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The true cost of illegal immigration

Ruthie Blum
The Gatestone Institute
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:30 UTC
US-Mexico border fence
© US Customs and Border Protection)
The US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, California.
In his State of the Union address on January 30, US President Donald J. Trump referred to the brutal murder of two 16-year-old girls from Long Island in December 2016 by members of the "savage MS-13 gang," responsible for a spate of other gruesome killings in the area, as well.

Many of these gang members, he explained, had entered the United States illegally. "For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities," he said.

Calling on Congress "to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed... criminal gangs to break into our country," he listed the four pillars of his immigration-reform proposal:
  • A path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought to America by their parents.
  • The construction of a "great wall on the southern border" and enforcement by agents patrolling and securing the border.
  • Ending the visa lottery, "a program that randomly plans out green cards without regard for skill, merit, for the safety of American people."
  • Ending the "current, broken system" of chain migration of distant relatives, and limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children.

Comment: Nothing like a few facts to debunk Trump's immigration policy opponent's talking points. See also:

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Man asks undocumented immigrant to stop peeing at bus stop - gets stabbed in neck

Kevin Lewis
WJLA
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:55 UTC
Salvador Gomez-Lopez
© Montgomery County Police Department
Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46
An undocumented immigrant urinating in public used a box cutter to repeatedly stab a man who had merely suggested he pull up his trousers and use a proper restroom, police say.

On Nov. 30, around 11 p.m., Montgomery County Police were dispatched to the Wheaton Metro bus turnaround along Georgia Avenue. Upon stepping out of their cruisers, officers saw a man with stab wounds and bloody slashes to his neck, face and stomach.

That victim, plus an uninjured eyewitness, pointed officers toward Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46, who was allegedly drunk and belligerent. The two men explained that Gomez-Lopez was relieving himself in plain view of fellow bus passengers. When the victim questioned his actions, Gomez-Lopez reportedly reached into his backpack and grabbed hold of a razor-sharp box cutter.
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Brick Wall

Illegal immigrant who was deported 44 times in 15 years on top of feds' list

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent
© AP Photo/Gregory Bull
He is the world's most persistent illegal immigrant: One Mexican managed to get deported 44 times in 15 years - which means he also managed to sneak back across the border at least that many times.

The runner-up was ousted 40 times from 2001 to 2015. No. 3, 4 and 5 on the list were deported 35, 34 and 31 times, respectively, according to data provided to The Washington Times by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

While those are the most extreme cases, repeat-illegal immigrants were back in the news this week after police said a twice-deported man was driving drunk in Indiana on Sunday morning when he plowed into pro football player Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver, killing them both.

Comment: See also:

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Bell

The government is clearly incompetent, so why do we want it to do more?

Nick Gillespie
Reason
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:20 UTC
Ryan McConnell Schumer Pelosi
© Ron Sachs/CNP/AdMedia/Newscom
The feds can't pass a budget or do much very well, yet a record level of Americans want it more involved in our lives. That's not as crazy as it seems.

By now, you know the score: A couple of weeks have passed, so there's a new deadline looming for a budget agreement to keep the federal government open until the next continuing resolution can be hammered out, maybe after a brief government shutdown, during which members of Congress might even have to bring their own towels to the House gym (the horror, the horror).

The deadline is Thursday, so lots of luck, fellas. You've been getting along so well lately, this shouldn't be a problem at all. Oh wait.

Since the late 1970s, when new budgeting rules were passed, the government has only passed a budget four times before the fiscal year covered by said budget begins. This time around, there's a debt limit looming, too, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin saying that the government's credit line will be exhausted by February 28. That's sooner than originally expected, due to the not-at-all-surprising result of the tax cuts passed in December. Lower taxes generally result in lower revenue, after all.
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Evil Rays

Mind control? Stephen Paddock allegedly told prostitute that his brain was 'hacked' and he was under gov't control

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Paddock mind control
A former escort who frequently visited with Stephen Paddock has revealed that the Vegas murderer thought he was a government experiment whose brain was hacked and who could be controlled.

Shocking information on Stephen Paddock was recently reported which has gone completely unnoticed by the mainstream media. The report entails testimony from one of Paddock's high-priced escorts who is blowing the whistle on how a prostitute who met with the deranged shooter just before the massacre has since gone missing and noted how Paddock thought he was under the control of the government.

The escort was reported missing by her boyfriend just after the shooting and now, a former escort who once dated Paddock is speaking out about the sheer insanity involved in this case.

