“At its worst, political correctness is nothing different from Orwell’s Newspeak – an attempt to change the way people think by forcibly changing the way they speak.” Urban Dictionary
“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
The National Rifle Association is currently fighting a legal battle to resist efforts by the New York Attorney General to punish any corporation or financial institution that does business with the NRA — and it’s getting help from a very unlikely place. The ACLU.
Transgender activists and academics have been coordinating attacks aimed at silencing critics of their gender ideology by accusing them of “hate crimes” and endangering students.
The UK police department on whose watch 1,400 girls were raped by Muslim gangs in just one town alone has tweeted out a message urging the public to report "non-crime hate incidents".
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that there are more immigration court judges than ever, a number he intends to see even further increased by the end of the year.
Sessions delivered remarks before 44 new immigration judges assembled at the Virginia headquarters of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees the immigration court system. The group, Sessions noted, was the largest class of judges in immigration court history.
“I’m honored and excited to welcome the largest class of immigration judges in history—44 new immigration judges. Each of you will play a critical role in our legal system, and I have no doubt that you will be up to the task,” Session said.
The new class also means that there are more immigration judges active today than ever before. But there are still more to come, Sessions said Monday, promising a cumulative 50 percent increase in the number of immigration judges by the end of the year.
The reason for this flurry of activity is Sessions’s efforts to curb the overwhelming backlog of immigration court cases. Late last year, President Donald Trump temporarily mobilized hundreds of immigration court judges to help cut the number of cases pending in the backlog. The Department of Justice claimed some success in October, showing that it had addressed 2,700 more cases thanks to the surge.
But recent analysis indicates the DOJ is still struggling to make a dent. There were some 700,000 cases pending as of May, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which attributed the phenomenon to an increase in the amount of time it takes the average case to clear.
In his remarks, Sessions blamed the surging backlog on the increase in specious or false asylum claims, noting that the number of those seeking asylum who appeared in an immigration court rose from 4,000 in 2009 to 73,000 in 2016.
“Our system was not designed to handle thousands of new asylum claims every month from individuals who illegally flood across the border,” Sessions said. “But that is what has been happening, and it has overwhelmed the system.”
The Attorney General also took the opportunity to defend a recent immigration court ruling, issued by his office, which restricted the eligibility for asylum. The ruling has received pushback in Congress. But from Sessions’s point of view, it is part of enforcing immigration law as it exists, and keeping the borders under control.
“Let me say this clearly: it is perfectly legitimate, moral, and decent for a nation to have a legal system of immigration and to enforce the system it adopts,” Sessions said. “No great and prosperous nation can have both a generous welfare system and open borders. Such a policy is both radical and dangerous. It must be rejected out of hand.”
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A top Iranian military leader warned on Monday that Iran is plotting strikes outside of its own borders and will even go “beyond the seas” to carry out attacks on those it perceives as enemies, statements that further highlight Iran’s clandestine operations inside the United States and in Europe.
“We warn the enemies of the Islamic Revolution that if they make an aggression against the Islamic Iran, we will chase and punish them not only outside the borders but also beyond the seas,” General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader, was quoted as saying on Monday in remarks in Tehran.
The comments come just days after Iran’s Revolution Guard Corps, or IRGC, launched a missile strike in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Iran has promised further strikes in that country.
Safavi’s rhetoric also comes on the heels of the arrest of two Iranians in the United States who were accused of plotting terror attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets. U.S. officials have warned that Iran’s spy operations expand far beyond its borders and that the Islamic Republic has the capability of launching terror strikes across the region and even the globe.
Iran confirmed its airstrikes in Iraq during the weekend.
“The IRGC Aerospace Force’s missile unit in cooperation with the IRGC Ground Force’s drone unit targeted the headquarters and a meeting of the leaders of a filthy and criminal grouplet and a center for training affiliated terrorists with 7 short-range ground-to-ground missiles yesterday (Saturday),” the IRGC said in a statement carried in Iran’s state-controlled press.
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Officials in Venezuela called for a massive march against the United States and "imperialism" on Sunday following reports that the Trump administration met with disaffected members of the country’s military.
The Trump administration plans to announce the closure of the Palestinian mission in Washington in response to the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to enter peace negotiations, according to multiple reports on Monday.
