Feds: 5K immigrant detainees in Arizona have criminal records

PHOENIX -- Nearly 5,000 Arizona immigrant detainees with criminal records were released from custody, a federal agency has acknowledged.

Of those, 121 later committed fatal crimes.

The National Review reported that the Department of Homeland Security said that the detainees charged with murder had been jailed and let out from 2010 to 2014.

A letter from the director of Immigrations and Customs, Sarah Saldana, to U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley was recently made public.

The senators asked asked for details surrounding the release of Valley resident Apolinar Altamirano, who was charged with the shooting death of a Mesa convenience store clerk in January. Altamirano was awaiting a deportation hearing.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had taken Altamirano into custody in January 2013 after he was convicted on burglary charges.

He was later determined eligible for bail.

More...http://ktar.com/22/1843108/Feds-5K-immigrant-detainees-in-Arizona-have-criminal-records

Enforcement? What Enforcement?

Three recent items highlight the continuing collapse of interior immigration enforcement under Obama. The first is information pried out of DHS by Senators Grassley and Sessions: One hundred twenty-one convicted criminals who faced deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 were never removed from the country and now face murder charges, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Just to be clear, these were convicted criminals, in ICE custody, who had been ordered deported but were instead released back into U.S. communities, and then went on to murder Americans. Most were released simply because the administration didn’t want to detain them. Only for two dozen does the administration have any excuse at all, saying that they had to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.

And even that’s no excuse, for two reasons: the Supreme Court decision Obama’s people point to (Zadvydas v. Davis) limiting open-ended detention beyond six months of any criminal aliens whose countries won’t take them back has significant wiggle room in it – wiggle room the administration refuses, in this one and only instance, to take advantage of. And second, the law requires the State Department to impose visa sanctions on countries that won’t take their own citizens back, a requirement Secretaries Clinton and Kerry have simply ignored.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419905/enforcement-what-enforcement-mark-krikorian?target=author&tid=982

Senators Want Answers: 121 Illegal Immigrants Avoid Deportation, Now Charged With Murder

More than 100 convicted criminals who remained in the U.S. despite receiving deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 now face murder charges, according to the agency charged with carrying out such deportations of illegal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement reports that 121 convicted criminals who were never removed from the country face murder charges today.

In response, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., of the Judiciary Committee submitted a letter on June 12 requesting a “multi-departmental response” from Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

In their letter, Grassley and Sessions cite Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics that show 1,000 of the 36,007 criminally-convicted illegal immigrants released from custody in fiscal year 2013 have been re-convicted of additional crimes.

More...http://dailysignal.com/2015/06/15/senators-want-answers-121-illegal-immigrants-avoid-deportation-now-charged-murder/

As Twitchy reported earlier today, testimony from a House Oversight hearing on a massive security compromise of federal computer systems led a number of people to ask just what it would take for a federal employee to be fired, or at the very least shamed into resigning. Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta was reportedly offered chances to apologize and resign but “declined to do either.”

This afternoon, House subcommittees on national security and on health care, benefits, and administrative rules met to discuss President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration, which allowed illegal aliens to apply for deferred action status, which protected them from deportation and authorized them to work legally in the United States. Those aliens would then be eligible to obtain Social Security numbers and other government benefits.

Among those to testify was U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Sarah Saldaña, and Townhall editor Katie Pavlich also makes the case that it’s high time for some high-level government firings.

More...http://twitchy.com/2015/06/17/katie-pavlich-ice-director-says-no-one-fired-for-releasing-more-than-65000-criminal-aliens/

Despite record highs in the market, former Rep. Ron Paul says the Fed's easy money policies have left stocks and bonds are on the verge of a massive collapse.

"I am utterly amazed at how the Federal Reserve can play havoc with the market," Paul said on CNBC's "Futures Now" referring to Thursday's surge in stocks. The S&P 500 closed less than 1 percent off its all-time high. "I look at it as being very unstable."

In Paul's eyes, "the fallacy of economic planning" has created such a "horrendous bubble" in the bond market that it's only a matter of time before the bottom falls out. And when it does, it will lead to "stock market chaos."

As far as when the bubble will burst, the former Republican presidential candidate said, "I don't think there's any way to know what the [timeline] is, but after 35 years of a gigantic bull market in bonds, [the Fed] cannot reverse history and they cannot print money forever."

