Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/4/2017

The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump’s travel ban can take effect while the order is still being contested in the lower courts. Of the eight radical extremist countries affected by “extreme vetting”, only six are Islamic.

In other news, a Filipino immigrant with a green card was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida for allegedly planning an attack with firearms on a local Islamic center.

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USA
» Antifa Isn’t a ‘Hate Group, ‘ Southern Poverty Law Center Claims
» Campus Watch Exposes Islamists, Apologists, And Fellow Travelers at Georgetown University
» College Student Admits Conspiracy to Support ISIS
» Face it, the Mighty U.S. Aircraft Carrier is Finished
» Jacksonville Officers: Man Planned Mass Shooting at Islamic Center
» New York Times Glorifies Violent Antifa Rioters With Style Guide, Tactical Advice
» NFL Inks Deal With George Soros Linked Social Justice Groups
» San Diego Continues Desperate Attempt to Control Hepatitis a Outbreak
» Time Reveals Its “Person of the Year” Finalists
» University of Central Florida Faculty Adopt ‘Chicago Statement’
» US Military Invests in ‘Doomsday Genetics’ Technology: ‘My Main Worry is That We Do
» Vigor in the Heartland
» Weak 13: Empty Seats Greatly Outnumber Spectators as NFL Attendance Crisis Continues
 
Europe and the EU
» ISIS Reveals Plan for Christmas Attacks on London’s Oxford Street in Vile New Poster
» Politico: Orban Side Steps Merkel, Meets German Regional Leaders
 
Far East
» Philippines Launches Probe Into Dengue Vaccine Scare
 
Australia — Pacific
» Bloody Protests Explode in Melbourne After Violent Milo Yiannopoulos Critics Are Leaked Location of Secret Show
» ‘It’s Difficult to Live in This Society’: The Moment Two Muslim Women Break Down in Tears on Q&A Over Donald Trump Re-Tweeting a Far-Right British Hate Group
» Move Over Waleed! Milo Yiannopoulos Takes Aim at Aly’s Muslim Wife Susan Carland and Says She Wears the Hijab Out of Choice, ‘Not Because She is the Brainwashed Victim of a Death Cult’
» Officer Injured by a Hurled Rock as Police Arrest Two People for ‘Firing a Missile’ During Riotous Protests Outside Rightwing Firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos’ Event in Melbourne
» Sharia Law Supporting Islamic Sheikh Says Husbands Should Not Let Their Wives Mix With Other Men — as He Urges Muslims to Reject ‘Western’ Marriage
 
Immigration
» Former FBI Official: Halting Immigration is ‘Not Who We Are, ‘ Americans Must ‘Adjust’ To Terrorism
» Hungary Dismisses Estonian Compromise Offer on Asylum-Seekers
» ICE Deputy Director Tom Homan’s Statement on Verdict in Steinle Case
» Israel Ready to Deport Thousands to Africa, UN Furious…
» Man, 27, Charged With Human Trafficking ‘For Trying to Cancel His Own Wife’s Visa and Baby’s Passport After Packing Them on a Plane to India From Sydney’
» San Francisco’s Shame
» SCOTUS Lets Travel Ban 3.0 Take Effect
» Supreme Court Allows Full Enforcement of Trump Travel Ban
» Sweden’s Ex-Premier Compares Migrant Influx to Couples Having Children
 

Antifa Isn’t a ‘Hate Group, ‘ Southern Poverty Law Center Claims

You can find conservative policy centers like the Family Research Council on the Southern PovertyLaw Center’s “hate map,” but not the violent left-wing extremist group antifa.

Why not? Antifa’s radical activists are known for beating up those they view as “fascists,” but according to SPLC president Richard Cohen, antifa doesn’t actually espouse hate.

“If you are familiar with our work, we write about antifa often,” Mr. Cohen said in his Thursday testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee. “We condemn their tactics — I’ve said so publicly and we do so always — but antifa is not a group that vilifies people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and the like.”

Mr. Cohen came to testify on domestic terrorism but wound up tangling with House Republicans over the SLPC’s extensive offshore financial holdings, its relationship with Google in creating a “hate news index,” and the politics behind its “hate map.”

Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, blasted the SPLC for failing to include antifa, saying it “reduces your credibility,” and accused the group of picking and choosing its targets based not on empirical data but “only your opinion.”

