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WASHINGTON – A leading airport-security firm under fire for hiring foreigners was pressured by the federal government two-and-a-half years ago to rehire Arab non-citizens. Argenbright Security Inc., which provides security at both Washington Dulles International and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports, agreed in early 1999 to rehire seven Muslim women after they filed a religion-bias complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Justice Department, in the wake of the Sept. 11 hijackings, is investigating the same company for failing to properly screen its guards. Argenbright operates the screening posts under contract with United Airlines at Dulles and Newark ...
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Illegal Aliens Routinely Go Unchecked Gary Bokelmann, NewsMax.comFriday, Nov. 9, 2001 Editor's note: This is the conclusion of a three-part series. See part one, Immigration Crackdown 'Is Clearly Inadequate,' and part two, Should Military Guard U.S. Borders? Exactly one week after Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major crackdown on illegal immigration, a study by his own Inspector General’s Office reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service is unable to locate millions of foreign citizens who have overstayed their visas. The complete failure to track those who violate their visas comes in spite of a $31 million computer system ...
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<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Rajiv Dabhadkar was three blocks from his New Jersey home on Oct. 2 when police motioned his car to the side of the road.</p>
<p>Dabhadkar, a computer programmer from India here on an H-1B visa, was handcuffed and held in jail for several hours. When released, he was fined $250 for an unpaid parking ticket.</p>
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ENVER, Oct. 12 — The whole nation has been anxious this past month, but for millions of Mexican immigrants around the country there have been added fears. Roundups of illegal immigrants in Colorado and tough enforcement of immigration laws at workplaces in Oregon have led to anguished, and apparently unfounded, concerns that the government is cracking down on Hispanic workers in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the truly punishing repercussion of those attacks has been a round of sweeping layoffs in the airline and hotel industries and other industries with large Mexican labor forces. One national union ...
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Immigration policy paved way for Sept. 11 attack As the truth leaks out about how the U.S. government ignored ample evidence that insane immigration policies might lead to disaster, more and more bad guys are turning up in white hats. The bad guys in white hats, wearing Old Glory pins in their lapels and giving pious speeches from behind podiums flanked by dozens of American flags, are your congressional representatives. In their red, white and blue ties, these folks (to borrow from George W. Bush) have been lying to us for years. The sorry truth is that these officials — ...
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<p>On a day filled with so much tragedy and sorrow as Sept. 11, it is too much to expect shocked political leaders to show comprehension of such dramatic events in their public statements. But if we are to avoid more and worse tragedies, we as a people, as well as our government officials, must understand our situation and how it come about. Otherwise, the main impact of the war against terrorism will be the diminution of our own civil liberties.</p>
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Tuesday, August 28, 2001 -- Caramba! What were they thinking? When the Bush administration floated a trial balloon of granting amnesty to some three million undocumented Mexicans who live in the United States, it sounded like one of those dopey schemes Democrats hatch. Predictably, the outcry from the right about the proposal was loud. But less predictable was the opposition that came from independent-minded Americans of Hispanic descent, like Ruben Navarrette Jr. Ruben is a Chicano, a Harvard grad, and a member of the Dallas Morning News' editorial board. In a commentary, he opined: "But for those who still refuse ...
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New York - The secret to achieving power in today's America is not being the best, the brightest or the most ruthless. The secret is coalition-building; convincing specific blocs of people thatyou have their interests in mind, that you will favor them. Hillary Clinton did this masterfully in her victorious campaign for the Senate. She put together a New York coalition of minorities, union workers, liberal suburban moms and one-issue fanatics to clean Rick Lazio's clock. While Mr. Lazio was trying to win wide support for his "honest, clean-cut" approach to politics, Mrs. Clinton was clean-cutting his throat by deal-making ...
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     We read that Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the nation, numbering some 35 million. A recent study in New York City showed that another rapidly growing group, Asians, now make up 10 percent of that city's people.      To sum up, the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) reports that almost 3 out of 4 new immigrants are either from the Americas or Asia. The flood of immigrants from 1991-8 (the last recorded year) numbers 7.6 million, rivaling the 8.8 million who came to the United States during the 10-year peak period from 1901-1910.      To some, the new ...
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Immigrants—legal and illegal—now make up 13% of the nation’s workers, the highest percentage since the 1930s. They dominate job categories at both ends of the economic spectrum. Immigrants hold 35% of the unskilled jobs, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C. They also command a significant share of highly skilled technology jobs. At the height of the dot-com boom, as many as a third of the techies working in California’s Silicon Valley were from Asia. Most of the nation’s 17.7 million immigrant workers toil, like those who preceded them, in jobs that native-born Americans ...
