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We are nation of laws... and that applies to immigrants BY DAVID LARA The question put to me by the editor of The Sun was, "What are your feelings concerning the question of illegal immigration?" Actually, the answer is simple, and is answered with another question, "What is it about the word illegal that you don't understand?" As President Bush stated during his address to the nation Monday evening, America is a nation of laws, and it follows that just as citizens of Arizona must obey the laws of California or Michigan should we travel to those states, so do...

Border Patrol finds fifth stash house in two weeks FROM STAFF REPORTS Yuma sector U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 13 illegal aliens Friday from the fifth drop house agents have discovered in two weeks. At 11:45 a.m., agents working off a tip went to the 1200 block of 3rd Street and found one suspected smuggler and 12 illegal aliens inside two small travel trailers in a trailer park. The people had been hiding for one week while waiting to be smuggled farther into the U.S., according to a Border Patrol release. None of the illegal aliens required medical attention. Three...

Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors To Consider Sheriff's Immigration Enforcement and Deportation of Criminal Aliens Please Attend Meeting At 9:30 AM on July 13, 2004 On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposed agreement between the Sheriff's Department and the Department of Homeland Security. This would allow the Sheriff's Department to train six people to conduct interviews with foreign-born inmates in County jails, give the interviewers access to the Deportable Alien Control System, which is a federal computer database, to determine if the inmate is a convicted criminal alien or a...

City officials assure San Luis will have fireworks SAN LUIS, Ariz. — The city's fireworks show will take place as scheduled Sunday, even though a planned Fourth of July parade has been canceled, San Luis officials said at a news conference Wednesday. Interim City Administrator Rosalicia Cordova said she had received a couple phone calls from concerned residents after a newspaper advertisement came out in The Sun and Bajo El Sol Friday that stated the city was not going to allow a Fourth of July parade. The ad stated the city of San Luis was not going to support a...

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be...

McCain: U.S. Should Offer Naturalization to Illegals NewsMax Wires Sunday, June 27, 2004 The "human tragedy" of illegal immigrants dying and being abused as they attempt to enter the United States will continue until the federal government acknowledges the important economic role undocumented workers play, Sen. John McCain told Hispanic leaders Saturday. "It is in our national interest to bring the 8 to 12 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and allow them an opportunity to become citizens of this great nation," McCain said at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, a civil rights group...

Anderson Examines Devastating Impact of Invasion, Life on the Border By Dennis Durband, Editor In the interior of Mexico, there is a labor shortage. There are no Americans available to do the jobs that Mexicans won't do. However, the travel industry is thriving. And these are great days for “coyotes” – human smugglers – and those in drug trafficking. Travelers from South and Central America, Mexico and other nations are traveling in great numbers up through Hermosillo, Mexico and to northern staging locations near the U.S. border. These people can go to a Catholic church in one of the Mexican...

"Take Back Arizona" the next meeting will be Saturday, October 25, 2003 at noon at the Beefeaters Restaurant 300 West Camelback Road Phoenix Az.

Hoffman, Dumas sentenced to jail BY LOREN LISTIAK, Staff Writer Oct 9, 2003 Two men who used handguns and handcuffs to detain a group of illegal immigrants near Gadsden were sentenced to jail Wednesday by a judge who said their actions were not only against the law but misguided and un-American. Yuma County Superior Court Judge Andrew Gould sentenced Matthew Hoffman to 120 days in jail with credit for 17 days he served after his arrest for detaining the group. Alexander Dumas, meanwhile, was given a 30-day jail term with credit for 16 days served. Gould also placed both men...

Remittances are Mexico's biggest source of income, says Fox By Luis Alonso Lugo ASSOCIATED PRESS 8:51 p.m. September 24, 2003 NEW YORK ? Money sent from Mexican workers in the United States to their families back home has reached a record $12 billion in 2003, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday. Remittances "are our biggest source of foreign income, bigger than oil, tourism or foreign investment," Fox told reporters after a meeting with Mexican-American businessmen. "The 20 million Mexicans in the United States generate a gross product that is slightly higher than the $600 billion generated by Mexicans in Mexico,"...

Protest to support vigilantes BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS, Staff Writer Oct 1, 2003 The Yuma County Courthouse will again be the scene of a protest on Friday when local and Tombstone-area residents are expected to gather in support of three men accused of detaining six illegal immigrants at gunpoint. Chris Simcox, leader of the Civil Homeland Defense, said more than 50 people are expected to attend the 5:50 p.m. protest, at which time they will publicly state Matthew Hoffman and Alexander Dumas do not deserve jail time, that U.S. Border Patrol agents need more federal assistance in guarding the border, and...

