[Breitbart] The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released more than 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children to sponsors in November 2021. Another 13,644 are still detained and await similar transfers.
In November, HHS released an average of 179 children against another 366 apprehended near border crossing points daily — showing little progress on rolling detention totals.
According to HHS, the numbers do not include children from Mexico. In most cases, those are immediately returned.
Findings documented within a recent Congressional Research Service report identify the discontinuance of removals under the Title 42 COVID-19 emergency order as the likely cause of the surge in unaccompanied migrant children. The report found that migrant family units are voluntarily sending their children into the United States alone. Once the minor is in HHS care, the relative will enter and claim the child to begin the family re-unification process.
About 10,980 unaccompanied migrant children entered the United States illegally and were apprehended by CBP in November, down from 12,647 in October. According to CBP, more than 140,000 unaccompanied migrant children were encountered in Fiscal Year 2021.
Health and Human Services previously opened more than a dozen emergency intake sites to deal with the influx of children. These facilities often make use of vacant oilfield man camps and COVID-shuttered convention centers.
Unlicensed facilities have faced criticism due to insufficient staffing, drinking water issues, and COVID-19 protections. Earlier this year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sharply criticized the Biden Administration over conditions at multiple HHS detention facilities, specifically citing a water issue in Midland plus a COVID-19 outbreak in Carrizo Springs.
HHS estimates the cost to detain a child is $775 per day. In other long-term facilities, they indicate that cost to be approximately $275 per day. Based on these estimates and the number of UACs currently in custody, the cost to the American taxpayer stands at more than $3.4 million daily.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain’s special representative to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq Khan has said that Indian wheat and medicines have been allowed to be delivered through Wagah and Torkham crossing points.
Mohammad Sadiq Khan in a series of Tweeter posts said they also allowed Afghan trucks to deliver humanitarian aids.
"Pakistain allowed Indian wheat and medicines to be transported to Afghanistan on a humanitarian basis. This demonstrates the commitment and seriousness of the government of Pakistain to facilitate the purposed humanitarian assistance." Reads a Twitter post.
The special representative also said that the decision was conveyed to Charge d’ Affairs of India at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistain.
Khan added that the Indian diplomat was urged to proceed quickly and take necessary actions in order to deliver humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
Earlier, Indians had complained that Pakistain does not allow them to deliver their allocated humanitarian aids to Afghanistan.
It is still unclear why Pakistain was hindering humanitarian assistance.
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Right. So if Afghans don't have to grow their own wheat they can grow more poppies and then Paks can retail it for them.
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[ToloNews] supreme leader of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, on Friday issued a decree regarding the rights of women in Afghanistan.
The decree, which was released by the spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, Zabiullah Mujahid, stipulated that the relevant institutions must take steps in its implementation.
The decree is comprised of six elements:
"Adult women’s consent is necessary during Nekah/marriage. (Though, both should be equal with no risk of sedition). No one can force women to marry by coercion or pressure."
"woman is not a property, but a noble and free human being; no one can give her to anyone in exchange for peace deal and or to end animosity.
"the death of the husband, ’Sharaie Adat’ (four months and ten nights or pregnancy) passes, no one can marry a widow by force including her relatives. A widow has the right whether to marry and or to determine/ choose her future. (Though, the principle of equality and preventing sedition should be kept into consideration).
"It is the Sharia right a widow, to obtain ’Mahar’ from her new husband. [Mahar is an amount of money specified by the wife and husband during the Nekah to be paid by the husband to the wife.]
"A widow has heritage rights and fixed share in the property of her husband, children, father and relatives, and no one can deprive a widow of her right."
"Those with multi marriage (more than one wife) are obliged to give rights to all women in accordance with Sharia law, and maintain justice between them."
The letter instructed the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Information and Culture, the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... as well as provincial governors and district governors to implement the dictates of the decree and to communicate them to the public.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... decreed Friday that they are banning the forced marriage of women in the war-torn country, in what appears to be a move to address criteria that developed nations consider a precondition to recognize their government and restore aid.
Forced marriages have become more commonplace in the poor, conservative country, as the internally displaced marry off their young daughters in exchange for a bride-price that can be used to pay debts and feed their families.
The announced decree did not mention a minimum age for marriage, which previously was set at 16 years old.
