Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) had a long list of complaints about “woke nonsense” stuffed inside a proposed spending bill to keep the government funded that died on Wednesday night.

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The Trump transition team is considering a significant expansion of the way ankle-worn GPS monitors are used to track illegal immigrants who are not in federal immigration detention {snip}

President-elect Trump has pledged to launch a mass deportation operation once sworn into office, and his transition team has already been engaged in planning to make that happen.

Multiple sources familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital the priority for the incoming administration is the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants along with preventing them from entering the U.S. in the first place.

However, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity in the tens of thousands, compared to the millions who are not currently in detention, officials are also expected to ramp up the monitoring of those not in detention until they can be removed.

Under the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, newly arrived illegal immigrants going through court proceedings are monitored by either an ankle-worn or wrist-worn device or use a cell phone app under which they are required to check in with ICE. {snip}

The Trump administration is looking at ways to increase the number of illegal immigrants being monitored by an ankle or wrist monitor, while also sharply reducing the numbers of those not detained. Officials also want GPS tracking to be available for much longer than it is currently. {snip}

Advocates of ATD and ICE have argued that compliance by those enrolled when monitored remains high, and it is cheaper than detention – $8 a day compared to $150 a day. {snip}

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A motion to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is unlikely to move forward, as there is less than a week left to vote on such a ban in this legislative period, and sources involved with the effort say there is no majority in place for such a move.

The motion, originally put forward by CDU MP Marco Wanderwitz, who previously said he would retire after this term, will definitely not be put forward this term, co-signer Carmen Wegge (SPD) told the Rheinische Post.

As Remix News previously reported, it appeared as if a ban procedure would almost certianly move forward just a month ago, with 105 MPs voicing cross-party support, including from MPs like Claudia Roth and Katrin Göring Eckardt from the Greens, and Ralf Stegner and Helge Lindh from the SPD, just to name a few.

The motion will only move forward if there is a majority, but so far, the CDU and the SPD have spoken out against it. There are grave worries that such a ban procedure could take years, and in any case, with elections expected to take place in February, it could lead to a substantial boost for the AfD. Currently, the SPD and CDU also see no success with the Constitutional Court, which has the final say in such a ban procedure.

So far, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and CDU leader Friedrich Merz do not back the ban, although both have hinted that they may support such a procedure in the future.

Notably, politicians involved in the ban procedure are once again resorting to claims of protecting democracy by banning what is currently the second-largest party in the country.

“Due to the early elections, it is not yet clear whether we can put our motion to a vote in this legislative period,” said Wegge. “The AfD represents the greatest threat to our democracy.”

She claims the party’s goal is to abolish democracy, despite the AfD actually putting forward motions for direct democracy in the country, which would allow the country to make decisions via nationwide referendums — undoubtedly a purer form of democracy than what currently serves as democracy in Germany.

Meanwhile, as Remix News previously reported, the Greens are working on an alternative ban procedure which would be more gradual but which MPs of the party, and other parties, believe would have a better chance of succeeding.

Efforts to ban the AfD are certainly not helped by the fact that it is the second most popular party in the country at the moment, routinely polling between 18 and 20 percent. A move to outright ban the party would be seen as a catastrophic blow to democracy.

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The history of the justice department’s civil rights division is the product of lynchings, aged patients dying of neglect, and police officers murdering people in the street. It is the legacy of Matthew Shepard and Breonna Taylor and Emmett Till.

When local authorities would not investigate civil rights violations – or were violating rights themselves – communities have had to rely on federal investigators to fill the gap in justice. The question these communities will ask over the next four years is who the civil rights division under Donald Trump will protect.

Trump plans to tap a loyalist whose civil rights résumé largely consists of culture-war battles over campus free-speech issues and attacks on diversity initiatives to helm the justice department’s civil rights division. The move puts at risk hundreds of active investigations, from police misconduct to employment and housing discrimination to abuses in jails and prisons.

Trump intends to replace the assistant attorney general, Kristen Clarke, the current chief of the civil rights division and the first Black woman to lead the division, with Harmeet Dhillon, a Maga darling and fixture in rightwing media.

“I talk to people who are depressed because the outcome of the election, and I have to remind them, this is not our first lynching,” said the Rev Gerald Durley, a contemporary of Martin Luther King and pastor emeritus of Pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist church in Atlanta. “During the early days, when real lynches were occurring, we took the body down, we buried it, we kept on moving, and we kept on marching.”

Since the start of the Biden administration, the civil rights division has charged more than 120 people in more than 110 cases under hate-crimes laws, from the prosecution of three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger in Brunswick, Georgia, to the murderer of 10 Black people in a Buffalo supermarket, to the white nationalist who killed 23 people he perceived to be Hispanic immigrants at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019.

When Clarke testified before the Republican-controlled House judiciary subcommittee on the constitution and limited government last year, conservative lawmakers pressed her on perceived biases in the department’s investigations.

The Republican congressman Chip Roy lambasted Clarke for having only prosecuted a couple of cases of pro-choice protesters violating the Face Act, which protects access to abortion clinics and to pregnancy resource centers.

“Even under your watch, it’s at least 35 to one or two,” he said. “That is not even-handed. It’s far from even-handed.”

