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French immigration rules to be reviewed as far right weaponises murder

French immigration rules to be reviewed as far right weaponises murder

‘If we have to change the rules, let’s change them,’ says conservative Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. France’s interior minister has signalled he will push for tighter immigration policies as the far right seeks to use a gruesome murder to put pressure on the government. Addressing the arrest of a Moroccan man for the murder of a 19-year-old female student, Bruno Retailleau said on Wednesday that the “abominable crime” required not just rhetoric, but action, as far-right parties demanded when commenting on the case. “It is up to us, as public leaders, to refuse to accept the inevitable and to develop our legal arsenal, to protect the French,” Retailleau said. “If we have to change the rules, let’s change them.” The hardline rhetoric on migration is not new from Retailleau, a member of the conservative Republicans party who has previously advocated for stricter immigration rules and quicker deportations. Outgoing French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin is applauded by newly-appointed Bruno Retailleau during a handover ceremony in Paris, September 23 [Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters] The suggestion is in line with the demands of the far-right National Rally (RN) party, which has threatened it could topple France’s fragile governing coalition if its immigration concerns are not addressed. “It’s time for this government to act: our compatriots are angry and will not be content with just words,” RN chief Jordan Bardella said of the murder of the student, identified only by her first name Philippine. Greens lawmaker Sandrine Rousseau pushed back against the anti-migrant rhetoric, warning that the far right was using the murder case to “spread its racist hatred”. Bungled deportation The unnamed suspect in the killing has been identified as a 22-year-old male Moroccan national. He was arrested on Tuesday in the Swiss canton of Geneva, according to the AFP news agency. According to the prosecutors, the suspect was convicted in 2021 of a rape committed in 2019, when he was a minor. The suspect had been due to be deported from France after serving time in jail for the crime, Le Monde newspaper reported. He was sent on June 20 to a detention centre for undocumented migrants pending his removal. However, a judge set him free on September 3, noting that the deportation process faced administrative delays, under the condition that he check in regularly with police. Three days later, the paperwork to deport him was completed, but the man had disappeared, they said. France routinely issues deportation orders, but only about 7 percent of them are enforced, compared with 30 percent across the European Union. Adblock test (Why?)

Israeli soldiers hide from Hezbollah rockets

Israeli soldiers hide from Hezbollah rockets

NewsFeed Video shows Israeli soldiers lying on the ground and sheltering from Hezbollah rockets believed to be targeting a military base in northern Israel on Wednesday. Published On 25 Sep 202425 Sep 2024 Adblock test (Why?)

Immigration expert warns Black Americans are being impacted by migrants ‘flooding their communities’

Immigration expert warns Black Americans are being impacted by migrants ‘flooding their communities’

A top conservative immigration expert is arguing that a recent surge in immigration into the U.S. is likely to have a heavy impact on the job prospects of Black Americans — just as the Census Bureau found that foreign workers had made gains in the job market. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an arm of the Department of Labor, shows native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs over the last 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than 1.2 million jobs.  As of August of this year, there are 129,712,000 native-born workers compared to 131,031,000 in August 2023, meaning a plummeting reduction of 1,319,000 jobs. JOBS REPORT IS A BOOM FOR MIGRANTS, SLUM FOR AMERICANS In comparison, there were 31,636,000 foreign-born workers in the U.S. as of last month, compared to 30,396,000 in August 2023, a surge of 1,240,000 jobs. Roy Beck, who founded the group NumbersUSA which argues for lower levels of immigration, recently published “Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth.” In that book, he outlines the history of government-induced migration impacting heavily on the prospects of Black Americans the most. “Economic historians say that every time that immigration has gone to a high percentage, the incomes of black males have gone down and that income and that income disparity, racial disparity increases,” he said. “Every time you reduce immigration, the livelihoods of black families and black men increase.” SURGE OF FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS REMAKE AMERICAN JOBS MARKET August statistics show that the unemployment rate for adult men is 4% and adult women is 3.7%. For White Americans, it is 3.8%, and for Black Americans, it is 6.1%. The White House noted in May that the unemployment rate for Black workers – then at 5.6% in April – was still lower than the average unemployment rate for Black Americans for 2016 to 2020 (about 8%) and 2000 to 2015 (11%). However, Beck argues that, while foreigners will often create jobs as well, some jobs that are taken by foreign workers would otherwise go to Americans of all races — and he argues that racial discrimination often means that Black Americans are hired last. “There is still racial discrimination that happens among many employers and there’s a tendency that the last people recruited are the descendants of American slavery,” he said. “And so African-Americans, the descendants of American slavery, have always done best — all Americans have done best — but they’ve really done best in tight labor markets. And immigration is not the only thing that dictates loose and tight labor market, but it’s something you can control.” “The government can control how many foreign workers it brings in, he said. “But over the last three and a half years, there’s been virtually no control at all. I mean, we’ve never seen numbers, anything like the new foreign workers that have come over the last three and a half years,” he said. As to why this is not a bigger issue for Black civil rights leaders, he said that major national leaders have not been speaking out, but some at the local level are getting louder. “What you have is more and more black leaders in the communities, places like Chicago and Philadelphia and Houston, more and more, you’re seeing local black leaders who have their ear on the ground, their eyes on the ground, who are speaking out more and more.” However, he blames national leaders for turning a blind eye due to “political alliances.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF THE BORDER SECURITY CRISIS “The tragic thing is that part of it seems to be that the Black leaders feel like they have to make an alliance with Hispanic political leaders. But the fact is that polls show that a majority of Hispanic Americans don’t want this high immigration either,” he said. However, he believes there is change coming.  “At some point, these leaders are going to get left behind because the people in the local communities are going to just stop putting up with national leaders who just insist on flooding their communities with workers that aren’t needed and with people for whom there isn’t housing for them.”

