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Friday, July 24, 2015

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John Kerry Calls Alternatives to Iran Deal ‘Unicorn’ and ‘Fantasy’

Secretary of State John Kerry made a heated defense of the Iran nuclear deal Thursday, saying the U.S. will face international isolation and degraded security if Congress rejects the deal.

“The diplomatic support that we have built with all these other countries, that we’ve accumulated, would disappear overnight,” Kerry said at a contentious Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Kerry said congressional rejection would give Iran a “green light” to install advanced centrifuges, double its uranium enrichment process and “proceed full speed ahead with a heavy water reactor … and do it all without the unprecedented inspection and transparency measures that we have secured.”

“Everything that we have prevented will then start taking place,” he said, noting that Iran already has extensive experience with the technology used to build a nuclear weapon. “We can’t bomb that knowledge away, nor can we...

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Continuing to "transform" America, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that new citizens taking the oath of allegiance will no longer have to pledge to "bear arms on behalf of the United States" or "perform noncombatant service" in the Armed Forces as part of the naturalization process.

And you thought it couldn't get any worse?

Washington Examiner:

Those lines are in the Oath of Allegiance that people recite as they become U.S. citizens. But USCIS said people "may" be able to exclude those phrases for reasons related to religion or if they have a conscientious objection.
USCIS said people with certain religious training or with a "deeply held moral or ethical code" may not have to say the phrases as they are naturalized.
The agency said people don't have to belong to a specific church or religion to use this exemption, and may attest to U.S. officials administering the oath that they have these beliefs.
USCIS said it would take "feedback" on this policy change through August 4, 2015.

Because nothing quite says "I love my new country" more than refusing to defend her when she's under attack.

I have no problem with those who refuse service for genuine religious reasons. This is a choice that has been available to citizens since the Revolution. But the oath of allegiance is not the place to express that creed. I can't imagine what motivated USCIS to issue this rule, except that it betokens a desire to alter tradition and...

Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders

The murder of Kathryn Steinle on the Embarcadero in San

Confessed Texas killer Juan Vasquez

Francisco by an illegal alien is the most familiar example of a crime committed by an alien. But an unreleased internal report by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that illegal aliens have been involved in thousands of crimes in Texas alone, including nearly 3,000 homicides.

PJ Media obtained an never-before-released copy of a Texas DPS report on human smuggling containing the numbers of crimes committed by illegal aliens in Texas. According to the analysis conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety, foreign aliens committed 611,234 unique crimes in Texas from 2008 to 2014, including thousands of homicides and sexual assaults.

The report describes an alien crime wave of staggering proportions exacerbated by federal officials unwilling to enforce immigration laws.

The Texas DPS report says well over 100,000 individual criminal aliens have been booked into Texas jails:

From October 2008 to April 2014, Texas identified a total177,588 unique criminal alien defendants booked into Texas county jails. These individuals have been identified through the Secure Communities initiative, in which Texas has participated since October 2008.

There are almost certainly more criminal aliens who haven’t been identified as aliens. The 177,588 criminal aliens...