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How many low-skilled immigrants are getting welfare again?

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:49 UTC
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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
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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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Minnesota cops kill suicidal teen after family calls for help

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:43 UTC
Archer Amorosi
A family is devastated after they called the police to help their 16-year-old son and the officers who responded shot and killed him instead, highlighting an ongoing trend in which the officers who promise to "serve and protect" their community are taking the lives of its most vulnerable members.

Archer Amorosi was killed on Friday morning after his parents reached out to the same police officers who said they would help with no questions asked, as the teenager was battling mental health issues, and appeared to be suicidal. His father told KARE 11 News that the family called a crisis hotline and the police on Thursday, and then called the police again on Friday, which resulted in the fatal encounter.

"My ex-wife called them because they said if they came back they would take him in for an evaluation. They said wouldn't ask questions. Instead, they killed him," His father said.

It is unclear whether there is video footage of the shooting, as reports claim that the Carver County Sheriff's Office does not use body cameras-however, the scene may have been recorded by the dash camera on one of the squad cars.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) agency is already attempting to defend the unnamed officers responsible for Amorosi's death, by claiming that the deputies used a Taser on the teenager before two of them opened fire with their guns.
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Russia will expel football fans trying to enter Europe illegally from Russia


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:15 UTC
Russia football fan
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev
Foreign football fans who attempted to enter Europe through Russian territory with FIFA World Cup Fan IDs will be expelled from the country, Russian First Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandr Gorovoy said Monday.

"Foreign citizens who stayed legally in Russia with Fan IDs but tried to cross the border with Western countries via [Russia's] Kaliningrad, Murmansk and Leningrad regions will be expelled. They have violated their purpose of stay and will be expelled from Russia," Gorovoy said, adding that the majority of the individuals were citizens of Kenya, Morocco, and other African countries.

The Fan ID, a FIFA-issued identification card all match ticket holders needed to enter World Cup stadiums, replaced usually strict Russian visas. In late June, Finnish media reported that the country's authorities were looking at five asylum applications from people who arrived in Finland through Russia with Fan IDs.

Russia's first-ever FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 14 and came to a close on Sunday with 64 games played in 11 cities across the country.

Comment: See also: Putin orders Duma to submit bill allowing for visa-free travel during 2018 World Cup

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Flashback John Pilger in conversation with Julian Assange

John Pilger
johnpilger.com
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:50 UTC
Julian Assange 2010
An extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger's latest film The War You Don't See.

The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism.

Comment: See also:

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Chris Hedges: The war on Assange is a war on press freedom

Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Mr. Fish Assange
© Mr. Fish / Truthdig
The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion and arrest, is astonishing. The extradition of the publisher - the maniacal goal of the U.S. government - would set a legal precedent that would criminalize any journalistic oversight or investigation of the corporate state. It would turn leaks and whistleblowing into treason. It would shroud in total secrecy the actions of the ruling global elites. If Assange is extradited to the United States and sentenced, The New York Times, The Washington Post and every other media organization, no matter how tepid their coverage of the corporate state, would be subject to the same draconian censorship. Under the precedent set, Donald Trump's Supreme Court would enthusiastically uphold the arrest and imprisonment of any publisher, editor or reporter in the name of national security.

Comment: The fact that more people aren't up in arms and making a lot of noise about the injustice Assange is facing is simply tragic. Love him or hate him, an attack on Assange is really an attack on the free press (which is already on the verge of extinction).

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Murder suspect shoots 3 officers in Kansas City before being fatally shot in gunfight


RT
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:09 UTC
Crime scene
© Stephen Maturen / AFP
A murder suspect in Kansas City shot three police officers before he was fatally shot during a gunfight with other officers, according to local authorities.

The incident began when officers were conducting an investigation at the Sky-Vu Motel while seeking a person of interest in the death of Sharath Koppu, an Indian student at the University of Missouri, who was shot and killed after an unknown person opened fire during an attempted robbery at the restaurant where Koppu worked.

During that investigation, the officers encountered a suspect who fired on them with a rifle, Kansas City Police tweeted on Sunday. Two officers were struck but remain in stable condition.
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Passenger dragged along platform by moving train in shocking CCTV footage


RT
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 12:56 UTC
Man dragged by train
© Shivangi Thakur / Aaj Tak / Facebook
CCTV cameras caught the horrifying moment a passenger was dragged along a platform in India by a train that threatened to pull him under its wheels.

The young man was attempting to board a train at Panvel Station in Mumbai on Saturday, when he became stuck between the train's closing doors, according to the Times of India.
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SF Mayor: 'There's more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen'

Bigad Shaban, Robert Campos and Anthony Rutanashoodech
NBC
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:36 UTC
Homeless man in San Francisco
© Frederic J. Brown
San Francisco Mayor London Breed, in her first one-on-one interview since taking office, said homeless advocacy groups that receive funding from the city need to better educate the homeless to "clean up after themselves."

"I work hard to make sure your programs are funded for the purposes of trying to get these individuals help, and what I am asking you to do is work with your clients and ask them to at least have respect for the community - at least, clean up after themselves and show respect to one another and people in the neighborhood," Breed told the Investigative Unit, referencing her conversations with nonprofit groups aimed at serving the homeless.

When pressed about whether her plan calls for harsher penalties against those who litter or defecate on city streets, Breed said "I didn't express anything about a penalty." Instead, the mayor said she has encouraged nonprofits "to talk to their clients, who, unfortunately, were mostly responsible for the conditions of our streets."

Comment: See also: San Francisco is now a sh*thole: Logs over 16,000 feces complaints in one week

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Office rental business bans meat at company events and won't let employees expense meals that include meat because it's bad for the environment


Business Insider
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:03 UTC
WeWork is going vegetarian.
WeWork
© WeWork
In an email to about 6,000 employees on Friday, the $20 billion office rental company announced that it will no longer reimburse employees for meals that include red meat, poultry, or pork and will stop serving meat at company events.

Employees who need medical or religious allowances are being referred to the company's policy team.

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