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ST. ANTHONY, Idaho -- A man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who later gave birth in eastern Idaho. The girl gave birth less than two weeks ago by caesarian section at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg, Fremont County Sheriff Ralph C. Davis and other authorities said. Officials would not disclose the gender, date of birth or paternity of the baby. "I wouldn't have believed a 10-year-old could conceive in the first place," Davis said. A hospital spokeswoman would not discuss the condition of the girl or the baby and would not say whether either was still in...

Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today released the following statement on the revised third quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) report, which showed that the American economy grew at 4.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007, the highest rate of GDP growth in four years: “In the face of real challenges, our resilient economy has now experienced six years of uninterrupted growth. As the holiday shopping season begins, I am pleased with today’s strong GDP report, coupled with the 1.68 million jobs added over the past year and low unemployment. President Bush’s pro-growth policies are moving our economy forward....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A crackdown on illegal immigration will have to go forward without help from Congress, the Bush administration said Friday, asserting that an executive-branch-only approach is better than doing nothing. Two Cabinet secretaries -- Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff and Commerce's Carlos Gutierrez -- said they hoped to have new tools to combat illegal immigration before moving further to cope with the problem. But Congress could not agree on comprehensive legislation. The officials said they'll rely instead on tools already in their arsenal, some of which are already under way, including a plan to administratively sanction employers who hire...

(AP) WASHINGTON -- A crackdown on illegal immigration will have to go forward without help from Congress, the Bush administration said Friday, asserting that an executive-branch-only approach is better than doing nothing. Two Cabinet secretaries — Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff and Commerce's Carlos Gutierrez — said they hoped to have new tools to combat illegal immigration before moving further to cope with the problem. But Congress could not agree on comprehensive legislation to attack the problem. The officials said they'll rely instead on tools already in their arsenal, some of which are already under way, including a plan to administratively...

WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez issued the following statement on today’s announcement of the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform proposal. “America is a nation of immigrants. Our history, our prosperity and our values have been shaped by immigrants. But our current immigration system does not work. President Bush has long called for an overhaul of the system to protect our borders and promote our prosperity. “This year presents a historic opportunity. Under President Bush’s direction, Secretary Chertoff and I have worked many hours alongside a bipartisan group of Senators and their staffs to craft a comprehensive immigration policy that will fix...

Three months into the new Congress, immigration legislation is hitting some unexpected roadblocks. A mix of presidential politics and unforeseen fissures between Democrats and their Republican allies has stalled movement in the Senate. Key lawmakers in both chambers seem to be moving to the right to assuage conservatives who helped derail immigration legislation last year. Now there are doubts as to whether Congress will actually send an immigration bill to President Bush this year. Only a few months ago, Democrats and Republicans alike were predicting that immigration legislation would move relatively smoothly — with bipartisan support — through the new...

IN 2005, when he was wearing only his senator's hat, Arizona Republican John McCain fearlessly filed a comprehensive immigration bill with Senator Edward Kennedy. But now that he's a presidential candidate wooing conservative voters, McCain appears hesitant to stand next to his liberal colleague from Massachusetts. Now is a good time for the two senators to file an updated immigration bill. The country desperately needs reform. President Bush says he wants it. And Democrats control Congress, creating a political opportunity that didn't exist a year ago. But McCain and Kennedy have failed to reach agreement. Aides say they are arguing...

From the desk of Roy Beck at NumbersUSA: From the desk of Roy Beck at NumbersUSA: This year's official push for nearly open borders in the United States is expected to begin later this morning. Honestly, your collective reaction to the introduction of the Gutierrez/Flake amnesty bill in the U.S. House of Representatives will have great influence on whether national political leaders try to force this through. We need to do this primarily with phones today. We need the phones in all 435 offices of U.S. Representatives to be ringing all day in vehement opposition to what is being proposed...

Plan would grant temporary legal status to millions and offer a path to citizenship.WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan legislation to be unveiled today in the House of Representatives would offer temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants but would require them to leave the country before they could be eligible for permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. The bill by Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is the first major immigration legislation to be introduced in the current session of Congress, as lawmakers address the status of more than 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. A comprehensive Senate immigration...

