Arizona courts must stop conducting large criminal hearings involving illegal immigrants arrested along the Mexican border because they violate federal rules, according to a decision issued this week by a notoriously liberal appellate court famous for getting overturned by the Supreme Court.  To ease the overwhelming load of annually trying tens of thousands of illegal

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A south Texas lawmaker indicted earlier this year for paying her personal illegal immigrant domestic workers with public funds has tried to bribe witnesses who are expected to testify against her. Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is accused of defrauding the county out of tens of thousands of dollars to pay the salaries of the

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For years at the center of a major City Hall corruption investigation, the notoriously crooked mayor of Maryland’s largest city—famous for being the first black woman to hold the office—has been convicted by a jury of embezzlement. Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was found guilty of embezzling gift cards donated to the city by a developer

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Despite getting hundreds of millions of tax dollars to fulfill its mission, the federal agency created after 9/11 to secure the nation’s transportation system continues to leave airplanes extremely vulnerable to another terrorist attack. In the latest of numerous reports documenting the perpetual blunders of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Homeland Security

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A New York congresswoman has for the third time introduced legislation to grant special U.S. residency to more than a dozen illegal immigrants whose undocumented relatives were killed in the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks.  Democrat Carolyn Maloney, who has represented New York’s 14th district in the U.S. House since 1992, wants Congress to

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The federal lawmaker who chairs the powerful committee that oversees the U.S. Department of Justice has long been under investigation by the agency, creating a dangerous conflict of interest that for years has been ignored.  For three years the Justice Department has been scrutinizing the shady finances of West Virginia Congressman Alan Mollohan while he

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Perpetually in denial about his deplorable actions, the Republican governor who used taxpayer resources to rendezvous with a mistress in South America is dismissing a state panel’s charges that he violated dozens of ethics laws as merely “technical questions.” For months South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been under investigation by the State Ethics Commission

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A special council created by the governor of Massachusetts to help illegal immigrants integrate into society has come up with more than 100 recommendations, including a costly idea that was solidly rejected by the legislature a few years ago. Among the suggestions offered by Governor Deval Patrick’s advisory council are granting illegal immigrants driver’s licenses

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A big-state attorney general well known for running a fraud-infested federal agency as a member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet has taken tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients being investigated or charged by his office.  New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Clinton’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary, has evidently continued his old

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Days after a devout Muslim terrorized a U.S. Army base in Texas several news reports remind that two key Homeland Security posts are occupied by equally devout Muslims, one of them a former Los Angeles deputy mayor who eliminated a crucial program that tracked terrorist activities in the city.   Earlier this year President Obama

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