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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Deja vu


Undocumented Mexican migrants head to border in anticipation of legalization
April 12 2006
...The shelter's manager, Francisco Loureiro, said he hasn't seen such a spike in migration since 1986, when the United States approved legislation allowing 2.6 million undocumented migrants to get U.S. citizenship....


Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 10
ICE ARRESTS TWO SMUGGLERS, 146 ALIENS AT L.A. DROP HOUSES


...When agents arrived at the residence they found 88 smuggled aliens trapped inside the stiflingly hot home. The aliens told agents the smugglers locked them inside and fled after seeing media coverage about the discovery of the first drop house.
Agents say the house was teeming with roaches and rodents and the rooms were littered with dirty clothes, discarded food and human waste. The nationalities of the migrants in the second house were still being determined as Inside ICE went to press, but the majority were believed to be from Central and South America....

GOP uses Spanish language ads to blame Dems for draconian legislation
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 39 minutes ago
...Bush and Reid swapped charges as Republicans disclosed a Spanish-language radio advertising campaign designed to shoulder Democrats with the responsibility for legislation passed by the GOP-controlled House that would make illegal immigrants subject to felony charges.
The ads are scheduled to air in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada — states with large Hispanic populations....

I wish I could say I was surprised by all of this, but I'm not. (Sigh)

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