March 21, 2007 Yesterday, Congressmen Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) held a conference call with reporters in which they announced their intention to introduce a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill on Thursday. There were few substantive details released at that time, but sources tell us that at the very least, the bill will contain some sort of amnesty provision for illegal aliens currently in the United States. This morning, CongressDaily reports that Congressmen Flake and Gutierrez, who had been participating in negotiations with Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) about the components of a new immigration bill,...

Two Democratic congressmen who could have mounted formidable challenges to longtime Mayor Richard Daley announced Thursday that they will not run for mayor next year because of their party's new found power in Congress. The power shift on Capitol Hill bodes well for both Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Luis Gutierrez. "More than any time since I took my initial oath of office, I am excited, eager, and downright giddy about the prospects in Washington," said Jackson, the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. "In short, Tuesday's election made for a big night, and a new day." Jackson said...

LANDSTUHL, Germany — Find the missing soldiers and get to them before the worst could happen. That’s what was going through the mind of Spc. Joshua Gutierrez late Friday and early Saturday as he was driving a Bradley fighting vehicle during a mission to locate Army Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Army Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. “They’re soldiers,” said an emotional Gutierrez from a bed in the intensive care unit at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. “Just like me. They’re soldiers. Just like me.” Gutierrez was one of 12 troops wounded in the search for...

ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez urged tourism industry leaders Monday to help support legislation that eventually would offer citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants. "This is probably the most important domestic issue of our time," Gutierrez told conferees at the Travel Industry Association's annual Pow Wow meeting, a convention where the U.S. travel industry shows off its offerings to international travel buyers. Immigration reform can give the United States a competitive advantage by improving the economic dynamism of the country and providing a work force that can support the pensions of retirees, said Gutierrez, who immigrated with...

Latino Movement USA Led By Marxist - Juan Jose Gutierrez - Key International ANSWER Member May 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Juan Jose Gutierrez is the director of Latino Movement USA and a member of the steering committee of the Los Angeles branch of International A.N.S.W.E.R, a hard core Marxist organization which was responsible for organizing the huge illegal alien protest in Los Angeles on March 25 and is intimately and inextricably involved in the planning and exectution of similar protests today, appropriately the traditional day to support the "International Workers of the World." Mr. Gutierrez...

By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News March 17, 2006 WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo and an Illinois congressman traded charges of racism during a heated confrontation following a televised appearance on immigration reform, their congressional offices confirmed Thursday. Tancredo, R-Colo., is a leading advocate of tougher enforcement of laws affecting illegal immigrants and those who hire them. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., the son of Puerto Rican parents, calls Tancredo's approach an "ugly policy" motivated by racism. On Wednesday, they appeared together on CNBC. But when the cameras stopped rolling, the debate continued with a spat first reported by the Capitol...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom Tancredo and an Illinois congressman traded charges of racism during a heated confrontation following a televised appearance Wednesday on immigration reform, both their congressional offices confirmed today. Tancredo and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., are frequent sparring partners on the talk show circuit as Congress works to pass some version of immigration reform. Tancredo is a leading advocate of tougher enforcement against illegal immigrants and people who hire them. Gutierrez, the son of Mexican immigrants, calls Tancredo's approach "ugly policy" motivated by racism. On Wednesday, they appeared together on CNBC, and when the cameras stopped rolling the...

10. “bell hooks” Born Gloria Watkins, spells new name in lower case. Has written, “It is difficult not to hear in standard English always the sound of slaughter and conquest” and “I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder.” hooks is a distinguished professor of English at City College in New York. 9. Amiri Baraka Born Everett Leroy Jones in 1934, adopted current name after converting to Islam in 1968. Former poet laureate of New Jersey. Has written: “… the white woman understands that only in the rape sequence [by a black...

