For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. Not getting shot in combat. Not the years battling post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction. Not prison. It was leaving the U.S., a country he called home for nearly five decades.
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
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The “President Of Peace” Just Bombed Yemen 65 Times In 24 Hours
US Tries To Deport Student Who’s Lived in US Since Age 7
NEW YORK (AP) — Another Columbia University student said Monday that the Trump administration has targeted her for deportation over her pro-Palestinian views, accusing immigration officials in a lawsuit of employing the same tactics used on Mahmoud Khalil and other college activists.
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Florida’s DeSantis puts billboards in Illinois to recruit officers
Florida is putting billboards in Illinois’ “Greater Chicago area” to recruit law enforcement officers from the state, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday.
Florida’s DeSantis puts billboards in Illinois to recruit officers
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No, new Illinois law will not let people in US illegally become cops, deputies
The law says noncitizens applying for those jobs must be legally allowed to possess guns. People living in the U.S. illegally don’t qualify because federal law bars them from owning guns, according to experts and lawmakers.
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People living in the country illegally may not legally obtain firearms, a federal appeals court ruled in 2012, and both experts and lawmakers say that makes them ineligible for law enforcement positions.
“Anyone who is saying that an illegal alien can become a police officer or sheriff’s deputy is either, one, misinformed, or two, giving you a baldfaced lie,” said state Rep. John Cabello, a Republican co-sponsor of the law and a Rockford police officer.
Illinois will allow some non-citizens to be police. But only those authorized to work and own a gun
[2021] Fact-check: Do refugees receive more monthly benefits than Social Security recipients?
Instagram posts: The government pays out “$2,125/month in refugee benefits to refugees resettled in the United States,” while Social Security recipients “who have paid into the system their whole lives receive $1,400/month on average.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False
Fact-check: Do refugees receive more monthly benefits than Social Security recipients?
Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new phone spying operation
Support King, banned by FTC, linked to new phone spying operation
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Massive Protest By Czechs Targets Russia Sanctions, High Prices
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | October 29, 2022
Fed up with soaring food, energy and housing costs, tens of thousands of Czech protestors railed against their government on Friday, demanding the resignation of conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government, withdrawal from NATO and the negotiation of gas purchases from Russia.
Massive Protest By Czechs Targets Russia Sanctions, High Prices
The U.S. Lost the 5G Race…after an Immigrant was Forced to Leave
The U.S. Lost the 5G Race…after an Immigrant was Forced to Leave via Newsthink
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The U.S. Needs a Million Talents Program to Retain Technology Leadership (archived)
It’s not just a matter of enticing new immigrants but of retaining bright minds already in the country. In 2009, a Turkish graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Erdal Arikan, published a paper that solved a fundamental problem in information theory, allowing for much faster and more accurate data transfers. Unable to get an academic appointment or funding to work on this seemingly esoteric problem in the United States, he returned to his home country. As a foreign citizen, he would have had to find a U.S. employer interested in his project to be able to stay.
Back in Turkey, Arikan turned to China. It turned out that Arikan’s insight was the breakthrough needed to leap from 4G telecommunications networks to much faster 5G mobile internet services. Four years later, China’s national telecommunications champion, Huawei, was using Arikan’s discovery to invent some of the first 5G technologies. Today, Huawei holds over two-thirds of the patents related to Arikan’s solution—10 times more than its nearest competitor. And while Huawei has produced one-third of the 5G infrastructure now operating around the world, the United States does not have a single major company competing in this race. Had the United States been able to retain Arikan—simply by allowing him to stay in the country instead of making his visa contingent on immediately finding a sponsor for his work—this history might well have been different.
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