Illegal aliens robbed after crossing border
FROM STAFF REPORTS

Four illegal aliens who had just crossed into the United States were robbed at gunpoint Saturday night in an area that has seen many similar incidents.

The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said that three adults and one juvenile reported that their money and personal effects were stolen by three suspects with handguns at 11 p.m. at County 18-1/2 Street and the Colorado River.

The four aliens were apprehended later by U.S. Border Patrol agents and reported the thefts. YCSO said that the four had crossed the border together and were not part of a larger group.

The three suspects ran back to Mexico after the robbery. YCSO provided no description of the suspects.

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Frist will try again for immigration bill
David Espo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Majority Leader Bill Frist intends to seek Senate passage of immigration legislation by Memorial Day, hoping to revive a bill that would tighten border security and give millions of undocumented immigrants a chance at citizenship, Republican leadership aides said Friday.

In a gesture to conservative critics of the measure, Frist and other Republicans also intend to seek roughly $2 billion in immediate additional spending for border protection.

The aides said the money would allow for training of Border Patrol agents, construction of detention facilities for immigrants caught entering the country illegally, the purchase of helicopters and surveillance aircraft, and construction of a fence in high-traffic areas.

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2 agencies hold data that could indict entrants
But IRS, Social Security won't aid prosecutors
By Liz Chandler
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — Two federal agencies are refusing to turn over a mountain of evidence that investigators could use to indict the nation's burgeoning work force of illegal immigrants and the firms that employ them.

Last week, immigration cops trumpeted the arrests of nearly 1,200 illegal workers in a massive sting on a single company, but they admit that they relied on old-fashioned confidential informants and an unsolicited tip to get their investigation going.

It didn't have to be that hard.

The IRS and the Social Security Administration routinely collect strong evidence of potential workplace crimes, including names and addresses of millions of people who are using bogus Social Security numbers, their wage records and the identities of the bosses who knowingly hire them.

But they keep those facts secret.

"If the government bothered to look, it could find abundant evidence of illegal aliens' gaming our system and the unscrupulous employers who are aiding and abetting them," said Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz.

The two agencies don't analyze their data to root out likely immigration fraud — and they won't share their millions of records so that law enforcement agencies can do that, either.

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U.S. Custom and Border Protection Newsletter

Frontline April 2006

In this issue...

1. 911 call leads CBP Border Patrol agents to the rescue

2. Migrants found in secret compartment

3. CBP officers seize 558 pounds of marijuana

4. Stolen vehicle recovered; criminal apprehended

5. OFO newsbytes

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The Immigration Wars
By William R. Hawkins
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 24, 2006

Conservative talk radio made much of all the foreign flags being waved during the first round of pro-illegal alien demonstrations in March. So when protests were staged in Washington April 10, organizers distributed thousands of American flags and warned activists not to wave the standards of Mexico or El Salvador. CASA of Maryland distributed many of these new false flags. CASA was founded in 1985 by mostly El Salvadoran leftists fleeing from the anti-communist government supported by the Reagan administration during the civil wars in Central America.

The effort to change the image of the April protest was only partially successful. The first demonstrator I encountered outside my office was holding an American flag, but was wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. Since he had presumably dressed himself, his decision to glorify the communist revolutionary was more indicative of his outlook than the flag given to him for PR purposes.

Some demonstrators have raised the issue of "La Reconquista" of the American Southwest by Mexican immigrants. This is most often expressed in signs that read "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us." It is taught in Mexican schools that what are now the states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California , and Utah, along with parts of Colorado and Wyoming, were "stolen" from Mexico between 1836 and 1848 by American imperialists and will one day be regained. Ironically, the revolt that won Texas independence was staged by colonists and "guest workers" originally invited into the territory by the Mexican government. But the threat to American independence is not limited to the Southwest, as illegals do not all stay in the border areas. They spread out across the United States. Thus, the political aim of those mobilizing the immigrants is to take national power in Washington and change the course of American destiny.

