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FBI, DHS ON HIGH ALERT FOR TERRORIST
ON BORDER
AL-QAEDA LEADER COULD BE POSING AS
POOR LLEGAL IMMIGRANT
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The FBI has warned the
Mexican consulate, the Mexican press and law enforcement
agencies in the United States to be on alert for a suspected
al-Qaeda terror cell leader suspected to be attempting to enter
the country from Mexico along the southern border. The alert
was first issued to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez just
across the border from El Paso. A $5,000 to $5 million-dollar
reward is offered to anyone who can provide information leading
to the capture of Saudi native Adnan G. El Shukrijumah who is
wanted in connection with terrorist threats against the United
States. El Shukrijumah is trained in flight skills, knowledge
of explosives and terrorism operations and was reportedly
sighted in Honduras earlier this year. Terrorists sneaking
across the border along smuggling routes and disguised as
illegal immigrants from Mexico have become a major concern for
the Department of Homeland Security in only the past few
months, almost three years since the attacks of September 11,
2001.
DHS and FBI officials are
alerting Border Patrol agents, El Paso’s bridge
inspectors, and the
community at large to be on the lookout
for El Shukrijumah, 29, a native of Saudi Arabia who may be
using a Guyanese, Canadian or Trinidadian passport.
Officials said Shukrijumah might be using
immigrant-smuggling routes through Central America and Mexico
to get to the border. El Shukrijumah is believed to be 29 years
old, has black hair and black eyes and weighs about 132 pounds
- though he may be heavier now. He has an average build and
occasionally wears a beard. He has a
“pronounced” nose, is asthmatic and speaks English.
Shukrijumah is considered armed and
dangerous.
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THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA HAVE SPOKEN!
PROTECT ARIZONA NOW INITIATIVE MAKES BALLOT!
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Tuesday morning Arizona Secretary of State
Jan Brewer notified Protect Arizona NOW (PAN) founder and
chairman, Kathy McKee, that with all 15 counties reporting the
results of their validation of signatures, the Arizona Taxpayer
and Citizen Protection Act resoundingly qualifies for the
November 2, 2004 ballot with 152,177
validated signatures.
This total is almost 30,000 more signatures than the statutorily required
122,612 signatures.
“We are elated,” said McKee,
“and ready for the next three months. Our initiative
represents the determination Arizonans have to demand
government officials do their jobs and enforce our laws. This
honest, law-abiding course will benefit Arizona’s
citizens and legal immigrants alike.”
The Act will require local and state
employees to verify the eligibility of welfare applicants,
overriding present intradepartmental regulations that prevent
state employees from cooperating with ICE [formerly INS] which
were “contrary to the supremacy clause of the
United States Constitution.” States McKee: “Despite
the misinformation and disinformation being distributed by our
opponents, it’s already the law that state employees and
their supervisors can be charged with a misdemeanor for not
reporting welfare fraud. (ARS 46-140-c).” The Act will
also enforce Title 7 Section 12 of the Arizona
Constitution’s requirement that there be
“registration and other laws to secure the purity of
elections and guard against abuses of the elective
franchise.”
The PAN initiative has received the
designation Proposition 200 for the November 2, 2004, election.
McKee concludes, “We realize this is going to be a
monumental fight these next 3 months, both inside Arizona and
nationwide. Our National Advisory Board, chaired by Dr.
Virginia Abernethy, and PAN are ready. Our battle cry now is Protect Arizona NOW with Prop
200.”
The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is that good people do nothing.
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AGREEMENT GIVES ILLEGAL ALIENS $50
BILLION! OF U.S. CITIZENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS!
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URGENT! Congress has 60 days to revoke
Agreement!
With the Social Security Totalization
Agreement recently endorsed by President Bush, ANY Mexican
national who can “prove” he worked in the US for 5
years will be entitled to draw Social Security benefits. (Recall that illegal aliens can
“prove” anything with forged documents, that Social
Security is notorious for poor record-keeping, in part because
of the “identity theft” these illegals practice by
using others’ Social Security numbers). The Congress has limited time [and the
clock’s been ticking] to rescind this Agreement.
Commissioner Barnhart, of the U.S. Social
Security Administration and Dr. Santiago Levy Algazi, Director
General of the Mexican Social Security Institute, signed a
U.S.-Mexican Social Security agreement at a ceremony held in
Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 29, 2004.
This pending agreement between the United
States and our southern neighbor, Mexico will dramatically
reverse the current prohibition of providing Social Security
benefits to illegal immigrant workers from Mexico. Indeed,
there is even correspondence proving that it was on a fast
track to be established, which included plans for erecting a
huge new building at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City just to
deal with the swarms of people anticipated to sign-up for this
raid on our Social Security Trust Fund.
An alien may receive payments outside the
United States, including benefits based on unauthorized work in
the United States, if he or she is a citizen of a country with
which the United States has a totalization agreement.
A totalization agreement with Mexico is
different than with the other 20 countries for several reasons.
