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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49789)	2/28/2000 10:06:00 PM
From: Mark Bartlett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116785

Ron, <<So now I guess you wouldn't mind taking some of them off our hands now would ya?>> We get our share ... and they have by and larger been great contributors to the Canadian experience ..... too bad you feel someone has to take them "off your hands". << Hey wait a minute!!! Weren't those Algerians living up there in Canada, right under the fully aware noses of the RCMP and Canadian Counter-Intel agencies??>> Obviously you did not get the news straight ... but what's new. Turned out to be a lot of nonsense and misinformation ... better get your CIA handbook updated. MB

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49789)	2/29/2000 6:46:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116785

<<Currently, as of 1996 approximations, there are 5 million illegal aliens living in the US, most of whom are living below the poverty line because of their immigrant standing.>> I'm not sure the best plan would not be to simply make them legal, allow them to become full citizens, & pay taxes &... While I'm not crazy about having the great many high tech workers from Russia & India & ... who come here for a 6 months to a few years only to send money home & return at the first chance, I'd love to have them move here for life! Those who are citizens will spend & invest more in our country & our collective future, while those who come for only a short time have no such intellectual or monetary investment.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49789)	2/29/2000 7:01:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116785

OT(? - could this spin things away from Gore?) Monday February 28 3:05 PM ET Illegal Democratic Donations Alleged By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The independent counsel investigating Labor Secretary Alexis Herman has charged a Singapore businessman with making $200,000 in illegal contributions to the Democratic Party through two U.S. businesswomen with ties to the labor secretary. Herman is not mentioned in the Feb. 16 indictment against Abdul Rahman, but the two U.S. businesswomen, sisters Vanessa and Caryliss Weaver, are named 11 times as the contributors of record for donations which the indictment says actually came from Rahman. ``In the two years that the independent counsel's investigation has been going on, they have not shown me one piece of evidence nor have I found any indication they have any evidence that my clients' contributions were anything but appropriate,' Larry Barcella, the Weavers' lawyer, said Monday. Herman's lawyer, Neil Eggleston, declined to comment. Vanessa Weaver and Herman are close friends and Herman, who ran the White House Office of Public Liaison before becoming labor secretary, took Caryliss Weaver on a trade mission. Herman had been introduced to Rahman by Vanessa Weaver on one or two occasions. Rahman was introduced to President Clinton during the 1996 presidential campaign. In applying for an independent counsel investigation in 1998, Attorney General Janet Reno stated the Justice Department had reviewed allegations that Herman was involved in soliciting illegal donations from a foreign businessman. Laurent Yene, a former partner of Vanessa Weaver, alleged that Rahman made the donations to help obtain a Federal Communications Commission license for a company he had ties to. The company obtained an FCC license in 1997 to develop a telephone satellite system. The Weaver sisters urged that the indictment be sealed, saying the references to them would harm their personal and business reputations. Rahman is not charged with conspiracy and neither of the Weaver sisters is referred to as an unnamed co-conspirator. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle refused to seal the indictment, ruling there was no compelling reason to do so. Rahman is charged with seven misdemeanors for allegedly (cont) dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49789)	2/29/2000 7:05:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116785

<<Hmmm... there are approx 6 billion people on this planet and roughly 2/3 of them lack some kind of modern health care. And the greatest majority of them continuously plot and scheme to find a way to come to the US. Currently, as of 1996 approximations, there are 5 million illegal aliens living in the US, most of whom are living below the poverty line because of their immigrant standing.>> Along those lines(& possibly somewhat related to your other discussion about the DC "safety net"): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prison population explosion Officials foresee 50% jump in number of federal inmates -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jon E. Dougherty ¸ 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Expecting a staggering 50 percent increase in the federal prison population over the next six years, federal Bureau of Prison officials and Congress are investigating ways to privatize the government's array of federal detention facilities. According to a Feb. 28 report in the Federal Times, by 2006 "the federal prison population is projected to swell by 50 percent -- from 119,000 to 178,000 inmates," a number which has caused Bureau of Prison officials to lobby for more funds to construct new facilities. As a result of the anticipated influx of federal prisoners, "the Bureau of Prisons expects to build prisons at nearly two times the rate it did in the 1990s, adding 25 prisons to its current network of more than 90 federal prisons by 2005," according to an agency press release published by Federal Times. Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, said there are a number of reasons why his agency is anticipating an influx of new detainees. "The Bureau of Prisons has a very unique role that you're not going to find at the state level," Wolfson told WorldNetDaily. For one thing, the Bureau has a congressional initiative and would be "assuming the detention responsibilities for many INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) detainees, the long-term detainees." In addition, he said, the Bureau of Prisons has been "mandated by Congress to take over the entire (Washington) D.C. inmate population," which amounts to about 17,000 inmates. (cont) worldnetdaily.com