100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.

100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.

From Judicial Watch

In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this?

A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education

A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land of opportunity. In fact, the nation’s most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs.

The Texas Department of Public Safety even issued a report documenting how the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the state thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that came with the UACs. At the time more than 60,000 UACs—many with criminal histories—had stormed into the U.S. in a matter of months. Tens of thousands more eventually made it north.

Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. Last year Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S. Individuals are sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates then flown to Brazil before heading to Colombia.

Once in South America, the migrants are transported to Panama before moving on to Costa Rica then a central point on Guatemala. One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports. A few years ago, the head of Guatemala’s passport division got arrested for selling fake passports to a group of Colombians, according to a government announcement.

All this makes ISIS terrorists operating in Guatemala incredibly alarming. President Jimmy Morales confirmed it during a recent security conference attended by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as the presidents of Honduras and El Salvador and other Latin American dignitaries.

Morales said that his administration has captured “close to 100 persons completely involved with terrorists, with ISIS and we have not only detained them within our territory, but they have been deported to their country of origin.” Several of the terrorists were Syrians caught with fake documents, according to Guatemala’s head of intelligence. At the same event, President Morales also revealed that Guatemalan authorities captured more than 1,000 gangbangers, including members of the MS-13.

Many more probably make it into the U.S. via the Mexican border and a lot of them get released inside the country. In fact, Border Patrol agents in Texas have been ordered to release illegal immigrants caught entering through Mexico because detentions facilities have no bed space, according to a news report.

Earlier this year Judicial Watch exposed a secret program—started by Obama and continued by Trump— that quietly relocates illegal immigrants to different parts of the country on commercial flights. Years earlier Judicial Watch uncovered a similar DHS initiative that transported illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and released them without proper processing.

The government classified them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and transferred them 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. The OTMs were from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala and a security company contracted by the U.S. government drove the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix. Some could have been ISIS operatives.

Illegal Alien Rapist/Murderer in Will County posted on Breithbart plus list of articles about what happened

http://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/08/officials-questioning-why-convicted.html

https://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/08/illegal-alien-canal-path-rapist-gets.html

http://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/08/judge-joliet-rapist-had-ice-deportation.html

http://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/06/county-board-member-balich-seeks.html

http://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/06/illegal-alien-confesses-to-3-violent.html

http://thewillcountynews.blogspot.com/2018/05/joliet-illegal-immigrant-guilty-of-i.html

https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/sexual-assault-victim-helps-cops-track-down-rapist-police-0

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Sanctuary State Illinois: Illegal Alien Convicted of Raping Three Women After Failing to Be Deported

From Breithbarth

(WCSO)

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An illegal alien who failed to be deported in 2012 was convicted and sentenced this week for the rape of two women and a third, now deceased, whom he admitted to raping.

Miguel Luna, a 37-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced to 80 years in prison after being convicted of raping two women in 2015 and 2016, according to the Chicago Tribune. A third woman whom the illegal alien raped has since died, though prosecutors revealed evidence showing Luna admitting to the rape.

Luna had an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) final order for removal placed on him in 2012 before the rapes occurred, but the deportation order was never honored. Illinois is, for the most part, a sanctuary state where illegal aliens are protected from being deported.

Judge David Carlson laid into the illegal alien as he passed down the 80-year prison sentence.

“You were free to do these acts … whether through misguided political correctness or people who do not believe in laws or borders,” Carlson told Luna, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“One thing I can do with the sentence is show that the laws we believe in here, maybe this won’t happen again, maybe that’s a little bit of closure,” Carlson said.

The illegal alien is mandated to serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence and he must register as a sex offender should he ever be released from prison.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

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Every adult in the state owes $4,000 for teacher health care costs; pensions not included

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Every adult in Illinois is on the hook for $4,000 in retired teacher health care costs, according to a new study showing the state has no money saved to pay for the growing cost of its promises.

