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Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called for attacks against members of President Donald Trump’s administration over the weekend, screaming to a group of supporters that they should not be welcomed anywhere in society.
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The scope and impact of child sexual abuse across the UK is shown in a “devastating” report being released this week.
Researchers found that child sexual abuse is “widespread across all communities and social classes,” and “perpetrated in schools and other institutions much more widely than previously thought,” according to the Daily Mail.
The research report, obtained by the Daily Mail, is believed to contain “biggest archive of evidence by abuse victims and survivors ever assembled,” in the UK. Included are detailed statements from 50 of the 1,400 people who came forward as part of the Truth Project for the Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse established by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary.
Some of the participants have reportedly waited decades to tell their stories. About one-third of the data comes from alleged abuse that happened 50 or more years ago.
Victims who tell their accounts to the Truth Project are interviewed by a trained facilitator. One of the goals of the project is to give victims a safe environment in which they can express what they have kept to themselves for many years, according to the report.
Dru Sharpling, the former Crown Prosecutor for London, is an IICSA panel member who leads the Truth Project. She told the Daily Mail some testimonies were referred to the police. Because of the referrals, 14 perpetrators have been convicted of child sexual abuse so far.
Forty percent of the victims reported being between ages three to seven when their abuse began. Thirty-two percent were between ages eight and 11. More than one-third indicated they were abused multiple times.
Sharpling said many of the stories are “extremely moving.” But not all of them are believed. Some of the testimonies simply did not hold up during the interview process.
Among the difficulties the victims reported later in life were “depression (33 percent), difficulties with trust and intimacy (28 percent), thoughts of suicide (28 percent) and actual suicide attempts (22 percent).”
About 28 percent of study participants reported being abused by relatives, according to the report.
One of the most shocking revelations was that roughly one-quarter of the respondents indicated they were abused by teachers and other educational staffers, according to the Daily Mail. One-fifth reported abuse from adult friends of their families or “trusted members of the community.”
Fourteen percent reported that members of the clergy abused them, and 12 percent said they were abused by professionals that included doctors and social workers.
Residential care workers were responsible for nine percent of the abuse, the report states.
“We’re learning that many people have put themselves in positions of trust and authority to have access to children,” Rebekah Eglinton, an IICSA clinical psychologists who works closely with the Truth Project, told the Daily Mail.
“It feels really important that we are here. People tell us again and again how silenced they have felt. This is an opportunity to end that silence and so to hear how we can better protect children,” she explained.
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Thousands of activists and protesters rallied in cities across the U.S. Saturday to defend illegal immigrants, individuals who entered the country in violation of U.S. law.
Demonstrators harshly criticized the Trump administration’s tough approach to illegal immigration outside a Homestead, Florida, detention facility and at a border patrol station in McAllen, Texas. These “Keep Families Together” rallies were held in San Diego and New York, among other locations.
The protests come amid concerns about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policies and the separation of illegal immigrant families when they are apprehended entering the country at places other than designated points of entry.
In San Diego alone, there were reportedly more than 5,000 protesters present at the rally.
Around 9,000 families have been caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in each of the last three months, and more than 2,000 illegal immigrant children have been taken into federal custody in recent weeks.
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Many observers have criticized the Trump administration, with many opponents of the administration’s policies comparing the detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps or Japanese internment camps.
“Family rights are human rights” and “Reunite the families” were among the signs seen at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas, where activists could be heard shouting, “No more baby jails.”
At the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in McAllen, protesters attempted to block a bus carrying illegal immigrant children. “Shame! Shame!” the demonstrators chanted as the bus eventually passed.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to prevent family separation by detaining families together during processing. The Trump administration still fully intends to prosecute all individuals who cross into the U.S. illegally.
Many fear that the Trump administration has no intention of reuniting families that have already been separated, despite reassurances from Health and Human Services.
HHS is, according to a spokeswoman, “bringing to bear all the relevant resources of the department in order to assist in the reunification or placement of unaccompanied alien children and teenagers with a parent or appropriate sponsor.”
Other critics remain dissatisfied with the revised approach, arguing that it is immoral to send families with children to detention centers. Proponents of tougher immigration policies, including the president, argue that these individuals simply want open borders.
“Democrats love open borders,” Trump argued at a recent event, adding, “They view that possibly intelligently except that it is destroying our country. They view that as potential someday, they’re going to go vote for Democrats.”
