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Daily Archives: August 17, 2009

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Webb negotiates, releases imprisoned American in Burma

NEWSBy Pacific TiesAugust 17, 2009Leave a comment

On Saturday, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb won the release of an American prison inmate in Myanmar after talking with reclusive leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. After swimming across a lake to Suu Kyi’s villa in May, Missouri resident John Yettaw, 53, was arrested in May. Yettaw was sentenced…

I.C.E. removes quota, continues agency expansion

POLITICSBy Pacific TiesAugust 17, 2009Leave a comment

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the end of quotas for undocumented immigrants who ignored deportation orders in attempt to make more changes to the program. John Morton, who took over as head of the federal agency in May, plans to target unlawful immigrants. In 2003, the agency organized teams to arrest and…

Demonstration at Cal, debate over war criminal status

POLITICSBy Pacific TiesAugust 17, 2009Leave a comment

Four anti-war demonstrators were arrested today at the University of California, Berkeley after calling to fire John Yoo, a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that some claimed to have justified the torture of suspected terrorists. On the first day of class at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, people protested against Yoo, saying…

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