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Breitbart – by Bob Price

FALFURRIAS, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas found the skull of a person believed to have been an illegal immigrant. The skull was found west of the town of Falfurrias, Texas on a ranch off of U.S. Highway 285. This is the fifty-third person found deceased in the ranches of this county located eighty to one hundred miles from the Mexican border.

The skull was found on Sunday morning by Border Patrol agents who were investigating a pile of debris left behind by illegal immigrants who had been moving through the rancher’s land. The agents contacted the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office who initiated a body recovery operation. At this time, no identification of the deceased has been made and an autopsy will be performed to attempt to find any information to establish the identity.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Discovers Illegal Immigrant’s Skull in Texas”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

FALFURRIAS, Texas—Troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) are beginning a law enforcement surge operation around Falfurrias in Brooks County. The operation is being executed to deter human smuggling and drug trafficking along the two major highways leading to the Border Patrol’s Falfurrias Checkpoint.

Troopers were seen in much larger than normal numbers working the highways around Brooks County last week. A trooper recently told this writer a surge operation was about to begin in Brooks County to try and deter the human smugglers from dropping off their cargo. It is not known at this time, how many troopers will be involved in this surge, nor how long the surge operation will continue. Officials of the DPS were unable to confirm any of this information at this time.   Continue reading “Texas DPS Begins Surge Near Falfurrias to Battle Drugs and Human Smuggling”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden promised that President Barack Obama would “do an awful lot” for illegal immigrants with executive actions toward amnesty. He said if Republicans don’t “see the lord” on immigration after the midterm elections, then they will feel some “lightning.”

According to pool reports, Biden spoke at a Hispanic Heritage Month reception at his residence and reportedly called up a student who had received temporary amnesty due to Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Biden then said that Obama is going to enact executive amnesty before the end of the year if Congress does not pass comprehensive immigration reform, “and he’s going to do an awful lot.” He said Obama has a chance to change the country “in a way like we haven’t had for a long, long time.”   Continue reading “Biden Promises Obama Will Strike GOP with ‘Lightning’ via Executive Amnesty”

Latin Times

While the U.S. government acknowledges that there is still a lot to do about the crisis of Central American children entering the country, experts and activists believe that sooner rather than later a new wave of unaccompanied youngsters will arrive at the border with Mexico.
” The situation in Central America hasn’t changed, we have the same problems of insecurity and violence, the lack of governability continues and jobs are still a problem – there is no work for young people who are members of cartels or street gangs,” the director of the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carl Meacham, told Efe on Thursday.
   Continue reading “Immigration News: A New Wave Of Central American Kids Will Reach The US Soon According To Experts”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

GIVATAYIM, Israel – After students read a poem with a shocking ending, they were assigned to write suicide notes.

Israel Hayom reports 11th grade advanced English students at Thelma Yellin High School were instructed to write suicide notes after reading “Richard Cory,” a poem about a “wealthy man who committed suicide” in the last line.

The news site reports:   Continue reading “Students write suicide notes to ‘learn English’”

Atlanta Journal Constitution – by Jeremy Redmon

Georgia’s foreign-born population grew by 5 percent over the last five years, new census estimates show.

Between 2009 and 2013, the number of Georgia residents who were born in other countries increased by 50,598, from 920,381 to 970,979. Last year, they represented 9.7 percent of the state’s overall population of 9.9 million.   Continue reading “Georgia’s foreign-born population up by 5 percent since 2009”

The Baltimore Sun – by John Fritz

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to unveil dozens of recommendations Wednesday intended to lure immigrant families to Baltimore and retain them.

The proposals, from increasing the availability of translators at city agencies to making it easier for the undocumented to buy homes, offer insight into the mayor’s pledge to attract 10,000 new families over the next decade — an effort that is focused in part on the city’s burgeoning immigrant neighborhoods.   Continue reading “Baltimore to weigh immigrant-friendly policies”

Mi Familia Vota

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sept. 15, 2014 – Today, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF), Voto Latino and more than 50 partners* are launching an online and grassroots voter registration campaign in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Our collective voice will ensure elected officials no longer ignore us or the issues that impact the Latino community.

