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No relatives or answers in case of slain immigrant family (Houston Chronicle)

17 May 2008

They are officially listed as case numbers 1548 to 1552 at the Harris County Medical Examiner's office. It's a stark, sterile fate for an immigrant family of two parents and three young children whose bodies lay in storage at the county morgue.

ICE Agents Detain 61 at Los Angeles 'Drop House' (Officer.com)

17 May 2008

Federal agents raided a "drop house" in the South Los Angeles area Wednesday and detained 61 foreign nationals suspected of entering the country illegally.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,079 (AP via Yahoo! News)

17 May 2008

As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 4,079 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.