Mexico Detains Nearly 800 Illegal Immigrants in 4 Trucks, Government Says

Mexico’s government said it detained nearly 800 illegal immigrants who were crammed in four trucks in Eastern Mexico on June 15, one of the highest numbers detained by the country in recent months after Mexico promised to step up efforts to curb illegal immigration.

In a statement, Mexico’s National Migration Institute said they detained 791 illegal immigrants who were discovered in the trucks that were stopped in the eastern state of Veracruz. The institute is a government agency tasked with controlling and supervising migration in Mexico.

The announcements confirmed earlier reports about a mass detention that had taken place.

The recent detainment comes just a day after the United States said it had doubled the number of asylum seekers it sends back each day to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, according to a Mexican immigration official. The jump was the first major sign of action after a deal was made between the two countries to avoid punitive U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods.

Luis Carlos Cano, a spokesman for Mexico’s national immigration agency in Ciudad Juarez, said that starting on June 13, some 200 asylum seekers per day were being sent back to Mexico, up from 100 previously. The expansion of the “Remain in Mexico” program, reached in a June 7 deal, sends asylum seekers to await the outcome of their U.S. asylum claims in Mexico.

The program currently operates in Tijuana, Mexicali, and Ciudad Juarez. Close to 12,000 people have been returned to Mexico since it began in January.

The United States is has been dealing with a rising influx of illegal immigrants, most of whom are traveling through Mexico from Central America. Trump said previously that Mexico has not done enough to curb the flow of illegal immigrants on their side of the border.

Trump last week commented on the recent efforts by Mexico to stem the flow of illegal immigration in a June 11 post on Twitter.

“Sad when you think about it, but Mexico right now is doing more for the United States at the Border than the Democrats in Congress!” he said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mexico-detains-nearly-800-illegal-immigrants-in-4-trucks-government-says_2965606.html

Hedge Fund CIO: "I Don’t Think The Public Is Aware Of What’s Coming"

I don’t think we’re well prepared at all. And I don’t think the public is aware of what’s coming,” said the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He was discussing the rapid advance of synthesis technology. This new artificial intelligence capability allows competent programmers to create audio and video of anyone, saying absolutely anything.

The creations are called “deepfakes” and however outrageous they may be, they’re virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.

No sooner had we adjusted to a world where our reality seemed fake, then things that are fake became our reality.

“We’re outgunned,” said a UC Berkeley digital-forensics expert, “The number of people now working on video-synthesis outnumber those working on detecting deepfakes by 100-1.”

Twitter suspended 4,779 accounts it believed are associated with Iran’s theocratic leaders. It republished every tweet sent by these accounts to help researchers analyze and spot behavioral patterns. Already two-thirds of Americans say altered images and videos have become a major problem for understanding the basic facts of current events.

Misinformation researchers warn of growing “reality apathy” whereby it takes so much effort to distinguish between what’s real and fake that we simply give up and rely on our base instincts, tribal biases, impulses. Immersed in our leader’s deceits, we come to believe in nothing. Two oil tankers burst into flames, billowing smoke.

On cue, a suspicious Iranian Revolutionary Guard boat appeared on grainy video. Viral images flooded earth’s nine billion screens. Each side told a different story. No one quite knew who to trust. Conspiracy theories filled the void, as we each clung to what we most want to believe. And as truth slowly slipped away, we turned to market prices as our proxy for reality; oil prices fell, stocks rallied, volatility declined.

But of course, it is precisely because market prices still retain some reflection of reality that our policy makers and politicians work so desperately to manipulate them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/hedge-fund-cio-i-dont-think-public-aware-whats-coming