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April 8, 1999
Give Us Your Huddled Masses... and We'll Throw 'em in a Cell
For a growing number of immigrants, detention by the INS comes down to a long and lonely stint in the Fort Lauderdale Jail
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October 25, 2001
Letters to the Editor
Letters for October 25, 2001
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December 20, 2001
Back in the Lion's Mouth
The INS had two chances to nab Mohamed Atta. It failed both times.
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September 18, 2003
Letters for September 18, 2003
Unloading Objectively
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May 8, 2008
Mi Casa Is Not Tu Casa
Protesters say illegals take our jobs, bring in leprosy, and, grrr, sell ice cream from bicycles
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May 8, 2008
Bleeding Dollars
A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket
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November 29, 2007
Washed Up
101 Haitian refugees sailed north full of hope. They got screwed.
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October 25, 2007
Talking Up a Storm
Radio host Joyce Kaufman wins fans by flaying a new enemy: undocumented immigrants
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July 27, 2006
Jose... You're Next!
David Caulkett wants your $10 to help Uncle Sam in the fight against illegal immigration.
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September 30, 2004
War for What?
Sgt. Cabadiana was the poster child for the Bush military. Then they took his wife away.
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September 11, 2003
Forgotten 9/11
The INS screwed up when it let in the September massacre's mastermind
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December 13, 2001
Admitting Terror: Part 5
When terrorists knock, the INS is more than likely to fall down on the job
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October 18, 2001
Admitting Terror
The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists
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July 22, 2009
Hospital District: Why Wrestle a White Elephant When You Can Tackle a Red Herring?
Flickr User: FrogMillerMidway through this morning's meeting of the North Broward Hospital District's board, Commissioner Robert Bernstein decided it was time to acknowledge the "white elephant in the room."A tantalizing prospect, because this room was positively teeming with white elephants. There ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Ohmygod Grandma Do Not Rap When the NY Times Reporter Is Around!
nytimes.comArtificial hip-hop and health care hysteria: all the rage at Sunrise LakesThey've still working do on destroying Obama's health care plan but in the opening moments of this New York Times video, Sunrise seniors dealt a death blow to hip-hop. Chilling video here.The accompanying a ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Florida's U.S. Senators: Which One's Tweedle Dee?
Flickr: Meeko_Your health care is in their hands. Feeling queasy yet?At tonight's joint session of Congress, Florida will have two senators in the audience in a position to make good on a policy -- health-care reform -- that is the subject of tonight's speech and that was a major part of Barack O ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
A South Florida Muslim Leader Refused to Be a Snitch, so the Feds Tried to Destroy Him
Flickr: Meeko_Your health care is in their hands. Feeling queasy yet?At tonight's joint session of Congress, Florida will have two senators in the audience in a position to make good on a policy -- health-care reform -- that is the subject of tonight's speech and that was a major part of Barack O ... More >>
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October 29, 2009
Crist Walks Into Democrat-Laid Health-Care Trap
Everybody's still talking about Crist gaffe-ing (lying?) over the Obama appearance, but this quotable moment is, I think, much more precious. Let's pull out a portion of that Sarasota Herald-Tribune article, which asked for Crist's opinion of a Senate Democrat health care reform package that woul ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Ethics Complaint Against Lake Worth Commissioner Cara Jennings Is Dismissed
Mary Lindsey: Losing the battle against Jennings?The ethics complaint filed on behalf of Lake Worth business owner Gary Dario against City Commissioner Cara Jennings has been dismissed yesterday by the Florida Commission on Ethics for "lack of legal sufficiency," according to a news release issue ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
South Florida Immigration Officials Under Fire After Targeting Guatemalans in Jupiter
Flickr: anita gtThe government of Guatemala has issued a public protest based on immigration officials' actions in Riviera Beach.A Guatemalan immigrant in Jupiter is facing deportation after Federal Express employees in Riviera Beach opened a package, inspected its contents, then reported a possi ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Wasserman Schultz: Let's Not Panic About Health Care Reform
wassermanschultz.house.govDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis week's Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race cost Democrats their filibuster-proof majority and dealt a powerful blow to the party's hopes for health care reform. This afternoon I asked West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
George LeMieux Talking Points Get Mangled on Cable News Show
Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn't been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress, but it's been p ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
After Health-Care Reform Is Signed, Will We Need Public Hospital Districts?
FlickrHouse Majority Whip James Clyburn and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after last night's passage of the health-care reform bill.The U.S. health-care system has a tradition for cruelty toward the uninsured, and in Broward and Palm Beach counties, public hospital districts were created to deal with the ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
Wasserman Schultz Town Hall an Ugly Night for Democracy
I can't imagine a single person who was present at last night's town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scre ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Connecting the Dots: Does FAIR Play a Role in Lake Worth Politics?
Support for AZ Sheriff Joe's draconian immigration enforcement.The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is under scrutiny in Lake Worth these days. As we reported yesterday, residents packed a small room at Monday night's CRB meeting to hear a presentation on local "hate groups," inc ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
Lake Worth and Immigration: A Call for Reasonable Debate
Dayworkers looking for work outside LW Home Depot.After last week's Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeti ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Who is John Tanton and Why Should You Care? Just Ask Joyce Tarnow.
Joyce Tarnow (hearts) John TantonJohn Tanton's name is getting a lot of play. Depending on who you talk to, Tanton is either a raging pro-eugenics racist with a deep-seated animosity toward brown people -- or -- a beaming, professorial Renaissance man with an insatiable curiosity and an infallibl ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border
Joyce Tarnow (hearts) John TantonJohn Tanton's name is getting a lot of play. Depending on who you talk to, Tanton is either a raging pro-eugenics racist with a deep-seated animosity toward brown people -- or -- a beaming, professorial Renaissance man with an insatiable curiosity and an infallibl ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?
