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\gencies faulted for alien problem
United Press International
TYLER — Saying he was
l of the federal government’s
ure to stop a flood of illegal
;ns into the country, a U.S.
,ge gave probated sentences
three men convicted of
laving Mexicans on an east
xas tree farm.
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je William
IL Steger gave the defendants
o five-year probated sen
tences, to run concurrently, and
$1,000 fines for enslaving 19
Mexicans.
“I’m sick and tired of the
government not doing what it
should be doing,” Sieger said
Monday before announcing his
sentencing. “(You) can’t blame
them (the defendants) because
the government allows illegal
aliens to come across the bor
der.”
Steven Lane Crawford, 21,
of Center and Randall Craig
Waggoner, 22, of Nacogdoches
were convicted last year on 19
counts of slavery and conspir
acy. Joe Armando-Gonzalez,
29, of Rock Springs pleaded
guilty to the charges and testi
fied against the other two.
Steger could have sen
tenced the trio to five years in
jail and $2,000 to $10,000 fines
on each count. He said, how
ever, he had “mixed emotions”
jarding the U.S. Probations
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Office’s recommended sen
tence, which was not revealed.
Steger, who said he was di
recting his remarks to the U.S.
department of Justice and the
U.S. Immigration and Naturali
zation Service, refused to allow
U.S. attorney Criselda Ortiz
make a comment regarding his
sentencing.
In a heated exchange, he
threatened to hold her in con
tempt if she continued to speak.
“I don’t care what the rules
are,” he said. Ortiz was the lead
prosecutor in the case.
Armando-Gonzales ad
mitted selling the 19 Mexican
aliens to Crawford and Wag
goner, who took them to East
Texas in a small trailer and put
them to work on a tree farm.
The aliens testified they
were never paid for their work
and were poorly fed and threat
ened with harm if they tried to
escape. They got away by jump
ing from a pickup truck in the
town of Center and running to
stores where they asked for
help.
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LULAC upset with light charge
United Press International
LUBBOCK — The League
of United Latin American Citi
zens has issued a news release
saying its members are not satis
fied with the handling of a traf
fic fatality, but await action
from state or federal officials.
The release stemmed from
a meeting last week between
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LULAC representatives, fed
eral Justice Department offi
cials from Dallas and officials
from the Lubbock County Dis
trict Attorney’s office.
LULAC spokemen objected
when a grand jury recom
mended that bank executive
Max Hefner be prosecuted on a
misdemeanor charge for a De
cember accident killing Robert
Lopez, 22.
Tomas Garza, LULAC legal
counsel, said the state attorney
general’s office had not an
swered a letter from his organi
zation asking for an investiga
tion of the matter.
“LULAC does not com
pletely believe that a Mexican-
American defendant, in the
same position would not have
been arrested at the scene, even
if he had an attorney by his
side,” the release said.
Police have said Hefner was
allowed to go home after he was
treated at a hospital following
the accident. Officials said it was
normal practice not to arrest
someone injured in an accident.
But LULAC officials had
accused the district attorney’s
office of treating Hefner’s case
in a special manner.
Where is the most dangerous
place lor anyone lo be?
In a car on a highway infested with drunken drivers?
In a commercial airliner on an icy runway in a blizzard?
On the streets in a big inner-city at 2 a.m.? No. It is
statistically confirmed that the most dangerous place
for anyone to be in the U.S. is in the womb of one’s
mother!
What would you decide?
The father has syphilis and the mother has tubercu
losis. They have had four children. The first one was
blind, the second one died, the third one was deaf and
dumb, and the fourth one had tuberculosis.
The mother is now pregant with her fifth child but is
willing to have an abortion if you determine she should.
What would you decide for her? If you chose abortion...
congratulations...you’ve just murdered Beethoven!
“Americans are proud of their humane feelings
and are moved by empathy. Thus, we regulate
the ways animals can be killed. Certain kinds of
traps are banned. Cattle cannot be slaughtered in
ways deemed careless about pain. Stray dogs and
cats must be killed in certain humane ways, but
no laws regulate the suffering of the aborted."
