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DACA recipients suing if they are not hired

Daniel Marques would probably be working as a financial adviser for a big investment firm in New Jersey right now.

David Rodriguez might have landed an internship with Procter & Gamble in Miami.

Sandy Vasquez might be an engineering intern in Silicon Valley.

Ruben Juarez might have snagged a finance internship in Connecticut.

All four of them went to college and graduated with honors. And all four of them say they were denied jobs, even though they had valid work permits because they are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
 
Vice: Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson is making Antifa look violent
John SextonPosted at 5:01 pm on August 7, 2018


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Vice News posted a video report yesterday in which correspondent Dexter Thomas claims to have discovered a secret strategy used by Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson to make Antifa look bad. What is the secret strategy? Gibson shows up, gets attacked, and refuses to fight back.

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I know what you’re probably thinking. There must be more to this theory. I must be ridiculing it unfairly. But no, I promise you that’s the whole insight. Joey Gibson is making Antifa look violent by, um, well…I’ll let Vice News explain:


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On Saturday, Patriot Prayer held a “Freedom March” in Portland. Around a thousand counter protesters showed up, far outnumbering the 200 or so people who came to support Patriot Prayer.

But Gibson isn’t playing a numbers game. His strategy appears to focus more on creating moments that will make leftists look violent — and himself look like a victim.

In the clip below, Thomas explains the secret formula in more detail, “He’s got a formula. Walk into counter-protesters. Provoke a violent reaction. Then retreat back behind the police line.” Maybe you can already see the problem here, but in case you don’t let me try to explain it with an analogy.

If a trans rights protester walked up to a masked mob of anti-trans rights counter-protesters, got slapped around a bit, then retreated behind the police line, I don’t think anyone would be asking him or her, ‘Why are you provoking this mob to violence?’ Most people would be asking ‘Why are we tolerating this violent mob that can’t keep its hands to itself? Walking up to people and talking to them is not an excuse for violence unless you believe, as some on the far left do, that speech is violence.

It’s also somewhat odd to see Vice News calling out someone on the right for doing what left-wing protesters have done for decades. How many times during Occupy Wall Street did protesters get in the faces of police and then, when they are arrested or pushed back, claim they were victims of state violence. In fact, you may remember that the stat Occupy pointed to most proudly on social media was the number of people who had been arrested for the cause. In the end, it began to seem as if that was the only thing the group agreed on. From the NY Post:

The movement’s lack of leaders only made things more chaotic and confusing as the months have gone on.

There were marches, arrests and plenty of YouTube videos of protesters getting pepper-sprayed. In the end, though, it appeared that eliciting these kind of moments—provoking the police until they overreacted — was the movement’s primary, if not only, goal.

The bottom line is that even if this was a conscious strategy by Joey Gibson, he’s not making anyone in the mob do anything. He’s not making them show up. He’s not making them dress in black and bring weapons. He’s not making them cover their faces. He’s not making them threaten people. And he’s definitely not making them hit anyone. They are doing those things because they believe in them.

In short, the far left looks violent because the far left is violent. It’s not even a secret. The most distinctive aspect of Antifa is that they openly embrace violence against their enemies. So all Gibson is really doing is showing that the far left is exactly who they say they are. Until the left decides to rein in some of their more extreme elements, they are going to keep getting violent and looking bad to the majority of Americans who don’t support violence and don’t believe speech is violence.
 
Berkeley Antifa: Smashing fascism and city vehicles but mostly city vehicles
John SextonPosted at 3:01 pm on August 7, 2018


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Yesterday I wrote about the Antifa counter-protest which took place in Portland over the weekend, but there was another Antifa mob marching in Berekely on Sunday. The Mercury News reported on the rally which resulted in 20 arrests and a similar number of vandalized city vehicles:

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Anti-fascist protesters surrounded and shouted down the outnumbered alt-right demonstrators, some of whom wore Army fatigues and combat boots, as they gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park for a “No To Marxism in Berkeley” rally — the latest in a series of standoffs taking place all over the country.