Does Iran’s hacking of the Trump campaign prove they want Kamala Harris to win the election? Experts weigh in

Does Iran’s hacking of the Trump campaign prove they want Kamala Harris to win the election? Experts weigh in

Iran’s recent hack of the Trump campaign is an “explicit tipping of the scales” in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, according to one former national security official. Last week, the U.S. revealed Iranian hackers had obtained information on the Trump campaign and tried to distribute it to people linked to the Biden campaign and media organizations since June.  “It’s no surprise, right?” Robert Greenway, former head of Middle East policy on the National Security Council, told Fox News Digital. “Iran perceives the return of Donald Trump and his policies, which brought them to the brink of financial collapse, as an existential threat.”  Trump pulled the U.S. out of the 2015 Iran deal meant to stave off a nuclear Iran in exchange for softening of sanctions. Republicans argued the deal did not have enough enforcement.  MIKE JOHNSON SAYS HARRIS IS IRAN’S ‘PREFERRED CANDIDATE,’ DEMANDS INFO ON TRUMP CAMPAIGN HACKS  After Biden rolled back sanctions on Iran, Greenway argued, the regime went from 500 centrifuges needed to make a nuclear bomb to 7,000. It went from 5% enriched uranium to 60% (90% is needed for a nuclear weapon.) It went from exporting 400,000 barrels of oil per day in 2019 under the Trump administration’s harsh sanctions to 1.7 million barrels per day today.  “They’ve made a tremendous amount of money. They have had doors opened by the U.S. administration.” Reports also suggest renewed activity in two nuclear weaponization sites in Iran – Sanjarian and Golab Dareh. But another Middle East expert shrugged off the incidents, suggesting it could have been as simple as a Trump campaign staffer inadvertently clicking on a phishing scam.  “The Iranians carry out a bunch of cyberattacks all the time,” said Aaron Stein, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.  “I think this one might be as explained as simply as somebody was silly enough to click on probably an obvious cyber phishing and it would expose the campaign to potential embarrassment if somebody ultimately chooses to publish the documents.” “I don’t know if [the Iranians] have a favorite in the race,” Stein said. “There have been numerous investigations that the Iranians continue to try and actively plot… to take revenge for the killing of [Iranian General] Qassem Soleimani in the Trump administration.”  TOP RUSSIAN OFFICIAL LANDS IN IRAN AMID US, UK CONCERNS OVER ALLEGED NUCLEAR DEAL “But the Iran nuclear deal is dead. I don’t think anybody is going back to it. I ultimately think the approach to Iran would be more or less the same. Trump might be a little more bellicose, but I think in a practical sense, it’ll be more or less the same.”  “The Islamic Republic is indeed seeking to sow discord of the West,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iranian expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said of the campaign hack. “But we cannot be ignorant of the empirical record.” “The reason the Islamic Republic in 2020 was trying to drive voter turnout on the left, the reason in 2018 and 2019 accounts tied to the Islamic Republic were trying to spoof and amplify methods tied to the progressive left. The reason they tried to hack the Trump campaign very recently, their reason, still the Islamic Republic seeks the assassination of former President Donald Trump, is that Trump was exceptionally successful in his maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic,” he said.  Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian was in New York City, where he struck a less combative tone at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.  “We don’t wish to be the cause of instability in the region,” he told the crowd. “We don’t want war… We want to live in peace.”  “We know more than anyone else that if a larger war were to erupt in the Middle East, it will not benefit anyone throughout the world. It is Israel that seeks to create this wider conflict,” he insisted.  Pezeshkian was elected on a promise that he could convince the West to lift sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program.  Taleblue predicted that Pezeshkian would take to New York to “prime the press to deliver talking points, that they are indeed interested in nuclear talks, but again, really, they’ll only use nuclear talks as a human shield against real pressure.” “They will probably try to successfully exploit a permissive environment to sell more oil to China, to generate more revenue to fund its drone program, its missile program and its nuclear program… under patronage from Russia and China.” 

