[FoxNews] A coalition in Del Rio, Texas, helped coordinate travel for nearly 1,200 migrants between Sept. 20 and Sept. 24 and provided them with food and hygiene kits.
"It's not their intent to stay in Del Rio," Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition (VVBHC) director of operations Tiffany Burrow told Fox News. "They want to reunite with their loved ones."
VVBHC, a faith-based organization, describes itself as a group of local citizens and agencies dedicated to helping migrants get to their destinations after they're released from federal custody. Burrow told Fox News the migrants purchase their own tickets.
"The past two weeks have definitely been extraordinary in far as numbers go," she said. "In just three days, we assisted over 1,000 families."
As many as 15,000 migrants recently crossed the U.S.'s southern border into Del Rio. Between 10,000 and 12,000 were later released into the interior of the country, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told "Fox News Sunday."
Mayorkas said the number could increase as the remaining cases are processed.
Burrow told Fox News that many of the migrants that VVBHC helps end up in cities across America.
"If we weren't here, I think it would be pretty tricky for them to figure out how to get from Del Rio to wherever their final destination is," she said, adding that VVBHC is the only group in Del Rio that works with migrants.
Burrow told Fox News that migrants have been coming "all year long." In August, VVBHC assisted 3,649 migrants. At the time of the interview, toward the end of September, the organization had tallied 3,500 assists.
Burrow also told Fox News that there had been "quite a few newborns born at our local hospital."
"Now we're having to add swaddling blankets and newborn items for moms," she said. "That's always been in place, we're just seeing it in bigger numbers."
Burrow added that "the support from the community has been phenomenal."
"The majority of our volunteers come from a multitude of religious backgrounds and we all work together to help these people in need," Burrow continued.
The Department of Homeland Security is worried that rolling back the Trump-era Title 42 policy would encourage more migrants to come to the border and send numbers surging in October
Alejandro Mayorkas expressed the concern in a phone call with senior Homeland Security officials
Title 42 is set to expire today after a lawsuit from immigration groups, but the White House appealed
DHS announced Wednesday it will again try to end the Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy
Statement comes after a Texas federal court ruled in August the administration memorandum ending the Migrant Protection Protocols was unlawful
'A new memorandum terminating MPP will not take effect until the current injunction is lifted by court order,' the DHS press release reads
The new order, it states, will address concerns raised by the court regarding the previous memorandum
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[IsraelTimes] Speaker says he didn’t mean to call for peace with Israel, others say they were misled about conference’s content; pro-Iran militia says normalizers are ’legitimate targets’
Iraqis who participated in a conference calling for normalizing ties with Israel disavowed or recanted their remarks after being subjected to death threats and arrest warrants, with some participants saying they had been duped into attending.
Last Friday, over 300 Iraqis from across the country gathered at a conference in the Kurdish capital of Erbil, where speakers called for peace and reconciliation with Israel. Iraq has been at war with Israel since 1948, when the Jewish state was established.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A young Iraqi man named Hassan Muhammad Aswad was arrested and tortured by the Iraqi Federal Police Intelligence before being released without any charges, local media in Iraq reported on Thursday.
Viral videos on social media show the results of Aswad having been tortured and electrocuted, resulting in severe injuries to the point where he had to have his hands amputated.
The father of the young man, Hassan Muhammad Aswad, appealed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to follow up on the case of his son who was arrested without justification.
The father of the young man said during an interview with Tigris TV that his son was born in 1993 and works as a guard in a company in the industrial district of Kirkuk.
"He was arrested in June 2021, and the judge allowed me to see him for a short time, after 20 days, nothing happened, and we were not allowed to see him again," the father added.
The father also said that relatives informed him that they saw the young man in a deplorable condition in a hospital and that he could not even drink water due to the severity of his injuries as a result of the torture.
The father appealed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi, to look into what his son was subjected to and seek justice.
Organizations condemn the torture tactics
The organization "Ending Impunity in Iraq" condemned the torture of the young man.
The organization said in a statement that it condemns the crime of brutal torture to which Aswad was subjected to at the hands of security forces affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Interior in one of the detention centers.
