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Aug. 14, 2002, 9:49PM Middle Easterners streaming to TexasStudy says most live in HoustonBy EDWARD HEGSTROM Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Texas has one of the nation's fastest-growing Middle Eastern populations, and most of the state's immigrants live in Houston, according to a study based on census data. Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies say Texas' Middle Eastern population more than doubled in the last decade, to just over 100,000, including more than 52,000 in Greater Houston. The state, not known as a traditional destination for Middle Easterners, now ranks third behind New York and California. "This shows Texas is...

" a mysterious incident at El Paso's immigration detention center" go to link --- I don't think I can post articles from this source.

2 Middle Eastern men detained FBI: Duo bought plane tickets, but gave false phone numbers BY LENNY SAVINO Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Two Middle Eastern men who paid cash for one-way airline tickets from New York to Amsterdam and apparently gave false phone numbers to a New York City travel agency were being questioned Monday by the FBI, the agency said. The men bought tickets for Friday night's Delta Air Lines Flight 80, scheduled to leave John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:15 p.m. They were detained before boarding the flight, which was canceled. The FBI would not ...

<p>Protesters gathered in front of Sacramento's Immigration and Naturalization Service office Tuesday to call for the elimination of a special registration program that they say unfairly targets Middle Eastern and Muslim men.</p> <p>About 100 people showed at the midday rally and press conference to oppose one of the federal government's post-Sept. 11, 2001 policies, which requires men from mostly Arab and Muslim countries to be interrogated, fingerprinted and photographed by immigration officials.</p>

Malkin: No More Amnesties, Period Michelle Malkin, whose nationally syndicated column appears regularly in Human Events, has become one of the most prominent and powerful voices speaking out against illegal immigration.Her newest book, Invasion, reveals in shocking detail how lax enforcement of U.S. immigration laws has allowed terrorists to enter and remain in our country while plotting to kill Americans. The book, published by Regnery, a Human Events sister company, is currently No. 14 on the New York Times Bestsellers List.Human Events Editor Terence P. Jeffrey talked with Malkin last week about some of the issues raised in her book,...

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Police in the Washington suburb where five people were gunned down in two days are looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings, according to a police bulletin that federal authorities shared with WorldNetDaily. Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects – one a driver and the other the shooter. The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that local police sent out earlier today to all law enforcement agencies also described in detail the "white box truck" used by the snipers. The six-wheeled vehicle resembles a commercial...

<p>A Northwest Airlines flight from Memphis, Tenn., to Las Vegas was diverted to Arkansas this morning after the flight crew raised concerns about the behavior of some passengers.</p> <p>Northwest spokeswoman Mary Beth Schubert said four of the passengers were detained by authorities.</p>

Buffalo's small corner groceries - a staple of inner-city life for decades - are the target of a federal investigation into a food stamp scam that costs taxpayers millions of dollars. These family-owned stores are at the core of a new type of crime - abusing food stamp debit cards, the very tool government hails as an effective weapon in fighting fraud, investigators say. A yearlong undercover probe has resulted in 14 owners and employees being charged this month with illegally exchanging food stamp benefits for cash. Investigators believe the cash was often used to buy drugs. In Buffalo, eight...

Threats linked to ambush of Smith Letter writer focus of investigation By Yolanda Jones yojones@gomemphis.com June 4, 2002 Investigators believe the anonymous author of threatening letters about Dr. O. C. Smith last year is the same culprit who ambushed the medical examiner this weekend. Smith was attacked outside his office about 10 Saturday night by a man who threw a chemical substance in his face and then wrapped him in barbed wire and strapped a home-made bomb to his chest. "There is a good chance that the man who wrote these letters is the bomber," ATF agent Jim Cavanaugh said...