Nearly All Unaccompanied Minors Stay in the US: Of the 127,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America who have arrived at the border in the last two-and-a-half years, only 4,680, or a little over 3%, have been returned to their countries, Sen. Jeff Sessions said on Tuesday. Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner reports that Sessions, during a Senate Judiciary Hearing, stated that he finds it hard to believe that every young person that arrives from Central America is entitled to asylum or entry into the U.S. He and other immigration officials argue that the border crisis "could be mitigated" if there are consequences to illegal immigration activity. They say that the current federal policy of placing unaccompanied minors into the legal system to have their refugee status adjudicated, rather than returning them to their homes, is "attracting" minors to make the journey to the U.S. Leading members of the Judiciary Committee expect the flow of illegal immigrant children to rise in record numbers in 2016.
CA Man Released on AB 109 Sentenced for Attempted Murder: A Bakersfield, Calif., man with a long criminal history was sentenced to 63 years to life in prison on Friday for the 2013 shooting of a pregnant woman while he was out on AB 109. Mimi Elkalla of Bakersfield Now reports that Ruben Cervantes shot the victim because he did not want her to keep the baby she was pregnant with. The woman and baby both survived, although the woman is now permanently paralyzed and still uses a feeding tube.
Slashing Attacks in NYC Spike Dramatically: A dramatic spike in random slashing attacks in New York City has residents and tourists frightened and experts confounded. Fox News reports that from the start of the year through Sunday, 567 slashing incidents have been recorded -- a 20% increase over the same period in 2015 -- and average about 10 attacks per day. Twelve people have been killed, while most are left with facial injuries, and many are targeted on the city's subway. Police and criminologists have yet to identify a pattern for the slashing attacks, but believe that it could simply be the result of a copycat effect, since rises in these types of attacks have not occurred in other metropolitan areas in the U.S.
CA Man Released on AB 109 Sentenced for Attempted Murder: A Bakersfield, Calif., man with a long criminal history was sentenced to 63 years to life in prison on Friday for the 2013 shooting of a pregnant woman while he was out on AB 109. Mimi Elkalla of Bakersfield Now reports that Ruben Cervantes shot the victim because he did not want her to keep the baby she was pregnant with. The woman and baby both survived, although the woman is now permanently paralyzed and still uses a feeding tube.
Slashing Attacks in NYC Spike Dramatically: A dramatic spike in random slashing attacks in New York City has residents and tourists frightened and experts confounded. Fox News reports that from the start of the year through Sunday, 567 slashing incidents have been recorded -- a 20% increase over the same period in 2015 -- and average about 10 attacks per day. Twelve people have been killed, while most are left with facial injuries, and many are targeted on the city's subway. Police and criminologists have yet to identify a pattern for the slashing attacks, but believe that it could simply be the result of a copycat effect, since rises in these types of attacks have not occurred in other metropolitan areas in the U.S.
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