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Obama seeks to force Congress to vote on spending cuts
President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a bill that would allow him to force lawmakers to approve or reject some excessive spending cuts that are usually included in the budget laws.
The project would give the president the ability to take two months or more to study and budget laws enacted in order to detect personal projects of congressmen and other expenses of questionable validity. Could then present a package of cuts to parliament, which would be obliged to vote yes or no.
Senate Democrats had rejected the idea three years ago, so the attempt to Obama seems to have little chance of success. However, the initiative could be supported in the current climate of opposition to the political methods of Washington, where lawmakers need to desperately prove that they are strict when it comes to cutting costs.
The leader of the caucus in the House Republican John Boehner said in a statement that the president’s plan pleases his party, but “this does not replace the need for a real budget that control federal spending.”
Obama’s attempt comes at a time when Democrats seek to pass a spending and tax plan that would give 170 000 million dollars to programs including unemployment insurance, aid to state governments and grants to doctors who will see their payments cut Medicare public plan.
Moreover, the Senate evaluates a war budget of almost 60,000 million dollars and a government plan to grant 23 000 million more school districts to dismiss teachers who do not.
The Constitution says the president can enact or veto legislation, unable to reject only a few paragraphs.
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Growing tension between the two Koreas while Seoul calls for support to China
North Korea again threatened military action Tuesday with South Korea, trying to gain support from China to impose sanctions on the communist regime in Pyongyang, accused of having sunk in March after a South Korean warship.
The North Korean army was put on alert, reported North Korean defectors, emphasizing the loss of stock markets in the region, concerned about the risks of conflict.
“China seems to understand the gravity of the situation,” said a South Korean official, after discussions between Wu Dawei, Chinese envoy and Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea Yu Myung-Hwan.
United States strongly condemned the North Korean attack, however China considered carefully the results of research, rejecting a condemnation of its ally North Korea.
China abstained from taking sides in spite of repeated calls by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during the two days of “strategic economic dialogue ‘Chinese-American in the Chinese capital.
“We sincerely hope that all parties concerned will keep calm and exercise restraint,” the spokeswoman said Tuesday the Foreign Ministry, Jiang Yu.
“We think that dialogue is preferable to confrontation,” he said Jiang Yu.
In any case, China and the United States considered “crucial” to maintain stability on the Korean peninsula, according to a Chinese official.
“Both sides believe that to ensure peace in East Asia and the Korean Peninsula is crucial,” said Dai Chinese state advisor in a meeting with the press.
For his part, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev called to avoid any escalation.
Hillary Clinton is expected on Wednesday in Seoul and will be followed on Friday by the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
On Tuesday, the North Korean army accused South Korean navy had entered its territorial waters, threatening a new reply to Southern military, according to the official KCNA news agency.
In ten days, dozens of South Korean ships crossed the border, “a deliberate provocation aimed to provoke another military conflict in the Yellow Sea and thus lead to a phase of war,” KCNA said.
If these intrusions continue, North Korea “will share military measures to defend its territorial waters and the South will be held responsible for the consequences.”
A spokesman for the South Korean Ministry of Defense denied any intrusion of South Korean ships in North Korea.
Earlier, Pyongyang had threatened once again of “total war” if new sanctions were imposed.
“We will respond to the most energetic, even the war immediately, all revenge or punishment (South Korea)”, KCNA reported.
On Thursday, the day that were released the findings of an international research directly challenging the North, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il put the military on alert, according to a group of North Korean defectors in South Korea.
Korean secret services to verify the information reported.
On Monday, South Korea promised “to pay” to Pyongyang the price of sinking the corvette ‘Cheonan’, calling for new UN sanctions and suspending trade with its neighbor.
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14 people killed in the assault on a dozen jewelry stores in Baghdad
At least 14 people were killed during an armed assault against a dozen jewelry stores located in the neighborhood of Al Biaa, southwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi police source.
The source said the attackers broke into local eleven of the same street, killing owners and the employees and stole a large quantity of gold and jewels.
Eight of the dead were business owners, while the other six fatalities were workers and customers.
The attackers used guns with silencers and before leaving the place explosive devices placed in vehicles that were parked in the area.
Iraqi security forces have been deployed to the scene and blocked the streets leading to the area of aggression while the bomb body has begun to disable devices left by the attackers, he said.
