Tag: victims

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2…………> Facebook Under Conservative Attack: GOP

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The US-Mexico border saw a wave of migrants trying to enter the United States in search of a better life, apparently inspired by the Biden administration’s softer immigration policy, leading GOP Representative Kat Cammack to send a concerned letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of encouraging and advertising human smuggling on his social media platform amid the border crisis the US has been facing recently:

“Instead of censoring conservatives, how about we take on the cartels? In my letter to Facebook, I attached screenshots of ads I personally found w/a simple search for passage to the United States. Their role in the crisis at the border is urgent & must be addressed immediately”, Cammack tweeted this week.
The GOP representative called on Facebook to take measures against human smuggling advertisements, assailing to what she described as “silencing” and “shadow-banning” conservative voices.

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https://sputniknews.com/us/202105051082811897-gop-representative-accuses-facebook-of-promoting-human-smuggling-amid-border-crisis

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3………….> Pedophile Victims Sought: ICE

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SAN DIEGO — Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are seeking the public’s assistance to identify potential victims of a former preschool teacher identified as Paul Torres Jimenez De La Cuesta, 29, of Imperial Beach, California, convicted of child exploitation after pleading guilty April 5 to distribution of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

HSI Oceanside agents discovered Torres was trading child sex abuse materials (CSAM) via online chat groups, hence on June 11, 2020, special agents arrested Torres at his place of employment in Poway, California, after a federally executed search warrant of his electronic devices revealed the presence of CSAM.

At the time of his arrest, Torres was employed as a preschool teacher at the My Room to Grow Preschool in Poway. An HSI investigation revealed that Torres had been previously employed either full-time or as a substitute teacher at the following San Diego schools.

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https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-seeks-help-identifying-potential-victims-ex-preschool-teacher-convicted-child

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4………….> We Need More Children: US Data Drop

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In a matter of deep concern for all of us, the American birth rate fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2020, with the lowest number of babies born since 1979, according to a new report indicating that some 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2020 – marking a 4% decline from the year before, found the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.

The slump was seen across all recorded ethnicities and origins, according to the findings, with the national picture mirrors a decline in births seen worldwide, a trend some experts say has been accelerated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57003722

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5………….> Biden’s COVID19 Waiver: Global Protections

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US President “Uncle” Joe Biden’s administration announced support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, offering hope to poor nations that have struggled to access the life-saving doses, especially India, where the death toll hit a new daily record amid fears the peak is still to come, has been leading the fight within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow more drugmakers to manufacture the vaccines—a move pharma giants opposed.

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that while intellectual property rights for businesses are important, Washington “supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines” in order to end the pandemic.

“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” she said in a statement.
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https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210505-biden-backs-global-waiver-on-vaccine-patent-protections-for-covid-19