Most Americans will agree that if a person is truly challenged by a debilitating psychiatric condition, they should not have a gun. Now, I’m not referring to people living with PTSD that is under control, or eating disorders. But if someone is suffering from paranoid delusions, or has schizophrenia, or some similar condition, then they probably shouldn’t own a gun.
The American Bar Association voted to postpone a vote to adopt “affirmative consent” as the organization’s standard going forward. If adopted, the organization would pressure state legislatures to adopt the same standard, effectively ending the presumption of innocence and force the accused to prove a negative.
Several left-wing groups from Massachusetts are organizing two canvassing trips down to North Carolina to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready ahead of his special election on September 10th.
Alix Smullin, a longtime "political activist" who has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates including $1,970 to McCready’s campaign, is organizing two trips on the progressive online platform, Action Network, which is used by progressive groups and activists to organize events around the United States.
The first trip will be August 23rd through the 25th. The second trip will be September 5th through the 10th.
"Travel to Waxhaw, NC to Canvass for Dan McCready (NC-09) ahead of the September 10 special election," the event details read. "Dan McCready’s redo election in NC-09 on September 10 is the most important Congressional election of 2019. Early voting begins on August 21. Join others from the Boston area for the campaign’s big push weekend canvassing to Get Out the Vote."
"Waxhaw is very close to Charlotte and the areas we will canvass are suburban neighborhoods with many transplants from the Northeast," the event details continue. "We will coordinate the canvassers from MA to maximize efficiency of travel, car rental, and housing – and to make sure we also have a great time!"
Some of the groups sponsoring the trips are the Greater Boston and North Shore/Cape Ann chapters of Swing Left. The Swing Left PAC launched in response to Hillary’s Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign and is dedicated to helping Democratic politicians in swing districts.
During the second quarter of 2019, Swing Left received $50,000 from Hillary Clinton’s 501(c)4 non-profit, Onward Together, which is dedicated to "advancing progressive values." The PAC also received $45,000 from actress Meryl Streep, $495,000 from billionaire Nicholas Pritzker, and $250,000 from hedge fund manager Aaron Sosnick, according to the FEC website.
The canvassing trip down to North Carolina is also sponsored by the Massachusetts Statewide chapter of Indivisible, which is a national progressive "grassroots" groups dedicated to fighting against "racism, authoritarianism, and corruption." Indivisible, which organized multiple manufactured chaotic Republican town halls in 2017, was one of the progressive groups who put pressure on the 2020 Democratic candidates to support the decriminalization of illegal border crossings. The group also put pressure on House Democrats earlier this year to investigate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District is currently vacant after supporters of Republican candidate Mark Harris committed election fraud, resulting in the state election board not certifying the results of the 2018 election. Harris would go on to lose to state representative Dan Bishop in the Republican primary. McCready was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
"The most recently released poll in this race, conducted in mid-July, came from McCready’s campaign," according to RollCall. "It showed the race tied, with each candidate at 46 percent."
Looks like those folks who thought they could breathe easily are going to have to think again… Via The Sun: JEFFREY Epstein kept “meticulously detailed” diaries of his friendships which could come back to haunt his powerful pals, reports claim. The billionaire paedo, who died from an apparent suicide on Saturday, was once friends with […]
Roughly 150 locals attended an August 12 job fair to apply for jobs at the Koch Foods’ plants in Mississippi.
The fair was run after the August 7 removal of 243 alleged illegal migrants in two of the company’s chicken processing plants, according to local authorities.
The local Jackson Clarion-Ledger newspaper reported 25 to 30 people went to the job fair in Forest, Mississippi. The report said:
Kamerio Whitley, a resident of the nearby town of Morton, spoke to reporters after he left the building. He said there were several positions available at the plant, including forklift operators.
Whitley said he applied for a job working at the plant’s rehang table, where workers hang frozen chickens.
The job starts at $12 an hour, which is decent pay for the area, Whitley said. “That’s not bad to start, and it can always go up,” he said.
The company is also trying to hire workers with online ads. Local officials made sure the hiring process complied with federal hiring regulations, according to WAPT 16.
Koch Foods is not part of the Koch brothers’ network of energy companies.
“By 10 a.m., a crowd of dozens was on hand … Most were black and spoke with accents from the American South. A few appeared white or Hispanic,” AP reported. The news service continued:
The 25-year-old [Eddie Nicholson] has worked in chicken plants before and was considering a return, but wanted to see if wages had gone up. Plants in recent years have typically paid $11 to $12 an hour, according to labor statistics, but Nicholson said he wants $15 an hour.
