Random Politics & Religion #11

USCIS granted U.S. citizenship to at least 858 individuals
ordered deported or removed under another identity when,
during the naturalization process, their digital fingerprint
records were not available. The digital records were not
available because although USCIS procedures require
checking applicants’ fingerprints against both the
Department of Homeland Security’s and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation’s (FBI) digital fingerprint repositories,
neither contains all old fingerprint records. Not all old
records were included in the DHS repository when it was
being developed. Further, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) has identified, about 148,000 older
fingerprint records that have not been digitized of aliens
with final deportation orders or who are criminals or
fugitives. The FBI repository is also missing records
because, in the past, not all records taken during
immigration encounters were forwarded to the FBI. As long
as the older fingerprint records have not been digitized and
included in the repositories, USCIS risks making
naturalization decisions without complete information and,
as a result, naturalizing additional individuals who may be
ineligible for citizenship or who may be trying to obtain U.S.
citizenship fraudulently.
As naturalized citizens, these individuals retain many of the
rights and privileges of U.S. citizenship, including serving in
law enforcement, obtaining a security clearance, and
sponsoring other aliens’ entry into the United States. ICE
has investigated few of these naturalized citizens to
determine whether they should be denaturalized, but is now
taking steps to increase the number of cases to be
investigated, particularly those who hold positions of public
trust and who have security clearances.
Response
DHS concurred with both recommendations and has begun
implementing corrective actions.

A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday that a witness will testify that Republican Gov. Chris Christie was told about a plan to close traffic lanes near the George Washington Bridge as it was happening, a claim he has contested for years.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna made the revelation in opening statements at the trial of Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly, two former allies of Christie. Baroni was a top Christie appointee to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the bridge, and Kelly was Christie's deputy chief of staff.

The trial comes three years after gridlock paralyzed a New Jersey town next to the busy bridge for four days. Prosecutors say it was a criminal conspiracy cooked up by Baroni and Kelly to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich out of political revenge.

Khanna told jurors that David Wildstein, another Port Authority official, will testify he and Baroni made Christie aware of the plan during a 9/11 memorial in New York City in 2013, three days after the gridlock started.

"The evidence will show that ... they bragged about the fact that there were traffic problems in Fort Lee and that Mayor Sokolich was not getting his calls returned," Khanna said.

Christie has denied knowing about the scheme. A message left at his office Monday seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

Christie wasn't charged in the federal investigation, and a New Jersey state legislative probe also concluded he didn't know about the alleged scheme. But the trial is expected to produce new revelations on who in Christie's inner circle may have known about the plans or subsequent cover-up.

Christie, an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, conceded last week that the bridge scandal was a factor in GOP nominee Donald Trump's not picking him as a running mate.

According to a federal indictment, Kelly and Baroni conspired to reduce access lanes to the bridge in Fort Lee, across the Hudson River from New York City, in September 2013 after the town's Democratic mayor declined to endorse Christie's re-election. About 150,000 vehicles cross the bridge each day, making it one of the world's busiest.

They face counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, deprivation of civil rights and misusing an organization receiving federal funds. The organization is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs area bridges, tunnels and transit hubs and is where Baroni served as deputy executive director.

The most serious charge in the indictment, wire fraud conspiracy, carries a maximum 20-year prison term.

Prosecutors are expected to introduce texts and emails showing the defendants joking about the traffic jams even as Sokolich -- who hadn't been notified ahead of time about the closures -- called and sent emails seeking help.

They'll also show jurors an email from Kelly to another Port Authority official a month before the traffic jams saying, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."

That official, Wildstein, pleaded guilty in 2015 and will be the government's key witness. Wildstein is a onetime political blogger and high school classmate of Christie's who served as the Port Authority's director of interstate capital projects, a position created for him.

Kelly and Baroni have said in court filings that the government has twisted federal law to turn their actions into crimes. They also have said other people with more power and influence were involved but aren't being prosecuted.

