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After a backlash, the Border Patrol won't nab suspects except at the border or checkpoints. Now agents are angry. After protests over recent immigration arrests in San Diego and San Juan Capistrano, Border Patrol officials have instructed agents not to make arrests on city streets or question suspected illegal immigrants except along the border and at highway checkpoints in Orange and Riverside counties. The directive, outlined in an Aug. 8 memo, is aimed at agents in San Diego and southern areas of Orange and Riverside counties. "The future of Border Patrol operations" depends on eliminating the public perception that agents...

ORANGE, Calif. - The hodgepodge of U.S. immigration laws, policies and practices is well-illustrated in this Southern California community of millionaires and blue-collar workers. Last month, Orange police seized eight illegal immigrants waiting for work outside a Home Depot and turned them over to federal officials for deportation to Mexico. Not far away, a city-sponsored day laborer center helps employers find workers, some of them illegal. The contrast encapsulates the pressures and competing demands on many cities around the country. Often, politicians are under public pressure to crack down on illegal immigrants, who are frequently accused of loitering on street...

Actor, Calif. Legislature To Study Poverty Committee Hopes To 'Paint A Picture' Of Poverty POSTED: 5:19 p.m. EDT October 21, 2002 UPDATED: 5:24 p.m. EDT October 21, 2002 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new legislative committee, led by Sen. Richard Alarcon, will begin a two-year study of poverty in California, Alarcon and others said Monday. Joined by actor Ed Begley Jr., Alarcon, D-San Fernando, said the Select Committee on the Status of Ending Poverty in California would study poverty and recommend ways the Legislature can fight it. Begley, best known for his role on the 1980s television drama "St. Elsewhere,"...

Los Angeles, U.S., August 22, 2003 (EFE).- Hispanics in the South L.A. municipality of Maywood are angry at what they say is a discriminatory campaign in which police are stopping Latinos and impounding the vehicles of those without a driver's license. "We're not talking about agents of law and order but of official corruption, as though this were Latin America," an irate Felipe Aguirre of the Comite Pro Uno, an activist group organizing protests against the practice, told EFE. In the last 12 months, more than 1,800 vehicles have been impounded from members of the Hispanic community in a town...

NUEVO LAREDO The status of safety in Nuevo Laredo, having drawn high attention from Mexico City and Washington due to midweek violence, played a scene Saturday wherein local police exchanged gunfire with newly-arrived federal agents from Mexico City. A spokesman for the Nuevo Laredo police, Dirección de Seguridad Pública, described the incident as an accidental shooting in which an AFI, Agencia Federal de Investigaciones, agent was wounded. The AFI agent, identified as Feliciano Campos Sanchez, died hours later at a Nuevo Laredo hospital. The local municipal police spokesman, who requested anonymity, told the Laredo Morning Times that the group of...

GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND YOU CAN CLICK ON THE LINK TO CHECK EACH CITY Top 100 Cities with Highest Percentage of Foreign-Born Residents (pop. 5000+) Sweetwater, Florida (74.9%)Fountainbleau, Florida (73.0%)Hialeah, Florida (72.1%)Hialeah Gardens, Florida (69.9%)Westchester, Florida (69.0%)West Miami, Florida (68.9%)University Park, Florida (66.5%)Chamblee, Georgia (66.1%)Coral Terrace, Florida (66.1%)Tamiami, Florida (65.4%)West New York, New Jersey (65.2%)Langley Park, Maryland (64.5%)Doral, Florida (62.8%)Seven Corners, Virginia (61.2%)Miami, Florida (59.5%)Mecca, California (59.4%)Kendall West, Florida (59.3%)Olympia Heights, Florida (58.9%)Kendale Lakes, Florida (58.8%)Union City, New Jersey (58.7%)Westwood Lakes, Florida (58.1%)Palisades Park, New Jersey (57.0%)Sunny Isles Beach, Florida (56.7%)Rosemead, California (56.1%)Harrison, New Jersey (56.0%)Huntington Park, California...

Provisions: Established measures to control U.S. borders, protect legal workers through worksite enforcement, and remove criminal and other deportable aliens: Increased border personnel, equipment, and technology as well as enforcement personnel at land and air ports of entry; Authorized improvements in barriers along the Southwest border; Increased anti-smuggling authority and penalties for alien smuggling; Increased penalties for illegal entry, passport and visa fraud, and failure to depart; Increased INS investigators for worksite enforcement, alien smuggling, and visa overstayers; Established three voluntary pilot programs to confirm the employment eligibility of workers and reduced the number and types of documents that may...

One California city gets tough with illegals, even as another opts to become a 'sanctuary.' MAYWOOD AND COSTA MESA, CALIF. - One community is car-horn noisy, smokestack gritty, and tightly packed - with narrow streets, tiny houses, and flowering window boxes. The other is golf-course quiet, sumptuously green, and suburban - with broad boulevards, spacious lawns, and parks. Just a few miles of freeway separate these southern California towns, but they are light-years apart in their responses to America's immigration debate. Maywood, population 45,000 and 96 percent Latino, is a self- proclaimed "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants. Costa Mesa, population 110,000...

CBS's Chicago station took the lead in reporting the large immigrant protest yesterday in Chicago. And once again it looks like CBS is blatently manipulating the news, to support their viewpoints. Case in point are the pictures featured prominantly on their web site. Here is the lead picture: Notice the prominant American flag. If you choose to "view slideshow" here is the front image: Five of the first 10 slides have large obvious flags in the, such as this: The complete library can be viewed HERE (at least until they wise up and pull it like the did the fake...

Some conservative talk-show hosts and pundits have been accused of going over the top when framing the debate on illegal immigration. For a time, I too thought that some on the right were taking to hysterics for no reason. I was wrong. Illegal immigration is a frontal assault on America. We are under complete and consistent attack by neo-Marxists who support open borders and the end of the American way of life as we know it. These are not statements that I make lightly, nor are they statements that I make without foundation. The city of Maywood, just south of...

At a time when communities across the nation are considering efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, one small city south of downtown Los Angeles is charting a different course. In Maywood, where 96% of the residents are Latino, and more than half are foreign-born, the City Council has vowed to make the municipality a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants, and over the last few months it has set out to prove it. First, the city eliminated the Police Department's traffic division after complaints that officers unfairly targeted illegal immigrants. Then it made it much more difficult for police to...

Father Paul Sretenovic, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, who was ordained to the priesthood in 2002, has abandoned the Novus Ordo in order to embrace Catholic Tradition without compromise. Father Sretenovic (pronounced Stre-ten-o-vich) informed his ordinary, the Most Reverend John Myers, the Archbishop of Newark, of his decision in a letter mailed to his Excellency’s home address on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Wednesday, December 28, 2004: “Your Excellency: I am writing to inform you of my decision to leave the Archdiocese of Newark. It is a decision that is eighteen months in the making,...

LOVE MAKES A FAMILY?Jon and Michael Galluccio In 1995, Michael Galluccio and Jon Holden, who had been partners for 16 years, decided they would like to adopt a child through the NJ Division of Youth and Family Services.While on the10 year long waiting list for a healthy child, they became foster parents to an HIV+ infant.  After they nursed him through many years, their desire to adopt him was thwarted by state law that did not allow gay couples to co-adopt.  They took their case to the NJ Supreme Court.  The story of how they won their case is one...