· Sen. Specter Urges Giving Illegal Immigrants "Green Card" Status

the above link goes to an opinion piece by "darlin' arlen," not a news item.

· Pentagon Loses Track of 190,000 Rifles Given to Iraq Forces

The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting US forces in Iraq.

i guess you could say the connection between these items is that we can't track 190k weapons—more than half of what we've given them—so how can we be expected to track millions of people?