As protests and rallies were held in cities across the country Saturday, the president spoke to a crowd of supporters in Nevada, emphasizing the need for a new approach to the illegal immigration problem.
“Their issue is open borders, get MS-13 all over our country,” he explained, “We need people to come in, but they have to be people that love this country, can love our country, and can really help us to make America great again.”
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You haven’t seen this anywhere in the liberal news this week.
The Huffington Post reported:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year carried out more than 72,000 deportations of parents who said they had U.S.-born children, according to reports to Congress obtained Wednesday by The Huffington Post.
The reports were sent by ICE in April to the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, as required by law. ICE confirmed the authenticity of the two reports, which lay out 72,410 removals of immigrants who said they had one or more U.S.-born children in 2013.
The reports show that even parents of U.S. citizens are among the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants being expelled from the United States each year…
… When a parent is deported, their U.S.-born children sometimes leave with them. But some stay in the U.S. with another parent or family member. Some children end up in U.S. foster care.
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and philanthropist Connie Milstein threw a ritzy bash at her Edgartown abode on Saturday. The event was attended by Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Heather Podesta and former U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia Tod Sedgwick.
The night before, the Virginia lawmaker hosted over 100 Democrats at his upscale home on Martha’s Vineyard, as part of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s annual retreat.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chairman couldn’t resist mentioning the Russia probe.
“If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know,” Warner joked to party-goers. “If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
Warner found himself in hot water in February after it was revealed the 2020 hopeful was in contact with Adam Waldman, a lobbyist for a shadowy Russian oligarch.
Text message exchanges show Waldman offered to connect Warner with Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent behind the dubious anti-Trump dosser.
“We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country,” Warner told Waldman in Mark of 2017.
“I’m in,” the lobbyist replied.
President Donald Trump, an outspoken critic of the Russia probe, has often characterized the investigation as a “witch hunt.” On Saturday, Trump touted a Wall Street Journal opinion piece arguing the probe is “tainted by the bias that attended its origin in 2016.”
“Major Wall Street Journal opinion piece today talking about the Russian Witch Hunt and the disgrace that it is. So many people hurt, so bad for our country—a total sham,” the President said.
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The Carpenter decision caused plenty of rejoicing among civil libertarians who are worried about the government’s ability to gobble up personal cell phone data being held by providers. Both Ed and Jazz have written about this already with the former’s piece a detailed description of the decision, while the latter seeks to poke holes in the majority’s decision. I’m quite happy with the Supreme Court’s ruling (I am a libertarian after all) although I understand – and don’t disagree – with some of Jazz’ qualms on the issue re: big data. Suffice to say, data collection by corporations is an issue particularly when it’s sold to outside vendors. This problem isn’t one the government should solve with its promulgation of grandstanding politicians looking to run home to constituents claiming, “See we did something!” The rise of MeWe shows there are alternatives to big data. Alas, it’s a discussion for another day and column.
One of the more fascinating – if not the most fascinating – dissents to Carpenter is the one written by one Justice Neil Gorsuch. The second year Supreme Court justice used the Carpenter case to write a commentary on the Court’s failure to protect the Fourth Amendment in previous decisions. Gorsuch’s acumen and comprehension of the issue is a thing of beauty and one everyone should take time to read, despite its length. One might even guess Gorsuch’s dissent could almost be a concurring opinion (Reason’s Damon Root agrees with me in his analysis) and, indeed, may have been one if Chief Justice John Roberts hadn’t sided with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonja Sotomayor.
Gorsuch’s main argument is simple: the majority isn’t going far enough.
The Court declines to say whether there is any sufficiently limited period of time “for which the Government may obtain an individual’s historical [location information] free from Fourth Amendment scrutiny.” But then it tells us that access to seven days’ worth of information does trigger Fourth Amendment scrutiny—even though here the carrier “produced only two days of records.”
Why is the relevant fact the seven days of information the government asked for instead of the two days of information the government actually saw? Why seven days instead of ten or three or one? And in what possible sense did the government “search” five days’ worth of location information it was never even sent? We do not know.
Later still, the Court adds that it can’t say whether the Fourth Amendment is triggered when the government collects “real-time CSLI or ‘tower dumps’ (a download of information on all the devices that connected to a particu- lar cell site during a particular interval).” But what distinguishes historical data from real-time data, or seven days of a single person’s data from a download of everyone’s data over some indefinite period of time? Why isn’t a tower dump the paradigmatic example of “too permeating police surveillance” and a dangerous tool of “arbitrary” authority—the touchstones of the majority’s modified Katz analysis? On what possible basis could such mass data collection survive the Court’s test while collecting a single person’s data does not? Here again we are left to guess.
