European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 21 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside immigration impasse irritating Northeast Tupelo Mississippi journal illegal immigrants continue pouring North Ward across the and the congressional impasse on an immigration re form Bill supported by president Bush does nothing to remedy the the problem is decades in the and Only a bipartisan solution will begin the Steps necessary to bring it under critics who say immigration Law enforce ment has been broken for a Long time Are How else would a total of 12 million illegals come to live in our the Best honest outcome would be for bipartisan leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill to agree before the 2008 elec Tion on a workable honestly admitting past failures stretching Over four administrations since the last major Reform presidents George Clinton and George shared not shared Success across the past 21 much can happen if political will develops and sets itself to make it for there Are no assimilation is part of equation the morning news its just a piece of Black but it says so much about immigrants and cultural As the known in arabic As the covers some Muslim women leaving Only tiny slits around the the Muslim holy the does not require women to Wear the but it is part of the cultural backdrop across the Middle East and is increasingly seen on european in the the in tabs effect is unnerve sending an unpleasant message to on lookers keep because in not one of Western governments Are reluctant to ban in tabs for fear that it would endanger All displays of religious the Ninab symbolizes a much broader Issue How far immigrants should go to adapt to their new for in tabs put the question of assimilation liter ally in their faces because the wearers Mes Sage is so Britain former prime Tony rightly labelled the Ninab a Mark of for where in tabs Arent Prev the assimilation question surfaces More we notice it when immigrants spend years Here and never learn forcing us to change school government documents and billboards to accommodate americans feel anger when protesters at pro migrant rallies wave mexican at the Gold cup soccer championship in Chica go on june the and mexican National teams squared off in the title the Domestic crowd cheered to their frustration for the United states to the mood is turning Nasty Over i Migra migrants should heed the message of the americans dont want to erase migrants cultural but its hard to embrace those who refuse to embrace this Cul at a meet your hosts prickly City by Scott Stantis 1 Tell you aug Vitless cant a Bush statement the courier journal when president Bush Felt the need last month to give a speech on his handlers arranged a gig at the naval War College in Rhode that no the White House certainly knows the reception he could receive from an unscreened american but reporters travelling with the president noted that this military while re didst seem maybe that because people in the Mili tary dislike lies As much As civilians and when Bush said that Al Aida is the main enemy in he surely knew that his top intelligence analysts have said that not like most military command have said the conflict Between sunnis and shiites is the main cause of Al Aida is now a problem in but it int the biggest and it int the key to achieving americans count on their presidents to in not the big Windmill  die of spin press of Atlantic City this dispute was bound to come and the is not simply blow ing in the Michael mercuric has installed a wind tur Bine on a 34foot pole behind his House in Beach Haven he did it for All the obvious reasons to generate his own elec to save to help save the planet from global not so me curios neighbors Are suing him Over the wind and Long Beach township is considering an Ordi tabled at the to ban the construction of such both the lawsuit and the proposed Ordi Nance Are a first in new according to Michael me curios who also works with the new Jersey environmental the neighbors lawsuit says that mercy Rios wind Turbine is projects  shadows onto their attracts Gawker and has caused them stress related medical if you ask backyard windmills Are a wonderful Long Beach township should immediately drop the proposal to ban All but decorative windmills in the the nation does not need More decorative wind Mills it needs More real per haps exactly like its not inconceivable that the placement of a particular Windmill could cause real problems for but if the Only prob Lem anti Windmill neighbors really have is a severe Case of Nimby they Are fighting a Battle they deserve to Calmer prisoners preferred the Post and courier the South Carolina department of corrections should reconsider its plans to halt to Bacco use in the state prison the potential health benefits dont outweigh the other problems that the ban could tobacco use provides a mild sedative to prison inmates who face a Broad Range of stressful circumstances on a daily unlike prison who also will be banned from using they dont have the option to partake off prison department of corrections spokesman Josh Gelinas tells us that director Jon of mint recognizes the potential problems and believes they Are outweighed by the Poten tial health a better idea would be to Jettison the to Bacco ban before it what a drag it is to drop out the news record Greensboro a new study shows North Carolina to have a huge High school dropout problem that it has in a globally competitive such carelessness with human Cap ital cant be the study makes four major recommendations 1 do research to learn How Many Are dropping who they Are and Why they 2 consider making attendance compulsory through age states that have done so have lower dropout 3 admit curricula designed for the col leg bound Are irrelevant to create alternatives using service intern apprenticeships and the like that turn out employable 4 have North Carolina department of Public instruction reevaluate its dropout programs and ask each system to propose local ways to address the we pay lip service to leaving no child be but when up to 30 percent dont finish High school we Arent really serious about the yet it is undeniably a problem for All of these Young people ought to fuel our economic they Are at risk of becoming a Cost to taxpayers and a sorrow to still watch for desegregation the Knoxville new Sentinel in the supreme court unanimously ruled that students could not be assigned to Public schools solely because of their late last a deeply divided High court 5 to that this is still the the social context has changed dramatically Over the intervening 53 the racial criterion was a tool to keep Black and White students school often pursuant to court As sign on the basis of race to ensure that Black and White students attend school whether last months ruling is a step Back Ward will be seen in a new Justice Anthony the courts swing concurred almost reluctantly writing if the majority opinion is taken As permission for school districts to ignore de Facto desegregation and if the Opin Ion suggests the Constitution mandates that state and local school authorities must accept the status quo of racial isolation in it in my profoundly Mistak it is of profound importance to a diverse nation committed to Equality of Opportunity that Kennedy views serve As a Point of scratching surface of warming the Cleveland Plain dealer got an itch to do something about global warming you May recent studies suggest that rising Carbon dioxide Levels in the atmosphere Are promoting More faster growing and Tichier Poison Ivy than Ever and that could be killing off More Trees in the and causing More itches for More of than Ever last a six year Experiment at Duke University that involved piping c02 Levels predicted for the Middle of this Century into a Forest test bed yielded 149 percent fast erg rowing Poison the Leafy toxin grew four times faster than Trees exposed to the higher Carbon dioxide level so fast that scientists think the Woody Vine could alter the composition of forests around the Globe by choking off worst of this Poison Ivy of the future was suffused with far More potent the oily substance that makes four out of five of us theres a rash of bad pass Bill funding cold cases Ohio Tribune chronicle among the most disturbing chapters in american history is that involving racist Vio primarily in Southern but that chapter is not closed because some of the perpetrators of that violence never were Pun last month the House of representatives approved a Bill that would establish a new task Force of Federal prosecutors and investigators to look into unsolved murders from the civil rights in the Bill includes million a year in Grants for local Law enforcement agencies to do the same from time to Law enforcement officials do crack old murder cases involving racists and their there is Little that More resources de voted to the work would help the Justice sys tem catch up to even More of those responsible for such at least 100 cases will be reviewed under the new according to the govern that May mean Justice for scores of people who were slaughtered simply be cause of the color of their skin or because they enlisted in the fight against members of the Senate should approve their version of the House Bill As soon As pos for too Justice has been de it should not be