Many of the most caring people in the U.S. think they are helping the poor from Latin America by leaving our Southwest border unsecured between ports-of-entry, but they are not. Several of the transnational criminal organizations (cartels) operating in Central America and Mexico make an estimated one-third or more of their profits from illegal immigration.Read the whole thing, and realize that those who oppose securing our southern border support, however unwittingly, the horrors described therein.
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In today's stories:
From Free West Media, the council of Amsterdam votes to apologize for the city's role in the slave trade.
From the NL Times, the Dutch national railway decides to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors, their widows, and their children.
From Dutch News, in the 1770s, slavery accounted for over 5 percent of Dutch GDP.
From VRT NWS, no benefits if you don't learn Dutch, says a Flemish minister. (The variety of Dutch spoken in Belgium is called "Flemish". Whether the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands and Flemish are two dialects of the same language or two separate but closely related languages has become a matter of opinion.)
From France24, according to French prosecutors, there is no sign of any criminal cause for the fire in the Notre Dame cathedral.
From RFI, according to a climate watchdog, France is not meeting its emission targets.
From the Express, the "shocking" reason why the U.K. Labour Party went from eurosceptic to pro-E.U.
From the Evening Standard, thousands protest over climate change in front of the U.K. Houses of Parliament. (How far away from the Parliament is the embassy of China, which produces the world's largest amount of carbon dioxide?)
From the Independent, Brexit party leader Nigel Farage should face the "highest penalty" for undeclared gifts, says an E.U. committee.
From the Irish Examiner, a Pakistani woman and her children win an appeal in an effort to receive refugee status.
From CBC News, the Canadian government adds two international neo-Nazi groups to its list of banned terrorist organizations.
From CTV News, Canadian trash returning from the Philippines is due to arrive in Vancouver on Saturday.
From TeleSUR, Nicaragua arrests four suspected members of ISIS.
From Morocco World News, Morocco's plan for autonomy in Western Sahara gains international support.
From The Portugal News, a joint effort by Portuguese and Spanish authorities intercepts a boat carrying two tons of hashish.
From El País, a crew member from the Brazilian president's plane is detained in Seville, Spain for allegedly carrying 39 kilos of cocaine. (He would be the equivalent of an Air Force One crewman.)
From SwissInfo, Switzerland's government proposes changes to the country's money laundering laws.
From ANSA, the Sea-Watch 3 defies a stop order and heads toward the Italian island of Lampedusa.
From Malta Today, Italian authorities board the Sea-Watch 3.
From Total Croatia New, the most commonly used drugs in Croatia are marijuana, cocaine and amphetamines.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. offers Bosnia and Hercegovina support for dealing with migrants. (The country's name is abbreviated as "BiH", the letter i being the word for "and" in the Slavic languages.)
From the Greek Reporter, authorities on the Greek island of Santorini deny that animals are being abused.
From Novinite, the Bulgarian government approves a trade agreement between the E.U. and Canada.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria asks Russia to send engineers to help with the overhaul of its Su-25 fighter jets.
From Romania-Insider, the Romanian government adopts an ordinance regulating ride-sharing services. (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)
From Russia Today, the Russian Orthodox Church calls for a ban on abortion and experiments involving human embryos.
From Sputnik International, a U.S. Navy destroyer tracks the movements of a Russian frigate in the Caribbean.
From The Moscow Times, reinstating Russia to PACE is a "grave mistake", or why Russia's reinstatement should be welcomed.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary supports the enlargement of the E.U.
From Hungary Today, competitors remove three tons of plastic from the Tisza River and an adjacent reservoir.
From About Hungary, the Hungarian and Romanian defense ministries start discussing military cemeteries.
From The Slovak Spectator, schools in Slovakia will not use devices from Huawei.
From Radio Praha, Greenpeace activists disrupt a meeting of the utility ČEZ to protest the possible sale of a coal-fired power plant.
From Radio Poland, an international Holocaust education conference is planned to be held in Markowa, Poland.