Left unsaid: crimes against abortion clinics and staff increased dramatically after the Dobbs decision stripped federal protection for abortion rights in 2022.

The civil rights division is the primary federal enforcer for over a dozen provisions of federal law including the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Uniformed Services Civil Relief Act, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

The division also enforces anti-discrimination laws for immigrants under the Immigration and Nationalization Act, eliciting settlements with companies – usually with fines for small companies of under $100,000. But the division has larger targets. Apple, Meta and Facebook each signed multimillion-dollar settlements over visa discrimination under the Biden administration.

The civil rights division has been investigating Elon Musk’s aerospace and satellite firm SpaceX since 2020, alleging that SpaceX erroneously relied on export control laws to restrict its recruiting and hiring to US citizens and lawful permanent residents.

Disability rights have been core to the department over the last four years, particularly around how state hospitals treat mental health patients. The division opened an investigation into Michigan’s state hospitals last month. Hospital care tends to be less politicized and perhaps less susceptible to partisan changes in administration, said Simon Zagata, director of the community and institutional rights team of Disability Rights Michigan.

“Our expectations are that [the investigation] will continue as it has started,” he said. “It is harder to stop these things once they get started, and even though there will, of course, be changes in the Department of Justice, changes don’t happen immediately and they don’t happen all the way down the line.”

The department’s highest-profile civil rights investigations involve police misconduct. Since April 2021, the civil rights division has opened 11 investigations of law enforcement agencies. It has announced preliminary findings in five of those investigations, in Phoenix; Worcester, Massachusetts; Minneapolis; Mount Vernon, New York; and Memphis, Tennessee, the latter stemming from the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers.

“The department is working with these police departments, local officials, and the communities to identify and implement remedies for addressing these violations – including consent decrees – in a manner that is fair, transparent, and effective,” said Clarke in congressional testimony in December 2023.

Ongoing investigations of police agencies include those of New York police department’s special victims division, Oklahoma city police department, Trenton police department and the Louisiana state police.

The murder case of Sonya Massey, killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Illinois earlier this year, prompted investigation by the civil rights division. So did the “goon squad” case in the Rankin county sheriff’s department in Mississippi, where deputies systematically brutalized Black residents and then tried to cover up their crimes.

It is unclear whether the Trump administration will allow these investigations to continue. Trump has vowed to “give our police their power back, and we’re going to give them immunity from prosecution, so they’re not prosecuted for doing their job”. But when pressed on the Massey case, Trump relented.

“I mean it depends. It depends on what happens,” Trump told Semafor. “I’m talking about people that are, much different cases than that … In this particular case, I saw something that didn’t look good to me. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it at all.”

While Trump publicly repudiated the policy initiatives of Project 2025 during the campaign, he has announced his intent to appoint many of its authors to positions of authority in the incoming administration. Project 2025 proposes a fundamental inversion of the mission of the civil rights division.

“Even though numerous federal laws prohibit discrimination based on notable immutable characteristics such as race and sex, the Biden administration – through the DoJ’s civil rights division and other federal entities – has enshrined affirmative discrimination in all aspects of its operations under the guise of ‘equity’,” the document states.

“Federal agencies and their components have established so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices that have become the vehicles for this unlawful discrimination, and all departments and agencies have created ‘equity’ plans to carry out these invidious schemes.”

Project 2025 advocates for the Trump administration to pack the division with political appointees and to eliminate the use of “disparate impact” in civil rights enforcement, which undercuts measurements of discrimination. It also proposes that the department “should spend its first year using the full force of federal prosecutorial resources to investigate and prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers who are engaged in discrimination in violation of constitutional and legal requirements”.

“Discrimination” in this context refers to government agencies pursuing diversity initiatives that ensure minorities have proportional representation in hiring and promotions.

The conservative playbook also proposes taking investigatory responsibility for voting rights cases away from the civil rights division and giving it to the criminal division, with a mandate to prosecute Pennsylvania elections officials who distributed absentee ballot applications in 2020.

And it calls for “aggressive enforcement of the immigration laws within the immigrant and employee rights section of the civil rights division to ensure that no American citizen is discriminated against in the employment context in favor of a temporary or foreign worker”.

Civil rights leaders worry that under Trump, the work traditionally done by the division may fall by the wayside. In Georgia, the civil rights division has issued scathing reports about conditions in both the state prisons and the Fulton county jail in Atlanta.

“I think the DoJ reports make it clear that there need to be some systemic changes,” said Mawuli Davis, a prominent civil rights attorney in Atlanta. “It requires a level of intentionality, of follow-up, and don’t know that this will be a focus.”

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FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether he made a bomb threat against City Hall, officials said.

Zach Seidl, a spokesperson for Mayor Karen Bass, said she was notified that the search took place at the home of Brian K. Williams, her deputy mayor for public safety, as part of an investigation into a bomb threat Williams “allegedly made” this year.

In a separate statement, the Los Angeles Police Department identified Williams as the “likely” source of the bomb threat.

“Earlier this year the LAPD responded to a bomb threat made against Los Angeles City Hall,” the department’s statement said. “Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety. Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency.”

Williams has been placed on administrative leave, said Seidl, who declined to provide additional details.