“So you’re okay with antifa as long as they don’t say things that you don’t agree with, but it’s okay if they hit people on the head with a bike lock or set things on fire or riot and flout the law by wearing face masks and incite riots—you’re okay with that?” asked Mr. Perry…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Campus Watch Exposes Islamists, Apologists, And Fellow Travelers at Georgetown University

— A new Campus Watch report details how Georgetown University’s Middle East studies faculty has radicalized in recent years to include not just the fellow travelers of previous decades but actual Islamist professors.

Islamists, Apologists, and Fellow Travelers: Middle East Studies Faculty at Georgetown University by Campus Watch, a project of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, exposes this alarming increase in anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Western biases among professors, some Saudi funded, in the heart of the American capital.

“Georgetown’s decades-long reputation as ground zero for apologists for Islamism is well deserved” said Winfield Myers, director of academic affairs at the Forum and head of Campus Watch. “But our research reveals alarming trends in its recent hiring and promotion of actual Islamist professors who propagandize for Islamist goals in their teaching and scholarship,” Myers added.

As advisors to policymakers and politicians, Georgetown’s faculty consistently misread the Middle East, as when John Esposito argued that Islamism was the surest path to democracy in the region, a theory proved false by events, for example in Egypt and Turkey. The report concludes that “the permeation of postcolonial theory and aggressive Islamism into academia has given rise to politicized scholarship that yields little useful expertise to policymakers.”…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

College Student Admits Conspiracy to Support ISIS

A college student from Spring pleaded guilty on Monday to plotting to join ISIS in Syria, a joint plan that resulted in the death of a Klein Oak high school classmate he helped recruit to the jihadist insurgency.

U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes questioned Asher Abid Khan, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Houston, about whether he knew he was supporting a terrorist organization that produced and posted violent videos of executions. Khan, who was accompanied in court by his parents, admitted he knew what ISIS was doing and “stupidly bought into their propaganda.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Face it, the Mighty U.S. Aircraft Carrier is Finished

If the aircraft carrier is a symbol, an expression of U.S. military dominance stretching from World War II to today, then there’s another symbol that perfectly encapsulates its demise: China’s DF-21D, what many experts describe as a “carrier-killer” ballistic missile.

How the missile works is key to understanding what modern-day U.S. aircraft carriers face. The missile is mobile and can travel anywhere via a truck, making its detection difficult. When launched, the weapon is guided using over-the-horizon radars, new satellite networks, and possibly even drones or commercial vessels being used as scouts. The system also has a maneuverable warhead to help defeat missile-defense systems. When it does find its target, it can descend from the sky and strike at speeds approaching Mach 12. Worst of all, the missile has a range of 1,000 miles. A Pentagon source tells me that Beijing has already deployed “many of them — perhaps in the hundreds,” and is “fully operational and ready for action.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jacksonville Officers: Man Planned Mass Shooting at Islamic Center

A Jacksonville man was arrested after investigators say he planned a mass shooting at an Islamic Center.

Bernandino Bolatete, 69, is facing a federal charge for possessing a silencer not registered to him, according to officials.

Officials began investigating Bolatete in late October after a confidential source said he was planning an attack on the Islamic Center, Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said.

An undercover officer got in contact with Bolatete and federal and state investigators were notified, Williams said.

The investigation confirmed Bolatete had plans to carryout a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida and had weapons to do so, according to officials.

Bolatete was arrested Dec. 1 after officials say he asked an undercover JSO detective for help purchasing a firearms silencer.

He said he did not want paperwork associated with the sale, according to officials.

Bolatete has a green card and is a Philippines national, an FBI spokesperson said.

FBI officials said at no time was anyone at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida at risk during the investigation…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

New York Times Glorifies Violent Antifa Rioters With Style Guide, Tactical Advice

The New York Times has glorified Antifa and its more violent “black bloc” rioters with a style guide, complete with riot gear advice.

In their article, titled “What to Wear to Smash the State,” the New York Times detailed the fashion of violent far-left rioters who enjoy “punching Nazis,” before advising what to wear during violent protests and riots.

“This mass of solid black descending upon the park in Berkeley, hunting for fascists, was an intimidating aesthetic. That’s by design,” they declared, before quoting an anarchist who claimed that covering your face and dressing in uniform “makes it easier for saboteurs to take the offensive against storefronts, banks and any other material symbols and power centers of capitalism and the state.”

