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...These cases piled up, and there got to be a consensus that something should be done," Marsh says. The conservative-dominated appeals court, the Republican-led legislature and Republican Governor Rick Perry were not opposed to reform. "The courts, officials were tired of being embarrassed all the time," Marsh says. The new Office of Capital Writs, scheduled to be in place by 2010, will deal with new cases, not those already in the pipeline...
...Despite these successes, K.K. will never be allowed to visit his mother or nine-year-old son back in California. In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), which stipulates that any non-citizen living in the United States can be deported if convicted of an aggravated felony. From 1997 to 2005, about 675,000 non-citizens were deported for their crimes under the law, according to the Department of Homeland Security...
Hipp, Paul • great song by - "We're Number 37" - makes fun of anti-health-care-reform protesters...
...much awaited sweeping health-reform legislation comes under heavy fire from both the left and the right, Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus is doing his best to keep his game face on. In an interview with TIME.com, he said the reaction he has gotten "feels like it's about right, because this is something that can pass ... It's a sense of inevitability that [the bill] is pretty close to the mark here." But after a stormy closed-door session with his fellow Finance Committee Democrats, Baucus is sounding open to making some changes, even before he bangs...
...government would provide subsidies to help those earning up to three times the poverty level (in other words, a family of four making as much as $66,000 a year) buy insurance as well as set caps on their out-of-pocket expenses. (See 10 players in health-care reform...