Ten arrested in probe of Orange County counterfeit ring

ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:24 p.m. December 9, 2005

SANTA ANA – Ten people were arrested and $75,000 seized Friday in a strike against a counterfeiting ring that authorities said made phony $100 bills in Mexico and passed $7.5 million worth over the past year.
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Study: Border crossers not penniless, destitute

Rachel Uranga
Los Angeles Daily News
Dec. 11, 2005 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES - Most Mexicans do not cross the border because they are destitute and penniless, but because they have family in the United States and want better-paying jobs, a study released last week found.

The report by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center, believed to be one of the most extensive studies of undocumented Mexican immigrants, found that many recent immigrants had held steady jobs in their home country and were not simply unemployed or farm laborers who pursued life in the United States as their salvation.

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Owens: Illegal Immigration Challenging For Schools

Anna Alejo Reporting

(CBS4) DENVER A coalition of groups, including the Colorado Children's Campaign, gave Colorado a grade of 'unsatisfactory' for closing the achievement gap between rich and poor students.

Governor Owens responded to the rating by saying Colorado shouldn't be compared to states like Minnesota and Vermont because illegal immigration is a big challenge for the state's schools.

Owens said illegal immigration has Colorado looking more like the southern border-states.
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Mexican subdued on flight to Honolulu

By Dan Nakaso and William Cole
Advertiser Staff Writers

About 10 minutes before Flight 91 was preparing to touch down last night in Honolulu, the unidentified 37-year-old Mexican national burst toward the cockpit of the plane and was subdued by four people in the business-class section, according to passengers and the parents of the baby girl, who live in Montreal, Canada.

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Mexicans urge easy crossings

Darren Meritz
El Paso Times
Sunday, December 11, 2005

Mexican lawmakers pressed Saturday at a conference in El Paso for changes that would allow border residents more freedom to move between the United States and Mexico, despite urging from some U.S. state legislators for laws to curtail ills associated with undocumented immigration.

In addition to costs associated with returning immigrants to Mexico, state governments must contend with social problems that Jones linked to undocumented immigration -- particularly a large percentage of immigrant felons held in Arizona prisons.