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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. (WTEN) - Former President Barack Obama visited the Adirondacks this week. According to a source at the Adirondack Regional Airport, President Obama flew into the airport earlier this week and left on Friday, June 22.
Richie Hewitt, an airport employee, says he spent a few minutes with the former president; the two talked about their daughters who both attend Harvard University.
It's not clear why he was in the region.
President Obama is currently working on writing a book that will focus on his time as president.
Many presidents have spent time in the Adirondacks including both his predecessors, Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as Calvin Coolidge, who spent the summer of 1926 on Osgood Lake.
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) -- - A local transgender rights group is sending a message to lawmakers about the immigration crisis. The ‘We Exist’ Coalition says they’re rallying to give a voice to the hundreds of immigrant families and children.
It was a strong message coming from the steps of Niagara Falls City Hall Saturday.
“We need to have compassion, dignity and as much bravery,” said Angela Burnham, a leader with the We Exist Coalition of Buffalo.
She says people need to have compassion for the thousands of children separated from their parents at the border. She says she wants to help speak up for people she says can't speak for themselves.
“As a veteran this isn't what I fought for. This isn't what I wanted for my country,” said Burnham.
Saturday's rally was initially to focus on the anniversary of Title IX, but organizers decided to switch gears.
“We are and always will be primarily a transgender rights group organization but we have to stick up for others too, we have to stick up for what's right what's decent,” said Burnham.
Their message -- "We Care" -- is a response to First Lady Melania Trump who wore a jacket that read "I really don't care. Do you?” while traveling to visit a facility housing immigrant children.
Similar rallies were held in Seneca falls and New York City Saturday afternoon.
The We Exist Coalition is calling on lawmakers to pass an immigration bill.
We have to put our foots down and say this not okay,” said Burnham.
President Trump signed an executive order earlier this week. The Trump Administration says it keeps families who illegally cross the border together.
But Burnham says the damage is already done.
“These children are going to have to carry around what's happening in these places for the rest of their life, even after it ends,” said Burnham.
Reps for First Lady Melania Trump have said there was no meaning behind her jacket.
The White House says about 500 kids have been reunited with their parents. But there are still questions on how the more than 2,000 children will be reunited with their families.
But millions of homeless American children get nothing … smh.
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End of Europe': Merkel's Union Partner Accused of 'German Brexit' Plot
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201806241065721755-germany-refugee-merkel-csu-spd/
Remember they established Q to ensure another JFK or 9/11 happen again. Keep up the good work and never give up!
Daesh, Nusra Will Return to Idea of Creating Caliphate With West's Help - Assad
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806241065722356-assad-chemical-weapons-west/
India Moves to Use National Currency in Oil Trade With Iran – Reports
https://sputniknews.com/business/201806241065722670-india-iran-oil-payments-rupees/
Italian Deputy PM Slams 'Arrogant' Macron Over Migrant Row Ahead of EU Summit
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201806241065718848-macron-salvini-migration-row/
Israel Fires Patriot Missile at Drone From Syria (VIDEO)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806241065722977-israel-fire-patriot-missile-syria/
Syria needs to stop DICKIN around 😠
Next time, Israel is gonna do more than fire a missile 😠
FOX 11) - A joint operation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Department of Justice led to the Seizure of 553 firearms in Agua Dulce, Unincorporated Los Angeles County last week.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale Station received a crime tip that a local man was in possession of a large arsenal of firearms and that he was a convicted felon. The investigation was led by the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station’s Detective Bureau. It included the station’s Summer Crime Enforcement Team, Palmdale Partners Against Crime (Special Problems Unit), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the California Department of Justice. On June 14, 2018 at 0730 hours, the team served a search warrant in the 34700 block of Caprock Road in the unincorporated area of Agua Dulce.
One of these days, the world is gonna find out just how tolerant my country's been 😠
During the search, Manuel Fernandez, a 60 year-old male resident of Agua Dulce was arrested for being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in possession of ammunition. At the residence, 432 firearms were seized during the service of the search warrant.
The first warrant led investigators to second location connected to suspect Fernandez. The second warrant, served in the 34900 block of Sweetwater Drive, Agua Dulce, resulted in the seizure of 30 illegal firearms possessed by a female associate. The female suspect was not home at the time of the warrant service and has not returned to the location. Detectives are preparing charges for the District Attorney for filing consideration.
