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