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Who’s Going To Pick The Crops?

Federal prosecutors in Nebraska say at least 20 people with links to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua have stolen $5.4 million in an ATM hacking conspiracy that sprawled across the United States, including the Chicago area.

The indictment alleges the group carried out dozens of so-called ATM jackpotting attacks, a form of cyber-enabled bank theft in which thieves physically access an ATM, install malware, and force the machine to dispense cash without debiting customer accounts. Prosecutors say the conspiracy operated from at least January 2024 through this month and targeted more than 90 financial institutions nationwide, including here in Chicago.[…]

Members of the group are charged with a mix of federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank burglary and computer fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

Racial Injustice

Odd that the writers of the story never thought to get any input from Omogbolahan Jegede’s victims.

A former university football player who sexually assaulted two women has been sentenced to just two years in prison because he is black and was feeling intense pressure around the time of the attacks, the judge said. Omogbolahan Jegede, 25, had choked one of the women almost into unconsciousness.

“It should be noted that but, for the contents of the Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA), the pre-sentence report and all the mitigating factors surrounding Omogbolahan (Teddy) Jegede, this sentence would have been much higher,” Justice Frank Hoskins said in his Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision on Wednesday.

Muslim Values Are Canadian Values

National Post;

A 26-year-old Toronto man has been arrested and charged with ISIS-linked terrorism offences and two other men are charged for alleged hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community.

The federal terrorism investigation and related probes by Toronto police and Peel police follow violent incidents of armed men trying to abduct women from the street, one in May and two in June.

The RCMP charged Waleed Khan, 26, of Toronto with various terrorism charges including participating in the activities of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, terrorist financing and conspiracy to commit murder in association with a terrorist group.

Police charging information names ISIS as the terrorist entity, also known as the Islamic State or ISIL.

Khan was also charged by Toronto police and Peel police, along with two other Toronto men — Osman Azizov, 18, Fahad Sadaat, 19.

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Today In Australia’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

Continued… The same Aussie police who were claiming they hadn’t identified a motive for the two Muslims, who drove up in a car festooned with Islamic State flags specifically to murder families at a Jewish holiday celebration, are also being very carefully vague about this latest arrest.

I Want A New Country

Now you’re talking.

“People are at the breaking point. Our public servants are at the breaking point.”

Smith says Canada is a nation of immigrants and Alberta more so than anyone else but newcomers need to be able to get a good-paying job to support themselves. What does the Alberta premier want to see?

A made-in-Alberta immigration system with a “sustainable” level of immigration and much more.

“We want to have a similar program to Quebec. Quebec has an immigration program that allows them to choose on the basis of language and culture. […]

“Maybe you don’t get health care covered until you have been a taxpayer for a number of years.

“Maybe you don’t bring your kids over to be educated in our publicly-funded education system or use our taxpayer-supported child-care system until you have a certain number of years as a taxpayer. You have to pay into the system.”

Smith says those who want to become permanent residents would then know “the number of years they’ve got to work in order to be able to receive all the entitlements of those who have been taxpayers all their lives.”

Smith says being a citizen or being on the path to citizenship as a permanent resident has privileges.

“Until somebody becomes a permanent resident and citizen we’ll treat them like tourists,” she says.

Today In Australia’s Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

Update:More arrests

The same Aussie police who were claiming they hadn’t identified a motive for the two Muslims, who drove up in a car festooned with Islamic State flags specifically to murder families at a Jewish holiday celebration, are also being very carefully vague about this latest arrest. But if video shared online is accurate, it appears this might have been another Islamic terrorist plot.

I Want A New Country

Premier Moe, you need to invoke immediate long-term residency requirements to prevent Carney’s shiny new voting base from accessing provincial services (health care, chief among them) or there won’t be a province left to service.

What does it actually do?

•Ends the “first-generation limit” on citizenship by descent, introduced back in 2009 under Harper.
•Automatically grants or restores Canadian citizenship to tens of thousands of “Lost Canadians” and their descendants born abroad before the law – even if they have zero recent ties to Canada.
•Going forward, allows Canadians born abroad to pass citizenship to their kids born overseas if the parent spent at least 1,095 days (3 years cumulative) in Canada at any point before the child’s birth.
•No time limit on accumulating those days, no language/test requirements in the final version – opposition amendments for tougher checks were voted down.

Update: SDA gets results

@ABDanielleSmith

Albertans are tired of the last 10 years of the federal government’s unsustainable immigration policies putting huge burdens on our education, healthcare, and housing sectors.

It’s time we start having a hard conversation about exercising more control over immigration policy and whether the province should limit eligibility for social services only to citizens, permanent residents, and individuals with an immigration permit granted by the Alberta government.

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Great Success!

Global- Extortion suspects have all claimed refugee status, Canada’s border agency says

The foreign nationals were identified by B.C.’s Extortion Task Force, but once the Canada Border Services Agency began investigating them, all claimed to be refugees. As a result, deportations of the 14 suspects have been put on hold until the Immigration and Refugee Board decides whether they have legitimate cases for asylum.

Is Our Diversities Learning?

Watch and wonder.

Previous, in case you missed it yesterday.
Update: Following our story on White City Councillor Shahnaz Sultana, the mayor and council voted to temporarily relieve Sultana of all her additional committee and representative duties. She will still be able to attend council meetings and vote as there are no provisions in the municipal act for impeachment or recall of a councillor.

Is Our Diversities Learning?

The address in White City is for a McMansion without a sign or playground equipment, and the only “Creative” Cubs child care mention that Google can find is a Facebook account for a location in Radium Hot Springs. Seems legit.

Related news from Saskatchewan’s leading news provider: “Council reviewed a report outlining discrepancies in remuneration claims submitted between December 2024 and February 2025, totaling approximately $11,500 in overpayments. These discrepancies were attributed to misinterpretations of the Council Remuneration Policy, particularly among newly elected members.”

The plot thickens…

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