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Most of the complaints that immigrants and American citizens present against the United States Border Patrol are not given any attention and haven't caused any sort of disciplinary action, revealed a report released on Tuesday.
On Monday, May 5, a controversial ruling of the United States Supreme Court in which it refused to revise the legal case against the city of Fremont, Nebraska, made it illegal to rent houses to undocumented immigrants, but specialists have said that this decision would allow other cities inside the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to apply similar regulations.
A group of 61 undocumented immigrants who were crammed into a safe house in the city of Mission, Texas, close to the border with Reynosa, Tamaulipas, were arrested by Border Patrol agents, local media reported.
Two of the three woman who were freed on May, 2013 after spending over 10 years inside a Cleveland, Ohio house, were paid homage and honored on Tuesday in Washington, on the first anniversary since they managed to escape.
The use of a marijuana strain low in THC (the main psychoactive ingredient of the drug) for medicinal and therapeutic uses was approved last Friday by the Florida Senate, local media reported.
On Monday, American actress of Mexican origins Eva Longoria launched an initiative with the purpose of promoting Hispanic candidates for the upcoming legislative elections in Novemeber.
Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States, used Cinco de Mayo to ask the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ohio republican John Boehner, to vote for an integral immigration reform which would benefit 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Highway 15 in Hesperia, will continue to be closed for at least two days after a bridge collapsed on Monday, which caused the highway to be closed in both directions.
A pilot died on Sunday, when his plane lost control and crashed in a remote area during an air show at the Travis Air Base, in Solano County, without their being any other victims, local media reported.
At least 11 people were injured on Sunday, some of them seriously, when a platform suffered a mechanical failure mid-show during a presentation of the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus in Providence, Rhode Island, reported local media.
The Supreme Court of the United States refused to modify a law which bans renting homes to undocumented immigrants in the city of Fremont, Nebraska, shutting their ears to the appeals presented by civil rights groups in favor of illegal immigrants.
A new proposal developed by the FWD.us organization has managed to get celebrities to act in favor of immigration Reform in the United States.
An entire block in the city of Baltimore, USA, collapsed on Wednesday due to strong rains which have fallen in recent days, without there being any fatal victims reported, local media said.
The number of Latino victims of homicide is double that of Caucasians, and most of these murders are related to firearms, a study published on Thursday revealed.
In a historical ruling, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced on Tuesday the lifelong ban of the Los Angeles Clippers' owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, after the scandal he was involved in after he made racist comments, leaked by TMZ.
