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TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Border Patrol agents said Monday that several groups of illegal immigrants from China have been arrested in southern Arizona in recent days. The arrests included two Chinese found among a large group of migrants who entered the county from Mexico on Friday. Three more Chinese were found on Saturday, a group that included four Chinese was captured on Sunday and four more were arrested early Monday. Border Patrol agent Colleen Agle says the arrests are part of a trend that has seen increasing numbers of Chinese migrants trying to sneak into the U.S. from Mexico.

...having turned itself over to guest editor Steven Colbert, Newsweek used the cover of its latest issue to plug a lengthy personal essay by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, "written with Robert Shrum, Senator Kennedy's friend and longtime speechwriter," about "the cause of my life" -- nationalizing health care. Conservatives also noted the essay's inevitable pickups on the nightly news and the lack of coverage of the anniversary of something else important in Mr. Kennedy's political profile. Wrote Brent Baker of the Media Research Center..."ABC and NBC on Sunday night dutifully championed his cause..."Though this weekend was the 40th anniversary of...

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, capped a trip to New Mexico and Texas in Brownsville Tuesday, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first consulate office from Mexico in this city. The site of the event was the Stillman House Museum on Washington Street where Espinosa was joined by Mexico's Consul Victor Manuel Treviño Escudero and local and area dignitaries as the Mexican Flag was raised. Espinosa noted that it was only fitting that the commemoration be in the heart of the historic community and expressed the strong ties that have joined Mexico and the U.S. for years....

WASHINGTON -- If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. "That sounds very simple, but it's historically not been done," Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday. About 113,000 criminals who were in the U.S. illegally were deported last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The agency...

NORFOLKA Guatemalan national made it easy for illegal immigrants on the Eastern Shore to drive, according to the FBI. The FBI arrested Felipe Jesus Mazariegos-Perez at his home Tuesday on federal charges of buying hundreds of Tennessee and Mississippi license plates and car titles and selling them to immigrants who cannot prove their residency, as Virginia requires.The FBI raided Mazariegos-Perez's home in Nelsonia, Accomack County, on Tuesday morning, looking for the out-of-state plates and titles. He was arrested and taken into U.S. District Court that afternoon, where a magistrate ordered him jailed pending a bond hearing Thursday.Mazariegos-Perez, speaking through an...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Hispanic activists who viewed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a voice of moderation on illegal immigration say they've been taken aback by the hard-line stance he's adopted as a presidential candidate. While governor, Huckabee gained favor with Hispanic leaders by denouncing a high-profile federal immigration raid and suggesting some anti-illegal immigration measures were driven by racism. He advocated making children of illegal immigrants eligible for college scholarships. Huckabee's Republican presidential rivals have tried to make an issue of the scholarship plan, portraying him as soft on illegal immigration, an important issue for many GOP voters....

Many immigrants say too much is at risk to be afraid of America's firmer stance against illegals in the workplace. Ramon Morales timed it, and when United States Border Patrol agents weren't around, he ran. He hurdled over rocks and sagebrush into the United States on Sept. 2 -- about three weeks after he learned of a Bush administration plan to tackle illegal immigration through Social Security fraud. Work would be hard to come by, but the president's plan to penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants wasn't enough to scare off the 35-year-old married father who said the federal plan...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Part of a vehicle barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border was erected in the wrong country and soon will be removed and rebuilt on American soil, federal officials confirmed Monday. "We respect our international boundary, and we want to be good neighbors," U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Michael Friel told The Associated Press. "...We want to move quickly to ensure that we place the vehicle barrier where it should be, which is north of the border." The barrier, 17 miles west of Columbus, was built in 2000 by Joint Task Force North out of Fort Bliss, Texas....

"We've had Hezbollah agents that came across the border with Mexico," Jerome Corsi, co-author of "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders", told Sean Hannity during an appearance Wednesday night on Fox News Hannity & Colmes. Appearing with co-author and Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist, Corsi agreed with Hannity that border security is important for national security because Hezbollah terrorists could be coming across the border with weapons of mass destruction.

Among the mostly fawning news coverage of Monday's "Great American Boycott" there was footage of a protester with a sign that said, "The sleeping giant is awake." Despite its oxymoronic syntax, the sign may have been far more prescient that the bearer realized. We don't believe the open-borders crowd can in any way be described as a sleeping giant. It's pretty vocal, whether it's gigantic or not, and it always gets tons of favorable media coverage. No, the real sleeping giant is the American people. Sold down the river by both political parties and a federal government that steadfastly refuses...

