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The news that Ebola may have been allowed into Washington, DC and that a case of deadly whooping cough has been diagnosed in a DC suburb* would have been enough to shake any normal American government into following our existing health and infectious disease laws for all immigrants and visitors to the U.S. and closing our county’s borders. But the Obama administration is not a normal government. As our friend Diana West wrote on these pages back in July, “A normal government -- one with the best interests of its own citizens at heart -- would have taken immediate steps...

Immigrants and children of immigrants keep U.S. population young Washington – A steady stream of immigrants to the United States and moderate growth keep the U.S. population younger than other developed countries, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which projects population in the United States on New Year’s Day 2007 to be 301 million people. Younger population growth keeps the economy and society vital, William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, told USINFO. “With people coming into our country from around the world, as a population overall, we have become more open to new ideas,” Frey said....

PATERSON - The explosive issue of whether immigration detainees are being abused in the nation's prisons has flared up at the Passaic County Jail. Sheriff Jerry Speziale ejected federal investigators from the jail last month, accusing them of arrogance and incompetence, his spokesman said Tuesday. Bill Maer, spokesman for the jail, said the sheriff kicked out the investigators on July 21 after two weeks of inquiry into complaints by immigration detainees of poor conditions and abuse. Maer also dismissed the detainees' allegations of widespread mistreatment at the county jail as cheap ploys to generate media attention. The federal probe is...