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MEXICO PROMOTES INVASION OF U.S. WITH INSTRUCTIONAL COMIC BOOK
U.S. CITIZENS TO COUNTER WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW MEXICAN CITIZENS CAN ACCOMPLISH INSURRECTION
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
IT’S OBVIOUS THEY WANT OUR COUNTRY MORE THAN WE DO
LET YOUR ANGER BE CAST UPON YOUR ELECTED PUBLIC
SERVANTS
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Even Governor Napolitano is distressed about the newest and most blatant in-your-face evidence that the government of Mexico is encouraging and assisting its citizens to break our laws for entry into the United States.
The guide for the Mexican immigrant (illegal alien) is basically an instruction manual on how to cross illegally into the United States; information on how to enter legally is not even mentioned.
The official U.S. government response? Not a whimper of protest.
What does President Bush say about the affront to National Security - nothing other than the following quote from an interview with the Washington Times this week.
“A solution is not instantaneous citizenship. The solution is something more rational than that.” The president expressed confidence that he can persuade reticent members of Congress to move on his immigration bill, recounting how he has succeeded on issues that faced staunch opposition in the past.
Rational Mr. Bush? You want rational--try living up to the oath of office you took. Did you have your fingers crossed behind your back when you uttered the words of the oath? CNN and other news agencies should have a camera set up behind the president this year--let’s see if we can catch him crossing his fingers again.
As each state is gearing up for the new legislative session it is imperative that each of us extend a clear message to our state legislators about their OATH of office--you know, the part where they state they will protect and defend America and uphold the Constitution of the nation and their individual state.
You can push tremendous pressure on your individual state representatives by making a call to their offices every day to remind them who they work for. In Arizona that means they obey clearly set forth directives to DENY ANY TAX BENEFITS TO THOSE HERE ILLEGALLY.
Obtain a copy of the Arizona Prop 200 initiativeand provide it to the legislators - find one who believes in enforcing immigration laws and get them to write up a bill and file it in your state legislature. Then lobby every state legislator to sign on. This will give us all a CLEAR picture of the Law Makers and the Law BREAKERS. Hold their hands and feet to the FIRE of TRUTH and LAW.
If your state has an option for initiatives or propositions, file one in conjunction with the legislature and add pressure to those elected servants to act or be embarrassed by the people. If any legislator so much as mentions there is a deficit in the budget - tell them they can remove a great deal of that deficit by passing legislation to deny ALL funds to all Illegals.
Also, don’t be fooled by pabulum legislation which will do nothing. i.e.: The Intelligence Bill: (P.L. 108-458), which claims the government will increase by 10,000 the number of Border Patrol agents and by 40,000 the number of beds available for immigrant detention and removal over five years. This legislation was signed into law on December 17, 2004.
Did you realize there was NO FUNDING for this bit of hyperbole but it gives the UNWILLING WORKERS IN CONGRESS something to say. You know, they tossed us a bone to make us think they are doing all they can - when in fact they aren’t and they know it — they just hope you don’t catch them in their deceit.
The elections are over for now. This is when each of us has to go into combat mode and make our message understood across this nation.
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Guide for the Mexican Migrant
Distributed by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations
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INTRODUCTION
Esteemed Countryman:
The purpose of this guide is to provide you with practical advice that may prove useful to you in case you have made the difficult decision to search for employment opportunities outside of your country. The sure way to enter another country is by getting your passport from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the visa, which you may apply for at the embassy or consulate of the country you wish to travel to.
However, in practice we see many Mexicans who try to cross the Northern Border without the necessary documents, through high risk zones that involve grave dangers, particularly in desert areas or rivers with strong, and not always obvious, currents.
Reading this guide will make you aware of some basic questions about the legal consequences of your stay in the United States of America without the appropriate migratory documents, as well as about the rights you have in that country, once you are there, independent of your migratory status.
Keep in mind always that there exist legal mechanisms to enter the United States of America legally.
In any case, if you encounter problems or run into difficulties, remember that Mexico has 45 consulates in that country whose locations you can find listed in this publication.
Familiarize yourself with the closest consulate and make use of it.
DANGERS IN CROSSING
HIGH RISK ZONES
To cross the river can be very risky, above all if you cross alone and at night. Heavy clothing increases in weight when wet and this makes swimming and floating difficult. If you cross by desert, try to walk at times when the heat will not be too intense.
Highways and population centers are far apart, which means you will spend several days looking for roads, and you will not be able to carry foodstuffs or water for long periods of time. Also, you can get lost.
Salt water helps keep liquids in your body. Although you may feel more thirst if you drink salt water, the risk of dehydration is much less.
The symptoms of dehydration are:
Little or no sweat.
Dryness in the eyes and in the mouth.
Headache.
Tiredness and excessive exhaustion.
Difficulty in walking and thinking.
Hallucinations and visions.
If you get lost, guide yourself by lightposts, train tracks, or dirt roads.
BEWARE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKERS
(COYOTES, POLLEROS)
They can deceive you with assurances of crossing in a few hours through the mountains and deserts. This is simply not so!
 They can risk your life taking you across rivers, drainage canals, desert areas, train tracks, or highways. This has caused the death of hundreds of persons.
If you decide to hire people traffickers to cross the border, consider the following precautions:
Do not let them out of your sight. Remember that they are the only ones who know the lay of the land, and therefore the only ones who can get you out of that place.
Do not trust those who offer to take you to “the other side” and ask you to drive a car or to take or carry a package for them.
Normally, those packages contain drugs or other prohibited substances. For this reason, many people have ended up in jail.
 If you transport other persons, you can be confused with a human trafficker, and they can accuse you of the crime of trafficking or auto theft.
Do not entrust your minor children to strangers who offer to take them across to the United States.
DO NOT USE FALSE DOCUMENTS
DO NOT USE FALSE DOCUMENTS OR THOSE THAT DO NOT BELONG TO YOU, NOR DECLARE A FALSE NATIONALITY.