The report released Tuesday by Bellwether Education Partners estimates that Illinois owes $54 billion in future health care costs that have been promised to teachers after retirement. That’s the sixth-most of any state when divvied up by each state’s adult population. This is not included in the estimated $130 billion in unfunded teacher pension liabilities.

Thirty-five states offer post-employment health coverage to teachers, of which Illinois is one, according to the report.

“For too long, employers were able to promote the benefits without recognizing their long-term costs,” the report said. “That reckoning is coming, and there are better and worse ways to tackle it.”

Chad Aldeman, principal at Bellwether, said the growing bills from health care could edge out dollars intended for the classroom.  

“Less money is going to current services like schools or teachers that are in the classroom right now,” he said, adding that the costs are bound to grow as retirees live longer and health care costs increase.

The growing cost will have to be paid for by either cuts to retiree benefits, tax hikes, or a combination of both, Aldeman said.

Health care benefits, like pension payments, are a promise made by the state and local school districts but, unlike pensions, the benefits aren’t protected from diminishment by Illinois’ constitution.

States should put qualified retirees into health care exchanges, the report said, and rescind coverage of retirees making more than a certain amount.

“The state is providing retiree benefits even to a retired superintendent who’s making $150,000 or $200,000 a year in a pension and they get free healthcare on top of that,” Aldeman said. “That may not be a good use of public dollars.”

