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20080107
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Immigrant -
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-  Children
-  Politics
- Sacramento
-  California
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-  Mexico
- "Abused
immigrant spouses may face deportation: U.S. [United
States] rethinks its policy of letting them remain here in certain cases."
... "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is re-examining a longtime
policy [Violence Against Women Act visas] to let immigrant spouses remain
here when their abusive U.S. citizen or permanent-resident spouses refuse
to help them obtain legal status." ... "Ana Bertha Arellano, who runs her
own Sacramento [California's capital] restaurant and cleans offices all
night as a janitor, fears a change in that policy would destroy the safe
life she's been struggling to build for herself and her children." ...
"Without that protection, Arellano could end up deported by the same U.S.
officials who agreed to shelter her from abuse six years ago and legally
stay here on a special provisional visa." ... ""I have my own health insurance.
I don't take any aid for anything. I don't want anything else but a chance
to have some stability for my family," said Arellano, 37, one of the thousands
of immigrants, many mothers of U.S.-born children, who could be affected
if the policy shifts." ... "Arellano's story, like many, begins with marriage
to a husband she loved and with whom she had two children, both born here.
But her husband, a permanent resident of the United States, never filed
papers to sponsor her for permanent residency, she said." ... "After they
were married, she said he told her to cross the border from Mexico illegally
in 1997, saying he would submit their application once she got here." ...
"Instead, she said, he used her undocumented status to prevent her from
complaining about his subsequent beatings and verbal taunts." ... "Beth
Hassett, executive director of Women Escaping a Violent Environment, which
counsels battered women in Sacramento County, predicted that a hard-line
policy will cause immigrant women to remain in violent relationships if
coming forward leaves them vulnerable to deportation." (1, 2)
-By Susan Ferriss -SacBee.com
20050914
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CA
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 Sacramento
- Religion
- "Pledge
Unconstitutional at Public Schools, Judge Says (Update2)."
... "A federal judge in California said the recitation of the Pledge of
Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional, in a ruling that will
rekindle a debate over the use of the phrase ``under God.''" ... "Judge
Lawrence Karlton in Sacramento, California, today said that a school district's
policy requiring the pledge with the phrase ``under God'' is unconstitutional.
The case was brought by Michael Newdow, an atheist who had previously sued
to challenge the use of the phrase." ... "The case is Newdow v. Congress
of the United States of America, No. S-05-17, in U.S. District Court in
Sacramento." -By Joel Rosenblatt
-Bloomberg
20050908
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CA
- Sacramento
- Gay
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- "A
day after Assembly's OK, Schwarzenegger pledges to kill same-sex marriage
bill." ... "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, under growing
pressure from his conservative supporters, promised Wednesday to veto the
gay-marriage bill passed less than a day earlier by the Democrat-led Legislature."
... "While Schwarzenegger had hinted he would veto the bill, Wednesday's
abrupt early evening announcement came as a surprise. "I'm not going to
talk about that at all today,'' the governor said when he was asked about
a possible veto at a morning meeting with Salvation Army volunteers in
Sacramento." ... "At the same Sacramento stop, [Governor Schwarzenegger's
press secretary Margita] Thompson told reporters there was no hurry to
make a decision on the bill. It would be handled the same as any other
bill sent to the governor, she added." -By John Wildermuth
and Lynda Gledhill -SFGate.com
20050907
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CA
- Sacramento
- Gay
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- "Same-Sex
Marriage Approved In California ... For Now: Governor
Schwarzenegger may veto the bill." ... "A week after the State Senate voted
in favor of a same-sex marriage bill, the State Assembly approved the measure
on Tuesday, making California the first state in the nation to pass a bill
allowing gay marriage." ... "Though gay-rights supporters were loudly celebrating
the victory in the gallery of the Assembly house in Sacramento, the party
could be a brief one." ... "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger — who
has said he accepts the idea of gay marriage — could veto the bill,
according to The Associated Press, because of his belief that it
is an issue that voters or the state courts should decide." -By
Gil Kaufman -MTV.com/News
20050831
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- CA
- Sacramento
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- Religion
- "Four
indicted in alleged terrorist plot against LA-area targets."
... "The head of a militant Islamic prison gang and three others were indicted
Wednesday on federal charges of planning terrorist attacks against National
Guard facilities, the Israeli Consulate and other Los Angeles-area targets."
... "Prosecutors contend the plot was orchestrated by [Levar Haley] Washington,
[Gregory Vernon] Patterson and [Hammad Riaz] Samana at the behest of [Kevin]
James, a California State Prison, Sacramento, inmate who founded the radical
group Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, or JIS. Washington converted to Islam
while serving three years in the prison for a previous robbery conviction."
-By Jeremiah Marquez -AP
via -MercuryNews
20050609
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- "California
Father and Son Face Charges in Terrorism Case." ...
"An American man of Pakistani descent has been arrested along with his
father, a naturalized American citizen, as part of an investigation by
federal law enforcement officials into possible terrorist connections with
Al Qaeda." ... "According to an F.B.I. affidavit filed in Federal District
Court in Sacramento, about 40 miles north of this agricultural town, Hamid
Hayat, 22, told investigators last weekend that he had been trained "on
how to kill Americans" at a camp in Pakistan affiliated with Al Qaeda.
The affidavit said that during Mr. Hayat's weapons training, "photos of
various high-ranking United States political figures, including President
Bush, would be pasted on their targets."" ... "Mr. Hayat, who was born
in California, returned to the United States on May 29 after spending more
than two years in Pakistan." ... "The affidavit said Mr. Hayat's father,
Umer Hayat, 47, who drives an ice cream truck in Lodi, provided financial
support for his son's training." ... "They have been charged with lying
to federal investigators about the training camp and are scheduled to appear
in court on June 21, said Johnny L. Griffin III, a lawyer for the father."
-By Dean E. Murphy and David Johnston with contributions
by Carolyn Marshall -NYTimes
20020118
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- Sacramento
- Autos
- "Lemon
Lawsuits: Litigation over bad cars, including
class actions, is on the rise across the U.S.." ... "Rosemary
Shahan, founder and president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety,
a Sacramento, Calif.-based group working to improve lemon laws, says the
Fresno case is "the largest verdict she had heard of for lemon laundering"
-- the general term used in the industry to describe the practice of hiding
the background of vehicles with major problems. She says that even if the
award is knocked down on appeal, it "gets the manufacturers' attention.""
-By Alan Fisk -Law.com
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