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Signature Drive to Create California Border Patrol
Pacific News Service - San Francisco,CA,USA
SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes has introduced a bill that would create a new Border Patrol in California, arguing that we must get rid of ...

"Jim Gilchrist" Minuteman Project


Candidates line up for Cox's seat
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... spice added by well-known names such as Minuteman Project founder James ... Bea Tiritilli of Santa Ana; American Independent Party candidate Jim Gilchrist of Aliso ...

Minuteman Project founder visits EP for training
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
One of the co-founders of the Minuteman Project in Arizona is expected to be in El Paso today to train El Pasoans to patrol the desert and report sightings of ...

IN THE NEWS!

Man Denied Asylum Returns to Asia
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... there is returning to his native land, ending a nearly 10-year battle to remove him from this country, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said ...

California Muslim cleric, son deported
CNN - USA
... June arrest on visa violations during a federal terrorism investigation, have been returned to Pakistan, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said ...


Judge ends immigrant crackdown
Nashua 1590 Broadcaster - Nashua,NH,USA
... odds with federal immigration authorities, and said his department will continue to work cooperatively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Immigration ...

Richardson, minuteman discuss border crisis
MSNBC - USA
... And I had criminal activity relating to illegal immigration, drugs coming in, murders ... a lot of these people who are involved in the alien smuggling, the drug ...

2 sentenced for smuggling immigrant
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Lantana to collect the balance owed them by Jose's family for smuggling her to ... her destination, and while still awaiting word on her immigration status, Susana ...

38 found in Ontario drop house
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... how egregious smuggling is, to be finding all of these people in one house," said Lori Haley, a Laguna Niguel-based spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs ...

Border is forcing a change
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... struggling with rising immigrant smuggling and violence. "It's a scream for help from Congress," said Frank Sharry, head of the National Immigration Forum, an ...

Uncivil Defense
Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... a void created by the federal government's inability to stop illegal immigration. ... devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling ...

More than 100 feared dead after boat sinks
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... The smuggling boats usually try to land their human cargo in Central America ... by land to reach the United States, according to Ecuadorean immigration officials. ...

People smuggler gets jail in Conn.
India New England - Waltham,MA,USA
... at Danbury was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally smuggling people of ... In June 2004, Patel was arrested on a civil immigration charge when he was ...


Business profits from ID theft, too
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... All three US credit-reporting bureaus - Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion - offer credit-monitoring services. But other products ...

Prevent Identity Theft
netsecurity.about.com - USA
... The big three credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) joined forces to provide free credit reports to consumers. ...

Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... Russell Pearce announced a different strategy for battling illegal immigration, asking the GOP-led state legislature in Phoenix to approve a bill that would ...

Proud to be an American?
Village News Network - Fallbrook,CA,USA
... but they think nothing of hiring an illegal alien. These so-called "trendy patriots" are the same people who complain about illegal immigration but hire ...


Cloquet man sentenced for child porn
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... The conviction came as a result of an investigation conducted by Duluth police and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigations. ...

Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... whatever I can to build a fence and a tent city (jail) so there's a place to hold them (illegal aliens) so ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) can pick ...

38 found in Ontario drop house
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... smuggling is, to be finding all of these people in one house," said Lori Haley, a Laguna Niguel-based spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...

Wealthy Man Quits Job To Fight Wife's Deportation
All Headline News - USA
Ralph Isenberg, 53, and his wife, Nicole, who turns 41 on Friday, ignored a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement order that she leave the country by August ...

MS-13 seen as posing organized-crime risks
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as ...


Illegal Alien Crisis Produces Partisan Split in Arizona
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
By John Turner Gilliland. tx720 (CNSNews.com) - Unhappy with federal efforts to maintain border security and keep illegal aliens from crossing into Arizona ...

New York City Council Approves Legislation To Require Most Grocery ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
... The bill, introduced last week by Suffolk County Legislature Minority Leader William ... pass the county Legislature and go to County Executive Steve Levy, who is ...

Border Patrol program quickly removes illegals from US
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
FALFURRIAS - The border patrol has expanded a program that quickly removes illegal immigrants from the US So far local Border Patrol officials said it's working ...

