Police say they have control of the mall from the shooting on Monday, but they are still doing sweeps to make sure there are no terrorists left. Al-Shabab, out of Somalia, went around randomly targeting non-Muslims, but they were really targeting the Kenyan military.
We took our class test on north-east Europe.
The government shut down: 1.4 mill in 2004, National parks and zoos would be closed. Passports won't be handed out. Gov. workers stay at home if they are not necessary to the country's survival. The military will be paid in IOUs till after the shutdown. Taxes will continue. Post service and mail will continue. Health care will continue. Gun permits won't happen. No loans. Trash service is down. A week or more, 500 tons of trash.
Raising the debt ceiling. Debt ceiling: government spends more money than they take in. 17 trillion dollars. Government hit the ceiling in December, but they allowed it to borrow money till March. Medicare, senior citizen and military would have to make due without money if they went past the debt ceiling.
Immigration:
- Border Security
- doubled security troops on the border of Mexico
- went down 80%
- DHS built fences and put drones down there; heat seeking and camera
- air surveillance____________^
- 71/2 mil immigrants were either removed or got legal
- apprehensions decreased
- passport and visa fraud
- Strengthening Enforcement
- making sure that II aren't working
- they commit Identity Theft
- new card that can't be recreated or stolen
- expands enforcement targeting convicted criminals to remove them once their sentence is done
- E-verify allows employers to verify that an employee is legal to work; 416,000 companies using it; 1.2 hiring sites
- ICE; audited more than 8900 employer; suspected hiring of illegal immigrants; barred a lot
- Earned Citizenship
- `To become legal immigrants must..
- - pass national security background check
- - criminal background check
- - pay taxes
- pay a penalty
-must admit they broke the law and get right with it
- learn to speak English
What we need to do to make it happen:
*Authorize funding to DHS and other organizations to establish fraud prevention programs that will provide training for adjudicators, allow regular audits of applications to identify patterns of fraud and abuse, and incorporate other proven fraud prevention measures.
What will happen because of it:
* Proposal will stop children and young people from being punished for being brought in illegally by their parents
* Young people can earn citizenship more quickly if they serve in the in the military or if they go to college
*Five years after receiving their green card, they can apply for full citizenship.
*If their application gets revoked or denied, they can seek administrative and judicial review of those decisions.
* President Obama hopes that this plan will encourage illegal immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and become legal, tax paying, U.S. citizens.- Streamlining Immigration
- Immigration and the Economy
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