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Mosquito bites can be more than a nuisance this summer — they can make you sick. Florida has become a hotbed for mosquito-borne diseases, reporting hundreds of cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and even West Nile virus. The state leads the nation in dengue cases this year with 270 reported. Increasingly, residents aren’t just acquiring the virus while traveling abroad — they are getting bitten right at home. Mosquito control experts note that peak dengue season runs from July through September. As many as 111 people as of early September have contracted locally acquired dengue in six Florida counties...

On Thursday, police in Orem arrested Alexander Navidad-Hernandez, 27, and Javier Santos-Jacobo, 27, after they reportedly tried to convince two sisters, ages 14 and 16, to have sex with them for $30.A day earlier, one of the suspects pulled-up next to the girls as they walked home, handed them a $5 bill, along with his phone number and told them to call him if they wanted to make some money, according to police. The Daily Herald reported: The girls told their father about what had happened and he had the older of the girls call the number. The man who...

Axel Caballero says efforts to pass an immigration reform bill in recent years have stalled as a result of the anti-immigrant rhetoric and the negative perceptions of undocumented immigrants. Caballero said that instead of moving forward with a sensible solution to fix the nation’s broken immigration system, there’s been a recent wave of harsh enforcement tactics. These tactics, he said, have led to a record number of deportations, the separation of families, the exploitation of undocumented workers and the unjust treatment of unauthorized immigrants. “We’re sick and tired of the anti-immigrant rhetoric,” he told VOXXI. “It’s loud, it’s noisy and...

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prepares to bring up the immigration bill once again, the Bush administration and amnesty advocates in Congress are attempting to sell the measure as critical "national security" legislation. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez makes this pitch over and over again, and Sen. Ted Kennedy this week took time out from Continues... ================================================================== Weekend at Bernie's III As a Documented American out of the shadows, it's so wonderful to hear that the number of arrests at the border is going up! The only bummer being the arrested are Border Patrol Agents. Maybe they can get amnesty....

A new staff report from the 9-11 commission says the failure of federal authorities to detect numerous violations of immigration law by the September 11 hijackers allowed the men to execute their deadly plot. If those violations – which included fraudulent passports held by as many as seven of the 19 hijackers – had been detected, many would have been arrested before the attacks, says the report, which was released Saturday as the commission officially closed up shop. According to the Los Angeles Times, also noted in the report was the fact that U.S. intelligence had linked at least three...

Immigration Fraud Probe Nets 14 Suspects Wed Sep 4, 8:05 AM ET Fourteen metro area suspects have been indicted for allegedly helping hundreds of people gain citizenship illegally, Local 4 reported Tuesday. Investigators say the suspects were taking money for fraudulent medical waivers. The waivers allow people trying to gain U.S. citizenship to skip key parts of immigration exams, Local 4 reported. Since 1997, the INS has allowed people with physical or developmental disabilities, or mental impairments to bypass English proficiency and civics portions of immigration exams, according to Local 4. The suspects include medical doctors and PhD's who allegedly...