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Normally, the ACLU promotes transparency in government and the ability of the public to access public records. But apparently that changes when transparency might reveal damaging information that hurts their opposition to President Trump’s common-sense, revised executive order temporarily suspending entry from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa. How else can one explain the ACLU’s criticism of a little-noticed provision in the executive order that requires the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to, among other things, report on the “number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women” in the U.S., like...

Even a year and a half after being charged with gunning down two Sacramento-area deputies, Luis Enriquez Bracamontes still seems amused as he hears the details of his alleged crimes. On Monday, as law enforcement witnesses described the emotional events of Oct. 24, 2014, in a preliminary hearing that could lead to him facing the death penalty, Bracamontes appeared animated and bemused – and sometimes bored – as he listened to testimony about the violence that day and watched as photos of bloodstained parking lots were projected onto a courtroom wall.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A random fatal shooting in San Francisco, allegedly by an immigrant, proves the United States must tighten its borders, according to a statement on Friday by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is facing heavy criticism for his comments about Mexicans. Kathryn Steinle, 32, was fatally shot as she walked with her father along the popular Embarcadero pier on Wednesday in what San Francisco police described as an apparent random attack. Francisco Sanchez, 45, was quickly arrested nearby. He is on probation from Texas, police said. He has a long criminal history and has been deported...

The lowlife you see above is Carlos Montano. You may recall him from our reports last year. He was convicted in Prince William County, VA of DUI, and, as part of an arrangement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was turned over for deportation. But DHS instead let him go, and stunningly even gave him a DHS "employment authorization card", enabling Montano to remain in the U.S. and seek employment. But his sole "employment" seems to be as a drunk, and soon he was back in an unlicensed car, blasted, and plowing into a car with three women, killing Sister Denise Mosier, 66, a Benedictine...

Federal prosecutors in the Chandra Levy murder case told a D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday that they plan to file additional charges against Levy's accused killer, Ingmar Guandique ... Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told the judge his office plans to file a superseding indictment within the next few weeks and has scheduled a new arraignment for Guandique for Dec. 15. After the hearing, Campoamor declined to name the new charges. But in a court filing earlier this summer, prosecutors said they found at least one other person who claims to have been attacked by a man fitting Guandique's...

A Montgomery County landscaper was sentenced to life in prison Monday for forcing his way into an elderly Wheaton woman's home and murdering her by slamming her head repeatedly against furniture, dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire. ... An autopsy of the victim, Lila Meizell, 83, showed that she had soot in her lungs, confirming that she had breathed in smoke before she died. She also had trauma to her skull, neck and spinal cord and had suffered multiple rib fractures. Alvarado showed little emotion during the sentencing hearing, looking down and blinking repeatedly. The native of...

A man accused of driving a car that hit a 6-year-old boy earlier this week is an illegal immigrant and will face deportation proceedings when released from state custody, federal officials said. "(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)placed a detainer on him so that if he is released from state custody for any reason, he will be released to ICE,” said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the immigration agency's Dallas-based central region. Gustavo Aldolfo, 26, was arrested after being accused of running over Orlando Carrion as the boy rode his bicycle in southwest Oklahoma City on Monday. Carrion was listed in good...

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States Copyright © 2006, Violent Crimes Institute, www.drdsk.com By Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D. Violent Crimes Institute, Atlanta, Georgia Introduction: After conducting a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period of January 1999 through April 2006 , it is clear that the U.S. public faces a dangerous threat from sex predators who cross the U.S. borders illegally. There were 1500 cases analyzed in depth. They included: serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child...