Tuesday, March 3, 2015
FBI Raid of 20 California Maternity Tourism Anchor Baby Houses
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents raided about 20 Southern California locations on Tuesday suspected of involvement in "maternity tourism" schemes offering travel and lodging services to pregnant foreign women seeking to give birth in the United States, U.S. immigration officials said.
Authorities say the so-called maternity hotels targeted in the sweep catered largely to women from China who paid $15,000 to $50,000, depending on services provided, in hopes of obtaining U.S. citizenship for their children.
The locations searched included apartment complexes and other sites in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties that were suspected of housing foreign clients, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE.
No criminal arrests were anticipated from Tuesday's raids, which were carried out by federal agents and local law enforcement, the agency said.
The U.S. Constitution grants citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of parentage, and immigration experts say there was nothing inherently illegal about women coming from abroad to give birth to children in the United States.
But investigators are seeking evidence related to such possible criminal offenses as visa and tax fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, immigration officials said.
Any women encountered at the locations raided on Wednesday were to be interviewed, and those identified as potential material witnesses will be instructed where and when to report for further questioning, ICE said.
Businesses engaged in maternity tourism, also known as "birth tourism," are believed to have been operating for several years, relying on websites, newspaper advertising and social media to promote their services, immigration officials said.
Based on the results of previous investigations, the women who subscribe apparently pay cash for pre-natal medical treatment and actual delivery of their babies.
As part of the package, clients were promised they would receive Social Security numbers and U.S. passports for their infants - documentation the mothers would take with them when they returned to their home countries, ICE said.
Once the children, who by birth are U.S. citizens, reach adulthood they can apply for visas for family members living abroad.
More expensive packages "include recreational activities, such as visits to Disneyland, shopping malls and even an outing to a firing range," the ICE statement said.
The practices came to public attention in California in recent years when residents of some Los Angeles-area communities complained about what they said were maternity hotels springing up in their neighborhoods, causing sanitation and other issues.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by Susan Heavey and Lisa Lambert)
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Diversity Explosion Map of United States: How White is Your County? OMG FAIL
How many Mexicans Anchor Babies are in your County?
The county I grew up in , is now only half white; the Dot Indians and the Mexicans have taken over.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Mexican Drug Tunnel Discovered under Arizona House Breakings News Kinda
Giant, cross-border smuggling tunnel found under Arizona house
By Caitlin Dickson3 hours ago Yahoo News
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At 905 feet, the tunnel discovered in Naco, Ariz., this week is almost twice the length of the previous record …
When a U-Haul truck carrying 4,700 pounds of marijuana rolled into Bisbee, Ariz., this week, the local cops were ready. The local police had been tipped off and, with the help of the Border Patrol’s canine team, managed to intercept the truck and its $3 million-worth of bundled cargo. The operation was a success, but that was just the beginning.
Tracing the U-Haul’s route led the cops and U.S. Border Patrol agents to a house in the border town of Naco, where, inside a small shed on the property, they found the entrance to the longest drug-smuggling tunnel ever discovered in the Tucson sector.
According to a press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), both agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, specially trained agents from the Border Patrol’s tunnel team were immediately dispatched to begin investigating the underground passageway. Despite an initial delay, due to concerns over the tunnel’s air quality, the investigators found a hydraulic lift inside a cement shaft, leading down into the wood-bolstered tunnel. At least near the entrance, the tunnel is big enough to allow an adult to stand up straight.
This video offers a glimpse of what the tunnel looks like from the inside.
Tunnels have long served as a popular means of transporting drugs between Mexico and the United States, especially as recent increases in U.S. agents and fencing along the Southwest border have forced cartels to come up with alternative points of entry. The first cross-border smuggling tunnel was discovered by the Border Patrol in 1990. Since then, a total of 168 tunnels have been identified and, since 2006, 80 have been found and dismantled.
At 905 feet, the tunnel discovered in Naco this week is almost twice the length of the previous record holder, a 481-foot underpass discovered last year in Nogales, Ariz., considered the most active border area for underground tunneling. And while officials described the smuggling shaft as “sophisticated,” these Tucson tunnels hardly compare to the wide-ranging underground transportation system authorities have discovered beneath San Diego in recent years.
Abundant warehouses and easy-to-dig soil in both San Diego and Tijuana have made the space between the two cities a cartel favorite for underground smuggling. Ranging in length up to 2,400 feet, some of the state-of-the-art tunnels tapped in this area in recent years include such features as electricity, ventilation, groundwater pumping, pulley systems and even a multitiered electric railway.
A few of these sophisticated tunnels have been traced back to the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s largest and most notorious drug-smuggling rings, including one discovered in 2012 and another that was shut down by U.S. authorities in November 2014. In fact, after his arrest in 2014, it was revealed that JoaquÃn Guzmán Loera, the elusive head of the Sinaloa cartel, and better known as “El Chapo,” had relied on a network of underground tunnels to evade authorities.
