In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport. The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located

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The Justice Department has ordered government lawyers who filed a complaint against the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters in last year’s presidential election not to cooperate with a nonpartisan civil rights commission investigating how the Obama Administration handled the case. Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against members of the radical

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While asking Americans to buckle down during the financial crisis, federal lawmakers from both political parties have spent millions of tax dollars on extravagant overseas trips that always include the most luxurious accommodations at the fanciest resorts. Each year members of Congress take countless excursions abroad to visit military bases, meet foreign officials and attend

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The first U.S. state to offer illegal immigrants discounted tuition at public colleges and universities is finally being challenged in court for offering the costly perk, which is also available to undocumented students in about a dozen other states. A Texas group dedicated to fighting illegal immigration has filed a lawsuit to eliminate a state

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As the economic crisis severely diminishes the nation’s tax revenues, thousands of federal workers—including those at key presidential cabinet agencies—still owe the U.S. government billions of dollars in back taxes for just one year. According to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents obtained by a Washington D.C. news station, 276,300 federal employees and retirees owe Uncle

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In yet another blow to a scandal-plagued U.S. Department of Homeland Security agency, one of the highest ranking officials in the history of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has admitted that he collaborated with Mexican drug dealers.  Richard Cramer, who once headed the busy Nogales Arizona ICE headquarters and was twice an attaché to Mexico,

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A leftist La Raza activist previously forced out of a U.S. ambassadorship for her close ties to a terrorist-sponsoring foreign government has been nominated by President Obama to a key administration post. Mari Del Carmen Aponte, a former director at the extremist Mexican group National Council of La Raza (see the press release applauding her

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The $1.1 trillion spending bill recently approved by Congress—and expected to be signed by the president shortly—includes nearly $4 billion in wasteful earmarks yet the measure severely slashes crucial state funds to jail illegal immigrants charged with crimes. Under the plan states will lose tens of millions of federal dollars to incarcerate criminally charged illegal

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In a case that could have widespread impact on accessing public records in California, the media is suing state officials for information related to a violent parolee who under state supervision kidnapped and raped a young girl.   The disturbing case made worldwide headlines in August when the girl (Jaycee Dugard), now 29 years old,

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A Saudi Arabian “rehabilitation” program that supposedly reforms Guantanamo Bay jihadists has instead served as a training camp for future terrorists yet the Obama Administration ardently supports it and continues sending detainees its way.  Earlier this year the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency revealed a sharp rise in the number of Guantanamo detainees who rejoin terrorist

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