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City Faces Big Claim In Penney Case By Leslie Wolf Branscomb UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 15, 2004 NATIONAL CITY – A family whose members were erroneously detained for shoplifting at a J.C. Penney store and then deported has filed a claim for damages against the city. The family of Antonio Flores Noyola is seeking $1.5 million for emotional distress and attorney's fees stemming from the Nov. 14 incident at the Plaza Bonita shopping mall. Flores and five family members were shopping at the department store when two of them were detained by a store security guard, who suspected they were...

U.S. tax number abuse rises By Ray Stern, Tribune Each Tuesday and Thursday, the Internal Revenue Service hands out the special numbers that allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to file federal and state tax returns each year. On a recent Thursday, Dianes Esparza of Queen Creek drove to the Tempe IRS office at Baseline Road and Mill Avenue to get a number. The undocumented worker said filing her taxes would be an investment in her future in the United States in case an amnesty agreement is reached. "If there is some kind of agreement, I understand from talking...

<p>CASA GRANDE - A traffic stop on the Tohono O'odham Reservation left one undocumented immigrant dead, two other people in the hospital and a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a minor injury.</p> <p>Two Border Patrol agents stopped a suspicious vehicle around 10 p.m. along Federal Route 15, said Rob Daniels, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in Tucson.</p>

(snip) More than 1,500 immigrants tramp across the Tohono O'odham Nation every day, making it one of the busiest illegal entry points in the country. So far this year, 27,130 people have been arrested in this remote desert, nearly half the number caught in the much more populated San Diego area. At the same time, federal agents have seized a staggering 179,300 pounds of narcotics since October. (snip) "Now you have to deal with houses being broken into, vehicles stolen. I keep three rifles loaded at all times and carry a pistol with me. I stay awake at night to...

<p>Most people know that Usama bin Laden's terror group, Al Qaeda (Arabic for “the base”), derives its name from the Mujahideen database that bin Laden developed through the 1980s and 1990s. Using “the base,” bin Laden could call on a corps of operatives to carry out missions.</p>

For Immediate Release Press Office Contact: Suzanne Lubar, 202-282-8010 March 16, 2004 In a first -of- its- kind effort to achieve an even safer and more secure Southwest border, Department of Homeland Security Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Asa Hutchinson today unveiled the "Arizona Border Control (ABC) Initiative." The kick-off event attended by Congressman Jim Kolbe, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officials, as well as a delegation from the Government of Mexico was held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Air and Marine Operations Hangar in...

HAYWARD -- Jeff Cook didn't see this one coming. Cook was assailed during the Hayward Unified School District Board of Education meeting on Wednesday night by members of the Latino community who were outraged by comments the new trustee made prior to a meeting last month. A procession of leaders and members of the Latino community took turns calling Cook a "racist, bigot" and "xenophobe" after he referred to Latinos as "illegal aliens" and "selfish" during his opening comments of the Jan. 14 board meeting. Cook called Wednesday's attack "pretty vicious," and said he simply wanted to voice his disapproval...

Feb 24, 2004 One or more shooters remained on the loose in Mexico Monday after firing on Border Patrol agents who had intercepted a load of illegal aliens being ferried across the Colorado River on an inflatable raft. Multiple gunshots rang out and bullets whizzed over agents' heads as they were subduing the smuggler of the aliens at the river's edge near County 7th Street at 6:45 a.m., the patrol said. The gunfire was followed by one or more shots fired from an undetermined location on the U.S. side of the river. No one was injured in the shooting, but...

According to the amendment made to paragraph 'a' in the first clause of Article 9 of the Código Fiscal de la Federación in México, the money transfers that Mexicans send to their country would be subject to federal taxation For example, this means that out of the $13.3 billion dollars that were sent last year to México, 35 percent ($4.6 billion) -- more or less the tax owed -- would have to be paid to the government.

FORT WORTH - Mexican officials are concerned that a failed legislative effort to improve access to consulates could affect thousands of foreigners detained in Texas each year on criminal charges or immigration violations. A bill that would have required judges to inform foreign nationals of their right to consul assistance passed the Texas House but never made it to the Senate. "It is a pity that this bill couldn't pass, especially because there are many Mexicans who don't even know what a consulate is and maybe even about the criminal process," said Juan Jose Salgado, Mexico's deputy consul general in...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — On the brink of the summer tourist season, officials here are confronting an ominous reality — multimillion-dollar stands of marijuana tended by armed growers who have menaced visitors, killed wildlife, polluted streams and trashed pristine countryside. The pot fields are financed by the Mexican drug cartels that dominate the methamphetamine trade in the adjacent Central Valley, drug enforcement officials say. The officials say there is evidence that the cartels, in turn, have financial ties to Middle Eastern smugglers linked to Hezbollah and other groups accused of terrorism.