If you try to cross with false documents or those of another person, take into account the following:
To use false documents or those of another person is a federal crime in the United States, for which you can be tried in a criminal proceeding and end up in jail; likewise if you use a false name or say that you are a citizen of the United States when you are not one.
Do not lie to officials of the United States at ports and points of entry.
IF YOU ARE
ARRESTED
 Do not resist arrest. Do not assault or insult officials.Do not throw rocks or objects at officials or at patrols since this is considered a provocation by those officials. If they believe themselves to be under attack, it is likely that they will use force to arrest you.
Raise your hands slowly so that they see you are not armed.
Do not have in your hands any object that could be considered a weapon such as spotlights, screwdrivers, pocket knives, knives, or rocks. Do not run or try to escape. Do not hide in dangerous places.
Do not cross high-speed highways. It is better to be arrested for a few hours and repatriated to Mexico than to get lost in the desert.
IF THEY ARREST YOU, YOU HAVE RIGHTS!
Give your real name. If you are a minor accompanied by an adult, tell the authorities so they do not separate you.
Your rights are: To know where you are. To ask that they allow you to contact a representative of the closest Mexican consulate for assistance.
Not to make statements or to sign documents, above all if they are in English, without the advise of a defense lawyer or Mexican consular representative. To receive medical attention if you are injured or in delicate health.
To be respected in your person and to receive dignified treatment without regard to your migratory status. To have safe transport. To have food and water whenever you need it.
You are not obligated to state your migratory status at the time of arrest. You have the right not to be beaten or insulted.
Not to be held incommunicado. In case they take away your things, ask for a receipt so that you can claim them upon release.
It is important that you inform your lawyer or Mexican consular representative who visits you of any infringement of these rights. Also inform the closest office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico.
If you want more information and you live in Texas or the city of Acuña, Coahuila, tune in to “La Poderosa” (The Powerful) at 1570 AM.
IN CASE OF ARREST
 If you are sentenced for a crime or you are jailed and facing a criminal proceeding, you have the following rights:
Not to be discriminated against by the police, the courts, or prison officials. To receive visits by Mexican consular personnel and members of your family. To receive legal representation without conditions and obstacles.
“Laws.”
If you are facing a criminal proceeding and you have not yet been sentenced, ask your lawyer or consular representative about pleading guilty. Do not declare yourself guilty without first consulting your lawyer about the chances of winning your case.
It is important that you know the laws of the state where you live and work since the laws in each one are different. Consider the following advice: If you drink, do not drive, since if you do not have documents, you can be arrested and deported. If a legal resident is convicted more than twice for drinking under the influence, he can be deported. Do not drive without a drivers license. Respect traffic laws and use your seatbelt. Do not drive without insurance and do not agree to drive a stranger’s car. Do not let strangers into your car. If when driving, you commit a traffic infraction and you are stopped by the police, place your hands on the steering wheel and do not get out of the car until the officer requests that you do so.
 Avoid calling attention to yourself while you normalize your stay or process your documents to live in the United States. The best way is not to change your routine of going from your job to your home. Avoid noisy parties. The neighbors can get annoyed and call the police, and you can be arrested. Avoid getting involved in fights.
If you go to a bar or night club, and a fight starts, leave, since in the confusion you could be arrested even though you have done anything.
 Avoid family or domestic violence. As in Mexico, it is a crime in the United States.
Domestic violence is not only physical, but it also includes threats, screaming, and ill-treatment.
If you are accused of domestic violence against your children, spouse, or some other person who lives with you, you could go to jail. In addition, the Child Protective Service could take away your children.
Do not carry firearms, knives, or other dangerous objects. Keep in mind that many Mexicans are dead or in prison for that.
 If the police enter your house or apartment, do not resist. However, ask for a proper warrant. It is better to cooperate and to seek to communicate with the closest Mexican consulate.
CONSULATES
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has 45 consular offices in the Interior and on the Southern Border of the United States of America whose function is to help you. Remember, if you have been arrested or are serving a prison term, you have the right to communicate with the closest Mexican Consulate. Always carry your Consular Protection Guide. Stay close to the Consulate. Stay close to Mexico. It is your home, Countryman!
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS General Directorate of Protection and Consular Affairs |
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EASTIE GANG LINKED TO
AL-QAEDA
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By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to “turn up the heat” on its members, the Herald has learned.
MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, is an extremely violent organization with roots in El Salvador, and boasts more than 100 “hardcore members” in East Boston who are suspected of brutal machete attacks, rapes and home invasions. There are hundreds more MS-13 gangsters in towns along the North Shore, said Boston police Sgt. Detective Joseph Fiandaca, who has investigated the gang since it began tagging buildings in Maverick Square in 1995.
In recent months, intelligence officials in Washington have warned national law enforcement agencies that al-Qaeda terrorists have been spotted with members of MS-13 in El Salvador, prompting concerns the gang may be smuggling Islamic fundamentalist terrorists into the country. Law enforcement officials have long believed that MS-13 controls alien smuggling routes along Mexico.
The warning is being taken seriously in East Boston, where Raed Hijazi, an al-Qaeda operative charged with training the suicide bombers in the attack on the USS Cole, lived and worked, prosecutors have charged.
Also, the commercial jets that hurtled into the World Trade Center towers in New York City were hijacked from Logan International Airport.
“The terrorist aspect, especially when you think in terms of 9/11 and how intent these terrorists are, will turn the heat up on our efforts with MS-13,” Fiandaca said.
MS-13 members congregate near the Maverick Square train station sporting white and blue bandannas, their skin inked with spider webs and “laugh now, cry later” clown faces.
“MS-13 is the most dangerous gang in the area,” Fiandaca said. “They are big. They are mobile. Now they have a terrorist connection.”
The theory that Salvadoran criminals manage to smuggle people over the border was bolstered this month when two Boston men described as MS-13 leaders were spotted on the North Shore days before Christmas - a year after they were deported by Boston Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators for gang-related crimes.
