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| Official: Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia ... - CBS News Posted: 31 Mar 2013 08:28 AM PDT KAUFMAN, Texas The mayor of the city where a north Texas prosecutor and his wife were found killed in their house says the attack does not appear to have been random. Kaufman County sheriff's Lt. Justin Lewis said Saturday that the bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found Saturday. Two months earlier, an assistant district attorney was gunned down near the office. Police, FBI agents, Texas Rangers and deputies are investigating. Forney Mayor Darren Rozell, whose suburban Dallas city is nearest the slaying scene, says the attack "appears to be a targeted act" and is urging the 40,000 residents in the area to be calm. Sources told CBS affiliate KTVT in Dallas that the DA was shot multiple times with what is believed to be an assault rifle, while Cynthia McLelland was only shot once. Sources also say that there were no signs of forced entry. Authorities have been cautious to say whether or not there is a link to the Jan. 31 fatal shooting of an assistant Kaufman County district attorney, Mark Hasse, because of the ongoing investigation into both shootings. The FBI in Dallas and Denver have been comparing the Hasse shooting to that of Tom Clements, executive director of Colorado Prisons Bureau, KTVT reports. Clements was shot and killed as he answered the front door of his home on March 19. Sam Rosander, who lives in the same unincorporated area of Kaufman County as the McLellands, told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway for about a month after Hasse was killed In recent years, Hasse played major roles in Kaufman County's most high-profile cases, including one in which a justice of the peace was convicted on theft and burglary charges and another in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter. |
| Business, labor reach immigration deal on guest workers. Will it stand? - Christian Science Monitor Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PDT The US Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have reached a deal on guest workers as a part of comprehensive immigration reform. That was a major issue, but more remain including border security and a pathway to citizenship. Several southwest Michigan pastors along with immigrant families and members of the general public take part in a pray-in for immigration reform outside of US Rep. Fred Upton's office in downtown Kalamazoo on Friday. Matt Gade/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group/AP A major speed bump on the path to comprehensive immigration reform appears to have been removed. That's the issue of guest workers – low skilled immigrants who come to the United State under a temporary visa program. Skip to next paragraph' +
google_ads[0].line2 + ' Subscribe Today to the Monitor Over the weekend, senior business and labor representatives came to an agreement on how many such workers could enter the US each year, what jobs they could hold, and what the pay scale would be. The agreement was reached in a phone call late Friday night with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, US Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) of New York, who's been mediating the dispute, reports CBS News. By Sunday morning, senior lawmakers of both parties were confirming that a deal had been reached, and that this was an important step toward reform – including how to address the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US today. "I think we've got a deal," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We've got to write the legislation, but 2013, I hope, will be the year that we pass bipartisan immigration reform." "It will pass the [Republican-controlled] House because it secures our borders, it controls who gets a job … [and] the 11 million [undocumented immigrations] will have a pathway to citizenship, but it will be earned, it will be long, and it will be hard," Sen. Graham said. Senators Graham and Schumer are members of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" senators working to achieve immigration reform. "I am very, very optimistic that we will have an agreement among the eight of us next week," Schumer said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "[Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick] Leahy has agreed to have extensive markup and debate on the bill in April, and then we go to the floor in, God willing, in May. So I think we're on track. This is a major, major obstacle that's overcome." Another member of the Gang of Eight – Sen. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida – issued a more cautionary statement Sunday morning. "I'm encouraged by reports of an agreement between business groups and unions on the issue of guest workers," he said. "However, reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature." Rubio then laid out what he sees as the legislative road ahead: "We have made substantial progress, and I believe we will be able to agree on a legislative proposal that modernizes our legal immigration system, improves border security and enforcement and allows those here illegally to earn the chance to one day apply for permanent residency contingent upon certain triggers being met. However, that legislation will only be a starting point. |
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