Second migrant caravan forming at Guatemala-Mexico border
Migrants disembark from a truck in which they had gotten a ride, as a thousands-strong caravan of Central American migrants slowly makes its way toward the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Tonala, Mexico.
By Natalie Musumeci
A second caravan of migrants seeking asylum in the United States is forming at the Guatemala-Mexico border.
Migrants in the town of Tecun Uman, Guatemala, said Thursday they were waiting for between 1,500 and 4,000 people to mass for another caravan like the first that came through the town and is now in Mexico about 1,000 miles from the nearest US border crossing at McAllen, Texas.
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The bridge connecting Tecun Uman to Ciudad Hidalgo in Mexico is closed – and migrants said they planned to cross the Suchiate River dividing the countries via rafts or by wading through the waist-deep water, USA Today reported.
Mexico shut that bridge under pressure from President Trump.
“We are in a horrible crisis in our country,” said Gabriela Patricia Aguilar Lainez, 37, one of those gathering in the town plaza with her 3-year-old daughter, according to USA Today. “We are in a political crisis, an economic crisis, and a crime crisis.”
According to the news outlet, there was no evidence that the new group of migrants from Honduras was funded by a particular organization.
The migrants said they simply banded together to flee violence that has torn apart their home countries and because there is strength in numbers.
“Our country is failed,” said Honduras native Kevin Escobar, 26, who had traveled six days walking and hitching rides to get to the Guatemala-Mexico border.
“I have to find a way to help my family and that means going to another country.”
UNICEF reported Friday that some of the estimated 2,300 children traveling with the first caravan are ill or suffering from dehydration.
The migrants were planning what would be their most ambitious single-day trek since they crossed into Mexico, setting their sights for Friday on reaching Arriaga, a march of about 62 miles.
Trump sent a message to the marchers in a tweet Thursday.
“To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally,” the commander-in-chief tweeted. “Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!”
Claire McCaskill runs ad saying she’s ‘not one of those crazy Democrats’
Campaign spot is airing on radio stations in rural Republican parts of the state
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. talks to supporters during a campaign stop Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, in Kansas City, Mo. McCaskill is facing challenger, Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley in the upcoming election. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) more >
In the final stretch of a tight Senate race in increasingly red Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill turned against her own party in a new campaign radio ad that declares she is “not one of those crazy Democrats.”
The unusual message has been hitting the airwaves in central Missouri for about a week, and it debuted as Republican challenger Josh Hawley’s internal campaign polls showed him taking a 7-percentage-point lead in a race that for months has been a dead heat.
The radio spot, which was first reported by CNN, features voices of two middle-aged men discussing the race. They take a few shots at Mr. Hawley for being a “man in a hurry” and spending to much time at the gym before turning their attention to the two-term incumbent.
“I don’t always agree with Claire McCaskill but she works hard, fighting against those tariffs, doing all those town halls,” the first man says. “Claire’s not afraid to stand up against her own party.”
The second man interjects: “Yep and Claire’s not one of those crazy Democrats. She works right in the middle and finds compromise.”
The McCaskill campaign refused to answer questions from The Washington Times about whom the candidate considers to be “crazy Democrats.”
Recent polls by news organizations still show the race in a virtual tie, but the national Republican Party is touting the internal polling.
Mr. Hawley, the state attorney general, has hammered the incumbent senator for being beholden the Democratic Party and doing the bidding of Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi in the House and Charles E. Schumer in the Senate, while ignoring the will of Missourians.
He highlights her opposition to President Trump’s Supreme Court picks and her support of gun control and sanctuary cities.
Ms. McCaskill has cast herself as an “independent voice” and a “bipartisan dealmaker” throughout the campaign in a state Mr. Trump won by nearly 19 points in 2016, rendering her one of the most vulnerable Democrats this cycle and putting Missouri on the front line in the battle for control of the Senate.
Now she has amped up that message for the closing days of the campaign.
Democrat strategist Brad Bannon said Ms. McCaskill played it smart by targeting the radio at Republicans and independents in deep-red rural Missouri.
“You can target a message with radio. Running this ad in the St. Louis market with a concentration of Democrats would be a mistake,” he said. “It’s time to galvanize the base. Running the ad in rural areas would be a good way to rally independent voters.”
In the final debate of the race Thursday, Ms. McCaskill insisted she was a moderate who could find common ground with Mr. Trump.
“Clearly we can work together on some things,” she said at the debate hosted by KMBC-TV in Kansas City.
