Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents have abused illegal immigrants and systematically denied them the opportunity to contact the Mexican Consulate, according to a report by a pro-immigration reform group, The Arizona Daily Star reports. The report by the Kino Border Initiative says one in four illegal immigrants surveyed said they were abused in some…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An immigration activist who tried to intervene in a traffic stop by Tucson Police on Sunday was arrested and pepper-sprayed after authorities say he crawled under a Border Patrol car, News 4 Tucson reports. The activist, Paul Ochoa, laid under the car after police pulled over a father of six, News 4…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hundreds of people may be unjustly behind bars because of six Philadelphia cops accused of planting drugs and stealing money, NBC 6 Philadelphia reports. The FBI is investigating the former narcotics officers who were transferred to other duties pending the outcome of the investigation, NBC 6 reported, but the details are unclear….
Opinion The Bakersfield Californian The prospect for real bipartisan progress on immigration reform may take a serious hit if sequestration, the automatic cuts scheduled for March 1, take place. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano informed the Senate Appropriations Committee last week the cuts will result in a workforce-hours reduction equivalent to 5,000 Border Patrol agents,…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It usually starts out as a friendly message to teen girls on Facebook or Twitter. But once the perpetrator gains the trust of the girl, he encourages her to send a nude picture, KCTV 5 News reports. If she doesn’t, he threatens to show their messages to the principal. Christopher Patrick Gunn,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI investigation into whether Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was given prostitutes while staying at a friend’s resort in the Dominican Republic has so far found nothing substantive, the Washington Post reports, citing two people familiar with the investigation. Menendez is accused of accepting the prostitutes and free vacations from an eye…
John E. Sununu Washington Post Columnist A year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder first spoke in public about the Obama administration’s program to target and kill US citizens overseas. At the time, it seemed an extraordinary assertion of power, and certainly one that no president had previously dared to make. Holder’s speech was intended to…
