Protesters Force Buses Carrying Immigrants to Leave Murrieta: Buses Diverted to San Ysidro

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Photo Credit: Twitter A group of 140 Central American migrants who entered the United States illegally were flown from Texas to Lindbergh Field on Tuesday and then bused to a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Murrieta, where crowds of angry protesters prompted authorities to take them instead to San Ysidro.

The drivers of the three Department of Homeland Security coaches backed away from the Riverside County USBP facility and got onto southbound Interstate 15 in the late afternoon, re-entering San Diego County about 3:30 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack declined to disclose where the migrants were being taken, but by late afternoon, the buses were seen pulling into a Customs and Border Protection facility in San Ysidro.

According to Ron Zermeno, who is with the National Border Patrol Council, less than a dozen EMTs were conducting health screenings on the immigrants Tuesday evening. Paramedics are on scene supervising the screenings.

He told 10News two to three children were taken to the hospital for “unknown illnesses.” Their conditions were unknown. Zermeno says they are anticipating more could be taken to the hospital because many are unhealthy.

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Mexico Sorry for Border Crossing, But US Marine's Apology Not Enough

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Photo Credit: Fox News Mexican military officials are apologizing for firing from a chopper at two U.S. Border Patrol agents early Thursday, but one lawmaker says the incident draws a disturbing contrast with the case of Andrew Tahmooressi, the U.S. Marine sergeant whose apology for accidentally crossing the border hasn’t spared him a legal nightmare.

Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, which straddles the border, when they strayed into U.S. air space and fired at the agents, who were not injured. The reservation is a hotbed for drug smuggling, and authorities from both governments have conducted operations on it.

“Early [Thursday] morning, a Mexican law enforcement helicopter crossed approximately 100 yards north into Arizona nearly eight miles southwest of the Village of San Miguel on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation while on a drug interdiction operation near the border,” U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Michael Friel said. “Two shots were fired from the helicopter but no injuries or damage to U.S. property were reported. The incident is currently under investigation.”

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Teen Sparks Outrage with Photos of Dead African Animals

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Photo Credit: Facebook A teenage hunter from Texas has sparked outrage on Facebook by posting pictures of herself posing with animals she has hunted and killed in Africa.

Nearly 40,000 people have signed a petition asking the social media website to remove numerous photos posted by 19-year-old Kendall Jones, according to The Huffington Post.

The photos show Jones with dead or tranquilized African animals she had hunted, including a lion, rhino, antelope, leopard, elephant, zebra and hippopotamus.

The petition reads: “For the sake of all animals, especially the animals in the African region … where hunters are going for gun just to kill an animal! Some people have been reporting the pages lately but it seems Facebook is not concerned about what Kendall Jones is promoting in her page.”

The photos show Jones with a big smile as she strikes poses next to the downed animals. In addition to the pictures, Jones typically writes a short description to inform users about the context of the photo.

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Report: Arabs Attacked IDF Ambulance Transporting Bodies of Murdered Israeli Teens

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Photo Credit: Tazpit News Agency.Palestinian Arabs attacked an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ambulance humvee on Monday that was transporting the recently discovered bodies of three murdered Israeli boys who were kidnapped on June 12, an Israeli source told The Algemeiner.

The Muqata blog posted an image on Facebook of what it claimed to be the damaged vehicle writing, “8:44pm IDF Ambulance humvee transporting the bodies of the boys attacked by arabs….windows smashed.”

In the picture, the ambulance’s windshield is shattered and splattered with paint.

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Is the Obama Administration Muzzling Meriam Ibrahim Defenders?

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Photo Credit: National Review State Department officials, under pressure since Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim and her American family were prevented from leaving the country for the United States, have discouraged congressional leaders from speaking out publicly on behalf of them, advocates for the family say.

Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy before the government ultimately overturned her conviction, was arrested for a second time on her way out of the country. Her husband, American citizen Daniel Wani, was also arrested.

The State Department said this week that Ibrahim’s family wanted members of Congress to “keep quiet” about her case, according to a religious-liberty advocate whose organization works with the Ibrahim family’s lawyers in Sudan.
“And that’s simply not true,” says Tina Ramirez, founder of Hardwired, which provides legal training in Sudan on religious liberty, told National Review Online. State was “lying” about the wishes of the Ibrahim family, she says. “I don’t know why they would say such a thing.”

