Fairfax County Police spokesperson Bud Walker said that detectives do not believe the incident to be gang-related ...

"ACLU"

Arpaio program in ACLU sights
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
By Nick Martin, Tribune. The ACLU is looking for somebody with ink on his thumbs and a traffic ticket in hand who's mad about the whole thing. ...

The ACLU's scary agenda: guarding rights and liberty
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
A recent guest column by Robert Rinearson and a letter by Douglas Wellman would have one believe that the demise of the ACLU would transform America into an ...

ACLU files lawsuit seeking documents on exclusion of foreign ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The American Association of University Professors and the PEN American Center joined the ACLU in filing the suit, which charges that the US government is ...

ACLU: State Needs To Regulate Tasers
Yankton Daily Press - Yankton,SD,USA
... devices. Nebraska ACLU spokesman Tim Butz has said stun guns can be lethal to people on drugs or who have heart conditions. Fifteen ...

ACLU Can Now Accept Money From Terrorists
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA
Well, now that is something to be excited about for the ACLU. ... The ACLU refused this money at first, and refused to obey by the rules of the CFC. ...

ACLU sues Orleans jail for access to evacuation records
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... said they were left without food or water in the New Orleans city jail and in some cases still locked in their cells after Hurricane Katrina, the ACLU filed a ...

ACLU suit may affect FBI's library searches
Yale Daily News - USA
... Association spokeswoman Bernadette Murphy said. The ACLU is representing the Connecticut plaintiff, a member of the NLA. "We don't believe ...

ACLU of Utah Files Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Support of
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... 21, it may take a court order before Goodliffe and other Salt Lake City employees can enroll their partners in the health insurance benefits plan, the ACLU said ...

Partner benefits wins ACLU boost
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday asking 3rd District Judge Stephen Roth to rule that Utah's traditional marriage laws don't stop cities from ...

Commissioners may testify at juvenile center hearing
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... The ACLU filed suit six years ago and for the last three years has had an agreement under which independent monitors keep an eye on the system. ...

Fullerton district reaches out to ACLU
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... But the ACLU's Hector Villagra responded immediately that the program was unconstitutional at its core. ... 4 challenge from the ACLU of Southern California. ...

ACLU opposes Jefferson plan for single-sex schools
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... ACLU director Beth Wilson said the proposal also fails to guarantee that a student could transfer to a coed school, which "raises constitutional questions" and ...

Pilots, political correctness and Star-Spangled Banner
Kinston Free Press - Kinston,NC,USA
... just slipping away. Good grief, the ACLU has declared war on school prayer and are assaulting "under God" in our pledge. I'm sure ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Jim Lehrer to be NCSS 2005 'Spirit of America' Speaker in Kansas ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... George McGovern, labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, children's television pioneer Fred Rogers, Southern Poverty Law Center co- founder and ...

Lindstedt transfer in works
Neosho Daily News - Neosho,MO,USA
... According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the church supports "white racial supremacy" and the foundation of a group of violent "warriors for God.". ...

INSIDE BUSINESS
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... justice and psychology from UND's School of Law. ... in Northfield, Minn., and Southern Methodist University's ... as a tool for poverty alleviation, transparency and ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Florida home builders sue US Fish and Wildlife Service
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... and Wildlife Service fails to review their progress every five years, as mandated by the Endangered Species Act, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation. ...

Schwarzenegger departs to China, leaving political trouble behind
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... A business-connected foundation is picking up part of ... He also dropped a legal fight over hospital staffing ... at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank ...

The Senate agrees to Imprisonment without Charges
OpEdNews - USA
... Habeas corpus is the foundation upon which the entire ... have taken steps to reconfigure the legal landscape and ... Mike lives in Washington State with his charming ...

LULAC

House she thought she bought may be lost
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... $579. The local LULAC chapter is urging a compromise that would allow Segundo and her husband, who's unemployed, to keep the house. ...

Police officials, human rights leaders meet
Norman Transcript - Norman,OK,USA
... litigation" in the matter. "We're sensitive to the position the police officer is in," said LULAC President Ed Romo. "What we want ...

DFW International Airport and Supporters Issue Statements ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The National Executive Committee of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization in the ...

Educational meeting series planned for parents and community ...
Framingham TAB - Framingham,MA,USA
... The discussion is sponsored by NAACP, BRAMAS, LULAC, CPC Ministry of the Greater Framingham Community Church, Framingham Public Schools, McAuliffe Regional ...

Fundraiser Calendar
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Hill Country Cook-Off -- 5:30 to 11 pm today and 11 am to 11 pm Saturday. LULAC Council 654 hosts. San Marcos Park Plaza, Hopkins ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexico uses athletes to promote absentee vote registration for ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... In other events, the Chivas USA soccer team visited the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles, California to publicize the absentee voting program, and race car ...

CAFTA

CAFTA Pays Off
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA
An article entitled "Outsourcing Gets Closer to Home with CAFTA" (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) appeared Nov. 7 online ...

Leader visits to discuss CAFTA
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
In Charlotte to promote CAFTA among businesses and trade groups, Ana Vilma de Escobar offered up her region as a politically stable export market for American ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles - MECHA'S MAYOR

Los Angeles close to be reutrning to NFL
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... meetings Thursday with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Anaheim, Calif., Mayor Curt Pringle. ...

The Crowning of José Huizar
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... in Zacatecas, Mexico, to East LA, to a suite in Los Angeles City Hall. ... By the time Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez arrived ...

Governor's election flop may not benefit Angelides or Westly
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... One other name that is bound to come up in the coming months is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Some believe that Villaraigosa ...

LA mayor's office ends charity fund-raising by city building ...
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Building and Safety Department, which enforces zoning ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office ordered an immediate halt to fund-raising ...

16 Freedom Riders recall civil rights hardships
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... Dignitaries attending the Veterans Day event included state Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Redondo Beach, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

New Labor Chief Shows Mettle in Election Battle
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... of Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn, with the county federation and most unions backing Hahn and a few dissenting locals rallying behind Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

"Mexico"

More videos suggest bribery in Mexico
San Jose Mercury News - United States
MEXICO CITY - The ``video scandal'' returned to Mexico on Friday after local media broadcast new footage of politicians from the party of presidential front ...

Mexico deal to kickstart Dr Reddy's CPS foray
Economic Times - India
Dr Reddy's Laboratories' $59m acquisition of Roche's active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) business in Mexico has helped the domestic pharma major jump ...

Mexico Senate rejects beverage tax plan
BusinessWeek - USA
11 3:27 PM ET Mexico's Senate has rejected a proposal to eliminate the 20 percent tax on beverages made with high-fructose corn syrup, a tax that was ruled ...

Wanted: Mate for lovesick giraffe in Mexico park
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
MONTERREY, Mexico, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Keepers of a small menagerie at a Mexican park are looking for a mate for a lovesick giraffe after the 15-foot-tall beast ...

Mexico's Industrial Output Probably Rose 2% in September
Bloomberg - USA
11 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's industrial production probably rose 2 percent in September, the latest evidence that the expansion in Latin America's second-biggest ...

UPDATE 1-Mexico central bank holds interest rates steady
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank held interest rates steady on Friday, although it is widely expected to push them lower again later this ...

Mexico charges seven cops with kidnapping
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican prosecutors announced Thursday they have filed kidnapping and organize crime charges against seven police officers accused of protecting ...

Garza says Bush is opposed to wall along Mexico border
Houston Chronicle - United States
MEXICO CITY - US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said Thursday that the Bush administration is against proposals to build a wall along the United States ...

Mexico, Venezuela, say relations not broken following Chavez's ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's relations with Venezuela are not in danger despite Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's remarks that his Mexican counterpart acted like ...

Depreciation for rental owners; realty and taxes in Mexico
MarketWatch - USA
... owners to consider personal-property depreciation to save on taxes and what taxes will I face on both sides of the border if I invest in real estate in Mexico. ...

Emerging debt-Prices rally on Treasuries; Mexico leads
Reuters - USA
NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Emerging market debt prices rallied on Friday, boosted by US Treasuries and led by Mexico, where the government announced its ...

Mexico steps up control over imports of foreign Christmas trees
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is stepping up control over imports of American and Canadian Christmas trees to avoid foreign plant bugs, the Environmental Department ...

Disputes threaten to tear apart Mexico's PRI
San Jose Mercury News - United States
MEXICO CITY - As Mexico's former ruling party sets its sights on regaining power next year, it has found itself plagued by internal struggles that include ...

Mexico fires six officials for negligence after former Peruvian ...
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico fired six officials for negligence after they failed to notify superiors that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori briefly stopped ...

Mexico, Peru criticize Japan's handling of Fujimori matter
San Jose Mercury News - United States
MEXICO CITY - Mexico and Peru are expressing irritation at the way Japan has handled the case of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who claimed ...

Mexico to take appropriate steps'
Daily Journal - Caracas,Venezuela
... its willingness to maintain the best relations with all the countries of the world and, in particular, with those of Latin America, of which Mexico is an ...

Venez, Mexico Resolve Relations Issue
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Caracas, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) Relations between Venezuela and Mexico are on the mend after a week of constant bickering between their foreign ministries. ...

Mexico uses athletes to promote absentee vote registration for ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican electoral officials announced on Friday that they have launched a campaign featuring well-known professional athletes to promote ...

LeAnn Rimes Takes Second Honeymoon in Mexico
Lovetripper.com - Austin,TX,USA
November 2005 -- LeAnn Rimes and husband Dean Sheremet have taken a second honeymoon in Los Cabos, Mexico, staying at the luxurious Las Ventanas resort. ...

Iran attends APLA meeting in Mexico City Hello Mr. Bush R U Watching?
MehrNews.com - Tehran,Iran
... Delegates from over 20 countries took part in the 25th Latin American Annual Meeting on Latin American Petrochemical Association (APLA) held in Mexico City. ...

IDENTITY THEFT

Getting Purse-onal: What To Do If Your Wallet or Purse Is Stolen
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... the nation's consumer protection agency, suggests that ... any one of the nationwide consumer reporting companies to ... initial fraud alert" on your credit report ...

TransUnion confirms theft of credit information
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
TransUnion LLC, which along with Equifax Inc. and Experian Information Solutions checks consumers' credit on behalf of banks and other lenders, acknowledged ...

Able Danger: Cover-Up Worse Than Watergate?
TheRant.us - Downers Grove,IL,USA
... The Defense Intelligence Agency has told LTC Shaffer that they plan ... He deserves credit for insisting on a valid 9/11 Commission ... At last reporting, 71% said YES ...

Expert gives advice to protect against fraud
North Augusta Star - North Augusta,SC,USA
... a number of common scams against seniors -- foreign lotteries, home repair and/or ... house and, as a result, their bank statements, checks, credit card bills, etc ...

Series I bonds good spot for rainy-day fund
kgw.com (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
... a reserve fund we can tap to cover the unexpected -- a big car repair, for instance, or ... You can buy them easily, at many banks and credit unions or online at: ...

US airlines preparing for possible flu outbreak
International Herald Tribune - France
... A touch-sensitive screen with a slot for swiping credit cards will display a ... by mid-December, hoteliers said Thursday as properties raced to repair the damage ...

Crime Watch: Mirror Images
Informer (subscription) - West Hartford,CT,USA
... Also, request copies of your credit reports so that you can check for unauthorized ... of identity theft, it will take some effort on your part to repair the havoc ...

Area debit cards are hit by fraud
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... In an e-mail, the giant credit union told ... not confirm or deny if his agency is investigating ... significant, with US financial institutions reporting $546 million ...

New Medicare scams likely
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... Social Security numbers close and their credit card numbers ... a few calls have come in reporting sales practices ... they should call SHIBA, the Area Agency on Aging ...

For victim, weight of criminal ID theft hard to bear
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... suffers from holes because of poor reporting at the ... his lawsuit, which accuses the agency of defamation ... identity had been stolen for credit purposes, however ...

Area debit cards are hit by fraud
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... In an e-mail, the giant credit union told ... not confirm or deny if his agency is investigating ... significant, with US financial institutions reporting $546 million ...

Citizens, All
Washington Post - United States
REP. TOM TANCREDO (R-Colo.) has a bold idea to stop illegal immigration: Deny automatic citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants. ...

No automatic citizenship for illegal aliens' children
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, an expert on immigration law and a leading advocate for immigration enforcement, puts the number of US births to illegal-alien ...

Innovations in Wingnuttery
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
Normally, the anti-immigrant demagogues stick to weird pie-in-the-sky fantasies about constructing giant walls, but Tom Tancredo apparently has a new idea: End ...

frosty wooldridge

America's Growing Educational And Job Nightmare
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
by Frosty Wooldridge. LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 11/11/05 -- Most Americans over 40 witnessed the dumbing down of ...

Border Patrol

UPDATE 11/10/05

Minuteman Project

LULAC

Revenge on Rita: LULAC ready for big party
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA
... A little rain isn't going to stop us," said Richard Anzaldua of the local chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), sponsors of the ...

DFW International Airport and Supporters Issue Statements ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... President American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Texas The National Executive Committee of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and ...

20th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards to Take Place September 8 ...
Hispanic PR Wire (press release) - Miami,FL,USA
... Journalists, National Association of Hispanic MBAs, National Hispana Leadership Institute, ASPIRA, US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, MALDEF, LULAC, and NALEO ...

Villaraigosa puts on the gloves for LAUSD takeover campaign
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on the city's business leaders Wednesday to support his campaign to take over the Los Angeles Unified School ...
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The Los Angeles 5th Annual Veterans Day Parade
UCLA Asia Institute - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles will grace the occasion as the main speaker after the service. Congressman Xavier Becerra ...

Mayor of Los Angeles Corrupt? Surprise???!!!???
RedState.org - Mclean,VA,USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa used a private jet provided by the CEO of Ameriquest (Roland Arnall) to attend the funeral of Rosa Parks. ...

Democrats and unions savor win
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, right, exchanges a high-five with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday evening as Democrats revel in the defeats ...
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Wesson, Huizar revel in easy wins
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... for the first time since Antonio Villaraigosa was elected mayor and Martin Ludlow took over as secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor ...
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Civic, Business Leaders and Urban Pioneers Celebrate South ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2005--Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa played a 700-foot Earth Harp Oct. 27, symbolically ...

Welcome to the Jungle
LA City Beat - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... of Los Angeles, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to name a few. Worse, these critics wanted to know what happened to the campaign promise of Antonio Villaraigosa ...

NFL, Coliseum reach preliminary agreement on return to LA
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... the NFL was unable to reach an agreement with the Los Angeles backers and ... His statement came following a meeting with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and before a ...
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Next? Play nicely together
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said it is now up to the governor to reach out to work with Democrats to advance an agenda that tries to overcome the ...

Team Antonio Scores
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... strutted their stuff over to the gym: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Assembly Speaker ... City of Los Angeles elected officials and staffers, and especially the mayor ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Atheist Law Center chief steps down
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
... In the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest Intelligence Report, the center blasts Darby for hosting Irving, who spoke at a July meeting of about a dozen ...

Federal Authorities Probe Jailhouse Murder of Jewish Extremist
Forward - New York,NY,USA
... In the years after his emigration, the JDL, dubbed a hate group by such organizations as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, was ...
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Judge had sealed woman's testimony regarding Oklahoma City blast
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... delivery to the judge of just under 100 pages of documents related to a little-known undercover operation involving the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC ...

Nelson Avenue Middle School to implement National Mix It Up Day
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA
... Mix It Up is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program, in partnership with the Study Circles Resource Center.

From Prussia with hate
New Statesman - London,England,UK
... "Imagine the hard sell that the ADL [Anti-Defamation League] and the SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center] will have when confronted with these angelic-looking ...

Ongoing Terrorist Operations in the US
Strategy Page - USA
... The two most prominent non-governmental groups that monitor domestic extremism are the Southern Poverty Law Center, which focuses on racist and right-wing ...

"Tom Tancredo"

France, I Told You So
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the brave? That depends upon whether you agree with President Bush or Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) on immigration. Bush ...

Colorado congressman joins labor site debate
TimesCommunity.com - Leesburg,VA,USA
... Tom Tancredo wrote a letter to Paul McNulty, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, saying that federal laws may have been violated because the ...

Change in 1872 law could bring in millions
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has introduced a bill in Congress to sell federal land to help pay for relief from natural disasters or terrorist ... > full story. ...

Wiley Coyote
OC Weekly - Santa Ana,CA,USA
... support the efforts of Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) to erect a 2,000-mile wall along the US-Mexico border. So it may surprise ...

Rios: French immigration problems spotlight our own
ASU Web Devil - Tempe,AZ,USA
... Jon Kyl of Arizona and potential presidential candidate Tom Tancredo of Colorado would have us do, Arizonans and Americans ought to recognize that a little ...

US Lawmakers Call on Egypt to Protect Christian Copts
Voice of America - USA
... Indeed, it is getting worse.". Congressman Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, echoed the comments. "I for one have been a strong supporter of Egypt. ...

WESTERN SKIES - November 8, 2005
Western Skies - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
... up again lately. President Bush's proposed guest worker program has catalyzed opposition from Congressman Tom Tancredo. And the ...

Congress should ax public land giveaway
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Colorado's congressional delegation should be outraged by the assault on our public spaces, but Tom Tancredo of Littleton actually voted for it in committee. ...

Driver's license power play could prove tough on all concerned
Henderson Daily Dispatch - Henderson,NC,USA
... to pass, then they can expect to see some action on the illegal immigration front. ... for even the briefest period to force state action on alien driver's licenses ...

Immigration smuggling

CAFTA

CAFTA Disappointed But Not Discouraged With WTO Negotiations
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA
Geneva , Thursday November 10, 2005 - Representatives of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) are disappointed with the lack of progress in WTO ...

Back to the Big Picture
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
... much the same economic conditions as we are "enjoying" today, before NAFTA, before GATT, before China PNTR, before "offshoring," before Wal-Mart, before CAFTA. ...

Mexican Consulate

Sentence of service in baby's dumping
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... The Mexican Consulate is working with US immigration officials to negotiate her surrender so she can leave of her own accord, Honorary Consul Blanca Zarazúa ...

"Mexico"

UPDATE 1-Mexico global bonds jump on exchange warrant plan
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Prices on longer-maturity Mexican global dollar bonds soared on Thursday as the government announced it was offering warrants ...

Catered Meals and a Kayak In Baja, Mexico
ABC News - USA
People kayak in the Bahia de Loreto National Park, in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, in this 2002 photo. (Terry Pritchard, HO/AP Photo). ... ISLA CARMEN, Mexico, Nov. ...

Chavez slams Mexico's Fox over trade
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Trade talks end with no agreement (November 6, 2005) -- Leaders of South, Central and North American left the Summit of the Americas in Argentina Sunday with ...

More monarch butterflies may go to Mexico
Hindustan Times - India
As many as 200 million Monarch butterflies may migrate to Mexico this year a nearly tenfold increase over 2004, when unfavourable weather, pollution and ...

Police chase naked driver into Mexico
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... man driving a Chevrolet S-10 pickup led police on a chase to the international border yesterday before leaving the truck and running into Mexico, where he was ...

SCPD To Put The Brakes On Illegal Drag Racing
Suffolk Life Newspapers - Riverhead,NY,USA
By Michelle Pirraglia. "Our roadways are not drag strips and shouldn't be treated as such," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. ...

Mexico's Telmex boosts fund to buy back shares
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Dominant Mexican fixed-line telephone company Telmex, controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Wednesday it will set aside ...

México prepares for voting by holiday visitors
Vida en el Valle - Fresno,CA,USA
MÉXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities are setting up special voter registration centers for Mexicans who live abroad but return to their home country for the ...

Mexico's 9-Mo Foreign Tourism Income Up 15.4% To $9.15 Billion
Business Online - London,UK
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexico's Tourism Ministry said Thursday that international visitors to Mexico during the first nine months of the year spent $9.15 ...

Agents patrolling Mexico's border facing more dangers
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Most assaults occurred near urban smuggling havens such as Nogales, Ariz., and Tijuana, Mexico, but cross-border skirmishes took place from remote California ...

Arsenal signs Mexico teen
FOX SPORTS - Australia
... representative. Vela scored five goals to finish as top scorer in the World Under-17 championship in Peru in October, which Mexico won. ...

"ACLU"

ACLU Calls on Patriot Act Negotiators to Protect Privacy and ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
In particular, the ACLU called on Congress to require a factual connection between records sought and a suspected terrorist, for both Sections 215 and 505 of ...

ACLU says government won't release documents on exclusion of ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Among the documents the ACLU has sought are records showing the use of a section of the Patriot Act that allows the government to block people who have used ...

ACLU, NAACP ask Congress to scrap minority influence districts
Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA
... easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic," said Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights ...

ACLU aims to lift gag rule on air marshals
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... ACLU spokeswoman Elizabeth Brennan said newly written Homeland Security Department restrictions against what the agents can say about management policies ...

ACLU slams Barrington schools over banned film
Bristol Phoenix - Bristol,RI,USA
The letter, written by Rhode Island ACLU Executive Director Steven Brown, stated that "this decision sets a dangerous precedent that does damage to the mission ...

The ACLU vs. the Boy Scouts of America
ChronWatch - Alamo,CA,USA
... He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the belief of others." It is this part of being a scout that has had the ACLU all in an uproar recently. ...

Sheriff Illegally Withholding Records on Orleans Parish Prison ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The public deserves to know the truth about what really happened inside Orleans Parish Prison," said Joe Cook, Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana. ...

ACLU Urges Congress to Reject Court Stripping Measure; Proposal ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... The ACLU noted that on a strong bipartisan majority of 90-9 last month and by voice vote last week, the Senate adopted Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) proposal ...

Government Refusing to Turn Over Records on Exclusion of Foreign ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"The right to hear a full range of ideas and opinions is a vital part of American democracy," said ACLU attorney Melissa Goodman. ...

Disabled Prisoner's Suit Brings ˜States Rights' Clash
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in this recent case siding with Goodman, maintains that his problems are not ...

IDENTITY THEFT.....

Identity theft a growing problem
The Capital Journal - Pierre,SD,USA
... The three major credit report companies in the United States -- Experian, Equifax and TransUnion -- have to provide free annual reports to consumers. ...

TransUnion notifies consumers of data loss
ComputerWorld - USA
... TransUnion, along with Experian North America Inc. and Equifax Credit Information Services Inc., maintains credit histories on US consumers that are used by ...

PC Containing Consumer Credit Data Stolen
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... TransUnion and its two rivals in the consumer credit-history market, Equifax and Experian, said in September that they would work together on development of an ...

Life After Death: Booming Business For Thieves
HomeTown channel.com - Fort Smith,AR,USA
... Notify the three major credit reporting agencies: Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Ask that the reports of the deceased be flagged and labeled, "Deceased. ...

ICE Agents Investigate Serial Rapist
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
It's so alarming, it's getting the attention of the US Immigration and Customs ... He believes one or two specific smuggling organizations are responsible. ...

13 Motel Owners Indicted After ICE Human Smuggling Sting Operation
KPHO Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) agents pretending to be migrant smugglers were able to rent rooms at 13 places in Mesa Tuesday, in a sting ...

Mesa motel owners indicted over immigrant smuggling
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
The operation, led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also could lead to the ... and Apartments and the Roadrunner helped organized human smuggling operations ...

Border fence would cost billions, critics say
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... and has led to successful investigations of large drug smuggling and human ... John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who chairs the Immigration, Border and Citizenship ...

Terrorism Law News - Undercover investigation results in ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... "Operation Smoking Dragon uncovered an extremely sophisticated smuggling operation that ... which received substantial assistance from US Immigration and Customs ...

Sex-trade children flown to region
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... airports have been exploited in the past, but immigration officials at Heathrow and Gatwick are becoming increasingly aware of the smuggling rackets and have ...

Feds: 6 Mesa motels aided human smugglers
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... raids ended a nine-month undercover probe by US Immigration and Customs ... coached the undercover officers on ways to conceal their smuggling activities: Advising ...

Transnational Underworld: Terrorism, Organized Crime and Human ...
SierraTimes.com - USA
... Moreover, illegal immigration is often tied to document fraud, a criminal ... Contraband smuggling across US borders -- including currency, stolen cars, firearms ...

United States Extends Visa Waiver for 25 Nations
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... and included in the report covers sensitive information relating to terrorism, criminal activities, illegal immigration and alien smuggling, and therefore is ...

Border Patrol

Two of three dead migrants identified
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... released for injuries that may have been caused by a boat's propeller. The remaining four were turned over to US Border Patrol agents. ...

Assaults against Border Patrol agents nearly double, officials say
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
SAN YSIDRO, Calif.-- Assaults against US Border Patrol agents nearly doubled along the Mexican border over the past year as patrols cracking down on drug ...

Agents patrolling Mexico's border facing more dangers
Houston Chronicle - United States
By RICHARD MAROSI. SAN YSIDRO, CALIF. - Assaults against US Border Patrol agents nearly doubled ... Dented and damaged vehicles sit in Border Patrol parking lots. ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Walk for Homeless Still Strong After Seventeen Years
Howard University Hilltop (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
... The foundation was started in 1988 by Fannie Mae to respond to the ... to the walkathon include the YWCA of the National Capital Area, Washington Legal Clinic for ...

US welcomes Greece's contribution to 'Foundation for the Future' ...
Athens News Agency - Athens,Greece
... of governance, women in the workplace, legal reform and ... The "Foundation for the Future" would underwrite ... during the latter's visit to Washington in September ...

What the Russian papers say
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... in the country and on Washington's relations with ... president of the Efficient Policy Foundation, maintains that ... extra taxes," Anna Lesova, a legal expert of ...

Matzel Development Introduces All-Star Team of Partners Tapped to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... an MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle. ... The firm has a solid, experienced foundation which has ... Division of Law and provided legal representation to ...

AARP Tax-Aide Provides Free Tax Training and Volunteer ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... also carries out national litigation through AARP Foundation Litigation, and the Washington, DC based advocacy programs funded through Legal Counsel for the ...

Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied ...
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
... According to Firas al-Nakib, a legal advisor at ... special forces to track down ‘insurgents' (Washington Post ... London he worked with the Khoei Foundation, a pro ...

Service Saturday for slain Marine
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Ed Case, D-Hawaii, said in a news release issued by his Washington office. ... The foundation is a national legal association comprised of 350 chapters that ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform


OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... For example, part of the Patriot Act gives Immigration Customs and Enforcement more initiative to target members of the MS-13 gang, which has a presence in the ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... An immigration reform organization is ... The legislation, called the True Enforcement Border Security Act ... approach for dealing with the illegal immigration problem ...

Ronnie Earle's Reversed Priorities
MichNews.com - Troy,MI,USA
... rape and murder of Miss Garcia in her northwest Austin home by David Diaz Morales, an illegal alien. Morales had been deported for immigration violations but ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Feds urge illegal immigrants to report abuse
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... being raped in South Texas by coyotes, or paid smugglers, and others during the last three months, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

The Brownsville Herald
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
Figures released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday show that 10 undocumented immigrants have reported being raped in South Texas by paid ...

Accused Serial Rapist Faces New Charges
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... Hernandez with a February rape. In addition, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Hernandez has been deported in the past. ...

Feds: 6 Mesa motels aided human smugglers
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Also, the government is seeking forfeiture of five properties. Tuesday's raids ended a nine-month undercover probe by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Great Falls woman discovers fraud scam from Canada
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... Rusnok, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, says Canada is a hotbed for scam artists trying ...

Mesa motel owners indicted over immigrant smuggling
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
The operation, led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also could lead to the forfeiture of five of the six motels. Officials ...

Border fence would cost billions, critics say
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... Mexican government, the Canadian government, and the rest of the world," said John P. Clark, deputy assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

Sexual assault suspect had NC license
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, a political ... US Rep. ... Republican, isn't endorsing it because federal legislation passed last ...

There's a New Player Countering the AARP
Human Events - USA
... out untold billions of dollars in Social Security benefits to any illegal alien who works ... of our rule of law and a magnet to attract more illegal immigration. ...

If it's all about trust, beware of Harper
Rabble.ca - Montreal,QC,Canada
... anti-medicare and anti-Asian immigration policies on ... court challenge killed the 1984 legislation, and another ... Royal Commission on Electoral Reform that found ...

Visa delay for wife of Cuban anti-terrorist
Granma International - La Habana,Cuba
... pretext of her deportation is valid as the incident occurred five years ago, an expiration period that is stipulated in US immigration legislation, she affirmed ...

Members of Congress to Testify About Illegal Immigration
GOPUSA - Pearland,TX,USA
... to consider immigration enforcement legislation. Some Republicans have proposed an end "birthright citizenship" -- conferring automatic US citizenship for ...

France, I Told You So
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Bush or Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) on immigration. ... immigrants currently in the US - to grant ... passed identical illegal immigrant amnesty legislation. ...

Hayworth shuns Bush campaign backing
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... about cracking down on illegal immigration, creating a ... Hayworth introduced legislation in September calling for military ... illegal immigrants in the US to stay ...

US praises Kuwait for amicable ties among various faiths; Boost ...
Arab Times - Kuwait
... The US government discusses religious freedom issues with the ... that Shari'a is a main source of legislation. ... travel ban on her through immigration authorities ...

Border Patrol

Driver leaps from SUV on I-10; 10 are injured
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
... The crash happened at about 6:30 pm near Red Rock when Border Patrol agents saw the westbound vehicle and tried to stop it, said Supervisory Border Patrol ...

To the Barricades! Stopping Illegal Immigration
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
See OC Blog and this SFC story on the Border Patrol initiative. ... This is a much greater cause than the Border Patrol, though of course not mutually exclusive. ...

"MS 13" Gang

Anti-gang forum held
Silver Chips Online - Silver Spring,MD,USA
... On Aug. 5, the infamously violent gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) stabbed six youths - two at Springbrook and four at a Wheaton department store. ...

National security put in the hot seat

Expert Immigration Panel
UTSA Today - San Antonio,TX,USA
... and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Texas Border Patrol Sheriff's Association and the Minuteman Project. ...

Wiley Coyote
OC Weekly - Santa Ana,CA,USA
... He's good friends with Aliso Viejo resident and congressional candidate Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project; Drake's Buena Park church has ...

Minuteman Project

immigration legislation, immigration reform

California congressman to propose fencing US-Mexico border
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... the House Armed Services Committee, planned to announce legislation Thursday to ... Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, planned to ...

Men Face 10 Years In Prison For Fatal Smuggling Accident
NBC6.net - Miami,FL,USA
MIAMI -- Two men who allegedly organized a smuggling trip that ended in the ... Gil-Rodriguez and Taboada-Cabrera were described in a US Immigration and Customs ...

Bush may skirt topic of immigration reform
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... States would help stem the booming business of immigrant smuggling that threatens ... Mexican President Vicente Fox had agreed to work toward immigration reform in ...

Governor orders state contractors to ensure hirings are legal
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Even though she signed a law creating the state crime of migrant smuggling, Napolitano vetoed a few immigration proposals earlier this year, saying they wouldn ...

POLICE SWOOP: Suspected people smugglers arrested in raids on ...
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - Peterborough,England,UK
... homes of people suspected of being involved in smuggling illegal immigrants ... laundering, theft, forgery, fraud, handling stolen goods and immigration offences. ...

Suffolk County Executive, Steve Levy

San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... for Cable Choice also derives considerable legitimacy from the support of the 115,000-member League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, the nation's ...

Farmingville Immigration Raid Leads to Arrest and Possible ...
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
... Ed Dumas, a Representative from Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's office, claims that his office had nothing to do with the raid. ...

LULAC

Cable 'coalitions' sketchy

U.S. Immigration legislation

Kenny seeks support for proposed US immigration Bill
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
... American community to back proposed new immigration laws in ... The proposed legislation would regularise the status of the ... them to remain in the US without fear ...

Immigration reform remains an avoided issue
Vida en el Valle - Fresno,CA,USA
... There are a number of different pieces of legislation," said Costa ... that would involve a real change that reflects the realities in US immigration policy," said ...

Hurricane doesn't stop tourist flow to Cancún
Vida en el Valle - Fresno,CA,USA
... MÉXICO CITY -- The Mexican government favors immigration legislation proposed by US senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain that would allow currently illegal ...

Got Brains? Update on Tancredo's Brilliant Plan for Stopping ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... But all laws and proposed legislation assume that there ... responsibility for enforcing our nation's immigration or labor ... change this situation, all of us need to ...

Bush may skirt topic of immigration reform
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... a policy research center focused on US-Mexican relations ... of frustration with Bush and his immigration proposal ... out in favor of bipartisan legislation that would ...

MY TAKE …For what it's worth
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
... fortune to leave and Cayman embraced us at that ... hasn't changed their policy on immigration controls. ... to be nipped but unfortunately no legislation will fix it ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the ...
US Department of Homeland Security (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... The DHS Appropriations Bill also included roughly $3.9 billion for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a 9 percent increase over last year. ...

Farmingville Immigration Raid Leads to Arrest and Possible ...
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
The raid, conducted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was initially set to target Adolfo Vera, 53, the owner of a residence at 6 Spurwood Ln. ...

US is overwhelmed by visa infractions
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
... Of the 301,046 leads the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency received in 2004 on possible visa violators, Skinner said, only 4,164 were formally pursued ...

Indonesian men sentenced in cigarette paper counterfeiting scheme
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Detroit office says the government will begin deportation proceedings afterward. Customs ...

Got Brains? Update on Tancredo's Brilliant Plan for Stopping ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently has discretion on picking up and holding illegal aliens for deportation. HR 3333 ...

United States and Dominican Republic Sign Partnership to Secure ...
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
By US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). WASHINGTON, DC-- US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Assistant Commissioner ...

Employer Sanctions Collapse Even Further in 2004
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... Even in cases where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has evidence implicating employers, the agency tends to back off if the employer pleads ignorance ...

Border Patrol

Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the ...
US Department of Homeland Security (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... But, as a result, we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers -- criminal ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Deputies looking for body
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
... Sources close to the investigation told NEWSCHANNEL 5, the gang known as the "Mexican Mafia" may have killed Cabada, and Zamora may have helped. ...

Approval Bounces Back for El Salvador's Saca
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... Around 40 per cent of all incarcerated persons once belonged to street gangs. On Oct. 28, Saca met with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Michael Shank Racing ready for Mexico City debut
Motorsport.com - Canada
... Shank Racing is ready to go for the final round of the 2005 Rolex Sports Car Series at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit this weekend in Mexico City. ...

Mexico City: Rocketsports Racing
Motorsport.com - Canada
... final race on the 2005 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford schedule takes place this weekend, November 4-6, in Mexico City, Mexico ...

Mexico City: Finlay team profile
Motorsport.com - Canada
Memo Gidley is a fast man with two countries. Born in Mexico to American parents, he spent his early childhood on a boat moored at a La Paz shipyard. ...

Mexico's Cemeteries Host Día de los Muertos Parties
National Geographic - Washington,D.C.,USA
Across Mexico today families are carrying brooms, brushes, flowers, and food to local cemeteries. There, the living will tidy up ...

Telmex, Televisa, Grupo Mexico: Latin American Equity Preview
Bloomberg - USA
Telefonos de Mexico SA (TELMEXL MM): Mexico should allow cable providers and telephone companies to offer each others' services to drive down prices, Eduardo ...

Mexico to Push for Reviving FTAA Talks
MSN Money - USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will ask his counterparts at the Americas Summit in Argentina to set a date to relaunch negotiations for the ...

Mexico's Fox Sees Fast Recovery for Cancun; Experts Say No Way
Bloomberg - USA
... Ltd. estimate damage to the hotels of Cancun, Mexico's top tourist spot, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen at about $2.6 billion. Restoring ...

Mexico sees investment pact with India in 2006
Hindustan Times - India
Talks between Mexico and India for a bilateral investment agreement are going well and the pact should be signed early in 2006, a Mexican trade official said ...

Mexico Celebrates 'Day of the Dead'
ABC News - USA
Jose Velazquez walks through the cementery looking for the grave of his father at Tlayacapan cementery on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005., in Mexico. ...

BRP to Transfer its ATV Manufacturing to Mexico
CCNMatthews (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP) has informed its employees in Valcourt, Quebec, Gunskirchen, Austria and in Juarez, Mexico, that it will transfer ...

CAFTA

DR-CAFTA favors the US more
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica.- The general director of US American Importers Association (AIA) Phillip Byrd, affirmed yesterday in Costa Rica that the United States ...

Ahead of DR-CAFTA, Customs moves officials, appoints new ones
Dominican Today - Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
... than 24 hours after the agreement jointly signed by the United States and Dominican Customs agencies, in preparation for implementing the DR-CAFTA (Free Trade ...

NCLR Alert: House Makes Deep Budget Cuts to Latino Priorities

NCLR Alert: House Makes Deep Budget Cuts to Latino Priorities Take Action to Stop Cuts in Congress – Federal Budget Alert # 3 Tell Congress to take a stand against a reckless federal budget bill. Last week, committees in the House of Representatives cut important federal programs that provide low-income people with the opportunity to rise out of poverty, obtain health care services, and put food on the table for their families. Among the most destructive for Latinos, were cuts made to Medicaid and the Food Stamp Program. In addition, there were broad cuts made to child care, child protection programs, and student loans for college. These cuts are being pushed forward with the justification that they will help pay for hurricane relief in the Gulf Coast and Florida and reduce the deficit. However, the budget proposal would cut funding for programs effectively serving low-income communities nationwide and increase tax cuts for upper-income people. In addition, the House budget proposal would actually increase the deficit, which would further endanger these vital programs in the future. Budget reconciliation is headed in the wrong direction. Please tell your Representative to oppose the budget proposal next week (November 8-10) by sending a letter through this action alert. BACKGROUND – PROPOSALS OF SPECIAL CONCERN Members of the House Agriculture committee voted to cut $844 billion from programs operated by the Department of Agriculture; however, approximately one-third of the cuts were made by reducing legal immigrants’ eligibility for food stamps. If passed, the proposal would increase the already unreasonable immigrant food stamp residency requirement from five years to seven years. It is estimated that approximately 70,000 immigrants will lose food stamps as a direct result of these cuts. Furthermore, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a proposal that would heighten the barriers that Latinos face when entering Medicaid. Under the new provision, which cuts the program by $9.4 billion, anyone applying for Medicaid must provide citizenship documentation before they can receive services. Many eligible people would be denied Medicaid because of something as simple as a lost birth certificate. Southern Poverty Law Center ON THIS DATE: Remembering civil-rights heroes San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA The memorial was scheduled for a weekend unveiling at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The names of 40 people killed during the ... ASU pays tribute to Parks' legacy Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA ... The program included a showing of "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks," a film produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ... EU cracks down on environmental protection Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia ... to the damaged areas in the southern states to ... and has brought to power a center-left coalition ... VILNIUS -- Law enforcement agencies have started looking into ... SIUC celebrates Native American Heritage Month The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USA The Southern Illinois University Carbondale student holds a Certificate ... is overshadowed by the reality of poverty, poor health ... "I want to go to law school and ...

IDENTITY THEFT - Credit repair

AP9 PrivacyMatters Advises Consumers to Take Inventory of Their ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... AP9 Privacy Matters and its benefit providers are not credit repair service providers and do not receive fees for such services, nor are they credit clinics ...

Lost your wallet? Act fast
MSN Money - USA
... The temporary alert period varies by credit reporting agency; Experian's remains for 90 days. The permanent alert remains for seven years on all the reports. ...

Protecting against identity theft
Range News - Wilcox,AZ,USA
... For a small fee, a report is obtainable from the three major credit bureaus: Equifax - 800-685-1111; Experian - 800-311-4769; TransUnion - 800-916-8800.

Herndon chapter of the Minutemen begins operations
TimesCommunity.com - Leesburg,VA,USA
The Herndon chapter of the Minuteman Project began monitoring activities at the informal day labor site at the Elden Street/Alabama Drive 7-Eleven Monday. ...

Yes times eight
Loudoun Times-Mirror - Leesburg,VA,USA
... Somebody named Jim Gilchrist, from California no less, has decided they are and is ready to send in his Minuteman Project followers to clamp down. ...

New Mexicans Favor Temporary Worker Plan
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... Only 40 percent of those surveyed favor allowing private citizen groups, such as The Minuteman Project, to patrol the US-Mexico border. ...

Immigration likely part of future races
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... Once Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist jumped into the 48th Congressional District race, illegal immigration became a standard talking point. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Got Brains? Update on Tancredo's Brilliant Plan for Stopping ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... With the publication of our original article, we received questions about Rep. Tom Tancredo's REAL GUEST Act of 2005, otherwise known as HR 3333. ...

US Engineering Jobs Sold for $500 Each
Always On - USA
... REP. TOM TANCREDO, (R) COLORADO: It increases the legal immigration of this country by 35 percent. You couldn't get that passed on its own. ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

"Tom Tancredo"

Battle over immigration set up for '06
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Monday. The proposed constitutional amendment is identical to one filed last year by Bill Herron and US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. The ...

TANCREDO: Senate Plans To Sell Visas To Fix Budget Woes at the ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congressmen Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Hostettler (R-IN), and Tom Tancredo (R-CO) blasted the Senate Judiciary Committee's plan to ...

Days of the Dead
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... and barred from attending public universities and even being charged with trespassing just because they are in the US Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo wants to ...

Bill would increase green cards
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... kind of bill,' said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., vowing to vote against the measure if reaches the House. The Chamber of Commerce ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

The GOP's Border War
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... not the answer -- that the reform the president ... common cause with Democrats, crafting bipartisan legislation). ... heart of our current immigration policy: denial ...

Imperial Valley farmers face critical shortage of workers
California Farm Bureau - Sacramento,CA,USA
... It's going to take something like AgJOBS, (immigration reform legislation pending in Congress) to really solve this problem for the long term.". ...

U.S. Immigration legislation

BORDER PATROL

Border Patrol agents discover second Nogales tunnel within week
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
TUCSON - Border Patrol agents have found a second manmade tunnel near the downtown Nogales port of entry in less than a week. Agents ...

New agency heads at Border Patrol
Del Rio News Herald - Del Rio,TX,USA
... The acting chief has been named as Kevin Stevens, who has been with the Border Patrol since 1980. Stevens is a native of Maine and ...

Technology has modernized border security
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
... His enthusiasm is shared by Border Patrol officials in nearby Tonawanda. Just weeks after the Border Patrol installed remote cameras ...

Border Patrol agents discover second Nogales tunnel within week
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
Border Patrol agents acting on an anonymous tip discovered the tunnel last night. A Border Patrol spokesman says nearly 90 pounds ...

Patrolling The Border With The Minutemen
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... By their own count, the Minutemen reported more than 700 illegal immigrants to the US Border Patrol without a single instance of violence. ...

Republicans plan curbs on illegals
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... with the safety and security issues caused by illegal immigration.". ... you build [one], provide an alien-verification system ... for legal immigrants and illegal aliens ...

Illegal foreigners obtaining alien registration ards with fake ...
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
Police and immigration officialsare strengthening cooperation toprevent an apparently ... Police said alien registration cards would be extremely useful ...

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE: ¿Dónde está la biblioteca?
Carolinian (subscription) - Greenboro,NC,USA
... that I watched Senator Ted Kennedy open a subcommittee on immigration with the ... It seems he assumes that once an illegal alien finds employment in America that ...

For Cortez, trip to NFL worth the risks
philly.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... the NFL, and about his one-time status in this country as an illegal alien. ... the border patrol would catch them or later, the US Immigration and Naturalization ...

immigration legislation, immigration reform

Bush may skirt topic of immigration reform
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Fox had agreed to work toward immigration reform in the ... of frustration with Bush and his immigration proposal ... out in favor of bipartisan legislation that would ...

Ex-Gilbert councilman patrols with Minutemen
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Napolitano has declared a state of emergency along the border, and several Arizona ccongressmen have proposed varying forms of immigration reform legislation. ...

illegal alien, illegal immigration

EXECUTIVE ORDER BOLSTERS INFORMATION-SHARING AMONG AGENCIES
President Bush has restructured information-sharing responsibilities
among U.S. anti-terrorism agencies and increased the authority of the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37432-1.html


DHS SPENDING BILL, NOW LAW, BOLSTERS TECHNOLOGY
The fiscal 2006 Homeland Security Department appropriations bill
continues or increases funding for dozens of technology-related
programs.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37331-1.html


CHERTOFF: HOMELAND TO REPAIR FEMA BREAKDOWN
FEMA will aim to fix shortcomings in logistics systems,
communications, business processes and procurement, Homeland Security
secretary Michael Chertoff said.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37385-1.html


DHS TO GET DISASTER EXPERT AS CHIEF OF EMERGENCIES
President George W. Bush has nominated disaster management veteran
George W. Foresman as the Homeland Security Department's
undersecretary for preparedness.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37404-1.html


IG: FAULTY DATA SEEN HOBBLING PURSUIT OF VISA OVERSTAYS
The Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agency faces problems tracking down foreigners who have overstayed
their visas because data ICE receives from other agencies' systems is
inaccurate, according to DHS' inspector general.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37403-1.html


HOMELAND SECURITY IG RAPS SECRET SERVICE'S NETWORK SECURITY
The inspector general's audit found inadequacies in the security
controls for sensitive data about protective operations contained in
the Secret Service Web System.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37409-1.html


COMMUNICATIONS INTEROPERABILITY ISSUES DOMINATE HEARING
Obstacles to achieving seamless communications between police, fire,
ambulance and other first-responder agencies prompted sharp comments
from lawmakers during a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing
today.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37425-1.html


REAL ID ACT COULD CARRY HEFTY PRICE TAG FOR STATES: CAGW
A new report from Citizens Against Government Waste predicts that the
Real ID Act, which requires states issuing driver's licenses to
conform to federal antiterrorism rules, could increase the cost of
issuing a driver's license to $90.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37347-1.html

"MS 13" Gang

Police say gang population is increasing in the county
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA
... There also are a handful of members of MS-13, a violent Salvadoran gang that has strong ties to Virginia cities, most notably Fairfax, Dunkle said. ...

DA Says More Legislation Needed To Fight Gangs
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
... Richard Dormer estimated there are two thousand gang members with various affiliations -- including the Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings and MS-13 in Suffolk.

Kilgore vows to be tough on gangs and widen I-66
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... Kilgore linked illegal immigration with criminal gangs such as MS-13, considered the largest, most violent and fastest-growing street gang in the state. ...

Revealing a divide
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
... Elder said gang membership could be curtailed by diverting disaffected youth into jobs ... t simply say, 'Here's an after-school program for MS-13,'" Saxman said. ...

Voters won't fall for bait-and-switch
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... The gang called MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), with an estimated 10,000 members, deals in narcotics, gun trafficking, prostitution, and murder by machete cuttings ...

Mexican Consulate

MEXICAN ID CARD HELPS IMMIGRANTS IN US
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Every week or so, Mari Monge brings an immigrant to the Mexican Consulate, near Downtown Albuquerque. It is the only place in the ...

Altar at UA honors dead
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
UA BookStores worked with the Mexican Consulate to bring the altar to campus. It will be on display at the store, 1209 E. University Blvd., through Nov. 10. ...

Mexico May Borrow Almost $3B to Rebuild
Forbes - USA
... development banks have close to US$3 billion (euro2.5 billion) available for loans to repair damage from this month's hurricanes in Mexico, officials said ...

CAFTA

Costa Rica Project to Submit CAFTA to People
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) Costa Rican deputies proposed Monday that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) between Central ...

frosty wooldridge

OLD RIGHT - DEADLY LEGACY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION by Frosty Wooldridge
DEADLY LEGACY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION by Frosty Wooldridge Posted on Wednesday,
October 26 @ 07:10:28 EDT by sartre · Immigration Last spring with flowers ...

IDENTITY THEFT

Patients' personal information stolen from UT Medical Center
WATE.com - Knoxville,TN,USA
... a fraud alert on their credit file with one of the three national credit reporting agencies, Equifax Credit Information, Transunion Credit, and Experian.

States Want Congress to Act on Identity Theft, Data Security
Consumer Affairs - USA
... Permitting consumers to contact one consumer reporting agency and have the freeze apply to all three major credit agencies.

"ACLU"

ACLU investigating death of man arrested in Duluth
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
The investigation could lead to a civil rights suit, the ACLU said in a news release Monday. Croud, 29, was taken off life support Oct. ...

Unveiling of the ACLU . . . has finally arrived
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
Don't you think it's time the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) proves beyond a bunch of rhetoric that saying "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is an ...

ACLU and Lambda Legal Urge Federal Appeals Court to Uphold Ruling ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... impossible for same-sex couples even to lobby for basic domestic partnership protections," said Tamara Lange, a senior staff lawyer with the ACLU's Lesbian ...

Alito: The Anti-ACLU Strategy, Courtesy of Senator Leahy
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
... Conservatives must respond that opposition to Alito is tantamount to adopting the ACLU agenda, a thoroughly un-American agenda. ...

Even Religious Skeptics Skeptical of the ACLU's Dover Position
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA
Dover trial continues, with the ACLU and its witnesses arguing that to briefly mention the theory of intelligent design just before spending several days ...

Partner benefits put on hold
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... ruling. "The court still needs to decide the case on its merits," said Kary Moss, executive director of the Michigan ACLU. Both ...

Other key issues
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
In a 1999 case, ACLU vs. Schundler, Alito wrote the majority opinion approving a Jersey City municipal display that contained both ...

Minutemen leave area satisfied but bored
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... In New Mexico, volunteers said ACLU volunteers tried to run a Minutemen volunteer off the road and rammed a fence. ACLU officials ...

NY Times: Alito a "Clear Conservative," But Liberal Ginsburg Was " ...
NewsBusters - USA
... Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, Richard Berke's lead story in the June 15, 1993 edition didn't describe Ginsburg, a feminist and former ACLU lawyer, as liberal. ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Discovery Education, The Faith & Politics Institute, and Freddie ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... films -- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks and Mighty Times: The Children's March -- available to educators for free from the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...

Civil rights speech draws eager crowd, protestors
Current - St. Louis,MO,USA
... He specializes in civil rights issues and founded the Southern Poverty Law Center and he has written many books on the history of America's struggle for ...

Forestry in Chile and the Myth of the Trickledown Theory
Toward Freedom - Burlington,VT,USA
... to the cities, a higher rate of poverty for those ... s Road to Nowhere: The Southern Coastal Highway. ... with Center for International Environmental Law: Santiago de ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Bush Nominates Alito, Epic Battle Expected
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday named appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr ... the American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian legal foundation, and a ...

Bush nominee slaps Parks' legacy
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... Rosa Parks. His legal foundation is clearly adverse to civil rights, women's right to self-determination and labor. He has even ...

Supreme Court Nominee Alito's Stance on Abortion Rights Center in ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
... of contraception and helped lay the foundation for the ... from Jeffrey Rosen, professor at George Washington University Law School and legal affairs editor at ...

Democrats Fiddling as the World Burns
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... on travel junkets paid for by a shady private foundation. ... for the Democratic Party in Washington, wraith of ... it is, to languish and let legal investigations do ...

City OKs vets home
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
... is a "continuum of care." The foundation has a ... On Monday, the commission closely heeded a legal opinion by ... said, citing New Jersey and Washington court rulings ...

Charles faces 'cash-for-access' row over US tour engagements
Independent - London,England,UK
... Charles will visit one of the Foundation's exhibitions on ... at the National Institutes for Health in Washington. ... According to a legal opinion from Bob Marshall ...

Kept In Suspense
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... worker program with increased border security to deal with the rising tide of illegal immigration. ... At least one illegal alien gained access to the nuclear unit ...

From Juan's Mailbag . . . Americans' Anger At Illegal ...
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... (Again, to report an illegal alien or criminal alien resident, please read the information at this link. To make a report, contact the Immigration and Customs ...

Employer Sanctions Collapse Even Further in 2004
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... purpose of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act was to end illegal immigration. IRCA imposed fines of up to $10,000 for every illegal alien hired by US ...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net
Art Daily - USA
Have you ever hired an illegal alien? ... the Global Predator, Gomez-Pena is the brujo-poeta exploring a fear of immigration, the dark-side effects of globalization ...

SMUGGLING

Defendants plead guilty to immigrant smuggling case
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
Two defendants accused of smuggling immigrants into the United States in August ... Immigration officials ordered the train stopped here when a mangled body was ...

New Mexico Mulls Diverse Immigration Solutions
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... The US Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that more than 7 million ... with Mexico, citing an increase in violence, drug smuggling and undocumented ...

East Coast becoming preferred illegal route into Canada
CBC News - Canada
... Now there are questions about his role in a human smuggling ring that's ... flaws with the notion that tougher laws make Canada safer," said immigration lawyer Lee ...

The GOP's Border War
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... made common cause with Democrats, crafting bipartisan legislation). ... the possibility of earning US citizenship. ... heart of our current immigration policy: denial ...

Failed amendment back for another try
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... an identical initiative launched by US Rep ... after the legislature, and they drafted legislation that had ... services to them further encourages illegal immigration.

Laying the Groundwork
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... American Independent Party's Jim Gilchrist, who came in third with 14.7 percent of the vote. Gilchrist is the founder of the Minuteman Project, the vigilante ... 

Minuteman Project

Recap and Photos of Actions Against the Minutemen
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
On the morning of Saturday, October 29, the armed, racist, anti-immigrant vigilantes of the Minuteman Project held a rally on the steps of the state capitol in ...

