Friday, 1/29/10

Ocho Columnas (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 1/28/10

Killer of Border Patrol Agent to face justice

On Jan. 19, 2008, Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was purposely run over and killed near Calexico, Calif., by a vehicle driven by Jesus Navarro Montes. Navarro was fleeing back to Mexico with a load of marihuana to avoid apprehension. Navarro has now been extradited to the U.S. and is being taken to San Diego, Calif., where he will faces charges for drug smuggling and for the murder of a federal official.

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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 1/28/10

Ecuadorans deported

A U.S. Marshal "JPATS" (Justice Prisoner & Alien Transport System) aircraft is due to take 67 Ecuadorans who were illegally in the United States back to their country tomorrow (1/29.)

Thursday, 1/28/10

From three different Mexican newspapers, three different tales of savagery:

Cambio de Michoacán (Morelia, Michoacán) 1/27/10

A public employee was at his job, sweeping the streets, and came across a cardboard box left right next to the "carnitas" [barbecued pork] stands on the main plaza at Quiroga, Michoacán. There was a human head in the box. "Municipal authorities reported that the rest of the body was found later."

Critica (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/27/10

In Nogales, Sonora [right across the border from Nogales, AZ, and some 60 mi. south of Tucson, AZ, as the crow flies] : an abandoned sedan with no license plate. In the trunk: the bodies of two men. Their heads had been cut off. Later, elsewhere in Nogales, two human heads were found "in a blue plastic box."

The Mexican government's new representative in Dallas has devised a plan to give the area's half a million illegal aliens an image makeover that will shed their tainted reputations as noisy litterers who celebrate with guns and leave kids at home unsupervised. 

The goal, according to the Mexican consul general, is for the compatriots who live illegally in his Texas consular region to earn the respect of Americans who see them as a nuisance to their country. The undocumented Mexicans have a bad reputation, said Consul General Juan Carlos Cue-Vega, and its time for an image makeover.  

Jefferson City - The Missouri House Special Standing Committee on General Laws heard extensive testimony today on a House Joint Resolution (HJR) that would bring the proposed Health Care Freedom issues to a vote by Missouri's citizens.

HJR 57, sponsored by Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) and co-sponsored by 75 of Rep. Jones' House colleagues, calls for an amendment to the Missouri Constitution to preserve and protect the right of Missourians to make their own health care and health insurance choices.

Specifically, it would protect the right of Missourians to pay directly for medical services, and it would prohibit Missouri families and small businesses from being penalized for not purchasing bureaucrat-approved and mandated health insurance.