[Townhall] In a really strange turn of events, it has been discovered that bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc worked at Ultra Gentleman's Club in West Palm Beach, FL, the same strip club that Stormy Daniels performed at back in April, WPTV reported.
Sayoc worked as a DJ at the club on Thursday afternoon and was arrested on Friday.
According to the club's manager, Stacey Saccal, Sayoc had worked as a DJ for the past two months. She had received no complaints about him from other staff members and he seemed like a "nice guy."
"I never knew that his van was covered in political stickers. I thought it was an ice cream truck," Saccal told WPTV, noting that he parked far from the club.
[RT] Rapper Theodore Jones – better known as ‘Young Greatness’ – has been shot and killed outside of a Waffle House in his hometown of New Orleans, according to local media reports. He was 34-years-old. Now known as "Young Deadness."
The shooting occurred at around 1:35 am on Monday, with first responders pronouncing Jones dead on the scene. "He's dead, Jim!"
He was found with a single gunshot wound, according to authorities cited by media. "Yep. Between the eyes. That'll do it!"
The Louisiana native rose to prominence after his 2015 hit “Moolah.” The song’s music video has been watched more than 30 million times on YouTube. "[Sniff!] Watch it again, Sam!"
Jones’ car was reportedly also stolen. New Orleans police say they are currently looking for two suspects. "We think one's the driver and one's the passenger!"
Friend and fellow rapper P Town Moe told local media that he was shocked that Jones had been the target of such violence. "Dat's right! 'm shocked! Shocked!"
“Dude wasn't into nothing but his music and his daughter … Wasn't into nothing else man.” "Now he's into a hole inna ground!"
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After watching part of the clip at the link, I'd be looking at local music critics.
I love Louisiana, but New Orleans is one messed up place.
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Remember the differently numbered,
Our friends with one bod unencumbered!
Their brush with Young Greatness
In dreads, styled "His Lateness,"
Ends, "Siamese? Please!" as he slumbered.
[WKBW] Notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger has been found dead after being transferred to a prison in West Virginia, multiple federal officials tell @NBCNews ‐ @PeteWilliamsNBC
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[Boston.CBSLocal] Buffalo Bills fans have some unique traditions. Their penchant for throwing each other through folding tables in parking lots is well known around the world, but in recent years, they’ve added a new practice whenever the Patriots come to town. Perhaps Bills fans would like to see the game played differently?
That tradition? Throwing a sex toy onto the field during games against the Patriots. Maybe the Pats should start a new tradition of throwing it back into the stands. Might need to get one of the Bisons to do that if the toy doesn't have laces.
It began in 2016, happened again in 2017, and sure enough, with the Bills hosting Monday Night Football on national TV, it happened again in 2018.
Clearly, the threat of a lifetime ban that was put out as a warning in 2016 has not slowed down the production from Buffalo’s strong-armed rubber hurlers, because the tradition has now lived on for another year.
The throw into the end zone wasn’t even the first sex toy toss of the night, as an earlier attempt came up a bit short.
Weird stuff happens when the Patriots visit the Bills. This ritual ranks among the weirdest. I personally can't think of anything weirder, but I'm sure Bills fans will come up with something.
China reverses 25-year ban on trade and use of rhino horns and tiger bones, alarming conservationists
Beijing says scientific and medical uses for such materials are now permitted
World Wildlife Fund condemns move, saying it will ‘have devastating consequences globally’.
China is allowing scientific and medical uses of tiger bone and rhinoceros horn, after banning such uses and trade in the materials for 25 years, the government announced on Monday.
“Under special circumstances, trading or using of tiger bone, rhino horn or any products containing them should apply for permission,” China’s cabinet, the State Council, said on Monday.
The move was immediately condemned by the conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
“It is deeply concerning that China has reversed its 25-year-old tiger bone and rhino horn ban, allowing a trade that will have devastating consequences globally”, Margaret Kinnaird, WWF’s wildlife practice leader, said in a statement on Monday.
“The resumption of a legal market for these products is an enormous setback to efforts to protect tigers and rhinos in the wild.”
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The way to protect these animals is to make trade in their products legal. Let the farmers handle it! Only once you ban it altogether does it make financial sense to risk your life poaching.
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Beijing says scientific and medical uses for such materials are now permitted
Much like Japan and whaling
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Then again those "materials" have traditionally been used as aphrodisiacs and the mainland Chinese are worried about their declining birth rate. " "Dang it honorable grandfather is trying to bonk the maid again. "
[RT] It was only supposed to be a pit stop, but some 7,000 US troops taking part in mass NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... drills nonetheless managed to deplete some bars and restaurants, in Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, of all their beer, according to local media.
