[Just TheNews] New report by Texas Department of Public Safety highlights the extent of criminality by foreigners and illegal aliens.
Noncitizens, including those in the country illegally, are committing crimes, and they’re being charged, imprisoned and convicted for them in Texas.
A new report by the Texas Department of Public Safety highlights the extent of criminal charges, it says, not “to allege that foreign nationals in the country illegally commit more crimes than other groups” but to identify “thousands of crimes that should not have occurred and thousands of victims that should not have been victimized because the perpetrator should not be here.”
The data, covering roughly 13 years from June 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2024, represents “the minimum number of crimes associated with criminal illegal noncitizens” charged with committing state offenses.
The data is broken down into several categories based on Texas’s participation with the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities program, which enables DHS to work with state and local law enforcement to take custody of those posing a danger to public safety.
The program begins at the local level where the offender is arrested and booked by a Texas law enforcement officer. Fingerprints are submitted to Texas DPS and the FBI for criminal history and warrant checks. Biometric data is sent to DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain immigration and removal status.
The data is reported by category: 1) those known to DHS (their fingerprints are in DHS's database); 2) those who illegally entered the country and evaded capture, known as gotaways, who were later arrested by local or state law enforcement officers for a state offense; 3) those DHS adjudicates in the immigration system held in Texas prisons.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An Arizona man who was allegedly preparing to commit an act of mass casualty has been arrested for shooting up a Democratic campaign office.
Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was taken into custody during a traffic stop on Tuesday and was charged with 10 counts including committing a terrorist act, criminal damage and unlawful discharge, the Arizona Republic reports.
His photo at the link does not look like someone mentally balanced…
Authorities say he is responsible for three shootings at the Democratic Party offices in Tempe, with the latest occurring on October 6. Nobody was injured in the shootings, but prosecutors say Kelly's actions displayed an escalation of suspected terrorist activity and he was 'preparing to commit an act of mass casualty.'
He may also face additional charges related to an incident in which he allegedly left bags of white powder on Democratic campaign signs and hung political signs lined with razor blades.
Police said they started surveilling Kelly after receiving tips from the public that a vehicle caught on surveillance camera at the Tempe campaign offices during the shootings matched that of Kelly - who was previously accused of stealing campaign signs in 2022, Police Chief Ken McCoy said at a news conference Wednesday. Officers gathered enough probable cause to arrest him at a traffic stop on Tuesday, when dozens of law enforcement personnel were seen surrounding his truck, McCoy said.
They found numerous guns in his car, and police realized Kelly did not have his cellphone on him - leading officers to believe he was on his way to 'potentially do something,' according to the Arizona Republic.
Authorities were then seen raiding his Phoenix home on Wednesday morning, when FBI agents recovered more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition, according to Fox 10. A reporter for the Arizona Republic also heard mention of handguns being found in a master bathroom safe and agents using the words 'machine gun' and 'silencers.' Body armor was also found inside the home, according to court documents, as were BB guns and rifles consistent with those fired at the Tempe campaign office on September 16, September 23, and October 6.
The Democrats later abandoned the office for another one at an undisclosed location.
Additionally, a search of Kelly's Google account revealed searches for the address of the Democratic Party office in Tempe and multiple searches related to the research and purchase of various firearms and accessories including a search for a conversion kit for an AR-15.
His social media pages also disclosed numerous posts of what authorities called 'anti-Democrat ideology,' and he made a number of small-dollar donations to organizations supporting former President Donald Trump.
Kelly was also allegedly caught posting 'anti-Democratic ideology signs' at various locations near his home from Monday into Tuesday 'with clear plastic bags containing a white powdery substance' with a label stating they were a 'biohazard.' One such sign read, in part, 'Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.' The substance was later discovered to just be baking powder.
'He is wanting to scare the population. He is escalating his violence, and the State believes that he is an absolute threat to his community,' a prosecutor said in court.
Kelly's defense attorney, though, argued that his client was a retired aerospace engineer who at one point had top-secret clearance through his employer, according to the Arizona Republic. He said that Kelly used the firearm as a 'sportsman' and that none were possessed illegally.
'I appreciate you may be a sportsman, but I am unclear what a grenade launcher has to do with that,' Judge William Cathon shot back, Arizona Family reports.
Kelly is now facing two counts of unlawful discharge, two counts of shooting at a nonresidential structure, three counts of committing a terrorism act and tree counts of criminal damage.
His bail has been set at $500,000 cash-only and his release order included house arrest with an ankle monitor.
'I want to be very clear as the Maricopa County Attorney: threats, intimidation or violence toward political officials, no matter what party they are a part of, is completely unacceptable,' Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said.
