Nothing like the truth to define what a bad deal really is.

France, China, UK, Pakistan, India and Israel have a total of 1105 deployed nukes. The USA has 1740 deployed nukes, so that leave 635 deployed nukes for hitting Russia under Trump's "new enemy identification system."

Then North Korea has a maximum of 20 nukes. So that brings the deployed US nukes to 615 for Russia. I can see where Trump is coming from, especially when the USA is teetering on isolationism without alliances. He could have a point.

So, considering the US is gathering more enemies than allies, since 2003 and the invasion into Iraq, we might need to add 1335 deployed nukes to match Russia's capacity. Makes sense to me. I mean why take a chance France joins Russia. That's a fools game.

February 23, 2017
By Phillip Bump

...At the end of last year, (click here) after he won the election but before he was inaugurated, President-elect Donald Trump decided to proactively set U.S. nuclear policy via Twitter.

“The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” he tweeted Dec. 22. It was an out-of-the-blue declaration that made sense only as a response to a comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made earlier in the day, in which Putin suggested that his country planned to strengthen its own strategic nuclear arsenal.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Trump revisited the issue, declaring that the United States has “fallen behind on nuclear weapon capacity.” He placed some of the blame for this on the 2010 New START agreement, a successor to the 1991 START agreement that was signed by President Barack Obama and aimed at further reducing the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States. New START, Trump said, was “another bad deal that the country made.”

“I am the first one that would like to see nobody have nukes,” he said, “but we’re never going to fall behind any country even if it’s a friendly country. We’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power.”

“If countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack,” he added....

The DNC should be conducting polls to find the place where the ACA is bringing about improved quality of life.

February 24, 2017

By David Wright and Tami Luhby

...The boost comes largely from independents, (click here) half of whom view Obamacare favorably compared to 39% who don't. Nearly three-quarters of Democrats continue to view it favorably, while about the same share of Republicans have an unfavorable view.

Also, a survey from the Pew Research Center found 54% of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act -- the highest level ever recorded by Pew -- while 43% disapprove. That's up from an even split (48%-47%) in a Pew survey from December, suggesting support for the law may be galvanized by the ongoing public fight over its future.

Still, opinions on Obamacare remain divided. Predictably, Republicans are most likely to say they disapprove (89%) while Democrats are most likely to express approval (85%). But slightly more independents say they approve (53%) than disapprove (45%) -- up about 10 points from December....

Flip a district.

VX? Possible, but, I would not expect the women to live.

VX liquid has been proven to be very unstable. It will dissipate into inert elements within 12 hours of exposure to any carbon surface, including concrete. I am surprised it lasted on his face long enough to be detected. What about the emergency workers that attended to him and the train personnel?

February 23, 2017
By Thomas Maresca

Singapore —  VX nerve agent, (click here) a highly toxic chemical, was used to kill Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Malaysian police said Friday.

Police Inspector-General Khalid Abu Bakar said the substance was identified in a preliminary report by the department’s Center for Chemical Weapons Analysis.

Kim Jong Nam died Feb. 13 shortly after two women put the substance on his face while he was checking in for a flight at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia's capital.

The report identified the substance as ethyl N-2-Diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphosphonothiolate, or VX nerve agent. It is a chemical agent classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

Traces of the nerve agent were found from swabs of the face and eyes, the release said....

Another four year term is not assured to Trump.

December 12, 2016

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

One in four non-elderly adults (click here) has a medical condition, ranging from diabetes to pregnancy to severe obesity to arthritis, that would make them uninsurable under the health coverage rules that prevailed before the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study.

Before President Obama's signature health-care law took effect, insurers could deny coverage to people buying individual health plans or charge them higher rates based on their health history, occupation or the medications they took. Through one of the law's most popular provisions, insurers can't deny people coverage - and the factors they use to determine people's premiums are extremely limited....

...The new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows just how important that provision is to many Americans. The study examined 2015 data to see how prevalent preexisting conditions are and found that 52 million non-elderly Americans could be ineligible for insurance under the old rules....

Let's see. 52 million Americans with losses of 40,000 per year would take at least a millennium too kill off all those takers.

OVEREXTENDED!

All that free flowing cash in the financial markets gave permission for delusional ideology.

