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From blob-like jellyfish to rock-like lichens, our planet teems with such diversity of life that it is difficult to recognise some organisms as even being alive. That complexity hints at the challenge of searching for life as we don’t know it – the alien biology that might have taken hold on other planets, where conditions could be unlike anything we’ve seen before. ‘The Universe is a really big place. Chances are, if we can imagine it, it’s probably out there on a planet somewhere,’ said Morgan Cable, an astrochemist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. ‘The question is,...

WASHINGTON – Advocates for Victims of Alien Crime, a group whose family members have died in incidents involving illegal immigrants, launched last week at the National Press Club, vowing to influence public policy to ensure immigration laws are enforced. “The fact that we have to convince so many in the media that we, who have lost loved ones, are the true victims, instead of those who snuck into the country illegally, is journalistic bankruptcy,” AVIAC co-founder Don Rosenburg said during the event.

It has long been known that nonimmigrant aliens may purchase and own firearms  in the United States for hunting or for sporting purposes. In order to legally purchase firearms from federally licensed dealers, non-resident aliens have to show a legal hunting license or that they "have been admitted" for sporting purposes. The easiest way to obtain a document to allow purchases at gun stores is a hunting license. Some Chinese students in Arizona recently fell afoul of the law by purchasing *resident* hunting licenses when they were not technically eligible to do so.  From azcentral.com: In recent months, federal...

<p>An illegal immigrant – who had been deported 15 times – is accused of seriously injuring a 6-year-old boy in a Saturday night drunken driving hit-and-run crash, authorities said.</p> <p>Constantino Banda-Acosta, a 38-year-old Mexican citizen, was kicked out of the U.S. 15 times in the past 15 years, with his most previous deportation coming Jan. 18, federal officials told The San Diego Union-Tribune.</p>

The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after the events of Prometheus. Set aboard an abandoned Engineer vessel, Dr. Shaw repairs David as they continue their search for humanity’s creators.

Protesters are fighting against the immigration arrest of a family in Geneseo. The Greater Rochester Coalition for Immigration Justice tells us a Guatemalan family was taken into custody Thursday evening.

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A father of a son killed by an illegal immigrant spoke about how the media ignores the victims of those crimes. Jamiel Shaw Sr., a guest at President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday, spoke on the anniversary of his son’s death. Shaw mentioned how the media ignores these crimes and the families of the victims. “In L.A. they won’t even mention when they commit crimes. They shut me down. All the news papers won’t report on anything I do,” Shaw said. “They don’t want people to know that there’s people fighting for justice. Everybody’s not an illegal alien...

20th Century Fox’s Logan has been generating lots of positive buzz ahead of its premiere in theaters this week, but James Mangold’s Wolverine movie isn’t the only R-Rated franchise movie that Fox has waiting in the wings. The studio also has Alien: Covenant, director Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel/Prometheus sequel – a film that was originally slated to arrive in August of this year. Fox has since moved the R-Rated sci-fi/horror thriller up to a prime May date, suggesting the studio is confident about what Scott has delivered in his third go-round on the Alien franchise.

Teased during the latest episode of Legion on Fox, fans got a new look at Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant in The Prologue: Last Supper video, a short that introduces the crew of the colony ship, Covenant.

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The 66-year-old grandfather and former missionary was working late at the restaurant and was killed on his way home, by a drunk driver…without a license… here ILLEGALLY.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are fighting back against false reports of checkpoints and sweeps during the ongoing operation targeting criminal (ICE) aliens. “Reports of ICE checkpoints and sweeps are false, dangerous and irresponsible,” ICE officials wrote in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. “These reports create mass panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger. Any groups falsely reporting such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support.” Media outlets have been reporting statements by community activists that appear to be aimed at instilling fear and false information about the ICE’s...

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), a foe of the Second Amendment, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to discuss President Trump's temporary travel ban. Murphy's opinions about Trump's executive order included the claim that gun control would make America safer than the Trump travel ban (starts around 3:18): (video link embedded) Said Murphy: If folks get to this country and we suspect them having connections to terrorism, that they shouldn't be able to get an assault weapon. Of course, neither immigrants nor anyone else will be getting an "assault weapon" anytime soon, as they do not exist: it's a made-up, fairy tale category of...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – The state of California is studying ways to suspend financial transfers to Washington after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities, KPIX 5 has learned. Officials are looking for money that flows through Sacramento to the federal government that could be used to offset the potential loss of billions of dollars’ worth of federal funds if President Trump makes good on his threat to punish cities and states that don’t cooperate with federal agents’ requests to turn over undocumented immigrants, a senior government source in Sacramento said.

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – The state of California is studying ways to suspend financial transfers to Washington after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities, KPIX 5 has learned. “California could very well become an organized non-payer,” said Willie Brown, Jr, a former speaker of the state Assembly in an interview recorded Friday for KPIX 5’s Sunday morning news. “They could recommend non-compliance with the federal tax code.”

Award winning actor John Hurt reportedly died on Friday after a battle with cancer. The 77-year-old actor, who starred in films such as “Harry Potter” and “The Elephant Man,” passed away after suffering from pancreatic cancer, according to London’s Mirror newspaper. Hurt contemplated his demise during an interview he did in 2015 while fighting the disease

Yesterday: There's no such thing as an "illegal" person! Today: Trump is an "illegitimate" president! Ain't Irony ironic.

When it looked like Republicans would nominate to the presidency a man who, at least on paper, was the candidate most likely to lose to Hillary Clinton in November, it was the right’s immigration hawks who earned the harshest recriminations. I joined a once voluminous group of right-leaning authors who imprudently castigated proponents of a hard line on immigration for scuttling a bipartisan immigration reform bill and turning 2016 into a referendum on their view. Clinton’s inevitable victory would ensure that her vision for immigration reform—amnesty without additional border security—would be foisted upon Americans. I was right about the referendum...

Obama is big on making up his own laws and rules. He rules by executive order and he's gotten into the truly illegal habit of unilaterally signing treaties with foreign governments. This is a very basic problem. And in the context of his deal to take in Muslim migrants rejected by Australia, he is being warned once again that his actions are grossly illegal and unconstitutional. ... We’re not even being told the total numbers who will shortly be making their way to our shores, but the Journal notes that two of the camps located on Naru and Manus Islands...