Protesters stood inches apart, screaming in each other’s faces, and in some cases pushing and shoving one another. Berkeley police had arrested 20 people as of Sunday evening — mostly on suspicion of carrying prohibited weapons. Two people taken into custody had scrapes and bloody faces in their mug shots. Police reported three minor injuries, all of which were treated at the scene…

Protesters threw homemade fireworks at officers in the area of Milvia and Center streets, prompting police to deploy a smoke canister, [Officer Byron] White said. As of Sunday afternoon, police reported protesters also had vandalized more than 20 cars, all of which were Berkeley city vehicles — smashing their windows and setting one on fire — and burned three dumpsters.

Most of the damage was done by a group of black-clad Antifa members who left the site of the main rally and ran through the street ahead of the police. A livestreamer named Ford Fischer followed the group and captured video of them breaking windows at a military recruiting office:


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Notice at the end of this clip Fischer is being warned that no cops are around and he better leave before more Antifa show up to confront him. In an appearance on Fox News, Fischer said he did leave and added, “Frankly, I have no doubt that I would have been hurt had I not left.”

Despite all of this, there has been some criticism of the Berkeley police for posting mugshots of the people they arrested. Here’s a sample:

Thomas Parker, 22, of Berkeley, was arrested near Francisco and McGee for working with others to commit a crime. pic.twitter.com/5hvq2iPRtS

— Berkeley Police (@berkeleypolice) August 5, 2018



Blake Griffith, 29, of Oakland, was arrested near Addison and Martin Luther King Jr. Way for vandalism. pic.twitter.com/r7pXhMgKvu

— Berkeley Police (@berkeleypolice) August 5, 2018



Bella Podolsky, 27, of San Francisco, was arrested near Civic Center Park for possession of a banned weapon. pic.twitter.com/6p31jRKFyL

— Berkeley Police (@berkeleypolice) August 5, 2018



Caitlin Boyle, 27, of Oakland, was arrested for working with others to commit a crime. pic.twitter.com/QilrPNfLUy

— Berkeley Police (@berkeleypolice) August 5, 2018



Fox News reports there is concern from some quarters that police were targeting Antifa and could be putting them in danger:

Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, said she found it “disturbing” that the police department would post the mugshots and risk the possibility of putting the demonstrators in danger.

“This is very disturbing,” Dubal told The Guardian. “It seems like a public-shaming exercise, which is not the role of the police department…They are making it really accessible for folks who might wish these people harm to locate them.”…

Jay Kim, the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild local chapter, said he felt police were targeting “anti-fascist protesters.”

“It really seemed to us like the Berkeley police department was there to…target the anti-fascist protesters,” Kim said.

Kim said about 21 people contacted the NLG regarding the arrests, claiming the “vast majority” arrested were anti-fascist protesters.

Just a theory here but maybe the reason the majority of people arrested were Antifa members is that Antifa members were the ones smashing things and carrying weapons. A spokesman for the Berkeley police told Fox News, “People are coming from out of town and bringing weapons and are committed to violence…We don’t want people to be able to do that with anonymity.”

That sounds pretty reasonable to me. In case you had any doubt who was doing the smashing, here’s a bunch of Antifa goons smashing city vehicle windows while yelling, “F**k the city of Berkeley!” The city should have no regrets about arresting these creeps.
 
Malcolm Jenkins Says Players Will Soon Release Statement on Anthem Protests
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Not sure this guy is reading the crowd correctly

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7 Aug 2018491
Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins says that the players are about to release a major statement on protests during the playing of the national anthem.
The National Football League and representatives for the players are still in talks about forming a joint policy on anthem protests, but if Jenkins’ announcement is any indication, the players are getting restless on a lack of an agreement.


Jenkins initially told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was not sure what he will personally do about his anthem protests, but he hinted that a major statement is on the way from the players.

Apparently, speaking for the player’s coalition on Tuesday, Jenkins said, “We will probably have an op-ed or something drop Wednesday.”

Jenkins said that he thinks the league erred when it created its policy to ban protests early this year. The two-time Super Bowl champion noted that he thinks the protests would have been practically non-existent this season if the league had left the issue alone.