“The Mayor takes this matter very seriously,” he said. “When the threat was reported, LAPD investigated and determined there was no immediate danger. Following additional investigation, LAPD referred this matter to the FBI for further investigation.”

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller declined to comment, saying the agency cannot confirm or deny any investigation. Williams’ attorney, Dmitry Gorin, said his client “strongly maintains his innocence and intends to vigorously fight the allegations.”

“Importantly, he has not been arrested, nor charged, and will continue cooperating with the investigation through his attorneys,” Gorin said. “He has a lengthy career of public service and is presumed innocent of these allegations.”

As news of the investigation spread Wednesday, some who have worked with Williams expressed incredulity at the allegation. Pastor Xavier Thompson of Southern Missionary Baptist Church on West Adams Boulevard said Williams has been a “model public servant” — someone who has acted with “integrity in the highest manner.”

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A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others, the latest legal victory for the president-elect in criminal cases that once threatened his career and freedom.

The case against Trump and more than a dozen others had already been stalled for months over an appeal related to a romantic relationship Willis had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to lead the case.

Citing an “appearance of impropriety” that might not typically warrant such a removal, a Georgia Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling that “this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” Willis’ office immediately filed a notice of intent to ask the Georgia Supreme Court to review the decision.

But pursuing a criminal case against a sitting president is a virtual impossibility. And Trump will return to the White House having overcome efforts to prosecute him and empowered by a Supreme Court ruling granting him presumptive immunity for any “official acts” he takes in office.

The development comes weeks after Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith abandoned two federal prosecutions against the incoming president, and as sentencing in a separate hush money case in New York is indefinitely on hold as a result of Trump’s victory in November over Democratic President Joe Biden.

A grand jury in Atlanta indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to accuse them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn Trump’s narrow 2020 presidential election loss to Biden in Georgia. The alleged scheme included Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to help find enough votes to beat Biden. Four people have pleaded guilty.

Trump told Fox News Digital that the case “should not be allowed to go any further.” The president-elect added: “Everybody should receive an apology, including those wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years.”

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The allegations that Willis had improperly benefited from her romance with Wade resulted in a tumultuous couple of months in the case as intimate details of Willis and Wade’s personal lives were aired in court in mid-February. A defendant’s motion alleged that Willis and Wade were involved in an inappropriate romantic relationship and that Willis paid Wade large sums for his work and then benefited when he paid for lavish vacations.

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Speaking at a historically Black church in Atlanta soon after the relationship allegations surfaced, Willis defended Wade’s qualifications and her own leadership of her office. Defense lawyers said that speech included a series of improper and prejudicial comments against the defendants and their legal team, poisoning any potential jurors against them.

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Cook County’s former top prosecutor has lost her license to practice law.

The Illinois Attorney Registration and disciplinary commission says Kim Foxx’s law license was suspended on December 1 because she failed to complete her continuing legal education requirements.

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The Polish government of Donald Tusk has adopted a draft law that would allow the country to temporarily suspend the right to claim asylum. The prime minister said the right to asylum “is being used today—especially on the border with Belarus—by Poland’s enemies,” and that by adopting the bill “we are taking back control of Poland’s borders.”

The bill has been in the works for a while, and is intended as a response to actions of neighbouring Belarus: the country has been flying in migrants from the Middle East and Africa in recent years, and sending them to the borders of the EU—Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania—in a bid to destabilise the region. Those three EU member states have accused Russia of complicity.

The number of migrants arriving at the borders of EU member states from Belarus has increased by 66% this year, compared with 2023. In Poland, 28,000 attempted illegal crossings were recorded by the end of October. The EU says 90% of migrants illegally crossing the Poland-Belarus border have a Russian student or tourist visa.

The EU approved Poland’s request for a tougher line on immigration, saying last week that member states bordering Russia and Belarus can limit the right of asylum for migrants in the event of their “weaponisation” by Moscow and Minsk, but only under “strict conditions.”

The steps are in line with the resolutions of the European Council summit in October, during which member states demanded to be given the freedom to act against what they call “hybrid warfare.”

As we previously reported, this is a change of tune for the EU, as it punished the conservative government of Hungary for protecting its borders by outsourcing asylum claims to neighbouring countries. The EU has also refused to contribute to Hungary’s defence of its borders, which are also the EU’s external borders.

In contrast, Brussels is fully supporting the left-liberal government of Donald Tusk, and is even allocating €52 million in order to enhance the protection of its borders—a politically biased decision based on the fact that the Polish prime minister, a former European Council president, hails from European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen’s political family, the European People’s Party.

The draft law would allow Poland to limit the right to apply for asylum for periods of no more than 60 days, with the possibility of extending the restriction by another 60 days with parliament’s approval. The government would also need to specify the exact stretch of the border where the restriction would apply.

The bill still needs to be approved by parliament, where Tusk’s government coalition enjoys a majority. However, junior coalition member The Left has expressed reservations about the measure.

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda—an ally of the opposition conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), which was in government between 2015 and 2023—previously said that Tusk and his political allies have “finally joined the defenders of the borders of Poland.” He berated the prime minister for not having supported the actions of his conservative predecessors in government, and for having opposed the construction of a border barrier.

The decision to tighten asylum laws in Poland and elsewhere comes as more and more member states come to terms with the long-term effects of illegal immigration, and to the realisation that the EU is ill-equipped to handle the migration crisis.

