Boots on the Ground 06-20-14

BREAKING: Texas Sends Armed Troops to Defend the Border

The border crisis that Obama has manufactured for political purposes only seems to be getting worse, as illegals pour in hoping for amnesty and being dumped at bus stations in Texas and Arizona by the feds.
Texas has had enough of it, which is why they’ve decided to stop waiting on the feds to do their job and just shut down the border themselves.
The state’s Republican leadership has approved of $1.3 million per week in additional border security to stop the wave of illegal immigration into Texas.

New detention centers for migrant families caught crossing the US border

Immigration agencies have been struggling to deal with the rise in unaccompanied children trying to enter the US illegally

The White House has announced it will open more detention facilities to temporarily house migrant families caught crossing the US border illegally, along with new aid programs to funnel millions of dollars to Central American countries in an attempt to tamp down gang violence and "reintegrate" migrants the US deports to their home countries.
A sharp rise in migrants crossing the border illegally has overwhelmed US immigration agencies. US vice-president Joe Biden is scheduled to speak in Guatemala on Friday about the humanitarian crisis driving the migrants north and the impact it is having on US border towns.
Up to 1,000 new migrants a day are flowing across the US-Mexico border in an immigration surge caused by violent drug cartels in countries such as Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, according to border patrol officials. An especially high proportion of the new migrants are unaccompanied children. Most are ferried through dangerous routes by smugglers.
"Our first priority is to manage the urgent humanitarian situation by making sure these children are housed, fed and receive any necessary medical treatment. We also are taking steps to improve enforcement and partnering with our Central American counterparts in three key areas: combating gang violence and strengthening citizen security, spurring economic development and improving capacity to receive and reintegrated returned families and children," Biden's office said.
The administration did not say where it would place the new detention centers. It currently houses migrants in border patrol facilities and US military bases across the south-west. After a tour of two border patrol facilities this week, the Associated Press described a crowded station not meant for long-term custody, filled with unaccompanied children in the custody of an agency ill-equipped to care for them.
Dozens of young boys were divided from dozens of young girls. Mothers with children still younger were in another cell.

White House Calls IRS Investigation a ‘Conspiracy Theory’

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest implied the investigation into IRS targeting of conservative groups was simply a “conspiracy theory” during Friday’s briefing.
The probe has come back into the limelight after the agency revealed it lost two years worth of former tax-exemption chief’s Lois Lerner’s emails that would go to the heart of the case. Earnest was asked whether investigators or White House counsel had looked for emails between the White House and aides of Lerner.
“There have been 13 months of multiple congressional investigations, including 14 congressional hearings, 30 interviews with IRS employees, 50 written congressional requests, and 750,000 pages of documents, and all of that has done nothing to substantiate false Republican claims of a broader political conspiracy,” Earnest said. “So I don’t know if you’re floating another conspiracy or if this is a request from Republicans who are floating a conspiracy or what exactly the suggestion is. But the fact of the matter is we’ve cooperated extensively, and despite that cooperation, you know, we’ve seen continued allegations of Republican conspiracy theories that just never pan out.”
Fox News reporter Ed Henry followed up saying Earnest didn’t seem to be taking the allegations seriously.
“I think it’s fair that we recognize that software moves on and that archiving in a digital age is not as easy as it might seem to the public,” Earnest said.

Bombshell: We Know The Whereabouts of Lost IRS Emails

 

A Congressional inquiry into the targeting of Tea Party and Conservative organizations by the IRS has revealed that thousands of emails from IRS head Lois Lerner and at least six of her subordinates have been lost to history after the hard drive which stored them was reportedly thrown away. The loss of the emails makes it nearly impossible to track down and verify what actually took place and whether or not the Obama administration was directly involved in the harassment of independent groups that didn’t agree with the President’s political platform.
Without the emails their is no accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference on the day he took office in January of 2009.
The President’s past statements run contrary to the events playing out on Capitol Hill today, where the IRS has claimed that the emails have been “lost forever.”
Congressman Darrell Issa pointed out the ridiculousness of the claims saying that such records could only disappear because of deliberate destruction.

“Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”

It turns out that Senator Darrell Issa is right. Records like these don’t just disappear without a trace.
We know the whereabouts of the lost IRS emails and they could likely be accessed and shown to the American public within 24 hours.
It turns out that there just so happens to be a redundant set of digital records available in a facility capable of holding some septillion pages of information (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pages of text) that has been actively aggregating and storing digital data for years.
Access to any of those records can be had with a simple directive from the President of the United States.

