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Rubio Pitching Bipartisan Comprehensive Immigration Reform

In political terms, it was the equivalent of seeing a poltergeist. It couldn’t be real, but there it was: ultra-conservative Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio standing side-by-side with super liberal Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer in Washington Monday, advancing a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform plan.

CBS Miami–2013/01/28

Absentee ballots (CBS4)

Determined Firefighter Taking On Illegal “Boleteras”

Eric Johnson is a 10-year veteran of the Hialeah Fire Department. His career has been focused on responding to life threatening emergencies. But recently, Johnson has been on a different mission: fighting absentee voter fraud.

CBS4–2012/10/26

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Feds Remove “Dreamers” Monitoring Bracelet

A South Florida woman who was on the brink of being kicked out of the U.S. because she and her parents were in the country illegally can thank the Obama administration for giving her a break.

2012/08/21

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Election Supervisors Cautious About Using SAVE Data

After winning access to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security database of non-citizens living in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott said he sees no reason why the state’s 67 elections supervisors shouldn’t return to removing ineligible voters from the rolls.

CBS4–2012/07/16

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Feds Allow Florida To Use Database To Purge Illegal Voters

In a move that will surely benefit Republicans, the federal government has agreed to let Florida use a law enforcement database as a resource in helping to purge voter rolls of voters suspected of being non-U.S. citizens.

CBS4–2012/07/14

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Sunrise Man Severely Injured By Synthetic Marijuana Warns Of Dangers

A Sunrise man survived what he and his doctors are calling a near death experience from a dangerous new drug called synthetic marijuana.

CBS4–2012/05/23

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State’s List Of Possible Ineligible Voters Grows To 180K

Florida officials continue to investigate the citizenship of Florida registered voters and now the number of potentially ineligible voters in the state is growing.

CBS4–2012/05/11

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Exclusive: Florida Investigating Potential Non-Citizen Voters

In a new crackdown, Florida officials are investigating the citizenship of thousands of registered voters.

CBS4–2012/05/09

Patients going to other countries are learning the hard way that their bodies are paying the price in exchange for saving money on breast implants. (CBS4)

Docs Warn Of Complications From Cheap International Breast Implants

Every year, thousands of women fly from South Florida, out of the country, especially to South America, to get a boob job. They take the trip because the surgery is significantly cheaper outside the United States.

CBS4–2012/01/24

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Police Crow About Rescuing Rooster From The Ring

Why does a man go to the post office to pick up a live rooster? Police in Boynton Beach say Danny Pham wanted his fowl for fighting, and that’s against the law. Pham had a date with a judge, and his mail-order chicken was saved from the cock-righting ring.

CBS4–2011/12/29

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