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...Critics have accused the big growers, like those in Nassif's organization, of exaggerating worker shortages to prevent tougher enforcement of immigration laws. But Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif., whose organization represents 1,000 small farmers, says this year's shortage is real, and likely to affect much more than the Central San Joaquin Valley. Winter lettuce, broccoli, and other crops could be next, then the large-scale agricultural producers in Texas and Florida, not to mention hotels, slaughterhouses and restaurants. "Businesses across the country depend on unauthorized foreign labor," Cunha says. "Congress...
...brazen even for the weak-willed Palestinian Authority. Last week, the Authority declared it would prevent armed groups from carrying weapons and, over the weekend, some of its policemen even tried to disarm a carload of Hamas men. A gunfight broke out that spread until it killed three people. Hamas leaders threaten civil war unless the Palestinian Authority backs off. Civil war is unlikely, as is the prospect of Hamas disarming before January elections, as the U.S. urges and Israel insists. The new model for Hamas is the Lebanese group Hizballah, which maintains a large militia while also sitting...
...team of Harvard Medical School professors received a $4.5 million federal grant last Wednesday to fund the development of a computer database to track and prevent outbreaks of disease...
...heard is that the government will revoke funding towards Harvard if we don’t let them on,” Tejada added, referring to the 1996 Solomon Amendment that allows the Secretary of Defense to deny federal funding to institutions of higher learning if they prohibit or prevent the Reserve Officer Training Corps or military recruitment on campus...
...same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs...