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'Trump Effect' is over: Illegal US-Mexico border crossings rebound


Yahoo! News
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:29 UTC
US-Mexico border wall prototypes
© AFP Photo/GUILLERMO ARIASPrototypes for President Donald Trump's planned border wall: illegal immigration across the Mexico border has surged in recent months to pre-Trump levels.
President Donald Trump's shock order to send National Guard troops to the frontier with Mexico Wednesday came after data showed that illegal immigration has sharply rebounded following a plunge in his first year in office.

Data on border apprehension for March released late Wednesday indicates undocumented immigrants are pouring into the country at the highest level in four years.

Trump's warning of a crackdown when he entered the White House in January 2017 drove the number of apprehensions of illegal border crossers -- an indicator of total crossing numbers -- to four-decade lows.

For example, apprehensions in February 2017 were 23,555, down from more than 38,000 a year earlier. And they hit a monthly low of 15,766 in April 2017, less than one-third of the previous year's number.

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Petition of 1,600 Parisians demands action against gangs of Moroccan teenagers terrorising residents

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:40 UTC
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A large number of residents of the heavily-migrant populated Paris areas of La Chapelle, Goutte-d'Or and Barbès have demanded the government act to stop underage Moroccan migrant gangs, with women being routinely targetted for assault.

The petition, which now stands at over 1,600 signatures, asks the local government to provide measures to deal with the gangs of underage Moroccan migrants, typically aged 14 to 17, many of which are addicted to drugs Le Parisienreports.

One resident, named Mireille, claimed that the migrants had targetted her and her 15-year-old daughter saying, "The first time was a Sunday night, I saw three of these young people on the sidewalk and I felt a threat then we turned around, but right after one of them jumped to my daughter's throat, maybe to get her collar on her, she broke free, started to cry."

"The next day we filed a complaint, but now I'm no longer quiet in the street, and she either. It is very unfair not to be able to walk freely in this neighbourhood," she added.
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California considering bill to restrict police use of firearms

Scott Morefield
The Daily Caller
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:40 UTC
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© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesAn Oakland police officer holds a shotgun as Occupy protesters are detained for attempting to block a street on May 1, 2012 in Oakland, California.
California lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would impose an unprecedented restriction on the rules of engagement for police.

The Police Accountability and Community Protection Act would change the state's guidance for police use of firearms to a "necessary force" standard from the current "reasonable force" standard, according to ABC News.

The proposed change comes after Sacramento police were sharply criticized over the police shooting of 22-year old Stephon Clark.

Comment: Seems like they're changing the wording from one completely subjective word to another. Whether a situation is "reasonable" or "necessary" could easily be argued. This is neither a reasonable or necessary step toward police accountability.

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More than a million undocumented immigrants have California driver's licenses - hit and run accidents dropped

Benjy Egel
The Sacramento Bee
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:58 UTC
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© Emily Zentner - The Sacramento Bee
More than 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver's licenses, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 60, authored by then-Assemblyman Luis Alejo in 2013, required California DMV offices to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants as long as they can prove their identity and residence within the state. The law has led to 1,001,000 undocumented immigrants receiving licenses as of March 31 but doesn't give the licensees carte blanche to drive outside of California or fly across state or federal borders.
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Florida man accused of beating man to death with vacuum cleaner so badly it severed the head and left him unrecognizable

Adrienne Cutway
Click Orlando
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:04 UTC
Angel Luis Olmeda Rivera
Angel Luis Olmeda Rivera
A murder suspect is accused of beating a man so violently with a vacuum cleaner that he severed the victim's head, leaving him beaten beyond recognition, according to the Kissimmee Police Department.

Police said they were called to Donegan Avenue in Kissimmee on March 14 after a man was found dead near a dumpster at Cheo Auto Repair.

The victim's blood, brain matter and bone fragments were sprayed across the area and onto nearby vehicles, according to the report.

"As soon as I saw the (victim) I was immediately taken aback by the amount of violence that had gone into (his) murder," a detective wrote in the arrest affidavit.
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A retrospective look at all WikiLeaks has accomplished while Assange remains silenced

Elizabeth Vos
Disobedient Media
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
The Wikileaks Files
© Reuters
An argument is only as good as the evidence it cites. For this reason, WikiLeaks embodies one the most significant information armories in existence. John Pilger spoke to this importance when he compared WikiLeaks with a mainstream press that he called nothing more than "state-stenography." In the wake of news of Assange being cut off from the outside world by order of the Ecuadorian government, Pilger also wrote that the "silencing of Assange is the silencing of us all."

