HERE ARE MAJOR ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE APRIL ISSUE OF THE FENCE POST
BRAZEN TRAFFICKERS WANT THE RUN OF THE BORDER
BY GREGORY GROSS
Mexican police at a checkpoint outside Mexicali stop a truck loaded
with furniture. Under the tables and chairs are more than 800 pounds of
marijuana. Just across the border in Calexico, U.S. Customs agents at the
port of entry are near the point of collapse after seizing loads of marijuana
in one day.
POPULATION HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT
By Georgie Anne Geyer
There is a massive struggle within the Sierra Club by members who believe
that the ever increasing U.S. population, which at the current rate of
growth, will reach 500 million people by 2050 and want to reduce immigration
in order to reduce that number. They are opposed by those who would like
to see things remain unchanged, in order to assuage Latinos who support
the club.
AGENTS SEIZE 37 AFTER CHASE IN WHICH A POLICE CAR IS RAMMED, 3 CARS
CRASH
An off-duty U.S. Customs officer was injured near Bonsall when the
driver of a van loaded with 36 illegal aliens rammed a U.S. Border
Patrol vehicle, causing a three-car accident along State Route
905.
ALIEN MEDI-CAL FRAUD PROGRAM IN JEOPARDY
By Peter K. Nunez
A very successful program aimed at defeating Medi-Cal fraud committed
by non-resident aliens who cross the border to receive free medical treatment
at U.S. taxpayer expense has bee jeopardized by the threat of lawsuits
and interagency bureaucratic snafus. Millions of taxpayer dollars are paid
to residents of Mexico.
BORDER SOLUTION TASK FORCE AWARDS DINNER HAILS LEGISLATORS, ACTIVISTS
AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Over a hundred people attended the 3rd Annual Awards Dinner in San
Diego to salute Rep. Brian Bilbray, State Sen. Steve Peace, Assemblyman
Jan Goldsmith, Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Copley News Service reporter Marcus
Stern, Activist Donna Tisdale, INS Inspector Harold Mynatt and a special
posthumous award to Border Patrol Agent Stephen Starch, who lost his life
on duty.
1997 BORDER ARRESTS THIRD HIGHEST IN HISTORY
By Peter K. Nunez
While Clinton administration officials brag about Operation Gatekeeper
in San Diego and similar efforts to beef up enforcement along the border
in Texas, more illegal aliens were arrested along the 2,000 mile-long U.S.-Mexican
border in FY 1997 than in all but two years in the history of the Border
Patrol.
IMMIGRATION GROUPS JOIN IN WASHINGTON, D.C. DURING AWARENESS WEEK
Dozens of immigration reform groups, who are members of the National
Grassroots Alliance will meet to inform Congress of the current immigration
problems, while seeking stricter laws to control illegal and legal immigration.
Hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, they will lobby
Congress.
ILLEGAL ALIEN SMUGGLERS LOAD UP RV’S, 73 PEOPLE FOUND IN ONE MOTOR
HOME
Snowbirds plying Arizona’s highways in their motor homes are getting
some competition on the road. Border Patrol agents have intercepted a hal-dozen
loads of illegal aliens crammed into recreational vehicles in
just one week, as they suspect that a trend may be developing by illegal
alien smugglers.
INS REFORMERS MEANT TO CUT BACK ON FRAUD
Democratic leaders introduced legislation to speed the naturalization
process, even as two congressional committees conducted hearings on bill
to tighten up the process, while kicking off an election-year effort aimed
at attracting Latino voters. Among measures introduced by Kennedy and Gephardt
are bills to limit the INS from increasing citizenship fees.
MEXICANS CROSS BORDER TO RECEIVE U.S. WELFARE CHECKS
The GAO says American taxpayers give $1.1 billion to illegal aliens
each year in food stamps and aid to families with depenant children.
Mexican citizens living illegally in the U.S. aren’t the only foreigners
who live off U.S. taxpayers, so do Mexicans living in Mexico who cross
the border to pick up U.S. welfare checks.
CLINTON PUSHING FOR AID TO IMMIGRANTS
In his upcoming budget request, President Clinton is asking Congress
to undo the last remaining provision of welfare reform legislation affecting
immigrants that was passed just before the 1996 elections and has since
been gutted by many recent bills.
MEXICAN SOLDIERS ARRESTED IN ACCOSTING 12 AT BORDER
After a brief confrontation between police and soldier, four Mexican
soldiers have been arrested and accused of assaulting a group of Mexican
nationals trying to illegally cross the border into the United States in
Tijuana.
FEDERAL AGENTS ARREST SMUGGLERS THAT BROUGHT IN 1,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS
Federal official have broken up a global smuggling ring that brought
some 1,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. from as far away as India,
China and Nepal for up to $30,000 per person.
INDICTMENTS DISRUPT DESERT COCAINE RING
U.S. officials announced the indictment of three Mexicans and San Diego
area builder, breaking up a drug-trafficking ring based in Mexicali that
allegedly had been transporting cocaine by the ton across the Imperial
Valley border for two decades.
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