One of the two men, Elmer “Tiger” Tejada, 24, who had been deported after being convicted of a slew of crimes, including attempted murder charges for hurling a machete at Chelsea cops, was busted in Lynn on New Year’s Day. Tejada is described as “an original MS-13 member” from East Boston, sources said.
A manhunt has been launched for the second fugitive, who is in the country illegally, Boston police said.
The growing number of MS-13 members, and the degree of violence the gang engages in, prompted investigators from 14 local and national agencies to form the North Shore Gang Intelligence task force in 2000, Fiandaca said.
Among the most notorious local crimes attributed to MS-13 was the gang rape of two deaf girls, one 14, the other 17, in a Somerville park in 2002. Three MS-13 gang members were charged in the brutal rapes, during which one victim was knocked from her wheelchair before the assault.
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HELP PROTECT ARIZONA AND THE UNITED STATES
VOLUNTEER!
THE MINUTEMAN PROJECT
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“HELP CREATE CHANGE THROUGH THE POWER OF PEACE.”
Are YOU interested in spending up to 30 days along the Arizona border as part of a protest and blocking force against entry into the U.S. by illegal aliens, drug dealers and potential terrorists?
We invite you to join hundreds of patriotic Americans in Tombstone, Arizona from
APRIL 1 - 30, 2005, to protect our country from an invasion by people
from all over the world across our southern border with Mexico.
An initial thousand plus person protest will take place at the Naco port of entry the weekend of April 2 -3, 2005.
We are recruiting volunteers to converge on the southern border of Arizona for the
purpose of a peaceful, lawful protest - a “Boston Tea Party” meant to send
President Bush and Congress a message that they work for Americans first.
Some of you may be interested in aiding the U.S. Border Patrol in "spotting"
intruders entering the U.S. illegally. There is a level of participation that works for
everyone - the important thing is that you get off your duff and do something!
This is strictly a volunteer project. No financial subsidies are available.
Stay for a weekend, a week or the entire month. Previous experience in military,
law-enforcement, or camping/fishing/hunting would be helpful but not required.
You will be responsible for all costs associated with your participation.
Our objective will be to spot these intruders with the aid of binoculars - telescopes - night vision scopes, and inform the U.S. Border Patrol of the location of the trespassers so that border patrol agents can intercept and detain them. We cannot make a citizen arrest and will not be confronting the illegal aliens. We will be spotting and reporting them to the proper authorities.The tentative area of observation will be a 20-mile stretch
of lowlands across the San Pedro Valley. The Minuteman Project is not about war. It is about assembly under the U.S. Constitution to freely speak our minds and protest our
displeasure with a government that has neglected our sovereign border, our Constitution and cheapened our American citizenship. It is about physically supporting the U.S. Border Patrol with non-confrontational assistance in securing our border with Mexico.
FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO:
WWW.MINUTEMANPROJECT.COM
or call 520-457-3008
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BORDER PATROL GRABS 1.15 MILLION ILLEGALS IN ’04
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.15 million illegal aliens last year trying to sneak into the United States between the nation’s land ports of entry, more than 3,100 a day -- a 24 percent increase over the year before.
The agents, part of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), also made 8,577 drug seizures, confiscating 1.4 million pounds of illegal narcotics with an estimated street value of $1.62 billion, according to the figures released by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Homeland Security figures also show that CBP inspectors and officers at the nation’s 300 official land, air and sea ports of entry made 47,744 drug seizures worth an estimated $1 billion; seized more than $138 million in counterfeit goods, up from $94 million in 2003; and identified and arrested more than 23,000 people with criminal records -- including 84 murder suspects, 37 suspected kidnappers, 151 wanted on charges of sexual assault, 212 robbery suspects and 2,630 others implicated in drug-related charges.
Those inspectors and officers also processed 428 million passengers and pedestrians, including 262 million aliens, denying entry to more than 643,000 aliens under U.S. law.
CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner attributed the increases to the reorganization under the new Department of Homeland Security, which allowed him to clarify the lines of authority and to give the new 42,000-member agency a clear mission.
He said the March 2003 unification of Customs, Immigration and Naturalization Service and Agriculture Department inspectors with the Border Patrol brought “an unprecedented transformation in the way people and goods arriving at American ports of entry are processed.”
“With additional resources and improved technology, America’s borders are safer and more secure than when border responsibilities were fragmented among different agencies,” he said. “CBP has moved aggressively to secure the flow of legitimate travelers and trade into our country, and the staggering amount of apprehensions and detentions prove it.”
The Border Patrol helped identify and arrest 23,000 criminal suspects through a new biometrics fingerprint identification technology that allows agents to search CBP’s Automated Biometrics Identification System and the FBI’s criminal fingerprint database simultaneously.
The new system went on line late last year at all 148 Border Patrol stations throughout the country.
The agency had long been ignored as a part of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), where it was often confronted with confusing chains of command and conflicting priorities.
Mr. Bonner, who formerly headed the U.S. Customs Service before his appointment by President Bush to lead CBP, said at the time a “strong and effective” Border Patrol was needed between the nation’s ports of entry to stop potential terrorists, apprehend the millions of aliens who seek to enter the United States illegally each year, and to stop drug smugglers from bringing tons of narcotics into the country.
“The Border Patrol is America’s main force between the country’s ports of entry,” Mr. Bonner said. “It has found a good home in U.S. Customs and Border Protection and will be supported in a way INS never did.”
Mr. Bonner has said that for CBP to carry out its priority mission of keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the country, the agency had to do “everything within our power to secure our nation’s borders.”
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BUSH VOWS PUSH ON IMMIGRATION
By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
President Bush yesterday said he plans to spend political capital this year to force a debate in Congress on his immigration-reform proposal, and boldly predicted that he will prevail.
"I believe the president has got to set big agenda items and solve big problems," the president told editors and reporters of The Washington Times in an interview in the Oval Office. "Obviously, we're going to have to work on it, just like Social Security. This will require the expenditure of capital."