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Immigration and Naturalization Service acted illegally when it retroactively changed the rules for a visa program that allows foreigners to become permanent U.S. residents by investing at least $500,000 in an American business. The ruling means that about 200 investors in a Maryland-based firm, AIS, will be spared from near-certain deportation. The decision is the latest development in the 12-year history of the controversial investor visa program. In a 27-page decision written by Judge Betty Fletcher, the three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco concluded that the...

SARS Scare Reaches South Texas LAST UPDATE: 4/25/2003 5:22:41 PM Posted By: Julie Fike The SARS border scare reached all the way to Laredo. Border agents in South Texas near Freer Friday arrested 17 illegal immigrants. Six of them were Chinese. Agents took the six to a doctor’s hospital in Laredo. They were tested for SARS. Three of the six were given a clean bill of health. The results are still pending on the other three. Laredo Immigration Assistant Chief George Gunnoe says he believes the final test results later Friday night. Gunnoe says the chances of them having SARS...

<p>More countries issue ID cards to illegal aliens in U.S.</p> <p>Guatemala, Honduras, Poland, Peru and El Salvador, aware of Mexico's success in getting identification cards to its citizens in the United States, including those here illegally, have begun or are considering issuing cards of their own, federal officials said yesterday.</p>

Don’t harass Pakistanis, Kasuri urges America * Foreign minister heads for United States today to get Pakistan off INS list (snip) He said Islamabad would forcefully ask the United States to exempt Pakistan from a list of countries whose male nationals are required to register and provide fingerprints to the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) by mid-February. (snip) He said being and ally of the United States and a frontline state in the international fight against terrorism ‘it is all the more necessary that Pakistan and its citizens were treated favourably’. (snip) “There are millions of illegal immigrants from other...

Part two (of 5) in the Wash. Times is covering just some of our tax dollars spent on the 10,000 illegals crossing our southern border.....EVERYDAY http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020924-8536150.htm 'We are overwhelmed' By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Part Two of Five SELLS, Ariz. — The Tohono O'odham Nation here, the second largest Indian reservation in the United States, is facing a medical crisis. Every month, more than 50,000 illegal aliens cross the reservation, which is located in the harsh desert regions of southern Arizona and shares 76 miles of the international border with Mexico. The illegal aliens are pushed to the remote...

Thin green line takes a new strategy By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES BOCA CHICA, Texas — Today, more than 10,000 illegal aliens will cross into the United States from Mexico. About one in three will be caught, and many of them will try it again — as soon as tomorrow. Nearly half of those who make it will become permanent U.S. residents. Starting here at the mouth of the Rio Grande, east of Brownsville, Texas, and stretching 1,940 miles west to the Pacific Ocean at the Border Field State Park, south of Imperial Beach, Calif., the "undocumentados" will undertake...

<p>Thousands of immigrants have been forced to leave their jobs in the last few months, the result of a little-publicized operation by the U.S. government to clean up Social Security records, immigration experts say. Since early this year, the Social Security Administration has sent letters to more than 800,000 businesses -- about one in eight U.S. employers -- asking them to clear up cases in which their workers' names or Social Security numbers do not match the agency's files.</p>

Peter Camejo, a fluent Spanish speaker from New York who was born to Venezuelan parents, is running for governor under the Green Party. He is making a serious attempt to woo disgruntled Latino voters from the other two mainstream parties, especially the Democrats. But Camejo's views on immigration certainly raise a few eyebrows. "We think that immigration is what made America great, especially the Mexicans," said Camejo, standing in the center of the banquet hall as it emptied in preparation for the Democratic dinner a few hours later. "This is a part of Mexico, this is territory taken from Mexico,...

Peter Camejo, a fluent Spanish speaker from New York who was born to Venezuelan parents, is running for governor under the Green Party. He is making a serious attempt to woo disgruntled Latino voters from the other two mainstream parties, especially the Democrats. "We are the party of the people, while the Democrats and the Republicans are the party of money," he continued. "We now have the largest production in the state of California in its history, and yet we have billions of dollars of deficits. That's because of mismanagement and abuse." The Green Party platform includes raising the minimum...