Article in today's USA Today By William M. Welch...

"Costa Mesa, Calif. — Mayor Allan Mansoor says his city has a problem with violent criminals who are in this country illegally, and he wants them sent home. His solution is to make Costa Mesa the first city in the country to authorize its police officers to begin enforcing federal immigration laws by checking the immigration status of people suspected of serious crimes and gang activity."

The complete article can be found at…

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-25-illegals-criminals_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Thanks to local political commentator Debbie Schlussel ( http://www.debbieschlussel.com ) for the link to this story.

I found this article by Bill Laitner in today's Detroit Free Press.

It's entitled "Where Teen Drinking Led: Criminals? Or just having some fun?"

"The judge had chastised nine students caught drinking at a Troy high school prom last spring. That would be the end of it, he figured. It was, until Judge Michael Martone stumbled across a Web site weeks after the students had been sentenced to probation. Leering back at him from his computer screen were some of the same students from Troy Athens High School, now in college."

Here’s an interesting quote from the article:

“Her parents have yanked her out of MSU -- out of its culture of drinking, her mother said.”

I have a niece and a nephew at Michigan State. I can confirm that there seems to be a culture of drinking at MSU. Yes, I attended MSU in the 70s. And yes, we did our share of drinking. However, it seems to be much worse today than it was 30 years ago.

The complete article can be found at...

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS03/601270321/1005

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