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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 1:58pm

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 The Border Patrol is specifically responsible for patrolling the 6,000 miles of Mexican and Canadian international land borders and 2,000 miles of coastal waters surrounding the Florida Peninsula and the island of Puerto Rico. Agents work around the clock on assignments, in all types of terrain and weather conditions. Agents also work in many isolated communities throughout the U.S.

Daily Duties:

 One of the most important activities of a Border Patrol agent is line watch. This involves the detection, prevention and apprehension of terrorists, undocumented aliens and smugglers of aliens at or near the land border by maintaining surveillance from a covert position, following up leads, responding to electronic sensor television systems, aircraft sightings, and interpreting and following tracks, marks and other physical evidence. Some of the major activities are traffic check, traffic observation, city patrol, transportation check, administrative, intelligence, and anti-smuggling activities.

Training:

 As one of the most rigorous and demanding law enforcement training programs in the country, U.S. Border Patrol training has become the envy of the federal law enforcement community. All newly hired Border Patrol Agent Trainees are required to complete a 117-day basic training program which includes instruction in Law, Operations, Spanish, Driver Training, Physical Techniques, and Firearms. Scenario-Based Training plays a significant role in the trainees' development as it allows them to apply the theoretical information in life like situations. The U.S. Border Patrol Academy is located in Artesia, NM. While in training, all trainees receive full pay and benefits.

 Federal Law Enforcement Center (FLETC) courses are: Communications, Ethics and Conduct, Report Writing, Introduction to Computers, Fingerprinting, and Constitutional Law. The U.S. Border Patrol Academy is located in Artesia, NM.

History:

 The U.S. Border Patrol has a long and rich history of helping to secure and protect the American way of life.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 1:43pm

President Trump: “Southern Border Under Siege”  

May 4, 2018

     http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x6ivz5e

According to the Border Patrol, border crossings are up 223 percent over last year, which saw much lower occurances of the same.

 "Our Southern Border is under siege. Congress must act now to change our weak and ineffective immigration laws. Must build a Wall. Mexico, which has a massive crime problem, is doing little to help!" -President Trump

  The Border Patrol reports that, “In April a total of 38,234 individuals were apprehended between ports of entry on our Southwest Border, compared with 37,383 in March and 26,662 in February. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, USBP apprehended 303,916 individuals along our Southwest Border, compared to 408,870 in FY16, 331,333 in FY15, and 479,371 in FY14.”

 **** HOW MANY ARE STILL IN THE U.S.A.? **** Bull

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 3:57am

7 States Sue to End obuma's Unconstitutional Amnesty.

 5/04/18 : AAN  by: Kevin Boyd

Texas and six other states have filed a lawsuit in Federal court demanding an end to an obuma-era program that granted temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands who came to the country illegally as children.
 The Trump administration has sought to end the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The administration believes the program is unlawful.
 However, attempts to end various Federal judges have blocked the program. According to Fox News, about 800,000 receive protection from deportation under the plan.
 The lawsuit asks to rescind all current DACA permits and that the government refrains from issuing new ones. The lawsuit challenges the legality of the program.
 Last week, a judge in Washington ordered the program to continue. The judge claimed the that the Trump administration failed to explain why the program was unlawful.
 “Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy,” Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton said in a statement to Fox News. “Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization.”
 He continued, “Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by obuma' Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences."
 Texas successfully led a lawsuit against another oboma-era amnesty program, DAPA. The Trump administration ended the program after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on the case.
 The other states joining Texas in the lawsuit are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
 The Department of Homeland Security and its Secretary, Kirstjen Nielson and acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan are among those listed as defendants in the suit.

 The U.S. is also a defendant.
The DACA program was created by barry obuma in 2012. It granted protection from immediate deportation to certain illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. It allowed them to request “consideration of deferred action” for two years, subject to renewal.

 

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 3:26am

Murderous kennedy Clan Member Exonerated?

5/4/18    by: Associated Press

 HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated kennedy cousin Michael Skakel’s murder conviction and ordered a new trial in connection with a 1975 killing in wealthy Greenwich.
 The court issued a 4-3 ruling Friday that Skakel’s trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to present evidence of an alibi. The decision reversed the court’s previous ruling that reinstated Skakel’s conviction after a lower court had ordered a new trial.
 Skakel is a nephew of robert f. kennedy’s widow, ethel kennedy. He was convicted of murder in 2002 in the bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley in their wealthy Greenwich neighborhood in 1975, when they were teenagers.
 He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, but another judge granted him a new trial in 2013, citing mistakes by his trial lawyer.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 3:14am

Liberal Queer Resigns in Disgrace.

