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"Anti-Illegal Immigration REFORMISTS ARE REALISTS, not Racists! - Put the Rhetoric ASIDE, AND let THE FACTS DECIDE!"
"No racial or ethnic group has ever advanced in our society by playing the victim card.
Scots, Italians, Irish, Polish, German, Spanish and Asians, etc., from a multitude of countries all WON acceptance and economically bounded past natives by becoming more American than Americans!

Nobody climbs the ladder to the American dream
by refusing to assimilate".

A Race-Baiter Falls from Grace
Michael Fumento











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August 19, 2005
2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
By ANDREW POLLACK
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left of the firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.

Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.

The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.

"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which represented the immigrants in their lawsuit.

Mr. Dees said the loss of the ranch would "send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to use violence."

The surrender of the ranch comes as the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared a state of emergency because of the influx of illegal immigrants and related crime along the border.

Bill Dore, a Douglas resident briefly affiliated with Ranch Rescue who is still active in the border-patrolling Minuteman Project, called the land transfer "ridiculous."

"The illegals are coming over here," Mr. Dore said. "They are getting the American property. Hell, I'd come over, too. Get some American property, make some money from the gringos."

The immigrants getting the ranch, Edwin Alfredo MancÃÂÂ*a Gonzáles and Fátima del Socorro Leiva Medina, could not be reached for comment. Kelley Bruner, a lawyer at the law center, said they did not want to speak to the news media but were happy with the outcome.

Ms. Bruner said that Mr. MancÃÂÂ*a and Ms. Leiva, who are from El Salvador but are not related, would not live at the ranch and would probably sell it. Mr. Nethercott bought the ranch in 2003 for $120,000.

Mr. MancÃÂÂ*a, who lives in Los Angeles, and Ms. Leiva, who lives in the Dallas area, have applied for visas that are available to immigrants who are the victims of certain crimes and who cooperate with the authorities, Ms. Bruner said. She said that until a decision was made on their applications, they could stay and work in the United States on a year-to-year basis.

Mr. MancÃÂÂ*a and Ms. Leiva were caught on a ranch in Hebbronville, Tex., in March 2003 by Mr. Nethercott and other members of Ranch Rescue. The two immigrants later accused Mr. Nethercott of threatening them and of hitting Mr. MancÃÂÂ*a with a pistol, charges that Mr. Nethercott denied. The immigrants also said the group gave them cookies, water and a blanket and let them go after an hour or so.

The Salvadorans testified against Mr. Nethercott [Lied] when he was tried by Texas prosecutors. The jury deadlocked on a charge of pistol-whipping but convicted Mr. Nethercott, who had previously served time in California for assault, of gun possession, which is illegal for a felon. He is now serving a five-year sentence in a Texas prison.

Mr. MancÃÂÂ*a and Ms. Leiva also filed a lawsuit against Mr. Nethercott; Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue; and the owner of the Hebbronville ranch, Joe Sutton. The immigrants said the ordeal, in which they feared that they would be killed by the men they thought were soldiers, had left them with post-traumatic stress.

Mr. Sutton settled for $100,000. Mr. Nethercott and Mr. Foote did not defend themselves, so the judge issued default judgments of $850,000 against Mr. Nethercott and $500,000 against Mr. Foote.

Mr. Dees said Mr. Foote appeared to have no substantial assets, but Mr. Nethercott had the ranch. Shortly after the judgment, Mr. Nethercott gave the land to his sister, Robin Albitz, of Prescott, Ariz. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the siblings, saying the transfer was fraudulent and was meant to avoid the judgment.

Ms. Albitz, a nursing assistant, signed over the land to the two immigrants last week.

"It scared the hell out of her," Margaret Pauline Nethercott, the mother of Mr. Nethercott and Ms. Albitz, said of the lawsuit. "She didn't know she had done anything illegal. We didn't know they had a judgment against my son."

This was not the first time the law center had taken property from a group on behalf of a client. In 1987, the headquarters of a Ku Klux Klan group in Alabama was given to the mother of a boy whose murder was tied to Klansmen. Property has also been taken from the Aryan Nations and the White Aryan Resistance, Mr. Dees said.

Joseph Jacobson, a lawyer in Austin who represented Mr. Nethercott in the criminal case, said the award was "a vast sum of money for a very small indignity." Mr. Jacobson said the two immigrants were trespassing on Mr. Sutton's ranch and would have been deported had the criminal charges not been filed against Mr. Nethercott.

He criticized the law center for trying to get $60,000 in bail money transferred to the immigrants. While the center said the money was Mr. Nethercott's, Mr. Jacobson said it was actually Ms. Nethercott's, who mortgaged her home to post bail for her son.

