Rebels and government forces in South Sudan use children as young as 12 to fight an increasingly brutal civil war.
Good piece from al Jazeera on the problems in the South Sudan. Recommended.
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Yup, take a Muslim news org and talk bad about the Christian trying to stop the 30 years of genocide. The Khartoum government has been on an eradication program with the south since the 80's. In the 90's the Western Sudan made a fortune raiding and raping the South, when the world stopped them they had no other economy and starved. We then had our dollars for Darfur. What needs to happen is we need to send SF groups down there and help them over throw the Khartoum govt.
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Isn't South Sudan mostly Christian? That was more than half the point for breaking off from the North, unless I'm missing something. Seems like once they didn't have to worry about turbans, they went back into tribal loyalties.
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I understand that South Sudan is Christian, animist, and black, Charles. Whereas the rulers and Janjaweed (?) "warriors" of Sudan are Muslim and Arab, while the others are Muslim and black. So there are lots of people to be murdered in large numbers.
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Sudan you say? Is this a glimpse into our future? Millions of Latino kids streaming into the U.S. going into the cities left to fend for themselves. Many of them are young toughs; some who have already cut their teeth with murder. "Lord of the Flies" on steroids?
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Yes, the south is Christian. We should have gone into Sudan before Afghanistan, before 911.
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We should have gone into Sudan before Afghanistan, before 911.
But we did, 49 Pan. Have you forgotten when President Clinton ordered a missile shot into an empty tent? It was an Al Qaeda tent.
Hey there, Anon1! It's so nice when one of our returns. I always hope that they're gone because they're busy, and not because something dreadful happened.
Many like José came on their own or paid a smuggler. Their journeys often involved dashes through gang-controlled Honduran neighborhoods, cramped bus rides along Mexican roads or a trip of terror atop a freight train. Now, after being apprehended, these young people have ended up in court to face their biggest test -- one that can determine whether they stay in the U.S.
What happens in Baird's courtroom lies at the heart of a heated debate over how the U.S. government should handle the recent surge of juvenile migrants.
The latest order from Obama's administration: Prioritize and speed up hearings on removal of these unaccompanied minors, whose apprehensions total 57,000 so far this fiscal year. The sooner they get to vote (D), the better!
Immigration courts have a record backlog of 375,500 cases -- both juveniles and adults from all countries, said Juan Osuna, director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review at the U.S. Department of Justice. The numbers have doubled since 2008. Lessee, what else happened in 2008 that might have caused the doubling of illegal immigration?
Texas immigration courts are among the nation's busiest. Since 2005, Texas judges have presided over a quarter of the nation's deportation cases involving juveniles, according to data analyzed by a national research center.
Texas immigration courts are also among the nation's toughest. In Texas, two-thirds of immigrants, including adults and juveniles, are ordered deported, according to TRAC. The national average is about 50 percent; in California, it's almost 39 percent. Doesn't Caliphornia have enough Democratic voters yet?
But a prominent federal judge warned it would be a mistake to rush minors through immigration court. "Those are the cases that take longer. You have to be more solicitous of the person and allow the person to find an attorney. They are particularly vulnerable individuals," the judge said. "You have to spend more time to make sure they understand the procedures and the rights. How do you do that with frightened children?"
About once a week, the judge presides over the juvenile immigration docket in Dallas. "All of you are here today because the government wants to remove you from the country," he tells the juveniles one recent morning.
He reads them their rights. It is a short conversation. You can have legal representation if you want, the judge tells them, but you don't have the right to a free lawyer. An interpreter repeats the message in Spanish.
The unaccompanied minors in the Dallas courtroom are all from Central America -- El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras -- where violence, poverty and false beliefs that U.S. authorities treat minors leniently have fueled the crisis at the border. Nobody plans on getting caught. They all hope to get to a sanctuary city. Or their aunt or cousin.
Across the nation's immigration courts, children show up without lawyers more than half the time, which makes a huge difference. In about half of the cases in which juveniles have an attorney, the court has allowed them to stay in the U.S., according to the data. In cases in which juveniles did not have a lawyer, 9 out of 10 were ordered deported. Where in the world do illegal immigrant kids find the cash for an attorney?
For children from Central America, a deportation order can mean returning to violence or even death in their birth country, said a Dallas immigration attorney.
