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During an interview with ABC News on Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stated that voters want to “stop the borders from being so porous, and I support that. … And we should not have borders that are wide open.” But while the state of New York will help the federal government remove illegal immigrants who have committed additional crimes, she doesn’t want to see the deportation of recent arrivals “who have jobs now, are contributing.” Hochul began by stating that New York will cooperate with federal immigration officials and has in the past if ICE agents have an...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said “it’s not right” for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to say that the Democrats’ policy initiatives are “contributing to inflation.” “With all the respect in the world to my friend Joe Manchin, it's not right to say that what we're doing is contributing to inflation because it is exactly the opposite,” Pelosi told anchor George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

Friction rises in Nigerian governmentJefferson case contributing to the tension Thursday, October 05, 2006 By Bruce Alpert WASHINGTON -- Imagine that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were accusing each other of improprieties so bad that they called for impeachment proceedings. That bizarre scenario is akin to what is playing out in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, as President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku Abubakar engage in a monumental political battle that got its impetus, at least in part, from the lengthy U.S. Justice Department probe of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans. There is concern within Nigeria...