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Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter will not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. It marks the first time the couple, 96 and 93, will have missed the ceremonies since Carter was sworn in as the 39th president in 1977. […] Separately, former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura will attend the inauguration in person. Their spokesman, Freddy Ford, said, “President and Mrs. Bush look forward to returning to the Capitol for the swearing in of President Biden and Vice President Harris.” The announcement from Bush, a Republican, came a day before Congress was scheduled...

After decades of attempting to dam the flow of Mexican immigrants crossing into the United States illegally, federal agents say a new crisis is emerging along the southern border and they are helpless to stop it. Non-Mexicans are spilling over the border in record numbers - some from countries with terrorist ties - and most are set free soon after being captured. Already this year, the number of non-Mexican apprehensions has far outpaced last year's total in just eight months. And while they are still a relatively small percentage compared with the number of illegal Mexicans, critics say the federal...

The Minuteman Project gained notoriety in April when volunteers policed the Arizona desert against illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico. Nearly 2,000 miles north of that first effort, a small number of Chicagoans who volunteered in Arizona are bringing the fighillegal immigration with incendiary rhetoric against some immigrant advocates, whom they call communiLindenhurst, co-founder of the Chicago proje Biesada, an ex-Marine who runs a trucking company, said he could relate to the original Minutemen, colonists who said they were ready to fight at a minute's notice during the Revolutionary War. He considers many current politicians to be committing treason. "In the...