It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship
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August 12, 2010
Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship
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August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
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September 20, 2010
DREAM Act Could Be Dream Come True for Coral Springs FSU Grad
Andrea HuerfanoThis weekend dozens of undocumented immigrants took to the sands of Miami Beach to tell Congress to pass the DREAM Act this week. About 50 people formed human billboards spelling out the words "Dream Act Now" and "Call [Sen. George] Lemieux Now."Activists in South Florida -- a fron ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Gary Kompothecras, Crist Supporter, Tries to Bully Health Officials
Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor based out of Sarasota, has been pressuring Department of Health official to turn over sealed immunization records. "Dr. Gary," as he's called, wants those records turned over to father-son duo, Dr. Mark and David Geier, crusaders for the "vaccinations cause au ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Freaks and Movie Geeks
Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor based out of Sarasota, has been pressuring Department of Health official to turn over sealed immunization records. "Dr. Gary," as he's called, wants those records turned over to father-son duo, Dr. Mark and David Geier, crusaders for the "vaccinations cause au ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
'Obamacare' Headline Reveals that People Do Read the Newspaper and Care What It Says
via hubpages.comProof that journalism, even newspaper journalism, still matters: This Miami Herald article about readers' complaints that the word 'Obamacare' is a "pejorative" with partisan connotations. The Miami Herald changed the recent headline, "Obamacare arrives Thursday," to "Obama-led he ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Mexican Macro-Economics
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?
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December 2, 2010
FAIR-y Tales
Russell Pearce and other illegal-immigration populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans.
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January 16, 2011
Sunday Politics: Q&A With Tea Partier on Health Care
The Tea Party has demonized health-care reform -- or Obamacare, as it calls it -- to the point that the group seems to believe that it alone is going to destroy America. Tea Party signsThey've disrupted Congressional town hall meetings, screamed about sociali ... More >>
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March 26, 2011
Hello, SB 736. Goodbye, Teacher Tenure
Well, I hope Wendy Portillo is pleased with herself.Three years ago, the WPB teacher got on the bad side of one bad mutha named Melissa Barton, when she abused Mrs. Barton's autistic child in the classroom. After a year of paid leave, Portillo compounded the offense by returning to work and allegedl ... More >>
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April 16, 2011
Donald Trump, Tax-And-Spend Liberal, Wows Tea Party.
What can I say? I hate rich people!Having read Slate's recent article on Donald Trump's last presidential pseudo-candidacy, I'm now a little sad to have missed The Donald's Tea Party-coordinated Tax Day event in Boca Raton. The Donald, I now understand, is a great American, and we should probably ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Gov. Rick Scott Invents A Scientific Study On Drug Use During Nationally Televised Interview
Now for Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day -- making up a scientific study on drug use by welfare recipients on a nationally televised CNN interview.As you know, the governor signed H.B. 353 into law last week, requires Floridians on welfare to pass a drug test before they get their cash.On ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Gov. Rick Scott Wants to Drug-Test Welfare Recipients, Including His Little Brother -- UPDATE: Scott still won't talk
Rick Scott: Family man?When Gov. Rick Scott, a rising star of the Tea Party movement, signed into law a bill May 31 requiring that Florida's welfare recipients pass drug tests, he didn't mention how close to home the issue hits. Scott has a brother in Texas who gets welfare -- and might also hav ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Tea Party Outdoes Rick Scott -- Unveils Prewritten Faxes to Send Wasserman Schultz
This is what the future looks like.Remember how old-school that Gov. Rick Scott was when he asked his supporters to send out prewritten letters about himself to newspapers around the state? Well, he has been outdone by the South Florida Tea Party, which is embracing the height of 1980s telecommun ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
South Florida Tea Party Back to Fax-Bombs, Now Asking John McCain Not to "Piss" on Them
Hey there, Tea Party -- 50 percent chance of rain!In its second fax-bomb attempt in a matter of weeks, the South Florida Tea Party is asking its supporters to send a prewritten fax to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, requesting that the Maverick not urinate on them.They're apparently not too happy wi ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Nan Rich: Florida Republicans Only Take Federal Funds if it Promotes "Extreme Agenda"
thoughttheater.comThis nice chastity belt is apparently a better investment than preventing child abuseFlorida's Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich isn't too happy today about the state's Republican leadership rejecting $50 million in federal funds to protect people like at-risk kids and senior ci ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Ex-Health Insurance Executive: Rick Scott HMO Debacle Goes Against His "Obamacare" Rhetoric
Illustration by Miche RattoWendell Potter -- a former health care insurance executive who most recently left his post as head of communications for CIGNA -- has been following up on the Pulp's post on Florida's newest HMO policy for state employees and agrees that the decision to allow just one H ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Dream Act Bill Filed in Florida Legislature
The Dream Act would help immigrant students.A bill that would make college more affordable for undocumented immigrants has recently been filed in the Florida Legislature.If passed, the Dream Act would allow undocumented immigrants who attended three or more years of high school in Florida to qual ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Rick Scott Predicts "Obamacare" Will Be a Loser in the Supreme Court -- Is He Right?
Illustration by Miche RattoWho needs Husseinobamacare?Yesterday, Gov. Rick Scott made a visit to the Palm Beach Post editorial board and predicted that the challenge of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act raised by Florida and 25 other states would win in the U.S. Supreme Court.Argumen ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Florida Abortion-Ban Bill: "Personal Liberty Is Not a License to Kill"
Once again, the "Florida for Life Act" has been submitted in the Florida Legislature. The bill would ban abortions not related to medical emergencies and would make it a first-degree felony to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion.Rep. Charles Van Zant has filed the bill on the Hous ... More >>
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