Despite quoting the anarchist, who openly admitted that the black clothing and covered faces were used to evade police officers while committing crimes, the New York Times attempted to claim that the style is a safety measure to prevent being identified by “white supremacist groups.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NFL Inks Deal With George Soros Linked Social Justice Groups

Plagued by sagging ratings, player protests and fan outrage, the NFL has thrown a political Hail Mary by reportedly agreeing to dole out millions of dollars to two social justice groups connected to Democratic billionaire George Soros.

Under an agreement with the Players Coalition, NFL owners plan to funnel tens of millions of dollars to the Dream Corps, a leftist advocacy group led by former Obama adviser Van Jones and linked to Mr. Soros, which has called for saving the Clean Power Plan, cutting the prison population by half and providing “sanctuary for all.”

[Comment: That’s it. I’m not supporting the NFL.]

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

San Diego Continues Desperate Attempt to Control Hepatitis a Outbreak

San Diego is desperately trying to control a Hepatitis A outbreak brought on by the homeless problem plaguing the state of California. The city has now opened the first of three giant tents meant to contain the outbreak of the deadly virus.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Time Reveals Its “Person of the Year” Finalists

Time Magazine has released its list of finalists for 2017’s “Person of the Year” issue — and what a list it is.

After Trump criticized Time for informing him that he was in the running to win “Person of the Year” for the second year in a row — an honor last achieved by former President Richard Nixon, who was named man of the year in 1972 and 1973 — it appears Trump was right once again: He is one of 10 contenders for the honor released to MSNBC — even though editors at Time claimed the phone call never happened (though how else would Trump have known he was in the running, other than a lucky guess?).

The other names on the list are: Amazon CEO and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, the #MeToo movement, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Colin Kaepernick, the dreamers, Robert Mueller and Patty Jenkins (Jenkins directed the Hollywood blockbuster “Wonder Woman”).

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

University of Central Florida Faculty Adopt ‘Chicago Statement’

The University of Central Florida (UCF) is no longer a “red light” institution after making a significant policy change in recent months. Furthermore, UCF’s faculty senate has adopted afree speech policy statement modeled after the “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression” at the University of Chicago (better known as the “Chicago Statement”).

Several professors committed to free expression worked with FIRE’s Policy Reform team to revise a red light information technology use policy that substantially restricted the free speech rights of students. That change leaves UCF with only one “yellow light” policy — a”Bias-Related Incidents” policy — that prevents the university from earning the coveted “green light” rating.

To further its recent commitment to protecting free expression on campus, the university’s faculty senate adopted a version of the Chicago Statement in October. In doing so, the faculty formalized its promise of academic freedom and open discourse on UCF’s campus in one succinct statement. Largely modeled after the Chicago Statement, the faculty senate affirmed the university’s “commit[ment] to free and open inquiry in all matters.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

US Military Invests in ‘Doomsday Genetics’ Technology: ‘My Main Worry is That We Do

Amid United Nations fears that genetic extinction technology could be used by militaries, a United States military agency has invested $100 million in the doomsday biological technology that can wipe out an entire species.

           — Hat tip: Charles Low [Return to headlines]
 

Vigor in the Heartland

To hear the news media tell it, it’s game over for America’s “flyover country”—the vast expanse of land between the East and West Coasts, which, on the presidential-election map, is usually colored predominantly red. Yet the American interior is hardly monolithic, consisting of a collection of disparate regions: there’s Mountain West, seen in some respects as an extension of the West Coast; the Great Plains, where rural areas have long been shrinking but cities are showing surprising growth; the South, with its mix of boomtowns and struggling urban and rural regions (Texas is a land unto itself); and the Midwest and the postindustrial sections of the Northeast, still often known as the Rust Belt.

The American heartland suffers from severe problems in many places, as press coverage, including in these pages, has documented. (See “Trouble in Trump County, U.S.A.,” The Shape of Work to Come, 2017.) Many postindustrial cities, especially smaller ones with few world-class assets, have struggled to find a place in the technology and innovation economy. Such cities tend to lag the coasts in per-capita income and GDP, and many have lost population. Flint, Michigan, is an example. The birthplace of General Motors, the city was the site of the famed sit-down strike of 1936 and 1937 that helped make the UAW such a powerful labor union. GM once employed 82,000 people in Flint, a figure representing nearly half the city’s population at that time. Over 90 percent of those jobs are now gone. Flint spiraled into poverty and fiscal crisis, culminating in the state appointment of an emergency manager—a move that didn’t prevent a treatment failure in the water system, which contaminated the city’s water with lead and made Flint a national symbol of failed urban governance. Other cities, ranging from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Youngstown, Ohio, have struggled as well with severe economic and fiscal stress, along with entrenched poverty.

