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Abdel showed up at his local Pennsylvania motor vehicle office to take his driver’s license test — and walked out having registered to vote, even though he is not a citizen. He said his command of English isn’t good and the computer system was unclear, but he somehow managed to sign up even though he knew he shouldn’t. Then there was Angelo, who figured he could vote because he joined the U.S. military, even though he wasn’t a citizen. He, too, signed up at the Pennsylvania motor vehicle bureau and registered as a Democrat. He then voted nearly every year...

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac -- emboldened by emergency regulatory actions that have triggered a two-day rebound in its battered stock -- is considering raising capital by selling as much as $10 billion in new shares to investors, according to people familiar with the matter. The high-stakes maneuver would have the potential to avoid a full-blown government rescue for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, twin keystones of the U.S. housing market. The publicly traded, government-sponsored companies own or guarantee about $5.2 trillion of home mortgages, or nearly half the total outstanding, and are at the center of government efforts to prop...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Irish immigration activists warned U.S. lawmakers last week that the future of the Irish community in America is at risk if comprehensive immigration reform is not passed. "The facts are clear to us," said Niall O'Dowd, chairman of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. "Without immigration reform, the Irish-born community in the United States will no longer exist and one of the greatest contributors to the success of this nation will be no more." Speaking as a witness before the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, O'Dowd said that the Irish undocumented community in the U.S....

FReeper Law Review Note: Compassionately Safeguarding Citizens' RightsI just finished my Law Review "note" and I am submitting it for publication.  I am looking for comments, reviews, and suggestions from all you legal- and lay-Freepers.  Here is an excerpt from the introduction of the note so you can have an idea what it is about:A citizen’s exclusive right to vote in federal elections is the very essence of national sovereignty. Any threat to that right, e.g. vote dilution, non-citizen voting, or vote fraud, directly threatens our sovereignty. Our failure to effectively enforce our immigration laws threatens to dilute the visage...