[Breitbart] Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez has instructed county jails to comply with all federal immigration detainer requests on Thursday, only one day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities.
In 2016, the county ignored approximately 100 detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would have cost the county about $52,000 to implement, according to the Miami Herald.
According to a report from the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies, Miami-Dade County refused to honor 771 detainer requests from January 1, 2014, to September 30, 2015. That’s at least 871 illegal aliens allowed to remain in the U.S., including 575 with criminal records.
The mayor decided it made no financial sense to risk losing $355 million in federal funding during 2017 to protect illegal aliens with criminal records.
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The mayor decided it made no financial sense to risk losing $355 million in federal funding during 2017 to protect illegal aliens with criminal records.
Nothing personal, purely a business decision.
I know it sounds bizarre and please forgive me for asking Mr. Mayor, but were the funds as mentioned (provided by someone in Washington).... for the purpose of actually ESTABLISHING a sanctuary city environement ?
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but were the funds as mentioned (provided by someone in Washington).... for the purpose of actually ESTABLISHING a sanctuary city environement ?
Suspect that at least a portion were provided as a reward; certainly no legal/administrative review of existing funds were made during the past eight years.
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...and they have the timidity to hurl the vindictive Nazi or fascist at those who don't agree with them. Ah, but she's reformed - same could be said of Death Camp guards 40 or 50 years later. They're still hunting.
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No matter - she's blamed The Patriarchy and is therefore absolved of all sin and now has a nice paying gig playing The Victim
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Well, it was just a man. Not like it was anyone important or worthwhile.
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Yep and hey "he was just a homo anyway" Well - if anyone is wondering how to get a speaker's gig at the next Women's March - you have your playbook.
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Warning: This article written by a superior liberal who is butthurt because his cause lost the election despite the usual voter fraud. Expect lots of editorializing to numb the pain.
Sean Hannity looks at Donald Trump the way a golden retriever gazes at his master, with ardent longing and wet loyalty. The dog had his day on Thursday in an exclusive Second After David Muir And ABC News interview on Fox News's Hannity. When Trump said for the 500th time that the media is "hostile... angry... very dishonest," Hannity practically fell off his chair in his haste to give his assent: "I said journalism's dead, so we agree!" (Indeed, Hannity exists weeknights at 10 to prove its host's assertion.) A bit later, when the President brought up Iran, Sean chattered, "I actually agree with you wholeheartedly about the Iran deal." Going to a commercial, Hannity said, "Coming up, Donald Trump takes me inside the Oval Office" in a tone that made it sound as though his favorite uncle was about to sneak him onto the big-boy rollercoaster.
The hour-long interview was filled with Trump's uniquely revealing locutions. Talking about his recent speech at the CIA Memorial Wall: "I paid great homage to the wall with the stars," as though he was talking about a vertical version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. About the use of torture: "Waterboarding, I'm sure it's not pleasant." The Islamic State brought out the Jimmy Cagney in the President: "They're sneaky, dirty rats."
As always, the Commander in Chief is intensely interested in communicating to the American people his fervent positions on... show business figures. On Madonna and her loony women's-march comment about "blowing up the White House": "Honestly, she's disgusting, I think she hurt that whole..."‐his voice trailed off for just a second, so Hannity leapt in with the word "cause" just as Trump said, "...cause." See? They complete each other! Hannity also provided Trump with ample time to slap Saturday Night Live around. "It's a failing show, it's not funny. Alec Baldwin's a disaster, he's terrible on the show and, by the way, I don't mind some humor but it's terrible." Trump also brought up the unfunny, unkind tweet written by SNL writer Katie Rich, yet even here, Hannity sabotaged his own interview with incessant obsequiousness. Trump was summoning a mighty thunderbolt--"For them to attack, for NBC to attack my 10-year-old son..."--when Hannity cut in with, "He's a great kid, I met him!"
There have been reports that Trump gets his news primarily from Fox News. I guess this night Trump was sprawled in the White House, gazing at a TV screen and musing, "This guy playing the President is great, but who's this other guy who keeps interrupting? He's terrible! Very dishonest!"
A British daily recently put North Korea on the list of the world's 10 most dangerous countries to avoid this year, citing its various human rights violations.
The nine other countries are Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the Daily Express. The daily drew up the list based on the Global Peace Index (GPI), annually compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank based in Sydney.
"North Korea is listed as the least peaceful country in the Asia-Pacific area on the GPI," the daily said in its Jan. 18 edition.
The daily said, citing Amnesty International's 2016 report, "North Koreans continued to suffer denial and violations of almost every aspect of their human rights."
