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ATLANTA—Jessica Colotl is a reluctant poster girl for the Dream Act. Her parents brought her to the United States from Mexico illegally when she was 10 years old. She stayed out of trouble, kept her head down, made good grades, and enrolled in college. But she did not keep her head down quite far enough. Colotl was arrested on campus at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga., and sent to an out of state illegal immigrant detention facility to be deported. She had been driving without a license, which as an illegal immigrant, she had no way of obtaining. As...

A Chinese-language international TV station called New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) recently broadcast a news item on Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv's adamant prohibition of Jews deriving any benefit from Chinese organ harvesting, even in life-threatening situations. Elyashiv, the most respected halachic authority among haredi Lithuanian Jewry, ruled over a month ago that it was forbidden to use organs harvested from members of the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime. Although Elyashiv did not mention the Falun Gong by name, he said it was a desecration of God's name for Jews to exploit...