Asked whether he will move forward this year with his immigration-reform plan which critics say amounts to amnesty for an estimated 8 million illegal aliens in the United States Mr. Bush said: "Yes. Yes, I will." And asked where his proposal ranks in a second-term agenda already overflowing with big-ticket issues from reforming Social Security to overhauling the U.S. tax code, he said: "I think it's high. I think it's a big issue."
"Look, whether or not you agree with the solution or not, we have a problem in America when you've got 8 million undocumented workers here," said Mr. Bush, leaning forward in his armchair and putting his elbows on his knees. "A solution is not instantaneous citizenship. The solution is something more rational than that."
The president expressed confidence that he can persuade reticent members of Congress to move on his immigration bill, recounting how he has succeeded on issues that faced staunch opposition in the past.
"Remember the tax debate? It seems like history tends to repeat itself," Mr. Bush said, leaning back in his chair. "In '01, it was like, you'll never get the taxes done. No chance. And initially out of the box, some people said, over my dead body would they pass tax relief."
In his first year in office, the House and the Senate passed the second largest tax-cut in history, despite the initial opposition.
"If I listened to all that, I'd just quit, you know. But that's not the way I think."
The president, whose second term begins in just eight days, was relaxed and confident throughout the 40-minute session. At times he grew animated, gesturing to make a point, as he laid out an expansive agenda in a brief opening statement before taking questions.
"You're probably sitting there saying, has the guy bit off more than he can chew? The answer is, we will work as hard as we can to get as much as we can get done, as quickly as possible," Mr. Bush said.
In the interview, the president laid out an ambitious agenda, saying he would:
Push his judicial nominees through Congress, saying he is "confident that we'll prevail in the long run."
Fully fund troops in Iraq and elsewhere while keeping discretionary spending to a minimum, although he wouldn't predict the percentage of spending increase this fiscal year.
Spend more political capital to revamp the Social Security system that will go "broke, flat-bust" around 2040.
The president faces one of his toughest battles over immigration. Many Republicans openly said before the November election that they were holding their tongues for the campaign, with Hispanics expected to be a pivotal voting bloc. But they since have become far more vocal in their opposition.
Mr. Bush's plan, which he proposed about a year ago, would grant temporary work visas to foreign workers as long as U.S. workers cannot or do not want to fill the job.
Critics of the plan have argued that this will only encourage more people to sneak across the border illegally to obtain work. During the six-month period after the president's announcement, apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the border jumped 25 percent over the previous year.
Although Mr. Bush is confident he will persuade critics, House Republicans are moving in the opposite direction from the president's proposal, toward stronger efforts to keep illegals out of the United States.
One senior House Republican this month called for an improved Social Security card to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining jobs and for quintupling the penalty for those who employ them.
Members of his conservative base have resisted the president's plan, arguing that it amounts to an amnesty for those who are currently breaking the law and that terrorists could exploit the rules.
Mr. Bush insisted his plan is not an amnesty.
"This is not a citizenship," he said yesterday. "I strongly oppose instant citizenship. I think all that would do is cause the problem to occur again. I believe that if they want to be a citizen, they need to get in line like the other people have done. And if Congress is worried about logjams for certain countries becoming citizens, they need to change that part of the law."
But he said that the current situation is a "bureaucratic nightmare" that must be solved.
"We've got people living in the shadows of our society, and we've got a border patrol that's overstressed because we've got people streaming across," Mr. Bush said. "The system has broken down. And I think by legalizing work, we take a lot of pressure off our borders."
The president vowed to fight for his judicial nominees to the federal bench, and decried the Democrats' use of the filibuster, which he said "makes arm-twisting very difficult, because it only requires a handful of people to stop the process."
Mr. Bush noted that he has "the ability to keep sending names up there and willingness to show that I'm a person who sticks to my guns, and I pick people who I believe are the right people to serve on the bench" and also the power of "the bully pulpit, which I use and like using, frankly."
He added that he thinks Republican leaders "need to review the rules of the Senate to make sure people at least are able to at some point in time, in a reasonable period of time, get an up-or-down vote."
The president said his "enthusiasm is high for the job," but he's ready to face the criticism that comes with being the occupant of the Oval Office even looking forward to it.
"This office is the kind of place where you sit here, people stand out there, and they say, 'I'm going to tell him what-for,' and they walk in here and they get just overwhelmed by the Oval Office and the whole atmosphere and the great beauty of this place, and they say, 'Man, you're looking good, Mr. President,'" he said to laughter. "So I need people walking in here saying, 'You're not looking so good.' "
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MEXICAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING AMERICAN AT FIRST DATA/WESTERN UNION’S IMMIGRATION FORUM SUES VICTIM
Denver – A Mexican national charged with assaulting an American woman during an immigration forum held in Denver last July by First Data Corporation/Western Union has filed a counter lawsuit in Denver District Court claiming she was the victim in the assault.
Julissa Molina Soto, 32, is charging Terry Graham with assault and battery, extreme and outrageous conduct, and malicious prosecution, seeking damages from Graham for alleged severe emotional distress, economic losses, and attorney’s fees.
Molina Soto is scheduled to appear in Denver District Court on January 12 to enter a plea in the criminal charges against her for assaulting Terry Graham during at the forum. Denver immigration attorney Jeff Joseph is representing Molina Soto in the criminal case.
Denver police arrested Molina Soto immediately following the assault. No criminal charges were filed against Graham, who filed a civil lawsuit against Molina and other defendants last October. Molina Soto pled guilty to child abuse in 1999.
“Molina Soto’s counter suit is clearly a legal strategy to divert attention from criminal charges filed against her by the Denver District Attorney as well as our civil lawsuit,” said Denver attorney Robert J. Corry, Jr., Graham’s lawyer. “We are confident, based upon the facts, that Soto’s counterclaim will ultimately be dismissed,” he said. Frank Moya is representing Molina Soto in the civil lawsuit.
