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TRENTON, N.J. -- In Edison, New Jersey, the mayor warned he would send people back to the border if they came to his city in buses. In Rockford, Illinois, authorities said 355 migrants who landed on a charter flight wouldn't be staying. “NO MIGRANT BUSES THIS EXIT,” signs along Interstate 55 in Grundy County, Illinois, southwest of Chicago said ahead of Christmas weekend. Nervous officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York are giving migrants arriving from the southern border a cold shoulder amid attempts to circumvent restrictions on buses in those two cities, opening a...

Eight of the nine men convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl in 2020 will not face jail time, according to German news outlet NIUS. The 15-year-old girl was attending a party in Germany’s Hamburg Park in Sept. 2020 when she was allegedly dragged into the bushes and raped by 11 men, according to German news outlet NIUS. Two of the men were acquitted, while nine were found guilty, but only one of the nine received a prison sentence. That 19-year-old defendant received only two years and nine months in prison, per NIUS. The other eight defendants all received youth sentences...

The Senate has voted to require citizens to board illegal aliens in private homes. The legislation, introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), is modeled on the troop boarding practices employed in Boston during the 1770s. "Two problems faced by these immigrants are homelessness and racism," said Kennedy. "This bill will fix both." Under the plan, the Dept of Housing and Urban Development would compile a database of U.S. housing including square footage, number of inhabitants and location. Illegal aliens would be assigned to homes where the square footage per inhabitant exceeds the national average by 20 percent or more. "Instead...