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.9 quake hits U.S.-Mexico border region


Updated 6h 56m ago
usatoday.com

CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) — A magnitude-4.9 earthquake rocked the northern Baja California region of Mexico near the U.S. border on Monday, just days after the region was hit by a magnitude-5.4 temblor, authorities said.
Monday's quake, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. PT, was centered about 20 miles southeast of the border town of Mexicali at a depth of nearly 4 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was 23 miles south-southeast of the U.S. city of Calexico.

The magnitude was revised down from an initial magnitude of 5.1.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries on the U.S. side, according to the Imperial County Sheriff's Department and Calexico police.

The quake was felt in California in parts of San Diego, Imperial and Orange counties and as far away as Yuma, Ariz., about 50 miles from Calexico, according to the USGS.

Early Saturday, the Mexicali area was shaken by a magnitude-5.4 quake that shut down factories and knocked out electricity for 400,000 people.

The latest temblor was likely an aftershock of the magnitude-5.4 event last week, said Julie Martinez, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.

A swarm of smaller quakes, ranging from magnitudes 2.5 to 2.9, preceded Monday's temblor. At least five aftershocks were recorded including one registering a magnitude-3.6, the USGS said.

I wonder if places like Westmont IL get quakes?

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Duh Bev!

Group to educate on immigration

By MAURA POSSLEY
mpossley@bradenton.com

A band of immigration activists, including New College students and alumni, are forming a local immigrant rights coalition aimed largely at educating the community on the controversial topic.

"The most important part will probably be to educate people about the issue and form some sort of consensus on how to pressure either local leaders or whoever's involved to do something about the issue," said Jose Godinez Samperio, an organizer of the group, dubbed the Manasota Immigrant Rights Coalition. "We want to have a very well spread-out movement."

Samperio and New College alumnus Adam Roca, among other campus activists, have picked up on the issue locally, planning protests and forums as comprehensive immigration reform has repeatedly been debated in Congress.

Most recently, they protested an appearance in Sarasota last year by CNN commentator Lou Dobbs, who has become an outspoken national voice on immigration. They described as biased, his reporting on the country's undocumented population.

"It's really hard to get anything through when so many people are adamantly against it (immigration)," Samperio said. "It usually comes down to explaining to other people who are anti-immigrant the importance of the pro-immigrant movement."

They are hoping for the participation from local immigrants, residents or anyone who is seeking to get involved, Samperio said.

"The general idea is to have some sort of organization or structure so that we can continue to work on the issues surrounding immigration," Roca said.

Goals for the group that Roca has brainstormed include stepping up sit-ins or protests, networking with national immigrant organizations and possibly pushing for the city of Sarasota to become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, a move he said would be mostly symbolic in nature.

What they don't plan on, Roca said, is to sit around and simply talk about the issue.

"There's also this element of taking things to street and making the message more lively, more vibrant," he said.

Maura Possley, Herald reporter , can be reached at 748-0411, ext. 2640.


If you go

What: Manasota Immigrant Rights Coalition meeting

When: 7 p.m. Feb. 20

Where: At New College's Hamilton Center, in the Fishbowl, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota

Thousands protest ICE in Danbury

Submitted by WW4 Report on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 21:16.

An estimated 3,500 people attended a rally on Feb. 6 in Danbury, Connecticut, to protest a partnership between Danbury police and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While the demonstrators voiced their opposition outside City Hall, inside the Common Council voted 19-2 to invite ICE to train and deputize Danbury police as immigration agents. Mayor Mark Boughton, who backs the plan, said it will start with the training of two detectives to carry out investigations of immigrants suspected of human trafficking, drug smuggling or document fraud. (News-Times, Danbury, Feb. 7; Hartford Courant, Feb. 7)

Protesters carried signs and chanted "Stop 287," a reference to Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows ICE to train and deputize state and local enforcement agents to identify and detain people for violating immigration law. (AP, Feb. 6) Section 287(g) was introduced as part of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). (ICE Fact Sheet: "Section 287(g) Immigration and Nationality Act," Aug. 16, 2006)