US officials warn Iraqi troops surrounded, outgunned and facing death in battle with ISIS for major oil refinery as American special forces advisers prepare to move in

• The estimated 270 soldiers on the Baiji refinery are outnumbered and trapped as the battle raged on for a fourth day with up to 500 ISIS militants
• The terrorists plan to keep the soldiers isolated until the run out of food and ammunition
• U.S. official source said: 'There is very little the Iraqi government can do to save or liberate those guys'

Iraqi troops are losing control of one of the country's major oil refineries to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, according to a U.S. official today.
The estimated 270 soldiers on the Baiji refinery are outnumbered and trapped as the battle raged on for a fourth day with up to 500 ISIS militants.
The terrorists plan to keep the soldiers isolated until the run out of food and ammunition, a U..S. source said.

The source told ABC that the government soldiers are trapped and they are running out of supplies. The military is unable to send in back up as the road to Baiji is controlled by ISIS. 
He said: 'There is very little the Iraqi government can do to save or liberate those guys.'
'The militants have managed to break in to the refinery. Now they are in control of the production units, administration building and four watch towers. 'This is 75 per cent of the refinery,' said an Iraqi official on Wednesday, speaking from inside the refinery which is located 130 miles north of Baghdad.
Any lengthy outage at Baiji risks long lines at the gas pump and electricity shortages, adding to the chaos already facing Iraq.
The impending fall of the oil refinery to insurgents comes as a catastrophic loss for the Iraqi government a day after President Obama announced that 300 military advisers for the Special Forces are being sent to assist the besieged country.
They would join up to 275 being positioned in and around Iraq to provide security and support for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and other American interests

Ebola 'Totally Out of Control,' Doctors Without Borders Says

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever seen and the virus is raging ‘‘totally out of control,’’ an official with Doctors Without Borders said Friday. The virus, which causes a particularly nasty form of hemorrhagic fever, has killed 337 people out of 528 infected, the World Health Organization says — making it by far the biggest and deadliest outbreak of Ebola since it was first identified in 1976.

‘‘The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,’’ Bart Janssens, operations director for Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, told the AP. ‘‘And, for me, it is totally out of control.’’

The virus has been spreading since spring in three West African countries with fluid borders — Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The biggest outbreak affected 425 people in Uganda in 2000, killing 224 of them. There’s no good treatment and no cure for Ebola, which is highly transmissible.

Iran Bashes Obama: He Lacks Will to Combat Terrorism in Iraq

Obama’s not fooling anyone…
Iranian official Hamid Aboutalebi says Barack Obama lacks the will to combat terrorism in Iraq. Islamic Republic News Agency reported: UK-News reported:

A senior Iranian official says the administration of US President Barack Obama is not serious on combating terrorism in Iraq.
The US cannot adopt contradictory policies in the Middle East; to support war in Syria and peace in Iraq or be on the side of terrorists in Syria and against them in Iraq,ˈ Deputy Chief of Presidentˈs Office for Political Affairs Hamid Aboutalebi wrote on his Twitter account on Friday.
He noted that Obamaˈs recent remarks showed that he is not serious about his determination to confront terrorism in Iraq and the rest of the region.
ˈThe US diplomacy and its strategic objectives in the region are seriously in a critical situation and this contradictory behavior makes the region further critical day by day,ˈ Aboutalebi said.

North Korea Publicly Executes 80 for Possessing Bibles

Tragic news coming from North Korea today. According to South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, as many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea this month for minor offenses such as owning a Bible.
The alleged “criminals” were put to death in seven cities across North Korea, averaging ten per city. The victims had their heads covered by white bags, were tied to stakes near a stadium, and shot by authorities repeatedly with machine guns. North Korean officials forced a crowd of over 10,000 people, including children, to witness the killings.

“I heard from the residents that they watched in terror as the corpses were (so) riddled by machine-gun fire that they were hard to identify afterward,” the JoongAng Ilbo source said.

The massacre marks the first time during Kim Jong-un’s reign where public executions have taken place, a troubling sign for the future of the totalitarian country. Government officials suggest that the executions were meant to quell the recent spread of capitalism in various cities across North Korea.

North Korean law permits executions for conspiring to overthrow the government, treason and terrorism. But the country has also been known to order public executions for minor infractions such as religious activism, cellphone use and stealing food, in an effort to intimidate the public.

It’s troubling to see how Christianity is being viewed in the rest of the world. Even in our own country, textbooks are promoting Islam and ignoring other religions. And while President Obama clearly doesn’t condone the actions of Kim Jong-un, he’s enacted his own policies that are slowly eroding away at our religious freedoms, through school curriculum’s and limiting prayer.
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