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By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Published: October 13, 2003 Eighteen-year-old Yuliana Huicochea moved to the United States at age 4, but now faces deportation because immigration officials stopped her on a school trip to a science fair. Ms. Huicochea's troubles began last year when she and other members of her high school science team traveled from Phoenix to Buffalo to enter their 15-foot solar-powered boat in the fair and decided to take a side trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Immigration officials stopped Ms. Huicochea and three teammates and told them they faced deportation because they were illegal immigrants. "I'm...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Battered California recall candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger has received some unexpected support from Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who said the Republican gubernatorial candidate should be forgiven for his past indiscretions and even suggested that he should have the opportunity to run for president someday. Hatch said the sexual misconduct allegations that have been thrown at Schwarzenegger by his political enemies since late last week happened so long ago that they are simply not relevant to the kind of governor he will be for the people of California in 2003. "We have to look at people who...

Photo Caption: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Orrin Hatch share a laugh in Salt Lake City in 1994 when the actor campaigned for Hatch. At the time Pat Shea, Hatch's opponent, criticized Schwarzenegger's treatment of women. WASHINGTON -- Sen. Orrin Hatch says Arnold Schwarzenegger should not be judged on past improper advances towards women but as the devoted husband he is today, adding that the foreign-born GOP candidate for California governor also should have the opportunity to run for president under a constitutional amendment Hatch is pushing. "We have to look at people who they are today, not what they may...

A Constitutional Anachronism America is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants have shaped our politics and diplomacy, run our government and defended us in wartime — more than 700 recipients of the Medal of Honor have been immigrants. Yet no matter how great their contributions or sacrifices, immigrants remain ineligible for the nation's highest office because of a provision in the Constitution that bars naturalized American citizens from becoming president. The provision has long since outlived its usefulness, if it had any in the first place. Orrin Hatch, a Senate Republican, and Vic Snyder, a House Democrat, are pushing amendments to...

Fri September 5, 2003 02:05 PM ET By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said on Friday he does not expect other stalled judicial nominees to follow Miguel Estrada's lead and drop their confirmation bids, but "we are always concerned." "I've basically told them, 'Hang in there. We'll do our best to get you through,"' Hatch, a Utah Republican, told Reuters. "Let the process work." Estrada got fed up with the process. After waiting more than two years for a Senate confirmation vote, Estrada asked President Bush on Thursday to withdraw his nomination to the...

<p>There is only a modest fan base for the 300 or so patriotic and religious ditties Sen. Orrin Hatch began penning back in 1996.</p> <p>But the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has reported more than $50,000 in royalty earnings since then, thanks in part to one very big fan: a contractor for HealthSouth Corp., the embattled hospital company, who says he bought more than a thousand compact discs of the Utah Republican's songs.</p>

WASHINGTON -- Children of illegal immigrants could pay in-state tuition at public colleges under a bill Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch has reintroduced after it died in the House last year. Hatch's "Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors," or DREAM Act, is similar to legislation introduced this spring by Utah 3rd District Republican Rep. Chris Cannon. Cannon's measure, the "Student Adjustment Act," has picked up 66 co-sponsors from both parties. Hatch's bill also has bipartisan support, with Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin the primary co-sponsor. "By introducing this bill, I know I am subjecting myself to criticism from both sides...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats angrily denied charges of religious bigotry on Thursday as they blocked the nomination of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, an anti-abortion Catholic, to a federal appeals court. During a stormy debate on the Senate floor, Democrats said they oppose Pryor not because of his faith but because of what they described as his extreme right-wing record on matters from civil rights to women's rights. On a 53-44 vote, Pryor's Republican backers fell seven short of the needed 60 to clear the way for a Senate confirmation vote on President Bush (news - web sites)'s nomination...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2003 Source: Constitution Party National Committee Constitution Party: Foreign Born Should Not Serve As President LANCASTER, PA: Condemning the recent move by Senator Orrin Hatch to permit foreigners who have been naturalized to serve as President of the United States, the nation's third largest political party urged the United States Congress to reject the proposal. "Sen. Hatch's proposal may be well intentioned but it also a betrayal of the very principles and ideals that our Founding Fathers had when they created this nation," said James N. Clymer, chairman of the Constitution Party National Committee. "Such...

