From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart – by DANIEL NUSSBAUM

The Minuteman Project, the “citizens’ Neighborhood Watch on our border,” began recruiting volunteers on Monday morning for “Operation Normandy,” a new citizen effort to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

Jim Gilchrist, co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project, posted a message on the group’s website outlining the operation, saying he expects “at least 3,500 non-militia volunteers to participate, plus uncounted groups of militias from all over the country.” The message reads:   Continue reading “‘Minuteman Project’ Reboots, Recruits Volunteers to Patrol U.S.-Mexico Border”

National Review – by Ryan Lovelace

The Department of Health and Human Services has brought nearly 430 unaccompanied alien children (UAC) to Chicago, and placed them under the care of Heartland Alliance, according to a release from Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.). Heartland Alliance, describes itself as “the leading anti-poverty organization in the Midwest” on its website and is an HHS grantee. The kids are being held at multiple locations in the Chicagoland area, a staffer in Kirk’s office tells National Review Online.   Continue reading “Federal Government Sends Hundreds of Unaccompanied Alien Children to Multiple Locations in the Chicagoland Area”

National Review – by Ryan Lovelace

A Border Patrol agent from the Laredo, Texas, Sector has been hospitalized for seven days with bacterial pneumonia, which the agent contracted while processing illegal immigrants, officials from National Border Patrol Council 2455 tell National Review Online.

Agent Jarrad Seely, vice president of NBPC 2455, says the agent is expected to have chronic asthmatic symptoms for life, according to information relayed by the agent. The illness has so swollen the agent’s throat that it’s difficult for the agent to speak, Seely says.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Agent Hospitalized with Pneumonia Caught from an Illegal Immigrant, Expected to Have Lifelong Complications”

Politico – by Bylan Byers

Rolling Stone has removed an article about former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that has drawn criticism from Colorado Republicans.

In the article, titled “Michael Bloomberg Isn’t Afraid of the NRA,” the former mayor says some of the state’s districts are so “rural” that they may not have roads.

“In Colorado, we got a [gun control] law passed,” Bloomberg tells Rolling Stone. “The NRA went after two or three state senators in a part of Colorado where I don’t think there’s roads. It’s as far rural as you can get.”   Continue reading “Rolling Stone pulls controversial Michael Bloomberg article”

Politico – by KENDALL BREITMAN

Sean Hannity traveled with Texas Gov. Rick Perry to tour by air and by water his state’s border with Mexico on Thursday, highlighting the workers there whose efforts Perry says regularly fall on “deaf ears.”

After an influx of immigrants from Central America crossed the United States’ southern border, Hannity and Perry visited the Texas Department of Public Safety to look at the crisis, in a report that aired on Fox News’ “Hannity.”   Continue reading “Rick Perry takes Sean Hannity on border tour”

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Capital City Project – by Joe Schoffstall

Federal funding surged to a radical immigration group under the Obama administration after a former top member of the organization joined the Obama team in 2009.

In 2009, Cecilia Muñoz was appointed as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration. She served in this position until January of 2012 when she became the President’s Domestic Policy Advisor and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, a position which coordinates the domestic policy making process in the White House.   Continue reading “Federal funding to La Raza more than doubled after former VP joined Obama administration”

Washington Post – by Radley Balko

“Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.”– Myles Ambrose, director of the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement during the Nixon Administration.

The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General  has just released part of its report on the awful case of Daniel Chong. Here’s some background from the San Diego Union-Tribune: Continue reading “Daniel Chong is the entirely predictable result of dehumanizing drug offenders”

ITAR-TASS

DONETSK, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. The self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have shot down another Ukraine air force plane over the town of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk region, the Novorossiya news agency reported on Friday.

The plane reportedly fell down to the north from the Horlivka settlement in the Donetsk region.   Continue reading “Militia claim shooting down another Ukraine air force plane in Donetsk region”

CNN – by Greg Botelho

A powerful earthquake struck early Saturday off the coast of northern Japan — rattling nerves in a region rocked three years ago by a deadly tremor, tsunami and nuclear crisis, though thankfully the latest episode didn’t nearly measure up.

The Japan Meteorological Agency at one point issued a tsunami warning, which it later amended to tsunami advisories for coastal regions in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. The latter is the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility that was the center of a weeks-long radioactive crisis.   Continue reading “Offshore quake rocks northern Japan — but no tsunamis, no reports of damage”

CNN

It’s only going to get worse unless you give us more money, administration officials warned Thursday about the flood of Central American children illegally entering the United States from Mexico.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate Appropriations Committee that $3.7 billion in emergency funding requested by President Barack Obama anticipated up to 90,000 of the unaccompanied minors this fiscal year, which ends September 30, and another 145,000 in fiscal year 2015.   Continue reading “Texas immigrant flood will worsen, officials warn”