US Steps Up Deportation of Immigrant Criminals
By Ernesto Londoño
The Washington Post
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Immigration officials are increasingly scouring jails and courts nationwide and reviewing years-old criminal records to identify deportable immigrants, efforts that have contributed to a steep rise in deportations and strained the immigration court system.
Long accused of failing to do enough to deport […]

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Most of the candidates this election season, in particular each party’s front runners, have spend amounts of money equal to the budgets of many small nations. The hideous reality in American politics, that he who spends more generally wins, is one of the creepier secrets our political parties keep. We must press hard for […]

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Election Madness
By Howard Zinn
The Progressive
March 2008 Issue
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held-security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family […]

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