European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 stars and stripes june 2007 in the states Law firms immigration talk hits youtube by Ramit Plushnick Masti the associated press Pittsburgh a Sena Tor wants an investigation into the ethics of a Law firm whose you tube video highlights How to circumvent the Law to obtain visas for foreign attorneys say its not illegal but Chuck has asked labor Secretary Elaine Chao to examine the firms tac the video shows attorneys for Cohen one of the larg est Law firms in explaining at a conference on Immi Gration How to obey Laws that re quire americans be Given top priority for jobs while still ensuring foreigners Are the goal Here of course is to meet the number but also do so As inexpensively As keeping in mind our and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested Lawrence Leb the firms vice president of told the audience in a member of the sen ate judiciary committees Immi Gration sent a let Ter to Cohen demand ing to know How Many visa petitions have been filed by the firm in the past five he denounced the firms tactics As Dis Cohen Grigsby placed footage from the Confer ence on then the programmers a group that opposes current immigration edited added background music and uploaded its version to the video sharing the attorneys Arent doing anything said Kim president of the programmers there is something wrong with the Cohen Grigsby said in a state ment that it stood by the sub stance of the but regretted the Choice of words that was used during a Small segment of the the firm added that its statements had been commandeered and the video clip appears to con firm the suspicions of Many who accuse companies of placing furniture store Blaze began at Dock by Bruce Smith the associated press the Blaze that killed nine firefighters in a furniture store started on a loading Federal investigators confirmed a Day after the victims were mourned in a joint the Bureau of firearms and explosives said it has completed its probe at the scene and will continue examining evidence for the cause of the which caused the single heaviest loss of firefighters since the the loading Dock was a Cov ered space Between the show room and the warehouse of the sofa super which burned monday the area housed a trash bin and was used to store old Furni Ture that was to be thrown it also was frequented by employees on their cigarette one store worker investigators have refused to discuss any possible causes of the and would Only say saturday where it photos by Dave at a news conference mayor Joseph Riley said they were moving Forward they were firefight ers and that what we Are going to be doing from yesterday Forward to attend to our responsibilities in this but with More courage and a greater sense of duty and a greater sense of the investigation will be sys deliberate and tenacious and it will take said Ken special agent in charge of the ats National response team for the he would not say where on the loading Dock the fire May have the announcement came a Day after a massive memorial service Drew thousands to this Seaside the first of the funerals for the firefighters was held Friday and More were scheduled for later at special agent in charge Ken Chisholm is helping to investigate the Charleston which occurred killed were William Billy 48 Mike 49 Louis 34 Mark 40 Bradford Brad 37 Michael 27 James Earl Dray 56 Brandon 27 and Melvin wildfire among largest of Southern fires by Russ Bynum the associated press Ernest sweat paused by the charred Pine trunk he found burning like a match two months ago and won dered could he have stopped the largest wildfire in the Southeast Ern in More than a Century sweat was driving Home april 16 when he spotted smoke along the dirt Road to his tobacco Power lines were snapped by fallen Pine and flames climbed surrounding he dashed Home to Call the fire but the Blaze had already it would become the South easts biggest wildfire since according to the National inter Agency fire if i could have just been Here a Little bit before it got into those i Coul Dve outed he within a the wildfire burned a 9mile path through Rural a week the Blaze had destroyed 18 Homes and spread into the Okefenokee after a it merged with a second sparked by and raced through the swamp into Northern firefighters were unable to Stop the Blaze from spreading rapidly through Brush and grasses turned tinder dry by severe drought in Southeast in the the massive fire Ernest sweat stands next to the fallen tree near his farm outside where weeks ago he discovered the beginnings of what became the biggest wildfire in Georgia Chris would Burn a total of 903 Square its up to 30 Miles wide and 58 Miles covers an area times larger than new York the total Cost is estimated at More than million since the fires want ads in newspapers to show the department of labor it is recruiting knowing All along that they wont attract Quali fied Palma a immigration said the department requires companies to make a goo Faith Effort to hire an american before applying for a work visa for a for by encouraging employers not to make a goo Faith they Are violating the Peri Yanni said of Cohen Grigs Bys Bush asks for backing on immigration Reform Washington president Bush urged lawmakers saturday to summon the political Cour age to support his top Domestic an immigration overhaul that is hanging by a thread in con we have an obligation to solve problems that have been piling up for Bush said in his weekly radio the status quo is a fragile bipartisan Compro Mise on immigration known As the grand bargain is due to come Back before the Senate As Early As this House backs More spending on vets health Washington president Bush congressman said Satur Day that the administration and republicans put a higher priority on tax cuts than on veterans health Chet said the House has sent Bush a billion spending Bill to fund veterans that includes a billion increase for veterans health billion More than Bush had Edwards migrant deaths Rise As temperature soars tempera Tures have soared during the past weeks sunup to summer in the and deaths among migrants crossing arizonans desert regions Are also up a potential ill a Border county medical examiner authorities recovered the Bod ies of 12 suspected illegal Immi Grants during the past a period that saw temperatures top 100 degrees each Day in Southern said Pima county medi Cal examiner Bruce his office performs autopsies on Many of the illegal immigrants who die crossing into Arizona each one was killed in a car but four died of heat Parks the causes of death for the other seven is not yet cer from the associated press