Minutemen leave area satisfied but bored

Anti-Minuteman Banner Appears In Chicano Park
KFMB - San Diego,CA,USA
Protestors against the Minuteman Project unveiled a new banner in Chicano Park, saying the recognition the volunteer border agents are getting needs to stop ...

Site outs employers of illegal immigrants
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Stordahl is a member of the Minuteman Project, but became concerned with the issue of illegal immigration long before the project was organized about a year ago ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

Journal Views
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA
... liners, including Canyon County congressional aspirant Robert Vasquez, are vitriolic in ... Republicans to distance themselves from the county commissioner but has ... .

Immigration Law, Immigration Lawyers, Immigration Fraud

Prominent White-Collar Defense Team Joins Buchanan Ingersoll ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... separate forgery, document tampering and securities fraud charges in ... is one of the largest law firms in ... seven high-profile tax and immigration lawyers in Miami ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... if the federal government is not willing to enforce immigration laws, then ... constitutional and that will hold muster." Combs says the illegal alien problem is ...

Journal Views
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA
With many officials predicting immigration reform will be the most important issue in the 2008 elections, Craig has co-sponsored legislation to increase border ...

"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. ...

Bush aims to placate both sides on immigration
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Elizabeth Dole has said she would examine all immigration reform proposals. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more in the future and would let ...

US policy on immigration is a tragic joke
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... The most reasonable response I have seen to this illegal-immigration crisis is legislation introduced by one of your ... Reform begins with the truth. ...

Readers comment on impact of illegal immigration
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... I do not believe that any try of drivers' license should be granted until there is ... No one likes a party crasher and that is what an illegal alien is, whether ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

ACLU trains volunteers who will keep eye on Minutemen
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... time for the US people to present their case under the First Amendment, and that's how we're doing it," said Jim Gilchrist, a founder of the Minuteman Project. ...

Take action now to stop illegal immigration
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... taxpayer identification numbers as valid forms of identification for the purposes of getting a drivers license. ... 9. Hiring an illegal alien is against the law! ...

"Mexico"

Politics shadow Núñez's Mexico trip
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... said Schwarzenegger already is committed to seeking binational solutions to illegal immigration, drug trafficking, human smuggling, environmental degradation ...

Canada puts China's `most wanted' man back behind bars
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... Immigration and Refugee Board documents, the party was also attended by members of the Big Circle Boys, who are believed to be involved in the smuggling of ...

Immigration reform needs president's leadership
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... Drug smuggling, human trafficking and associated crimes are on the rise. ... Meanwhile, the impact of illegal immigration reaches well beyond border states. ...

A National Emergency: Illegal Immigration
The Conservative Voice - USA
... of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal ... The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox ...

Ambassador's words aren't always most diplomatic
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... "There is violence, there is smuggling, there is ... John Keeley of the US-based Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tightening immigration law, says from ...

Postcards from the edge
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... of villages such as Karala have virtually been cut off as India builds a fence some 150 yards inside its territory to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. ...

Eyes on the border
Ottawa Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... Within months, they undergo immigration hearings and are deported from the US. ... Heckler says smuggling has slowed down a little, probably due to more officers ...

OUR BIG FAT WEDDING STING
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... They told the agents that their syndicate had been smuggling counterfeit cigarettes ... Mr John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs ...

Katrina to Curtail Gulf of Mexico Oil
123Jump (subscription) - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... The second landfall of this year's fourth hurricane is expected to directly reach oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Drug war ravages Mexico border city, upsets US
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
By Tim Gaynor. NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The first victim of the day was bound with duct tape, tortured and shot once in the back of the head. ...

Cooperation is key for Mexico, US game wardens
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
EL CENTRO -- Game wardens from Mexico will join US game wardens on Thursday to observe how enforcement is done here at the annual dove opener in Imperial ...

Mexico's Ruling Party Woos Voters in the US
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Fox were Manuel Espino, the party's national president; Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, governor of Guanajuato state; and Cecilia Romero, a senator from Mexico City. ...

Mexico announces roster for WCup qualifier with US
U.S. National Soccer Players - Washington,DC,USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Jared Borgetti and Antonio Naelson will lead the Mexican National Team in its September 3rd World Cup qualifier against the United States. ...

Politics shadow Núñez's Mexico trip
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
MEXICO CITY - Time and again, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez said his meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday was not meant to upstage Gov. ...

Mexico-style campaign hits hurdle in LA area
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... at a sea of empty chairs in the South Gate High School auditorium Saturday and contemplated the magnitude of the challenge facing Mexico's political parties. ...

Trade Mission builds Texas-Mexico business ties
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
For a sixth summer, Texas officials headed south for a trade mission to Mexico, focusing on developing energy-related trade between Texas and its southern ...

The Great Wall of Mexico! Brick by Brick by Brick, Mr. President ...
The Conservative Voice - USA
... People" some of idea of how much of a threat to our beloved nation's domestic security is the porous border which the United States shares with Mexico to the ...

Katrina Gaining Strength in Gulf of Mexico
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Louisiana-Mississippi coastline. Forecasters said it will likely gain strength over the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. By 8 am ...

Borgetti, Marquez to play for Mexico against United States in ...
Canada.com - Canada
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Jared Borgetti is expected to lead the attack when Mexico faces the United States in a World Cup qualifying match. ...

Human cannonball to be fired across US-Mexico border
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... from a cannon. On Saturday, he plans to add to his list of cannonball coups by shooting across the US-Mexico border. The feat is ...

Mexico mulls appeal of WTO corn syrup tax ruling
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is mulling whether to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling in favor of the United States in a dispute over taxes on drinks ...

Politician Has Bumpy Visit to Mexico
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is one of a new generation of Spanish-speaking politicians who represent an increasingly potent ...

Mexico offers $1 million deal to filmmakers
Houston Chronicle - United States
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government has set aside close to $1 million to back loans for movies as a growing number of the country's filmmakers win ...

NM, Mexico Agree to Raze Lawless Town
Leading The Charge - Milton,Queensland,Australia
... Friday was the governors‘ first meeting since Richardson, citing growing violence, declared a state of emergency in New Mexico‘s four border counties ...

Category 3 Hurricane Katrina Eyes Gulf Of Mexico Coast
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
The storm is moving westward through the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico at a clip of 7 to 11 miles per hour, the Gulf Coast guessing game begins. ...

Man caught smuggling bullets, vests to Mexico
Houston Chronicle - United States
HIDALGO -- A Mexican man was caught trying to smuggle 8,700 rounds of ammunition and 10 bulletproof vests from the United States to Mexico, Customs and Border ...

Hispanics here to stay
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy put it bluntly: "When you hear someone who has 20 people living next to them urinating on their front lawn, it makes you ...

Nuñez Trip Hits Heavy Resistance
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Unlike many other Mexican American politicians -- including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- Nuñez speaks Spanish that is almost eloquent. ...

The Great Wall of Mexico! Brick by Brick by Brick, Mr. President ...
The Conservative Voice - USA
... of Emergency in Arizona and New Mexico have successfully attracted your attention so that you can now identify the growth of the "illegal alien" problem which ...

Night out costs Chinese fugitive
Globe and Mail - Canada
... "That would be a nice way for Immigration to get ... Mr. Lai is wanted in China on charges of masterminding the country's largest bribery and smuggling ring since ...

Immigration emergency
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... of Homeland Security is prepared to help stem the rise in drug smuggling, human trafficking and lawlessness associated with illegal immigration in Arizona and ...

Lawmakers want governor to have emergency powers over immigration
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... of livestock and killing on the border, drug smuggling, human trafficking ... was concentrating on collecting federal assistance for fighting illegal immigration. ...

Border safety steps discussed
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... "Now we ask our federal governments to help us too, to help us with their principal responsibilities, immigration, drug smuggling.". ...

Officials: Strengthening border has domino effect
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... now we are seeing more sophisticated criminal networks behind human smuggling," Ramirez said. ... it's very clear that we have to deal with immigration in all its ...

Fidel Castro Holds the US Responsible for Human Trafficking
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... Fidel Castro denounced that Washington has been encouraging this illegal immigration from Cuba ... pay up to 10,000 USD, he said, adding that the smuggling is done ...

Forum: A nation of outlaws
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Do you really expect the government to round up each illegal alien and kick ... aliens should be diverted to reinforcing the borders and enforcing immigration law. ...

Millions spent to jail the deported
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... Source: Georgetown Immigration Law Journal article by James P ... was granted permanent resident alien status in ... possession of marijuana and illegal possession of a ...

Law, aid groups at odds on the border
Chicago Tribune - United States
... With a US Border Patrol helicopter whirring above ... There has been no intention to break the law, and the Border Patrol has known what is going on, he said. ...

US split over rising illegal immigration
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... renewed push for immigration law reform when Congress ... his home state than his stance on immigration. This year he introduced legislation, alongside Ted Kennedy ...

Legislators plan to take up immigration debate
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... Bass, for one, said "it's embarrassing" that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement "doesn't have the interest or the personnel or the resources to . ...

Take action now to stop illegal immigration
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Congress has already authorized the military to do so. 2. Locally, North Carolina needs a freestanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. ...

Pizza Parlor Owner Sentenced for Illegal Money Transfers
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Jack" Idema, a now-imprisoned American mercenary accused of running his own interrogation camp in Afghanistan, said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Millions spent to jail the deported
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... In fiscal year 2004, the state Department of Corrections made about 250 referrals to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch of the Department ...

OUR BIG FAT WEDDING STING
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... Added Mr John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement: 'This was a one-stop-shopping criminal organisation that had the ...

ID card gives immigrants more opportunity
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... While the card may help open up services Espinoza didn't have access to a few days ago, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a statement late ...

US split over rising illegal immigration
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... voted against the reorganisation of US intelligence services ... his home state than his stance on immigration. This year he introduced legislation, alongside Ted ...

Legislators plan to take up immigration debate
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... Their nascent legislation aims to strengthen local and statewide efforts on ... Bass, for one, said "it's embarrassing" that US Immigration and Customs ...

US policy on immigration is a tragic joke
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... this country's "Broken Borders." The truth is that US immigration policy is ... I have seen to this illegal-immigration crisis is legislation introduced by ...

Deported mother forced to leave baby
This is Local London - UK
... we have a ten-month-old child but they have told us we have ... to remain on the grounds of marriage, but under tighter immigration legislation introduced earlier ...

High Desert Minuteman stresses activism
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA
... concerns have led him and others to patrol the US-Mexico border ... has been inactive when it comes to passing effective immigration reform legislation. ...

Lead the debate on immigration, Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... with porous border security and immigration-related crime ... of emergency along the US-Mexican border ... Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts introduced legislation that would ...

Economic high: Franks touts economy, blasts Napolitano on ...
Mohave Valley News - Laughlin,NV,USA
... Refuge, which was voted down in the US Senate. ... ve tried to do a lot about illegal immigration, but the ... in schools, but thinks that school legislation should be ...

Report dispels idea that Americans see Canada as safe haven for ...
940 News - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... takes security seriously, although some said immigration is too ... On the other hand, misleading US media reports ... support for new security legislation, and little ...

Pearce will draft legislation for guest worker program
Valencia County News Bulletin - Belen,NM,USA
WASHINGTON, DC US Rep. ... today that having completed his 17 stop immigration listening tour ... last week, he plans to begin drafting legislation that implements a ...

Split policy considered on immigrants
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Republican-led Congress to better police US borders and ... whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more ...

GOP Divide on Immigration Moves Bush To Compromise
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more in ... let undocumented workers stay in the US while they ...

Governor's image suffers in Mexico
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Schwarzenegger speech and know nothing about legislation he has ... tighten the border against illegal immigration and his ... person, he's a foreigner like us, he has ...

Spain: From anti-US anger to American-style debate
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... that and the continuing restrictions on immigration, Spain is ... will have to be a US-style debate ... very Catholic country has just enacted legislation allowing gay ...

Australian "counter-terrorism" summit to discuss police-state ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... s policy of creating a US-style Department ... the most repressive anti-terror legislation in Australia. ... Beazley also described the Immigration Department as being ...

Ragsdale: Churches ask liberty for tired, poor, yearning to ...
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... The US Conference of Catholic Bishops in July ... for Immigrants campaign to encourage legislation and policies ... the moral and human rights issues of immigration. ...

How to manage, monitor your files
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... ordering all three reports in September, order one every few months from a different agency, say, Experian in September, TransUnion in January, Equifax in June ...

Don't be fooled by credit-report impostors
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... residents have been entitled by state law to a free credit report each year from each of the three major credit bureaus -- Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. ...

ID theft one reason to know your credit
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
... The amendment permits consumers to obtain one free report every 12 months from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, the three national credit reporting agencies. ...

ID theft creates opportunities for data companies
Reuters.uk - UK
... a 2003 federal law, consumers are allowed one free credit report per year from each of the three national credit bureaux, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. ...

Credit curtain rises; admission free
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Ask for copies of all three agencies' reports -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- as the information listed with each agency sometimes varies due to factors ...

Check, then check again
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... viewing her credit reports, Hill set up a formal investigation of the items that should not have been on them. She spends her time "trying to repair something ...

What's the magic number?
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... Over the past two decades, credit information reported to the three major credit bureaus, Equifax, TransUnion and Experian, has had increasing influence on ...

COMMON CENTS: Free annual credit reports available soon
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... Carolina and several other states will have access to one free credit report each 12 months from each major credit bureau: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. ...

CAFTA

Arkansans give CAFTA mixed reviews
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Reed, 54, is hopeful the newly approved Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will broaden his sales. "I think CAFTA will ...

Some new twists likely in retelling of 2nd District story
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... Trade: "We see that NAFTA just made things worse, and CAFTA is going to do the same thing," he says, noting that Chocola's cast a decisive vote to pass CAFTA. ...

Central American farmers fear toll of free-trade pact
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... The Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, was barely passed by Congress in late July after President Bush put on a masterly display of ...
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Refresher: NAFTA Wasn't Bad, and CAFTA Won't Be, Either
Manufacturers' Blog - Washington,DC,USA
In the face of Lou Dobbs' (and others) inability to let the recent CAFTA vote go, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind folks of some very important ...

CAFTA a boost for agriculture
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
The recent passage by Congress of HR 3045, the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), was a banner day for agriculture, opening ...

Inforum: Cafta to boost ERP solutions market
Business News Americas - Santiago,Chile
The Central American free trade agreement (Cafta) will boost sales for enterprise resource planning solutions among SMEs as companies seek to improve ...

Mexican Consulate

ID card gives immigrants more opportunity
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... lined up outside one of the community's main health clinics, Salud Para La Gente, to obtain national identification cards from the Mexican Consulate. ...

Babysitter's Trial Continues
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... Jimenez and the child's mother Victoria Gutierrez are citizens of Mexico. The Mexican consulate is taking notice. "The mission of ...

Consulate Wants Murder Conviction of Mexican Nationals Overturned
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Now, the Mexican consulate has enlisted the help of a Dallas law firm to get the convictions thrown out and new trials ordered. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Statute First Used Against Mafia Now Is Key in Fighting Gangs
Washington Post - United States
... said, his office has prosecuted about 200 gang members over the past 10 years, groups such as the 18th Street Gang, the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and ...

Border policies ripped
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... While there are only about 2,000 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to handle interior immigration law enforcement, there are about 700,000 state ...

PDN: 5 illegal immigrants caught in Guam
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... Gerald Deutsher told PDN that they detained the two people for trespassing and then turned them over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for questioning. ...

Two Arrested in Computer Worm Probe
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... Press, ABC, CNN, and The New York Times; such companies as heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar; and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. ...

Air Force security specialist indicted on child porn charge
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
... at his home and is held in Sarpy County Jail in Papillion on a $1 million bond, according to a news release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Police pull over federal agents
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... Police found the three men to be agents with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The agents were not charged with any ...

Alleged illegals arrested at SoCal Army base
San Jose Mercury News - United States
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents apprehended the men as they arrived for work Friday at Fort Irwin, east of Barstow. ...

Man sentenced for transferring money to Afghanistan, Pakistan
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... American mercenary accused of running his own private interrogation camp in Afghanistan, according to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ...

The making of a gang member
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In the last decade, the various über gang structures inside the state's correctional institutions -- the eme (Mexican Mafia), Nuestra Familia, CCO ...

Class paper alleges Hermosa police error
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... sentence for the 1998 jailhouse stabbing and beating death of 32-year-old Robert Tiernan, an inmate who was ordered to be "disciplined" by the Mexican Mafia. ...

Remains Found Lead to Arrest of Alleged Mexican Mafia Member
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
... elaborate but a source close to the case tells Action 4 News the victim, who's a woman in her 30's, apparently died after crossing paths with the Mexican Mafia ...

MS 13" Gang

MS-13 Suspects Had Local Charges
Washington Post - United States
... up to Noel B. Gudiel on a residential street in Langley Park and asked if he was with Vatos Locos, a clique affiliated with MS-13, the Latino street gang. ...

Possible Gang Shooting Leaves One Dead
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
... Investigators said they are trying to figure out if MS-13 gang members targeted him. ... On Thursday, authorities conducted several raids aimed at the MS-13 gang. ...

IN THE NEWS!

Bush aims to placate both sides on immigration
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Elizabeth Dole has said she would examine all immigration reform proposals. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more in the future and would let ...

US policy on immigration is a tragic joke
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... The most reasonable response I have seen to this illegal-immigration crisis is legislation introduced by one of your ... Reform begins with the truth. ...

Readers comment on impact of illegal immigration
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... I do not believe that any try of drivers' license should be granted until there is ... No one likes a party crasher and that is what an illegal alien is, whether ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

ACLU trains volunteers who will keep eye on Minutemen
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... time for the US people to present their case under the First Amendment, and that's how we're doing it," said Jim Gilchrist, a founder of the Minuteman Project. ...

Take action now to stop illegal immigration
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... taxpayer identification numbers as valid forms of identification for the purposes of getting a drivers license. ... 9. Hiring an illegal alien is against the law! ...

"Mexico"

Mexican Consulate

ID card gives immigrants more opportunity
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... lined up outside one of the community's main health clinics, Salud Para La Gente, to obtain national identification cards from the Mexican Consulate. ...

Babysitter's Trial Continues
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... Jimenez and the child's mother Victoria Gutierrez are citizens of Mexico. The Mexican consulate is taking notice. "The mission of ...

Consulate Wants Murder Conviction of Mexican Nationals Overturned
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Now, the Mexican consulate has enlisted the help of a Dallas law firm to get the convictions thrown out and new trials ordered. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Statute First Used Against Mafia Now Is Key in Fighting Gangs
Washington Post - United States
... said, his office has prosecuted about 200 gang members over the past 10 years, groups such as the 18th Street Gang, the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood and ...

Border policies ripped
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... While there are only about 2,000 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to handle interior immigration law enforcement, there are about 700,000 state ...

PDN: 5 illegal immigrants caught in Guam
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... Gerald Deutsher told PDN that they detained the two people for trespassing and then turned them over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for questioning. ...

Two Arrested in Computer Worm Probe
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... Press, ABC, CNN, and The New York Times; such companies as heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar; and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau. ...

Air Force security specialist indicted on child porn charge
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
... at his home and is held in Sarpy County Jail in Papillion on a $1 million bond, according to a news release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Police pull over federal agents
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... Police found the three men to be agents with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The agents were not charged with any ...

Alleged illegals arrested at SoCal Army base
San Jose Mercury News - United States
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents apprehended the men as they arrived for work Friday at Fort Irwin, east of Barstow. ...

Man sentenced for transferring money to Afghanistan, Pakistan
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... American mercenary accused of running his own private interrogation camp in Afghanistan, according to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ...

The making of a gang member
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In the last decade, the various über gang structures inside the state's correctional institutions -- the eme (Mexican Mafia), Nuestra Familia, CCO ...

Class paper alleges Hermosa police error
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... sentence for the 1998 jailhouse stabbing and beating death of 32-year-old Robert Tiernan, an inmate who was ordered to be "disciplined" by the Mexican Mafia. ...

Remains Found Lead to Arrest of Alleged Mexican Mafia Member
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
... elaborate but a source close to the case tells Action 4 News the victim, who's a woman in her 30's, apparently died after crossing paths with the Mexican Mafia ...

MS 13" Gang

MS-13 Suspects Had Local Charges
Washington Post - United States
... up to Noel B. Gudiel on a residential street in Langley Park and asked if he was with Vatos Locos, a clique affiliated with MS-13, the Latino street gang. ...

Possible Gang Shooting Leaves One Dead
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
... Investigators said they are trying to figure out if MS-13 gang members targeted him. ... On Thursday, authorities conducted several raids aimed at the MS-13 gang. ...

IN THE NEWS!

Politics shadow Núñez's Mexico trip
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... said Schwarzenegger already is committed to seeking binational solutions to illegal immigration, drug trafficking, human smuggling, environmental degradation ...

Canada puts China's `most wanted' man back behind bars
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... Immigration and Refugee Board documents, the party was also attended by members of the Big Circle Boys, who are believed to be involved in the smuggling of ...

Immigration reform needs president's leadership
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... Drug smuggling, human trafficking and associated crimes are on the rise. ... Meanwhile, the impact of illegal immigration reaches well beyond border states. ...

A National Emergency: Illegal Immigration
The Conservative Voice - USA
... of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal ... The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox ...

Ambassador's words aren't always most diplomatic
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... "There is violence, there is smuggling, there is ... John Keeley of the US-based Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tightening immigration law, says from ...

Postcards from the edge
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... of villages such as Karala have virtually been cut off as India builds a fence some 150 yards inside its territory to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. ...

Eyes on the border
Ottawa Sun - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... Within months, they undergo immigration hearings and are deported from the US. ... Heckler says smuggling has slowed down a little, probably due to more officers ...

OUR BIG FAT WEDDING STING
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... They told the agents that their syndicate had been smuggling counterfeit cigarettes ... Mr John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs ...

Katrina to Curtail Gulf of Mexico Oil
123Jump (subscription) - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
... The second landfall of this year's fourth hurricane is expected to directly reach oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Drug war ravages Mexico border city, upsets US
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
By Tim Gaynor. NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The first victim of the day was bound with duct tape, tortured and shot once in the back of the head. ...

Cooperation is key for Mexico, US game wardens
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
EL CENTRO -- Game wardens from Mexico will join US game wardens on Thursday to observe how enforcement is done here at the annual dove opener in Imperial ...

Mexico's Ruling Party Woos Voters in the US
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Fox were Manuel Espino, the party's national president; Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, governor of Guanajuato state; and Cecilia Romero, a senator from Mexico City. ...

Mexico announces roster for WCup qualifier with US
U.S. National Soccer Players - Washington,DC,USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Jared Borgetti and Antonio Naelson will lead the Mexican National Team in its September 3rd World Cup qualifier against the United States. ...

Politics shadow Núñez's Mexico trip
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
MEXICO CITY - Time and again, Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez said his meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday was not meant to upstage Gov. ...

Mexico-style campaign hits hurdle in LA area
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... at a sea of empty chairs in the South Gate High School auditorium Saturday and contemplated the magnitude of the challenge facing Mexico's political parties. ...

Trade Mission builds Texas-Mexico business ties
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
For a sixth summer, Texas officials headed south for a trade mission to Mexico, focusing on developing energy-related trade between Texas and its southern ...

The Great Wall of Mexico! Brick by Brick by Brick, Mr. President ...
The Conservative Voice - USA
... People" some of idea of how much of a threat to our beloved nation's domestic security is the porous border which the United States shares with Mexico to the ...

Katrina Gaining Strength in Gulf of Mexico
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... Louisiana-Mississippi coastline. Forecasters said it will likely gain strength over the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. By 8 am ...

Borgetti, Marquez to play for Mexico against United States in ...
Canada.com - Canada
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Jared Borgetti is expected to lead the attack when Mexico faces the United States in a World Cup qualifying match. ...

Human cannonball to be fired across US-Mexico border
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... from a cannon. On Saturday, he plans to add to his list of cannonball coups by shooting across the US-Mexico border. The feat is ...

Mexico mulls appeal of WTO corn syrup tax ruling
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is mulling whether to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling in favor of the United States in a dispute over taxes on drinks ...

Politician Has Bumpy Visit to Mexico
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is one of a new generation of Spanish-speaking politicians who represent an increasingly potent ...

Mexico offers $1 million deal to filmmakers
Houston Chronicle - United States
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government has set aside close to $1 million to back loans for movies as a growing number of the country's filmmakers win ...

NM, Mexico Agree to Raze Lawless Town
Leading The Charge - Milton,Queensland,Australia
... Friday was the governors‘ first meeting since Richardson, citing growing violence, declared a state of emergency in New Mexico‘s four border counties ...

Category 3 Hurricane Katrina Eyes Gulf Of Mexico Coast
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
The storm is moving westward through the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico at a clip of 7 to 11 miles per hour, the Gulf Coast guessing game begins. ...

Man caught smuggling bullets, vests to Mexico
Houston Chronicle - United States
HIDALGO -- A Mexican man was caught trying to smuggle 8,700 rounds of ammunition and 10 bulletproof vests from the United States to Mexico, Customs and Border ...

Hispanics here to stay
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy put it bluntly: "When you hear someone who has 20 people living next to them urinating on their front lawn, it makes you ...

Nuñez Trip Hits Heavy Resistance
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Unlike many other Mexican American politicians -- including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa -- Nuñez speaks Spanish that is almost eloquent. ...

The Great Wall of Mexico! Brick by Brick by Brick, Mr. President ...
The Conservative Voice - USA
... of Emergency in Arizona and New Mexico have successfully attracted your attention so that you can now identify the growth of the "illegal alien" problem which ...

Night out costs Chinese fugitive
Globe and Mail - Canada
... "That would be a nice way for Immigration to get ... Mr. Lai is wanted in China on charges of masterminding the country's largest bribery and smuggling ring since ...

Immigration emergency
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... of Homeland Security is prepared to help stem the rise in drug smuggling, human trafficking and lawlessness associated with illegal immigration in Arizona and ...

Lawmakers want governor to have emergency powers over immigration
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... of livestock and killing on the border, drug smuggling, human trafficking ... was concentrating on collecting federal assistance for fighting illegal immigration. ...

Border safety steps discussed
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... "Now we ask our federal governments to help us too, to help us with their principal responsibilities, immigration, drug smuggling.". ...

Officials: Strengthening border has domino effect
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... now we are seeing more sophisticated criminal networks behind human smuggling," Ramirez said. ... it's very clear that we have to deal with immigration in all its ...

Fidel Castro Holds the US Responsible for Human Trafficking
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... Fidel Castro denounced that Washington has been encouraging this illegal immigration from Cuba ... pay up to 10,000 USD, he said, adding that the smuggling is done ...

Forum: A nation of outlaws
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Do you really expect the government to round up each illegal alien and kick ... aliens should be diverted to reinforcing the borders and enforcing immigration law. ...

Millions spent to jail the deported
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... Source: Georgetown Immigration Law Journal article by James P ... was granted permanent resident alien status in ... possession of marijuana and illegal possession of a ...

Law, aid groups at odds on the border
Chicago Tribune - United States
... With a US Border Patrol helicopter whirring above ... There has been no intention to break the law, and the Border Patrol has known what is going on, he said. ...

US split over rising illegal immigration
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... renewed push for immigration law reform when Congress ... his home state than his stance on immigration. This year he introduced legislation, alongside Ted Kennedy ...

Legislators plan to take up immigration debate
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... Bass, for one, said "it's embarrassing" that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement "doesn't have the interest or the personnel or the resources to . ...

Take action now to stop illegal immigration
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Congress has already authorized the military to do so. 2. Locally, North Carolina needs a freestanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. ...

Pizza Parlor Owner Sentenced for Illegal Money Transfers
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Jack" Idema, a now-imprisoned American mercenary accused of running his own interrogation camp in Afghanistan, said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Millions spent to jail the deported
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... In fiscal year 2004, the state Department of Corrections made about 250 referrals to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch of the Department ...

OUR BIG FAT WEDDING STING
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... Added Mr John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement: 'This was a one-stop-shopping criminal organisation that had the ...

ID card gives immigrants more opportunity
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
... While the card may help open up services Espinoza didn't have access to a few days ago, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a statement late ...

US split over rising illegal immigration
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... voted against the reorganisation of US intelligence services ... his home state than his stance on immigration. This year he introduced legislation, alongside Ted ...

Legislators plan to take up immigration debate
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... Their nascent legislation aims to strengthen local and statewide efforts on ... Bass, for one, said "it's embarrassing" that US Immigration and Customs ...

US policy on immigration is a tragic joke
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... this country's "Broken Borders." The truth is that US immigration policy is ... I have seen to this illegal-immigration crisis is legislation introduced by ...

Deported mother forced to leave baby
This is Local London - UK
... we have a ten-month-old child but they have told us we have ... to remain on the grounds of marriage, but under tighter immigration legislation introduced earlier ...

High Desert Minuteman stresses activism
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA
... concerns have led him and others to patrol the US-Mexico border ... has been inactive when it comes to passing effective immigration reform legislation. ...

Lead the debate on immigration, Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... with porous border security and immigration-related crime ... of emergency along the US-Mexican border ... Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts introduced legislation that would ...

Economic high: Franks touts economy, blasts Napolitano on ...
Mohave Valley News - Laughlin,NV,USA
... Refuge, which was voted down in the US Senate. ... ve tried to do a lot about illegal immigration, but the ... in schools, but thinks that school legislation should be ...

Report dispels idea that Americans see Canada as safe haven for ...
940 News - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... takes security seriously, although some said immigration is too ... On the other hand, misleading US media reports ... support for new security legislation, and little ...

Pearce will draft legislation for guest worker program
Valencia County News Bulletin - Belen,NM,USA
WASHINGTON, DC US Rep. ... today that having completed his 17 stop immigration listening tour ... last week, he plans to begin drafting legislation that implements a ...

Split policy considered on immigrants
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Republican-led Congress to better police US borders and ... whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more ...

GOP Divide on Immigration Moves Bush To Compromise
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration. ... The legislation has the flexibility to add more in ... let undocumented workers stay in the US while they ...

Governor's image suffers in Mexico
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Schwarzenegger speech and know nothing about legislation he has ... tighten the border against illegal immigration and his ... person, he's a foreigner like us, he has ...

Spain: From anti-US anger to American-style debate
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... that and the continuing restrictions on immigration, Spain is ... will have to be a US-style debate ... very Catholic country has just enacted legislation allowing gay ...

Australian "counter-terrorism" summit to discuss police-state ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... s policy of creating a US-style Department ... the most repressive anti-terror legislation in Australia. ... Beazley also described the Immigration Department as being ...

Ragsdale: Churches ask liberty for tired, poor, yearning to ...
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... The US Conference of Catholic Bishops in July ... for Immigrants campaign to encourage legislation and policies ... the moral and human rights issues of immigration. ...

How to manage, monitor your files
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... ordering all three reports in September, order one every few months from a different agency, say, Experian in September, TransUnion in January, Equifax in June ...

Don't be fooled by credit-report impostors
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... residents have been entitled by state law to a free credit report each year from each of the three major credit bureaus -- Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. ...

ID theft one reason to know your credit
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
... The amendment permits consumers to obtain one free report every 12 months from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, the three national credit reporting agencies. ...

ID theft creates opportunities for data companies
Reuters.uk - UK
... a 2003 federal law, consumers are allowed one free credit report per year from each of the three national credit bureaux, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. ...

Credit curtain rises; admission free
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... Ask for copies of all three agencies' reports -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- as the information listed with each agency sometimes varies due to factors ...

Check, then check again
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... viewing her credit reports, Hill set up a formal investigation of the items that should not have been on them. She spends her time "trying to repair something ...

What's the magic number?
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... Over the past two decades, credit information reported to the three major credit bureaus, Equifax, TransUnion and Experian, has had increasing influence on ...

COMMON CENTS: Free annual credit reports available soon
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... Carolina and several other states will have access to one free credit report each 12 months from each major credit bureau: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. ...

CAFTA

Arkansans give CAFTA mixed reviews
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Reed, 54, is hopeful the newly approved Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will broaden his sales. "I think CAFTA will ...

Some new twists likely in retelling of 2nd District story
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... Trade: "We see that NAFTA just made things worse, and CAFTA is going to do the same thing," he says, noting that Chocola's cast a decisive vote to pass CAFTA. ...

Central American farmers fear toll of free-trade pact
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... The Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, was barely passed by Congress in late July after President Bush put on a masterly display of ...
See all stories on this topic

Refresher: NAFTA Wasn't Bad, and CAFTA Won't Be, Either
Manufacturers' Blog - Washington,DC,USA
In the face of Lou Dobbs' (and others) inability to let the recent CAFTA vote go, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind folks of some very important ...

CAFTA a boost for agriculture
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
The recent passage by Congress of HR 3045, the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), was a banner day for agriculture, opening ...

Inforum: Cafta to boost ERP solutions market
Business News Americas - Santiago,Chile
The Central American free trade agreement (Cafta) will boost sales for enterprise resource planning solutions among SMEs as companies seek to improve ...

IDENTITY THEFT  - kEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE

Minuteman Project

"ACLU"

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.

We welcome readers to share their opinion and ideas with us by
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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. ...

Minuteman Project

Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch
The Experiment
... it. In 2003 Nethercott, who also supported the Minuteman Project earlier this year, purchased the ranch for $120,000. Mancia and ...

A new focus on immigration
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Political consultants interviewed this week agreed that the combination of Gilchrist's ... Englander said she agrees with Gilchrist on immigration although she has ...

Carlsbad beat hecklers' veto
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Tancredo, Jim Gilchrist, Peter Nunez, Assemblyman Ray Haynes and Commissioner Robert Vasquez of Idaho ... her alive), 5 (in Minnesota), and 3 (in San Diego County). ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Herndon's defiance on illegals
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and the House of Representatives' chief stalwart on immigration, already warned Herndon not to proceed, observing that any day ...

Emergency declared at US southern border
KHON2 - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Hayworth said legislation is needed that would allow state governors to act ... A competing bill, the Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005 ...

Shooting incident prompts controversy in San Luis
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
... "Our police department, the Border Patrol and the ... 14 on Main Street in San Luis, Ariz., as the minivan was fleeing to Mexico to avoid US Border Patrol pursuit. ...

People for border patrol initiative drive to sign
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... Thomas Trimble, who participated in the Minuteman organization's civilian border patrol in April, said the federal government hasn't been able to effectively ...

Immigration bills before Congress evoke the failed era of the ...
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... valuable experience without competition from cheaper alien workers ... solution of measured and legal immigration that we ... Fine employers who hire illegal immigrants ...

A new focus on immigration
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Campbell says Democrats misrepresented that piece of legislation. ... are expected to start debating in earnest the various approaches to immigration reform. ...

Roberts Resisted Women's Rights
Staticfiends.com - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... suggested that the president, in answer to a potential question concerning illegal immigrants, note that proposed immigration reform legislation would allow ...

CBP Border Patrol Intercepts 203 Pounds of Cocaine at Checkpoint
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
Falfurrias, Texas -- On August 18, 2005, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias Checkpoint seized 203 pounds ...

Group now plans to patrol Houson for illegal immigrants armed
KTRK - Houston,TX,USA
(8/20/05 - HOUSTON) -- Volunteers of a citizen's border patrol group will now be allowed to carry firearms while they observe day laborers in Houston. ...

Arizona, Mexican state to boost border security
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Discontent has been simmering for years in US border states because of security and economic issues surrounding narcotics and immigration smuggling into the ...

In New Mexico ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... avenues along the desert floor where illegal entry and drug smuggling were taking ... Border security and immigration issues are clearly a federal responsibility. ...

Editorial: Coherent policy on the border is long overdue
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... In the name of national security and immigration law, self-anointed, armed ... are rising daily - along with subplots involving drug smuggling, serial murders and ...

A new focus on immigration
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... There is increasing activism among those seeking a crackdown on illegal immigration. ... states because of the violence associated with the smuggling of illegal ...

Leaders focus on border security
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... and federal officials discussed better cooperation at a Flagstaff immigration summit called by ... DPS officers, an invitation to join a human smuggling task force ...

2 men involved in crash indicted
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... compelling evidence of our commitment to investigate and dismantle smuggling operations.". ... to an affidavit filed by an agent with the Immigration and Customs ...

The day laborers' daily struggle
El Diario New York - NY,USA
... Meanwhile Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy`s policy toward the undocumented immigrants in Farmingville has cost him politically. ...

USA : CAFTA boosts Carribean T-shirts sales to the US
Fibre2fashion.com - India
... on Chinese T-shirt (knit and T-shirts) shipments have raised the prospects of higher shipments from the Caribbean countries covered under CAFTA to the US. ...

Miami Drug Agents Launch Air Assault
Washington Post - United States
... year prison term after being convicted in a local narcotics organization that had been busted in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation launched ...

Emergency Declared at US Southern Border
FOX News - USA
... undocumented workers in the Phoenix area. But Arizona-based officials of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement passed up the offer.

OCPD seizes counterfeit goods at a dozen stores
Ocean City - MD,USA
... "They didn't like that and called us to complain.". A joint investigation between the OCPD and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday, Aug. ...

Dismiss 'retaliatory' lawsuit!' say ˜Militant' and Utah ...
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... named as defendants of immigration "fraud." Allegations against ... of opinion are protected under the law. ... lawsuit, the Militant's lawyers say, "The ...

Carlsbad beat hecklers' veto
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Illegal alien sexually violent predators are so common that the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, "Operation ...

Leaders focus on border security
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Napolitano spokeswoman Jeanine L'Ecuyer said Friday that local officers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been cool to the idea. ...

FREEZE! You've been ICEd
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents who monitored Lim's Internet activities, tipped off Thai police. The ...

2 men involved in crash indicted
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... According to an affidavit filed by an agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last month, Moreno-Monarrez, who lived in San Antonio, told the ...

Núñez: Declare border crisis
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... because of the impact of illegal immigration in this ... the governor has written a letter to US Secretary of ... patrols but declined to support legislation to give ...

In New Mexico ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Border security and immigration issues are clearly a federal ... And those of us from border states have ... Legislation signed by President Bush last fall called for ...

Making Excuses for Sid Snake
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... those individuals following pressure from US politicians ... work like that, "The legislation's there, why ... a society experiencing significant immigration of people ...

Roberts Resisted Women's Rights
Staticfiends.com - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... illegal immigrants, note that proposed immigration reform legislation would ... 1982 memo he wrote about legislation that he ... migrant labor in the US" Roberts said ...

Washington Legal Foundation

FOIA Exposes Clinton Anti-Terror Blunders
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... Director of Young America's Foundation's National ... years of hard work, persistence and legal wit to ... to pry loose documents that Washington politicians and ...

US softens on Islam in constitution
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
Washington has been determined to see the target date met after a ... Shiite majority insisting that religion be considered the main legal foundation, and that ...

Issues of faith envelop Roberts
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor ... HW Bush, Roberts signed a legal brief that ... to privacy," which she calls "the foundation of Roe ...

Gates says to stress education
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... in taxpayer money to lure the Scripps Foundation to the ... access to computers at the University of Washington in the ... one offered to pay all my legal costs for a ...

Part I: An inventor's battle for recognition -- and riches
Boston Globe - United States
... after his death, a for-profit foundation that would ... back into his inventions and legal struggles. ... Intellectual Property Studies at George Washington University ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexican consulate employee is suspect in ID investigation
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
When a state Public Safety Department official requested the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City to investigate allegations that its office was validating fake ...

Demonstration At Mexican Consulate Creates Chaos
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- There was chaos at the Mexican consulate in San Diego on Friday when demonstrators tried to block the consul from entering the building. ...

Asking for their due
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... Hundreds of former braceros and family members crowded the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino on Friday, chanting slogans and demanding swift repayment. ...

Consulate Protest
XETV FOX6 San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
... who contend the Mexican government is withholding funds due former "bracero" farm workers briefly blocked the doors to the Mexican consulate Friday, prompting ...

Immigrant fights to stay
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
The Mexican Consulate in Denver has hired a lawyer to present Madore's case to an immigration judge in the near future. Madore ...

"ACLU"

Arrest of vigil organizer draws ACLU's attention
Bridgewater Courier News - NJ, United States
... Flisser said he contacted the ACLU of New Jersey about his arrest, and Ed Barocus, the ACLU's legal director, said the circumstances of the arrest are being ...

Rap lyrics are verbal jousting, court told
Boston Globe - United States
... At a hearing Thursday, ACLU lawyer Kim Watterson said Latour's words, although violent, had to be taken in context of ''battle rap," a genre in which rappers ...

LULAC

Housing dilemma
Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
... us?". Jackie Hadzic, state director of LULAC, said outreach to those who could benefit from assistance needs to be improved. The ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

Racist group meets after applying as African charity
kgw.com (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
... Volksfront and neo-Nazi racists known as "skinheads" for their shaven or close-cropped hair, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks ...

Vigilante loses border ranch to immigrants
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... But Morris Dees, chief trial counsel for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which represented the Salvadorans in the suit, said signing the ranch ...

The Minutemen Project and the "La Reconquista" Lie
Blogcritics.org - USA
... That's my immigration policy recommendation. You break into my country, you die." Southern Poverty Law Center, Summer 2005 Unfortunately, Carl is not alone. ...

You Won't Believe This One
Local Liberty Blog - Claremont,CA,USA
Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center claims this is "poetic justice." It's lousy poetry and contains even less justice. ...

Poverty issues challenge children, educators
Ottumwa Courier - Ottumwa,IA,USA
... A law enforcement official told Harris that conditions must be ... teachers face in many parts of southern Iowa. ... said he knows what it's like to live in poverty. ...

"Mexico"

US ambassador to Mexico ruffles feathers
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Mexico: Consulate reopens in Nuevo Laredo (August 9, 2005) -- The US consulate in the notoriously violent Mexican border town Nuevo Laredo has reopened after ...

Mexico digs up Aztec sacrificial stone
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Mexico City - Mexican archeologists have dug past phone lines, electricity cables and a traffic light under chaotic city streets to excavate a large sculptured ...

Mexico's foreign direct investment falls
BusinessWeek - USA
19 8:13 PM ET Foreign direct investment in Mexico was US$7.46 billion (euro6.13 billion) in the first half of this year, the Economy Department said Friday. ...

US, Mexico not impressing
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
Mexico's 2-0 win over Costa Rica kept El Tri in first place in the Hexagonal standings at 16 points while the United States' 1-0 win over T& T helped the Nats ...

Please, Sheila, take a look at our Little Mexico-on-the-Lake?
Globe and Mail - Canada
By John Barber. Down in Montreal, the federal Liberals funnelled $100-million to their shady friends and the results rocked the nation. ...

Mexico, RoK accelerate economic cooperation
Viet Nam News Agency - Hanoi,Vietnam
Mexico (VNA) - Mexico and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have agreed to enhance their cooperation in the fields of trade, economics, real estate business ...

Mexico, US must solve immigration problem
SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA
... More than half, 57 percent, are from Mexico. ... Mexico and California together are like a sick pair of co-dependent marital partners. ...

Company says helicopter accident kills 2 in Gulf of Mexico
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- A helicopter accident in the Gulf of Mexico killed two employees of Air Logistics, a company that provides transportation to offshore ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Hyde arraigned on murder charges
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... The officer pointed a gun at him and ordered him to the ground, but the man yelled "something to the effect of ‘Mexican Mafia rules,' " the warrant ...

Terror allegations prompt debate about inmate religious meetings
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... But they said the problem pales compared to the danger posed by more established prison gangs such as the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Nation. ...

"MS 13" Gang

Kilgore sticks to al-Qaida claims
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... Kilgore appeared in Mount Jackson near a bridge where MS-13 gang members stabbed to death 17-year-old Brenda Paz, a pregnant teen-ager who had cooperated with ...

IDENTITY THEFT

Air Force personnel warned of personal data breach
GCN.com - USA
... The personnel agency also suggested that officers follow the guidelines laid out by the Federal Trade ... Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, beginning Sept. ...

Minuteman Project

Arizona, Mexico working on border issues
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Group calls for stepped-up border patrols (May 23, 2005) -- The success of the Minuteman Project calls for the posting of 36,000 personnel to secure the US ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

California Border Debate Heats Up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Inside the auditorium, people cheered when Robert Vasquez, a county commissioner from Idaho, told the crowd they were political soldiers in a "war against the ...

Washington Legal Foundation

Justice delayed, obstructed
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... "It has been very frustrating," said Richard Samp, chief counsel for the Washington Legal Foundation, which has been defending Proposition 200 in court. ...

Slick Jamie S. Gorelick makes Americans sick
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... Limited, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harvard College Board of Overseers, America's Promise, the Washington Legal Clinic for the ...

Information act needs everyone's support
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... As Cornyn says, the current attitude in Washington is: "Sure you can ... Policy Research, RedState.org, National Taxpayers Union and the Landmark Legal Foundation. ...

Bill in Congress to Overhaul Patent Law Seeks to Quell Suits
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
... founder of the Public Patent Foundation in New York, a nonprofit public interest legal services organization ... Property Law Association in Washington, said the ...

Tolerance can't be coerced
The Japan Times - Japan
... highlighted the importance of a vibrant legal and political ... Yet to be built, however, is the foundation of a ... lies beyond the best efforts of Washington and its ...

Community Calendar
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
... Ave and for the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation. ... for the GLBT Actors' Theater of Washington's production of ... A workshop on legal steps couples can take to ...

CAFTA

Union workers protest CAFTA, say Democrats betrayed working ...
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Union steelworkers from across the state gathered at the Federal Building here Thursday to protest the recent passage of CAFTA, and promised retribution on ...

Texas exporters stand to profit from CAFTA
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Texas ranchers will be winners because beef exports to the six CAFTA nations, with 44 million consumers, are expected to triple in a few years, Sampson said. ...

ASAP Show Primed and Ready for Vegas
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... overseas manufacturers and seminars on the latest apparel sourcing information including the hot-button issues of China safeguards and DR-CAFTA from the top ...

Short and snappy comments by anonymous Observer readers on the ...
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... go. To Sue Myrick: Don't think getting involved with the illegal immigrant issue is going to get the CAFTA monkey off your back. ...

IN THE NEWS!

California Border Debate Heats Up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Hundreds of Border Patrol agents were deployed. ... Border Patrol agents say smugglers have become more aggressive, and regularly throw rocks at them. ...

Americans for Legal Immigration - They have opened the border ...
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Border Patrol, Catch and Release, laws, Congress,
... EOIR, BIA, DHS, CBP, ICE, USCIS or any other branch of the United States ...

Deal making
Baltimore Sun - United States
CONGRESSIONAL lawmakers unsuccessful in crafting legislation on immigration reform since the 9/11 attacks may try to reach consensus when they return from ...

It's Not Going To Happen
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... by the restrictionist Immigration Reform Caucus. The goal will be to frame the issue clearly as border enforcement and anti-terrorism legislation with worker ...

Border Patrol makes third big bust in a week
Alamogordo Daily News - Alamogordo,NM,USA
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents made a third significant drug seizure this week at a highway traffic checkpoint. ...

ON THE BORDER: STATE OF EMERGENCY
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... sweat shirt and Lycra running pants, lacking a backpack or even a bottle of water - made it just a mile into her dream before US Border Patrol agents stopped ...

She is accused of trying to smuggle four Chinese into Detroit in ...
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... pay Carter $4,000 to smuggle the four Chinese females into the United States," said an affidavit filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Christopher ...

Undocumented workers arrested at Camp Lejeune
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... arrests. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wilmington is handling the investigation now, Carpenter said. Details ...

Boardwalk Raid Yields Bevy Of Counterfeit Items
The Dispatch - Ocean City,MD,USA
08/19/2005 OCEAN CITY -- A joint investigation between the Ocean City Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) culminated last Thursday ...

Napolitano blasts feds
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... But Arizona-based officials of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, declined the offer for reasons that remain unclear. ...

OC Teacher Charged With Possessing Child Porn
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... "It's the classic story," said David Nehls, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent overseeing the case. "He appeared to ...

Child Porn Grew Over 400-Percent in Four years
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... Steve Usiak, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said, "I'd say it's somewhere between 5 and 10 that I know of right now.". ...

Illegal Aliens Win Another Round
RedState.org - USA
... be involved in immigration enforcement may go through a training process that allows them to become "deputies" of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ...

Immigration Korner
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... attorneys and advocates lobbying for the US immigration cause. ... even if I'm not legal in the US? ... Tucker says that should legislation like the Secure America & ...

It's Not Going To Happen
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... will pass, taking us into 2006 before the real nut-cutting moment arrives. In the last two major House-Senate conferences on immigration legislation, the echo ...

Roberts Opposed Some Sex-Discrimination Remedies, Files Show
Bloomberg - USA
19 (Bloomberg) -- US Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr ... giving advice on such issues as the sale of arms to Nicaraguan rebels and immigration legislation. ...

Free Speech at UNC-Asheville
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... I also learned that "The historical legacy of US imperial conquest ... Restrictive immigration legislation directed specifically against Asians has done much to ...

No border emergency here
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... any section of the 2,200-mile US-Mexico border ... The legislation would grant temporary visas to guest ... clout in Washington to promote meaningful immigration reform ...

Australia: state Labor leader positions himself for a federal ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... stream of "law and order" legislation and other ... the Howard government to introduce stricter immigration laws, claiming ... 11 terror attacks in the US and the ...

Emergency Declared at US Southern Border
FOX News - USA
... called "a chaotic situation" involving illegal-alien smuggling, murder ... traffic of illegal drugs, illegal aliens, when ... we need a federal immigration policy," he ...

Amnesty Bill Opens Border
Human Events - USA
... eligibility is in doubt. The bill actually makes it unlawful to fire or suspend a "nonconfirmed" (ie illegal alien) employee. ...

"A Crisis Approaching: Part One"
Voices Magazine - Jefferson City,MO,USA
... Meanwhile, an illegal alien smuggler attempted to run down a Border Patrol officer with 25 illegal immigrants stuffed into his van; the incident resulted in a ...

New York Enacts Data Security and Notification Law
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... an account number or credit/debit card number in ... the statute's notice and reporting obligations, either ... notice if a law enforcement agency determines that ...

Identity theft fears drive up shredder sales
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Australia's leading credit reporting agency, Baycorp Advantage, said consumers could also safeguard against fraud by simply checking their credit files. ...

Thousands of Air Force officers' ID files hacked; officials ...
AirForceTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
... the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that deals with identity theft. "There'sa lightly publicized amendment under the Fair Credit Reporting Act that ...

Napolitano blasts feds
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Phoenix ICE office has not had a permanent chief since the agency was created in March 2003 to help combat illegal immigration, human smuggling and terrorism. ...

Immigration officials order accused Chinese smuggler held in ...
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
... government that he was the mastermind behind a massive smuggling network. "Mr. Lai is a flight risk," Marc Tessler, a member of the Immigration and Refugee ...

Democrats try to outflank the GOP on immigration
RedState.org - USA
... The politics of immigration are changing ... emergency" in four New Mexico border counties due to "a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal ...

Ads highlight dangers of immigrant smuggling
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... media campaign by the US Border Patrol to discourage illegal immigration and call ... Migrants who heard or watched the anti-smuggling ads at a Tijuana, Mexico ...

Border Agent Indicted
XETV FOX6 San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
... indicted a former Border Patrol agent on charges of alien smuggling, making a ... officers of the North County Regional Gang Task Force, Immigration and Customs ...

Deal making
Baltimore Sun - United States
... Mexico and is now the epicenter of the national debate over illegal immigration. ... of emergency because of serious spikes in violence and smuggling along their ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... is praising Governor Bill Richardson for recently declaring a state of emergency in four counties devastated by drug smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

Subject : John Roberts, John Birch and Cindy Sheehan
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... It is anti-globalization and for immigration reform. They advocate the abolition of income tax, and the repeal of civil rights legislation, which it sees as ...

LULAC

LULAC not happy with DeLay's comments
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... "What we have here is a Congressman gone wild," says Mary Almedarez of LULAC, " It is unacceptable behavior for somebody in the leadership position to talk in ...

Minuteman Protest
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
The President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is in El Paso to recruit and train. Elvia Hernandez - LULAC, "We don't need that, we don't' need that here. ...

Councils Take Action Against Minutemen
KVTV13 - Laredo,TX,USA
Thursday several members from area LULAC councils were at the city council meeting in El Cenizo to show their support for El Cenizo's anti-minuteman ..

"Mexico"

Mexican police rescue American kidnapped in Texas, held in Mexico
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Friday. ...

Ex-braceros in Mexico seek US Embassy aid after leaders jailed in ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Leaders of a movement fighting to win compensation for former "bracero" migrant workers on Friday asked the US Embassy to help in winning the ...

Arizona, Mexico working on border issues
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Barry Goldwater, is hoping his famous name will lead to the governor's ... > full story. 'Minutemen' recruiting in New Mexico (July 11, 2005) -- One of the ...

Mexico lauds US for crackdown on firms
CNN - USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's government congratulated US authorities on Friday for action against Mexican companies and individuals alleged to be involved in ...

Key US-Mexico game might not see major broadcast
CNN/SI - USA
The US men's national soccer team would clinch a World Cup berth with a win (and possibly a tie) when it meets archrival Mexico at 7:30 pm ET on Sept. ...

Grupo Mexico, Acindar, Gol, Telemar: Latin Equity Preview
Bloomberg - USA
Grupo Mexico SA (GMEXICOB MM): Copper prices rose yesterday in New York for a third day this week, resuming a rally that pushed the metal to a record Aug. 16. ...

