ICE Set Up Fake University To Catch Visa Overstayers

By William Teach January 31, 2019 – 7:18 am

Many who are against illegal immigration have noted that we also need to make a big push against those who overstay their visas, as, if reports are to be believed, 45% of the illegals present have overstayed the visas. We do not need to just go after those who crossed the border illegally

From the link

The Department of Homeland Security set up a fake university in Farmington Hills to target foreign students who wanted to stay in the U.S. without proper authorization, according to federal indictments unsealed in Detroit on Wednesday.

Eight people were arrested and indicted in an immigration fraud case for conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit, said the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Matthew Schneider.

Six of them were arrested in metro Detroit, one in Florida and another in Virginia. The students enrolled at the fake university with the intent to obtain jobs under a student visa program called CPT (Curricular Practical Training) that allows students to work in the U.S., said prosecutors.

An indictment says the defendants helped at least 600 “foreign citizens to illegally remain, re-enter and work in the United States and actively recruited them to enroll in a fraudulent school as part of a ‘pay to stay’ scheme.”

The indictments were filed Jan. 15 and unsealed Wednesday. They allege that from February 2017 through January 2019, the defendants “conspired with each other and others to fraudulently facilitate hundreds of foreign nationals in illegally remaining and working in the United States by actively recruiting them to enroll into a metro Detroit private university that, unbeknownst to the conspirators, was operated by HSI (Homeland Security Investigation) special agents as part of an undercover operation.”

HSI is an investigative arm of U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), part of the Department of Homeland Security.

But, it’s not just the eight (who are named further in the article) who are being targeted, and definitely should have been targeted. I’ve long stated that there should be a push to target those who do things like offer jobs for illegals as well as support and aid illegals, as well as those saying they will protect illegals, all of which entices them to come illegally.

The indictments and arrests have drawn the attention of the American Telugu Association, which is a group of Americans with roots in Telugu-speaking areas of India. The Association said that about 100 students have been arrested and others are facing arrest warrants. The group said on its Facebook page that it is trying to help affected students and has met with Indian consular officials in the U.S. about the case.

All of them should face arrest and deportation.

And for those railing against Trump (and many are in the Tweets)

This is not the first time that federal authorities have created a fake university to nab foreign students in the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security once created the University of Northern New Jersey as part of a sting operation targeting students who enrolled in order to work and study in the U.S., according to a New York Times report in 2016.

Obama did it, too.

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Super Warmists Elon Musk, Mike Bloomberg Highlight Their Climahypocrisy

By William Teach January 30, 2019 – 4:08 pm

Elon Musk used to be a media darling. He’s fallen out of favor, so now we get things like

https://twitter.com/EmilyRPeck/status/1090358366856273920

I wonder how much in the way of fossil fuels the Washington Post uses to gather and disseminate the news? Will the WP start going after Gore, Obama, Pelosi, Sheldon Whitehouse, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc?

Even better, though, is Green New Deal cheerleader Michael Bloomberg, who has long been a high ranking priest in the Cult of Climastrology

He decided to deflect and talk about his love of Cheez-Its. No, really. Listen.

These are questions in investigations that the media should be doing with everyone who is a high ranking member of the Cult of Climastrology. Essentially, are they practicing what they preach? It took college kid to do what the media should be doing. Instead, the media attacks high school kids for “smirking” in the face of abusive adults.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 30, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is ocean kelp dying from too much ocean heat from Other People eating burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on SJW freakout over “blackface”

Sorry for the lateness, server went tits up (pun intended)

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Virginia Democrats Look To Expend Abortion Right Up To Birth

By William Teach January 30, 2019 – 10:30 am

If you thought the NY abortion law was bad (one columnist called it “evil codified“), enter Virginia

VA CONSIDERING BILL LEGALIZING ABORTION UNTIL 40 WEEKS IN PREGNANCY

Virginia is considering a bill allowing women to abort their unborn child until the moment the baby is born.

Democratic Delegate Kathy Tran introduced HB2491, or the Repeal Act, which seeks to repeal the state’s current restrictions on late-term abortions. If passed, the measure will do away with the state’s requirement that second and third-trimester abortions be performed only to preserve the health or life of the woman. A woman seeking to abort would no longer need to obtain an ultrasound before having an abortion, under the proposed law.

Currently, three physicians must conclude that a third-trimester abortion is necessary to preserve the health or life of the woman. Those requirements are stripped under the proposed legislation, which also removes the state’s mandate that second and third-trimester abortions be performed in hospitals.

“The third trimester goes all the way up to forty weeks,” according to Tran, The Republican Standard reported. The bill would allow a doctor to perform an abortion when a woman is dilating, meaning she is about to give birth.

Seriously, listen to this

Democrats are really showing their true colors in all facets these days. So the next time Democrats yammer on about doing something for the kids…..

