Fox News: As Virginia moves to ban illegal immigrants from enrolling in colleges, one local councilman is proposing a bill at the state level that would require schools to report the tally of illegal immigrant students to the state secretary of education. Fredericksburg city Councilman Todd Gilbert said under his bill illegal immigrant students will [...]
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(Reuters) – Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, most illegally. Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he won’t relinquish special legislative powers — a possibility he raised last week as a means of seeking reconciliation with Venezuela’s opposition. “I’m not going to return the Enabling Law,” said Chavez, speaking in a televised address. “I made a call to encourage courteous and respectful [...]
Los Angeles Times: Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday is expected to declare California to be in a state of fiscal emergency, asking legislators to act quickly on a package to shrink a state budget facing a $25.4-billion shortfall. The move is largely procedural. Thursday marks the deadline for the Legislature to act on a similar [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Nogales, Ariz. — It was shortly after 11 p.m. one night in December when an elite unit of the U.S. Border Patrol, making its way through the inky darkness of Peck Canyon, ran into a pack of heavily armed men. A gunfight broke out, and when it was over, Agent [...]
Politico: The White House is shuttering its political shop, shipping high-powered aides to a new campaign headquarters in Chicago and accelerating its search for a new press secretary. It’s all part of a long-anticipated — if unprecedented — attempt by Team Obama to divide itself in half, amoeba-like, as it gears up for a billion-dollar [...]
Fox News: Grappling with a brutal economic climate, more than 200 of the nation’s mayors have descended upon Washington to urge President Obama to help cities out of the fiscal morass they find themselves in as state and federal aid dries up. Several mayors, attending the annual National Conference of Mayors, met behind closed doors [...]
