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1. NE Gov. to sign verification requirements
2. City rejects Utah enforcement package
3. MA pol seeks local suffrage
4. TX city spends $500k on ordinance
5. Somali Americans join terrorists

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Neb. governor will sign illegal-immigration bill
The Associated Press, April 7, 2009

Lincoln, NE (AP) -- Gov. Dave Heineman will sign a compromise bill that's aimed at curbing illegal immigration

Heineman's office says he'll sign the measure Wednesday afternoon.

The bill (LB403) from Sen. Russ Karpisek of Wilber got 44 votes Friday. Heineman had asked Karpisek to introduce it. No senator voted against it, although five didn't vote.
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http://www.kmeg.com/Global/story.asp?S=10147331

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Lawmaker angry over reluctance to enforce immigration law
By Andrew Adams
The KSL News (Salt Lake City), April 8, 2009

Salt Lake City -- There may be retribution for police not enforcing Utah's new immigration law.

Senate Bill 81 makes it more difficult for illegal immigrants to get a job and to utilize some government services. But the responsibility of enforcement falls on police.

Detective Dennis McGowan says Salt Lake police won't be enforcing it as it is written because it implies a form of racial profiling.

Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, was the House sponsor of the bill. He says he's angry, it's appalling and he will look at ways to make the Salt Lake City Police Department uphold the law.

"If they don't want to obey the law then I guess we're going to have to in some way have some retribution against them for not enforcing the law. So that would be my statement, and I would work hard to do that," he said.
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http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6094929

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Richardson: Towns should have option to let illegal immigrants vote locally
By John Hilliard
The MetroWest Daily News, April 8, 2009

The town's state representative said yesterday that cities and towns should have the option to grant illegal immigrants voting rights in local elections to draw them closer into their communities.

In state Rep. Pam Richardson's hometown of Framingham, many of the illegal immigrants - who are largely from Brazil - lack a political voice in their community, she said.

"It's not hard to figure out in the Brazilian community (that) it's very fractured...they don't have a process to pick a leader," she said.

Richardson's position was targeted by anti-illegal immigration critics yesterday, including Boston radio host Michael Graham, who wrote about Richardson on his blog and in his Boston Herald column.

Graham also posted a video which showed Richardson speaking at a state Democratic party meeting in Framingham, during which she backed giving communities the choice to extend voting rights.

Her testimony was part of her proposal for additions to the state party's official platform. The state Democrats will vote on those proposals during a meeting this June in Springfield.

Richardson wouldn't comment on Graham, saying she didn't know who he is.

"What I am a supporter of is giving communities the option" of allowing illegal immigrants to participate in local elections, said Richardson.

Framingham has an estimated 10,000 or more illegal immigrants, she said.
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http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/state/x481146469/Richardson-Towns-shou...

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Farmers Branch to spend nearly $500,000 more on legal fees in immigrant ordinances suits
By Jon Nielsen
The Dallas Morning News, April 8, 2009

The Farmers Branch City Council will spend nearly a half-million dollars more to cover the cost of legal fees incurred by two groups that have challenged the city's ordinances on illegal immigration.

Since 2006 to Tuesday's council decision, the city has spent about $2 million on legal fees related to illegal immigration.

Mayor Tim O'Hare and attorney Pete Smith declined to comment on the mediated settlement of $250,000 with the Villas at Parkside Partners and $220,000 with Alfredo Vasquez and the American Civil Liberties Union.

"We are grateful to have settled the matter of attorneys' fees in our first case against the city of Farmers Branch. Now we can concentrate on current litigation," said Lisa Graybill, legal director of the ACLU of Texas.

The city has proposed a series of ordinances that would make it illegal for landlords to rent to illegal immigrants. A version approved by the council in 2006 was repealed in early 2007. Ordinance 2903 was approved by two-thirds of voters but declared unconstitutional, and now the city is seeking to enforce Ordinance 2952.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-fb...

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American Al Qaeda Hold Rare 'Press Conference'
By Mike Levine
The Fox News, April 6, 2009

Two young Americans who left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia held a rare press conference in southern Somalia on Sunday, saying they want to be killed "for the sake of God," according to a U.S. law enforcement official and a report posted on a Somali news Web site.

For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area and elsewhere in the United States who traveled to war-torn Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

Last month, a source familiar with the FBI investigation told FOX News that "several" of the men had returned to the United States, while others are still there [in Somalia]." Sunday was the first time any of these men have spoken publicly.

"We came from the U.S. with a good life and a good education, but we came to fight alongside our brothers of al-Shabaab to be killed for the sake of God,? one man said at the press conference, as translated by Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn.

According to the news report, two men, identifying themselves as Abu-Muslim and Abu Yaxye, said they are Somali youth from the United States who are now stationed near the city of Kismayo, more than 300 miles southwest of Mogadishu, according to Jamal. The men said they are talking to media for the first time so others can learn why they joined al-Shabaab, he said.

Sources told FOX News there is a video of the press conference.

A spokesman from the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis, E.K. Wilson, said he is aware of the video, which he said was first brought to his office?s attention early Sunday.

Wilson would not say whether the FBI has identified the men in the video.

At their press conference, the men did not say exactly how many other U.S. citizens have joined al-Shabaab, but they insisted that ?many? Somali-Americans are now all over Somalia to join the Jihad,? according to Jamal's translation.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512627,00.html