The troops stopped in Iceland over the weekend while on their way to Sweden and Finland for a 300,000-strong NATO exercise. In total, some 50,000 of the forces participating are US troops.
But, apparently unconcerned about moderating their intake of booze just before Trident Juncture 18, thought to be NATO’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War, the troops plunged several bars in downtown Reykjavik into a state of emergency as they went nuts on their beer.
US soldiers were not satisfied with just any beer and specifically requested the local one. So, Brewery Olgerð Egils Skallagrimssonar, which makes the popular Icelandic Gull, had to send emergency supplies to various bars, according to local news site Visir.
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Iceland apparently lacks a G2 and a G4. Too bad. How did they support Keflavik, back in the day?
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I remember the time when Pan and I drank the hotel bar out of JD.
I think it was JD.
It might have been Pan.
We were in a bar.
It might have been a hotel, or we slept on the floor.
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During World War 2 an Army medic on a Pacific island radioed " I've got a bad case of Beri-Beri. What should I do ? , " Give it to the Marines. They'll drink anything. "
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Iceland ended their prohibition about the same time as the US -but not for beer. Beer was illegal up to the 1980s. Production remained very small - and low quality. Things began to turn around with the craft beer trend but production still lags. They actually had to relearn how to make beer.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-- Frank Zappa
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I tried Gull when I was in Iceland...it was meh. On par with coors. They need to import some good german brewmasters or maybe talk to Shiner if they prefer lighter beers.
I don't remember them drinking alot of beer anyway.
IMDB: ... the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.
[RT] Seven people has been hospitalized after a shooting at a nightclub in Riverside, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. The club was hosting a party inspired by ’The Purge’ horror franchise, local media reported.
"People started falling to the ground, and I thought people were fighting or dancing at first," a witness of the shooting told CBS Los Angeles. "I heard automatic gunshots, there was like 10 in a row."
The police received a distress call after midnight on Monday. Arriving at the scene, the officers picked up two people with gunshot wounds who were then hospitalized. Another five people, also shot at the venue, had later checked in at different hospitals seeking medical treatment, Riverside Police Department said in a statement.
Two more people were hurt in a stampede which began as the shots were fired. According to police, none of the injuries were life-threatening.
An investigation has been launched. It is not yet clear what was the motive behind the crime, or who the perpetrator is.
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[PULSE.NG] Activists in Equatorial Guinea alleged Monday that plainclothes security forces snatched and beat up the head of their human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and development organization at the weekend.
Alfredo Okenve was "sequestered... (and) mistreated by security forces wearing civilian clothes", the Centre for Studies and Initiatives for the Development of Equatorial Guinea (CEID-GE) said in a statement.
A relative of Okenve's, Analeto Medja, told AFP: "He was taking his brother to the airport. Four people stopped his car and forced him at gunpoint to get into theirs. They took him to some wasteland and beat him hard until he was bleeding, then they left him there."
Residents close to the scene took Okenve to a hospital in Bata, Equatorial Guinea's economic capital on Africa's Atlantic seaboard, Medja and other family members said.
The oil-rich country's political capital is Malabo on the island of Bioko, lying off the coast of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... to the northwest of the mainland and its dense tropical forests.
The identity of the men in civilian clothes who attacked Okenve was unclear on Monday, but carrying firearms is tightly controlled by the iron-fisted regime of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in power since 1979.
The affair was being followed widely on social networks on Monday, but there was no official reaction.
CEID-GE said it would file a formal complaint, denouncing the harassment of civil society in the former Spanish colony.
Okenve was placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and detained for several days in April 2017 for celebrating the 20th anniversary of the CEID-GE. He was released after a bail payment of two million CFA francs (about 3,000 euros, nearly $3,500).
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[All Africa] Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra Nnamdi Kanu has said that he was granted conditional bail to be "caged" along with the secessionist group. Kanu is facing trial for alleged treason and was granted bail in April 2017.
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[Al Jazeera] Gabon's Hereditary President-forLife Ali Bongo has been hospitalised in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... with fatigue, his office said.
Bongo was admitted to hospital last week because of "severe fatigue", government spokesperson Ike Ngouoni said in a statement on Sunday, while sources told Rooters news agency that he had suffered a stroke.
The Gabonese president was still under observation on Monday at the King Faisal hospital in Riyadh, where he was taken on October 24.
