Public Concern over Insecurity for Political Gain[Several lead stories addressed the government’s preoccupation with the war on crime.]

Mexico’s Secretary of Government (No US equivalent), Juan Camilo Mouriño, replied to criticisms of President Calderón’s strategies and performance in the war against crime by requesting that the other political parties not seek political profit on the theme of security, but rather to put public interest first. He asserted that President Calderón is not dodging his responsibilities and will continue to confront organized crime throughout his term. There is to be a high-level meeting of the National Security Council Thursday

Pacific islanders who live nearly 8,000 miles away from Iowa are preparing to become the next wave of immigrants seeking jobs at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville. A job recruiter in the tiny nation of Palau said hundreds of his countrymen want to fly to Iowa to work at the embattled plant. The recruiter, Webster Franz, said most

A TORY MP is calling for an investigation into an organized scam involving the claiming of multiple child benefits in the UK by foreign criminals. David Davies, the MP for Monmouth, says he was told of the scam by an Eastern European government official he met earlier this month.

Anyone who read the outrageous story “Certifying a birth a mother’s ordeal” in the Aug. 17 edition about the illegal immigrant wanting free education for her child probably had a rise in blood pressure. However, there is an opportunity to do something about it. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to anyone born in America, is the center of this controversy. It was originally passed to ensure

A member of the violent Mara Salvatrucha street gang, who previously was arrested as a murder suspect, is back in custody after being arrested near Yuma by U.S. Border Patrol agents. The unidentified gang member, a citizen of El Salvador, was arrested Monday night after he illegally entered the country, the patrol said. Agent Ben Vik, a spokesman

An officer was injured Tuesday morning while deploying a spike strip in an effort to stop a truck that was fleeing from police on Interstate 10 near Benson. At 9:09 a.m., an Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer attempted to stop a Chevrolet pickup truck on westbound I-10 at milepost 295 for speeding and a tint violation, according to Officer Robert Bailey

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Like many Mexicans, Jaime Reyes is a little apprehensive about the coming U.S. presidential election. “Whoever wins, it could be bad for us,” said Reyes, a salesman in the western city of Guadalajara. “The Republicans seem like they’re anti-immigrant, and (Barack) Obama is against free trade. I don’t think either is good.” It’s a common

A 30-year-old Mexican man in a coma at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago has ignited a dispute over a little-known practice at hospitals–sending medically needy undocumented immigrants back to their countries of origin. The disagreement revolves around Francisco Pantaleon, who arrived in the U.S. 11 years ago and suffered

DENVER (MyFOXColorado.com) - Colorado taxpayers shelling out tens of millions of dollars to imprison illegal immigrants. And now State Attorney General John Suthers wants some payback from the feds. He sent out a letter Monday to Colorado’s nine congressional members urging increased financial support for the costs of incarcerating undocumented

A supervisor arrested after a large immigration raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant was hit with new charges Tuesday including conspiring to hire illegal immigrants. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza is expected to plead guilty to that charge, as well as aiding and abetting the hiring of illegal immigrants, according to a court filing by the U.S. attorney

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducted another controversial fight against undocumented immigration Tuesday. Sheriff Joe Arpaio deployed a team of 15 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into the town of Cave Creek. Within six hours, deputies made 47 traffic stops

GOSHEN — The first of the federal detainees to be housed under a contract with Orange County at its county jail in Goshen were being moved in on Tuesday, Sheriff Carl DuBois said. Twenty detainees were to be brought in under a contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement

GREENVILLE, S.C. Seven former House of Raeford Farms poultry plant workers acknowleged they used fake IDs to work at the company’s poultry plant here. The men pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft in federal court Tuesday, and each faces up to two years in prison before being deported back to Mexico, their homecountry. The former

A group that blames Austin’s Welcome Center for much of the city’s economic and crime issues is gaining attention as more people on both sides of the immigration debate begin to speak out.  More than 100 people and some local politicians on Monday attended an open forum sponsored by the Minnesota Coalition for Immigration Reduction,

ROGERS - Jeannie Bulsworth, the founder and chairwoman of the antiillegal-immigration group Secure Arkansas, described Monday night the problems illegals are making in America.  Not everyone shared Bulsworth’s vision. Two people at the small gathering at the Rogers Public Library left after 15 minutes without a look back, leaving 13 people in the audience.