Like Nicholson, many who applied Monday were chicken plant veterans. They understand the arduous and sometimes dangerous work of slaughtering, butchering and packaging chicken, from hanging up live chickens, to pulling off skin, to cutting with super-sharp knives, to boxing up chicken, much of it done in near-freezing temperatures. The line moves fast and people repeat the same motions over and over.
“It’s definitely hard,” said Cedric Griffith of Magee, who said he’s been working at McDonald’s after getting fired from another chicken processor for missing too many days. “You’re going to lose of lot of weight. Nine times out of 10, when that week is over, you’re tired.”
The area’s unemployment is high, and the wages are low.
From 2000 to 2009, the labor-force participation rate in Mississippi dropped by 9 percent, according to an August 8 report from Krikorian’s CIS. The drop from 78 percent to 69 percent leaves 494,000 U.S.-born adults out of the workforce in 2019, said the report, titled “The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the First Quarter of 2019.”
Federal data from 2018 shows that half of the meat cutters in the state were being paid less than $12.23 per hour.
But wages have spiked upwards for Americans when employers were forced to give up their illegal workforces. Enforcement actions aided African-American bakers in Chicago and Somali refugees in Iowa and throughout the Midwest after the 2006 enforcement at the Swift & Co. meatpacking company.
AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka sides with the illegal migrants at the Miss. meatpackers, b/c progressives control the labor movement. https://t.co/91hVR6ZqtB
Also, the processing firms have been under pressure to raise wages in President Donald Trump’s go-go economy. In May, for example, Sanderson Farms offered $15 an hour wage to workers after June 2. “Sanderson Farms has about 15,000 workers in Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas. About 13,000 [earn] hourly wages,” AP reported.
But MSNBC’s correspondent Marian Atencio suggested that only Latinos can do the slaughterhouse jobs, saying, “This is pretty grueling work at these poultry plants and … poultry is an industry that has become — as many of these industries that rely on low skilled workers — dependent on Latin American immigration.”
However, at least two U.S. poultry plants are investing in European made-made machinery to make their legal workforces more productive. The extra productivity will allow the worker to do more work and get paid more. In Frederick, Pa., Bell & Evans is using machinery made by a Dutch firm, Myen, to build a 560,000-square-foot which can process 2.6 million birds per week. In Harrisonburg, Shenandoah Valley Organic is working with Meyn to upgrade its 65,000-square-foot facility.
JBS, a huge Bazilian-owned meat processor, has already developed advanced meat processing technology for use in labor-short Australia.
Immigration Numbers:
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. This total includes roughly 800,000 Americans who graduate with skilled degrees in business or health care, engineering or science, software or statistics.
But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately 1 million H-1B workers and spouses — plus roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it transfers wages to investors and ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
The cheap-labor economic strategy also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Joe Biden comes out against worksite enforcement by ICE because they are “cruel policies” for illegal migrants & their children. But enforcement of the nation’s worksite laws is vital for Americans and their children — and Americans get to vote in 2020. https://t.co/ZOs0JyQZlw
President Donald Trump jumped on Twitter Tuesday morning to encourage former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling to make a run for Congress in the Grand Canyon State.
Schilling, who had a long Major League Baseball career and appeared in the World Series for both the Diamondbacks and the Boston Red Sox, recently told the Arizona Republic that he is “absolutely” considering a run for Congress from Arizona.
In a conversation with the Republic, Schilling did not say which district he is targeting, but he said he is making plans.
“Not ready to do any of that right now. If/When things solidify I will but right now it’s something in the ‘I’m considering it’ stage,” Schilling told the paper of his early plans.
“The state is not the state I grew up in. Making Arizona citizens of EVERY Race, religion and sexual orientation 2nd class citizens to illegal immigrants is about as anti-American as it gets,” Schilling added. “When you have homeless veterans, children, and you’re spending tax dollars on people smuggling drugs and children across our border someone in charge needs their ass kicked.”
Schilling told the paper that he had not made any public statements until their conversation but noted that he was looking at running for “one of the blue” congressional districts.
“It’s something that my wife and I have talked about,” Schilling said, “and she’s now becoming more and more pumped at the potential. Obviously, we’re still quite a few discussions away, but yeah, it’s something we’re absolutely considering.”