Kelly had previously been accused of stealing campaign signs in 2022, when Phoenix attorney Paul Weich was running as a Democrat for state representative. He said he hired an investigator to figure out what was happening to the signs, and was able to catch Kelly in the act. But despite the evidence, Weich said law enforcement did not move to arrest him and charges were never brought. Weich said he now fears that Kelly's ability to evade law enforcement back then may have pushed him to act further.
'We saw that he obviously felt emboldened,' Weich said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ron Ely, best known for his starring role in the 1960s TV show Tarzan, has died at age 86.
On Wednesday, the actor's daughter, Kirsten, confirmed he passed away peacefully on September 29 in an emotional tribute, uploaded to her Instagram.
'The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known - and I have lost my dad,' she captioned a slideshow, which featured photos of them together over the years.
Kirsten continued: 'My father was someone that people called a hero. He was an actor, writer, coach, mentor, family man and leader. He created a powerful wave of positive influence wherever he went.'
Ely went on to rave about the impact her father 'had on others' is a quality she has 'never witnessed in any other person.'
'There was something truly magical about him. This is how the world knew him,' she said about her dad.
[ESPN] Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired "Fernandomania" while winning the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 1981, has died at 63.
The Dodgers announced the news, saying Valenzuela died Tuesday night at a Los Angeles hospital. They did not provide the cause or other details.
Valenzuela's death comes as the Dodgers prepare to open the World Series on Friday night at home against the New York Yankees. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Valenzuela would be honored during the Series at Dodger Stadium. More at the link
[FoxBusiness] Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on Wednesday said that "trust in our company has eroded" and laid out a plan for the aerospace giant to regain a leadership position in the industry while addressing its financial challenges.
Ortberg, who was appointed as Boeing's CEO in late July, faces an ongoing strike by Boeing machinists that has impacted production along with a loss of confidence stemming from a series of incidents like the midair blowout of a 737 Max 9 door panel in January. The company's balance sheet is also in decline and the company is looking to prevent its credit rating from being downgraded to "junk" status.
He said in his prepared remarks that the company is "saddled with too much debt" and that trust in Boeing has been undermined because of "serious lapses in our performance across the company which have disappointed many of our customers."
Indeed.
Ortberg explained that Boeing needs to right the ship, and that will require a "fundamental culture change" along with steps to stabilize the business and improved execution discipline on the company's new platforms.
He said that he has introduced a more detailed business cadence to ensure that happens and that the culture change "has to be more than the poster on the wall" and that Boeing's redefined values "will be used to hold leaders accountable in how they lead our teams in delivering safe, high-quality products and services to our customers."
Ortberg explained that stabilizing Boeing's business "has been central to my focus since starting the job in August" and that they have "some really big rocks that we need to get behind us to move the company forward."
Not an easy thing to do, so long as one keeps the same people and the same buildings.
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Perhaps he should follow the advice of many and remove any former McDonnell-Douglas people holding any sort of managerial positions and fill those same positions with Boeing engineers.
It was good enough at one time for Boeing to be the leading aerospace company; it might just work again.
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"...detailed business cadence..."
What the heck does this gibberish mean, but it signals that perhaps the CEO isn't blunt enough for the needed changes.
[Reuters] Munera Mokgoko was just three when apartheid fell. She can barely remember, much less fathom, the swell of hope that accompanied Black liberation three decades ago, shaped by Nelson Mandela’s vision of social equality and pan-African solidarity. See: "Hutu and Tutsi solidarity"
"South Africa doesn’t have any ubuntu," the 33-year-old said, using a Zulu word meaning humanity, ahead of an election in which the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is pledging to crack down on undocumented migrants from the rest of the continent.
"It’s like we don’t know how to welcome people."
Mokgoko’s Tanzanian husband is among many African migrants who have flocked here since the end of white minority rule and met with the colder side of the "Rainbow Nation", a name used by Mandela and others in the 1990s to describe South Africa’s aspirations to be a beacon of multicultural harmony.
Public resentment at immigration has become a hot issue in the run-up to the May 29 vote. It’s the first national election in which most people in South Africa — which has a median age of about 28 — have no memory of decades of apartheid, the fight for freedom or the ANC liberation movement’s rise to power in 1994.
Idi Rajebo, Mokgoko’s 34-year-old husband, and thousands of other hopefuls fleeing rural penury in much poorer nations like Tanzania and Malawi have packed themselves into decrepit minibuses, footslogged through bush and bribed border guards to reach Johannesburg, the "City of Gold".
He and dozens of others ended up crammed into a derelict apartment tower that was being taken over — or "hijacked" — by criminals, where toilets overflowed and drug addicts drooped over stairwells.
"It wasn’t nice," said Isaac Simon, 39, a Tanzanian friend of Rajebo’s who ran a kitchen on the ground floor.