Women in Afghanistan for decades were treated like property _ as an exchange token for blood money or ending disputes or tribal feuds. The Taliban now state they are against the practice.
[Rudaw] Diplomats paused international talks in Vienna Friday aiming at the revival of the 2015 Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... nuclear deal, with European participants "disappointment and concern" after five days of negotiation.
"Tehran is walking back almost all of the difficult compromises crafted after many months of hard work," said senior diplomats from the so-called E3 (Britannia, La Belle France and Germany), referring to the previous rounds of talks between April and June. Quelle surprise!
Delegations from the talks will now return to their national capitals before talks restart in Vienna in the middle of next week "to see whether gaps can be closed or not", the diplomats said.
The E3 "remain fully committed to a diplomatic way forward," they added, but stressed that "time is running out".
The talks are aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, which was initially agreed between Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany Iran, Russia and the United States.
The accord aimed at putting curbs on Iran's nuclear programme to ensure it couldn't develop an atomic weapon, in exchange for sanctions relief for Tehran.
Iran has always insisted that its nuclear programme is peaceful.
The deal began unravelling in 2018 when then US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... pulled out of the deal and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start exceeding limits on its nuclear programme the following year.
Trump's successor Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... has said he wants to re-enter the deal and the US has been participating in this week's talks indirectly.
'DRAGGING THEIR FEET'
On Thursday the US had already issued a warning about the prospects for an agreement.
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that it was "not too late for Iran to reverse course" but insisted it could not "sustain the status quo of building their nuclear programme while dragging their feet on talks".
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had used a call with Blinken to call for the "immediate cessation" of the nuclear talks, accusing Iran of "nuclear blackmail".
The talks had resumed in the Austrian capital on Monday after Iran paused them in June following the election of ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi.
During this week's talks Iran had submitted two draft proposals on sanctions lifting and nuclear-related measures.
The head of the Iranian delegation Ali Bagheri told the IRNA news agency Friday that the proposals were evidence "of our serious will to reach an agreement".
But acknowledging the frosty reception they had met with from the Europeans, he added: "I told them it's normal that we're not presenting documents and suggestions which correspond to your points of view".
European diplomats said there was "no path forward" based on the Iranian proposals.
The talks could resume in the middle of next week but speaking on a trip to the Gulf, French President Emmanuel Macron hinted that there could be a longer break before negotiators reconvene.
In a telephone call with EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the talks were going well "but slowly on all tracks".
"We think that a good agreement is possible but that requires a change of approach by certain parties who must drop their threatening language and opt for texts focused on cooperation, mutual respect and results," the minister said.
Speaking after the end of Friday's talks, China's ambassador to the UN in Vienna Wang Qun struck a more positive note, saying that "all parties have reengaged themselves in very substantive terms".
He told news hounds outside the Palais Coburg hotel where the talks have been taking place that he hoped the pause in talks "will help to provide further political impetus to the negotiations".
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Can we imagine that Trump was right about the Iranians?
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Bright light being seen in the sky near the Natanz facility in the Badroud region
Regime confirmed blast was part of a missile test for Iran's air defense system
It comes as talks over returning to nuclear deal continue to be held in Vienna
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Air defense test.. could be.
A more entertaining explanation is the perfidious Juice sent in a single drone so they could gather electronic signatures when the Persians lit up their radars. Stuff like that will be handy for future 'negotiations'.
[Rudaw] German prosecutors on Thursday called for life in prison for a former Syrian intelligence services colonel accused of crimes against humanity in the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
Anwar Raslan, 58, is accused of overseeing the murder of 58 people and the torture of 4,000 others at the al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus between April 29, 2011 and September 7, 2012.
He sought refuge in Germany after deserting the Syrian regime in 2012.
Raslan was put on trial in April 2020 along with another lower-ranking defendant, Eyad al-Gharib, accused of helping to arrest protesters and deliver them to al-Khatib.
Al-Gharib was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in February for complicity in crimes against humanity, in the first verdict worldwide over torture by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's government.
The case against the two men was brought using the legal principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows offences to be prosecuted even if they were committed in a foreign country.
Raslan worked for 18 years in the Syrian intelligence services, where he rose through the ranks to become head of the domestic intelligence "investigation" service, according to a German investigator who testified at the opening of the trial.