February 24, 2017

By AP

J. C. Penney said Friday (click here) it will be closing 130 to 140 stores as well as two distribution centers over the next several months as it aims to improve profitability in the era of online shopping.

The closures represent 13% to 14% of the department store operator's current store count, and less than 5% of total annual sales. The company said it also would initiate a voluntary early retirement program for about 6,000 eligible employees.

The company plans to release a full list of stores slated for closure in mid-March after notifying affected employees. Most locations will close in May. It also plans to sell its supply chain facility in Buena Park "in an effort to monetize a lucrative real estate asset."

The news came as the Plano, Texas-based chain posted a profit in the fourth-quarter compared with a loss a year ago. But total sales were down slightly, and a key revenue metric declined slightly as well....

Maybe JC Penny will be Trump's first bailout to his new economy.

The problem in Chicago is an economic vacuum in "Back of the Yard" and "Brighton Park." Mexican drug cartels have set up shop.

The Map to left (click here)

February 10, 2017
By Christopher Woody

The brewing conflict (click here) between aspirants to the Sinaloa cartel throne apparently reached a new stage earlier this month when gunmen aligned with one cartel leader attacked the sons and a longtime associate of the jailed kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

According to a letter purportedly handwritten by Jesús Alfredo and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, the attack occurred when they arrived with Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada at a meeting on February 4 called by longtime cartel member Dámaso López "on the issue of having evidence that Dámaso López ordered the kidnapping of the sons of 'El Chapo'" in August....

Sinaloa is "El Chapo." The FBI is not paying attention to growing power in the economic vacuums there. The other drug cartel in those areas of Chicago is the Beltran Leyva.

The Beltran Leyva Organization (click here) was founded by four brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, and Héctor. The brothers got their start as poppy farmers in the state of Sinaloa. Along the way they also became the security force and enforcers for the Sinaloa OCG and Juaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. In order to counter the power of their rivals in the Gulf Cartel, which had created an armed wing (Los Zetas) made up of former Mexican special forces officers, the BLO recruited U.S. born Edgar Valdez Villarreal AKA “La Barbie” as a lieutenant in its armed wing that served as the Sinaloa organization’s enforcers....

Bryant Park (click here)

That doesn't do it for you, Comey? No? Than try this:

2000	44,912		46.3%	—	106
	22,861	White alone (50.9%)
	330	Black or African American alone (0.7%)
	415	American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.9%)
	1,326	Asian alone (3.0%)
	29	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone (0.1%)
	18,054	Some other race alone (40.2%)
	1,897	Two or more races (4.2%)
	34,409	Hispanic or Latino* (76.6%)

The above graph comes from a historic article (click here). This is the demographics of Brighton Park. A perfect mixture of ethnic difference to create gangs for El Chappo.

46.3 percent of the populous of Brighton Park are foreign born. For every 100 female there are 106 male. The neighborhood has a lot of angry young men that can't earn a living either because they have hideous background checks regardless of serving their time and/or immigrants, legal or otherwise.

Why is the FBI harassing Bill DeBlassio? Because Trump likes the violence in Chicago and wants to defeat Democrats with it. Comey is not doing his job, except, his job description may have changed.

By James R. Barrett

...With the end of Chicago's meatpacking industry (click here) by the 1960s, Back of the Yards once again faced serious problems of economic decline and physical deterioration. At the end of the twentieth century, as the city worked to develop a new manufacturing district on the site of the old Union Stock Yard, the newer residents resumed the old struggle to maintain a strong community.

I write this because there are FACTS to back me up. The FBI needs to end the rule of El Chappo in the USA and it's corruption of minority youth in Chicago. The entire city of Chicago is at risk for gang warfare and it will start looking like the cities across the Mexican border. 

Additionally, there needs to be serious legislation that BEGINS with a federal law that "Bands the Box." That would be a good start. There is absolutely no incentive for men having served their time in jail or prison to expect a future other than crime. The entire reporting of criminal records for men and women that have served their time should only be available to law enforcement. Banning the box is a start, but, far more needs to be done.

February 24, 2017
By Peter Nickeas, Jeremy Gorner and Nereida Moreno

Gangs in two neighborhoods on the South and Southwest sides (click here) are firing more lethal weapons — semiautomatic rifles whose bullets can rip through even bulletproof vests. Dozens of rifle shootings in the last nine months have left 13 people dead....