In the cat-and-mouse game between Border Patrol agents and drug smugglers, beefed-up security sends smugglers underground, and Border Patrol develops new technology to go in after them. In addition to establishing tunnel task forces of specially trained agents along the Southwest border, the Border Patrol also employs robots with cameras strapped to them to explore some of the narrower, potentially dangerous passageways.
“With this discovery, we’ve dealt another significant blow to the Mexican drug cartels and proven yet again that going underground is not a workaround to evade law enforcement,” Matthew Allen, special agent in charge of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, said in a statement about the Naco tunnel.
So far, two men, the truck driver and another suspect found at the house in Naco, have been arrested. The investigation is ongoing, with Mexican law enforcement now searching for the opening on their side of the border. If previous passageways are any indication, this tunnel could lead investigators to far more people than just those two.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Race-Mixing Detective Morse Endeavour British Television Series: Revisionist Racism
Revisionist History - Politically Correct - Endeavour - the Bristish crime series is yet another huge mistake. They spent so much time getting the clothes, hair and furniture right and then they insert an inter-racial sexual fling between Morse and a black Negress Jamaican Nurse.
This would not have happened in 1966, none of it would have taken place between a police officer on his way up and an immigrant black female.
There is so much white liberal guilt about Blacks in the media, so much so that they re-write history, in historical dramas.
First Downton Abbey, (which has never kept true to the time period), had the wayward Rose take off with a Black American Jazz Musician.
Under no conditions could Rose have had an open romance with a black man.
Not even likely ! I quit watching the show over that and I don't miss it.
This would not have happened in 1966, none of it would have taken place between a police officer on his way up and an immigrant black female.
There is so much white liberal guilt about Blacks in the media, so much so that they re-write history, in historical dramas.
First Downton Abbey, (which has never kept true to the time period), had the wayward Rose take off with a Black American Jazz Musician.
Under no conditions could Rose have had an open romance with a black man.
Not even likely ! I quit watching the show over that and I don't miss it.
Now it's Endeavour- with Detective Morse. He is dating the black Jamaican foreign nurse, ( who acts like a typical black servant) , without a care as to what that might mean to his job and associates.
It is 1966 and his job would be out the window, it's so completely screwed up that it ruins an otherwise believable trip to the past. She lives across the hall, in a time when she wouldn't be either a nurse or living in a white-only building. The actor Shaun Evans, wanted to have his character get pregnant . Obviously he hasn't a clue what that would mean for him socially or economically
So Shaun is yet another idiot actor.
It ruins the show. even now if a Shaun Evans went out to a nice restaurant with a black female there would be cold looks. In a way , it insults blacks too, as it makes light of all their protests. ( no pun intended) . I was watching it not for the silly murders, but to look at the time period. I fast forwarded through any scene with Morse and his Negress.
It's interesting that all the killers are whites in the show and there is no evidence of the enormous immigration of blacks from the colonies. There is just one sweet black girl right across the hall, with a perfect accent.
It is 1966 and his job would be out the window, it's so completely screwed up that it ruins an otherwise believable trip to the past. She lives across the hall, in a time when she wouldn't be either a nurse or living in a white-only building. The actor Shaun Evans, wanted to have his character get pregnant . Obviously he hasn't a clue what that would mean for him socially or economically
So Shaun is yet another idiot actor.
It ruins the show. even now if a Shaun Evans went out to a nice restaurant with a black female there would be cold looks. In a way , it insults blacks too, as it makes light of all their protests. ( no pun intended) . I was watching it not for the silly murders, but to look at the time period. I fast forwarded through any scene with Morse and his Negress.
It's interesting that all the killers are whites in the show and there is no evidence of the enormous immigration of blacks from the colonies. There is just one sweet black girl right across the hall, with a perfect accent.
Last nights was definitely not PC, watch it but concentrate as its easy to miss vital pieces particularly towards the end.
Hello Sailor ivoropinion • a year agoYes it was. They introduced an ethnic black character (the nurse) who spoke with an English accent. Since it wasn't a Liverpool (or Cardiff) accent, the chances of this being authentic for 1966 are minuscule.
The new series also finds Morse embarking on a tentative romance with a neighbor, a recent Negro immigrant working as a nurse. Was the decision to cast a black actress (newcomer Shvorne Marks) anything to do with the so-called "Midsomer race row" of 2011, when creator Brian True-May was suspended after claiming that Midsomer Murders was
"the last bastion of Englishness" because it featured no ethnic minorities?"I don't think it was as considered as that," says Lewis. "I wanted to get away from the bluestocking pre-Raphaelite girl of the week,
and then her character seemed a great way to celebrate the NHS and the contribution that immigrants made to that. Having said that, we're not the Hull Truck Theatre company… we are a whodunit. But the joy of it being this period is that you can look at social history."
