Friday, January 24, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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Aliens getting public aid being targeted
Associated Press
EL PASO — A new program tar
geting alien commuters who collect
public aid is expected to save thou
sands of dollars to agencies in Texas
jnd New Mexico, immigration offi
cials said Thursday.
There are about 7,000 people
ho are legal United States residents
but who live in Juarez, Mexico, and
commute daily to the El Paso area to
work or attend school, said A1
uigni, district director for the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
It is illegal for them to benefit
From public assistance programs,
uch as food stamps or Social Secu
rity. Operation Mail Drop, a pilot
project started in this border city last
week, aims to identify them, said
Guigni.
“11 people are residing out of the
country by their own cnoice, then
they give up the right to some bene
fits,” said C. W. Thompson, a special
agent of investigations with the INS.
Operation Mail Drop, so called
because offenders often give agen
cies an address in the United States
at which they don’t reside, is part of
a nationwide INS program called
Systematic Alien Verification for En
titlements, or SAVE.
SAVE and its offshoots are de-
Guigni said. That’s the amount a
foreign student would pay for public
elementary and secondary education
in this district.
“On Friday we met with city,
county and state officials to advise
them that we would provide them
with names of commuter aliens,”
Guigni said.
During a two-week period in July,
“If people are residing out of the country by their own
choice, then they give up the right to some benefits. ”
— C. W. Thompson, special agent of investigations with
the INS.
signed to identify fraud of benefit
programs by aliens.
For example, U.S. residents must
be educated free of charge at public
schools. But a commuter alien would
have to pay about $285 a month tu
ition to the El Paso school district.
INS officials identified food stamp
fraud by commuter aliens in El Paso
that translated into $40,000 in bene
fits over a one-year period, Thomp
son said.
“The average recipient was get
ting about $200 a month in bene
fits,” Thompson said.
“We’re examining the commuter
group because we have some kind of
control over them,” he said. “They
have to register with us every six
months.”
In the July investigation, INS offi
cials identified one commuter alien
who was using two names and social
security numbers to obtain benefits
from three agencies.
“There’s also double-dipping,”
Thompson said. “That’s when they
get the same benefits from agencies
in New Mexico and in Texas.”
Thompson estimates that 2 per
cent of commuter aliens in El Paso
are commiting some kind of benefit
fraud.
“But I wouldn’t
that figure were
Thompson said.
be surprised if
6-8 percent,”
CS Council OKs permit
in spite of liquor low
By CRAIG RENFRO
Staff Writer
The College Station City Coun
cil Thursday night overrode a city
ordinance and approved the ap
plication to sell alcoholic bever
ages within 300 feet of a religious
institution.
John J. Loffarelli, representing
Emilio’s Pizza at 317 Patricia St.,
received the 5-2 decision for ap
proval after several minutes of
deliberation by the council.
The application now has to go
before the Texas Alcoholic Bev
erage Commission to receive
complete licensing.
Emilio’s Pizza is located 210
feet from A&M Methodist
Church and according to a city
ordinance effective June, 1983,
falls 90 feet short of the required
distance to sell alcohol.
Mayor Gary Halter said al
though it is in violation of the or
dinance, each case must be
looked at separately.
“If it were going to be a bat-
that’s one thing, but since it’s a
restaurant and many people en
joy drinking with their meal, I
think we should consider the na
ture of the area (Northgate) be
fore making a decision,” Halter
said. ;
Councilman James Bond sai&
if the application was allowed this
could open the gates for more
businesses to ask for a license.
“I fear once you do it we will
open the opportunity for anyone
and the next thing you know
White’s Auto will want to have a
beer garden,” Bond said.
In other action Halter pro
claimed the week of Feb. 3-7 as
“Exceptional Children’s Week” in
College Station and the week of
Feb. 10-16 as “National Vocatio
nal Education Week” and “Natio
nal Office Education Association
Week.”
Construction worker survives being buried in trench for 2 hours
Associated Press
DALLAS — A construction
worker was buried for two hours
Thursday when a south Dallas city
ewer trench caved in trapping him
in the 15-foot pit.
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muddy clay by strapping him to a
rescue jacket and hoisting him by
rope from the trench.
A hospital spokeswoman at Meth
odist Medical Center identified the
man as Estaben Yemen, 18, and said
he was in good condition. But a
spokeswoman for Holt and Son
Contracters, the man’s employers,
identified him as Estaben Tiscarino.
Firefighter Robert Camplen said
the man was without air for about
four minutes and was “within two
minutes” of death when rescuers
cleared away enough dirt to uncover
the man’s head and revive him with
an oxygen mask.
“It makes me feel pretty good
when you save one like that,” said
firefighter Robert Verver, one of the
first rescuers to reach the worker
from a fire station about a block
away.
Officials said the man was trapped
shortly after 8 a.m. as he retrieved a
shovel from the hole where the com
pany had been contracted to replace
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