Steve Neavling

A Guatemalan man who stabbed a Border Patrol dog in the neck was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday, The Monitor reports.

Luis Gilberto Cruz Solis also will be deported.

Solis was with a group of about 30 people who illegally crossed the border in May, according to the Monitor.

As everyone dispersed, Solis was fleeing when he stabbed Dinie, a 2-year-old German shepherd, in the neck.

The wound was about 2 inches deep. Luckily, Dinie survived and returned to work soon after.

By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The U.S. government scored a victory in the deportation of a Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar who was deported to Syria after being arrested in New York for being a suspected terrorist, the Canwest newservice reported.

The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Arar’s bid to sue the U.S. over his case, ruling 7-4 in favor of the government.

Canwest summed up the ruling by saying “the court ruled that the case was so unusual that the U.S. Congress would have to expressly authorize such lawsuits, complete with remedy if wrongdoing by government officials is determined to have occurred.

Canwest reported that the majority ruled that letting the lawsuit move forward would “offend the separation of powers and inhibit (U.S.) foreign policy,” the majority said.

“We decline to create on our own, a new course of action against officers and employees of the federal government,” Chief Judge Dennis G. Jacobs wrote in the 59-page majority opinion.

Arar’s attorney indicating the ruling may be appealed.

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John Demjanjuk/msnbc

This guy has had more detours than a California freeway under construction. The latest is that he’s supposed to be in Germany by Tuesday. We’ll see.

By M.R. Kropko
Associated Press
SEVEN HILLS, Ohio — Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk is expected to be deported to Germany by Tuesday, a German Justice Ministry spokesman said as the retired autoworker remained inside his suburban Cleveland home.

Reporters gathered outside the home Monday morning in anticipation that he could turn himself over to U.S. immigration authorities.

“According to our current information, we anticipate that he will arrive in Germany tomorrow during the course of the day,” Justice Ministry spokesman Ulrich Staudigl told The Associated Press on Monday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials went to Demjanjuk’s home Friday to serve a government notice asking that he surrender. The move came one day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Demjanjuk’s appeal to stop his deportation

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