US-Mexico Stakes Grow Even Higher
New York Times - United States
By JOHN ELIGON. The question sounded something like this: "How special would it be if a victory over Mexico clinched a World Cup berth?". ...

Arizona, Mexico working on border issues
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
PHOENIX -- The governor of Arizona and her counterpart in Sonora, Mexico, plan to coordinate efforts to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration on the ...

State Dept. Chides US Envoy to Mexico
Washington Post - United States
WASHINGTON -- The US ambassador to Mexico now says he should have used "different phrasing" rather than saying he closed a border town consulate partly to ...

ACLU"

School board policy illegal, ACLU says
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... The ACLU has mounted successful legal challenges to similar policies in Providence and Tiverton in recent years, said Steven Brown, executive director of of ...

ACLU seeks school reinstatement for Beaver County teen
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The ACLU asked for an injunction to reinstate Anthony Latour to the Riverside School District in Beaver County so he can start the ninth grade at the high ...

ACLU lawyers at Gitmo?
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
In addition, the Pentagon has brought in a veteran staff attorney from the ACLU to serve as chief defense counsel in future military tribunals. ...

La. ACLU Head Compares People Who Believe in Higher Power to ...
Blogcritics.org - USA
On Monday, the school board of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana had their meeting and was asked by the ACLU to remind teachers not to allow prayer at school ...

ACLU prompts Emmitsburg to review sign ordinance
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... regulating the display of political signs before the end of the year, after repeated requests from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), according to an ACLU ...

Council shifts 1,825 voters
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... protection clause. ACLU attorney Andrew Huff said after the meeting that the plan appears to address the group's central complaint. But ...

"MS 13" Gang

Police Arrest Suspected MS-13 Member
WTVD - Durham-Raleigh,NC,USA
(08/18/05 - SAMPSON COUNTY) - Sampson County authorities say they've arrested a member of the notorious MS-13 gang. Erik Rubio Fuentes ...

Salvadoran Gang Worries
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA
... and officers from nearby agencies, including those on the Central Coast, make MS-13 a talking point at monthly meetings used to discuss current gang issues. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

BREAKING NEWS: Cop deaths stun APD
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... Officer D. Hughes pointed his gun at the man and ordered him to the ground, the warrant said, but the man shouted something like "Mexican Mafia rules" and rode ...

Mexican Consulate

EUSD gets homework list for new school year
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The added clause comes after the Mexican Consulate participated in a civic fair last May at Grant Middle School. The event was sponsored ...

Illegals dying at record rate in Arizona desert
USA Today - USA
... be traced. The information is shared with the Mexican Consulate's office in Tucson, which keeps a database on missing citizens. ...

Signature Drive to Create California Border Patrol
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes has introduced a bill that would create a new Border Patrol in California, arguing that we must get rid of ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

Candidates line up for Cox's seat
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... spice added by well-known names such as Minuteman Project founder James ... Bea Tiritilli of Santa Ana; American Independent Party candidate Jim Gilchrist of Aliso ...

Minuteman Project founder visits EP for training
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
One of the co-founders of the Minuteman Project in Arizona is expected to be in El Paso today to train El Pasoans to patrol the desert and report sightings of ...

IN THE NEWS!

Man Denied Asylum Returns to Asia
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... there is returning to his native land, ending a nearly 10-year battle to remove him from this country, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said ...

California Muslim cleric, son deported
CNN - USA
... June arrest on visa violations during a federal terrorism investigation, have been returned to Pakistan, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said ...

Judge ends immigrant crackdown
Nashua 1590 Broadcaster - Nashua,NH,USA
... odds with federal immigration authorities, and said his department will continue to work cooperatively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Immigration ...

Richardson, minuteman discuss border crisis
MSNBC - USA
... And I had criminal activity relating to illegal immigration, drugs coming in, murders ... a lot of these people who are involved in the alien smuggling, the drug ...

2 sentenced for smuggling immigrant
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Lantana to collect the balance owed them by Jose's family for smuggling her to ... her destination, and while still awaiting word on her immigration status, Susana ...

38 found in Ontario drop house
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... how egregious smuggling is, to be finding all of these people in one house," said Lori Haley, a Laguna Niguel-based spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs ...

Border is forcing a change
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... struggling with rising immigrant smuggling and violence. "It's a scream for help from Congress," said Frank Sharry, head of the National Immigration Forum, an ...

Uncivil Defense
Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... a void created by the federal government's inability to stop illegal immigration. ... devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling ...

More than 100 feared dead after boat sinks
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... The smuggling boats usually try to land their human cargo in Central America ... by land to reach the United States, according to Ecuadorean immigration officials. ...

People smuggler gets jail in Conn.
India New England - Waltham,MA,USA
... at Danbury was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally smuggling people of ... In June 2004, Patel was arrested on a civil immigration charge when he was ...

Business profits from ID theft, too
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... All three US credit-reporting bureaus - Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion - offer credit-monitoring services. But other products ...

Prevent Identity Theft
netsecurity.about.com - USA
... The big three credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) joined forces to provide free credit reports to consumers. ...

Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... Russell Pearce announced a different strategy for battling illegal immigration, asking the GOP-led state legislature in Phoenix to approve a bill that would ...

Proud to be an American?
Village News Network - Fallbrook,CA,USA
... but they think nothing of hiring an illegal alien. These so-called "trendy patriots" are the same people who complain about illegal immigration but hire ...

Cloquet man sentenced for child porn
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... The conviction came as a result of an investigation conducted by Duluth police and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigations. ...

Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... whatever I can to build a fence and a tent city (jail) so there's a place to hold them (illegal aliens) so ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) can pick ...

38 found in Ontario drop house
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... smuggling is, to be finding all of these people in one house," said Lori Haley, a Laguna Niguel-based spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Wealthy Man Quits Job To Fight Wife's Deportation
All Headline News - USA
Ralph Isenberg, 53, and his wife, Nicole, who turns 41 on Friday, ignored a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement order that she leave the country by August ...

MS-13 seen as posing organized-crime risks
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as ...

Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
By John Turner Gilliland. \tx720 (CNSNews.com) - Unhappy with federal efforts to maintain border security and keep illegal aliens from crossing into Arizona ...

New York City Council Approves Legislation To Require Most Grocery ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
... The bill, introduced last week by Suffolk County Legislature Minority Leader William ... pass the county Legislature and go to County Executive Steve Levy, who is ...

Border Patrol program quickly removes illegals from US
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
FALFURRIAS - The border patrol has expanded a program that quickly removes illegal immigrants from the US So far local Border Patrol officials said it's working ...

Border Patrol Seizes Marijuana in Alamogordo
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
ALAMOGORDO -- US Border Patrol agents have discovered more than two-thousand pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer that was bound for Michigan. ...

Globalisation, the Software Industry And Opportunities for Nigeria
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... required substantial and very-timely investment and right legislation to protect ... For example, petitions by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). ...

DeLay hit for anti-immigrant remarks
People's Weekly World - USA
... s comments evoked images of the US detention center ... of his announcement that he favors legislation which would ... like Houston that do not enforce immigration law ...

Rush Limbaugh Sounds Off on Akaka Bill
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
... It's yet another piece of legislation that seeks an apology ... be here and you've got to let us have our ... know, you couple this with all the immigration snafus we ...

"Mexico"

US envoy, high-society pal of Bush, riles Mexico
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - He married Mexico's richest woman, is an old pal of US President George W. Bush and now Washington's envoy south of the Rio ...

Mexico's IPC index to shrink with Hylsamex loss
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's stock exchange said on Thursday it will not replace steel maker Hylsamex when it delists and cuts the company from the ...

Mexico cuts 2005 growth forecast to 3.5 pct
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexico cut its forecast for 2005 economic growth to 3.5 percent after sluggish US demand for car exports unexpectedly slowed ...

Wall St still cheers for Mexico peso, Brazil real
Reuters - USA
... Similarly, Mexico's central bank last Friday held its benchmark overnight rate steady at 9.75 percent, where it has been since March. ...

Mexico, US dominate CONCACAF
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
Mexico and United States won again in the lop-sided final stage of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying competition, while Guatemala boosted its hopes by beating ...

Volkswagen Mexico reaches deal with workers
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Mexican unit reached an agreement with union leaders on Wednesday to increase workers' pay and avoid a strike. ...

Mexico fines Coke, bottlers
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
Mexico's antitrust commission has hit Coca-Cola and its bottlers with a $54 million fine in response to 5-year-old complaints by rival Pepsico that it used ...

EPL High Bidder on Four Blocks at Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The four blocks, North Padre A-28, Galveston 189, High Island A-306, and High Island A-315, are all on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, in less than 500 feet of water ...

US, Mexico announce joint effort against migrant smugglers
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MONTERREY, Mexico -- The US and Mexican governments on Wednesday announced a bilateral effort to help authorities identify and prosecute migrant smugglers ...

Mexico funds staging areas for illegals
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
By Jerry Seper. WASHINGTON -- The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week ...

Mexican Consulate

US envoy's comments stun Mexican official
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... comment that he briefly closed a consulate partly to punish Mexico's government for border violence drew a sharp response Wednesday from Mexican authorities. ...

"MS 13" Gang

Border Patrol keeps eye out for MS-13
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
CORPUS CHRISTI - They're known as Mara Salvatrucha the MS-13 gang. ... Very few MS-13 gang members are captured here at US Border Patrol checkpoints. ...

MS-13 Member Found Guilty In Fairfax Machete Attack
Washington Post - United States
... The machete attack outside a Merrifield movie theater was the second involving the gang, also known as MS-13, in an eight-month span in Fairfax and heightened ...

Law Enforcement Agencies Take on MS-13
Washington Post - United States
... US law enforcement officials take part in the MS-13 National Gang Task Force meeting with law enforcement counterparts from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras ...

Gangs in Laurel? Officials at crime forum disagree
Laurel Leader - Laurel,MD,USA
... "MS-13 (a national Latino gang) is real and they're here in Laurel, and we're tearing the graffiti down every day at Laurel High," Perry said. ...

Mexican Mafia"

Mexican meth seized; 22 arrests
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... He has ties to the drug cartel in Tijuana and has been distributing methamphetamine to members of the Mexican Mafia and others in the Inland area and Los ...

Folsom prison inmates tied to terror case
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Hickman also compared JIS to more traditional and less political prison gangs such as the Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia and the Aryan Brotherhood. ...

LULAC

LULAC Council's President Plans To File Complaint Against Lee
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA
DALLAS -- The president of Dallas' LULAC Council plans Thursday to file an ethic's complaint against the commissioner under fire at City Hall, NBC 5 reported. ...


Washington Legal Foundation {The Good Guys}

Kansas, Texas harassed for doing the right thing
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... The Washington Legal Foundation is making the same legal argument, against the same group of kids, but in a different state. In ...

Use Cheney visit to push fair trade
Toronto Star - Canada
... Minister Paul Martin's government "use whatever legal means it ... diplomatic and moral pressure on Washington, which is ... That is one shaky foundation on which to ...

Brushfires of freedom
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... George Washington said, "It is impossible to rightly govern ... The only foundation of a free Constitution, is ... this satanic abortion dragon, but legal remedies can ...

Studying terrorism: Students on front lines of global threat
William and Mary News (press release) - Williamsburg,VA,USA
... fellowship program sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, DC-based ... major who plans to pursue a legal or diplomatic ...

The Subway Mayor
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Patsaouras went to Washington with Mayor Bradley and RTD ... The ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ... Goldwater Institute and the libertarian Reason Foundation. ...

"ACLU"

Truly Nolen's Murray Responds to ACLU Criticism of its Crime ...
PCT Online - USA
... Murray, vice president of marketing and public relations, Truly Nolen of America, said claims made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that Truly Nolen ...

Louisiana ACLU Chief compares theists to the 9/11 hijackers
Lone Star Times - Houston,TX,USA
... about a meeting Monday, during which the school board spoke to all teachers and workers about policy for this year, and had been asked by the ACLU to remind ...

ACLU Defending Woman Accused Of Using Drugs While Pregnant
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA
... ACLU attorneys said prosecuting women for their actions during pregnancy is unprecedented elsewhere in Maryland and claim it is an attempt to create a new ...

ACLU guarding against erosion of rights
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
This letter is in reply to James R. Ramsey. Mr. Ramsey, where did you receive your information regarding the amount of money Congress contributed to the ACLU? ...

ACLU Claims Some Oklahomans Denied The Right To Vote
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
The American Civil Liberties Union claims some Oklahomans are being denied the right to vote. The group says that's keeping thousands ...

Al Qaeda Loves Our Unpatriotic Media
Accuracy In Media - Washington,DC,USA
... But when the Pentagon tries to keep potential propaganda material from falling into the hands of the enemy, the media are in court with the ACLU against the ...

I Will Support And Defend...So Help Me God
theOneRepublic - CA,USA
There are no ACLU lawyers on the actual warfront with Jihadistan demanding military compliance with the erroneously-named "separation clause." There are ...

OCCC mental concerns a reprise
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Vanessa Chong, executive director of the ACLU in Hawai'i, said after state officials conceded there were issues at OCCC in 1985 and avoided trial by signing a ...

ACLU fights for Mich. partner benefits
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In a Michigan courtroom on Tuesday, the ACLU asked a judge to clarify the state's anti-gay constitutional amendment, "Proposal 2," and its affect on domestic ...

CAFTA

Job loss to NAFTA dims enthusiasm for CAFTA
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... Gene Taylor, one of the 215 to vote against CAFTA, was a witness to what has been called the most egregious instance of legislative arm-twisting by the Bush ...

CAFTA is going to take a bite
Newszap Florida - FL,USA
CLEWISTON -- The recent passage of the Central American Free Trade Act (CAFTA) will have a far-reaching impact on the American agricultural industry ...

Vital step for free trade
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... The passage of CAFTA-DR, which includes the Dominican Republic, will create tremendous momentum for a new wave of key trade agreements involving the United ...

Morgan County Farmers Union hears from state director on CAFTA ...
Brush News Tribune - CO, United States
... Sugar. He said, "Everyone needs to voice their opinion on how they feel about Rep. (Marilyn) Musgrave voting in favor of CAFTA. Wolfe ...

Arkansas Steelworkers to Protest CAFTA Votes of US Rep. Snyder ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Protests will also be directed at US Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) for their approval votes of CAFTA as a betrayal of working families. ...

Minuteman Project

Immigration and Clear Thinking
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Have you wondered if the Minuteman Project is really on the "up and up" or if they represent what is good with America--paragons of patriotic virtue? ...

Jobs Americans won't do
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... One such Minuteman Project effort just recently finished in Campo. A similar border watch project is scheduled for the Otay Mesa area in the coming weeks. ...

Whose land is this anyway?
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
Chris Simcox organized the Minuteman Project to address the illegal immigration issue. He and a group of like-minded folks assembled ...

Candidates for Cox's seat have one week to file
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... Gilchrist founded the Minuteman Project, which organized volunteer patrols of the US-Mexico ... to continue to be a very big issue with Jim Gilchrist," said Tom ...

IN THE NEWS!

AZ Representative Russell Pearce Asks PHXnews Readers, "What Part ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... not hiding there; or the violent illegal alien gangs roam ... have one of the highest stolen car rates in ... By definition, few illegal immigrants thus contribute to ...

Immigration and Clear Thinking
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... Let me give you an example. Here is someone who was attempting, and I credit her for the attempt, to challenge some pieces I wrote on the illegal alien issue: ...

Speaker says economy not an election issue
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell,MT,USA
... the 2006 election, partly because of legislation coming out ... He also anticipates tax reform will be on the ... Another issue on the horizon: "Immigration is a huge ...

Boozman praises raids as effective border tool
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... said Monday that illegal-alien roundups like the recent poultry plant raid near Arkadelphia have proven to be effective tools in combating illegal immigration. ...

NM makes a stand at border
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... ineffective immigration policy, but it sounds the call for national reform. Congress is in its August recess but could take up immigration legislation when it ...

Domenici outlines ideas on foreign workers
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... about how to resolve the illegal-immigration quagmire. ... is considering introducing a plan to reform a system ... whether he will propose his own legislation or seek ...

The latest on Social Security reform
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
... of shoreline are only meaningful in the context of defense, immigration and respect for ... strengthening of our borders as a major component of this legislation. ...

Democrats are flocking to McCain's immigration bill
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... recently released a position paper hailing McCain's "bipartisan legislation." Busby said ... "There is a growing sense that immigration reform is the No. ...

Myrick holds town meeting to discuss illegal immigration
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... to the people Tuesday night in a community meeting in Gastonia to discuss her proposed Scott Gardner Immigration Act. ... "Hiring an illegal alien is against the ...

Former Clinton Administration official agrees with Wizbang
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
Over the weekend, I described our illegal alien problem as an "invasion ... that he's declared it an "emergency," specifically citing illegal immigration and the ...

Sullivan Pushes For Immigration Enforcement Office In Tulsa
Channel Oklahoma.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... release suspected illegal immigrants because the US Immigration and Customs ... who asked for a Tulsa immigration enforcement office in legislation filed in ...

Democrats are flocking to McCain's immigration bill
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... a state of emergency along the US-Mexico border ... Jumping onto McCain's immigration bandwagon makes ... hailing McCain's "bipartisan legislation." Busby said ...

Myrick holds town meeting to discuss illegal immigration
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... in Gastonia to discuss her proposed Scott Gardner Immigration Act ... Some critics of the proposed legislation worry about the ... the first two years in the US he was ...

Badilla gets life sentence in murder of US Customs official
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
A no-parole life sentence was given Monday to a heroin addict convicted of shooting a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee. ...

Fla. officials arrest fugitive wanted on RI charges
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... degree child molestation in January 2003, and he was arrested on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced ...

FBI Investigating Local Homeland Security Agents
Channel Oklahoma.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... Homeland Security deportation agents assaulted and tortured a Nigerian man who was shackled at Oklahoma City's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office are ...

US CUSTOMS (ICE) ARRESTS 25 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS IN CHICAGO AREA
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
By .S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). CHICAGO--US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, working ...

George Bruno: After trespass ruling, feds must start enforcing ...
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... is governed by federal law, and the Congress has empowered the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency with the ...

Sullivan Pushes For Immigration Enforcement Office In Tulsa
Channel Oklahoma.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... Law officers say they've had to release suspected illegal immigrants because the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Oklahoma City couldn't ...

Dallas businessman takes wife's immigration case to New York
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, said his agency doesn't comment on litigation, pending or threatened. ...

Third Guilty Plea Comes in Texas-Based Visa Fraud Scam
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced a third guilty plea by a suspect connected to an international scheme to issue fraudulent visas. ...

Pakistani Cleric Agrees to Leave US
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Officials from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement hailed Ahmed's decision to accept deportation as a victory for the agency and for citizens in ...

1.5 mil for border fight

Democrats Beating GOP on Immigration
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... in the past month and beyond, and the subject is immigration -- and what was my ... damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling, and an ...

Should John Fund demand a byline on Wash. Times editorial?
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
... citing growing border-area violence, property damage, drug smuggling and problems ... beefing up enforcement, she did not talk about immigration, temporary-worker ...

NM makes a stand at border
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Congress is in its August recess but could take up immigration legislation when it ... been "devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling ...

Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies
Global Politician - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... products. Most Montenegrins derive their livelihood, directly or indirectly, from smuggling, bootlegging and illegal immigration. Drugs ...

US CUSTOMS (ICE) ARRESTS 25 CHILD SEX OFFENDERS IN CHICAGO AREA
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... most have the right to a hearing before a federal immigration judge, who will ... Human Smuggling & Trafficking of Children: The criminal networks engaged in human ...

The inmates are running our asylum policy
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
... for fun, let's run Mr. Boer-Sedano's case through my suggested immigration reforms: ... have been heavily fined for hiring him while he was still an illegal alien. ...

Sullivan Pushes For Immigration Enforcement Office In Tulsa
Channel Oklahoma.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... Cates, special agent in charge for the Dallas-based US Immigration and Customs ... is why agents cannot respond to every stop involving an illegal alien, Cates said ...

Court Bars Gang From Eastside Area

Machete Attack Trial Continues In Virginia
NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA
... Schroeder told the jury he had just left the theater with his girlfriend and their small child when a car full of MS-13 gang members pulled up. ...

Gangs penetrate W.Va. Panhandle
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... MS-13 is shorthand for Mara Salvatrucha, a gang founded in Los Angeles by refugees from El Salvador. Federal authorities consider ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Two charged with vandalism in spray-painting incident
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
... Brian Navin said. He said younger officers told him the number 13 refers to the letter M -- the 13th letter of the alphabet -- and stands for Mexican Mafia. ...

"Mexico"

Mexico Economic Growth Quickens to 3.1% in Second Quarter
Bloomberg - USA
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican economic growth quickened in the second quarter, led by a jump in investment as companies including Brunswick Corp. ...

Immigrants in US new swing voters in Mexico election
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... and Mexican immigrant Timoteo Manjarrez recently decided to run for mayor in his hometown of Teloloapan, a poor city in the South of Mexico where he returned ...

Calif. drug busts soar despite Mexico crackdown
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
TIJUANA, Mexico, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Mexican drug cartels are sending ever greater quantities of narcotics through border crossings in southern California ...

Volkswagen Mexico strike deadline nears
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Volkswagen's Mexico plant restarted salary talks with management on Monday but were still waiting for an offer ...

Death toll reaches five, could climb in Mexico blasts
Houston Chronicle - United States
By JAMES PINKERTON. HARLINGEN - Mexican officials say a fifth person has died of injuries suffered in last week's fiery collision ...

CMC Acquires Juarez, Mexico Joist Manufacturing Operation of Canam ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... CMC), headquartered in Irving, Texas, announced today the acquisition of substantially all of the operating assets of the Juarez, Mexico joist manufacturing ...

Violence linked to drug trafficking no threat to Mexico's national ...
Xinhua - China
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Violence linked to drug trafficking puts public security at risk in some cities and regions ...

LULAC

LULAC announces Fiesta Queen candidates
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... She is a sophomore at Davenport West High School and plans to become a psychologist. The LULAC Fiesta celebrates Mexico's independence from Spain. ...

Letters for Tuesday
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Dallas LULAC Council 4496 calls upon Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and City Plan Commissioner D'Angelo Lee to resign immediately. ...

20 arrested in northern Mexico allegedly tied to organized crime
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
MONTERREY, Mexico - Police in this northern industrial city on Tuesday arrested 20 people allegedly linked to organized crime and recovered several weapons ...

In Mexico, Zapatistas get no argument
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY - The Zapatista rebels of southern Mexico are finding it hard to pick a fight. Mexico's leading left-leaning presidential ...

Portal Expands Relationship with Telefonica Moviles in Mexico ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... billing and Revenue Management solutions for global communications and media markets, today announced that Telefonica Moviles, one of Mexico's leading mobile ...

CAFTA

Elusive Prosperity Seen in CAFTA
Washington Post - United States
... Nevertheless, Miguel Ángel Peñalba, Grupo Calvo's director of operations in El Salvador, is jubilant about CAFTA's possibilities. ...

Column: DR-CAFTA debate finally comes to merciful end
Southeast Farm Press - USA
... Any hope US officials had for expanding NAFTA and DR-CAFTA to the rest of the Americas may have evaporated in the heat of the midnight vote that might have ...

CAFTA said in cotton industry's best interests
Delta Farm Press - Bellevue,NE,USA
... "In 2005, US raw cotton exports to CAFTA countries totaled more than 200,000 bales," said Fred Johnson, the council's vice president of administration ...

CAFTA Has Impact on Manufacturing PR Firm
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
... operations expertise to the team and will establish measurable impacts and metrics for manufacturing clients and noted that, "The passage of CAFTA is a ...

Cheney touts economic gains, perseverance in terror war during ...
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... criticized Craig for courting Cheney as a fundraiser after the Bush administration pushed through the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) against the ...

"ACLU"

ACLU works to guard everyone's liberties
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
Robert Rinearson's July 29 guest column ("Stall ACLU drive against faith") was so full of quotes taken out of context to support his alarmist viewpoint ...

ACLU is on wrong path
Miami Herald - FL,USA
Re the Aug. 15 story Does Big Brother have too many eyes?: I have always supported the ACLU. Yes, I was tested when it defended ...

Battle over same sex benefits heats up again Tuesday
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... again Tuesday afternoon. There's a hearing set in a Lansing over the ACLU's lawsuit against the State of Michigan. After Proposal ...

New York judge rules some arguments in Abu Ghraib prison photo ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The ACLU has sought the release of 87 photographs and four videotapes taken at the prison as part of an October 2003 lawsuit demanding information on the ...

Mexican Consulate

Court Says School Board Members May Open Meetings With Prayer
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... The group regularly opens its business meetings with prayer. The ACLU was also suing board members personally for doing so. Judge ...

Teachers train on prayer rules
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... suit on appeal. Student prayers at two year-end banquets are the subject fa contempt-of-court motion filed by the ACLU. Three other ...

Same-sex partner rights debated today in court
The State News - East Lansing,MI,USA
... The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is representing 22 same-sex couples who filed a lawsuit in March after Attorney General Mike Cox interpreted the ...

Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director ...
Etopia Media.net - Los Angeles,CA,USA
SB 682 is strongly supported by the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy ...

Up Close: Bank accounts for illegal immigrants
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... accounts to Mexican citizens. One transaction was done with a photo ID issued by the Mexican Consulate in Midtown. "You can use it ...

Braceros protest to demand payment of trust money
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
Former braceros gathered outside the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino on Monday to demand back payment of wages that the Mexican government held in trust ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

Latinos Work to Shore Up Border
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... I think it shows that we are attracting a wide variety of people," said Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the citizen border patrol known as the Minuteman Project. ...

Minuteman' project heading north
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
Chris Simcox, a co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, said Friday that Minnesota will be among several northern states that will join the border ...

For more information, contact Daryle Lamont Jenkins at (212)479 ...
Infoshop News - USA
... them, issues related to the gay community, and the fight against the anti-immigration effort that has heated up with efforts like the Minuteman Project. ...

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Gilchrist & Tancredo At Thurs. CA Town Hall, "The ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Madeleine Cosman, US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and radio talk-show host Roger Hedgecock. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Tancredo a Hit a California Forum
RedState.org - USA
Tom Tancredo earned a standing ovation before, during and after his speech to about 400 people in Carlsbad, California, at a town-hall styled forum. ...

IN THE NEWS!

The Forgotten Immigration Priority: Making New Americans
The Conservative Voice - USA
... contains somewhat stronger enforcement provisions than the legislation filed by Sens ... Americans, not indentured servants, are what US immigration policy used to ...

Judge puts end to NH immigrant crackdown
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... odds with federal immigration authorities, and said his department will continue to work cooperatively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Immigration ...

Local, Federal Agents Raid Dallas Bathhouses
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA
Dallas police officers and agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, obtained warrants on the businesses. Six ...

ICE arrests Mexican national in Oxnard for 2002 murder
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... shot in November 2002 outside the Oaxaca municipal sports field after a dance, said Jorge Field, a supervisor for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Police find illegal immigrants in truck
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... into the country. Sullivan said the eight illegal immigrants were taken into the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Jupiter officer on leave following shooting
Jupiter Courier (subscription) - Jupiter,FL,USA
... with an ongoing federal drug investigation being coordinated by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency and by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he ...

DHS TODAY A publication of the US Department of Homeland Security ...
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent saved a ...
27834 ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED, MANY WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS, INCLUDING MURDER SUSPECT ...

What we can do to stop it
Houston Chronicle - United States
... A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates Texans spend more than $4 ... Establish systematic data collection for illegal alien use of ...

Keeping it all in the family has paid dividends for GOP
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... point: although a bipartisan majority supported intelligence reform last fall ... disputes among key Republicans about the legislation's immigration provisions. ...

In-state rates for illegal immigrants challenged
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... An effort to pass similar federal legislation, known as the ... While supportive of legal immigration, Mr. Samp said his ... numbers now exceed 11 million in the US. ...

Filipino WWII vets struggle in Bay Area
Tri-Valley Herald - Pleasanton,CA,USA
... and still has not heard from immigration services about ... "It's their dignity and recognition as US veterans.". Advocates also said that some legislation that has ...

Abu Qatada arrested in London; British Government prepares for ...
Interdisciplinary Center (ICT) - Israel
Legislation is being prepared to instruct judges as ... representation to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ... Liberty, said, "What separates us from the ...

Slim Pickings in Farm Labor Pool
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... would give foreign workers a path to US citizenship after ... A more sweeping bipartisan immigration reform bill, by ... workers say they favor legislation that offers ...

Mortgages For Illegal Aliens: Are Banks The Treason Industry?
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... titled "Can Banks Profiteer from Illegal Immigration with Impunity ... support of the two Georgia US Senators, Saxby ... officials to promote new legislation that would ...

Border work shortage drives job seekers north
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... Since that time, figures show that illegal immigration has slowed down at ... Mexico State University government professor Jose Garcia said smuggling routes were ...

BEEFED UP BORDER PLEDGED
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... and fences alone are not going to solve the illegal immigration problem," Domenici ... the first line of defense against drug and human smuggling, Columbus Police ...

Illegal Aliens, Drugs, Violence, and Open Borders
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
... in Arizona, extensive drug trafficking in Utah, and human smuggling rings in ... Ted Kennedy to pursue better guest worker programs and more open immigration. ...

Governor declares state of emergency along NM-Mexico border
KOB-TV - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... It's not just illegal aliens, it's illegal smuggling, it's ... Border authorities blame the surge in illegal immigration on people smugglers, who often work ...

Aviation agency mulls relaxed security rules
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed rulings by immigration courts that ... Texas -- A Fort Bliss soldier has pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine into ...

Underequipped, isolated and overwhelmed -- agents struggle to ...
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... the driver in the red shirt, likely part of a smuggling operation that ... in their vehicles, and instead must make all license plate, immigration and criminal ...

Case against immigrants thrown out
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... Advocates of immigration reform cheered Chamberlain's efforts, but ... are planning to introduce legislation to discourage illegal immigration to the ...

Identity Crisis... What to Do If Your Identity is Stolen
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency, recommends that ... any of the three nationwide consumer reporting companies to ... a fraud alert on your credit report ...

Springdale : Fake ID cards linked to Mexican ring
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency identifies Rivera in an affidavit as the leader of a documentforgery "cell" with ties to a national ...

Deportation surge leaves void in Brooklyn's Little Pakistan
Boston Globe - United States
... Marc Raimondi, spokesman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said the initiatives also have helped the government capture a range of ...

FBI Investigating Immigration Abuse Claim
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
... that as many as six federal Homeland Security deportation agents tortured a Nigerian man at Oklahoma City's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. ...

Mexican fugitive arrested in Oxnard
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested him Thursday at his home on Terrace Avenue in Oxnard for being in the country illegally. ...

Identifying illegal immigrants in jail a smart proposal
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... The Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch of the US Homeland Security Department is training six LA County custody assistants to interview foreign-born ...

"MS 13" Gang

Teenager Slashed In Langley Park
Washington Post - United States
... National Capital Park Police said they did not know whether the slashing was the work of the violent Latino gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, whose members have ...

MS-13 gang trickling into rural W.Va. from Virginia
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA
... Former Modesto, Calif., police officer Jared Lewis says MS-13 markets the gang as a way to embrace Latin American heritage. Parents ...

Mexican Consulate

ID cards draw 700 to mobile consulate
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
APPLETON -- The mobile Mexican consulate set up inside YouthFutures' Valley Fair this week drew more than 700 people over its four-day run. ...

Gang wars plague Mexican drugs hub
BBC News - UK
... The US recently had to close its consulate for a period, after the warring ... The US side is still relatively free from trouble, while on the Mexican side, there ...

LULAC

In-state rates for illegal immigrants challenged
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... an attack on immigrants. "Let's just call it what it really is," said Adrian Rodriguez, Texas LULAC's chief of staff. "This isn't ...

Latino Update
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
Education awards: The California LULAC Educational Foundation will hold its 15th annual Academic Achievement Awards banquet Aug. ...

News Roundup: Austin man charged with solicitation
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... LULAC and Our Casas Resident Council, Inc., will hold its First-time Homebuyers Education Workshop at Alazan Creek Mission Center, 1320 Guadalupe St., from 9 ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Prison gangs more active in Central Texas than many people realize
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
... Most people have likely heard of the biggest operations in the state -- the Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas and Aryan Circle ...

CAFTA

Two sides of CAFTA divide eyed
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... Brooklyn, are blamed with delivering a razor-thin, two-vote victory on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) initiative to the ...

LaTourette voted on CAFTA before getting tariff report
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... LaTourette had said he voted for CAFTA in order to eliminate plywood tariffs that were squeezing KraftMaid, the Middlefield-based kitchen cabinet maker. ...

CAFTA will help NC
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Trade Agreement. Why did I call members of the NC delegation and ask them to vote for CAFTA? Burlington ... impacted jobs. CAFTA is different. It ...

CAFTA, Another Washington Deception, Lawmaker Says
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Managua, August 14 (LP) An agreement for Central America Free Trade with the United States (CAFTA ) is another Washington deception that was passed quickly ...

A Toxic Trade-off
Washington Post - United States
... for passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement at a White House news conference in May, President Bush made the case that a vote for CAFTA was a vote ...

Cafta and the Courts: A few good quotes
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... I think we can say with confidence that most of the members of Congress have read neither the CAFTA "law" nor Washington's address. ...

Terry Guttormson letter: CAFTA will exploit sweatshop workers
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... On its own merits, CAFTA was going to crash and burn in the House of Representatives much like the Air France flight 358 as it slipped off the end of the ...

Support for CAFTA Stable in Costa Rica
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
(Angus Reid Global Scan) -- Many adults in Costa Rica are in favour of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), according to a poll by CID-Gallup. ...

US textile executives complain about China, pan CAFTA
Miami Herald - FL,USA
SALT LAKE CITY - US textile executives complained China doesn't play by the trade rules and that their own government doesn't help. ...

Union reps gather at Kuhl office to protest CAFTA vote
Olean Times Herald - Olean,NY,USA
... John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr. Thursday in protest of his vote for the Central American Free Trade Act (CAFTA). ... Kuhl, R-Hammondsport, voted in favor of CAFTA. ...

Johanns talks trade and taxes at Iowa listening session
Agriculture Online - USA
He also defended the recent passage of CAFTA. "CAFTA ... immediately. CAFTA was a trade agreement that needed to be passed for American agriculture.". ...

"ACLU"

ACLU sues over prayer at meetings:-
Webindia123 - India
... Cobb County is a diverse county and citizens of all religions and non-religions should be welcome at government meetings, ACLU staff attorney Maggie Garrett ...

Republicans, not ACLU, pose a real threat to democracy
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
... Rights. It's that simple. As an American citizen, a veteran and a member of the ACLU, I am disgusted by Mike Reagan's Aug. 3 rant ...

Pentagon blocks new scandalous Abu Ghraib photos
Aljazeera.com - London,UK
... Under the Freedom of Information Act , the ACLU is seeking to obtain the release of 87 photographs and four videotapes taken at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison ...

Rapping free speech
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... locker. And they did not call his parents or even read the lyrics of the four songs before passing judgment, according to the ACLU. ...

'Anti-ACLU' Fights for Religion in Public Life
FOX News - USA
Now the ACLU is facing a challenge from groups such as the Alliance Defense Fund (search), one of several Christian law firms formed in the 1990s. ...

ACLU sues over prayer at meetings
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Ga. court removes Ten Commandments (July 20, 2005) -- An Atlanta-area county courthouse took down a framed copy of the Ten Commandments ...

Underage residents, police at odds over breath-test law
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Michael Steinberg, legal director for the ACLU of Michigan, says dozens of students complain to the group every year about having to take breath tests. ...

General says photos could incite attacks
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... The ACLU complaint seeks information on the treatment of detainees in US custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture. ...

Congress supporting ACLU
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
For almost 30 years, Congress has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the ACLU to maintain their stranglehold on those who pray to "The great I Am ...

Tangipahoa Parish educators meeting to learn prayer restrictions
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... ACLU attorneys took depositions Thursday from three school officials about the remaining one, which deals with student-led prayers at two high-school banquets. ...

High school reworked as boys-only
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... The ACLU argues that gender-separate education in itself does not mean better learning, and can reinforce stereotypes. "It simply ...

Custom-made fit for school
CNN International - USA
... He took his case to the the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, and his school discipline was overturned after the ACLU intervened. ...

Tangipahoa educators to learn do's and don'ts
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... ACLU attorneys took depositions of three school officials Thursday addressing the contempt motion over student-led prayers at two high-school banquets. ...

"Mexico"

Asylum granted for gay man from Mexico
Science Daily (press release) - USA
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Mexican immigrant has been given asylum after a US court ruled the man would suffer persecution ...

Fugitive's arrest stuns wife in Mexico
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Louis. IXTAPA, Mexico -- After years of living in obscurity among millions of people in Mexico City, Manuela Flores Vega and the man she married as Peter Herman ...

Masked rebel leader has a new cause in Mexico
Chicago Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- The pipe-smoking, ski-mask wearing Zapatista rebel leader Subcommander Marcos once again is firing his rhetorical cannon shots from his hideout ...

Strong earthquake shakes southern Mexico
Hindustan Times - India
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Pacific coast of Mexico on Sunday, 370 km south-southwest of Mexico City, according to the US Geological ...

Deaths mounting on Mexico's border security watch
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
MEXICO CITY, August 14, 2005 -- A multimillion-dollar border security program launched in June has realized measurable results, but critics say it has failed ...

Volunteers preparing to help patrol Texas-Mexico border
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... border during October. Garza said the Minuteman project's first outing was in April along the Arizona-Mexico border. His hope is ...

Mexican Pharmacist's Empire Growing
Washington Post - United States
By WILL WEISSERT. MEXICO CITY -- Victor Gonzalez sells cheap medicine and health care to Mexico's poor, and it has made him very rich. ...

Azteca takes on toon pirates
Variety (subscription) - USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's No.2 net TV Azteca is mounting its first film distribution venture in partnership with leading exhib exhib Cinepolis to release 3D toon ...

Pacquiao wary of Velazquez
Manila Bulletin - Philippines
... of Jose Sta. Cruz, another 140-pounder from Mexico, who had also previously worked with the Filipino lefty. Pacquiao let Martinez ...

Mexico rattled by small quake
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
Residents of southern Mexico received quite a jolt when a moderate quake struck off the Pacific coast earlier Sunday. Geologists ...

July 18: Deadly day for migrants
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... As weeks passed, Yesmin's father, Onecimo Diaz Ramirez, made many phone calls, first to relatives, then to the Mexican Consulate in Tucson. ...

Fair for Spanish-speaking citizens tonight
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... Mexican Consulate Alberto Diaz will present information, along with Centerville Police Chief Ernie Pardo and Willie Chance, with UGA extension programs. ...

'96 slaying fugitive captured in Mexico
Chicago Tribune - United States
Tribune staff reporters Hugh Dellios in Mexico and Michael Higgins and Scott Goldstein in Chicago contributed to this report. Freelance rep. ...

Two Dead in Train, Tanker Crash in Mexico
Washington Post - United States
LUCIO BLANCO, Mexico -- A tanker truck hauling liquid petroleum collided with a freight train, killing at least two people, injuring at least 44 and reducing ...

Nogales copes with Mexico acid spill
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... to cope with a potentially disastrous sulfuric-acid spill from two rail tankers into the Santa Cruz River south of the international border with Mexico. ...

GAO faults study on Mexico border power plants' pollution
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
WASHINGTON -- Two power plants just south of the US-Mexico border create no more pollution than similar plants in California, but health impacts on residents ...

NM declares emergency at porous border with Mexico
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
Bill Richardson on Friday declared a state of emergency for the New Mexico border, saying that the federal government has failed to act while people smugglers ...

WTO rules on US telecom in Mexico:-
Webindia123 - India
Mexico Friday announced new regulations to allow US companies to provide telecommunications services, the US trade office said Friday. ...

GAO faults study on Mexico border power plants' pollution
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
WASHINGTON Congressional investigators say two power plants just south of the US-Mexico border create no more pollution than similar plants in California, but ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project

US border posse sets sights on 49th parallel
Globe and Mail - Canada
... The Minuteman Project, associated with the Minuteman Civil Defence Corps, was formed earlier ... Californian Jim Gilchrist sent an e-mail to a few friends. ...

Activists pack Carlsbad town-hall meeting
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The night's featured speaker was US Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, who, like Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, received a standing ovation. ...

More than half of births in county are to Hispanics
NapaNet Daily News - Napa,CA,USA
... A survey by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a nonprofit research organization ... study showed 407 births in 2002 were to mothers of illegal alien status. ...

Lawyer fees remain after school lawsuit dropped
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Tancredo, R-Colo., chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus; James W. Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo, founder of the Minuteman Project; Los Angeles ...

Minuteman Project Bands: Patriotic Bands for a Better America
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
APPLE VALLEY, CA -- We are looking for Patriotic Musicians and Singers that they want to be part of the Minuteman Project Bands, to tour America & defend our ...

US border posse sets sights on 49th parallel
Globe and Mail - Canada
... After a highly successful operation in Arizona last April, the so-called Minuteman Project has turned its attention to the northern border. ...

Tancredo a hit at Calif. forum
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... included California state Sen. Bill Morrow and James W. Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project. Tancredo said that while he ...

Texas Joins "Majority-minority' States; Rise in Hate Crimes ...
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... The Census Bureau report comes amid new activities by the anti-immigrant vigilante group the Minuteman Project, a doubling of crimes against Muslims and ...

8-12 8:30 AM News Update - Malone WalMart Plan Gains Variance From ...
Newswatch 50 - Watertown,NY,USA
... Members of the Minuteman Project plan to congregate at spots near the Canada-US border starting on October 1st. They'll wait and ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

For illegals, a spreading backlash
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... Here county commissioner Robert Vasquez is trying to do what he says Washington won't: crack down on illegal immigration. He recently ...

State controller, Kuna lawmaker running for 1st District seat
KTVB - Boise,ID,USA
... of Kooskia, former state Senator Sheila Sorensen of Boise, Idaho Water Users President Norm Semanko of Eagle and Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez. ...

Immigration confrontation contained
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Robert Vasquez, commissioner of Canyon County in southwest Idaho, spoke about the cost of illegal immigration on local governments. ...

IN THE NEWS!

A Conservative Case For Immigration Reform
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... Kyl's Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act ... but impossible to pass legislation without strong ... I have conveyed here today, immigration policy is ...

Female police officer shot to death in violent Mexican border town
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
... Nuevo Laredo have become so bad -- featuring assault rifles, heavy machine guns and even bazookas -- that the United States closed its consulate here briefly ...

Peabody Pair Indicted on Charges of Alien Smuggling and Operating ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... residents were indicted yesterday on federal charges of alien smuggling and operating an ... J. Etre, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs ...

Driver of doomed van pleads guilty in immigration case
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said another driver is in the custody of US marshals. He said the van used by Mancilla-Santiago was part of a smuggling ...

Pilot faces haz-mat charges
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... A pilot was indicted this week for smuggling radioactive hazardous material ... agencies were involved with the investigation, including US Immigration and Custom ...

Mary Anne Owens: Cornyn ignores undocumented immigrants already in ...
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... The Cornyn bill creates new Border Patrol agents and new smuggling and immigration-violation inspectors. Though improving border ...

Alleged Illegal Immigrant Border Patrol Agent Served In Navy
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- An alleged illegal immigrant accused of smuggling people into the ... Do you support anti-illegal immigration groups patrolling the US/Mexico border ...

Images From the Battleground
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA
... These men, coyotes making final preparations for a night smuggling run of ... Tom had little first-hand knowledge of how overwhelming illegal immigration had become ...

Three detainees in Mexico focus of criminal investigation
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... He was cited by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for failure to display ... marijuana sales, and López has a criminal record for smuggling people, house ...

Return to sender
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... For decades, Pakistanis going abroad have been involved in a range of shady activities ranging from illegal immigration to drug smuggling. ...

America's Immigration Education Crisis
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... the school year. Why? Denver suffers over 25,000 illegal alien children who cannot and will not speak English. They arrived with ...

Tancredo a hit at Calif. forum
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Earlier this summer, Tancredo proposed immigration reform legislation that would boost the number of US Border Patrol agents, crack down on businesses that ...

Chambliss: We'll tackle immigration
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
... needs to find middle ground on immigration reform between deporting ... With the tide of illegal immigration into Georgia and other ... Legislation sponsored by US Sens ...

Rights groups fearful of vigilante militias
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Other legislation by Sen. ... However, a poll earlier this year by an immigration advocacy group found strong support for immigration reform that includes tougher ...

The Immigration Blog
They employ illegal aliens because they know employer sanctions are a joke. ...
Find out more: New VDARE.com Readers (Maybe Juan Mann Fans?) At DHS/ICE ...

Activists pack Carlsbad town-hall meeting
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Both have achieved nationwide conspicuousness in their push for immigration reform. ... Talking about a piece of immigration legislation now working its way ...

Border Patrol gets new face
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Amid great ceremony, US Department of Homeland Security officials installed a new "watchman" for the US Border Patrol and adorned agents with ...

Report From Occupied America: CT Congregational Minister Wants ...
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
And, according to Mayor Mark Boughton, an illegal alien population of 10,000 ... Westby proclaimed that people who oppose illegal immigration should not be allowed ...

US border posse sets sights on 49th parallel
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Hair said. When they spot someone crossing the border, they are expected to immediately notify the border patrol. The Minuteman ...

Former Border Patrol agent accused of smuggling denied bail
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge has denied bail to a former Border Patrol agent accused of being an illegal immigrant who smuggled others into the United States ...

Police split on immigration proposal Officials hesitant on Kilgore ...
Montgomery Journal - Rockville,MD,USA
... are going to stop talking to us completely ... local police to ask about immigration status, Voegtlin ... The legislation Kilgore endorsed would authorize - not force ...

Profile: Abu Qatada
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... the introduction of the anti-terrorism legislation in November ... who pleaded guilty in a US court in ... Collins, chairman of the special immigration appeal tribunal ...

Mary Anne Owens: Cornyn ignores undocumented immigrants already in ...
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... like US citizens. I am glad to see that leaders, including our own Sen. John Cornyn, are taking a stand on immigration. Yet the Cornyn legislation suggests ...

China? ''Get Used to It, America,'' Says US Senate Leader
CalTrade Report - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and "no amount of Congressional legislation or US ... concluded Hagel, "must rein in US deficit spending ... invest in education, and establish immigration reform.". ...

Border Patrol "Civilian Auxiliary" Proposed
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
Several Texas Congressmen are quietly circulating a proposal to approve 'deputized civilians' as an auxiliary to the US Border Patrol, 1200 WOAI news reported ...

Judge Denies Bail For Former Border Patrol Agent
10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge ruled that a former Border Patrol agent accused of helping to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States from Mexico is a ...

Emergency Services
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
... Point police officer Thursday arrested Perez on charges of possession of marijuana, delivery of marijuana, manufacturing marijuana and being an illegal alien. ...

Juárez gang member arrested in El Paso
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... officials in El Paso last month volunteered to be deported to Mexico but reappeared in El Paso a week later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said ...

Local police aid in area drug bust
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
... of Maine and New Hampshire; New Hampshire State Police and Maine State Police; the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the US ...

Police soon will enforce immigration laws
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
... convictions. Most likely, it would see them turning over those they find to the new US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Report: Drug suspect lured to narcotics deal, later shot by ...
Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Beach County Sheriff's Office's organized crime bureau, which assisted US Drug Enforcement Administration and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the ...

Peabody Pair Indicted on Charges of Alien Smuggling and Operating ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Matthew J. Etre, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Joseph A. Galasso, Special ...

A Conservative Case For Immigration Reform
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... with immigration. It's the mismatch that overwhelms our men on the border. It's the mismatch that creates the need exploited by international smuggling ...

Peabody Pair Indicted on Charges of Alien Smuggling and Operating ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Michael J. Sullivan; Matthew J. Etre, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs ... MARIO VIANA is charged with four counts of alien smuggling. ...

Costa Rica: UN refugee agency expresses concern over new refugee ...
UN News Centre
... to enact a new law that will effectively deal with the immigration issues the ... of migration wave, including trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants ...

RP to extradite woman in drug case
Agana Pacific Daily News - Agana,GU,USA
... masterminds in a decade-old drug case involving an "ice" smuggling ring that ... Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Immigration in her ...

News of the Weird
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
... the world showed up in Scotland for the "Homeless World Cup," immigration officials denied ... was arrested a few hours later and charged with smuggling out the ...

Activists pack Carlsbad town-hall meeting
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... leading figures in the fight for stronger enforcement of US immigration laws and ... Talking about a piece of immigration legislation now working its way through ...

Ruddock's concern at extremist groups
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... He said the immigration legislation did require suspected unlawful entrants to be detained until ... our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and against US and Israeli ...

A Conservative Case For Immigration Reform
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... compromise solution in the McCain-Kennedy legislation posits a ... We must fix our broken immigration system not for ... or because our neighbors want us to, important ...

Chambliss: We'll tackle immigration
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
... With the tide of illegal immigration into Georgia and other parts of the nation showing no signs of receding, the issue is ... Legislation sponsored by US Sens. ...

Leahy Reintroduces Gay Partners Immigration Act
Richmond Out in the Mountains - Richmond,VT,USA
... lesbian Americans will be eased if legislation recently reintroduced ... implemented now - that would block immigration of my ... is an option - has caused us a great ...

Rights groups fearful of vigilante militias
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... along the US-Mexico, according to David Aguilar, US Border Patrol ... President Bush has asked Congress to take up immigration reform when ... Other legislation by Sen ...

Ice cream exec's trial set in illegal-alien case
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
FORT SMITH -- A Van Buren ice cream company and a company executive accused of harboring an illegal immigrant for financial gain are to go on trial next month ...

Jaime Castillo: Immigration reform plans don't address the 'help ...
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... has consumed the debate about immigration reform in Congress. ... the attempts to change the nation's immigration laws have ... Take the latest legislation filed by Rep ...

Judge: Fining illegals for trespass intrudes on federal authority
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... the legislative immigration reform caucus, said that while he was disappointed in the judge's ruling, he still planned to promote legislation legitimizing the ...

America's Immigration Education Crisis
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
by Frosty Wooldridge. LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 08/12/05 -- In the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, May 16, 2005 ...

Something less kind
Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... advocates top-to-bottom immigration reform that keeps ... and inappropriately confuse immigration with terrorism do ... have endorsed federal legislation that provides ...

Responses to Ray Davis' Letter Last Week Regarding Officer Niemi ...
San Leandro Times - CA, United States
... The human debris that killed this officer of the law was an illegal alien from El Salvador who sneaked into this country. Their ...

Judge dismisses trespassing charges against illegal immigrants
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
... for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, based in ... are planning to introduce legislation to discourage illegal immigration to the state. ...

DNC: Why Won't the White House Condemn Anti-Immigrant Vigilantism?
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
The latest is legislation introduced by Republican Representative John Culberson of Houston that ... in his party who stand in the way of real immigration reform. ...

Search Procedures
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... But he managed to escape for a short time in Sioux Falls. It happened as he was riding in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van. ...

Legislation proposed to upgrade federal officers' status
GovExec.com - USA
... primary beneficiaries of the bill would be inspectors and officers in the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaus, whose ...

Feds crack down on Internet piracy
GameSHOUT - USA
... The message also said: "This site has been permanently shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Koreans Form One-Eighth of Foreign Students in US
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
The US edition of the Hankook Ilbo, citing statistics released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reported Thursday that Korean students made up 12.5 ...

New grad faces unknown
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... enforcement, it's almost a sure bet you're going home," said Tom O'Connell, resident agent-in-charge of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in ...

Illegal immigrants discovered during vehicle inspection
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... was impounded. Sullivan said the eight illegal workers were taken into the custody of the US immigration and Customs Enforcement.

US' ICE puts Israeli in jail for India, Pak N-deal
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
... ship controlled nuclear technology by US district judge Ricardo M Urbina last Thursday, according to a release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

It's high time for another bus tour..
Reuters - USA
Since January, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents have seized 10 buses crammed with marijuana at the San Ysidro, California, crossing ...

Immigrant inmates eyed
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Local personnel are trained and closely supervised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative arm of the US Department of Homeland ...

Search Procedures
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... But he managed to escape for a short time in Sioux Falls. It happened as he was riding in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van. ...

Legislation proposed to upgrade federal officers' status
GovExec.com - USA
... primary beneficiaries of the bill would be inspectors and officers in the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaus, whose ...

Feds crack down on Internet piracy
GameSHOUT - USA
... The message also said: "This site has been permanently shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Koreans Form One-Eighth of Foreign Students in US
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
The US edition of the Hankook Ilbo, citing statistics released by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reported Thursday that Korean students made up 12.5 ...

New grad faces unknown
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... enforcement, it's almost a sure bet you're going home," said Tom O'Connell, resident agent-in-charge of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in ...

Illegal immigrants discovered during vehicle inspection
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... was impounded. Sullivan said the eight illegal workers were taken into the custody of the US immigration and Customs Enforcement.

US' ICE puts Israeli in jail for India, Pak N-deal
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
... ship controlled nuclear technology by US district judge Ricardo M Urbina last Thursday, according to a release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

It's high time for another bus tour..
Reuters - USA
Since January, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents have seized 10 buses crammed with marijuana at the San Ysidro, California, crossing ...