While Graham was being seen by paramedics, First Data Foundation Director Polly Baca and ACLU lawyer Adrienne Benavidez assured the forum’s largely Latino audience from the podium that Molina Soto would have legal representation.
Graham, who was participating in the forum from the audience, was seated alone in Denver’s North High School auditorium when Molina Soto entered the aisle and began threatening her for statements she was making in support of the enforcement of immigration laws. When Graham continued to engage forum panelists, Molina Soto grabbed her tape recorder and proceeded to assault her, knocking her to the ground. Graham suffered head and neck injuries, as well as numerous bruises in the attack.
First Data Corporation has taken the lead in promoting massive immigration and immigrants’ rights – including illegal aliens – since settling lawsuits charging that its subsidiary, Western Union, failed to disclose unreasonably high commissions it charged when wiring customers’ money to Mexico. In March 2004 First Data/Western Union set up a $10 million “Empowerment Fund” to be used for Latino and pro-immigration causes. First Data CEO Charles Fote announced last April that $800,000 of the Empowerment Fund would be used to create a Denver pilot program to support and increase the number of Latino business owners.
For more information on this matter, see www.freespeechforum.org
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NATIONAL CONSUMER BOYCOTT 30 DAYS AWAY - SPREAD THE WORD TO AMERICA!
CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE INVASION & AMNESTY BEGINS FEBRUARY 1ST
National Consumer Boycott to compel immigration and border enforcement—
1) Seal the border with Mexico by any means necessary
2) Arrest and fully prosecute employers of illegal aliens
3) Arrest and immediately deport all illegal aliens; extend arrest and detention authority to all U.S. state and local law officers
Beginning February 1, 2005, consumers across America are urged to only purchase necessities and withhold their “disposable” income, making no “unnecessary” purchases: automobiles, TVs, stereos, jewelry, clothing, video games, CDs, appliances, etc.
The initial “boycott” will be for the month of February, with likely 30-day extensions until REAL illegal immigration and border enforcement begin. Immigration “reforms”, “guest worker”, or any other amnesty scheme will not be tolerated. The EXISTING laws must be enforced.
This will come to pass by pressure from big business, who is currently doing the opposite: dictating White House immigration posture and financing UNPRECEDENTED MALFEASANCE.
A 10 – 30% drop in sales will trigger instant reversal of position. Corporate America has used the POWER of money to bring about the current state of illegal invasion chaos. We are going to turn the tables, eye for an eye, fire with fire, and good for the gander.
George W. Bush pressured congress on December 7th to DROP certain immigration proposals from the 911 bill, including Federal prohibition of issuance of driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, now being issued in ten states. This is unbelievable in a post 911 world. In a written “promise” to members of Congress, the White house pledged to address immigration issues 60 days after.
What WILL BE addressed is a major push for Bush’s work program (amnesty). Bush may agree to the driver’s license ban in EXCHANGE for passing his amnesty program.
Of course once 20 million illegal aliens have AMNESTY by any other name, they CAN get driver’s licenses legally and will be embedded in the U.S. permanently; so will the TERRORISTS who have infiltrated under Bush’s reckless cheap labor quest for his contributors. The quest for money is the PROBLEM. Denial of money is the SOLUTION.
“NEW” APPROACH NEEDED:
Voting and millions of emails, phone calls, letters, and faxes have proven to be totally futile, as seen on December 7th. Anti-illegal immigration PACs have expanded awareness, but “Email Your Congressman” campaigns have accomplished next to nothing, while certainly gaining an “E” for effort.
A fresh approach is needed to compliment their efforts. A “National Consumer Boycott” has no associated costs to participants, and if 30 to 50 million Americans will make the 30-180 day “sacrifice” theimpact will bring the necessary changes.
The more people that take part, the shorter the duration will be. One only needs to remember the fight for a MLK national holiday. It was accomplished solely by utilizing boycotts and THREATS of boycotts. MLK supporters were DETERMINED. Are you?
Soliciting American’s participation will be done primarily by email forwarding, posting on various websites, and generally spreading the word in any means possible.
To get “legs”, people need to forward this to everyone they know, and ask them to do the same. This is pure grass roots. No websites, “contact us”, debates, pep rallies, victory parties, or progress reports. No writing ten letters a month to the White House, congress, and newspapers. Just basic, quiet, INDIVIDUAL abstention. It is vital that word of this effort get to as many INDIVIDUALS as possible by February 1, 2005.
It’s not likely by any media, PAC, or public figure; although if someone with notoriety would get behind it, God bless them. It must be understood that ALL media is sponsored. It also must be understood how many corporate dollars went to defeat Arizona's Proposition 200. Profiteers and their government whores spent well over a million dollars, and were able to "chip away" at support, but not enough (thank God).
The "National Consumer Boycott" is the enemy's worst nightmare, and the beauty of it is there is not thing one they can do about it. For once, their money CANNOT intervene.
If enough Americans take “action” on February 1st, the “publicity” should materialize within a few weeks. Until recognition arises, participants will have to withhold their disposable income “alone” and BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE.
After the campaign becomes evident by word of mouth, it has the potential to snowball. Who will announce/promote? ALL OF US! We cannot cave-in to non-participation BECAUSE we won't know how many people ARE participating.
A congressman recently interviewed on radio AFTER the “collapse” on the 911 bill said: “The PEOPLE will have to FORCE illegal immigration law enforcement, or it will never be done.”
Should you believe this campaign is an irresponsible and reckless attack on the economy you do not comprehend that there is NO OTHER NON-VIOLENT OPTION; and you incorrectly assess the agenda, motives, and narcissism of your president. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is lunacy. George Bush and Karl Rove have full knowledge that 80% of Americans want the borders sealed and ALL illegal aliens deported. This has NEVER been ACKNOWLEDGED by the White House and you have heard Bush’s views, which are the exact opposite. Now do what you have to do. It couldn’t be easier. And it sure beats the hell out of a civil war.
