[Press Democrat] LOS ANGELES -- For years, immigrants facing deportation have been allowed to stay in the U.S. provided they show up for regular check-ins with federal deportation agents and stay out of trouble. After a brief meeting, they're usually told to return months later to check in again.
Now, in cases spanning from Michigan to California, some of these immigrants are being told their time here is up.
Immigrants who already have deportation orders and were allowed to stay in the country under the prior administration have become a target under President Donald Trump's new immigration policies, with some getting arrested on the spot during check-ins with officers. Such arrests have dismayed family members and sent chills through immigrant communities.
In other instances, immigrants have been fitted with ankle-monitoring bracelets. Others have been released much like they were during President Barack Obama's administration in what immigration attorneys say appears to be a random series of decisions based more on detention space than public safety.
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Except those are not 'immigrants' or they would have documentation granting them 'immigrant' status. Since they don't they are in the US 'ILLEGALLY' - so they are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
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But the media and the progressives are unable to distinguish between illegal and legal immigrants. How can we educate them? Trumpify them?
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unwilling, not unable
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There is no such thing as an 'illegal' immigrant. If you are an immigrant - and have had that status granted to you, then you are legal. If you lose, or never had, that status you are *NOT* an immigrant but an illegal alien.
[Breitbart] A bipartisan group of powerful senators is asking the man believed to have helped ex-FBI Director James Comey leak his infamous "let this go" memo to the media to produce that memo for them.
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-DE) -- the chairs and ranking Democrats of the Senate Judiciary Committe and its National Security Subcommittee -- sent a letter Thursday to Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman demanding he provide them with the original memo he supposedly leaked to CNN on Comey’s say-so.
The letter calls the memo, reported to describe President Donald Trump telling Comey to go easy on former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, "relevant to the Judiciary Committee’s ongoing investigative efforts."
The letter also demanded all other memoranda Comey may have provided Richman, and gave him only until midnight Friday. Breitbart News cannot confirm or deny if Richman complied with the Senators’ demands.
Richman confirmed to multiple news outlets Thursday that he was the "friend" whom Comey enlisted to leak the memo to the press. This ended speculation that began immediately after Comey admitted under oath he had leaked the memo containing his account of conversations between himself and President Donald Trump. Comey claimed that his hope in doing so, immediately after he was fired, was to force the appointment of a special counsel, which has now come to pass in the person of Comey’s predecessor as head of the FBI, Robert Mueller.
Richman reportedly went into hiding after his name hit the national news and has not been seen in his Brooklyn neighborhood since. His disappearance from view as the request for the memo pends has raised questions about the memo, the validity of which Comey swore by in his Thursday tesitmony before the Senate Judiciary Committe.
Sharyl Attkisson, reporter for Full Measure News, tweeted her skepticism in light of these developments, including Comey’s own testimony that he no longer has an original copy himself.
[Wash Times] Adam West, the actor who portrayed Batman and the superhero’s alter ego, Bruce Wayne, on television and movie screens in the 1960s, passed away Friday following a short battle with leukemia, a family spokesperson said. He was 88.
West died peacefully Friday night in Los Angeles surrounded by his family, a representative told The Hollywood Reporter early Saturday.
"A true American icon and beloved father and husband, he will be dearly missed by his family, friends, and millions of fans around the world," the spokesperson said.
"Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives. He was and always will be our hero," West’s family said in a statement.
[RT] The New York Supreme Court has rejected a claim by an advocacy group that two chimpanzees held in captivity should be treated like legal persons and granted the right of habeas corpus – relief from unlawful imprisonment.
The Nonhuman Rights Project and its president, Steven Wise, sought habeas corpus relief for Tommy and Kiko, two chimpanzees held in cages by private owners in upstate New York, and argued that chimpanzees were entitled to many of the same legal rights as humans.
Five judges on the Appellate Division of the state’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the group on Thursday. Any shared abilities the chimpanzees may have with humans do not translate to their ability to be held legally accountable for their actions, Justice Troy Webber wrote in the decision.
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There is a Hebrew expression "I don't know if you're dumb/crazy or pretending"
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In the post-modern era, it ought to be sufficient that they "identify" as "human" in order to have "rights" (whatever these words are supposed to mean nowadays).
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Chimpanzee. AK47. LOL.
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But but but but these chimps "identify" as being human.
[RT] The Conservatives and the DUP won’t form a formal coalition government but the latter will support the government regardless.
"We want there to be a government. We have worked well with May. The alternative is intolerable. For as long as Corbyn leads Labour, we will ensure there’s a Tory PM," a DUP source was cited as saying in by the Guardian.
The party is the creation of firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Protestant Evangelical Minister Ian Paisley. Reverend Paisley also founded the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was characterized by his entrenched Unionist views and his hostile opposition to the Catholic Church.
In its early years, the party was heavily involved in a campaign against homosexuality and fiercely opposed gay rights.