"Authorities continue to arbitrarily arrest and detain individuals without fair trial or access to lawyers and family, including nationals of South Korea," it said.
Little progress has been made in addressing cases of abductions and enforced disappearances of foreign nationals, it said.
Launched in 2007, the GPI measures each nation's peacefulness by gauging the levels of 23 factors such as violence, crime, military expenditures and wars.
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A young North Korean man conscripted to guard a customs post on his country's border with China in under arrest for shooting dead seven platoon members who had angered him with bullying treatment, RFA’s Korean Service has learned.
After the shootings at dawn on Jan. 7 at Hyesan, a city in North Korea’s northern Yanggang province, the young conscript was arrested and taken to Pyongyang, sources familiar with the shooting told RFA.
“The suspect and one platoon member who survived the shooting were transported to State Security headquarters in Pyongyang. There is no way to find out the exact cause of this incident, since the Yanggang authorities are trying to keep everyone’s mouth shut,” one source said on Jan. 14.
A second source, however, said the shooter apparently snapped after suffering bullying from his colleagues.
“The incident at the Hyesan customs office was caused by the frequent beatings suffered by the new conscripts at the hands of their superiors, and the one who committed the crime is a new conscript who graduated from high school last spring,” the source told RFA on Jan. 16.
North Korean authorities are trying to prevent the information from spreading to other parts of the country, the sources said.
No other information was immediately available about the shooting in Hyesan, a provincial administrative center of nearly 200,000 people that lies on the Yalu River, which forms North Korea’s border with China.
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It's never wise to rag on a guy who has a loaded firearm.
(Just sayin'...)
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[DeutscheWelle] The European Court of Human Rights has called on the complainants to exhaust legal avenues in Turkey before applying at the rights body. The court's president warned it could be "submerged" by the number of applications.
This seems the perfect opportunity to consolidate the cases into a classs action suit, which would mean only one trial at a great savings in judges, lawyers, and time.
The president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday announced that 5,363 cases filed by Turkish nationals have been lodged against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... over its crackdown in the wake of a failed coup last year.
The "massive influx" of applications against Turkey after July 15 increased by 276 percent compared to the year before, ECHR President Guido Raimondi said.
An additional 2,945 cases had been filed by Turkish nationals last year, although not directly linked to the aftermath of the failed coup, bringing the total to more than 8,000 applications to the European court.
In the wake of the coup, Turkey launched a crackdown against alleged supporters of exiled Turkish holy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , which targeted military officers as well as academics, journalists and academics.
More than 100,000 people have been suspended or fired from their jobs for alleged links to Gulen, who Ankara accused of orchestrating the putsch. Nearly 50,000 people have been placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! for alleged links to Gulen, according to authorities.
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The court last November rejected an application brought by a judge over her pre-trial detention, saying she failed to exhaust all legal routes within the country.
The complainants' "fears as to the impartiality of the Constitutional Court's judges did not in themselves relieve her of the obligation to lodge an application before the court," the European court said.
Raimondi encouraged the complainants to explore legal avenues available in Turkey, including the country's constitutional court, before applying to the ECHR.
"It is good to let the Turkish authorities do their job," Raimondi said, noting that failing to do so could lead the ECHR becoming "submerged by tens of thousands of cases."
Under Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , the country has witnessed relations with the EU falter due to widespread violations of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and freedom of speech.
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The Supreme Court of Greece on Jan. 26 rejected the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers who sought political asylum there after the failed July 2016 coup attempt, while issuing an arrest warrant in absentia, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. In addition, the court ordered that the officers – two commanders, four captains and two sergeants – be released from police custody.
The soldiers, who had previously and correctly stated that their life would be in jeopardy once extradited, will now await decisions on their asylum requests in the country.
Meanwhile, Zeki Arıtürk, a lawyer registered to the Istanbul Bar Association, told daily Hürriyet that the decision was final in legal terms while noting that the Greek Justice Ministry would have the last word as it could also extradite the soldiers.
The announcement of the final verdict had originally been slated for Jan. 23 but was later postponed to Jan. 26 when one of the judges had an accident while the other two did not convey a particular opinion on the soldiers’ extradition.
The decision came on the same day as senior Turkish and Greek diplomats gathered in Ankara to hold political consultations on bilateral ties.
The soldiers, including two majors, flew their helicopters to Alexandroupolis on July 16, 2016, prompting Greek authorities to begin legal and diplomatic processes on charges of illegal entry into the country.
In late July, a local Greek court sentenced the eight soldiers to two-month suspended prison terms for illegally entering the country. The case was then taken to the Greek top court after previous decisions to extradite three soldiers and not extradite the other five were contested.
