Newsspot – U.S. Will Give Immunity to Some Young Illegal Migrants

Yeah, it’s been a while  since I did something like this, I know. Sorry for the wait and all, it’s just been exceptionally busy lately, and I’ll be away all of next week too. Anyway, enough with futile apologies, today’s article spiked my interest quite a bit. It’s always seemed a tad unfair to illegal immigrants when they get deported, even after living law-abiding lives all the time they’ve been in the states. Yeah, I guess the whole point is that they illegally immigrated, but you never know. Some might’ve had good reason to do so, though some people would argue that sticking to morals and law is more important that anything. What do I know though, I’m only 15 myself, and this sort of area is definitely not my best forté, so I’ll leave you lovely readers to decide what should be done, and whether this is a right or wrong move. You never know…I might even get a few comments!

U.S. Will Give Immunity to Some Young Illegal Migrants

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: June 15, 2012 at 9:36 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.

The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was to announce the new policy Friday, one week before President Barack Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials‘ annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.

Obama planned to discuss the new policy Friday afternoon from the White House Rose Garden.

Under the administration plan, illegal immigrants will be immune from deportation if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16 and are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military. They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. The officials who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it in advance of the official announcement.

The policy will not lead toward citizenship but will remove the threat of deportation and grant the ability to work legally, leaving eligible immigrants able to remain in the United States for extended periods. It tracks closely to a proposal offered by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as an alternative to the DREAM Act.

“Many of these young people have already contributed to our country in significant ways,” Napolitano wrote in a memorandum describing the administration’s action. “Prosecutorial discretion, which is used in so many other areas, is especially justified here.”

The extraordinary move comes in an election year in which the Hispanic vote could be critical in swing states like Colorado, Nevada and Florida. While Obama enjoys support from a majority of Hispanic voters, Latino enthusiasm for the president has been tempered by the slow economic recovery, his inability to win congressional support for a broad overhaul of immigration laws and by his administration’s aggressive deportation policy. Activists opposing his deportation policies last week mounted a hunger strike at an Obama campaign office in Denver, and other protests were planned for this weekend…

As you can probably tell, this is still only a small portion of the full article. If you want to carry on reading from where you’ve left off, look no further than here: NY Times – U.S. Will Give Immunity to Some Young Illegal Migrants.

I should be posting later on with maybe a personal post or photo of the day…but don’t be watching those inboxes too much, or there’ll be another ‘Great Disappointment’ if I fail to find the time.

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Newsspot – Santorum Says Romney’s Delegate Lead Will Fade as the Contest Continues

Good morning readers! Sorry for the terrible delay, I’ve been out of action lately, but I’ll go in depth about that on my afternoon article later on today. This Newsspot definitely caught my attention though, because I was surprised to see such a bold statement about Romney’s impending downfall. It’s probably old news, or other statements have come before, but as I said, I’ve been out of it, so forgive me if I’m getting a little excited. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did, and I hope you’ll be able to leave your opinions on the outcomes of the caucus below at the end of the post! This is the full article, but if you’d like to view the original gave, look no further than here: NY Times – Santorum Says Romney’s Delegate Lead Will Fade as the Contest Continues

March 12, 2012, 12:53 PM

Santorum Says Romney’s Delegate Lead Will Fade as the Contest Continues

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Meggan Haller for The New York TimesMitt Romney’s speech at the Whistle Stop restaurant in Mobile, Ala., on Monday was canceled because of rain. Mr. Romney spoke briefly under an awning at the restaurant before greeting supporters.

9:29 p.m. | Updated

WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum’s campaign has begun to argue forcefully that Mitt Romney will fail to win the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president, leaving the decision to a wide-open national convention in Tampa, Fla., this summer.

The argument suggests that Mr. Santorum’s strategists have all but given up on the idea that their own candidate can reach that magic number himself. A count by The Associated Press found that Mr. Romney has already collected 454 delegates, more than twice the 217 that have pledged to support Mr. Santorum.