City officials decided in advance to limit attendance at the council meeting to 120 people, not including council members, news reporters and city employees. More than 30 police officers were deployed outside the building, but police reported no arrests. (News-Times, Feb. 7; Hartford Courant, Feb. 7) Some city businesses closed their doors for the day to protest the enforcement plan. (AP. Feb. 6)

Most of the demonstrators were from Danbury, but the crowd also included people who came by bus from Hartford and New Haven. "This is what being an American is all about, fighting for your rights," said Fernanda Franco, of Bethel, a legal Brazilian immigrant who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the rally. "I waited 20 years to get my papers," Franco said. "Some of these people have waited even longer." (News-Times, Feb. 7)

Danbury has a greater proportion of foreign-born residents than any other community in Connecticut, according to US census estimates. Ted Duarte, a union carpenter who works in Danbury and traveled to the rally from Wallingford to support fellow union members, motioned to the chanting. "This says it all," he said. "For a city council that supposed to represent the city of Danbury, they should take a look out here—this is Danbury." (New York Times, Feb. 7)

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TRANSLATED FROM:
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Diverse organizations of southern California prepare events to declare their nonconformity with the management of the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, during the visit that the president will carry out this Wednesday and Thursday in the city of Los Angeles.

Alfonso Gutiérrez, member of the Front Extensive Progressive of Los Angeles (FAPLA), told La Opinion that his and other groups plan a great protest, although they have not specified when and where it will be carried out, due to the changes in the President's agenda. As of now, he said, nearly a hundred people have declared their intention to be added to the demonstration.

"Mainly, there are three themes that we are going to undertake: the review of NAFTA, the detentions without court order under what already is known in Mexico as the 'Gestapo law ', and the imminent privatization of Mexico", the activist said, being referred to the proposals to permit the private and foreign investment in the Mexican government owned Oil (Pemex).

Alfonso Gutierrez:
E-Mail: alfcdjz@yahoo.es
Telephone: (323) 309 96 13

Originally posted by explora:


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Don't be a spammer!
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New Duck-Billed Dino Discovered in Mexico

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.

The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.

The dino's species name comes from the region of Mexico where it was found, Coahuila. Little is known about the region's ancient animal and plant life because low rates of erosion have kept fossils hidden under layers of rock. But V. coahuilensis and other fossil finds are helping to shed light on this murky part of North American history.


"Dinosaurs from this particular period are important because this is a time that is relatively poorly understood," said Don Brinkman, a project researcher from Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology who is studying the non-dinosaur vertebrates found at the site, including turtles, fish and lizards. "The locality in Mexico goes a long way to filling in a gap in our knowledge of the record of changes in dinosaur assemblages throughout the Late Cretaceous era."


The new species of dinosaur is fully described in the December issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.


Split continent


V. coahuilensis, one of the first dinosaurs to be named from Mexico, was discovered in the early 1990s in a rock unit known as the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, which dates from about 71.5 to 72.5 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous.


During this period, a warm, shallow sea covered the central, low-lying portions of North America, splitting the continent in two.


The region of Mexico where V. coahuilensis was found was at the southernmost tip of the peninsula-like western landmass, called Laramidia. Now a desert, the area was then a humid estuary, where ocean sal****er met freshwater from rivers.


Large bonebeds of jumbled dinosaur skeletons suggest some of the animals died en masse during periodic powerful storms, like those that pummel the southern tips of Africa and South America today.


"The region was periodically hammered by monstrous storms, devastating miles of fertile coastline, apparently killing off entire herds of dinosaurs" said project team member Scott Sampson of the Utah Museum of Natural History.


North American first


The discovery of V. coahuilensis marks the first crested duck-billed dinosaur ever found in North America. Based on the development of its bones, paleontologists think the specimen was not yet fully grown. Still, the youngster would have spanned an imposing 25 feet in length, suggesting adults grew to a whopping 30 to 35 feet long.


Unlike other animals whose nose bones lie in front of their eyes, crested duck-bills' noses rested atop their skulls.


