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Alabama 13 yr old special needs girl beheaded, grandmother murdered in Mexican drug cartel linked crime

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:48 UTC
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Alabama law enforcement officials say that an illegal immigrant and an immigrant in the United States on a green card are responsible for the brutal murders of a grandmother and her 13-year-old special needs granddaughter in what investigators say is violence related to Mexican drug cartels.

AL.com reports:
A 13-year-old Huntsville girl was beheaded after she witnessed her grandmother assaulted with a knife and left to die on the ground in a cemetery, court testimony revealed.
The grandmother, 49-year-old Oralia Mendoza, was allegedly connected to the Sinaloa Mexican drug cartel which is widely considered to be the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world.

Investigator Stacy Rutherford told a court on Thursday that Mendoza traveled to Georgia in early June to pick up a batch of methamphetamine with Israel Palomino, 34, Yoni Aguilar, 26, and Leticia Garcia.

Comment: Never mind terrorism, it is drug cartels and organized crime that are the major security threats to Mexico and the US.

Another example:

Gun battle between Mexican soldiers and drug cartel outside Wal-Mart near border with Texas

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Fanatic American Muslim leader says 'practicing Muslims are above the law of the land'


USA Patriots
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:40 UTC
Mustafa Carroll
The Director of the Dallas Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR), Mustafa Carroll, made a surprising and shocking statement during a Muslim rally in Austin, Texas. He firmly believes that the message of the Qur'an is supreme over the United States constitution. The statement would be shocking to most citizens of the United States, unless they had some perspective on who CAIR really is.

He said, "If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land."

Comment: And that is precisely how not to achieve integration and assimilation into the national identity, therefore deepening social divisions.

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Poll finds nearly two-thirds of Germans think Trump is more dangerous than Putin


RT
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:05 UTC
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© Reuters
A tin mug depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump / Reuters
Nearly two-thirds of Germans believe the actions of US President Donald Trump are more dangerous than the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a new poll conducted ahead of the two leaders' summit reveals.

A day before the long-awaited summit in Helsinki, the German DPA agency released the results of a poll conducted by UK-based YouGov data analytics firm.

Despite speculation by mainstream media and Western politicians about 'bogeyman' Russia and 'scary' Putin, 64 percent of YouGov respondents believe Trump's politics pose a greater risk to world peace than those of the Russian leader. Only 16 percent said that Putin's actions were dangerous.

Comment: The Germans are not alone.

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Finns protest Trump-Putin meeting in name of...peace?


RT
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:50 UTC
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© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
Protesters have hit the streets of the Finnish capital to protest the upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, slamming both leaders ahead of the highly anticipated event.

Around 2,500 demonstrators turned up for the protest on Sunday, just one day before Trump and Putin are scheduled to hold their one-on-one meeting. They held signs which read "Make Peace Great Again" and "Refugees welcome," among others.


Comment: The inner contradictions of anti-Trump and anti-Putin mob is on full display. Trump has yet to start another stupid war - that makes him an outlier in terms of American presidents. Putin has never started a war, and he's bringing peace to Syria, which will lead to fewer refugees. It seems these crowds are so pro-refugee they'd prefer the wars to continue, if only so they can show how virtuous they are by then accepting the inevitable refugees.


helsinki protest
© Lehtikuva Lehtikuva / Reuters

Comment: The Finnish media got on board, penning a letter to the two leaders:
"President Trump often seems to be in search of short-term political benefit at the expense of US allies, the international community," journalists Saska Saarikoski and Laura Saarikoski wrote on Sunday ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting, scheduled for July 16. Their open letter, addressed to both leaders, was published in the nation's leading paper Helsingin Sanomat.

The journalists, who have authored several books on Trump, are alarmed by the prospect of the US president making concessions to the "skilled negotiator" Putin who will sit down at the table "with a whole bunch of aces up his sleeve."

"What is difficult to understand is the fact that President Trump has threatened and intimidated friendly countries while speaking warmly of autocratic leaders, and even of a tyrant like North Korea's Kim Jong-un," the open letter reads. The authors lament the fact that Trump shows no signs of "a persistent policy" required to pressure Russia into changing its attitude. They recall how some observers have raised fears of "a new Yalta where Trump and Putin would divide the world between them in spheres of influence." By invoking Yalta, the authors refer to the 1945 meeting at which the leaders of the Soviet Union, the UK and the US decided on the political makeup of the world after defeating the Nazis in WWII.

Despite being "worried" about Trump's rhetoric towards Russia and its president, the Finnish journalists hope that during the upcoming talks "everyone will nevertheless understand that European matters can no longer be agreed-on over the heads of Europeans."

