As you saw from Bill And Dana and their last program there is a whole lot happening in the southeastern parts of this country and well get to it. Were watching Fox News alert. So far nothing from the White House on new data that show there could be Tens Of Thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes roaming freely inside the united states. And with that breaking, lets start. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The department of Homeland Security claims the figures are misrepresented. That doesnt mean they arent true. That may mean they dont like them. That data are from immigration and Customs Enforcement showing there are more than 425,000 nondetained illegal immigrants with criminal convictions inside america. Which includes more than 13,000 convicted of homicide, 15,000 convicted of sexual assault. Ice also found the number of overall illegal immigrants on the nondetained docket, which means they are roaming freely and we dont know where they are. T
Surveillance and the sort of central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful at protecting the government and its citizens while also upholding those same Citizens Rights . Especially the right to dissent. In other words, are liberty and procurity compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been real throughout u. S. History and they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what the Cato Institute described as, quote, Strong Political views that run count toer to the prevailing government paradigm. This challenges the notion by those who support a state of some sort if you have nothing to hide, you hav
From foreign and domestic sources, those threats are real. They have been a real threat u. S. History. I think they can come from across the political spectrum. But for over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what is described as Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. Will this challenge is the notion often expressed, by those who support a surveillance state of some sort, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. And i want to come back to that later on in our discussion. Maybe you would hear to that you, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you firmly reject it. That is fine, we will have an opportunity to discuss that later. But the history of abuses in domestic surveillance, in this country, necessitates that discussion. Because the same tools that can
Up Citizens Rights especially the right to dissent. No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate, to exist. Foreign and domestic threats are real. But for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the American Government have surveilled those who have expressed what they Cato Institute Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. This challenges the notion that those who support the state in some sort that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will come back to that later in our discussion. Maybe you adhere to that view, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you rejected. That is fine. We will discuss it. But the history of surveillance necessitates that discussion. Can the same tools used to protect be used against citizens for sometimes nefarious reasons. Going back in history, Teddy Roosevelts attorney general
A knife turns a hanikra celebration near new york city into a bloody crime scene new yorks governor says it was an act of domestic terror. Im nick spicer welcome to the program. Ukrainian government and russian backed separatists have completed a Prisoner Exchange a plane landed at the airport sunday evening a few hours after the swap at a checkpoint in the separatist stronghold of the nets in Eastern Ukraine exchange included prisoners held by both sides since hostilities broke out in 2014 as follows an agreement russia and ukraine reached earlier this month in talks brokered by germany and france. I carefully coordinated ron davis in ukraines rebel controlled region 200. 00 people in total were released in the exchange some returning to the ukrainian side said the exchange was a good start but everyone needed to be freed. Im grateful to the president who agreed and freed us. But there are still a lot of guys jailed there and we need to help them just everyone for everyone. The produc