Finland’s parliament in July adopted legislation that would allow guards to turn away asylum seekers at the border under certain circumstances.

Conservative and right-wing forces in Europe have warned that the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact, which was adopted earlier this year with the intention of applying a common approach to migration issues, does not solve the protection of the bloc’s external borders, and only serves as a pull-factor for migrants wanting to come to Europe.

Member states have begun implementing their own policies and enabling controls on their own borders to bring a halt to illegal immigration. As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently said: eventually, every European leader will come to the same conclusion that he has been reiterating since the beginning of the migration crisis in 2015—namely, that protecting the external borders of the EU and establishing hotspots outside of the bloc for migrants to hand in their asylum requests is the only solution.

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Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration will deport immigrants who are here illegally whether or not they have children who are U.S. citizens.

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Homan said, “We’re going to arrest you. We’re going to detain you. We’re going to remove you. If you have a U.S. citizen child, if they if they chose after they come to the country illegally and chose after being ordered removed to have your U.S. citizen child and think, OK, the court order doesn’t mean anything anymore, the removal order doesn’t mean anything anymore then what kind of message are we sending to the whole world? {snip} We don’t we don’t deport U.S. citizens, but they put themselves in a position we didn’t.”

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Almost 8 million illegal aliens reside in sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States, new analysis reveals.

The analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which tracks sanctuary jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from federal immigration law, found that roughly 7.9 million illegal aliens are residing in sanctuary states, counties, and cities.

“Although there is much imprecision in the data, the bottom line is that close to eight million illegal aliens, equaling 56 percent of the estimated nationwide total, live in sanctuary jurisdictions,” CIS’s Jason Richwine writes.

Specifically, Richwine finds that some 6.3 million illegal aliens reside in the sanctuary states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.

In addition, more than 750,000 illegal aliens reside in Maryland, New Mexico, and Virginia where sanctuary jurisdictions are plentiful.

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Richwine suggests that states should follow the lead of Texas and Florida, both high-immigration states that have banned sanctuary jurisdictions.

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A small, bipartisan group of senators have been quietly sketching out a possible new border deal for early 2025, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Border and immigration reform is the white whale of Congress. It’s also President-elect Trump’s No. 1 priority.

• Top Senate Republicans plan to move quickly on a border package, using the budget reconciliation process to get it done.
• But the idea of a bipartisan border deal that could get 60 votes has popped up as GOP infighting drags on over the best path forward in Trump’s first 100 days.

Zoom in: At least two Trump-state Democrats have been involved in the conversations, which Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) described as “very” serious and the details “very secret.”

• “If we can do border separately — without reconciliation — then [Trump’s] okay with” one reconciliation package, Mullin, who’s been a key link between Trump, the Senate and the House, told Axios.
• Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is one of those Democrats.: “If there’s willingness to work in a bipartisan way to do some stuff, not only on border security, but on immigration reform, I think it would be great.”

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Between the lines: Politics have shifted on the border, with many Democrats — especially in states Trump won — moving to the right and embracing stricter enforcement measures to stem illegal border crossings and drug smuggling.

• Trump may have further made an opening by suggesting he would be willing to provide protections for DACA recipients —people who illegally entered the country as children.

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In a highly damaging report targeted at the former conservative Law and Justice government (PIS), the current ruling Tusk government revealed that PiS issued 366,000 visas to foreign nationals from Asian and African countries. The visa scandal is seen as one of the contributing factors that cost PiS power during national elections, and the Tusk government has now submitted criminal referrals for prosecution.

The chairman of the investigative committee on Poland’s visa scandal, the Civic Coalition’s Marek Sowa, presented a report on the activities of the body in the Sejm, and according to Do Rzeczy, accusations were made against PiS.

“The actions of the PiS government contributed to the uncontrolled influx of migrants with Polish visas. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a corruption-prone system that allowed visas to be obtained bypassing the applicable procedures. PiS politicians had knowledge of this procedure, its scale and directions of migration, yet they did not take action to prevent this situation,” Sowa told members of the Sejm.

The committee adopted the final report on its work at the beginning of December and decided to submit 11 notifications to the prosecutor’s office about the possibility of a crime being committed. His announcement on social media named names, including former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

“Today we are sending notifications to the National Prosecutor’s Office concerning 11 people. Among them: Zbigniew Rau, Mateusz Morawiecki, Mariusz Kamiński, Jadwiga Emilewicz, Andrzej Stróżny and Lech Kołakowski. The law must be equal for everyone!” Marek Sowa posted on X earlier this month.

The committee chair then presented a report on the committee’s activities during Wednesday’s parliamentary debate.

According to his report, in the years 2019-2023, Poland issued 2,000,872 national work visas, which constitutes 47.7 percent of all such visas in the European Union. Almost half of the visas were issued by Polish consular posts. A significant number of the 2 million visas allowed for a massive increase in African and Asian immigrants into Poland

“Legislative changes were supposed to lead to the creation of a visa factory. This visa-granting system has been gradually dismantled,” said Sowa.

In the parliamentarian’s speech, two names were mentioned. However, according to Sowa, they are not the key to the whole matter.