But Mr. Santorum and his advisers believe that he — along with Newt Gingrichand Representative Ron Paul— can effectively block Mr. Romney’s march to the nomination over the next three months. If that happens, they argue, Republicans will gather for their convention with no certain winner — and with Mr. Romney at a disadvantage.

Aides to Mr. Santorum predicted that convention delegates — including a majority of the “superdelegates” — would throw their weight behind Mr. Santorum once Mr. Romney failed to lock up the nomination.

“When we go to this convention, if that’s where we end up, it’s a conservative party,” Mr. Santorum said Monday morning on NBC’s “Today” show. “If an opportunity provides itself at an open convention, they are not going to nominate a moderate Massachusetts governor.”

Mr. Romney’s advisers dismiss the idea of a contested convention and say he is on track to accumulate a majority of the 2,286 total delegates. They argue that Mr. Romney has won more than 50 percent of the delegates in the contests to date.

“You can wish for things as much as you want,” said Rich Beeson, Mr. Romney’s political director, of the effort to block Mr. Romney’s path to the nomination. “That’s just not going to happen.”

Mr. Romney’s advisers said the state party chairmen and other veteran activists who make up the 168 superdelegates are likely to vote in accordance with the results of their state primary or caucus, making it hard for Mr. Santorum or another candidate to win their support at the convention.

“You are not going to see them usurping the will of the people,” Mr. Beeson said.

An A.P. poll of 117 superdelegates found Mr. Romney with more support than his rivals, earning the backing of 24 of them, while Mr. Santorum has 2. Superdelegates are party leaders whose clout could help end a contested nominating fight before it results in a brokered convention.

Mr. Romney’s advisers have been pushing the “inevitable math” argument for more than a week as they seek to convince reporters, Republican voters, activists and donors that it makes sense to rally around Mr. Romney so he can focus on defeating President Obama.

But Mr. Santorum and his aides took to the airwaves Monday morning to counter that thesis.

They said Mr. Romney’s current delegate advantage would fade as the contest moved into states where Mr. Santorum was stronger. And they note that some of the delegates the candidates have accumulated are “unbound,” meaning they are free to vote for whomever they choose at the convention.

“Mitt Romney’s math is just like Mitt Romney’s conservatism,” said Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for Mr. Santorum, on MSNBC Monday morning. “It’s bogus.”

The official count from the Republican National Committee shows 258 unbound delegates as of Friday. The A.P. and other news organizations show fewer unbound delegates because they make estimates about how those delegates will probably vote based on the outcomes of primaries and caucuses.

Many of those delegates won’t be officially bound to a candidate until state conventions that may not be held for weeks or months. In some places, conservative activists tend to dominate state conventions, which could give an edge to Mr. Santorum.

In Iowa, for example, the A.P. count shows Mr. Santorum winning 14 delegates and Mr. Romney winning 12, based on the near tie in the state’s caucuses in January. In fact, those delegates will be awarded based on a process that began with local conventions over the weekend, and ends with a state party convention. Mr. Santorum claimed on Sunday that his campaign would eventually win the “vast majority” of these delegates.

“These numbers are going to change dramatically,” Mr. Santorum said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

Advisers to Mr. Romney scoffed at the idea that Mr. Santorum will pick up delegates at state conventions. They said Mr. Santorum’s campaign had demonstrated little organizational ability in areas like early voting and would not be able to match Mr. Romney’s on-the-ground operation.

Newsspot – School Shooting in Ohio Leaves 1 Dead and 4 Wounded

I have to admit, you hear about shootings every day, but for me, school shootings aren’t that common, so it kind of shocked me when I saw this today. I guess it’s kind of like a wake up call, and reminds us that anything could happen. Reading through the article, I expected to find that the student who had committed the crime would’ve had a little trouble before, but I found that he was a quiet kid, and hadn’t done anything before whatsoever. It just goes to show how unstable society really is, and how that normal person you know, could become a killer the next. It’s kind of scary when you really think about it, but there’s not much you can actually do, apart from lock yourself away from the rest of the world. Not that I recommend doing that, of course. Risks are everywhere, and something happens every day. For me, I think it’s how you roll with it that makes all the difference.