‘Big threat’: NYPD targets bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang as it forms base in sanctuary city

‘Big threat’: NYPD targets bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang as it forms base in sanctuary city

The New York Police Department (NYPD) says it is targeting the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), which has set up operations in the Big Apple amid a surge of migration into the sanctuary city and as the gang establishes a presence throughout the U.S. The TdA is a violent street gang believed to have originated in Venezuelan prisons and moved north over the last decade. However, its reputation within the U.S. has grown this year, in part, due to a number of high-profile crimes linked to the gang, with many believed to have arrived by coming across the southern border as part of the sharp increase in migration in recent years. Now, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell says TdA is actively recruiting gang members in migrant shelters where guns and drugs have been smuggled inside via food cartons.  BLOODTHIRSTY VENEZUELAN STREET GANG SPARKS FEAR IN US AMID MIGRANT SURGE: WHAT TO KNOW  “Do we believe there’s guns in the shelters that have a gang affiliation? Absolutely. Do we believe that they were being smuggled in? Absolutely,” he told Fox News. The NYPD says there are hundreds of gang associates citywide, and they are not afraid to shoot at police. Earlier this year, a suspected gang member shot and wounded two police officers while another fired at an officer while shoplifting. “They’re a big threat to the city. We’re not new to gangs or crews in the city. So this is our newest crew. And what’s alarming about this crew is that their conspiracy to commit crimes touches a lot of areas, from retail theft to extortion to robberies to human trafficking, and the worst of the worst, they’ve shot two of our cops,” he said. New York City is also a sanctuary city, which restricts police from co-operation with federal law enforcement. The city is one of a number of sanctuary cities that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bussed migrants in response to the surge at the border in 2022, sparking a war of words between Abbott and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The gang has established a presence in Aurora, Colorado, where there have been a number of arrests and reports that the gang has taken over entire apartment buildings — something local authorities have pushed back against. Fox News Digital reported in July that TdA members have been given a “green light” to fire on or attack law enforcement in Denver. AFTER VIDEO OF ARMED VENEZUELAN GANG SHARED BY LOCAL OFFICIAL GOES VIRAL, COLORADO CITY TAKES ACTION The head of U.S. Border Patrol said recently that they have apprehended dozens of gang members attempting to enter the U.S. at the southern border. A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bulletin in March alerted agents to tattoos and other identifiers of the gang. Federal authorities had previously warned that the gang was trying to establish itself in the U.S. and could potentially team up with the violent MS-13 gang. The Biden administration announced significant action against the gang in July, when the Treasury designated TdA a “significant transnational criminal organization.” That move blocks all property and assets owned by the gang in the U.S. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF THE BORDER SECURITY CRISIS Meanwhile, the State Department offered up to $12 million for information leading to the arrest of three of the gang’s leaders. The administration also stressed that it is working to disrupt the gang and has increased vetting. However, it taps into ongoing concerns about immigration, which is a top issue for the election, with both presidential candidates claiming that they are the right person to secure the border.

