[InsideHigherEd] Opening up the college-prep programs to undocumented students has been a priority for years. But some administrators say the political climate is too fraught to make such a change now.
"Nearly 100,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools each year, and they can’t access federal college-prep programs because of a decades-old federal law. The Education Department is proposing to open up those programs to noncitizens, a long-sought priority for advocacy groups and higher education associations,” said Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, a nonprofit focused on raising awareness about how immigration policies affect students and colleges. I wonder what Mike Rowe would think about this lifeline to our indoctrination centers?
#4
Yep. We had them back in '19nn'.
Unengaged students only in town and class when their parents were picking a seasonal crop.
Paired with a tutor/mentor student who functioned mostly as a caretaker.
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they can’t access federal college-prep programs because of a decades-old federal law.
That pesky old "law" thing
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Yes, taxpayers must help get them into college so they can apply for college loans that will be forgiven pushed off onto the taxpayer for repayment.
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We used to be better at bringing students with no English up to speed rapidity through immersion. Now the immersion is into social engineering instead of academics.
The graduation rate for illegals is low for those who are enrolled in school and not working as slaves of one sort or another. To goose the graduation rates, academic standards are reduced. One of my children was in a special education tract in California schools. The classes were full of Spanish speaking kids that weren’t motivated. They were just be rolled down the assembly line and out the door with a diploma.
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Gummint schools are not about educating children. They are strictly job mills for educrats and a source of union money for leftist politics.
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@ #2 & #3: In light of recent developments with "immigration," the trend is not our friend.
The Melnea Cass Recreational Center in Roxbury has been closed to the local community and will now serve as home to 400 migrants
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, and the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, toured the site on Wednesday and said they had little choice
Local residents are angry about being forced from their sports center and say they do not know where they will hold their usual training sessions Hold ‘em in the street like you did in the old days before the politicians decided to value your vote.
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Definite NIMBY selection here; there's a huge state-owned convention center on Boylston Street that they passed on. Could've used the smaller convention center in the Seaport section too.
#1
Now they can order lots of slices of Pizza and check out remote islands of joy together...
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Given Podesta’s long and intimate connection to the Clintons, and given the recent, unprecedented quarter-billion ad buy for the Biden re-election campaign, does this suggest the lessening of the Obama/Marxist ideologues dominance of the Puppet Show that is the Biden/Harris Administration and the rise in influence and access to power/money that is always the aim of the Cintonista Kleptocrats and the CGI crew. Polling and time suggest Biden is politically done, even given all the tricks of media support and the power of incumbency, but there is still a year for further looting of the treasury as 2024 winds down, and there are Black Swan events and games yet to be played out in the courts and world stage. Merely supposition on my part given the open source news available, but OSINT is often prescient, and my opining is worth exactly what you pay for it!
#3
One of my all time favorite conspiracy theories involves John Podesta. It may be far fetch but then, he is close to the Clintons and they were close to Jeffrey Epstein.
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When we do the research, we find its not a conspiracy theory. But truth...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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[IsraelTimes] Prosecution recommends prison sentence of 8-14 months and fine of between $4,000 and $40,000; judge to decide on sentence in June
Elliot Resnick, the onetime editor of a Jewish newspaper who claimed that he was at the Capitol riot to cover it, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge for joining the attackers and obstructing a police officer.
"Did you do what the government stated?" US District Judge Rudolph Contreras asked the former editor of the Jewish Press who stood, subdued, alongside his lawyer in the courtroom, a 10-minute walk away from the Capitol he and hundred of other rioters besieged on Jan. 6, 2021 in a bid to overturn Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... ’s presidential election.
"Yes, I did, your honor," said Resnick, a 40-year-old New Yorker, who was clad in a black suit and black yarmulke.
Under a plea agreement the prosecution filed at the hearing, the prosecution and the defense agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 8-14 months and a fine between $4,000 and $40,000, in part because Resnick has no criminal record.
Contreras, who is not bound by the plea agreement, reserved sentencing for June 12, after he receives a report from the probation office. The maximum sentence for the charge, obstruction of law enforcement, is five years and three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
Resnick has already agreed to pay $2,000 restitution to the Architect of the Capitol, his part of the damages incurred that day. The prosecution also agreed not to charge Resnick with other charges related to his actions on Jan. 6.