She also blamed both parties for the extreme political division in the country. “We’ve got to turn down the temperature,” Mrs. McCaskill said, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Earlier in the debate, however, she echoed a common Democrat attack on the president, saying “I don’t like it that he lies all the time. I don’t get why he feels the need to do that.”
Mr. Hawley said there should be no confusion about his opponent’s partisan allegiance.
“She’s a liberal Democrat,” he said. “It’s a record that doesn’t work for Missouri.”
ALLEGED ‘MAGA BOMBER’ CESAR SAYOC ONLY FOLLOWS LEFT-WING PEOPLE ON TWITTER
But he was seen at numerous Trump rallies
OCTOBER 26, 2018
Despite his vehicle being festooned with pro-Trump stickers and him attending Trump rallies, so-called ‘MAGA bomber’ Cesar Sayoc doesn’t follow any Republicans or conservatives on Twitter, choosing instead to follow left-wing personalities like Lena Dunham, Jimmy Kimmel and Barack Obama.
Following his capture in Plantation, Florida, leftists gushed with excitement at seeing images of Sayoc’s van covered with pro-Trump stickers alongside some of the targets of his dud mail bombs, including HiIlary Clinton, in crosshairs.
However, the alleged bomber’s Twitter follower activity seems a little at odds with the image of him being a Trump voter.
Out of the 32 people Sayoc follows on Twitter, none of them are Republicans or conservatives. He doesn’t even follow Trump himself.
Instead, Sayoc follows outspoken Democrats like Lena Dunham, Jimmy Kimmel, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, John Oliver, Ellen DeGeneres and Seth Myers.
Some of the people who follow Sayoc are also Democrats with ‘blue wave’ emojis in their profiles.
However, all of Sayoc’s tweets are pro-Trump and anti-Democrat. He also attended numerous Trump rallies.
The bottom line is this; Just like James T. Hodgkinson, the anti-Trump Bernie fan who tried to massacre Republican Congressmen, apparent Trump fan Cesar Sayoc is clearly mentally ill.
Bernie wasn’t to blame for Hodgkinson’s actions, and Trump isn’t to blame for Sayoc’s actions.
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Illegal migrants in Europe ‘need to go home’ – Czech PM
File Photo: Czechs march during an anti-immigration rally, 2015 © Reuters / David W Cerny
The Czech prime minister has called for the return to their home countries of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants currently in Europe, suggesting funds could be spent on a Marshall Plan to help improve African economies.
“There are 700,000 illegal migrants,” Andrej Babis said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper. “They need to go home.”
Babis has long railed against the implementation of EU-imposed migrant quotas, along with the leaders of neighboring Slovakia, Hungary and Poland – collectively known as the Visegrad Group. He has previously labeled the quotas “absurd” and “not effective.”
At the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, approximately two million non-EU citizens were believed to be present in member states. While many of these were refugees fleeing Syria’s devastating civil war, thousands also made the journey as economic migrants from Africa.
While the number of these illegals has now fallen to 618,780, according to 2017 statistics from Eurostat, Babis believes both economic migrants and refugees should return home.
These people should stay home and we should help them in Africa. The people around Syria… they would like to return home.
Rather than an expanded budget for the EU’s border agency Frontex, Babis thinks national governments should instead protect their own borders and coastlines.
“Smugglers made €5.7 billion in 2016 and we have to stop it,” he said.
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Babis, along with Hungary’s Victor Orban, has been skeptical of an expanded Frontex, believing it to be a power grab by Brussels to take border control away from states on the bloc’s frontier.
Instead, Babis suggests that the EU should make funds available to help develop African countries like the Marshall Plan, the US aid initiative that helped rebuild Western Europe after World War Two.
This, Babis believes, would help convince potential migrants to stay in their own countries.
“They have their culture, we have our culture,” he said. “They have their values, but we want to keep [our] values.”
Blackface only for liberals? NBC cancels Megyn Kelly’s show amid uproar about double standards
NBC’s ‘Today’ show with Megyn Kelly is on the way out, making her departure from the network official. But the reason for her exit – comments she made about ‘blackface’ costumes – has come under scrutiny.
NBC has said it is canceling ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ and will replace her show with ‘Today’ anchors.
The ‘Today’ show – which Kelly co-hosts – disclosed on Friday that their soon-to-be ex-colleague “is in talks with the network about her imminent departure.”
Today show correspondent Morgan Radford stressed that the “exact details” of the negotiations remain unclear. Kelly was more than a year into a three-year, $69 million contract with NBC.
Her departure comes just days after the host made what many described as insensitive and racist comments about ‘blackface’.
“You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween,” she said during her show on Tuesday. She added that when she was growing up, wearing blackface was acceptable “as long as you were dressing like a character.”