"The crested duck-billed dinosaurs are an extraordinary example of vertebrate evolution," said project member Terry Gates, also of the Utah Museum.


Scientists are unsure what the fan-shaped crest on V. coahuilensis's head was used for, but some think it could have been for attracting mates, with the animal's complex series of nasal passages acting like a musical instrument.


Along with V. coahuilensis, recent expeditions to the Cerro del Pueblo Formation have uncovered the remains of a second kind of duck-billed dino — a Triceratops-like plant-eating horned dinosaur, large tyrannosaurs, small Velociraotor-like predators and the largest assemblage of dinosaur tracks known in Mexico.

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Florinda Gonza*** and her daughter Yury meet with bilingual volunteer Roberto Quantero at Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church in Chesterfield County.
photo by Scott Elmquist


Illegals Risk Deportation to … Pay Taxes?


by Amy Biegelsen
styleweekly.com
February 13, 2008


Modesta Tadeo and her four children moved from Mexico to join her husband in Chesterfield County three years ago. Depending on where you fall politically, the family of immigrants is either “undocumented” or “illegal.” They don’t have Social Security numbers, but last Thursday night they stopped by Ramsey Memorial United Methodist Church on Hull Street Road to pay their taxes.

They started paying taxes three years ago, Tadeo says through an interpreter while waiting in line with her husband and nephew. At first, just pulling all the documents together was nerve-racking. Now it’s routine, and not just for them.

“Many people are paying their taxes,” Tadeo says.

For four years Ramsey Memorial has hosted tax preparation clinics staffed with bilingual volunteers. Tanya Gonza***, head of Richmond’s Hispanic Liaison Office, helps organize the sites as part of a larger regional effort headed up by the Greater Richmond Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition.

“For the IRS, legal status and working are two separate things,” Gonza*** says. When people who don’t have Social Security numbers come in, volunteers help them register for an ITIN, or individual tax identification number, allowing them to file with the IRS. The IRS does not share information with federal immigration enforcement agencies.

Gonza*** says they prepare returns for roughly 150 families each year. She’s seen a slow increase since the program started, but perhaps more telling has been the rise of people coming in who already have ITIN numbers from previous years.

“That means people are putting roots down,” Gonza*** says.

Last summer’s federal immigration reform bill might also be encouraging the response. Although the bill failed, it included a provision that would have required evidence that the person had been paying taxes as part of the application for citizenship. Juan Santacoloma, Chesterfield’s Hispanic liaison, is betting that future legislation will contain similar language. “Many people are paying taxes now for later,” he says.

The ITIN sign-up effort comes as mixed news to John Kwapisz, media and legislative coordinator for the Virginia chapter of the American Council for Immigration Reform.

“Paying the taxes is a desirable effort of course,” Kwapisz says. “On the other hand, assisting the illegals in ways that encourage them to stay or to come here is a bad thing, because the more [illegal immigrants] we have, the more problems we’re going to be facing in the future.”

The growing market for bilingual tax preparation and help with ITIN sign-up for those without Social Security numbers has not gone unnoticed. H&R Block touts its bilingual services and even ran an ad featuring a pair of flamenco dancers flouncing in to the tax preparer’s office.

It’s also opened a niche for fraud, warns Paz Ochs, who works with Gonza*** in the city’s Hispanic Liaison Office. She says they’ve put together fliers alerting taxpayers about scam preparers who take advantage of people unfamiliar with the tax system and unable to check paperwork filled out in English.

“It’s even worse for a lot of immigrants who have applied for residency or citizenship [when] there’s a really big IRS snafu,” Ochs says. After all, “no one wants to be on the IRS’s bad side.”

Clark Van Orden/The Times Leader


Senator recognizes pressure on state, county prisons

Specter: Deportation difficult


EDWARD LEWIS
elewis@timesleader.com
February 11, 2008
WILKES-BARRE – A disruptive inmate in the restrictive housing unit at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility didn’t deter U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter from visiting the facility on Monday.

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter tours the restricted housing unit at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on Monday morning with officials from Luzerne County. Specter talked about issues associated with the identification and deportation of criminal aliens.