Fox News Power Rankings: Harris ticks up and Senate Republicans take charge

Fox News Power Rankings: Harris ticks up and Senate Republicans take charge

Republicans are set to flip the Senate for the first time this cycle in this week’s Fox News Power Rankings.  Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris enjoys a small post-debate bump, three new toss-up races emerge in the House, and the GOP loses ground on the governor’s map. Two weeks after their first debate, Harris is up a point and former President Donald Trump is down the same in an average of high-quality polls. If those numbers sound familiar, it is because they match the shifts after the first debate between President Biden and Trump four years ago. That could be a problem for Republicans. In 2020, Trump did not narrow the polling gap that the first debate created until a stronger showing in the second. As of today, Harris and Trump have not agreed on terms for a rematch. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS THINK HARRIS DID BETTER THAN TRUMP IN DEBATE Harris’ improvement comes from independents more than any other group. They backed Trump by eight points in a Fox News survey last month but now prefer Harris by 12. Biden won independents by 15 points in the last election, so an enduring Harris lead in this group could give her an edge on election night. (Poll results among subgroups can be volatile.) The same post-debate poll has Trump down two points among all voters, leaving the former president at 48% and Harris at 50%. A spread like that on election night gives Trump an electoral college advantage. Further slippage in support for the former president would change that math. Republicans have enjoyed a head start in the Senate from the beginning of this cycle. Their star candidate in Montana is doing more than anyone to get them to the finish line. The latest forecast predicts Republicans will take at least 51 seats on election night, while Democrats are expected to take at least 47. That leaves two races in the Toss Up category. Montana moves out of that category this week. This state has been represented for nearly two decades by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, one of the last rural Democrats, who has leaned on his farming background and gun rights advocacy to exceed expectations in three elections.  However, Trump won the state by 16 points in 2020, and Tester faces a strong opponent in businessman and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy. He has run an efficient, disciplined campaign on the economy and the border.  That makes Montana a better pickup opportunity for the GOP than Ohio, which does not lean toward Trump as much as its western neighbor and where Republican candidate Bernie Moreno has made missteps on the trail. Sheehy leads with 51% to Tester’s 45% in an AARP poll conducted in late August. The incumbent Democrat is ahead among independents, but that is not enough to overcome this conservative electorate. Sitting among the peaks that shape Montana’s landscape is a mountain of cash. Over $121 million has been spent by the campaigns and outside groups so far, according to OpenSecrets, with at least $100 million more in reserved spending. That is an extraordinary sum for a race that isn’t competitive at the presidential level and equates to more than $150 per registered voter. That is what keeps this race tight. Tester has more than three times as much cash on hand as Sheehy, giving the Democrat spending money for local advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. If that cash can push this race back within the margin of error, Democrats have a shot at retaining the upper house. EARLY VOTING MEANS ‘ELECTION SEASON’ HAS ALREADY BEGUN Montana moves from Toss Up to Lean R. The House is still a toss-up in the latest forecast. In fact, with three more races joining that category, it is less clear than ever which direction the lower chamber will take. NEBRASKA GOP SENATOR OPPOSES ELECTORAL COLLEGE CHANGE THAT MAY HAVE HELPED TRUMP WIN RE-ELECTION Finally, a sleepy gubernatorial cycle had its wake-up call last Thursday when CNN reported that North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov Mark Robinson referred to himself as a “Black Nazi” on a porn website he frequented between 2008 and 2012. He denied the report. Robinson is more than embattled in this race. At least four senior staffers have resigned from his campaign, allies have jumped ship, and the Republican Governors Association is not spending another dollar on advertising.  No one knows how this will impact Trump. Voting has begun with Robinson’s name a few rows down from Trump’s on the ballot, and Democrats are reminding voters about the strong, consistent praise that the former president has offered Robinson. However, calcified support for Trump among Republicans and the state’s history of ticket splitting should keep him competitive.  In the meantime, the Power Rankings already had the governor’s race at Lean D because of previous Robinson scandals. Now, it moves to Likely D. Voting has begun in 21 states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina, Minnesota and Virginia. By the end of the month, more than half of all states will send ballots to voters. While many voters are expected to cast a ballot early, election day itself is only six weeks away.  Next week, vice presidential hopefuls Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, will participate in a debate hosted by CBS News in New York City. Fox News will simulcast the debate with special coverage anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum at 8:20 p.m. ET. Fox News Media has proposed a second Harris-Trump debate to be moderated by MacCallum and Baier in October.