A medical and a diplomatic source both told Rooters that the president suffered a stroke.
Ngouoni, however, denied this and said that Bongo instead had "severe fatigue" due to months of strenuous work.
Bongo is feeling better and has been told to rest, Ngouoni added, while calling for "vigilance" against "fake news" following false reports of his death.
A Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... TV station had announced live on air on Saturday that the Gabon president had died, without providing any evidence, he said.
The 59-year-old president was in Saudi Arabia to attend the Future Investment Initiative conference where he was scheduled to speak alongside other African leaders but was not seen during the discussion.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... visited him in the hospital that evening, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Thursday.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... in a separate dispatch, SPA said Bongo attended a speech by bin Salman at the conference on Wednesday.
Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich central African nation for nearly half a century, has been president since succeeding his father Omar in 2009.
He narrowly won re-election in 2016 in a poll that the opposition claimed was marred by fraud.
Mass protests broke out, during which the national parliament was gutted by fire.
The country went to the polls this month for the first time since that vote, with the second round of legislative elections on Saturday seeing Bongo's party coasting towards victory.
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[Washington Examiner] Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned Mexico that their trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada may be in jeopardy if the country doesn’t help Trump stymie a caravan of migrants from Central America who are headed to the U.S.
"To our friends in Mexico, if you don’t help Trump stop this caravan, you’re going to pay a price in Congress when it comes to this trade deal," Graham told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday evening.
Congress has yet to vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The new deal offers adjustments such as requiring 75 percent of a car's components to be made in North America in order to be exempt from tariffs.
Congress has 60 days to approve the deal after it has been officially signed, which is expected to occur later next month. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, has indicated that Congress may not address the legislation until 2019.
The Trump administration announced Monday that 5,200 troops will be U.S.-Mexican border before the caravan of thousands of migrants arrives. The troops are expected to assist with engineering projects, and constructing temporary barriers and fencing, among other tasks, but not U.S. immigration law enforcement.
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P2K, your comment #2 was perfectly clear. Presumes the worms cooperate though. They might have scruples, or better taste.
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You'd think the added troops and presence on the border would harm cartel traffic. They have an incentive to stop this as well to turn down the temp
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Procopius2K, spot on. The best thing that happened to Lindsey Graham and the GOP in the Senate, in general, is McCain finally dying. Rest in hell McCain.
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Lessons should be drawn from the poorly executed US$4 billion Addis Ababa-Djibouti freight railway, warns head of China’s export credit insurer
Planning behind many China-led projects abroad has been ‘downright inadequate’ and costly.
The planning behind many of China’s major infrastructure projects abroad has been “downright inadequate”, leading to huge financial losses, according to the head of the country’s state export credit insurer.
Wang Wen, of China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, known as Sinosure, said Chinese developers and financiers of projects in developing nations supported by Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative” need to step up their risk management to avoid disaster.
He cited the mistakes of a major railway project in Africa that has cost Sinosure close to US$1 billion in losses, according to its chief economist.
Lessons should be drawn from the poorly executed US$4 billion Addis Ababa-Djibouti freight railway that was inaugurated early this year but has already had to restructure its debt because of underuse caused by power shortages, Wang told a belt and road infrastructure financing forum in Hong Kong earlier this month.
“Ethiopia’s planning capabilities are lacking, but even with the help of Sinosure and the lending Chinese bank it was still insufficient.”
He said other China-backed projects plagued by poor preparation have included sugar refineries that have lacked a supply of sugar beet, and underused railways in Latin America.
His comments were a stark reminder to Hong Kong financiers and investors at the forum looking to tap belt and road opportunities of the risks of backing projects in developing nations.
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Is there something wrong with building actual roads & highways?
Assuming or provisioning road use for everyone to have a vehicle is egalitarian. When the government (et. al.) own the trains they can control who does and doesn't travel and when they own the rails, where.
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Part of the problem may be the limitations of centralized planning, and part may be overestimating the infrastructure--believing the press releases.
"because of underuse caused by power shortages"
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they make amazing stuff, like the new "longest bridge in the world", pretty cool.... only problem.....made in China
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‘Prepare for war’, Xi Jinping tells military region that monitors South China Sea, Taiwan
China must ‘take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly’, Xi says on visit to Southern Theatre Command
Military region has had to bear a ‘heavy military responsibility’ in recent years, he says.
China’s President Xi Jinping has ordered the military region responsible for monitoring the South China Sea and Taiwan to assess the situation it is facing and boost its capabilities so it can handle any emergency.
