“In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting their DNA and using ancestry websites to find and contact their distant relatives and establish their nationality.”
“That permission, unsurprisingly, is contingent on keeping government officials happy. Rub those officials the wrong way and they’ll strip you of permission to travel the roads, leave the country, or even make a living. That’s not a recipe for a free country.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/24/permitted-lives/print
“[Mayor John Tory] did not mean that the cops who protect him do not need guns. He meant that ordinary citizens should be totally disarmed, hoping that thugs will also disarm, which would (inexplicably?) leave only the cops armed.”
Read more: https://www.econlib.org/why-does-anyone-in-this-city-need-a-gun/
“The family of an Australian woman who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year after she called 911 to report a possible assault filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the officer conspired with his partner to hide what really happened.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-woman-killed-minneapolis-officer-sues-145242868.html
“Incarceration rates are on the rise alongside economic inequality, and children aren’t exempt. Quite often, the only crime these children have committed is that they’re from vulnerable families or suffering from mental health issues.”
Read more: https://otherwords.org/let-me-tell-you-what-forced-separation-feels-like/
“Those parents may not be eligible to be reunified with their children, according to the filing, which grouped parents not in the U.S. as either potentially eligible or not eligible. The filing also reported that 879 migrant parents have been successfully reunified with their children, up from 364 on Thursday. But 917 parents may not be eligible for reunification at all.”
“The project offers a rare window into the day-to-day operations of a secretive domestic law enforcement agency at a moment of unprecedented criticism — and an eye-opening glimpse at what those operations look like from the perspective of the communities and households most impacted.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/ice-raids-in-new-york/
“Over time, attaining financial wealth became an absolute prerequisite for wielding geopolitical power and influence. The old military variety appears almost feeble standing next to the contemporary Financial Arms Race.”
Read more: http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2018/07/weekly-commentary-intimidate-nobody.html
“Fiscal-Gonzalez said she didn’t know taking the shells from the beach was illegal. She was planning to give the state-protected mollusks away as gifts.”
“So long as we’re going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there’s no body count.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/17/laws-are-for-the-little-people/print