Immigrant inmates eyed
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... Local personnel are trained and closely supervised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative arm of the US Department of Homeland ...

Enter a Category
New York Newsday - New York,NY,USA
... it was overcrowded, and an activist gave them supplies for a sign calling their community "Levyville," in reference to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. ...

Don't overreach on Millstone
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy wants to know why this renewal process is starting so far ahead of the expiration date. Dominion ...

Deputy sheriffs' union sues over transfers
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The union representing Suffolk County's deputy sheriffs is taking Sheriff ... County Executive Steve Levy, meanwhile, has responded by proposing the county hire ...

"Mexico"

Study: No GMO Corn in Southern Mexico
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
MEXICO CITY -- A study found no trace of genetically altered corn in southern Mexico four years after reports of its discovery there caused concerns that a ...

UPDATE 2-Weak auto sector cuts Mexico's economic growth
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Mexico lowered its second-quarter economic growth forecast to about 3.8 percent as unexpected weakness in the auto industry ...

UPDATE 2-Mexico central bank holds interest rates steady
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank held monetary policy steady on Friday although signs that inflation is under control and new concerns ...

Former Mexico City Mayor Begins Presidential Campaign
Voice of America - USA
By VOA News. Leftist former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has kicked off his campaign for next year's presidential election. ...

Crimes against journalists investigated in Mexico
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Mexican attorney general's office has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate crimes against journalists in Sinaloa state. ...

Authorities: Man wanted in Chicago-area murder arrested in Mexico
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA,USA
MEXICO CITY Mexican authorities say a man suspected of killing a wealthy couple in a Chicago suburb has been captured, nine years after the crime. ...

Officer Accused Of Sex Assault Found In Mexico
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
GULF SHORES, Ala. -- A former Gulf Shores, Alabama police officer who fled sexual assault charges in 2004 was found living in Baja California, Mexico and has ...

Train-truck collision kills two in Mexico
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
LUCIO BLANCO, Mexico (UPI) -- A Mexican truck hauling highly flammable propane was hit by a freight train killing at least two people and inuring nearly four ...

Bitter Mexico drugs war breaks out in Acapulco
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A fierce fight between Mexican drug cartels that has killed more than 600 people this year has now hit the Pacific beach resort ...

MEXICO: Chrysler starts production of new truck line after $US210 ...
just-auto.com (subscription) - Bromsgrove,Worcs,UK
Chrysler Group has begun building the new 2006 Dodge Ram Mega Cab pickup at its Saltillo Assembly Plant in Saltillo, Mexico. With ...

Legislation proposed to upgrade federal officers' status
GovExec.com - USA
... Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs ... Mint would also be covered by the legislation. ... action in the House Government Reform Committee with ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa Urges Talks on DWP Contract
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... threats of a strike by Department of Water and Power workers if their contract is not approved by the city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for ...

Mayor's standing strong
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... But Los Angeles is still next to the Pacific, still the entertainment capital of the ... The latter is something Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would like to rectify. ...

Renewed Focus on Watts' Lessons
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... and regrets Thursday for a part of Los Angeles that continues to suffer disproportionately from poverty and violence. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was there with ...

Tall ships fleet brings romance of a bygone era
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... The ship took on a couple of extra passengers on its way to port -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Harbor Area Councilwoman Janice Hahn. ...

Morning Headlines
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... pay raises as high as 30 percent, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday that he believes a resolution can be reached, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported ...

Watts: Then and now
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Headed by the brightest, best brains in Los Angeles, backed by one of the ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took the first step Thursday by announcing with community ...

Rush-hour road work ban in store
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... initiatives to improve travel on city streets, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is set to ... There are few traffic jams more infuriating to Los Angeles residents than ...

"ACLU"

ACLU: Airline Procedures Would Further Violate Privacy
Homeland Response - Cleveland,OH,USA
... has called for airline passengers to provide more personal information to the government, causing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to denounce the move ...

ACLU Seeks State Prison Assault Reports
KGWN - Cheyenne,WY,USA
... The motion filed by ACLU attorneys says the Wyoming Department of Corrections could black out sensitive information, such as the names of inmates and certain ...

ACLU Probes Taser Gun Incidents
NBC11.com - San Jose,CA,USA
... ACLU San Jose Director Sanjeev Bari told NBC11, "We want to make sure that the follow-up police investigation of this incident that led to the death of this ...

ACLU files lawsuit over
Billings Outpost - Billings,MT,USA
The city of Billings will have to move fast if it intends to redraw City Council ward boundaries in time for municipal elections this fall. ...

Commentary on the News
Omega Letter Intelligence Digest (subscription) - USA
The ACLU, or American Civil Liberties Union (perhaps better named Assault Christian Liberties Unmercifully) is carrying on their own brand of jihad in America. ...

Coddling Criminals: The ACLU: Defender of the Sex Offender
Pardon My English - Salem,MA,USA
... to live near a school. The fact that the ICLU/ACLU doesn't see it this way should be troubling to all of us. The plight of kids ...

LAWMAKERS ALLOWED TO JOIN SUIT OVER GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Out In America - Columbus,OH,USA
The 99 lawmakers will be represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group that often opposes the ACLU in lawsuits. ...

District backs off on plans for 2 new schools
Detroit Free Press - United States
... ACLU President Kary Moss objected to the schools when the plans were announced in May, saying all-boys and all-girls schools reinforce stereotypes. ...

Bill for commandments suit goes to taxpayers
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
... "My disagreement is with the ACLU," Mr. Lampp said, explaining his vote. "I was not in favor of negotiating with the ACLU to make a settlement.". ...

Government: release of Abu Ghraib prison photos could cause riots
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The ACLU sought the pictures as part of a lawsuit it filed in October 2003 seeking information on the treatment of detainees in US custody and the transfer of ...

ACLU ward lawsuit leaves elections in limbo
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... 8. ACLU Montana filed the lawsuit in US District Court last week on behalf of six Billings residents, alleging that the city violated federal election laws ...

Coalition working to educate churches, mobilize believers ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
As WorldNetDaily reported, Nedd Kareiva's StopThe ACLU.org is dedicating to ending the legal victories of the ACLU -- from limiting the activities of the Boy ...

Legal Papers Unsealed Today in ACLU
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The ACLU also asked the court to reject the government's attempt to file some of its legal arguments in secret. "The ACLU shares ...

The ACLU and the Overturning of the Constitution
Blogcritics.org - USA
... entitled to under law. The ACLU and the Mexican government argued on behalf of those trying to throw out the proposition. They lost on ...

POLICE BEAT
Houstonvoice.com - Houston,TX,USA
... in a busy hallway July 19 at the Men's Central Jail while being called names and taunted with vulgar sexual language by some deputies, the ACLU said in a ...

"MS 13" Gang

MS 13 Gang Member Arrested
Team 4 News - Harlingen,TX,USA
... Starr County sheriff's investigators say among the illegal immigrants were six MS 13 gang members -- who got into a fight with the smuggler for leaving another ...

Starr County vexed after MS-13 arrest
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... or coyotes, were leading a group of 25 undocumented immigrants through Starr County when five members believed to be part of the MS-13 gang attacked one of the ...

MS-13 kills coyote, police say
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
The MS-13 gang members are believed to have ties to al-Qaida, and sheriff's deputies want locals to be on the lookout. Investigators ...

Press terrorized in Nuevo Laredo; fear grows in Texas
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... TX, then killed the man who helped them cross. The report stated "The MS-13 gang members are believed to have ties to al-Qaida.". ...

Day Laborer Debate Centers On Access
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
... for undesirable behavior and elected officials have cited concerns about gang activity. ... gangs in the area, such as Mara Salvatrucha, widely known as MS-13. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

NEW: Texas Mexican Mafia leader sentenced to life; two other gang ...
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
That mantra of the Texas Mexican Mafia denotes the length of gang membership, but it took an ironic twist today as a judge sentenced one gang leader to life in ...

Letter: Both parties fall prey to internationalists
The Tomah Journal - Tomah,WI,USA
... MS13, Surenos, 18th St. Gang, Latin Kings, Mexican Mafia, Border Brothers and Brown Pride. Plain enough to see what open borders are doing for us, isn't it? ...

Baptism gang fight prompts outreach effort
Manteca Bulletin - Manteca,CA,USA
... Lovato and Sterni discussed the Nuestra Familia, also known as Norteno, the Mexican Mafia, also known as the Surenos, the Black Guerilla Family and 415 Kumi ...

News Roundup: Expert calls killer a danger to society
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... A man authorities suspect is a Texas Mexican Mafia general and who was on the lam for months is in custody, and another reputed gang member was sentenced ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexicans pour into mobile consulate in Appleton
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
APPLETON -- A mobile consulate set inside the YouthFutures' Valley Fair mall kept a steady pace Wednesday as hundreds of Mexican citizens were issued ...

CAFTA

VIEW: CAFTA's close call a warning to US --Edward Gresser
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... but just barely. Narrowly passing the Senate in early July, CAFTA then squeaked through the House by two votes. Even this small ...

Big Sugar still swings big bat despite CAFTA
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA
... sugar industry. Two of the three Republican congressmen representing Southwest Florida voted for CAFTA, including Rep. Mark Foley ...

Cattle Editorial: What the CAFTA-DR Vote Means for the Future
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA
... So the razor-thin margin of victory in the House's passage of the CAFTA-DR treaty should be a wake-up call to cattlemen who favor free trade -- both imports ...

Big Pharma's free ride
Salon - USA
Pharmaceutical companies are using free trade deals like CAFTA to eliminate global competition -- and deny poor patients access to cheaper generic drugs. ...

Local push for Cafta-DR trade agreement
Puerto Rico Herald - PR,USA
Cafta-DR, the Central America Free Trade Agreement, into which the Dominican Republic was later incorporated, managed to win legislative approval last week in ...

Report of a coalition to defeat the Central America Free Trade ...
Anarkismo.net - USA
Recently, several NAF members, with the support of the Portland collectives worked within a coalition to defeat the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA ...

Nicaraguans Urge for Swift CAFTA Ratification
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
(Angus Reid Global Scan) -- Many adults in Nicaragua believe the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) should be endorsed, according to a poll by M&R ...

After CAFTA, Cuellar on his party's hit list
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... over Mr. Cuellar's ouster of Ciro Rodriguez --a four-term San Antonio Democrat who was chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- the CAFTA vote was ...

Texas Republican Switched Vote on CAFTA
ABC News - USA
... "What does CAFTA sound like? ... Every time I drive through Kannapolis and I see those empty plants, I know there is no way I could vote for CAFTA.". ...

Lawmakers face anger over CAFTA vote
People's Weekly World - USA
... and some textile and sugar industry executives angrily confronted members of Congress who voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) last month ...

Bean's vote on CAFTA sparks AFL-CIO reaction
Pioneer Press Online - Glenview,IL,USA
... the AFL-CIO." The federation, which is a central labor group for all AFL-CIO unions in Lake and McHenry counties, then wrote Bean to say her CAFTA vote and ...

Hayes backs CAFTA vote
Kannapolis Independent Tribune - Kannapolis,NC,USA
... Hayes, a Concord Republican, told them leaders in the House promised that in exchange for supporting CAFTA - thereby giving it the votes it needed for passage ...

CAFTA vote postponed in Nicaragua
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA
CAFTA approval is an issue in other locations aside from the US A vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement has been postponed in Nicaragua. ...

CAFTA Good News For Spirits Exports
Wine Spectator (subscription) - CA,USA
By Melanie Stuparyk. The US Congress has approved the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, which will open doors ...

Musgrave: Gay marriage ban on hold
Longmont Daily Times-Call - Longmont,CO,USA
... Musgrave said she voted for CAFTA because it will help Colorado ranchers, who compose 50 percent of the agricultural interests in her district, while sugar ...

LULAC

RE: ‘Stop hiring illegals'
Valley News Network - Temecula,CA,USA
... Hispanic groups such as LULAC, MeCHA and National GI Forum hate to see patriotic groups such as the Minutemen flourish because their "gig" has been ...

Wilhelmi creation installedat city's Fire Station No. 4
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... 1225 Agnes St. Evening - 6 to 8 pm, Tuesday through Thursday, LULAC Hacienda Apartments, 2625 Greenwood Drive. Children's Reading ...

A&M-Commerce Summer Commencement set Aug. 13
North Texas e-News - Texas,USA
... She was recently recognized with an award from the League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC, Council 263, as the Community Member of the Year and has ...

Did Miles Brand And Company Consult The Indian Tribes On Their ...
BlackAthlete.net - USA
... yet he would stoop so low on the air as to call Caucasians "crackers" shows exactly why most Americans will never accept groups like the NAACP, LULAC and other ...

LULAC sending smoke signals
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA
... Sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #654, the event is expected to draw dozens of barbecue chefs and will feature family ...

Jerry C. Smith of Seaside, California Recognized for His Life by ...
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... Francis Xavier Knights of Columbus, American Legion Post 591, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Monterey Peninsula NAACP, LULAC; (Past Board Member); Friends Outside ...

Minuteman Project

ACLU to monitor Minuteman project in Houston
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
Civil rights groups say they plan to turn the tables on the Minuteman project if it comes to Houston. The Minutemen project is a ...

Texas Minuteman leader comes to Falfurrias
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
FALFURRIAS-- The president of the state's Minuteman Project visited Falfurrias on Sunday to map out a plan to protect the South Texas border from illegal ...

An Unwelcome Wave
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
If the Minuteman Project hasn't already spread to this state, it's probably only a matter of time before it does - unless government officials and citizens ...

Leavitt's down, Hatch is hot and Bishop's bristly
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... On Thursday, the Utah Minuteman Project offered the services of an irrigation professional to do the work for Cannon so the congressman could attend the debate ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Fed Targets Metro Gang Members
WXIA-TV - NE Atlanta,GA,USA
... were part of a two-year investigation by a regional gang task force that targeted the violent SUR 13 gang, which has ties to the Mexican mafia, officials said. ...

CAFTA

Union Leaders Denounce 2 Who Voted for Cafta
New York Times - United States
... "This vote that took place last week is not a yes vote for Cafta; it is a no vote for good-paying American jobs," said Brian M. McLaughlin, president of the ...

Laws: DR-CAFTA debate at merciful end
Delta Farm Press - Bellevue,NE,USA
... Any hope US officials had for expanding NAFTA and DR-CAFTA to the rest of the Americas may have evaporated in the heat of the midnight vote that might have ...

NAM Celebrates Passage Of CAFTA
Industry Week - USA
Aug. 8, 2005 -- The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was very happy with this past week's passage of CAFTA. President ...

Fitzpatrick votes CAFTA
Advance of Bucks County - Newtown,PA,USA
... 8th District, Congressman Michael Fitzpatrick voted in favor of President Bush's Central American and Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the ...

on the money
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... that. NAFTA and CAFTA have taken away the power of the unions; you can't picket a closed factory or one that is moving offshore. ...

Bonner holds town meeting
Brewton Standard - AL, United States
... he voted against the energy bill, what purpose the Patriot Act serves and why he voted in favor of Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), among other ...

Letter: CAFTA will make nation's rich richer
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
The president has distinguished himself by many devious and ill-conceived plots. His latest is the signing of the CAFTA agreement. ...

Waning of low-carb fad could aid citrus, sugar farmers
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... CAFTA, signed into law last week, allows sugar producers in the treaty nations greater access to the US market. "By itself, CAFTA ...

IN THE NEWS!

Cops Nab Illegal Alien Sex Offender of Toddler
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Association of Chiefs of Police. Those arrested included an illegal alien who sexually assaulted a child under three years of age. ...

Immigration reform seen as a tough sell for Bush
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... fight, citing his recent victories on long-awaited energy legislation, a popular ... The president again laid out immigration reform and a temporary-worker program ...

On curbing immigration
Houston Chronicle - United States
... with the complicated issue of immigration, border protection and ... and expectations for our children, reform of charter school legislation and provisions ...

Mercenaries Protect Drugs Flowing Into the US
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
... These military deserters graphically highlight why the illegal immigration situation in America ... 24 shootings, calling that area "the busiest alien- and drug ...

Republicans Run the Political Risk of Becoming Too Self-Reliant
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... in point: Although a bipartisan majority supported intelligence reform last fall ... disputes among key Republicans about the legislation's immigration provisions. ...

Much work remains for Congress after break
Brewton Standard - AL, United States
... limited to, work on the remainder of the FY 2006 appropriations bills; consideration of gun manufacturers' liability legislation; immigration reform and work ...

Cops Nab Illegal Alien Sex Offender of Toddler

Malkin Reminds Conservatives: 'We are All Minutemen Now'
Human Events - USA
... Title 8, Section 1325 of the US Code, titled Improper Entry by Alien," states: Any citizen ... Everyday somebody suffers from illegal immigration," Malkin said ...

Kilgore backs police detention of illegal aliens
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA
... and turn them over to federal immigration authorities. ... the federal government for deportation if the alien is not ... the people most upset about illegal aliens in ...

Illegal in Arkansas: Raid betrays Hispanic dreams
Hope Star - Hope,AR,USA
Editor's note - Following is the second of two parts concerning the impact of a July 26 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid near Arkadelphia. ...

The ICE men cometh
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
The muscle end of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service is now known as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ...

Software hide and seek
The Standard - Hong Kong
... which allow us to produce the evidence needed for investigation,'' says Jim Plitt, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Cyber Crimes Center ...

Goldwater Declares Candidacy For Governor
Arizona Capitol Times - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... "I will work with all levels of state and local law enforcement to help coordinate training with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency so our local ...

14 Illegal Aliens Reportedly Voted
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... A Department of Public Safety investigation, a joint effort with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US postal inspectors, has since been closed ...

Bomb threats shut down Laredo bridges
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement records, the most recent arrest for a making a false bomb threat was made at the Miami International ...

Migrant students to lobby for rights
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... but are still waiting to become US residents -- to ... Critics say such legislation amounts to rewarding illegal ... the issue is not about immigration, which should ...

On curbing immigration
Houston Chronicle - United States
... believe arming patrols along the US-Mexico border ... the complicated issue of immigration, border protection ... reform of charter school legislation and provisions ...

One Nation, Under Watch
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... FBI's COINTELPRO program were never backed by legislation. ... charged levies against terrorists on US soil ... convictions have been for immigration-related violations ...

Canada and US Make Concessions on Devil's Lake Dispute
Canadian Democratic Movement - Canada
... outcry over the controversial legislation exposes large ... should realize that the US-Canadian relationship ... economics, diplomacy, security and immigration; it is ...

Tony Blair's terrorism clampdown: more rules needed to control ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
... measures we had taken and the actual legislation that we ... Prime Minster, can you give us an idea of how ... Secretary and the police and the immigration services to ...

Don't Follow America: Tribes Should Lift Bans On Gay Marriage
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The legislation banned marriages between members of the ... covered the entire continent -- that meant us. ... rights, affecting areas like immigration, social security ...

Informer faces deportation
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
A DETAINEE who helped authorities break up a people-smuggling ring faces almost ... last hope of staying in Australia is a new plea to Immigration Minister Amanda ...

Elections Officers Investgate Illegal Alien Voting
KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... Legislative Auditor General John Schaff said more than 58,000 illegal immigrants had Utah drivers' licenses, nearly 400 of them used their license to register ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Herndon and illegals
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Herndon already knows it cannot fly under the immigration-enforcement radar screen: Immigration stalwart Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, is watching. ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexican consulate comes to Appleton
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
... Owen said organizers chose the youth-oriented mall as the site for the mobile consulate so local Mexican families could see first-hand and expand their ...

New tool helps find missing migrants
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Leslie Berestein. The long-distance call came in to the Mexican Consulate in San Diego the first day of June, the caller's request all too familiar. ...

Execs back Latino bank
MSNBC - USA
... Mexico. At Plaza Bank, Latinos will need to provide only the identification given to them by the Mexican Consulate, Aguilar said. ...

"ACLU"

ACLU of Michigan Challenges Breathalyzer Tests for Young ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... young people who are walking down the street for refusing to submit to a Breathalyzer test," said Kary Moss, Executive Director of the ACLU of Michigan. ...

ACLU to monitor Minuteman project in Houston
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... is respected.". The ACLU is training dozens of people how to monitor the Minutemen. The ACLU did the same thing in Arizona. This ...

ACLU goes after the Boy Scouts
WEBCommentary - USA
The ACLU pretends to fight for our rights but in reality is the biggest threat to freedom this side of al-Qaeda. The American Civil ...

RIPROFILING DATA SHOWS MINORITIES STILL TARGETED
Westerly Sun - Westerly,RI,USA
... The ACLU said discretionary searches of stopped drivers rose about 13 percent in the latest period, from 3.4 percent between October and December 2004 to 3.9 ...

The ACLU's 30 Years War
DisInfo.com - New York,NY,USA
'A week ago yesterday President Bush spoke before the more than 30,000 Boy Scouts attending the 16th National Scout Jamboree. The ...

Sex offenders out of shelters
News24 - South Africa
... Randall Marshall, legal director of the Florida ACLU, said the policy could push sex offenders out of the supervision of authorities. ...

Ninety lawmakers sign petition to enter court fight
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. More than half of Tennessee's legislators have signed a petition, asking a judge to let them into an ACLU lawsuit over same-sex marriage. ...

Alcohol test
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
... The suit challenges Michigan law, which the ACLU says is the only one in the country that states underage pedestrians cannot refuse to take an alcohol test ...

The Big Change
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
I have seen Christmas attacked by the ACLU, human life attacked by several organizations, gay marriage forced on the people of America by radical judges out of ...


"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

DWP's Pay Among Best of Utilities
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials say they need to ... of the first thorny political issues to confront Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who promised ...

House Members Pledge to Boost Security at Port Complex
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... "You have my commitment," Thompson told Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who accompanied the lawmakers on the tour Friday. ...

Do city programs help LAUSD?
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently launched a review of what he estimated are the ... how the programs can better prepare children for Los Angeles Unified schools ...

Coliseum concert a good omen for future NFL team?
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... of the district to turning all power over to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ... is a question for criminologists to debate and, apparently, Los Angeles Police Chief ...

Online Exclusive: UCLA Law graduate named LA deputy mayor
The UCLA Daily Bruin - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and Community Services in mid July, a post Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hopes will ... said a recent study shows that only 44 percent of Los Angeles' ninth graders ...

"MS 13" Gang

Montgomery Long Ignored Gang, Some Say
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
... The MS 13 gang is believed responsible for the stabbings last Friday. Two people were hurt at Springbrook High School in Silver ...

Cops Nab Illegal Alien Sex Offender of Toddler

... law enforcement partners to target members of more than 54 violent street gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13, Sureños, 18th Street Gang, Latin Kings ...

Serving up a taste of achievement
Boston Globe - United States
... son. And Stacy Foreman, a former MS-13 gang member raising two children, struggles not to overcook the rice and waste the chicken. ...

"Mexico"

Mexico battles crime
San Jose Mercury News - United States
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - New checkpoints were set up downtown Sunday and nightclubs were ordered closed early, part of what local and federal authorities call ...

Fugitives from Mexico hide in the bustle of Los Angeles
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
LOS ANGELES -- The killers cross the US-Mexico border, assume new identities, get jobs, blend in among Spanish speakers and sometimes enjoy freedom for years. ...

Zapatista rebel chief launches attack on Mexico's politicians
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebel movement emerged from hiding and for the first time in four years showed his masked face to the public, launching a ...

Mexico detains Egyptian on US 'watch list'
Houston Chronicle - United States
MEXICO CITY - Mexican police have detained an Egyptian man who appears on the US "flight restriction" list as he and a compatriot tried to board an airplane in ...

Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of ...
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican ...

Beyond English: A little bit of Mexico
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Growing up in Mexico, Santiago Flores spent most days after school making pan dulce with his father at the family's bakery, Panaderia Imperial. ...

Debate Over Interstate Connecting Mexico, Canada
WCPO - Cincinnati,OH,USA
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some residents in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee are skeptical about the impact of a new highway that would stretch from Canada to Mexico. ...

HNS to bid for e-Mexico rural telephony contract
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Fixed satellite equipment and services company Hughes Network Systems (HNS) plans to bid in the fourth phase of the Mexican government's e-Mexico plan to ...

Beyond the season of death on the US-Mexico border
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... summer months are the worst and Arizona is the center of this tragedy, migrants die throughout the year and along the entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico boundary as ...

IDENTITY THEFT

Identity theft: Has someone been trading on your good name?
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... If they suspect identity theft, consumers should contact their financial institutions and the credit reporting agency immediately. ...

Minuteman Project

Scheduled event nixed over risk of damage to facility, feared ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... In May, two demonstrators protesting the Garden Grove appearance of Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, were struck by a motorist attending the ...

A tough row to hoe
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... migrant workers are crossing the border illegally because of more border patrol agents, human smugglers raising their prices and the Minuteman Project that put ...

"ACLU"

George Forman, 88, Dies; ACLU Leader
New York Times - United States
... of crisis he was more responsible than any other single person for keeping the program afloat," said Ira Glazer, the executive director of the ACLU from 1978 ...

What Is the ACLU Thinking?
The Conservative Voice - USA
... Yet, after the 9/11 carnage, the ACLU of Northern California issued the following statement and warning on its website: "Racial profiling is as flawed an ...

ACLU alleges harassment of gay inmates
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Accused van Gogh killer could be isolated (July 14, 2005) -- Members of the Dutch Parliament want the man accused of murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh isolated ...

Is ACLU promoting deaths to curtail war?
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
If you are wondering where the American Civil Liberties Union is standing in the war on terror, contemplate the following: The ACLU wants US courts to allow ...

Child-sex offenders can't go to shelters
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU in Florida, said ''all sorts'' of laws and regulations have been approved since 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was ...

SHOULD THE QU'RAN BE IN THE COURTROOM?, WEEK OF AUGUST 4-10, 2005
The Wilmington Journal - Wilmington,NC,USA
... Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina (ACLU-NC) "…challenging North Carolina ...

LULAC

Giveaway makes a small difference for many
Huntsville Item - Huntsville,TX,USA
... "It was a mad house, but it was fun," said John Escobedo, president of the local LULAC group that teamed with the Walker and Trinity County Chapter of the ...

illegal alien drivers license

Dominicans living in Puerto Rico can get IDs
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... "This will be more secure than a drivers license," he said. ... "The point is: No Dominican in Puerto Rico will lack US ID unless he's an illegal alien.". ...

"MS 13" Gang

Gang activity pops up in capital suburb:-
Webindia123 - India
... the state's attorney's office in Montgomery County, said some of the six young men arrested by police Saturday were members of the MS-13 gang, The Washington ...

Violent Street Gang Exposed
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
... The victim, a 38-year-old illegal immigrant, told the MS- 13 that he was too old to join their gang and wasn't interested, Wellinger said. ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Ambassador Nominee's Company Is Scrutinized
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... On his home turf in Los Angeles, Arnall for decades has supported a host of political figures, mostly Democrats, including the new mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Proud graduates leave their drug problems behind
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... young graduates of the Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles are an example of why the city cannot give up on its young people, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told them ...

Let the sun shine in
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... or not, the City Council stood up for the residents of Los Angeles in general ... to the council Tuesday, and you can be sure Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others ...

State News In Brief
NapaNet Daily News - Napa,CA,USA
... LOS ANGELES -- The City Council fell a vote short of approving a contract ... It was the first City Council defeat for new Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who argued ...

"Mexico"

Mexico: Rebel leader condemns candidates
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Mexico: Zapatistas ending high alert (July 13, 2005) -- A Mexican rebel group announced Wednesday that it is ending the state of high alert that was instituted ...

US arrests suspect in Mexico killing
Chicago Tribune - United States
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- A Mexican national wanted in his native country on charges of killing a man following an argument over a herd of goats was arrested ...

Mexico's other border problem
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... Facing corrupt Mexican law enforcement agents is just one of the many perils that migrants who try to reach the United States through Mexico have to endure. ...

Mexican Destinations, Mexico's Premier Vacation Rental Company ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Aspen-based Mexican Destinations, one of the most exclusive Mexico luxury villa rentals company, has just released its latest innovative online website. ...

Mexico, US fear retiring migrants
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... work? Will they retire in the United States, or will they return to Mexico? As ... Mexico is not prepared to receive them back. With a ...

Arizona teenager wanted in murder case arrested in Mexico
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
TUCSON, Ariz. A teenager sought in a slaying has been taken into custody by authorities in Mexico and turned over to US officers in Douglas. ...

Scorpions to play final game in Mexico
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
... games south of the US border, the Yuma Scorpions have announced that they have reached an agreement with officials in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, to play ...

Sheila Monteith, new Ambassador to Mexico
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
... Married with two children, the new ambassador who leaves for Mexico City shortly will be accompanied by her husband Vivian and children Mara and Matthew. ...

US border volunteers on the rise, clashes feared
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
CAMPO, California, Aug 7 (Reuters) - US civilian patrols out to spot illegal immigrants from Mexico and angry pro-immigrant activists could be headed for a ...

Powerful union leader dies
El Universal (México) - Distrito Federal,Mexico
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, the leader of Mexico's largest and most politically influential labor organization, died on Saturday at a hospital in Mexico City ...

IN THE NEWS!

Dan Sheehy Asks: "What Happened To American Priorities?
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... to save our country from the illegal-alien invasion? This story needs to be told! I understood Barb Coe's words: ‘Until the US controls immigration, all else ...

Islamists serious; are we?
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... No wonder the censors descend on Congressman Tom Tancredo when he dares to talk about our defensive options - defensive options! ...

Dean: GOP Will Try to Scapegoat Immigrants
Leading The Charge - Milton,Queensland,Australia
... Immigrants," he said. "In Colorado, the chairman of the Republican Party endorsed Tom Tancredo for re-election. That is morally reprehensible. ...

COLUMN ONE : Deport 'em !
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... A spokesperson for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Orleans said its agents asked those picked up if they had children, and at first none ...

Bias crimes on immigs fuels debate
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy responded, "Many local officials have punted, saying this is a federal issue and we can't do anything about it. ...

Fugitives escape Mexican justice by hiding out in LA
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... could live forever without having to speak English," said Jorge Field, who oversees the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's fugitive operations ...

Violent Street Gang Exposed
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
... Frank Dasaro, assistant special agent in charge of Tampa's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, said his agency is committed to targeting MS-13 members ...

US arrests suspect in Mexico killing
Chicago Tribune - United States
Federal agents arrested Miguel Garcia-Chavez, 49, at his Palmdale home Thursday night, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Migra raid tears parents from kids
Workers World - USA
... The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid left no time for the parents of about 30 children to call and make arrangements for their care. ...

The week in review
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Officials with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Orleans, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, said last week that the raid at ...

Stolen Property On-Line Registry Database Created By Swift-Find
Israel News Agency - Israel
... by government and law enforcement agencies around the world including the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) and ICE (US Immigration & Customs Enforcement. ...

Honest immigration
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Like it or not, immigration will be a fact of US life for eons to come. ... Washington is awash in immigration-reform legislation now. ...

More steps to follow before visa available
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... the federal immigration agency, the US Citizenship and ... Immigration program workers at Catholic Charities in ... of their siblings under 2000 legislation called the ...

Small parties battle election arithmetic
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... this, what else can they do to us?'.". ... proposals - such as supporting any legislation that helps ... binding citizens referenda and further controls on immigration. ...

Migrant workers urge bill's passage
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... Immigration Reform, view the proposed legislation as an ... of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, in a ... immigrants currently living in the US to obtain ...

Lawmaker proposes creating border militias
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... bill, noting in a prepared statement that illegal immigration was a ... US Rep ... Minutemen "unnecessary" Culberson said, adding that his legislation would control ...

Inquiry Into Lobbyist Sputters After Demotion
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The legislation, since approved, gave the Guam Supreme ... The acting US attorney was a controversial official ... potential threat to loose immigration rules favored ...

Government makes desperate appeal for help to EU on asylum seekers ...
Malta Independent - St. Julians,Malta
... let go of the issue of illegal immigration until the ... persevere however much the odds are piled against us.". ... to come up with new legislation regarding asylum. ...

Suspected driver charged with smuggling
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... The addition of a conspiracy charge to the indictment isn't surprising, since an immigration charge is easier to prove, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for US ...

Death and Deliverance
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Lucresia arranged the journey through the local agent of a smuggling ring. ... had barred Jesus from reentering the country because of his immigration status and ...

In the news
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Homeland Security agents recited during interrogation of drug-smuggling suspects because ... in San Antonio that Republicans will try to make immigration a pivotal ...

New route for Chinese to get fake UK visas
Times Online - UK
... which the "snakehead" gangsters propose to outwit British immigration officers ... interview that his identity be disguised -- talks about smuggling people the ...

Condi involved in the conspiracy?
TPMCafe - New York,NY,USA
There is circumstantial evidence that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice may have been an active player in the White House conspiracy to smear Joe Wilson by ...

Migrant workers urge bill's passage
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... Opponents of the bill, such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, view the proposed legislation as an amnesty program in disguise. ...

More steps to follow before visa available
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... who filed petitions on behalf of their siblings under 2000 legislation called the ... the chance to legalize their status under the 1986 Immigration Reform Act. ...

Digging at hatred's roots
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... professor who teaches about the nativist movement, says the Alien and Sedition ... None of us advocate illegal immigration, but if our history shows anything, it ...

Illegal immigrants: The truth
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... to spark the attention of many with this series of articles on immigration. ... single high-dollar fraud case I investigated, the suspect was an illegal alien. ...

IDENTITY THEFT

How To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... If you become a victim of identity theft, you may spend months, or years, trying to repair the damage. A compromised credit report can ruin your chances of ...

CAFTA

Chocola's vote for CAFTA was cast with confidence
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
Congressman Chris Chocola voted for CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, as it survived just barely in a 217-215 vote in the House. ...

After CAFTA, Cuellar on his party's hit list
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... over Mr. Cuellar's ouster of Ciro Rodriguez --a four-term San Antonio Democrat who was chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- the CAFTA vote was ...

Costa Ricans Urge Vote, Approval of CAFTA
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... Scan) -- Many adults in Costa Rica believe their president should expedite the ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), according to ...

Local Forces Demand Pelosi Hold CAFTA Sellouts Accountable
OpEdNews - USA
Immediately after the vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi held an emergency meeting with her caucus ...

A case of mutually assured destruction
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... Word circulated on Capitol Hill that Bean had been promised the US Chamber endorsement if she broke party ranks to vote for CAFTA (supported by only 14 other ...

Free-trade foes isolate themselves at home, too
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Congressional approval of CAFTA, the trade pact with Central America, underscores how much the Democratic center has shifted. There are exceptions. ...

Mexican Consulate

My wife thought I was crazy to take this job, says police chief ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Although the consulate will reopen tomorrow America's renewal of its travel ... President Fox accused Washington of over-reacting, while Mexican officials are ...

Minuteman Project

ACLU will keep an eye an Minutemen project
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
The American Civil Liberties Union plans to train volunteers to keep an eye on the Minuteman project along the US-Mexico border in Texas and New Mexico, and ...

Are Illegal Mexicans really Bad for America?
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Have you wondered if the Minuteman Project is really on the "up and up"? ... The Minuteman Project and their kind claim to be anti-illegals only. ...

Borderline truths II
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Instead of applauding the clearly effective and peaceful Minuteman Project, politicians denigrate innovative patriots and call them vigilantes. ...

Carlsbad schools chief cancels forum on immigration
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... to include former San Diego mayor and radio talk-show host Roger Hedgecock as emcee, Colorado Congressmen Tom Tancredo, Minuteman Project founder James W ...

Borderline truths
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... 2 and TribLIVE.com)? Do my eyes deceive me? No, they do not. Congratulations on printing the truth about the patriots who make up the Minuteman Project. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Democrat Chairman: Republicans will make immigrants "scapegoats"
Unison.ie (subscription) - Ireland
... Immigrants,'' he said. ``In. Colorado, the chairman of the Republican Party endorsed Tom Tancredo for re-election. That is morally reprehensible. ...

CAFTA

Bush begins five-week presidential vacation The Fiddler!
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... The secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice, and the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, are also due to pop by at some point for consultations -- both will no ...

Border patrol agent charged with smuggling
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Mexico arrests US border agents (May 4, 2005) -- Mexican authorities arrested two US border patrol agents for bringing illegal ammunition into the country. ...

Border patrol agent charged with smuggling
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
SAN DIEGO, CA, United States (UPI) -- A native of Mexico allegedly used a false birth certificate to join the US Border Patrol and then used his position to ...

Border patrol agent charged with smuggling:-
Webindia123 - India
A native of Mexico allegedly used a false birth certificate to join the US Border Patrol and then used his position to smuggle immigrants into California. ...

New laws go into effect next Friday
Douglas Daily Dispatch - Douglas,AZ,USA
... president of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, said ... Three measures aimed at illegal immigration also made ... a sentence for any other violation of state law.

DeLay: Round Up Illegal Immigrants
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... night to begin rounding up illegal immigrants, and said he backed legislation that would cut off federal funds to cities that don't enforce US immigration laws ...

Senate Reviews Immigration Proposals, Offers Little Help for ...
Payvand - Iran
... These are not addressed by the proposed legislation. ... to as the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act", S ... for immediate relatives of US citizens from ...

New guest workers visa proposal for filling temporary US jobs
GG2.net - UK
... to take up temporary jobs in the US which cannot ... the bill titled the "Border Security and Immigration Reform Act ... The legislation is similar to, but much more ...

Criminal trespass ruling awaited
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... suggest they really don't want us meddling in ... Hume, denied local police are attempting to regulate immigration. ... said they are working on legislation to state ...

Cricket star admits smuggling cannabis
Royal Gazette - Bermuda
... He reportedly cleared Immigration and collected his luggage from the baggage hall, but was then referred for a secondary customs' inspection. ...

Judge: Agents used vague `Miranda'
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... ruled that statements made by four men accused of smuggling cocaine aboard ... In a statement Friday issued in Washington, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Border Patrol agent charged with smuggling, faking citizenship
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... The other agent allegedly told a family member May 20 that he and Ortiz were smuggling groups of several ... "Any rookie who is trained in immigration law could ...

In Quest for Living Wage, Many Immigrants Make Ultimate Sacrifice
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... north, it has added a new wrinkle to the immigration equation: death. ... as a sweeping border control initiative focusing on the major smuggling thoroughfare of ...

No bail for ex-border agent in conspiracy
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... enforcing immigration laws, doing a daunting and largely thankless task.". In April, an El Centro-based Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty to drug smuggling, ...

LAST CHAPTER
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Snow ruled that statements made by four men accused of smuggling cocaine aboard ... loudest applause when he said that Republicans would make immigration a pivotal ...

US authorities capture Mexican wanted in killing
CNN - USA
... arrested Miguel Garcia-Chavez, 49, at his Palmdale home Thursday night, according to a statement issued Friday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Convicted molester faces federal counts
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... pedophile used the Internet to lure a 14-year-old Oregon boy to Palm Springs for sex, according charges leveled by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Following the deleter
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... methods which allow us to produce the evidence needed for investigation," says Jim Plitt, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Cyber Crimes ...

Imam's future in US in doubt
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Issa was arrested June 16 at the offices of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Hawkins Boulevard while trying to request an extension on the ...

Man fatally shot in West Palm Beach during drug investigation
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... an operation involving the Drug Enforcement Administration, Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DEA official ...

Feds make Miranda blunder in Port Everglades smuggling case
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Representatives for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch of Homeland Security (ICE) and the US Attorney's Office in Miami declined to answer that ...

NH judge grills sides on migrant trespass case
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... According to Homeland Security's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, only Florida and Alabama, as well as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ...

Immigrants clash with locals on Long Island
Houston Chronicle - United States
... among longtime residents since at least the late 1990s, but things have gotten worse this summer -- so bad that the head of the Mexican Consulate in New York ...

Immigration is a mess

... And there's the distinct appearance of politics involved: The lawsuit was spearheaded by Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez, who is a candidate for ...

"Mexico"

Chiapas Closes Mexico Oil Well

Mexican Consulate

Pedestrian killed running across Carlsbad street
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Mexican national in his mid-30s. She said she will work with the Mexican consulate to confirm his identity and notify his family. ...

Mexican Authorities Urged To Sign Up for Web-Based Amber Alerts
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
By Amanda Keim/. PHOENIX, Ariz. -- The sheriff in Arizona's most populous county and the Mexican Consulate are hoping to stop kidnapped children from being ...

"ACLU"

ACLU claims gay inmates abused in Los Angeles jail
San Jose Mercury News - United States
... clothes in a busy hallway July 19 at the Men's Central Jail while being called names and taunted with vulgar sexual language by some deputies, the ACLU said in ...

ACLU sues local police
The Morning Sun - Mt. Pleasant,MI,USA
... Col. Tadarial Sturdivant, commander of the state police, was also named in the lawsuit, according to the ACLU. The ACLU filed the ...

ACLU suit doesn't surprise official
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... The ACLU filed suit in federal court Thursday, alleging that the city's formula for setting the recently redrawn council wards violates the US Constitution and ...

US: ACLU hits Bush administration's anti-science policies
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
By Jamie Chapman. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently issued a scathing indictment of the Bush administration's record on science. ...

ACLU seeks volunteers to keep an eye on Minutemen project
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Mexico border in Texas and New Mexico, and document any abuses of human rights or violence, said Claudia Guevara, a coordinator for the ACLU's Legal Observers ...

The Moral Responsibilities of Lawyers
Blogcritics.org - USA
ACLU critics call the organization pro-terrorist, pro-pedophile, anti-Christian, etc. Volokh takes exception, particularly in calling the lawsuits frivolous. ...

Board defends special education placement policy
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
LAKEWOOD -- The Board of Education has again attacked the ACLU's claims to the state alleging racial discrimination in the way the school district refers ...

Search Reasonably, Not Randomly!
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Less than a month after the Tube bombings in London that killed 52 people, the ACLU's NY chapter is fighting to end random searches on the NYC subways. ...

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... MEXICO CITY -- Reflecting the mounting safety concerns plaguing Mexico's state-owned petroleum industry, the governor of Chiapas this week shut down a ...

US Consulate in Mexico to Reopen
Leading The Charge - Milton,Queensland,Australia
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - The US consulate in Nuevo Laredo will reopen, the US ambassador to Mexico said Friday, a week after announcing the offices would be ...

US, Mexico sign radio interference protocol
Hindu Business Line - India
WASHINTON: The United States and Mexico have signed protocols to "significantly reduce the potential of life-threatening cross-border interference in critical ...

Body Is That of Model; Lover May Be in Mexico
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Police believe Cullen has gone to Mexico. A cause of death had not been determined, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. David Smith said. ...

Mexico's first lady makes court appearance in lawsuit against ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun appeared at a Mexico City court on Friday for a hearing on a civil suit she has filed against an Argentine ...

Tucson teen wanted in murder case arrested in Mexico
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
A teenager sought in a slaying has been taken into custody by authorities in Mexico and turned over to US officers in Douglas. Authorities ...

Borgetti Gets Mexico Call
BAR-Talk.com - UK
New Bolton Wanderers striker Jared Borgetti has been called up by Mexico for their World Cup qualifying game against Costa Rica on August 17. ...

MEXICO'S WATER ALWAYS A CONTENDER
Oswego Palladium Times - Oswego,NY,USA
By ADELE DELSAVIO, Staff Writer. That's the question raised by Mexico's winning the Oswego County Health Department's drinking water contest yet again. ...

Leader of largest Mexican labor union coalition dies
Houston Chronicle - United States
MEXICO CITY -- Leonardo Rodriguez Alcaine, the leader of Mexico's largest and most politically influential labor organization, died today at a hospital in ...

"MS 13" Gang

Teenage Stabbing Incidents
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA
... David's friend, Jorge Perez, 23, of Silver Spring, said he believed David was attacked because he did not want to join the MS-13 gang, a large Latino gang in ...

"MS 13" Gang

Southland street gang members arrested
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... The initial target of Operation Community Shield was the MS-13 gang, one of the largest and most violent in the country, according to ICE. ...

Agents capture MS-13 member
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... The Mara Salvatrucha gang, also referred to as MS-13, formed when people began fleeing El Salvador because of civil war. They settled primarily in Los Angeles. ...

Al-Qaeda in Minnesota
TheRealityCheck.Org - Shelton,CT,USA
... In an unrelated case last month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and removal officers deported an MS-13 gang member to Honduras today ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Port security praised
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
By David Rogers. LONG BEACH -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Rep. Juanitacq Millender-McDonald and Long Beach City Councilman ...

Los Angeles World Airports Hails FAA Announcement of $38.8 Million ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... During his recent trip to Washington, DC, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa met with US Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta and FAA ...

Where Doritos and Grover Cleveland Color the City Council Race
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... The 14th, which includes portions of Downtown Los Angeles, is a wonderful but ... The last person to represent the area, Antonio Villaraigosa, trampolined to the ...

Landfill Contract Narrowly Rejected
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The Los Angeles City Council rejected a proposal Friday to extend a contract to ... was the first City Council defeat for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who argued in ...

LULAC

View From Lodi, CA: 9/11 No Compensation For Bush Blunders
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... The provisions of the CAFTA are so detrimental to workers that even the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), whose mission is to promote Latin ...

"Mexican Mafia"

News Roundup: Shooting results in three arrests
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Claiming several errors in a capital murder trial that netted him a death penalty, alleged Mexican Mafia chieftain Manuel Vasquez on Friday petitioned the ...

CAFTA will take more US jobs
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
The president has just signed into effect CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Does anyone remember all the jobs lost ...

Supporters of CAFTA stress Georgia benefit
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
... CAFTA will make more than 80 percent of US exports to these countries duty-free immediately, with an additional 10 percent phased out in the next 10 years. ...

Blunt praises CAFTA in visit
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
... Rep. Lynn Westmoreland. "It was beautiful to watch him work on the CAFTA vote," Westmoreland said in his introduction of Blunt. "He ...

Cost of CAFTA
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
The US Senate and House have now passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). ... CAFTA will prevent these developments rather than bring them about. ...

Aderholt defends CAFTA vote
Times-Journal - Fort Payne,AL,USA
Even after passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the sock capital of the world continues to draw interest from the Capitol. ...

Workers thrilled with NAFTA now have CAFTA to look forward to
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... country has realized since the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, was there any doubt our representatives in Washington would pass CAFTA so that ...

FCAT folly
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... I wish him and his family the best. I commend President Bush and Congress for approving DR-CAFTA. After serving as a missionary ...

|Summary of events against the CAFTA-DR in Guatemala 9 March |
Indymedia Chiapas - Chiapas,Mexico
This morning rural Guatemala spilled more farmers into the streets of the capital for the third day in a row, trying to block the Congress from ratifying the ...

Congress earned its August break this sessionPublished: Saturday ...
Elkhart Truth - Elkhart,IN,USA
... from coal. * House passage, by a 217-215 vote, of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). Six members ...

NEWS

Grothman's bad idea
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... and is now trying to through guest worker legislation). ... circumstances, this type of immigration would occur ... Small Business and Government Reform on Wednesday. ...

NC grappling with issue of illegals

... who is an "illegal alien" to some is an "undocumented worker" to others. William Gheen, of the Raleigh-based Americans for Legal Immigration, contends local ...

ICE nabs two men in phony ID plot
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... 1,000 blank Social Security and resident alien card templates ... ICE agents also arrested seven illegal aliens on administrative immigration violations and ...

Criminal trespass ruling awaited
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... the country needs "comprehensive immigration reform," but it ... local police are attempting to regulate immigration. ... said they are working on legislation to state ...

Navarrette: The cost of doing 'jobs that Americans won't do'
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... John Cornyn, R-Texas. These border-state senators have drafted legislation called the Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005. ...

Bordering on a Policy
The Weekly Standard - USA
... public. But now each has introduced legislation to reform the immigration system. The two bills are competing head to head. And ...

The Border Patrol Hired an Illegal Alien and Gave Him a Gun
The Conservative Voice - USA
On Thursday, August 4th, 2005, suspected illegal alien Oscar Antonio Ortiz, was arrested in San Diego County, California, not only for allegedly falsifying ...

Kansans in DC make a difference
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... After law school he got a staff assistant job ... More than 70 lawyers are in his division, which ... from pornography laws to Social Security codes to immigration. ...

Lawmaker says illegal immigrants 'get a pass'
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
"An illegal alien actually has ... Tancredo, from Colorado, has come under fire recently from Hispanic groups over calls for tougher immigration enforcement and a ...

ACLU seeks volunteers to keep an eye on Minutemen project
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
The American Civil Liberties Union will train volunteers to monitor the Minuteman project along the US-Mexico border in Texas and New Mexico, and document any ...

School bars illegal-immigration forum
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration; James W. Gilchrist of Aliso Viejo, founder of the MinuteMan Project; Los Angeles medical ...

Minutemen to pack it up
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Campo border-watch effort began July 16, organized by Oceanside resident Jim Chase, a former postal worker who participated in the Minuteman Project in Arizona ...

Minuteman Project

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

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

"Jan Herron"

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

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

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

"ACLU"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Mexican Mafia"

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

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

CAFTA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the NEWS!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

frosty wooldridge

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

"MS 13" Gang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Mexico"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexican Consulate

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

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

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

"Antonio Villaraigosa" The Mecha Mayor!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hastert eyes immigration
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... plans to work on immigration legislation this fall ... Yesterday, though, immigration enforcement was foremost in the ... "It's critical that any reform address border ...

Poll respondents comment on immigration proposals
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... of laws and indeed we have laws governing immigration? ... Legal alien status and citizenship are available in ... law calls for deportation of illegal immigrants then ...

In the US Army now
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
... H1-B visas for skilled workers, illegal immigrants, green ... of the current fiscal year, the immigration service has ... In fiscal 2004, 7,627 alien soldiers, sailors ...

No relief on desert deaths
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... their people as well, but ultimately we have to pass legislation that will ... a Tucson Democrat, said movement has been too slow on immigration reform because the ...

Bush Adds Energy, Trade To Long List Of 2nd-Term Wins
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... idea of personal accounts. The president also has yet to win his party over on immigration reform. While Republicans "still face ...

Caribbean Nationals Must Lobby For Passage Of Secure America Act ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... As the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus said in its ... of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging ... That legislation is bound to attack special ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... priorities when it comes to immigration and border ... on a comprehensive piece of legislation that addresses ... It's critical that any reform address border security ...

Mid-Valley immigrants praise, chide reform ideas
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... their thoughts about the proposed legislation that dramatically ... Two proposals before the US Senate Committee on ... approaches to overhauling the immigration system ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... All of us want to see a nuclear-free peninsula, and that's why ... McCLELLAN: On the immigration bill ... of Congress about how to move forward on legislation that will ...

US government considers information reform legislation
Workpermit.com - UK
... is just one of several pieces of proposed legislation dealing with illegal immigration. ... those living on Indian reservations close to US borders to ...

77,000 people apply for 180 S. Africa jobs
BusinessWeek - USA
... like Iran and Cuba, although it is considering relaxing immigration legislation to allow in ... Bad credit, bankruptcy, or poor credit is OK - US residents only.

JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Social Security and Immigration
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... be made financially sound by simply increasing immigration. ... greed and foolishness led us to throw ... Social Security, congress passed legislation mandating all ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... all around the country, and the US Air Force ... step with its constituents on illegal immigration and border ... The superior proposal is the legislation sponsored by ...

Bush won't block abuse of detainees
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... United States by an alert immigration agent. ... Bantz Craddock, commander of the US Southern Command ... multibillion-dollar military bill "if legislation is presented ...

ONCE again Cherie Blair opens her mouth and puts her foot in it.
The Sun - UK
... she has a right to speak on anti-terror legislation. ... that is what lies in wait for us -- because we ... Our immigration and asylum policies -- or lack of them ...

Two local agencies form smuggling squads
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Attorney's and Sheriff's offices to immigrant smuggling cases is an unusual move for local authorities, given the long-held notion that immigration is the sole ...

Refugee groups praise families' release
ABC Online - Australia
... inmate of the man told ABC TV's Lateline program that immigration guards were ... refugee advocates say the Government should drop people-smuggling charges against ...

New focus falls on northern border after discovery of drug tunnel
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... the stretch remains hugely vulnerable - to illegal crossings, drug smuggling and especially ... James Bissett, former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, the ...

A Look at the Three Immigration Reform Bills in Congress
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Increases penalties for immigrant smuggling, document fraud, drug trafficking and gang ... Authorizes state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration law ...

Mexico struggling to stop wave of migrants
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... aimed at persuading the US government to sign an immigration accord with ... of the Mara Salvatrucha, Central American gangs that control migrant smuggling routes. ...

Empty detention centre to remain operational
ABC Online - Australia
... Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says another Vietnamese woman being detained in Perth ... facility - that is an important deterrent against people smuggling.".

Woman jailed for allegedly smuggling three minors
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... A pervasive pattern of the smuggling of minors occurs on the Texas border ... the children are stopped, they are turned over to Mexican immigration officials and ...

Iranian smuggling suspect released from jail
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... He has pleaded innocent to three attempted smuggling charges. ... a legal permanent resident of the United States, after a source told immigration officials that ...

General Naturalization Requirements
Burlington Union - Concord,MA,USA
... or commercialized vice is or has been involved in smuggling illegal aliens ... under oath, in order to receive a benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act. ...