After mentioning “the Wawrzyk letters” and “the Kobos affair,” Sowa noted these are just the tip of the iceberg, stating, “There are many more corruption-prone activities that are well documented and described in the commission’s report.”

“Poland was perceived as a country with the most open and liberal visa policy in the Schengen Area, which had a negative impact on Poland’s international image,” the KO politician added.

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After a nine-month investigation, a 38-year-old homeless Moroccan national living in France has been arrested and charged with the rape of a 15-year-old boy.

The incident took place in April at the Villebourbon SNCF station in Montauban. The suspect, identifiable by the absence of several teeth, was apprehended after DNA evidence and a composite sketch led investigators to him.

As reported by La Dépêche du Midi, the teenage victim, from a village near Cahors in the Lot, traveled to Montauban to celebrate his 16th birthday on April 13. After attending a rugby match of the Montalbanese Sports Union, he found himself without a place to stay overnight. Seeking refuge at the train station, he encountered the suspect, who approached him accompanied by a dog.

According to the investigation, the suspect followed the teenager and forcibly led him to a parking area, where he subjected him to an attack described as brutal and violent. The victim, in a state of shock, was unable to resist. Following the incident, the teenager sought medical attention, and biological samples were collected as evidence.

The Tarn-et-Garonne police launched an extensive investigation, aided by the victim’s description of the suspect and DNA evidence. A composite sketch emphasizing the man’s missing teeth was instrumental in identifying him. On Dec. 12, during a routine identity check in Montauban, police apprehended the suspect, who was later identified as a 38-year-old undocumented man from Fez, Morocco.

In police custody, the man denied involvement with the assistance of an Arabic-speaking translator, claiming he was not in Montauban at the time of the attack. However, investigators confronted him with the DNA match from the victim’s medical examination, confirming his identity.

The suspect was presented to Montalbanese investigating judge Elsa Servant-Bouchite on Dec. 13. Despite maintaining his innocence, he was formally charged with rape and sexual assault of a minor. At the request of both the prosecution and the judge, the suspect was placed in pre-trial detention at Beausoleil remand center.

“The evidence is unequivocal, and the suspect has been indicted for these grave charges,” stated Bruno Sauvage, Montauban’s public prosecutor.

The suspect’s lawyer, Amélie Piazzon, declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.

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A notorious Colorado apartment complex taken over by a Venezuelan gang is being held siege by migrants now using it as a torture hub.

Tren de Aragua goons brutalized a couple at the Edge of Lowry complex in Aurora early Tuesday, police said, despite claims the besieged building had been cleaned-up.

‘To see this re-unfold again…am I fired up, yeah I’m fired up,’ Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlin told reporters Tuesday at a press conference.

The city’s top cop detailed how a man and woman who live in the troubled complex were held against their will and ‘tortured’ by 13 to 15 armed individuals.

‘Victims were held against their will, they were actually bound, both the male and the female,’ the chief explained.

‘They were pistol whipped, they were beaten, they were terrorized. The fact that one human could treat another human like this is appalling.’

While the pair was being held hostage, the attackers went to the unit where the victims live and stole items from them.

Eventually the gangsters released the victims, who reported what happened to them to 911 just before 2 a.m.

It is unclear if the pair were just targeted and tortured so the gangsters could steal from them and whether they were Colorado natives or innocent Venezuelan migrants.

Chief Chamberlin described the thugs as 13 to 15 armed migrants, including several women, and said they were probably Venezuelan.

Chamberlin confirmed 15 individuals are in custody, but no one has been charged yet since the victims have yet to identify their attackers.

The top cop says he can’t be certain the attackers are TdA members – but multiple local officers rubbished that ‘laughable’ claim to DailyMail.com

‘It could only be them,’ one local cop told DailyMail.com. ‘They run Edge of Lowry.’

They added that even Aurora police officers are instructed not to respond to the property alone and must have backup, usually several other officers, before TdA is considered so dangerous.

Edge of Lowry is one of three apartment complexes the vicious Venezuelan mafia took over in Aurora.

The gang’s exploits in suburban Denver came to light in August when footage from a doorbell camera shared by residents, fellow migrants, showed several armed migrants running up to a unit inside Edge of Lowry to threaten residents.

As reporting by DailyMail.com revealed, the gang had control of the property by seizing empty apartment units and illegally renting them out to other migrants.

The empty units were also used as drug and prostitution dens were johns paid money for sex with women and most horrifically, children.

They also threatened apartment office staff who tried to bring order and evict the gang bangers from empty units– beating one man to a bloody pulp.

‘This is a location that is infested,’ Chamberlain added at Tuesday’s press conference when asked about TdA’s continued presence at Edge of Lowry apartments.

Two other nearby apartments, Whispering Pines and Aspen Grove were also seized by the gang.

Aspen Grove has been condemned by the city and is vacant now.

City officials have maintained the city does not have a gang problem, but as Daily Mail reporting revealed, law enforcement believes the gang has spread beyond just the three apartment complexes in Aurora.

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A South African national who illegally entered the U.S. landed a “positive match” on the terrorist watchlist leading to his “swift” arrest in New York City.

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A Texas Department of Public Safety official confirmed to Fox News that the migrant was first arrested on a ranch near Eagle Pass in September, then they turned him over to federal border patrol who released him.

