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This article originally appeared on WND.com Guest by post by Bob Unruh Victims’ seek special protection from deportation Under Joe Biden’s policies, illegal aliens have been flooding across America’s southern border – literally by the millions. It’s to the point that Texas is charging he’s failing to do his constitutional duty to protect the states, and lawmakers there have adopted a law allowing state authorities to arrest individuals who enter the state illegally. But now the federal government has broken up an immigration scam that focuses on allowing illegals to remain in America. It’s by having them become “victims” of...

WASHINGTON -- With a nationwide farmworker shortage threatening to leave unharvested fruits and vegetables rotting in fields, the Bush administration has begun quietly rewriting federal regulations to eliminate barriers that restrict how foreign laborers can legally be brought into the country. The effort, urgently underway at the departments of Homeland Security, State and Labor, is meant to rescue farm owners caught in a vise between a complex process to hire legal guest workers and stepped-up enforcement that has reduced the number of illegal planters, pickers and middle managers crossing the border. "It is important for the farm sector to have...

NORFOLK Federal authorities are investigating a local marriage broker who has been linked to sham nuptials between U.S. citizens and Eastern Europeans seeking a better life here. The broker favored Navy sailors for spouses because of the pay and housing benefits involved. Officials say the sailors' involvement has created a potential national security threat. Prosecutors have charged at least nine individuals in an ongoing investigation into illegal immigrants attempting to obtain citizenship through marriage. Three were in court Monday. Not every case is connected to the broker, who has not yet been publicly identified, but at least four of the...