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The UN's "Borderless" World
By Joseph Klein
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 24, 2006

While pro-immigrant rallies get most of the attention from the mainstream press, many law-abiding American citizens are fed up with the reality of tens of thousands of foreign nationals every few weeks continuing to enter this country illegally through our porous borders, added to the more than 11 million illegal aliens who are already here. Americans are bearing a grossly disproportionate share of the security risks and economic costs associated with such migration, which makes it a national problem for Americans to solve through their elected representatives and through voluntary groups like the Minuteman Project.

Citizens are demanding that their government ensure effective protection at the borders against more illegal entrants, who at the very least will become tax burdens on the American people and could pose a much more serious security threat. Congress and the President must decide what to do about this mounting problem, consistent with the tenets of the U.S. Constitution. Our democratic institutions can and must handle this situation without any outside interference.

The United Nations sees the matter differently.

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As U.S. struggles with migration, Mexicans see it as inevitable part of life
By Mark Stevenson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATOTONILCO, Mexico – They name their babies Johnny and Leslie, so certain are they that their kids' future lies in the United States. Returning migrants sprinkle English into their speech as they talk knowingly about job markets in U.S. towns.

America may want to stop illegal immigration, but most Mexicans accept it as a fact of life they can't imagine changing.

Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue – and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow.

In fact, the government is counting on continued cash from a Mexican-born U.S. population it predicts will rise from 11 million to between 17.9 million and 20.4 million by 2030.

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Specter: Immigration Bill Possible in '06
The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he believes Congress will be able to work out differences and pass an election-year immigration bill, calling reform too important to neglect.

"I think the committee bill which got to the floor has the key ingredients of a successful bill," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who has pledged to have legislation ready for debate soon after lawmakers return Monday from their two-week recess.

Specter noted that the Senate bill is aimed at protecting the borders, regulating the flow into the country of so-called guest workers and determining the legal future of the 11 million illegal immigrants already here.

"I think that there has to be an agreement between Democrats and Republicans on a list of amendments," he said. "And it would be a tough conference, candidly, with the House, but we were able to work through the Patriot Act although there were big disagreements."

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Black Activists Join To March With Minutemen

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Several black activists plan to join members of the Minutemen Project to protest illegal immigration, which organizer Ted Hayes touted as the “biggest threat to blacks in America since slavery.”

The protest, organized by Hayes’ Crispus Attucks Brigade and the American Black Citizens Opposed to Illegal Immigration Invasion, is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

Hayes, a homeless activist, alleged that most homeless people in Los Angeles are black and illegal immigration compounds the problem since blacks refuse to accept the “slave wages” that many illegal immigrants accept.

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Border Bound
Cari Hammerstrom
Monitor Staff Writer
Photo by Nathan Lambrecht/The Monitor

It is Jan. 26, and Silva and the Marshals are aboard a Mexican repatriation flight, along with 29 other illegal immigrants who had been previously held at a Florida detention center.

Two to four times a week, solid-white Boeing 727s with no identifying insignia holding anywhere from 30 to up to 120 undocumented Mexican immigrants touch down at Valley International Airport. Their pilots carry out part of one of the most vital, yet misunderstood and invisible, components of this nation’s divisive struggle against illegal immigration — a process known as “removal.”

It is a complex system of diplomatic accords involving would-be immigrants with their own stories to tell and tweaks in U.S. immigration policy.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, deported more than 162,000 illegal immigrants of all nationalities during fiscal year 2005, including 83,000 criminals.

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Execution Delayed for "Railroad Killer"

HOUSTON (AP) -- Next month's scheduled execution of a Mexican drifter dubbed the "Railroad Killer" has been delayed to allow more psychiatric testing.

Maturino Resendiz was condemned for the 1998 murder of 39-year-old Doctor Claudia Benton, who was raped, stabbed and beaten in her Houston-area home. He was linked to 14 slayings in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois near the rail lines he rode nationwide and has claimed still more killings.