"The Secret Revolution of Mexico and the Congress OF the United ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
and an "illegal alien" is not an "undocumented immigrant" or an "illegal immigrant" -- they're "ILLEGAL INVADERS" in violation of the laws of nations! ...

Hastert eyes immigration
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... plans to work on immigration legislation this fall ... Yesterday, though, immigration enforcement was foremost in the ... "It's critical that any reform address border ...

Poll respondents comment on immigration proposals
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... of laws and indeed we have laws governing immigration? ... Legal alien status and citizenship are available in ... law calls for deportation of illegal immigrants then ...

In the US Army now
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
... H1-B visas for skilled workers, illegal immigrants, green ... of the current fiscal year, the immigration service has ... In fiscal 2004, 7,627 alien soldiers, sailors ...

No relief on desert deaths
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... their people as well, but ultimately we have to pass legislation that will ... a Tucson Democrat, said movement has been too slow on immigration reform because the ...

Bush Adds Energy, Trade To Long List Of 2nd-Term Wins
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... idea of personal accounts. The president also has yet to win his party over on immigration reform. While Republicans "still face ...

Caribbean Nationals Must Lobby For Passage Of Secure America Act ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... As the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus said in its ... of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging ... That legislation is bound to attack special ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... priorities when it comes to immigration and border ... on a comprehensive piece of legislation that addresses ... It's critical that any reform address border security ...

Mid-Valley immigrants praise, chide reform ideas
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... their thoughts about the proposed legislation that dramatically ... Two proposals before the US Senate Committee on ... approaches to overhauling the immigration system ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... All of us want to see a nuclear-free peninsula, and that's why ... McCLELLAN: On the immigration bill ... of Congress about how to move forward on legislation that will ...

US government considers information reform legislation
Workpermit.com - UK
... is just one of several pieces of proposed legislation dealing with illegal immigration. ... those living on Indian reservations close to US borders to ...

77,000 people apply for 180 S. Africa jobs
BusinessWeek - USA
... like Iran and Cuba, although it is considering relaxing immigration legislation to allow in ... Bad credit, bankruptcy, or poor credit is OK - US residents only.

JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Social Security and Immigration
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... be made financially sound by simply increasing immigration. ... greed and foolishness led us to throw ... Social Security, congress passed legislation mandating all ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... all around the country, and the US Air Force ... step with its constituents on illegal immigration and border ... The superior proposal is the legislation sponsored by ...

Bush won't block abuse of detainees
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... United States by an alert immigration agent. ... Bantz Craddock, commander of the US Southern Command ... multibillion-dollar military bill "if legislation is presented ...

ONCE again Cherie Blair opens her mouth and puts her foot in it.
The Sun - UK
... she has a right to speak on anti-terror legislation. ... that is what lies in wait for us -- because we ... Our immigration and asylum policies -- or lack of them ...

Two local agencies form smuggling squads
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Attorney's and Sheriff's offices to immigrant smuggling cases is an unusual move for local authorities, given the long-held notion that immigration is the sole ...

Refugee groups praise families' release
ABC Online - Australia
... inmate of the man told ABC TV's Lateline program that immigration guards were ... refugee advocates say the Government should drop people-smuggling charges against ...

New focus falls on northern border after discovery of drug tunnel
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... the stretch remains hugely vulnerable - to illegal crossings, drug smuggling and especially ... James Bissett, former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, the ...

A Look at the Three Immigration Reform Bills in Congress
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Increases penalties for immigrant smuggling, document fraud, drug trafficking and gang ... Authorizes state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration law ...

Mexico struggling to stop wave of migrants
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... aimed at persuading the US government to sign an immigration accord with ... of the Mara Salvatrucha, Central American gangs that control migrant smuggling routes. ...

Empty detention centre to remain operational
ABC Online - Australia
... Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says another Vietnamese woman being detained in Perth ... facility - that is an important deterrent against people smuggling.".

Woman jailed for allegedly smuggling three minors
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... A pervasive pattern of the smuggling of minors occurs on the Texas border ... the children are stopped, they are turned over to Mexican immigration officials and ...

Iranian smuggling suspect released from jail
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... He has pleaded innocent to three attempted smuggling charges. ... a legal permanent resident of the United States, after a source told immigration officials that ...

General Naturalization Requirements
Burlington Union - Concord,MA,USA
... or commercialized vice is or has been involved in smuggling illegal aliens ... under oath, in order to receive a benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act. ...

"The Secret Revolution of Mexico and the Congress OF the United ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
and an "illegal alien" is not an "undocumented immigrant" or an "illegal immigrant" -- they're "ILLEGAL INVADERS" in violation of the laws of nations! ...

Hastert eyes immigration
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... plans to work on immigration legislation this fall ... Yesterday, though, immigration enforcement was foremost in the ... "It's critical that any reform address border ... 

Poll respondents comment on immigration proposals
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... of laws and indeed we have laws governing immigration? ... Legal alien status and citizenship are available in ... law calls for deportation of illegal immigrants then ...

In the US Army now
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
... H1-B visas for skilled workers, illegal immigrants, green ... of the current fiscal year, the immigration service has ... In fiscal 2004, 7,627 alien soldiers, sailors ...

No relief on desert deaths
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... their people as well, but ultimately we have to pass legislation that will ... a Tucson Democrat, said movement has been too slow on immigration reform because the ...

Bush Adds Energy, Trade To Long List Of 2nd-Term Wins
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... idea of personal accounts. The president also has yet to win his party over on immigration reform. While Republicans "still face ...

Caribbean Nationals Must Lobby For Passage Of Secure America Act ...

Two local agencies form smuggling squads
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Attorney's and Sheriff's offices to immigrant smuggling cases is an unusual move for local authorities, given the long-held notion that immigration is the sole ...

Refugee groups praise families' release
ABC Online - Australia
... inmate of the man told ABC TV's Lateline program that immigration guards were ... refugee advocates say the Government should drop people-smuggling charges against ...

New focus falls on northern border after discovery of drug tunnel
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... the stretch remains hugely vulnerable - to illegal crossings, drug smuggling and especially ... James Bissett, former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, the ...

A Look at the Three Immigration Reform Bills in Congress
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Increases penalties for immigrant smuggling, document fraud, drug trafficking and gang ... Authorizes state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration law ...

Mexico struggling to stop wave of migrants
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... aimed at persuading the US government to sign an immigration accord with ... of the Mara Salvatrucha, Central American gangs that control migrant smuggling routes. ...

Empty detention centre to remain operational
ABC Online - Australia
... Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says another Vietnamese woman being detained in Perth ... facility - that is an important deterrent against people smuggling.".

Woman jailed for allegedly smuggling three minors
Brownsville Herald - TX United States
... A pervasive pattern of the smuggling of minors occurs on the Texas border ... the children are stopped, they are turned over to Mexican immigration officials and ...

Iranian smuggling suspect released from jail
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... He has pleaded innocent to three attempted smuggling charges. ... a legal permanent resident of the United States, after a source told immigration officials that ...

General Naturalization Requirements
Burlington Union - Concord,MA,USA
... or commercialized vice is or has been involved in smuggling illegal aliens ... under oath, in order to receive a benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act. ...

"The Secret Revolution of Mexico and the Congress OF the United ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
and an "illegal alien" is not an "undocumented immigrant" or an "illegal immigrant" -- they're "ILLEGAL INVADERS" in violation of the laws of nations! ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... As the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus said in its ... of the root causes of illegal immigration by encouraging ... That legislation is bound to attack special ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... priorities when it comes to immigration and border ... on a comprehensive piece of legislation that addresses ... It's critical that any reform address border security ...

Mid-Valley immigrants praise, chide reform ideas
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... their thoughts about the proposed legislation that dramatically ... Two proposals before the US Senate Committee on ... approaches to overhauling the immigration system ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... All of us want to see a nuclear-free peninsula, and that's why ... McCLELLAN: On the immigration bill ... of Congress about how to move forward on legislation that will ...

US government considers information reform legislation
Workpermit.com - UK
... is just one of several pieces of proposed legislation dealing with illegal immigration. ... those living on Indian reservations close to US borders to ...

77,000 people apply for 180 S. Africa jobs
BusinessWeek - USA
... like Iran and Cuba, although it is considering relaxing immigration legislation to allow in ... Bad credit, bankruptcy, or poor credit is OK - US residents only.

JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Social Security and Immigration
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... be made financially sound by simply increasing immigration. ... greed and foolishness led us to throw ... Social Security, congress passed legislation mandating all ...

Nixing a sound proposal
CNN - USA
... all around the country, and the US Air Force ... step with its constituents on illegal immigration and border ... The superior proposal is the legislation sponsored by ...

Bush won't block abuse of detainees
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... United States by an alert immigration agent. ... Bantz Craddock, commander of the US Southern Command ... multibillion-dollar military bill "if legislation is presented ...

ONCE again Cherie Blair opens her mouth and puts her foot in it.
The Sun - UK
... she has a right to speak on anti-terror legislation. ... that is what lies in wait for us -- because we ... Our immigration and asylum policies -- or lack of them ...

DHS TO MOUNT MAJOR IT SECURITY EXERCISE
The Homeland Security Department plans to conduct a major cybersecurity
preparedness and response exercise to be called Cyber Storm in
November.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36434-1.html


THE SECRET IS OUT: DHS LAUNCHES STATE-LOCAL NETWORK
The new HSIN-Secret classified network is being deployed and tested at
50 state emergency operations centers and 18 additional state and local
law enforcement sites.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36443-1.html 

DEMOCRATS SEE FLAWS IN DHS REORGANIZATION
House Democrats say there are still major flaws at DHS, including a
lack of money for security in mass-transit systems and a management
structure that may give the department's political staff too much power.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36385-1.html


CONGRESSMAN RAPS DHS PERSONNEL TECHNOLOGY CONTRACT
The ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee takes
issue with DHS' award of a blanket purchase agreement for the agency's
$175 million MaxHR project.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36451-1.html

White House officials duck immigration hearing
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... potentially undermined President Bush's own stated commitment to immigration reform. ... Edward Kennedy, an active player in immigration legislation, added that he ...

GOP incumbents take heat from right on immigration
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... who heads Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and ... year, Dreier co-sponsored legislation to create ... candidates who aggressively pursue immigration restrictions would ...

Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 26 July 2005
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... is opposed to the passage of legislation as proposed by ... begun to provide the most significant reform of the ... NZ First) to the Minister of Immigration: How many ...

State Rep. Pearce considers run for governor or Congress
Phoenix Business Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Napolitano vetoed a number of conservative immigration bills earlier this year ... Pearce said the governor is failing to deal with "illegal alien invasion" that is ...

Students get last-minute reprieve from judge
Web Devil - USA
... for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act ... to little more than "quasi-amnesty for illegal aliens." He said US immigration law should not ...

Myrick Concerned About Illegal Immigration and Threat to Citizen ...
NCrumors.com - Lincolnton,NC,USA
... the Clear Law Enforcement for criminal Alien Removal Act ... local assistance in the enforcement of immigration laws, and would deport illegal immigrants who ...

California Border Police petition being circulated
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA,USA
... "The life of an illegal alien is a life of exploitation, abuse and fear," Haynes said. Closing the borders and encouraging legal immigration would help assure ...

No CAFTA, North American Community, or Guest Worker: Investigate ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) calls for opposition to CAFTA, Guest ... and the injury of his family by a drunk driving illegal alien arrested thrice ...

No kidnap claim evidence
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Lan Fu, who was wanted in relation to a major smuggling racket. ... in Australia, beginning with his initial approach to Department of Immigration officials in ...

Kolbe, Border Patrol see checkpoint study results differently
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
In 2002, Congress mandated that Border Patrol checkpoints in The Tucson Sector start rotating locations every week or two. Since ...

Illegal alien sentenced on immigration charges
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
A 34-year-old illegal alien was sentenced Monday in Rock Island federal court to seven years in prison for unlawful entry into the United States after previous ...

Issa, Border Patrol at odds
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
Closing the Temecula and San Clemente checkpoints would improve the Border Patrol's chances of catching undocumented immigrants and seizing illegal drugs, Rep. ...

Border Patrol considering checkpoint recommendations
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
NORTH COUNTY ---- The US Border Patrol will try to find better ways to measure the effectiveness of its interior checkpoints, but there are no changes planned ...

Security & Terror: The week ahead
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... much sexier, more controversial issue of immigration reform. The panel is slated to hear Tuesday from four senior senators who have proposed legislation on the ...

Moving forward on immigration
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... favorable odds on the legislation getting that respectful hearing. But Cornyn and Kyl should be commended for the effort. Achieving immigration reform is going ...

Mute on Immigration
Washington Post - United States
... serious pieces of immigration legislation. Pressure from them, as well as from a host of other senators from both parties who back immigration reform, seems to ...

Haab case illustrates need for Congress to act quickly
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Trouble is, the sides lining up in the Haab case and regarding the Arizona legislation won't resolve ... Any practical immigration reform must contain both features ...

Automated Fingerprint System Helps Border Patrol Catch More ...
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
It's been on line at all eight Tucson Sector US Border Patrol stations for nearly one year. Agents say it's not just a success; it's a godsend. ...

Illegal alien sentenced on immigration charges
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
A 34-year-old illegal alien was sentenced Monday in Rock Island federal court ... his state sentence, Ruiz-Martinez was turned over to the Immigration and Customs ...

Study: Illegal immigrant enrollment up in state
Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
... such as the Immigration Solidarity Network, prefer the term "undocumented" because the word is not as dehumanizing as the terms "illegal" or "alien." However ...

Inflammatory words won't resolve issueof immigration
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... The Telegraph to talk with one another, learn more about immigration in general ... Second, the leap he takes from immigrant to illegal alien to terrorist is not ...

The McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill Falls Short
Heritage.org - Washington,DC,USA
Any comprehensive immigration reform program must encourage individuals to use lawful ... the same time, it must effectively combat human smuggling, illegal border ...

Judge Delays Assault Case Against Border Officer
WIVB - Buffalo,NY,USA
... has delayed the federal assault case against a customs and immigration officer. ... attorney believes the woman may be involved in human smuggling and homicide! ...

4 dead, many injured in van crash on I-12
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... "In suspected alien smuggling, there could be a ... Immigration officials and State Police were unable to provide additional victims' names because of the ongoing ...

Singapore seizes illegal DVDs, cigarettes at border checkpoint ...
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
... 64,000) in unpaid duties and street value from special smuggling compartments in two ... DVDs and VCDs hidden in a van last Friday, the Immigration and Checkpoints ...

White House officials duck immigration hearing
Scripps Howard News Service - USA
... that his goal remains "having legislation enacted this ... intention to mark up an immigration bill after ... administration officials will not slow us down," Specter ...

Lawmakers Debate Proposals Aimed at Curbing Illegal Immigration to ...
Voice of America - USA
... numbers of illegal aliens could have on US health care ... bill that aims to reform the immigration system by ... McCain and Mr. Kennedy discussed the legislation at a ...

Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 26 July 2005
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... 37.5 percent of medicines sold, the US subsidises only ... is opposed to the passage of legislation as proposed ... NZ First) to the Minister of Immigration: How many ...

GOP incumbents take heat from right on immigration
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... Kyl (R-Ariz.) introduced competing legislation last week ... concern over our ‘failed immigration policies' and ... through appropriations and offers us an amnesty ...

Employers urged to shape new migration legislation
PersonnelToday.com - UK
... government launched a 16-week consultation into new legislation aimed at shoring up immigration procedures while ... The new system] will enable us to calibrate ...

Security & Terror: The week ahead
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... persons," the guidelines that bar US agencies from ... sexier, more controversial issue of immigration reform. ... senior senators who have proposed legislation on the ...

US stands apart from other nations on maternity leave
USA Today - USA
... missing in the United States, where immigration has ensured ... One reason is that US women are used to ... of central problems when we look at paid leave legislation. ...

Illegal immigration a big threat: Advani
Chennai Online - Chennai,India
New Delhi, July 26: Asserting that illegal immigration was the biggest threat ... "Let us not do ... created by the apex court's verdict by bringing a new legislation. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Protesters' message at Capitol: "Tancredo does not speak for me"
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Tom Tancredo, saying the Colorado congressman crossed the line with his recent remarks about bombing Islamic holy sites. "He is wrong for Colorado. ...

Littwin: Tancredo just playing to his faithful fans
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... international. This is what happens if you're a US congressman, even if you're Tom Tancredo, and you try out your Dr. Strangelove imitation. ...

Tom Tancredo's Prescription for Homeland Security - Threaten To ...
News Hounds - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, who is reportedly considering running for president in 2008, appeared on Hannity & Colmes Tuesday night (7/26/05) to ...

Free Muslims meet with the Congressman Tom Tancredo
RedState.org - USA
the senseless killing of innocent people in the name of our beloved religion. The Free.

Tancredo's remark doesn't reflect US policy
The New Nation - Bangladesh
US embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday "unequivocally" rejected the recent comments of Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado threatening to target the Muslim holy sites ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

It's time for city to take a stand
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
In Idaho, Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez is looking to the courts for help to stop the drain on the taxpayers. The legal ...

Minuteman Project

Allegations fly in California Minuteman Project
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... was kicked in the shin by a UC Riverside professor and protester more than a week ago while visiting the border in support of the California Minuteman Project. ...

In Time Of Disaster: Who's Interfering With Whom?
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
... One of the best examples is in the latest official position against the Minuteman Project. The report is that Homeland Security ...

New VDARE.com Readers (Maybe Juan Mann Fans?) At DHS/ICE
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... news these days. With the advent of the Minuteman Project, the federal government is finally paying attention. So . . . guess who ...

Report: Border agents confused about duties
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... of US Customs, the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two new entities: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and ...
Immigrants arrested after UPS clerk uncovers parcel of cash
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
... "The investigation is ongoing in conjunction with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)," Tribble said. "This money could be ...

Security & Terror: The week ahead
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... UPI that part of the reason why some of Homeland Security`s budget woes -- the huge hole in the finances of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for instance ...

VDARE.com, Virginia, June 28, Juan Mann
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... which serve as a vehicle for aliens to be released in droves from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody ...

4 dead, many injured in van crash on I-12
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Information on the victims and their conditions was sketchy Monday afternoon, as officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency investigated the ...

Myrick Concerned About Illegal Immigration and Threat to Citizen ...
NCrumors.com - Lincolnton,NC,USA
Congresswoman Sue Myrick fired off a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary ...

Federal authorities detain Muslim charity director
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
... Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Allan Doody tells The Washington Post authorities have seized computers, photos and immigration documents. ...

GVI Security Solutions Names Asa Hutchinson and John Gutfreund to ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... employees housed in such agencies as the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the ...

"ACLU"

ACLU Sues NC for Varied Courtroom Oaths
Washington Post - United States
... When witnesses are sworn in, the religious texts of non-Christian faiths should be allowed in North Carolina courts along with the Bible, the ACLU argued in ...

ACLU investigates random train searches
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The Connecticut ACLU joins its affiliates in New York and New Jersey in raising concerns about the practice. "We believe it opens ...

O'Reilly: "ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror ...
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly condemned "the ACLU and the judges who side with them" as "terror allies." He was responding to the American Civil Liberties ...

Senate Backs Scouts' Use of Military Bases
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In 1999, the ACLU of Illinois filed a lawsuit claiming the Pentagon's sponsorship of such Boy Scout activities violates the First Amendment. ...

ACLU Policy To Legalize Child Porn Distribution
Blogcritics.org - USA
... The ACLU does not. ... The ACLU's position is this: criminalize the production but legalize the sale and distribution of child pornography. ...

The Myth Called Separation
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... What we are seeing today is the ACLU and the ADL and other extreme left wing groups trying to convince people of the fact that the church should stay out of ...

Commentary: RFID is a Slippery Slope By WANDA CROW
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA
... Privacy advocacy groups like Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ) are opposed to RFID in libraries because its ...

Lautenschlager's speech at gay rally criticized by GOP
Appleton Post Crescent - Appleton,WI,USA
... The attorney general took the stage after speeches by Larry Dupuis, legal director for the ACLU of Wisconsin, and Megan Sapnar and Ingrid Ankerson, two of the ...

Minuteman Project

Hundreds demonstrate against minuteman project
KRQE - Albuquerque,NM,USA
LAS CRUCES, NM -- Hundreds of demonstrators marched through downtown Las Cruces yesterday calling the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers racist and un ...

Drug tunnel stirs fears about northern border
Seattle Times - United States
... Minuteman Project organizers say they are training volunteer leaders now for the Washington operation, set for October. Connie Hair ...

Governor losing Hispanic support
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Mexican President Vicente Fox, a proposal to let more legal immigrants into the country and condemnation of a citizen border patrol, the Minuteman Project. ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa Names New Airport Commissioners
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday named six new airport commissioners, including a major critic who has sued to stop the $11 billion plan to ...

Morning Headlines
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Villaraigosa has started to put his stamp on City Hall by shaking up the citizen boards and commissions that oversee much of what the city of Los Angeles does ...

Blacks and Hispanics: Allies or Rivals?; Town Hall to Tackle Major ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Does the election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mean the end of an era for black leaders? Racially-motivated brawls ...

Moving Forward, Looking Back: Outfest Wraps 23rd Year with ...
Indie Wire - USA
Outfest 2005, which ran in Los Angeles from July 7-18, kicked off ... Making Outfest history, newly elected LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa launched the festivities ...

"ACLU"

Sheila Lennon: ACLU wants all Abu Ghraib abuse photographs; Real ...
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
... government is raising newfound reasons for withholding records to which the public has an undeniable right," said Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU. ...

RICK ROBERTS SUED BY ACLU OVER MT. SOLEDAD CROSS
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The ACLU seems to have a problem with a cross on top of the Mount Soledad war memorial in San Diego. They have sued one of its main ...

Lautenschlager's impartiality questioned
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... Lautenschlager took the stage after speeches by Larry Dupuis, legal director for the ACLU of Wisconsin, and Megan Sapnar and Ingrid Ankerson, two of the ...

ACLU Asks Missouri Judge to Let Lesbian Become Foster Parent
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... lesbian. The ACLU is asking the court to overturn an earlier administrative ruling upholding the denial. Kansas City, Mo. - infoZine ...

Defense Department Refuses to Release Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... So far, the government has released over 60,000 pages of documents related to the prison. All have been posted to the internet by the ACLU. ...

Terry Anderson

Blacks and Hispanics: Allies or Rivals?; Town Hall to Tackle Major ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Speakers will include Bernard Parks, Los Angeles City Councilman; Terry Anderson, Radio Talk Show Host, AM 870-KRLA; Richard Alonzo, Superintendent LAUSD ...

Mexican Consulate

Survey shows opinion against Camacho; defense seeking venue change
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Defense attorneys also want the judge to void the potential death penalty because the Mexican consulate was not contacted by authorities after Camacho's arrest ...

"Mexico"

Gert Fades Over Mexico, Franklin Weakens
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Gert weakened to a tropical depression with top sustained winds of 30 mph as it moved toward the Tampico area of Mexico. ...

UPDATE 1-Mexico Vitro swings into profit vs loss
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexican glass maker Vitro posted a second-quarter net profit of $37 million on Monday, against a net loss a year earlier of ...

Mexico: President lashes out at critics
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Mexico: PRI wins key governor's race (July 4, 2005) -- Mexico's former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has won the governor's race in the ...

Mexico Launches Genetic Mapping Project
Washington Post - United States
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government and private companies launched a project Monday to map the genes of Mexicans, in hopes of developing treatments for ...

Mexico's ICH buys US steel maker Republic
Reuters - USA
MONTERREY, Mexico, July 25 (Reuters) - Steelmaker Industrias CH (ICHB.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) (ICH) said on Monday it acquired US rival PAV Republic Inc. ...

Mexico's Mabe offers $70.4M for Camco, Canada's largest appliance ...
CBC News - Canada
... 48 per cent of Controladora Mabe SA de CV, a Mexican exporter of ranges and refrigerators which employs 18,000 people at 13 factories, eight of them in Mexico. ...

Bolton Wanderers sign Mexico captain and striker Jared Borgetti
Canada.com - Canada
BOLTON, England (AP) - Bolton has signed striker Jared Borgetti to a two-year contract, hopeful the Mexico captain can adjust to the physical play in the ...

UPDATE 2-Mexico's Asur net jumps 20 pct on tourism boom
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexico's Asur, the operator of nine airports including one serving the Caribbean beach resort Cancun, posted a 20 percent ...

Mexico City mayor has a lot riding on buses
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
MEXICO CITY -- A funky new bus system installed by Mexico City mayor and presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador is more than a weird hybrid ...

Kidnapped girl believed in Mexico:-
Webindia123 - India
A convicted child molester from Nevada is believed to have taken his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter to Mexico. Fernando Aguero ...

"Mexican Mafia"

FRANK MICKADEIT
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... ranging from George Russell Weller, the 87-year-old who plowed into the Santa Monica Farmers' Market, killing 10, to reputed Mexican Mafia leader Mariano "Chuy ...

"MS 13" Gang

Gangs a growing concern on the border
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville,TX,USA
... While US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Nina Pruneda said the number of MS-13 gang members that agency picks up is only a handful, because ICE ...

South American gang members identified here
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
Mr Dixon confirmed that RCIPS and Immigration knew of the notoriously feared, Central American, Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) gang and the Mara Dieci-ocho (Mara ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Tom Tancredo and Treading Carefully
RedState.org - USA
... So, whem Tom Tancredo makes these remarks, and is widely condemned by people on both sides of the ideological spectrum, a strategic response is effectively ...

"Enough is Enough" Protest
KKTV 11 News - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
Critics of Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo gather at the state Capitol to protest what they call a growing sentiment against immigrants. ...

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots
Democratic Underground - Washington,DC,USA
... from the scandal. Meanwhile, Orrin Hatch (5) and Tom Tancredo (6) were both overheard using some utterly moronic hyperbole. And for ...

Today's News!

Problems are with illegal aliens
Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville,AL,USA
... come all the way to Albertville to deport one illegal alien. ... and that I was able to purchase another car. ... I was aware that similar accidents had happened, but ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... But Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes ... That legislation mandates that states require proof of citizenship or legal ...

New DHS policy shop will tackle border security, illegal ...
GovExec.com - USA
... department's newly proposed policy office would develop a comprehensive strategy for improving the nation's border security and addressing illegal immigration. ...

GOP candidate wants crackdown on illegal alien hiring
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA
... Vander Plaats says illegal immigration is an issue that voters bring up at nearly every stop he makes."The thing about illegal immigration is that first word ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... But Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes those governors are catering to the illegal alien lobby. ...

Problems are with illegal aliens
Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville,AL,USA
... The police said the immigration people would not come all the way to Albertville to deport one illegal alien. I was not seriously ...

GUEST OPINION: Feds Combating Alien Smuggling, But More Needs to ...
The Illinois Leader - IL,USA
... 5, 2005, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not finalized its strategy for combating alien smuggling. ...

Immigration From A Border Patrolman's Holster: Part 1
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... Nonetheless, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, illegal immigration dribbles into our country ... What makes this area so vulnerable for smuggling drugs and ...

Indian held for smuggling drugs
Rediff - India
... two years ago came to play a crucial role in the smuggling operation. ... drug dealer with a criminal history of marijuana possession and immigration violations. ...

Drug tunnel stirs fears about northern border
Seattle Times - United States
... stretch remains hugely vulnerable -- to illegal crossings, drug smuggling and especially ... James Bissett, former head of the Canadian Immigration Service, the ...

BNP supporter caught smuggling illegal immigrants
Black Information Link - UK
Ben Boylan was stopped at Dover by immigration staff trying to pass off an Albanian woman as his wife, the ... He has now pleaded guilty to people smuggling. ...

South American gang members identified here
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
... Two have already been deported by the Immigration Department. ... firearms and drugs dealings, human smuggling, prostitution and extortion. ...

Gangs a growing concern on the border
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville,TX,USA
... border region and has set up an organized human smuggling and narcotics ... While US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Nina Pruneda said the number of ...

For many in the US, the green card wait is long
Workpermit.com - UK
... The backlog stems from the passage of legislation that allowed undocumented ... Companies have started speaking out about US immigration policy, saying it affects ...
COMMENTARY: State immigration debate never ends
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA
... This is the era of us vs ... Illegal immigration began bleeding again a few years ago when ... pressed Wilson successor Gray Davis to sign legislation granting driver's ...

Canada Issues Warning To Gays
365Gay.com - USA
... As we welcome new legislation in Canada ... Varnell were turned back at Toronto's Pearson International Airport by US Customs and Immigration officers when ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... A midwestern US-based immigration ... But Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR ... That legislation mandates that states require proof of ...

New Zealand - Clark seeks third term in office, Brash his first
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... In 2003, US commerce undersecretary Grant Aldones chided ... achieve "firm, fast and fair immigration processes ... adding, "The foreshore and seabed legislation was a ...

In the Pursuit of Evil
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the INA via the Intelligence Reform legislation...assuming at ... and a notably under-controlled immigration system ... preventing their entry into the US, or removing ...

Public unlimited
The Lawyer - London,UK
... It used to be us and them ... transport, the environment and water pollution, immigration, licensing and ... the rising work levels is new legislation, which inevitably ...

GUEST OPINION: Feds Combating Alien Smuggling, But More Needs to ...
The Illinois Leader - IL,USA
OPINION - As of July 5, 2005, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not finalized its strategy for ...

Judge Dismisses Case of Wilson Four
KPHO Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Attorneys for the defendants expect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to appeal the decision. The unexpected ruling ...

SPECIAL REPORT: PUERTO RICO FIGHTS VIOLENCE
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... station, a stopping point for smugglers," said Roberto Medina, until recently the special agent in charge of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Puerto ...

Gangs a growing concern on the border
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville,TX,USA
... While US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Nina Pruneda said the number of MS-13 gang members that agency picks up is only a handful, because ICE ...

Posada used fake ID in 2000 trip
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... said her agency could neither ``deny or confirm this information due to the case still being under investigation by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.''. ...

Ibrahim Parlak's brother ordered deported
Detroit Free Press - United States
... He declined to explain why Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants Parlak deported but said it is unrelated to the government's highly ...

Forgery ring drop in bucket
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Ibarra, currently a fugitive in Mexico, and an unnamed lieutenant were indicted July 11 after a five-year probe by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

GOP candidate wants crackdown on illegal alien hiring
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA
Bob Vander Plaats, a Republican candidate for governor, says it's time for a state crack-down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants."We need to hold ...

"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner

Views from other papers
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello,ID,USA
... From The Idaho Press-Tribune. Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez is rarely the voice of reason, especially in his jihad against illegal immigrants. ...

IDENTITY THEFT

A How To Guide For Victims Of Identity Theft
Community Dispatch (press release) - USA
... Under state law (California Civil Code 1785.16(k)), a consumer submitting a valid police report can have the credit reporting agency block the reporting of any ...

Is insurance for ID theft right for you?
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... policy," said Charles Howard, owner of the Carmel Commons Insurance Agency. ... victims already must complete with banks, merchants, credit-reporting agencies and ...

CAFTA promotes democracy, security
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Today, CAFTA presents us with an historic opportunity to advance a free and fair trading system that will bring benefits to all sides. ...

Chuck Steiner letter: A vote for CAFTA hurts the valley
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
We were told that if we supported CAFTA - a trade deal that will last forever - then the USDA would protect us from some unneeded, subsidized foreign sugar for ...

Rep. Beauprez: DR-CAFTA a boon forU.S.workers and a must for our ...
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... In order to address this inequity, the House of Representatives will vote next week on DR-CAFTA, the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement. ...

Congressional budget analysts say CAFTA would cost taxpayers
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
... of other farm groups support the deal. The Senate endorsed CAFTA last month on a 54-45 vote. In a concession from the White House ...

Americans Review President Bush's Ideology
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... key domestic proposals to enhance economic growth: the pending energy bill, the ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), a "fiscally ...

Senator hints at fund link
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... week, US Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., announced that the highway bill won't be finished until after the vote on CAFTA. According to ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

US, Canadian Police Cooperate in Border Tunnel Arrests
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... 110 meters long running from British Columbia, Canada, into Washington State, according to a press release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ...

US, Canadian Police Cooperate in Border Tunnel Arrests
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... harm this country," stated Ronald H. Henley, Chief Patrol Agent, Customs and Border Protection. ... addition to officers and agents from DEA, ICE, CBP, RCMP ...

Federal report: Border Patrol needs better data
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
NORTH COUNTY ---- A recently completed federal review of US Border Patrol checkpoints across the Southwest concludes Border Patrol officials need to find ...

Groups rallying against civilian volunteer border patrol groups ...
KPLC-TV - Lake Charles,LA,USA
... NM Latino activists plan to rally today in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to counter what they see as racism and vigilante action by civilian border patrol volunteers ...

Border Patrol Agent Sentenced
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
A former El Paso Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to 70 months in prison on a federal drug charge. Rafael Velasquez plead ...

Border Patrol vehicle destroyed by flames, none injured
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
A US Border Patrol truck was reduced to little more than a shell by a fire that started under the hood after the vehicle stopped along Interstate 8 on Friday ...

Invasion USA: More Illegal Alien Killers Busted
The Conservative Voice - USA
In less than a year, from September 1, 2004 through June 23, 2005, CBP Border Patrol agents have identified 102,024 illegal aliens involved in major crimes ...

Suspected members of gang arrested
Boston Globe - United States
... but the arrests also were part of an antigang enforcement initiative, said Paula Grenier, a spokeswoman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ...

Federal report: Border Patrol needs better data
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said letters from five members of Congress sparked the reviews. ...

Immigration bureau uses ruse to nab illegals
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which carried out the sting, said it was part of a stepped-up effort to crack ...

Agency can't explain records lapse
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... and maiming us and injuring our children," said Brown, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch, or ...

City policy protecting immigrants under fire
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Though there are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jail space for only 20,000 of them. ...

Alleged tunneler's "nursery" story had holes
Seattle Times - United States
... Meanwhile, the tunnel likely will be filled with concrete, said Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

LULAC {MINUTEMEN - YOU NEED TO VOLUNTEER, RALLY TO THE CAUSE!}

U.S. Immigration legislation

City policy protecting immigrants under fire
Houston Chronicle - United States
... DC, congressional conservatives have proposed legislation to require ... federal and local cooperation on immigration law ... the Bush administration had asked us to do ...

Legislation could give Central Americans green cards
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
The legislation would allow those who came from ... the case of El Salvador, US remittances make ... where Republican leaders favor tight restrictions on immigration. ...

UK police chiefs seek powers to attack terror web sites
Register - London,England,UK
... commentary on the 'acts preparatory' legislation says: " It ... to indicate that numbers of immigration and passport ... some subtle nuance that escapes us which makes ...

INSIGHT by ADDISON DEWITT
Mid-Ocean News - Bermuda
... administration, may easily pass legislation that would ... wealthy lifestyle solely because Immigration law protects it ... our breakneck development, it has outrun us. ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Red was reason for a shooting, authorities say
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
... Together, the tattoos represent the number "13," which stands for the letter "M." Police contend that the markings represent the Mexican Mafia, the leaders of ...

SMUGGLING!

US, Canadian Police Cooperate in Border Tunnel Arrests

... will now be destroyed so it cannot be used for any smuggling or other ... us," said Leigh Winchell, Special Agent in Charge of the Seattle Immigration and Customs ...

Federal report: Border Patrol needs better data
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... of smugglers and illegal aliens and reports of increased smuggling costs provide some ... the Border Patrol faces in attempting to control illegal immigration. ...

Two get 6.5 years for immmigrant smuggling
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
DENVER - Two men were sentenced to 6½ years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to federal immigration charges stemming from the crash of a pickup packed ...

Alleged Belize drug smuggler arrested in Miami
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... airport, said Barbara Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs ... Reneau was linked to the Andrew "Papa" Brown drug smuggling ring, which ...

Border reforms must reconcile US labor needs
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The immigration reform legislation announced last week by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., meets that test. But ...

"Mexico"

Mexico raids kidnapping ring that filmed victims in cages
USA Today - USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities raided a kidnapping ring that filmed its victims being held inside a cage and beaten, federal authorities said Saturday ...

Eight people kidnapped by armed group in Mexico
Xinhua - China
MEXICO CITY, July 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Eight people, including a five-member family, were kidnapped Friday by an armed group in the city of Nuevo Laredo, in ...

T-shirt said to be offensive to Mexico {TRUTH HURTS? - ORDER ME A GROSS!}
MSNBC - USA
The shirt reads: "New Mexico, Cleaner than Regular Mexico.". An official with the Anti-Defamation League wants the retailer to stop ...

Cruz Azul's Technical Director Abducted in Mexico
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... Thursday. The incident took place near a training field in Mexico City, renowned for its worst abduction statistics in the world. ...

New tropical depression in Gulf of Mexico
Miami Herald - FL,USA
A new tropical depression formed Saturday evening in the Gulf of Mexico, but it was not expected to survive very long or grow into a hurricane. ...

Tequila an intoxicating success for Mexico
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... Among the big tequila makers, only Herradura, which also makes Jimador, is still a family concern. It claims to be the biggest seller in Mexico. ...

Hurricane halts Mexico travel
The Observer - UK
Tour operators are holding back tourists from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which was hit by Hurricane Emily last week, until hotels reopen and damage is ...

Campaigning in Mexico's presidential race already under way
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
MEXICO CITY - (KRT) - More than a year before Mexico's presidential election, the three apparent front-runners already are campaigning hard, stumping the ...

Cuba humanitarian mission crosses into Mexico
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
A humanitarian group, including six Ashland residents, delivering 140 tons of aid to Cuba was allowed to cross the US- Mexico border Friday after a nearly 24 ...

Aid effort for Mexico moving ahead
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... move.". Allen stressed the importance of people on the Texas side of the US-Mexico border helping out their neighbors in Tamaulipas. ...

REP is sold to firm in Mexico
The Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA
The buyer is Industrias CH, SA, de CV (ICH), a rapidly growing steel producer and processor based in Mexico City, Willoughby said. ...

Mexico reports death from Emily
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
MEXICO CITY - After enduring four days of battering from Hurricane Emily, Mexican authorities on Friday reported the first death from a storm that destroyed ...

El Paso Baptist volunteers serve in Mexico City
Dallas Baptist Standard - Dallas,TX,USA
Director of Missions Josue Valerio led church leaders from El Paso Baptist Associations on a mission trip to Mexico City. The group ...

IDENTITY THEFTThey've got your number

Credit Protection For Identity Theft Victims
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
... To get a freeze, a consumer must first file a police report, then send a certified letter to one of the three credit reporting agencies -that agency will alert ...

Hundreds march in opposition of Minuteman groups in New Mexico
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
... "It's a racist organization, there is no question," said LULAC national treasurer Jaime Martinez before leading marchers from California, Arizona, New Mexico ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles MECHA MAN!

Hopefuls file papers to run for Los Angeles City Council seats
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
... represented by current mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The two big names in that race are likely to be Jose Huizar, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School ...

Los Angeles extends port hours to reduce pollution, congestion
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... The increase has added to traffic congestion and smog in the Los Angeles area, where ... a cost to our quality of life," said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, one of ...

Heat demands record power
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Los Angeles has its own power-generation system and was spared deliberate blackouts this week, but Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged residents to conserve as ...
Mayor Lays Out Agenda to Bring Business to LA
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa plans an ambitious economic development agenda reminiscent of former Mayor Richard Riordan's initiatives after the ...

Padilla Sets City Council Committees
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Los Angeles City Council President Alex Padilla on Friday reappointed many City ... James Hahn who switched his allegiance to Antonio Villaraigosa, appointed close ...

Young Adults' Pro-Life Campaign a Success
MichNews.com - Troy,MI,USA
... ranging from Sen. Nancy Pelosi to the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, to Leon Panetta. While outside of ...

LA Ports Extend Hours to Reduce Smog
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began operating ... without a cost to our quality of life," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Saturday ...

Bombings Set Off Red Line Worries
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he was concerned because the camera system in the Los Angeles subway is not as sophisticated as London's video surveillance ...

LA Ports Extend Hours to Reduce Smog
CBS News - USA
(AP) The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long ... benefits (of the port) are not without a cost to our quality of life," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Saturday as ...

Power Emergency Declared for 2nd Day
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa assured DWP's 1.4 million customers that the city had "ample power supplies to meet the energy needs of our residents ...

Mayor Lays Out Agenda to Bring Business to LA
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... on expectations," said Chris Martin, chairman of the Los Angeles Area Chamber ... Under the leadership of Rocky Delgadillo -- now city attorney -- it had ...

Mexican Consulate

Mexican consulate donates books to Wyoming schools
Wyoming News - WY,USA
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Mexican Consulate General in Denver donated 6,200 books to Wyoming grade schools to help students studying Spanish as a second ...

"MS 13" Gang

Suspected members of gang arrested
Boston Globe - United States
Four suspected members of the violent gang MS-13 were among the 10 people arrested this week in the third roundup of undocumented immigrants in the area since ...

"ACLU"

Letters | One Reader's View
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... and members of the body politic who consider any nominee who may have expressed an idea to the right of the views held by Ted Kennedy, the ACLU or Jesse Jackson ...

Corrections and clarifications
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
Aliso Viejo resident Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, will tour the California border with state Sen. Bill Morrow, R-Oceanside, on July 30. ...

Minuteman Project

Agency kills proposal for civilian help at border
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Aliso Viejo resident Jim Gilchrist, founder of the original Minuteman Project in Arizona, said he welcomed Bonner's suggestion to start a civilian patrol. ...

Civilian border patrol scuttled
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Bonner told The Associated Press he got the idea after seeing how enthusiastically people joined the Minuteman Project to report illegal entrants to federal ...

Groups Rallying Against Minuteman Border Patrols
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... Latin American Citizens say they expect people not only from New Mexico but also Texas, Arizona and California who oppose the Minuteman Project and similar ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Tom Tancredo Eyes White House Run
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Press Writer. DENVER -- Tom Tancredo has been called a one-horse pony of a politician, a man out of step with his party, a bigot. The ...

EDITORIALS : Tom Tancredo's credo
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
TOM TANCREDO isn't helping things. This ... worse. If you've never heard of Tom Tancredo before this week, join the lucky club. ...

Tom Tancredo for President
BTC News - USA
Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo, who is perhaps best known outside Colorado for his recent remarks about nuking Muslim holy sites such as the city of Mecca ...

"Anti-immigration Rep. Tancredo"? Why is CNN lying to me?
RedState.org - USA
The AP has released an article by Steven K. Paulson about Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)'s possible presidential run. It contains one ...

Well, What Would We Do?
WEBCommentary - USA
Tom Tancredo, United States Representative from Colorado's 6th District, set off no small firestorm when, last Friday on WFLA radio in Florida, he suggested ...

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Ethnopolitics In Houston And On The Border
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
Michelle Malkin's Immigration Blog points to this story from the blog Rhymes With ... be taken as referring to the Hispanic vote, and even the illegal alien vote ...

That Cornyn-Kyl Immigration Bill!
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... Representatives Kolbe, Flake, and Gutierrez. It is the only comprehensive and realistic legislation for immigration reform to date. ...

Long-range outlook offers little respite for sweltering Southwest
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Federal agents looked into their immigration status after ... to school violence, according to law enforcement officials ... available on whether the four have lawyers. ...

Where illegals go for driver's license
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... But, meanwhile, North Carolina remains illegal alien alley on the highways ... Without mentioning illegal immigration, the report identifies a variety of loopholes ...

Not the Hotel Rio Grande
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Jon Kyl and John McCain -- don't want authorities laying a tough hand on any illegal alien; they want to toy around with federal immigration law so that Jesus ...

Grant funds 4-city study of human trafficking
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... Anchorage police and private immigration lawyers say the trafficking ... of the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs ... sex trafficking, defined in federal law as a ...

Advocate touts bill on immigration reform
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
The president of an immigration-reform advocacy group in Oregon said legislation unveiled by two US senators this week deserves serious consideration. ...

Low voter turnout hampers Latinos' clout in politics
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... drives throughout the year in Latino communities; grassroots political education of Latinos; passage of immigration reform legislation allowing for paths to ...

Homeland Security Denies Idea of Border Patrol Volunteers
Voice of America - USA
... Thursday, one day after the top US border enforcement official, Robert Bonner, said his agency is exploring ways of having civilians assist the Border Patrol. ...

Illegal alien charged in fatal crash
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... When Tinicum police contacted the FBI and the Customs Enforcement Office, the agencies confirmed that Xiloj Madrid was an illegal alien, the complaint said. ...

Enforce the Laws We Have
Canada Free Press - Canada
... diligently working to stop the illegal aliens from crossing our borders, but her record of accomplishment of vetoing bills to halt illegal alien crossings and ...

Irish Alien's Views on America's Illegal Aliens
MichNews.com - Troy,MI,USA
... America that is caused by ILLEGAL immigration. Specifically I would like to suggest: Are We a 'Nation of Immigrants' as Claimed by the Pro-Illegal Alien Crowd? ...

Illegal alien charged in fatal crash
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... the agencies confirmed that Xiloj Madrid was an illegal alien, the complaint ... talking with the federal government about Xiloj Madrid's immigration status, but ...

State's angst over illegal immigration flares again
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... Illegal immigration began bleeding again a few years ago when Latino activists and liberal Democrats pressed Wilson successor Gray Davis to sign legislation ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... The Roman Catholic Church in Canada, in line with the Vatican's worldwide policy, vigorously opposed the legislation. ... An immigration reform organization says ...

Got Workers? Uncle Steve Wants You!
Hamptons Independents - The Hamptons,NY,USA
... Still, County Executive Steve Levy was no less adamant a ... on Long Island businesses, the county executive pointed out ... t return to Suffolk County after college ...

Stars Struck By "Senseless" Levy Veto
Hamptons Independents - The Hamptons,NY,USA
... As expected, last week Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy vetoed Legislator Jay Schneiderman's request for funding to create an observatory in Montauk. ...

Standoff persists over county jail
Poughkeepsie Journal - Poughkeepsie,NY,USA
... "It's much easier to work with them than fight them," said Kevin Law, chief deputy to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. "They hold all the cards.". ...

Not sold on homes plan
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy said he was surprised by some of the findings, and noted that those monthly costs could rise suddenly if interest rates ...

LIHP: A "Super Outfit"
Hamptons Independents - The Hamptons,NY,USA
... of an estimated 3300 units of housing in Suffolk County, over 200 ... in addressing one of the region's most dire needs," offered County Executive Steve Levy. ...

Appeal To Suspend Special Election
Hamptons Independents - The Hamptons,NY,USA
... Town joined attorney Gary Ireland in a lawsuit against Suffolk County. ... to Ireland's recent legal action to depose County Executive Steve Levy in order to get ...

Amendment to Add New Border Patrol Agents Defeated in US Senate
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... US Senator John Ensign of Nevada offered Senate Amendment #1124 late last week, that effectively would have added 1,000 new Border Patrol agents to improve ...

Couple who paid alien $3,000 for 2 years' work gets probation
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... the crimes to which the Jishis pleaded guilty in federal court in Camden, NJ In April, Maher Jishi pleaded guilty to concealing or harboring an illegal alien. ...

Men sentenced for fatal crash while smuggling immigrants
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Two men were sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison today after pleading guilty to federal immigration charges stemming from the fatal crash of a pickup packed ...

Hondurans forced to work in bars, feds say
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... with conspiring to commit forced labor, smuggling and harboring illegal immigrants. "This is only the beginning," Kyle Hutchins, the US Immigration and Customs ...

Woman charged with forcing smuggled women into prostitution
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
... Officials said the house was used as a smuggling hub for girls as young as 14. Michael Keegan, spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau ...

Feds estimate smuggling tunnel cost $1 million, including land
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA
... DEA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents observed Raj, Woo and Valenzuela ... Authorities let the smuggling continue until they felt they had enough ...

Advocate touts bill on immigration reform
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... The legislation also would tighten border security by adding 10,000 new Border Patrol agents and 1,000 new smuggling and immigration-violation inspectors. ...

Man charged for smuggling illegal aliens
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
... Oscar Garcia, 22, was turned over to US Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents on Thursday on federal illegal human trafficking charges after he was booked ...

Money scarce, Indian reservation struggles amid wave of illegal ...
WXXA - Albany,NY,USA
... funding it wants, saying it doesn't have the expertise to deal with illegal immigration. ... Last year, more than 130 tribal members were arrested for smuggling. ...

22 Nation Briefs
Provo Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
... NY, when they drew the attention of immigration officials ... offered no estimate of when US troops would ... Congress forged ahead Thursday with legislation to extend ...

A 'W' visa can be your pass to the US
Economic Times - India
A legislation introduced in the US Senate this week ... when there are no available US workers . The ‘Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005 ...

Govt finds qualified support for terrorism laws review
ABC Online - Australia
... in the implementation of some of this legislation as well ... of the attempt has been to distract us from a ... and forth to and visit is the Department of Immigration. ...

Ten urgent steps to make Britain safer
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... This will, inter alia, allow us to return unwanted ... There is little that legislation could do to ... ports and coastline from illegal immigration and smuggling. ...

US national security: Homeland defense
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... Jihadi sleeper cells in the US, many of ... will also implement more stringent immigration and worker ... national-security analysts, stalling legislation over those ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... in line with the Vatican's worldwide policy, vigorously opposed the legislation. ... An immigration reform organization says as long as the US government fails ...

Immigration debate never ends in state
Tracy Press - Tracy,CA,USA
... This is the era of us vs. ... Illegal immigration began bleeding again a few years ago when ... pressed Wilson successor Gray Davis to sign legislation granting driver ...

Crime News - US Attorney reports two men sentenced for ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... for the District of Colorado, and Jeffrey Copp, Special Agent in Charge of the Denver office of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced ...

Charlotte man arrested in DC on child pornography charges
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... anyone who suspects a child has been in contact with Hinawi should contact local law enforcement or the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at 1-800 ...

Jury convicts Haitian cocaine trafficker on all counts, US ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today that ...

Protest sting operation in Goldsboro NC
Maryknoll Magazine - Maryknoll,NY,USA
... Administration (OSHA). It turned out to be a sting operation by the Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ...

Investigation of McDonough proceeds slowly
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... Willard Bill McDonough has been the subject of a nearly seven-month investigation by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Attorney's Office and the ...

Feds estimate smuggling tunnel cost $1 million, including land
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA
... DEA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents observed Raj, Woo and Valenzuela smuggle marijuana several times through the tunnel, frequently in hockey ...

Authorities detain 30 people in roundup of Hispanics
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not say, however, whether any of the people who were detained were suspected of committing crimes ...

Turf wars likely to erupt over DHS reorganization proposal
GovExec.com - USA
... functions, commercial functions, and commercial operations that are now delegated to Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.". ...

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"ACLU"

ACLU blames government for new delay of release of photos from Abu ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The ACLU said sealed documents the government filed Friday in US District Court in Manhattan will be used to argue that dozens of photographs cannot be ...

ACLU honors military lawyers for Guantanamo challenge
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... military tribunals at Guantanamo. It is the first time the ACLU has ever honored anybody in the military. The civil liberties group ...

ACLU carries lesbian's fight to become parent
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... because she is a lesbian. The ACLU on Thursday filed a motion for summary judgment in Jackson County Circuit Court. At issue is an ...

Henry Commandments on ACLU 'radar'
Henry Herald - McDonough,GA,USA
... this week, Barrow commissioners agreed to take the display down, ending the lawsuit and agreed pay the complainant, a John Doe, $1 and the ACLU $150,000 in ...

Government Defies an Order to Release Iraq Abuse Photos
New York Times - United States
... But the material that the judge ordered released - the ACLU says there are 87 photographs and 4 videos - would be the first images released in the suit. ...

Military Lawyers Honored by ACLU for Challenging Guantánamo ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... and beyond the call of duty in challenging the gross denial of legal rights to Guantánamo detainees," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. ...

ACLU honors county Human Rights Commission
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
... Speaking only for himself, Botzler said he felt honored by the ACLU's award. "There are a lot of groups in the county who are making ...

FBI files are chilling
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... The ACLU has been a sharp critic of the USA Patriot Act, which expands law enforcement's powers of search and seizure at the expense of the individual ...

ACLU Says Lawmakers Failed to Protect the Constitution; House ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - Following the passage of the House of Representatives' flawed attempt to reauthorize the Patriot Act late tonight, the American Civil Liberties ...

Gitmo Prisoners Are Right Where They Belong
Human Events - USA
... An army of ACLU attorneys, Amnesty International investigators and International Red Cross personnel have been given carte blanche access to the prisoners. ...

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa Cultivates Ties With Leaders in Capitol
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... WASHINGTON -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spent the second day of his Capitol Hill tour Thursday meeting with the kind of national figures that any ...

Los Angeles Bus Route May Ease Traffic on Busiest US Freeway
Bloomberg - USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, 52, has proposed more projects to ease traffic in the city, where the Texas Transportation Institute estimates each ...

Villaraigosa hits Capitol Hill
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
... WASHINGTON Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wrapped up a whirlwind, two-day lobbying expedition Thursday, returning to Los Angeles with no firm promises of federal ...

A Little Less Sensitivity, Please
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
... his statements made a difficult situation worse, forcing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to try ... Thus the mayor of Los Angeles presented himself as a dispassionate ...

Launch Event 11:00 AM Saturday July 23 for OffPeak Program ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... WHO: Speakers include: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Bruce Wargo, PierPASS President & CEO State Senator Alan Lowenthal Long Beach Vice Mayor Jackie ...