Who is selling them the guns? Not Chicago. The guns are coming from out of state, certainly outside the city and possibly from drug cartels through waterways.

Every major city or otherwise should form a unit to track the activities of drug and gun movements. It has to be ended early, otherwise, it will become overwhelming and intractable.

So, De Blasio is harassed by the FBI and Priebus is given a pass.

Febraury 24, 2017

By Julie Pace

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus (click here) asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, according to three White House officials. Democrats accused Priebus of interfering in a pending investigation.

The officials said that Priebus' Feb. 15 request to FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about contacts between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.

Comey did not come out of the woodwork to comment publicly. Go figure.

As of Friday, the FBI had not commented publicly on the veracity of the report and there was no indication it planned to, despite the White House's request.

White House officials said it was the FBI that first raised concerns about the reporting, but told Priebus the bureau could not weigh in publicly on the matter. The officials said McCabe and Comey instead gave Priebus the go-ahead to discredit the story publicly, something the FBI had not confirmed as of Friday morning....

The reality coverage is to love. Moment by moment will De Blasio run? Reality news media like this treats it like someone is responsible for murder. Amazing. 


February 24, 2017
By Kevin Fasick

Mayor Bill de Blasio (click here) arrived Friday morning at his lawyer’s Midtown office to be grilled by prosecutors over his campaign fundraising.

De Blasio left Gracie Mansion at 8 a.m. and arrived more than an hour later, around 9:10 a.m., at lawyer Barry H. Berke’s office on Sixth Avenue for the long-anticipated sit-down with US Attorney Preet Bharara.

Hizzoner was driven in a black SUV, which swiftly pulled into a garage on West 46th Street.

The feds have been probing the mayor over whether he and his advisers exchanged favors to donors for contributions to his 2013 campaign and his now-shuttered nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York....

I want the name and contact information of the liberal activist.

The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!

...After years to prepare, Mr. Ryan finally unveiled what was supposedly the outline of a health care plan. It was basically a sick joke: flat tax credits, unrelated to income, that could be applied to the purchase of insurance....

Flat tax credits are an oxymoron, in more ways than one.

$5,638.75 is the amount of federal income tax paid by someone earning $50,000
per year. Even when Trump eliminates all federal taxes for those earning $50,000 or less 
per year it will not pay for health insurance.

The Public Option which was to be included in the ACA was a striped down version
of any commercial policy. It had all the same preventive measures and would pick
up costs should there be a medical problem, but, it was not commercial insurance
at all. It was a method to find disease among Americans and end it.

The Republican health care cooperatives have failed. The health care savings
account is ridiculous. People are suppose to set aside monies they will need for 
the year in an account that is tax free, but, if serious disease is found and needs
extensive medical intervention, where does the money come from?

Former Secretary John Kerry wanted to establish catastrophic health care plans.
That means one would have to figure in the cost of the catastrophic health care
plan into their health care savings account. 

Catastrophic health plans (click here) cover the same minimum health benefits as other health plans under the Affordable Care Act, including preventive services, emergency services, prescription drugs, and more. The difference with a catastrophic plan is that you must pay for all health-care costs until you meet a high annual deductible. Only after your out-of-pocket spending reaches the deductible does your plan begins to pay for most covered health-care services.

The deductible doesn't apply to all benefits. Catastrophic health plans cover the following benefits, even if you haven't met your yearly deductible yet:

• Three primary care visits every year
• Free preventive services required under the Affordable Care Act, including certain screenings and immunizations.

You'll pay the full cost for all other health-care services until you meet your yearly deductible. Other cost-sharing expenses, such as copayments and coinsurance, are usually higher with this type of plan. However, monthly premiums tend to be lower compared with major medical plans.

Catastrophic health coverage is different from accident, critical illness, or short-term plans; these types of coverage tend to protect the policyholder in specific, limited situations. For example, critical illness plans insure the policyholder against specific health illnesses. Short-term plans provide limited, temporary coverage when an individual isn't eligible to enroll in a major medical health plan or is waiting for coverage to start. For example, you might enroll in a short-term plan to fill a coverage gap before you're eligible for Medicare....