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Two issues awaiting President Bush's decision -- embryonic stem-cell research and amnesty for 3 million illegal Mexican aliens -- most worry Republican leaders around the country. Party leaders say the debate over using human embryos for medical research divides two key segments of the Republican coalition: religious conservatives and suburban voters. One official warns that the party will "pay a significant price" if Mr. Bush grants amnesty for illegal immigrants. In interviews with scores of party leaders and elected officials from around the country, many attending a national party meeting in Boston last week, embryonic stem-cell research emerges as a ...
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Greenfield, Monterey County -- There are no stoplights here, and not a single fast-food outlet exists on the mile-long main drag. Located in the verdant heart of the Salinas Valley, this is the kind of small town where nothing much happens, and residents like it that way. But something's changed here recently. Alarmed by complaints that migrant workers hanging out along the town's main street have been harassing young women and girls walking to and from school, federal immigration agents swept in. The raid of a downtown pool hall and a nearby apartment building 10 days ago resulted in ...
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Area ranchers Roger and Don Barnett detained 36 illegal border crossers Saturday night, said Rob Daniels, spokesman for the Border Patrol. At about 9 p.m., one of the Barnett brothers called the Border Patrol agents about a group of migrants they had detained on their land near mile marker 387 and 388, Daniels said. According to the Mexican Consul in Douglas, Miguel Escobar, who had interviewed the migrants, the group had crossed the border on Friday, and was waiting to catch a ride to Phoenix. The group was resting on Saturday near Highway 80 when they heard dogs barking. The ...
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By Steve Sailer Want a neighbor you can count on? Move to Montana. That's one conclusion you might draw from a Harvard University study released today, which finds that Los Angeles residents trust each other less than most other Americans. The study is billed as the largest-ever survey on "civic engagement" - activities such as joining social or community groups, voting and simply making friends. … And it links L.A.'s low standing to the area's ethnic diversity. Those who live in more homogeneous places, such as New Hampshire, Montana or Lewiston, Maine, do more with friends and are more involved ...
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On the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, it is not generally permitted to mention immigration reform at all, or at least not without flotillas of escorting sneer words. But George Melloan, the WSJ Deputy Editor, International, has been tiptoeing around the borders of the prohibition in recent weeks. Which leads me to wonder whether 1) Melloan is so senior at the paper as to feel exempt from the page’s general proscriptions, 2) Editor Bob Bartley is so caught up in the happy holidays that he isn’t noticing, or 3) Something else is going on. For instance, on December 19, 2000, ...
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Following the Returns: Investor class or immigrant tide? By John O'Sullivan In recent years National Review has pioneered two of the most fruitful theories of electoral behavior: namely, those based upon the "investor class" and the "impact of immigration." The investor-class theory holds that since most Americans now own shares in American industry, they are less amenable to anticorporate rhetoric and more favorable to such policies as the reform of Social Security. If true, this theory would suggest growing Republican dominance as prosperity pushes more people into the investor class. The impact-of-immigration theory, by contrast, predicts an increase in ...
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Illegal alien vote: Why the silence in FLA? 12/12/00 +== PROJECT UPDATE ==+ As of this writing, the Presidency is still undetermined. Yet, illustrating just how proscribed the debate on immigration is, important questions about major voter fraud involving illegal aliens remain unasked in an election marked by intense national scrutiny of every last dimpled chad, and epic court battles over the most arcane technicalities. Amazingly, in spite of evidence that illegal aliens and noncitizens voted in huge numbers in Florida (Copley News Service, November 21, 2000; The Washington Times, November 29, 2000), the party on the short end of ...
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I recently got an email from my favorite neoconservative politician. (I'm not mentioning his name since it was a private message. But since true neoconservative politicians are practically nonexistent - as opposed to the Joe Liebermans and Daniel Patrick Moynihans who talk like Irving Kristol but vote like Walter Mondale - you probably can guess his name.) He asked my opinion of a House race in the Fresno farm region of California's Central Valley. It pits Democrat incumbent Cal Dooley against Republican newscaster Rich Rodriguez. Running a Mexican-American in a district that's 60% Hispanic (40% of registered voters) has given ...
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However inured I think I am to the hypocrisy in American political discourse, media coverage of the immigration issue still takes my breath away. There was a prime example this last weekend in Newsday, the main newspaper out here where I live in Suffolk County on New York's Long Island. Newsday has a left-liberal editorial line, and I do not subscribe to the daily edition as a matter of principle — I just want to make this perfectly clear — but my wife likes the Sunday version because of the coupons that come with it. So here we are on ...
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