5/4//18  : AAN

 Queer liberal Democrat Stanley Rosenberg is resigning Friday due to his husband's sexual harrassment of state Senate employees. 
 State Sen. Stanley Rosenberg, for decades one of the most powerful Democrats in Massachusetts, announced Thursday that he will resign Friday after 31 years as a lawmaker because of a scandal involving his estranged husband. His decision follows Wednesday’s release of an ethics report that states Rosenberg “failed to protect the Senate” from his estranged husband, who faces charges of racially and sexually harassing Senate employees.
  He stepped down as president in December, after the Boston Globe reported in November that four men alleged that Rosenberg’s husband, Byron Hefner, had sexually assaulted and harassed them, and boasted of his influence in the Senate..

 Hefner was indicted in March.

Rosenberg claims to have been unaware of Hefner’s alleged crimes.
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Following the release of the ethics report, both Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey called for Rosenberg to resign, Fox 25 reported. According to the station, the report was prepared by independent investigators hired by the Senate Ethics Committee. It said that while Rosenberg did not violate any formal Senate rules, he showed poor judgment and violated the Senate's information technology policies by granting Hefner “unfettered access” to Rosenberg's Senate email account. Hefner, 30, pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in April to charges of sexual assault, criminal lewdness and distributing nude photos without consent. He was released on his own recognizance pending further court action.

The powerful Masschusetts Democrat is just one of many recent sexual harrassment scandals that have become all to common in liberal legislatures.

 

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 3:05am

Infamous Gang Puts Out Hit on Trump-Supporting Kanye,

 5/3/18  AAN

Hip-hop artist Kanye West’s is publicly supporting President Donald Trump, and liberals are reacting with one of their most popular political tools. 
Death threats. 
  "Yo, national alert. All the Crips up out here, yo fuck Kanye up. You see that motherfucker, yo fuck his ass up on GP. This Crip shit, nigga. We gon' show you how we come together and ride on your motherfuckin ass,” rapper Daz Dillinger, leader of the West Coast Crips street gang threatened in a since-deleted Instagram video. 
 “Where you at right now? All those Crips out there, you see that nigga, bang on his ass. Fuck his ass up, fuck Kanye West up,” he said. “Daz Dillinger gives the go-ahead for crips to whip Kanye West ass on sight. Is that going too far or na?” 
“We better not ever see you in concert. We better not ever see you in the Long Beach City, We better not ever see you in Mexifornia. Stay in Calabasas. You hear me? 'Cause we got a Crip alert on Kanye,” Dillinger said. 
 Local police responded, and questioned Dillinger about his explicit threat of political violence. 
  Dillinger did not seem to care. “FREEDOM OF SPEECH FUC KANYE THIS CRIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP THE REVOLUTION IS ON NOW,” said Dillinger in response to critics of his death threats. “Let the smashing and dashing begin,” said Dillinger adding, “Kris, did you call the police on me?” 
 Dillinger appears to claim Kris Jenner, West’s mother-in-law is the one who informed police of the videos, despite the fact his threats made national news. 
  Other rappers are warning West the threat is real, and street gang members appear to be taking it as an order. 
 “We got the Blood-affiliated MC Monday night at Ace of Diamonds and asked about Daz calling on Crips to ‘f*** up’ Kanye on sight after re-professing his love for President Trump. Game takes a somewhat joking tone -- but also sounds serious ... watch out, Ye,” rapper The Game tells TMZ. 
  It’s the just latest in an explosion of political violence liberals have unleashed since Trump’s win. 
  Since March of 2017, around 40 Republican lawmakers have either been the target of death threats or assault by deranged liberals.
 In one of the most high-profile attacks, a liberal MSNBC viewer opened fire on Republican members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was critically wounded and nearly died in the targeted shooting. 
  Alabama Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, one of the targets of the mass assassination attempt, says the explosion of death threats by liberals is driving many Republicans to quit politics. 
 “one of the things that is concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor,” Brooks told Alabama radio station WVNN. “On our baseball team, our 1st baseman is retiring, our 2nd baseman was shot, our shortstop is retiring, our 3rd baseman is retiring, our left fielder is retiring, our center fielder is retiring. That’s 6 out of 9 players on the defensive side of the coin that are retiring.”

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 2:33am

Anti-Sex Work Crusaders Now Coming for Legal Prostitution in Nevada.

"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.

May/2/18 4:18 pm    Elizabeth Nolan Brown

 Throughout the United States there are only a handful of counties—all in Nevada—where prostitution is legal in licensed brothels. Now crusaders in two of these counties are trying to change this, with a campaign to put a brothel ban on the ballot this November.