Prosecutors say he oversaw rape and sexual abuse, "electric shocks", beatings with "fists, wires and whips" and "sleep deprivation" at the prison.
Since the opening of the trial, more than a dozen Syrian men and women now living across Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... have taken the stand to testify about the abuses they endured there.
They have reported flogging, electric shocks, cigarette burns and blows to the genitals. Some say they were hung by the wrists, with only the tips of their feet still touching the ground.
Images of dead Syrians smuggled out of the country by a photographer known as "Caesar" have also been used as evidence in the trial.
Raslan has repeatedly denied any responsibility, stating that he had "neither beaten nor tortured" prisoners and had "never acted inhumanely".
He said he "did not and would not condone" the abuses committed by the Syrian regime and felt "regret and compassion" for all the victims.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, at least 60,000 people have been killed under torture or as a result of the terrible conditions in Assad's detention centres.
[IsraelTimes] Omri Goren tells news hounds: ’Who says it was Iranians? It was hackers on Telegram’; detention extended till January as formal remand hearing postponed
Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s house cleaner, who has been charged with attempting to spy on the minister on behalf of Iran, on Thursday challenged the accusation that the Iranians were behind the espionage.
Omri Goren appeared via video link at the Lod District Court for a remand hearing, which was postponed as his defense attorney claimed that he has not been provided with all of the case material. The remand hearing was delayed until the beginning of January, but the court ordered that Goren nonetheless behind kept in jug till then.
Before the start of the hearing, and under unclear circumstances, news hounds managed to address Goren on video as he waited for the court session to start.
A Channel 12 news news hound asked him why he had sought to spy for Iran.
"Who says it was the Iranians? It was hackers on Telegram," Goren responded. Reporters were then apparently prevented from asking any further questions.
Attorney Gal Wolf, Goren’s representative from the public defender’s office, told the court that Goren was being held as a national security offense prisoner and has not been permitted to make any phone calls.
Wolf told media that the hearing was delayed because he has still not received all of the case material which, he said, was "trickling in."
"This is inconceivable — to take a person and put him in solitary confinement as a kind of punishment and not allow him external communication — and certainly not with his defense attorneys," Wolf said.
The Shin Bet security service revealed last month that it had arrested Goren — a convicted bank robber who has served multiple prison terms — for allegedly offering to spy on Gantz for Iran.
Goren was hired before Gantz became defense minister, and it appeared that the Shin Bet never looked into his background. Gantz was chief of staff of the IDF before he entered politics.
According to the Shin Bet, Goren reached out in November to "a figure affiliated with Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and offered to help him in different ways, in light of his access to the minister’s home."
In an indictment against Goren, the figure was identified as a representative of Black Shadow, which carried out a major cyberattack on Israeli civilian websites last month, including stealing data from a popular Israeli LGBT dating site.
Though the charge sheet did not explicitly deal with Goren’s motives, it indicated that he was acting out of financial considerations, allegedly telling the group that he would "transfer information from the house to [Black Shadow] in exchange for a sum of money."
According to the indictment, he took photographs of Gantz’s desk, computer, phone and tablet; a closed safe and a shredder; pictures of Gantz and his family; and a copy of the minister’s local property tax payments.
Channel 12 News has reported that Goren reached out to Black Shadow on the Telegram messaging app using a fake identity, and said he worked for the defense minister and could help the hacking outfit in various ways. He reportedly asked for $7,000 to spy on Gantz.
Wolf has said his client admitted to some of the offenses he was accused of, but denied carrying out the security-related crimes attributed to him.
The attorney told The Times of Israel last month that his client "was not exposed to any security-related materials" while working in Gantz’s home — echoing the Shin Bet security service’s claim.
[An Nahar] At 28, Thurayya left behind the Beirut neighborhood where she was born and moved to the family farm, not because of environmental concerns but forced there by Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... 's bruising crises."Living in the city has become very miserable," she told AFP from the lush south Lebanon farmland planted with avocado trees that is now her home.
"The quiet violence of city life sucks you dry of energy, of money... It was just too much."
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I imagine the same type of thing happened in classical Rome as it fell. City dwellers bugged out for the sticks - and stayed there for centuries as it turned out. Roman legions went freelance when their salaries stopped coming from on high.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Rudaw] German prosecutors on Thursday called for life in prison for a former Syrian intelligence services colonel accused of crimes against humanity in the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
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