"This crime comes to be added to a wide range of similar crimes of torture carried out by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior agencies inside detention centers to get fabricated confessions from the accused under torture. The defendants died as a result of torture in other cases," the statement added.
The statement also "reminded" the Iraqi government of its obligations to respect the constitution, implement the law, punish the perpetrators, compensate the victims monetarily and morally, quickly bear the costs of their treatment in full, and put an end to the violations of the Ministry of Interior and its loose security services.
"The steady increase in the size and quality of gross human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations in Iraq and by the official security agencies in charge of protecting society and law enforcement indicates a deep imbalance suffered by the Iraqi security institutions at the levels of management, oversight, and training, not to mention the outbreak of the security overlap crisis between the work of official and semi-official agencies, including partisan militias and security groups, are not subject to the law of the work of institutions, and they are among the main things that stand behind the consolidation of the phenomenon of impunity in Iraq," the statement added.
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"...It was nothing personal; we just had to do our quarterly brutality qualifications."
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[Jpost] Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, is the latest lawmaker to get in the way of $1 billion in new assistance to Israel to replenish its Iron Dome anti-missile system.
Paul on Thursday revealed himself to be the single senator refusing to “hotline” the bill now that it has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. “Hotlining” is when all 100 senators agree to allow a bill to go straight to the floor for a vote, substantially accelerating the process.
Paul is one of the most outspoken opponents of foreign assistance, and for a period a number of years ago proposed eliminating assistance to Israel. Now, a spokesperson for Paul told Politico that Paul will drop his objection to the Iron Dome hotlining if the $1 billion comes from proposed assistance to Afghanistan.
Paul’s stand is the latest wrinkle in a funding request that has roiled Congress. Progressives last week squelched a plan by the Democratic leadership in the House to slip the money into an unrelated emergency stopgap government funding bill, saying the last-minute inclusion undercut congressional conventions.
Instead, the Democratic leadership advanced the funding in a standalone bill, which the House approved after a brief debate. The standalone bill passed overwhelmingly, including among progressives in the Democratic caucus.
Israel asked for the $1 billion, which is in addition to $500 million the Iron Dome gets each year, to replenish supplies after Israel’s Gaza conflict in May.
#Lebanon says it has formed a new government delegation to resume talks with the #IMF aimed at rescuing the country from an economic meltdown.https://t.co/ImsQj6Egsn
[JPost-almost posted to Opinion] A Tel Aviv-based servicer for satellite images estimates that the facility was not just any military compound - it was a secret missile base.
A fire erupted in an IRGC facility in Iran on Sunday leaving two dead and one injured. On Thursday, Tel Aviv-based ImageSat International - ISI, a commercial servicer for satellite images - estimated that the facility was not just any military compound - it was a secret missile base.
It is still unclear why the fire erupted on Sunday.
A series of explosions and fires have hit industrial sites across Iran, including a number of petrochemical plants, in recent months and over the past year.
Iranian officials have referred to most of the cases as incidents or accidents, although some reports have claimed that at least some of them involved foul play.
The aging infrastructure in Iran has also been blamed for at least some of the incidents. Frequent blackouts have plagued Iran recently amid a heatwave.
#ISI reveals: On Monday, 27 September 2021, a mysterious #explosion shook western #Tehran, #Iran. According to #ISI intelligence report, the explosion occurred at an #IRGC secret missile base of Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group. pic.twitter.com/EMERYT2S5c
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On February 23, 2012, ISIS [Institute for Science] released the report, "The Physics Research Center and Iran’s Parallel Military Nuclear Program", based on a set of about 1,600 telexes which contain a set of procurement data about Iran’s Physics Research Center (PHRC) and its head Sayyed Abbas Shahmoradi Zavareh. One topic in this report was a discussion of a 1988 effort to illegally procure a mass spectrometer with nuclear applications in uranium isotope separation. Iran has stated that Shahmoradi was asked to procure this spectrometer prior to the start of the PHRC when he was a manager at Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG). This organization was a leader
in Iran’s effort to build ballistic missiles. Evidence in the original ISIS report suggests that SHIG was also the original location of Iran’s military nuclear program.
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