Tainted water closes S. County beaches
Tijuana River sewage makes way to ocean
By Janine Zúñiga
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

IMPERIAL BEACH – South County beaches were closed yesterday after recent heavy rains caused sewage-contaminated water from the Tijuana River to enter the ocean.

Clifton said data showed that about 4 a.m. Monday, substantial sewage flows began to enter the United States from the Tijuana River. He said the flows peaked about 4 p.m. Monday.

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Three guards charged in deadly prison riot

Times staff reports
Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Three prison guards were among the 23 men charged Sunday with instigating a gang riot that left six inmates dead at the Cereso prison in Juárez last month, Chihuahua state officials said.

The guards were Juventino Gilberto Mart’nez González, 50; Filemon Antonio Zambrano Rodr’guez, 40; and Ramiro Aguirre Acosta, 47. They were charged with murder and assault.

They are accused of providing knives, helmets and shields to members of the Aztecas prison gang and letting the gang members into the segregated living quarters of members of the rival Mexicles gang. The six victims were members of the Mexicles gang. All the inmates charged Sunday belonged to the Aztecas gang.

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Mexican Regime Insincere on Illegals

The Intelligencer

The debate over illegal immigration from Mexico naturally tends to focus on what U.S. policymakers ought to do - for instance, actually dedicate resources to border and employment law enforcement. But what about Mexico's role in the creation of an illegal Diaspora that now numbers at least 10 million?

Illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States principally consists of poor, uneducated Mexicans looking for a better life north of the border. Victor Davis Hanson, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, points out in a Wall Street Journal essay that these illegal immigrants represent Mexico's "abjectly immoral export of its own dispossessed." Mexico's impoverished show by their actions that they see more hope working illegally in the United States than in a change in their own government and its policies.

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Gunfire aimed at Border Patrol agents

Border Patrol agents on routine patrol are shot at from across the river

BROWNSVILLE – More than 20 rounds of ammunition were fired at Border Patrol agents from the Mexico side of the river.

Agents on a routine patrol in the Fort Brown area were shot at from across the river. We’re told agents didn’t fire back. Instead, they immediately changed locations.

The FBI is investigating, since it was an attack upon federal agents. There’s no word yet if the attack was targeted. The investigation into who fired the shots will continue this week.

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Will Bush Tell Mexico's Fox to Take a Hike (and not across our border)?

by Jim Kouri, CPP

The Mexican government is initiating a far-reaching investigation. It's not an investigation into the rampant corruption within all levels of its government. And it's not an investigation into the Mexican crime gangs, drug traffickers and human smugglers. No, the target of this intense investigation -- one that's being trumpeted by the usual anti-Americans in the US news media -- is the killing of an illegal alien by a US Border Patrol agent defending himself.

A former Bush advisor, Rob Allyn, is helping Presidente Vincente Fox to use the illegal alien's death to again draw attention to what Mexicans believe is an unfair US anti-immigration policy. Fox knows that if the US gets serious about border security, he will not only have to deal with a reduction in Mexico's revenue -- money illegal workers send back to his country -- but he will actually have to deal with the tens of thousands of violent criminals who enter the US illegally everyday.

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Study: Hispanic influx created jobs, depressed wages by $2 bil.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. _ A study designed to gauge the economic impact of the Latino population in North Carolina suggests Hispanic immigration created work but caused a drain on wages.

The study says low-wage Hispanic workers depressed wages in North Carolina by nearly two (b) billion dollars in 2004. However, the study also says their presence also created nearly 90-thousand jobs for others.