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A 20-year-old man accused of torching a North Carolina apartment building that left 130 people homeless last week was in the U.S. illegally, the sheriff's office told theCharlotte Observer.

Jesus Reyes Lopez, who was arrested Thursday in connection with the fire at the Woodscape Apartments, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and is wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the paper reported.

He will likely be deported no matter the outcome of his arson and attempted murder case, according to the paper.

Police say 40 apartments were damaged as a result of the fire Monday, leaving the 130 residents without a place to live.

Sources told a local TV news outlet that Lopez set the fire as an act of revenge against an ex-girlfriend and the fire got out of control, the Observer reported.

The Red Cross was working to find new homes for the displaced residents.

Seven people were hospitalized trying to escape the fire.

Residents reportedpeople dropping children from the third floor of the building because the stairwell was on fire, blocking their escape, Fox 46 Charlotte reported.

Lopez was jailed on a $1 million bail.

Authorities checked his immigration status when he was booked into the jail, the Observer reported.

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An illegal immigrant has been arrested in Geneseo, New York for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl, according to local news reports.

Fernando Alvarado-Perez, a 37-year-old male, allegedly had sex with the girlmultiple times while she was between 12- and 13-years-old, Livingston County News reports.

Alvarado-Perez told officers that he came to the United States illegally about 10 years ago.

The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly issued an immigration detainer on Alvarado-Perez.

He is being charged with, rape, criminal sexual act, and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, WHEC.com reports.

The Genessee Sun also reports that he had sex with the girl while in front of a baby.

This news comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under President Donald Trump has increased arrests of illegal immigrants by 43 percent, with ICE arresting 13,914 people in June alone. (RELATED:Texas AG: Trump Has Done More To Stop Illegal Immigration Than Anyone In World History)

Republican Lindsay Graham also recently made headlines for working on a news proposal to keep illegal immigrants in the country, saying that those who dont support DREAMers shouldnt vote for him.

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So were at least all in agreement that the steep decline in illegal alien border crossings from Mexico since Trump took office is a good thing, right? Dont be silly. There is no argument, debate or policy point put forward by conservatives where you cant find at least some liberals willing to kvetch over it and illegal immigration is no exception. Out in California, farmers growing fruits and vegetables are increasingly upset at the prospect of having to either upgrade to robotic technology or offer higher wages and benefits to get their crops picked. The story begins with a discussion of AgroBot, a contraption in use at Driscolls farms which picks strawberries.(LA Times)

AgroBot is still more John Deere than C-3PO a boxy contraption moving in fits and starts, with its computer-driven sensors, graspers and cutters missing 1 in 3 berries.

Such has been the progress of ag-tech in California, where despite the adoption of drones, iPhone apps and satellite-driven sensors, the hand and knife still harvest the bulk of more than 200 crops.

Heres a refreshing twist to the story which ICE might want to look into. The LA Times has actually found an executive at a company that supplies labor to agricultural interests who is willing to come out on the record and admit that the industry has been knowingly hiring illegal aliens and participating in a scheme involving forged documents. (Emphasis added)

Weve been masking this problem all these years with a system that basically allowed you to accept fraudulent documents as legal, and thats what has been keeping this workforce going, said Steve Scaroni, whose Fresh Harvest company is among the biggest recruiters of farm labor. And now we find out we dont have much of a labor force up here, at least a legal one.

Stated bluntly, there arent enough new immigrants for the states nearly half-million farm labor jobs especially as Mexico creates competing manufacturing jobs in its own cities, Taylor said. He has calculated that the pool of potential immigrants from rural Mexico shrinks every year by about 150,000 people.

Youll notice how the LA Times once again chooses to disingenuously use the phrase, there arent enough new immigrants when what they actually mean is that there arent enough illegal aliens. In a number of columns here over the years I have repeatedly stated that one surefire way to reduce the number of illegal aliens coming to the country would be to divert some resources away from arresting the actual workers and begin prosecuting the CEOs of the major companies who employ or recruit them. As soon as that happened the jobs would dry up overnight and the incentive to cross the border would be vastly diminished.

Now youve got a potential candidate for this bold plan, or at least somebody who probably knows enough to bring down the perpetrators. Steve Scaroni is one of the principals of SFC, the Scaroni Family of Companies. They employ more than 3,000 workers in that region and right on their front page they brag about their participation in the H-2A guest worker program. But it certainly sounds from this interview like Steve is aware that either he or his competitors are accepting fraudulent documents as legal in their organizations. Perhaps ICE would like to have a chat with him.