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Jihadi John Identity Revealed
England's disastrous immigration policy of letting in third worlders who dispise them
jihadi john revealed
'Jihadi John' raised in UK, studied computers, reports say
Posted: Feb 26, 2015 5:42 AM PSTUpdated: Feb 26, 2015 10:35 AM PST
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - The world knows him as "Jihadi John," the masked, knife-wielding militant in videos showing Western hostages being beheaded by the Islamic State group. A growing body of evidence suggests he is a London-raised university graduate, described by one man who knew him as kind, gentle and humble.
The Washington Post and the BBC on Thursday identified the British-accented militant from the chilling videos as Mohammed Emwazi, a man in his mid-20s who was born in Kuwait and raised in a modest, mixed-income area of West London.
The Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence at King's College London, which closely tracks fighters in Syria, said it believed the identification was correct.
Asim Qureshi of CAGE, a London-based advocacy group which works with Muslims in conflict with British intelligence services, said he saw strong similarities between the man in the video and Emwazi, whom he knew from 2009 to 2012.
But he said "I can't be 100 percent certain."
"The guy's got a hood on his head. It's very, very difficult," Qureshi said.
British anti-terror officials wouldn't confirm the man's identity, citing a "live counterterrorism investigation." National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said the U.S. couldn't confirm or deny the identity, either.
"Jihadi John" appeared in a video released in August showing the slaying of American journalist James Foley, denouncing the West before the killing. Former IS captives identified him as one of a group of British militants that prisoners had nicknamed "The Beatles."
A man with similar stature and voice also featured in videos of the killings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, Britons David Haines and Alan Hemming and U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
According to The Washington Post and the BBC, Emwazi was born in Kuwait, grew up in west London and studied computer programming at the University of Westminster. The university confirmed that a student of that name graduated in 2009.
"If these allegations are true, we are shocked and sickened by the news," the university said in a statement.
The news outlets said Emwazi was known to Britain's intelligence services before he traveled to Syria in 2012, and Qureshi said he had accused British spies of harassing him.
Qureshi said Emwazi first contacted CAGE in 2009. Emwazi said he had traveled to Tanzania with two other men after leaving university, but was deported and questioned in Amsterdam by British and Dutch intelligence services, who suspected him of attempting to join al-Shabaab militants in Somalia.
The following year, Emwazi accused British intelligence services of preventing him from traveling to Kuwait, where he planned to work and marry.
CAGE quoted an email Emwazi had sent saying, "I had a job waiting for me and marriage to get started. But now I feel like a prisoner, only not in a cage, in London."
"The Mohammed that I knew was extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft-spoken, was the most humble young person that I knew," Qureshi said.
He said he hadn't had contact with Emwazi since January 2012.
Qureshi accused British authorities of alienating and radicalizing young British Muslims with heavy-handed policies.
"When we treat people as if they are outsiders, they will inevitably feel like outsiders, and they will look for belonging elsewhere," he said.
No one answered the door at the brick row house in west London where the Emwazi family is alleged to have lived. Neighbors in the surrounding area of public housing projects either declined comment or said they didn't know the family.
Congregants leaving a local mosque after afternoon prayers said they didn't know Emwazi and didn't believe he had worshipped there.
Neighbor Janine Kintenda, 47, who said she'd lived in the area for 16 years, was shocked at the news.
"Oh my God," she said, lifting her hand to her mouth. "This is bad. This is bad."
Shiraz Maher of the King's College radicalization center said he was investigating whether Emwazi was among a group of young West Londoners who traveled to Syria in about 2012.
Many of them are now dead, including Mohammad el-Araj, Ibrahim al-Mazwagi and Choukri Ellekhlifi, all killed in 2013.
Emwazi survived, and has become one of the most prominent members of IS, a fighter whose confidence and Western accent are calculated to strike fear into viewers of the group's grisly videos.
Maher said Emwazi's background was similar to that of other British jihadis, and disproved the idea "that these guys are all impoverished, that they're coming from deprived backgrounds."
"They are by and large upwardly mobile people, well educated," he said.
The daughter of British aid worker Haines, who was killed in September, told ITV News that identifying the masked man was "a good step."
"But I think all the families will feel closure and relief once there's a bullet between his eyes," Bethany Haines said.
Sotloff's family hopes his killer will be caught and go to prison, saying they felt "relieved" and "take comfort" after Emwazi's identity was revealed, according to the BBC.
"We want to sit in a courtroom, watch him sentenced and see him sent to a super-max prison where he will spend the rest of his life in isolation," the family added, according to the BBC.
Read more: http://www.kptv.com/story/28207812/jihadi-john-raised-in-uk-studied-computers-reports-say#ixzz3SsVmJnRS
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