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In fiscal 2006 , the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 510,000 people attempting to unlawfully enter the United States via Arizona , half of the total for the 2,000 - mile-long southern border , according to government statistics.Phoenix is recognized as the hub of the immigrant smuggling trade , stocked with safe houses where illegal immigrants , known as pollos , or chickens , are held until relatives or friends pay about $ 1,600 a head and they are moved out on the highways that crisscross the city . " In the end I believe it will save the county and Manassas and Manassas Park money , and I think it 's right for the county , " Land said.The county is facing an $ 18 million shortfall in revenue for the current fiscal year , and the board of supervisors has been told that about $ 22 million must be cut from next year 's budget . The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , nevertheless , reaffirmed the death sentence , saying that if an error was made , it was harmless to the outcome of the jury 's decision.And so Smith v. Texas ( 05-11304 ) was back before the Supreme Court yesterday , with Smith 's advocates and others - - including four retired federal appeals court judges - - arguing that the state court ignored specific directions from the Supreme Court.As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it , it was as though the state court were saying , " Thanks , thanks , that 's very interesting advice , " but we're deciding it on different grounds.But the state appeared to have strong supporters in Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia.Scalia said the Texas court decided that , though the mitigating evidence should have been presented more straightforwardly , it was in the best position to decide that such evidence would not have affected the jury 's decision to sentence Smith to death . " The ball lies in California 's court , " Ginsburg said.Justices Antonin Scalia , David H. Souter , John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas also were in the majority on an issue that confounds the typical conservative-liberal split on the court.Ohio State University law professor Douglas Berman , an expert on sentencing law , said the decision makes one point crystal clear . " That argument drew a sharp response from Stevens , who noted that the alternative procedure , dilation and evacuation , requires the dismemberment of the fetus before removal . All 50 states and the District of Columbia yesterday urged the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that they said would give federal authorities the ability to block states from prosecuting financial institutions for predatory lending practices.In oral arguments , the justices posed tough questions about the implications of a mortgage-lending case that could affect the way state-chartered subsidiaries of national banks are regulated . Among non-business students , one in four said they cheated at least three times - - numbers that McCabe acknowledged probably understate the prevalence of cheating in both groups.McCabe has studied cheating among undergraduates for more than 16 years . By the mid-1990s more than 90 % of the economy was socialized and 95 % of the country 's manufactured products were made by state-owned enterprises . Bush will address both houses of Congress and a national television audience from the lectern in the House chamber starting at 9 p.m. EST.In pitching his troop buildup in Iraq as " the best way to succeed " in the war-ravaged country , Bush will propose establishing a " special advisory council on the War on Terror made up of leaders in Congress from both political parties , " the White House said.Bush will say that he and U.S. military commanders " have carefully weighed the options , " according to excerpts of his speech defending his troop-increase plan . WASHINGTON - - The only U.S. military officer charged with crimes in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal was arraigned Tuesday , and a judge said he would hold a hearing next week on a defense request to dismiss the charges.Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan , a 50-year-old reservist from northern Virginia , chose not to enter a plea to the charges , which carry prison terms totaling up to 22 years . And this week , the court 's longest-serving justice joined the crowd , as John Paul Stevens said in what was grandly billed as his first network television interview that he considered himself the same " moderate conservative " that President Gerald R. Ford appointed 31 years ago , even though he is now considered one of the court 's reliable liberals . " Genentech 's lawyer , Maureen E. Mahoney , reinforced that point in her argument , saying MedImmune is essentially seeking the right to back out of a deal that both sides made in good faith , and that " it has been settled [ law ] forever that . And he said that while federal judges in 1969 made more money than the deans at the nation 's top law schools , they now make only about half what deans and top law professors make . Instead , the judge , after listing specific mitigating factors , issued a more generic direction to consider any other circumstance that " extenuates the gravity of the crime even though it is not a legal excuse for the crime . Compared with the control group , those who got memory training did 75 percent better on memory tasks five years later , those who got the reasoning training did 40 percent better on reasoning tasks , and those who got the speed training did 300 percent better than the control group.Researchers noted that mental skills can sometimes compensate for physical disabilities : Knowing how to figure out directions and find a new route on a map , for example , could allow someone to retain mobility even after their night vision deteriorates to the point where driving on certain roads becomes difficult.The study tracked 2,802 healthy adults from diverse backgrounds who were , on average , 73 years old . Harding 's howler was featured last year in a journal article on bad scholarly writing by Jethro K. Lieberman , professor and associate dean of New York Law School - - though Liberman allowed it may not be " a good or fair example of bad writing , only bad thinking . All lower federal courts to consider the matter have agreed , so the law has not yet been enforced.But Solicitor General Paul D. Clement , defending the law , told the court yesterday that Congress properly found that " partial birth abortions were never medically necessary , and that safe alternatives were always available such that no woman would be prevented from terminating her pregnancy . " Yildirim , 33 , arrived in New York at 21 , became active in the mainly Turkish Fatih Mosque in Brooklyn , and then opened a Muslim funeral business.He has washed , shrouded and repatriated the bodies of Poles , Yemenis and Bangladeshis .