“It would have moved to a point where we were working together to draw some awareness to these issues and put some more action to the effort to amplify what players are talking about,” Jenkins said according to Philly.com. “Talking out of both sides [of their mouth] on behalf of the owners has put players in a place where we don’t trust the league’s intentions, and we don’t trust the intentions of the owners.”

In fact, Jenkins added that he thinks players are moving on from anthem protests and into other areas of activism. “People are beginning to see this is bigger than just the two minutes of the national anthem,” he said.
 


Despite crackdown, immigrants flowing through Arizona border
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SAN LUIS, Ariz. (AP) — The 3-year-old boy with a bowl haircut and striped shirt silently clung to his father in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol truck.

Their shoes still muddy from crossing the border, the father and son had just been apprehended at a canal near a border fence in Arizona on a muggy night in July. Before the father, son and two older children could make it any farther, a Border Patrol agent intervened and directed them through a large border gate.


The father handed over documents that showed gang members had committed crimes against his family, one of the ways immigrants who seek asylum try to prove their cases. After a wait, he and his children were hauled away in a van to be processed at a Border Patrol station about 20 miles away in Yuma.

The encounter witnessed by The Associated Press illustrates how families are still coming into the U.S. even in the face of daily global headlines about the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policies. The flow of families from Central America is especially pronounced in this overlooked stretch of border in Arizona and California.

The Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector has seen a more than 120 percent spike in the number of families and unaccompanied children caught at the border over the last year, surprising many in an area that had been largely quiet and calm for the past decade.

So far this fiscal year, agents in the Yuma sector have apprehended nearly 10,000 families and 4,500 unaccompanied children, a giant increase from just seven years ago when they arrested only 98 families and 222 unaccompanied children.

The Trump administration’s policy of separating families did not seem to be slowing the flow. The Border Patrol here apprehended an average of 30 families per day in June, when the uproar over the policy was at its peak, an increase from May. Yuma is now the second-busiest sector for family border crossings next to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

Agents and border crossers here have many things to contend with. Parts of the border are urban, with fences and canals on the U.S. side directly across from a home’s backyard in Mexico. The sector includes Arizona and part of California, along with the Imperial Sand Dunes and Colorado River.

While drug smugglers and other criminals use the vast desert to cross illegally, most families and children simply walk or swim across into the U.S. and wait to be arrested, according to Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garibay. Many travel in large groups, he said.

Garibay says he was once on assignment when he encountered a group of over 60 families and children.

Dealing with large numbers of families and children has proven to be logistically difficult for the agency. There are only so many vans to transport the immigrants to the sector’s processing facility in Yuma.

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A mother and 5-year-old daughter from Honduras are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in San Luis, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Many don’t understand why so many families and children from Central America are coming to the U.S. through this stretch of Arizona and braving its extreme summer heat, when the more direct path takes them to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, more than 1,000 miles away.

Garibay said migration patterns are largely controlled by the cartels that smuggle people across. The Mexican state of Tamaulipas that borders the Rio Grande has been experiencing extreme violence by drug cartels that the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently said are fighting for “every inch” of control of the river where migrants are often smuggled in Texas.

Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute says it’s noteworthy that most of the border crossers in the Yuma sector are Guatemalans. He said it’s possible many are headed for California and that crossing through the Yuma area may be the safest and simplest way to do that.

They are encountering a section of border that the government hails as its gold standard for border security. It was one of the busiest sectors in the country for years before new fencing, technology, remote surveillance and more agents resulted in a drastic drop in border crossings.

“It’s really been a combined effort across the whole agency to be able to turn this sector into something that is manageable and not somewhere there was 138,000 apprehensions back in 2005,” Garibay said.

Yuma is an agricultural hub that relies heavily on immigrant labor to harvest crops, mainly lettuce and dates. Hundreds of Mexican workers cross the border with special visas to work the fields. Their employers have to pay to house and feed them, and they earn around $10 an hour.