Large swaths of rural and small-town areas continue to suffer from an epidemic of opioids, involving both prescription and illegal drugs. According to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail, drug companies shipped nearly 800 million opioid pain pills into the state between 2007 and 2012—more than 9 million of them to one pharmacy in the town of Kermit (population 392) alone. Scott County, Indiana, made national news after an HIV epidemic related to needle sharing, with 203 new cases in about 18 months in a county home to only about 25,000 people. Though the opioid crisis affects urban areas, too, some of the hardest-hit places heavily overlap with Appalachia.

Some heartland northern cities remain hyper-segregated, with working-class and poor black residents often isolated in dysfunctional neighborhoods and inner suburbs. Abandoning a region that they once flocked to for economic opportunity, many blacks are returning to the South, this time to its urban centers.

So yes, the portrait of heartland despair holds a great deal of truth—but it tells an incomplete story. Substantial portions of the nation’s interior are doing well. What’s more, just as macroeconomic forces such as technological innovation and globalization have undermined the interior, other factors are working in its favor. These include structural housing-cost advantages, new-economy strongholds, and strength and dynamism in old-economy sectors. In short, America’s interior has significant potential for reinvention—but not without pain……

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Weak 13: Empty Seats Greatly Outnumber Spectators as NFL Attendance Crisis Continues

Week 13 doesn’t appear to be the National Football League’s lucky number as photos of stadiums across the league still show an awful lot of empty seats. Meanwhile, the sad in-person attendance mirrors the continually plummeting TV ratings.

With last week’s Thursday Night Football and Monday Night Football broadcasts closing out Week 12 with new lows in metered markets, and despite the nearly $90 million in social justice spending for players to end their constant, anti-American protests during the national anthem, Week 13 began with tens of thousands of empty seats in stadiums everywhere.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

ISIS Reveals Plan for Christmas Attacks on London’s Oxford Street in Vile New Poster

ISLAMIC State jihadis have released another sickening poster threatening an attack on Christmas shoppers in London.

The latest propaganda poster released by the terror group shows a jihadi, wearing a belt of ammunition, walking down Oxford Street in central London.

Above the scene is the chilling tagline: “From now onwards we will go to attack them and they will not come to attack us.”

The poster is the latest in a series of vile taunts from the terror group which suggest ISIS is plotting more Christmas attacks on the West.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Politico: Orban Side Steps Merkel, Meets German Regional Leaders

BUDAPEST (POLITICO) — Viktor Orbán isn’t best friends with Angela Merkel but the Hungarian prime minister has found another way to wield influence in Germany — by sidestepping the chancellor to cultivate ties with regional leaders.

This strategy gives Orbán and his officials a chance to counter criticism of their government in Europe’s pre-eminent political power and make the case that the EU should go easy on Budapest despite its hard line on refugees and other policies championed by the Hungarian leader as part of his vision of an “illiberal democracy.”

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Philippines Launches Probe Into Dengue Vaccine Scare

The Philippines has launched an investigation into the immunisation of 730,000 children with a dengue vaccine that could pose health risks.

Last week French drug company Sanofi announced its vaccine could worsen the potentially deadly disease in people not previously infected.

The public immunisation programme was suspended on Friday.

Dengue fever affects more than 400 million people each year around the world.

The mosquito-borne disease is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian and Latin American countries[…]

Sanofi said last week that a new long-term study had shown that while the Dengvaxia vaccine worked with people who had prior infection, it posed a risk for those who hadn’t.

“For those not previously infected by dengue virus, the analysis found that in the longer term, more cases of severe disease could occur following vaccination upon a subsequent dengue infection,” […]

[Errrrr I expect that I an naive, but I thought that vaccnes were a magic formula that stopped one getting the disease…..]

