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Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to México. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once imported to the United States in a long-ago farm labor program. Some on the plane that day were undocumented residents being deported once their labor was no longer needed. The passengers, two pilots, a flight attendant and an immigration guard never made it home. An engine caught fire after a fuel leak, sending the plane and its human cargo plunging into Los Gatos Canyon near Coalinga on a clear Jan. 28...

I would love to get the following message to the Trump campaign. Perhaps by calling this an “Open Letter to Donald Trump,” he might hear of it. I would hope his campaign has already considered it. Sir, Please STOP talking about deporting the millions of illegals, except perhaps for the felons. The United Sates doesn’t need to deport anyone. If we take away the numerous rewards and entitlements that the illegals receive, they will self-deport. I don’t know the details of those rewards, but they presumably consist of items like welfare, food stamps, housing, medical care, education, tax credits, etc....

Until Tuesday afternoon, the future was looking grim for Mariano Cardoso Jr. Brought to this country illegally by his parents when he was a baby, the 23-year-old Capital Community College student was facing imminent deportation to Mexico, a country he did not know. But while at school Tuesday, Cardoso got a call from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, telling him that federal immigration officials had granted a rare stay of deportation and that in all probability he will be able to remain in the U.S. indefinitely Professors, fellow students and immigration activists were the first to come to his aid, launching...

Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the expulsion of all foreigners convicted of taking part in the riots that have swept France for 13 nights.He told parliament 120 foreigners had been found guilty of involvement and would be deported without delay. Police said overnight violence had fallen significantly - although trouble still flared in more than 100 towns. The government has declared a state of emergency in Paris and more than 30 other areas to help quell the unrest. The northern city of Amiens was the first to impose an overnight curfew under the new powers, which came into force...