Corruption in Portlandia: Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing
Posted: August 4, 2018 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Anarchy, Antifa, Democrats, Far Left, Ice, Immigration, Portland Police, Radical Left, Ted Wheeler 2 Comments
A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart. The police followed orders to do nothing.
Andy Ngo reports: Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.
A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. “At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.
Signs called ICE employees “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” Others accused them of running a “concentration camp,” and demanded open borders and prosecution of ICE agents. Along a wall, vandals wrote the names of ICE staff, encouraging others to publish their private information online.
Federal workers were defenseless. An ICE officer, who asked that his name not be published, told me one of his colleagues was trailed in a car and confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp. Later people showed up at his house. Another had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the “Gestapo.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] DHS Secretary Tells Congress to Change the Law or Shut Up
Posted: April 18, 2017 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: C-SPAN, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, DHS, Ice, Illegal immigration, Law Enforcement, video 1 Comment
U.S. to Deport Zhang Xiaoyuan, the ‘Dirty Minded’ Arizona State University Student Caught Recording Women in Restroom
Posted: April 8, 2017 Filed under: Asia, China, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Arizona State University, Ice, Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe, Zhang Xiaoyuan Leave a comment
Zhang Xiaoyuan was apprehended and forced him to hand over his phone by two women who caught him coming out of a female bathroom on Arizona campus.
A foreign Arizona State University student who was caught last year taking surreptitious videos of women using the bathroom now faces deportation to China, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“According to a probable cause statement, Zhang had not been able to find the men’s room in the building and decided to use the women’s restroom instead.“
Zhang Xiaoyuan, 22, was convicted in January on felony voyeurism charges, according to court records. The Chinese national was in the United States on a student visa and enrolled as an undergraduate communications student at ASU, a university spokeswoman confirmed.
“While in the center stall, he used his phone to record video of the women because he had a ‘dirty mind,’ Zhang later told a police officer who conducted a more detailed interview in Putonghua at the station.”
After Zhang’s conviction, a federal immigration judge determined the Chinese national “no longer has a legal basis to remain in the US,” ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe said in a statement. “Accordingly, ICE is now making preparations to repatriate Mr Zhang to his native country.”
“He was charged with six counts of unlawful viewing, taping and recording of persons, records showed. Because Zhang was a Chinese national, police also placed him on a federal immigration hold.”
Zhang was apprehended inside a lecture hall on ASU’s Tempe campus on the night of September 26, after two women observed him emerging from the women’s restroom and suspected he had taken video and photographs of them while inside, according to police records obtained by KTVK News.
The women detained Zhang and took his phone away from him so he couldn’t delete anything, police records said. When officers arrived, Zhang gave consent to search his phone; the two women watched videos recorded on the phone and were able to identify victims, records stated.
According to a probable cause statement, Zhang had not been able to find the men’s room in the building and decided to use the women’s restroom instead. While in the center stall, he used his phone to record video of the women because he had a “dirty mind,” Zhang later told a police officer who conducted a more detailed interview in Putonghua at the station. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Tucker Carlson vs Baltimore Lawmaker Who Called Feds ‘Nazis’
Posted: March 21, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 1 Police Plaza, Americans, Baltimore, Donald Trump, Ice, Illegal immigration, Jeff Sessions, Maryland, Police, President of the United States, Rape, Sanctuary city, United States, United States Department of Justice Leave a comment
14-year-old Md. girl is gang-raped by two older teens, one of whom is an illegal immigrant, while Baltimore reels from 10 recent homicides. Tucker takes on a Baltimore councilman who wants to make law enforcement kinder and gentler during troubled times.
MD Mothers Protest Sanctuary State Law Outside Rockville High #RockvilleRape pic.twitter.com/hkgn3SVHwJ
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 21, 2017
340 Sanctuaries Release 9,295 Criminals
Posted: October 8, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: California, Criminal, DHS, Ice, illegal alien, Immigration, Maryland, Oregon, Prince George's County, Sanctuary city, United States Department of Homeland Security, Virginia, Washington State 1 Comment
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Across the U.S., there are 340 cities, counties, and states that are considered “sanctuary cities”. These jurisdiction protect criminal aliens from deportation by refusing to comply with ICE detainers or otherwise impede open communication and information exchanges between their employees or officers and federal immigration agents.
Jessica Vaughan, Bryan Griffith, and Marguerite Telford report: The number of jurisdictions that are obstructing immigration enforcement has grown to roughly 340, according to the Department of Homeland Security.1 This has resulted in the release by local authorities of approximately 1,000 criminal aliens per month.
According to an updated report prepared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Congress, between January 1 and September 30, 2014, local sanctuaries released 9,295 alien offenders that ICE was seeking to deport. More than 600 people were released at least twice.
Out of these, 5,947 of the criminal aliens (62 percent) had significant prior criminal histories or other public safety concerns even before the arrest that led to a detainer. Fifty-eight percent of those with a prior history of concern had prior felony charges or convictions; 37 percent had serious prior misdemeanor charges, and 5 percent had multiple prior misdemeanors.
An alarming number — 2,320 — of the total number of released offenders were subsequently arrested within the time period studied for new crimes after they were released by the sanctuaries.
