The federal agency that’s spending huge sums to recruit more food-stamp recipients, transform the inner city diet and track what minority kids eat for lunch is investing millions to train “underserved” Hispanic students to someday work for it. It’s part of the Obama Administration’s ongoing effort to help minorities advance with publicly-funded programs. The U.S.

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An illegal immigrant at the center of a Judicial Watch investigation has been convicted of murder in the drunk-driving accident that killed a Benedictine nun and critically injured two others in the Washington Metropolitan area last year. Despite an extensive criminal history, the Bolivian man (Carlos Martinelly-Montano) had been released by federal immigration authorities on

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Overshadowed by the heated issue of illegal immigration is the equally serious national security challenge created by a growing number of Mexicans seeking political asylum in the United States to escape escalating drug-cartel violence in their country. The movement started in 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels and gangs. Tens

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To slash deportations and arrests for traffic offenses or lacking identification, law enforcement agencies in a major U.S. county are accepting Mexican consular cards—determined by the FBI to be unreliable and highly susceptible to fraud—as valid ID. The move comes just a few days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union official told Congress

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In a case that could set a national precedent, Florida anchor babies are suing public education officials for making them pay the higher college tuition rate charged to out-of-state students because their parents are in the U.S. illegally.Born in the United States to illegal aliens, the students were required to prove that their parents are

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As the perfect complement to the Obama stealth amnesty plan that’s spared thousands from deportation, the nation’s capital has officially become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. The District of Columbia’s scandal-plagued mayor, Vincent Gray, signed an executive order this week banning police and other city agencies from asking people about their immigration status. The order

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The Obama Justice Department has recently awarded millions of dollars in politically-motivated grants with a chunk of the money going to community groups that help illegal immigrants, a Judicial Watch investigation has found.“Nonprofits” that share the administration’s anti-capital punishment stance also got quite a bit of money from the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to grant

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In a truly astounding case, an illegal immigrant convicted of driving drunk in Wisconsin will have work privileges while he serves an 11-month sentence because the judge never considered the man’s immigration status.That means the illegal alien will be free to go to work while he uses the county jail as a “bed and breakfast”financed by

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has for years “grossly understated” statistics to conceal “inherent flaws” in U.S. immigration courts that have allowed more than 1 million removal orders to be ignored and droves of deportable aliens to evade hearings without consequences.In fact, pervasive corruption has long plagued the nation’s immigration court system and the DOJ,

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A few months after Massachusetts’s governor rejected a federal program that checks the immigration status of local arrestees, a drunk illegal alien with a criminal history killed a motorcyclist in the state and another who had been deported racked up his sixth drunk- driving charge.Had the state participated in the federal Secure Communities program, both

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