Activists Call For Gang Summit In Wake Of Crossfire Killing
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Community activists called on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Thursday to convene a summit on gang violence in response to the shooting death of a 63 ...

AFTRA Tackles Finances
Back Stage - New York,NY,USA
... Newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa opened the conference with a speech in which he pledged his support for stopping runaway production. ...

Firefighters hire women's rights attorney
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Women's Law Center, will consult with United Firefighters of Los Angeles City about ... week to abandon its audit at the request of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Heightened Alert for LAPD, Deputies After London Blasts
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... that there was no known threat targeting the Los Angeles area. City Council President Alex Padilla -- standing in for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was in ...

Pair weighs in on schools
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... How the Los Angeles Unified School District's seven board members are chosen ... during the recent mayoral election, with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa saying the ...

LULAC

Groups Rallying Against Minuteman Border Patrols
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... LULAC plans to use the meeting to discuss other solutions to illegal immigration, including a guest worker program, since the lure of jobs brings most people ...

Mexican Consulate

Fund aids Mexican students
Indianapolis Star - United States
... Reynaldo and other Indiana students of Mexican descent are being helped with a scholarship fund established in 2004 by the Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis. ...

CAFTA

Bush pushes CAFTA plan in NC

 

Bush Seeks to Sew Up CAFTA Support in NC
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... "CAFTA is good for US jobs. CAFTA means textile jobs ... of globalization. The Senate voted 54 to 45 last month to ratify CAFTA. The House ...

CAFTA-DR would help US industry
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
CAFTA-DR is critically important for the US textile industry and apparel supply chain, and over 700,000 workers in Florida and across the country who are still ...

CAFTA poses little economic risk to the United States
Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA
... economic risk to the United States. CAFTA barely passed the Senate, with but a handful of Democratic votes. A coming House vote looks ...

Coleman and Peterson trade barbs over CAFTA
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... At issue is the deal Coleman brokered last month designed to make the trade agreement, known as CAFTA, less sour for sugar beet growers. ...

CAFTA will help farmers feed the world
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... Lane Evans expressed a very pessimistic view about the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement and indicated that he will work against CAFTA when it ...

What President Bush Said: Quotes from Friday night's speech
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
The Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, would end tariffs on more than $33 billion in goods traded between the United States and Costa Rica, the ...

CAFTA Worries Some Local Workers
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... The CAFTA plan passed in the Senate two weeks ago. It could come up in the House as early as next week, where Democrats and some Republicans oppose it.

Minuteman Project

Groups Fighting Illegal Immigration Spread
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... At least 40 anti-immigration groups have popped up nationally, inspired by the Minuteman Project that rallied hundreds this year to patrol the Mexican border ...

Handful Of Volunteers Show Up To Watch Border
10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
... Organizer Jim Chase, a 58-year-old retired postal worker and Vietnam veteran who took part in the Minuteman Project along the border in Arizona in April, said ...

'California Minutemen' Begin Patrol
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Although the patrollers call themselves the California Minutemen, they have splintered from the original Minuteman Project, which drew headlines and kudos from ...

Volunteers Patrol Border For Illegal Immigrants
KFMB - San Diego,CA,USA
... six citizen volunteers joined organizer Jim Chase, a 58-year-old retired postal worker and Vietnam veteran who took part in the Minuteman Project along the ...

volunteer border patrol grows
MSNBC - USA
... A group leading patrols of the California border raised concerns from the US Border Patrol last week when they urged volunteers to bring baseball bats, mace ...

Group pushes plan for young immigrants who arrived illegally
NEPA News - PA,USA
... Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act ... sends the message to future illegal immigrants that ... director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said ...

Groups Fighting Illegal Immigration Spread
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... or nationalism or whatever you want to call it," said Jim Gilchrist, a Vietnam veteran and retired CPA who co-founded the Minuteman Project 10 months ago. ...

Washington holds immigration keys
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... Seizing on this connection is Jim Gilchrist, organizer of the Minuteman Project, which abandoned its freelance border patrols in favor of a citizen crackdown ...

Group launches patrol of US-Mexico border
MSNBC - USA
... San Diego on Saturday, watching for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers as part of a campaign to draw attention to the nation's porous border with Mexico. ...

Dad's car surfaces in Mexico
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Nogales, Sonora, sometime last week because the vehicle did not have the correct paperwork, said Comandante Raul Guillen of the Sonora state police in Mexico. ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY Volunteers start patrol of border They're ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Brigade members would not confront people crossing the border, he said, but would simply alert border patrol agents to illegal activity. ...

"Tom Tancredo"

Counties Step Into Foreign Territory
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... When the card policy was announced in May 2003, Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) said the cards "have nothing to do with immigrants, only with illegal immigrants. . ...

CBS/Infinity Radio Censors Terror Information
The Conservative Voice - USA
... was final. US Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is scheduled to attend and has recently endorsed Mr. Epstein’s efforts. For more information ...

"ACLU"

SKATING ON THIN ICE
OpEdNews - USA
... author of "American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons", told ... to monitor DHS and Immigration and Customs ... the detention system, and legislation creating a ...

Centre attempting ‘backdoor legislation' on IMDT issue: BJP
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
... Mahajan said "If any kind of legislation is brought ... Court order scrapping a controversial immigration law minutely ... is binding on all of us," Home (Interior ...

President Bush Extols Benefits of US-Central America Trade Pact
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... certainly will help reduce illegal immigration as well ... making sure that people treat us the way we ... Organizations has analyzed the CAFTA legislation and realized ...

US SENATORS CRAIG THOMAS AND MIKE ENZI BOTH (R) WYO VOTE TO ...
Montana News Association - Billings,MT,USA
... Mike Enzi, both R-Wyo., voted in favor of legislation to improve ... About $340 million would be provided for US Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator ...

Sri Lanka's TNA lawmakers advocates and supporters of terrorism ...
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
... other nations saying, "Adoption of legislation and regulations ... Section 302 of the (US) Antiterrorism and ... Act of 1996 amended the Immigration and Nationality ...

Tancredo for president? Little-known Colo. Republican hits Iowa
SitNews - Ketchikan,AK,USA
... applause by calling for the US military to ... to ask tough questions about immigration when presidential ... Will they oppose guest-worker legislation that Tancredo ...

Summary Box: ACLU lawsuit seeks benefits for partners of gay ...
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
THE QUESTION: The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian advocacy group, is seeking to fight the ACLU's lawsuit on behalf of lawmakers who say it's their job, not ...

Haab case handling unites ACLU, sheriff
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... But one of the things that is troubling people like Arpaio, the ACLU and the Latino groups is that the federal law prohibiting the smuggling of aliens, the ...

Military's aid to Boy Scouts is a front in larger legal war
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... According to the ACLU, the Pentagon spends $15,000 on pediatric medical supplies, $10,000 for mementos and $5,000 on cookie dough for the event. ...

Reader speaks out against ACLU practices
Bogalusa Daily News - Bogalusa,LA,USA
... The ACLU stands against our military by supporting all the people who doesn't agree with us in war. ... What would the Liberals and the ACLU do then ? ...

Secrecy makes America neither free nor safe
Provo Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
... The ACLU's lawyers had to file the lawsuit under seal to protect themselves from criminal prosecution for violating the law's gag order. ...

ACLU fights 1-minute statement
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
A Pennsylvania school district sued by the ACLU for a controversial change to its biology curriculum sought judgment in its favor in federal court. ...

Following ACLU Action, Northern California High School Students ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The Antioch Unified School District agreed to allow the rally to continue after the ACLU of Northern California intervened on behalf of the students. ...

Inmate Whose Beating Led To Reforms Loses Appeal
KGWN - Cheyenne,WY,USA
... The ACLU filed a lawsuit on his behalf, winning an undisclosed damage award from the state and prompting a change in how prison violence is investigated by ...

A Major Change on the Horizon
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
I have seen Christmas attacked by the ACLU, human life attacked by several organizations, gay marriage forced on the people of America by radical judges out of ...

Local Sex Offender Forced to Move
WTVG - Toledo,OH,USA
... A new state law allows forcing sex offenders living within a thousand feet of a school to move. The ACLU is challenging the...

LULAC

Program leads to Topeka
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
... The Hispanic high school and college students, who applied to participate in the LULAC summer program in Garden City, also hung out backstage with K1 -- a Texas ...

"MS 13" Gang

Feds: Two more MS-13 gang members arrested in Houston
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
HOUSTON -- Two more MS-13 gang members are in custody, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Houston. William ...

"Mexican Mafia"

Painstaking work with human remains can lead to IDs
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... last week, when given the skull dug up by the FBI on the South Side: It was Jaime "Speedy" Lopez, 30, an alleged member of the Texas Mexican Mafia believed to

Hurricane Emily strengthens in southeastern Caribbean, one killed ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The organization allegedly forged a treaty with the Mexican Mafia prison gang under which it agreed to pay taxes on its drug profits. ...

Burbank Councilwoman Arrested For Alleged Cocaine Possession
KFMB - San Diego,CA,USA
... 1990s. The gang allegedly forged a treaty with the Mexican Mafia prison gang under which it agreed to pay taxes on its drug profits. ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

500 turn out for Padilla breakfast
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... of the LA County Federation of Labor Martin Ludlow, Los Angeles Unified School ... gave standing ovations to both Padilla and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who also ...

Funeral held for toddler killed by police
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... LOS ANGELES --Family, friends and sympathetic strangers shared handshakes, hugs and ... Suzie Pena drew about 150 people, including new Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Services Held for Toddler
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... death July 10 from a gunshot fired by a Los Angeles Police Department ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa arrived late and seemed to take pains to be unobtrusive as he ...

Cable TV shortchanges many of its viewers
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and not including pay channels or pay-per-view, many in Los Angeles feel we ... However, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attempted to speak in Spanish at the live press conference following the recent terrorist bombing in London, all the local channels -- including the Spanish-language ones -- cut him off.

Measure Would Give Mayor Control Over LA Schools
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In April, the Los Angeles City Council formed a 30-member commission to ... And, after his election last month, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for the power to ...

Los Angeles officials push for 'clean money'
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... announced his plans during an address to the Los Angeles Current Affairs ... proposal follows the election victory of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who campaigned ...

Shooting of child exposes tensions between LAPD, community
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... They walked the poor, largely minority Watts section of Los Angeles, the same ... is the first police crisis faced by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who urged the ...

Report Offers Chilling Statistics, Panel Provides Compelling ...
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: "Our ability to create housing, to create efforts to have affordable ... of Downtown and the inner core of the city of Los Angeles.". ...

Yes, We Can Anywhere
Asian Week - San Francisco,CA,USA
Today, Los Angeles' newest mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, is forging another marriage ---- a political one between himself and the Asian Pacific American ...

Suzie Peña Killing Should Unite, Not Divide, Blacks and Latinos
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
... and Latino students at several Los Angeles high schools. The wariness of many blacks toward Latinos even extended to LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during the ...

Future Subway Won't Unblock Today's Tie-Up
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By HOWARD FINE. As a candidate, Antonio Villaraigosa tantalized commuters with the dream of building a subway along Wilshire Boulevard to the ocean. Some dream. ...

Mayor Names Deputy for Neighborhood Services
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has named Larry Frank to be deputy mayor for neighborhood and community services. Frank, director of ...

"Mexico"

US, Mexico governors target border
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
TORREON, Mexico -- US and Mexican state governors agreed Friday to ask their governments to declare the border a strategic zone and seek federal money for ...

Two sides of reality on race in Mexico
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... No. Mexico, on the other hand, can point to two presidents of Native American origin who were as decisive in the history of their country as Abraham Lincoln or ...

Mexico may evacuate Cancun over hurricane
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials recommended Friday evacuating tourists from much of the country's Caribbean coast -- including the resort of Cancun -- if ...

Mexico warns tourists in Cancun of threat from Hurricane Emily
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials issued a hurricane warning Saturday for much of the eastern Yucatan peninsula, including the resort of Cancun, as Hurricane ...

MEXICO Ex-consul freed in setback for prosecutors
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- A judge has freed and cleared a former Mexican consul accused of participating in a ring that smuggled hundreds of Lebanese migrants ...

Mexico, US governors pledge to strengthen co-op in border security
Xinhua - Beijing,China
MEXICO CITY, July 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Governors of border states between Mexico and the United States reached agreements on further cooperation in border ...

Mexico City to stage NFL game
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
American 'tackle' football is coming to Mexico. The National Football League (NFL) announced the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco ...

Mexico plans evacuation of tourists from Cancun as hurricane Emily ...
Canada.com - Canada
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican officials recommended Friday evacuating tourists from much of the country's Caribbean coast - including the resort of Cancun - if ...

Group launches civilian patrol of US-Mexico border
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
Civilian volunteers are expected to set up patrols in the remote mountains south of San Diego today, keeping an eye out for human and drug smugglers from Mexico ...

Mexico gets new political parties
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Mexico: PRI wins key governor's race (July 4, 2005) -- Mexico's former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has won the governor's race in the ...

But nobody alerted Mexico of Amber Alert
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Arizona Amber Alert's three-year history, it's likely that an accused abductor and his two children have slipped across the border and disappeared into Mexico. ...

Finding missing US kids in Mexico a difficult task
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
If the two small children abducted from a home near Queen Creek on Sunday were taken to Mexico, as family members believe, they won't be easy to find. ...

Mexican Consulate News

Banks covet untapped market {selling us down the tubes!}
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... More than 2 million ''matricula consulars" or ''consul registration number" have been issued by the Mexican Consulate since March 2002 to Mexican citizens ...

For young couple, a way of life was against law
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... But others remain insular and naive, says Sergio Rivadeneyra. He is consul for legal affairs for the Mexican Consulate in Orlando. ...

Extradition Possible For El Paso Teen
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
... 2 year old girl. The Mexican Consulate's office says a district judge from Juarez will begin the extradition process on Monday.

Teen driver held in girls' deaths; extradition possible
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... the state of Mexico. Officials at the Mexican consulate in El Paso said the family lived in Juárez. The girls and their mother ...

Robert Vasquez County Commissioner

Idaho county sues over immigrant workers
USA Today - USA
... workers. Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez has developed a reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration. The ...

Federal funds to target Utah crime corridors
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... of Blanding in remote southeastern Utah doesn't seem a likely battlefront in the long-running fight against illegal immigration, drug smuggling and perhaps ...

Debate rages about amnesty, border controls
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office pursues serious criminal offenses, such as money laundering and narcotics smuggling. ...

Australia Card not the only answer
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
... combat terrorism or other crimes like people and drug smuggling unless it ... Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone weighed into the debate yesterday in support of ...

Haab case handling unites ACLU, sheriff {Sad day in America....}
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... and the Latino groups is that the federal law prohibiting the smuggling of aliens ... to make any arrests for a violation" of that federal immigration law except ...

Church battling to keep immigrant families united {Big, Big Problem...}
Chicago Catholic New World - Chicago,IL,USA
... saying we want them to support and sponsor the legislation,". ... delayed because she decided to become a US citizen in 2000--which immigration workers said ...

The Nation in brief
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Congress needs to pass legislation that would provide "billions of dollars" so ... At a hearing last month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer Paul ...

La Raza, protesters stand by their beliefs
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... they will one day join with us in dialogue ... handles the problem of illegal immigration, said Cecilia ... NCLR vice president of research, advocacy and legislation. ...

Judiciary chair making laws, but not friends
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... with some Bush officials, most notably former US Attorney General ... out a large flow of legislation and a ... package of border and immigration measures, including ...

Patriot Act raises questions: Renewal of act up for vote this week
Harrington Journal - Harrington,DE,USA
... "I voted for the original legislation because I ... incommunicado and permitted secret proceedings in immigration cases. ... "The terrorist threats against us will not ...

Chris Puplick: Trouble on the cards
Australian - Australia
... down on welfare fraud, to better monitor immigration cases, to ... a fatal technical flaw was discovered in the legislation. ... The US, after all, has had its own home ...

Debate rages about amnesty, border controls
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office pursues serious criminal offenses, such as money laundering and narcotics ...

Prosecuting online child porn not easy
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
... Two databases, one from National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and one maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, identified the images as ...

Sun-Sentinel report on sexual offenders results in forum
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... She said current law is unclear on whether the criminal justice system or Immigration and Customs Enforcement should handle such cases after jail sentences are ...

CORRECTIONAL CENTER: Jail presents problem, opportunity
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... As part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), his office oversees two types of prisoners, those who are being criminally prosecuted for federal ...

Spotlighting the Democrats: A Look Inside The Jackass Party
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
... Democrat lawyers went so far as to find a liberal, black ... scale violations of federal and state election law have occurred.". ... "The Immigration and Naturalization ...

EV cities air day labor center issues
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... reason to tread carefully when it comes to day labor and immigration matters. ... undocumented immigrant, or for the far right end of that, illegal alien," he said ...

Anybody going to the polls?
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... drives throughout the year in Latino communities; grassroots political education of Latinos; passage of immigration reform legislation allowing for paths to ...

NH lobby for immigrants pushes people's guilt button
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
... re against illegal immigration, you're a racist). Never mind that Title 8, Section 1325 of the United States Code defines improper entry by an alien as a ...

Weighing illegal immigrants' education rights
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act ... of giving legal status to illegal aliens," said ... analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, a ...

Non-Mexicans are 'caught, released'
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... represent a new and rapidly multiplying wave of illegal immigration from countries other than Mexico, a trend that is frustrating the Border Patrol and federal ...

Germany Amends Immigration Law
Baltimore Jewish Times - Baltimore,MD,USA
... The European Reform movement does not accept patrilineal descent, but has a ... announced last year were part of Germany's first immigration legislation aimed at ...

As American as enchiladas
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... a campaign to support comprehensive reform of the ... educate their parishioners on the immigration crisis and ... provide support for ambitious legislation in Congress ...

Serve by Protecting
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... once. No one has been able to explain how an illegal alien owned not one, but two guns illegally in his decade-long criminal career. ...

Washington holds immigration keys
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... into tax evasion and workers compensation fraud. ... Service examiners, prosecutors and immigration lawyers to help ... in the path of law enforcement activities, both ...

The Fight For Justice In Kansas: The Fat Lady has not sung.
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... A runaway illegal alien freight train is barreling their way. ... are now faltering under the burden of illegal aliens and ... s the way it goes in immigration reform. ...

Group launches patrol of US-Mexico border
MSNBC - USA
... patrols, which will continue through Aug. 7. He said volunteers will call the Border Patrol if they spot illegal border activity. ...

Force on the BORDER
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
A Border Patrol agent on the ground detains the group and calls for air backup. Aboard an A-Star helicopter, customs pilot Andrew ...

2 Canadian men plead guilty to smuggling pot into US
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency learned in May 2004 that the two men were smuggling marijuana into the US ...

Brian Giebelhaus photos
White Rock Peace Arch News - White Rock,British Columbia,Canada
... Services Agency, US Customs and Border Protection, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and US Coast Guard. Together, they've disrupted smuggling rings, and ...

German testifies on visas
International Herald Tribune - France
... "Since I took office until today, I have held a clear political line that illegal immigration and people-smuggling must be fought with the appropriate ...

Court calls for Jama to be freed from jail
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... In April, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arranged to have a charter plane deliver Jama to Bossasso in Puntland, Somalia, but officials there ...

Feds: Two more MS-13 gang members arrested in Houston
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
HOUSTON -- Two more MS-13 gang members are in custody, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Houston. William ...

Chicago-area immigrants settle suit with Homeland Security ...
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Gail Montenegro says immigrants have until December tenth to request that the government not actively seek ...

SKATING ON THIN ICE
OpEdNews - USA
... over how many thousands more detention beds will be funded, the immigration detention system -- run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the ...

US to Deport Lodi Terror Suspects
KRON 4 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... the Judge they were abandoning their legal fight to remain in the US and would return to Pakistan, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reported ...

Idaho County Sues Over Immigrant Workers
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Carl Rusnok, a Dallas-based regional spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he didn't have any specific comments on Canyon County's case. ...

Brian Giebelhaus photos
White Rock Peace Arch News - White Rock,British Columbia,Canada
... It involves the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency, US Customs and Border Protection, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and US Coast Guard. ...

Ex-Customs officer accused of playing a role in bribery
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... In June, investigators with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Professional Responsibility in San Antonio charged Gomez, 48, and Peluso, 45, of ...

Man Accused Of Killing Daughter's Mother Returned To Italy
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... 57, was deported to Italy Wednesday, following a three-year battle to remain in the United States, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ...

Border Patrol arrests Durango woman
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
A Durango woman working for a humanitarian organization on the US-Mexico border was arrested July 9 in Arizona after US Border Patrol agents identified three ...

'Wilson 4' deserve no special treatment
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The media have made them the poster children for the "Dream Act," a bill that would grant illegal alien students green cards and college tuition breaks. ...

Democrats Demand Homeland Security's 100 Long Overdue Reports
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
... in a terrorist suspect or criminal alien freely moving ... enforcement provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization ... 110 (e) (1), Illegal Immigration Reform and ...

MAN INDICTED IN TRANSPORTATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Tyler Morning Telegraph - Tyler,TX,USA
... this week, including an illegal alien accused of ... the vehicle that contained 16 illegal male immigrants ... Burton requested assistance from Immigration and Customs ...

CAFTA trade deal would give boost to poultry industry
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
CAFTA passed the Senate on June 30 by a vote of 54-45, with both Georgia senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, supporting it. ...
 

Say 'no' to CAFTA
Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA
A current radio commercial urges Alabamians to oppose CAFTA "because CAFTA rhymes with NAFTA" and references the opposition to NAFTA of H. Ross Perot, the ...
 

Why CAFTA is a terrible deal for Minnesota farmers
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... They cannot support CAFTA and neither should our representatives. According to ... unemployment line. But CAFTA isn't just about sugar. ...

Congress should defeat CAFTA
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... CAFTA would deliver even stronger sovereignty overrides and loss of US jobs. I ask readers to write or phone the president and their ...

US lawmakers from textile belt press Bush for Cafta add-ons
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
"I'd very much like to vote for Cafta and I will if we can get these things addressed," Inglis said. President George W Bush traveled ...

Minuteman Project

Controversial Minuteman Project Comes To San Diego
10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
... San Diego County. Just like the minuteman project in Arizona, his plans are causing a strong reaction. East County's border area ...

Rolly: Political threats tend to fizzle out
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Alex Segura of the Utah Minuteman Project used the governor's e-mail system last week to request an audience with Gov. Jon Huntsman ...

Hate on the Border
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... Among the anti-immigrant groups, the Minuteman Project gained a high profile because its invasion of Arizona earlier this year, where vigilantes claimed that ...

Watch US borders, not Utah borders
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA
Utah is a long way from the US-Mexico border, but at least one organizer for the Minuteman Project wants to start looking for illegal immigrants at the borders ...

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Hate on the Border
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... Working alongside this group is another organization called Friends of the Border Patrol, whose leaders Andy Ramirez and Ron Prince (another co-author of Prop ...

Canyon County moves forward with lawsuit against several local ...
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
... based regional spokesman for US Immigration and Customs ... legal recourse against illegal immigration when appropriate ... issue by passing legislation allowing local ...

Dueling Senate bills target immigration, border security
GovExec.com - USA
... a revamped visa program and enhanced US cooperation with ... every day and that makes immigration the leading ... McCain-Kennedy bill, the Lugar legislation calls for ...

US Senate honors the first Indo-American US Congressman
INDOlink - San Ramon,CA,USA
... Issa who authored, HR 120, the legislation honoring Rep. ... was determined to struggle for better immigration rights and ... in a loud voice: "Doc, tell us, if you ...

New Reform Bill May Give Illegal Immigrants A Break
All Headline News - USA
... The proposed legislation faces an uncertain future because ... of people who had broken US laws by ... bill an "orderly, humane, compassionate immigration policy" that ...

Supporters still want in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... "They will not outlast us.". ... about a bill they believed would legitimize illegal immigration. ... Pueblo, a Hispanic advocacy group that pushed for the legislation. ...

Report says cigarette fee may tempt smugglers
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... "No legislation should be put ... on money laundering, cigarette trafficking, conspiracy and immigration violations in ... The bill passed the US Senate last year, and ...

WHEDA lending program draws fire
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... part of a national debate over illegal immigration. ... and other Wisconsin lawmakers push legislation that would ... the Hispanic population in the US has jumped to ...

The UK foment of Islam's radical fringe
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... Even before September 11, legislation was tightened and ... Timothy Savage, a US foreign service officer expressing ... If current trends of immigration, a low birth ...

Gang member caught, arrested and deported
Monticello Herald Journal - Monticello,IN,USA
... was arrested last Thursday afternoon on a deportation warrant with orders to be returned to his native El Salvador by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

More than 50 targeted in Southern California child porn crackdown
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... convicted of sex offenses also were picked up on immigration violations and face deportation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said ...

Homeland Security Department's New Focus on Risk Management ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... which represents DHS workers in the Border Patrol, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal ...

News in brief from around the Bay area
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... face deportation proceedings, said Chuck DeMore, a special agent in charge of the Northern California investigative arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Border reform needs candid talk
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... It happens through candid discussions between our law enforcement professionals and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Cuban soccer player hopes to defect to US
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... provided, he might be willing to change his immigration status in the US," said Mike Milne, a spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... The Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will provide a week of cash courier-related training to Saudi customs ...

22 OC men face child-porn charges
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... cases announced today are the result of independent investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the ...

Cigarette fee, up for vote Wednesday, may tempt smugglers
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... According to Immigration and Customs Enfor

Immigrant Trespass Case Postponed
RedState.org - USA
Ramirez is the illegal alien who was charged with criminal trespassing by New ... whether he was the right authority to determine someone's immigration status: ...

Thanks to Ray Haynes For His Support of Border Control
ChronWatch - Alamo,CA,USA
... measured and controlled immigration policy. Thank you again, Assemblyman Haynes, for your courageous stand in speaking out against the illegal alien invasion. ...

Cigarette fee, up for vote Wednesday, may tempt smugglers
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, states with higher taxes are generally the ones hit hardest by cigarette smuggling, the report says ...

Two women face smuggling charges after immigrant dies
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... was over 110 degrees that day," said Mario Ramirez, an Immigration and Customs ... So Sheriff Doug Sample called federal officials suspecting immigrant smuggling. ...

DPS plan welcomed at migrant summit
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... undocumented immigrants through the state and the flourishing people-smuggling trade, estimated ... to get assistance from the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs ...

Maritime ID card vetting 'fair and reasonable'
supply chain review - Australia
... The Department of Immigration could also be called on to investigate applicants not ... Chambers says it's fair and only relates to smuggling and terrorism activity ...

Dennis victims dealing with heat, no power, but things starting to ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... fighting smugglers loyal to Cardenas to gain access to prized smuggling routes into the ... a visa to enter Britain, but is subject to immigration rules, including ...

DNC CHAIR DEAN, U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ, RNC CHAIR MEHLMAN, AND NICKELODEON PRESIDENT SCANNELL TO ADDRESS NCLR ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA

Political and Business Leaders to Discuss Growing Latino Influence in U.S.

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa Urges Calm In Wake Of Deadly Standoff
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for patience from the community as police investigate the shooting death of a gunman and the toddler he held ...

Los Angeles blacks still fare poorly, study shows
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was joined by religious and community leaders, including Police Chief William Bratton, at a downtown panel to voice ...

City Hall housecleaning
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
New Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was not at all timid about shaking things up at City Hall in his first few days on the job. ...

Autopsy Finds Toddler Was Killed by Los Angeles Police During ...
The Conservative Voice - USA
Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey released the autopsy reports of ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said there will be a community meeting on Friday ...

LA CITY COUNCIL SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE EQUALITY
Out In America - Columbus,OH,USA
"We applaud Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council for standing up for the thousands of same-sex couples who want the opportunity to ...

The Crisis Mayor
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... 10 shootout between her father and Los Angeles police officers poses a political test for Police Chief William Bratton, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and pretty ...

Council Backs Gay Marriage
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... was walked over to the office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who signed ... The Los Angeles council resolution started in the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, and ...

Area loses out on homeland security funds
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's spokesman Joe Ramallo said the mayor was "disappointed' by the Senate's decision. "It would ...

Romer reveals donors
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Superintendent Roy Romer set up to defend Los Angeles Unified's image ... their own reform plans, including the city's new mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, who called ...

Reminder, Cast of 'Bad News Bears' Meet The Boys & Girls Clubs of ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Bad News Bears," and Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Salesian, and ... and Jeffrey Tedmori Special guests include: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (schedule permitting ...

Avenues of Death
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... marked the first time that federal authorities in Los Angeles used the ... By 2003, gang crime was on the rise, prompting City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to obtain ...

SUMMARY STATEMENTS IN TODAY'S MEETING OF THE WOMEN'S ANTI ...
I-Newswire.com (press release) - USA
... Court, President of the Law Reform Commission, and ... changes in Ireland's legislation would have to ... an Irish naturalization and immigration department, which ...

Secretary Michael Chertoff US Department of Homeland Security ...
The Information Warfare Site (press release) - UK
... and interior enforcement and reform immigration processes ... Immigration policy is about more than ... be accomplished administratively -- a few require legislation. ...
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"MS 13" Gang

Police Focus on MS-13 Gang
WTVD - Durham-Raleigh,NC,USA
... Most people have heard of Crips and Bloods, but as the Triangle's Latino population grows, the "Mara Salvatrucha," or MS-13, gang is drawing a lot of attention ...

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"ACLU"

ACLU Says House Committees Failed to Bring Patriot Act in Line ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"Lawmakers had the opportunity to fix what they got wrong the first time, and instead partisan politics prevailed," said Lisa Graves, ACLU Senior Counsel for ...

ACLU Sues Veterans Affairs Over Cost For Hospital Records
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... closed last year. The ACLU says the documents should be free because it's in the 

Abuse Without High Level Accountability; ACLU Dismayed at Lack of ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... an open hearing today. The following can be attributed to Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director: "It is irrefutable that the ...

Flat Rock Eagles, ACLU Win Battle To Allow Women
WDIV - Detroit,MI,USA
The National Fraternal Order of Eagles reached an agreement with the ACLU to change their men-only policy, according to a news release from the ACLU of Michigan ...

ACLU suing US veterans agency
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... The ACLU, which filed the suit on behalf of a veterans group that wants to keep the hospital open, said the VA is violating the Freedom of Information Act by ...

ACLU leader challenges arrest
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
The arrest of Arizona's ACLU leader was caught on video, but it's up to a US District Court jury to determine whether police arrested her unnecessarily or ...

Beebe School Board nixes evolution stickers
Searcy Daily Citizen - Searcy,AR,USA
... Rice said that at Monday's school board meeting members expressed concern about the possible litigation costs that could follow if the ACLU sued the school ...

Mich. woman drops suit against marriage ban
PlanetOut - San Francisco,CA,USA
Olson's complaint was in large part a word-for-word copy of a complaint filed by the

Ranch land to be donated for planned Roman Catholic college
Wyoming News - WY,USA
... It remains to be seen if the swap or leases might be challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, like ..

LULAC

Trade deal will cost city 2,100 jobs, LULAC says
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
National and local LULAC officials spoke out against the passing of the Central America Free Trade Agreement on Tuesday in Corpus Christi. ...
e ACLU's suit over the congressionally approved ...

Minuteman Project

Protest driver not charged
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Harold Netkin, 69, of Van Nuys was arrested May 25 after trying to drive his van into the meeting honoring Jim Gilchrist, the Minuteman Project leader. ... 

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"ACLU"

ACLU 'Concerned' by Possible O'Connor Supreme Court Replacement
Proud Parenting - USA
... number of key cases, stood up for individual rights and against a radically conservative vision of the Constitution," said Steven Shapiro, ACLU Legal Director ...

ACLU keeps wary eye on defense lawyer shortage
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
... ``We are watching this with some concern,'' said Massachusetts ACLU Executive Director John Reinstein about the state's lawyer shortage, which is leaving poor ...

Lawyer drops suit seeking to strike down Michigan's gay-marriage ...
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... she said. The decision to drop the suit was made after talking and working with Michigan ACLU officials, Olson said. The lawsuit ... 

{News Briefs}
Northern Light - Anchorage,AK,USA
... The ACLU filed an appeal of the university's decision July 1 in Anchorage Superior Court, arguing that Purcell should be allowed into the program as a means ...

Courts may ask Legislators to Decide Quran Issue
WTVD - Durham-Raleigh,NC,USA
... The state ACLU wants the Administrative Office of the Courts to adopt a policy on whether the texts can be used for oath-taking. ... 

A Bid to Restore Cross to Seal
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... the effort. ACLU officials and others criticized the cross on the old seal as an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. The Board ...

Jury finds deputies not guilty
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
... Harrisburg. Christopher's attorney with the ACLU, Paula Knudsen, said she and her client were disappointed and would consider an appeal. ... 

Sides square off in immigration case
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... Some proponents of immigration reform cheer Chamberlain's tactics ... lawmakers to introduce legislation next year ... charge yesterday, since immigration is already ...

Hate on the Border
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... Gilchrist works with the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, headed by Barbara ... only to promote anti-immigrant ballot measures and legislation, but to ...

CAFTA

Rally hits at CAFTA: Valley gathering rips trade deal
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... is being threatened," local farmer Paul Rutherford told a gathering of about 60 opponents of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, better known as CAFTA. ...

Group protests CAFTA at Ortiz's office
Brownsville Herald - Brownsville,TX,USA
... Hortencia Armendariz and three friends stood on Ruben Torres Boulevard with signs and leaflets to hand out to passers-by about CAFTA and the North American ...

Stop CAFTA Coalition Denounces Continued Human Rights Violations ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... in Central America denounced ongoing human rights violations, highlighting recent abuses by state forces in El Salvador and intimidation of CAFTA opponents in ...

Bush to visit NC to drum up CAFTA support
WCNC (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Saca. El Salvador is one of the countries that would be affected by CAFTA. The proposed treaty has been approved by the Senate. ...

Sugar digs in against CAFTA
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,Oregon,USA
... "This same scene is playing out across the country; people are losing jobs, and CAFTA on top of NAFTA just exacerbates the problem," Rupert, Idaho, beet ...

Conner ready for CAFTA floor fight
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA
by Gary Truitt. Now that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has passed the Senate the fight moves to the House. The ...

Pros, cons of free trade with Thailand heard
Sidney Herald Leader - Sidney,MT,USA
... Sugar producers said they are facing challenges because of NAFTA, the possibility of CAFTA passing, and future trade agreements with South Africa and Panama. ...

CAFTA will cost Alabama jobs
Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville,AL,USA
... The National Association of Manufacturers now estimate that passage of CAFTA will generate about $1 billion in new exports and create 12,000 new jobs. ...

SPY AGENCIES CRAFT TERRORIST WATCH LIST DATA EXCHANGE STANDARD
The Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange Standard was mandated by a
memorandum of understanding among the Justice and Homeland Security
departments and the CIA.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36346-1.html


GAO GIVES FAILING GRADES TO DHS INFORMATION SECURITY
Among shortcomings detailed in the report are incomplete risk
assessments, lack of security plans and incomplete or absent testing
and
evaluation of existing policies and procedures.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36345-1.html 

CDC, DHS YEARS AWAY FROM BIOTERROR, PUBLIC HEALTH IT INTEGRATION
A new GAO report says there needs to be greater integration between
public-health initiatives being pursued the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the Homeland Security Department.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36343-1.html


ALEXANDER NOMINATED FOR NSA DIRECTORSHIP
President Bush has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be
director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central
Security Service.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36308-1.html 

Border watcher hopes to draw volunteers for event Saturday
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Project volunteer who cut ties with project leadership following disagreements, is setting up in Campo to begin his own civilian border patrol event Saturday. ...

Reform battles begin in Senate; security cited
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... McCain, who introduced a sweeping immigration reform bill in May ... debate over how to curb illegal immigration. ... His legislation would substantially beef up border ...

SPY AGENCIES CRAFT TERRORIST WATCH LIST DATA EXCHANGE STANDARD
The Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange Standard was mandated by a
memorandum of understanding among the Justice and Homeland Security
departments and the CIA.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36346-1.html


DHS SHAKE-UP PLAN DUE WEDNESDAY
Secretary Michael Chertoff is scheduled to announce plans for changing
the Homeland Security Department's policies and organization during a
speech later this week.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36344-1.html 

New Reform Bill May Give Illegal Immigrants A Break {More Pander-idous!}
All Headline News - USA
... Kennedy have teamed up to introduce a bipartisan immigration reform bill that ... The proposed legislation faces an uncertain future because of strong opposition ...

Harris, Nelson eye each other
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... committee was immigration reform. Harris, a member of the House International Relations Committee from Sarasota, was there to explain legislation she has ...

Illegal Immigration Tuberculosis Crisis {Duh!}
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... First, over one million illegal alien children attend K ... s porous borders allow a million illegal and untested ... can force Congress to uphold immigration laws, put ...

The Shooter Was An Illegal Alien, OK? Just Say It!
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
Why? If you are from Mexico, you are Mexican--I don't even know what Hispanic is supposed to mean. [Well, at least not the way ...

Border Patrol agent indicted on five counts, could be targeted for ...
Douglas Daily Dispatch - Douglas,AZ,USA
A Douglas Border patrol agent was arrested in connection with bringing an illegal immigrant into the United States. Ephraim Cruz ...

Women on patrol
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
The veteran Border Patrol agent had just placed two young Honduran girls in the back of her SUV. During routine questioning at the ...

Arrested Humanitarians Speak Out
KOLD-TV - Tucson,AZ,USA
... "Every year from the beginning of this border patrol policy has been the ... But the Border Patrol says the volunteers have options they have chosen not to use. ...

Minutemen Coming To San Diego County
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
... Oceanside resident James Chase, who heads a group calling itself the United States Border Patrol Auxiliary -- which is not affiliated with or endorsed by the ...

Hospitals 'Mugged' by Illegal Aliens
MichNews.com - Troy,MI,USA
... that the SSI benefits is a fraud-driven system ... any of the above mentioned lawyers ever been prosecuted, under the following immigration law, for aiding ... 

Judge postpones immigrant trespass case
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
... Ramirez, 21, currently living in Waltham, Mass., is the illegal alien who was charged ... because local police don't have the authority to enforce immigration law. ... 

Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Los Angeles police give account of fatal standoff
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for the public to await the outcome of an internal police investigation into the shooting and declined to comment ...
See all stories on this topic 

Mayor Holds 1st Managers Meeting
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In his first meeting with the city's department heads, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told them Monday to look for fat in their budgets and to sign an ...
See all stories on this topic 

Bay Bridge deal faces key test in legislature
Daily Review Online - CA,USA
... It is that part of the deal that offends newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who also chairs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority there. ...

Secret operations
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... money to spend on campaigns to make the Los Angeles Unified School District look good at a time when just about everyone from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to Gov ...

Racist humor no laughing matter
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... We can elect mayors in cities across the country, as demonstrated by Antonio Villaraigosa in Los Angeles and Harold Washington in Chicago. ...

Low-income LGBT seniors to get housing
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Los Angeles officials and advocates for LGBT seniors will celebrate on Thursday with ... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and "Queer as Folk" stars Hal Sparks and Robert ... 


Hillary's Shadow Team
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... Later, on June 17, 2005, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley charged him with conspiracy and making threats against former Los Angeles Times ... 

"MS 13" Gang

Police arrest MS-13 gang member in Monticello
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
MONTICELLO, Ind. (AP) -- Police arrested a member of the Latin American street gang MS-13, and the government will deported him to El Salvador, homeland ... 

"Mexican Mafia"

NEW: Body found identified as Mexican Mafia member
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... on the latest about last week's discovery of human remains found near a home linked to one of Scharff's clients -- a captain for the Texas Mexican Mafia. ...

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Monticello police arrest gang memeber
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... had entered the US illegally, was arrested by Monticello police Thursday at his girlfriend house and turned over to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Prisoners moved in recent contract with county
Port Arthur News - Port Arthur,TX,USA
... capacity by then. The facility also houses detainees from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the US Marshal Service. ...

Fugitive who escaped Mexican court in 1986 captured in California
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Alfredo Rios Galeana, 51, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in the city of South Gate just south of Los Angeles, said ... 

US deports man in passport scheme
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
CHICAGO -- Immigration and Customs officials deported an Ecuadorian man Monday who was convicted of smuggling hundreds of children into the country in a ...

NEW: Women face smuggling charges
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Suspecting an immigrant smuggling angle, Sheriff Doug Sample called federal officials. ... or anyone at the jail," said Mario Ramirez, an Immigration and Customs ... 

Do cigarette taxes really work?
CNN - USA
... at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, states with high cigarette taxes are typically those that lose cigarette tax revenue to smuggling. ...

Lodi, Lackawanna both focus of high-profile terrorist ...
Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi,CA,USA
... their history, both Lodi and Lackawanna have benefited from immigration, be it ... FBI agents turned up illegal cigarette smuggling and what some described as an ...

Metro briefs
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... national who admitted to smuggling hundreds of South Americans into the United States for a fee was deported Monday, according to US Immigration and Customs ... 

SENATOR CHRIS DODD TO SPEAK DURING EARLY CHILD EDUCATION TOWN HALL AT THE 2005 NCLR ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA

Washington, DC - During its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., will host an Education Town Hall with early child education experts, featuring Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), to discuss innovative solutions to improving education for Latino students before they reach kindergarten. The event, The Early Years: Closing the Achievement Gap for Latino Children, will take place in the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sunday, July 17, starting at 3:30 p.m.

A law that means business
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... law is a key element of the legislation introduced in ... those who believe we can solve the immigration problem by ... enforcement as part of a broader reform package ...

McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill Opens the Border

Search for solutions
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Immigration enforcement and border protection are federal responsibilities. ... into ground zero of the increasingly violent trade in human smuggling into the ...

Immigration head steeped in cover-up culture: Labor
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... "Part of the problem within Immigration is a ... bureaucrats central to the children overboard affair, through their membership of the people-smuggling task force ...

UK may ban PIA flights over human smuggling
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
... draft for negotiating readmission agreement with the EU and the UK on managed immigration. ... Reports of rising number of cases of human smuggling to the UK in ...

Homeland Security offers seminar to recruit new agents
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... is looking for people interested in becoming agents for US Immigration and Customs ... a career in the agency that covers human smuggling, weapons trafficking ...

Smugglers probing SENTRI for flaws
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the largest investigative agency within the Department of ... is working to find out who is behind the SENTRI smuggling. ...

Euro-Jihadists Can Beat Our Border Security
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Europe , due to exceptionally liberal immigration policies since WW-II and the ... have been a number of media reports about the potential smuggling of terrorist ...

Dennis' aftermath: a new flood of Cubans?
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... patrolling 40,000 square miles off the nation's coastline for search and rescue missions, to protect against terrorism, illegal immigration and drug smuggling. ...

Worst-Case Scenario
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... In some respects, Johnson's case is like hundreds of others pursued by Homeland Security's US Immigration and Customs Enforcement division, which for the past ...

Ex-San Angelo assistant police chief suspended
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... Dooley, a 15-year veteran, and Jennifer Sedgebeer, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were off-duty at the time of the May incident. ...

Senate Is Split on Spending Bill for Domestic Security
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... funding, to $6 billion. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement division would receive 16% more money, for a total of $3.8 billion. ...

PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... says more than 20,000 people have been processed for expedited removal, although the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's-Detention and ...

Department of Homeland Security Signs 10-Year Lease in DC
Commercial Property News - USA
... Cushman & Wakefield represented Mack-Cali. Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a 10-year lease, CPN has learned. It is unclear ...

State editorial roundup
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... efforts is Washington, DC, where Congress has yet to approve immigration reform legislation. ... who wish to work in America to apply for US visas after ...

Local police could join migrant war
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Janet Napolitano vetoed legislation that would have encouraged ... a sharp debate over enforcing immigration law. ... detaining legal immigrants and US citizens, which ...

Battle possible on Patriot Act
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... "The terrorist threats against us will not ... and permitted secret proceedings in immigration cases ... with his committee Wednesday working on legislation that would ...

Enforce Immigration Law, or Change It? Answer May Be Both
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... in the US without documentation. This week, Rep. Thomas G. Tancredo (R-Colo.), a leader among immigration skeptics, plans to introduce legislation that will ...

Commentary: Our Current Social Security System is Little More than ...
Black America Web - Dallas,Tx,USA
... be made financially sound by simply increasing immigration. ... greed and foolishness led us to throw ... Social Security, Congress passed legislation mandating that ...

OSCE holds off Russian, Belarusian attempts to change procedures
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
... Finally, however, the legislation moved forward after two other ... were being worked out by both US officials and ... to proposed amendments to the immigration law. ...

DHS SHAKE-UP PLAN DUE WEDNESDAY
Secretary Michael Chertoff is scheduled to announce plans for changing
the Homeland Security Department's policies and organization during a
speech later this week.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36344-1.html


GAO GIVES FAILING GRADES TO DHS INFORMATION SECURITY
Among shortcomings detailed in the report are incomplete risk
assessments, lack of security plans and incomplete or absent testing
and evaluation of existing policies and procedures.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36345-1.html

SPY AGENCIES CRAFT TERRORIST WATCH LIST DATA EXCHANGE STANDARD
The Terrorist Watchlist Person Data Exchange Standard was mandated by a
memorandum of understanding among the Justice and Homeland Security
departments and the CIA.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36346-1.html


CDC, DHS YEARS AWAY FROM BIOTERROR, PUBLIC HEALTH IT INTEGRATION
A new GAO report says there needs to be greater integration between
public-health initiatives being pursued the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the Homeland Security Department.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36343-1.html

Amid security concerns, IRS rehires credit firm
New York Investment News - New York,NY,USA
... Internal Revenue Service is reportedly probing possible data security breaches, the agency has renewed its contract with a controversial credit-reporting firm. ...

Members take cues from past groups
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Origin: The Surenos or Sur-13 started with the Mexican Mafia or La Eme, a group of Mexican-American inmates in the Deuel Vocational Institute in Tracy ...

Canadians not psychologically braced for threat of terror ...
CJAD - Canada
... for natural disasters such as floods, ice storms and ... up training for security personnel who patrol trains and ... up with ways to ensure border security officials ...

"ACLU"

ACLU Says Patriot Act Must Be Reformed, Not Expanded, As Congress ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - With both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees expected to consider bills to reauthorize - and possibly expand - the Patriot Act this week ...

NC courts may ask legislators to decide Quran issue
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... to decide if the Quran and other religious can be used for courtroom oaths, said a spokesman for the agency that manages state courts, as the ACLU pressed for ...

Religious Organization: Bush Appointee Must Counterbalance ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
1. Calling on President George W. Bush to nominate a conservative justice to counter Bill Clinton's appointment of former ACLU General Counsel Ruth Bader ...

Legislators support redistricting plan
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
... The ACLU hopes doing so would result in another Indian gaining a House seat in District 26, which includes Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette and Tripp ...

Should funds for Boy Scouts be blocked because of oath?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... order. "It seems odd that the ACLU would defend the First Amendment rights of other organizations like Nazis and nudists ... but ...

ACLU v. Galaxy condo in free speech suit
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City,NJ,USA
By KARINA L. ARRUE. GUTTENBERG - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Galaxy Towers condominium association ...

Driver's license impact
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
... "It literally sets up the backbone for a system to track all Americans throughout their lives," Tim Aparapani of the ACLU explained. ...

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

LAPD Chief Defends Officers in Shooting
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the officers were only trying to protect themselves and ... officers were called to an intersection in South Los Angeles west of ...

America's spicy blend
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
SAN DIEGO -- During his recent inauguration, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa offered a vision of where he wants to lead America's second largest city. ...

What we must do to make LA safe
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Los Angeles has only one officer for every 400 residents, while New York City has one for every 220 residents. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa rightly wants to hire ...

LA cops kill baby in dad's arms
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Los Angeles' new mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, visited the shooting scene and went to see the wounded officer and his family. In ...

Coast Guard steps up patrols for Cuban migrants
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... for search and rescue missions, to protect against terrorism, illegal immigration and drug ... to one count of attempting to smuggle an illegal alien resulting in ...

Immigration Theory #2: The Bush Doctrine
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... get hurt because the illegal crossings overwhelm police, immigration services, border ... understand, the difference between an immigrant, and illegal Alien, and a ...

US wants Czech couple out after 15 years
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... June 4, 2005) -- US federal officials have admitted they failed to deport an illegal alien acquitted of murder in a recent gang trial. Immigration and Customs ...

REAL ID: Perpetuating the Myth of Authenticity
Z Magazine (subscription) - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... Before issuing drivers' licenses, states are also now required to verify ... debate, so when we say that someone is "illegal" or an "alien," we are ...

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CONGRESSMAN BOB MENENDEZ, MAYOR JOHN STREET AND URBAN LEAGUE PRESIDENT MARC MORIAL TO ADDRESS NCLR 2005 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AFFILIATE LUNCHEON IN PHILADELPHIA

Washington, DC - The opening luncheon of the National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) 2005 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA will feature the highest-ranking Latino member in the U.S. House of Representatives Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Philadelphia Mayor John Street, President and CEO of the National Urban League Marc Morial, and NCLR's President and CEO Janet Murguia. The National Affiliate Luncheon will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 16 in the Ballroom of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

MINUTEMAN PROJECT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"MS 13" Gang

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

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



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CAFTA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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IDENTITY THEFT

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

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

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"ACLU"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Mexican Mafia"

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

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

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

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

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

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Hospital Closures

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

Minuteman Project

Protest march targets groups fighting illegal immigration
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... back of a flatbed truck, Enrique Morones of the Border Angels, a group that sets up desert water stations for immigrants, said the Minuteman Project and like ...

Contributed by: Anonymous
Infoshop News - USA
Add another log on the hate fires that the Minuteman Project built. They have repeated the refrain over and over again that they ...

Border project to meet
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
The leader of the Goliad chapter of the Minuteman Project said 75 to 100 people are interested in joining the group, and that they plan to meet next week to ...

Minutemen celebrate early Independence Day
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
The Minuteman Project continues to gain momentum. ... The Minuteman Project is spreading their anti-illegal immigration campaign across the country. ...

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Closer look at smuggling from nations with terror ties
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Investigators with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement learned through an informant that Muhammad Qasum Lala was smuggling anywhere from six to 10 people ...

Pipelines Send Illegal Immigrants to US
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... be smuggling people, tomorrow weapons," said John Torres, deputy assistant director for smuggling and public safety investigations at Immigration and Customs ...

Raids on Brothel Rings Net 45 Arrests
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Two criminal syndicates suspected of smuggling hundreds of South Korean women into the ... investigation was launched two years ago by US Immigration and Customs ...

New citizens celebrating Independence Day
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Although the immigration office keeps no figures about re-testing ... A list of other disqualifiers includes failure to support dependents, smuggling illegal aliens ...

Jeb Bush...Shocking 'Coin Gate' Crimes
New Criminologist - UK
... programmer for Yang named Henry Ni, who had been busted by Immigration and Customs ... Valdosta is a center for illegal smuggling and it was this nexus of illegal ...

US Attorney reports 29 charged in connection with alien sex ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Immigration and Customs ... the horrific, demeaning, and oftentimes brutal practice of smuggling and trafficking of ...

Immigration rally draws thousands {The law is the law... break it and suffer the consequences!}
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... "We are opposed to any legislation that treats us as unwanted persons.". ... Guillermma Ramirez, 34, of Mesa, came to show support for immigration reform. ...

Border Patrol plans to recruit agents
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
The US Border Patrol has launched a campaign to hire more than 700 agents this summer. The national effort will be led by Customs ...

Don't cross the line
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... Both agree that government immigration policy is broken, but ... of criminal activity from document fraud to drug ... The law would allow the estimated 11-million ...

Wire briefs for July 3
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... of the ruling Socialist party, which sponsored the law, said the party will now seek legislation to protect ... Those of you who want immigration reform should use ...

Contributed by: Anonymous
Infoshop News - USA
... smuggling deadly drugs, one less illegal alien gang member ... it will also be one less illegal immigrant that ... was arrested during an anti-immigration protest in ...

Border Watchers Gear Up for Expanded Patrol
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... LAREDO, Texas -- As the second act to its civilian border patrol in Arizona, the organization known as the Minutemen has pledged to launch a massive patrol of ...

DAN STEIN // STEIN REPORT 2005®
Difficulties in Removing Other Than Mexican Illegal Aliens ... Two border patrol
agents were just recently shot in a place called Nogalas and had to be ...

Secure, standardized driver licenses are vital to country's ...
eTaiwan News - Taipei,Taiwan
... And it came to light this spring that an illegal alien in Florida presented a ... Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a ...

What it means to be a citizen
Bainbridge Post Searchlight - Bainbridge,GA,USA
... a road truck and began driving across country as team drivers. ... the status of a permanent resident alien and is ... Stott's views on illegal immigrants is that he ...

News briefs from around California {Law breakers no longer skirt the fact - Illegal is Illegal}
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... Organized by a coalition of immigrant rights groups, Gente Unida, the demonstration took aim at the Minuteman Project and other groups seeking tighter border ...

Terror groups linked to human-smuggling cases
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
... Another smuggling network controlled by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group -- a US ... 2001, terrorist attacks, said Steven Schultz, of US Immigration and Customs ...

IMMIGRATION: EUROPE'S INTERIOR MINISTERS MEET
AKI - Rome,Italy
... such as Spain, who are targeting by the people-smuggling boats setting ... has co-decision powers over border controls, visa and illegal immigration policy with ...