Fellow patriots, although this has never done before, it CAN BE. Who would have ever dreamed a few years ago that AMERICA would be fighting AMERICANS to stop the INVASION OF AMERICA? It's time to fight SMARTER, not HARDER. The un-wealthy and the un-elected do have power! It must be used NOW! Someday you can tell your grandchildren and great-grandchildren what you did to save the language, culture, and spirit of the United States.
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SERIOUS QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED ABOUT ALBERTO GONZALES
By Chuck Baldwin
January 7, 2005
Alberto Gonzales is President George W. Bush’s choice to be America’s next Attorney General. Gonzales is one of Bush’s most trusted friends and advisors. It was often speculated that President Bush would nominate him to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, as Bush’s pick for Attorney General, Gonzales’ record is coming under close scrutiny, and many disturbing questions are coming to the surface.
For example, as President Bush’s chief counsel, Gonzales wrote a memo in August 2002 in which he stated that laws forbidding torture don’t “apply to the President’s detention and interrogation of enemy combatants.” Beyond that, the memo also stated that unless “injury such as death, organ failure, or serious impairment of body functions” occurred, it did not constitute torture.
Gonzales was also a major player in the promotion and passage of The Patriot Act, an act that many believe to be egregiously unconstitutional and tyrannical. For all intensive purposes, The Patriot Act does serious injury to the Bill of Rights and all but eviscerates constitutional protections contained in the Fourth Amendment. In fact, The Patriot Act is so controversial; it has been formally rejected by hundreds of cities across the nation.
Some even speculate that one reason for Bush’s infatuation with Gonzales is nothing more than old-fashioned political payback. It appears, after all, that Alberto Gonzales kept Bush’s drunk driving conviction in 1976 a secret until it was too late to damage Bush’s first presidential bid.
However, it is the speed of Gonzales’ “rise to the top” that has many people raising their eyebrows. According to News With Views, “Few individuals ever attain the fast track in the way Gonzales did.”
News With Views elaborates further by saying, “A remarkable feat seems to have been accomplished. A high school graduate goes into the Air Force, not as an officer, but as an enlisted rank. Two years later, Gonzales ‘wins’ a coveted nomination to the United States Air Force Academy. In two years, this cadet is bored, gets ‘transferred’ to Rice University and earns a degree in less than two years.”
NWV also states, “There are strict guidelines involved in nominating an individual for a cadet slot at the United States Air Force Academy. The competition is tough, application time is considerable and not a process done at the drop of a hat.
“Mr. Gonzales is being nominated for Attorney General, the highest law enforcement officer in the U.S. Government. The American people have a right to know the factual details of how this nominee moved in such an unconventional method through the military and then to a top ranking college. We find this a reasonable inquiry considering Gonzales deliberately kept quiet about Bush’s drunk driving conviction, the very same individual who has nominated him for this top law enforcement position.
“Newswithviews.com has filed a Freedom of Information Act request.”
Hooray for News With Views! The American people need to know the results of this important investigation. Beyond that, it will be more than interesting to see if anyone within the mainstream media or if any national spokesman from the Religious Right shows any interest in the results.
Speaking of the Religious Right, they should also be more than concerned that as a Texas Supreme Court Justice, Alberto Gonzales ruled that a minor girl had the “right” to have an abortion without the consent of her parents. As a whole, however, the Religious Right shows no such concern. Therefore, it is highly doubtful that they will show much interest in the questions raised by News With Views.
It is truly a sad day when both the popular media and the Christian pulpits of America can show such an amazing disregard for truth! It only means that it is even more important that independent voices be heard.
Thank you, News With Views. May your tribe increase.
© Chuck Baldwin
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THE BATTLE OF 'GEORGIAFORNIA'
In Georgia, where nearly 1 million Hispanic immigrants have arrived since 1990, xenophobic hatred and violence are on the rise
By Bob Moser
Life and Death in Georgia
Amidst North Georgia's Deep South atmosphere, a community of Hispanic immigrants is rapidly growing despite racial tension and recent violence. View images of Canton, where Domingo Lopez Vargas was severely beaten by local teens.
For high-school students hunting for 'easy prey,' Domingo Lopez Vargas fit the description. He was robbed and assaulted amid the debris in the background.
For the first time since the African slave trade closed down, the South experienced large-scale immigration by a "non-traditional" population in the 1990s.
Six of the seven states with the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic populations from 1990 to 2000 were in the South including Georgia, where the number of legal Hispanic immigrants swelled by 300%. And demographers estimate that the total number of Hispanic immigrants, including those who are undocumented, is one and a half to two times that number.
A telling statistic: Hispanic babies now account for 12.6% of all births in Georgia, where the official percentage of Hispanics was 5.3% in 2000.
The growth is only accelerating. In the first few years of the new millennium, Georgia's Hispanic population grew faster than any other state's, and U.S. Census figures indicate that 102 Hispanics are moving there legally every day.
CANTON, Ga. -- On a frigid afternoon last February, Domingo Lopez Vargas decided to call it a day. A diminutive 54-year-old with bowl-cut hair and a gold tooth that gleams when he smiles, Lopez had left his dirt-poor Guatemalan farm village 15 years before, determined to earn some decent money for his wife and nine children.
After picking oranges in Tampa, Fla. "too hot!" Lopez says he'd joined a mid-1990s wave of immigrants heading for the piney hills and exploding exurbs of North Georgia. Lopez settled in Canton, a former mill village 35 miles north of Atlanta.
With the construction boom spreading ever northward from Atlanta, the area was fast becoming one of the most popular and lucrative U.S. destinations for immigrant workers.
Unlike many of his compadres, Lopez had legal status, which helped him find steady work hanging doors and windows. But last February, the work dried up and Lopez joined the more than 100,000 jornaleros day laborers who wait for landscaping and construction jobs on street corners and in front of 7-Elevens and other tiendas all across North Georgia.
