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Focus on Human Trafficking

March 16, 2012 18:43

Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy (USAID, Feb. 2012) [text]An Evidence Assessment of the Routes of Human Trafficking into the UK (UK Home Office, March 2012) [text]Guidelines for Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking in the East Africa Region (IOM, Feb. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]Incorporating...

Sexual abuse on College campuses, Internet Identity Theft Protection and a Few Silly Laws

November 28, 2011 05:34

Thanksgiving was really good. I had a great time hanging with the family. Of course between courses, we had a long discussion about the Penn State situation. Then just as the Penn State Drama begins to simmer down, (I will not rehash the last 250 or so comments, the most ever on this blog, just...

$5M Won't Cover Indianna Collapsed Stage Fair Injuries

November 18, 2011 14:14

  Even though we live in a media environment where many events are forgotten almost immediately after they occur, we think it will be a long time before anyone forgets the disaster that happened at the Indiana State Fair. Thousands of people turned up to see a band called Sugarland, who are...

Laredo Motorcycle Police Officer Hit in I-35 Accident

Bryan Fears
October 17, 2011 22:20

Jose L. Reyes, a 29-year veteran of the Laredo Police Department, won’t patrol the streets of Laredo, Texas, tonight, thanks to a driver’s recklessness Saturday morning. Instead, Officer Reyes will continue to fight for his life in a San Antonio hospital.   Office Reyes’...

Aliens vs. Predator

October 08, 2011 14:55

United States v. Archer, No. 10-4684-cr (2d Cir. September 20, 2011) (Newman, Calabresi, Hall, CJJ)Thomas Archer, a solo-practitioner immigration lawyer in Queens, ran a visa fraud mill. His specialty was the I-687, an amnesty program that permitted certain aliens who were here illegally in the...