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The Obama Administration is weighing whether to sign off on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which could pose a problem to anyone who's purchased property in the United States in the past several centuries. The declaration was overwhelmingly adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007 largely by rich, European countries whose indigenous peoples triumphed over the Romans and by poor, non-European countries whose indigenous populations either never were, have long since vanished or are now relatively small and powerless. For a wealthy country like the United States with large numbers of politically connected Indian...

Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into the U.S. After 9/11, Mara Salvatrucha attracted the attention of top al Qaeda officials, who realized that the gang could be used to smuggle operatives and weapons into the United States. An agreement was forged between the terrorists and the gang-bangers. In exchange for safe passage across the border, al Qaeda – through its cells in South America –...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials ordered a Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff to release dozens of illegal immigrants arrested during a recent sweep. The three-day sweep caught up 74 suspected illegal aliens. However, when the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office called ICE regarding the recently arrested illegal aliens, the agency ordered deputies to release all who did not have a criminal conviction in the U.S. According to a report from Judicial Watch, this constituted a violation of the partnership agreement, known as 287(g), that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department has had with ICE for two years. The mystery order resulted in...

Last week the State Department announced the lucky winners in this year’s Visa Lottery, who will be arriving in communities near you by September, 2010. Fourteen percent of the winners (13,988 people) hail from countries of special interest in the war on terror. Here are the top twelve winning countries: 1. Nigeria 6,006 2. Bangladesh 6,001 3. Ukraine 5,499 4. Ethiopia 5,200 5. Kenya 4,619 6. Egypt 4,201 7. Uzbekistan 4,059 8. Sierra Leone 3,898 9. Cameroon 3,719 10. Morocco 3,124 11. Turkey 2,826 12. Iran 2,773 Approximately one-half of these winners will pursue their application to completion and eventually...

MADISON, Conn. -- The death of a New York City woman at a Connecticut highway rest stop has led to the detention of four men for immigration violations. Police said the woman, whose name has not been released, died after becoming ill in the restroom of a McDonald's restaurant on Interstate 95 in Madison on Friday night.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Latino Congreso, meeting in Los Angeles this weekend, has unanimously passed one of two resolutions presented by representatives of the Kucinich for President campaign and will consider a second one today. The Congreso, expected to draw upwards of 2,000 Latino elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the country, is developing a political and social action agenda for the coming year, and hopes to have a major impact on the 2008 Presidential election campaign. The campaign of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is the only Presidential campaign that is officially sponsoring the...