Twenty-three Hurricane Rita evacuees died in blaze. The chartered bus that exploded near Dallas last month, killing 23 elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees from a long-term-care facility, had a defective brake, an illegal license plate and a driver -- charged yesterday with negligent homicide -- whose Mexican license wasn't valid in the United States, according to state and federal officials. The operator of the bus, Global Limo Inc., had a low federal driver safety rating. A government investigation after the accident found 168 alleged violations involving the four other buses in Global Limo's fleet, and the federal Department of Transportation has...

The United States and its North American neighbors say they will set up a trusted traveler scheme for the whole continent by 2008, and will this year develop a plan to respond together to major terror attacks and other incidents. Trusted traveler programs enable people who provide biometric personal data -- like fingerprints or iris scans -- pay a fee and submit to background checks to use special travel lanes at border crossings. The idea is to speed processing for those travelers not thought security risks, and whose identity can be verified biometrically. A Department of Homeland Security statement Monday...

Latin America: The past week's high political turmoil in Ecuador is about more than oil or bananas. It's about a terrifying descent into instability that could hit every country in the hemisphere. The turmoil in the tiny South American country shows no sign of ending. Another president was thrown out — the third in a decade. His successor is widely regarded as an ignorant weakling. And no one thinks he's going to last. After all, Ecuador has had seven presidents since 1995. Maybe that's why Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned her attention from a milestone NATO treaty signing in...

The Brazilian government grants the diplomatic asylum to Gutierrez BRASILIA - the Brazilian government "made the decision to grant the diplomatic asylum" to the president relieved of Ecuador, Lucio Gutierrez, announced to Wednesday evening with AFP in Brasilia a spokesman of the Brazilian ministry of the foreign Relations. This same ministry had announced a little earlier than Lucio Gutierrez had taken refuge with the embassy of Brazil with Quito and had required asylum. "To give the political asylum is a regional tradition and is registered in the public international law", had indicated the ministry. It had added that the...

Ecuador's controversial leader, Lucio Gutierrez, has been placed under arrest after Congress ousted him, the armed forces withdrew their support and a new president was named. The embattled Mr Gutierrez left the Carondelet presidential palace just as the legislature named Vice President Alfredo Palacio as the new head of state. He travelled by helicopter to Quito's airport, where demonstrators prevented him from leaving the country. He was reportedly heading to Panama, where his wife and two daughters are. From the airport, the helicopter took Mr Gutierrez to a nearby military base, where he is being held. Prosecutor Cecilia de...

QUITO, Ecuador, April 20 (Reuters) - Ecuador's Congress voted on Wednesday to fire President Lucio Gutierrez for "abandoning his post" and named Vice President Alfredo Palacio in his place. A total of 60 congressmen from the 100-seat chamber voted to fire Gutierrez, who became the third Ecuadorean president to be toppled amid popular unrest since 1997. The armed forces, traditional arbiters of power in the country, withdrew their support from Gutierrez, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Victor Hugo Rosero. The opposition had denounced Gutierrez as a dictator for stacking the Supreme Court with political allies last...

Latino's support for GOP in '04 worries Democrats By Toby Eckert COPLEY NEWS SERVICE December 11, 2004 WASHINGTON – As he traveled the country last summer to drum up support for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, one of the best-known Hispanic officials in the country, made a prediction: Advertisement President Bush would win the election if he and his Republican allies gained just five percentage points among Hispanic voters. It appears Richardson was dead on. While the exit polls are still subject to debate, Democrats concede that Bush made inroads among Hispanic voters on...

Secretaries of commerce tend to be plucked from the business world, and for good reason. As commonly understood by the public and the presidents who appoint them, the secretary's role is to be a cheerleader for American business, to promote enterprise and trade and - to the extent he cares to listen - to advise the president on economic policy. That was certainly President Bush's understanding when he described his nominee, Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive of the Kellogg Company, as a man who "knows exactly what it takes to help American businesses grow and to create jobs." But that is...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Veteran state official Chon Gutierrez, who helped lead Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's California Performance Review study, was named Thursday as interim director of the California State Lottery. Gutierrez, 60, had been serving as the interim director of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the past year. During that time was also co-director of the California Performance Review, the governor's plan to reorganize and streamline state government. The appointment is Gutierrez's second stint at the lottery. He also served as lottery head from 1986 under the Deukmejian administration until 1991 when former Gov. Pete Wilson made a change in...

