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WORLD BRIEFING Policy will 'lift the immigrants WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama eased enforce- ment of immigration laws Friday, offering a chance for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work. Immediately embraced by Hispanics, the extraordinary step touched off an election- year confrontation with congressional Republi- cans. ''Let's be clear, this is not amnesty, this is not immunity, this is not a path to citizenship, this is not a permanent fix,'' Obama said from the White House Rose Gar- den. ''This is the right thing to do.'' The policy change will shadow of deportation' from young affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deporta- tion. It bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the ''DREAM Act,'' congressional legis- lation that would establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who attend college or join the mili- tary. Under the administra- tion plan, illegal immi- grants will be immune from deportation if they were brought to the Unit- ed States before they turned 16 and are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduat- ed from a U.S. high school or earned a GED or served in the military. They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. Obama said the change would become effective immediately to ''lift the shadow of deportation from these young peo- ple.'' towns STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney Romney begins bus tour of small The Back Packs ARE HERE! Look for them at local businesses June 14-15-16 Applications accepted launched the next phase of his presidential campaign Friday, kicking off a six- state, small-town bus tour and telling middle-class Americans that President Barack Obama hasn't given them ''a fair shot.'' ''If there has ever been a president who has failed to give the middle class of America a fair shot, it is Barack Obama,'' the likely Republican presidential nominee told hundreds of people standing in the sun- shine outside a farmhouse plastered with his bus tour's slogan, ''Every Town Counts.'' It was new attack on Obama, Romney's Democ- ratic foe, who has repeated- ly argued that it's Democ- rats who offer a ''fair shot'' to Americans who ''work hard and play by the rules.'' The tour is Romney's bus tour as his administra- tion announced it will stop deporting hundreds of thou- sands of illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. Romney ignored a reporter's ques- tion about the change in immigration policy as he shook hands with voters in New Hampshire. Catholic hospitals say compromise on birth control is first traditional campaign swing aimed at undecided voters in a series of battle- ground states that will decide the presidential elec- tion. Romney is hoping to win over people who might have voted four years ago for Obama's promise of hope and change but who are now disappointed in the president. not believe church-affiliated employers should have to provide birth control as a free preventive service, as the law now requires. The hospital group's decision calls into question a compromise offered by the president himself only months ago, under which the cost of providing birth control would be covered by insurance companies and not religious employers. While churches and other places of worship are exempt from the birth con- trol mandate, nonprofits affiliated with a religion, such as hospitals, are not. In a letter to the federal Health and Human Services department, the hospital group said the compromise initially seemed to be ''a good first step'' but that examination of the details proved disappointing. The plan would be ''unduly cumbersome'' to carry out and ''unlikely to adequately meet the religious liberty concerns'' of all its mem- bers, the group said. Saturday, June 16, 2012 – Daily News 7A has seen its fortunes rise and fall dramatically in the 16 months since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Repressed under the old regime, it rose to become the strongest political force in parliament after elections that started in November only to lose that power when the legislature was dissolved by court order on Thursday. officials came to the realiza- tion that federal agents in Arizona had used a contro- versial investigative tactic that resulted in hundreds of illicitly purchased guns winding up in Mexico, many of them at crime scenes. Secret Service The Brotherhood is now hoping to salvage its posi- tion by portraying itself as the last bulwark against the ousted president's loyalists bent on a comeback. ''Isolate the representa- tive of the former regime through the ballot box,'' a Brotherhood statement said on Friday, referring to Shafiq. It was published just before the noon deadline to end campaigning. Issa willing to postpone While some liberal-lean- ing religious groups see no problem with the birth con- trol rule, Roman Catholic bishops and conservative- leaning groups are treating it as an affront and calling it an attack on religious free- dom. Institutions ranging from the University of Notre Dame to Catholic Charities in several states to the Archdiocese of Wash- ington have sued to block the rule. unworkable WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharpening an election- year confrontation over reli- gious freedom and govern- ment health insurance rules, the nation's Catholic hospi- tals on Friday rejected Pres- ident Barack Obama's com- promise for providing birth control coverage to their women employees. Still, Obama overshad- owed the start of Romney's The Catholic Health Association was a key ally in Obama's health care overhaul, defying opposi- tion from church bishops to help the president win approval in Congress. But the group said Friday it does presidency CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to sal- vage its waning political fortunes, responding to a court order dissolving its power base in parliament by urging voters to support the Islamist group's candidate for president. The runoff vote set for Saturday and Sunday pits Ahmed Shafiq, a military- rooted strongman promis- ing a firm hand to ensure stability, against Brother- hood candidate Mohammed Morsi. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pins hopes on The Islamist movement Considering a Will or Trust-based Estate Plan? Don't Wait! 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It wasn't imme- diately clear how many of the accusations turned out to be true. The new disclosures of so many serious accusa- tions since 2004 lend weight to concerns expressed by Congress that the Secret Service prostitution scandal in April in Colombia exposed a culture of mis- conduct within the agency. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan apologized for the incident during a hearing in May but insist- ed that what happened in Colombia was an isolated case. A leading senator who has been investigating the Colombia scandal, Susan Collins, R-Maine, said some of the accusations appeared legitimate and that ''adds to my concern about apparent miscon- duct by some of the per- sonnel of this vital law enforcement agency.'' Sierra Sound Car Audio 35th $ 226 So. 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