"The deterioration of US-Russian relations is not beneficial to anyone," the letter concludes.
At least they end it on a sane note.

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Russia grants World Cup fans visa-free entry through 2018


RFE/RL
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:13 UTC
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© Carl Racine/Reuters
Russia says visitors holding 'fan ID' cards from the World Cup will be granted visa-free travel to Russia this year.
Russia President Vladimir Putin says foreign visitors with "fan ID" cards from the just-completed soccer World Cup will be granted visa-free entry to Russia for the rest of 2018.

"Foreign supporters who currently have fan IDs will be able to benefit from multiple entries into the Russian Federation without a visa until the end of the year," state-run TASS news agency quoted Putin as saying on July 15.

Comment: Another gesture of hospitality from Russia.

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Setting the record straight: What does the Supreme Court say about foreign nationals and due process?

Matt O'Brien
LifeZette
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:07 UTC
immigrants
President Donald Trump recently suggested that illegal aliens should be sent back to their countries of origin without hearings and the years of litigation that often follow.

He branded the current process, which permits illegal aliens to repeatedly contest orders of removal, as "a mockery to good immigration policy and law and order."

The mainstream media wasted no time in characterizing his suggestion as a "push to end due process for illegal immigrants." And multiple news outlets made all manner of wild claims about the so-called rights of illegal aliens. But once again, in an effort to portray the chief executive as a xenophobe, the open-borders lobby has gotten its facts backward.

Trump is actually right on the mark. Much of the current legal framework for removing illegal aliens from the United States consists of badly reasoned federal district-court decisions, ridiculous settlement agreements, and politically motivated policy decisions.

The open-borders lobby and its handmaidens in the mainstream media have consistently represented this hodgepodge as a clear articulation of "affirmative rights."
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Woman kills her father, buries him in yard, after finding his child pornography collection, including photos of herself

Kathleen Joyce
Fox News
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:57 UTC
Barbara Coombes
© Greater Manchester Police
Barbara Coombes, 63, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday after she confessed to killing her father and burying him in the backyard.
A British woman was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday after she confessed to killing her father and burying his body in the backyard of their home in 2006 after she discovered his collection of child pornography, including indecent images of herself.

Barbara Coombes, 63, of Reddish, Stockport, went to a police station in Stockport on Jan. 7, 2018, where she admitted she killed her father, Kenneth Coombes, 87, in 2006.

She told police she "snapped" in January 2006 when she came across naked photographs of herself and another child, The Guardian reported.

Comment: See also:

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French cops deploy tear gas & water cannons to contain unruly fans after World Cup win


RT
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:26 UTC
Teargassed crowd
While a wave of jubilant celebrations has swept across France following Les Bleus' FIFA World Cup victory, sporadic clashes between police and over-excited fans erupted in several cities amid the nationwide football fest.

As the nation cheered the French 4-2 triumph over Croatia, some hardcore fans could not contain their excitement, somewhat spoiling the historic evening with violence. While most Parisians took to the Champs Elysees, a few rowdy fans started thrashing the side streets of Paris.

Parisian law enforcement officers had to deploy tear gas and water cannons to stop unruly groups from vandalizing the streets of the capital, damaging shops and setting trash cans on fire.
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Question

How many low-skilled immigrants are getting welfare again?

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:49 UTC
detention center
This is the land of opportunity, and anyone who wants the come here can...legally. That's not the issue. For the Trump White House, it's been their stated position to shift our immigration policy toward allowing more high-skilled workers into this country.

As for the families of the low-skilled working immigration population in the country, 51 percent (76 percent counting immigrant-led households with children) are collecting some sort of check from our welfare services. Is that good? No. Does that mean we shut it all down? No. That figure comes from the Center for Immigration Studies, who noted the need for the immigration process to be more "selective." At the same time, there are a lot of American households with children that are also getting some form of government assistance (via USA Today):

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Peter Hitchens: Why Britain should declare independence from both Europe and the States

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:37 UTC
Trump UK
The time has come for Britain to declare independence from the USA. If our two countries do, in fact, have a 'special relationship', it is now an especially bad one.

Our internal affairs are none of Washington's business. Many people rightly denounced Barack Obama's crude attempt to influence the EU referendum by saying we would be at 'the back of the queue' for an American trade deal if we voted to leave.

The same people must logically also denounce Donald Trump's gross and ill-mannered intervention in our private affairs on Friday, which he then pretended, totally unconvincingly, not to have meant.

Comment: More from Peter Hitchens:

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