Mr. Nethercott and Mr. Foote had a falling out in 2004, and Mr. Foote left Camp Thunderbird, taking Ranch Rescue with him. Mr. Nethercott then formed the Arizona Guard, also based on his ranch.

In April, Mr. Nethercott told an Arizona television station, "We're going to come out here and close the border with machine guns." But by the end of the month, he had started his prison sentence.

Now, only remnants of Camp Thunderbird remain on his ranch, a vast expanse of hard red soil, mesquite and tumbleweed with a house and two bunkhouses. One bunkhouse has a storeroom containing some camouflage suits, sleeping bags, tarps, emergency rations, empty ammunition crates, gun parts and a chemical warfare protection suit.

In one part of the ranch, dirt is piled up to form the backdrop of a firing range. An old water tank, riddled with bullet holes, is on its side. A platform was built as an observation post on the tower that once held the water tank.

Charles Jones, who was hired as a ranch hand about a month before Mr. Nethercott went to prison, put up fences and brought in cattle to graze. He has continued to live on the property with some family members.

But now the cattle are gone, and Mr. Jones has been told that he should prepare to leave. "It makes me sick I did all this work," he said.

Ms. Nethercott said she was not sure whether her son knew that his ranch was being turned over to the immigrants, but that he would be crushed if he did.

"That's his whole life," she said of the ranch. "He'd be heartbroken if he lost it in any way, but this is the worst way."



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JUDICIAL WATCH TO FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST HERNDON, VA

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:
Dear Friends and Supporters:

On Wednesday night, August 17, after two days of intense and exhaustive hearings, the Herndon Town Council chose to ignore federal and state laws by voting 5 – 2 to forge ahead with an illegal “Day Laborer Site,� a taxpayer-funded site where illegal aliens congregate to find work.

On Tuesday night, in testimony before the Town Council, I told council members in no uncertain terms: reject this illegal proposal or we will see you in court. (Some council members, of course, did not take kindly to my remarks. One member, in particular, was so incensed, he threatened to have me prosecuted.) By choosing to support the illegal “Day Laborer Site,� the Town of Herndon has left Judicial Watch with no other choice. Judicial Watch’s legal department is busy crafting our lawsuit, which we expect to file next week on behalf of concerned Herndon citizen taxpayers.

The small Town of Herndon, Virginia has been the focal point of widespread attention from the national media over this issue. In just the last few days, I’ve been interviewed by ABC’s Nightline program, CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and a steady stream of radio programs. The print media, too, has covered this issue on a daily basis. There is a lot at stake in this debate. As I told the Town Council on Tuesday, this “Day Laborer Site� is in flagrant violation of the law and Judicial Watch will go to court to make sure that it never sees the light of day.

For a full copy of my statement before the Herndon Town Council, please click here. I will certainly let you know when Judicial Watch files its lawsuit and update you regularly on our progress in court.



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Minuteman Project


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"Robert Vasquez" County Commissioner


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Washington Legal Foundation


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... "It has been very frustrating," said Richard Samp, chief counsel for the Washington Legal Foundation, which has been defending Proposition 200 in court. ...

Slick Jamie S. Gorelick makes Americans sick
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Information act needs everyone's support
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... As Cornyn says, the current attitude in Washington is: "Sure you can ... Policy Research, RedState.org, National Taxpayers Union and the Landmark Legal Foundation. ...

Bill in Congress to Overhaul Patent Law Seeks to Quell Suits
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
... founder of the Public Patent Foundation in New York, a nonprofit public interest legal services organization ... Property Law Association in Washington, said the ...

Tolerance can't be coerced
The Japan Times - Japan
... highlighted the importance of a vibrant legal and political ... Yet to be built, however, is the foundation of a ... lies beyond the best efforts of Washington and its ...

Community Calendar
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
... Ave and for the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation. ... for the GLBT Actors' Theater of Washington's production of ... A workshop on legal steps couples can take to ...

CAFTA


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Arkansas News - Little Rock,AR,USA
... Union steelworkers from across the state gathered at the Federal Building here Thursday to protest the recent passage of CAFTA, and promised retribution on ...


Texas exporters stand to profit from CAFTA
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Texas ranchers will be winners because beef exports to the six CAFTA nations, with 44 million consumers, are expected to triple in a few years, Sampson said. ...


ASAP Show Primed and Ready for Vegas
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... overseas manufacturers and seminars on the latest apparel sourcing information including the hot-button issues of China safeguards and DR-CAFTA from the top ...

Short and snappy comments by anonymous Observer readers on the ...
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... go. To Sue Myrick: Don't think getting involved with the illegal immigrant issue is going to get the CAFTA monkey off your back. ...