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The positive identification of the suspect being involved in terrorism led to a swift mutli-agency effort to arrest the individual in Brooklyn, New York. It is unclear how or when the suspect arrived in New York City.

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Could Germany leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) before Britain? That was the possibility raised by Jens Spahn, a senior member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who are predicted to be the largest party after the next German election.

A former minister under Angela Merkel, Spahn is widely expected to return to the cabinet in the next German government. His statement demonstrates the huge change which has taken place in the CDU since it was led by Merkel, who infamously invited Syrian refugees to come to Germany in 2015, sparking a European migrant crisis which has never really ended.

Her opening of Germany’s borders ended in disaster. Within the year 1.3 million people had come to Europe to claim asylum, trailing across the countryside in winding columns. That led some European governments, like Hungary, to start building walls.

Despite claims that these refugees might rescue an ageing continent, as of 2021 only 54 per cent of the 890,000 who arrived in 2015 have jobs. Although Syrian refugees have made contributions in some areas, such as the 10,000 who work in German hospitals, they also feature regularly in newspapers as the perpetrators of horrific crimes, like the terror attack this year in Solingen, in which a Syrian Islamist with a knife murdered three people.

With over one million Ukrainian refugees also having arrived in recent years, Germany has seen spending on refugees, welfare payments to foreigners, and housing costs soar. That has made immigration the number two issue in polls just below the economy and contributed to a series of state-level election victories for Alternative for Germany (AfD), the hard-Right party who have made opposition to mass immigration a key part of their platform.

Nor is the crisis ending. Germany received 236,400 asylum applications this year alone and 71,000 illegal border crossings. In many areas the refugee centres set up in 2015 have been reopened for new arrivals. As the German economy sputters under the cost of high energy prices and the number of layoffs increases, with Bosch being the latest to cut nearly 10,000 jobs, the voters have had enough.

Desperate to win votes away from the AfD, leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz, has called for a national emergency to be declared so that asylum seekers can be turned back at the border. The current, deeply unpopular, coalition government led by the left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) has tried to head off the issue, by reimposing border controls. But when investigative journalists from the online outlet NIUS went to investigate, they found nobody guarding the borders.

Over the years, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where ECHR cases are heard, has expanded the definition of asylum to the point where it makes controlling borders an impossibility. Many asylum seekers can rely on Article 3, which prohibits degrading treatment, to stay in Germany, arguing that they will face poor treatment at home. Those who stay long enough can rely on Article 8, which means that even criminals can avoid deportation if they can argue that it would hurt their family. That’s one reason why less than a third of migrants who are ordered to leave the EU actually do so.

The ECHR, which was drawn up in the aftermath of the Second World War, was made for a world which no longer exists, before our current world of easy travel and mass migration. That has been worsened by judges in Strasbourg, who have consciously increased the scope of the law, most recently seeking to overturn a referendum in Switzerland on climate change. European politicians, confronted by a never-ending asylum crisis and voters angry about it, are realising that their power to stop it has been usurped by these international judges.

That’s why there is an appetite for tackling the ECHR, with Poland, Denmark, Italy, and Austria all expressing deep frustration with it. Reforming the ECHR means amending the text however, which requires the agreement of all 46 members and will be near-impossible to get. Britain attempted a renegotiation in 2012 but achieved little. As Germany is a member of the EU, a similar danger is presented by the EU’s current attempt to accede to the ECHR, so that the ECHR will apply to its decisions as well as to those of member states. After years of negotiation, a provisional agreement was reached in 2023. If it does happen, it will make it even harder to reform or leave.

Nonetheless, the fact that German politicians, in the country which previously had the most liberal asylum policies in Europe, are saying this, shows how far the debate has shifted. Whether the next German government really will do this or only wants to block off the threat of the AfD before the election, the option is on the table and the genie is out of the bottle. Any failure to control asylum will make it an ever more pressing argument.

In Britain, the Government have recommitted to supporting the ECHR, leaving them at the mercy of the courts and frustrating their efforts to end the small boats crisis. All eyes will therefore turn to the opposition, to see if they are willing to commit to the measures necessary to restore Britain’s borders. As Brexit showed, democracy requires national sovereignty. So long as foreign judges have the final say on control of our borders, the problem won’t go away – and if we don’t lead the way, others in Europe are preparing to.

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A recent report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has unveiled disturbing trends in the Islamist radicalization of young girls in Upper Austria.

According to the report, radical Islamists are targeting girls through online platforms and in schools, persuading them to convert to radical Islam with the aim of facilitating early marriages and encouraging childbirth to “produce fighters.” The findings were presented to the “Extremism” subcommittee of the Upper Austrian state parliament, as reported by the Kronen Zeitung.

Michael Tischlinger, head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism, elaborated on the recruitment process in an interview with the Kurier. He stated that the girls are initially contacted online, leading to rapid conversion to Islam. Afterward, many withdraw from their families, adopt full veiling, and cease attending school. In some cases, the girls even disappear from their homes altogether.

“The intensity of the last few months surprised us,” Tischlinger said. “The girls are almost always victims, most of them are victims of the police investigation,” he added, taking aim at the authorities’ failures to intervene and stamp out grooming and radicalization.

Tischlinger highlighted the troubling impact on families and communities, describing the issue as one of the office’s “biggest current concerns,” particularly given reports of pregnancies among radicalized young women.

