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Kaine: Don't politicize Michelle Obama's travels
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2010/08/09 05:47
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pDemocratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine is defending first lady Michelle Obama's vacation trip to Spain, saying critics of her travels are trying to politicize the issue./ppKaine tells NBC's Today show he thinks it's wrong to talk critically about her trips. Critics contend they send a poor message at a time when many Americans are out of work./ppKaine said, She's a mom. He said this was an opportunity for her to take nine-year-old daughter Sasha to a part of the world she hadn't seen before./ppKaine said President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are focused on being good parents. Mrs. Obama returned with Sasha to the White House late Sunday. Her trip occurred as Obama was celebrating his 49th birthday and their other daughter, 12-year-old Malia, was away at summer camp.
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Family of victims sues over Marine jet crash in SD
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2010/07/29 08:56
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| pThe family of four people killed in the crash of a Marine Corps jet in a San Diego County neighborhood two years ago sued the federal government and Boeing Wednesday./ppThe lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by Dong Yun Yoon, whose wife, two daughters and mother-in-law were killed in the December 2008 crash that incinerated two homes and damaged others in University City./ppThe suit accuses the military and Boeing, the aircraft's maker, of negligence and seeks unspecified damages./ppThe military disciplined 13 members of the Marines and Navy after the crash, which was blamed on mechanical problems and a string of bad decisions that led the pilot to bypass a potentially safe landing at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado./ppThe suit claims the F-18 Hornet had a history of warnings and system failures related to its fuel system and never should have been cleared for takeoff./ppCalls to Boeing after hours Wednesday were not immediately returned./ppCourt documents accuse the Marine Corps of making decisions in violation of written military standards, which if complied with would have avoided the tragic ending./ppFour members of a Korean family were killed in their home — Young Mi Yoon, 36; her daughters Grace, 15 months, and Rachel, 2 months; and her mother Suk Im Kim, 60. Kim was visiting from South Korea to help her daughter move across town and adjust to the arrival of her second child./ppThe pilot, Lt. Dan Neubauer, described in a statement to investigators how he struggled to control the malfunctioning jet in the minutes before the crash./ppThe pilot was on a training flight from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln when he was forced to shut down one engine because of mechanical trouble. The hobbled jet was told to bypass a coastal Navy base that offered an approach over water and to instead fly inland over San Diego to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar./p |
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Neb. town may halt immigration law to save money
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2010/07/27 09:04
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pFaced with expensive legal challenges, officials in the eastern Nebraska town of Fremont are considering suspending a voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants until the lawsuits are resolved./ppThe City Council narrowly rejected the ban in 2008, prompting supporters to gather enough signatures for the ballot measure. The ordinance, which was approved by voters last month, has divided the community. Supporters say it was necessary to make up for what they see as lax federal law enforcement and opponents argue that it could fuel discrimination./ppBut the council's president, Scott Getzschman, insisted the elected body was concerned about money, not about any lack of support for the ordinance. The City Council is scheduled to vote on suspending the ban on Tuesday night, a day before the city goes to court over the measure./ppThe city faces lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense amp; Educational Fund. City officials have estimated that Fremont's costs of implementing the ordinance — including legal fees, employee overtime and improved computer software — would average $1 million a year.
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Officer wants Ariz. lawsuit merged with feds' case
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2010/07/19 09:30
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The lawyer for a Phoenix police officer who is challenging Arizona's new immigration law in court has asked a federal judge to merge his lawsuit with a challenge filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The officer's attorney, Stephen Montoya, tells U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in a court filing that the cases are virtually identical because they claim the state law is trumped by federal immigration law and because both seek to keep the state law from being enforced.