In October 2009, eight people were killed and fourteen injured in an armed assault against a number of similar jewelry, exchange houses and shops in a market in northern Baghdad neighborhood of Shula
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Luk – Greece rebel dog is web icon
It is common for police to use sniffer dogs to disperse protesters and even stop. But it had to be precisely in the cradle of democracy where the roles were reversed.
In the recent protests in Athens, Greece, arising from economic austerity plan which Hellenic Government intends to tackle its deep crisis, has taken center stage a dog of indeterminate breed who faces riot groups with such ferocity and determination that such it seems that he is leading the rebel movement.
Lukan (meaning in Greek sausage), better known as Luk, caught the attention of the international press and is the sense of social networks and video channels. It is only where there is a note that Facebook accounts for more than 15 thousand fans
There are also blogs that account for their deeds of “rebellion” since it is afraid or the police, not the tear gas or tear gas, much less the climate of violence that exists in the streets of Greece now.
The history of the quadruped street, carrying a blue collar and a plaque as a sign that has been sterilized and vaccinated for the town hall and toured the world and their photos appear in newspapers recognized as the Guardian, the Italian Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, the American weekly Newsweek, and France’s Libération.
The Spanish newspaper El Pais described it as “anti-dog” is common and explains the presence of dogs and cats absolutely safe in the center of Athens, since the Greeks are known for their kindness to animals and there is always someone to provide food.
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Obama will talk about safer funeral of U.S. miners
The chairman Sunday Obama emphasize the need for safer mines for a memorial service to 29 workers who died this month at the worst mining disasters in America since the 1970s.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will assist in Beckley, West Virginia, the funeral service for the miners, who died in an underground explosion on 5 April in the Upper Big Branch Mine, Massey Energy, in Montcoal.
“We can not return to the 29 men we lost.’re With the Lord now. Our task here on Earth, is to prevent loss of life in another tragedy like this,” Obama will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the House White.
On 15 April, the president attributed most of the blame for the disaster to Massey, describing the incident as “principally a failure of leadership” and urged better monitoring of mining at the national level to prevent further tragedies .
In his speech, Obama will emphasize the need to “do what must be done, individually and collectively, to create safe conditions (…) and treat our miners way they treated each other like family.”
Massey, the largest coal producer in the mountainous central region of Appalachia, has rejected suggestions that the explosion was caused by a disregard for safety and said its accident rate was a record low in 2009.
A preliminary report ordered by Obama about the accident showed that federal mine safety inspectors warned in 2007 that Massey could state that the mine had “a pattern of violations”, which would have led to greater government supervision.
The mine at that time reduced their security problems, but there was an increase in violations in 2009, with 515 citations last year and 124 so far in 2010, the report said.
“All hard work. It was all for their families (…) For a roof over their heads, enjoying retirement with his wives,” the president’s speech.
“Everyone was hoping for something better. These miners lived and died: chasing the American dream,” he adds.
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Arizona law controversy threatens to convulse in the U.S. immigration debate
The Arizona enactment of a law requiring unprecedented arrest illegal immigrants threatens to convulse the immigration debate in the U.S., where nearly 11 million people without papers.”There’s a lot, but have to happen properly. If this becomes something partisan we will all lose,” says Bob Sakaniwa associate director Bar Association immigration issues.
The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer on Friday signed SB 1070, for the first time U.S. forces from state police to identify and detain illegal migrants.
Some 460,000 undocumented immigrants live in Arizona, a state bordering Mexico.
Living and working in the United States without papers is already a crime, but federal level.
Dozens of police districts have signed agreements with the federal government to serve as immigration officers, but only from other crimes.
The new Arizona law requires the police to stop people from “reasonable doubt” that may be illegal.
If they do, they can be sued by citizens of the state.
The law is “irresponsible,” Barack Obama criticized the president, who announced he will ask the Justice Department to examine whether it violates civil rights.
“The American people deserve a comprehensive and judicious reform,” Obama said.
The tension surrounding the events in Arizona has dangerous consequences, analysts and experts involved in the discussions today in Washington.
Only one Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, is currently negotiating with another Democrat, Chuck Schumer, a possible text for reform, based on a program of temporary work permits, fines and an obligation to learn English for those who seek legalization and cards identification.
For Democrats, whose election prospects in November are announced difficult, temptation is breaking the deck and submit a text to reform itself, as they did with the reform of health services or banking.
