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At least 100 American citizens trapped for months on two U.S. bases inside Kuwait are now free to leave their posts without the threat of being detained and jailed by local police, a source on one of the bases told FoxNews.com. Kuwaiti authorities unjustly issued warrants for the arrest of the Americans, who worked as Arabic translators for U.S. Defense contractor, Global Linguist Solutions, after their employer ended a lucrative deal with its sponsoring Kuwaiti subcontractor, Al Shora International General Trading & Contracting, and signed on with another company. When the contract ended Feb. 17, Al Shora refused to transfer...

With Wednesday's vote to extend eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits to 125 weeks, the Senate has just added $34 billion to the national debt. That's more than $500 million per senator who voted for the bill. You can call it cover-up money, because these are many of the same Democratic senators who voted into law policies that threaten to destroy Americans' jobs to begin with, such as mandatory employer-provided health insurance. Now they're voting to send to President Obama, after the House of Representatives votes today, a small remedial package to assist workers who have been out of work for...

<p>Up until last night, people had been very cooperative with this effort, and for that I was grateful. Last night, I think there must have been a full moon or something, but we'll get that straightened out.</p> <p>“It is very sad that ordinary citizens are being forced to go to such great lengths to force their own government to protect their jobs and wages from unscrupulous employers who knowingly hire people who are in the United States illegally,” said Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR. “The government systematically ignores the massive violation of laws specifically intended to protect American workers against exactly this sort of practice, leaving people no other option but to sue under RICO.”</p>