First of all, none of those countries have public policies that
encourage illegal immigration to the United States.
Second, because other countries have sent
relatively few workers to the United States over the years and
very few illegal workers, illegal immigration from these
countries is essentially a nonissue. That is, there are
insignificant numbers of illegal aliens residing in the United
States from such countries as Switzerland, South Korea,
Australia, Germany, or Spain, which have had totalization
agreements with the United States for many years.
We urge you to write, e-mail, phone call
and fax your Representative , urging him or her to cosponsor
H. Res. 720 , the resolution that rescinds this agreement that
literally gives away our Social Security Trust Fund to Mexico.
This is no exaggeration. Conservative estimates state it will
drain as much as $50 billion out of the fund.
There is only a 60-day window when
Congress can revoke this agreement, so we have to act now.
The few days we have to repeal this
agreement are the same few days preceding the November
election, when every Congressman is campaigning hard for
reelection and the Congress is seldom in session. The good news is
you can catch your congressperson while they are back in your
district to tell them, in person, you disapprove of this
agreement and to ask them to co-sponsor H. Res.720.
To stop this agreement, it is absolutely
essential that we generate maximum grassroots opposition to
this agreement, since “the powers” in both parties
support it.
BUT, WE CAN STOP THIS AGREEMENT if each
and every one of us does just three things:
1) Write, call, and fax your
Representative and Senators and urge them to oppose the Mexico
Social Security Totalization Agreement and co-sponser H. Res.
720). And,
2)Encourage your Representatives and
Senators to support a moratorium on all immigration in excess
of 100,000 per year. Pushing a moratorium makes it clear where
you stand, and creates leverage to defeat the Social Security
Totalization Agreement. And,
3) MOST IMPORTANT, MOBILIZE grassroots
support for the defeat of the agreement. We can defeat this
agreement only if we increase grassroots support.
Give gift memberships in Carrying Capacity
Network to each and every person who might be encouraged by
this gift to oppose this agreement.
Go to www.carryingcapacity.org to give
gift memberships online.
Write, e-mail, phone call and fax to your
senators and congressmen to kill this agreement. The US
Congressional Switchboard Toll-free Number is (877) 762-8762
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NUESTRO PUEBLO — A STATEMENT OF
PRINCIPLES IN SUPPORT OF SECURE BORDERS
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Adopted May, 2004, by the Hispanic
Citizens for Secure Borders
1. RESPECT FOR LAW: As a nation the United States has always
welcomed immigrants, but we need an orderly process of
immigration and assimilation. Each year over 1.2 million people
come to America legally and over four million people are on
waiting lists to enter legally. We do not need another million
people each year who break the law by sneaking across our
borders under the cloak of darkness.
2. NATIONAL SECURITY: It is well known that thousands of
non-Mexicans come across our northern and southern borders and
that many of them come from countries with terrorist cells. No
responsible citizen or public official can wink at this
situation and pretend that open borders are acceptable in these
dangerous times.
3. JOBS AND WAGES:
Illegal workers are often exploited by
employers. Such employment results in lost wages and lost jobs
for millions of Americans. Young people at the bottom rung of
the employment ladder are the ones most harmed by this unfair
competition with illegal workers. It is simply not true that
illegal workers take only jobs no one else wants.
4. SECURE BORDERS FIRST: No matter how well intended, no Guest Worker
program is feasible unless we first have secure borders and
real enforcement of employment laws. Our experience with the
1986 amnesty taught us that there can be no consideration of
“regularization” for individuals who have entered
our country illegally until our borders are truly secure and
employment laws fully enforced.
5. DEPORT CRIMINALS:
The 100,000-plus felons known to be among
the nation’s illegal aliens must be removed from our
communities and deported. Local law enforcement should
cooperate with Immigration authorities to apprehend and deport
these criminals.
6. POLITICS: Hispanic-American citizens cast their votes
based on the same issues all Americans care about—the war
on terror, jobs, taxes, education, and the character of the
candidate. It is condescending and foolish to promise amnesty
for illegal aliens to get Hispanic votes.
7. SOLUTIONS, NOT SILENCE: It is poisonous to our democracy to
attempt to silence citizens by name-calling. A healthy debate
begins by acknowledging certain facts about our open borders.
Regardless of what country the illegal aliens come from, real
solutions will come only when the actual costs, burdens and
consequences of open borders are recognized.
Signed by the Charter Members of
Hispanics4Secureborders.org
Linda Balderrama, Los Angeles, CA,
Brad Cordova, St. Louis Park, MN ,
Priscilla Espinosa, Nuevo, CA Jim Lopez,
Bakersfield, CA ,
Juan Herrera, Denver, CO,
Lilly Nunez, Littleton, CO,
Armetta Trujillo, Denver, CO Moses
Vialpando, Jr., Brighton, CO
Alex Burrola, Montebello, CA,
Gloria Deverick, Mineral Wells, TX,
Corine Flores, Santa Fe, NM ,
Chris Lucas, Boulder, CO ,
Lupe Moreno, Santa Ana, CA Olga Robles,
Douglas, AZ ,
Richard Valdemar, Crestline, CA,
Angelina Morfin, Salinas, CA,
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SHOULD SPONSORS PAY?