By invoking health care savings accounts and catastrophic health care plans there are still huge blocks of health care that make up the hospital budget not covered.

If there is regression into lack of coverage, there will be all those idiot health care plans that existed before. It supplies a card to carry so the emergency room won't turn a subscriber away, but, once inside the ER there is virtually nothing covered and we are back to bankruptcy and the destruction of the American Dream.

The Affordable Care Act eliminated the bankruptcies and put Americans on a track to success and building wealth. All those pitfalls leading to bankruptcy and home ownership were to be eliminated. The Affordable Care Act was much bigger than simply health care coverage. The law was to insure a reliable outcome to one's health through preventive care and the security of a home for the family. 

Do I have to go there? Home ownership is the primary avenue for people to secure wealth in the USA. Why wealth? Because it solves a lot of problems. It solves the problems of food stamps, Medicaid and vacant neighborhoods. It protects culture and brings the country out of the dangers of collapsing economies. 

Local economies and health care for all is the answer to economic stability. While other countries 'get wise' to Wall Street's greed, the USA can have sustainable economies, cultures, education for the future of their children and an optimistic consumer base.

Yes, the ACA can achieve all that, but, not if hideous Republican political speak continues to put jerks in the White House who have a Ultra White agenda. Putting the American people back in peril with their health achieves the Ultra White's long term "peaceful ethnic cleansing." Come on, get over this mess!

September 17, 2009
By David Cecere

Nearly 45,000 annual deaths (click here) are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.

The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993....

This is really good news for China and the USA. And it is still good news for the UK.

This is the way trade relations is suppose to work. Welcome to the Chinese Middle Class.

The UK has nothing to worry about because they are not displaced from tourism to the USA, it means there will be Chinese tourists at the destination, too. 

Basically, the more the merrier.

February 23, 2017
By Katie Johnson

A record number of Chinese tourists visited Boston last year, (click here) dethroning the United Kingdom as the top source of overseas tourists. And next month, local tourism officials are leading their first sales mission to China to attract even more.

The number of Chinese visitors to the area has more than doubled over the past four years, to an estimated 230,000 last year, according to the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The visitors bureau is aiming to again more than double the number of Chinese visitors to the city to half a million by 2021.

This is the Chinese the people of the USA wanted to bring about in opening trade relations with President Richard Nixon. This is the USA that is proud of it's ability to instill an understanding of quality of life and how everyone on Earth is welcome to practice it.

Economies topple when they are contracted into the foreign impoverished worker and the American consumer. Citizen to citizen there should be an understanding healthy economies with quality of life, including health care, should exist for all. No more of the wacko Wall Street paradigm. It is over!

There is every reason to continue with all venues of treatment and cure.

February 23, 2017
By Natalie Akoorie

New evidence on how Parkinson's disease spreads (click here) offers renewed hope for a cure, according to researchers.

In a paper, published today in Scientific Reports - Nature, the study revealed that pathological proteins (known as Lewy bodies) in Parkinson's disease could be spread from cell to cell.

The discovery, made by researchers at the University of Auckland, is the first strong evidence on how Parkinson's develops and will help advance treatment of the disease.

Associate Professor Maurice Curtis, who leads research on Parkinson's disease at the University's Centre for Brain Research, said the new evidence is the first proof, using donated human brains, of the mechanism controlling the spread.

Curtis said it was previously known that the troublesome Lewy bodies accumulated in susceptible cells, but it was not known that the protein could spread from cell to cell, in the same way a straw connects two cups....

Obeso, Jose A., (click here) 

Maria C Rodriguez-Oroz, 

Christopher G Goetz, 

Concepcion Marin,

Jeffrey H Kordower,

Manuel Rodriguez,

Etienne C Hirsch,

Matthew Farrer, 

Anthony H V Schapira

& Glenda Halliday. "Missing Pieces in Parkinson's Disease Puzzle," 

Nature Medicine, 23 May 2010; 

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653–661

 

(2010

 

23 May 2010.

...What can we learn from gene therapy? Currently, there are four clinical trials testing different gene therapy approaches against Parkinson's disease. One finding common to all of these studies is that no serious adverse events have yet been reported for any of the procedures....

Everything old is new again.

Mikhail Lermontov (click here)

February 23, 2017

The giant November 2016 earthquake (click here) has snapped the top decks from a sunken Soviet cruise liner in the Marlborough Sounds.