Border Patrol Seizes Marijuana in Alamogordo
ABQ Journal (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
ALAMOGORDO -- US Border Patrol agents have discovered more than two-thousand pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer that was bound for Michigan. ...

Globalisation, the Software Industry And Opportunities for Nigeria
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... required substantial and very-timely investment and right legislation to protect ... For example, petitions by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). ...

DeLay hit for anti-immigrant remarks
People's Weekly World - USA
... s comments evoked images of the US detention center ... of his announcement that he favors legislation which would ... like Houston that do not enforce immigration law ...

Rush Limbaugh Sounds Off on Akaka Bill
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
... It's yet another piece of legislation that seeks an apology ... be here and you've got to let us have our ... know, you couple this with all the immigration snafus we ...

"Mexico"


US envoy, high-society pal of Bush, riles Mexico
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - He married Mexico's richest woman, is an old pal of US President George W. Bush and now Washington's envoy south of the Rio ...

Mexico's IPC index to shrink with Hylsamex loss
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's stock exchange said on Thursday it will not replace steel maker Hylsamex when it delists and cuts the company from the ...

Mexico cuts 2005 growth forecast to 3.5 pct
Reuters - USA
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexico cut its forecast for 2005 economic growth to 3.5 percent after sluggish US demand for car exports unexpectedly slowed ...

Wall St still cheers for Mexico peso, Brazil real
Reuters - USA
... Similarly, Mexico's central bank last Friday held its benchmark overnight rate steady at 9.75 percent, where it has been since March. ...

Mexico, US dominate CONCACAF
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
Mexico and United States won again in the lop-sided final stage of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying competition, while Guatemala boosted its hopes by beating ...

Volkswagen Mexico reaches deal with workers
Reuters.uk - UK
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Mexican unit reached an agreement with union leaders on Wednesday to increase workers' pay and avoid a strike. ...

Mexico fines Coke, bottlers
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
Mexico's antitrust commission has hit Coca-Cola and its bottlers with a $54 million fine in response to 5-year-old complaints by rival Pepsico that it used ...

EPL High Bidder on Four Blocks at Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The four blocks, North Padre A-28, Galveston 189, High Island A-306, and High Island A-315, are all on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf, in less than 500 feet of water ...

US, Mexico announce joint effort against migrant smugglers
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
MONTERREY, Mexico -- The US and Mexican governments on Wednesday announced a bilateral effort to help authorities identify and prosecute migrant smugglers ...

Mexico funds staging areas for illegals
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
By Jerry Seper. WASHINGTON -- The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week ...

Mexican Consulate


US envoy's comments stun Mexican official
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... comment that he briefly closed a consulate partly to punish Mexico's government for border violence drew a sharp response Wednesday from Mexican authorities. ...

"MS 13" Gang


Border Patrol keeps eye out for MS-13
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
CORPUS CHRISTI - They're known as Mara Salvatrucha the MS-13 gang. ... Very few MS-13 gang members are captured here at US Border Patrol checkpoints. ...

MS-13 Member Found Guilty In Fairfax Machete Attack
Washington Post - United States
... The machete attack outside a Merrifield movie theater was the second involving the gang, also known as MS-13, in an eight-month span in Fairfax and heightened ...

Law Enforcement Agencies Take on MS-13
Washington Post - United States
... US law enforcement officials take part in the MS-13 National Gang Task Force meeting with law enforcement counterparts from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras ...

Gangs in Laurel? Officials at crime forum disagree
Laurel Leader - Laurel,MD,USA
... "MS-13 (a national Latino gang) is real and they're here in Laurel, and we're tearing the graffiti down every day at Laurel High," Perry said. ...

Mexican Mafia"


Mexican meth seized; 22 arrests
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... He has ties to the drug cartel in Tijuana and has been distributing methamphetamine to members of the Mexican Mafia and others in the Inland area and Los ...

Folsom prison inmates tied to terror case
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Hickman also compared JIS to more traditional and less political prison gangs such as the Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia and the Aryan Brotherhood. ...