Illegal immigrant jailed for people smuggling
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK
AN ILLEGAL immigrant who headed a people smuggling syndicate that included a ... uncovered by Britain's National Crime Squad and the Immigration Service working ...

Special body will review policies on human trafficking
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... meeting of the officials of the FIA and bureau of immigration and overseas ... reduce unemployment and was taking measures to curb human trafficking and smuggling. ...

US-Canada Border Leaves Many Jittery
Wired News - USA
... case, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Peter Ostrovsky says, "We're lucky that Ahmed Ressam did not hook up with Canadians smuggling contraband ...

Group gives migrants advice, warnings
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Palomas, across the border from Columbus, NM, where the bulk of illegal immigration in the ... Human smuggling is the biggest employer in Palomas, population 2,500 ...

Arrests exposing security weaknesses
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... at locations critical to the US economy or ... emergency funding as part of legislation passed in May ... for the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which ...

Parade lineup
Provo Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
... 36 US Sen ... laws, civil justice reform to unclog the courts, and legislation to protect ... a direct impact on such issues as civil rights, immigration, antitrust and ...

MS 13 Gang

Antonio Villaraigosa "La Razist"

Villaraigosa Sworn In As Los Angeles Mayor
KXTV - Sacramento,CA,USA
... of dignitaries and well-wishers, former California Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, 52, was sworn in as the 41st mayor of Los Angeles Friday, pledging to ...

LA mayor comes to Arnie's rescue!
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Washington: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa seems to be a good friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger. According to contactmusic ...

HOV lane to keep couples together?
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Steve Young, Guest columnist. New mayor takes office: Can anyone name the mayor of Los Angeles who served between Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa? ...

Port Chief to Step Down
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... said Saturday that he would resign, the first of several changes expected at the city's port as Antonio Villaraigosa settles in as mayor of Los Angeles. ...

Hispanic voters are still staying away in droves
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
WASHINGTON -- When Hispanic voters propelled Antonio Villaraigosa into the Los Angeles mayor's office in May, his victory was celebrated as an indication that ...

Inauguration Reflects District
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in a short speech at the inauguration, commended Rosendahl for ... "A good day, yesterday and today, for Los Angeles," one supporter ...

New Los Angeles mayor focuses on raising status quo
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
LOS ANGELES - Antonio Villaraigosa formally took his oath as the city's 41st mayor on Friday, becoming the first Hispanic to hold the office since the 19th ...

Villaraigosa Sworn in as Mayor
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday became the 41st mayor of Los Angeles and the first Latino to lead the nation's second-largest city in more than a century. ...

Reuters Politics News Summary
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Antonio Villaraigosa was sworn in on Friday as the first Latino mayor of modern Los Angeles, pledging to represent all its people and ...

A Vote of Confidence for Villaraigosa
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... superficiality. But on Friday morning, after listening carefully to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's inaugural speech, I became a loyal Angeleno. ...

Protests 'coddling' of pro-choicers at mayoral inauguration
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... group is calling for the resignation of Los Angeles Archbishop Cardinal Roger ... protesting at inauguaration ceremonies held there for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

National news
The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa formally took his oath as the city's 41st mayor on Friday, becoming the first Hispanic to hold the office since the 19th ...

Reporters submit choices for possible punishments
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Los Angeles -- Antonio Villaraigosa became the first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles in more than a century Friday, promising in his inaugural address to unite ...

Padilla Elected Council President
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... to a third two-year term as president of the Los Angeles City Council ... Friday meeting between the interfaith service for new Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his ...

Gang busters in Hampton Roads
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
An FBI informant says MS-13, a notorious street gang with ties to El Salvador, recently issued an order for its members to kill someone -- anyone -- wearing ...

Homeland Security Operations Net Over 400 Criminal Aliens
The Lincoln Tribune - USA
... Henry Salgado of Honduras is affiliated with MS-13. He has convictions for gang assault in the 1st degree, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. ...

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Illegal workers' arrests point to holes in security
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
... Several weeks ago, the Homeland Security Department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, detained 26 undocumented workers at the Northrop ...

US-Canada Border Leaves Many Jittery
Wired News - USA
... Recalling a highly publicized terrorist case, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Peter Ostrovsky says, "We're lucky that Ahmed Ressam did not hook up ...

Some migrants given license to disappear
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... the past two years, Congress funded 19,444 immigration-detention beds nationally, says Manny Van Pelt, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE ...

In Praise of Huddled Masses
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... still wants to "do something" about immigration, we propose ... in today's world, but the US became the ... to believe that this unenforceable legislation will provide ...

Surrendering Our Country
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... Over 25,000 illegal alien kids attend Denver schools with 50 different languages. ... What has happened to us because of massive, unrestricted immigration? ...

Border Patrol Tries New Tune to Deter Crossers
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The tune is part of a unique US Border Patrol Spanish-language media campaign aimed at channeling the agency's safe borders message through the language and ...

Terror suspect slipped through visa system
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... June 4, 2005) -- US federal officials have admitted they failed to deport an illegal alien acquitted of murder in a recent gang trial. Immigration and Customs ...

Border Patrol lets many illegal immigrants go Non-Mexicans are ...
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... from Brazil, Honduras and El Salvador, though arrests of illegal immigrants from ... says Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs ... "An alien from a ...

MAN ARRESTED ON FEDERAL IMMIGRATION CHARGES
Westerly Sun - Westerly,RI,USA
... drivers' license as Afranio M. Franco, 43, is wanted by the US Department of Homeland Security, Division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, police said. ...

Independence Day is the perfect time to salute diversity
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
... of Homeland Security, the INS and Customs Service were put in this department and merged into the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. ...

How Visa System Failed to Flag Lodi Imam
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Officials in Washington with Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department had no ...

LAW ENFORCEMENT ROLE IN ARRESTING ILLEGAL ALIENS
The Conservative Voice - USA
... have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) knowledge or ...

Lawyers sue over man's treatment at US-Canada border
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... In a letter to Rahman, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement department stated Rahman's name is a ''near match" to another person in the National Crime ...

AP Investigation: "Catch and release' policy frees illegal ...
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... in the past two years funded 19,444 immigration detention beds nationally, says Manny Van Pelt, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ...

Challenges in busy San Diego immigration jail show problems with ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... were jailed an average of 89 days last year, Wesley Lee, acting director of detention and removal operations at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told a ...

18 nabbed in human-smuggling scheme
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... raids last week that targeted a sophisticated human-smuggling operation authorities ... Those arrested, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

MAN ARRESTED ON FEDERAL IMMIGRATION CHARGES
Westerly Sun - Westerly,RI,USA
... Franco is wanted on an immigration violation of being a deported felon from a previous conviction of illegal smuggling of aliens in Texas in October 2000 ...

Contributed by: Anonymous
Infoshop News - USA
... alien bringing in communicable diseases, one less illegal alien smuggling deadly drugs ... Hal Netkin, who in May was arrested during an anti-immigration protest in ...

Immigrant stream flows from Brazil
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
US authorities report increases in illegal immigration from all of Brazil's southern ... and residents of this region said that unlike smuggling situations elsewhere ...

Hoping for a Miracle
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
... to introduce a private bill that would allow the family to remain in the US Long-term, their hope was that comprehensive immigration legislation would pass ...

Immigrants Benefit US Economy Now as Ever
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... A group of US senators and representatives has proposed legislation, called the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005. ...

A man without a military
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... he hasn't heard back from US immigration authorities ... Iraq, and many received posthumous US citizenship ... Last November, President Bush signed legislation to allow ...

Immigration rally draws thousands
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... "We are opposed to any legislation that treats us as unwanted persons.". ... Guillermma Ramirez, 34, of Mesa, came to show support for immigration reform. ...

Don't cross the line
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... Both agree that government immigration policy is broken, but ... Some of us don't like to admit that ... He recently co-sponsored comprehensive legislation to tackle ...

More trooper training on illegal immigrants ahead
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
... Alabama troopers who have received the training can enforce federal immigration law in the ... Now, a trained trooper can take the illegal alien into custody to be ...

Deportation decision splits family
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... If the legislation doesn't pass, she will face ... and she jokingly added maybe even in immigration law ... She is a good example of why this country needs reform.".

AP Investigation: `Catch and release' policy frees illegal ...
MLive.com - MI,USA
... checks but also federal Joint Terrorism Task Force ... Security, which oversees the Border Patrol and ICE. ... and detains them until the Border Patrol can send a car ...

ICE head named US attorney in NY
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Michael J. Garcia, who has headed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since the agency's creation ...
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Police/Fire Log
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Alma Sierra Prado, 27, is in County Jail waiting to be transferred to the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement where she faces possible deportation ...

Pipelines Send Illegal Immigrants to US
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigator Steven Schultz said. The four were ...

Homeland Security Operations Net Over 400 Criminal Aliens
The Lincoln Tribune - USA
by Jim Kouri, CPP. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested eight known gang members in four cities and removed nine others in recent days. ...

ICE plans to deport restaurant owner
Cadillac News - Cadillac,MI,USA
Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) characterize restaurant owner Zhen Chao Guo and restaurant worker Bao Zhen Lin as "fugitives.". ...

Closer look at smuggling from nations with terror ties
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Investigators with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement learned through an informant that Muhammad Qasum Lala was smuggling anywhere from six to 10 people ...

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Mexican Consulate

Accent on trust: Latino banks stress culture, communication
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... New York-based JP Morgan Chase & Co. has set up a mobile bank unit in front of the Mexican consulate in Chicago. In Dallas, Chase ...

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CAFTA

CAFTA friends, foes state their case on free trade deal
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... On Thursday, the Senate approved, by a 54-45 vote, the Dominican Republic- Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, a trade liberalization pact among ...

Does US need CAFTA? No
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... CAFTA, rather than recognizing and addressing the flaws in these earlier trade deals, simply makes them worse. ... And CAFTA promises more of the same. ...

CAFTA support, opposition are mottled
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Organized labor leads the opposition to CAFTA, joined by most Democrats, but a surprising number of Republicans oppose the treaty, too, primarily because they ...

Area business operators turn activist
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Proponents of CAFTA, seen as a steppingstone to a trade pact for all of North and South America, tout Central America as the second-largest Latin American ...

Government blocked reports on Central American trade deal
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
... and believes they will be "widely dismissed as a fraud." He accused the contractor of producing "a propaganda piece" and concealing "its rabid anti-CAFTA bias ...

US Senate passes Dominican Republic free trade deal
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
... national security and for reducing illegal immigration," Bush said. ... of Central American sugar onto the US market ... only vote up or down on legislation that would ...

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11th Circuit RICO Suit Involving Undocumented Aliens Proceeds

In Williams v. Mohawk Industries, No. 04-13740 (11th Cir. Jun. 9,
2005), the court said that the complaint's allegations that "the
common purpose of providing illegal workers to Mohawk so that
Mohawk could reduce its labor costs and the recruiters could get
paid" was sufficient to meet the "common purpose" requirement
under RICO at the 12(b)(6) stage of litigation. In deciding this
issue, the 11th Circuit joined the 2nd, 6th and 9th Circuits, and
disagreed with the 7th Circuit.
http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/immigdaily/cases/2005,0701-mohawk.pdf

MINUTEMAN PROJECT

Jazeera shelves US border story after complaints
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... The program was put on ice after Arizona-based volunteer vigilantes who patrol the porous border for illegal immigrants likened al Jazeera's ...

Minuteman organizing to 'protect' borders far from Mexico line
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... McCormick is one of a handful of Utah men who participated in the national Minuteman Project's April action stationing citizens on the US-Mexican border in ...

Minuteman Project disrupted in New Jersey
libcom.org newswire - London,UK
... hire illegal aliens and sponsor illegal alien hiring halls ... by the whims of mobs of ILLEGAL aliens who ... both the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR ...

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The tragic case of the $20 million illegal alien
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... Wallow Ranch, as the shooter. The suspect, an illegal alien, fled to Mexico the day after the shooting. The following is a fictional ...

SALEM NEWS
Salem Observer - Salem,NH,USA
... When his officers arrest someone who they suspect is an illegal alien, Donovan said, they will continue to check with the US Immigration and Customs ...

COLUMNISTS : Getting beyond the A-word
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
It was no surprise, then, that the new immigration reform legislation sponsored by Senators John Mc-Cain and Ted Kennedy has been greeted by a scolding A-word ...

Local groups to monitor civilian 'border patrol'
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Organizations calling themselves the Friends of the Border Patrol and the United States Border Patrol Auxiliary are expected to take to the border next month ...

Two Border Patrol agents shot
Mohave Valley News - Laughlin,NV,USA
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - Two US Border Patrol agents were shot Thursday as they patrolled smuggling trails three miles east of Nogales, authorities said. ...

Illegal immigrants killed, injured in head-on collision
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... immigrants died and seven more injured when the van they were in collided with a pickup truck shortly after speeding around a Border Patrol checkpoint on state ...

Immigration committee hears from ex-Fox adviser
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
WASHINGTON -- Any effort to reform US immigration laws must include the ... and reasonable reform of our immigration laws," Cornyn ... Legislation proposed by Sen. ...

Illinois families push for immigration reform
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... spouses of US citizens and permanent residents. Gutierrez is co-sponsoring legislation that would allow officials to overlook minor immigration violations one ...

Forum looks at impact of law
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... of how the new driver's license legislation will be ... and Stacy Tolchin, a San Francisco immigration attorney, who ... can educate others to stand with us and fight ...

As departure deadline looms, deportation fight falters
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... her failed lobbying effort - for the legislation and against ... came to the attention of immigration officials in ... could apply to become permanent US residents if ...

Hayworth/Franks bill would construct new prisons for illegal ...
Phoenix Business Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... John Cornyn, R-Texas, are also introducing immigration legislation that stiffens penalties ... 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US -- 500,000 of ...

Mexico stamps prompt new race row [Diversion Tactic - CAFTA PASSES SENATE!]
BBC News - UK
... He said the comment was taken out of context, which had been made to express frustration with tough new immigration legislation approved by the US Senate. ...

Illinois State Senator Steven Rauschenberger: An illegal alien's ...
MichNews.com - Troy,MI,USA
... NCLS' pro-illegal alien agenda can be found in "Sorting Fact From Fiction.". "Laws in 10 states that license individuals regardless of immigration status have ...

The illegal alien issue
Village News Network - Fallbrook,CA,USA
... Illegal immigrants are deportable under Immigration and Nationality Act Section 237 (a)(1)(B) which reads, "Any alien who is present in the United States in ...

Global Illegal Alien Smuggling Generates Billions in Profits
WEBCommentary - USA
... the composition of DHS's largest investigative component -- US Immigration and Customs ... that it was developing a national strategy for combating alien smuggling ...

FAIR Joins with Rep. Charlie Norwood at Introduction of CLEAR ACT ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Recent estimates place the illegal alien population of the US at more ... The crisis of mass illegal immigration is straining local communities and endangering ...

Customs officials keep close tabs on port
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... shipments, which makes the shipping containers ripe for any type of illegal activity, according to Roland Jones of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Making Sure Crime Doesn't Pay, Pays Off For Sheriff's Office
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... Davidson County Sheriff David Grice gladly accepted a more than $1.1 million check from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ...

Awards honor unsung heroes in federal civil service
Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau - USA
... Consider: -Ed Kacerosky, 49, a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Miami, passed up management promotions for 13 years to lead investigators in ...

Global Illegal Alien Smuggling Generates Billions in Profits
WEBCommentary - USA
... For instance, the composition of DHS's largest investigative component -- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- includes the legacy Customs Service, which ...

Checkers group founder pleads guilty to money laundering
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... Walker was arrested Jan. 7 by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Gulfport. Golden said Walker laundered $50,000 for an undercover agent on Nov. ...

GAO: Times call for risk-based budgeting
FCW.com - USA
... audit report states. The Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have also taken small steps. ...

Personnel Announcement
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... The President has nominated Julie L. Myers, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement). ...

Illegal immigrant caught with counterfeit goods to stand trial
Washington Observer Reporter - Washington,PA,USA
... Western Africa. Motte checked with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement and learned Ndoye is in the country illegally. ...

Cars, guns and federal agents: Neighbor describes raid
Salem News - Salem,MA,USA
... The brothers are accused of smuggling between 16 and 20 immigrants ... from a confidential informant about "suspicious activity" and "immigration violations" at ...

Iraqis trying to walk into US held
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Also detained were two Mexican smuggling suspects and a Mexican minor ... Mexican immigration officials have flown the pair to Mexico City for eventual deportation ...

US Border Patrol Facing New Illegal Immigration Problem
Voice of America - USA
US Border Patrol officials are facing an immigration loophole dubbed OTM, or Other Than Mexicans, that has allowed thousands of people from Central and South ...

Border Patrol traffic stops near Santa Fe alarm some
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
US Border Patrol agents are conducting traffic stops farther north to find smugglers of illegal aliens, a move that alarms immigrant advocates. ...

DIANA HULL: US can't ignore toll of illegal immigration
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... of the illegal alien community is unmistakable. The population has doubled in 40 years, and virtually all of the state's growth is currently due to immigration ...

GOVERNOR KINKY?
Amarillo.com (Subscription) - Amarillo,TX,USA
... Friedman's plan for combating illegal immigration from Mexico? ... Charge each general $5,000 for each illegal alien caught inside his sector and give the generals ...

Latinos seek more realistic portrayal of their presence
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... Illegal immigration, drug dealing and the Iraq war are certainly news - but so are ... the most part, immigrants are faceless, nameless people from an alien world. ...

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"MS 13" Gang

Legal machetes carried on the street
Somerville Journal - Somerville,MA,USA
... Carrabino said machetes are a serious problem in Somerville, in part because they are the weapon of choice for local members of El-Salvador street gang MS-13. ...

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"Mexican Mafia"

Ex-Mexican Mafia leader gets 18 years
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
A former lieutenant for the Texas Mexican Mafia was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for directing the gang's heroin operations on the South Side. ...

"Identiy Theft"

Guard your financial info doggedly
USA Today - USA
... Fraud-Watch, you'll receive alerts about activity in your TransUnion report, but you won't get reports on changes in your reports with Equifax and Experian. ...

New La. law gives consumers tool to protect credit identity
2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... With a security freeze in place, a credit reporting agency cannot release the consumer's credit report or credit score without his express authorization. ...

Numbers can add up to ID theft
The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
... the agency's attention by taxpayers, or by the Taxpayer Advocates who often deal with unique problems. Nick Warrick, president of the ACRAnet credit reporting ...

Los Angeles Mayor Practices Politics of Inclusiveness
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- New Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa impressed many in the Korean community recently when he attended a fundraiser of the Korean ...

The Challenges That Confront Villaraigosa
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Antonio Villaraigosa has plenty to worry about in Los Angeles. Being an effective local leader is hardly provincial. Los Angeles ...

Hahn Supports Port Task Force's Plan
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... in one of his last actions, will recommend that his successor, Antonio Villaraigosa, take action on a massive plan to reduce Port of Los Angeles air pollution ...

Persian Jews Dive Into Politics
The Jewish Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took office on July 1, he could have handed out thank-yous to groups all over the city ... What happens to Los Angeles happens to ...

Mayor Makes Inauguration Pit Stop
New York Sun (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Mayor Bloomberg is off to Los Angeles on Friday to share some of his New York City know-how with the new mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Slain LA County deputy mourned as boxer with a bright smile
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... wanted Ortiz's legacy of fighting gangs and crime to be furthered by Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who takes ... Burial was at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Awash in DC Activities for Summer
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... to switch the event after Williams decided to travel to Southern California for tomorrow's swearing-in of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles. ...

Dispute Over 405 Project Eases
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... And on Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to work to secure full funding for the project. "I intend ...

Chick: Airports lag on changes
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... It was Chick's audit of Los Angeles World Airports that led to county ... office and city agencies -- particularly with Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, whom she ...

MINUTEMAN PROJECT

Minuteman group seeks 1,000 to patrol Texas, NM
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
The group wants to enlist 1,000 civilian volunteers to look for undocumented immigrants along the border and call the Border Patrol on cell phones if they spot ...

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A glowing illegal alien alert
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... a priority of securing our border and enforcing the immigration laws within the ... the Energy Department had hired a contractor who used illegal alien workers for ...

State is checking possible ID fraud
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... A separate piece of legislation also makes the driving privilege card ... Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement board member Russell Sias said the ...

ID Cards: Blair answers tough questions & Commons debates today
PublicTechnology.net - UK
... use of public services, illegal immigration, illegal working ... what is essentially enabling legislation, it enables ... you know Health Service reform, or education ...

Under mounting pressure, Australian government modifies refugee ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... the immigration, attorney-general's, foreign affairs and family services departments. The last such committee was the notorious "People Smuggling Taskforce ...

Search of Waltham Street home yields hundreds of bags of heroin
Pawtucket Times - Pawtucket,RI,USA
... Finger bags are the product of the smuggling process, police say. ... Immigration agents also filed a detainer, alleging Morel is in this country illegally. ...

Criminal Deportees For Caricom Agenda Afterall
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... No form of immigration was mentioned in an earlier Caricom statement highlighting the ... Caribbean Single Market Economy as well as drugs, gun smuggling and HIV ...

Amherst Resident Convicted for Possession Child Pornography ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... J. Sullivan; Robin M. Avers, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England; and Colonel Thomas G. Robbins, Superintendent of ...

DHS Scraps Web Hiring Vendor
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... The two other sections covered by the contract are Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Citizenship and Immigration Services. ...

A glowing illegal alien alert
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... on the "national security need for work site enforcement" and on "whether the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ...

Salem Chief Won't Use Trespassing Law On Illegal Immigrants
WMUR Channel.com - Manchester,NH,USA
... Donovan's policy doesn't prevent his officers from detaining them to see if they're wanted by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

The cost of war
Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville,AL,USA
... The 2006 budget highlights the areas with the most increase, which are Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a 13.5 percent increase and the US Coast Guard ...

HR 2933 -- Legislative Analysis and Proposed Amendments
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... b)) which serve as a vehicle for aliens to be released in droves from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody ...

New Bill Needs Some Help To Expel Alien Gang Members--We Provide ...
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... "Most of the [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agents] know their stuff regarding all of the local gangs, their territories, the tattoos and ...

Valued tool along border: gut feeling
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... are probably city police and immigration and customs ... gate, Border Patrol officers and Customs agents wait ... into the training of law enforcement officers starts ...

Legislation authorizes local cops to assist federal authorities ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... States the legislation: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law and ... centers), in the enforcement of the immigration laws of ... found to be in the US illegally ...

Illegal aliens with hazmat CDLs arrested
Fleet Owner (subscription) - USA
of Homeland Security's US Immigration and Custom's Enforcement (ICE) officials reported arresting an illegal alien who was driving gasoline trucks for ...

News 5 Uncovers Details On Hamilton Rape Suspect
WLWT - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... names on arrest documents and he was believed to be an illegal alien at that ... "This is the tip of the iceberg," said Michael Brandabur, an immigration lawyer. ...

Federal judge dismisses transgender discrimination lawsuit against ...
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... "The court is sure that (Sturchio) felt isolated and unfairly treated at the Border Patrol. Part of this feeling was caused by the ...

"MS 13" Gang

Possible Gang Stabbing In Montgomery County
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
(AP) Police in Montgomery County are looking for a group of men claiming to be MS-13 gang members, who stabbed a man last night in Gaithersburg. ...

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Mecha Mayor

Villaraigosa To Chair MTA Board
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa will be sworn in as chair of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Board of Directors next month, the ...

Rick Caruso Announces Resignation from Los Angeles Board of Police ...
dBusinessNews Los Angeles (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- In a letter to Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa, Rick J. Caruso, CEO of Caruso Affiliated and owner of The Grove, announced his resignation from ...

Latinos, Flexing Political Muscle, Come of Age in LA
Civilrights.org (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
When Latino leaders gathered recently to celebrate the election of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor of Los Angeles, White House aide Ruben Barrales told them it ...

Immigration Issues Shape the Experience of US Latinos
Voice of America - USA
We start in California. This Friday, Antonio Villaraigosa [vee-yah-ry-GOH-sah] will begin his duties as mayor of Los Angeles. Around ...

Morning Headlines
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... but is forgoing a pay raise this year and is reorganizing top staff, the Daily News of Los Angeles reported. Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who plans to ...

County Increases Aid to the Homeless
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... And the city of Los Angeles may soon follow suit. Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa was appalled by the large street count, especially the 7,500 families found ...

Gentleman warrior
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Prince Charles the Los Angeles Urban League Automotive Training Center on Crenshaw Boulevard; hosting his friend Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who held his ...

Family, Friends Mourn Deputy Jerry Ortiz
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Don Manumaleuna said. District Attorney Steve Cooley said Orozco will be charged with first- degree murder of a peace officer and could face the death penalty. ...

Illegal Immigration Hurts Legal Immigrants
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... news is wanted by the readers. I covered the Minuteman Project in April extensively as I live down here along the border myself. ...

Al-Jazeera to look at open U.S. border
Arab news network interested in lack of security
WorldNetDaily.com, June 25, 2005
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44987

OTMs spell trouble for Border Patrol
By Hernan Rozemberg and Macarena Hernandez
The San Antonio (TX) Express-News, June 25, 2005
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA062505.1A.OTMs.5b9f454.html

Over 20 illegal aliens arrested in Sullivan County this week
KTVO 3 (Kirksville, MO), June 25, 2005
http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3518005&nav=1LFsbQdV

Anti-illegals group is outraged Rocky allows 'sanctuary' in S.L.
By Brady Snyder
The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, UT), June 25, 2005
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C600144106%2C00.html

Groups voice fears about Minuteman intentions
By Lakendra Lewis
The Corpus Christi (TX) Caller-Times, June 24, 2005
http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_3879982,00.html

Border volunteers eye San Diego area
'Minutemen' seek to extend patrols
By Marty Graham
Reuters, June 24, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/24/border_volunteers_eye_san_diego_area/

Group Vows to Oppose 'Minutemen'
By Jim Forsyth
WOAI (San Antonio, TX), June 24, 2005
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6501BCE4-21B8-4AD1-89A7-D589435345C5

4 arrested in Bridgewater protest
By Caryn Shinske
The Courier News (Bridgewater, NJ), June 26, 2005
http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/NEWS01/506260349/1006

Man admits to using wife for illegal gun purchases
By Sergio Chapa
The Brownsville (TX) Herald, June 24, 2005
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=65829_0_10_0_C

On L.I., Raid Stirs Dispute Over Influx of Immigrants
By Bruce Lambert
The New York Times, June 26, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/nyregion/26farmingville.html

State GOP chief defends Bush policy
Bob Martinez calls for an end to criticism of president's stance on immigration
By Matthew Benson
The Ft. Collins Coloradoan, June 23, 2005
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050623/NEWS01/506230318&SearchID=73212125479339

Canadian charged with smuggling
The Bangor (ME) Daily News, June 24, 2005
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=115559

Muslim Cleric Says He Spoke Against U.S.
By Rone Tempest and Robert Salladay
Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lodi25jun25,1,1026658.story

Parking is no joyride for residents
Anaheim's Jeffrey-Lynne was redeveloped into Hermosa Village, where street rules are tougher
By Sarah Tully
The Orange County (CA) Register, June 25, 2005
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/06/25/sections/local/local/article_574564.php

Minuteman Project

News :: Immigration & Borders
NYC Independent Media Center - New York,NY,USA
(from the Open Newswire): The United Patriots of America (UPA), a group allied with the Minuteman Project, announced this public recruiting drive in ...

The Smell Test
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... site that features much of his writing. I say misfortune because I discovered a piece of pure fantasy about the Minuteman Project. ...

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Temporary Worker Program Sees Changes
HR.BLR.com - USA
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the implementation of new ... The L-1 Visa Reform Act amends previous legislation to address the ...

DHS PAUSES EMERGE2 PROGRAM TO RECONSIDER OPTIONS
The Homeland Security Department's $229 million Emerge2 program is
alive but has been paused until the agency figures out the program's future.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36195-1.html


CALIFORNIA TO REVISIT RFID RESTRICTIONS
An amendment to SB 682 would ban radio-frequency identification tags on
driver's licenses, student IDs and library and health insurance cards, but allow them on access cards for individuals such as first responders, prison employees and detainees. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36225-1.html

Illegal alien indicted for threatening female friend
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
... her cell phone, it is alleged. iorno said when Vasquez was arrested, he was found in possession of a forged resident alien card.

Go Back To Where You Came From
BusinessWeek - USA
... and the widening spread of illegal immigration into once ... beds reserved in federal immigration detention facilities ... mostly occupied by convicted alien criminals ...

Erasing America
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
by Frosty Wooldridge. LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/27/05 -- Remember a chalkboard full of math problems at the head ...

House Leader DeLay Faces Probes, Holds Power by Funneling Cash
Bloomberg - USA
... the chairmanship of the Government Reform Committee, which ... through the House on immigration restrictions, meat ... funding, his push for legislation raising import ...

Latinos, Flexing Political Muscle, Come of Age in LA
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... is the first Latino president of the Los Angeles City Council since 1868, and Rocky Delgadillo's staff can find no record of a Latino city attorney as far back ...

Suspect arrested in deputy's slaying
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... A first-degree murder charge, with a potential death penalty, could be filed early this week, District Attorney Steve Cooley said Saturday. ...

Policing illegal immigrants
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... in Long Branch, Martins is taking his case to the Board of Immigration Appeals. ... how doing what he thought was right - calling 911 to report smuggling and a ...

Ten years' jail for smuggler
This is Local London - UK
... by the police who brought to an end a criminal enterprise of assisting illegal immigration. ... You were recorded expressing the view that people smuggling was far ...

Auditors find drop in immigration enforcement at worksites
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... In 2003, by contrast, the organization now known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement devoted 90 full-time workers to worksite enforcement. ...

Three Detained in Mo. Crash That Killed 5
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... in the crash, was believed to have been driving the van and smuggling illegal aliens, said Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

US experts to probe weaknesses of PNP
INQ7 Interactive, Inc. - Philippines
AMERICAN specialists in anti-narcotics, counterterrorism, immigration and customs enforcement are in the country to assess the institutional weaknesses of the ...

US lawmen review PNP capability
Manila Bulletin - Manila,Philippines
... Justice-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and ...

Sex offender, 31, from Delray may be deported
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Reyes-Valdivieso, 31, in Delray Beach because he overstayed his visa, said Barbara Gonzalez, spokeswoman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. ...

Auto sting snares 22 suspects
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the ...

Immigration office deports 27 Haitian criminals
BizNewOrleans.com - Metairie,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office here today deported 27 Haitian criminal aliens and four status violators who were ...

John C. Shewairy named director of public affairs for DOE Oak ...
Oak Ridger - Oak Ridge,TN,USA
... through November 2003, in Washington, DC, Shewairy served as deputy communications director for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm ...

Hiring Undocumented Workers is Illegal But Unenforced
Voice of America - USA
... And although federal law prohibits employing illegal workers, it is rarely enforced, according to Kevin Jeffrey of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los ...

Family racing to raise money for Dover immigrant
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
... The Department of Homeland Security later revealed Pangaribuan's arrest was part of an operation by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency aimed to ...

State GOP: Seal border against illegals
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... campaign for Amendment One tax reform in 2003. ... the country's policies on illegal immigration and Bush's ... now fuel competing and divisive legislation in Congress ...

US Immigration Bill Promises Equality
Gay NZ - New Zealand
Legislation has been introduced to US Congress, aimed at giving same-sex couples the same immigration rights as heterosexual couples. ...

US immigration changes face obstacles
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... George W Bush's efforts to overhaul US immigration law have ... "The battle for immigration reform is ... Edward Kennedy put forward bipartisan legislation backed by ...

State GOP: Seal border against illegals
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... pushes Congress to overhaul US immigration laws, state ... country's policies on illegal immigration and Bush's ... fuel competing and divisive legislation in Congress ...

Bipartisan Bill Would Ensure Gay Bi-National Couples Equal ...
365Gay.com - USA
(Washington) Legislation was introduced ... was previously named the Permanent Partners Immigration Act which ... the stated principle within US immigration policy to ...

Amnesty By Any Other Name
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Amnesty legislation introduced by Republican Senator John McCain ... Massachusetts purports to "reform" immigration laws and ... influx of aliens across US borders ...

Many in US Want English as Citizenship Requirement
Angus Reid Global Scan - Vancouver,BC,Canada
... Edward Kennedy introduced legislation that seeks to create a program that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain legal work permits. The US Immigration and ...

US Democracy's Difficult Days
Al-Jazeerah.info - Dalton,GA,USA
... to vote for a huge piece of legislation which many ... Immigration advocacy groups have, likewise, issued reports on the ... meted out to individuals held in the US. ...

Humanitarian and Political Leaders From Both Sides of the Border ...
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... incorporate presentations and panel sessions on subjects as diverse as the history of US-Mexico migration, immigration reform legislation, human trafficking ...

Border Patrol's Tucson apprehensions down this year
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
TUCSON, Ariz. - Temperatures ratcheted up this week toward 110 degrees but illegal immigrant apprehensions in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, the nation's ...

Border Patrol agent arrested
KRGV - Westlaco,TX,USA
BROWNSVILLE -- A Border Patrol agent was arrested in Brownsville Tuesday on family violence charges. Police accused the Del Rio ...

"MS 13" Gang

Nice Illegal Immigrants and Not-Nice Illegal Immigrants: Telling ...
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... Idaho. Sur 13, who was at the Glenwood Strawberry Days, is part of that gang.. They are the Sureno (or Southerner) division of MS 13.

"Antonio Villaraigosa" Watching Mecha man!

Villaraigosa Faces a Triple Challenge
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... If Antonio Villaraigosa, who publicly takes the oath of office Friday as ... coalitions around him, and maintaining control over the Los Angeles Police Department. ...

Harbor Area's Hahn lists new goals of 'dream job'
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who handily defeated the mayor in last month's election ... "We agree that the port is a great engine for Los Angeles, and that ...

Deputy's Alleged Killer Held
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... of the National Sheriffs' Assn., returned to Los Angeles for a news conference held Saturday with Cooley and Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Mayor-elect seeks to bring hotel business back to LA
The Tidings - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa heartily welcomed conventions, business meetings and tourists back to Los Angeles following ratification of a contract between ...

Tows reach new low
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Los Angeles police Detective Tom Butler said fights erupt regularly ... to discuss recommendations for city commissions under Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

Leaving office works a charm
Variety (subscription) - USA
... California's governor and the headaches that await Los Angeles' newly elected ... In addition, both he and LA Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa (taking office July 1 ...

FAIR Accepts Senator McCain’s Offer to Debate Comprehensive Immigration Reform

During remarks Monday before the American League of Lobbyists (ALL), Senator John McCain offered to debate FAIR “any time, any place” about the critical issue of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States. In his presentation to the ALL gathering, Senator McCain asserted that immigration is now the issue of greatest concern to the American public.

Dan Stein, president of FAIR, immediately accepted Senator McCain’s proposal for a “respectful” debate about immigration policy. “We thank Senator McCain for his offer to debate this critical public policy issue, and we respectfully and enthusiastically accept that invitation,” said Stein. “A frank and public debate about immigration policy has long been needed in this country, and we look forward to having this discussion at the Senator’s earliest possible convenience.”

Senators McCain and Kennedy have introduced legislation that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. and open the doors to millions of additional guest workers who would ultimately become permanent residents of the U.S. A second piece of legislation, authored by Senators John Cornyn and Jon Kyl, is expected to be introduced in the next few weeks.

“On one matter there is absolutely no disagreement between ourselves and Senator McCain: immigration is the most important issue facing the United States today,” said Stein. “The decisions that Congress makes this year will affect every meaningful aspect of life in America for generations to come. From homeland security, to the environment, to the long-term viability of the middle class in America, immigration policy will play a defining role in the sort of country our children and grandchildren will inherit.”

In a letter to Senator McCain, FAIR proposes a public debate at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this summer. FAIR is also amenable to holding additional debates at a time and location of Senator McCain’s choosing. “Our bottom line is that comprehensive immigration reform is a matter that must be debated before any serious consideration is given to pending legislation and that it be held in a forum that affords the greatest possible coverage by the media. If, as the Senator has pointed out, this is the number one concern for the American public, then it must be debated before the American public,” Stein said.

In response to the McCain-Kennedy and other expected legislation, FAIR has published Seven Principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. “We believe the principles we propose for a comprehensive overhaul of American immigration policy represent the interests and concerns of the vast majority of Americans. We eagerly look forward to testing those principles in an open and respectful debate with Senator McCain, and contributing to comprehensive immigration reform that is in the national interest,” Stein concluded

Minuteman Project

Editorial: Binocular corps
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
... To review, the Arizona Minuteman Project made headlines when it set up a monthlong patrol along a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border. ...

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Steve Cooley www.escapingjustice.org

Mexico easing extradition?
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
We, however, agree with Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, who said he could not do the same with regard to any suspects in Mexico, (including ...

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When a border splits families
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Federal immigration officials rarely investigate employers, and when they do, their priority is to combat terrorism, major smuggling and criminal operations. ...

Illegal Immigration Draws Attention in Goliad
KZTV10 - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... try to get into the area. There are over 50 impounded vehicles that had been used for smuggling humans. Sarco residents are so fed ...

Dateline Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... on the upswing," said Tim Counts, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. "There's so many variables that go into apprehension of smuggling loads.". ...

Teen smuggled into US found hanging in yard
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Ricardo José Contreras and Rogino Sánchez pleaded guilty in federal court to human smuggling charges. ... José's immigration status was under review. ...

Man: Wife guilty only of 'being Kenyan'
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... t really lend itself to organized efforts in the way human smuggling, adoption, bogus ... USA, a Washington, DC, group that pushes for tighter immigration laws. ...

Skeptical but fed up, Texas ranchers meet Minutemen
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... people southeast of San Antonio, has become a hub for smuggling illegal immigrants. ... said any citizen has a right to contact police about illegal immigration. ...

TWA 847, 20 Years Later
FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... soon be freed from prison in Germany, where he was caught smuggling explosives ... Then there's Brian Moskowitz, Special Agent in Charge for Immigration and Customs ...

Senate bills revive debate on immigration policy
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration system are ... Bipartisan legislation introduced last month by Sens. ... immigrants on a path toward US citizenship. ...

Conditions for latest bridging visa relaxed
ABC Online - Australia
... families, will be enshrined in legislation, though the ... Today the Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone revealed Peter ... something that resulted in us being able ...

Miriam urges House to respect principle of executive privilege
Manila Bulletin - Manila,Philippines
... as its purpose of "in aid of legislation" is not ... was no record from the Bureau of Immigration that Garcillano ... Affairs (DFA) will not ask the US government to ...

Democracy's Difficult Days
Media Monitors Network - CA,USA
... to vote for a huge piece of legislation, which many ... Immigration advocacy groups have, likewise, issued reports on the ... meted out to individuals held in the US. ...

REAL ID Act moves into place
Maryknoll Magazine - Maryknoll,NY,USA
... rights-oriented than other pieces of legislation, but it ... communities to present their vision of immigration reform ... on people seeking asylum in the US They will ...

A Tolerance of Violence On the Border
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... a single piece of progressive social legislation sponsored by ... the verdict and pressured US Attorney General ... from that of legitimate immigration reform groups ...

Oversight Hearing on the 'Lack of Worksite Enforcement & Employer Sanctions'

House Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
2141 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
June 21, 2005, 2 p.m.
http://judiciary.house.gov/committeestructure.aspx?committee=4

Less detention, more humanity
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... members' bill now; instead, new legislation will provide ... of its commitment to getting the immigration system right. ... as a political agent of reform and benefit ...

A Tolerance of Violence On the Border
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... remember a single piece of progressive social legislation sponsored by right ... has "departed sharply from that of legitimate immigration reform groups." Much ...

Jobs lure illegal migrants into New Mexico [New conquest - old story!]
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... A 35-year-old illegal alien, who feared to give his name, lives with his ... border from Palomas, said that although his office doesn't enforce immigration law, he ...

Border Patrol discovers tiger cubs in truck
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
FALCON -- Border Patrol agents seized two white tiger cubs from a man attempting to take the rare, endangered animals to Mexico. ...

Ranchers call for action
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
FALFURRIAS - The governor of Texas has discouraged an Arizona civilian border patrol group from coming to Texas in October, but a half-dozen local ranchers and ...

Illegals raiding Valley crops
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... "I would like the Border Patrol to pay more attention to our problem and do something about it," he said. ... They know Border Patrol will not do anything.". ...

Competing immigration plans set to be unveiled
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Cornyn of Texas and Jon Kyl of Arizona plan next month to introduce legislation that would ... Together, the proposals give new momentum to immigration reform. ...
The Southern Border
Amnesty International USA - USA
... that governments -- by focusing almost exclusively on immigration control -- have ... organisation published a report on the reform of legislation on aliens ...

Illegal Immigration: A Small Town's Cop's Perspective
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... who lost loved ones on 9/11 because of non-enforcement of immigration laws. ... Officer David Marsh of Los Angeles was gunned down by an illegal alien two years ago ...

Local police not jumping on illegal alien bandwagon
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
... From my understanding, (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement) isn't looking to ... to someone who is an undocumented resident or an illegal alien," said Coakley ...

Illegal Immigration: 187 Arrested for Violent Crimes in New ...
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
... The operation is the largest criminal alien fugitive operation ever conducted at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office. ...

Meet the Press, online at MSNBC
MSNBC - USA
... the prison at Guantanamo, stem cell research, immigration, the Supreme ... But for us to throw away opportunities to ... is a discussion now in legislation which would ...

Hard work and hard questions
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... While criticizing recent US immigration policy last ... and beliefs that have made us feel comfortable ... the civil rights movement and legislation provided many ...

Competing immigration plans set to be unveiled
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... of Arizona plan next month to introduce legislation that would ... immigrants on a path toward US citizenship. ... the proposals give new momentum to immigration reform ...
See all stories on this topic

Expatriates in US seek a voice in Mexico vote
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... President Vicente Fox sent his own legislation to Congress ... political actors to say something against us now.". ... me here," said San Diego immigration lawyer Lilia ...

Illegal aliens not the only issue surrounding immigration woes
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
... A binational organization is calling for Congress to enact legislation that would ... As it stands, neither the US federal government or the Mexican federal ...

9th Circuit split-up reprised
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... It is undisputed that the 9th US Circuit Court of ... R-Alaska, sponsor of her own split legislation last year ... percent of its time working on immigration stuff, and ...

Last week in Congress / How our representatives voted
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
... the state's two US senators on major legislation in Congress ... for enforcement of the Illegal Immigration Reform and ... and $800 million for the US Marshals Service ...

Interview With Rusten Currie
Blogcritics.org - USA
... to impede the flow of illegal immigration; it seemed ... sense of morality, and to hold us all accountable ... position to comment on and craft legislation having to ...

Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol
By Blas Nunez-Neto
Congressional Research Service, May 10, 2005
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/47812.pdf

Border Security: Key Agencies and Their Missions
By Blas Nunez-Neto
Congressional Research Service, May 9, 2005
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/47808.pdf


Hollywood starring in its own pirate drama
International Herald Tribune - France
... The raid was conducted by a multiagency task force, including the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as the local police in ...

Drug wars' long shadow
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... But police botched the paperwork on Mr. González, and county jailers turned him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Dec. 17. ...

Pizza Shop Owner Allegedly Helped Bounty Hunter In Afghanistan ...
The Moderate Voice - USA
... He was one of this man Alocozy's clients," said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which spent two years ...

Siege on border
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Federal immigration officials rarely investigate employers. When they do, their priority is to combat terrorism, major smuggling and criminal operations. ...

Woman in smuggling case found hanged
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... and Sanchez pleaded guilty in federal court this month to human smuggling charges and face up to 20 years in prison. Susana Jose's immigration status had been ...

In Quest for Living Wage, Many Immigrants Make Ultimate Sacrifice
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... north, it has added a new wrinkle to the immigration equation: death. ... as a sweeping border control initiative focusing on the major smuggling thoroughfare of ...

Customs cop chief faces raps for failing lifestyle check
INQ7 Interactive, Inc. - Philippines
... RIPS said it got confirmation from the Bureau of Immigration that each of the ... the Run After Smugglers (RATS), under which tax evasion and smuggling charges are ...

The latest illegal alien updates
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
... It's yet another recap of two New Hampshire police chiefs' use of criminal trespass laws to arrest and detain illegal aliens. One of the alien's lawyers, in ...

Last week in Congress / How our representatives voted
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
... and the state's two US senators on major legislation in Congress ... that would provide $1 million for enforcement of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant ...
Cornyn airs immigration views
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... subcommittee on immigration, was in San Antonio to promote and improve his ideas for immigration reform. He revealed a few new details on legislation that he ...

ORGANIZATIONS CONTACT INFO - TO KEEP HANDY!

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Toll Free: 1 (866) 347-2423
1-866-DHS-2ICE
Visit ICE Website.
Contact ICE Field Offices.

Contact ICE to report illegal aliens, employers that hire illegal labor, smugglers, document fraud, and other crimes by illegal aliens. Bilingual services are offered. Confidential reporting is allowed. ICE operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Mailing Address: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, D.C. 20528
Citizen Lines:
Operator Number: 202-282-8000
Comment Line: 202-282-8495
Visit DHS Website.
Send DHS a message online.

The Department of Homeland Security encourages citizens to contact their local law enforcement and local FBI office first especially if the matter involves personal safety. You can contact DHS to provide information and reports about suspected terrorist activity or crimes related to terrorism.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Mailing Address:
Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
FBI HQ Phone: 202-324-3000
Visit FBI Website.
Locate FBI field offices.
Submit a tip to the FBI online.

The FBI investigates many crimes related to illegal immigration such as fraud, governmental fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering, terrorism, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and financial institution fraud as well as terrorism.

Social Security Administration (SSA)
Mailing Address: Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235
Main Number: 1-800-772-1213
Visit SSA website.
How to report fraud.

SSA needs to know when people are selling and using fraudulent Social Security numbers and cards and abusing Medicare and Medicaid. They are interested in abuse involving their employees, crime rings, and terrorists.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Fraud Line: 1-800-829-0433
How to report criminal activity with the IRS.

While the IRS has the task of making sure we pay the extensive bill for illegal immigration, they can also be an asset to your efforts. Please report employers that hire illegal labor and use illegal alien day laborers to the IRS.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB)
4200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 800 Arlington, VA 22203-1838
National Office Phone: 703-276-0100
Visit the BBB website.
Find your local BBB chapter.

The Better Business Bureau handles complaints about businesses that want to stay in good standing with the community. Issues relating to the employment of illegal labor, identity theft problems, and other business issues should be reported to nation and local BBB offices. A business that intentionally hires illegals is not a good neighbor.

Local and State Law Enforcement
Contact information for your local and state law enforcement agencies should be listed in your local phone book. These agencies understand the local crime patterns and can provide great assistance to you. These agencies should be encouraged to do as much as they can to make sure illegal aliens that are arrested for crimes are then processed by ICE. Cracking down on illegal immigration reduces crime rates in areas where local police have taken action. These websites might help you in your search.
Visit Copseek law enforcement directory.
Visit CrimeSpider law enforcement resource.

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Antonio Villaraigosa - Los Angeles

Councilman's Past Has Him Ready to Lead
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... labor movement has waned nationally, it remains strong in Los Angeles, a traditionally ... Ludlow campaigned hard for his friend Antonio Villaraigosa in the city's ...

Latinos Grow in Influence; Say 'Hola' to America's Largest ...
Voice of America - USA
... On July first, Antonio Villaraigosa (pronounced vee-yah-ry-GOH-sah) will take office as mayor of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. ...

Down in the Valley
Variety (subscription) - USA
CBS brass and Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa ceremonially broke ground Friday on the future Studio City home of KCBS and KCAL. ...

Villaraigosa proposes that mayor should appoint school board [Power Push?]
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed that he should appoint the school ... seven board members who oversee the 740,000-student Los Angeles Unified School ...

Villaraigosa picks team of veterans
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
- Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday named ... Allen has been with the controller's office since 2000 and has worked with the Los Angeles County Probation ...

LA's soft-spoken new first lady reluctantly enters the limelight
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
... "I think what Los Angeles is going to ... is that she is a woman of grace and charm, caring and passionate,' said her husband, Mayor- elect Antonio Villaraigosa. ...

LA lobby rule may block proposed union head
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
... who is a close ally of Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, is expected ... in securing council approval of a plan for modernizing Los Angeles International Airport. ...

Arnold sets stage for very costly battles
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... chairman of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, and to fill the Los Angeles City Council seats of new Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilman ...

You're Not as Safe as You Think You Are
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
During the recent Los Angeles mayoral campaign, there was much talk, mostly by Mayor ... With Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa taking office July 1, it's time to ...

Where do elephants belong?
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Closer to home, Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa said during his campaign that the Los Angeles Zoo, with its three elephants, needs to become more ...

Minuteman Project

Significantly, the Minuteman Project hasn't gone away
Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA
... tend to fold quickly once improvements have been made. It tells you something, then, that the Minuteman Project hasn't gone away. .

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Religious visas endanger America's security
Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi,CA,USA
... Readers who are interested in learning more about visa fraud should read syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin's 2002 book, "Invasion: How America Still ...

Voter bill draws fire from labor, Hispanic groups
kgw.com (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
... Jim Ludwick of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, said ... has received no complaints about illegal immigrants attempting to ... Any undocumented alien who tried to do ...

Bush's impeachable offense
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... When asked about the allocation, outgoing Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge called it "fool's gold." The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which is ...

Say arresting illegals of little value since feds seldom deport ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... In April, he requested the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train Connecticut troopers in enforcement of federal immigration laws, reports the Danbury ...

187 Criminal Aliens Arrested for Violent Crimes in New England
WEBCommentary - USA
... The operation is the largest criminal alien fugitive operation ever conducted at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office. ...

Officials Report Sharp Increase In Illegal Immigrant Arrests
Iowa Channel.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... vehicles stopped by police. Tim Counts, of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said smugglers focus on money, not safety. ...

Hayward pizza parlor owner transferred money to bounty hunter ...
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... Pizza in Hayward, illegally transferred $1 million out of the country between 2002 and 2003, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency revealed ...

Imam is arrested on visa violation
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa confirmed Issa was arrested, but would not elaborate. "He will ...

Man charged with violating arms act
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Arif Ali Durrani, 55, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Los Angeles International Airport this week after his arrival ...

Educator Faces New Charge
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... "Witness tampering is a serious offense," Dean Boyd, a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said yesterday in a prepared statement. ...

Cops to remain cops
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
... currently investigating criminal elements who engage in "alien smuggling" and human ... lobbying the federalgovernment to reform the country's immigration laws and ...

Governor: Federal resources needed in immigration fight
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
... use of his manpower and he needs better intelligence about the smuggling operations that ... bill that would have allowed police to act as immigration agents and ...

Andaman fuel smuggling 'almost disappeared'
MCOT - Bangkok,Thailand
... of smuggling going on. Pol. Maj. Gen. Suraphol also indicated that marine police officers were strictly enforcing measures to prevent illegal immigration and ...

ICE could get involved in accident investigation
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... to drive, that falls under the jurisdiction of the US Immigration and Customs ... the removal of 1,037 people, which includes over-the-road smuggling and released ...

Dekada aspirations equal CNMI's long-term best interest
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... US Only the US Congress can enact legislation that would ... through changes to CNMI labor and immigration statutes, even if not as ideally as the US Congress can. ...

Cornyn seeks middle ground on illegal workers
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... Rival legislation introduced last month by senators John McCain, R ... on both sides of the immigration debate were ... children here, who are automatically US citizens ...

Mental Illness Survivors Demand Parity in Medical Coverage
The NewStandard - Syracuse,NY,USA
... "I would analogize it to civil rights legislation," said Ibson ... She points out that US lawmakers already have comprehensive mental health insurance as part of ...

Minutemen protest banks
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... R-Provo, who sponsored the legislation creating the ... The US Treasury Department allows banks to use ... the banks are encouraging illegal immigration by accepting ...

Mexico's outlook? Undecided
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Job creation is middling, and immigration continues to boom ... as many economists expect, the US economy slows ... him better at hammering out legislation with Congress ...

Violations of Civil Liberties are an American Tradition
Democratic Underground - Washington,DC,USA
... Communists were barred from immigrating to the US, and any alien suspected of ... subversive elements, so it passed the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality ...

Your daily illegal alien update
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
... driver had no business being behind the wheel (no license) did the ... with states requiring annual safety inspections, working headlights, and drivers' licenses ...

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"Mexican Mafia"

Sister cities cope with Mexican violence
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
... More than 60 murders in Nuevo Laredo this year, believed to be the work of warring Mexican mafia fighting to monopolize the drug trade, have Laredo struggling ...

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MS 13" Gang

Nations Address Gang Violence
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... MS-13, said the conference reflected increased momentum. Governments are developing more channels of communication, a prerequisite for responding to the gang ...

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Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Villaraigosa Rounds Out His Team
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa tapped a group of Los Angeles City Hall veterans Friday for his senior staff, naming Robin M. Kramer as his chief of staff, a ...

Los Angeles mayor-elect seeks LAUSD powers
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA
Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa made waves Friday when he told a state Senate committee that he wants the Mayor's Office to have the power to ...

Report: Former Los Angeles County AIDS director violated state law
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... campaign contributions from county contractors for mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, who was elected mayor in May, the Los Angeles Times reports. ...