"She was telling girls after work that she was scared something would happen to her," claimed former escort Mikaela, whose full name is being withheld to protect her identity according to Radar Online. "She was booked the day before or the day of the shooting before she disappeared."

Comment: By now it is clear to most who have looked closely at the Las Vegas massacre that much of what we've been told through the mainstream media is a lie: But what to do with the maybe-true statement in the article suggesting Paddock thought he was part of a 'government experiment'? Was it a paranoid delusion - or was there something to it? Apparently Timothy McVeigh of the OKC bombing in 1993 had made some similar statements about being under some form of government mind control. Is there a connection here?

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Attention

Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph


New York Post
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:39 UTC
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Amtrak passenger train #501, derailed near DuPont, WA
Tragedy-prone Amtrak suffered another terrifying setback Tuesday - when a high-speed Acela train broke apart as it raced north toward Penn Station at 125 mph, sources said.

In the third wreck in just one week - and the fourth in two months - several cars of an Acela Express heading from Washington, DC, to the Big Apple decoupled at about 6:30 a.m. and were left held together only by their air hoses.

Sparks flew from dragging cables and the train jerked wildly, but none of the 52 terrified passengers aboard were injured, according to reports.

Comment: Also See:

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Blackbox

Amtrak's high-profile crashes spark concerns but are they justified?


USA Today
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:03 UTC
Amtrak train derailiment 2017

Amtrak train derailment from 2017
Federal authorities say that a railway signaling system in South Carolina was down for maintenance when an Amtrak train crashed into a CSX freight locomotive on Sunday, causing the deaths of an Amtrak engineer and conductor. (Feb. 5) AP

A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record. The latest deadly incident occurred Sunday in South Carolina.

The crashes appear to stem from different causes, and federal investigators are sifting through each to find out what happened.

Comment: Even though in this instance, according to the article, safety incidents are actually steadily decreasing, America's infrastructure is failing, so it appears that the publicity these accidents receive is a factor in the public's concern. Travelling by rail can be a relatively pain-free experience when compared to the invasive and unjust security checks one has to suffer when flying, and if we look to how other countries are managing their rail network, it seems the west has a lot to learn:

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2 + 2 = 4

#Metoo ideology mania may result in mediocracy

Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:42 UTC
The coming mania for inclusion will erode standards of merit and excellence.
rainbow circle and equity
If the #MeToo movement only reduces sexual predation in the workplace, it will have been a force for good. Its most likely result, however, will be to unleash a torrent of new gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, on the theory that disparities in representation and employment are due to harassment and bias.
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Heart - Black

West Bank 14-year-old girl dumped alone into Gaza by cruel Israeli officials

Jonathan Cook
Mondoweiss
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:42 UTC
Gaza Erez crossing
© Oxfam
The walkway between Gaza and Israel at the Erez crossing.
How did a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who has never set foot in the open-air prison of Gaza find herself being dumped there by Israeli officials - alone, at night and without her parents being informed?

The terrifying ordeal - a child realising she had not been taken home but discarded in a place where she knew no one - is hard to contemplate for any parent.

And yet for Israel's gargantuan bureaucratic structure that has ruled over Palestinians for five decades, this was just another routine error. One mishap among many that day.

A single, abstract noun - "occupation" - obscures a multitude of crimes.

What crushes Palestinian spirits is not just the calculated malevolence of Israel's occupation authorities, as they kill and imprison Palestinians, seal them into ghettoes, steal lands and demolish homes. It is also the system's casual indifference to their fate.

This is a bureaucracy - of respectable men and women - that controls the smallest details of Palestinians' lives. With the flick of a pen, everything can be turned upside down. Palestinians are viewed as numbers and bodies rather than human beings.

Comment: Israel sees Palestinians and Africans as things, not people. It is as simple as that. It is the "banality of evil", as Arendt wrote.

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Family

Child slave trafficked to UK begs not to be deported, receives support of thousands

Helen Pidd
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:27 UTC
child slavery britain uk
Almost 120,000 sign petition to reverse 'grotesque' decision to deport Stephen, trafficked to the UK to farm cannabis aged 10

A child slave trafficked into the UK at the age of 10 and forced to work in a cannabis factory will on Tuesday plead to stay in the country with the backing of over 116,000 people.

The 19-year-old, known as Stephen to protect his real identity, was rescued by a vicar and his wife three years ago in County Durham, taught to read, and has become a pillar of the parish church community. But in a decision that has been described as "grotesque", the home secretary, Amber Rudd, informed the teenager late last year that his plea for asylum had been refused.
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