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The United Sates was founded by immigrants. Generation after generation of immigrants came here to escape oppression, war, violence and to seek a better life. Both those immigrants, and the citizens that live here, don’t want the evils and problems that they left behind to follow them here. The laws of our nation have kept those concerns at bay. Yet now, politicians who only care about clinging to power and making a name for themselves (from both parties, by the way), seem to show little concern who is entering the country. If you want border control or background checks, you’re...

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Thursday that the administration has not seen evidence that Iran's financial support for terrorism has grown since the U.S. paid the regime $1.7 billion in cash in January. "We have not seen an increase in terrorist financing by Iran," Lew told the House Financial Services Committee. But Lew also acknowledged that he wasn't aware if there was any way to trace how Iran uses the cash. Republicans pressed him on whether the U.S. recorded the serial numbers on the bills that were shipped to Iran, but Lew said he did not know. The U.S. arranged...

MOTT HAVEN, Bronx (WABC) -- A portion of the Major Deegan Expressway is shut down in the Bronx after a suspicious package was found near the roadway. Less than an hour later, the all clear was given by police. The package, which police said is a pressure cooker, was found at 5:35 p.m. near East 134th Street and Alexander Avenue in the Mott Haven section. This area runs under the highway. Police said no wires or cellphone were found inside the device. The Major Deegan is closed from the RFK Bridge to Willis Avenue (exit 2). Police sent the bomb...

In Florida Monday, following the bombings in New York and New Jersey, Donald Trump referred to the captured bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, as an “evil thug.” He then added, “Hillary Clinton is a weak and ineffective person and I will tell you, if you choose Donald Trump, these problems are going to go away far, far greater than anybody would think.” Whatever one thinks of Trump’s rhetoric, his is a voice of certainty at a time when a growing number of Americans appear fed up with a seemingly ineffective government, weak statements and even weaker responses. Example: Josh Earnest,...

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is searching for more information on two unknown individuals who were spotted on camera taking a homemade bomb out of a piece of luggage before leaving it behind. The men appear to have some possible involvement with explosives left in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York. "

Since news broke on Saturday regarding a string of pipe and pressure cooker bombs being found in New Jersey and New York (with some going off), nearly everyone in the news and political world have been offering their unsolicited hot takes via Twitter on bombs, radical Islam, and terrorism. Perhaps the most egregious and mind-boggling was MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes, who ran into proverbial buzzsaw of outrage when he declared in a tweet that the people of the New York City metropolitan area were “very very lucky that the attackers tried to use explosive rather than guns.”

TORONTO — Police say all schools on the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island have been evacuated because of a "potential threat." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wednesday that students are being taken to safe locations. Police provided no other details, but say a news conference will be held later in the day. Parents and guardians are being asked to wait for further instructions before picking up their children. Three schools in the nearby province of Nova Scotia — NSCC Marconi Campus, Cape Breton University and the NSCC technology campus in Halifax — also have also been evacuated...

Ahmad Khan Rahami's message to America was exactly what you would expect from a Muslim terrorist. “Inshallah [Allah willing], the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gun shots to your police. Death To Your OPPRESSION,” were some of the words scrolled in a journal FBI agents found with Rahimi when he was taken into custody. #Jihadlivesmatter “My heart I pray to the beautiful wise ALLAH. To not take JIHAD away from [me]. I beg...for shahadat [martyrdom],” said the journal, which was damaged during the exchange of gunfire with police that preceded Rahami’s arrest. Islam. It's the...

The reason our authorities don't take pre-emptive action against Islamic terror -- even after solid intelligence warnings.Why does the Obama administration keep failing to thwart Muslim terrorist attacks in the U.S. after receiving apparently good intelligence warning of those attacks? It turns out that Americans keep turning in budding Muslim terrorists to the Obama administration and the administration keeps on doing nothing. For example, the alleged mastermind of the weekend pressure-cooker bombing in New York City was turned in by his own father but the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to do much of anything about him. These intelligence failures...

Federal authorities filed charges Tuesday against the 28-year-old suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings over the weekend, according to court documents.

Revealed: Chicken shop terrorist's mom AND wife both left the US for the Middle East days before attacks as 'strict Muslim' father claims he had no idea of his son's plot Ahmad Khan Rahami's father, Mohammad Sr, claims he had no idea about his son's bombing plots It has also been revealed that Rahami's mom and wife left the country just days before the attacks The 28-year-old is wanted in connection to three bombings in NYC and New Jersey over the weekend So far, he has been charged with five counts of attempted murder and two gun charges for a...