IN THE NEWS!

California Border Debate Heats Up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Hundreds of Border Patrol agents were deployed. ... Border Patrol agents say smugglers have become more aggressive, and regularly throw rocks at them. ...

Americans for Legal Immigration - They have opened the border ...
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Border Patrol, Catch and Release, laws, Congress,
... EOIR, BIA, DHS, CBP, ICE, USCIS or any other branch of the United States ...


Deal making
Baltimore Sun - United States
CONGRESSIONAL lawmakers unsuccessful in crafting legislation on immigration reform since the 9/11 attacks may try to reach consensus when they return from ...

It's Not Going To Happen
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... by the restrictionist Immigration Reform Caucus. The goal will be to frame the issue clearly as border enforcement and anti-terrorism legislation with worker ...

Border Patrol makes third big bust in a week
Alamogordo Daily News - Alamogordo,NM,USA
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents made a third significant drug seizure this week at a highway traffic checkpoint. ...

ON THE BORDER: STATE OF EMERGENCY
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... sweat shirt and Lycra running pants, lacking a backpack or even a bottle of water - made it just a mile into her dream before US Border Patrol agents stopped ...

She is accused of trying to smuggle four Chinese into Detroit in ...
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... pay Carter $4,000 to smuggle the four Chinese females into the United States," said an affidavit filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Christopher ...

Undocumented workers arrested at Camp Lejeune
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
... arrests. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wilmington is handling the investigation now, Carpenter said. Details ...


Boardwalk Raid Yields Bevy Of Counterfeit Items
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... But Arizona-based officials of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, declined the offer for reasons that remain unclear. ...

OC Teacher Charged With Possessing Child Porn
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
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Child Porn Grew Over 400-Percent in Four years
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... Steve Usiak, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said, "I'd say it's somewhere between 5 and 10 that I know of right now.". ...

Illegal Aliens Win Another Round
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... be involved in immigration enforcement may go through a training process that allows them to become "deputies" of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ...


Immigration Korner
Hardbeatnews.com - Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
... attorneys and advocates lobbying for the US immigration cause. ... even if I'm not legal in the US? ... Tucker says that should legislation like the Secure America & ...

It's Not Going To Happen
ILW.com - New York,NY,USA
... will pass, taking us into 2006 before the real nut-cutting moment arrives. In the last two major House-Senate conferences on immigration legislation, the echo ...

Roberts Opposed Some Sex-Discrimination Remedies, Files Show
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19 (Bloomberg) -- US Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr ... giving advice on such issues as the sale of arms to Nicaraguan rebels and immigration legislation. ...

Free Speech at UNC-Asheville
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... I also learned that "The historical legacy of US imperial conquest ... Restrictive immigration legislation directed specifically against Asians has done much to ...

No border emergency here
San Francisco Chronicle - United States
... any section of the 2,200-mile US-Mexico border ... The legislation would grant temporary visas to guest ... clout in Washington to promote meaningful immigration reform ...

Australia: state Labor leader positions himself for a federal ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... stream of "law and order" legislation and other ... the Howard government to introduce stricter immigration laws, claiming ... 11 terror attacks in the US and the ...


Emergency Declared at US Southern Border
FOX News - USA
... called "a chaotic situation" involving illegal-alien smuggling, murder ... traffic of illegal drugs, illegal aliens, when ... we need a federal immigration policy," he ...

Amnesty Bill Opens Border
Human Events - USA
... eligibility is in doubt. The bill actually makes it unlawful to fire or suspend a "nonconfirmed" (ie illegal alien) employee. ...

"A Crisis Approaching: Part One"
Voices Magazine - Jefferson City,MO,USA
... Meanwhile, an illegal alien smuggler attempted to run down a Border Patrol officer with 25 illegal immigrants stuffed into his van; the incident resulted in a ...

New York Enacts Data Security and Notification Law
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... an account number or credit/debit card number in ... the statute's notice and reporting obligations, either ... notice if a law enforcement agency determines that ...

Identity theft fears drive up shredder sales
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... Australia's leading credit reporting agency, Baycorp Advantage, said consumers could also safeguard against fraud by simply checking their credit files. ...

Thousands of Air Force officers' ID files hacked; officials ...
AirForceTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
... the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that deals with identity theft. "There'sa lightly publicized amendment under the Fair Credit Reporting Act that ...


Napolitano blasts feds
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Phoenix ICE office has not had a permanent chief since the agency was created in March 2003 to help combat illegal immigration, human smuggling and terrorism. ...

Immigration officials order accused Chinese smuggler held in ...
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
... government that he was the mastermind behind a massive smuggling network. "Mr. Lai is a flight risk," Marc Tessler, a member of the Immigration and Refugee ...

