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U.S. Gives Illegal Immigrant Muslims $1.26 Million

…surrounding the Big Apple. The Middle Eastern immigration violators were jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and most have been deported. The five who sued the government claimed that then Attorney General John Ashcroft, prison personnel, FBI supervisors and other officials violated their rights by imprisoning them on the basis of their race and religion. The Muslims from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey assert that they were illega…

Detroit Corruption Keeps Piling Up

Public corruption cases keep piling up in a notoriously shady U.S. city that has seen its scandal-plagued mayor go to prison for a multitude of crimes, a deputy mayor and prominent city councilwoman each plead guilty to bribery in different schemes and several public school employees charged with numerous felonies for embezzling education funds. In the latest scandal to rock Detroit, a top aide (DeDan Milton) of the city’s criminal felon mayor …

Top ICE Official Defends Ariz. Immigration Sweeps

Amid a Justice Department racial profiling investigation and colossal protests by Latino rights advocates, a top Obama immigration official is defending an Arizona program that once allowed a county sheriff to arrest illegal aliens. The immigration sweeps, conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, have apprehended dozens of illegal immigrants with criminal records and vastly improved the sprawling Phoenix metropolitan area by resto…

Congress Racks Up Huge Overseas Travel Bill

…s and aides shopped for Scotch whisky, relaxed at the hotel spa, dined at the area’s finest restaurant and did quite a bit of sightseeing with their private escorts. A spokesman for the delegation’s leader (Tennessee Democrat John Tanner) assured the conference provided a great opportunity to learn first-hand the views and concerns that other countries have over the “key security issues of the day.” How that helped constituents back home is yet t…

More Corruption In Detroit

…dal comes on the heels of two separate City Hall corruption cases that rocked the area and made national headlines. A few months ago, a powerful veteran councilwoman (Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers) admitted taking bribes from a developer to change her vote on a major city contract. Months earlier the city’s thug of a mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, finally went to jail after years of scandals. The once popular …

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