CSX, Lou Dobbs and American JingoismNothing wrong with Lou DobbsWhile I generally agree with you on the CSX issue, I can also understand the counter-argument. If our freight transportation market was full of healthy competitors, CSX would just be another company. But they do haul the lion's share...
PARK CITY -- Utah lawmakers do not want to put the welcome mat out for illegal immigrants. Members of the Legislature's Immigration Interim Committee beat up the conservative Sutherland Institute on Wednesday, after the group put out a policy statement saying, "We should welcome all people of...
Westwood Jnr sweats over Government's pornography clampdown Stand by for fireworks between Jack Straw's Ministry of Justice and members of Britain's "exotic" artistic community. Ben Westwood, the photographer son of fashion doyenne Dame Vivienne, is leading a backlash among artists against the Criminal Justice...
VALLETTA AFP — Seventy would-be illegal African immigrants to Europe perished when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to eight companions rescued Wednesday off Malta, officials said. If their tale is confirmed, it would be one of the worst such incidents ever recorded off Malta, a...
LAUREL, Miss. AP -- Federal immigration agents said they rounded up 350 suspected undocumented workers in a raid on a Mississippi electrical equipment plant Monday, after sealing all entrances and questioning employees. Barbara Gonzalez, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, confirmed the raid at Howard Industries...
SYDNEY AFP — Australian officials said Wednesday they would carry out a full character assessment of US rapper Snoop Dogg before deciding whether to allow him to visit the country later this year. The singer, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, applied in July for a...
VALLETTA AFP — Over a hundred illegal immigrants were brought ashore Sunday in two separate operations off Malta, the island's army said in a statement. Early Sunday, a Spanish trawler reported 79 illegal immigrants, claiming to be from Sudan and including four women, were adrift in a rubber...
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Federal immigration officials vowed Friday to intensify efforts to track down illegal immigrants after scrapping a trial "self-deportation" program that attracted only eight volunteers. Though the 2 1/2-week effort produced few volunteer deportees among illegal immigrants who are under court orders to leave...
SANTA ANA, Calif. AP -- The federal government will scrap a program for illegal immigrants to turn themselves in for deportation after only eight people volunteered during a nearly three-week trial, an official said Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offered the pilot program in five cities,...
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses -- and your future Olympians. America has always been an immigrant nation, and for all the angst over the current wave of illegal immigration, the Beijing Olympics are proving to be the perfect symbol for the benefits the USA...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa AP -- A supervisor arrested after an immigration raid at a large meatpacking plant pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to hire illegal immigrants and aiding and abetting their hiring. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, who worked at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, struck a...
TEHRAN AFP — At least 30 Afghans were killed and 83 injured when a truck overturned in southern Iran on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported. Local medical official Mohammad Ali Ghanaat Pisheh told the news agency that the casualties were among a total of 125 Afghan...
A man who has been deported four times and a gang leader who recruited children were among the 42 foreign nationals arrested by federal agents during a weeklong crackdown on gangs in Salt Lake City. The effort marked the largest gang enforcement action in Utah by the...
NEW YORK AP -- Fifteen illegal immigrants who lost a spouse or child in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were granted temporary legal status Friday, a potential move toward legal residency for people who have lived in limbo since losing their loved ones. The Department of Homeland...
SAN DIEGO -- Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges. The 3 1/2-mile stretch extends from a state park on...
Raul Reyes, a New York attorney, wrote a Forum piece saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid at a worksite in Postville, Iowa, caused an increase in homelessness, crime and public drunkenness. With a broad pen stroke, he wrote that ICE's raids "are, in essence, government-sanctioned racial profiling," and he suggests...
SAN DIEGO -- Have you ever seen a giant surrender? It's pretty pathetic. That's the word that comes to mind when a gargantuan government agency with more than 16,000 employees and a $5 billion annual budget suddenly throws up its hands and gives up on one...
The nation's need for energy independence did not arise when Democrats regained control of Congress. Senate Republicans did nothing while they were in the majority to lift the drilling ban or move the nation toward energy independence. To blame the Democrats now for what the Republicans also failed to do...
We have 12 to 20 million illegals in the U.S. Think what this does to our natural resources in order to feed and house these illegals? How many acres of forests and agricultural lands have to be used to house and feed these illegals when this land should be used...
ROME -- Soldiers were deployed throughout Italy on Monday to embassies, subway stations and railway stations, as part of broader government measures to fight violent crime here for which illegal immigrants are broadly blamed. By the time it is fully effective next week, the effort will flank...
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