The law requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if officers have a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
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AZ to release immigration training plan for cops
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2010/07/01 09:21
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pArizona officials plan to release a training program Thursday designed to teach police officers to enforce a tough new crackdown on illegal immigration without racially profiling./ppAn hour-long video and supporting paperwork will be sent to all 170 Arizona police agencies and publicly released Thursday morning./ppOfficials released an outline for the video in May./ppIt will emphasize the importance of professionalism, ethics and integrity, as well as an officer's duty to protect civil rights, according to the outline./ppRetired immigration agents also will describe how federal officers are trained to avoid racial profiling and the documents that immigrants are required to carry./ppAnd officers will be taught how to contact federal immigration authorities or local officers certified by the federal government to determine someone's immigration status./ppGov. Jan Brewer ordered the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to develop the training when she signed the law April 23./ppPolice bosses will decide the best way to teach their forces. But there is no requirement that all 15,000 Arizona police officers complete the training before the law takes effect July 29./ppOpponents have challenged the measure as unconstitutional and have asked that a federal court block it from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton plans to hear arguments on the request later this month./ppArizona's law generally requires police officers enforcing another law to question a person's immigration status if there's a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.
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Obama plans fourth tour of Gulf oil spill
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2010/06/14 05:58
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| pStruggling to show leadership in a crisis, President Barack Obama is embarking on a three-state tour of Gulf Coast states tainted by oil before speaking to the nation about the country's worst environmental disaster and what to expect in the weeks ahead./ppBefore the start Monday of a two-day trip to Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the White House announced Obama would order BP to establish a major victims' compensation fund. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday evening Obama will use his first Oval Office speech as president to address the catastrophe./ppBP said in a statement that its costs for responding to the spill had risen to $1.6 billion, including new $25 million grants to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. It also includes the first $60 million for a project to build barrier islands off the Louisiana coast. The estimate does not include future costs for scores of damage lawsuits already filed./ppObama's first three trips to the Gulf took him to the hardest-hit state, Louisiana. On Monday, Day 56 since BP's leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and unleashed a fury of oil into the Gulf, he's flying to Gulfport, Miss. From there he'll travel along the coast to Alabama, where oil was washing up in heavy amounts along the shores Sunday in the eastern part of the state./p |
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IMMIGRATION DEPORTATION DEFENSE
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2010/05/29 17:21
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a href=http://www.sandiego-immigrationlawyer.comspan style=color: #010943span style=font-size: 16ptspan style=font-family: times new roman, timesstrongSAN DIEGO IMMIGRATION LAW FIRM/strong/span/span/span
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If you are not a U.S. citizen, you may be ordered to appear in Immigration Court for deportation proceedings (also known as removal proceedings) if you have:nbsp;
ullioverstayed your visa/lilibeen deemed “inadmissible” by the USCIS/lilibeen convicted of a crime/lilientered the U.S. illegally /li/ulIt is not unusual for persons (unaided by an attorney) to submit an application for permanent residence or naturalization or renewal of a green card, only to find them selves ordered to appear in Immigration Court for deportation proceedings. nbsp;
If you are placed in deportation proceedings (removal proceedings) the U.S. government (specifically the Department of Homeland Security) will serve you with a Notice to Appear or “NTA”.nbsp; If you are issued a Notice to Appear, even if you believe it to be a mistake, you can not ignore it.nbsp; Only an experienced immigration attorney will know what relief you have available to you.
a href=http://www.sandiego-immigrationlawyer.com/practice-areas/deportation-defenseImmigration Court/a trials are different than criminal trials in the United States.nbsp; In Immigration Court you have the right to be represented by an attorney.nbsp; However, the government is not obligated to provide you one, and in most cases will not.nbsp; So you must hire your own attorney if you are placed in deportation proceedings. nbsp;
In your deportation proceedings, the government’s attorney (known as the “Trial Attorney”) will present a case against you seeking to have you deported.nbsp; In that case, the government’s attorney must identify the legal grounds for your deportation and then prove all the facts that they allege in the NTA in order to have you deported. nbsp;nbsp; nbsp;
An Immigration Judge will preside over your case and has the authority to act not only as Judge but as prosecutor in your case (although this rarely happens these days).nbsp; Once you are placed in deportation proceedings, only the Immigration Judge can decide whether or not you will be deported. nbsp; |
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