Valid questions and criticism (one which Jazz correctly noted in his piece). Gorsuch goes a step further to declare the majority is putting an undue burden on lower courts by giving them “two amorphous balancing tests, a series of weighty and in- commensurable principles to consider in them, and a few illustrative examples that seem little more than the product of judicial intuition.”
It’s here where Gorsuch brings out a spear akin to Odin’s Gungnir and drives it into the heart of his argument (emphasis mine).
(T)he fact that a third party has access to or possession of your papers and effects does not necessarily elimi- nate your interest in them. Ever hand a private document to a friend to be returned? Toss your keys to a valet at a restaurant? Ask your neighbor to look after your dog while you travel? You would not expect the friend to share the document with others; the valet to lend your car to his buddy; or the neighbor to put Fido up for adoption. Entrusting your stuff to others is a bailment. A bailment is the “delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose.” Black’s Law Dictionary 169 (10th ed. 2014); J. Story, Commentaries on the Law of Bailments §2, p. 2 (1832) (“a bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, expressed or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust”). A bailee normally owes a legal duty to keep the item safe, according to the terms of the parties’ contract if they have one, and according to the “implication[s] from their conduct” if they don’t…A bailee who uses the item in a different way than he’s supposed to, or against the bailor’s instructions, is liable for conversion…
These ancient principles may help us address modern data cases too. Just because you entrust your data—in some cases, your modern-day papers and effects—to a third party may not mean you lose any Fourth Amendment interest in its contents. Whatever may be left of Smith and Miller, few doubt that e-mail should be treated much like the traditional mail it has largely supplanted— as a bailment in which the owner retains a vital and protected legal interest…
I would look to a more traditional Fourth Amendment approach. Even if Katz may still supply one way to prove a Fourth Amendment interest, it has never been the only way. Neglecting more traditional approaches may mean failing to vindicate the full protec- tions of the Fourth Amendment.
The gallery of libertarians roar with approval at Gorsuch’s argument. It is akin to the words written by St. George Tucker in 1803 whilst describing the Fourth Amendment.
The case of general warrants, under which term all warrants not comprehended within the description of the preceding article may be included, was warmly contested in England about thirty or thirty-five years ago, and after much altercation they were finally pronounced to be illegal by the common law. The constitutional sanction here given to the same doctrine, and the test which it affords for trying the legality of any warrant by which a man may be deprived of his liberty, or disturbed in the enjoyment of his property, can not be too highly valued by a free people.
Gorsuch should be applauded for his dissent and prodding of the majority towards a more originalist viewpoint of the Constitution. His arguments are beyond sound and something which is sorely missing in American legal theory – yet appears to be making a slight return. One has to hope his line of thinking will slowly start influencing his Supreme Court colleagues in future cases.
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The latest CBS News/YouGov poll reveals that a plurality of swing district voters support President Trump’s position that border crossing family units should be deported together out of the U.S.
About 48 percent of swing district voters say illegal alien families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border should be deported “back to their home country together,” a plan that Trump is hoping to execute in order to mitigate the country’s illegal immigration problem.
Only 21 percent of swing district voters said they supported the Democrats’ preferred “Catch and Release” policy, where illegal alien families are arrested at the border, then released into the interior of the country while they await their immigration and asylum hearings.
The CBS/YouGov poll is further evidence that Americans’ prefer Trump’s economic nationalist approach to immigration, which seeks to boost workers’ wages and citizens’ quality of life by reducing legal immigration and ending illegal immigration.
A similar poll last week by Rasmussen Reports, as Breitbart News reported, revealed that nearly 55 percent of likely American voters said illegal aliens are at fault for “breaking the law” when their children “are arrested and separated after attempting to enter the United States illegally.”
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— John Binder ? (@JxhnBinder) June 21, 2018
Poor Americans, the working class, and middle class are the most likely to say that illegal alien parents are to blame when their children are separated from them at the border.
About 56 percent of Americans earning less than $30,000 a year said illegal alien parents were to blame, not the federal government, for child separation at the border. Meanwhile, about 54 percent of Americans earning $30,000 t0 $50,000 and $50,000 to $100,000 say they too blame the illegal alien parents.
As Breitbart News revealed, records from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that since before 2001, illegal alien adults have oftentimes been separated from the minor children with whom they arrived at the border.