Orland Mayor Pekau gives an update

Last Monday, we had a special budget meeting to discuss the capital budget which focuses on our investment in capital assets such as buildings, streets, parks, vehicles, etc., as opposed to our operating budget that focuses on day to day operations and maintenance.  Six of us were in attendance, with Jim Dodge missing due to other commitments.  This was a discussion and not a final vote on any budget items. Village Manager Joe LaMargo opened the meeting by saying that staff is still looking for $433,000 in additional reductions in the operating budget.  More on that later.  Generally, we had a good discussion on the capital budget.  Staff presented it with baseline priorities and then additional priorities if we provided more funding sources. There were several additional discussion items.  We discussed fixing our parks, of which we were replacing equipment in one for next year.  An issue we are facing is that many of our parks were built during the same time period and as of January 1, 56% of our parks will be over 20 years old.  Because, we have 64 parks we will likely need to accelerate the replacement of our parks.  Trustee Calandriello suggested that we borrow money to do this.  Staff indicated, and I agree, that this would not be a good use of debt for several reasons.  First, if we fix a lot of parks in a short period of time and not on a consistent schedule, we will put a future board in the same position that we are in.  Second, we only have the capacity to fix about 6 parks per year.  Third, the parks are safe.  Older equipment does not mean that it is a safety issue, which neither staff nor the board would tolerate.  I pointed out that we need to develop a long-term plan for fixing our parks on a consistent schedule.  Staff indicated that we have a study in the budget next year to develop that plan. This brought up the subject of taking debt out to accelerate the repair of our roads.  Our Public Works Director and Finance Director agreed that this would be a better use of debt, because in the long-term, fixing streets sooner would save us money by extending the life of our streets.  Currently, there is an on-going study to develop this plan.  I informed the Village Board and staff that I would support using debt if there is a business case to be made that saves us money in the long run.  This is the proper use of debt and our strong credit rating.  Trustee Calandriello disagreed and said that “We are the Village of Orland Park, not the business of Orland Park.”  On this, he and I disagree.  I want to fix our parks but believe we should use debt if it saves us money in the long run, helps us generate economic activity that results in a net financial benefit to the village, is an emergency, or is a life-safety related issue. During our discussions, I discovered that the maintenance we do on our landscaping medians is part of our capital budget.  For some reason, this slipped past me last year.  However, I think this should be part of our operating budget.  I was informed, that historically this is what we have always done.  I feel strongly that this not correct, but it would be change in policy.   I agreed with the Trustees that making this change this year, while making other cuts, would be a challenge and delaying this change until next year is reasonable.  Staff indicated that there are a few other items similar to this in the capital budget.  They committed to providing us a list of all of these “on-going operating expenses” that have traditionally resided in our capital budget.  I will work on making these changes in the future to force efficiency improvements in our day to day operations and free up capital for our infrastructure. Trustee Carroll asked the board to commit to a restaurant tax of 1% that was proposed as an additional capital funding source.  He also suggested we could make it 1.5% and put 0.5% towards our operating budget.  He also asked us to commit to the operating budget revenue requests as well.    We know that approximately $270,000 in gaming revenue is included and that we all approve an increase in hotel tax to match our neighbors (from 4% to 5%).   Trustees Gira and Carroll were OK with the restaurant tax.  Trustee Calandriello was OK with the revenue from either the restaurant tax (or some other source).  Trustees Ruzich, Fenton and I did not agree and believe that new taxes are a last resort.  I also reminded the Trustees that the restaurant tax was studied at the time of the gaming revenue study which indicated that the Village would see a net loss due to reduced economic activity if a restaurant tax was added. After these discussions, the board agreed to the baseline priorities.  Of the additional projects proposed, the board also agreed that the first priority would be approximately $150,000 in technology spending that would increase efficiency and save money in the long run.   I believe that we can find those dollars without adding a new restaurant tax. The Village Manager, then asked for the Village Board to commit to $1.04 Million in additional revenue for the operating budget.  I responded to this and his earlier statement that staff was tasked with finding $433,000 in additional expense cuts.   I reminded the Village Manager that when this process started we asked him for $2 Million in cuts and $2 Million in revenue.  At the next meeting, he presented a request for $4.3 Million in revenue.  The Village Board left $3.5 Million on the table for hypothetical discussion but reminded him and staff that we wanted $1 in cuts for every $1 in revenue requests.   At the last meeting, he presented $1.27 Million in operating cuts and made $1.587 Million in revenue requests.  We then asked for $500,000 more in cuts not $433,000. Village Manager LaMargo said that staff needed us to commit to the $1.0 Million in new revenue.  Trustee Carroll said that at the revenue hearing we committed to $1.04 Million in revenue and we needed to stop this “3 ring circus”.  Trustee Carroll also indicated that staff could not keep doing this without a commitment from the board. I pointed out that when the Board is given revenue requests and expense cuts that total to exactly what we need, then the Board is not being given choices.  It is up to the Village Board to prioritize, not staff.  At the previous meeting we asked staff to find $500,000 more in cuts and also include revenue sources (such as sponsorships) that were brought to zero for the revenue hearing.  Between those two changes it would give the board more expense cuts and revenue options than needed.  At that point, the Village Board can prioritize our options. Trustee Gira then stated that we should not hold staff accountable for sponsorship revenue from year to year because they wouldn’t try to get new revenue because they would be held accountable for it in the future.  She also stated that she didn’t want to see special events that were supposed to be budget neutral but were not guaranteed (this was a swipe at the Centennial Park West paid concerts).  Village Manager LaMargo then stated that there were no new special events in the budget.  In other words, he has taken it upon himself to remove the Centennial Park West Concerts that the board gave approval to start booking over a month ago and is doing nothing to book those concerts. Upon reflection, I wondered why the operating budget and revenue request were inserted into our capital budget discussion.  It was clear that is was put in place for a few Trustees to make some points.  It is unfortunate that an otherwise productive meeting lasted an additional 45 minutes and changed nothing.  At the end of that time, we remained in the same place – find additional non-tax revenue sources, $500,000 in additional cuts and the Village Board was not committing to more revenue. Overall, the goal of the night was to discuss our capital budget and the Village Board came to agreement on the capital budget proposal and the first priority if additional funding is found.  I am an advocate for transparency, so I encourage all of you to come to our budget hearings (or watch on Facebook Live) as you will get a better sense of how the Village spends our money.     There are several upcoming meetings and events: Monday, September 17th, Board Meeting, 7PM Saturday, September 22nd, Harvest Hoe Down at Crescent Park – Tickets Available Wednesday, September 26th, Mayor Pekau Fundraiser at Crystal Tree, Tickets Available at https://secure.anedot.com/keith-4-mayor/c6d653be00fe279bb93c8