Contreras released Resnick on his own recognizance. Appointed to the court by President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... in 2012, Contreras is not known to be harsh sentencer. On Tuesday, he sentenced another Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police to 2.5 years in prison.
Resnick and his lawyer, Clay Kaminsky, declined to comment as they left the court.
Prosecutor Sean Murphy, seated alongside Erica Tobin, the FBI agent who wrote the charging document, read parts of the document out loud.
Using video evidence and the testimony of police, Dobin wrote that Resnick held the arm of a police officer attempting to use chemical irritant to repel the rioters. The agent alleged that Resnick attempted to open doors for rioters to follow him, even when a police officer was trying to keep the door closed, and that he beckoned rioters to follow him and that he pulled rioters in through an open door.
After video emerged of his presence of the Capitol, Resnick and The Jewish Press, the Brooklyn-based tabloid where he worked from 2006-2021, the last three years as editor, said that he was covering the riot. Just months after that claim the newspaper let him go without explanation.
Resnick’s low-key affect in the courtroom contrasted with his in-your-face social media, podcasting and writing style. He has a history of using incendiary language and has called the gay rights movement "evil." Under Resnick’s editorship, the Jewish Press, which says it presents "Torah values and ideals from a centrist or Modern Orthodox perspective," was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League in 2019 after publishing an op-ed titled "The Pride Parade: What Are They Proud Of?" which compared marchers in the New York City event to animals, adulterers and thieves.
He also has a history of derogatory statements about Black people, and more recently has complained about how his Jan. 6 experience has inhibited his dating life.
[DC] Shifted to Government Corruption. She'll be lucky if she's employable. Looks like Atlanta's Dem legal system's imploding
Business partners of District Attorney Fani Willis’ alleged lover Nathan Wade, whom she appointed to work on the case against former President Donald Trump, made donations to her campaign before receiving lucrative contracts from her office.
Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former partner, and Christopher Campbell, his current partner, have collectively contributed more than $5,000 to Willis’ campaign, contribution disclosure reports show. Moreover, both men have each raked in tens of thousands of dollars from contracts with the district attorney’s office, according to county records.
Campbell is a partner at Wade & Campbell Firm, where he works with Wade. Bradley formerly worked with Wade at Wade, Bradley & Campbell Firm, and also represented Wade in his divorce case until Sept. 2022.
The donations add another wrinkle to Willis’ already-scrutinized relationship with Wade.
Willis was accused in a motion earlier this month by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman of benefiting from the “lucrative” contract she awarded Wade when he took her on vacations using money earned from the position. Wade filed to divorce his wife on Nov. 2, 2021, the day after his contract with the district attorney’s office began, and has earned nearly $700,000 from the Fulton County District Attorney’s office since his appointment.
Moreover, bank statements contained in filings in Wade’s divorce case show he purchased tickets in Willis’ name to Miami and San Francisco, with the Miami purchase occurring on the same day that Wade made payments to a luxury cruise line.
Legal experts previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the circumstances surrounding the contracts for Wade’s business partner raise further concern about Willis’ use of public funds.
Bradley made three donations to Willis’ campaign: $1,000 in June 2020, $550 in October 2020 and $2,500 in June 2023, according to campaign disclosure reports.
Meanwhile, the district attorney’s office paid Bradley $74,480 between May 2021 and June 2022, according to county records. It remains unclear what work he was doing during that period. (RELATED: Law Firm Representing Trump Co-Defendant Sues Fani Willis’ Office For Alleged Failure To Disclose Records)
Campbell, who donated $1,000 to Willis’ campaign in June 2020, contracted with the district attorney’s office in January 2021 to provide services as a “taint attorney” for $150 an hour, according to the contract obtained by the DCNF. Taint attorneys sift through documents obtained from a search warrant and filter out privileged evidence to prevent it from being passed to prosecutors.
Under a separate contract from March 1, 2021 to April 30, 2021, Willis also brought Campbell on to work at $65 an hour as a “First Appearance Attorney” who represents the district attorney’s office at the first hearing held for defendants within 72 hours of arrest.