An X-Ray Vision
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... One of Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa's biggest challenges will be to rally support for modernizing LAX, something neither of the two previous ...

New mayor keeps vets on his team
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa announced a team of City Hall veterans as his top ... these leaders will skillfully steer the ship toward a Los Angeles of which ...

Practice Test
Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... tourist season, mayor-elect and former union organizer Antonio Villaraigosa called hotel ... Hammer, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Area Chamber ...

CBS breaks Valley ground
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Moonves credited Los Angeles City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel and Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa with helping shepherd the project through the approval process ...

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IDENTITY THEFT - "PATRIOT ACT"?

CONSUMER WATCH: Law lets US snoop at banks
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... Rod Griffin, a spokesman for Experian, the Costa Mesa, Calif., credit-reporting agency, said the reader's money market accounts should not have been reported ...

MINUTEMAN PROJECT

Significantly, the Minuteman Project hasn't gone away
Sun-Gazette - Williamsport,PA,USA
... and Mexico. Their purpose was to spot people trying to sneak across the border, then alert US Border Patrol agents. During the time ...

Border controls lead to shortage of berry pickers
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... "There's just not as many people," he said. "There's fear about crossing the border and insecurity because of the Minuteman Project.". ...

US-Canadian coalition to check border crossings
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... it has begun the first stages in developing internationally supported citizen patrols along the US-Canada border patterned after the Minuteman Project in April ...

"Minutemen" in Morristown
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... I do believe we need to enact some legislation to prevent ... looking the other way at immigration violations is ... have entered this country without us even knowing ...

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Criticized border camera system works here
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
In Washington, congressmen are denouncing the US Border Patrol's border camera system as a $239 million fiasco that has failed to improve security at the ...

Cops to remain cops [sanctuary city and state]
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
... criminal elements who engage in "alien smuggling" and human ... to reform the country's immigration laws and ... The mayor also said illegal immigrants should have the ...

Tell your Republican Representative you are disappointed by their vote agains the King Amendment to prohibit sanctuary policies

This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your survey showing your interest in at least one of the following:

• Illegal migration is out of control and threatens...
• Local law enforcement cooperation with ICE

You can find this fax by proceeding to
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Sen. John Cornyn to meet with SA leaders about immigration reform ...
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... leaders to discuss his proposed immigration reform bill, including ... as he prepares comprehensive legislation to overhaul the existing immigration system ...

Illegal Aliens Affect The Presidental Election {and the Senate and Congress!}
RedState.org - USA
... According to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, there were ... So, by including the illegal alien population in reapportioning the nation's nationally ...

Form I-9 Compliance, LLC Launches the First Web-Based Form I-9 ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... of mind that their employees' Social Security and Immigration documents are ... services performed by trained and experienced I-9 consultants, including former ...

Deportation fight weighs on family
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
... but that application was denied by a federal immigration judge who ordered Lin deported. Lin pleaded guilty in 2003 to illegally smuggling family members into ...

US, Mexican officials meet to address escalating border violence
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice called it a "very serious problem" and Friday, people on both sides of the line were looking for answers. ...

Your daily illegal alien update [We Need the CLEAR ACT]
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
Recently, one of his officers pulled over a car around midnight for a burned-out headlight. When the driver didn't have a license ...

Cornyn wants to expand employee verification program
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription) - Denton,TX,USA
... "Our nation's immigration and border ... Kyl, R-Ariz., whose states cover 85 percent of the US-Mexico border -- expect to introduce legislation next month. ...

Governor wants it both ways on volatile issue of illegals
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... supported benefits intended for US citizens -- though ... enforcement forced into performing immigration-related functions ... But the legislation she vetoed simply ...

Thuraday 16th June 2005
Bulletin Panama - El Dorado,Panama
... The legislation on contraband and Customs fraud establishes ... blow each day amounts to US $7-million ... The deputy director of Immigration, Carmelo Gonzalez said ...

Sensenbrenner Floor Statement Regarding Question of Personal ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Conyers stated: "For many of us, this process ... allegations concerning matters totally unrelated to the legislation. ... to prisoners and anti-immigration militia on ...

Immigration officials trace Fuentes' path to Milton
Milton Daily Standard - Milton,PA,USA
... Standard Journal reported earlier this week on Rodriguez-Fuentes' status as an illegal alien. Since then, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Border Patrol Waits on Reinforcements
KVTV13 - Laredo,TX,USA
... DC He says the agency is well aware of the escalating violence across the border, but the situation doesn't merit sending extra Border Patrol agents to ...

Accused pilot in custody
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
... After a US District Court judge in Las Cruces, NM, released the pilot on a $5,000 bond, Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents arrested him because ...
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Federal agents question writer in attempt to uncover leak
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month visited the home and workplace of a writer, questioning him about his confidential sources for an ...

Senate panel passes $30.8 billion homeland security bill
GovExec.com - USA
... $7.9 billion for the Coast Guard, $6 billion for the US Customs and Border Protection division, $3.8 billion for immigration and customs enforcement, and $1.4 ...
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Arms Dealer Returned to US Custody
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... violation there and placed aboard a flight that landed at Los Angeles International Airport, where he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ...
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17 Foreigners Detained In Immigration Operation
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
... any immigration documents during the Immigration Department's latest 'Ops Basmi 41', which was carried out with the assistance of customs enforcement personnel ...

Trespass Law Helps Nab Illegal Immigrants
Wired News - USA
... Dean Boyd, a spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, declined to comment on the use of New Hampshire's trespassing law. ...

Sex Predator Arrested in Jacksonville
WJXX - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... County jail. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 48-year-old Lorenzo Alfredo Macias Tuesday. He was convicted ...

2 alleged MS-13 members arrested, 1 from Harris County
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
Two more alleged MS-13 violent gang members were taken into in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody this week as part of its nationwide ...

JUDICIAL WATCH.ORG

REPORT SANCTUARY POLICIES TO: info@judicialwatch.org

I want to thank all of you who responded to Chris’s request last week for information about sanctuary policies in your hometowns.  A sanctuary policy, you may remember, refers to public laws that prohibit police officers from asking immigration questions of persons involved in police investigations.   These laws and regulations also disallow these important questions when an illegal immigrant applies for access to social services.  Obviously, sanctuary policies represent both economic and national security threats to the American people.  We received dozens of emails in response to Chris’s request, and now we plan to use this information to plot a legal strategy.  Thank you, once again.

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frosty wooldridge

An Old, Old Theme: Xenophobic Americans
Magic City Morning Star - Millinocket,ME,USA
... Guess again! On Frosty Wooldridge's website (he is one of the gurus of the anti-Mexican legal or illegal movement), there appears this statement: ...

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"MS 13" Gang

MS-13 gang suspect arrested in Harris County
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... Both are members of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13, which is rooted in Central America. More than 300 members have ...

Court OKs gang expert testimony
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... according to Wallace's opinion. It added that Vazquez has studied the MS-13 gang in particular and has interviewed 10 to 15 members. ...

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"Mexican Mafia"

Mexican Mafia figure gets 13-year term
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
A purported member of the Texas Mexican Mafia was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for his role in the gang's drug-trafficking conspiracy. ...

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Mercedes Olivera: Even beyond Los Angeles, mayor-elect's star ...
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
He has not yet taken the oath of office, but Antonio Villaraigosa is already ... Mr. Villaraigosa, who begins his term in Los Angeles on July 1, speaks like a ...

With Hotel Labor Contract Ratified, Villaraigosa Moves to Revive ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa and other officials Thursday used the ratification of a new hotel labor contract to jump-start the city's ...

Los Angeles mayor-elect's inaugural gala to aid schools

Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa is planning his inauguration on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall, but the really fancy party will be held just up the street ...

Villaraigosa Takes Oath of Office, Makes Plans for Extravagant ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Antonio Villaraigosa took the oath of office Thursday afternoon to become the 41st mayor of Los Angeles in a private ceremony in his City Hall office, although ...

The Who's Who of Los Angeles Politics Turn out to Support ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
WHO: City of Los Angeles Mayor Elect Antonio Villaraigosa City of Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn City of Los Angeles Former Mayor Richard J. Riordan Former ...

MTA's Imported $2.9 Million Transit Cars Make Their Local Debut
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Reed, executive director of the Transit Coalition, a Los Angeles-based public ... light rail will be bolstered by Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, who earlier ...

Council Elections Coming in November
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Voters in the 14th District, which includes parts of Downtown Los Angeles, will select someone to follow Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, while 10th District ...

Mike's new Dem pal
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... Bloomberg drew some praise from another unexpected quarter when the mayor-elect of Los Angeles, Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa, lauded him before a crowd of ...

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IDENTITY THEFT

Criminals breach Equifax security for second time
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... inside, Mr. Popa said. "For a credit reporting agency, this is a huge hit," he said. "All the trust goes out the window.".

Data theft threat reported
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
... that nearly 4 million consumer records, stored on magnetic computer tapes, had been lost during a routine shipment by UPS to a credit reporting agency. ...

Identity-theft bill poses threat to PIs
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... The agency's chairman, Deborah Platt Majoras, also endorsed the idea of a ... Current law prohibits credit reporting agencies from selling names, addresses, Social ...

Governor signs identity theft bills into law
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... On average, it takes an identity theft victim 600 hours and $1,500 to repair their credit, the Federal Trade Commission has found. ...

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"Steve Cooley" LA District Attorney

Mexico returns fugitive
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... "We are seeing some slippage in the original decision," Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Thursday in announcing the return of Ricardo ...

MINUTEMAN PROJECT(s):

"Minutemen" in Morristown
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... County from California to escape problems they saw associated with illegal immigration. ... I still cannot understand why we allow an "illegal alien" to take ...

Minuteman Project plans Canadian expansion
MSNBC - USA
By Brock N. Meeks. The civilian-led border watch group known as the Minuteman Project plans to expand its membership into Canada, MSNBC.com has learned. ...

ADL: Groups Touting Immigration Controls Are Teaming Up With ... {SLANDER..?}
New York Sun (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... The recent "Minuteman Project," which organized vigilante patrols of the Southwest border in April, attracted many white supremacists, according to the ADL. ...

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"Unite to Fight" against illegal immigration

˜Racist Groups' Slammed Over Anti-Immigration Agenda
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... most recent effort by radical anti-immigration organizations and individuals, a three-day summit titled "Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration" was held ...

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"MS 13" Gang

NJ raid nets over a dozen suspected MS-13 members
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... national anti-gang initiative known as "Operation Community Shield," which has resulted in the arrest of more than 300 suspected MS-13 gang members nationwide ...
3 gang members arrested, face deportation
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Three members of the violent Central American-based MS-13 gang were arrested Wednesday in pre-dawn raids in the Lake Worth area and are now awaiting deportation ...

MS-13 has met its match: HPD's Operation Jaywalking
blogHOUSTON - Houston,TX,USA
... Ken Charles was on air with him and this was their take: MS-13 has finally met its match, as gang members will be so blinded by shiny new police badges and ...

Latino street gang focus of fed sweep that nets 13
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City,NJ,USA
... It marked one of the first criminal cases against a clique of Mara Salavatrucha, or MS-13, an exploding gang with Salvadoran roots whose violence and tactics ...

MS-13 Gang Members Won't Be Put to Death
WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The members of the MS-13 gang have escaped a death sentence, but will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars instead. ...

NJ raid nets over a dozen suspected MS-13 members
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... national anti-gang initiative known as "Operation Community Shield," which has resulted in the arrest of more than 300 suspected MS-13 gang members nationwide ...
3 gang members arrested, face deportation
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Three members of the violent Central American-based MS-13 gang were arrested Wednesday in pre-dawn raids in the Lake Worth area and are now awaiting deportation ...

MS-13 has met its match: HPD's Operation Jaywalking
blogHOUSTON - Houston,TX,USA
... Ken Charles was on air with him and this was their take: MS-13 has finally met its match, as gang members will be so blinded by shiny new police badges and ...

New Legislation To Crack Down On MS-13 Gang Members
Click10.com - Miami,FL,USA
... Police say MS-13, a gang with Central American origins, could be stopped from taking root in South Florida with focused action.

Latino street gang focus of fed sweep that nets 13
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City,NJ,USA
... It marked one of the first criminal cases against a clique of Mara Salavatrucha, or MS-13, an exploding gang with Salvadoran roots whose violence and tactics ...

2 MS-13 gang members guilty of murder
MSNBC - USA
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two members of the MS-13 street gang were convicted Tuesday of murdering a pregnant teenager who had become an informant. ...

MS-13 gang focus of police conference
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... FBI Special Agent Robert Clifford, director of the FBI's new MS-13 National Gang Task Force, and his assistant, Special Agent David Lavallee, led a tutorial on ...

Oregon warned of brutal MS-13 gang
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The FBI says a brutal street gang known as MS-13 has established a presence in Oregon, even though local police say they have not seen any evidence of its ...

NEW Two guilty in MS-13 gang trial
Potomac News (subscription) - Woodbridge,VA,USA
Two of four MS-13 gang members charged in the killing of 17-year-old Brenda Paz were found guilty today of all federal counts against them. ...

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Istook To Co-sponsor Illegal Alien Census Bill [TAKING AMERICA BACK!]

$257 mil for border cameras stirs probe
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
WASHINGTON - A private company's installation of cameras and sensors for the Border Patrol along remote areas of the Mexican and Canadian borders, including in ...

Arthur Shaw: Where CIA terrorist Luis Posada Carriles seems to be ...
VHeadline.com - Worth,IL,USA
... Let's see how judge Abbott, the immigration judge, rules on ... Venezuela-- but under the fraudulent rule of law in the ... for leave to retain its own lawyers for the ...
Police detain five sex traffickers
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
... Finally, however, the legislation moved forward after two other ... UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for reform of the ... to proposed amendments to the immigration law ...

Border Camera System Is Assailed
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... borders as a scandal and an embarrassment, citing defective equipment, rampant overcharging by contractors and a failure by the US Border Patrol and other ...

SENATE PANEL ADVANCES DHS BUDGET BILL
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee has approved a Homeland Security
Department budget for fiscal 2006 of $30.8 billion, a cut of 3 percent
from the $31.9 billion departmental budget passed by the House May 18.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/36112-1.html

187 illegal immigrants rounded up in NE sweep
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... rounded up in Massachusetts in a six-day operation targeting immigrants who have committed a crime, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reported. ...

Palm Beach County news briefs

Agents arrested the three in morning raids, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said, as part of a nationwide crackdown on the MS-13, also know ...

San Diego man sentenced to 17 years for sex tourism
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... of Real Estate, pleaded guilty earlier this year and admitted to having sex with eight boys, ages 14 and 15, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a ...

Making flying a little safer
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand
... The change in timing, where immigration and customs can sift lists of names before the passengers actually arrive, is a boon to law enforcement. ...

Panel to bolster border security, detention funds
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... requested. Nearly $6 billion is proposed for Customs and Border Protection and $3 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some ...

Undocumented workers fill niche in US economy
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
... Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in El Paso say they investigate businesses that employ undocumented immigrants on a case-by-case basis ...

Some police to rely on feds, despite new law letting them arrest ...
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for a crackdown on smugglers in Phoenix, declined to ...

Japan moves to crack down on human trafficking
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... passed the bills to revise the penal code and the Immigration Control and ... and punish trafficking of persons and another against the smuggling of migrants by ...

EU leaders view common growth, security, immigration policies
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... will be in charge of the EU's external borders on the basis of consistent guidelines, protecting members against illegal immigration and any kind of smuggling. ...

NJ raid nets over a dozen suspected MS-13 members
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... suggesting that terrorists may use the gang's illegal-alien smuggling operations to ... Hernan Roblero Aguilar, 21, were ordered detained on immigration charges. ...

Springtime on the Border
Coast Weekly - Monterey,CA,USA
... over the Internet by a loosely organized coalition of anti-immigration activists to ... for years, tracking down and reporting migrant and drug smuggling activity. ...

Kennedy, US Senate's Leading Liberal, Still Seeks Compromises
Bloomberg - USA
June 16 (Bloomberg) -- As the US Senate has grown more conservative ... to take a leading role this year in legislation ranging from immigration policy to ...

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... threat or had any information to provide us and they ... we need to move forward on the energy legislation. ... Q Scott, looking at the immigration problem, would the ...

Japan revises Penal Code, immigration law to fight human ...
Xinhua - Beijing,China
... Xinhuanet) -- Japan's parliament Thursday approved legislation to revise the Penal Code and immigration law to ... move came after the US State Department ...

Denver DA to delegation: Back off
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... D-Colo., spoke about the case with US Attorney General ... of the Mexican government and illegal immigration, has said he'll introduce legislation that would ...

Canadian Senate report suggests arming guards at border with US
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... international flights have no onsite immigration checks ... Unlike US Border Patrol agents, CBSA officers are ... hoped Parliament would adopt legislation to implement ...

Pelosi Delivers Speech at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... to the Hispanic community including education and immigration. ... it is our faith that teaches us to respect ... should not be viewed as legislation, or regulations ...

Lawmakers will push to end immigrant tuition benefit
Standard-Examiner (subscription) - Ogden,UT,USA
... benefit from it were brought to the US as children ... their parents and could not control their immigration status ... to wait to see the outcome of that legislation. ...

The Innocent And the Anti-Corruption War!
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... the dangerous loopholes in American immigration and internal ... later to an anti-terrorism legislation officially titled ... The US civil liberties community has been ...

Status, Survival, and Solidarity
Infoshop News - USA
... he/she has ever set foot on US soil (a ... migrants, some of the most draconian legislation this country ... powers, and often collaborate with Immigration Canada to ...

Our Opinion: Monitoring aid will increase border deaths
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
The US Border Patrol has a difficult twin mission: Keep people from entering the United States illegally, and rescue those who insist on making the dangerous ...

Marijuana seizures up in Yuma
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
Federal authorities on Wednesday reported increases in the amount of marijuana seized by US Border Patrol agents in the Yuma sector over the past three years ...

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Mexican Mafia"

Santa Ana Raid Takes Out OC Leaders of Mexican Mafia, FBI Says
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Orange County on Wednesday, serving 40 warrants and capping a two-year investigation that authorities said could topple the Mexican Mafia's drug dealing ...

Mexican Mafia grows in Staten Island
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Richmond neighborhood's Latino nightclubs, and even more unnerving are the graffiti scrawlings for M13, a street gang with ties to the notorious Mexican Mafia. ...

NEW: Woman sentenced for supplying drugs to Mexican Mafia
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
A woman who admitted working with her sisters to supply heroin to members of the Texas Mexican Mafia was sentenced today to 15 years in prison. ...

Four sentenced to prison in Mexican Mafia case
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
While two long-term members of the Texas Mexican Mafia took their punishment without flinching Wednesday, two co-defendants begged for leniency. ...

4 Mexican Mafia Members Sentenced To Prison
ClickonSA.com - San Antonio,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO -- A man accused of running the Mexican Mafia's drug operations in San Antonio and three others with ties to the prison-based gang have been ...

Mexican Mafia captain sentenced to 18 years
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO -- A Texas Mexican Mafia's gang captain has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic more than a ...

Mexican Mafia's No. 3 man gets sentence cut in half
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
As the Texas Mexican Mafia's No. 3 man outside prison, Jesse "Chuy" Ramirez helped run the gang's show. But because he made ...

Mexican Mafia's No. 3 man sentenced to 18 years
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO A Texas Mexican Mafia gang captain has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic heroin. ...

DNA evidence puts killers away
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Two suspected members of the New Mexican Mafia have been sentenced to decades in prison for the execution-style shooting in March 2000 of Morris Torres. ...

NEW: First defendant in Mexican Mafia crackdown gets two years

San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
The first defendant in law enforcement's crackdown on the Texas Mexican Mafia last year was sentenced today to two years in prison. ...

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"Antonio Villaraigosa" Los Angeles

Latino Journalists Meet, Question Villaraigosa
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... FORT WORTH -- Facing hundreds of Latino journalists Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa skirted questions about his growing stature as a ...

Donors Fund Inauguration
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... moguls are donating to the fund that Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa has set ... The inauguration of Los Angeles' 41st mayor will include a gala event the night ...

LA hotel workers reach tentative pact
People's Weekly World - USA
Only moments before some 2,500 workers at seven major Los Angeles hotels were to be ... at a 5 am news conference by Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, include a 65 ...

Can a City Be Progressive?
The Nation - USA
"I'm an unabashed progressive," Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa told an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd at the Take Back America conference ...

5 Major Activist Unions Unite
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... In the other deal, brokered by Los Angeles Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, prominent Los Angeles hotels agreed to sign a contract expiring next year, fitting ...

Judge Grants Delay in Campaign Ethics Case
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... As a result, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Ryan agreed ... several involving ethical issues cited by City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa in his ...

Lockout Avoided! Los Angeles Hotel Workers to Welcome World's ...
Hotel News Resource - Lindsay,ON,Canada
... to a June 12, Associated Press article, Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa helped broker ... "Los Angeles cannot afford a lockout or a strike," Villaraigosa said. ...

Part Two: The Push for Mayor-Appointed School Boards Bypasses San ...
Voice of San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
... The issue recently came to the forefront in Los Angeles' mayoral race, when winner Antonio Villaraigosa said the city's mayor should take control of the 720,000 ...

Los Angeles Harbor Commission Adopts 2005-2006 Fiscal Budget for ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... 2005/2006 fiscal year (FY) budget for the Port of Los Angeles that focuses on ... In response to concern voiced by Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa about declining ...

Attorney asks state high court to toss out charges against him
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES - A judge agreed to delay the arraignment of a prominent ... of several involving ethical issues cited by City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa in his ...

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ESCAPING JUSTICE

March family waiting for justice
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
... will not make substantial headway until the secretary of state and the president make this a priority,' said Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley. ...

Trial in Mexico is often answer to volatile issue of extradition
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... That hint of change isn't enough, said Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley. "They aren't following the treaty," Cooley said of Mexico. ...

Garcia-Gomez should face a Colorado jury
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley says Mexico has become a refuge for murderers from the United States. A "handful" of. ...

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IDENTITY THEFT

Consumer Alert: Access to free credit reports not as easy as ...
WIS - Columbia,SC,USA
... Equifax wouldn't give up Jenkins' free report, "They gave me a ... out why they weren't able to do that." Neither would Transunion. ... Experian however, was a breeze. ...

Data theft victims must be vigilant
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... Potential victims can call one of the three US credit- reporting companies - Equifax, Experian and Transunion - to place 90-day fraud alerts on their accounts. ...

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Why, in this age of moral relativism, liberal churches are dying -- and conservative ones are booming

Exodus
by David Shiflett

Minuteman Project

Project has 100 leaders ready to start border activity in Lone ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
The Minuteman Project, the citizen border patrol that virtually stopped illegal crossings from Mexico in a highly trafficked area of Arizona, is taking its ...

Racist Groups Exploit Immigration Issues in Effort to Promote Anti ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, the Las Vegas rally was held as a follow-up on the perceived success of the so-called "Minuteman Project," which organized ...

Terrorism & Security Minuteman opposition organizes resistance
MSNBC - USA
SAN DIEGO - The Minuteman Project, and other volunteer border patrol groups, are expected to face their toughest opposition yet when they move to California ...

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Ecstasy smuggling skyrockets
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... partner face 20 years behind bars if found guilty of smuggling about 167,000 ... The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recorded steady growth since ...

Immigration criticised for giving Chinese Govt access to detainee ...
ABC Online - Australia
... in any case, given the kinds of mistakes which the Immigration Department has ... that some of those people in isolation were able, by smuggling their signatures ...

Firestorm as detention MPs slammed
Melbourne Herald Sun - Melbourne,Australia
... of holding the Government to ransom over its immigration detention policy ... that our mandatory detention policy has stopped an illegal people smuggling racket and ...

CBSA national statistics
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... or restricted goods, export without required permits, fraud, and smuggling. ... tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/nat/2004/04-gc004ae.htm Immigration Refugee Protection ...

Misguided and self-defeating
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... the present extremely effective immigration detention framework - which has had the virtuous effect of eliminating illegal people smuggling operations. ...

The Kilgores and the American Dream
Raising Kaine - VA,USA
... One set of legislation blocks illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses ... them as sub-human, call them criminals for breaking US immigration laws, and ...

Illegals enter US in droves
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... have called for an outright moratorium on legal immigration. ... amend the Constitution so only US citizens are ... Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, back legislation that would ...

Mr Kelly's Canadian Senate Gaff -- Full Transcript
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... particularly given what you said about immigration -- that for ... Mr. Kelly:The fisheries legislation talks about the ... and green image is pretty important to us. ...

Storm over MP's 'terror' attack
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... holding the Government to ransom over its immigration detention policy ... it is good policy and has served us well ... But there is no guarantee the legislation will be ...

Latvians becoming healthier
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
... Finally, however, the legislation moved forward after two other ... were being worked out by both US officials and ... to proposed amendments to the immigration law. ...

First-responder funding snipped to fund border security
GovExec.com - USA
... illegal immigrants and increase the number of US Customs and immigration enforcement officers. ... Overall, the legislation would provide $30.8 billion in ...

Could a state border patrol work in California?
Hollister Free Lance - Hollister,CA,USA
... Enforcement, one of the successor agencies to the old Immigration and Naturalization ... or so investigators make a dent in California's illegal alien population ...

National security is job No. 1
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... wrong. The only real reason to give an illegal alien a drivers license would be to make it easier to catch them and deport them. ...

Tips on watching for identity theft
Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau - USA
_ Call the fraud unit of one of the three US crediting companies _ Equifax (800-525-6285), Experian (888-397-3742) and Transunion (800-680-7289) _ to place an ...

Effects of ID theft can last a lifetime
Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau - USA
... Potential victims can call one of the three US credit-reporting companies - Equifax, Experian and Transunion - to place 90-day fraud alerts on their accounts. ...

Rwanda genocide suspect sentenced
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
... After he completes his prison term, Mudahinyuka will be turned over to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation to Rwanda. ...

Software That Would Humble A Soprano
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... data, and Menafra says New Jersey plans to train officials from the Homeland Security Department's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal ...

Ecstasy smuggling skyrockets
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recorded steady growth since 2002 in Ecstasy seizures along the Northwest border with Canada with the ...

Austria targets child pornography
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Austrian law-enforcement authorities, working on information provided by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, have served search warrants at ...

Lawyer says US tarnished Pak imams
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced the arrests last week of Muslim imams Mohamed Adil Khan and Shabbir Ahmed, who were living in Lodi ...

AT&T takes on prison bed work
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
... OFDT and other agencies--including the US Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement--use the ...

Racist Groups Exploit Immigration Issues in Effort to Promote Anti ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... organizations and individuals to exploit mainstream immigration concerns, a three-day summit to "Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration" was held in Las ...

Reforming illegal immigration

Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
... give benefits to non-Latinos to bring the illegal alien community to ... that other minorities are still underrepresented in the illegal-immigration populace, then ...

Minuteman Project

Munuteman Project to Protest Two Banks in Utah
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Minuteman Project plans to protest this week at two Holladay bank branches. The Minutemen will protest ...

Reflections On the Minuteman Project
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
[James Fulford writes: The Minuteman Project's success is inspiring imitators. You can read or watch this report from an Austin ...

Some Hispanics decry group's border patrols
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... Alford also fended off criticism this week from leaders of the Minuteman Project of New Mexico, the other civilian group planning to monitor the border. ...

Internet a key tool for immigration issue organizations
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The volunteers spotted relatively few border crossers, but the group, known as the Minuteman Project, drummed up national media coverage and became a household ...

RM50,000 for a forged passport
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... "The Immigration authorities however have ... He was asked to comment on the state Anti-Smuggling Unit's success here in arresting three Indian nationals for ...

Border officials open to bribery
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... A federal grand jury indicted a former immigration service intelligence chief in San Diego on charges of covering up a drug and immigrant smuggling ring. ...

Great Wall reopens following police raid
Cadillac News - Cadillac,MI,USA
... 17, four came to the country legally but had their immigration status expire ... Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University, said illegal smuggling in China ...

World Threats During May 2005
Global Politician - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... National Guard, would "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" illegal immigration. ... The Iranians are also accused of smuggling a graphite compound ...

Queen's Birthday Honours List
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... smuggling are convicted and given the death penalty, and to take their case to new Pope Benedict XVI. And he criticised the federal government's immigration ...

Officer Arrested in Killing of His Children's Mother
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... Peters early yesterday outside his Harlem home, where he tried to run and was tackled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, one investigator said. ...

Migrants had option to flee firefighters
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials usually respond to police requests for assistance within 30 to 45 minutes, but in some cases it can take ...

Waadah free after winning deportation case
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA
... The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been detaining Waadah since his parole in February, first at a facility in Hastings then at a county jail in ...

SEC Charges Two Purported Venture Capital Firms and Their ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... Office of the Inspector General; the US Postal Inspection Service; the New York Police Department and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. ...

Dozens found inside horse trailer in south Phoenix
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
... undocumented workers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took the 79 people into custody. They'll probably face deportation. Those ...

Nuevo Laredo: Martial Law as Media Stunt in the Failed War on ...
The Narco News Bulletin
... But according to at least one candid agent of the US Department of Homeland Security's Burea of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), all this ...

Lawyer for three Lodi men arrested and held on immigration charges ...
Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi,CA,USA
... He said that evidence discounts the claims by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office contending the men failed to fulfill the duties of their ...

Two are indicted in alleged work visa fraud
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... According to a release from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Botes and Coetzee formed PJ Services in Bennington in 2001 to act as an agent ...

Tennessee Department of Safety introductory statement about state ...
Etopia Media.net - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Is this data available to, and has it been accessed by, any agency of the federal government, for example, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? ...

Border Patrol ready to start beefing up Yuma sector
KPHO Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA
TUCSON, Ariz. Beginning tomorrow, the Border Patrol's Yuma sector starts building up its manpower and resources. It's part of the ...

Man charged with attempted human smuggling to remain in jail
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
Zeayadali Malhamdary, who faces an attempted smuggling charge in federal court, had ... of the United States, after a source told immigration officials that ...

Migrants had option to flee firefighters
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... "If we go out and sometimes enforce immigration laws, people ... ICE gives priority to cases where there is evidence of ongoing smuggling, physical abuse, firearms ...

Mexican officials take blame on aliens
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Early on, they were very confrontational and centered around drugs and drug smuggling -- today it's immigration reform, and it's a much more positive mode,? ...

Experts see violence, instability, narco-terror as unintended ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... Don Henry Ford, author of "Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy ... growth." And while it was supposed to reduce illegal immigration, quite the ...

Two smugglers caught, but flow keeps coming
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... with illegal immigration. Lawmakers can't plead ignorance. In December 2003, The Post ran a series of articles that laid out the business of human smuggling. ...

Federal agent emphasizes need for everyone to be alert
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... his back in the San Antonio district of US Immigration and Customs ... Peña, whose responsibilities include anti-terrorism, immigrant smuggling, narcotics, child ...

Tennessee Department of Safety introductory statement about state ...
Etopia Media.net - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... by, any agency of the federal government, for example, the US Immigration and Customs ... In the forthcoming weeks, we will evaluate the legislation in more detail ...

Mexican officials take blame on aliens
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... A statement issued in Spanish by the Mexican Senate delegation praised recent immigration legislation introduced in the US Congress, and said there are things ...

Under bill, illegals wouldn't count toward political clout
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... a spokesman for Miller says her legislation wouldn't ... of illegal immigrants is based on US Census Bureau ... of research at the Center for Immigration Studies whose ...

Debate Intensifies Over Renewal of Patriot Act
Voice of America - USA
US politicians, law enforcement and civil liberties experts ... passed the Patriot Act, legislation that gave ... suspects and to allow secret immigration proceedings. ...

NZ govt introduces bill to regulate immigration advisers
Xinhua - Beijing,China
... The legislation will make it an offense to provide immigration advice without a license. Offenders could face a fine of up to 100,000 NZ dollars (70,000 US ...

'You can't have a victim mentality'
Royal Gazette - Hamilton,Bermuda
... employment practices were monitored by legislation, such as ... were 91,000 cases before the EEOC (US Equal Employment ... our laws in place, our immigration laws, our ...

Full text: Peter Mandelson's speech on a new consensus for Europe
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... trend, and reversing it where European legislation is excessive ... counter-terrorism, emissions trading, or immigration policy ... But I also want us to engage because ...

Two are indicted in alleged work visa fraud
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... PJ Services countered that immigration officers confiscated its written ... saying it arose from violations of the law. ... Lawyers and other officials involved in the ...

Business opportunities to be created between Mexico and Black ...
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
... Orderly Immigration Act of 2005." The legislation follows months ... in bipartisan, bicameral, comprehensive border security and immigration reform, according to ...

'Sex Slave' Case: Woman Paid Less Than $2 A Day By Aurora Family
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
... Immigration authorities searched Al-Turki's home in November on suspicion of harboring an illegal alien, and the woman was detained when authorities found her ...

Hudson police arrest another illegal alien on trespassing charge
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
... A fifth was charged earlier with trespassing in New Ipswich. Police in both communities say charging illegal aliens is part of maintaining national security.

Cornyn tour seeks input on immigration proposal
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
John Cornyn will visit San Antonio, Austin and Houston this weekend to discuss proposed immigration reform legislation with community leaders, a spokesman said ...

Mexican officials take blame on aliens
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... around drugs and drug smuggling -- today it's immigration reform, and it's a ... the Mexican Senate delegation praised recent immigration legislation introduced in ...

Under bill, illegals wouldn't count toward political clout
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
... But a spokesman for Miller says her legislation wouldn't necessarily change the ... The Federation for American Immigration Reform failed in lawsuits to stop the ...

Mexican officials take blame on aliens {Oops! - After 23 million crossed our borders?}
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Mexicans made up about 70 percent of the illegal-alien population in the ... building" steps to prove it is serious about reducing illegal immigration from its ...

Suspected illegal alien accused in Madison Twp. abduction try
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA
A Geneva man believed to be an illegal alien is behind bars on charges he tried to sexually assault a teenage girl at a Madison Township park. ...

They took flight to India!
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... The very people who come here drawn by attractively designed websites or on the 'invitations' of immigration consultants', eager to build a new life while ...

InfoLink Screening Services Launches New Automated Solution for ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... services performed by trained and experienced I-9 consultants including former INS ... of mind that new employees' Social Security and Immigration documents are ...

Immigration law a terror war weapon
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... Michael Garcia, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Post: "It's an incredibly important piece of the terrorism response. ...

Terror war using immigration law
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... "It's an incredibly important piece of the terrorism response," said Michael Garcia, who heads Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Accountants used to foil drug rings
San Mateo Daily Journal - San Mateo,CA,USA
... Last January, about 200 agents in the DEA, the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the San Francisco Police Department ...

Prevalence of human trafficking debated
The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
... So when it happens, it's something we pay particular attention to," said Carl Rusnok, a regional spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, based in ...

Policing the Internet
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... The center is a state-of-the-art forensic computer lab run by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to help investigate domestic and foreign crime ...

Identity Thieves Beware: LifeLock Introduces Nation's First ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... theft have to pay an average of $1108 and spend 160 hours over two years trying to fix the financial damage and it still takes years to repair damaged credit. ...

Awkward test of antiterrorism begins in Texas
International Herald Tribune - France
... of a passenger jetliner was to appear before a Texas immigration judge Monday ... severed ties with Posada Carriles on suspicion that he was smuggling cocaine into ...

Deputies overwhelmed with immigrant smuggling
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
... Each truck, van and car represents a failed human smuggling attempt. ... "We're going to run into the immigration problem, it's not like we're out there looking ...

GUEST EDITORIAL: Illusions shattered on US role in Mexico ...
Desert Dispatch - Barstow,CA,USA
... A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted a former immigration service intelligence chief in San Diego on charges of covering up a drug and immigrant smuggling ring ...

No point in flailing at this piñata
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... the conventional wisdom in Washington and in the anti-immigration lobby, which ... Mexican authorities for not dismantling the people-smuggling operations that ...

What's Next For Alternative Newsweeklies?
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... areas rarely seen by San Diegans, including border smuggling routes, poverty and ... Robert Newman, Fortune Magazine Covering Border and Immigration Issues Host ...

Michael Vatikiotis: Australia's shaky Asian credentials
International Herald Tribune - France
... prison after being found guilty in an Indonesian court of smuggling four kilograms ... The white-Australia policy that barred Asian immigration was dropped in the ...

Prevalence of human trafficking debated
The Spokesman Review (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
... US attorney's office, Idaho attorney general's office and local immigration officials all ... However, the men were charged with smuggling humans, a charge that ...

Venezuela left red-faced by escape of drug suspect
Reuters - USA
... drug-trafficker wanted by the United States for smuggling hundreds of ... born Luis Posada Carrilles, a former CIA collaborator who faces immigration charges in ...

Dissident mourns exodus of ideas
CubaNet - Coral Gables,FL,USA
... The summit comes with Republican-led legislation pending that ... Now he talks about his US detention ... debonair attitude, sat in an immigration courtroom surrounded ...

Immigration official gives insight into department
ABC Online - Australia
... as we'll call this official, asked us to disguise ... what's been happening inside the Immigration Department as ... to policy, to processes and legislation, but these ...

Bush goes wobbly on immigration
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... alone has never been a match for the pull the US exerts around ... by getting behind the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, legislation sponsored by ...

Headlines for June 13, 2005
Democracy Now - New York,NY,USA
... Newly declassified US documents show that Posada said in ... bond while he waits for his immigration status to ... for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation. ...

Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International ...
FinFacts Ireland - Ireland
... want to make changes to dog-licence legislation, but if ... to allow readers to interact with us in the ... writers hash out tough issues like immigration and traffic. ...

Older Salazar trying to ignore party line
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... Salazar has definitely let us down with the REAL ID ... by name, but it listed mostly legislation John Salazar supported, including immigration reform, the ...

What's Next For Alternative Newsweeklies?
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... rising from Mexican immigration into the US -- the rise of which has prompted everything from citizen border patrols to proposed new federal legislation to a ...

New Research From EBRI: Immigrants Make Up a Growing Share of US ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Of the 44.7 million US residents who were uninsured in ... The study, "The Impact of Immigration on Health Insurance ... the study says, is 1996 legislation-known as ...

Illegal Immigration - An Editorial That Gets It
Blogcritics.org - USA
... of the Center for Immigration Studies have failed to answer." More from MacEachern: "People who play the snotty game of illegal-alien sanctimony - 'what part ...

Border Patrol chopper flights perilous
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
US Border Patrol helicopters working the Mexico border have crashed over the last two years from flight jackets flying out the doors, pilots clipping the sides ...

Bush goes wobbly on immigration
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
President Bush appears to be losing his resolve on immigration reform just as Congress is starting to consider legislation filled with smart ideas for ...

Senate OKs bills on foreign nationals' entry
Saipan Tribune - West Orange,NJ,USA
... relate to illegal alien employment activities. Sen. Paterno Hocog, who introduced the bills over a week ago, cited in SB 14-88 that the current immigration law ...

Terror war using immigration law
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA
... said David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor and ... is evident in dozens of immigration cases described by federal officials, defense lawyers and news ...

Dissident mourns exodus of ideas
CubaNet - Coral Gables,FL,USA
... Hays, who as managing director of the law firm Tew ... Posada is set to appear in immigration court Monday ... upward of $1 million from investors, lawyers and others ...

Older Salazar trying to ignore party line
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The release did not single out anyone by name, but it listed mostly legislation John Salazar supported, including immigration reform, the estate tax repeal and ...

Illegals as trespassers
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to take Mr ... out of the ordinary: He charged the illegal alien with trespassing. ...

Undocumented Immigrants Found in Van on I-10
KPHO Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... in Avondale. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials could not be reached for comment on Sunday's round-up. The call came ...

Illegals as trespassers
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... illegal. The Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement refused to take Mr. Ramirez into custody. So ...

Immigration Law as Anti-Terror Tool
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... an incredibly important piece of the terrorism response," said Michael J. Garcia, who heads Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ...

Homeland Security Wrestles With Revamp
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... freeing up the organizations now under his command -- Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE ...

Three men charged with intent to distribute marijuana
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
... Police said the men were arrested after an investigation by the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the ...

Congress moves to halt onslaught of violent Maras gang
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... Legislation filed last week in Congress by US Sen ... His bill, which amends a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act, was read twice on the Senate ...

Landing legal laborers
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... of the Department of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. ... There are still many US citizens who work in the ... Bremer said he is working on legislation with US ...

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Consequences Of Too Many People
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
by Frosty Wooldridge. LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/13/05 -- According to Brian Williams of NBC News, Americans sit ...

Real Goods - Message Board
All responses to the Frosty Wooldridge's New Book subject are listed below.
To view specific messages either select the subject link or click the next and ...

Immigrants face insurance crisis; number of uninsured increasing
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... and independent group that does not lobby or take positions on legislation. ... Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. ...

Grassroots Revolt Spreading: Connecticut Patriots To Protest Three ...
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
This legislation was introduced on May 12 in the US Senate by John ... check out the West Coast Reconquista's response to immigration reform gatherings recently ...

Our immigration mess II
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... and state government, and having seen the rise of the illegal-alien invasion as ... a no-holds-barred story on what corruption goes on in the immigration game that ...

Illegals as trespassers
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Activists are crying foul and the Mexican consulate is displeased, but the rest of us should be glad to see local law-enforcement officers picking up the slack ...

Edith is Missing Too
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
... Pedro Aranda says the Mexican Consulate in El Paso forwarded pictures of Edith and other information to the jail but turned up nothing. ...

Mexico aids Mesa library
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
When Mesa resident Virginia Aguero spotted a collection of Spanish-language books at the Mexican Consulate office in Phoenix, she immediately thought of her ...

Rockland Legislator: Toughen Driver License Rules

Identity-theft insurance finds an eager market
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... Coretto did what he was told to do by his creditors -- report the situation immediately to the three major credit agencies, TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. ...
CBS New York - New York,NY,USA
... been working on her home. He is an illegal alien with a fake California drivers license that he showed his employer to get work.

ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONIST aren't RACISTS, we're REALISTS.... Put the rethoric aside, invesitgate the facts and then YOU to will HAVE DECIDED - ILLEGAL migration into the United States of America is an "UNARMED INVASION"

Minuteman Project

Citizen border patrols to begin in NM
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... Clifford Alford, leader of a group called the New Mexico Minutemen, claims that members of the Minuteman Project -- a group that drew international attention ...

Patriots carry out planned patrol
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
... "(We went) exactly where I told the Border Patrol we would go, between (County) 8 and 12 (streets)," Sharrar said. During the ...

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IN THE NEWS....

Seneca County to seek state OK to house more jail inmates
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... Yesterday morning the jail had 134 inmates, including 31 detainees being held for the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sheriff Steyer said ...

Fugitive in $130 million counterfeit software case returned to US
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... acting on information from American immigration officials, said Kevin Kozak, an assistant special agent in charge at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Bail denied Lodi terror suspect
Daily Review Online - CA,USA
... He and Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said they expected no further arrests this weekend, but beyond that, more arrests were ...

Few firms use migrant ID service
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... then the employer has met his or her responsibility under the law, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Laguna Niguel ...

US Attorney reports 10 charged with importing drugs on cruise ...
Lawfuel (press release) - New Zealand
... United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Keith Perniciaro, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and Robert J ...

Hospital HMO's and Terrorist Funding: By Dr. Janet Parker
New Criminologist - UK
... Joe Webber runs the Houston office of the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "ICE" for short. ...

2008: Will it be McCain?
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... have reached out in recent months to political consultants based in at ... steering of tribal political contributions to lawmakers, to immigration reform, to his ...

Anti-immigration group prepares for action
Hilton Head Island Packet - Hilton Head Island,SC,USA
... of federal, state and local law enforcement. ... The group hopes to enlist immigration lawyers and former ... never have been cited for immigration-related violations. ...

Few terrorism convictions
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... re talking about a violation of law that may ... But many defense lawyers and civil liberties advocates argue ... to be deported rather than fight immigration charges. ...

How Illegal Immigration is Sending Schools Into the Red
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... the new taxes in the Education Funding Reform Act of ... Proposed federal legislation to give illegal aliens in ... level, result from the illegal immigration of their ...

FAIR Congratulates DeLay for Demanding Immigration Enforcement ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) congratulated the ... to control mass illegal immigration must be ... his support for House legislation to make ...

Fighting global welfare
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... about the never-ending problems of illegal immigration and Social ... the suspicion that almost any illegal can scam ... proof of citizenship and legal alien status. ...

Police spurn invite to join Britain's 'FBI'
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... as drug trafficking, credit card fraud and people smuggling, is worth ... the National Criminal Intelligence Service and Customs and Immigration investigation units ...

$1.5 million seized, man charged with smuggling
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
A Hispanic man charged with smuggling $1.5 million was not speeding or ... license with the Blue Lightning Operation Center, an immigration information center in ...

Another reason the Libertarian Party is going nowhere
Questions and Observations - USA
If you think the various immigration reform programs--which are really amnesty proposals ... immigrants to return to Mexico and dry up the alien smuggling industry ...

Lou Dobbs Report: Goodbye America. Hello new economic nation ...
PHXNews - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... New Nation, Death of America, Americans, Illegal Immigration, President, CAFTA ... considering Mexico's problems with drug trafficking, human smuggling and poverty. ...

Border blueprint
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Too often, Arizona's border with Mexico is painted in dire tones that have to do with smuggling and illegal immigration. Those issues ...

Fugitive in $130 million counterfeit software case returned to US
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
... He faces charges of bribery, smuggling and conspiracy stemming from the ... by Chinese authorities acting on information from American immigration officials, said ...

Migration issue boils down to 2 questions
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... If immigration legislation does not help stem the human tide ... dynamics at play in the question of illegal immigration. ... And then there is the US-Mexican border ...

A debate going nowhere
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Contradictory statistics -- showing illegal immigration resulting in either a ... or loss to the US economy -- are ... proud of environmental legislation, zoning laws ...

Brash's promises reckless and unaffordable

... opposed to our relationship with the US as well ... would not change the nuclear ships legislation without a ... very high continuing rate of Asian immigration and of ...

The Rest of Our World
Richmond Out in the Mountains - Richmond,VT,USA
... Microsoft, which had previously written a letter of support for similar legislation, earlier this year took a ... In addition, the US bans immigration of HIV ...

Migration issue boils down to 2 questions
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... policy analysts like Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies have ... People who play the snotty game of illegal-alien sanctimony - "what part of ...

Web-based program accesses databases, IDs phony documents 'within ...
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
... In Arizona, the number of businesses fined for immigration violations dropped ... verification program after one of its employees -- an illegal alien -- killed a ...

The Southern Border in Crisis: Resources and Strategies to Improve National Security
Senate Judiciary Committee
Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee and
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security Subcommittee
June 7, 2005
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1525

TESTIMONY:
David Aguilar
Chief of the Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, DHS
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1525&wit_id=4323

Wesley Lee
Acting Director of Detention and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DHS
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1525&wit_id=4324

C. Stewart Verdery, Jr.
Principal, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, Inc.
Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1525&wit_id=4325


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Social Security Benefits for Noncitizens: Current Policy and Legislation
By Dawn Nuschler and Alison Siskin
Congressional Research Service, May 11, 2005
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/46681.pdf


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Gangs in Central America
By Clare Riband
Congressional Research Service, May 10, 2005
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/47140.pdf


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Temporary Admissions (Nonimmigrants)
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics, June 2005
http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/yearbook/YrBk04TA.htm


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Border Patrol Internal Criminal Probes Deficient
U.S. Office of Special Counsel, May 27, 2005
press release: http://www.osc.gov/documents/press/2005/pr05_12.htm
analysis: http://www.osc.gov/documents/press/2005/DHS.pdf


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Trafficking in Persons Report
U.S. State Department, June 2005
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/47255.pdf


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Description of the Immigrant Population
Congressional Budget Office, November 2004
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/60xx/doc6019/11-23-Immigrant.pdf


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The Condition of Education 2005
National Center for Education Statistics, June 1, 2005
press release: http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/06/06012005.html
report: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005094

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School Enrollment -- Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2003
U.S. Census Bureau, June 1, 2005
press release: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/005157.html
tables: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2003.html


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U.S. Voter Turnout Up in 2004
U.S. Census Bureau, May 26, 2005
press release: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/voting/004986.html
tables: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html


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Report by the Independent Monitor (Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)
By Fiona Lindsley
Home Office, February 2005
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/IM%20report%202004.pdf


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The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States
By George J. Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz
National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2005
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11281


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Special Survey on the California State Budget
By Mark Baldassare
Public Policy Institute of California, May 2005
press release: http://www.ppic.org/main/pressrelease.asp?i=560
report: http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/S_505MBS.pdf


Immigration a Front-Burner Issue for Republicans
Although Californians express serious concern about the state budget, it ranks fifth on their list of top issues facing the state. The economy (20%), education and schools (19%), immigration (9%), and crime, gangs, and drugs (8%) are seen as the most pressing topics.
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Given his recent comments about immigration, how do Californians rate the governor’s performance in this area? Fifty percent disapprove and 31 percent approve of his handling of illegal immigration. . . .


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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
By Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Discussion Paper Number 1629, June 2005
ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp1629.pdf



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California 2025: It's Your Choice
By Mark Baldassare and Ellen Hanak
Public Policy Institute of California, June 1, 2005
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/R_605MB1R.pdf


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Securing our Borders: Post 9/11 Scapegoating of Immigrants
The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, April 2005
http://www.fiacfla.org/reports/securingborders.pdf


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Daily Telegraph poll
YouGov, June 1, 2005
http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/TEL050101026_1.pdf

IMMIGRATION-RELATED QUESTION:
Should the next Conservative party leader be . . . ?
Someone committed to taking a tougher line on such issues as crime and immigration: 74
Someone committed to taking a more liberal line on such issues as crime and immigration: 3

Someone who is prepared to be flexible on issues such as crime and immigration: 20
Don’t care: these are not major issues for me: 1
Don’t know: 1


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The LSE Identity Project
Alternative blueprint for a national identification system
London School of Economics, June 6, 2005
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pressAndInformationOffice/PDF/LSE_ID_blueprint.pdf

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The Political Importance of Diasporas
By Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=313

Shaping Brazil: The Role of International Migration
By Ernesto Friedrich Amaral, University of Texas at Austin and Wilson Fusco, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=311

Georgia Looks West, But Faces Migration Challenges at Home
By Joanne van Selm, Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=314

Spotlight on Legal Immigration to the United States
By Jeanne Batalova, PhD, Migration Policy Institute
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=315


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World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration
International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Paperback, 500 pp., ISBN 92-9068-209-4, $80
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9290682094/centerforimmigra

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: World Migration 2005, IOM's flagship biennial publication, focuses on the theme of Economies of Migration: Costs and Benefits of International Migration. Featuring contributions from the world's leading experts, it presents the latest trends in international migration, as well as regional overviews of developments in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.


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European Migration: What Do We Know
edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann

Oxford University Press
Hardcover, 350 pp., ISBN: 0199257353, $120
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199257353/centerforimmigra

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: This is a definitive assessment of the current situation regarding migration in a comprehensive range of European countries with chapters on the USA, Canada, and New Zealand for purposes of comparison. Each country study is written by a local expert and the book as a whole is edited by one of Europe's leading scholars in the economics of migration.


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Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America
Edited by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Susan F. Martin

Lexington Books

Paperback, 312 pp., ISBN: 0739106368, $24.95
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739106368/centerforimmigra

Hardcover, 312 pp., ISBN: 0739106333, $75
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0739106333/centerforimmigra

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers. … There has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether successes or failures.


Migrations Societe
Volume 17, Number 98, March-April 2005
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ciemi.org/migsoc.html

More Peruvians drawn to Valley
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... cards and other services normally only available at the consulate in Los ... because of illegal immigration from Peru, and Arizona's proximity to the Mexican border ...

CREDIT AND IDENTITY THEFT

A university challenge for all students
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... RESEARCH from credit reporting agency Checkmyfile.com showed that the number of students declaring themselves bankrupt tripled in 2004. ...

Credit Checkers Caught In Web Of Problems
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
... All three credit reporting agencies insist the roll out of the government-mandated ... The Federal Trade Commission agrees, but as the agency responsible for ...

Cancellation is key step when credit cards are stolen
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... Contact one of the three credit reporting agencies. The good news here is that each agency is bound by law to report your loss to the other two and a fraud ...

Worries for Workers Who Build Cars or Plan on Collecting Pensions
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... to the danger of identity theft when a box of computer tapes with private data on 3.9 million people was lost in transit to a credit reporting agency. ...

OC business's rental activities under scrutiny
OCRegister (subscription) - Orange County,CA,USA
... Since the regulatory agency has no enforcement powers, prosecution of those who ... that Vernon signed states: "Sea Side is a credit reporting and consulting ...

Thwarting Identity Thieves
WHIOtv.com - Dayton,Ohio,USA
... personal information on 3.9 million customers of its lending unit was lost by United Parcel Service (UPS) while in transit to a credit-reporting agency in Texas ...

Woman sues credit agencies
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Ten other businesses and banks are also named as defendants. TransUnion declined comment yesterday. Experian and Equifax did not return phone calls. ...

Most Americans don't understand credit scores
North Texas e-News - Texas,USA
... In fact, each of the three major credit bureaus -- TransUnion, Experian and Equifax -- computes separate scores. And they usually differ. ...

Pass ID theft deterrent
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... be contacted before any credit is extended on their accounts, by contacting one of the three major credit-reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian or TransUnion. ...

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