Ramirez explained that the State Department told members of Congress that Meriam Ibrahim’s husband and her brother-in-law, Gabriel (who lives in New Hampshire), had asked that Congress stand down.

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U.N. Experts Trace Recent Seized Arms to Iran, Violating Embargo

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Photo Credit: REUTERS / HEINZ-PETER BADERA U.N. expert panel has concluded that a shipment of rockets and other weapons that was seized by Israel came from Iran and represents a violation of the U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, according to a confidential report obtained by Reuters on Friday.

The finding comes just days ahead of the next round of negotiations in Vienna between Iran and six world powers aimed at securing a deal that would gradually lift international sanctions on Tehran — including the arms embargo — in exchange for curbs on the controversial Iranian nuclear program.

Despite Israel’s public statements that the seized arms were destined for Gaza — an allegation that Gaza’s governing Islamist militant group Hamas dismissed as a fabrication — the experts said the weapons were being sent to Sudan.

The experts do not speculate in the report about why the arms were being sent to Sudan, a country which Western diplomatic and intelligence sources have told Reuters has in the past been a conduit for Iranian arms shipments to other locations in Africa, as well as the Gaza Strip.

The experts said the Israeli U.N. mission wrote to the U.N. Iran Sanctions Committee on March 13 about “the transfer of rockets, mortars and related materiel from Iran to Sudan.”

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Two Years After Syrian ‘Red Line’ Comment, Obama Takes Action by Proposing a $1.5 Billion Check

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Photo Credit: IJ Review The President said in August of 2012 that his administration had made things very clear to Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad by saying:

…that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. It would change my calculus. That would change my equation.

They then used chemical weapons multiple times.

The President revised his statement in September of 2013 by saying:

I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line.

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Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents

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Photo Credit: MARK RALSTON / AFP / Getty ImagesBorder Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border.

Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.

However, Mexican authorities have denied shooting at agents and say they were under attack during a mission to find smugglers on the border.

Tomás Zerón, the director of the Mexican attorney general’s office investigative office, said that Mexican military and federal police who were conducting an operation on a ranch in Altar, Sonora, were shot at by criminals. Mexican authorities never fired any weapons and in fact never crossed into the U.S. side of the border, he said.

Art Del Cueto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector union president, tells KVOA-TV, though, that they called and apologized for the incident.

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Pelosi to Meet Illegal Minors at Border

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Photo Credit: GettyBy Lauren French.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.

The California Democrat will also meet with a group of children held at the South Texas Detention Facility.

“The humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation’s southern border demands Congress come together and find thoughtful, compassionate and bipartisan solutions,” Pelosi said. “We must ensure our laws are fully enforced, so that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected. We must also work to address the root causes of the problem.”

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Photo Credit: Weekly Standard Key Chairman Blames Obama’s Lack of Enforcement for Killing Immigration Reform

By Fred Barnes.

Immigration reform is deader than ever in 2014 and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says President Obama is to blame.

By refusing to halt the current “surge” of illegal immigration, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia said Thursday, Obama has made it “extremely difficult” to pass any reform of the immigration laws. Enforcement at the border must be “the leading component” of reform legislation, he said, but it isn’t happening.

Instead, the president has created a broad new exception to immigration law to permit tens of thousands of young immigrants to cross the U.S. border with Mexico and stay in this country. But he lacks the constitutional authority to make this change in the law unilaterally, Goodlatte said.

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Six Cities in Iraq Where U.S. Victories Turned into Defeat

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Photo Credit: Larry Downing / ReutersCity names that were frequently in newspapers years ago have returned to the headlines. One by one, towns in Iraq are falling to either Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda splinter group, to Kurdish militants or to other tribal forces. The cities where soldiers fought and overthrew violent insurgencies are now the scenes of bloodshed once again. Here is a look back at Washington Post stories that described these regions after U.S. victories, and the bleak conditions in those cities today.

FALLUJAH

2004: “The city has been seized,” said Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. “We have liberated the city of Fallujah.” “Fighting in Fallujah nears end” by Jackie Spinner, Nov. 15, 2004.

2014: Fallujah was the first major city in Iraq that fell to ISIS earlier this year. “At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah… The police and the army have abandoned the city, al-Qaeda has taken down all the Iraqi flags and burned them, and it has raised its own flag on all the buildings,” said a local journalist who asked not to be named because he fears for his safety. “Al-Qaeda force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq” by Liz Sly, Jan. 3, 2014

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