In a blow to Louisiana’s effort to restrict abortions, a federal appellate court has ruled that a state-run medical malpractice fund may have to cover negligence claims against doctors who perform the life-ending procedures even though it’s forbidden by state law. The case involves two physicians embroiled in a lawsuit for botching an abortion

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The law enforcement agency that’s supposed to “serve and protect” one of the nation’s largest cities shields illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes, even when they are serious felonies involving weapons. In dozens of family violence cases involving illegal aliens this year the Dallas Police Department dropped charges, even when suspects held victims at knifepoint.

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Rhode Island State Police violate the rights of suspects who don’t speak English by failing to provide adequate translation services, according to a new complaint aimed at weakening the department’s immigration enforcement powers. Under a local-federal partnership known as 287(g), Rhode Island state troopers are authorized to enforce immigration laws and officers routinely check immigration

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  The scandal-plagued federal agency that recently launched a multi million-dollar “environmental justice” movement to help minority communities get green is celebrating its 40th birthday this week with a national tour to advance more of its costly leftwing programs. Four decades after it was created to protect the environment and human health, there is little

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  While local governments work to curb the ravaging effect of illegal immigration, a major U.S. city is helping its undocumented aliens by creating an “alternative banking system” and giving them official government identification cards. The northern California city of Oakland will join a few other municipalities across the U.S. that give illegal immigrants official

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  As it fails miserably to fulfill its primary duty of enforcing immigration laws, the Homeland Security agency charged with protecting the nation’s safety is busy confiscating internet websites that help users download copyrighted music. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has embarked on a new mission that has little to do with its key responsibilities

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In disgraceful acts to help those who violate U.S. law, federal legislators in different parts of the country have blocked the deportation of illegal immigrants in the last few days. The three federal lawmakers from California and Ohio, all Democrats, claim to be acting on behalf of the illegal aliens because they were brought into

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  More than half a dozen officials running the nation’s largest public transportation agency remain on the job years after falsifying thousands of safety reports and one derelict supervisor actually got a big promotion and hefty pay raise. The public employees all work for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), one of the world’s largest

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Mexican illegal immigrants who give birth to anchor babies in the U.S. are being joined by upper-class Chinese women who have the resources to enter the country legally to deliver their offspring and essentially purchase American citizenship. A story on this new breed of anchor babies was published this week by the leftwing National Public

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  Legislation promoted by Democrats as a sympathy measure to help illegal immigrant children become American citizens will also allow undocumented adults with criminal records to obtain U.S. residency. The lame-duck Congress is scrambling to pass the law, known as the DREAM Act, before the end of the year as a way to assist innocent

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