WASH—Aug 11—KIN– A cataclysmic storm is brewing over the United States as inflated oil prices meet the colossal mortgage crisis. For American citizens high oil prices have eroded disposable income through record gasoline prices, increased food prices, skyrocketing utilities as well as housing deflation that has helped create record home foreclosures. This phenomenon is a growing threat to the national security and sovereignty of the US. The hundreds of billions of dollars caught up as windfall profit for Arab Islamic oil barons

LITTLE ROCK — Every business has to maintain a legal work force.  The Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration offer options for employers to verify information provided by new employees. The Social Security Administration maintains the Social Security Number VerificationService that allows employers to check numbers online, over the phone and through the mail.

The board that governs North Carolina’s 58 community colleges has voted to keep in place a ban on illegal immigrants but delay a permanent policy until it completes a study of how other states handle such students. The decision, reached on August 15, has hardly appeased folks on either side of the debate. Both supporters of an open-door policy and opponents of illegal immigration denounced the decision as a political play

  Graham, N.C. — Tempers flared Monday evening before the Alamance County Board of Commissioners over illegal immigration. Some people say that enforcing the law is tearing families apart, while others say law enforcement officers are just doing their jobs.

“You can’t become a citizen of the U.S. after committing a Felony in the U.S. while illegally here, also it is against Federal Law to knowingly aid or abet an illegal alien to remain in the country!  How come our Federal Government is not investigating and charging the city with this crime?”

A San Francisco city commission has taken a defiant stand against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s directive on young immigrant felons by urging officials to permit the offenders to remain in the city and help pay for their housing, job placement services and immigration lawyers.

Work on “virtual fences” planned for Arizona’s stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border has been brought to a halt.

The Interior Department has not granted the Homeland Security Department permission to use the land for constructing the surveillance towers that form the backbone of the virtual fences, said Barry Morrissey, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C.

Tom Wenning blocks the entrance to Portland’s day labor hiring site in this file photo.

WASHINGTON – To test his theory that Americans are deeply disenchanted with their two major-party choices for president, WND Editor Joseph Farah, author of the new book, “None of the Above: Why 2008 Is the Year to Cast the Ultimate Protest Vote,” commissioned a nationwide poll conducted a week ago by Zogby International that has produced results what he calls “stunning” results.

Virginia Dare was the first white child of English parentage born in America. She was born on August 18, 1587 On August 18, 1590, her grandfather returned America by ship to find that she, and everyone in the colony, vanished without a trace.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) — At least 43 people died in violent attacks in the last three days in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, the scene of ongoing drug gang turf wars, police said Monday.  Thirteen males, aged between 18 and 41, died in separate attacks on Monday, mostly in the flashpoint city of Ciudad Juarez on the US border, local police said.

EL PASO — The Mexican army and drug cartel operatives are among the likely sources of recent interference with El Paso police communications and the Digital El Paso wireless network, city officials said.  “The increased interference that resulted in dead zones or dead spots coincided with the arrival of the Mexican army in Juárez,” said Gary

Mexican citizens feeling the insecurities of crimeEl Universal (Mexico City) 8/16/08

Several articles focused on resolving the national feeling of insecurity and the government’s proposed measures to combat organized crime, especially the widespread kidnapping  for ransom.

-  César  Camacho Quiroz (PRI party), president of the Justice Commission, said that the problem of insecurityy in Mexico will not be resolved by stiffer penalties but by eradicating impunity, as only 2 of 10 crimes are reported.

TUCSON - U.S. Border Patrol agents working near Naco have caught a large group of illegal immigrants. Agents were patrolling west of the port of entry at Naco on Saturday, when they discovered a series of footprints. Spokesman Rob Daniels said Monday that the agents tracked

Laredo, Texas — Commercial truckers driving into and out of Laredo, Texas now have a couple of reminders that they should not gamble with their livelihoods by hauling illegal aliens or drugs. Two billboards were erected today along Interstate Highway 35 as part of Laredo Sector Border Patrol’s effort to make truckers aware of the Texas Hold ‘Em initiative

A San Francisco city commission has taken a defiant stand against Mayor Gavin Newsom’s directive on young immigrant felons by urging officials to permit the offenders to remain in the city and help pay for their housing, job placement services and immigration lawyers. Newsom announced last month - in an attempt to quell a growing controversy