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Presidents on July 4: Some chill, some get in your face
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago
Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public. They’ve made tracks to the beach, the mountains, the golf course, the farm, the ranch. In the middle of the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt was sailing to a Hawaii vacation. It’s...
Do American Indians celebrate the 4th of July?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 31 Comments • 7 Likes • 5 years ago
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,...”
How do Native Americans observe the 4th of July? The answer is as complicated as America’s history. Perhaps the best-known passage of the the Declaration of Independence is the statement that all men are created equal. But many Native Americans also remember the signers’ grievance against the...
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 5 years ago
“ Insider: Google “is bent on never letting somebody like Donald Trump come to power again.” Google Head of Responsible Innovation Says Elizabeth...”
(New York City) — Project Veritas has released a new report on Google which includes undercover video of a Senior Google Executive, leaked documents, and testimony from a Google insider. The report appears to show Google’s plans to affect the outcome of the 2020 elections and “prevent” the next...
Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she's not self-consciously trying to bring that material into her work. If anything, it's the other way around. "I think the culture is...
Newsom apologizes for California’s history of violence against Native Americans
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Tuesday apologizing on behalf of the citizens of California for a history of “violence, maltreatment and neglect” against Native Americans in a rare move that some tribal leaders said could begin a healing process for their communities....
Democrat border mayor goes ballistic over ‘dumping’ of illegal aliens in his town
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
Del Rio used to be a quiet town of 40,000 residents bordering Mexico in central Texas. Even as the Rio Grande Valley to its southeast has seen constant waves of Central American migrants since 2014, Del Rio was untouched by the border crisis. Now, this part of Texas is one of the fastest-growing...
New Quebec law stresses migrants' skills, thousands must reapply
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
Montreal (AFP) - The Quebec provincial legislature on Sunday approved a controversial immigration bill that will replace a first-come, first-served standard for accepting migrants with one tied to an applicants' skills. The law is similar to a proposed plan from US President Donald...
Border Patrol agents fall prey to illnesses plaguing migrant holding centers
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EAGLE PASS, Texas — Some Border Patrol agents in Texas are concerned about exposure to Ebola by a migrant fleeing the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the United States. But more of them are worried about other illnesses frequently popping up among detainees at stations across the southern...
Congress shirks its duty at the southern border
Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
The Trump administration is doing just about everything it can to slow the flood of undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans coming to the U.S. and claiming asylum. But alleviating our growing border crisis is impossible unless Congress changes our immigration laws. Sen. John Cornyn,...
Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 5 years ago
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking...