Sunday, January 21, 2024

Child Prostitution and 'Slavery' Crisis at the US Border




Over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the U.S. were sex trafficking cases involving only children.

In the U.S., child trafficking is aggravated by four main factors: the porous southern border, predatory social media use, pornography, and broken families

The Biden administration must follow existing laws and seal our porous southern border. Much more must be done, but that is a critical first step.

The facts are frightening:

  • On average, a child enters the U.S. sex trade at 12 to 14 years old. Many are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
  • Most of the time, victims are trafficked by someone they know, such as a friend, family member, or romantic partner.
  • Predators can rent a child for a single sex act for an average of $90. Often, that child is forced to have sex 20 times per day, six days a week.
  • Trafficking usually occurs in hotels, motels, online websites, and truck stops in the U.S.
  • About 50,000 people, primarily from Mexico and the Philippines, are trafficked into the U.S. annually.
  • According to the Federal Human Trafficking Report, “In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the U.S. were sex trafficking cases involving only children.”
  • Traffickers use social media platforms to recruit and advertise victims of human trafficking, according to anti-trafficking advocates.

The USA Southern Border

The crisis at the southern border is directly linked to an increase in child trafficking in the United States. In April, a whistleblower told Congress’ House Judiciary Committee that the “United States federal government has become the ‘middleman’ in a multibillion-dollar human trafficking operation targeting unaccompanied minors at the southern border.”

In May, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered an average of 435 unaccompanied minors per day. One study suggests that drug cartels and traffickers will exploit 60% of these children in prostitution, forced labour, and child pornography. To make matters worse, in June alone, the Biden administration released 344 kids to non-related adults in the U.S.—most of whom already had multiple children in their care. These children are prime targets for traffickers—for sex or labour.

Notably, half of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “most wanted” criminals for child trafficking are from Mexico.

Statistics of Human Trafficking Worldwide

Human trafficking statistics reveal a very sad reality for many individuals. Behind every stat is a person – someone’s mother, father, brother or sister. These stats provide insight into the severity of the issue. 

  • Today, there are 49.6 million people in modern slavery worldwide, and 12 million of them are children. (ILOUnited Nations)
  • 54% of those trapped in modern slavery are women and girls. (ILO)
  • Sex trafficking is the most common type of trafficking in the U.S. (Polaris
  • There were 88 million child sexual abuse material (CSAM) files reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) tip line in 2022. 
  • Child sex trafficking has been reported in all 50 U.S. states. (NCMEC) 
  • Human trafficking is a $150 billion industry. (UNICEF
  • Human trafficking is the second most profitable illegal industry in the U.S. (UNICEF)

https://ourrescue.org/education/research-and-trends/human-trafficking-statistics

https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/border-crisis-cbp-fights-child-exploitation

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6345280433112

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/us-top-destination-child-sex-trafficking-and-its-happening-your

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-10-worst-things-biden-did-in-2021/



Public Protests and Civil Disobedience

Masked protesters during demonstrations must be outlawed, labelled as shirkers, idlers, attempted wreckers of democracy and considered as a possible terrorist action under the criminal code.

The issue of masked protesters during demonstrations raises significant concerns, necessitating a thoughtful approach that balances public safety with the right to peaceful assembly. Acts of violence and disruption by individuals within student unions have become a growing concern in the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Instances of masked hooliganism, where protesters storm intersections, bridges, airports, or other public and private properties, are indeed unlawful and criminal. It is crucial to address these actions as acts of violence against the community, residents, students, and public or private property.

While acknowledging the right to express dissent, it is equally important to differentiate between peaceful demonstrators and those engaging in criminal behaviour. Acts of domestic terror, involving violence to coerce or intimidate for political or social objectives, must be treated as serious criminal offences, and prosecuted accordingly.

Gangs of masked political activists and hooligan student union protesters storming and disrupting, intersections, bridges, airports or other public or private property and university classes are an unlawful and criminal act of violence against the community, residents, students and public or private property.

In the USA, Canada and across Europe these increasing acts of lawlessness by delinquent juveniles and socially harmful elements with the student union membership have been dangerously increasing and continue unabated by politicians, law enforcement and the courts within the justice system.

These increasing acts of attempted domestic terror by masked criminal perpetrators from within student unions by professional protesters, hooligans, vicious fascists, and other socially harmful elements within the student body across Canada must no longer be condoned by our politicians and appointed judges.