Recently, he represented a teen from El Salvador applying for a special immigrant juvenile status. The boy's father abandoned him a few months after his birth, which made the boy more vulnerable to gangs. Especially when he was only a few months old.
He left home to live with an aunt in Texas. "Like so many others like him, he was sent north because he was either going to become predator or prey," the attorney said.
Why on earth would someone becoming a predator want to leave that situation?
That's why many hand-wringing advocates for the immigrant children are alarmed at efforts to move these cases more quickly through the court system. On July 9, a coalition of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a class-action lawsuit for the failure of the federal government to provide juveniles in immigration court with legal representation. Because there are more attorneys than work.
"The situation [in El Salvador] is so difficult," she said in Spanish. "Imagine kids only 12 smoking drugs and getting in gangs. The mothers send their kids here because they fear for the lives of their sons. What are the kids in Detroit and Chicago supposed to do? New York? Newark? L.A.? Between votes, I mean.
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The latest order from Obamas administration: Prioritize and speed up hearings on removal of these unaccompanied minors, whose apprehensions total 57,000 so far this fiscal year.
The sooner they get to vote (D), the better!
And curious how I've seen more than a few articles this last year about people who want to lower the voting age...
Mike
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Issue outstanding warrants for child abandonment and abuse so if their family tries to claim 'reunification' nail them. If it's good enough for the yankees, its good enough for everyone else.
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I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that these deportation hearings should be fairly quick:
Judge: Do you have the proper documentation to be in this country?
Child: No, su senoria.
Judge: You are deported. Bailiff, place him on the next bus. Next case.
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Five years after the recession's end, tens of thousands of Texans are still considered long-term unemployed. Double-dip, anyone? July is Ice Cream Month!
Still considerably fewer as a percent of population than the rest of the Union...
Some Dallas-area residents who were unemployed for 27 weeks or more recently found work. In many cases, the workers found new jobs after making a sacrifice: living away from family, relocating to a new city or state, or training for a job in a new field. Perhaps running out of unemployment benefits?
Very likely. People don't like to make those kinds of sacrifices unless it becomes necessary.
One couple decided the weekend commute was worth a full-time job and a retirement plan with a reputable company. "This move is palatable because I have friends and family in Houston and I'm only three to four hours away from Dallas."
Another wasn't prepared for being jobless for seven months before finding work last summer. The Dallas resident said the experience required "tremendous mental gymnastics." Jeepers! Mental gymnastics?
After watching the economy since 2008, someone wasn't prepared? Goodness.
These are among the 1.2 million people nationwide who have left the ranks of the long-term unemployed in the last 12 months. In Texas, the number fell by 44,000 people from 2012 to 2013, the latest government data available.
More than the rest of the Union, as I recall. Except the fracking fields of North Dakota, I suspect.
While some people have dropped out of the workforce, economists and other labor market observers say others are getting hired as the economy improves and labor shortages crop up in certain industries. Soon to be filed by Central American child laborers.
Long-term unemployment has been a major symptom of the slow U.S. economic recovery. While Texas has regained all of the jobs lost during the 2007-09 recession, long-term joblessness is still higher than before the recession.
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"tremendous mental gymnastics."
(i.e.: jumping to conclusions, leaps of logic, ....)
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It’s possible, Reeves said, that specialized Russian military personnel—"Spetsnaz"—were directly or indirectly involved with the crew that fired the missile.
Also.... "possible" that "specialized Russian military personnel" were involved in the mortar fire at Benghazi, but no one is discussing such a possibility.
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Hello old spook amazing technical capabilities, they knew who it was before it even connected
Hello Thing from Snowy Mountain.... I can well believe putin is a lemon drops making kind of tyrant, hr is quick i'll give him that. But why are they taking the bodies? It is so unnecessary and horrible
And yes... China.
Bill clinton, hello :) why do you think mh370 could be on the ground in se asia? Since the technical assets are so good, even if it disappeared in a blind spot surely the satellites would be able to spot it? It would be intriguing if it were on the ground somewhere and you are right there was no debris.... I always suspected backpack nuke or similar though, something that would vaporise it and thus leave no trace.
Vis a vis Putin, why can't someone just assassinate him or shoot down his jet? Would his backers throw up someone just as bad? Or would it solve the problem?