The magnitude-7.8 tremor of November 14 last year pummelled the upper east coast of the South Island, cutting off the tourist mecca of Kaikoura, and causing its seabed to rise up to 2m.

It's also had an incredible impact on the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov cruise liner which sank in Port Gore, at the northern end of the Marlborough Sounds, on February 16, 1986.

Go Dive Marlborough owner Brent McFadden, who has dived the world-renowned wreck thousands of times, noticed its damage just two days after the quake.

He found the top three decks of the 155m, 20,000-tonne Mikhail Lermontov had been jolted off in the force of the shaking and water force....

 

It is religious bigotry. There is no doubt about it. Caught 'ya.

The entire presidency of "W" was based out of the support of the Religious Right. Unfortunately, the Religious Right tends to be the voting base in Texas. The more reasonable persons are found, in no surprise, the larger cities of the states.

All the radical ideas found in the Trump administration are also seen in "W"s, but, with different measure of extremism. Trump found his place among the Tea Party that rejected the establishment Republicans.

The changes in education (click here), immigration, acceptance of sexual identity differences, housing (click here) and environmental law (click here) is all based in religious bigotry.


The introduction of computer based learning in impoverished populations of the USA is to force more and more children out of public education. Additionally, we already know voucher programs are primarily to "advance God's kingdom." (click here) That is engineered and institutionalized religious bigotry. How many churches don't mind the federal money but reject federal agendas because of it's religious standing?

Immigration is obvious. (click here)

Rejecting the transgender identity of children is based in hate and religious bigotry. When children are rejected at any level of society, what does that mean for the rest of us?

The cut back in housing incentives directly targets the lower incomes in the country and what demographic is that? (click here) Fifty-eight percent of low income Americans (200% of poverty level) are minorities. 

Environmental law also seeking to turn the corner on "Environmental Justice." (click here) One guess to the demographics of these folks. The best example of religious bigotry (DO NOT ACCEPT SCIENTIFIC FACT) is the outcome of the people of Flint, Michigan to Snyder's Emergency Manager Law. The Michigan law was changed to include more than supporting educational infrastructure, it took over the entire elected infrastructure and caused profound damage to that city's infrastructure leading to deaths and brain damage; that is known.

All these changes in our government that protected citizens from greed have been removed, to put in place exploitative measures. The only defense the CITIZENS have are the states and local authorities that have been established over the past two decades. There was definitive measures made once "W" was elected, too.

The "W" administration and Trump administration is based on what ever can be exploited and gotten away with is fair game. Ha, ha, ha, I am rich, white and know it with God's permission.

February 22, 2017

By Jeremy W. Peters, Jo Becher and Julie Hirschfield Davis

Washington — President Trump (click here) on Wednesday rescinded protections for transgender students that had allowed them to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity, overruling his own education secretary and placing his administration firmly in the middle of the culture wars that many Republicans have tried to leave behind.

In a joint letter, the top civil rights officials from the Justice Department and the Education Department rejected the Obama administration’s position that nondiscrimination laws require schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.

That directive, they said, was improperly and arbitrarily devised, “without due regard for the primary role of the states and local school districts in establishing educational policy.”

The question of how to address the “bathroom debate,” as it has become known, opened a rift inside the Trump administration, pitting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos against Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Sessions, who had been expected to move quickly to roll back the civil rights expansions put in place under his Democratic predecessors, wanted to act decisively because of two pending court cases that could have upheld the protections and pushed the government into further litigation....

Radioactive meat and suspicions of birth defects.

February 23, 2017

Wild boar (click here) is a popular local delicacy in the Czech Republic but fans of the meat have an unusual problem on their hands this winter - the boars are radioactive.

The boars became contaminated by one of their most popular food sources - false truffles.

A cold and snowy winter is forcing them to feed on false truffles, an underground mushroom common in the Sumava mountain region between the Czech Republic, Austria, and Germany - where wild boars roam free.

The mushrooms can absorb high levels of the radioactive isotope Caesium 137. And three decades ago the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl released a fair amount of Caesium 137 that eventually drifted down on the Sumava mountains.

Now the boars are eating the mushrooms, and ingesting the Caesium 137 along with them....