The Yuma area supplies 90 percent of the nation’s leafy greens for most of the year— a $2.5-billion-a-year industry. It’s a place heavily reliant on immigrant labor, but also where President Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by more than 5 points.

A 45-minute drive from the city of Yuma south through a number of fields leads to San Luis, Arizona, the small border city where clothing shops and Mexican restaurants line the street leading to Mexico.

On the same night the 3-year-old and his family were taken into custody, an agent out on patrol near Yuma spotted two men and two boys ages 12 and 13 from Guatemala standing on a road waiting to be arrested. The group had walked through a knee-high canal and their pants and shoes were wet and dirty. An agent gathered their names, home countries and dates of birth before putting them in his truck while waiting for a transport van. The men and boys said nothing as they were taken away.

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Three of four arrested Guatemalan nationals, two men and a 12-year-old boy, surrender to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent. (AP Photo/Matt York)

At a shelter for immigrants on the Mexico side, more recently deported immigrants, families and Central Americans have been showing up this year. Casa del Migrante la Divina Providencia was seeing about 1,000 people each month in 2017. In 2018, over 2,000 people started showing up monthly, according to Martin Salgado, who runs the shelter.

Most of the people served at the shelter are Mexicans who were deported. But on occasion, Central Americans making their way north stopped here for a warm meal, a prayer and a bed.

Jose Blanco, 28, had left Honduras nearly a month prior to arriving at the shelter. He and two others tried crossing the border illegally near San Luis but came back after six hours on foot, when he found it was too hot and dangerous to keep going.

Blanco, the father of two children who were back in Honduras, said he planned on going home instead of trying to cross again.

“It’s too hard here right now,” Blanco said.
 
Joe Donnelly Caves, Backs Trump on Wall Funding
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Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) caved on Wednesday, suggesting that he will support funding President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall in a September spending bill.
Donnelly, who is facing intense scrutiny over his position on immigration from Indiana Senate Republican nominee Mike Braun, said on Wednesday that he is fine with giving President Trump up to $5 billion in funding for his promised wall on America’s southern border.


Trump has continued to threaten a government shutdown before or after the 2018 midterm elections if he does not get border wall funding in the September spending bill. The 45th president has suggested that he wants $5 billion in funding for the wall in the spending bill.

Donnelly said that he does “not want under any circumstances” a government shutdown and said that Congress should “absolutely” partially fund the president’s wall.

“I’m fine with providing him some more. I actually voted for border wall funding three different times,” Donnelly told Politico on Wednesday. “I’m fine with that. I’m fine with $3 [billion], $3.5, $4 or $5” billion this fall.

Donnelly also said that he has supported President Trump’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) solution, which would provide $25 billion for the wall, cut legal immigration, and grant amnesty for roughly 1.8 million illegal aliens.

Braun, Donnelly’s Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate, suggested that Donnelly caved to increasing political pressure to support Trump’s wall amidst a tight Senate race. One poll this summer had businessman Mike Braun beating Donnelly.


On Wednesday, Braun released a new TV ad, “Doer” which contrasted Braun’s records of creating hundreds of jobs while Donnelly outsourced jobs to Mexico while providing little for Hoosiers.


Josh Kelly, Mike Braun’s spokesman, said on Wednesday, “Mike Braun is a doer: From creating hundreds of American jobs, to offering his employees nearly double the minimum wage starting out and affordable, stable healthcare, Mike Braun gets things done for Hoosier families.”

Mike Braun, as the founder and chief executive of Meyer Distributing, paid his employers nearly double the minimum wage in Indiana at $14.50 per hour. As a result of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Braun lowered the amount that employees have to contribute to their health insurance plans.

In contrast, the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a nonpartisan think tank, labeled Donnelly the least effective Democrat in the Senate.

Last year the Associated Press (AP) reported that as Sen. Donnelly slammed Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico, he profited from a family business that relied on Mexico labor to produce dye for ink pads. Donelly has long attacked free-trade policies for hollowing out America’s manufacturing sector, however, Donelly’s family arts and crafts business profited from the very same trade and low wage labor policies the senator has decried.

