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Bring farmworkers' plight into the sunlight
FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently. One had first entered the country illegally nearly 40 years ago but later became a U.S. citizen at a time when the...
Tags: Republican Party, Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Immigration, Career and Workplace
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African refugees in Israel get a cold shoulder and worse
TEL AVIV — The first Molotov cocktail ignited a backyard fence, just a couple of feet from where three Eritrean refugees were sleeping outdoors on makeshift beds of wood planks atop old TV sets. One man burned his arm trying to extinguish the flames...
Tags: Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prisons, Refugee, Judaism
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In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives
Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Politics, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Soldier Field, Chicago Hotels
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U.S. steps up deportation efforts for criminal immigrants
WASHINGTON — In an aggressive effort to boost deportations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun to increase by nearly 25% the number of agents tasked with finding and deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records, pulling 150...
Tags: Republican Party, Lawyers, Politics, John Morton, Criminals
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Preventing prison rape
Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003 hoping to contain a national epidemic. Nearly a decade later, however, the problem apparently persists. The Department of Justice this month finally got around to releasing a 2008 survey in which 1...
Tags: Politics, Sexual Assault, Prisons, Rape, Sex Crimes
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Alabama's bad road on immigration
Apparently, Alabama lawmakers felt they hadn't gone far enough last year when they enacted the most draconian immigration law in the nation, which, among other things, required schools to determine the immigration status of their students. Now, the...
Tags: Lawyers, Politics, Laws, Career and Workplace, Scott Beason
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Supreme Court rejects widow's claim in Social Security case
WASHINGTON — A widow who conceived a baby from the sperm of her late husband is not automatically entitled to Social Security survivors benefits to help raise the child, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 9-0 decision rejected the claim that a...
Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Social Security, Deportation, Justice System
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Mississippi prison on lockdown after riot; 1 dead, 19 injured
A privately-run prison for low-security inmates in Mississippi remained locked down Monday while officials investigated what triggered a riot at the Adams County Correctional Center a day earlier. One guard died, and 16 employees were injured -- as...
Tags: Politics, Laws, Injuries and Wounds, Companies and Corporations, Same-Sex Marriage
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Mississippi prison riot leaves guard dead, 8 hurt
BRANDON, Miss. — A prison guard was killed during a riot that left five other correctional officers and three inmates injured at a privately run facility that holds illegal immigrants, authorities said Sunday. The disturbance began about...
Tags: Politics, Injuries and Wounds, Prisons, Immigration, Steve Owen
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Latino analysts dubious of Rubio's potential benefit for Romney
Handsome, youthful, Cuban American and Republican, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has been mentioned repeatedly as a potential running mate for Mitt Romney — in part because of hopes that the presence of the first Latino on a major national ticket...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Media Industry, Voting, Demographics
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Partisanship and the Violence Against Women Act
The political climate in Congress is so noxious these days that even a law that originally passed with overwhelming bipartisan support because it provided much-needed help to abused women is now a partisan issue. That's shameful. Republicans in the...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Politics, Lawyers, Career and Workplace
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House OKs money for jailing illegal immigrants -- with caveat
Incarcerating illegal immigrants is expensive, and local and state governments have for years insisted that the federal government help foot the bill. Congress appears poised once again to keep the money flowing. The House on Thursday passed a bill to...
Tags: NASA, Laws, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Adam B. Schiff
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