Good Friday still good to go Sep 4, 2003 Email this page Printer friendly page Subscribe to The Sun Mary Melchionne says she refuses to be intimidated by a national legal group that is trying to take religion out of America. The member of the Yuma Union High School District Board said it's time to take a stand. "The ACLU won't stop here," she said at the regular board meeting Wednesday afternoon. "The next thing you know, they will be coming in here trying to take Christmas away from us." But, thanks to a 5-0 vote, Good Friday will still...

Take Back Arizona Selects Priorities By Dennis Durband Sept. 7, 2003 The Take Back Arizona movement has selected five priorities to focus on: illegal immigration, right to life, the second amendment, education and land use. The group aims to unite thousands of conservative activists to help return Arizona to the constitutional form of government created by the founders of the nation. J.P. Melchionni, of Yuma, is leading Take Back Arizona. ''I think this is the only hope we have to take back this state,'' Melchionni said. ''We need to pick battles we can win, to encourage others to join.'' A...

URGENT action Alert !! HR 7 / Land Trust Tax Scam : ONE More Day!!! Fellow Americans: Apparently, we may have the Land Trusts on the run - Congressmen Herger, Blunt, Pombo and Cannon are really speaking out for us - we may win this!!! PLEASE PLEASE forward the email below to your lists, and act on it yourself, we can win this issue and keep private property on the same playing field with the gigantic, super-rich "non-profit" Land Trusts. Your activism has made a HUGE difference - this is the NUMBER ONE legislative priority for the Land Trusts, and...

Good Friday still good to go Sep 4, 2003 Mary Melchionne says she refuses to be intimidated by a national legal group that is trying to take religion out of America. The member of the Yuma Union High School District Board said it's time to take a stand. "The ACLU won't stop here," she said at the regular board meeting Wednesday afternoon. "The next thing you know, they will be coming in here trying to take Christmas away from us." But, thanks to a 5-0 vote, Good Friday will still be Good Friday come April 9 next year for students...

COMING TO AMERICA Local governments harboring illegals? Study: States, counties undermine federal national-security efforts Posted: August 28, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jon Dougherty © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A leading immigration-reform group has released a new study blaming states and local governments for weakening "the immigration-related dimensions of U.S. national security" by adopting and practicing policies that provide "safe haven" for illegal aliens. The Federation for American Immigration Reform says those local policies are at conflict with border security measures, "despite the federal government's increased push to tie immigration enforcement to national security." The report, titled "State of Insecurity: How State...

While a Nation Slept.......Their Freedoms Disappeared By Dorothy Anne Seese Most folks have at some time in their lives awakened from a nightmare, relieved to find out it was only a dream. Others have awakened from pleasant dreams of former times only to find that they are in one form or another in a prison. One day Americans, who still think they are a free people under law, are going to wake up and find out they indeed do live in a socialist state, the liberties they thought they had are gone, and they are serfs to the power elite....

Civics 101 -- Getting it right... Mark Alexander (archive) August 29, 2003 | Print | Send Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's defiance of a federal court's mandate to remove a Ten Commandments display from the rotunda at the Alabama judicial building has been debated vigorously in recent weeks, mostly out of context. Much of the public debate about this case has taken a wide detour around the substantive constitutional question, instead focusing on the Ten Commandments: Are they the foundation of Western law? Should they be displayed in state and local public places? Are such displays promotions of religion or...

Yumans want Ten Commandments back in Alabama; 50 protest removal of monument from courthouse, suspension of judge By Randy Reese Aug 31, 2003 Pastor John Howe stood alongside about 50 other protesters early Saturday afternoon along 4th Avenue and braved the August heat to get his message across — "We want the Ten Commandments back in Alabama." Howe, pastor of the Truth Baptist Church of Yuma, said the recent removal of the monument from the state capitol building's rotunda in Montgomery was a travesty and the suspension of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore an even worse affront to justice. Protesters...

Immigration in Dollar$ and Common Sense The below information, on both legal and illegal immigration, was compiled from various sources. The sources differ somewhat in their numbers, but overall, paint an disturbing picture of perilous blows dealt to the country’s staggering economy by runaway immigration. Two acronyms are used frequently in the brief omnibus. CIS (Center for Immigration Studies) ( http://cis.org/index.cgi) Washington, DC FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) (http://www.fairus.org/) Washington DC J. Zane Walley ---------------------------------------------- During 1996, approximately 2.3 million predominantly low-skill American workers were displaced from their jobs due to the continued heavy influx of immigrant workers since...