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Wednesday, February 04, 2015Last Update: 2:40 PM PT

CORPUS CHRISTI (CN) – Eight kilos of cocaine the Border Patrol found in a car can’t be used as evidence because the driver didn’t know he could object to the search, a federal judge ruled.

The Border Patrol suspected the driver was smuggling human organs, according to the arrest report . Key to the judge’s granting suppression of evidence was the use of a Spanish phrase by a Border Patrol agent who is not fluent in the language.

Joaquin Vasquez-Gutierrez, of Mexico, pulled his 2014 Nissan Sentra into a Border Patrol checkpoint in Sarita, Texas on Oct. 12, 2014, and agent Lisa Taranto ran the car’s license plate, court records show.

Sarita, pop. 238, the seat of Kenedy County, is about 90 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Taranto observed on her computer screen that the vehicle’s license plate had been flagged and…

Rosemead, California

Computer World:

Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements

Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.

The employees are upset and say they can’t understand how H-1B guest workers can be used to replace them.

Because they can!

“They are bringing in people with a couple of years’ experience to replace us and then we have to train them,” said one longtime IT worker. “It’s demoralizing and in a way I kind of felt betrayed by the company.”

Yes, the company is bad enough.  But you should feel more betrayed by your elected officials.

You should ask your politicians and prospective politicians questions about this matter, and research their policy positions.  Even some of the supposedly better…