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) expressed deep concern about the revelations. Herwig Mahr, FPÖ’s regional chairman, urged immediate action from the federal government. He called for stricter measures to curb illegal mass migration and expanded prevention programs to stop radicalization at its roots. “The future federal government must prioritize this issue to protect our children,” Mahr stated.

In addition, the FPÖ Upper Austria has formally asked the federal interior ministry to provide clarity on the scope of the problem. A parliamentary inquiry submitted by the party seeks specific data on the number of radicalized girls and pregnancies, details of any warnings issued to schools, and recommendations for parents and educators to address recruitment attempts.

The party also questioned why the public had not been more extensively informed about these activities.

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A 31-year-old man from Syria, who works in a nursing home, will be tried for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl, resulting in her pregnancy, but there is no chance for his deportation.

The prosecution says the girl resorted to abortion following the pregnancy, with DNA testing of the fetus confirming the Syrian was the rape suspect in question. However, because the Syrian has since become a Swedish citizen, he will not be deported.

The man first came into contact with the girl through Snapchat. The Syrian told police he started talking to her while he was on vacation in Saudi Arabia, where his mother lives.

The 12-year-old girl later told police the Syrian told her he was significantly younger than he actually was. They both lived near each other, with the Syrian in the Gävle county and the girl living in Uppsala.

“It is my assessment that I have a good evidentiary position,” prosecutor Karin Koci told Swedish newspaper Samnytt.

The first time the two met, they ate kebab together, but the second time, he quickly grabbed her inside a park, immediately pulled down her pants, and forcibly began raping her.

“He was quite aggressive,” she told the police. “So he raped me quite aggressively and quickly. I don’t know how to describe it.”

The man immediately left after the rape in the direction of a cemetery.

The girl then discovered that her period was late and that she felt nauseous. A pregnancy test showed she was pregnant, but when she spoke to the Syrian, he told her it was not his problem.

“That’s not my problem. You can fix it yourself,” he reportedly told her.

The girl went to the police and then underwent an abortion, with the police collecting DNA evidence from the aborted fetus proving the Syrian was the father.

The Syrian has been charged with child rape and admits he had a sexual relationship with the girl but claimed she took his sperm on his finger and inserted it. He also claims he believed she was an adult.

“She has turned 18, is single, doesn’t look too bad. Pleasant and very kind. You shouldn’t be rude to her. We had a relationship where we were nice to each other,” he said.

He is originally from Hama in Syria and arrived in Sweden in September 2014 and was then granted permanent residence. He gained citizenship in 2022 and cannot be deported.

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The number of Black students entering Harvard Law School dropped sharply this fall after last year’s Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, according to enrollment data released on Monday.

Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association. Last year, the law school’s first-year class had 43 Black students, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

While changes in data calculation might explain some year-to-year changes, the decline at Harvard was much sharper than at other elite law schools. It was notable not only for its severity but also because of the school’s past role in educating some of the nation’s best-known Black lawyers, including former President Barack Obama, the former first lady Michelle Obama, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.

The Supreme Court decision, and the fact that Harvard College was named in the case, played a role, according to David B. Wilkins, a Harvard law professor who has studied Black representation in the legal profession.

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“This is the lowest number of Black entering first-year students since 1965,” he added, pointing to numbers compiled by the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard, where he also serves as faculty director. That year, there were 15 entering Black students. Since 1970, there have generally been 50 to 70 Black students in Harvard Law’s first-year class, he said.

The law school also saw a steep decline in Hispanic students, to 39 students, or 6.9 percent, this fall, from 63 students, or 11 percent of the total, in 2023. Enrollment of white and Asian students increased.

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The share of Black first-year undergraduate students at Harvard this fall also dropped, to 14 percent from 18 percent last year, according to data released in September.

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But Richard Sander, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a critic of affirmative action, said that the racial breakdown of the new law school classes showed a number of positive trends.

While some top tier schools lost Black enrollment, across all law schools the number of Black students enrolling in law school increased by about 3 percent, to 3,060 this fall from 2,969 in 2023, according to the A.B.A. It was tricky to say whether this was a meaningful increase, partly because of reporting changes, Mr. Sander said. He also noted that the Black enrollment data did not include students who said they were multiracial or declined to report their race.

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At Harvard Law, professors had been bracing for the numbers after the university released a statement in September revealing that the enrollment of “students of color,” a broad category, had dropped by 8 percentage points. At the time, the law school had not provided a more complete class profile.

Mr. Wilkins said that professors teaching first-year sections noted a noticeable decline in Black students, particularly a very small number of Black men: six.

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Donald Trump probably will not be able to fulfill his stated aim of ending birthright citizenship in the US when he returns to the White House, but it is perhaps more conceivable than during his first term, according to legal experts.

The US constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the country, even if they are the children of undocumented immigrants.

The president-elect said he would eliminate that right during his first term and again recently said during a television interview that he planned to and could use an executive action or would “maybe have to go back to the people”.

The aim comes at the same time as Trump plans to carry out mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants during his second term – an ambition that has civil liberties groups and many Democrats bracing for economic and legal chaos and protests.

But if Trump were to try to use executive action to eliminate birthright citizenship, courts would probably strike it down because of language contained in the 14th amendment, according to scholars.