Such lawlessness must not continue to be referred to by today’s socialistic mainstream media as mischievous pranks, a hoax, or amusing acts by likable scoundrel scamps.

This anti-social behaviour by such undesirable elements within or outside of the membership of the student unions must be labelled for what they realistically represent.

Acts of Domestic Terror using violence against persons or property to coerce or intimidate the student body, the government and or the civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives.

They are villainous enemies of student unions and hostilely dangerous habitual offenders who must be considered and labelled as social outlaws, shirkers, idlers and disruptive wreckers of democracy.

Policymakers, law enforcement, and the justice system need to address these concerns promptly. Rather than condoning such behaviour, there must be a concerted effort to label these actions accurately. This includes refraining from dismissing them as mere pranks or amusing acts.

Individuals engaging in disruptive and violent actions within, or outside student unions must be recognized for the potential harm they pose to democratic principles. Designating them as civic terrorists, social outlaws, shirkers, idlers, and disruptive elements emphasizes the seriousness of their actions and encourages appropriate legal responses.

There must be no place or excuse for not addressing, prosecuting, or condemning actions that pose a threat to public safety and democratic values.

Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Current Rent Geared to Income System Perpetuates Poverty

Lack of Uniformity Across the Province:

The disparity in maximum income limits per household, as stipulated by the HSA (Housing Services Act) for eligibility, creates an unjust scenario across different regions. This lack of consistency results in unequal rights for residents. For instance, an individual on the RGI waiting list in Toronto who relocates to Kingston faces substantially lower maximum income limits per household. Consequently, the eligibility of the person diminishes upon moving, leading to inequality across the province. This discrepancy potentially constitutes a violation of constitutional principles under the Canadian Constitution Charter, demanding a reassessment of the current system.

Challenges Faced by Couples in RGI Mixed-Income Communities:

Couples residing in RGI mixed-income communities encounter precarious situations, especially in the unfortunate event of the death of one partner. In buildings that combine both market rent and RGI units, surviving spouses may grapple with untenable financial burdens. For instance, if one spouse passes away, the surviving partner may face exorbitant market rent prices, despite having no immediate medical or pressing issues. Existing city policies place them in a situation where they are no longer financially equipped to maintain their current living arrangement in the market rent unit due to a reduction in income following the death of a partner.

Proposed Solutions:

To address these critical issues, we implore the Province under the HSA to establish a uniform eligibility criterion across the province. Additionally, swift and decisive steps are needed to safeguard the rights and well-being of residents, particularly surviving spouses. We propose that the Province institute policies and procedures facilitating the immediate transition of surviving spouses from market rent units to available RGI units within the same building based on income eligibility. This compassionate and practical solution aims to prevent further upheaval in their lives during an already challenging time. For example: In 2022, the Official Poverty Line for a single person is estimated to be approximately $27,343, with the deep income poverty threshold set at $20,508. For a couple, the poverty income is calculated as $54,686, and the deep income poverty for couples is $41,014. Notably, in Kingson, the allowable income for a one-bedroom unit is restricted to $36,000, whereas in Toronto, it is $58,500 for a one-bedroom unit for a couple.

Call to Action:

It is imperative to protect and support those who have contributed to our community. Therefore, we urge the swift implementation of these changes to demonstrate our commitment to the well-being of residents and reinforce the sense of unity and compassion that defines our community. Acting promptly will ensure that vulnerable surviving spouses are not left in financial distress and can continue to call our community their home as opposed to the present system of having a surviving spouse put on the waiting list for 5 to 10 years for an RGI unit.

The proposed reforms will contribute to a more equitable and compassionate RGI system across the Province for all municipalities and Cities.

PS Today, across Ontario there are more than 200,000 thousand on the RGI waiting list province-wide and most likely far more.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

The House Passed the Secure the Border Act of 2023

The Secure the Border Act of 2023 is a comprehensive bill that encompasses various changes to immigration law and border security measures. 

Divided into different sections, the bill primarily focuses on enhancing border security, reforming asylum processes, preventing uncontrolled migration flows, addressing issues related to children and families at the border, implementing visa overstay penalties, and establishing a strict framework for employment eligibility verification. 

The bill aims to strengthen border security, reform asylum processes, address migration challenges, protect families and children at the border, impose penalties for visa violations, and implement stringent measures for employment eligibility verification across all industries. 