           — Hat tip: MC [Return to headlines]
 

Bloody Protests Explode in Melbourne After Violent Milo Yiannopoulos Critics Are Leaked Location of Secret Show

Violent protests erupted in Kensington, north-west Melbourne on Monday night after Milo Yiannopoulos’ critics were leaked the location of his secret show.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘It’s Difficult to Live in This Society’: The Moment Two Muslim Women Break Down in Tears on Q&A Over Donald Trump Re-Tweeting a Far-Right British Hate Group

A group of young Muslim women were left in tears on Monday night after one of them, a Year 10 student in Sydney, asked a question on ABC panel show Q&A about responses to propaganda.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Move Over Waleed! Milo Yiannopoulos Takes Aim at Aly’s Muslim Wife Susan Carland and Says She Wears the Hijab Out of Choice, ‘Not Because She is the Brainwashed Victim of a Death Cult’

Milo Yiannopoulos took aim at journalist Waleed Aly’s wife, Dr Susan Carland, in an expletive-ridden rant during his three sold-out shows in Melbourne on Monday.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Officer Injured by a Hurled Rock as Police Arrest Two People for ‘Firing a Missile’ During Riotous Protests Outside Rightwing Firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos’ Event in Melbourne

The mayhem unfolded outside the Melbourne Pavilion in inner-city Kensington on Monday night, with weapon-wielding protesters brawling in the streets.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Sharia Law Supporting Islamic Sheikh Says Husbands Should Not Let Their Wives Mix With Other Men — as He Urges Muslims to Reject ‘Western’ Marriage

A hardline Muslim sheikh from western Sydney, Mohamad Doar, has declared married women must be banned from socialising with men. He also urges Muslims to reject Western marriage.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Former FBI Official: Halting Immigration is ‘Not Who We Are, ‘ Americans Must ‘Adjust’ To Terrorism

A former official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says Americans will have to “adjust” to a new country where terrorism is routine because halting immigration is “not who we are.”

Former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI C. Frank Figliuzzi writes in a piece for NBC News that terrorism in the United States is changing quickly to a strategy where terrorism is merely mitigated and contained.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Hungary Dismisses Estonian Compromise Offer on Asylum-Seekers

BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungary remains firmly opposed to illegal immigration and the European Union should focus efforts on protecting its external borders, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said about an Estonian compromise proposal on asylum-seekers.

“Hungary’s view on migration is clear and rock steady: We think illegal immigration is dangerous. Because of illegal immigration, Europe has never had to face the kind of terror threat it faces now,” Szijjarto told a news conference with ministers and officials from eastern and southern Europe, in response to a question.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

ICE Deputy Director Tom Homan’s Statement on Verdict in Steinle Case

“San Francisco’s policy of refusing to honor ICE detainers is a blatant threat to public safety and undermines the rule of law. This tragedy could have been prevented if San Francisco had simply turned the alien over to ICE, as we requested, instead of releasing him back onto the streets. It is unconscionable that politicians across this country continue to endanger the lives of Americans with sanctuary policies while ignoring the harm inflicted on their constituents. Following the conclusion of this case, ICE will work to take custody of Mr. Garcia Zarate and ultimately remove him from the country.”

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Israel Ready to Deport Thousands to Africa, UN Furious…

…but, get this: It turns out that many of the illegal alien/asylum seekers have been transported out of Israel to third countries.

I had heard rumors that we are taking some of those!

I just checked Wrapsnet and we did take 8 ‘refugees’ off Israel’s hands in October. (The November processing countries will be out in a few days and I’ll check again.)

…but, get this: It turns out that many of the illegal alien/asylum seekers have been transported out of Israel to third countries.

Here is how asylum is supposed to work: migrant asks for asylum in the first safe country he or she reaches and it is that country’s problem to process the asylum claim and grant it or not.

However, the whole process has been skewed for at least 10 years (the time I have been involved, it could be more) by things like our deal with Malta and more recently Australia*** where we take their rejects!

Is it happening with Israel too?

[…]

From Haaretz:

The head of the UN’s refugee agency says Israel is choosing to forget its own painful past and should treat its African asylum seekers more compassionately.

“The Israeli government’s decision to expel 40,000 African asylum seekers is of great concern,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told Haaretz at a conference in Rome over the weekend.

[….]

The Israeli government approved a plan last month to close its detention center housing African asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea, and launch an expulsion operation in the coming weeks to deport them back to their homeland or another African state.