Orrin Hatch has a thing for timing. The same day this month that a Virginia court moved the trial of Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad far from the city he allegedly terrorized last fall, the Republican senator from Utah decided it was time to loosen up gun restrictions in the nation's capital. The District's 1976 law bans handguns (designed only for killing people), requires firearm and ammunition registration and prohibits guns in the workplace. Hatch wants to loosen all these public safety restrictions while redefining "machine gun" to boot. What's notable here is that Hatch is no exception. He...

<p>Disarmed residents of the nation's capital, which is also the nation's murder capital, seem to have attracted a powerful ally in Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican. The D.C. Personal Protection Act, introduced by Mr. Hatch on July 15, would repeal the District's 27-year ban on handguns and lift prohibitions on carrying weapons in homes and businesses.</p>

<p>Cato Institute scholar Robert A. Levy yesterday accused the National Rifle Association of conspiring with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch to "sabotage" his lawsuit to overturn the District's draconian gun ban.</p> <p>The traditional allies found themselves on a war footing over tactics in the campaign to win Supreme Court sanction that the Second Amendment bestows an individual right to own firearms.</p>

Hatch Legislation to Overturn D.C. Gun Ban Riles Some "Months before Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to repeal the District's 27-year-old handgun ban, two gun rights groups were trying to get the law struck down in U.S. District Court," reports The Washington Post. "But instead of working together, the Cato Institute and the National Rifle Association have filed separate lawsuits against the gun ban and have disagreed with each other's legal tactics." In a July 17 news release, Senior Fellow Bob Levy, one of the attorneys involved in a lawsuit challenging the handgun ban, says that the Hatch...

"Months before Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to repeal the District's 27-year-old handgun ban, two gun rights groups were trying to get the law struck down in U.S. District Court," reports The Washington Post. "But instead of working together, the Cato Institute and the National Rifle Association have filed separate lawsuits against the gun ban and have disagreed with each other's legal tactics." In a July 17 news release, Senior Fellow Bob Levy, one of the attorneys involved in a lawsuit challenging the handgun ban, says that the Hatch bill is an attempt to derail the lawsuit. "Hatch...

Adrienne T. Washington’s Friday column (“Whims of meddlers violate D.C. autonomy,” Metropolitan) illustrates exactly the attitude that must be overcome before the Third World streets of the District of Columbia are rehabilitated. Mrs. Washington uses the common “don’t tell us what to do” defense for supporting D.C. home rule, even though the District’s murder rate, the highest in the country, is even higher than that of Baghdad. There are children dead in the streets, a corrupt city government, a functionally illiterate populace and an equally dysfunctional city educational program. All Mrs. Washington appears to be concerned with it the Districts...

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants District residents to be able to own handguns legally, reviving a pitched debate over gun control in a city with some of the toughest restrictions in the nation. The D.C. Personal Protection Act, introduced Tuesday by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), would repeal the District's ban on handguns, end strict registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms, and lift prohibitions on the possession or carrying of weapons at homes and workplaces. The legislation also would loosen the District's definition of a machine gun, possession of which is subject to additional sanction. The...

NEW BEDFORD -- A local man's quest to enable foreign-born citizens to run for president appears to have gained some momentum with support this week by conservative Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah. For about 25 years, Raimundo Delgado of New Bedford has been pushing for an amendment to the Constitution that would allow foreign-born citizens to become president or vice president of the United States. "This is a historical step," he said Friday of Hatch's introduction before the Senate on Thursday of the "Equal Opportunity to Govern" amendment. "We might be able to see this change in my lifetime," Delgado...

Orrin Hatch might look like a stuffed shirt, with his ramrod straight posture and the sober bearing of a former Mormon bishop, which he is, but there are many sides to the man. If you don't believe it, just ask him. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said he'll continue to run for office "as long as I think I'm doing well. I can do so much for our state and for our country."Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Morning News "I have a soft side, and I have a tough side," he explains. There's this soft side, which is the source of hundreds...

<p>Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed.</p> <p>But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes.</p>

WASHINGTON - Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning. Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed. That's the suggestion made by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) at a Tuesday hearing on copyright abuse, reflecting a growing frustration in Congress over failure of the technology and entertainment industries to protect copyrights in a digital age. The surprise statement by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that he favors developing technology to remotely destroy computers used for illegal downloads represents a dramatic escalation in the increasingly...