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October 27, 2004

VA DAY LABORERS ARRESTED

"The arrest of 24 Latino day laborers looking for work outside a 7-Eleven in Woodbridge was intended as a crackdown on loitering, Prince William County police say. The charge, they noted, carries only a $100 fine," the Washington Post reports. "The arrests came about three months after a new Virginia law gave state and local police the authority to arrest illegal immigrants without a warrant. The law, which targeted possible terrorists, was intended to be limited in scope and could be applied only if the immigrant had been convicted of a felony, had been ordered out of the country and was suspected of committing another crime."

GRAD SCHOOLS FIGHT AGAINST STUDENT SCREENING

Three years after 9/11, graduate schools are fighting against common-sense student screening measures, the New York Times writes. "The Bush administration maintains that the total number of international students at all grade levels has risen to 640,000 now from 580,000 two years ago, although it does not have figures specifically for graduate students. Russ Knocke, the director of public affairs for immigration and customs enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security, also said that since August 2003, about 2,800 international students have been investigated and 381 arrested for immigration violations, criminal activities or national security threats."

HEARING SET FOR CHALLENGE TO PROP. 200

"In a courtroom showdown today, the campaigns on both sides of [Prop. 200] will face off over whether the controversial but popular measure should be voided because of discrepancies on petitions. The dispute will determine whether Janick, Hart and the rest of the state's voters will have their votes on Proposition 200 counted," the Arizona Republic writes. "Proponents of the initiative aimed at curbing voter and benefit fraud by non-citizens say the challenge brought Friday comes too late and the dispute is too minor to keep officials from tallying votes or to bar Proposition 200 from becoming law."

FAIR INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS VOTE FRAUD IN WISCONSIN

"An immigration reform organization recently conducted an investigation into possible voter fraud in Wisconsin. The probe revealed that non-citizens of the United States could decide the 2004 presidential election," AgapePress writes. The article desribes how FAIR and FAIR activists investigated one woman who claims she is an illegal alien yet is a registrar of voters in Wisconsin. FAIR activists pretending to be illegal aliens were registered to vote by this woman. "And [FAIR Midwest Field Director Susan] Tully did not stop there. Suspecting voter fraud, FAIR sent two activists from another state to the office of the former illegal alien who is not only a deputy registrar of voters in Racine but also the leader of a Hispanic organization. Tully gave the activists specific instructions." Tully told the news service: "I wanted them to specifically tell this person they were illegal aliens, but that they wanted to register to vote -- and she registered them both."

Michelle Malkin also mentions FAIR's investigation in her latest column today, about illegal alien vote fraud. "FAIR's investigation also alleges that a deputy registrar in Racine registered two individuals -- one posing as an admitted illegal alien -- and reportedly advised them to lie on their forms. The report notes that the deputy registrar -- working for the open borders lobbying group, Voces de la Frontera -- then gave the couple information on other illegal alien benefits, including employment rights and bank accounts."

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also has coverage of the investigation by FAIR. "Tully said she sent a man and a woman from Kalamazoo, Mich., - one a foreign national and the other a Spanish-speaking American citizen - to Voces offices in Racine and Milwaukee to register to vote. Both transactions were tape-recorded, and the tapes were turned over to prosecutors, Tully said."