Holocaust denial should be covered by free speech guarantees, an activist told a Labour Party conference fringe event on Monday as another called for Jewish and pro-Israel groups to be expelled from the party.

Israeli-American author Miko Peled reportedly said Labour members should support the freedom to “discuss every issue, whether it’s the holocaust, yes or no, whether it’s Palestine liberation – the entire spectrum.”

“There should be no limits on the discussion,” he added before advancing other untested assertions about the Jewish State that included calling it an “apartheid” regime.

Peled attacked the spending power of “the Zionists”, suggested that “every person standing for city council in America gets a five star trip to Israel, all expenses paid” while “Billions” are spent as part of a secret global campaign to “silence the Palestinian voice.”

He concluded by offering that the Jewish state was “a racist and colonialist project” whose edifice was “crumbling”.

The Free Speech on Israel (FSOI) event took place outside the main Labour conference venue but was listed in its official handbook. It was headlined: ‘Free speech on Israel: why we oppose the witch hunt.’ Attendees were warned, without apparent irony, not to record or tweet or post to public media anything discussed to a wider public audience, the Daily Mail reports.

Leaflets handed out at the event branded claims of growing anti-Semitism in the UK “hysterical” and a “manufactured moral panic.”

Several attendees also said claims of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party were part of a plot by the pro-Israel lobby and the Labour right to stop Jeremy Corbyn from becoming prime minister, according to the Daily Mirror. Others spoke up in favour of former London mayor Ken Livingstone who remains suspended from the party for claiming that Hitler supported Zionism.

A call from Michael Kalmanovitz, of the “International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network” for the Jewish Labour Movement and the Labour Friends of Israel to be expelled from the Labour Party was met by applause. “What are JM and LFI doing in our Party?” he asked. “It’s time we campaigned to kick them out.”

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Last year, an internal inquiry was carried out into claims of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party following the suspension of MP Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone.

It found there was evidence of “ignorant attitudes” but that the “Labour Party is not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of racism”.

Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, said the party would now investigate how it gave a platform at a conference fringe event to a speaker who said people should be allowed to question whether the Holocaust happened.

Watson said he was disgusted by the remarks and said Peled should be expelled from the party, if he was a member.

“It is nothing to do with the official Labour party conference. And if there was Holocaust denial there, these people have no right to be in the Labour party, and if they are they should be expelled,” he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

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Roughly 40,000 illegal aliens who were previously shielded by a temporary amnesty program have obtained permanent amnesty by getting Green Cards through an immigration loophole, new federal data confirms.

The latest data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency confirms previous reports by Breitbart News, revealing that about 40,000 illegal aliens are now able to remain in the U.S. permanently.

Those illegal aliens were able to obtain Green Cards by using the immigration loophole known as ‘advanced parole’ where DACA recipients could leave the U.S., then re-enter the country and be considered ‘legal immigrants,’ thus able to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.

All of the illegal aliens who have gained permanent residency via Green Cards are now eligible for U.S. citizenship, something pro-American immigration reformers warned about years ago.

Further data from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) found the following:

• 45,447 DACA recipients have been approved for advance parole
• 59,778 DACA recipients have applied for Lawful Permanent Resident, known as a ‘Green Card’
• Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 2,181 have applied for U.S. citizenship
• Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 1,056 have become U.S. citizens

Since the USCIS data has come to light, the Trump administration has ended advanced parole for DACA recipients, immediately cutting off the backdoor flow of amnesty for illegal aliens.

President Trump, who adamantly opposed the amnesty for illegal aliens protected by DACA, has since defended the recipients of the program, as well as leveraging a deal where the foreign nationals could seek a pathway to citizenship through legal status, as Breitbart News reported.

Latest data from USCIS shows that 618,342 illegal aliens from Mexico currently have DACA status. If they were amnestied into the U.S., it would give them the opportunity to bring adult parents and relatives to the U.S.

