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Last modified: 02:52 PM CST on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Dozens of D/FW workers arrested 11/20/2002 From Staff and Wire Reports Sixty workers at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport were arrested Wednesday for allegedly using invalid Social Security numbers to gain access to secure areas of the airport. According to the U.S. Attorney's office in Dallas, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Service agents arrested the airport employees. Each individual was charged with one count of misuse of a Social Security number, a felony. The workers arrested included baggage handlers, ramp and cargo agents, food service and maintenance...

By DAVID SEDEÑO / The Dallas Morning News His left arm and chest covered with antibiotic cream and heavily bandaged with white gauze, Guillermo Gallo can't escape the reminders of his harrowing trip aboard a locked, unventilated tractor-trailer in which two men died last summer. He doesn't remember the last few hours of the journey and doesn't know whether he wants to push his memory to recall what he and others in the hot trailer said was a living hell. "I lost consciousness, and I guess that I was more dead than alive," the 32-year-old taco stand owner from suburban...

07/31/2002 Associated Press SAN ANTONIO - Another tractor-trailer rig filled with undocumented immigrants has turned up - this time on the eastern fringe of San Antonio. San Antonio police went to the Petro truck stop on Interstate 10 about 1 a.m. Wednesday after a witness reported hearing screams and shouts coming from inside the trailer. Police Sgt. Fred Balmos told WOAI Radio in San Antonio that officers opened the trailer and found from 30 to 70 people inside -- men, women and children. All bolted from the trailer and scattered except for two men left behind who suffered from dehydration....

Heat sends 14 to area hospitals 07/27/2002 From Staff Reports About 14 people were transported to area hospitals Saturday with varying degrees of heat exhaustion after traveling to Dallas from Santa Fe, N.M., in the back of an 18-wheeler truck, police said. The vehicle pulled into Love’s truck stop at Polk Street and Interstate 20 Saturday afternoon, and about 40 people came out the back doors of the truck, said Dallas police Sgt. Steve Winters. Police captured about 20 people; more than 10 fled behind a house in the Red Bird area, he said. Dallas Fire-Rescue drove 14 people to...

<p>Federal authorities have 31 Middle Eastern and Asian citizens in custody -- including two Pakistani men arrested in Miami -- and are searching for 28 more in a broadening investigation into the sale of fraudulent visas at the U.S. Embassy in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar, U.S. officials said Tuesday.</p> <p>The two Pakistanis in Miami and two Jordanians arrested in Baltimore and Detroit are charged with entering the United States on visas that were illegally obtained at the embassy in Doha, Qatar, for bribes of up to $10,000 apiece.</p>

<p>MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) -- Mexican President Vicente Fox lashed out at U.S. immigration laws in a speech late on Thursday in New York City, prompting a White House spokeswoman to insist on Friday that U.S.-Mexican relations remain "strong and robust" despite differences over immigration policy.</p>

WASHINGTON - U.S. and Mexican negotiators are working on an agreement to increase the number of Mexicans allowed to work in the United States and to authorize Mexican trucks to operate north of the border region, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Thursday. They hope to have the plan ready for President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox to unveil when the two leaders meet later this month in Monterrey, Mexico, according to officials familiar with the talks. Ridge, who met with reporters before he departs for Mexico City on Monday, noted that efforts to legalize more Mexicans to work ...

The 14 students gathered around a table at Skyline High School in Dallas are the kind Texas A&M University wants but has had little luck attracting. They're near the top of their class, they're college-bound, and most are black or Hispanic. And not one has applied to Texas A&M. "The perception is A&M is a white school ... and [that] they won't fit in," said Diane Hranicky, who advises student leaders at Skyline. Like flagship universities across the country, Texas A&M has struggled to attract top minority students like those at Skyline since courts began eliminating affirmative-action admissions in the ...

HERMOSILLO, Mexico – Every day it gets harder for Zenaido Ramírez Bernal to compete with the drone from the oversized air conditioner that keeps the torrid heat out of his tidy home in this desert city. While Mr. Ramírez has a sturdy body, strong hands and a prominent set of bright brown eyes, his reedy voice is fading. But if the 94-year-old is slowly giving way to time, his recollections of his prime are not. In the summer of 1942, Mr. Ramírez was the first Mexican laborer to sign up for work in the United States during World War II ...

<p>WASHINGTON - A delegation of Mexican government officials lobbied congressional offices here Thursday, seeking support for a proposed U.S.-Mexico border council and asking that Congress press ahead with controversial work on immigration sidetracked by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.</p>

OMAHA - Children of illegal immigrants seeking higher education in Nebraska are in a tough spot: They can't get federal financial aid, and at some schools they don't qualify for in-state tuition. The result: A double hit for high-school graduates looking to achieve the American Dream by living better than their parents did. Affording college is tough enough without the federal aid so many of their peers rely on, but they're positively priced out of the market having to pay out-of-state tuition. For the children of Nebraska's ever-growing Hispanic population, the choices can be bleak: join their parents at the ...