Specter, R-Philadelphia, and federal officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ignored the inmate who was shouting words in Spanish through a sealed cell door.

The senator spent about an hour with Luzerne County commissioners Maryanne Petrilla, Greg Skrepenak and Stephen Urban, Warden Gene Fischi, Deputy Warden Sam Hyder and Prison Board President Wister Yuhas to discuss problems with deporting convicted illegal immigrants.

Pennsylvania prisons incarcerate an estimated 2,132 criminal aliens, 1,000 of whom may be undocumented aliens, Specter’s office said in a news release. There are 20 undocumented immigrants at the county facility.

LCCF Capt. Mark Rockovich said an estimated 180 illegal immigrants were jailed at the county facility in 2007, adding to the overcrowding problem.

“We may not have an overcrowding problem if we didn’t have illegal aliens,” Rockovich said.

A 2006 report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated thousands of convicted illegal immigrants are released because of the unwillingness of some countries to issue travel documents necessary for repatriation. As a result of these barriers, ICE must provide funds to incarcerate convicted illegal immigrants whose countries are either slow or unwilling to accept their citizens.

Major hurdles law enforcement agencies face include an inability to identify undocumented immigrants, lack of resources to deport them and an inadequate process to compel their native countries to accept them, Specter said.


“Immigration (and Customs Enforcement) takes them but they can only hold them for 180 days,” Specter said.

Specter said the recidivism rate – the tendency to commit a criminal act again – of convicted illegal immigrants is extremely high, adding to overcrowding in prisons and jails. He said Egypt has refused to accept one of its citizens who is jailed at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill.

Pledging to address the problem, Specter suggested legislation on refusing visas to foreign countries who won’t accept their citizens.

“We need to put pressure on those countries to take them back,” Specter said.

“We may not have an

overcrowding problem if we didn’t have illegal aliens.”

Capt. Mark Rockovich

Luzerne County Correctional Facility

Edward Lewis, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 820-7196.

Ignition Fall To La Raza, 15-10 In Mexico



http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3591239
February 10, 2008



Monterrey, Mexico, February 10, 2008) - The Detroit Ignition (12-7) were defeated 15-10 by the expansion La Raza de Monterrey (8-11) tonight at Arena Monterrey.

The Ignition struck just five minutes into the first quarter as defender Jonathan Greenfield notched a two-point score with an assist from Doug Rice. Midfielder Ryan Mack added two more points for the Ignition at 9:41 in the first off an assist from Ze Roberto. Just under a minute later, Armando Teran scored two points for Monterrey to bring the score to 4-2 at the end of the first quarter.

Forward Jamar Beasley opened up the second quarter for Detroit with a two-point goal at 4:18 off an assist from Ricardinho. Teran scored again at 6:05, giving the home team two more points with an assist from Byron Alvarez. Less than two minutes later, Mack scored his second goal of the night to put Detroit up 8-4 at halftime.

La Raza controlled the third quarter, scoring three two-point goals to take a 10-8 lead over the Ignition. As the fourth quarter got underway, Beasley scored his second goal of the night to tie the clubs up at 10-all. Alvarez responded for La Raza, scoring a two-point tally at 8:33 with an assist from defender Jose Birche. As the quarter came to a close, the Ignition brought Ricardinho in as the club's sixth attacker. Monterrey defender Genoni Martinez took advantage of the Detroit's open net, scoring a three-point goal to bring the final score to 15-10.

The Ignition return home to host the Philadelphia KiXX (10-11) on Friday, February 15 at Compuware Arena.

The Detroit Ignition is a member club of the Major Indoor Soccer League, and begins the team's second season in November 2007 after advancing to the MISL Championship Finals during the 2006-07 season.

Information regarding Ignition season, group, and individual tickets can be obtained by calling the club at 1-888-436-GOAL (4625), by visiting the team's official Internet property, www.detroitignition.com , by calling TicketMaster at 248-645-6666, or by using www.ticketmaster.com .

