Border security deal seems near, easing shutdown concerns

01:31, 08 Feb 2019

Congressional bargainers seem close to clinching a border security agreement that would avert a fresh government shutdown, with leaders of both parties voicing optimism and the top GOP negotiator saying he believes President Donald Trump would back the emerging accord.

It could take days to nail down final details and unexpected problems could develop, especially with Trump’s penchant for head-snapping changes of mind. Even so, participants said a handshake could come any day on a spending package for physical barriers along the Southwest border and other security measures that would end a confrontation that has dominated the opening weeks of divided government.

“The president was urging me to try to conclude these negotiations and this is the most positive meeting I’ve had in a long time,” lead GOP bargainer Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama told reporters after discussing the parameters of the potential pact with Trump in the Oval Office.

“I gathered today that if we work this out in the context that we were talking today, that I thought was reasonable, very reasonable, that he would sign it,” added Shelby.

https://thebl.com/politics/border-security-deal-seems-near-easing-shutdown-concerns.html

Authorities arrest Customs and Border Protection officer suspected of selling guns without license

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged with selling guns without a license and using his status as a law enforcement officer to buy and then transfer handguns not available to the general public, according to federal authorities.

Wei Xu, a watch commander at CBP’s Los Angeles and Long Beach Seaport, sold or transferred at least 70 firearms since 2014 without a license, authorities allege in a criminal complaint and affidavit. He allegedly sold four of them to an undercover investigator posing as a buyer.

The criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday charged Xu, 56, with dealing in firearms without a federal firearms license and unlawfully transferring an unregistered short-barreled rifle. Authorities said that licensing records show that Xu is not and has never been a licensed firearms dealer.

Xu appeared in court Wednesday and was ordered detained without bond pending trial, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He is due back in court later this month.

During a search of his home Tuesday, federal authorities seized more than 300 firearms, including assault rifles, short-barreled rifles and what look like machine guns, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/authorities-arrest-customs-and-border-protection-officer-suspected-of-selling-guns-without-license/

Feds seize 1.7 tons of meth, other drugs at Long Beach port

Thursday, February 07, 2019 08:00PM

LONG BEACH (KABC) –

Six people have been arrested after federal agents seized more than 1.7 tons of drugs stashed inside audio speakers that were being shipped from Long Beach to Australia.

The shipment included 3,810 pounds of methamphetamine, along with 56 pounds of cocaine and 11.5 pounds of heroin, federal authorities said.

Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized three shipping containers containing the drugs on Jan. 11 at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.

https://abc7.com/feds-seize-17-tons-of-drugs-at-long-beach-port/5126800/

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One-World Church Expected This Year

One of the long-standing goals of the Masonic New World Order seems finally within grasp: its one-world church, in the making for over 150 years, is about to become institutionalized as the United Religions Organization—the UR. Collaborating on the details are Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California, the Communist Gorbachev Foundation/USA, and certain leaders of the Catholic Church, working through the interreligious organization known as the World Conference on Religion and Peace.

Plans for the formation of the UR were first revealed by Bishop Swing at the syncretic service held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. Attending the service in San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral on June 25, 1995, were representatives of all religions as well as political and spiritual luminaries like Princess Margaret of Britain, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, then President Lech Walesa of Poland and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=166