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When he learned that the drunk driver who killed his son might be paroled after less than a year in prison, Christopher Cheswick turned to Facebook to post his outrage and heartbreak. - Jonah Goldberg writes that efforts to avoid "labels" like illegal immigrant lead to absurdity.
- Maryland is poised to become the only state on the east coast to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants under a bill passed by state lawmakers Friday.
- The AP's decision to stop using the term 'illegal immigrant' highlights the difficulties of finding neutral language for divisive political issues.
- Drivers licenses to illegal immigrants should not come before immigration reform is accomplished.
- When one violates the law they could expect to go to jail, not receive driver's licenses.
- Driver's licenses in two-tier system will have their limits — in fine print
- Illegal immigrants have not earned the right to hold a driver's license
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- Illegal immigrants should be deported, not granted driver's licenses
- Maryland lawmakers show contempt for immigration laws with driver's license plan
- Proposed expansion of Maryland's two-tier licensing system will make the roads safer
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- Illegal immigrants shouldn't enjoy the same privileges as citizens
- No one, including illegal immigrants, is above the law.
- Maryland could be come one of a handful of states that grant special driver's licenses to illegal immigrants under legislation garnering strong support in Annapolis. The bill would expand and extend an existing two-tiered driver's license system to include more than 100,000 people whose immigration status currently prevents them from applying for a license. Gov. Martin O'Malley also backs the plan, which now moves to the House of Delegates.
- CHARLESTON, S.C. – Gov. Martin O'Malley took the stage Saturday at a high school in this early presidential primary state, telling an auditorium of South Carolina Democrats that his principles worked in Maryland — and they'd work elsewhere.
- A turbulent spring among a family of immigrants nine years ago led to a plot to slash the throats of three young children, prosecutors said Thursday in closing arguments in the murder trial of Policarpio Espinoza Perez.
- Matt Patterson says Labor Department smothers businesses with needless regulations
- Public should support driver's licenses for all immigrants as a matter of self-interest
- President Barack Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez to lead the U.S. Department of Labor today, the first step in what is shaping up to be a contentious confirmation battle for the Justice Department official, civil rights attorney and longtime Marylander.
- In Obama's upcoming trip to Israel, he should make the gesture of freeing US prisoner.
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- There are good reasons for Maryland to allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses.
- Lawyers selected a jury Monday in the trial of Policarpio Espinoza Perez, who is accused of nearly beheading three children in 2004.
- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is out touting his new book on immigration, and talk of his possible 2016 candidacy is picking up — despite misgivings about a third Bush presidency.
- Some lawmakers would like to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
- Policarpio Espinoza Perez and Adan Canela have been mentioned in the same breath since they were charged nine years ago in Baltimore with slashing the throats of three young relatives, ages 8, 9 and 10. They have sat side-by-side at two trials, but as prosecutors this week make a third try at convicting them, each man will get a chance to tell his own story.
- Maryland should not offer any form of driver's license to undocumented immigrants
- If the nation adopts comprehensive immigration reform, it should also consider the barriers faced by those who want to visit the U.S. but not stay.
- Recent money pledged to Egypt should go to America instead.
- Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea. Some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down. And routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed, under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday.
- Undocumented immigrants should pay for benefits they received
- A judge is expected on Monday to hear arguments over whether a key witness can be extradited from Mexico to testify in a planned third trial of two men accused of slashing the throats of three children nine years ago.