THE PYGMY KNOWN AS CALDERON VISITS CHICAGO

TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/?contenido=33774

I know that you have risked your lives in order to give opportunities to your children, to your families. I know that in each one of you thereis a history of heroism and also a history of pain.

A history of heroism because is not easy to leave your country, your house, your Nation and to cross the border risking it all. A history of heroism because each year more than 400 Mexicans die trying to cross the border, perhaps more than in any another part of the world.

______

When they tell me that the Government of Mexico what wants to multiply migration, attacking and criticizing our defense for the migrant, I say that they are mistaken. Because I know that Mexico in each migrant it loses its bravest people, its strongest people, its more audacious people, because I know that in each migrant there is a family that is disconnected.

______

I come here, to Chicago, to Illinois, because I know that my duty as President, especially in the difficult moments that the undocumented are passing, of harassment, of clear discrimination in some cases, my duty is to echo the voice of all the Mexicans, the voice of all of Mexico telling them we are with you.

We are truly determined that Mexico be present with you, supporting you, helping you, understanding you.

I also know, my friends, that my duty as the President is to work and to work very, very hard so that immigration will not be in the future the only option for our people.
_______

When they ask me what is, exactly, the cause of this phenomenon, seems to me that we cannot deceive ourselves. The U.S. economy and the economy of Mexico are absolutely complementary economies; one is intensive in capital, like their economy, another is intensive in labor as is the Mexican and I have always said that labor and capital necessarily are complemented, that they are similar as the left shoe and the right shoe, both have to be put on at the same time in order to walk.

And just as labor has sought capital, the investment here in the United States, we are seeking to attract investment and capital to Mexico, to generate in Mexico well paid jobs for the Mexicans [/b]so they don't continue separating our families and our communities.

________

We have worked and we have been speaking and relating to diverse actors in the political panorama in Mexico and in the United States, above all with those who have influences in this migratory debate issue and we have expressed to them with firmness the position of the Government of Mexico that can be summarize in five points.

First. We want that the extraordinary cultural, social, and economic contribution of the Mexican migrants in the United States to be recognized.

Second. We want that that recognition be reflected in a greater certainty, in a greater stability, in a greater tranquility so that our compatriots can do what they came to do, to work in peace, to be productive, support their family and be recognized or not, that their work has also helped this Nation.

Third. That for the Mexican Government it is important, of course, to have a secure border. When they think that we are disputing this point, they are also mistaken, yes, of course I want a secure border, of course I want a secure border for our people, for our children and also for the Americans or any person that live on both sides of the border.

The Government of Mexico is commited and works for having a secure border with the United States, but we should not make a mistake, its not the people, is the organized crime and not the migrant Mexicans the ones that are a problem of national security for the United States.

I think that both nations should recognize what is a reality, the world is being globalized, the economies are being built global and the nations that are prospering, the regions that are prospering, like Asia, and Europe, are nations that recognize that reality and they are capable of being integrated in larger economies of scale and in larger territories.

What we should do Americans and Mexicans is to recognize that if we want prosperity, that if we want to progress we should become united. Not by closing our border, not by canceling our exchanges are we going to prosper, we either prosper together incorporating and integrating ot there will not be prosperity neither for Mexico or for the United States.

________

We want to build bridges because we know that bridges, more than walls, are the ones that join people. And I also know, I understand the worry of many American citizens, but I can share with you, my friends, what some time ago Icommented to President Bush in his visit to Mexico last year.

I assured the President, I told him, that he can do more to reduce immigration,to reduce immigration it would benefit more a kilometer of highway in Zacatecas or in Michoacán than 20 kilometers of border wall covering Texas or Arizona.

________

We want to be near the Mexicans in Chicago and anywhere in the world and in the U.S. And we have an idea to continue working with you in five main issues.

First. We will dedicate all the resources at our reach to be able to improve the services that the Government gives. I know that the consular services have always left a lot to be desired and more now since the American authorities are asking for documents for anything.

By that reason, friends, I have decreed in the Budget that all the incomes that be received for passports or other documents in the U.S. consulates, that money remain in the consulates to lend better service.