[lysie]

Sweetness! Thanks for the smiles.

[bgill]

I was looking at our county’s jail log. The day after Christmas, we turned about 50 illegals over to ICE. This is pretty common, every few days from our little podunk county. If only these numbers were nationally reported. How many weren’t caught?

[STARLIT]

Syria

The Bahraini embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus will be reopened next week, the Russian news agency Sputnik reported on Thursday, quoting Arab diplomatic sources. The sources speculated that "it will not be long before the opening of embassies of other countries in the coming months."

The United Arab Emirates officially reopened its embassy in the capital, Damascus, earlier on Thursday after it was closed for years as a result of the Syrian crisis.

Officially .. UAE announces the return of its embassy to Syria and issue the following statement.

A number of Arab countries closed their embassies in Damascus during the Syrian war, cut off diplomatic relations with Syria, and suspended the membership of Syria since 2011.