Tucson, Ariz. The Obama administration is going on the offensive to counter public perception that the Southwest border is out of control. By several important measures, the US-Mexico border is becoming significantly more secure, not less, said US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin at a news conference here Tuesday. Border patrol arrests dropped [...]
CAIRO—The Egyptian opposition’s takeover of the area around the parliament this week began with a trick. First, they called for a march on the state television building a few blocks north of their encampment in Tahrir Square. Then, while the army deployed to that sensitive communications hub, they moved into the lightly defended area around [...]
Immigration judges are letting more illegal migrants stay in the country. Government records show that the Obama Administration is focusing its deportation efforts on those who have been convicted of crimes. Most people who show up in front of an immigration judge still face deportation, but the Department of Homeland Security, and judges in Arizona, [...]
Coptic Christians in America, with the support of other Americans, are concerned for their counterparts living in Egypt. Also in danger could be people of other faiths, including Muslims of unpopular sects. A Coptic Christian is an Egyptian, living in Egypt or abroad, who believes in Jesus Christ. “Coptic” means Egyptian. Coptic Christians follow either [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid criticism that intelligence services missed the signs of Arab revolt in Tunisia and Egypt, the nation’s top intelligence official will tell Congress that the threat from al Qaeda and its affiliates remains his No. 1 priority, U.S. officials said. In testimony scheduled Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee, Director of National [...]
In the first 29 days of January 2011, NATO planes fired their guns, missiles, and bombs on 284 separate sorties. In January 2010, those aircraft only made 157 attack runs. This doubling of air attacks has been a consistent trend, ever since Petraeus took over the Afghan war effort. Under Petraeus, there have been 3,620 [...]
WASHINGTON – And then there were 11. The push at the state level to ensure no future president enters office under the cloud of suspicion that he or she might not be constitutionally eligible is growing. At the request of a local tea-party group, Tennessee state Sen. Mae Beavers has filed a bill that would [...]
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah told U.S. President Barack Obama that his country would prop up Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak if the United States withdrew its aid program, The Times said on Thursday. Abdullah told Obama not to humiliate Mubarak, who is under pressure from protesters to quit immediately, in a telephone call on January 29, [...]
CAIRO —Labor strikes and worker protests that flared across Egypt on Wednesday affected post offices, textile factories and even the government’s flagship newspaper, as protesters recaptured the initiative in their battle for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. At the newspaper, Al Ahram, freelance reporters demanding better wages and more independence from the government snarled [...]
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Jerusalem Post: One of the greatest beneficiaries of the unrest in Egypt has been the Muslim Brotherhood. Banned but tolerated for decades by successive Egyptian regimes, the Islamist movement is now emerging as a central player in the country’s resurgent opposition. On Tuesday, two Brotherhood representatives participated in an opposition delegation that met with Vice [...]
On or about January 5, I announced that PatDollard.com was going to be shifting from a primarily breaking news and commentary website to one featuring a combination of a little of those and a primary dedictation to advancing the mission of SAFE. This was because in order to both free up my time from PD.com [...]
SELLS, Arizona — An hour’s drive south of Phoenix, deep in the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham Reservation is about the size of Connecticut. The land is barren, it has beautiful vistas, and it sits on the U.S.-Mexico border — which makes it the perfect cover for drug smugglers. “This is an average dope seizure,” [...]
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Border agents have seized nearly $2 million worth of cocaine after discovering more than 60 pounds of the drug in the gas tank of a vehicle at an international crossing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday the car driven by a 24-year-old Eagle Pass woman was stopped for further inspection [...]
