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To: TigerPaw who wrote (81520)	11/18/2000 9:59:47 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Respond to of 769667

You don't know a lot about what your hero, gore has done, do you? In 1996 they accelerated the swearing in of many thousands of aliens without any background check so they could vote for them in the election. Gore was the point man in doing that.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81520)	11/18/2000 10:18:15 PM
From: Ben Wa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

do a web search with the terms "cisneros AND immigration and gore" Nader himself has pointed out that the mass media is controlled by a few large companies. Does something have to be on CNN Headline News for it to be real?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81520)	11/18/2000 10:23:33 PM
From: JamesB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looks like Warren the Old has been messing where he don't belong. Saturday November 18 5:47 PM ET Christopher Said To Influence Tally By KARIN MEADOWS, Associated Press Writer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher called the Democratic lawyer for Palm Beach County's elections supervisor to try to get the attorney to use his influence to assure a manual recount would be conducted there, the lawyer says. Christopher, who is leading the Gore campaign's recount effort in Florida, made the phone call Thursday morning to Bruce Rogow, who represents elections supervisor Theresa LePore. ``It was an effort to have me persuade my client to vote in favor of starting the manual recount on Thursday. I told him no. I told him we'd have to wait,'' Rogow said. ``I thought everyone got the message that the best thing to do was let me be a lawyer and not a politician,'' he said. Hours later, the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for workers to begin hand counting the county's 462,350 ballots. Rogow, a registered Democrat and a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in neighboring Broward County, said he was on the way to a meeting with LePore and the other two members of the Palm Beach canvassing board when he was called by Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor representing a group of voters in Palm Beach County. While he talked to Dershowitz, Christopher's call came in. Rogow said he didn't consider it appropriate for Christopher or Dershowitz to try to ``persuade me to give certain advice to my client.'' ``The irony is that within a couple of hours, the Supreme Court entered an interim order allowing the hand count to continue,'' Rogow said. ``The Democrats were delighted that evening.'' Calls to the Democratic National Committee, the Gore campaign and George W. Bush's campaign seeking comment on Christopher's call were not immediately returned. Denise Dytrych, the county attorney for Palm Beach, said she has received faxes from a number of people to press her in one way or another as she prepared a letter to Secretary of State Katherine Harris about why she should accept totals from a hand recount. ``Everybody is giving their input and it is from all sides, all parties,'' she said. Republicans charge Democrats also may have influenced election officials in Miami-Dade, Florida's largest county, where the canvassing board reversed itself and ordered a hand recount of 654,000 punch-card ballots that is to begin Monday morning. The canvassing board first voted Tuesday not to conduct a countywide recount after an initial hand tally of 5,871 ballots in three overwhelmingly Democratic precincts gave Gore only six more votes. Then, at a meeting Friday, the board decided to go ahead with the recount. Before the meeting, Republican attorney Bob Martinez asked board members to ``stick to your convictions.'' Judge Myriam Lehr, who changed her vote on the three-member panel and forced the manual recount, bristled at suggestions she was influenced. ``Nobody has pushed me,'' she said. ``I was not pushed by anyone. I've done my job.'' Martinez would not comment Saturday on whether he thought Lehr was pressured to change her vote. But he wondered why she did. ``No new facts were presented, the law remained the same and yet the outcome changed. Why?'' Martinez said. ``I don't want to question anyone unfairly, but I think the public has a right to question what happened between Tuesday and Friday.''

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81520)	11/18/2000 10:28:30 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

RE:accelerate the naturalization process I don't know much about whatever you are writing about. This must be one of those Limbaugh issues or something because it hasn't got any traction in national or my local papers. Seriously TP, you need to get hep on the issues. I believe you are American first, Demi-rat second, but you must keep your mind open.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81520)	11/20/2000 2:03:43 AM
From: Ben Wa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200011\POL20001116l.html INS Target of Another Alleged Citizenship Scandal By Cheryl K. Chumley CNS Staff Writer November 16, 2000 (CNSNews.com) - It's 1996 all over again, Judicial Watch legal representatives said, accusing immigration officials in Florida of rushing to bestow citizenship upon thousands of American hopefuls in time for the 2000 presidential election. "It's a repeat of 1996, when there was an effort to rush through citizenship applications in order to get votes for the Democrats," alleged Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog organization known for its pursuit of the Clinton Administration. Florida's Democrat and Republican representatives for the Miami area - where the main Immigration and Naturalization Service district office is located - did not return telephone calls for comment. Washington, D.C., INS public affairs spokeswoman Elaine Komis admitted citizenship application approvals have increased in the past few years, but that the naturalization efforts on the part of the agency stemmed from anti-immigration perceptions in the mid-1990s. Then, the INS experienced a dramatic influx of requests for citizenship and was forced to change policies in order to handle the caseloads, she said, declining to specifically address the Judicial Watch accusations. "There was a lot of anti-immigration sentiment [then]," Komis said. "Proposition 187 in California expressed anti-immigrant sentiment, the 1996 welfare reforms restricted benefits to immigrants, and also in 1996, an immigration law passed that was much more severe against immigrants ... and that caused a lot of fear in [their] communities." As a result of that fear, Komis said, the INS received an "avalanche of applications." An estimated 6.9 million citizenship forms were reviewed between 1993 and 2000, she said, more than the amount received for the "previous 40 years combined." "We had to rebuild our structure" to accommodate that surge of applications, and reduce the amount of time spent on individual requests from an average of two years to less than nine months to alleviate the backlog, she continued. But Fitton said, "To say [the rising influx of citizen application approvals] is from anti-immigration sentiment, it's outrageous. I don't believe they're telling the truth, or they don't have enough information." An INS source, whose identity he refused to divulge, reportedly told Judicial Watch the Florida immigration agency conducted interviews improperly by allowing prospective citizens to speak in their native languages. The source also told the watchdog organization that at least one alien with no "residence, family, or business ties" to America was awarded citizenship "only three days after returning to the U.S. from an 11-and-one-half month absence from the country," in violation of INS policies. Whether proper background checks were conducted during the INS' alleged attempt to speed the naturalization process is still unclear, according to Fitton, whose agency has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the immigration office to gather information that might determine if criminals were granted citizenship and if violations occurred during the interview process. Fitton pledges to continue his current investigation, now in its preliminary stages, regardless of which political party wins the White House, hoping to expose the similarities between INS activities in 1996 and the past year. Shortly before the last presidential election, an estimated 70,000 immigrants were reportedly prematurely naturalized, without undergoing the proper background checks. "It's a fact that tens of thousands of people were naturalized then that should not have been," Fitton said. "There were e-mails emanating from the White House, showing it was" a politically motivated effort to gather votes for the Democrats. If you think that these people who waltz into the country deserve to share social security, welfare benefits, free education for their kids in the language of their choice, and get subsidized healthcare, if you and the person using the nickname American Spirit put it all on your credit cards, I bet we'd get along just fine. Sounds easy to me.