Senate leaders Harry Reid and House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, pointed in that direction this week.
Democrats can “push now and then to say during the election campaign that at least tried,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks, a coalition of entrepreneurs who struggle to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.
But that would leave the text with virtually no chance of being approved in Congress.
The Republicans are too complicated, because they are the minority party and are also hard pressed by the new conservative phenomenon, called the Tea Party.
Significantly, the Republican National Committee was silent on the historic step of Arizona.
One of the figures of the Party and former champion of immigration reform, John McCain, former presidential candidate and Arizona Senator precisely, and gave its support to SB 1070.
Leaders of Hispanic groups that constantly remind both parties that the electoral weight is the community, for its part announced meetings on Monday to prepare for protests.
Mexico on Saturday condemned the law and said the measure is “an obstacle to the solution of common problems in the border region and in North America as a whole.”
Honduran government also protested on Saturday and guatemaltecto.
“The Government of Guatemala regrets that this legislation has been approved and agreed with U.S. President Barack Obama that such laws threaten the basic notions of justice,” said a statement on Tegucigalpa.
“We are trampling, are abusing our people”, for its part, criticized the Honduran Foreign Minister, Mario Canhuati.
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Poland – together following the tragic death of its chairman
The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died on Saturday along with other senior officials of the country in a plane crash in Russia, was repatriated on Sunday to Warsaw, where his countrymen, of all political persuasions are together to pay tribute.
The coffin will be exhibited to the public on Tuesday, announced late Sunday a senior official of the Presidency was quoted by PAP news agency.
A meeting between representatives of the presidency and the prime minister’s office to organize the funeral is scheduled for Monday, said Jacek Sasin, deputy director of the presidency.
The remains of Kaczynski arrived in the Polish capital shortly after 15H00 (13H00 GMT) aboard a military plane that departed from Smolensk (western Russia) after the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, paid a final tribute .
In Warsaw, was received by his family and all the Polish political class during an official ceremony.
Only the mother of the deceased, hospitalized in very serious condition, was not informed of the tragic event by a decision of his other son, former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told AFP spokesman Warsaw military hospital, Colonel Piotr Dabrowiecki .
The president’s daughter, Marta, was the first to kneel before the coffin covered with red and white Polish flag.
Then it was his twin brother, Jaroslaw, who paid him homage. He remained a long while kneeling before the coffin before putting his hand on it briefly and crossed himself, his face impassive.
Senior officials, including President of the lower house of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, Acting Head of State, “also collected one by one before the coffin, which then left the airport was transferred to the tune of Frederic Chopin’s Funeral March.
He walked the streets of the capital to the presidential palace in Warsaw’s historic center. Thousands of Poles were crowded from early afternoon along the planned route to say their last goodbye.
From 18H00 (16H00 GMT), all of Poland observed a national mourning after a night of improvised tributes and prayers for the victims of the disaster, which occurred near Smolensk, which killed a total of 96 people, including many senior Polish political and military.
By irony of fate, the Polish delegation came to the ceremonies of the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Polish officers who were executed by order of Josef Stalin in the Katyn, near Smolensk.
Sunday Masses, very busy in this country with 90% of Catholics, were dedicated to the victims.
At noon, there were two minutes of silence across the country, while only the sirens sounded. Cars and pedestrians stopped. Parliamentarians lit candles. Shopping centers, meeting place of many Polish families on Sundays, were closed. In public buildings, in windows of homes and in cars waving flags at half mast.
The bodies of the remaining victims, including many politicians of different ideologies, were transported to Moscow. The body of Lech Kaczynski’s wife, Maria, had not been identified so far, according to the Polish presidency.
Russian and Polish experts began to study together on Sunday the presidential airplane black boxes, Russian agencies reported quoting the ministry of Transport.
The Russian authorities claimed responsibility for the accident to the Polish pilots of the plane. The Deputy of Staff of the Russian air force, Alexandre Aliochin said that they ignore the instructions of Russian air traffic controllers despite a thick fog in Smolensk.
The tributes continued to arrive on Sunday from around the world. Pope Benedict XVI again expressed his “deep condolences.” The presieente Ukraine Victor Yanukovich declared days of national mourning on Monday.
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the national day of mourning was held in conjunction with the funeral of President Kaczynski, on a date to be determined.
