Psycho Talk: Is Pawlenty abandoning his own state?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty recently signed an executive order banning Minnesota cities and businesses from applying for federal grants made available since the health care law went into effect. As a result, the state could miss out on billions of dollars in federal funds.
Immigrant groups criticize fingerprint initiative Posted on 7/27/2010
The federal government is expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests.
The program is drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates.
They argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.
Bigger Impact than Arizona Law The program may end up having a bigger impact than Arizona's new immigration law because of its potential to round up and deport so many immigrants nationwide.
Under the program, the fingerprints of everyone who is booked into jail for any crime are run against FBI criminal history records and Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine who is in the country illegally and whether they've been arrested previously.