Democrats try to outflank the GOP on immigration
RedState.org - USA
... The politics of immigration are changing ... emergency" in four New Mexico border counties due to "a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal ...

Ads highlight dangers of immigrant smuggling
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Border Agent Indicted
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... indicted a former Border Patrol agent on charges of alien smuggling, making a ... officers of the North County Regional Gang Task Force, Immigration and Customs ...

Deal making
Baltimore Sun - United States
... Mexico and is now the epicenter of the national debate over illegal immigration. ... of emergency because of serious spikes in violence and smuggling along their ...

Commentary by Mark Creech
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... is praising Governor Bill Richardson for recently declaring a state of emergency in four counties devastated by drug smuggling and illegal immigration. ...

Subject : John Roberts, John Birch and Cindy Sheehan
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... It is anti-globalization and for immigration reform. They advocate the abolition of income tax, and the repeal of civil rights legislation, which it sees as ...

LULAC


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... "What we have here is a Congressman gone wild," says Mary Almedarez of LULAC, " It is unacceptable behavior for somebody in the leadership position to talk in ...

Minuteman Protest
KFOXtv.com - El Paso,TX,USA
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Councils Take Action Against Minutemen
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"Mexico"


Mexican police rescue American kidnapped in Texas, held in Mexico
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MEXICO CITY -- Federal agents have rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Friday. ...

Ex-braceros in Mexico seek US Embassy aid after leaders jailed in ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
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Arizona, Mexico working on border issues
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Barry Goldwater, is hoping his famous name will lead to the governor's ... > full story. 'Minutemen' recruiting in New Mexico (July 11, 2005) -- One of the ...


Mexico lauds US for crackdown on firms
CNN - USA
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's government congratulated US authorities on Friday for action against Mexican companies and individuals alleged to be involved in ...

Key US-Mexico game might not see major broadcast
CNN/SI - USA
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Grupo Mexico, Acindar, Gol, Telemar: Latin Equity Preview
Bloomberg - USA
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US-Mexico Stakes Grow Even Higher
New York Times - United States
By JOHN ELIGON. The question sounded something like this: "How special would it be if a victory over Mexico clinched a World Cup berth?". ...

Arizona, Mexico working on border issues
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
PHOENIX -- The governor of Arizona and her counterpart in Sonora, Mexico, plan to coordinate efforts to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration on the ...


State Dept. Chides US Envoy to Mexico
Washington Post - United States
WASHINGTON -- The US ambassador to Mexico now says he should have used "different phrasing" rather than saying he closed a border town consulate partly to ...



ACLU"




School board policy illegal, ACLU says
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
... The ACLU has mounted successful legal challenges to similar policies in Providence and Tiverton in recent years, said Steven Brown, executive director of of ...

ACLU seeks school reinstatement for Beaver County teen
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The ACLU asked for an injunction to reinstate Anthony Latour to the Riverside School District in Beaver County so he can start the ninth grade at the high ...


ACLU lawyers at Gitmo?
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
In addition, the Pentagon has brought in a veteran staff attorney from the ACLU to serve as chief defense counsel in future military tribunals. ...

La. ACLU Head Compares People Who Believe in Higher Power to ...
Blogcritics.org - USA
On Monday, the school board of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana had their meeting and was asked by the ACLU to remind teachers not to allow prayer at school ...


ACLU prompts Emmitsburg to review sign ordinance
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... regulating the display of political signs before the end of the year, after repeated requests from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), according to an ACLU ...

Council shifts 1,825 voters
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... protection clause. ACLU attorney Andrew Huff said after the meeting that the plan appears to address the group's central complaint. But ...

"MS 13" Gang


Police Arrest Suspected MS-13 Member
WTVD - Durham-Raleigh,NC,USA
(08/18/05 - SAMPSON COUNTY) - Sampson County authorities say they've arrested a member of the notorious MS-13 gang. Erik Rubio Fuentes ...

Salvadoran Gang Worries
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA
... and officers from nearby agencies, including those on the Central Coast, make MS-13 a talking point at monthly meetings used to discuss current gang issues. ...

"Mexican Mafia"


BREAKING NEWS: Cop deaths stun APD
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... Officer D. Hughes pointed his gun at the man and ordered him to the ground, the warrant said, but the man shouted something like "Mexican Mafia rules" and rode ...

Mexican Consulate


EUSD gets homework list for new school year
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... The added clause comes after the Mexican Consulate participated in a civic fair last May at Grant Middle School. The event was sponsored ...

Illegals dying at record rate in Arizona desert
USA Today - USA
... be traced. The information is shared with the Mexican Consulate's office in Tucson, which keeps a database on missing citizens. ...