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Obama wanted to make it a t-shirt – Biden amused the President
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On Tuesday, shortly before the enactment of landmark legislation to reform the health insurance in the U.S. in the venerable East Room of the White House, surrounded by legislators, officials and journalists, Biden whispered to Obama: “This is something of a whore mother “(” This is a big fucking deal “).
Captured by a microphone and the phrase immediately made the delights of social networks on blogs and internet news channels in the United States, where any expletive can be penalized by the FCC, the ‘policeman’ of the waves.
Next, a news website proposed to sell a shirt with the words of Biden, vice president known for his gaffes and foul language.
Commenting on the incident on Wednesday night at a dinner with Democratic donors in Baltimore (Maryland, eastern USA), Biden said Obama was not rebuked.
“You know what was the best of yesterday (Tuesday)? Joe’s statements,” Obama said Wednesday at a meeting at the White House, according to Biden, who also said the president wanted to give him a commemorative T-shirt.
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An aide to Pope proposes clean the Catholic Church pedophilia
“Enough. It must be the cleanliness seriously in our Church” Catholic, by condemning the perpetrators of child abuse and victim compensation, stated on Saturday, Cardinal Walter Kasper, a close collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI, in an interview.
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“The sexual abuse of minors by clergy are responsible for criminal acts, shameful, unacceptable deadly sins,” he told the newspaper Repubblica the influential German prelate, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian unity and member of several Vatican dicasteries (equivalent to ministries).
According to him, “the Pope intends to keep looking” no action and calls for “zero tolerance.”
The pedophilia scandal is involved in the Irish clergy, released in late 2009, joined in the last weeks revelations of sexual abuse in Catholic schools in Germany. And on Friday the scandal-tarred the choir of children singing in Regensburg (Bavaria), which was led for 30 years by the brother of the Pope, Bishop Georg Ratzinger, who denies being aware of the facts.
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A look at the reform of U.S. health
(AP) – Congress approved a broad reform of healthcare in America. Here are some important points:
Who is covered: 32 million people now uninsured. The big expansion will begin in 2014. When complete, 95% of Americans who qualify for coverage will have it, compared to 83% today.
COST: U.S. $ 940,000 million in 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
INSURANCE: Nearly everyone will be insured or pay a fine, which goes into effect in 2014. There is an exemption for the poor.
INSURANCE MARKET REFORMS: As of this year, insurers can not fix monetary limits for life insurance or deny coverage to children because of preexisting conditions or cancel policies because someone gets sick. Parents can support their children in their insurance plan until age 26. Until 2014, when the plan is fully implemented, there will be a high-risk coverage for the sick and uninsured. Insurers may not deny coverage to people with health problems or charging them more. They may not charge more to women.
MEDICAID: Expands Medicaid State program of care for the poor to cover people with incomes up to 133% of federal poverty level. Adults without children will be covered for the first time since 2014. The federal government will pay 100% of the costs of securing new individuals until 2016.
TAXES: To compensate for lost revenue, the tax law applies a higher Medicare payroll investment income and wages. It affects individuals earning more than $ 200,000 a year and married couples earning more than 250,000 a year. The tax on investment income will be 3.8%.
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The U.S. Senate again to consider health insurance law
WASHINGTON (AP) – The second most important Democrat in the Senate on Wednesday accused Republicans of refusing to accept the purpose of the law of insurance, a day after it was signed by President Barack Obama.
“This is a political exercise for many of the other side of the Chamber,” said Senator Dick Durbin. “We will tell our people that ‘it is time to govern. It is now time to turn’.”
Durbin made the remarks in a television interview with his fellow Republican Jim DeMint, who earlier this year said medical insurance reform would be the “Waterloo” of Obama, referring to the battle that lost the soldiers of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
“America does not want a broken chair,” he said Durbin.
DeMint said that “Americans are furious” not only with the fundamentals of the new law signed on Tuesday Obama, but the procedure used by Democrats to get them passed in Congress.
The couple exchanged sarcastic comments on the NBC television network, while the Senate is poised to start on Wednesday a second day of discussions on reforms to the law recently signed. These legislative adjustments were demanded by Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve changing the Senate version.
The Democrats’ hope that Americans do not realize they were trying to usurp more power, “said DeMint. “And so we mention these issues.” He accused Democrats of violating “many protocols” in the Senate and is therefore not possible for Republicans strive to cooperate with Obama and the Democrats on other issues.