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The former owner of a Portland halal market who, with his brother, traded $1.4 million in federal food benefits for cash was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court to three years in prison.
The federal prosecutor called the case “one of the largest, if not the largest, fraud cases involving [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits in [Maine].”
Ali Ratib Daham, 41, of Westbrook, who originally owned Ahram Halal Market, 630 Forest Ave., pleaded guilty in November to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, money laundering and theft of government funds.
A halal market under different ownership still operates at that address.
Daham remains free on bail until July 18, when he must report to a prison assigned by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
His brother, Abdulkareem Daham, 23, was sentenced Monday morning to two years in prison. He was convicted after a three-day jury trial in January of conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.
The older brother was ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution, while the younger was ordered to pay up to $955,000, according to their attorneys. The restitution order states that the men are equally responsible for payments but the younger brother’s payments are capped.
Ali Daham already has paid $80,000 toward restitution, according to court documents.
In addition to prison time, both men were sentenced to three years of supervised release.
In sentencing the older brother, U.S. District Court D. Brock Hornby, who himself is a naturalized citizen, said there were “no winners in a case like this.”
“By sentencing two brothers, I realize I’m creating great pain for this family,” he said. “I’m also creating great pain for the immigrant community, as many members have told me he was a great helper to them. Sadly, he was a helper to them by defrauding the government.”
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One of the largest Islamic charities in the world has financial ties to several terrorist organizations, according to a report obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Islamic Relief, a highly influential international nonprofit, receives funds from the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, for example, which was founded by Al-Qaida terrorist and “Bin Laden loyalist” Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, the report states. Islamic Relief is also accused of financially supporting Hamas, the militant and political Islamist organization regarded by much of the international community as a terrorist group.
And Americans are helping foot the bill, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think tank based in Philadelphia that investigated and published the report. In the last 10 years, MEF says taxpayers from Western countries have provided $80 million to Islamic Relief, which allegedly has a close relationship with networks of the Muslim Brotherhood, also considered by many to be a source of Islamic terrorism despite claims of violence denunciations.
A representative for the American arm of Islamic Relief told TheDCNF that MEF is trying to build conspiracies just based off of the notions that one Muslim happened to speak to another at some point in time.
“Islamic Relief has operated as a top-rated humanitarian organization for 25 years working to deliver relief and development in a non-discriminatory, dignified manner to vulnerable individuals in over 40 countries around the world,” Sharif Aly, CEO of Islamic Relief USA, said in a statement provided to TheDCNF. “IRUSA abides by strict standards of neutrality and impartiality in carrying out its overarching humanitarian mission.”
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Islamic Relief says it works with several legitimate, accredited fellow charities and government agencies around the world, like FEMA, USDA, Red Cross and HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement charity.
The latter group and Islamic Relief teamed up most recently to provide humanitarian and legal assistance to refugees in Greece.
“Islamic Relief USA is honored to be partnering with such an esteemed and effective organization like HIAS to protect refugees who are in great need of assistance,” Islamic Relief USA President Anwar Khan said in a statement published in January of 2018. “Our shared values have always been to help some of the most vulnerable populations around the world. With recent incidents of people not gaining access to essential services, and many having their rights violated, we will work to put a stop to these disturbing trends and promote the legal rights of all refugees.”
Nevertheless, MEF’s investigation also seems to reveal several examples of anti-Semitism — if not directly but by association — from top officials of Islamic Relief.
“It received over $700,000 of taxpayers’ money during the Obama administration,” Sam Westrop, author of the MEF report, told TheDCNF. “And now, under the Trump administration, public officials continue to speak at its events and legitimize it as a charitable institution. But this institution’s officials continue to promote some very uncharitable ideas: Hatred of Jews, support for extremist ideologies, and praise for terror.”
MEF says Islamic Relief officials have “dined at the White House” and assumed positions as advisers within the U.S. Department of State.
And it’s not just public support, as corporate foundations and individual donors have provided the group with more than $4.3 million in roughly the last 17 years, according to MEF, with the largest single donation of $1.4 million coming from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
MEF lists a number of those highest up in the organization and some of their actions, which includes connections to religious figures who advocated for the killing of Jews and homosexuals, or similar advocacy themselves.
“Examples include Abdullah Hakim Quick, who claims that the Islamic position on homosexuality is ‘death’; Haitham Al-Haddad, who describes Jews as ‘pigs and apes’; and Abdul Nasir Jangda, who defends sex slavery and advocates killing apostates,” the section of the executive summary titled “hate preachers” reads.
