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The NYPD graduated a diverse class of rookie officers Monday.

Minorities make up more than half of the more than 600 who graduated from the police academy and nearly 20 percent are women.

The new officers are from 47 different countries.    Continue reading “NYPD’s Graduates Diverse Class of Officers”

Truth Out – by Michelle Tullo

Washington – Rights advocates and lawmakers are expressing increased concern over the United States’ handling of the sudden influx of tens of thousands of undocumented child and female migrants from Central America.

Last week, President Barack Obama announced that military bases would be converted to detention centres to house the nearly 50,000 unaccompanied minors that have arrived at the southern U.S. border in recent months. Recent data says some 3,000 are being apprehended daily, though the reasons for their arrival remain debated.   Continue reading “US Reaction to New Immigrant Influx Could Violate International Law”

WTSP New 10

(CBS News) News that the President Obama isseeking more than $2 billion to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming across the southern border is widely seen as a welcome sign for the overburdened border patrol agents and workers tasked with caring for the children once they come into U.S. custody.

But the president’s plan to ask Congress to grant more authority to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to speed up the removal of unaccompanied minors who might not be eligible to remain in the U.S. has spread alarm among advocates for the children.   Continue reading “Obama’s illegal immigration plan alarms migrant children’s advocates”

AOL – by Jim Kuhnhenn and Erica Werner

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of an unyielding Congress, President Barack Obama said Monday he will no longer wait for Republicans to act on immigration and will move on his own to make policy changes in what has been a top second-term priority of his presidency.

Obama said he will refocus immigration enforcement onto a Mexican border that has seen a tide of children crossing illegally from Central America. That means putting resources into deporting people who are the most recent border-crossers or individuals who pose a threat to public safety and national security.   Continue reading “Obama: I’ll act on my own on immigration”

My Fox Austin

In what Cedar Park Police believe to be an unintentional shooting, a man shot and killed his father-in-law Saturday at a gun show in Cedar Park.

Stephen Sheftall is a frequent gun show attendee.  On Saturday he went to the Austin Premiere Gun Show at Cedar Park Center.

“It was pretty uneventful, I mean everybody was calm going in and professional handling the weapons that I saw.  So I’m not entirely sure how it even happened,” he said. Continue reading “Man shoots father-in-law at gun show, Cedar Park Police say”

AmmoLand

Media, PA –-(Ammoland.com)- A coalition of Pro-freedom/gun rights groups counter rallied the Walk & Rally for Universal Background Checks on Gun Sales on June 28, 2014. Over 100 attended.

The counter rally started at the intersection of Providence Rd and Baltimore Pike in Media, PA.

After the anti-gun rights march passed they moved to the sidewalk opposite the Providence Friends Meeting House where the anti-gun rights pressure groups held their own rally.   Continue reading “Pro Gun Rights Groups’ Counter Rally in Media, PA a Great Success”

AmmoLand – by Frank Jack Fiamingo

New Jersey –-(Ammoland.com)- I am writing this article because I want to encourage others to help to save the Republic.

Age, Gender, Race, Religion, Creed, etc. are of no consequence.

The only requirements are the desire to live in a nation governed by the rule of law rather than the whim of any particular administration, a respect for individual Liberty and Responsibility, and the willingness to participate as an essential partner with honor and courage.    Continue reading “Saving The Republic – Come Do Your Part”

Huffington Post – by Robert Burns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had been kidnapped, only to disappear again, is back in U.S. custody, officials said Sunday.

Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 34, turned himself in and was being flown Sunday from an undisclosed location in the Middle East to Norfolk, Va. He is to be moved Monday to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, according to a spokesman, Capt. Eric Flanagan.   Continue reading “Marine Who Disappeared In Iraq In 2004 Is Back In U.S. Custody”

New York Post – by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein

The humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children crossing into the United States is hitting New York, with advocates scrambling to help them avoid deportation.

One advocacy group says it works with 30 new kids a month and expects the number to skyrocket within four months as the child immigrants are released from shelters.

