U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 153,941 migrant encounters at the southwestern border for January 2021
It's a 14% decrease after the agency registered 178,840 interdictions in December 2021
There have been 672,301 encounters in the first four months on fiscal year 2022 after 1,734,686 were reported in fiscal year 2021
78,486 people were expelled to Mexico under the Title 42 immigration order, a Trump-era policy that the former Republican president enforced in March 2020
The measure allows CBP to expel migrants under a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health order that deems them a health risk under COVID-19
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For those that got caught.
Biden(et. al.) is covertly moving those that passed that first screening into the weak Republican districts prepping for the next census. They may not be able to vote, but they can be counted.
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She claimed the child tax credit had expired and that's why people were stealing. She is absoulutely ignorant, or outright lying, that the child tax credit was increased and is now twice what it was. She needs to go back to being a bartender.
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[DW] President Mohammed Bazoum says Niger will welcome foreign special forces to secure the region. He said threats from the hard boy groups would likely rise as La Belle France pulls its troops out of Mali.
Niger will host French and European special forces after their withdrawal from neighboring Mali, President Mohammed Bazoum confirmed on Friday.
"They will especially welcome in Takuba because it has great advantages for us. They are special forces with capabilities responding to the threat posed by terrorist organizations," Bazoum wrote on Twitter.
The Niger president said the forces would secure the border area of the West African state.
LA BELLE FRANCE TO TAKE SOLDIERS OUT OF MALI La Belle France and its European allies, as well as Canada, announced on Thursday that they were pulling their troops out of Mali.
Relations between Gay Paree and Bamako have deteriorated since Mali's military leaders reneged on an agreement to hold elections in February. They instead proposed retaining power until 2025.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the fight would continue from Niger.
"The heart of this military operation will no longer be in Mali but in Niger ... and perhaps in a more balanced way across all the countries of the region which want this (help)," he said.
MALI PULLOUT TO TAKE MONTHS
Bazoum confirmed the change on Friday, saying that the foreign forces continue the fight against Islamist Death Eaters.
"This area will be even more infested and the terrorist groups will strengthen. We know that they are destined to extend their influence," Bazoum said.
It could take four to six months until the military withdrawal from Mali is complete.
Bazoum hinted that other West-African states could also host more troops for anti-terrorist operations in his social media posts.
Niger already hosts some French, American, German and Italian forces.
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No fewer than 1,823 students and teachers have been victims of holy warrior attacks on schools between April 2014 and January 2021, a factsheet by SB Morgen Intel has revealed.
According to the SBM report released on Thursday, there were 28 incidents of attacks on schools in Nigeria within the period of study; from the Chibok girls' incidence on April 14, 2014, in Borno to the Barkin Ladin attack on January 12th 2021 in Plateau State.
So far, 1, 799 students were attacked while 24 teachers fell victim to the attacks.
The report further analysed the sources of attack to include: 23 perpetrated by armed bandidos; 3 attacks by Islamist Death Eaters and 2 by unknown button men.
School attacks were prevalent in the Northwest region with 1,166 students recorded to have fallen victim within the period. This is followed by the North East region where 386 students were attacked.
"There are incidents of attack involving students in four geopolitical zones of Northwest, Northeast, Northcentral and Southeast. The Northern part of Nigeria accounts for almost all the attack cases. The Northwest accounts for the highest number of students, 1, 166 students were involved in school attack incidents.
"This is followed by the North East with 386 students, North Central (240) and Southeast. On the other hand, attacks involving teachers were only in the North-west and the Northcentral. The Northwest has the highest number of attacks involving teachers followed by the North Central," a part of the report reads.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... the report noted that the attacks were largely directed at students in secondary schools who make up 1, 704 of the 1, 799 students.
[AnNahar] Australia on Thursday said it had added the U.S.-based far-right holy warrior group National Socialist Order and planned to add the entirety of the Paleostinian group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to its list of outlawed terrorist organizations as concerns rise about radicalized children.
Here’s hoping the FBI remembers to give them the names of their moles, agents provocateur, and informants.
The National Socialist Order, formerly known as Atomwaffen Division, joins Islamist groups Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and Hurras al-Din in being added to the list, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said.
