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Napolitano: Reform would help border enforceme

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By Morgan Lee - Oct. 18 (News) - Stalled efforts toward comprehensive immigration reform are about more than providing a clear path to citizenship for illegal border crossers, the chief of U.S. domestic security said Monday.

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Immigration audits are increasing against employers

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By Morgan Lee - Oct. 10 (News) - I-9 AUDIT PROCESS • 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act requires employers to verify a person’s identification and work eligibility. • Immigration and Customs Enforcement starts audit process by issuing a Notice of Inspection. • ICE agents review

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Obama, McCain have vastly different approaches on how to resolve financial crisis

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By Dean Calbreath - Oct. 26 (News Analysis) - In just 86 days, a new president will be sworn into office, facing the greatest economic challenge since Franklin Roosevelt assumed the helm. ohn McCain prefers more indirect methods, such as tax cuts to major corporations, to promote economic growth. First, of course, is the immediate and overwhelming problem of how to fix the broken financial system while ensuring that not too many people lose their jobs or their homes. Then there are the other economic problems that have lingered over the past decade: How to address the challenges of globalism. How to achieve energy independence. How to regulate Wall Street. How to stem the erosion of the middle class. Sixty-five percent of Americans rank the economy as an extremely important issue for the next president, outranking terrorism, in second place at 52 percent, or energy policy, at 50 percent, according to a CNN Opinion Research Poll released last week.

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Foreign adoptees are living in legal limbo

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By Leslie Berestein, David Hasemyer - Oct. 20 (News Report) - County officials have acknowledged putting Stephanie Zizzo and at least four other adoptees born in other countries, including Mexico and Kenya, in legal limbo by not resolving their immigration status before adoption. In the year and a half since the cases began to surface, the county has updated its policies to require that a child's legal residency be established before they leave the system. But no one knows how many children were adopted without it, or what they'll face trying to stay in the only country they've known.

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Credit crunch will last into '09, economists say

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By Dean Calbreath - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - A month ago today, a global credit freeze – so severe that it seemed capable of pushing the world economy into a depression – prompted the White House to unveil a plan to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the nation's financial system. Despite some slight easing over the past week, interest rates remain at historically high levels, making it difficult for banks and corporations to obtain needed loans. Interest-rate spreads – a major yardstick for measuring credit flows – remain at heights not seen since the post-Cold War recession of the early 1990s. Advertisement Economists say it could be well into 2009 before the credit market begins to approach a semblance of normalcy. Unless the credit crunch is resolved, the current recession could be much deeper and longer than it otherwise would be. Already, the problems have caused stock markets to plunge worldwide.

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Imprisoned Cunningham outlines depths of corruption to FBI

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:01:27 -0700

San Diego Union Tribune - By George E. Condon Jr., Marcus Stern - Jul. 18 (News Report) - In two days of prison interviews with federal agents this year, disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham described a level of corruption on his part more extensive than previously known and dealt a potentially devastating blow to the defense being waged by one of the defense contractors alleged to have bribed him. The interviews were conducted in February at the federal prison near Tucson, where the longtime Republican congressman is serving an eight-year and four-month sentence after admitting to accepting more than $2.4 million in bribes. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion.

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Pony tales

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:03:59 -0800

San Diego Union Tribune - By Richard A. Lovett - Jan. 04 (Special Report) - This appeared to be evidence that horse domestication arose in multiple locations. But a more recent study, published two years ago in Nature Genetics, revealed that the male "Y" chromosomes come from a much more limited number of stallions. This may mean that horses were domesticated by one single clever tribe and that, as the idea spread, others captured additional wild mares but mated them with domestic stallions obtained from their neighbors. Either way, Sandra Olsen, an archaeologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, believes that horses were first domesticated on the Eurasian steppes - that broad swath of grasslands that swept from Mongolia to Russia.

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