Bahena-Rivera’s attorney is now seeking a gag order to prevent the government from referring to the accused killer as an “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant,” claiming he has legal status to be in the U.S.
In a statement to Breitbart News, though, officials with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency said a search of federal records reveals that Bahena-Rivera does not have a lawful immigration status in the country, indicating that he is, in fact, an illegal alien.
“A search of records by USCIS revealed Rivera did not make any DACA requests nor were any grants given,” USCIS spokesman Michael Bars said in a statement. “We have found no record in our systems indicating he has any lawful immigration status.”
Bahena-Rivera worked at Yarrabee Farms, a dairy farm in Iowa, after he used a stolen or fake ID and fraudulent Social Security card to land a job. The farm owners originally claimed they used E-Verify to check the legality of Bahena-Rivera’s immigration status, but later admitted that they did not use the system.
Here we go again. Another faux outrage ambush setup designed to bully people into submission.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is going after Christian baker Jack Phillips again, this time because he refused to bake a cake celebrating transgenderism.
The CCRC’s decision to go after Phillips a second time came just months after the Supreme Court ruled the commission violated its First Amendment “obligation of religious neutrality” under the free exercise clause when it punished Phillips for not baking a cake for a same-sex wedding.
On June 26, 2017 — the exact same day the Supreme Court agreed to hear Phillips’ case — a lawyer called Masterpiece Cakeshop asking for a birthday cake. The lawyer requested the cake be pink on the inside and blue on the outside, explaining it would be used to celebrate the seventh anniversary of her gender transition.
Masterpiece declined to make the cake and explained it could not, in good conscience, bake a cake celebrating a transgender message. The shop offered to bake other cakes or sell the lawyer a pre-designed cake. The lawyer declined.
We’ve been through this all when Cody first fired the Liberator several years ago. The courts have ruled for decades that you can’t censor information of this kind from the public. The ruling that took these files down misapplied an international agreement to violate the First Amendment and American’s civil rights. That abomination of a ruling has been overturned. Now, others are trying to violate American’s First Amendment rights. This includes President Trump.
Not only have the courts ruled that Americans have a right to publish and consume this information, but it’s also completely legal to manufacture a gun at home for personal use. This includes 3D printing one.
You’ve always been able to make one at home with basic shop tools. Blueprints and how-to books have been around for several decades teaching people how to do this.
Society is changing. Open source has developed thousands of talented designers and home manufacturers that no longer keep industry secrets closely held. People are interested in helping others learn and develop their skills now. The maker community has lead the way with this new way of thinking, and society has immeasurably benefited from this new open philosophy.
3D printers of all types, home CNC machines, laser cutters, injection molding, etc. are all things that are now freely available to the public at an affordable price. That was never the case before. As a result, people are developing their skills to manufacture, and are leading the way in the technological development of these technologies.
The genie is out of the bottle, and political class doesn’t like that they can’t control the population anymore.
So when the files have all gone public (assuming they haven’t already), Pennsylvania residents won’t be able to download them… at least in theory. But the Keystone State wasn’t the only place this was happening. Out in Seattle, seven other states in addition to Pennsylvania opened a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the decision. Those states were Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Oregon, Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia. They’re asking the courts to overturn the Justice Department decision to settle with Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, allowing him to move forward with the release. (Associated Press)
An American Civil Liberties Union experiment with Amazon’s facial recognition software showed the technology confused 28 lawmakers with the mugshots of criminals.
Since this is Congress we’re talking about, we should be clear: The lawmakers aren’t criminals. The pictures that Amazon’s “Rekognition” software matched to them were of different people.
This stunt is intended to serve as a wake-up call for lawmakers and law enforcement leaders about the potential problems of using facial recognition software to identify suspects. Privacy and technology experts and activists have been warning for years that the technology remains far too flawed to be used to identify criminal subjects, and the tech struggles particularly with differentiating between the faces of minorities.
Former FBI Director James Comey “deviated” from FBI and Justice Department procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the law enforcement agencies’ image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by political bias, the department’s watchdog found in a highly anticipated report.
“While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report’s conclusions, which were obtained Thursday by Bloomberg News.
Horowitz’s report examined actions taken by top officials before the 2016 election, including the handling of the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. The investigation expanded to touch on an array of politically sensitive decisions by officials including Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
In a sad, sad day for journalism in Michiana, WNDU took down a story about South Bend, IN making the 50 worst cities to live in list … again. They did so after the Mayor publicly attacked them for publishing it.