“Braun’s doer record is a stark contrast to career politician Senator Donnelly, the least effective Democrat in the Senate, who profits from his family business outsourcing Hoosier jobs to Mexico and consistently votes against doers like Mike Braun,” Kelly added in a statement on Wednesday
 
Too bad he didn't break his fucking neck.


Security camera footage shows moment illegal immigrant falls from top of 30-foot border fence
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An illegal immigrant was severely injured after he fell from the top of a 30-foot high border wall in California on Sunday, Customs and Border Patrol says. The man had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital in Palm Springs. (Image source: KYMA-TV screenshot)
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A man attempting to enter the United States illegally was severely injured over the weekend when he fell from the top of a 30-foot border fence in California. The moment was caught on a nearby security camera.

According to KYMA-TV, U.S. Border Patrol agents found a severely injured man outside a Calexico, California, mall Sunday evening. Positioned just behind the mall is the U.S.-Mexico border, where a massive wall separates the U.S. from Mexicali, the Mexican city on the opposite side of the wall.

When the agents stumbled upon the man, they discovered he had bilateral femur fractures in both legs, in addition to a possible back injury.

The agents immediately began providing first aid and called paramedics. The injuries were so bad, according to KYMA, that he had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital in Palm Springs.


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After reviewing security camera footage aimed at the border wall, it was clear what happened: The man attempted to enter the U.S. illegally by climbing over the wall, but didn’t anticipate the wall being as high as it was. The footage shows him slip, then fall — his legs absorbing the brunt of the impact.

According to WNYW-TV, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using the incident as a teaching moment, dissuading future attempts to illegally cross the border — especially over a 30-foot high fence.

“The El Centro Sector Border Patrol reminds the public of the dangers involved in attempting to cross illegally into the United States. The newly established border wall system is 30 feet tall and attempting to climb up or down could result in potentially life-threatening injuries,” CBP said.

Watch the security camera footage of the incident here
 
Sheriff Joe said:
Too bad he didn't break his fucking neck.


Security camera footage shows moment illegal immigrant falls from top of 30-foot border fence
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An illegal immigrant was severely injured after he fell from the top of a 30-foot high border wall in California on Sunday, Customs and Border Patrol says. The man had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital in Palm Springs. (Image source: KYMA-TV screenshot)
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A man attempting to enter the United States illegally was severely injured over the weekend when he fell from the top of a 30-foot border fence in California. The moment was caught on a nearby security camera.

According to KYMA-TV, U.S. Border Patrol agents found a severely injured man outside a Calexico, California, mall Sunday evening. Positioned just behind the mall is the U.S.-Mexico border, where a massive wall separates the U.S. from Mexicali, the Mexican city on the opposite side of the wall.

When the agents stumbled upon the man, they discovered he had bilateral femur fractures in both legs, in addition to a possible back injury.

The agents immediately began providing first aid and called paramedics. The injuries were so bad, according to KYMA, that he had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital in Palm Springs.


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After reviewing security camera footage aimed at the border wall, it was clear what happened: The man attempted to enter the U.S. illegally by climbing over the wall, but didn’t anticipate the wall being as high as it was. The footage shows him slip, then fall — his legs absorbing the brunt of the impact.

According to WNYW-TV, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using the incident as a teaching moment, dissuading future attempts to illegally cross the border — especially over a 30-foot high fence.

“The El Centro Sector Border Patrol reminds the public of the dangers involved in attempting to cross illegally into the United States. The newly established border wall system is 30 feet tall and attempting to climb up or down could result in potentially life-threatening injuries,” CBP said.

Watch the security camera footage of the incident here
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Now why was he flown to Palm Springs ?

I'm pretty sure every thousand feet there is an " Exit " door for just this matter.
Just gather him up and wheel him back to the side he came from....Sarc.

Now he's draining our Tax Dollars even more with the Helicopter Flight, Hospital care,
High cost reconstructive surgery, Nurses care, Outpatient care...on and on it goes....
surgery....
 
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