School Shooting in Ohio Leaves 1 Dead and 4 Wounded

David Maxwell/European Pressphoto Agency

Samantha Kimball consoled her younger brother Daniel after a fatal shooting at a high school in Chardon, Ohio.

By JESS BIDGOOD and SABRINA TAVERNISE

Published: February 27, 2012

 

A teenager opened fire on a group of students in a high school cafeteria outside Cleveland around breakfast time on Monday, leaving one student dead and four others wounded, the authorities said.

The local police in Chardon, a town of 5,000, said they had apprehended a suspect on Monday afternoon, but Tim McKenna, the police chief, said they could not identify him publicly because he was a juvenile.

But the family of T. J. Lane, a sophomore who is being held as a suspect, made his identity public on Monday night when they issued a statement through a lawyer on WKYC-TV in Cleveland. In the statement, the Lane family said that they were devastated by the news and that they wanted “to extend their heartfelt and sincere condolences” to the victims and their families.

T. J. is a student at Lake Academy, an alternative high school for troubled students. “By all accounts, T. J. is a fairly quiet and a good kid,” said Robert N. Farinacci, the Lanes’ lawyer, who noted that T. J. had never been in trouble before.

Students at Chardon High School said they heard screams around 7:40 a.m., the time the authorities said the shooting took place, and described spreading panic as teachers locked down classrooms and students started sending text messages to friends. One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom for protection.

“I saw two girls running away screaming, and I heard an administrator come on saying we’re in lockdown,” said Brady Lawrence, 17, a senior who was in his English class, near the cafeteria, when the shooting began.

The classroom collapsed in confusion, he said in an interview, as students tried to figure out the gunman’s location.  “We just didn’t know where he was,” he said. “They were saying he was loose, and we were scared.”

The authorities identified the dead student as Daniel Parmertor, a 16-year-old junior. They said two students were in critical condition, while two others appeared to be stable.

According to The Associated Press, Daniel, an aspiring computer repairman, was shot while waiting in the cafeteria for a bus for his daily 15-minute ride to a vocational center. “We are shocked by this senseless tragedy,” his family said in a statement. “Danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. The family is torn by this loss.”

Danny Komertz, a student, told The Associated Press that the gunman appeared to have focused on a group of students. “I looked up and this kid was pointing a gun about 10 feet away from me to a group of four kids sitting at a table,” he said.

 

Emotional, I have to say. As I said before, it’s not every day I hear about situations like these, and I certainly didn’t expect to read about one this soon. To read the rest of the article, look here: NY Times – School Shooting in Ohio Leaves 1 Dead and 4 Wounded

The Evening Post – Issue 16

Why hello there dear readers! Today’s been quite an eventful day, hasn’t it? What? No? Ugh, fine then, today’s been quite an eventful day for some of us hasn’t it? Yes? That’s better. So, as you’ve probably seen before from my earlier ‘Photo Of The Day’ today’s been quite exciting. I got a camera, I took pictures, and, best of all, it snowed! And is still snowing! How awesome is that?! Now, for all you americans out there, this may seem like an ordinary thing, but trust me, in england (especially in the midlands), a good snowfall only happens once a year, or sometimes not at all, si this is going down in the history books! The morning didn’t have such a good start though. I mean, -11 degrees celsius isn’t what I like to wake up to when I’ve accidentally left my windows open all night. So yes, the weather hasn’t been nice to me at all today, but it did decide to bless em with some snowfall…although I can’t remember asking for this much. Not that I’m complaining or anything, but I’m just making a statement.

Okay, maybe I exaggerated, this post really wasn’t that long, but hey, what can I say, when you’ve got a life as dry as mine, even snow excites you to brink of madness. I’ll be back on track with my posting tomorrow, and it’ll be extra early, because I’ve gotta be back at my church for 11, and I’ll be walking it form my house, so I’ll be taking my sweet time. See you in the morning, beloved viewers!

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