Another of my leftist sites King?

I bet the traitors know how to use the preview function, though.

Naw, if they did, they wouldn't have given us Trump vs. Clinton this election cycle.

Here's the 411:

Don't you mean actually winning the millions?

There isn't much enthusiasm in buying the ticket as there are winning on the ticket.

I'm a tax accountant, and, while I support the need to reduce taxes (and spending and waste, you know, fiscal conservative policies that died in 1992), even I would never even consider reducing the overall tax burden to the American people to zero.

That would be like shooting oneself in the foot, figuratively and literally. Who would pay for local hospitals to fix the stupidity that you inflicted on yourself (Medicare and government fundings)? Ambulences to carry your stupid *** to the hospital (Medicare and state funding, which is freed up by federal assistance)? 911 operators to take your call (federal funding for the police/fire/emergency services appropriations in every bill every year)? The doctor that really should slap you in the face for being so stupid (federal grants and student loans play a significant part of a student's education, and doctors have their entire student loan bill go away if they serve a specific time in a local hospital for stupid people who shoot themselves in the foot)? What about the lawyer who will have to defend your stupidity because you cannot afford an actual one (federal assistance for people like you in this case)? Or the Judicial system to convict you for being too stupid to go out on your own (and own a gun)? What about the jail and, in your case, the little cell with a doctor to give you the good medicine that makes all the voices in your head go away?

And that's just one part of the federal budget, which is what income taxes pay for. How do you expect to pay for national defense at the very least with no income?

You still never explained why the Federal Reserve is so bad. All you have ever said was akin to interstellar aliens (not to be confused with the "already living in Brooklyn aliens who are kept in check by the MIB" that you believe in) out to take over the world and only you can stop them.

You don't even know what the Federal Reserve does, and you want to abolish it?

That is true. By abolishing the Federal Reserve you pretty much destroy the monetary system and make everything worthless. Next thing we would have would be the bartering system. Do you really want to go back to pre-civilization ages (except Babylon, they were smart enough back then to use money instead of bartering)?

Explain to everyone what is compound interest. Then explain to everyone why it is bad.

Hell, I would go for an explanation of simple interest, as that is the easiest way to explain the concept of interest and the whole purpose of it.

We do by allowing people like you a chance to speak. Sit down and shut up. Until you are smart enough to read a book that explains derivatives, you shouldn't be allowed an opinion about derivatives.

It's stupid people like you who are holding society back by inputting your ideas in topics you have zero knowledge of.

1. Why buy the ticket if your not excited about potentially winning? So there is enthusiasm

2. No one is saying reduce all taxes to zero you did. The taxes I was talking about eliminating is the federal income tax.

We have always had Doctors and Hospitals before the federal income tax we will still have them going forward without the federal income tax.

3. The Federal Reserve Bank and all affiliate central banks are a cancer to any nation that harbors one ALL have proven throughout history of causing massive economic problems. So all you need to know is I'm getting rid of it and make sure banking going forward is Honest and the control of it will be in the hands of the citizens of the United States of America and not from international bankers.

4. Glad you finally realize we can eliminate student debt, housing mortgage payments, and medical debt nation wide.

5. Your opinion of me having zero knowledge about anything I discuss is laughable.

Your frightened about me knocking this house of cards over and you want to keep this ponzi scheme rolling.

Suck it up you cry baby the American people are tired of changing your dirty diapers along with the rest of those traitors in Washington DC.

Toodaloo moving to another country you won't be missed

Don't worry, I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. You and your kind will never get the kind of power you seek. I may not have much faith in the intelligence of humans, but at least I'm not pessimistic to the point that people are stupid enough to put you in power.

Well let's be honest. Campaigning of FFXIAH is not the best use of his time, which is sort of indicative of how bright and capable he is. Which is what Nik was trying to say to him already, but he sort of missed the point entirely, much to no one's surprise.

Trump2016!

Trump2016!