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Historical health reform in the U.S. – Obama victory
The approval by the U.S. Congress of a landmark health reform, with which the country is close to adopting a system of universal health coverage, to the greatest victory of President Barack Obama since he took office in January 2009. After weeks of negotiations and bitter debate, the House of Representatives Democratic majority adopted with 219 votes to 212 on Sunday night against a bill that extends health coverage to 32 million additional Americans, becoming the greater political change in four decades.
“Tonight we answered the call of history as so many Americans before us do not (…) we feared for our future, we gave way,” Obama said after the approval. No Republican voted for the bill, already approved by the Senate. They warned that Obama would suffer a backlash with the measure, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade.
But the president would sign the bill in coming days, lawmakers praised for defying predictions that the legislation colossal collapse due to party divisions.
Tired after a week in which he met or spoke with about 100 lawmakers, but obviously savoring his victory in the heated national biggest gamble, Obama told Americans: “This is how you see the change.”
When the vote count had already surpassed the 216 required, Democrats erupted in screams, cheers and hugs, before chanting the slogan “Yes, we can” (yes, we) Recalling the Obama campaign in 2008.
They opposed the measure 178 conservative Republicans and 34 Democrats, buoyed by hundreds of protesters who were repeating “Kill the Bill (kill bill) from the outskirts of Congress.
In his remarks, Obama acknowledged receipt of warnings from Republicans, according to which the Democrats would pay a high political price in the November elections, in which will determine who controls Congress.
“I know it has not been an easy decision for many people. But it was the right decision,” Obama said.
The Senate now has to make some changes in the bill that the House passed 220-211, as of Tuesday.
The Senate bill along with changes completely remade the U.S. health care system, a century after implemented by President Theodore Roosevelt, to extend coverage to 95% of the population under age 65.
The bill prohibits insurance companies denying care for preexisting health problems, or impose limits on coverage for life, and allows to subscribe to subsidize private insurance.
It also means increased taxes on higher income people, while extending coverage to the neediest Americans.
“This bill is complicated, but at the same time is simple: the disease and disability are universal, and against them we are stronger together than if we were alone,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Democrat before voting.
However, the Republican minority leader John Boehner said, “Shame on us! Shame on us for this entity (Congress)! Shame on anyone who imposes his will and desires above those of his countrymen.” Outside of Congress, the New York Times, left, labeled the approval of the reform “an achievement of historic proportions.”
Meanwhile, the conservative Wall Street Journal noted that the reform is “a state takeover of the health coverage system” resulting in “higher taxes, slower economic growth and poorer health care.” It is hoped that this week the Senate made changes and approved individually under rules that prevent the Republicans resort to parliamentary obstruction with which could have delayed and killed the measure.
Democrats noted that the estimate of the Congressional Budget Office assessed the cost of the measure milloones of 940,000 dollars for the next 10 years, although by 2019 will reduce federal government spending of 143,000 million dollars and 1.2 trillion dollars for the next decade.
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British soldier becomes blind to “see” through a device BrainPort
Craig Lundberg, 24, is the first person to participate in a pilot program of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom to mitigate the effects of blindness through this device, called BrainPort and developed in the U.S., according to British media.
HOW DOES IT?
The BrainPort is a lens that captures a minicamera visual stimuli, which then are translated into electrical signals that the user perceives the language through a kind of “palette” in the mouth.
The recipient interprets these signals depending on its intensity and can get an idea of its environment, the shape of objects and even, in some ways, “read” letters.
Lundberg noted that the device is very helpful and, for example, you can locate objects, but not think getting rid of Hugo, his guide dog.
INNOVATIONS ARE EXPECTED
The British Defense Ministry will collaborate with the U.S. Army to continue developing the device and to increase from 400 to at least 4,000 points that send information to the language, improving the quality of the images.
One of the drawbacks of BrainPoint is that users can not speak or eat while using it, so that designers invent raised a smaller device can be installed permanently in the mouth.
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Obama expresses support ‘unbreakable’ for immigration reform
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said Thursday the defenders of immigrants, weary of waiting for the promised reform of federal immigration laws, he remains committed to changing a system that no longer works.
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What was unclear is whether Congress will send Obama a lead in this area this year.
