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U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Jorge S., an East Bay grocery store clerk, worries about his family's future if the Bush administration follows through with its declaration this month to crack down on employers who fail to verify the legal status of their workers. "Everyone at the st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 1:36am neoform

United Press International -- The United States currently is holding about 19,000 terror suspects, a human rights group said Monday. "It is estimated that there are currently about 18,000 detainees held in Iraq, over 660 in Afghanistan, and about 375 at the U.S. prison in Guantanam.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- Little-known documents now being made public detail illegal and scandalous activities by the CIA more than 30 years ago: wiretappings of journalists, kidnappings, warrantless searches and more. The documents provide a glimpse of nearly 700 pages of mat.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 3:01pm neoform

www.miamiherald.com -- At a recent backyard barbecue in Miami's Upper Eastside, a group of middle-age, middle-class folks tamely sipped berry cocktails and beers. Among them: a couple of lawyers, a couple of city administrators and an arts administrator. Somewhere between the s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 4:59pm neoform

BBC News -- The White House and the US Senate have reached a deal on an immigration bill that could give legal status to many of the 12m illegal immigrants in the US. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy announced the agreement that would also establish a merit-based.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 9:43am neoform

Washington Post -- At 2:10 a.m., a fleet of dark SUVs surged from the garage beneath a federal building onto the deserted streets of Fairfax County, carrying a raiding party of flak-jacketed immigration agents. Their quarry: illegal immigrants who have ignored and evaded.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

FOX News -- An illegal immigrant was rescued from an ice floe less than a mile upstream from Niagara Falls, authorities said. Guards from Ontario Power Generation said they heard the man screaming for help at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday near the company's water intak.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:39am neoform

www.newschannel5.com -- Some people in a Nashville neighborhood are furious over a new rule that makes it illegal to own a gun. Residents in Nashboro Village said it's unconstitutional and leaves them defenseless. Two weeks ago, residents received a letter from their home.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush wrapped up his Latin America tour on Wednesday with a pledge to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he would seek an accord that straddles the middle ground between amnesty to illegal residents and booting out more than 12 million people.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 2:40pm neoform

Wired -- Ladyjusticeblue AT&T told an appeals court in a written brief Monday that the case against it for allegedly helping the government spy on its customers should be thrown out, because it cannot defend itself -- even by showing a signed order from the govern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

New Standard News -- Among a new batch of documents rights groups have forced the gov't to release, a Bureau communication refers to a presidential Executive Order endorsing some forms of torture witnessed at Iraq prison. Repeated references in an internal FBI email sugges.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 9, 2007 @ 11:13pm neoform

Salon -- Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain a whole array of privacy-i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:54am neoform

Yahoo News -- A former U.S. border agent who allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to cross from Mexico in return for $120,000 in cash was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison. Get the gifts you really wanted Michael Gilliland, 44, who worked on th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 3:48pm mrmdc

CNN -- Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 2:48pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Illegal drug use in the United States has dropped sharply since 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs remains a problem, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Friday. John Walters said that President Bush's anti-dru.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Three illegal immigrants were shot dead and two more were wounded after falling prey to suspected bandits as they crossed into the United States from Mexico, police said. Sergeant James Ogden of Pima County Sheriff's Department said the bodies of three.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 10:18am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The court martial against a US army officer who refused to fight in Iraq because he said the war was illegal ended unexpectedly Wednesday in a mistrial... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 31, 2007 @ 10:24am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Seven of the largest tunnels discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years have yet to be filled in, authorities said, raising concerns because smugglers have tried to reuse such passages before... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 1:59pm neoform

CNET -- Adrian Lamo, the hacker best known for illegal pranks aimed at companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and The New York Times, is free once again... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 10:23pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Entitlements: About to become law is an agreement allowing illegal aliens to get Social Security benefits after only 18 months of employment in the U.S., further burdening a system on the brink of collapse... Read More