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The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to two administration officials. ----------------------------------------------- The targeted cities are New York; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; San Francisco; Baltimore, Bloomington, Minnesota; El Paso, Texas; Harlingen, Texas; Imperial, California; Omaha, Nebraska and Phoenix, Arizona. They were chosen because they are cities which have high populations of illegal immigrants with criminal charges, the officials said. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review, which administers immigration...

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban talked about the NBA's decision to ban Donald Sterling and force him to sell the Clippers in a new interview at Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Nashville.While he acknowledged that NBA commissioner Adam Silver "had to do it," he reiterated his statement that forcing Sterling to sell the team for making racist comments is "a slippery slope."In a supplemental interview on Inc.com, he said that everyone, including himself, holds prejudices:"We're all prejudiced in one way or the other. If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the...

The effort of trying not to appear racist can be mentally draining - even for people who are not consciously prejudiced, say scientists. A team from Dartmouth College in the US found white people performed less well on mental tasks after an interaction with a black person. They suggest the test subjects expended mental energy - often subconsciously - trying to control racial bias. The study, which also showed that it is possible to carry out brain scans to detect racist attitudes, is published in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The researchers used a computer test to assess racial bias in...