Former CIA undercover agent: KGB and GRU former intelligence operators assist Hezbollah to penetrate the US Hezbollah - the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization - has more American blood on its hands than any Islamic terrorist ring with the sole exception of al-Qaeda, The American Spectator writes. Last week FBI Director Robert Muller announced that though the FBI and Customs had caught others, Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some operatives across the Mexican border into the US, he said. "This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States....

'Osama's People' Smuggled Into U.S.? Court documents in a Brownsville, Texas drug-smuggling case cite a wiretapped telephone conversation by one of the smugglers who said that "Osama's people" are ready to be transported across the Mexican border into the U.S. The Brownsville Herald reported earlier this week: "[Paperwork in the case] contains details of a December 2004 incident in which [one smuggler] tried to secure transportation for 20 Middle Eastern 'terrorists' waiting to enter the United States from Monterrey, Chiapas and Puebla in Mexico. "Recorded telephone conversations authorized under the U.S. Patriot Act and a court order captured the [suspect]...

FBI nabs 7 in probe of driver's certificates By JAMIE SATTERFIELD, satterfield@knews.com December 6, 2005 For the second time in six months, the FBI has uncovered what the agency alleges is a plot to bring illegal immigrants to Tennessee to get driver's certificates. Seven people, including five alleged illegal immigrants, were arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in connection with charges they were part of a conspiracy to take advantage of Tennessee's liberal licensing requirements. In court records, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Theodore identified the accused ringleader of the group as Claudio Galvan. Armando Rodriguez-Riveros was alleged to be Galvan's...

Taking aim at millions of uninsured motorists driving on California roads, state officials today unveiled an ambitious new program to provide affordable coverage to low-income drivers. New policies will cover good drivers with state-approved auto insurance for less than $400 per year. State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi this morning announced a major expansion of the program that included offering it to communities beyond Los Angeles and San Francisco, where 22,000 driver took advantage of a pilot program.

City-Journal.org | November 1, 2005 It’s a strain being a Mexican diplomat in the United States these days, as the plaintive expression on Mario Velázquez-Suárez’s dignified features suggests. Diplomacy may be the art of lying for one’s country, but Mexican diplomacy requires taking that art to virtuosic heights. Sitting in his expansive office in Mexico’s Los Angeles consulate, Deputy Consul General Velázquez-Suárez gamely insists that he and his peers observe the diplomatic duty not to interfere in America’s internal affairs, including immigration matters. “Immigration is an internal discussion,” he says. “We have to respect that regardless of whether it pleases...

With the riots going on in Paris right now, the problem rests in the fact that there is economic unrests and demographic changes that have caused problems in France. However, the French are not even trying to assimilate these Muslim youths who are of North African descendant. Would it surprise anyone here if similar problem start happening with Hispanics in our country? We have fringe groups like Aztlan and La Raza that want break off the Southwest and "liberate" it in the name of Mexico and "Aztec Power!" (to paraphrase "white power!" if you will.) Is it not unimaginable for...

SAN DIEGO - The driver of an SUV packed with illegal immigrants and nearly 700 pounds of marijuana sped from police with his headlights off the wrong way on Interstate 8 before crashing head on into a California Highway Patrol car, officials said. Wednesday night's pursuit was the latest in a series of incidents involving smugglers who try to evade border checkpoints by veering into oncoming traffic, often at night, sometimes with their headlights off. At least one of the incidents has resulted in fatalities. "This year for some reason they're becoming more frequent," said Brian Pennings, a CHP spokesman...

Presidential poll gives Colo. congressman 1% WASHINGTON - It's official: Rep. Tom Tancredo is a blip on the 2008 presidential radar. Tom Tancredo's name was misspelled on survey group's Web site. A new poll shows Tancredo, a Littleton Republican, pulling 1 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, home of the traditional first-in-the-nation presidential primary election. American Research Group Inc. surveyed 600 likely Republican primary voters - including 433 Republicans and 167 undeclared voters - from Aug. 5 to 7. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., led with 39 percent, followed by "undecided" at 32 percent. Among others: former House Speaker Newt...

CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada by Phyllis Schlafly, July 13, 2005 The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." "Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S.,...

Tancredo to request al-Qaida nuke briefing Congressman to ask Justice Department for report on 'American Hiroshima' plan Posted: July 13, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a staunch critic of the federal government's lax immigration and border enforcement policies, said yesterday he would request a briefing from the Justice Department on information it has on plans revealed by WND this week for a nuclear attack on the U.S. by al-Qaida terrorists. Rep. Tom Tancredo Tancredo said he was greatly alarmed by the report and would seek whatever information he could get from the...