Ms. Hernandez Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, said she returned to her Dallas home recently after attending a crime watch meeting, only to find her front door wide open. Someone had broken into her apartment and stolen a large amount of cash she had hidden inside a jacket. That, she said, is why she thinks a new program announced Thursday in Dallas is so important. "This program is one way of helping people stay secure and not be as afraid" of being burglarized, she said. The program – Communities Banking for Safety, or Seguridad Bancaria – is a cooperative effort ...

In America illegal aliens have rights, benefits, protection against discrimination, and op-ed cheerleaders. Is it time for a change? Can we control our borders? It is a painfully relevant question because several of the 19 mass murderers of Sept. 11 were in this country illegally, and the one indictee for this crime was initially nailed only on immigration charges. Unfortunately, the stopping of Zacarias Moussaoui was something of a fluke. Efforts to prevent illegal immigration in the U.S. today are ignored, underfunded, openly violated or certifiably feckless. And there is stubborn resistance to change, even as estimates of the ...

MEXICO CITY – Immediately after the presidential election defeat of the world's oldest ruling party, its collapse was predicted, its obituary written. But far from expiring, as most political analysts confidently predicted, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party clings to life and, some would say, even shows signs of a full recovery. After the rival National Action Party (PAN) candidate Vicente Fox claimed the presidency with vows of sweeping change, the party that ruled Mexico for 71 years, known in Spanish as the PRI, began reinventing itself and quietly winning elections. It has shown so much resilience that PAN Sen. Diego Fernández ...

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – President Vicente Fox visited the U.S. border Tuesday to greet Mexican workers returning home for the holidays and encourage customs officials to treat them with respect. Unlike last year, when a long line of people clamored to shake the hand of their new leader, Mr. Fox found a subdued mood: Returning migrants went about their business of getting permits to bring their cars into Mexico as the president walked by, surrounded by officials. A year after Mr. Fox made his first trip to the border to show migrants he was serious about helping them, many say ...

Texas health care providers are on the hunt for employees who speak both Spanish and English. "I think it is starting to get a little bit more prevalent in the Dallas market," said Grant Fithian, a senior consultant with the health care recruiting firm Martin, Fletcher ( www.martinfletcher.com) in Irving. "However, we do a lot of advanced-practice nursing work down in South Texas, and it's very prevalent down there." The need is fueled by the boom in the Hispanic population. Hispanics, many of them recent immigrants from Mexico who prefer to use Spanish, now make up 32 percent of Texas' ...

<p>Hundreds of immigrants braved a rainy five-hour line outside the Mexican Consulate yesterday to take advantage of San Francisco's new policy of requiring all city agencies to accept consular ID cards as legal identification.</p> <p>San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city or county in the nation to officially honor the "matricula consulare" ID card, issued by the consulate to any Mexican who produces a birth certificate and proof of local residence.</p>

ANTHRAX SPORES FOR SALE IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY — Two germ banks tucked away in the smog and sprawl of the hemisphere's largest city stock dozens of petri dishes filled with anthrax, the bacteria that have sparked a worldwide panic. But there are no armed guards, no security cameras and no health officials tottering about in germ-proof space suits. In fact, these labs sell, swap or even give away the potentially deadly microbe to those with scientific credentials. Scientists estimate that germ banks from Bangkok to Buenos Aires, Paris to Perth, keep dozens of strains of Bacillus anthracis, the ...

WASHINGTON – Immigration talks between the United States and Mexico appear to be among the first political victims of last week's deadly terrorist attacks, analysts and government officials on both sides of the border say. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities are investigating how three of the suspected terrorists entered the country undetected over the U.S.-Canadian border. The Bush administration reiterated Tuesday that new immigration measures will be part of an anti-terrorism legislative package to be delivered to Congress as early as Wednesday. Lawmakers also plan to debate tightening the U.S.-Canada border. The attacks in Washington and New York came days after Mr. ...

Money in the bank: Accounts helping wary immigrants park cash safely, send it home 08/19/2001 By ANGELA SHAH / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Targeted for the cash they carried, four immigrant day laborers were robbed and killed on the capital's predominantly Hispanic east side. "They carry too much money, and when attacked, they're afraid to report it," said Rudy Landeros, an assistant police chief. "We had to do something to stop the violence." Their solution would team them with a partner whose weapons of choice are draft accounts, ATM cards and wire transfers. That's right, bankers. The unlikely ...