[Breitbart] A three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed Tuesday illegal aliens do not have Second Amendment rights.
They did so by pointing to United States v. Portillo-Munoz, “which prohibits an illegal alien from possessing a firearm or ammunition.”
This prohibition was challenged by Defendant-Appellant Jose Paz Medina-Cantu, who was arrested July 13, 2022, for ” possession of a firearm and ammunition as an illegal alien…and illegal reentry into the United States.” Medina-Cantu argued that the firearm charges should be dismissed in light of Bruen (2022), but the Fifth Circuit explained that Bruen did not alter the prohibition contained in Portillo-Munoz.
The three-judge panel noted, “Portillo-Munoz… is constitutional under the Second Amendment, reasoning that the phrase ‘the people’ in the Second Amendment does not include aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”
They also noted Rahimi (2024) did not remove Portillo-Munoz’s prohibition against illegal aliens possessing firearms.
Breitbart News pointed to a July 31, 2024, supplemental letter brief in which the U.S. Government contended that “illegal aliens” do not have Second Amendment rights.
The supplemental letter brief was submitted in response to a “directive to address the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Rahimi (2024).”
In the July 31, 2024, supplemental letter brief submitted by the DOJ, the U.S. Government contends that the prohibitions related to “illegal aliens” and firearms, contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A), remain constitutional:
The U.S. Government observed: “Nothing in Rahimi undermines this Court’s reasoning. To the contrary, the Supreme Court in Rahimi emphasized what its prior precedents observed: the Second Amendment extends to ‘ordinary citizens.’”
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
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Taking that line of reasoning to its logical conclusion.... if you do not have expectation of the rights of citizens, then you have no need of a court hearing before your deportation, since you have no right to be adjudged! Backlog solved, illegal means you leave, PERIOD!
Front door only, and ask permission, pass a background check and bring KSA's of value to our nation when you apply! Oh and if you tried to gt in illegally, end of the very long line. If you are already deported and caught again....NEVER even a visit.
“Don’t you dare even think of learning to defend yourselves against those beloved of Allah! Your only job is to know yourselves rightfully conquered in Allah’s name, and to obey.”
[GEOTV] Afghanistan's Taliban ...Arabic for students... government has banned mixed martial arts (MMA), as per their sports authority's statement issued on Wednesday.
The order was passed down by Afghanistan's morality police in the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after an investigation into the sport's compliance with their own interpretation of Islamic law, the statement and local media said.
"It was found that the sport is problematic with respect to sharia and it has many aspects which are contradictory to the teachings of Islam," the Taliban government sports authority said in a statement sent to AFP.
"That's why this decision has been made to ban mixed martial arts in Afghanistan."
A sports authority official told local media MMA was banned in part because it was considered too violent mostly peaceful and posed the risk of injury or death.
The Taliban authorities returned to power in 2021, implementing their strict interpretation of "Islamic law".
They recently ratified a morality law formalising many rules on behaviour and dress, including that men must not wear shorts above the knee.
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They're 'bothered' by strong, sweaty, half-clothed men grappling? Seems like some latency isn't so latent.
[BBC] A vessel suspected by the Namibian authorities to be carrying military cargo intended for Israeli use in the ongoing war in Gaza has been blocked from docking in the southern African country.
Namibian Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab told state media the ship was stopped because it had “explosive material destined for Israel".
The MV Kathrin, which set off from Vietnam, had requested permission to dock in the port of Walvis Bay – before sailing north, on a suspected route towards the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar.
Rights groups had warned that Namibia could have been implicated in potential human rights violations had it allowed the vessel to dock.
It is not known why the ship wanted to dock, but vessels on long journeys tend to stop for supplies, respite or to offload or take on cargo.
Last December, Namibia’s neighbour and ally South Africa launched an ongoing case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel rejects the allegation of genocide as "baseless".
The conflict began after Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
The Israeli military then launched a campaign to destroy Hamas and more than 40,430 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
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Walvis Bay is Namibia’s largest commercial port, receiving nearly 900 vessels and handling about eight million tonnes of cargo per year, according to the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport).
The MV Kathrin, which was set to dock at Walvis Bay on Monday from Vietnam, was stopped in accordance with Namibia's support for the Palestinian people and the country’s call for an end to the violence in Gaza, Ms Dausab told the state-run New Era news website.
Citing a police investigation, Ms Dausab said the vessel was "indeed carrying explosive material destined for Israel, and was therefore prohibited from entering Namibian waters".
“Namibia complies with our obligation not to support or be complicit in Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, as well as its unlawful occupation of Palestine,” she said.
Namibian human rights organisation the Economic and Social Justice Trust (ESJT) welcomed the move.
"We are pleased that our government has decided to respect international law and decided not to be complicit to genocide," ESJT's Herbert Jauch told the BBC.
Namport has not responded to the BBC for comment about the MV Kathrin. Before Ms Dausab’s statement it said it had not received pre-clearance documentation for the ship.
The agency however pledged to ensure "effective safety and security of our territorial waters and ports".
It also said it supported Namibia's "standing and position on international relations and protocols".
Namport said it had recently allowed another vessel carrying "dangerous cargo" to pass through Namibian waters, but not to dock.
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[KavkazUzel] This year, 69 children who arrived from Palestine will go to Dagestani schools; more than a million rubles are needed for their school clothes, the Nadezhda foundation reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, there are 195 Palestinian refugees in Dagestan, including 97 children. 137 people received passports of Russian citizens, the Ministry of Labor of Dagestan reported, announcing the employment of eight refugees. The department emphasized that the refugees are fully provided with clothing and basic necessities, and also reported that more than 20 million rubles have been allocated for food and accommodation for Palestinian refugees since November 2023.
A total 69 children who arrived from Palestine will go to school this year, the Nadezhda Foundation reported today. "They need school clothes. Unfortunately, they do not have the opportunity to buy them themselves," the foundation's Telegram channel said.
The foundation has announced a fundraiser for school uniforms; the required amount is 1,112,000 rubles, the statement says.
Let us recall that on April 18 it became known that the Dagestan authorities will have to provide accommodation for another 200 refugees from Palestine. The Russian government had previously adopted a resolution on this. In total, the republics of the North Caucasus, according to this resolution, will have to accommodate 812 refugees from Palestine.
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.
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