One of these is Victor Aureliano Hernandez Ramirez2 who, together with an accomplice, was arrested in July 2015 for raping and then bludgeoning 64-year-old Marilyn Pharis, of Santa Maria, Calif. She died eight days later. Ramirez had been arrested for battery in May 2014 and was in the custody of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff. ICE issued a detainer in order to begin the deportation process after the charges were resolved, but the sheriff did not comply, apparently in accordance with California’s state sanctuary law that went into effect on January 1, 2014.3
ICE was not able to re-apprehend most of the offenders released by the sanctuaries. As of last year, 6,460 (69 percent) were still at large. Of those still at large, 1,377 (20 percent) had another criminal arrest following the one that resulted in the ICE detainer.
One violent illegal alien offender who is now at large because of a local sanctuary policy is Francisco Javier Chavez. In August 2015, Chavez was arrested for brutally beating the two-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, breaking a leg and both of her arms.4 Chavez has a long rap sheet, including felony drug and drunk driving convictions and a prior deportation. ICE issued a detainer, but the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department released him anyway after he posted bail, even though California’s law would have permitted them to hold him.
Of the 6,460 criminal aliens who were who were still at large during the time period studied, 3,802 (58 percent) had prior felonies or violent misdemeanors.
New Sanctuary Listings
In July, the Center for Immigration Studies reported that ICE had identified 276 jurisdictions that, as of September 2014, had policies obstructing immigration enforcement, primarily policies to ignore ICE detainers.5 ICE updated this list in December 2014 to add another nine jurisdictions that adopted sanctuary policies. They are:
- Lafayette Parish, La.
- Rio Arriba, N.M.
- Prince George’s County, Md.
- Montgomery County, Md.
- Douglas County, Neb.
- All New Mexico counties
- Northampton, Mass.
- Chesterfield County, Va.
- Clayton County, Ga.
These jurisdictions have been added to our map of sanctuaries.6 No jurisdictions were removed from the list by ICE. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] Women Delivering Ice, 1918
Posted: September 7, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History | Tags: 20th century, Color, Color photography, Dana Keller, Ice, Labor, Photography, Retouching Leave a comment
Source: Historic Black and White Pictures Restored in Color
[VIDEO] Robotic Spacecraft MESSENGER Is Out of Fuel, Doomed to Crash Into Mercury This Afternoon at More Than 8,750 MPH
Posted: April 30, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Robotics, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Earth, geochemistry, Ice, Mercury (planet), MESSENGER, NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Space environment, Sun Leave a commentThe robotic spacecraft MESSENGER has run out of fuel. With no way to make major adjustments to its orbit around the planet Mercury, the probe will smash into the surface at more than 8,750 miles per hour (3.91 kilometers per second). The impact will add a new crater to the planet’s scarred face that engineers estimate will be as wide as 52 feet (16 meters).
Canadian Neo-Cubist Braves Sub-Zero Temperatures to Build a Giant Colored Ice Fort
Posted: January 15, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Art, Canada, Cubism, Environment Canada, Ice, Northwestern Ontario, Ontario, Reddit, Sculpture, Thunder Bay 1 Comment
Construction of this amazing wall took 5 to 6 nights in temperatures ranging from -28 to -35C. Unspeakablefilth / Reddit
While it’s certainly been a cold winter stateside, our neighbors to the north know what a real chill actually looks like. Reddit user Unspeakablefilth lives in Northwestern Ontario, where the averaged a daytime high was -25 degrees celsius or colder for about a month.
[GALLERY OF FROZEN NEO-CUBIST LUMINOUS WONDER]
National Housing Board Orders Fire Alarms to be Installed in Hotel Made Entirely of ICE
Posted: November 17, 2013 Filed under: Humor | Tags: Fire alarm system, Hotel, Ice, Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Sweden, Torne River 1 CommentThe best nanny state order ever?
Jazz Shaw writes: Sweden has a tourist attraction simply known as The Ice Hotel which gets constructed every winter in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna. Built entirely out of blocks of ice by a collection of artists, it draws a lot of visitors who presumably don’t mind freezing their backsides off just for the fun of staying there… So how does this relate to the problem of nanny state regulations? Well, this year The Ice Hotel will be equipped with one additional feature.
Sweden’s Ice Hotel has been ordered by the National Housing Board to install fire alarms, despite being made completely out of frozen water. The Ice Hotel, which is rebuilt every year in northern Sweden out of enormous chunks of ice from the Torne River in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, will this year come equipped with fire alarms – and the irony isn’t lost on the staff.
“We were a little surprised when we found out,” hotel spokeswoman Beatrice Karlsson told The Local.
“But we do understand. Safety is a primary concern for us. There are indeed things that can catch fire, like the reindeer skins, the mattresses, and the pillows.”
While it might sound crazy that a building made of water needs to be equipped with fire alarms, the fact that the hotel is built from scratch every year means it needs to abide by the rules that apply to every new building, rules set by the National Housing Board (Boverket).
There’s really not much left to add, I suppose. Except to say that if you built one in New York, they’d probably need the same equipment plus about 500 union sign-offs before you could erect it. Here’s a video of the project with a few of the artists who are carving it. Enjoy.
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