From the Trenches World Report

NBC News – by Adam Edelman

President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed a sweeping “pro-American,” merit-based legal immigration system to replace the current family-based system with one that prioritizes the entrance of highly-skilled migrants like doctors and researchers.

“Our proposal is pro-American, pro-immigrant, and pro-worker. It’s common sense,” Trump said during a speech in the White House Rose Garden.  Continue reading “Trump immigration plan: Give me your doctors, your researchers, your top graduate masses yearning to breathe free”

Boing Boing – by Xeni Jardin

Facebook announced today that is has banned an Israeli firm that ran a foreign psyops campaign to disrupt election results in various countries.

Facebook claims to have canceled dozens of accounts engaged in spreading disinformation, they said Thursday.  Continue reading “Facebook bans election-attack firm linked to Israeli military and ‘dozens’ more disinformation accounts”

Popular Mechanics – by Kyle Mizokami

The U.S. Air Force has returned a B-52 bomber retired eleven years ago to active duty service, only the second time in history that has happened. The bomber, nicknamed “Wise Guy,” was brought out of storage at the aircraft “Boneyard” in Arizona, refurbished, and returned to service at Barksdale, Louisiana. The bomber could easily spend another two or three decades on active duty.  Continue reading “The Air Force Resurrects Another B-52 From the Boneyard”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

TransDigm Group Inc. sold the Pentagon “drive pins” for $4,361 each – should only cost $46, a 9,400% gain in excess profits, according to the Inspector General US Department of Defense’s audit labeled “For Official Use Only” obtained by Bloomberg.

The inspector general’s audit shows 98 of 100 parts inspected were overinflated in value and concluded the Pentagon is paying the Ohio-based defense manufacturing firm $91 million more in the next several years for parts valued at $28 million, with excess profit per part of 95% to the 9,400%.  Continue reading “DoD Inspector General Exposes Pentagon Contractor’s 9,400% Profit On Half-Inch Pin”

Breitbart – by Frances Martel

The Chinese Communist Party hosted a “carnival celebrating diversity” late Wednesday in Beijing featuring Party-approved performances from the likes of Jackie Chan and Andrea Bocelli.

The show was a stark contrast to efforts to eradicate Uighur identity and the Muslim faith on the other side of the country.  Continue reading “China Hosts ‘Carnival of Diversity’ While Putting Minorities in Concentration Camps”

Middle East Eye

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning legislation that would hamstring the Supreme Court and allow the prime minister to secure immunity from prosecution over corruption charges, Israeli daily Haaretz reports.

The proposed law would allow Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and ministers to disregard the court’s decisions in administrative matters, according to Haaretz, allowing it to annul any decision to strip Netanyahu of immunity from prosecution.  Continue reading “Judiciary to be made toothless as Netanyahu seeks protection”

WPBF 12 News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — U.S. Border Patrol will begin transporting more than 1,000 migrants a month to South Florida — split between Palm Beach and Broward counties — from the southern border within two weeks, according to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and sheriffs from both counties.

Rubio was first to reveal the plans Thursday afternoon on Twitter. The sheriffs — Ric Bradshaw in Palm Beach County and Gregory Tony in Broward County — then announced they have been told to each expect 135 migrants seeking asylum to be flown into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport every week.  Continue reading “More than 500 migrants per month to be transported to Palm Beach County”

Fox News

It may be May, but Spring has not quite sprung in the Golden State.

Parts of California still resemble a scene out of winter, with a series of storms bringing several feet of snow to mountain areas, ahead of a “significant” severe weather threat across the nation’s midsection.  Continue reading “California braces for feet of snow from storms; ‘significant severe weather event’ to impact Plains”

Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened urgent consultations with Israel’s security chiefs this week amid the escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, and reportedly urged them to do their utmost to ensure that Israel is not dragged into the fraught situation.  Continue reading “PM said to tell his defense chiefs to keep Israel out of Iran-US tensions”

KTVZ 21 News – by Sarah Zimmerman

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Critics blasted a decision by Oregon lawmakers that killed a bill aimed at getting more children vaccinated for measles and other preventable diseases in order pass a tax on large businesses, saying it jeopardized public health.

Despite passing the House and having the necessary votes in the Senate, the measure to make it harder for families to opt out of required vaccinations was nixed as part of a deal announced Monday to end a week-long Republican walkout over a multibillion school funding tax.  Continue reading “Oregon vaccine bill dead as US measles count soars”

Wall Street Journal – by Eric Morath

The share of U.S. workers born outside the country rose again last year, hitting the highest level in decades, boosted by steady immigration and a drop in the native-born birthrate.

Foreign-born workers — those not born in the U.S. nor have U.S. citizens as parents — accounted for 17.5% of all U.S. employees in 2018, up from 17.1% in 2017, the Labor Department said Thursday. The category includes people born abroad who are now U.S. citizens, immigrants and those in the U.S. temporarily.  Continue reading “Foreign-Born Workers Make Up Highest Percentage of U.S. Employment Since 1996”

American Mirror – by Victor Skinner

The overwhelming surge of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border is drawing agents away from the northern border, where apprehensions are also increasing significantly.

Sault Ste. Marie Border Patrol Agent in Charge Henry Laxdal told WJFW apprehensions in the Detroit sector increased 42 percent between 2017 and 2018, though the numbers pale in comparison to the southern border crisis.  Continue reading “Apprehensions up 42% on NORTHERN border as Mexicans, Central Americans try to enter US from Canada”

Campus Reform – by Adam Sabes

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated that he will sign a bill aimed at combating anti-Semitism in public education, and it could occur during his planned trip to Israel later in the month.

DeSantis made this statement during a trip in Miami Gardens, Fla. The bill would bar discrimination on the basis of religion in the Florida public education system, including at state-funded institutions of higher education, and specifically hone in on anti-Semitism.  Continue reading “Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis to sign campus anti-Semitism bill, possibly on trip to Israel”

YNet News

A state-aligned Saudi newspaper is calling for “surgical” U.S. strikes in retaliation against alleged threats from Iran.

The Arab News published an editorial in English on Thursday, arguing that after incidents this week against Saudi energy targets, the next logical step “should be surgical strikes.” Continue reading “Saudi paper urges US ‘surgical strikes’ on Iran”