From Deutsche Welle, the German government debates stepping up its cyberoperations.
From EuroNews, 11 men, only one a native German, go on trail for an alleged gang rape.
From Euractiv, Europe's airports plan for carbon neutrality by 2050, except for their airplanes.
From Hürriyet Daily News, U.S. and Turkish officials discuss F-35 fighter jets.
From Turkish Minute, 108 military cadets are acquitted while 18 others receive life sentences in a trial over alleged incidents during the failed coup of 2016.
From Rûdaw, a Luxembourger who joined ISIS claims to be ready for prison.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel will set up a committee to deal with Ottoman-era Arab land claims.
From The Times Of Israel, incendiary balloons from Gaza start 19 more fires in southern Israel.
From The Jerusalem Post, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak forms a new political party.
From the Egypt Independent, in an attack in the North Sinai, seven Egyptian security personnel and four terrorists are killed.
From Egypt Today, Egypt and the E.U. discuss ways to combat illegal immigration.
From StepFeed, in Hadat, Lebanon, Christians are not allowed to sell or rent houses to Muslims.
From Radio Farda, the U.S. urges the U.N. to tighten the sanctions blacklist against Iran.
From IranWire, due to neglect and anti-Semitism, a historical Jewish school in Isfahan, Iran has fallen into disrepair.
From Dawn, one policeman is killed and four others injured in a suicide bombing in Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan.
From The Express Tribune, customs officials at the Lahore airport stop an attempt to smuggle weapons and ammunition.
From Pakistan Today, Saudi Arabia abolishes the requirement for an immigration landing card for Hajj pilgrims.
From Khaama Press, NATO's secretary general claims that a peace deal for Afghanistan is close.
From the Hindustan Times, a BJP leader claims that minorities have never been safer in India than under the current prime minister.
From ANI, a terrorist is killed in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.
From India Today, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discusses U.S.-India relations and other matters.
From the Daily Mirror, scores of refugees from Sri Lanka seek Indian citizenship.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan cabinet approves a trust fund for 33 children orphaned by the Easter Sunday terror attacks.
From Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian officials call terrorist murderers second only to Allah.
From Blitz, East London is looking more like another Afghanistan.
From Gatestone Institute, the alarming rise of persecution against Christians in Africa.
From The Jakarta Post, a warden in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi is fired for forcing inmates to read the Koran.
From the Borneo Post, a road accident victim gets help from the king of Malaysia.
From The Conservative Woman, a look at the real world of global carbon dioxide emissions.
From National Review, environmentalists are "hopping mad" at President Trump's deregulation of offshore drilling.
From Townhall, why student loan forgiveness is not freedom.
From FrontpageMag, a man who killed three of his Muslim neighbors gets three consecutive life sentences, but were his crimes really "Islamphobic"? (He should hope that either Christianity or Islam, which both teach that we only live once, is correct, and that Hinduism and Buddhism, which teach reincarnation, are not.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, far-left groups urge the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to back the decriminalization of illegal border crossings.
From the Washington Examiner, everything you need to know about the first Democratic debate.
From The Federalist, the call for reparations for slavery is not about justice, but about power.
From American Thinker, three steps to understanding leftists.
From CNS News, an ad by March for Life Action shows that many Americans support restrictions on abortion.
From LifeZette, Democrats finally acknowledge the existence of the border crisis.
From NewsBusters, TV host Whoopi Goldberg says that Trump wants to make homosexuality illegal. (This sounds strange considering that Trump has come out in favor of gay marriage. Perhaps Guinan needs to go back to ten-forward.)
From Accuracy in Media, the media can't understand why the rape accusation against Trump is not being taken seriously.
From The Hill, California passes a law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases. (via The Blaze)
And from Twitchy, one of the authors of the above-mentioned Breitbart article asks former Vice President Biden why he said nothing when dead migrants were found on his watch.
UPDATE: From Breitbart, the other author of the Breitbart article above lists 20 times that the site reported about migrant deaths during the Obama-Biden years, and no one gave the rear end of a rat.
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