How porous is the southern
border? An illegal immigrant arrested three times by local police in the
U.S. and wanted for murder in Mexico just got deported for the fourth time.
Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) classifies the Mexican national,
Rafael Silverio Rojas, as a “noncitizen foreign
fugitive.” This month the agency’s Enforcement and Removal
Operations (ERO) handed Rojas to Mexican authorities at the international
boundary of the Lincoln/Juarez Bridge in Laredo, Texas. Rojas, who is 26
years old, had been removed from the U.S. on three previous occasions
before the most recent encounter. Somehow the fugitive managed to enter the
country through the southern border again and again.
Maryland’s highest court on Tuesday moved the state’s primary from
June 28 to July 19, as courts weigh challenges to the state’s new
legislative map as well as Maryland’s congressional map.
The trial involves two lawsuits. One was brought by a group of Republican
state lawmakers backed by Fair Maps Maryland. The other was brought by the
national conservative activist group Judicial Watch.
“Courts
sanctioning lawyers pursuing election law claims in the heat of an election
is a dangerous game that could allow election corruption to go
unchecked,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The partisan
retaliation and harassment of lawyers involved in litigating the 2020
election dispute is unprecedented and undermines the rule of law – and
courts should not take part in it.”
“U.S.-China collaboration on the Global Virome Project is an
opportunity to lead innovation in science, collaborate with China, and
potentially contribute to scientific breakthroughs,” said the summary of
the Global Virome Project in the email that was part of 92
pages obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch in a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit with the National Institutes of
Health.