Kelly apologized for the comment in a letter to NBC staff, and made an on-air apology on Wednesday at the start of her program. She did not appear on air on Thursday – sparking reports that she was already on her way out at the network. Kelly has apparently also fired her talent agency, ACA, and hired a powerful Hollywood litigator to help her with negotiating her exit.
But some have pointed out that other well-known television personalities have done far worse than Kelly – and have seen their careers blossom, as opposed to getting the boot. A friendly reminder from the Daily Caller reveals that Kelly’s alleged misdeed is small potatoes compared to the antics of other celebrities – who have actually donned blackface.
Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts a popular late-night talk show broadcast on ABC, once did a skit on his now-defunct comedy program, “The Man Show,” in which he portrayed former Utah Jazz basketball star Karl Malone. Kimmel wasn’t just in blackface – his entire body had been painted black.
Comedian Sarah Silverman donned blackface in a comedy sketch from 2007, and television host Jimmy Fallon once portrayed Chris Rock in a Saturday Night Live skit from 2000 – wearing blackface, of course.
While these stunts received their fair share of criticism, all three of the liberal-minded celebrities have become common fixtures on American television. Kelly – despised by American liberals as a Fox News turncoat – was apparently not afforded the same wide berth.
Kelly’s imminent exit also coincides with a bizarre segment on Dr. Phil – which was apparently allowed to air because it has ‘entertainment value.’
Kelly herself reportedly believes that her coverage of #MeToo controversies, including those involving NBC stars like Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw, may be the real reason that she is being forced out of the network. Her lawyer has reportedly asked that Ronan Farrow, who left NBC News last year after the network refused to run his story on Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, to attend Kelly’s exit negotiations.
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Live Updates: FBI Arrests Man in Connection to Mail Bomb Campaign
By Joshua Caplan
Federal authorities on Friday arrested a man in Plantation, Florida in connection to a series of apparent mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats and progressive activists, according to reports.
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12:12 PM — Officials say DNA evidence played a key role in Sayoc’s arrest.
11:57 AM — Close up photos of the suspect Cesar Altieri Sayoc’s van taken in April.
11:51 AM — The suspect has been identified as 56-year-old Cesar Altieri Sayoc of Florida.
11:41 AM — President Donald Trump says he will address the mail bomb campaign investigation shortly.
11:33 AM — FBI agents have taken possession of a white van believed to belong to the suspect.
11:15 AM — Fox News’ Rick Leventhal reports the suspect is a 56-year-old white male and has prior arrests for terroristic threats. Further, reports say the man has ties to New York City.
11:09 AM — NBC reports the suspect will face charges in connection to the attempted attacks.
10:58 AM — DOJ spokeswoman confirms initial reports but will not clarify whether there was an arrest.
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ITALY IN SHOCK: THIRD AFRICAN MIGRANT ARRESTED IN GANG RAPE AND HOMICIDE CASE OF TEEN GIRL
The Italian police have arrested a third suspect in a case that shocked the country.
OCTOBER 26, 2018
The Italian police have arrested a third suspect in a case that shocked the country. As we reported earlier, the body of the 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini was found in an abandoned building in Rome on Saturday.
Two Senegalese nationals were already arrested last night: Mamadou Gara, 26, and Brian Minteh, 43. Today a third suspect was arrested as well. The 40-year-old man comes from Nigeria, details on his name were not given.
The men face charges of sexual group violence, selling drugs and voluntary manslaughter. Police try to track down at least one other suspect who likely was present during the gang rape of the girl, as well.
“Now I want justice for Desiree. I don’t want this tragedy to happen to other girls,” the victim’s mother, Barbara Mariottini said.
The Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, has announced a day of mourning for the city to coincide with Mariottini’s funeral.
Two Italian Ministers said today that the powers of the mayor should be increased as result of the case. “It’s time to give more powers to the mayor of Rome,” Deputy Prime Minister and Labour and Industry Minister Di Maio said.
Interior Minister Salvini, who agrees with his counterpart said earlier that he would return with a bulldozer to the area:
“I’ll come back to meet residents. As minister, I commit to cleaning up and come back with a bulldozer. There are buildings in Rome in this state with criminals who defend illegal occupations and drug dealing”.
“I have asked the State prosecutor to use a fist of iron…”I hope these beasts are soon caught,” he added.
This isn’t the first migrant murder in Italy. At the start of the year, the 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro was murdered in Macerata.
Her body was found severely mutilated, hidden in two suitcases. Young Nigerian immigrant Innocent Oseghale was jailed for her murder.
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