Why Hispanic voters are backing Trump over Biden to fix the border crisis

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Hispanic voters in seven key battleground states for the 2024 election trust Donald Trump to handle immigration more than President Joe Biden.

While 38 percent of Hispanic voters in these swing states trust Biden to handle immigration, 41 percent of the same voting bloc trust Trump more. Sixteen percent of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remain undecided, according to a poll released by Equis.

Much has been made about why Hispanics, who many times are first, second or third generation American citizens, are upset with how the immigration system has become more lax in recent years. Interviews with Hispanic and Latino voters reveal they feel disenfranchised by Democrats who are trying to make it easier for migrants to gain access into the country and be released without legal status.

Arturo Garino, who was previously mayor of Nogales, Arizona, told NBC News that open borders is not the way to go. 'I don't think what this administration is doing it right — letting all these people just come across,' Garino said. >'I'm a Democrat, and I'm pretty p***ed off.'

Biden's campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu 'I don't know' when asked why he thinks the president is losing ground with Hispanic voters. 'Latino voters are like everybody else,' Landrieu said in his Sunday interview with NBC host Peter Alexander. 'They move around from space to space. You see this with African American voters as well.' Non-Hispanic voters in the seven swing states who were polled also favor Trump to handle immigration more than Biden.

Forty-nine percent of non-Hispanic voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin say they trust the border hawk former president, compared to 34 percent of those who say they trust Biden more. The poll shows 14 percent are undecided.

Nearly 8 million migrants have crossed the southern border since Biden took office in January 2021 and reversed most of Trump-era policies on day one. He then spent the next three-and-a-half years implementing more lax policies that permitted more migrants to cross. Then, Biden issued an executive order earlier this month that restricts migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border once it reaches 2,500 per day. Republicans labeled the order a desperate attempt by the Biden administration to earn points with those upsets by the immigration crisis ahead of November's election.

What’s left for the Supreme Court to decide? Here’s the list.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is headed into its final week with about a quarter of the cases heard this year still undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from abortion to social media. The justices are also still weighing whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the election interference case against him, roughly two months after hearing arguments.

The court heard 61 cases this term, and 15 remain unresolved. Here’s a look at some of the major undecided cases:

Presidential immunity

Donald Trump is arguing that former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts they took in office and that the indictment he faces on charges of election interference must be dismissed. The Supreme Court has previously ruled that former presidents can’t be sued in civil cases for what they did in office, but it has never weighed in on criminal immunity. The timing of the decision may be as important as the outcome. Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C., may not take place before the November election, even if the court rules he is not immune.

Jan. 6, 2021

A former Pennsylvania police officer is challenging the validity of obstruction charges brought against hundreds of people who took part in the violent assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump faces the same charge of obstructing an official proceeding. The issue is whether a law meant to discourage tampering with documents sought in investigations can be used against the Capitol rioters.

Emergency abortion

There’s a second abortion case on the docket this year: whether doctors can provide that medical procedure in emergencies in states that banned abortion after the court overturned Roe v. Wade. In a case out of Idaho, the Biden administration says abortions must be allowed in emergencies where a woman’s health is at serious risk. The state argues that its strict abortion ban does allow abortions to save a woman’s life, and doesn’t need to expand exceptions for health risks.

Homelessness

The most significant Supreme Court case in decades on homelessness centers on whether people can be banned from sleeping outdoors when shelter space is lacking. A San Francisco-based appeals court decision said that amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Leaders from California and across the West say that the ruling makes it harder for them to regulate homeless encampments encroaching on sidewalks and other public places. Advocates say it would criminalize homelessness just as rising costs have pushed the number of people without a permanent place to live to record levels.

Chevron

The justices could overturn a 40-year-old decision that has been cited thousands of times in federal court cases and used to uphold regulations on the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections. The decision colloquially known as Chevron calls on judges to defer to federal regulators when the words of a statute are not crystal clear. The decision has long been targeted by conservative and business interests who say Chevron robs judges of their authority and gives too much power to regulators.

Social media

Three cases remain unresolved at the intersection of social media and government. Two cases involve social media laws in Texas and Florida that would limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. While the details vary, both laws aimed to address conservative complaints that the social media companies were liberal-leaning and censored users based on their viewpoints, especially on the political right.

Purdue Pharma

The Supreme Court controls the fate of a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would allocate billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic, but also provide a legal shield for members of the Sackler family who own the company. The settlement has been on hold since last summer after the Supreme Court agreed to weigh in.

Air pollution

Republican-led, energy-producing states and the steel industry want the court to put the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue. The plan aims to protect downwind states that receive unwanted air pollution from other states.

SEC

Another important regulatory case could strip the SEC of a major tool in fighting securities fraud and have far-reaching effects on other regulatory agencies. The court is being asked to rule that people facing civil fraud complaints have the right to a jury trial in federal court.

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Inside the covert Jewish 'police force' roaming America's streets as string of scandals spark cover-up claims

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American streets have turned into terror for Jews over the last few months, with hate crimes and violent pro-Palestine protests sparking fear after the October 7 attacks. But communities have a little-known covert weapon that helps combat the most serious threats - and means most can sleep soundly at night. Those living in 'Haredi' - ultra-orthodox communities across the country - deploy teams of police-force style volunteers called Shomrim (which means 'guards' in Hebrew) to keep an eye out.