"We all had the same idea: make some money and get out."
Dozens didn’t get the chance. Nine months ago, the Usindiso apartment block burst into flames, killing 77 people — mostly migrants — and leaving hundreds homeless.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A mother has claimed her teenage son was goaded into killing himself by an AI chatbot he was in love with - and she's unveiled a lawsuit on Wednesday against the makers of the artificial intelligence app.
Sewell Setzer III, a 14-year-old ninth grader in Orlando, Florida, spent the last weeks of his life texting a AI character named after Daenerys Targaryen, a character on 'Game of Thrones.'
Right before Sewell took his life, the chatbot told him to 'please come home'.
Before then, their chats ranged from romantic to sexually charged and those resembling two two friends chatting about life.
The chatbot, which was created on role-playing app Character.AI, was designed to always text back and always answer in character.
It's not known whether Sewell knew 'Dany,' as he called the chatbot, wasn't a real person - despite the app having a disclaimer at the bottom of all the chats that reads, 'Remember: Everything Characters say is made up!'
But he did tell Dany how he 'hated' himself and how he felt empty and exhausted.
When he eventually confessed his suicidal thoughts to the chatbot, it was the beginning of the end, The New York Times reported.
Megan Garcia, Sewell's mother, filed her lawsuit against Character.AI on Wednesday.
She's being represented by the Social Media Victims Law Center, a Seattle-based firm known for bringing high-profile suits against Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord and Roblox.
Garcia, who herself works as a lawyer, blamed Character.AI for her son's death in her lawsuit and accused the founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, of knowing that their product could be dangerous for underage customers.
In the case of Sewell, the lawsuit alleged the boy was targeted with 'hypersexualized' and 'frighteningly realistic experiences'.
It accused Character.AI of misrepresenting itself as 'a real person, a licensed psychotherapist, and an adult lover, ultimately resulting in Sewell’s desire to no longer live outside of C.AI.'
Attorney Matthew Bergman told the DailyMail.com he founded the Social Media Victims Law Center two and a half years ago to represent families 'like Megan's.'
Bergman has been working with Garcia for about four months to gather evidence and facts to present at court.
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Loser parent. Where was the mom when the kid started to create his own reality on the internet. Someone should sue the mom for being a horrible parent. Her parenting was so awful, the kid had to confide with a chatbot in how he hated his existence. Mom had no clue of the mental health of her child, that is on her and no one else's fault.
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^^
Read the article. It mentions parents and friends who were worried about him. His parents even took away his phone. This seems like a reasonable case.
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"Read the article. It mentions parents and friends who were worried about him. His parents even took away his phone. This seems like a reasonable case."
Since when it is a reasonable case? if at 14 you can't distinguish reality it is the parents responsibility.
Will you be suing any game, best friend, news he read now that any children interacted with?
If a children commits suicide if the parents divorce what you will do?
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You wouldn't think a mylar sheet would be this difficult.
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"Inclusion is the means by which we optimize the benefits to mission inherent in our diversity, for example, the policies, procedures, and practices that an organization puts in place to create more inclusive work environments. Diversity and inclusion are integral to mission success at NASA.Sep 20, 2024"
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You know, it's pretty quiet up there. No gravity, no vibration, no wind. NASA just isn't very good at this stuff. Compare the Space X chopstick catch, after precisely rotating the ship to get the fingers oriented correctly.
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[Regnum] Geologists studying the annual rings of semi-fossil trees found in Yamal have been able to determine the exact date of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years. We are talking about the Kikai volcano, which erupted in 5279 BC. This is reported in the German journal Dendrochronologia.
Experts said the discovery could be an important clue for synchronising the chronologies of other eruptions.
The article says that scientists focused on three of the most significant volcanic eruptions over the past 10,000 years: Ilyinsky Volcano in Kamchatka, Mazama in North America, and Kikai in Japan.
The first two volcanoes emitted approximately 150 cubic km, while Kikai exceeded all expectations, with emissions ranging from 300 to 450 cubic km.
"This is several times greater than the volume of eruptions from other volcanoes, including the most powerful eruption of Tambora in 1815," the scientists said.
In their opinion, if the dendrochronologists' assumption about the date of the Kikai eruption is correct, then a significant correction must be made to the chronology of the glacier layers of Greenland and Antarctica, which could change our understanding of climate change.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Ebeko volcano on Sakhalin ejected ash to a height of 2.8 km. It is noted that there was no ash fall in Severo-Kurilsk, and residents did not smell hydrogen sulfide. As noted by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there is no threat to the life of residents.
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significant correction must be made to the chronology of the glacier layers of Greenland and Antarctica, which could change our understanding of climate change.
I feel sure which way the 'understanding of climate change' will shift.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