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/102771518

Rand Paul Names Hedge Fund Chief Mark Spitznagel as Economic Adviser

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has appointed Mark Spitznagel, the hedge fund manager, as a senior economic adviser as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination.

At first blush, the two might seem like an odd pair. Mr. Spitznagel is the founder of Universa Investments, a $6 billion hedge fund that is set up to make money in an economic crisis.

But the two share a similar outlook on the government’s role in the financial markets: that it should not have one.

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Mr. Spitznagel, who is 44, gained credibility for predicting two market routs over the last decade, first in 2000 and then in 2008. In the 2008 financial crisis, his Universa funds rose by 115 percent as the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index plummeted. Mr. Spitznagel believes the next market rout is coming soon.

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His thinking is shaped by the Austrian school of economics, which has its roots in 19th-century Vienna and makes the argument that the government should not meddle in any part of the economy because when it does, it causes all kinds of distortions.

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Mr. Spitznagel is also a friend of Mr. Paul’s father, Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman and presidential candidate. The elder Mr. Paul wrote a foreword in Mr. Spitznagel’s book, “The Dao of Capital” (Wiley, 2013), in which Mr. Spitznagel outlines his philosophy of the markets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/business/dealbook/rand-paul-names-hedge-fund-chief-mark-spitznagel-as-economic-adviser.html

Rand Paul Wants Internal GOP Debate Over Taxes

In unveiling his proposal to slash taxes to a single 14.5 percent marginal rate, Sen. Rand Paul wants a debate over whether the GOP should only seek to simplify the tax code.

In an interview with CQ Roll Call, the Kentucky Republican said the plan he outlined in an opinion piece published in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal should encourage a debate about the amount of money the federal government should take in from tax receipts, upending the existing systems of taxes and tariffs along the way.

“I think the main thing that we as Republicans need to do a better job on is that most of the Republicans in Washington I think are — have become beaten down by the system and all they are willing to offer is revenue neutral tax reform. And to me that means they’re just going to shift the burden around, but they’re not going to reduce the overall burden for the private sector,” Paul said. “I think that’s the debate we need to have within the Republican Party: are we the party that wants to shift the burden around … or are we the party that actually thinks that you can stimulate the economy and grow the economy by significantly reducing how much revenue comes into Washington and leaving that money in the private sector.”

The presidential candidate’s past proposals to balance the federal budget would require significant slashing of federal programs, and his tax plan would be no different, apparently reducing federal revenue by a minimum of $2 trillion over a decade.

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http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/rand-paul-gop-debate-income-taxes/

Rand Paul Finds Medium for His Flat-Tax Message: Snapchat

Coming to a smartphone near you — if you happen to live in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire or South Carolina, that is: the first Snapchat ad for a presidential candidate.

The “super PAC” backing Mr. Paul, America’s Liberty PAC, will become the first to use the rapidly expanding social media app to advertise on behalf of someone seeking the White House in 2016.

Called “How Rand Rolls,” the 10-second spot talks up the Kentucky Republican’s new flat-tax plan, which he announced on Thursday.

Jesse Benton, the PAC’s director, said Snapchat offered two distinct advantages that other advertising did not. It can be highly targeted to people in certain geographic areas — in this case, voters in the early primary and caucus states. And it offers a high degree of direct interaction with the young audience Mr. Paul is trying to reach.

“We feel it’s an efficient way to reach the people Senator Paul needs to reach,” Mr. Benton said, adding that he expected hundreds of thousands of people to see it. He put the dollar amount the PAC is spending on the ad, which will also appear on the Internet, in the five-figure range.

Anyone scrolling through the curated story content on Snapchat in those four states could see the ad.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/19/today-in-politics-charleston-shooting-leads-to-a-campaign-pause/?_r=0#post-mb-7

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKoPjdiO1KI

There are different version of the United States: urban, suburban, rural. For instance, rule out the gun deaths in Chicago and then the rest of Illinois' gun crime is way lower. The US has way more urban areas all across the country than does the UK which accounts for plenty of the violence that is often drug and gang related. The bottom line is the gun is the great equalizer for small people and women against aggressive larger men no matter what the statistics are. All the countryside communities that are being overran by ISIS in Iraq and Syria don't have weapons nor do places in Africa where that other terrorist group is running roughshod.