Full Title: Immigration Expert: U.S. to Resettle Nearly One Million Muslim Migrants Under One Term of Clinton Presidency The U.S. could resettle nearly one million immigrants from the Muslim world under one term of a Hillary Clinton presidency, according to projections from Center for Immigration Studies’ Steve Camarota.Camarota explained that this large expansion in Muslim migration would be part of a massive increase in overall immigration, which the U.S. could experience under a President Hillary Clinton. Camarota noted that Clinton could potentially add as many as 10 million new immigrants to the U.S. during her first term alone, on top...

Let's not play games or be "politically correct." Common sense tells us that the bombings Saturday in New York City and New Jersey were acts of terrorism. But too often these days, we don't hear the word terrorism used by the media or elected officials until they know that the perpetrators involved have some kind of international links. And we know what that means: Muslims.

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump tangled over how to best protect the country from terrorist threats, after a series of weekend bombings and bomb scares in New York and New Jersey returned security issues to the forefront of the presidential campaign. Speaking to reporters before boarding her campaign plane... Mrs. Clinton called for calm vigilance and accused Mr. Trump of sowing division and playing into the hands of terrorists. Mr. Trump renewed his warning about the dangers of unchecked immigration and called for allowing police more latitude in profiling suspects, including by race. He also criticized Mrs. Clinton’s...

On a trip to New York City, London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan has said terror attacks are “part and parcel” of urban life, just hours after an Islamic terrorist bombed the city. Mr. Khan also seized the opportunity to launch an explicit attack on the Brexit vote and rise of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He compared to two movements, claiming they are both driven by “scapegoating”. “All these problems will not be solved by voting to leave the EU or voting for – I don’t want to name the candidate – a president of the USA,” he said.

t's still breakfast time here on the West Coast and MNSBC's Chris Hayes has already said the dumbest thing you'll hear all week regarding the past weekend's bomb attacks: Follow Christopher Hayes ✔ @chrislhayes We're also very very lucky that the attackers tried to use explosives rather than guns. 11:40 AM - 19 Sep 2016 200 200 Retweets 654 654 likes He's getting raked over all the coals available on social media for this but, true to MSNBC fashion, he's not backing down. The tweet is still up. Remember, this kind of non-thinking is actually rewarded there. Only in the...

President Obama’s motorcade passed through 23rd Street, the location of Saturday night’s bombing, and slept in Manhattan Sunday night — but he still hasn’t made any public remarks on the attack in Chelsea. Instead, Obama’s first stop in New York City Sunday night was at the Gramercy Park home of restaurateur Danny Meyer and actress Audrey Meyer to attend a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Obama talked about the importance of this election — “the most important election of our lifetime” — and discussed why he believes Clinton is failing to run away with it. “[T]his should not be...

Published on Sep 19, 2016 Donald Trump Fox & Friends Full Interview 9/19/16. Donald Trump on Monday took credit for prematurely calling t that went off in New York on Saturday a, boasting that he should be a newscaster. Trump = the media for him over his early use of the term and accused them of editing out clips of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton using the same word. “If you saw her in the back of the plane — and she used the word ‘’ also, by the way. I heard — I didn’t see it — but I...

Let’s recap yesterday’s round of cultural enrichment.First, we had a terror attack in Seaside Park, New Jersey. The pipe bomb was set to go off next to thousands of racers running by in a 5k charity race for Marines. Had it not been for a late start, we’d be talking about #NewJerseyStrong and the deaths of hundreds of our fellow Americans.Second, a Muslim Jihadist went on a stabbing rampage at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He went around asking people if they were Muslim and if they answered no, he stabbed them yelling “Allahu Akbar”. He’s instructed to do...

"An Uber driver ferrying a woman and two little girls was caught in Saturday night’s bomb blast — and by Sunday afternoon, the FBI was dismantling his car. The driver said he’d picked up a woman and two girls and they were driving along W. 23rd St. in Chelsea around 8:30 p.m. — unaware that in seconds his car was going to be caught in a storm of shrapnel." “I just picked them up over there on 23rd St. and Seventh and then boom there was an explosion,” driver Md. Alam told the Daily News." "Alam watched from the sidewalk...