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No To Islamic Law

No to Islamic Law By: Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, August 04, 2009 Those of us who argue against Shari'a are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem when modern Western societies long ago accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. The … Continue reading

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Obama’s Immigration Policies Under Fire

Obama's Immigration Policies Under Fire By Eric S. Page NBC San Diego August 4, 2009 http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/Obamas-Immigration-Policies-Under-Fire-52451167.html If you believe successful government makes nearly everyone unhappy on some level, then the White House's immigration policy is a winner. Although Barack Obama … Continue reading

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DMV Busts Fake Documents Lab

DMV busts alleged fake documents lab The WRAL News (Raleigh), August 4, 2009 http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5727015/ Clinton, N.C. The state Division of Motor Vehicles License and Theft Bureau has charged three Sampson County men with manufacturing false or fraudulent identification documents. Luis … Continue reading

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Jobs Or No Jobs, Immigrants Stay In Lee County

Jobs or no jobs, immigrants stay in Lee County By Janine Zeitlin The News-Press (Fort Myers, FL), August 2, 2009 http://news-press.com/article/20090802/NEWS01/908020368 The workday has begun. It's after 9 a.m. but the advancing hour does not deter the more than 50 … Continue reading

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Lack Of Funds And Space Frees Suspects

Lack of funds and space frees suspects Data show ICE releases alleged illegal immigrants, violent convicts By Susan Carroll The Houston Chronicle, August 2, 2009 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/6557485.html U.S. immigration officials have released from federal custody hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants accused … Continue reading

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American Terrorists In Somalia

American Terrorists In Somalia An alarming number of young Somali-Americans are returning to the Horn of Africa to fight for a jihadist group. By Sean J. Miller The National Journal, August 1, 2009 http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/ [Subscription] The FBI is struggling to … Continue reading

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Thousands Honor Slain Border Agent

Thousands honor slain border agent `What he did was confront a situation where uncertainty and doubt abound,' agency's chief says of Robert Rosas By Sandra Dibble and Leslie Berestein The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 1, 2009 http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/01/1n1rosas232023-thousands-honor-slain-border-agent/?tijuana&zIndex=142264 El Centro, CA … Continue reading

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Arizona Sheriff Balks At Feds’ Enforcement Change

Arizona sheriff balks at feds' enforcement change By Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press, July 31, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4nY72M0hFVOHUzIrqYpD67DoBxgD99PKJR80 Phoenix (AP) — The self-proclaimed 'toughest sheriff in America' has never gotten so much resistance from the federal government. The Homeland Security … Continue reading

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Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals

Deportation Dilemmas Deepen For U.S. Hospitals By Jennifer Ludden The NPR News, July 31, 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111353362 In a widely watched case in Florida this week, a jury ruled that a hospital acted 'reasonably' when it sent an undocumented immigrant who … Continue reading

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Court Says English-Only Tests OK In Schools

Court says English-only tests OK in schools By Bob Egelko The San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/BAIJ191KB0.DTL San Francisco — California is entitled to administer school achievement tests and high school exit exams in English to all students, including … Continue reading

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Illegal Immigrant Population Declining

Illegal Immigrant Population Declining New Report Estimates 1.7 Million Drop Since Summer 2007 Contact: Steven Camarota, Center For Immigration Studies Washington, D.C. (202) 466-8185, sac@cis.org WASHINGTON (July 30, 2009) An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of monthly data … Continue reading

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Iraq Plans To Send 10,000 Students To Colleges In U.S. , Abroad

Iraq Plans to Send 10,000 Students to Colleges in U.S., Abroad Fox News Saturday, July 25, 2009 WASHINGTON Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his country plans to send up to 10,000 Iraqi students a year to colleges in the … Continue reading

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1 In 4 New Hires Vetted By E-Verify

1 in 4 New Hires Vetted by E-Verify New Data show 274% Growth since 2007 Contact: Janice Kephart Center for Immigration Studies jlk@cis.org, (202) 466-8185 WASHINGTON (July 23, 2009) E-Verify is now being used to determine work authorization for 1 … Continue reading

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Smuggling Of Children Remains A Problem

Smuggling of children remains a problem By JJ Hensley The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), July 17, 2009 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/07/17/20090717smuggling0717.html Four Phoenix residents detained at the border in the past month have highlighted a persistent problem: child smuggling. Border Patrol agents detained Manuela … Continue reading

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U.S. To Admit Palestinian Refugees From Iraq

US to Admit Palestinian Refugees from Iraq By Marina Litvinsky The Inter Press Service, July 17, 2009 http://original.antiwar.com/litvinsky/2009/07/16/us-to-admit-palestinian-refugees-from-iraq/ Approximately 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq are being considered for resettlement in the U.S. after being referred to the U.S. Refugee Admissions … Continue reading

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HIV Travel Ban May Be Lifted For Infected Visitors

HIV travel ban may be lifted for infected visitors By Jonel Aleccia The MSNBC News, July 17, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31910664/ns/health-aids/ Foreigners who have HIV would be allowed to travel and immigrate to the United States under a plan by federal health … Continue reading

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Obama Policies Fail To Protect Pristine Lands

'Obama policies fail to protect pristine lands' Report cites 7,000 abandoned vehicles, tons of garbage from illegal aliens By Bob Unruh The World Net Daily News, July 17, 2009 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104158 A new video report from the Center for Immigration Studies … Continue reading

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Erbe : Immigration And Drought

Erbe: Immigration and drought By Bonnie Erbe/Syndicated Columnist GHS Posted Jul 16, 2009 @ 07:48 AM http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/x50027850/Erbe-Immigration-and-drought Water shortages, which used to be limited to the dry western states, now plague just about the entire United States. Even regions that … Continue reading

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The Environmental Impact Of Illegal Entry

The Environmental Impact of Illegal Entry Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border Contact: Janice Kephart Center For Immigration Studies jlk@cis.org, (202) 466-8185 WASHINGTON (July 16, 2009) Wildlife populations are increasingly threatened by illegal immigration and the alien smugglers who are … Continue reading

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Renewed Migration Talks Fruitful, U.S., Cuba Say

Renewed Migration Talks 'Fruitful,' U.S., Cuba Say The Latin American Herald Tribune (Caracas, Venezuela), July 16, 2009 http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=339322&CategoryId=14510 New York — Representatives of the United States and Cuba agreed that their first talks since 2003 to analyze immigration questions were … Continue reading

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