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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (1439)	2/23/2007 12:48:20 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3197

I heard that this morning on the drive in. Finally talk radio is taking up the banner. It's about time, if it were not for Lou Dobbs the media would continue to turn it all into assimilation and they only take jobs no one else would do. WHERE ARE ALL THE AMERICANS?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (1439)	2/23/2007 12:55:34 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3197

Immigrants attacked on Santan The Arizona Republic Feb. 22, 2007 12:00 AM Three gunmen attacked a car early Wednesday with undocumented immigrants inside and kidnapped the driver, the fourth similar type of violent attack in a month. The attacks have inched closer to the Valley, with today's being the closest: Chandler. Police say they have little information on the overnight attack. The kidnapped man, José Guzmán, is in his early 20s and from Mexico. Guzmán, the driver of a red car with five passengers, pulled off westbound Interstate 10 early Wednesday to get gas near Maricopa when two pickup trucks began to follow them, Chandler police said. Guzmán continued from I-10 to the eastbound Santan Freeway in Chandler and the trucks followed, forcing the vehicle onto the shoulder of the road shortly after they entered the Santan. Occupants of the trucks opened fire with handguns and at least one round hit the car, police said. Police believe the attackers forced Guzmán into one of the trucks. Another attempted to kidnap the other passengers by stealing the car but was unsuccessful and fled. The other victims were unharmed. Sgt. Rick Griner, a Chandler police spokesman, said the passengers are in custody with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because they are undocumented. The passengers, whose names have not been released by police, were interviewed and are cooperating but are apprehensive because of their immigration status, Griner said. "Their emotions are up," he said. Griner said Guzmán and the passengers were on their way to California, but police have no description of Guzmán or the attackers and don't know the motive behind the attack. "We don't even have enough information on the victim to enter him as missing," Griner said. Police have not linked Wednesday's attack to three other similar but deadly attacks in the past month, which remain unsolved: • On Feb. 8, four gunmen opened fire on a pickup truck carrying undocumented immigrants, killing a 15-year-old girl and two men at 7:30 a.m. just north of Tucson. • About 12 hours earlier on Feb. 7, 18 undocumented immigrants were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily armed men wearing ski masks near the border at Sasabe. • On Jan. 27, four gunmen wearing military fatigues and berets, carrying assault rifles, shot and killed an Eloy man who was driving a truck carrying undocumented immigrants near an Eloy farm field. The attackers, three White men who spoke English and one Hispanic man who spoke English and broken Spanish, also shot 19-year-old Andrés de Jesús of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the Jan. 27 incident, detectives said the attackers could have been vigilantes, rival smugglers or criminals trying to steal drugs, although no drugs were found in the truck. Gustavo Soto, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman in Tucson, said undocumented immigrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. now face a new risk - crossfire from drug lords struggling for the control of the trafficking routes. The most recent incidents have heightened authorities' concerns for the level of violence the groups of traffickers are using to gain control of the routes, Soto said. "It's a reflection of the frustration that (traffickers) feel since we intensified patrol in these areas and increased confiscation of their cargo of human beings and drugs," Soto said. Isabel García, a Human Rights Coalition activist, said violence related to the border has escalated because of the militarization of the area and use of more National Guard troops. "We are in an alarming situation because each time there are more incidents that result in the death of people," García said. azcentral.com