Mexico Demands U.S. Allow More Immigration

By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY

Diplomats from Mexico and Central America on Monday demanded guest worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the United States, while criticizing a U.S. proposal for tougher border enforcement.

Meeting in Mexico's capital, the regional officials pledged to do more to fight migrant trafficking, but indirectly condemned a U.S. bill that would make illegal entry a felony and extend border walls.

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San Luis cops nab suspected drug smugglers after chase
BY JONATHAN ATHENS, SUN STAFF WRITER

Two suspected marijuana smugglers from Mexico are in custody after leading police and federal agents on a brief chase in San Luis early Monday morning, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

Yuma sector Border Patrol spokesman Michael Gramley said the two men, both 20 years old, are facing felony drug smuggling charges after they allegedly drove a sport utility vehicle containing 638 pounds of marijuana valued at $510,800 from Mexico into the United States.

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Smuggling rings dismantled
Agents nab alleged migrant movers
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times

The two largest immigrant-smuggling rings in El Paso were busted last week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents concluded the most significant investigation in years.

The rings, one led by Michael Lynn Price, 53, and his wife, Fabiola del Carmen Moguel de Price, 39, and the other led by Sam Jarvis, 52, all of Socorro, Texas, were responsible for moving about 200 undocumented immigrants each month from El Paso to Dallas in the back of tractor-trailers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

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Napolitano vows to secure border

Chip Scutari and Robbie Sherwood
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 10, 2006 12:00 AM

As 4,000 people rallied for immigrants rights Monday on the Capitol lawn, Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano vowed to beef up border security and punish companies that intentionally hire undocumented workers.

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Run for the Border
A Mexican diplomat tells suspects to run, but Susana Loera won't stand for it
By Rick Kennedy

Susana Loera remembers the first time she heard her boss tell somebody to break the law. It was in early 2004, and the parents of a Mexican man arrested in Dallas had come to the consulate seeking advice. Luis Lara, Mexican vice consul for protection, found out that U.S. immigration had neglected to put a deportation hold on the prisoner, meaning he could still be released on bail. Lara turned to the anxious parents as Loera stood nearby.

"He said, 'My advice to you is to go bond him out now and go back to Mexico,'" Loera says. "He said, 'If he stays here, he's going to get convicted. The American justice system is very corrupt. He's going to get an outlandish sentence, so you need to bond him out now and run to Mexico.'"

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English learner court deadline looms
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES

PHOENIX — About one in seven children in Arizona schools is here because of illegal immigration.

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that between 50,000 and 60,000 children of school age in this state are in this country illegally. And between 80,000 and 90,000 are the children of people who crossed the border illegally but are U.S. citizens by virtue of their birth.

That fact could loom large in the Legislature's discussion of how much Arizona taxpayers are going to have to spend to ensure that children learn English.

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Smugglers planning to kill U.S. border agents, federal memo warns
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - Federal officials have warned U.S. Border Patrol agents that they could be the targets of assassins hired by immigrant smugglers, according to a confidential memo.

"Unidentified Mexican alien smugglers are angry about the increased security along the U.S./Mexico border and have agreed that the best way to deal with U.S. Border Patrol agents is to hire a group of contract killers," the Department of Homeland Security said in a Dec. 21 Officer Safety Alert.

The alert states that the smugglers intend to bring members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang - known as MS-13 - into the country to perform the killings. Federal officials consider MS-13, with an estimated 30,000 members in 33 states, to be one of the most dangerous gangs in the country. It was formed in Los Angeles by immigrants from El Salvador.

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Criminal Aliens
By Don Feder
FrontPageMagazine.com

When apologists for illegal immigration (who have taken a vow of stupidity) say those they euphemistically call “undocumented workers” are doing the jobs Americans don’t want, does that include kidnapping and rape?

Evandro Doirado, a 28-year-old Brazilian, is in custody in Massachusetts, awaiting trial for aggravated rape, kidnapping a child, kidnapping and sexual assault while armed, assault with intent to kill and carjacking.

Mr. Doirado’s latest crime spree began a few days before Christmas. As the result of a drug deal gone bad, the Brazilian stabbed an acquaintance.

Believing he’d killed victim #1, and so could be facing a life sentence, Doirado decided it was time for a little R&R.

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National Data
By Edwin S. Rubenstein

December Job Report: Goldilocks Smothered in Jalapenos:
Hispanic Displacement Of U.S. Born Workers Accelerates

Ethnic Hispanics—a reasonable proxy for immigrants—although only an eighth of the workforce, snagged almost half the jobs created last month. Since the start of the Bush Administration, Hispanics have taken 59% of all jobs created. VDAWDI (the V-Dare.com American Worker Displacement Index—see below) has risen to a new record.

This is happening, of course, because Hispanic immigrants are cheaper than the native-born. In large part that is because they can avoid the annoying cost of income tax, social security and health insurance deductions.