These measures seek to create a more controlled and regulated immigration system while reinforcing the security of the United States' borders. 

Yet, Chuck Schumer, a Democratic Party Member, is an American politician serving as Senate Majority Leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from New York since 1999, will not allow this legislation to be voted on in the Senate, WHY?

Key provisions of the bill include: 

Division A: Border Security Resumption and Expansion of border wall construction: Mandates the construction of a border wall along at least 900 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border and requires waivers of certain legal requirements for expeditious construction. 
Investment in border security technology: Requires a strategic technology plan, upgrades to surveillance programs, communication devices for officers, and eradicating plant growth impeding border security operations. 

Division B: Immigration Enforcement and Foreign Affairs 

Title I: Asylum Reform and Border Protection Toughened asylum eligibility criteria: Limits asylum eligibility, imposes stricter standards for credible fear of persecution, and restricts asylum applications for those who travel through third countries. 

Title II: Border Safety and Migrant Protection Expanding expedited removal: Widens the category of non-U.S. nationals subject to expedited removal and mandates detention for certain individuals awaiting asylum consideration. 

Title III: Preventing Uncontrolled Migration Flows in the Western Hemisphere Negotiating agreements with Western Hemisphere countries: Requires the State Department to negotiate agreements on asylum seekers and immigration issues. 

Title IV: Ensuring United Families at the Border Detention policies: Establishes rules regarding the detention of alien children for immigration purposes and limits state licensing requirements for immigration detention facilities. 

Title V: Protection of Children Handling unaccompanied alien children: Modifies procedures for handling unaccompanied alien children, tightens requirements for Special Immigrant Juvenile visas, and establishes deadlines for handling cases. 

Title VI: Visa Overstays Penalties Penalties for overstaying visas: Increases civil and criminal penalties for visa overstays and unlawful entry into the U.S. 

Title VII: Immigration Parole Reform Limitations on parole authority: Restricts DHS authority to grant parole for humanitarian reasons or public benefit, limiting such grants to specific cases. 

Title VIII: Legal Workforce Employment eligibility verification: Mandates the use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system by all employers, imposes penalties for non-compliance, and preempts state laws on employment verification. 

 Other Significant Points Nullification of certain Department of Labor rules related to H-2A visas. Establishment of pilot programs for different technologies for employment eligibility verification.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Campus Rage World Wide Fueled by Middle Eastern Money - By Bari Weiss

You can bet your last dollar that this is NOT only happening in USA Universities and Colleges but rather going on around the globe in Canada, England, France, Spain, Germany, Greece Italy etc.

According to a new report, at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes.

Since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, it has been hard to miss the explosion of antisemitic hate that has gripped college campuses across the country. At Cornell, a student posted a call “to follow [Jews] home and slit their throats,” and a professor said the terror attack “energized” and “exhilarated” him. At Harvard, a mob of students besieged an Israeli student, surrounding him as they bellowed “shame, shame, shame.” 


At dozens of other campuses, students gathered to celebrate Hamas. 

The response from school administrations has been alarming. With few exceptions, in the immediate aftermath of October 7, university presidents issued equivocal statements about the initial attack. Some professors even celebrated it. And the focus on the part of administration bureaucrats has been on protecting the students tearing down posters and being shamed for doing so.


Where did all of this hatred come from is a question worth pondering. As Rachel Fish and others have documented, for several decades a toxic worldview—morally relativist, anti-Israel, and anti-American—has been incubating in “area studies” departments and social theory programs at elite universities. 


Whole narratives have been constructed to dehumanize Israelis and brand Israel as a “white, colonial project” to be “resisted.” The students you see in the videos circulating online have been marinating in this ideology, which can be defined best by what it’s against: 

everything Western.


Many are rightly questioning how it got this bad. How did university leaders come to eulogize, rather than put a stop to, campus hate rallies and antisemitic intimidation? Why are campus leaders now papering over antisemitism? How could institutions supposedly committed to liberal values be such hotbeds of antisemitism and anti-Israel activism?


In large part, it is a story of the power of ideas—in this case, terrible ones—and how rapidly they can spread. But it is also a story of an influence campaign by actors far outside of the university campus aimed at pouring fuel on a fire already raging inside.