Hamas' military wing, Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has been listed as a terrorist organization since 2003.
The National Socialist Order, which advocates a global "race war" and the collapse of democratic societies, joined the list on Thursday, bringing the number of outlawed groups to 28.
The two Islamist groups, both active in the Syrian civil war, will be listed in April.
Andrews has written to state governments to finalize the listing of Hamas as soon as possible.
"The views of Hamas and the violent mostly peaceful holy warrior groups listed today are deeply disturbing, and there is no place in Australia for such views," Andrews said.
"It's vital that our laws target not only terrorist acts and terrorists, but also the organizations that plan, finance and carry out these acts," she added.
The Australia Paleostine Advocacy Network, a national coalition of Australians who support Paleostinian rights, disagreed with Hamas' political wing being designated a terrorist organization.
The National Socialist Order is only the third far-right group to be designated by Australia as a terrorist organization.
The Base, a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... white supremacist group formed in the United States in 2018, was listed in December
...doesn’t Al Qaeda mean The Base? How odd that they picked the same name...
and the British-based Sonnenkrieg Division was listed in August.
Mike Burgess, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation's main domestic spy agency, said last week that pandemic restrictions in Australia had sent online radicalization "into overdrive" in recent years as isolated people spent more time online.
The proportion of new counter-terrorism investigations involving minors had increased from to less than 3% to 15% in only a few years, Burgess said in his annual threat assessment.
At the end of 2021, minors represented more than half of the spy agency's priority counter-terrorism investigations, he said.
[EpochTimes] A Florida man accused of carrying explosives to a rally in January recently saw the most serious charges against him dropped after an investigation found the items he possessed didn’t have the capability of exploding.
Court records show three charges of making, possessing, or discharging a destructive device—felonies that could have brought up to 15 years in jail—were dropped because a forensic examination by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined they were legal "’novelty devices’ that emit smoke but do not explode if ignited," prosecutors said in a filing in the case, which was brought against Garrett Smith.
The arrest of Smith at a rally held in support of a man who’s in jail on charges linked to the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol breach was announced by Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who described an item in Smith’s backpack as "the bomb."
A police report filed in court said Smith, who was arrested after fleeing the protest on Jan. 6, said he appeared to have "a destructive device/pipe bomb."
The item was examined by FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... bomb experts, who determined it was "a homemade m-type destructive device," according to the booking officer.
A spokeswoman for the office declined to comment on the dropping of the felony charges.
"The stuff he had on him, he’s an adult, and he was legally allowed to carry," Nicholas Dorsten, who is representing Smith, told The Epoch Times.
"They’re smoke bombs that don’t explode; they just emit a puff of smoke," he added.
Smith still faces a second-degree misdemeanor charge of loitering and prowling.
When he was arrested, the defendant was carrying materials linked to Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... , a far-left, anarcho-communist network, authorities said. Additionally, Smith had recently traveled from Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... , Oregon, which hosts one of the largest contingents of Antifa members and supporters in the country.
Smith and his counsel are waiting to receive police reports and other evidence before deciding on how to proceed.
"We’re going to look at all options. But he spent a good amount of time in jail, hopefully it’s a good wake-up call for him. Hopefully, he learned ’be careful what you do,’ and I told him, ’Florida is not Oregon.’ There’s certain things he maybe could get away with in other states that yeah, you don’t want to try that stuff here," Dorsten said.
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QUESTION: How does the FBI state "a homemade m-type destructive device," and the ATF state
"novelty devices that emit smoke but do not explode if ignited..."
Which is it?
NOTE: When the arresting FBI agent called it a M-TYPE Destructive Device. This meant in his trained eyes, it met this ATF definition. But looking at ATF reg's and doing a search on"M-TYPE Destructive Device" the results speak on Large Bore weapons that discharge a projectile, like a M-79 ???????
Are we seeing another BIDEN/LSD DOJ DA applying a double standard?
ANTI-FA = OK, drop the serious charges slap wrist and release.
900k deaths? Bullshit. Rank, bold faced lies. Walensky already knowcked tgat down by -- MINIMUM -- 75 percent. More like 90%+.