As soon as the news broke, President Donald Trump jumped to Twitter to encourage Schilling to run for Congress, and said the idea was “terrific.”
Curt Schilling, a great pitcher and patriot, is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Terrific! @foxandfriends
What should we do with
illegal aliens who break local criminal laws?
Most people would agree
that, once they’ve served their time, they should be removed from the country
rather than sent back into the community where they can commit more crimes.
But the Legal Aid
Justice Center of Falls Church, Virginia, disagrees. So when Culpeper County
Sheriff Scott Jenkins turned Francisco Guardado Rios over to the Department of
Homeland Security, the center filed a class action lawsuit against the sheriff,
claiming his actions violated the Fourth and 14th Amendments to the
Constitution.
Thankfully, a federal
judge has now thrown out that suit. Here’s how it went
down.
In August of 2017, Rios
was arrested for driving without a license and contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. The Culpeper County Jail then received a detainer from U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an administrative arrest warrant for Rios
from the Department of Homeland Security, as there was “probable cause to
believe Rios was a removable alien.”
The detainer asked the
jail to notify ICE at least 48 hours before Rios’ release, and requested that the
jail also maintain custody of the alien “for a period NOT TO EXCEED 48 HOURS
beyond the time when he/she would otherwise have been released from custody to
allow [the Department of Homeland Security] to assume custody.”
Further, the
administrative warrant directed immigration officers to arrest Rios and take him
into custody “for removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act.”
Rios was convicted of
contributing to the delinquency of a minor. After serving his sentence in the
Culpeper County Jail, he was held for an additional two days by Jenkins before
being turned over to ICE agents.
Rios claimed that being held in custody after completing his sentence violated his constitutional rights. He alleged that Jenkins had held nearly 100 other illegal aliens past their release dates in 2017 and 2018, based on ICE detainers.
Senior District Judge
Glen E. Conrad ruled, however, that Jenkins acted lawfully in cooperating with Homeland
Security.
A key factor was the
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2013 ruling in Santos v. Frederick County
Board of Commissioners. The court held
that state and local authorities can’t arrest or detain an illegal alien based
solely on an immigration charge “absent federal direction or
authorization.”
The judge noted that Rios
was arrested for committing a local crime, not an immigration violation, and that
Homeland Security had, indeed, provided the sheriff with specific “federal
direction” and “authorization” to detain him.
Further, he observed
that no federal court of appeals has “held that it would violate the Fourth
Amendment to comply with an ICE detainer and administrative warrant.”
Rios’ lawyers argued
that Culpeper County could not comply with a detainer warrant because it had no
written agreement with Homeland Security (such as exists under the 287(g)
program) to do so. Under the 287(g)
program, local law
enforcement can enter into a “memorandum of agreement” with the Department of
Homeland Security to assist the agency in identifying and detaining illegal
aliens. Homeland Security then provides
training and other resources to the local agency.
But Conrad rejected that
argument, too. Even without a written agreement, he said, “local law
enforcement officials may cooperate with ICE in the detention or removal of
aliens not lawfully present in the United States … when such cooperation is
expressly ‘request[ed]’ or authorized by ICE.”
Further, Conrad stated,
Rios and other detained illegal aliens have no claim under the 14th Amendment
because “the due process clause is not the proper lens through which to
evaluate the validity of Rios’ continued detention at the request of ICE.
‘Compared to the ‘more generalized notion’ of due process, the Fourth Amendment
‘provides an explicit textual source of constitutional protection.’”
Rios’ final claim was
that he was “falsely imprisoned in violation of Virginia law.” Because Conrad
held there was no federal cause of action, he declined to exercise jurisdiction
over this state law claim. Instead, he
dismissed that claim without prejudice, meaning that Rios can file a new lawsuit
in state court making that claim, if he wishes to do so.
When
local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,
they create de facto sanctuaries for criminals like Francisco Guardado Rios. It
makes no more sense to release those aliens back into the community than it
would make sense to release a convicted criminal who is a U.S. citizen, but who
is wanted in another state or by federal authorities.
For
Sheriff Scott Jenkins, job no. 1 is safeguarding the citizens of Culpepper
County. Providing sanctuary to criminal illegal aliens isn’t in the job
description.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) told Fox News Monday night that Democrats are employing a tired, old strategy by calling President Trump a "racist," just as they’ve done to previous Republican presidents.
What’s wrong with red flag laws?
