Feds: Immigration top US crime, one-third of all sentencings

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

Immigration crime, virtually all involving illegal male, Hispanic immigrants, was the top offense in federal courts last year, according to the United States Sentencing Commission. In its just-released annual report, the commission said that immigration crimes accounted for 34.4% of all...

Cartels ‘kicking our butts’ in New Mexico, as state left without checkpoints

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  7 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

What happens when our government takes down its interior checkpoints north of the border in New Mexico? Well, the cartels, with the drug and human smuggling, are “kicking our butts,” according to one local official. In an interview with CR, Couy Griffin, the chairman of the Otero County, New...

Reaction to arguments against the 2019 Reauthorization to the Violence Against Women Act

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Op/Ed  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

“Representatives have sent a message loud and clear that when Natives are beaten, raped, or murdered the perpetrators should not be held to account”

On March 13, 2019, House Republicans tried to repeal a crucial provision in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which was included in the 2013 reauthorization of the Act and would be further expanded in the current reauthorization bill. This political move was terrifying to Natives throughout...

What remains of Bears Ears

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Anthropology & Archeology  •  38 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Utah’s politically contentious southeast corner is a living landscape of culture and civilization”

For the last 13,000 years, humans have inhabited this part of the southwest. They carved arrowheads from stone and hunted giant sloths. They learned to farm corn and created communities on the mesa tops. They scratched and painted images onto rocks and reused and remixed what was left by...

Federal Appeals Court: DACA Recipients Are ‘Illegal Aliens’

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Op/Ed  •  10 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

“‘Open borders legal groups have been using DACA recipients to try to blur the distinctions between citizen and noncitizen…’”

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA) recipients are illegal aliens subject to deportation. The Immigration Reform Law Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, Estrada v. Becker, and argued that the Obama administration’s...

Appeals court to hear Native American child welfare case

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  5 years ago

A federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native American children is facing the most significant legal challenge since it was enacted more than 40 years ago. A federal judge in Texas ruled the Indian Child Welfare Act is...

‘I’m not for impeachment,’ Pelosi says, potentially roiling fellow Democrats

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  79 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  5 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump even though she believes he is “unfit” for office — her first definitive statement on the subject and one that stands to alienate members of her own Democratic Party who are intent on ousting the...

Ilhan Omar: Obama’s a ‘pretty face’ who got ‘away with murder’

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  176 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  5 years ago

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ripped former President Barack Obama in an interview published Friday, belittling his “pretty face” and saying his agenda of hope and change was an illusion. She cited the “caging of kids” at the Mexican border and the “droning of countries around the world” on...

Trump’s border emergency becomes more real by the day as migrants stack up along the Rio Grande

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  134 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

EL PASO - They came in pairs, by the dozens, hundreds. In one group, as many as 400 migrants crossed the border here in a single, massive group. Many are families. And some would soon sleep for the first time on U.S. soil -- but out in the open, under the stars because federal agents are...

House votes in favor of illegal immigrant voting

Via: 1stwarrior  •  News & Politics  •  40 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  5 years ago

House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice. The vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber — then under GOP control — voted to decry illegal...