The group, which has close ties to the NYPD, is a private organization that aims to curb various crimes including burglary, vandalism, assault and anti-Semitic attacks. Yet they are not without scandal themselves, with their ties to the police sometimes strained due to call times and reluctance to pass on information on Jewish suspects.

<Shomrim have been accused of withholding information on suspected Jewish criminals, allegedly to comply with the Torah (bible) prohibition against informing on fellow Jews.

>This stance has sparked outrage, particularly in cases involving child molesters, where Shomrim's reluctance to share information with police has been slammed. In one case, the perpetrator of a heinous underage rape in Brooklyn was one of the Shomrim's very own. The scandal involved Jacob Daskal, founder of the Borough Park Shomrim Society, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl who had moved in with him and his wife to escape a troubled family situation. Daskal, 64, subjected her to 'nightly rape sessions,' according to a statement written by the 15-year-old victim and read aloud in court by a prosecutor at the time.

In October 2023, Daskal begged for forgiveness, expressing his 'overwhelming regret' for his actions while dozens of his supporters, including eight of his adult children, sat weeping and praying in the packed courtroom after he pleaded guilty to the charges.

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Vatican's trial of the century heads to British court: Archbishop will be cross-examined over £350m London property fraud case that saw Pope Francis authorise wire-tapping

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A senior Archbishop is going to make an unprecedented appearance in a British court to be cross-examined over a £350m London property fraud case that saw Pope Francis authorise wire-tapping. In previous British legal proceedings the Vatican has claimed diplomatic immunity and refused to allow officials to appear as witnesses. But now Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, a close aide to the Pope, will make an appearance in the Vatican's 'trial of the century'.

At the heart of the trial is the 350-million-euro purchase of a luxury property in London which used to be a car showroom and garage for Harrod's.

Raffaele Mincione, a London financier, sold the property at 60 Sloane Avenue, in Chelsea, to the Holy See in dealings that began in 2014 and ended up costing the Vatican about 140 million euros (£118 million).

<pic: Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra (right), a close aide to the Pope (left), will make an appearance in the Vatican's 'trial of the century'

The Times reported that in a case to open in the High Court next week, Mincione is seeking a declaration that he acted properly and in good faith. Mincione, 58, was one of a string of defendants on trial in December last year accused of fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion, corruption and abuse of office. He was found guilty of embezzlement in the historic trial and sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

At present Mincione is free pending an appeal and claims the investigation and trial were illegal under international law and breached his human rights. During the investigation the Pope used his powers as absolute monarch to pass decrees to authorise phone tapping, email interception and arrest. Mincione's phones and computers were seized in Rome and he and his lawyers were followed. Archbishop Parra liaised with the Pope over the case and his WhatsApp messages were disclosed to Mincione's lawyers despite the Vatican trying and failing to stop this.

I witnessed unimaginable horrors in Japan's WW2 human experiment unit…I had to speak out for the sake of my children: Vet, 93, describes jars full of human bodies at notorious Unit 731 where POWs were dissected ALIVE and infected with plague

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Sworn to secrecy by the Japanese Imperial Army, Hideo Shimizu carried the horrors he saw at the notorious Unit 731 facility with him for more than 70 years.

The 93-year-old was just 14 when he was drafted as a cadet to the city of Harbin, in what was then Japanese-occupied Manchuria, during World War II. There, he was groomed to take part in some of history's worst atrocities - human experiments carried out on prisoners of war including pregnant women and small children.

More than 3,000 people - mostly Chinese civilians, but also Russian, British and American POWs - were dissected alive, infected with bubonic plague and used as human guinea-pigs for frost-bite treatments in nightmarish torture laboratories. Decades on, innocent pictures of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren reminded Shimizu of the faces of the many victims he came across in the slaughterhouse.

• pic: Staff of the Manchukuo puppet state carrying out bacteriological tests on babies and small children - directed by Japan's Unit 73 Japanese Army's Unit 731 - in November 1940

• pic: A human 'subject', seemingly a young Chinese civilian, is subjected to an unknown form of bacteriological test at Unit 731

The veteran realised that he had to break his silence for the sake of the next generation.

Now a retired architect who built an comfortable life for himself and his family, Shimizu tried to bury his dark past, not even revealing it to his closest relatives. But the memories of his former life came flooding back when he and his wife visited a war museum back in 2015. He was unable to contain his emotions when he saw a photo among the relics of a large brick building - the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, or Unit 731. He found himself telling his wife everything he knew about the building, and finall admitted that his knowledge was first-hand as he had been a member of the biological warfare unit himself.

Unit 731 was built in 1936 in modern-day Harbin, northeastern China, for the Japanese Imperial Army to conduct research into germ warfare, weapons capabilities and the limits of the human body. The covert operation was run originally under the guise of a lumber mill, then a water purification plant.

>While it was human flesh rather than lumber the sick scientists were cutting up, they dehumanised their victims by referring to them in Japanese as 'marutas,' or wooden logs. 'So many 'marutas' died, and the Japanese soldiers were also dissected. I often wonder why on earth Unit 731 had done so many evil things?' Shimizu said.

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