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Within the next two years, San Diego County's white population will officially become a minority, as increasing numbers of Latinos and Asians transform the region into one in which there is no majority racial or ethnic group. New projections released yesterday by state demographers revealed that the changeover from majority to minority status for non-Hispanic whites by 2006 is happening 12 years earlier than had originally been predicted. Six years ago, when the state last compiled population projections, whites were not expected to become a minority in San Diego County until 2018. They now make up a little more than...

Program Earmarks Grants For Hispanic Homebuyers BALTIMORE -- Some observers are praising efforts to encourage Hispanic immigrants to buy homes in Baltimore, but critics said the city's latest program goes too far. Baltimore is offering 15 $3,000 grants to Hispanics who buy homes in the city. The grants have no income limits and are also available to Hispanics who are not new arrivals to the United States. Legal scholars aren't sure the program could pass legal scrutiny -- in part because it singles out one minority group for special treatment. The grants are being offered under a broader program to...

<p>August 29, 2003 -- IN 1798, Congress claimed sole responsibility for regu lating immigration. But the overwhelming evidence suggests that many areas of the country are in open defiance of federal law.</p> <p>"Sanctuary cities" — New York is one — are places where illegal aliens can function with little or no fear of federal immigration officials.</p>

When Victor Davis Hanson talks, Washington's conservative elite listens. A brilliant classical scholar, a prolific military historian, and a hands-on, tractor-driving, fifth-generation California farmer, Professor Hanson has lectured the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dined at the Vice President's home, and advised the President of the United States. In his latest book, Mexifornia: A State Of Becoming, Hanson dissects America's mass immigration/anti-assimilation status quo and details how it undermines our national interests. He bluntly lays out the problem: "The really perilous course lies in preserving the status quo and institutionalizing our past failed policies: open borders, unlimited immigration, dependence on cheap...

<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) - Julieta Lopez was riding the 128 bus to her cleaning job in a ritzy Mexico City neighborhood when she felt the chill of pistols pressed against her cheek and forehead. A gang of teenagers took everything from the 45-year-old maid and everyone else on board the pesera, or microbus, making passengers throw money and valuables into a bag of sand to conceal the loot.</p>

Illegal immigration into the United States threatens the future of the nation, a Colorado congressman told Mesa County Republicans on Friday.  U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Centennial, drew two standing ovations from about 100 Republicans, even though he acknowledged his stand on illegal immigration runs counter to that of the party's leader, President Bush.  Forcing a national debate over illegal immigration transcends party loyalty though, he said. At issue, he said, isn't so much whether the United States will have a Balkanized future, but whether it will have a future as a nation at all.  Illegal immigration combined with "the cult...

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, speaking at a news conference in Carson yesterday, reiterated the league's intention to expand in the near future. No surprise there. What's a major league surprise is where MLS might go. San Diego. Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring confirmed that MLS officials called him a few weeks ago to discuss the availability of Qualcomm Stadium, considering that the Padres are moving to a new home and MLS plays a spring-summer schedule. "We're very interested," Herring said. "It would be such a good fit for the stadium and for the San Diego community." It wouldn't...

Diana Mora, 18, of Chicago, would love to attend Northwestern because it's a "really great school'' with "really good prestige.'' Martha, 20, of Chicago, earned high grades at Roosevelt High School in hopes of attending the elite university in Evanston. But even though both graduated at the top of their respective classes and both were accepted for admission at NU, neither can attend. That's because as illegal immigrants from Mexico, they are not eligible for financial aid--either from the government or Northwestern. At $37,338 for a year of tuition and room and board, they said not getting aid is just...