GOP Senator. Graham: Clinton tops Rand Paul on foreign policy

“Would you say right now that any Republican running would be better, in terms of foreign policy, than Hillary Clinton?” John Dickerson, host of “Face the Nation,” asked Graham on Sunday.
“Yes, except for Rand Paul,” Graham responded. “No, she would be beat by all of us, except Rand Paul.”

Graham also said that he believed Clinton’s foreign policy decisions while serving as secretary of State had severely hurt America’s interests abroad.

“You would have to suspend disbelief to believe that America is well-positioned against Iran, against Syria, against ISIL, against Russia, against China,” he said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“We’re in a terrible position,” he added. “If Hillary Clinton thinks we’re well-positioned as a nation, she has disqualified herself to be commander-in-chief.”

Clinton served as President Obama’s secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.

Graham said on Sunday that their foreign policy doctrine has badly harmed the U.S. military’s ongoing fight against terrorism.

“I’m dying to hear from my military leadership on how we degrade and destroy ISIL with the current strategy,” he said.

More...http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/244951-graham-clinton-tops-rand-paul-of-foreign-policy

Walker Continues Lead in Iowa Caucus Poll, Rand Paul Slides


Scott Walker continues to lead the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa, according to a poll of likely Republican Iowa caucus participants released on Thursday.

The poll, commissioned by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, also found a 5-point drop in support for Sen. Rand Paul compared to a similar survey by the Des Moines Register late last month.

Walker received 19 percent in the poll, followed by Ben Carson at 13 percent and Jeb Bush at 11 percent. Marco Rubio received 9 percent, followed by Rick Perry at 7 percent, Ted Cruz at 6 percent and Rand Paul at 5 percent.

Paul has been sliding in Iowa caucus polls since January, when he was in second place behind Walker at 14 percent. The latest IRFA poll has Paul in 7th place, tied with “Unsure.”

More....http://freebeacon.com/politics/walker-continues-lead-in-iowa-caucus-poll-rand-paul-slides/

Rand Paul on Charleston Shooting: ‘There's A Sickness in Our Country’

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told a crowd of social conservatives that a "sickness" in the country was responsible for the mass shootings in South Carolina, adding that the problem "isn't going to be fixed by your government."

At the opening luncheon of the Faith & Freedom Coalition's annual Washington, D.C. conference, where he shared the stage with two other Republican presidential contenders, Paul went out of his way to address the massacre that left nine people dead in Charleston after a gunman opened fire in a predominantly black church.

"We had the shooting this morning," he said. The senator, who has been outspoken on the subject of racial violence, suggested that the problem is bigger and deeper than politics and policy.

"What kind of person goes into church and shoots nine people?" Paul  lamented. "There's a sickness in our country. There's something terribly wrong. But it isn't going to be fixed by your government. It's people straying away, it's people not understanding where salvation comes from. I think if we understand that, we'll have better expectations of what to expect from government."

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-18/rand-paul-on-charleston-shooting-there-s-a-sickness-in-our-country-

Raised Around Cry For Smaller Government, Rand Paul Carries The Torch

Sen. Rand Paul made headlines recently with his one-man effort to roll back government surveillance. And that's the just beginning of Paul's plan to dismantle big chunks of the federal government.

"The Washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped," Paul declared in April, as he announced his presidential campaign.

But Paul's hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas, only exists because of a shotgun wedding between big government and industry. The city was hastily built near the Texas Gulf Coast in the 1940s to house workers at a nearby Dow Chemical plant, so that they could produce the magnesium the military needed during World War II.

"The U.S. government stepped in and they made it happen," said Robert Rule, executive director of the Lake Jackson Historical Association.

Lake Jackson's curving streets were master-planned to protect the city's live oak trees — a stark contrast to the unregulated sprawl of Houston, 50 miles to the north.

More...http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/18/413928387/raised-around-cry-for-smaller-government-rand-paul-carries-the-torch

Rand Paul to GOP: It's Time to Move Beyond the Second Amendment
The senator from Kentucky continues to takes the road less traveled through the GOP primaries.

