Monday, March 17, 2008

Immigration: The Gift That Should Be Returned

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Parsippany (New Jersey) Daily Record
An illegal [alien] who said he held a Morristown woman on the ground while a stranger raped her was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison after his request to withdraw his guilty plea was denied. -- Juan Antonio Amendano, of Ecuador, pleaded guilty 11 months ago as an accomplice to aggravated sexual assault. [More "family values"]
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Arizona Republic
Sixty-five suspected illegal [aliens] have been found in three drophouses since Friday afternoon, Phoenix police said Sunday. -- The latest discovery came Saturday about 6 p.m. when tenants moving into a house in the 800 block of West Montoya Lane arrived to find 28 [illegal aliens.... criminals] inside, police said.
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KVOA-TV -- Tucson
Eight illegal immigrants were arrested at a raucous Bullhead City bar found to be serving alcohol to minors. -- Bullhead City police received numerous complaints about La Conchita bar and has recently investigated a severe beating there and an incident in which a patron pointed a gun at two employees...
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Associated Press
McAllen, Texas – South Texas landowners fighting border fence surveys have gained traction in court and could keep the federal government from meeting Congress' demand for 670 miles of Mexican border fencing by the end of the year...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Washington Post sc
Tijuana, BC, Mex. -- The killers prowled through Loma Bonita in the pre-dawn chill. -- In silence, they navigated a labyrinth of wood shacks at the crest of a dirt lane in the blighted Tijuana neighborhood, police say. They were looking for Margarito Saldaña, an easygoing 43-year-old district police commander...
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WOAI -- San Antonio
Civil rights activists say "anti-immigrant hysteria" helped lead to the arrest of a Hispanic truck driver after a car accident that killed a Harris County sheriff's deputy who was driving drunk. -- Jose Jesus Vieyra, a Mexican [illegal alien], is accused of causing a crash that killed sheriff's deputy Craig W. Miller....
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Wichita Eagle
Wichita school district residents will vote May 6 on a $350 million bond issue to build new schools, renovate existing schools and upgrade athletic and fine-arts facilities. -- Here is a question readers have asked about the bond issue. Keep them coming; we'll print answers to your questions on Sundays...
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Community Watchdog Project -- New Haven, Connecticut
Video Included
Tonight Roger Wilk and I (Dustin W. Gold) went to the Mark Twain House to see an illegal immigration forum featuring [leftist New Haven, Conn.] Mayor John DeStefano, Mayor Mark Boughton, and Tamar Jacoby. There was roughly 150 people in attendance, in addition to several media outlets...
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Walter Moore
MooreIsBetter.com
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor...
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Sacramento Bee
A Tulare man has been charged in federal court with peddling counterfeit birth certificates to an informant working for government agents. -- Miguel Gonzalez Ramirez is accused of selling two phony New Mexico birth certificates and an Arizona birth certificate for $1,000 each between Sept. 19 and March 2.
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Chicago Tribune
Evanston's City Council this week backed away from instructing police and government workers to not ask about a person's immigration status and dropped language calling illegal immigration foes racist after a controversial resolution to create a so-called sanctuary city angered some residents.
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San Antonio Express-News
El Cenizo, Texas -- Fearing something was wrong as he arrived Wednesday after a long day's work, gardener Salvador García shouted to the police officers by his driveway that he was the homeowner. -- He later wondered if he should have kept his mouth shut...
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Tennessee Journalist
Rep. Stacey Campfield proposed a state law this year that would prohibit state schools from admitting illegal immigrants. It stands in stark contrast to a federal law, which seeks to let illegal [aliens] enter public colleges and universities with the possibility of instate tuition...
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Los Angeles Daily News
A young Asian woman arrives in Southern California with the promise of a restaurant job and a generous invitation to live for free in her employer's home as she acclimates to her new world. -- "I couldn't believe it. I thought I was living the American dream," authorities said Thonglim Khamphiranon told friends in her native Thai language...
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Los Angeles Times
Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were previously deported and then reentered the country illegally -- a crime that now makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Times review of U.S. attorney's statistics shows.
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Cox News Service
Ejido Modelo Emiliaano Zapata, Coah., Mex. -- Lanky teenagers hang out in clumps at the volleyball courts, laughing and teasing, enjoying what could be their last days here. -- Many will soon embark on the long, grueling journey through the desert they hope will eventually end in metro Atlanta with jobs...
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Hartford (Connecticut) Courant
The state Department of Motor Vehicles has shut down a Stratford driver training school whose owner is the target of a state and federal investigation into whether he helped hundreds of undocumented [aliens] obtain driver's licenses...

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