The Southern Theatre Command has had to bear a “heavy military responsibility” in recent years, state broadcaster CCTV quoted him as saying during an inspection tour made on Thursday as part of his visit to Guangdong province.
“It’s necessary to strengthen the mission … and concentrate preparations for fighting a war,” Xi said. “We need to take all complex situations into consideration and make emergency plans accordingly.
“We have to step up combat readiness exercises, joint exercises and confrontational exercises to enhance servicemen’s capabilities and preparation for war.”
One of the primary missions of the Southern Theatre Command is overseeing the South China Sea, an area where tensions and military activity involving China, the US and other powers have been growing steadily.
Earlier this month, a Chinese destroyer almost collided with a US warship in the disputed waters after making what the Americans described as an “unsafe and unprofessional” manoeuvre in an attempt to warn it to leave the area.
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I think the jist of the article is that Trump's actions on trade, stealing intellectual property, and the south china sea bruhaha that China has created is getting to Xi and Co.
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[DAWN] Army authorities have sought the case record of a young maid who was allegedly tortured by her employers ‐ a woman serving with the army and her husband, a private doctor.
The victim is likely to be interviewed by the army authorities within the next two days.
The doctor, who has been on an interim bail till Oct 29, on Sunday has been included in the investigation. He has to appear before the additional district and sessions judge for the confirmation of his bail on Monday.
The army official, who has been nominated as the prime suspect in the FIR registered with the Airport police on the complaint of the Child Protection Bureau, is working as a computer information technology officer at the army headquarters. Her case has been sent to the army authorities for further proceeding.
When contacted, Aamir Khan, the station house officer (SHO) of Airport police, told Dawn that they were still waiting for the medico-legal report of the maid to proceed further. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the army authorities are investigating the suspect and have sought details of the case from the police, he added.
The SHO said though the doctor did not admit to abusing the maid; he did say they used to taunt her whenever she went out of the house and once when she slipped down the stairs.
The 11-year-old maid has been kept with the Child Protection Bureau after she was brought back to Rawalpindi from her native town of Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... Initially, three cuts with a blunt weapon were found on the victim’s head besides multiple bruises on other parts of her body. After she complained of a severe pain in her left arm, a medical examination was conducted on her body, including consultancy with a neurologist. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the police are still waiting for the medico-legal report.
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[DAWN] Two Rescue 1122 workers have been suspended over their alleged involvement in the suspected sexual assault of a Sikh teenage girl at Nankana Sahib on October 27, a district emergency officer said on Monday.
The officer, Akram Panwaar, said that a high-level committee has also been created to investigate the incident and once the crime was proven, strong departmental action would be taken against the rescue officials.
According to the medico-legal examination report, no tears, bruises or laceration were found in the examination of the victims body. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the girl will be taken to Lahore today for further tests.
The results of the tests will arrive in a minimum time frame of two months, said Investigative Officer Basharat Ali, adding that the suspects would be kept in jug on physical remand for further investigation.
According to the first information report (FIR) registered with the City Nankana Sahib police by the victim’s family, the 15-year-old girl, who was also mentally challenged, went missing on Sunday.
The family looked for her everywhere but found no trace.
At around 1:30am, the family members of the girl found a Rescue 1122 ambulance parked by the roadside for long time which looked suspicious. When probed further, the found both the suspects committing the crime with their daughter.
The FIR added that when the victim's family made noise, the suspects drove the ambulance away, threw the victim near a sugar mill on Nankana Road and escaped.
A spokesperson for the district police on Monday said that the suspects had been locked away You have the right to remain silent... after a case was registered against them in the City cop shoppe.
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[Al Jazeera] Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has come under increased pressure to allow politicians resolve a power struggle with his sacked prime minister, amid warnings that the country's deepening political crisis could devolve into a "bloodbath".
The concern over possible violence came on Monday as politicians loyal to removed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe called on their supporters to converge on Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, to protest against what they said was a coup by Sirisena.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya urged the president to let Wickremesinghe prove his majority support on the parliament floor. "If we take it out to the streets, there will be a huge bloodbath," he told a news conference.
Referring to the death of one man when the bodyguard of one of Wickremesinghe's deposed ministers opened fire on a crowd at the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on Sunday, Jayasuriya added: "There is unrest and foreign countries are issuing travel warnings.
"This will set the country back on the international stage and damage our economy."
Police on Monday took the dismissed minister, Arjuna Ranatunga, into custody after workers at the CPC threatened to strike, demanding his arrest over their colleague's killing. He was released hours later.