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Well, when we're not going to do anything about it, I imagine he's going to cash in his "flexibility" credit he has with Obama.
I mean, this is small compared to all he's done to help Iran get the bomb, both by himself and with Obama's help, that the American Voter has decided isn't important.
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We don't just ice Putin because we are not animals and little fascist wannabes. Unlike those Putin and his internet cheerleaders. How you like what your jackbooted Russ nationalist thugs are doing you moronic Russian bigots? Care to admit you cheerleaders were wrong, regurgitating all the Putin propaganda and cheering on the "rebels" who are now looting the corpses of their war crime victims?
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I'll give the Russian media [and their counterpart, our MSM] another 24 hours before they start reporting that an unknown number of MH17 survivors are charging purchases to credit cards in the Ukraine and Russian villages along the border.
[ARABNEWS] Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers.
As Death Eaters kept international monitors away from wreckage and scores of bodies festered for a third day, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... urged the rebels to cooperate and insisted that a UN-mandated investigation must not leap to conclusions. Moscow denies involvement and has pointed a finger at Kiev's military.
The Dutch government, whose citizens made up most of the 298 aboard MH17 from Amsterdam, said it was "furious" at the manhandling of corpses strewn for miles over open country and asked Ukraine's president for help to bring "our people" home.
After US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... said the loss of the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight showed it was time to end the conflict, Germany called it Moscow's last chance to cooperate.
European powers seemed to swing behind Washington's belief Russia's separatist allies were to blame. That might speed new trade sanctions on Moscow, without waiting for definitive proof.
"He has one last chance to show he means to help," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after a telephone call to Putin.
Britannia, which lost 10 citizens, said further sanctions were available for use against Russia. "If Russia is the principal culprit, we can take further action against them and make it clear this kind of sponsored war is completely unacceptable," Defense Minister Michael Fallon told the Mail on Sunday.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , writing in The Sunday Times, said European countries should make their power count in dealing with the Ukraine crisis, "yet we sometimes behave as if we need Russia more than Russia needs us."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , the most powerful figure in the EU, spoke to Putin on Saturday, urging his cooperation. Merkel's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told Bild a.m. Sonntag newspaper: "Moscow may have a last chance now to show that it really is seriously interested in a solution."
"Now is the moment for everyone to stop and think to themselves what might happen if we don't stop the escalation."
Germany, reliant like other EU states on Russian energy and more engaged in Russian trade than the United States, has been reluctant to escalate a confrontation with Moscow that has revived memories of the Cold War. But with military action not seen as an option, economic leverage is a vital instrument.
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And how, exactly, are they going to make him pay when he control's the heat and has the army? Last I checked the EU couldn't even field a force capable of air support in Libya.
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"yet we sometimes behave as if we need Russia more than Russia needs us."
Most likely during heating season.
Mr. Putin will be able to tighten the screws a little more come Oct/Nov unless, of course, American gas can be substituted for Russian (yeah, sure.). Timing is everything.
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You know EUSSR if you'd not listened to Putin-subsidised Greenpeace, Europe could've been well on to fracking enough gas to tell putin to foxtrot-oscar.
[EURONEWS] Observers from the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) said on Friday they had been blocked from proper access to the site of the crashed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.
Monitors said they did not have the freedom of movement they needed and that some of the separatist gunnies appeared intoxicated while others would not let the team look at the wreckage of the passenger jet.
Investigators returned to Donetsk on Friday evening and will try to revisit the area on Saturday.
Meanwhile the Kyiv government has accused separatists — which it calls "terrorists" — of stealing credit cards from the dead bodies. Anton Geraschenko, an advisor to the Ukraine Interior Minister, said:
"Terrorists ransacked belongings of the victims, they took all the money, all the jewels. And what is very important -they took passengers' credit cards, and now via their intercepted talks we can hear they want to withdraw money from these cards. They're considering the possibility of transferring the cards to the Russian Federation to withdraw money. We ask all the victims' relatives to block the cards so that their money can't be used to strengthen terrorism".
Moscow has accused Kyiv of carrying out "information warfare" against Russia.
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Russian thugs. Where's our resident apologist?
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These are among the 1.2 million people nationwide who have left the ranks of the long-term unemployed in the last 12 months. In Texas, the number fell by 44,000 people from 2012 to 2013, the latest government data available.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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