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Surprise: NY Times Links Current Freezing Conditions To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 30, 2019 – 8:13 am

It’s not that bad here in Raleigh. The temp gauge shows 26, though a bit chillier with the wind chill, and will be colder tomorrow. This happens. It does get cold in the South. We call it “winter”. It’s annoying because I live right next to the Neuse River, hence more moisture in the air, hence that really thin annoying hard to get off frost on the windows and mirrors. But, in the age of Climastrology, Warmists blame even worse cold on ‘climate change’

It’s worth a trip through Tom Nelson’s timeline for more of the Warmist crazy. Then there’s Somini Sengupta at the NY Times, with a front page article. Usually this kind of thing is in the opinion section

U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes

In Chicago, officials warned about the risk of almost instant frostbite on what could be the city’s coldest day ever. Warming centers opened around the Midwest. And schools and universities closed throughout the region as rare polar winds streamed down from the Arctic.

At the same time, on the other side of the planet, wildfires raged in Australia’s record-breaking heat. Soaring air-conditioner use overloaded electrical grids and caused widespread power failures. The authorities slowed and canceled trams to save power. Labor leaders called for laws that would require businesses to close when temperatures reached hazardous levels: nearly 116 degrees Fahrenheit, as was the case last week in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

This is weather in the age of extremes. It comes on top of multiple extremes, all kinds, in all kinds of places.

It’s winter in the U.S., summer in Australia. Oh, hey, remember when Warmists would say that the U.S. is only 2% of the Earth’s surface, so when weather happens that doesn’t support the Cult’s beliefs it’s immaterial? Those are mostly gone. Now that blame one of the biggest cold outbreaks in decades on you driving a fossil fueled vehicle.

Somini forgot to mention that the Aussie grid collapsed due to reliance on so much of “renewables.”

“When something happens — whether it’s a cold snap, a wildfire, a hurricane, any of those things — we need to think beyond what we have seen in the past and assume there’s a high probability that it will be worse than anything we’ve ever seen,” said Crystal A. Kolden, an associate professor at the University of Idaho, who specializes in wildfires and who is currently working in Tasmania during one of the state’s worst fire seasons.

So, that really nice spring day when you took your significant other out for a wonderful lunch is a sign of complete doom. Because everything is a sign of doom in Warmist World. All these weather “extremes” have happened before, and will happen again.

Consider these recent examples: Heat records were toppled from Norway to Algeria last year. In Australia, a drought has gone on so long that a child in kindergarten will hardly have seen rain in her lifetime. And California saw its most ruinous wildfires ever in 2018, triggering a bankruptcy filing this week by the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.

The wildfires were man-caused, but not due to heat. Due to incompetence with transmission lines and other machines, as well as poor forest management.

Is it climate change?

Heat and drought extremes are consistent with scientific consensus: More greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere bring a greater likelihood of abnormally high temperatures. Also, broadly speaking, scientists say, a hotter planet makes extreme weather more frequent and more intense.

Once you say consensus, you’re no longer talking science. You’re into politics. And the key here is that they are blaming

https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/1090490002654384128

super cold weather on man-induced climate change.

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How Socialism Works: $840 In Gold Bars Loaded On Russian Jet While Venezuelan’s Starve

By William Teach January 30, 2019 – 7:54 am

In Venezuela, the citizens have no toilet paper, beer, or food. There was a point where they were eating animals from zoos and pets. And so many other issues, like no jobs, high unemployment, and so much more. But, it’s not a problem for the big wigs in the government, such as President Maduro, who live the high life and won’t spend money on the people

$840M in gold bars prepared for loading onto Russian jet at Venezuelan airport: report

About 20 tons of gold from Venezuela’s central bank was ready to be hauled away Tuesday on a Russian airline’s Boeing 777 that landed in Caracas a day earlier, a Venezuelan lawmaker wrote on Twitter.

The destination of the $840 million in gold bars was unknown, but a source told Bloomberg News that it represented about 20 percent of the country’s holding of the metal. The gold was set aside for loading, the report said.

The news outlet, which first reported on the tweet, identified the lawmaker as Jose Guerra. The lawmaker did not provide evidence for his claim but is identified in the report as a former economist at the country’s central bank with close ties to workers still there.

Noticias Venezuela, a news outlet in the country, posted a photo of what it identified as a Nordwind Airlines plane from Moscow that made the trip with only a crew aboard.

How much food could that gold purchase? How about the other 80%? Venezuela reportedly owes Russia billions, but, might they take care of the starving citizens first? Nope. Everything that is going on in the nation highlights exactly the way Socialism works, and this is what U.S. Democrats want here. Venezuela is a nation that should be rich from all their oil. Instead it is a complete sh*t show.

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Super Incredible Cold Weather In Chicago Is Sign Of ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 29, 2019 – 2:17 pm

Who didn’t see this coming?

The big focus on this polar vortex has been on Chicago, and we end up with the typical Warmist claptrap fearmongering

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 29, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon, it’s totally coming, guys, rise and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on Tom Brokaw apologizing for speaking the truth on assimilation.