And countries and organizations around the world have been starting to take notice in recent months.
“There is a reason for both United Arab Emirates and Israel banning Islamic Relief. There is a reason for two international banks shutting down its accounts. And there is reason for investigations by European officials into Islamic Relief’s promotion of extremist preachers who advocate violence and hate,” said Westrop. “Now it’s time for American politicians and law enforcement to look into those reasons, stop funding Islamic Relief’s work, and start challenging the pernicious extremism spread by this international franchise and its Islamist operatives in the U.S.”
Islamic Relief, however, is defending itself against what it sees as deeply flawed and often flat-out incorrect accusations.
“Any suggestion that IRUSA is, or has been, susceptible to undue influence by third parties is patently false and wholly inconsistent with the history of our humanitarian work and programming, as well as our demonstrated record of operating as a transparent, accountable and legally compliant non-profit institution in the United States,” Aly continued. “IRUSA and its officials, trustees and staff firmly and unequivocally denounce any allegations that it has ties to terrorists or terror-linked organizations.”
Of course, despite some of the good work that Islamic Relief does do in many parts of the world, MEF thinks that there are critical problems that vastly outweigh its efforts.
“Ultimately, if Western governments are serious about fighting the intolerant, divisive and violent effects of global Islamism, then Islamic Relief must be shut down,” the report concludes. “It is the flagship institution of lawful Islamism in the West. There are certainly Muslim charities that do not promote extremism and subsidize terrorism. Why should taxpayers all over the world fund a charity that does?”
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The approval ratings for Congress are near record lows and national spending is out of control — but one Democrat lawmaker apparently thinks that he deserves a raise.
Fed up with having to pay for his own living arrangements like every other American adult, Rep. Bennie Thompson — a Democrat from Mississippi — is insisting that taxpayers fund his Washington housing for him.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, the liberal has drafted a bill that would “change the tax code to allow House members to deduct their spending on housing in D.C. up to $3,000.”
The annual pay for U.S. congressmen is already $174,000 per year. That’s before additional benefits, including generous stipends. To put that in perspective, the median household income in America is about $59,000 annually, putting lawmakers near the top tier of earnings for simply being elected.
That’s just their salary. National lawmakers are also typically wealthy, with many of them multi-millionaires.
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“The median net worth of a senator was $3.2 million, versus $900,000 for members of the House of Representatives,” Quartz Media reported in February. It must be rough to be a congressman with “only” about a million in net worth.
Thompson didn’t just stop with demanding more money from the pockets of taxpayers, however. He also wants entire buildings renovated into congressional housing so he can keep more cash in his own wallet.
“Thompson has also proposed turning a vacant building near Capitol Hill into apartments for House members at the expense of taxpayers, which critics have dubbed a ‘Congressional Animal House,’” reported the Free Beacon.
“The taxpayer-watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste criticized Thompson’s legislation and his proposed ‘taxpayer-funded dorms,’” the outlet continued.
While it is true that apartments in Washington are on the expensive side, it’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the take-home pay of national lawmakers.
“The claim that housing is unaffordable is belied by the average monthly cost of a studio apartment in Washington, D.C., which is $1,602, or less than 10 percent of members’ annual salary,” explained the CAGW. “The average American spends 33 percent of his or her annual income on housing.
In other words, our representatives are significantly more well-off than the average American, but some are still whining about needing more.
There are nearly two dozen co-sponsors of Rep. Thompson’s money-grabbing proposal — and you guessed it, they’re all liberals.
“The legislation has 23 cosponsors, all Democrats, including James Clyburn (S.C.), Hank Johnson (Ga.), Elijah Cummings (Md.), and Marcia Fudge (Ohio),” reported the Free Beacon.
Conservative lawmakers, including New York’s Rep. Dan Donovan, have rightly mocked the idea as being out-of-touch and unnecessary.
“I’m here to work, not relive my college days in a taxpayer-funded dorm,” Donovan told the Free Beacon. “Our national debt is over $20 trillion, so I don’t think it’s a great use of taxpayer funds to build Congress a dorm.”
If Thompson is so worried about the cost of living in Washington, maybe he should think about his party’s priorities — after all, the city has been run by Democrats nonstop since the 1960s and has gone blue in almost every single election.
The American people have had enough with politicians constantly complaining and grabbing more cash… and it’s no wonder Congress’s approval ratings are so low.
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