George Will
Nationally Syndicated Columnist
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court
legalized abortion-on-demund. The liberalization <>l
abortion laws has resulted in a drastic lowering of the
value placed on human life in general and on children’s
lives in particular.
The same Supreme Court which made the slaughter
of over a million unborn babies per year possible,
stopped the construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennes
see—because it might wipe out the snail darter, a
3-inch fish. There are quotas on whales and porpoises,
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25,000
World War I
116,000
World War II
545,000
but it is always open season on unborn babies. They are
executed by techniques more brutal and inhumane than
any horror movie has ever portrayed.
The greatest embarrassment to an abortionist is a
live birth after an attempted abortion. These living
babies are left to die of starvation and neglect while in
the same hospital many premature infants are kept
alive by heroic measures in intensive care units!
Kathleen Malloy, a registered nurse in Jacksonville,
Florida, describes one such live birth:
“There wuh a baby in this bassinet—a crying,
perfectly formed baby—but there was difference
in this child. She had been scalded. She was the
child of a saline abortion. This little girl looked as
if she had been put in a pot of boiling water. No
doctor, no nurse, no parent, to comfort this hurt,
burned child. She was left alone to die in pain.”
It is impossible for anyone to say when a developing
Korean War Vietnam War War On The
54,000 56,000 Unborn
13.500.000 as of
January 1982
fetus has the ability to exist on its own. Smaller and
smaller premature infants are being saved each year! A
pro-abortion doctor who would not kill a newborn baby
must answer this question: “Would you kill this infant
a minute before he was born? An hour? A day?’’ At
what point in time do you consider life to be worthless
and the next minute precious and worth saving?
The single-celled fertilized egg will develop into a
human being unless some force destroys its life.
Biologists take the uniform position that life begins at
conception. Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson directed the
largest abortorium in the Western world. While
remaining a resolute atheist, Dr. Nathanson has
reversed his position on abortion. In his book Aborting
America, he writes:
“There is no longer any serious doubt in my mind
that human life exists within the womb from the
very onset of pregnancy."
After only three weeks, the first irregular beats occur
in the developing heart, long before the mother is sure
she is pregnant. By the ninth and tenth weeks, the
thyroid and adrenal glands ure functioning. The baby
can squint, swallow, and move his tongue. By twelve or
thirteen weeks, he sucks his thumb and will recoil from
pain. His fingerprints have already formed, which
legally distinguishes an individual as a separate
identity.
Pro-abortionists avoid mentioning the human being
eliminated in an abortion. People have trouble with
“killing a baby." So the favored phrase is the “the ter
mination of a pregnancy." But some pro-abortionists
have been honest enough to admit that they really know
what they are doing.
“Abortion is the taking of a life.”
Dr. Mary Calderone
Former Medical Director of
Planned Parenthood
“We know it is killing, but the states permit
killing under certain circumstances."
Dr. Neville Sender
Founder of an abortion clinic
in Milwaukee
It is clear to many pro-abortionists that an abortion,
however euphemistically it is described, is the taking of
an innocent human life! The only alleged justification
for this killing is convenience. Current sexual attitudes,
sexually permissive life-styles, and the breakdown of
the family, demand abortion. Will a society which has
assumed the right to kill infants in the womb —because
they are unwanted, imperfect, or merely inconven
ient—have difficulty in killing other human beings?
“Once you permit the killing of the unborn child,
there will be no stopping. There will be no age
limit. You are setting off a chain reaction that will
eventually make you the victim."
Dr. R.A. Gallop
University of Manitoba
Dr. Leo Alexander, who was involved in the war-
crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, wrote: “(The
Nazi nightmare) started with the acceptance of the
attitude basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is
such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived." This is
exactly what is being accepted in America today! Times
of monstrous inhumanity do not come about all at once,
they are slipped into gradually. Murdering unborn
human babies is an evil as great as any in human
history.
In the famous movie Judgment at Nuremberg, the
condemned German judge (played by Burt Lancaster)
said, “But we didn’t think it would go that far." The
American (Spencer Tracy) answered, “It went that far
the very first time you condemned an innocent human
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