Still, given the conservative majority on the supreme court – and fact that one of the people considered a candidate for the court has argued that the provision does not apply to children of “invading aliens” – it’s not a certainty that birthright citizenship will remain in place, said Amanda Frost, a University of Virginia law professor and expert in immigration and citizenship law.

“At the end of his last presidency, if I was asked, ‘Is this something he can do?’ I would have said, ‘It’s never going to happen; it’s just a talking point,’” Frost said. “The constitution text and the judicial precedent and very long-standing practice and the purpose of the provision all say, ‘No,’ but at the end of the day, the constitution means what five members of the supreme court say it means.”

Birthright citizenship dates to the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 in the wake of the American civil war and it was intended to repeal the Dred Scott decision, in which the supreme court held that enslaved people were not citizens of the US.

The amendment declared that all “persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside”.

“This is not something that is subject to unilateral executive order,” said Andrew Rudalevige, a Bowdoin College professor who studies the American presidency and wrote a book on the limits of presidential power. “The language of the 14th amendment is pretty clear.”

But in 2018, Trump said that he could – and would – use an executive order to end the right to citizenship for children born in the United States to non-citizens. He also has said inaccurately that the US was the only country that allowed birthright citizenship, when in fact many countries provide the same right.

“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits. It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous and it has to end,” Trump said during an interview on HBO.

Then Trump said recently on Meet the Press that he did not take the executive action during his first term because he had to “fix Covid first” but that he would do so on the first day of his new administration.

Supporters of eliminating birthright citizenship have argued that the “jurisdiction” language could exclude children of undocumented immigrants.

“Congress has the power to define what it means to be born in the United States ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’, ” the Republican Utah senator Mike Lee posted on X. “While current law contains no such restriction, Congress could pass a law defining what it means to be born in the United States ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ excluding prospectively from birthright citizenship individuals born in the U.S. to illegal aliens.”

Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA, said there was no “legal understanding of the term jurisdiction” to support the argument that “undocumented immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

“The government has power over them. That is what we mean by jurisdiction,” Winkler said. “If conservatives are willing to say that undocumented immigrants can never be jailed for a crime, maybe they can start to get somewhere. But I don’t think that’s a conclusion that they really want to reach.”

James Ho, a US fifth circuit judge and Trump appointee, who some have speculated could be appointed to the supreme court should there be an opening, recently told Reason magazine that no one “has ever argued that the children of invading aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship”.

He previously offered the opposite opinion, writing: “Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. That birthright is protected no less for children of undocumented persons than for descendants of Mayflower passengers.”

While Frost thinks it’s unlikely the supreme court would overturn birthright citizenship, she pointed out that the court can be swayed by public sentiment.

For example, in 1986, the supreme court ruled that the 14th amendment did not prevent states from criminalizing private sexual conduct involving same-sex couples. Then in 2003, the court overturned that decision and declared all sodomy laws unconstitutional.

“The way constitutional change generally happens is an accumulation of various voices supporting that change and public opinion,” Frost said.

Trump did not clarify what he meant when he said that to eliminate birthright citizenship, he would “maybe have to go back to the people”.

But to amend the constitution, which has not happened since 1992, the amendment would have to be proposed either by Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the state legislatures. Then the legislatures of three-fourths of the states would need to ratify it.

“It’s quite a procedural barrier, in terms of getting a super majority in Congress, getting a super-majority of states to sign off on it,” Rudalevige said. “It’s a pretty high bar.”

But for Trump, even if he is unable to muster the support for a constitutional amendment or if the court struck down an executive order, he could conclude “that he gets value out of fighting, out of showing that he is trying to change the established way of doing business, even if he is incorrect on the merits”, Rudalevige said.

In the unlikely event that Trump eliminates birthright citizenship, that change would hurt the country, the scholars said.

“The 14th amendment was intended to end caste in America, the idea that there is a lower class, a sub class, that lives among us,” Frost said. “This could bring that back.”

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Sadly, some companies have rejected the practice of hiring on skill and ability and are now hiring on the basis of race and gender.

My investment firm, Azoria, has identified three dozen S&P 500 companies with explicit racial and gender hiring targets.

Early next year, we’ll launch an ETF fund that invests in every S&P 500 company — except those that use these hiring targets.

The premise is straightforward: companies that hire on skill and ability will outperform those that hire on race and gender.

Best Buy is one of the three dozen companies we won’t be buying. It’s a $20 billion business that has a written policy that “1 in 3 new corporate salaried positions” are “to be filled by BIPOC.”

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These policies don’t just hurt employees. Shareholders, too, are paying the price for these racial and gender hiring targets in the form of lower stock returns.

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Over the past year, a portfolio of the three dozen S&P 500 companies with racial and gender hiring targets has returned just 12%, compared to the S&P 500’s 30%. Over two years, this portfolio has delivered 17%, compared to the S&P 500’s 60%, according to our own internal analysis.

Throughout both periods, 70% of these companies underperformed the plain-old S&P 500 index, which means that the overall S&P 500 would have been even higher if these companies had not been included.

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Those who see the light and abandon their hiring targets will be added back into the fund, allowing our investors to benefit from their renewed commitment to meritocracy {snip}

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