Illegal Aliens, Drugs, Violence, and Open Borders by Scott Gray Jul 7, 2005 Stakes are growing at the Mexican border. Far away from Washington, hard core criminals are pushing their way into this nation. Already, the violence on border officials has grown since last year. In all of 2004, there were just 118 acts of violence. Thus far in Fiscal Year 2005, there have been 163 acts of violence. Shootings have already doubled since last year, and these statistics only involve a small stretch of Arizona land. Washington may avert its eyes from the border, but there is no way...

He was treated with courtesy and served promptly, but when Ron Bell walked out of the Jack in the Box restaurant in Orange he wasn't happy. It wasn't the service, Bell tells me. The problem was that everyone - from clients to employees - was speaking Spanish as he ate. More and more, Bell has noticed Spanish everywhere he goes - from Jack in the Box to Carl's Jr. The employees address him in English, but after he's served, solamente se habla español, which doesn't sit well with the Orange resident. "I know how this is sounding," Bell says as...

A Saudi terrorist suspect might be making his way to the U.S.-Mexico border amid groups of undocumented immigrants, officials with the FBI and the U.S. Embassy said. Officials on both sides of the border have asked law enforcement officials, including Border Patrol agents and El Paso¹s bridge inspectors, as well as the community at large to be on the lookout for Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, 29, a native of Saudi Arabia who may be using a Guyanese, Canadian or Trinidadian passport. Shukrijumah was spotted in Honduras earlier this year, FBI officials said, and used to reside in Trinidad and Tobago,...

WASHINGTON -- Congress is shortchanging West Texas on money for homeland security needs and is ignoring the potential for terrorism along the U.S.-Mexico border, two top El Paso officials told Democratic House lawmakers Tuesday. Lt. Ray Resendez III, of the El Paso City-County Office of Emergency Management, and El Paso Police Chief Carlos Leon were among a dozen-plus officials from across the country to testify before the House Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security. The task force, which has no legislative authority, was created by Democrats to push for more federal spending on homeland security and to monitor the White...

<p>Families of 14 undocumented immigrants who died in the Arizona desert two years ago are suing the federal government for $42 million.</p> <p>The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson, said the deaths could have been prevented if a humanitarian group had been allowed to install water stations in the desert.</p>

(Short-lived link and the reporter didn't catch on to the bigger story.) U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested 11 people carrying more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana Sunday near Huachuca City, in Cochise County. Officers had tracked the men carrying the marijuana in backpacks from Mexico and arrested them about noon, said Frank Amarillas, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman. The marijuana had a street value of $1.8 million, Amarillas said. He said those arrested were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration for prosecution.

CAIRO, March 24 (UPI) -- Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo Monday and, as expected, condemned U.S. aggression on Iraq and called on coalition forces to cease their strikes and pull out. "We call on all forces to withdraw from Iraq and put an end to this attack," said Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa at the news conference following the meeting. The final statement also called on Arab states to "refrain from participating" in any attack. As in the last summit early this month, the wording was vague enough so as not to include a direct attack on countries such...

Bush opens border to Mexican trucks Online Exclusive, Nov 27 2002 U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today directed the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to act on the 130 applications received thus far from Mexico-domiciled truck and bus companies seeking to transport international cargo in cross-border services in the United States or to provide regular route services between Mexico and the United States. Secretary Mineta's action was prompted today when President Bush modified the moratorium on granting operating authority to Mexican motor carriers. The President's action means that the United States has fulfilled its...

El Paso law-enforcement officials who are cracking down on sex offenders, particularly those who target children, have a strong argument for keeping out-of-town sex offenders from being dumped in the Sun City: the border. The border makes it easy for parolees and probationers to commit crimes outside the view of U.S. officials who are charged with supervising them. Although state and county law officers said parolees and probationers are not allowed to travel to Juárez, we know from arrests at the international bridges by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that they do. Likewise, the border adds another challenge to communities...

Immigration aiding, abetting terrorism? New study fuels open-border versus 'restrictionist' debate Posted: May 22, 2002 5:00 p.m. Eastern By Diana Lynne © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Foreign-born Islamic terrorists have used almost every conceivable means of entering the United States, according to a study released today, which concludes every aspect of the immigration system has been penetrated and, therefore, needs reform. Contrary to the recent uproar over INS slip-ups with temporary visas, which was prompted by the fact that the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the country on temporary visas, more militant Islamic terrorists in the U.S. since 1993 have been naturalized citizens...

A routine traffic stop by a state trooper led to the seizure of more than 1,600 pounds of marijuana and 24.3 pounds of cocaine, and the arrest of three undocumented immigrants from Mexico, officials said. Rene Obregon, 21, Bernardo Santillana, 59, and a 17-year-old man were arrested Wednesday afternoon by troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety's Narcotics Service. The three men were charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver more than 400 grams, and with possession of marijuana more than 50 but less than 2,000 pounds. About 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, a highway patrol officer attempted...