We’ve known for some time about the links between anti-Israel campus agitators, like Students for Justice in Palestine, and shady off-campus anti-Israel activist networks. 


But thanks to the work of the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a nonprofit research center, we now have a clearer picture of the financial forces at play at a higher, institutional level.


Today, after months of research, the NCRI released a report (comprising four separate studies) following the money. The report finds that at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian.


Moreover, while correlation is not causation, they found that the number of reported antisemitic incidents on a given campus has a meaningful relationship to whether that university has received funding (disclosed and undisclosed) from regimes, or entities tied to regimes, in the Middle East. 


Overall, authors of the report write, “a massive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression.”


The NCRI report found that:


  • From 2015–2020, institutions that accepted money from Middle Eastern donors had, on average, 300 percent more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not. 


  • From 2015–2020, institutions that accepted undisclosed funds from authoritarian donors had, on average, 250 percent more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not.


  • At least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undocumented contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian. 


  • Campuses that accept undisclosed money are on average ~85 percent more likely to see campaigns “targeting academic scholars for sanction, including campaigns to investigate, censor, demote, suspend, or terminate.”


This chart from NCRI captures the relationship between concealed foreign donations and antisemitism on campus:

So who’s doing this concealed funding? Qatar, the country where Hamas’s leadership currently resides, is far and away the largest foreign donor to American universities, as Eli Lake recently documented in these pages:

Of course, correlation is not causation. Still, the NCRI report found that a reliable predictor of the intensity of campus antisemitism was the amount of undisclosed money a given university received from Middle Eastern regimes.


Former Harvard University president Larry Summers told me that he believes “donors and certainly authoritarian leaders who donate to universities may be looking to bolster their image or perception of legitimacy.” But he also said he doubts that “they are looking to or could succeed in changing attitudes or specific policies on campuses.”

“I’m cynical. I usually think things are about money. But I don’t think this is about money. Or at least not primarily,” a former president of a prominent liberal arts college told me. “If you look at the college professors signing on to these various statements, I don’t think it’s because those people got money in any significant way from a country like Qatar. It’s people who are ideologically part of a movement—whether you call it postcolonial or anticolonial—that is deeply opposed to Israel.”


There are other possibilities that may explain the NCRI’s findings. A fairly obvious one could be that Middle Eastern regimes are sponsoring professorships held by, or programs run by, professors or administrators who hold anti-Israel views and use their platform to spread them. This fact, itself, wouldn’t be news.


Another possibility is that universities, eager to attract and retain Middle Eastern funding, promote positions that they think will please the sensibilities of Middle Eastern regimes. Or maybe it is that universities that are indifferent to the atrocities committed or condoned by some of their largest funders are also indifferent to rising antisemitism on campus, allowing it to thrive. The same would hold true for freedom of expression and academic freedom. 


At the very least, the NCRI’s findings may explain why university presidents, whose main job is fundraising, may have been so slow to respond in the wake of the October 7 massacre, and when they did, they for the most part released weak statements. 


One thing I have a hard time believing is that these countries give nine- and ten-figure gifts to universities expecting nothing in return.


Sources: 

https://www.thefp.com/p/campus-rage-middle-eastern-roots-qatar

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/11-6-23-the-corruption-of-the-american-mind/

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Radical Palestinian Muslims and a Condoning Media/Academia Support of Terrorism

Gaza has been governed for the past 17 years, by the Radical Palestinian Muslims, who call themselves Hamas, which is a terrorist organization funded and directed by Iran, the world’s leading financier and supporter of acts of international terrorism.

Therefore, the fact is that any preserved humanitarian crisis caused in Gaza is and has been because of the elected self-governing body in Gaza namely the Radical Palestinian Muslims, who call themselves Hamas. Instead of helping the Palestinian Muslims, these Hamas Palestinian Radical Muslims have for more than 20 years continually sent bombs, rockets, and missiles of mass destruction indiscriminately against Israeli civilians, hospitals, shops, houses, babies and women and children with no regard for the laws of war or the laws of civil societies worldwide.

It is apparent that these Gaza Radical Palestinian Muslims, who call themselves Hamas and have governed Gaza, for the past 20 years have clearly shown that they Do NOT represent any semblance of a healthy just society of Muslim Palestine's respect for the rule of law, with clear and transparent justice which is a fair and independent process with safeguards to ensure that everyone is treated equally before international laws.