 There are currently around 22 active, legal brothels in Nevada, dispersed among seven counties. Anti-prostitution activists are targeting brothels in Lyon Co.

—home to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, The Love Ranch, the Sagebrush Ranch, and the Kit Kat Guest Ranch—and Nye County. Nye is headquarters to five legal brothels, including three owned by Dennis Hof, who is currently challenging state 

 Assemblyman James Oscarson in the Republican primary.

"Prostitution is not going away, and you either put it in the hands of the professionals like liquor, marijuana and gaming, or you have it in the hands of the criminals," Hof tells The Nevada Independent, noting that his businesses are the largest single source of tax revenue for the county.

 But in early April, four Lyon County residents filed a brothel-banning petition with local authorities. It needs 3,350 signatures by June 15th to move forward. If that happens, the Lyon County Commission will vote on the ban and, if it fails to pass the county commission, it will be posed to Lyon County voters at large on fall ballots.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 2:12am

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The petition in Nye needs just 1,963 signatures to get on a November ballot initiative.

 Both the Nye petitioners and those in Lyon County are working with lawyer Jason Guinasso and activist Kimberly Mull of the "No Little Girl" campaign, funded through something called the End Trafficking and Prostitution Political Action Committee. Guinasso, a resident of Reno, has been practicing law in Nevada since 2003 and made a failed bid for the state assembly in 2016. He has said that similar anti-brothel campaigns could be coming in Nevada's Lander and Storey counties.

 No Little Girl asserts that all paid sex constitutes violence against women. The women working at Nevada's brothels tend to disagree.

 On the No Little Girl website, "they grossly proclaim that 'no little girl grows up wanting to be a prostitute,'" Christina Parreira, a sex worker and Ph.D student, tells me in an email. "Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found."

 Since Lyon County officially legalized brothels four decades ago, it's "proven to be a time-tested and remarkably successful social experiment," writes Parreira on the Bunny Ranch blog. The groups cites studies of brothel ills that have been debunked or have "nothing to do with legal prostitution," she adds. And "the handful of individuals that submitted the petition represent faith-based organizations" who seem more interested in a pushing their specific sexual mores on others than in looking out for the safety of women who choose to work in Nevada brothels.

 "As a licensed prostitute and PhD student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, I can tell you that what I want is to continue to have the freedom to choose to work in a safe environment, where I can practice a trade that I love, lawfully and prosperously," continues Parreira. "Sex work is definitely not my last resort or my only option—it is my choice. I'd like to continue to have the opportunity to make that choice legally."

 Nova Sky, who works at Lyon County's Kit Kat Ranch, tells KTVN.com that the anti-brothel group is "framing this as a question of the safety of women, but we're very safe."

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 2:10am

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"We don't have any of those fears that someone working on the streets would have," Amelia Heart, another Kit Kat Ranch worker, tells the TV station.

 Ruby Rae started working in one of Hof's brothels seven years ago, when she was 20. "Since starting my career as a legal prostitute in Nevada, I can truthfully say it was one of the best decisions I have made," she writes in The Nevada Independent. Some clients have become "good friends," and Rae has been able to pay her way through college while also helping care for her grandfather with dementia. She is currently pursing a master's degree.

 "When I heard about the petition that is being started by No Little Girl to put an end to the Lyon County brothels, I was angry, saddened and confused," writes Rae. "Not only is this group trying to take away my livelihood, success and freedom, but also they are trying to take that away from the hundreds of women I work with and the hundreds of staff that these four brothels employ."

 Shutting down the brothels "would be a huge step back for me personally in terms of my career," Alice Little, who works at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, tells a local ABC affiliate. Sex workers, she says, "are going to fight tooth and nail" against this.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on May 5, 2018 at 1:31am

 Seattle Sued Over Law Banning Landlords From Conducting Criminal Background Checks. 

 In August 2017, Seattle made it illegal for landlords to decline potential tenants because of their criminal history, or even to perform a criminal background check on people looking to rent their property. Now a collection of landlords is suing, claiming the so-called Fair Chance Housing Ordinance is unconstitutional.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm, filed suit on behalf of several small-time landlords who are concerned about the financial and personal safety risks of being unable to screen tenants for past wrongdoing.

The PLF’s complaint claims that the Seattle law violates landlords’ due process rights under the 14th Amendment by imposing an “unreasonable, overbroad, and unduly burdensome” regulation. The complaint also says the law runs afoul of the First Amendment by denying landlords access to publicly available records.

“The landlords we are representing are especially impacted by their inability to look at criminal history,” says Ethan Blevins, an attorney with the PLF. “They have a lot of interest at stake, both personally and professionally.”

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