Usually there are plenty of pickup trucks that swing by, offering $8 to $12 an hour for digging, planting, painting or hammering. But this day, nada. By late afternoon, Lopez had had enough of standing on Main Street waiting with others in the cold. He gave up and walked up the street to McFarland's, a grocery store in a beat-up shopping center.
"I got milk, shampoo and toothpaste," he recalls through an interpreter. "When I was leaving the store, this truck stopped right in front of me and said, 'Do you want to work?'" Lopez hasn't picked up much English in 15 years, but he knew what that meant. "I said, yes, how much? They said nine dollars an hour. I didn't ask what kind of job. I just wanted to work, so I said yes."
Until that afternoon, Lopez says, "Americans had always been very nice to me." Which might explain why he wasn't concerned that the guys in the green pickup all four of them looked awfully young to be contractors. Or why he didn't think twice about being picked up so close to sunset. "I took the offer because I know sometimes people don't stop working until 9 at night," he says.
The four young men, all students at Cherokee High School, drove Lopez to a remote spot strewn with trash. "They told me to pick up some plastic bags that were on the ground. I thought that was my job, to clean up the trash. But when I bent over to pick it up, I felt somebody hit me from behind with a piece of wood, on my back."
It was just the start of a 30-minute pummeling that left Lopez bruised and blooded from his thighs to his neck.
"I thought I was dying," he says. "I tried to stand up but I couldn't. I couldn't understand what they were saying." Finally, after he handed over all the cash in his wallet, $260, along with his Virgin Mary pendant, the teenagers sped away.
Hotbed of Hate
Lopez, it turned out, was only the latest victim in a series of robberies and assaults on Hispanic day laborers in Canton. The first report had come on Nov. 15, 2003, when 22-year-old immigrant Elias Tíu was jumped, robbed and beaten near the old mills in downtown Canton.
The most recent had been just one day before Lopez landed in the hospital, when 22-year-old Carlos Perez had been offered work by three teenagers including two of those accused of assaulting Lopez.
The script was much the same: Perez had been driven to an abandoned house, punched with fists and clobbered with a metal pipe. He threw his wallet at the teenagers during the beating; they extracted his $300 in cash and tossed it back at him.
After reports of Lopez and Perez' assaults hit the news, it was just a matter of days before seven Cherokee High School students were under arrest. "At least one of them was going around school bragging about robbing and beating up Mexicans," says Canton's assistant police chief, Jeff Lance.
"They were looking for easy prey."
Police can't say how much "easy prey" the Cherokee students might have found between November and February. According to Lance, "a number" of day laborers reported similar robberies and assaults highly unusual, he notes, because immigrants normally "don't want to deal with us."
Tíu was the only previous victim detectives were able to locate. "They tend to move from one house to another," Lance says, "so it's hard to find the victims."
Three solved cases were enough to send a jolt through Cherokee County. True, like most of North Georgia, Cherokee is about as conservative as it gets.
Conservative enough that not one single Democrat ran for election this year in the entire county. Conservative enough that a paper copy of the Ten Commandments was recently displayed on the second floor of Canton's Cherokee Justice Center.
Conservative enough that in 2002, when Cherokee High School Principal Bill Sebring banned t-shirts with rebel-flag imagery after black students complained, 150 white students showed up the next day defiantly clad in Dixie Outfitters shirt and caps with rebel flags and cheered on by adult protesters from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other "heritage" groups.
But hate crimes? That's a different story.
"It just floored everybody," says Lance. "These good old boys from Cherokee High School doing this?" It's not clear whether these "good old boys" were involved in the rebel-flag protests, which forced the high school to close down for an entire day. (Principal Sebring declined to be interviewed for this story.)
But one of those charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault and abduction was 18-year-old Ben Cagle, an heir to one of the county's most powerful families; his grandparents founded the Cherokee Republican Party, which so dominates local politics that not a single Democrat ran for office this year in the county. Cagle was president of Cherokee High's agricultural club.
Eighteen-year-old Devin Wheeling, the only teenager charged in all three incidents, was a JROTC cadet. Another of the alleged perpetrators was an Explorer Scout planning to become a firefighter. They'd known each other since middle school, played Dizzy Dean baseball and gone to church together.
Nobody was more floored than Lopez, of course. His injuries kept him out of work for four months, and left him with more than $4,500 in medical bills. Sometimes he still puzzles over his attackers' motives.
"They were young," he speculates, "and maybe they didn't have enough education. Or maybe their families are murderers who taught them to kill people, and that is what they have learned."
Or maybe they grew up in America's latest hotbed of anti-immigrant hate.
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TOUGHER LAWS EYED FOR ALIEN WORKERS
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
A senior House Republican yesterday called for an improved Social Security card to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining jobs and for quintupling the penalty for those who employ them, marking the first major shot in the immigration debate expected to take place in this Congress.
Another Republican committee chairman, meanwhile, is set to introduce a bill that would include some of the measures like national standards for driver’s licenses that were dropped from the intelligence overhaul bill that passed Congress late last year, but which House leaders have promised to attach to the first must-pass piece of legislation this session.
Even as President Bush has renewed his call for action on the guest-worker program he proposed nearly a year ago, top Republicans in Congress seem to be moving toward stronger enforcement as their answer to the level of illegal immigration.
Under the new bill sponsored by Rep. David Dreier, California Republican and the chairman of the House Rules Committee, anyone applying for a job would have to get a new Social Security card with their photograph and biometric information on it. Employers would be required to verify a job applicant’s legal status. Employers who violate the law would be fined $50,000 per instance, five times the current penalty, and the bill calls for hiring 10,000 new Homeland Security Department investigators to enforce the law.
Mr. Dreier said he first began working on this issue in the 1990s, but was a minority in his own party in pushing for the checks. Now, after September 11, he said that’s changed.
“I believe the stars are aligned to where we can in fact put into place a counterproof Social Security card,” he said. A companion bill will be introduced by Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican.
