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...rarely written without the word maverick attached would ever meet a cause he deemed hopeless. But that was pretty much where Arizona Senator John McCain was a couple of weeks ago in his quest to transform the nation's immigration laws and set on the path to becoming citizens the estimated 11 million people who are here illegally. When the proposition had been tested, as recently as December in the House of Representatives, the result was a bill that went just about as far as possible in the other direction, one that would build two layers of reinforced fence along...
...Dever has been the sheriff of Cochise County--which includes Bisbee and encompasses an area almost the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, with 84 miles along the Mexican border--for eight years and a deputy before that for 20 years. The two lawmen handle the same kinds of citizen demands made on local law-enforcement agencies everywhere--from murder to drugs to reports of abandoned cats. But never have they seen the likes of today's work, in which their time is monopolized by relentless reports of alien groups making their way through the area. The entries from Bisbee...
These gaps present their own special problem. On the other side are Mexican ranches whose cattle wander onto Ladd's. "I'm up to 215 Mexican cows that I've put back into Mexico," he says. "I've got a dual-citizen friend--he's Mexican and American--works on this side for Phelps Dodge [Mining Co.], but he's got a ranch over at the San Jose Mountain. So I call him, and then he calls the Mexican cattle inspector. Then that guy meets me at the border and then coordinates the cows getting back to the rightful owners...
...they will take a lunch only if it's a Happy Meal. But politics stops at the bedroom's edge. Post-Abramoff Sudden Virtue Syndrome has yet to result in a ban on the world's most obvious conflict of interest, one that is, in the words of Public Citizen director Frank Clemente, "way up there on the unseemly scale." "We live in a different world than we did 30 or 40 years ago, and people should recognize it," a would-be reformer told the New York Times...
Since the beginning of March, several surprising developments have brought Zacarias Moussaoui’s trial to the covers of major dailies around the world. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is in the penalty phase of his federal trial, having already plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The trial’s latest revelation was that Carla J. Martin, a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration, had coached several aviation officials who were scheduled to testify for the prosecution. In light of these facts, District Judge Leonie Brinkema last Tuesday decided to exclude...