The campaign kickoff urges Latinos to register to vote and then take their families, neighbors, and friends to the ballot box on Election Day, November 4. Only by exercising the power of their vote, can the Latino community influence real policy changes.   Continue reading “Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, Voto Latino, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Latino Victory Project and 50-plus groups Launch Robust National Voter Registration Drive”

Wall Street Journal – by Michael Howard Saul

The mayors of the nation’s three largest cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—plan to launch a new effort on Wednesday to increase citizenship among legal permanent residents, an effort officials hope will spread across the country.

The initiative, titled “Cities for Citizenship,” will help the three cities expand naturalization programs and other ventures dedicated to helping immigrants secure their financial footing through counseling, legal assistance and microloans.   Continue reading “Push for Immigrants to Become Citizens – Mayors of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago Launch ‘Cities for Citizenship’”

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Washington Post – by Jerry Markon, Ellen Nakashima and Alice Crites

An exodus of top-level officials from the Department of Homeland Security is undercutting the agency’s ability to stay ahead of a range of emerging threats, including potential terrorist strikes and cyberattacks, according to interviews with current and former officials.

Over the past four years, employees have left DHS at a rate nearly twice as fast as in the federal government overall, and the trend is accelerating, according to a review of a federal database.   Continue reading “Top-level turnover makes it harder for DHS to stay on top of evolving threats”

Breitbart – by Sarah Rumpf

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Child Protective Services (CPS), a division of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS), has launched an internal investigation after the body of Colton Turner, a two-year-old Cedar Park boy, was found in a shallow grave in Southeast Austin last Friday, despite multiple prior abuse complaints being filed against the child’s mother in the months before his death.   Continue reading “Internal Investigation at Texas CPS After Toddler Found Dead”

KRVG

McALLEN – A new piece of equipment is causing concern among some Border Patrol agents.

The agents soon will be outfitted with body cameras. The spokesman for the agent’s union says he is concerned the cameras will be used more to reprimand agents on minor agency violations rather than catching illegal aliens committing crimes.

Many law enforcement officers in the Rio Grande Valley already use the cameras. The San Juan and Rio Grande City police departments outfitted their officers with the new technology.

Officers activate the cameras for traffic stops, search warrants and any time they’re in contact with the public.    Continue reading “Border Patrol Union Concerned about Body Cameras”

The Age – by Chris Vedelago

A Melbourne man was hauled off a Tiger Airways flight by federal police on Saturday after claims he was seen doodling and writing sentences in a notebook satirising the current terrorism threat.

The incident has highlighted the growing sensitivity among officialdom and the public following the decision of the Abbott government to raise the national threat level and a series of raids were staged against alleged home-grown Islamic fundamentalist terrorists linked to the Islamic State movement.   Continue reading “Passenger ejected from flight over notebook doodles”

ABC News

A Chinese destroyer has docked in a southern Iranian port in the first such visit to the country by the Chinese navy, Iran’s state television reported on Sunday.

Adm. Hossein Azad, naval base chief in the southern port of Bandar Abbas, said the four-day visit that began Saturday saw the two navies sharing expertise in the field of marine rescue.   Continue reading “Chinese Destroyer Docks in Iran, First Such Visit”

The Guardian – by Shiv Malik, Dan Roberts in Washington, Dominic Rushe in New York, and Nicholas Watt

Barack Obama is to press the UN security council to pass a sweeping new resolution that would impose global travel bans on fighters intent on enlisting in overseas wars, and could lead to sanctions on countries that fail or refuse to implement the new regime.

US officials say the UN resolution, which will be personally pushed by Obama when he chairs a meeting of the security council on Wednesday, is supported by sufficient countries to pass a vote this week.   Continue reading “Barack Obama urges United Nations to set up global ban on fighters”