Which means the ACTUAL death toll from, not with, COVID these last 20 months is around 100-150k, or about 5-6,000 per month.
I.e., the high end of a normal fly season.
Which is EXACTLY as the great biostatisticians and epidemiologists predicted, based on the Diamond Princess cruise ship data from March 2020.
A somewhat nastier version of seasonal flu. To combat which, our moronic rulers have turned out democracy inside out, trashed our economy, and destroyed an entire generation of young people.
That is, these deranged shitheads have ruined our children's prospects for a decent normal life; crushed their social and emotional development; and sent them into a tailspin of depression and dysfunction from which many will never emerge.
Where is justice?
When and how will these bastards pay for the colossal damage they've done -- and are continuing to do?
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A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party such as a relative, employer, law enforcement or government to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.
Iraqi authorities detained over 1,000 children, some as young as nine years old, last year on national security charges, primarily for suspected links with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), according to a new United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... report. Although ISIS attacks have dropped considerably since the group lost most of its territory four years ago, the report finds that the detention of children has significantly increased.
Many of these children were arrested on dubious evidence and tortured into confessions of ISIS involvement.
In late 2018, I interviewed boys detained as ISIS suspects in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Some said they had been recruited to fight with ISIS, while others said that they worked as cooks, drivers, or simply participated in a few days of training. One 17-year-old said he believed he was arrested for working at a restaurant in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that served ISIS members. A few said that they had no links to ISIS, other family members had. Regardless of the extent of their involvement, they were all charged with terrorism.
The majority of the boys said their interrogators tortured them to secure confessions. They described beatings with plastic pipes, electric cables, or rods, sometimes for hours. Nearly all said they eventually confessed to ISIS association, believing they had no other choice.
International law prohibits the recruitment or use of children by gangs, yet Iraq is treating these children as criminals, even if there is no evidence they participated in violent mostly peaceful crimes. UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... has called on Iraq to release the children.
Instead of detaining and prosecuting children suspected of ISIS affiliation, Iraq should work with the UN to set up reintegration programs so that these children can rejoin their communities, get back into school, and resume their lives.
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[AnNahar] The Jordanian military says a crackdown on drug smugglers along the Syrian border is delivering results.
During a media tour along the Syrian border on Thursday, Col. Mustafa al-Hiyari said the military was forced into action in response to increased smuggling activity and violence. In January, an army officer was killed in a shootout with smugglers.
"Changing the rules of engagement came as a result of changing the nature of the threat. Therefore, the results were decisive," he said.
The military says it has killed some 30 smugglers, including 27 people in a single day. al-Hiyari, director of the army's information directorate, also said large quantities of hashish and 16 million narcotics pills have been seized.
He said Syrian authorities have pledged cooperation, but Jordan has seen only limited results. He said in some cases, Syrian police have even cooperated with smugglers along the mostly non-existent border.
"It did not bear fruit for long periods, which forced us to change the rules of engagement," he said of the Syrian pledges to help.
As he spoke, soldiers stood by and army vehicles could be seen patrolling the border. al-Hiyari said the mission is also aimed at stopping the shipment of drugs out of Jordan and across the region.
An illegal drug industry has flourished in Syria after 10 years of civil war. In recent years, the Arab Mediterranean country has emerged as a hotspot for making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine. Both Syria and neighboring Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade... have become gateways for the drug to the Middle East, particularly the Gulf.
In September, Syrian and Jordanian officials discussed border security after Syrian government forces captured rebel-held areas along the Jordanian frontier. A month later, Jordan's King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... for the first time in a decade after the two countries reopened a key border crossing.
Jordan shares a long mostly non-existent border with its northern neighbor and is home to more than 650,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civil war.
On Monday, Abdullah visited the area, saluting army personnel and stressing the need to deal firmly with infiltration and smuggling, the Royal Court said.
According to the Jordanian army, the military last year thwarted about 361 infiltration or smuggling attempts and 48 smuggling operations.
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...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[EpochTimes] A Florida man accused of carrying explosives to a rally in January recently saw the most serious charges against him dropped after an investigation found the items he possessed didn’t have the capability of exploding.
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...