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[USAToday] More than half of the nation's immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that's far higher than the native-born population's, according to a report to be released Wednesday. I still remember all the leftist poo-pooing this notion a few years ago. Nevermind California is so far in the hole it has gone out the other side of the earth with its budget deficit on this. Study will be declared racist in 5 minutes.
About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one kind of welfare benefit, including Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and housing assistance, compared to 30% for native-led households, according to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower levels of immigration.
Those numbers increase for households with children, with 76% of immigrant-led households receiving welfare, compared to 52% for the native-born.
The findings are sure to fuel debate on the presidential campaign trail as Republican candidates focus on changing the nation's immigration laws, from calls for mass deportations to ending birthright citizenship.
Steven Camarota, director of research at the center and author of the report, said that's a much-needed conversation to make the country's immigration system more "selective." Hell, just enforce the current laws and punish businesses that hire illegals with heavy fines that can put them out of business. Would end a lot of this bullshit right away.
"This should not be understood as some kind of defect or moral failing on the part of immigrants," Camarota said about the findings. "Rather, what it represents is a system that allows a lot of less-educated immigrants to settle in the country, who then earn modest wages and are eligible for a very generous welfare system."
Linda Chavez agrees with Camarota that the country's welfare system is too large and too costly. But Chavez, a self-professed conservative who worked in President Reagan's administration, said it's irresponsible to say immigrants are taking advantage of the country's welfare system any more than native-born Americans.
Chavez said today's immigrants, like all other immigrant waves in the country's history, start off poorer and have lower levels of education, making it unfair to compare their welfare use to the long-established native-born population. She said immigrants have larger households, making it more likely that one person in that household will receive some kind of welfare benefit. And she said many benefits counted in the study are going to U.S.-born children of immigrants, skewing the findings even more.
"When you take all of those issues into account, (the report) is less worrisome," she said.
Chavez, president of the Becoming American Institute, a conservative group that advocates for higher levels of legal immigration to reduce illegal immigration, said politicians should be careful about using the data. Rather than focus on the fact that immigrants are initially more dependent on welfare than the U.S.-born, she said they should focus on studies that show what happens to the children of those immigrants.
"These kids who get subsidized school lunches today will go on to graduate high school ... will go on to college and move up to the middle class of America," Chavez said. "Every time we have a nativist backlash in our history, we forget that we see immigrants change very rapidly in the second generation."
Much of Trump immigration plan not 'radical' in GOP circles
The center's report is based on 2012 data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation. It includes immigrants who have become naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, those on short-term visas and undocumented immigrants.
Camarota said one of the most shocking findings from the report was the high number of native-born Americans also on welfare. About 76% of immigrant households with children are on welfare, but so are 52% of native-born households with children.
"Most people have a sense that if you were to work for $10 an hour, 40 hours a week, you couldn't be receiving welfare, could you? You couldn't be living in public housing, could you?" he said. "The answer is yes, you can. That's one of the most surprising things about this study."
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How do you define 'immigrant'. The current trend, unfortunately for legal immigrants, is the include illegal aliens (who are not immigrations) as 'immigrants' because it supports certain narratives.
My assumption is that they included illegal aliens in that number of 'immigrants on welfare'.
Let's see the numbers for 'legal immigrants' verses 'illegal aliens' - and I'll bet the numbers are far different.
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It would be hard to do, but might be interesting, to study what happens with the second generation.
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but might be interesting, to study what happens with the second generation.
Purely anecdotal, but the impression I had living in Houston was when Central American immigrants (legal or otherwise) first arrived, they were solid Democrats due to the free stuff. After they got some skin in the game, like a job and started paying taxes, they tended to drift Republican.
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
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[RT] Rapper Theodore Jones – better known as ‘Young Greatness’ – has been shot and killed outside of a Waffle House in his hometown of New Orleans, according to local media reports. He was 34-years-old.
[Boston.CBSLocal] Buffalo Bills fans have some unique traditions. Their penchant for throwing each other through folding tables in parking lots is well known around the world, but in recent years, they’ve added a new practice whenever the Patriots come to town.
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
[Washington Examiner] Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned Mexico that their trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada may be in jeopardy if the country doesn’t help Trump stymie a caravan of migrants from Central America who are headed to the U.S.
[USAToday] More than half of the nation's immigrants receive some kind of government welfare, a figure that's far higher than the native-born population's, according to a report to be released Wednesday.
