SPECIAL REPORT: IMMIGRANTS

NEW FACE: Local immigrant rights activists view with mixed emotions last week’s appointment of career FBI agent Rudolph Valadez, 49, to be the INS western regional administrator. Amin David of Los Amigos de Anaheim wants to meet Valadez to discuss better treatment of newcomers. . . . Westminster attorney Richard L. Spix hopes Valadez will work to improve cultural sensitivity among INS and Border Patrol agents. Valadez starts work today at INS regional headquarters in Laguna Niguel.