"The Summer Enforcement Team was funded by the Board of Supervisors for operations like this with a beneficial impact on public safety for our unincorporated communities throughout the summer months,” stated Supervisor Kathryn Barger, representing Los Angeles County’s 5th District. “I applaud the Palmdale Sheriff's station, the City's Partners Against Crime and the Department of Justice who worked in conjunction on this effective operation and massive seizure of illegal firearms."
A follow-up warrant to the residence of Manuel Fernandez on June 15, 2018, led to the seizure of an additional 91 firearms that were hidden within the home. Detectives also seized computers, cellphones, and hard drives from the residence believed to be involved in the illicit purchase of firearms by the suspect.
Due to the large number of firearms recovered, detectives enlisted the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) for tracing the purchase origination of the weapons. Agents from both the California Department of Justice and ATF will be providing resources as the case continues through the court process.
“This case is a testament to the community’s involvement in reducing crime and taking guns out of the hands of criminals,” said Sheriff Jim McDonnell. “The swift response of our Palmdale Sheriff’s Station personnel and the assistance provided by our partners at the California Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms showed the positive result of our campaign ‘See Something, Say Something.’ We are proud of the relationship we have built in the Antelope Valley area as we continue to build trust with the communities we serve.”
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Far from ground zero in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration along the southern border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoints on highways in Maine and New Hampshire are catching the eye of civil liberties groups.
On Interstate 95 near the remote northern Maine town of Lincoln last week, the Border Patrol said it made nine drug seizures and two arrests for immigration violations during an 11-hour checkpoint operation in which agents asked motorists about their place of birth and citizenship status.
The federal agency — one of several at the center of a growing humanitarian crisis involving 2,300 children separated from their parents at the Mexico border — said in a statement that Wednesday's checkpoint in Maine was "a means of preventing smuggling organizations from exploiting existing transportation systems to travel to the interior of the United States."
Customs and Border Protection says the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the agency's ability to ask motorists' citizenship status, even if they have no suspicion. Agents use training and questions to make decisions about a traveler's citizenship or residency, it said.
Travelers have the right to remain silent," it said in a statement. "Travelers who cooperate are passed through quickly, unless the agent suspects they are in violation of federal law. Travelers who refuse to cooperate may be referred to a secondary examination area to allow agents to conduct additional questioning to determine the traveler's citizenship or residency."
Armed with search authority to conduct immigration checks within a "reasonable distance" of 100 air miles from U.S. land borders and coastlines, the Border Patrol also set up a checkpoint last weekend on Interstate 93 near Woodstock, New Hampshire.
The June 15-17 operation resulted in the arrests of five undocumented immigrants from Brazil, China, Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico as well as the seizure of drugs, according to Customs and Border Protection.
The American Civil Liberties of New Hamphire has said there have been a handful of Border Patrol checkpoints on I-93 in Woodstock — about 90 miles from the Canadian border — since last summer, WMUR-TV reported. There had been no such checkpoints there in more than five years.
"Immigration police in this country are emboldened," Gilles Bissonette, legal director of the ACLU of New Hampshire, said in statement after 17 people were arrested during a Memorial Day weekend operation. "We're seeing it not only nationally, but right here in New Hampshire."
The actions of the federal agency in the area also came under scrutiny earlier this month when a Maine bus company employee told a group of passengers they had to be U.S. citizens to ride a bus. A Border Patrol agency had inquired about the citizenship of the passengers.
The ACLU in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont filed suit in May against U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeking records on Border Patrol checkpoints and bus raids, ICE arrests at courthouses and what it said were the targeted arrests of immigrants' rights activists.
"New England residents have a right to know what federal agents are doing in their communities and to demand accountability for their actions," ACLU Vermont staff attorney Lia Ernst said in a statement at the time.
The bus incident, which happened on Memorial Day in Bangor, was captured in cell phone video recorded by a Massachusetts man, Alec Larson. He was asked about his citizenship at the bus terminal as he and his girlfriend were boarding a Concord Coach Lines bus for the trip home to Boston.