Gov. Patrick to give illegal immigrants free tuition to Massachusetts colleges
Friday, June 27, 2008 12:46:57 PM · by pabianice · 50 replies · 1,366+ views
WTKK radio | 6/27/08
Deval Patrick, already arguably the worst governor in the United States, has announced that he intends to give illegal immigrants free tuition to Massachusetts state colleges. "It's a simple matter of justice," he is quoted as telling reporters. As the station notes, out of state US citizens are required to pay a higher-than- instate rate to attend the same schools.
Triple-killing suspect escaped prior S.F. prosecution (MS-13 gang member / "soccer team member")
Friday, June 27, 2008 12:05:16 PM · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 529+ views
SFGate.com ^ | 6/27/08 | Jaxon Van Derbeken
SAN FRANCISCO -- A suspected gang member accused of killing a father and two sons escaped prosecution in a weapons case earlier this year when the San Francisco district attorney's office concluded it didn't have enough evidence to connect him to a gun that a passenger in his car was carrying, authorities said Thursday. Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante, who police say is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang, was formally charged late Thursday with three counts of murder in the shooting deaths Sunday of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16....
U.S. helps ransom Reyes' kin - Relative of congressman's wife whisked out of Mexico
Friday, June 27, 2008 12:30:39 PM · by AuntB · 27 replies · 592+ views
Washington Times ^ | June 27, 2008 | Jerry Seper
U.S. authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez..... Erika Posselt, a Mexican national described only as "a relative of the wife" of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and powerful chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was abducted June 19 ......in Juarez. Held for three days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - at Mr. Reyes' request - helped arrange her safe return. ........ the kidnappers negotiated with Mrs. Posselt's brother in Juarez and agreed to release her...
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
Friday, March 02, 2007 08:18:13 AM · by alienken · 69 replies · 4,489+ views
One News Now.com ^ | 2/22/07 | Jim Brown
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says Jim Brown February 22, 2007 Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population. Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service...
Summer a deadly time along U.S.-Mexico border
Friday, June 27, 2008 10:01:52 AM · by SwinneySwitch · 40 replies · 547+ views
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 27, 2008 | DANE SCHILLER and DUDLEY ALTHAUS
A woman who sneaked into Houston this week after hiking miles through one of the most brutally hot and deadly stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border is frantic for help, but scared to ask for it. While evading U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints in South Texas, she left behind the body of another woman who collapsed and died, perhaps from a scorpion sting or snake bite. The woman, who gave her name as Karina and insisted on anonymity, said she tried to help her friend walk when they fell far behind a larger group led by a smuggler. Now she is carefully...
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