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Alabama, Illegal Immigration and the Presidential Campaign
With no federal action on immigration reform, more states are passing crackdowns of their own — with Alabama's the toughest so far. While courts try to decide if it's...
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWith no federal action on immigration reform, more states are passing crackdowns of their own — with Alabama's the toughest so far. While courts try to decide if it's Constitutional, where do the President and his GOP challengers stand? Will the growing Hispanic vote help make illegal immigration an issue in next year's campaign? Also, Libya's National Transitional Council rejects UN peacekeepers. On Reporter's Notebook, does Dick Cheney’s biography reveal more than he wanted?
Banner image: Protesters against Arizona's new immigration law hold a rally at Union Square in New York on May 1, 2010 as more than a million people from coast to coast hold May Day rallies. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images
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3 storiesLibyans Reject UN Peacekeepers
Libya's National Transitional Council asked for international help in unseating Moammar Gadhafi, and that probably happened because of the US and other NATO countries. Now the United Nations has proposed an international force on the ground in the country, but the NTC has flatly refused.
Read the story8 minAlabama, Illegal Immigration and the Presidential Campaign
Alabama has outdone Arizona with a punitive crackdown on illegal immigrants that was scheduled to become law tomorrow. It's being held up temporarily by a federal judge, while Georgia, South Carolina, Utah, Indiana and other states wait to see if it reaches the US Supreme Court.
Read the story34 minHistory According to Cheney in His New Memoir
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, In My Time , was officially released yesterday, but advance copies have been poured over by many reviewers. Barton Gellman, contributing editor for Time magazine, is the author of Angler , a book on the former vice president and avid fly-fisherman.
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