According to Princeton University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, for every one new Mexican immigrant to the U.S., an additional 6.38 Mexican nationals come to the U.S. through family-chain migration.

Based on the Princeton research, the 618, 342 illegal aliens from Mexico who are covered by DACA would be able to bring upwards of four million additional relatives and family members to the U.S. in the years to come.

If the remaining estimated 180,000 DACA recipients brought in three family members each after being amnestied, it would result in additional 540,000 immigrants. Should the remaining 180,000 DACA recipients bring four family members each to the U.S., it would result in more than 700,000 new immigrants.

But if the remaining roughly 180,000 DACA recipients were to bring the same number of family members as Mexican DACA recipients are expected to bring to the U.S., it would result in nearly 1.2 million more legal family-based immigrants coming to the country.

Although screening for DACA was previously touted as being sufficient in keeping criminals out, USCIS revealed that more than 2,100 recipients had their status revoked for being criminals or gang members.

California High-Speed Rail agreed to increase payments to its construction manager by 18 percent after failing to complete its first 32-mile section within the seven-year deadline.

President Obama and his Democrat congressional majority voted in 2010 to fund the California High Speed Rail (Cal HSR) with $2.5 billion under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as the centerpiece of a national network of 10 intercity corridors in California, the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the Southeast, The Gulf Coast, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York, and New England.

Cal HSR contractually agreed to provide bullet train service with top speeds of 150 miles-per-hour over the 118-mile section between Madera and Bakersfield by September 30, 2017, or give the money back to the U.S. Treasury.

But after spending $3 billion of the fed’s money and $7.8 billion from California bond sales and revenue from the state’s infamous cap-and-trade taxes, Cal HSR has failed to lay a mile of track over the initial 32-mile section of flat San Joaquin Valley farmland.

Rather than demand the money back from Tutor-Perini/Zachry/Parsons, its project and construction manager (PCM), Cal HSR recently voted to extend the term of the contract by 6 months and to raise the price from $34.2 million to $40.2 million, an 18 percent bump.

The move is even more extraordinary given that Cal HSR admits that the professional service contract was “based on qualifications of PCM and its 25 staffing resources, as opposed to low bid.” That means Tutor-Perini/Zachry/Parsons employees, even if they worked exclusively on Cal HSR, are each being paid an average of $240,000 for the next six months of work.

Cal HSR told the Fresno Bee that the delays were due to extended environmental impact reviews and the protracted pace of acquiring 822 parcels of mostly farmland, either through negotiated purchase or suing under eminent domain.

But the publicly available transcript of the August 16 Cal HSR board meeting regarding the $6 million increase for PCM specifically states: “This request to increase the PCM contract value is necessary, because the expenditure rate for PCM services has been higher than was originally anticipated and the current budget is no longer adequate to complete all the necessary PCM services.”

Cal HSR staff blames the delay on three issues; 1) “acceleration of the design-build contract work”, 2) “increase in value of the design-build contract”, and 3) “additional scope of the services that the PCM has been directed to perform.” Staff stated that there will be no increase in the overall cost, because $6 million will be deducted from the second and third legs of the initial 118-mile section.

Just hours before Donald Trump was scheduled to be sworn in as president, the Obama administration’s leadership at the Federal Railroad Administration modified part of the $2.5 billion federal grant to extend the completion deadline for the first 118-mile section of the California High Speed Rail project until 2022.

But a confidential Federal Railroad Administration risk analysis obtained by the Los Angeles Times estimated that the Central Valley section will not be completed until 2024.

Breitbart News reported in July, after the California Supreme Court ruled that Cal HSR would now have to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act, that the cost of the Los Angeles to San Francisco bullet-train, which had already ballooned from $33 billion in 2008 to about $79 billion last year, would be subject to at least another four-year delay.

With construction inflation expected to run at least 5.5 percent per year, even a 4-year delay could spike California High Speed Rail costs to $95 billion.