Obama later met separately with Senators Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who handed him a draft proposal. The president said later in a statement he was “eager to review their promising framework”.
“My commitment to comprehensive immigration reform is unbreakable, and will remain your partner in this important effort,” Obama said both senators as advocacy groups for immigrants, the statement said.
The immigration issue is important for Obama, who has pledged to work to resolve the problem. Hispanics gave strong support for Obama in the presidential election of 2008, making a difference in crucial states like Florida. Their votes would be critical in the November election, when Obama and the Democrats seek to retain control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
But the lack of immigration reform or progress towards it could make Latino voters away from the polls.
Schumer and Graham said he asked Obama to help rally support for the initiative in the Senate, and to make companies and unions agree about the future arrival of workers performing basic tasks.
He added that Obama also promised to help solve problems related to the “virtual fence” on the Mexico border to detect people who seek to enter the U.S. illegally. Also addressed the creation of a temporary worker program that is satisfactory for companies.
After meeting for over an hour with Obama, the immigration advocates told the press that they want Schumer and Graham have at least a preliminary draft by 21 March as planned a march to the Capitol. Soon after, he presented the proposal in the Senate.
At the meeting about an hour and a half, there were strong and even tense exchanges.
“It was a meeting, a panel discussion,” said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Refugee Rights. He said he wanted to hear but entered into discussion with us. ”
Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition of Human Rights Immigrants in Los Angeles (CHIRLA, by its initials in English), said Obama seemed surprised when told of attending the deportation of illegal immigrants.
“We talk about the implementation of laws, which have hardened and he thought that the only people who have been deported are criminal and explained that it is not true,” said Chambers.
Hoyt agreed with that version.
“He showed some frustration, as he did not understand why we were unhappy with him …” said the activist. “We responded that if deporting 400,000 people per year, how can not believe we’re frustrated with him?”
On Tuesday, more than 200 organizations in the country called on Obama in a letter to suspend all types of raids and deportation programs that lead to the immigrant community feel safer and have greater participation in the census next year.
The relatively tight schedule to move important legislation in Congress in an election year, is an obstacle to achieving a proposal that combines increased border enforcement with a way for some 12 million illegal immigrants are in United States to legalize their stay in this nation.
“We had a very good discussion about the difficulties,” said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the International Union Service Employees. “I think the president is aware of it, just like us.”
Medina said the groups also want to discuss the issue with the Republican minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the leader of Republicans in the House of Representatives, John Boehner of Ohio.
Clarissa Martinez de Castro, director of immigration and national campaigns for the National Council of La Raza, said Obama told the organizations that issue a statement with Schumer and Graham when revealing draft the initiative.
“It is undeniable that we need presidential leadership, greater presidential leadership and the president is committed to doing that,” he said.
Salas said Obama agreed to help draft a bill ready before the protest.
“We want results,” said Chambers. “That is what we expect in the next couple of weeks.”
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Cruise passengers describe terrifying waves in Spain
BARCELONA (AP) – The Mediterranean Sea is shaking while Ana Lita, an Italian aged 68, was resting in the lounge of the cruise. A minute later, a monster wave broke the windows of the boat and hit her with broken glass on the head, leaving her bleeding on the ground and calling for her husband.
Torrents of water soaked the Louis Cruise Majesty, flooding several floors of the ship.
“I thought it would at sea, drowned,” said Lita, who on Thursday had a black eye and bandages on his head and hand.
The three waves that struck the Cypriot vessel, killing two people on the coast of northeastern Spain. The ship was carrying 1,350 passengers and a crew of 580 from a total of 27 countries.
Lita’s husband, Carlo, 69, and who sat beside her when the accident occurred, was released into the air and finished with five points in the head and a leg injury.
Another Italian, Giovanni Zanoni, said that after the waves breaking windows in the common room, the roof gave way and sowed chaos.
“People were screaming, panicking. He took the life jackets,” said Zanoni. The passenger said he saw a huge piece of glass hit a man on the face, killing him. It took a while to find the body because he was under the ruins of the roof, he said.
Louis Cruise Lines, owner and operator of the ship, said the cruiser was hit Wednesday by three waves “unusually high” of 10 meters (33 feet). The waves smashed the windows of the bow section on the cover number five, which is one of the passengers using. Two people died and 14 were slightly injured, the company said.
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