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...There is no conflict between respecting the civil and human rights of an immigrant and having a very defined level of border security, which could include physical or electronic barriers. If that so then I should be offended that when I go into a building-I have to sign in-or when I attend many athletics events-I have to go through magnetometer-or when I go to airports-I have to go through numerous layers of security and prove who I am with a photo identification. We ask that of our own citizens, it is not unreasonable that...
...appearance of conflict between the two men, each is well aware that he needs to the other to get an immigration reform bill passed - that's why they've been in deep discussions on the issue since the start this year. The positions each is taking now are less oriented toward coercing the other side than toward securing maximum support from within their own party. By giving the appearance of a deep Democrat-Republican divide, they increase the chances of winning their skeptics over to a compromise. Bush and Kennedy will have more leeway to make small concessions on fines...
...child soldier, to say the least, isn’t the kind of person you meet on the street every day. We hear about the faraway conflicts he’s forced into, but he remains little more than a number in the death toll, a nameless perpetrator of a brutality that’s incomprehensible to the modern, Western mind. For Ishmael Beah, though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child...
...such visuals would lend to the fetishization of the violence of war.“I definitely was concerned, when we first started getting the images back and looking at the animation, that it looked too cool,” he says. “I feel a tiny conflict about it, but I think if you listen to the piece, it sounds deeply conflicted about the experience being described. And I also feel, being in combat myself as a journalist, there are cool things about it.”Ultimately, he believes that the style is fitting...
...issue does not appear to have been challenged in federal court previously, though the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2005 that a Wisconsin law forbidding incest among blood relations (but not including step-relations) did not conflict with Lawrence's ruling. But in upholding prison sentences for a brother-sister couple in that case, the court acknowledged that the language in Lawrence is all but certain to prompt more challenges to prosecutions for sex-related crimes on privacy grounds...