There are 6,000 juvenile cases now in New York Immigration Court, said Claire Thomas, a lawyer working through the Safe Passage Project at New York Law School.   Continue reading “Unaccompanied minors flood into city’s immigration court”

ABC News – by DEEPTI HAJELA

New York City has created what advocates say is the nation’s first system of public defenders for poor immigrants facing deportation.

The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project will cover all eligible immigrant city residents detained in the system and appearing in immigration courts in New York City or the New Jersey cities of Elizabeth and Newark.

Lawmakers approved $4.9 million for the initiative as part of the $75 billion budget passed early Thursday for the fiscal year which starts July 1.   Continue reading “NYC Creates Public Defender System for Immigrants”

Newsday – by Emily NGO

The City Council Thursday approved a municipal ID card program — paving the way for immigrants who entered illegally to obtain a legal form of identification — though some supporters had lingering concerns about security against fraud.

The city-issued IDs will feature fraud-prevention measures resembling those used by the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the standards for qualification will be “flexible” enough to accommodate residents excluded from other government-issued ID programs, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said.   Continue reading “NYC council approves ID program for immigrants who entered illegally”

Daily Finance – by Mitch Lipka

Benet Wilson is one of the 2.5 million Americans who have paid a yearly fee to skip security lines at airports and thinks it’s worth every penny she paid for a five-year membership in the Global Entry program offered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection department.

“It’s a beautiful thing,” says the 50-year-old frequent flier, who writes theAviationQueen.com blog.

Earlier in June, Wilson was traveling back to Washington Dulles International Airport from a conference in Qatar, and walked right past an enormous customs line that had a wait time of nearly an hour. Continue reading “Should You Spend $100 to Skip Airport Security Lines?”

Care 2 – by Alan Pyke

Their children are on the local school soccer team. They serve on the Parent-Teacher Association. Their neighbors admire them and want them to stay. Yet because of a bureaucratic dispute between the city and the suburbs, Friday [was] the last day that 17 formerly-homeless mothers and their families are allowed to call the Vine City neighborhood of Atlanta home.

The decision by Fulton County, GA officials to relocate these families would seem to run exactly counter to the purpose of the federally-funded permanent supportive housing program that put Natasha Jones and her son in their cramped but tidy apartment a few blocks from the stadium where the Atlanta Falcons play football on autumn Sundays. But because a county and city that once worked together closely are now at odds over how to tackle homelessness, dozens of once-marginalized people are about to be uprooted.   Continue reading “17 Homeless Atlanta Families Finally Found a Home, But Now the Government Wants Them Out”

NBC New York

A Queens man is facing charges for allegedly threatening to blow up several police precincts.

Police say 30-year-old Richard Bolton called Nassau County 9-1-1 and claimed he had a bomb strapped to his body and that he was going to blow up an NYPD precinct and several other precincts on Long Island.   Continue reading “Man Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up Police Precincts”

Politico – by Philip Ewing

Some of the manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft operating over Iraq are now armed, the Defense Department confirmed Friday, to provide protection to the American troops deploying there.

Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said the number of surveillance flights over Iraq has remained steady at around 30 to 35 per day, but he acknowledged some have begun carrying air-to-surface weapons.   Continue reading “Armed drones now flying over Iraq, DOD confirms”

KHOU

WESLACO, Texas (AP) – Attorney General Greg Abbott says he sees “measurable and meaningful results” from the $1.3 million per week in added border security spending Gov. Rick Perry ordered a week ago.

Abbott, who’s the Republican nominee for governor, said Friday in Weslaco that there has been no increase in crime and may have actually been a decrease in illegal activity. He credits the amount of law enforcement at all levels working at the border in the face of a surge of illegal immigration. Continue reading “Abbott says Texas border safer than before”

Newsmax – by Sandy Fitzgerald

Some of the children coming across the Mexican border are testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and a Texas health official says that some may have contracted the disease during their long journey north from Central America.

Most of the young people who have entered the country are not being tested for the virus, said Valley AIDS Council Director of Education and Prevention Oscar Lopez in McAllen, Texas, reports ABC affiliate KRGV. Continue reading “Illegal Immigrant Children Contracting HIV on Trip to US”

The Federalist – by John Daniel Davidson

Continue reading “The Manufactured Immigration Crisis On The Texas Border”