Arrests of people entering the United States illegally along the busiest stretch for such crossings fell for a second year, possibly reflecting economic conditions in both countries, a spokesman said Friday. ...more

October 4, 2008

legal and illegal - it is an article of faith that vast numbers of new arrivals are fracturing American traditions, recalibrating our values and undermining our language. Spanish spoken on the streets of L.A. is, to those inclined to see it that way, evidence of something essential slipping out of our culture, or of a scary kind of reverse assimilation. Instead of becoming more like Americans, the fear is that immigrants are trying to absorb parts of this country into Latin America. ...more

September 26, 2008

Democrats messed up. Republicans were robbed. It took a special House committee more than a year of investigating, at a cost of $500,000, to validate GOP claims that majority Democrats made the wrong call on a contested vote during one late night in the summer of 2007. The dispute fed into the ongoing highly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill. ...more

September 26, 2008

The 30-year-old son of a Florida congressman was charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona. ...more

September 17, 2008

The 30-year-old son of a Florida congressman was charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after federal authorities found people hidden in his truck during a border inspection Sunday in Arizona. ...more

September 16, 2008

There currently is an e-mail circulating among seniors on the Internet. ...more

September 15, 2008

One beauty of the Internet is that you can research topics of interest. So, when Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio was mentioned as a good role model for our sheriff position by Sheriff Benton's challenger and his supporters, I looked him up on the net. ...more

September 14, 2008

The owner and managers of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging they hired minors and in some cases had children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment such as circular saws, meat grinders and power shears. ...more

September 10, 2008

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008

When three Mexican nationals were arrested for a series of rapes in the Tampa Bay area, public officials battled over how law enforcement handles illegal aliens and some residents complained that the immigrant crime problem had gotten out of hand. ...more

September 7, 2008