Campbell has earned a total of $126,070 from the district attorney’s office since 2021, according to county records.
The other two attorneys Willis contracted with to work on the Trump case as special prosecutors also donated to her campaign.
Anna Cross contributed $250 in May 2020. She earned $37,729 from the district attorney’s office between July 2022 and September 2022, according to billing statements.
County data shows her firm, The Cross Firm LLC, earned close to $48,000 since 2022.
John Floyd, a racketeering expert who contracted with the district attorney’s office in March 2021, has donated a total of $6,307 to Willis’ campaign. Most donations were made in 2020 before his contract began, except for one $258 donation he made in December 2023.
His firm has made just over $90,000 from the district attorney’s office since 2022, according to county data.
Other attorneys at Floyd’s firm, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, also made donations to Willis. A founding partner, Emmet Bondurant, gave $255 in June 2020. Matthew Sellers, an associate, gave $500 in 2020.
Willis falsely stated during remarks at Big Bethel AME Church that she paid all three special prosecutors on the Trump case the same hourly rate. Billing statements and contracts obtained by the DCNF show Wade was paid more than Floyd.
Willis must file a response to Roman’s motion by Friday. Judge Scott McAfee will consider the allegations during a hearing on Feb. 15.
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So my man’s contract was a kickback on the kickback. Looks like both their careers are headed towards the flaming dumpster. He will likely end up living in a trailer or cell block. Hope he saved some toothpick umbrellas to commemorate the cruises.
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she'll be fine. Remember, this is Atlanta.
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02/01/2024 10:02 Comments ||
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[NYPost] A watchdog group is demanding documents from the Biden administration after whistleblowers alleged that a regulation is under development that would effectively ban private gun sales.
The group, Empower Oversight, said Wednesday that two sources have claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is preparing to propose a rule requiring background checks for most or all gun sales.
President Biden has campaigned for stricter gun laws and in August proposed a regulation to clarify that people who “repetitively” sell guns must register as federally licensed gun dealers subject to background checks.
The revised rule purportedly being crafted by the ATF would be even broader, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt said in a series of posts on X.
Empower Oversight “has learned through whistleblowers within ATF that at the direction of the White House, ATF has drafted a 1,300-page document to justify a rule effectively banning the private sale of firearms,” Leavitt wrote.
“The whistleblowers say the rule is being drafted by Senior Policy Counsel Eric Epstein, who worked as the Phoenix Field Office’s Division Counsel during Operation Wide Receiver (a precursor of Operation Fast and Furious).”
Leavitt added: “Such a sweeping rule with the effect of banning private sales would clearly violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which declares that ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'”
Empower Oversight sent a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to the Justice Department and ATF seeking additional information, including communications with the White House and any Epstein emails involving the alleged plan.
Federally licensed dealers must conduct background checks by entering gun-buyer information into the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Although the precise wording of the pending proposal wasn’t released, the whistleblower concern stems from the fact that some sellers might be unable to easily access NICS or unaware of the need to do so, putting themselves in legal jeopardy.
The ATF already has interpreted a 2022 bipartisan gun law enacted after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school as expanding who must register as a federally licensed dealer to include people who repetitively sell guns “to predominantly earn a profit.”
Previously, the registration only applied to sellers who had “the principal objective of livelihood and profit.”
It’s unclear what carveouts — such as for family gun transfers — may be included in the alleged pending ATF regulation, which would have to undergo a public notice and comment period.
It also is unclear what would become of the current proposed regulation that would ratify the ATF’s interpretation of the bipartisan reform law.
The public comment period for that rule ended Dec. 8 — with more than 370,000 contributions.
#5
Y'all keep saying it won't stand up in court. Well, him canceling student loan forgiveness didn't, and he's doing it anyway and gets on TV and brags about it. Shit don't work anymore, get your heads out of the sand.
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What I'd to see is a free anonymous stolen weapon online database. Which would at least allow a means to filter stolen firearm sales by honest buyers.
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And it will sit, rotting in the 9th circuit as they bypass the en banc panel and go straight for the full court where it will never be on the docket. Just like the other cases Bieneto ruled against. They know if it gets to the SC, all those gun laws will be dead.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