Paisley, who was famed for his extraordinarily fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches, routinely preached against homosexuality and the party picketed gay rights events as part of their ’Save Ulster from Sodomy’ campaign.
The campaign was ultimately unsuccessful as homosexuality was decriminalized in 1982.
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[WSJ] By Henry F. Cooper June 8, 2017 6:29 p.m. ET
Conventional wisdom holds that it will be years before North Korea can credibly threaten the United States with a nuclear attack. Kim Jong Un’s scientists are still testing only low-yield nuclear weapons, the thinking goes, and have yet to place them on ballistic missiles capable of reaching America’s West Coast.
While its technological shortcomings have been well documented, North Korea’s desire to provoke a nuclear conflict with the U.S. should not be minimized or ignored. Pyongyang is surely close to getting it right.
For South Korea the danger is more immediate. According to physicist David Albright, the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, the North Koreans have between 13 and 30 nuclear weapons and can build as many as five more every year. If Mr. Kim were to detonate one of these bombs in the atmosphere 40 miles above Seoul, it could inflict catastrophic damage on South Korea’s electric power grid, leading to a prolonged blackout that could have deadly consequences.
The United States has 28,500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in South Korea stationed below the 38th parallel--and more at sea nearby. An electromagnetic pulse attack on South Korea could play havoc with America’s ability to mount an effective response to North Korean aggression. One hopes the troops manning the two already-deployed batteries of the Thaad ballistic-missile defense system are prepared for such a scenario (in a concession to China, the newly elected South Korean government suspended this week the deployment of four additional launchers).
In 2001 Congress established a commission to study the danger of an electromagnetic pulse generated by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon. It concluded that while there would be no blast effects on the ground, critical electricity-dependent infrastructure could be rendered inoperable. The commission’s chairman, William R. Graham, has noted that several Russian generals told the commissioners in 2004 that the designs for a "super EMP nuclear weapon" had been transferred to North Korea.
Pyongyang, the Russian generals reported, was probably only a few years away from developing super EMP capability. According to Peter Vincent Pry, staff director of the congressional EMP commission, a recent North Korean medium-range missile test that was widely reported to have exploded midflight could in fact have been deliberately detonated at an altitude of 40 miles.
Was it a dry run for an EMP attack? Detonation at that altitude of a nuclear warhead with a yield of 10 to 20 kilotons--similar to those tested by North Korea--would produce major EMP effects and inflict catastrophic damage to unhardened electronics across hundreds of miles of surface territory. It is a myth that large yield nuclear weapons of hundreds of kilotons are required to produce such effects.
Although some analysts have dismissed the possibility of a successful North Korean EMP attack--either on South Korea or the United States--several factors could make it a more appealing first-strike strategy for Kim Jong Un’s nuclear scientists than a direct, missile-delivered nuclear strike. For one thing, accuracy is not a concern; the North Koreans simply need to get near their target to sow chaos. Nor would they need to worry about developing a reliable re-entry vehicle for their ballistic missiles.
Conventional wisdom aside, a North Korean EMP attack on the U.S. may also not be far-fetched. "North Korea could make an EMP attack against the United States by launching a short-range missile off a freighter or submarine or by lofting a warhead to 30 kilometers burst height by balloon," wrote Mr. Graham earlier this month on the security blog 38 North. "Even a balloon-lofted warhead detonated at 30 kilometers altitude could blackout the Eastern Grid that supports most of the population and generates 75 percent of US electricity. Moreover, an EMP attack could be made by a North Korean satellite." Two North Korean satellites currently orbit the earth on trajectories that take them over the U.S.
This is not mere theory. In 1962 the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead over the South Pacific, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii. Designated "Starfish Prime," the blast destroyed hundreds of street lights in Honolulu, caused electrical surges on airplanes in the area, and damaged at least six satellites. Only Hawaii’s undeveloped electric power-transmission infrastructure prevented a prolonged blackout. It was the era of vacuum-tube electronics. We are living in the digital age.
The U.S. and South Korea should ensure their ballistic-missile defenses are effective and harden their electric power grids against EMP effects as soon as possible. The day of reckoning could come sooner than anyone in either country thinks.
Mr. Cooper was the U.S. ambassador to the Defense and Space Talks during the Reagan administration and director of the Strategic Defense Initiative during the George H.W. Bush administration.
[RT] Verizon is expected to lay off around 2,100 workers after concluding its acquisition of Yahoo. The cuts will come from duplicate jobs in its AOL unit which will be combined with Yahoo to form a new company called Oath.
Verizon is expected to cut more than 2,000 jobs as a result of its $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo, according to reports from Rooters and TechCrunch on Thursday. A day earlier, Recode reported that sources said only up to 1,000 jobs would be lost.
Verizon will combine its Yahoo unit with its AOL unit, which it acquired in 2015 for $4.4 billion. The new company will be rebranded as Oath and will be led by AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong, according to Rooters.