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Surprise: Many Democrats Break Ranks To Back Venezuela Strongman Maduro

By William Teach January 29, 2019 – 11:19 am

The big question here is are they backing him because he’s a fellow socialist or due to a kneejerk reaction to be for anything Donald Trump is against? Or both? We saw this same type of thing from Democrats while George W Bush was president and Hugo Chavez was around

PROGRESSIVES BREAK WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY OVER US OPPOSITION TO SOCIALIST DICTATOR NICOLAS MADURO

At least three progressive Democrats have broken with their party to criticize President Donald Trump for his Wednesday decision to oppose Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Ro Khanna of California excoriated Trump when he became one of several world leaders to recognize Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the country’s leader instead of Maduro.

The people of Venezuela have faced extreme economic hardship and crackdowns on their freedom under Maduro, who succeeded infamous socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. The Trump administration announced sanctions against Maduro Monday. (snip)

“A U.S. backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump’s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay [and] the Vatican’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue,” Omar wrote on Twitter Thursday.

Gabbard also spoke out against recognition of Guaido by the U.S. Nearly 15 nations including Brazil and Canada have also recognized Gauido over Maduro, reported Bloomberg.

Omar is an ant-Semite of the 1st order, and has ties to hardcore Islam, so, it’s no wonder she would back Maduro while fearmongering against Trump. Gabbard is running for president, so, she wants to burnish her far-left cred with the unhinged Democrat base, which is also running roughshod in backing Maduro over Trump. Khanna? Meh. He’s a back-bencher.

Many Democrats, like Dick Durbin, who is mentioned in the article, are backing Guaido, because they understand how bad Maduro is, and how bad Venezuela has become. Interestingly, Khanna makes an interesting point in his press release, which is entitled

STATEMENT: REP. KHANNA SLAMS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S HANDLING OF RELATIONS WITH VENEZUELA

“The United States should not anoint the leader of the opposition in Venezuela during an internal, divided conflict. There is no doubt the Maduro’s economic policies have been terrible, and he has engaged in financial mismanagement and also political authoritarianism. But crippling sanctions and threats of military action are making life worse for ordinary Venezuelans, and the U.S. stands alone in its decision to impose economic sanctions against the Venezuelan government. We should work to support the efforts of Uruguay, Mexico and the Holy See for a negotiated settlement and end the sanctions that are making the hyperinflation worse. I plan to circulate a letter to my colleagues to the Trump Administration urging them to immediately change course in its policy toward Venezuela.”

Funny, he’s more upset with Trump than Maduro. Further, in regards to what I’ve put in bold, isn’t that exactly what the Progressive/Socialist/Communist/whatever you want to call it wing wants to do in the U.S.? Yes.

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Walls Can’t Keep Out ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 29, 2019 – 7:07 am

No matter what is going on, you can expect some Warmist somewhere to drag ‘climate change’ into it. But, interestingly, they often end up ruining their own narrative. Here’s Paul Brown at the U Guardian

Weatherwatch: walls cannot keep out climate change

History is littered with examples of rulers building walls to keep out undesirables, invaders and immigrants. The Great Wall of China and Hadrian’s Wall in Britain are among the best-known examples, and there is a 2,000-mile (3,200km) fence between India and Bangladesh.

The earliest-known barrier for this purpose was in the cradle of civilisation in Mesopotamia about 4,300 years ago. A 110-mile wall called the “Repeller of the Amorites” was built to keep out the tribe of that name who were known as “a ravaging people with the instincts of a beast”.

This was because they did not grow grain but hunted for their food. The wall did not work, however, because the Akkadian empire was being overwhelmed by a force greater than the Amorites – climate change. A drought in the region that lasted for 300 years destroyed the empire. During that period, the whole Middle East region was subject to mass migrations as various tribes looked for greener pastures as their homelands dried up.

Exactly what caused that drought is still not clear, but the effects are exactly those that are beginning to happen worldwide at the moment – an unpredictable climate forcing millions of people to migrate to survive. History teaches us walls will not solve the problem.

First off, neither wall was built to keep out “immigrants” or “undesirables”, unless you consider invading armies to be one or both. The invaders part is correct, but, they really weren’t worried about illegal aliens back then, but people bringing war. As for the “Repeller of the Amorites”, um, Paul is kinda making the case FOR a wall, considering all the crime illegal aliens bring to the U.S. If walls didn’t work the majority of the time, you wouldn’t see them still in place around the world. Military bases, CIA, NSA, the White House, and so much more.

Second, what caused the climate change way back 4,300 years ago? It was a warm period thought to be warmer than it is during the current warm period. It was at the same time the Egyptians were at the height of their own empire, and right before the Bronze Age. Were they driving fossil fueled vehicles? Using evil air conditioning? Using coal power plants?

Trying to link things to make one’s point without really understanding them can be dangerous.

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