"No Match" Rule Temporarily Blocked; Armenian Genocide Bill Approved by House Committee; Orange County Journalists Roundtable; NUMB3RS
"No Match" Rule Temporarily Blocked
Yesterday, a federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security's plan to use the Social Security Administration's database to crack down on businesses that may be employing undocumented immigrants. The judge said the new work-site rule, by which businesses would receive letters warning that they would face penalties if they kept workers whose Social Security numbers did not match their names, would likely impose hardships on businesses and their workers. Larry discusses the ruling with Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies and Monica Guizar of the National Immigration Law Center.
Armenian Genocide Bill Approved by House Committee
Sometimes language really counts... the use of the word "genocide" can have important implications for foreign policy and the possibility of reparations. That's why Armenian-Americans are lobbying for a US resolution officially calling the 1915 to 1923 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks an act of genocide. The Turkish government maintains that the deaths were part of the chaos of World War I, and not a government-endorsed attempt to eliminate an entire ethnic group. A US resolution labeling the act as genocide passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is on its way to a floor vote. The Bush administration is against the resolution, saying it will harm US-Turkish relations, with possible repercussions for the war in Iraq. Larry discusses the bill with Steve Dadaian of the Armenian National Committee, and Ara Khachatourian, editor of Asbarez, a daily Armenian-American newspaper published in southern California and distributed nationally.
Orange County Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly senior editorial writer and columnist Gustavo Arellano about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
NUMB3RS
Larry talks with Cheryl Heuton, creator and executive producer of the hit CBS television drama, NUMB3RS, and Gary Lorden, a Caltech mathematician and author of The Numbers Behind Numbers: Solving Crime with Mathematics (Plume).