Mr. Dreier wrote the bill with the help of T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents 11,000 non-supervisory Border Patrol agents nationwide. Mr. Bonner has estimated that cutting the supply of jobs could reduce illegal immigration by 98 percent, and also could help force those here illegally to go home.
“This is the other side of the Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will come; if you tear it down, they will go away,” Mr. Bonner said.
That is just one of a flurry of immigration bills expected this month. Another bill introduced by Rep. Ken Calvert, California Republican, on Tuesday, the first day Congress was in session, would expand the voluntary pilot program that currently allows employers to verify an employee’s legal status. It would be made mandatory and phased in over seven years.
Meanwhile, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, later this month will introduce the package of immigration security measures that was dropped from the intelligence overhaul bill. It would require anyone obtaining a driver’s license in the United States to prove they are here lawfully, would allow judges more latitude in deciding asylum cases, would allow for easier deportation of terrorists deemed inadmissible to the country and would close a three-mile hole in the U.S.-Mexico border fence near San Diego.
The measure got a boost on Tuesday from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican, who while opening the 109th session of Congress said the House must act to “fill those gaps” in existing law.
He has promised to attach Mr. Sensenbrenner’s bill to the first “must-pass” piece of legislation Congress addresses this year -- likely an emergency spending measure to aid tsunami victims or an emergency spending bill to fund ongoing military operations in Iraq.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, hasn’t made a similar promise, said a spokeswoman, though Mr. Frist has said he will look at the legislation.
Mr. Dreier said he doesn’t expect his bill to be attached to Mr. Sensenbrenner’s bill, since his measure would need to go through the committee process. He said instead it should be part of a broader debate of Mr. Bush’s plan for guest workers.
The president has promised to spend political capital pushing for his proposal to create a renewable three-year guest-worker visa that would allow those now living abroad and illegal aliens already here to apply.
Opponents to Mr. Dreier’s bill already are lining up, with the American Civil Liberties Union saying the new Social Security card amounts to a national ID -- something that riles some in both the conservative and liberal camps.
“It’s a card, it’s national, and it’s designed to prove your identity. How can it not be a nation ID card? ” said Tim Edgar, legislative counsel for the ACLU.
In response to Mr. Dreier, who said the new card would specifically say, “This is not a national ID card,” Mr. Edgar said, “I think it’s an example of how, unfortunately, some Republicans have abandoned their libertarian principles because of their zeal to attack immigrants, and are simply forced to make silly statements in order to pretend that they haven’t.”
Meanwhile, Joanna Hedvall, an analyst for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said Mr. Dreier’s proposal would only compound the problems that already exist with the voluntary employee verification system that exists now. She said the Social Security system already has a backlog for issuing cards, and said the Homeland Security Department’s employee verification is riddled with errors.
“The information in their own databases is not accurate, and the information is not transmitted to the Social Security Administration in an expedient manner,” she said.
Several opponents said employer sanctions, first introduced in the immigration overhaul and amnesty bill that passed in 1986, have been tried but found lacking, arguing that Congress should instead try to write an immigration system that matches the economic situation.
But Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and a former U.S. Border Patrol sector chief, who is co-sponsoring Mr. Dreier’s bill, said the problem after 1986 was a lack of manpower to enforce the employer sanctions.
“They worked, and they worked well in the areas where we had personnel to enforce them,” he said.
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TRAFFIC STOP NETS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
ARRESTS: FIVE MEXICANS REVEAL FAKE DOCUMENTS BOUGHT IN CALIFORNIA
By ZAZ HOLLANDER
Anchorage Daily News
(Published: January 7, 2005)
PALMER -- Five undocumented Mexicans, in Alaska just a few weeks to work, landed in an Anchorage jail this week after a routine traffic stop by an Alaska state trooper.
The men are part of what one federal official says is a rising number of Valley immigration arrests.
“Seems to us we’re getting more calls out that way,” said Tim Staebell, Anchorage-based group supervisor for the investigative unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I don’t know if police and troopers are just involved a little more ... or they’re just starting to move out there with everybody else.”
Trooper Vance Peronto reported finding the five men in a 1993 GMC van driven by Alden W. Lebaron, 19, of Wasilla. Peronto stopped the van around 7 a.m. Tuesday along the Glenn Highway for an equipment violation, troopers said.
The men initially told Peronto they came from Mexico and lived in California, but later admitted entering the country illegally and buying fake identification in California, troopers said.
“They said for $250 they purchased a packet of identification: a counterfeit California ID, counterfeit alien registration card, counterfeit Social Security card,” Staebell said. “They were fairly good quality.”
Lebaron, reached by phone Thursday, said he was driving the men to a job for his family’s drywall company when a trooper pulled him over at the Palmer Hay Flats for having a headlight out.
The trooper ran the workers’ license numbers through a national registry, Lebaron said. He said three numbers came back registered to women; two came back registered to Caucasian men.
Peronto was not available for comment.
Lebaron said his parents grew up in Mexico. An uncle in Salt Lake City hired the five men and his mother flew them to Alaska from Utah, he said.
The men started work just before Christmas, Lebaron said. “We thought they were legal. They all had IDs and green cards and Social Security cards.”
Immigrations officials drove to the Valley to take the men, all without families locally and from different parts of Mexico, into custody, Staebell said. They are jailed at the Anchorage jail pending a flight to Tacoma, Wash., for an immigration hearing.
Immigration officials are trying to determine how much Lebaron’s family, including the uncle in Salt Lake City, knew about the men’s status, he said.
Federal officials take into custody from 300 to 500 illegal immigrants in Alaska every year, about three-quarters of them from Mexico. Most arrests come in labor-intensive industries such as restaurants, light construction, fish processing plants and reforestation.
Mara Kimmel, an immigration attorney with Catholic Social Services in Anchorage, questioned why the trooper asked to see the men’s IDs in the first place when the driver alone was responsible for the headlight.
The passengers should not have been required to show identification, Kimmel said.
Troopers have the authority to detain people suspected of immigration violations, Staebell responded.
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