The world’s most wanted drug lord has declared war on the Islamic State, promising the terror group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, that his narcotics cartel will wipe them off the planet.
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It seems even illegal immigrants seeking to cross over the U.S.-Mexico border are following the current immigration debate. Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, Texas, told WOAI that she witnessed one man being arrested on her ranch and that he told the border agent Obama would let him go.
Negotiators in Washington yesterday agreed to limit any ‘path to citizenship’ or any benefits under immigration reform to people who arrived in the U.S. before 2012, but Vickers says that won’t do any good.She says immigrant smugglers, who charge between $2000 and $7000 per person to smuggle them into the U.S., routinely lie to would be immigrants, and the current lie is ‘if you can only get into the U.S., you’ll get amnesty.’
According to The Huffington Post, the girl was 8-years-old when she became pregnant.
AFP reports the mother of the girl told officials: “The father is a boy who is 17, but we have not found him, since he ran away.”
According to The Telegraph, Jorge Vllasenor of the state’s prosecutor’s office, said: “We are looking for the young man to get his story because she does not understand what has happened. This is a rape or child sex abuse case.”
Lino Ginizalez Corona, Jalisco State Police spokesperson, said the mother gave an account of her relationship with her boyfriend, saying it was loving. She admitted that she was dating the 17-year-old but was reluctant to give detailed information about the relationship when pressed, ABC News reports. Corona said: “Due to her young age, we don’t know if she is being entirely truthful.” She added: “She did not realize that she was pregnant until the seventh month.”
When the 17-year-old father asked his “girlfriend” to move in with him so they can raise the child together, she refused. Corona said the young father decided “to leave town two months ago.”
State authorities say they are looking for the father so they can have his side of the story. State prosecutors say they may request assistance of neighboring state authorities. Corona said investigators are still considering the “possibility of rape or child sex abuse.”
ABC News reports that the 9-year-old mother belonged to a family of 11 siblings. Her parents gave the excuse that they were unable the watch the child while they were at work. The family lives in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, a “poverty-stricken neighborhood 25 miles south of Guadalajara.” Corona explained: “Her parents work all day and were not watching after her, and therefore didn’t realize what was about to happen.”
The girl has been released from the hospital, The Telegraph reports. Doctors say they will be giving extensive follow-up care because of the mother’s tender age.
A hospital official said at a press conference that the mother will also be receiving psychological attention.
Dafne’s is not the first in recent times that a child has given birth. According to The Telegraph, a 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth last year. A 9-year-old Chinese girl also reportedly gave birth in 2010, The Huffington Post reports.
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(Atlantic) -So what would you guess is the main job of federal law enforcement in 2013? Breaking up drug rings? Patrolling white collar crime?
Try: coping with illegal immigration.
The Migration Policy Institute is out with a new report adding up what the United States has spent trying trying to seal off the border and ferret out undocumented individuals since 1986, when President Regan signed his landmark immigration reform bill. The big, headline-grabbing stat is that we now spend roughly $18 billion annually on immigration control, more than the rest of our major federal law enforcement agencies combined. Part of that is due to the immense increase in border patrol agents — they’ve doubled in the last seven years — who also play a key role intercepting drug shipments. Still, more than half of all federal prosecutions now involve immigration-related crimes — no great surprise, given where we’re putting our resources.
Here’s what the comparison between our immigration spending and the rest of the federal law enforcement budget circa 1986.
Now here it is today.
And finally, here’s the growth of our immigration spending over time. In total, we’ve shelled out $219 billion in today’s dollars in the last 27 years.