They (Hamas) are barbaric terrorists who on October 7, 2023, slaughtered and mutilated babies, women, children, and young adults then kidnapped over 200 innocent babies, women, children, and men and herded them back to Gaza, while the mainstream media to this day remains silent and with no demands for their release. 

These journalists; reporters have in many cases become conspiracy theorists and propaganda artists for Hamas and other Iran-backed terrorist groups who also have remained silent and are as guilty as the barbarian Palestine Muslims called Hamas who killed, raped, and mutilated babies, women, and kids and burned to death in front of others for no other reason than their hatred for all non-Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike.

Further, Academia and these so-called professors have been spewing, to students at universities and colleges for decades, a cultural Marxism with anti-Semitic twists found in Communist Marxist ideologies that want to distort historical facts and destroy Western civilization and the USA as a country from within, in my view. 

Their phrase “political correctness” is a covert assault on Christianity and the American way of life, and they continue with their attempts to jazz up political correctness and repackage it as an anti-Semitic theory that identifies Jews and all non-Muslims as nefarious communist and Marxism destroyers. 

These professors, academia and news media journalists and reporters seem intent on making democracies like the USA and Israel feel guilty and thus they are subverting the values of Christianity and its culture.

For example, in 1962, the American communist C. Wright Mills who openly stated, “I have been studying for several years now, the cultural apparatus (within academia) as a possible, immediate radical agency of change.”

And today we again witness the silence from all media outlets and these so-called free press reporters and journalists who are NOT demanding or calling for the immediate release of all the babies, women, young individuals and seniors brutally kidnapped by these barbaric Muslim Palestine terrorists who call themselves Hamas. These media types and their journalist and reporters are all accomplices to the barbaric atrocities of these Hamas Palestine Muslims, and they too must be held accountable for their support of such terrorist groups, in my view.

The media who have and continue to support the barbaric Muslim Palestine Hamas who kidnapped babies, children, women, and the elderly from Israel must pay the price for such support of terrorists.  

They have shown themselves not to represent a free imperial media and like the barbaric Palestine Muslim Hamas Do Not, as journalists or reporters represent any semblance of a healthy just society that respects the rule of law, with clear and transparent justice which is a fair and independent process with safeguards to ensure that everyone is treated equally before international laws.  

Shame on the Western media and its biased corrupt journalists and reporters, in my view.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Iran is the sponsor and financier of Hamas and Hezbollah


It is time to immediately exclude ALL Iranian banks and businesses from Swift, the international payment system used by thousands of financial institutions.
It comes after the EU and its allies suspended seven institutions from the system in March.
 
This move aims to hit the country's banking network and its access to funds via Swift, which is pivotal for the smooth transaction of money worldwide.

Hamas is a terrorist organization funded by Iran and they attacked, shot and mutilated women, children and families inside their homes today in Israel, so when is the world and the USA going to wake up to the facts?

These barbaric Hamas terrorists and its leaders and financiers all must be tracked down by the eyes in the sky satellites and then missiled to their respective places in the earth of dust to dust and ashes to ashes.

Those who are responsible for the beheading of babies, children and killing of pregnant women and the slaughtering of innocent kids at a music festival are not human and do not belong on this planet, in my view.

Here you all can educate yourselves and read the charter and manifesto of the terrorist group Hamas. Here is a portion of its sick charter:

https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cttPabH1zrc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3H2oIgRgCY

 https://www.firstpost.com/world/watch-dont-send-kids-here-cant-protect-them-from-pro-terror-students-columbia-prof-appeals-to-parents-13276312.html

What is the law for material support of terrorism?

Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.

Why has the Biden administration FAILED to apply this immediately to the government of IRAN?

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 gave the Secretary of State authority to designate foreign terrorist organizations whose terrorist activity threatens the security of United States nationals or the national defence, foreign relations or economic interests of the United States. See Pub. L. 104-132, § 302, 110 Stat. 1214, 1248. See also section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. §  1189). The Antiterrorism Act also created 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, which makes it unlawful, within the United States, or for any person who is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States anywhere, to knowingly provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization that has been designated by the Secretary of State. See Pub. L. 104-132, § 303, 110 Stat. 1214, 1250.

 

 

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1496/252519/20230118160125873_2023%2001%2018%20Taamneh%20Amicus%20Brief%20Natl%20Security%20FINAL.pdf