Sen. Rand Paul took a risk Thursday. Speaking to an audience of religious conservatives in the wake of a racially charged shooting in South Carolina, Paul delicately suggested that Republicans might want to start focusing on other parts of the Bill of Rights than the Second Amendment.

"Everybody is for the Second Amendment. All 55 candidates running for president are for the Second Amendment—on our side," Paul told the crowd. "But the thing is that a lot of young people, that might not be their primary issue."

Leaving room, even rhetorical room, to one's right—particularly on an issue as important to the Republican base as gun rights—is a gamble in the crowded 2016 GOP primary. But it's one very much in keeping with the Kentucky senator's campaign of almost-gonzo optimism, and it's the type of decision backed by Paul's personal conviction that his libertarian philosophy can unite traditional Republican voters with more independent-minded young people and minorities.

Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, Paul's remarks also mentioned the Wednesday night shooting that killed nine black church congregants in Charleston, South Carolina.

"We had the shooting this morning in South Carolina. What kind of person goes in a church and shoots nine people? There's a sickness in our country. There's something terribly wrong, but it isn't going to be fixed by your government. It's people straying away, it's people not understanding where salvation comes from. And I think that if we understand that, we'll understand and have better expectations of what we get from our government."

More...http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/rand-paul-to-gop-it-s-time-to-move-beyond-the-second-amendment-20150618

Rand Paul's flat tax proposal: What it means for you

The short answer is probably yes. But a lot depends on how much money you make -- the more you make, the bigger your tax break.

The plan that Paul described in a Wall Street Journal column Thursday would tax everyone - businesses and and individuals - at a flat 14.5% rate. Households wouldn't pay tax on income below $50,000, Paul wrote. And the payroll tax, which employers and workers both pay to fund Social Security, would go away altogether, along with most tax breaks and deductions.

"The left will argue that the plan is a tax cut for the wealthy. But most of the loopholes in the tax code were designed by the rich and politically connected," Paul wrote. "Though the rich will pay a lower rate along with everyone else, they won't have special provisions to avoid paying lower than 14.5%."

More...http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/18/news/economy/rand-paul-flat-tax/

Rand is making news right now since he's making waves at this Faith and Freedom conference by talking about personal liberty. Rand is just killing it when talking about millenials voting powers at his point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9gjEmxAoec

Let's not let the socons control nor have any stake in this next election or just a little, the young folks should vote in droves to own it for Rand Paul.

Here's the evangelical stuff that one poster recently was looking for (in Iowa-1st in the nation caucus): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=FOc8cAtNrME
Rand talks w/ evange Dave Brody about his IA religious stances. Brody on one hand praises the interview but on the other he questions Rand's approach.

Rand Paul to raid pot summit for campaign cash

Sen. Rand Paul, the most vocal critic of the “war on drugs” in the 2016 Republican presidential field, will host a “private briefing” on June 30 for campaign donors on the sidelines of the 2nd annual Cannabis Business Summit and Expo in Denver, according to an invitation for the event obtained by Yahoo News.

It’s not clear whether any of Paul’s rivals for the GOP nomination will associate themselves with the gathering, which is put on by the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Other headline events at the June 29-July 1 forum include pot-themed sessions called “Running Your Cannabusiness,” “Cultivation and Processing,” “Money Matters,” “Finance, Accounting and Insurance,” and “The Law, Policy and Reform.”

NCIA forwarded its members an invitation from Paul’s campaign for a “VIP reception” at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. There are three donor levels: $2,700 gets “attendee” status, someone wanting the “sponsor” label has to kick in $5,400, while a “host” must pony up $10,400. Any checks must be payable to “Rand Paul Victory Committee.”

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More...https://www.yahoo.com/politics/rand-paul-to-raid-pot-summit-for-campaign-cash-121872321621.html

I guess every satoshi they make use of helps in the long run for all of us in terms of the price. The more outfits that implore the blockchain to do business for them is an ultimate boon to what we're doing here especially in a time like this when we're trying to crush a bear market and move on from a historical bullet to the head/price.

I think this thing being hashed out now towards the end of this bear market is what needs to happen prior to the next onslaught of action. Since there's so many options to buy in a panic situation across the world at this point, it only makes sense to handle the block size atm so we can fly high in the near future when the time is right.