Briefing on Effort to Compel L.A.
County to Send Bills for ILLEGAL Immigrant Health Care
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WASHINGTON (August 2004) — An
unprecedented lawsuit that could force the U.S. government to
enforce immigration law was the subject of a briefing sponsored
by the Center for Immigration Studies on Wednesday, August 18.
Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE) has initiated a
court action against Los Angeles County, which is providing
health care to foreign nationals at the expense of American
taxpayers. The lawsuit seeks to compel the county to seek
reimbursement from the immigrants’ sponsors for the
services rendered, as required by Federal law.
“There is widespread disregard for
enforcement of our immigration laws, and this suit has the
potential to have serious repercussions both legally and
politically,” said Craig Nelsen, Director of FILE.
Formed two years ago, FILE is a non-profit
association of hundreds of attorneys, researchers, law
enforcement officers, legislators, and others. It has focused
attention on the U.S. government’s failures to enforce
immigration laws by filing briefs, drafting legislation, and
initiating litigation.
On Wednesday, August 18, at 9 a.m., the
Center for Immigration Studies hosted an hour-long briefing at
which Mr. Nelsen discussed the Los Angeles lawsuit, as
well as FILE’s involvement in the case of Yaser Esam
Hamdi, an enemy combatant captured in Afghanistan who claimed
U.S. citizenship. The case was decided by the Supreme Court in
June.
The briefing was free and open to the
public. For more information, contact John Keeley at
(202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org.
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FAIR IS FAIR
U.S. SHOULD HOLD BODIES OF DEAD
ILLEGALS UNTIL REIMBURSED BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
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Another example of how we need to be more
sensitive to cultural differences, or is it just plain
double standards? The Mexican consulate is going to hear
how this American citizen feels about the insensitive double
standard I feel this is. We have emailed this story to all
embassies, consulars and consulates.
We have the Mexican consulate complaining
our militarization of the border is causing
“hardships” to people who want to break in to our
country illegally. The consulate is constantly whining about
the treatment of their criminals; they say our Border Patrol
and citizen patrol groups are not sensitive to their cultural
needs. And our government - President Bush and Governor
Napolitano play “pass the buck” as they cower in
fear of being insensitive.
The message from the taxpayers should be:
all is fair in this war of invasion. We say fair is fair:
let’s hold the bodies of all the criminal invaders who
died because of stupidity until the families or the governments
of their country of origin reimburse us for expenses like
coroner, hazmat crews that clean up the bodies, law enforcement
and, of course, transportation. No pay - no body. The longer
they take to claim the body, the more the charge will be
because they take up valuable space, and besides, it costs
money to refrigerate the corpses.
Sound offensive? Call Dr. Laura; I’m
sure she could help ease your pain. You might need a translator
- I’m not sure she speaks anything other than the
national language -English.
A Salem, Oregon family’s
struggle to bring their son’s body back from Mexico has
ended.
Austin Hakes’ remains arrived at
Portland International Airport last Saturday and were brought
to Salem.
“We are finally to the point where
we can be at ease as much as can be expected,”
Hakes’ stepfather, Mark Walen, said Sunday.
Hakes, 14, died a week ago Thursday in a
personal-watercraft accident while vacationing in Cabo San
Lucas, Baja Mexico, with his father and stepmother.
The Mexican government would not let the
family take the boy’s body home until they paid $10,000
in fees and medical bills. His parents might have paid more
than that.
Hakes lived most of the time with his
mother, Michelle Walen, and stepfather in Salem. His father,
Scott Hakes, and stepmother, Julie, live in Portland.
Scott Hakes was not ready to talk about
the ordeal or his son’s death Sunday.
“Scott said he wants to tell the
whole nation,” Mark Walen said, “but he needs to
take some time.”
The family already has fielded calls from
USA Today about their battle with the Mexican government to
bring home their son.
Returning a body to the United States can
be a lengthy, costly process, and the burden ultimately rests
on the family’s shoulders, the U.S. Consulate General
says.
The language barrier was the
family’s biggest problem, Mark Walen said.
(Our consulate should demand that law
enforcement and government officials learn English to better
serve “our people”.)
The family faced another hurdle after
Austin Hakes’ body left Mexico.
Customs at San Francisco International
Airport would not send the body to Portland until Customs there
had someone to receive the body, which would not have been
until Tuesday.
Sandy Wright, the mother of Austin’s
girlfriend, made several phone calls.
The office of U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley,
D-West Linn, learned of the problem Saturday and worked with
the Port of Portland to have an official there to
receive Hakes’ body.
“We just needed to get Austin
home,” Wright said.
A funeral was held Tuesday.
“He was a good kid,” Mark
Walen said. “He had a heart for everyone.”
Hakes attended Judson Middle School last
year and was set to start Sprague High School in the fall.
