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  • Border Patrol Event Attracts Immigrant Protest

    08/18/2008 7:56:26 AM PDT · by 3AngelaD · 15 replies · 172+ views
    Rochester News ^ | Aug 16, 2008 | Jen Markham
    A U.S. Customs and Border Protection recruitment event in downtown Rochester Saturday was the target of an immigrant rights demonstration. More than two dozen protesters lined the sidewalk outside the Clarion Hotel on Main Street, where inside, the U.S. Border Patrol was trying to attract applicants to be a part of the federal agency that’s slated to add more than 6,000 employees this year. The demonstrators outside held signs promoting equal rights and denouncing racism, which are ideas they say the Border Patrol doesn't embrace. "We are here to let the recruits know and the public in general know what...
  • Honduran faces execution tonight for Arlington killing

    08/07/2008 5:11:53 AM PDT · by TexasRedeye · 25 replies · 164+ views
    Heliberto Chi, a Honduran native...moved one step closer to execution Wednesday when [Texas"] highest criminal court rejected his bid for a stay. Chi, condemned for killing Armand Paliotta during an after-hours robbery ...will be put to death tonight in Huntsville unless his lawyers can persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life. Arlington attorney Wes Ball said the odds are against Chi because Ball’s argument is similar to the one the justices rejected Tuesday when they allowed the execution of Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin to go forward.