The asylum seekers will soon receive notices demanding that they either leave Israel or face jail for an unlimited amount of time. Israel is reportedly paying Rwanda $5,000 for every asylum seeker it takes in. Additionally, those agreeing to leave Israel will receive $3,500 and get their airfare paid. The move could cost the government about 1 billion shekels ($287 million)…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Man, 27, Charged With Human Trafficking ‘For Trying to Cancel His Own Wife’s Visa and Baby’s Passport After Packing Them on a Plane to India From Sydney’

A 27-year-old man has been charged with allegedly trafficking his wife and a two-month-old daughter from Sydney to India in March.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

San Francisco’s Shame

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was a poster boy not just for the folly of sanctuary policies but also for the mass low-skilled Hispanic immigration that has transformed California. A barely literate drug dealer from Mexico with a second-grade education, no English, and a penchant for criminal aliases, Garcia Zarate had been deported five times by federal immigration authorities following convictions for various crimes.

Despite his record, Garcia Zarate was the sort of immigrant that the San Francisco authorities apparently believed that this country needs. Having completed a federal sentence in March 2015 for his sixth felonious reentry into the country, Garcia Zarate had been sent to the San Francisco County Jail to serve time for a marijuana charge from which he had absconded two decades ago. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requested that when the San Francisco sheriff released Garcia Zarate after his drug sentence, the sheriff would notify ICE so that the federal agents could pick him up for his sixth deportation. The sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, ignored the marijuana charge and, most crucially, the ICE detainer request as well, instead freeing Garcia Zarate back into San Francisco’s streets before ICE could pick him up. This release followed the city’s sanctuary policy, which forbade local law enforcement authorities from cooperating with their federal counterparts in ICE: local authorities may not notify ICE of a criminal illegal alien’s release date or hold that criminal alien for ICE to pick-up.

Four months after Mirkarimi sent Garcia Zarate back into San Francisco’s illegal alien subculture, the felon picked up a gun on the Embarcadero and fatally shot Kate Steinle, 32, in the heart. He then tossed the gun into the San Francisco Bay and ran off. The drug dealer changed his story several times during police interrogation, first saying that he had been aiming at a sea lion, then claiming that he didn’t even know that he was handling a gun. The gun had been stolen from the parked car of a federal law enforcement agent four days earlier; Garcia Zarate’s story at trial was that he had picked up a rag with the gun hidden within it and that the gun had accidentally discharged. To no avail, the prosecutor contested Garcia Zarate’s claim that the pistol used in the crime, a Sig Sauer P239, could be fired without the trigger being deliberately pulled…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

SCOTUS Lets Travel Ban 3.0 Take Effect

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday allowed the latest iteration of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take full effect for the time being, as lower courts continue to wrestle with lawsuits fighting the ban.

The order permits the administration to enforce the president’s September proclamation, which suspends entry of foreign nationals from seven nations, including Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor noted their dissent from the Court’s decision.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Supreme Court Allows Full Enforcement of Trump Travel Ban

The Supreme Court doled out a victory for the Trump administration Monday, ruling that the third version of the president’s immigration travel ban can take effect while it is being challenged in the lower courts.

The latest version of the extreme vetting order was introduced in September and sought to curtail the admission of visitors and would-be immigrants from eight countries — Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, and would have left in place lower court orders that block the order from taking effect.

An unsigned order from the Supreme Court urges the lower courts to move quickly in ruling on the case.

“In light of its decision to consider the case on an expedited basis, we expect that the Court of Appeals will render its decision with appropriate dispatch,” the order states…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Sweden’s Ex-Premier Compares Migrant Influx to Couples Having Children

Former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has claimed that the large-scale influx of asylum seekers to Sweden is a blessing for the country, comparing them to couples having new children.

The former Swedish leader, who led the country from 2006 to 2014, compared the influx of asylum seekers to having children, saying: “Those who were first seen as a cost will become the best investment of your life,” Expressen reports.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/4/2017

  1. Gosh three cheers for the Filipinos . Clearly they are the sort of immigrant we need.
    There are some here in Ozz, where I live.They are charming hard working people.Their children work hard at school and get good results

  2. In regards to the Jacksonville, FL Islamic planned murder spree, why is the only charge at the moment related to the unregistered status of the suppressor? Why no charges related to the intention to murder people?

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