Boars aren't the only problem left over from Chernobyl.

April 20, 2016
By Courtney Verrill

...A 2010 study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (click here) found a correlation between the presence of hazardous levels of strontium-90 — a radioactive element produced by nuclear fission — and dramatically high rates of certain congenital birth defects. 

Belarus, whose border with Ukraine is just four miles from the Chernobyl power plant, absorbed an estimated 70% of the nuclear fallout. 

A study by UNICEF suggested that more than 20% of adolescent children in Belarus suffer from disabilities caused by birth defects. 

Getty photographer Sean Gallup recently visited care centers for children with disabilities in Belarus. Below, see Gallup's images of the children living in these facilities....

The USA actually calls itself an ally?

Trump knows absolutely nothing about Europe's immigrants. Germany has reassessed the immigration issue and is carrying out some deportations. But, immigration in Europe is different from that of the USA and Trump needs to be an ally, not an instigator.

I swear he is the Ultra White attempting to unseat governments.

February 21, 2017
By Max Bearak

Just two days after President Trump (click here) provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of the country's capital, Stockholm.

The neighborhood, Rinkeby, was the scene of riots in 2010 and 2013, too.
And in most ways, what happened Monday night was reminiscent of those earlier bouts of anger. Swedish police apparently made an arrest on drug charges at about 8 p.m. near the Rinkeby station. For reasons not yet disclosed by the police, word of the arrest prompted youths to gather.

Over four hours, the crowd burned about half a dozen cars, vandalized several shopfronts and threw rocks at police. Police spokesman Lars Bystrom confirmed to Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper that an officer fired shots at a rioter but missed. A photographer for the newspaper was attacked and beaten by more than a dozen men and his camera was stolen....

Additional to racial discrimination that victimizes people there is the language barrier.

Unless there are local studies of the incarcerated population and demographics including language competency, it is difficult from a national level to account for everyone.

What I think we are entering into is an "Anne Frank" syndrome in the USA. When people can only act covertly in their lives all kinds of economies break out that result in adverse circumstances for them and the USA in general.

When the undocumented can no longer work openly, the underground becomes a real answer. That should be avoided, but, it looks as though anything goes now.

January 27, 2017

By Julia Dahl

The Department of Homeland Security (click here) did not provide answers to Crimesider’s questions regarding how the federal government would go about collecting this data from the nation’s more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies, but the order nonetheless begs the question, how big a problem is crime committed by immigrants?

Florida State University Professor of Criminology Daniel Mears says that “good data” focused on immigrant criminality - specifically undocumented immigrant criminality - is scarce. Determining definitively whether someone who has been arrested is in the country legally can take significant effort, and the result might not be noted in all law enforcement records. In addition, researchers often have to rely on arrest and conviction numbers, which may be misleading because they can reflect law enforcement priorities more than criminal behavior. A jurisdiction might see a spike one year, for example, if a police chief or prosecutor decides to prioritize enforcement against immigrants.

Despite this, Mears and others who study this subject seem to agree that most research indicates immigrants actually commit crime at lower rates than native-born citizens.

According to analysis of the 2010 census and the American Communities Survey done by the non-profit  American Immigration Council, immigrants to the United States are significantly less likely than native-born citizens to be incarcerated. The authors found that 1.6 percent of immigrant males age 18-39 are incarcerated, compared to 3.3 percent of the native-born.... 

Were these women trafficked?

It just seems as though they took orders too easily.

February 22, 2017

By Matthew Tostevin

The Vietnamese woman (click here) suspected of helping to kill the North Korean leader's half-brother was a keen singer whose Facebook pages featured pouting portraits and pictures of parties.

Four days before Kim Jong Nam was killed at a Malaysian airport, she appears to have posted a picture of herself wearing a shirt emblazoned with the acronym "LOL", similar to the one on the fleeing suspect caught on CCTV cameras.

Doan Thi Huong worked at an entertainment outlet, according to Malaysian police, who have arrested her over the murder of Kim Jong Nam.

On a rice farm in northern Vietnam, the family whose daughter's details match those from Malaysian police said it rarely knew where she was since she left home a decade ago aged 18....

I know age 18 is a reasonable age to leave home, but, never to be heard from again? That is suspicious to me.