"Oath’s strategy is to lead the global brand space. With access to over 1 billion consumers upon close, we will be positioned to drive one of the most important platforms in the consumer brand space. Consistent with what we have said since the deal was announced, we will be aligning our global organization to the strategy," an AOL spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Verizon is expected to downsize staff at their AOL and Yahoo units by around 15 percent once the merger is finalized. Around 14,000 employees currently work at the two units, according to Rooters.
The merger between the two companies is expected to create redundancies in several departments, such as human resources, finance, marketing and general administration, according to Recode.
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[Wash Times] President Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser Jared Kushner and special counsel Robert Mueller, head of the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, are expected to soon meet with Senate Intelligence Committee, according to various sources and published reports.
When Mr. Kushner will gather with committee members has not been confirmed,NBC News reported Friday.
Mr. Kushner will reportedly provide the committee with documents it has requested, in addition to facing questions from senators.
Mr. Kushner is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka and ran the Trump campaign’s digital voter outreach strategy. He has come under increasing scrutiny for contacts he allegedly had with business interests tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin before Mr. Trump was inaugurated in January.
Mr. Mueller, who was appointed last month, will meet with committee Chairman Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, and ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, according to committee staff. No specific date has been set.
[USA Today] Obesity and inactivity could someday account for more cancer deaths than smoking if current trends continue, a leading cancer expert says.
As the rate of smoking decreases, other unhealthy habits threaten to offset the progress in reducing cancer deaths, says Richard Wender, a physician and chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer Society (ACS). A study in the New England Journal of Medicine last fall found 13 types of cancer were linked to excess body weight.
There's no guarantee that obesity and inactivity will surpass smoking as a cancer cause, Wender says, but the possibility is startling.
"Who would’ve thought we’d ever see the day where what you eat (and) exercise, could account for more cancer deaths than smoking?" he asks.
The connections between smoking and too much exposure to the sun and cancer are well known, but the connections between nutrition and exercise and cancer are less known and harder to determine.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works recently divulged some information about the SR-72 program to build a successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft. The advanced aircraft development division of Lockheed Martin told Aviation Week that hypersonic technologies, including a combined cycle propulsion system that merges a supersonic jet engine with a rocket engine, have advanced to the point that work on the planned SR-72 can begin in earnest. On paper, the SR-72 will be a strike and reconnaissance aircraft capable of topping Mach 6. Just imagine what video/photo tech can do by the time this is actually up and flying!
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Nothing about pilot requirements. Oh, never mind.
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It's not an SR-71. They just call it an SR-72 to pretend it's the son of the SR-71 to make me happy. The idea of killing the SR-71 program politically motivated and therefore fools' spawn. Those who participated in its demise should be condemned to live in Detroit. The SR-72 is not worthy of carrying the SR-71's very large jockstrap.
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We would be two steps forward with the F-22 - it used the same system and it is a problem.
But F-22 are holding everything together right now.
I also see the idiot airforce want tos still can the A-10. Could we please give that project to the Army with it's funding.
I AM very angry to have to see this every quarter when there is no replacement.
Also, Does anyone see a problem with putting the U.S. Coast Guard under the DOD - without same Legal Restrictions (Posse Comitatus) -
At least that way, maybe I could get two New F$%&*ng Ice breakers I have been bitching about for a Decade.
The training is the same but having a Coast Guard with more leverage could be an asset to the way Russia and China especially have enlarged their reach over the seas.
Considering the Russians new found elevated interest in routing over the North Pole, would it not be prudent that Our Coast Guard have the dual authority and the correct chain to use it;
Seeing as these other "Strategic Competitors are going to be using their blue flag fleets as well?
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Also, the POS Airforce wants to junk the A-10 for a new junk B2 which will be co un-necessary. Every new car in the show room, the Airforce wants to buy and shut everything else out.
And Congress is aiding bad behavior. They want aerial aircraft carriers with drone swarms.
One hit takes that out, or a hack.
I think more about Ravens and Erik Prince and his cheap army of tiny aircraft.
He can dig US out of many problems were you to stop bending him over every time he does something good for the US Government.
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.
[Press Democrat] LOS ANGELES -- For years, immigrants facing deportation have been allowed to stay in the U.S. provided they show up for regular check-ins with federal deportation agents and stay out of trouble. After a brief meeting, they're usually told to return months later to check in again.
[RT] The New York Supreme Court has rejected a claim by an advocacy group that two chimpanzees held in captivity should be treated like legal persons and granted the right of habeas corpus – relief from unlawful imprisonment.
[RT] Verizon is expected to lay off around 2,100 workers after concluding its acquisition of Yahoo. The cuts will come from duplicate jobs in its AOL unit which will be combined with Yahoo to form a new company called Oath.
[USA Today] Obesity and inactivity could someday account for more cancer deaths than smoking if current trends continue, a leading cancer expert says.
