I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrapped up a four day operation Wednesday and rounded up 20 undocumented workers.
The Kalamazoo Gazette reports the individuals arrested had been convicted of crimes or had ignored an order of the courts to leave the country. The paper reports 15 of the people arrested were from Mexico and the remaining five were from places such as Nigeria and China.
ICE agents say that those convicted of crimes had been charged with domestic violence, narcotics possession, drunk driving and burglary. The workers are being held in an ICE detention facility in Calhoun county. Those with deportation orders well sent back to their countries, while others will have to go before a federal judge.
As in other situations where ICE agents conducted operations, local law enforcement was not aware of the raids which were conducted at various businesses including eateries, other businesses and the homes of the those arrested.
Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley told the paper the while he was unaware of the operation, he supported it because “they are ridding our community of bad people.”
Hadley then said his department does not check immigration status or do immigration investigations because the department can’t afford it. That could be a problem for Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) Arizona clone law on immigration. His legislation if approved would require law enforcement to check the immigration status of people arrested for criminal wrong doing.
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