Marianne McCune

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The United States is still holding some 500 prisoners on the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. Only four have been charged. In recent months, some of the prisoners have made news by engaging in a hunger strike.

That news has reached the ears of the public ...

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Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. REPORTER: The act lifted immigration quotas based on national origin. Queens College professor Tarry Hum says it opened the door to a new wave of immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and Africa. HUM: ...

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Local city council races are motivating some residents to get out and vote. In Brooklyn's Sunset Park, a contested Council race has campaign workers competing to get their fliers into voters hands. WNYC's Marianne McCune has more.

REPORTER: On one corner of 4th Avenue, college students ...

An audio tour through some of the city's ceremonies - both public and private.

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WNYC has learned of two criminal investigations into whether U.S. border agents violated the rights of American citizens when they detained and fingerprinted them at the Canadian-New York border.

In December, several dozen American men and women were held, photographed and fingerprinted at the border because ...

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Two New York democrats could be key to whether a Central American free trade agreement passes the house of representatives this week. WNYC’s Marianne McCune has more.

REPORTER: Congressmembers Gregory Meeks of Queens and Edolphus Townes of Brooklyn are still undecided about CAFTA – an agreement ...

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Most of Ethiopia’s coffee is grown on small family farms. Much of it is organic … simply because farmers can’t pay for fertilizer. Yesterday, we brought you a story about a competition designed to bring higher profits to the farmers who grow great coffee. But ...

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Coffee wakes up millions of people every morning – and a lot of them are too groggy to think much about its flavor or its origin. But even in New York -- where weak deli coffee is still a staple -- there’s increasing interest in ...

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A jury has found a 56-year old woman guilty of smuggling Chinese nationals to the United States in the 80s and early 90s.

Federal prosecutors say Cheng Chui Ping made millions off smuggling immigrants, many via rundown ships. The most notorious of the ships was the ...

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Thousands of Fleet Week service men and women are looking for a good time in New York this weekend. Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed them to the city on Thursday. And as WNYC's Marianne McCune reports, his speech at the Surrogate's Court downtown ... gave rise ...

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Members of the group American Gold Star Mothers are now debating whether to amend their by-laws to allow non-citizen members. The group of mothers whose sons have died at war voted not to accept a Westchester woman who's a legal resident from the Philippines.

The group's ...

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A detention center near Kennedy Airport will no longer be used to hold immigration detainees. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman says it's too expensive to hold them in New York. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

REPORTER: Few in the immigration community are mourning the closure ...

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The Reverend Al Sharpton is headed to Mexico to meet with President Vicente Fox. President Fox said last week that Mexicans in the U.S. do jobs that, quote, 'not even blacks want to do.'

He has since expressed regret for the offense he caused. WNYC's Marianne ...

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REPORTER: Community leaders continue to urge the government to explain why two teenage girls were treated as terror suspects or apologize.

REPORTER: The two 16-year old New Yorkers were detained for immigration violations but the government closed their hearings and forbid the girls or their attorneys ...

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A shipment of high quality counterfeit badges from Taiwan led Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Bronx. WNYC's Marianne McCune has more on 1,300 fake law enforcement I.D.'s and other proprietary items that agents found in one man's apartment.

REPORTER: The badges are for law ...

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The Bangladeshi New York teenager who was detained for immigration violations after federal investigators called her a security threat went back to Bangladesh with her mother and siblings last night.

Faruq Wadud has been a supporter of the family and saw them off at the airport.

WADUD: ...

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Senators from New York and New Jersey say a measure to tighten immigration laws should not have been attached to a war spending bill they're set to vote on. WNYC's Marianne McCune reports.

Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton of New York calls the immigration measures known as ...

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The NYPD has been stopping cars and pedestrians on Third Avenue this morning, looking for more information on yesterday's blasts in front of the British Consulate building.

Surveillance tapes show a cyclist, a taxi, and a jogger passed by the building shortly before the explosion. Yesterday ...

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This evening, legislators in Washington may finalize a proposal that would significantly tighten immigration laws in the United States. The REAL ID Act may be attached to the Iraq War appropriations bill.

The Act is best known for a measure that would prevent states from giving ...

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Legislators in Washington are still debating whether to include a measure to tighten immigration laws in the spending bill they're likely to pass by next week. WNYC has this report on a lesser known provision that has New York immigration attorneys upset.

One of the proposals ...