Are you not inspired and uplifted by the story of Carlos Gutierrez? When Gutierrez was but six years old, he and his family left their home in Havana, Cuba, for a vacation in Miami, unaware that they would never return to their homeland. Fidel Castro and his communists took over the island, confiscated the pineapple exporting business and property of Carlos Gutierrez’s father, and prohibited his family from returning. The Gutierrez family was forced to start anew in an unfamiliar place with an uncertain future. Carlos’s father worked for Heinz and began another business, though it was hit hard by...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has chosen Carlos Gutierrez, chief executive officer of Kellogg, to be secretary of commerce.</p>

Gutiérrez: ''I will resign if there was narco money in my campaign" Quito.- Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutiérrez announced today that he would resign his post if it were proven that his electoral campaign was financed with money from narcotraffiic, as has been charged in recent weeks. If is proven "I will leave office'', said the president in remarks to Gamavision, at a moment in which his government confronts a scandal for the supposed entry of "narco dollars" into his electoral campaign last year. Nevertheless, Gutiérrez insisted that "not one cent from narcotraffic has entered my campaign'',,, A source from Sociedad...

Ecuador's former President, Gustavo Noboa, has asked the Dominican Republic for political asylum, claiming that he was suffering "persecution" in his home country. Mr Noboa, who left office in January, is under investigation over alleged financial irregularities during his term in office. He denies the charges and claims he is being victimised by political rivals. Another former president, and Mr Noboa's political rival, Leon Febres Cordero, alleges irregularities in Mr Noboa's foreign debt negotiations cost the country $9bn. Mr Noboa was prevented from flying to Miami on Sunday by immigration officials who said he had failed to notify Congress he...

LIMA, Peru -- President Alejandro Toledo's decision to put the country under a state of emergency last week has made at least one man happy -- Antauro Humala. A former major in Peru's army, Humala is building a left-wing party intent on taking power in this country of 26 million, either by ballots in the 2006 presidential election or by what he calls "unconventional" means before then. Either way, he said, "our goal is to run the country." Political analysts are monitoring the Humala party. While they remain unsure whether its populist, anti-globalization message resonates with city dwellers, they suspect...

LOS ANGELES — Long before he ever traveled to the Persian Gulf, Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez was acquainted with perilous and uncertain journeys. Lanky, quiet and full of ambition, Gutierrez, 22, is believed to be the second U.S. serviceman to die in combat, an American Marine with a distinctive Southern California background: He was among thousands of Central American immigrants who for years have made their way north in dangerous personal odysseys. At age 16, he had traveled by himself from his home in Guatemala, making his way across Mexico into the United States, where he was taken in...

Even by its own standards, Latin American electoral politics has been throwing up some surprises of late. Lucio Gutierrez, a retired leftwing soldier who led a coup two and a half years ago, won the first round of presidential elections in Ecuador on Sunday. Next Sunday, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former lathe operator and rabble-rousing trades unionist, known as "Lula", is poised to win Brazil's presidential elections in a landslide. Earlier this year Evo Morales, a peasant farmer who represents the growers of coca leaf, narrowly missed the Bolivian presidency. "You couldn't make this stuff up," says Michael...

RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL FROM THE MATT SALMON FOR GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN...       This Tuesday, June 4th 2002 at 5-7 p.m. Doors open at 4:00 and voting takes place between 5:00 and 6:45 p.m. The winner will be announced after 6:45 p.m.         Mesa Centennial Hall 201 N. Center Between University and 1st St.Click for a Map         Cost: $10 per ticket which includes a buffet style dinner. Proceeds go to the local Chambers of Commerce. You will be trading your ticket in for a ballot in order to vote. What to Wear:...