Ankara had repeatedly demanded the swift extradition of the soldiers as the case had exposed often tense relations between Athens and Ankara, NATO allies at odds over issues from Cyprus to islets and air rights over the Aegean.
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New US Ambassador Nikki Haley strutted into the UN on Friday with a blunt message to American allies: "For those who don't have our backs, we're taking names."
The former South Carolina governor made the remark to reporters as she arrived at the world body's headquarters in Manhattan to present her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
"Our goal with the administration is to show value at the UN and the way that we'll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure that our allies have our back as well," she said.
"For those that don't have our back, we're taking names, we will make points to respond to that accordingly," President Trump's envoy said.
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The US pulling back from the UN reminds me of Animal Farm; but in this case the horse bolts before being sent to the knackers.
Israel appears to have enough gas to sell to Europe, but there are problems with the route, Bruce Pannier, US expert on Central Asia and energy issues, told Trend Jan.26.
“The Leviathan field, the biggest of several Israeli offshore fields, is estimated to contain at least 470 billion cubic meters of gas and is due to start production by 2019, and Israel already supplies about half of its electricity needs from the much smaller Tamar field. So, Israel will have extra gas to sell,” said the expert.
Nevertheless, Israel’s problem selling gas to Europe would be lack of a clear route, Pannier believes.
“The distance from Israel’s offshore fields to the Turkish mainland, and then on to Europe, would be an obstacle to building an underwater pipeline, not to mention the legal problems that could arise from other Mediterranean countries in the area – Lebanon, Syria, and Cyprus -- that might be concerned about environmental consequences,” he said.
Moreover, the expert pointed out that a land pipeline to Europe would have to cross Syria at some point and given the current situation in Syria, such a project does not seem possible at this time.
Good point...
Israel might be able to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe, but that would require time to construct the necessary facilities to liquefy the gas and build the port terminal facilities to load LNG, said Pannier.
And the expense is substantial.
The expert believes that a better bet for Israeli gas exports in the near future would be to Egypt and Jordan.
“Europe, like so many regions in the world, is anxious to diversify its sources for gas imports and would probably be glad for an opportunity to include Israeli gas. But as I mentioned, there is no good way to get Israeli gas to Europe at the moment, excepting the LNG option,” he added.
Earlier, senior officials from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Israel agreed to advance talks on a pipeline from Israel to Europe after an EU-sponsored study showed the project would be very feasible.
The study showed the pipeline, which would traverse Cyprus and Greece before reaching Italy, would cost about 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion).
A pipeline to Greece would have to go deep underwater and would be the world’s longest undersea connection, said Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. He said that the idea of exporting gas to Turkey, with which Israel has held talks about a pipeline, is still on the table.
“This would not be instead of Turkey,” he said. “I’ve always said we need at least two pipelines.”
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The expert believes that a better bet for Israeli gas exports in the near future would be to Egypt and Jordan.
Emphasis on near - because neither country, especially Jordan that is 80% Palestinians and 20% their Bedouin masters, is stable.
p.s. I don't really believe that Israel should become raw materials exporter.
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Wouldn't the euros boycott Juice gas, anyway? They'd rather buy Russian gas, or freeze to death in the dark.
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In some successful business models the provider doesn't deliver. Consumers go and pick up the product then render it to their purposes.
Groceries, gas stations, lumberyards, etc.
Why does Israel need to deliver anywhere?
The biggest cost driver on pizza is labor and maintenance for the delivery fleet.
[FREEBEACON] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... elevated the National Labor Relation Board’s lone Republican member to be chairman of the nation’s top labor arbiter after eight years of Democratic control.
The agency announced on Thursday that Philip Miscimarra would serve as acting chairman of the board, which oversees labor disputes as well as union elections. Miscimarra will replace former union attorney Mark Gaston Pearce as board chairman.
"I remain committed to the task that Congress has assigned to the Board, which is to foster stability and to apply the National Labor Relations Act in an even-handed manner that serves the interests of employees, employers and unions throughout the country," he said in a release.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez has instructed county jails to comply with all federal immigration detainer requests on Thursday, only one day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities.
The most dangerous hipster craze yet? San Francisco residents are now playing RUSSIAN ROULETTE with tasers in a trendy bar
A British daily recently put North Korea on the list of the world's 10 most dangerous countries to avoid this year, citing its various human rights violations.
Israel appears to have enough gas to sell to Europe, but there are problems with the route, Bruce Pannier, US expert on Central Asia and energy issues, told Trend Jan.26.
[FREEBEACON] President 