LULAC


LULAC Council's President Plans To File Complaint Against Lee
NBC5i.com - Ft. Worth,TX,USA
DALLAS -- The president of Dallas' LULAC Council plans Thursday to file an ethic's complaint against the commissioner under fire at City Hall, NBC 5 reported. ...


Washington Legal Foundation {The Good Guys}


Kansas, Texas harassed for doing the right thing
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... The Washington Legal Foundation is making the same legal argument, against the same group of kids, but in a different state. In ...

Use Cheney visit to push fair trade
Toronto Star - Canada
... Minister Paul Martin's government "use whatever legal means it ... diplomatic and moral pressure on Washington, which is ... That is one shaky foundation on which to ...

Brushfires of freedom
renewamerica.us - Washington,D.C.,USA
... George Washington said, "It is impossible to rightly govern ... The only foundation of a free Constitution, is ... this satanic abortion dragon, but legal remedies can ...

Studying terrorism: Students on front lines of global threat
William and Mary News (press release) - Williamsburg,VA,USA
... fellowship program sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, DC-based ... major who plans to pursue a legal or diplomatic ...

The Subway Mayor
LA Weekly - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Patsaouras went to Washington with Mayor Bradley and RTD ... The ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund ... Goldwater Institute and the libertarian Reason Foundation. ...

"ACLU"


Truly Nolen's Murray Responds to ACLU Criticism of its Crime ...
PCT Online - USA
... Murray, vice president of marketing and public relations, Truly Nolen of America, said claims made by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that Truly Nolen ...

Louisiana ACLU Chief compares theists to the 9/11 hijackers
Lone Star Times - Houston,TX,USA
... about a meeting Monday, during which the school board spoke to all teachers and workers about policy for this year, and had been asked by the ACLU to remind ...

ACLU Defending Woman Accused Of Using Drugs While Pregnant
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA
... ACLU attorneys said prosecuting women for their actions during pregnancy is unprecedented elsewhere in Maryland and claim it is an attempt to create a new ...

ACLU guarding against erosion of rights
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
This letter is in reply to James R. Ramsey. Mr. Ramsey, where did you receive your information regarding the amount of money Congress contributed to the ACLU? ...

ACLU Claims Some Oklahomans Denied The Right To Vote
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
The American Civil Liberties Union claims some Oklahomans are being denied the right to vote. The group says that's keeping thousands ...

Al Qaeda Loves Our Unpatriotic Media
Accuracy In Media - Washington,DC,USA
... But when the Pentagon tries to keep potential propaganda material from falling into the hands of the enemy, the media are in court with the ACLU against the ...

I Will Support And Defend...So Help Me God
theOneRepublic - CA,USA
There are no ACLU lawyers on the actual warfront with Jihadistan demanding military compliance with the erroneously-named "separation clause." There are ...

OCCC mental concerns a reprise
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Vanessa Chong, executive director of the ACLU in Hawai'i, said after state officials conceded there were issues at OCCC in 1985 and avoided trial by signing a ...


ACLU fights for Mich. partner benefits
Gay.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
In a Michigan courtroom on Tuesday, the ACLU asked a judge to clarify the state's anti-gay constitutional amendment, "Proposal 2," and its affect on domestic ...

CAFTA


Job loss to NAFTA dims enthusiasm for CAFTA
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... Gene Taylor, one of the 215 to vote against CAFTA, was a witness to what has been called the most egregious instance of legislative arm-twisting by the Bush ...

CAFTA is going to take a bite
Newszap Florida - FL,USA
CLEWISTON -- The recent passage of the Central American Free Trade Act (CAFTA) will have a far-reaching impact on the American agricultural industry ...

Vital step for free trade
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... The passage of CAFTA-DR, which includes the Dominican Republic, will create tremendous momentum for a new wave of key trade agreements involving the United ...


Morgan County Farmers Union hears from state director on CAFTA ...
Brush News Tribune - CO, United States
... Sugar. He said, "Everyone needs to voice their opinion on how they feel about Rep. (Marilyn) Musgrave voting in favor of CAFTA. Wolfe ...

Arkansas Steelworkers to Protest CAFTA Votes of US Rep. Snyder ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Protests will also be directed at US Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Mark Pryor (D-AR) for their approval votes of CAFTA as a betrayal of working families. ...