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...Rasmusen has culled figures from a 2005 GAO report on foreigners incarcerated in Federal and state prisons to calculate that illegal immigrants commit 21% of all crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues...
...said. “Let’s get real here and compare exactly what we’re gonna stand for.” Clinton cited Obama’s previous alignment with Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy bill and credit card companies, eliciting boos from the crowd. The auditorium was packed with an enthusiastic audience, which one Clinton supporter described as an “across the board” demographic. “There were definitely a lot of women, slightly more women than men,” said Siri F.A. Uotila...
...large toenail. But, despite their game of pretending otherwise, its existence threatens to bring the whole building down. However, at other times, a person knocks down a painting or puts a hole in the plaster but blames it on the elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,” examines the fine line between ignoring the elephant and blaming everything on the beast. Ford, a Stanford law professor, leads the reader across this racial relations tightrope...
...life event' such as health problems (and medical bills), death or divorce," wrote analyst Chris Brendler of Stifel Nicolaus in a January report. Today's unemployment rate has yet to cause alarm, but it's the X factor that could determine how much worse credit-card defaults may get as recession looms...
...Officers dispatched to the Murr Center to take report of a stolen brown Bottega Veneta wallet valued at $700.00 that contained identification cards, credit cards, a health insurance card, and $2,490.00 in cash...