Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Thusday criticized the Obama administration’s decision to focus immigration enforcement efforts only on those with criminal charges, saying it is an open invitation to people to break the law and enter the country. “It’s certainly de facto amnesty and I’m surprised that President Obama took the position he did and [...]

BEIJING — China is considering changes to its criminal law that human rights activists said Saturday would effectively legalise the forced disappearance of dissidents. Proposed amendments to “residential surveillance” laws would allow police to hold suspects in secret locations in cases involving national security, terrorism or major corruption, the official Legal Daily said this week. [...]

Politicians incessantly count votes. Before every decision, a politician calculates how many votes are gained and lost. The Hispanic community believes Obama promised to curb deportations and promote legalization. Increasingly, Hispanics are very disappointed with Obama’s inaction. Last week, Hispanic activists stepped up the pressure on the President and had multiple demonstrations shouting “Legalizacion Si [...]

As the Guardian report, Facebook is being threatened with legal action over its facial recognition software in Germany, for reasons that it violates strict German data protection and privacy laws. The facial recognition software within Facebook allows users to upload photos without the need to tag each and every friend. Facebook automatically tags photos of [...]

The Obama administration is stepping in yet again to challenge a state immigration law, this time for the most far-reaching anti-immigrant state law yet, Alabama’s HB 56. In its highly anticipated lawsuit filed late Monday, the Department of Justice said that Alabama’s recently passed HB 56, which is set to go into effect on Sept. [...]

Police in Georgia have charged a recent law school graduate with the murder of a fellow graduate whose dismembered body was discovered in a trash bin outside an apartment building where they both lived. Stephen Mark McDaniel, 25, was charged late Tuesday in Macon with killing 27-year-old Lauren Giddings, police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet told Reuters [...]

Illinois is about to become a DREAM state for immigrant students who are undocumented. Gov. Pat Quinn is set to sign a bill that would give such students access to private scholarships for college and lets them enroll in state college savings programs. Quinn will visit Benito Juárez Community Academy in Chicago on Monday to [...]

Washington In a rare moment of relief, Senate leaders rushed together to the floor Sunday night to announce a historic debt agreement, and Asian financial markets, just opening, rallied. But selling the deal to a critical mass of rank-and-file lawmakers is as formidable a political reach as breaking the bitter, partisan impasse among top leaders [...]

Everyone in Washington agrees that we have an obligation to tackle health care costs. Rapidly rising costs are not sustainable for businesses, and they are not sustainable for families. But there’s a big difference between President Barack Obama’s plan to lower costs and the Republican plan, which doesn’t control costs, ends Medicare as we know [...]

LANSING — The right to carry a concealed weapon in Michigan — 10 years ago a red-hot topic — is pretty much uncontested. No one is talking about rolling back the CCW changes of 2001, or enacting new gun restrictions. But the argument over whether authorizing more people to carry concealed guns was a good [...]