After this author and other independent journalists, whistleblowers and friends of Assange took part in a ten-hour vigil to call for the journalist's freedom of speech to be upheld under the banner #ReconnectJulian, many have continued to publicize the injustice of his inability to speak and have contact with the outside world on top of his ongoing arbitrary confinement.

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Woman who campaigns against 'gender identity' ideology threatened with arrest and banned from leaving UK

Liam Deacon
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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A mother of four who campaigns against "gender identity" ideology claims she was threatened with arrest and banned from leaving the UK after saying transgender women are "castrated" men.

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull has claimed Susie Green, the CEO of transgender group Mermaids, reported her to the police in July last year, in remarks made on her fundraising page.

The West Yorkshire force did not initially act, but after undergoing training from Ms. Green's Mermaids organisation in January, they soon moved to question Ms. Keen-Minshull under caution, it is claimed.

Ms. Keen-Minshull says she was questioned because of eight tweets, one calling transgendered individuals who have had their genitals removed as "castrated". She has also accused Mermaids of "prey[ing]" on gay teenagers and of "mass child abuse".
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Law schools were not meant to be combatants in culture wars

Bruce Pardy
The National Post
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:34 UTC
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© Mark van Manen/Vancouver Sun/Postmedia NewsA statue of Justice stands outside the law courts in Vancouver, B.C.
Any law professor can legitimately express his or her own views. Imposing those views on others and restricting their speech is quite another thing

When Windsor law school condemned the Canadian legal system as an instrument of oppression, I suggested in a Post column that legal education had lost its way. Some of my colleagues do not agree. Law schools should be political, say Queen's assistant professors Lisa Kelly and Lisa Kerr in a piece published in the Globe and Mail. "Law has helped to create much of the inequality that we see today, and we should be suspicious of those who don't want law schools to notice."

Kelly and Kerr say that law is political, and on that they are correct. Legal rules have historical and philosophical context and reflect ideas about how the world should work. How should we punish people who harm others? Should the same standards apply to everyone? Can the government tell you what to say? The law on these subjects reflects political beliefs. Good law teachers embrace that reality to examine and challenge received truths. Legal education should expose students to a diverse set of perspectives so that they can figure out what they think. That is quite a different thing from law schools advocating an ideology and telling students what to believe. Rather than teaching intelligent critical thinking about the politics of law, law schools have themselves become political torchbearers for social justice dogma. The result is as much indoctrination as education.
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Central American 'caravan' of migrants to end in Mexico City

Delphine Schrank
Reuters
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:10 UTC
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© REUTERS/Henry RomeroCentral American migrants, part of a caravan moving through Mexico toward the U.S. border, stand in line to register at a makeshift centre of Mexico's National Institute of Migration, in Matias Romero, Mexico April 4, 2018.
Matías Romero, Mexico - Central American migrants stranded on a journey through Mexico because of U.S. President Donald Trump's pressure on the Mexican government say they will struggle on toward the United States, even as their "caravan" said it would disband in Mexico City.

Fearful of the risks to children among the bedraggled and tired knot of travelers, the organizers of the annual caravan, U.S.-based advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said it would end in the capital, not at the border as had been planned.

"It's not because of Donald Trump," said Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which has staged the caravan since 2010 to draw attention to migrants' rights and help them.

Mujica said the group did not want to put children on freight trains, which are traditionally used to cover part of the journey to the border. Nicknamed "la bestia" (the beast), the train is infamous for causing injury to migrants.

Trump has lashed out at the caravan, accusing Mexico of failing to stop illegal immigrants heading to the border.

The president took a hard line on illegal immigration during the 2016 election campaign and is frustrated by the failure of Congress to fund his long-promised border wall.

Comment: Trump displays outrage over Mexico migrant caravan

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The CDC's Ebola and Zika virus supervisor goes missing with no leads (Update)

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:18 UTC
Timothy Cunningham
Timothy Cunningham
35-year-old Timothy Cunningham, a high ranking employee with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been missing for nearly two weeks. Cunningham went home from work claiming he was sick on February 12 and has not been seen or heard from since.

According to the CDC, Cunningham is a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a commander in the Public Health Service who was responsible for responding to and supervising emergency situations with the Ebola virus and the Zika virus.

Last week, the Atlanta Police Department issued a missing persons notice through their Facebook page, and since it has received nearly 2,000 shares, but still no leads.

Cunningham's family said that this is extremely unusual behavior for him, since he is usually very close with his family, and he would never leave without letting them know or making sure that his dog was taken care of. When his family went to look for him at his home they found his phone, wallet, car, and keys, along with his dog.

Comment: Update (April 5, 2018): The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Timothy Cunningham was found dead in the Chattahoochee River. Investigators said there was no signs of foul play, that he likely drowned.

See also: Missing CDC employee left work sick 10 days ago, hasn't been seen since

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