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Detroit community demands end to racial profiling

July 7, 2011 By John Rummel

"How does a documented person look? Can a Border Patrol agent tell by physical appearance, or name, if someone is documented or not, a criminal or not?"

Kasich budget escalates class warfare

July 7, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Ohio Gov. John Kasich escalated his radical program of open class warfare last week with his new two-year budget.

South Carolina passes anti-immigration law

July 6, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

South Carolina has become the fifth and latest state poised to enact a draconian anti-immigration law, after Republican Gov. Nikki Haley signed SB 20 last week.

Chicago top cop links gun policy to racism

July 6, 2011 By Teresa Albano

Chicago's top cop says current gun policies facilitate illegal gun trafficking, and equal "government-sponsored racism."

Farm workers protest veto of Calif. card check bill

July 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

California's Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have allowed farm workers to use the card check method to unionize. Brown refused to meet with the farm workers and the 25 legislators that...