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MINNESOTA UNVEILS A FLAG DESIGN TO REPLACE A FLASH POINT OF RACIAL TENSION
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 11 months ago
Minnesota unveiled its new flag design Tuesday in an effort to replace one with a seal that some Native Americans deemed offensive.The 174-year-old seal on the state’s current flag depicted a White settler plowing a field, a rifle leaning on a nearby tree stump, while an Indigenous man rides away...
Biden is breaking the border on purpose — he wants mass amnesty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 6 Likes • 11 months ago
The backlog of pending cases in the nation’s immigration courts has hit 3 million, as millions of border migrants have been released into the United States to seek asylum in the past three years. It’s a shocking figure, but just the latest example of President Biden’s efforts to break the...
UW-Madison to cover full cost of college for Native students from Wisconsin tribes
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 11 months ago
“Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program to begin in fall 2024”
Beginning in fall 2024, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover the full cost of an undergraduate degree for students who are members of one of the 11 federally recognized Indigenous tribes in Wisconsin. The school is also launching a five-year pilot program to cover in-state tuition and...
No good answers for Biden as voters recoil over border crossings
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 22 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
“President Joe Biden finds himself caught between the right and the left, searching for answers on immigration ahead of the 2024 election.”
Worried about the large numbers of people crossing the border from Mexico, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas went to White House officials with some advice: Get the word out about all the people the Biden administration has been deporting in hopes of deterring undocumented migrants from entering the...
Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he...
Biden expected to face criticism but not be charged in classified document probe: report
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 211 Comments • 3 Likes • last year • LOCKED
President Biden and his longtime aides will likely face harsh criticism but be let off the hook and not face criminal charges over the retention of classified material dating back to the commander in chief’s time as a US senator from Delaware. Special counsel Robert Hur’s team is crafting a...
Marine Corps celebrates 248th birthday: What to know about US military branch
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“For those who have earned the title of Marine, Nov. 10 is celebrated as if it was their own birthday.”
The United States Marine Corps celebrates its 248th birthday on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. In 1775, the Corps was born out of a Philadelphia tavern during the American Revolutionary War. For those who have earned the title of Marine, Nov. 10 is celebrated as if it was their own birthday,...
Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico have started BUSING migrants north to move them on, sparking fears Biden's record-breaking border crisis will get even worse
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
Central American countries have started busing migrants north, sparking fears that Joe Biden's record-breaking border crisis is deepening. In just one week last month, more than 14,000 travelers were bused from Panama to Costa Rica - part of a new plan between the nations to funnel arrivals...
Migrants Are Flocking to the U.S. From All Over the Globe
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Arrests at the Southwest border of migrants from China, India and other distant countries have tripled”
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from all over the world are making their way to the Southwest border, with U.S. and Mexican authorities reporting a surge in apprehensions of people from Asia and Africa as human smuggling networks widen their reach across the globe. Arrests at the Southwest...
How the Democrats Lost the Working Class on Immigration
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 15 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
“By championing legal and illegal immigrants and largely ignoring border security, the Democratic Party has alienated key voting groups—including...”
In September 2022, we listened to a focus group run by progressive organizations. The participants, who were from different parts of the country, had voted for Joe Biden for president in 2020 but weren’t sure about the approaching midterm election. The moderator asked about migrants and about...