So what are the farmers to do if the supply of illegal aliens is drying up? The robots theyve developed for picking more fragile crops arent up to speed yet, but they are better than they used to be. Necessity is the mother of invention, and that progress would continue if the demand is there. And as the Times article notes, other competitors are already offering higher wages and even health care and other benefits to attract workers. Believe me if you offer a good enough deal you will find citizens willing to do the work. Combing better compensation packages with improved technology to make the work less onerous would eventually solve the problem in a free labor market. Does that mean that well be paying a bit more for a salad? Maybe. But thats how the market works.

Progress is being made in fighting illegal immigration. The agricultural industry is simply going to need to keep up with the times and adapt.

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Jake Brodeur helped the Medway Senior Babe Ruth team remain perfect this summer with a 4-2 win over Franklin in the first game of a best-of-three playoff series.

MEDWAY With runners on first and second base, and two outs, Franklin found itself down two runs in the top of the seventh of its Central Mass. Senior Babe Ruth playoff game with Medway.

Still, all Franklin needed was an extra-base hit to tie the game.

What Franklin received, however, was a single from Thomas Houlihan.

The hit wasnt smacked hard enough to plate Cam Benham from second base, however, but it loaded the bases or so it looked with Colin Flaherty coming up to hit.

Yet, Flaherty didnt even get a chance to step into the batters box.

After each runner advanced one base following the hit from Houlihan, Andrew DiLeo, who advanced to second base on the single, was caught too far off second base making a turn for third and was tagged out.

It was the final out in Medways 4-2 win over Franklin in Sundays playoff contest at Medway High School.

The Medway win is the first it needs in the best-of-three South Final playoff series.

The two teams will meet again at 5:30 p.m. on Monday at Fletcher Field in Franklin.

On Sunday, however, it was Jake Brodeur who led the charge for Medway (19-0) from the mound.

He pitched the entire game, striking out six, while allowing seven hits and walking three. The biggest help he received was from his defense, which didnt commit an error as Medway remains perfect on the summer.

[The fielding] changes everything, Brodeur said. You just let them hit it. Thats the only thing you need to do, especially when you have this defense.

Brodeur allowed a run in the first inning and another run in third inning, but retired the side in the fourth and fifth innings to halt any other threats. He allowed three runners to reach base in the seventh two on singles and one on a walk but got out of the jam to earn the win.

In the beginning, not really much was working for me, Brodeur said. Then I settled in [and] let the defense do the work. You [have to] try and keep them off balance so they dont know whats coming.

Medway manager Ted Coppinger was more than happy about his star pitchers outing.

Hes as good a competitor as there is in this league and whatever other leagues are around here, Coppinger said. Hes the leader of this team.

Medway trailed 2-0 entering the bottom of the fourth inning. But thats when its luck turned.

Cam Forbes hit a dribbler in front of the mound but on an overthrow by Franklin pitcher Matt Dumart allowed Forbes to scamper to third base.

Dumart then threw a wild pitch, which allowed Forbes to score Medways first run. Brodeur and Joe Downing then drew walks before Adam Cookson hit a pop-up. Ryan Pepin followed with a walk to load the bases.

Thats when Chase Phenegar hit a groundball to second base, which was bobbled by Franklins second baseman, allowing Brodeur to score.

Matt Kaplan then knocked in two runs on a base hit to center field, giving Medway its third and fourth runs of the game, which was all it needed behind Brodeur.

Kaplan is not an everyday regular for our team, but throughout the course of year, especially in games were not hitting, hell step up there and bang a hit, Coppinger said. The kid can hit, so hell be fun to coach for the next few years, I hope.

Though Medway only managed three hits compared to Franklins seven Medway walked five times and also stole four bases, while taking advantage of two wild pitches. We make pitchers work, Coppinger said. There is concern [with only three hits]. We have good hitters. We had a couple balls on the barrel that got caught. We [have] batting cages so hopefully our guys will be hitting there tomorrow and will get it going.

Matt Dumart pitched 3 2/3 innings as Franklins starter. He allowed four runs on two hits and four walks, and he also struck out four.

Franklins Bryan McGrath had a sacrifice fly in the first inning, which scored Joe Corsi. Steve Ferguson had an RBI single in the third inning, which scored Mike Skaza.

But thats all Franklin could muster off of Brodeur.

It comes down to making a couple more plays and thats exactly what they did, Franklin co-manager Phil Chisholm said. Nothing to hang your heads at. We get to go home tonight and hopefully get the win tomorrow and tie things up. We just have to play a clean game.

Thats the big thing.

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Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, was let go only after he lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. (And after Flynn's firing, Trump has expressed regret that he had to go.) White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday but, according to all available reporting, Trump wanted him to stay on even after hiring Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.

The one exception: Trump fired FBI Director James Comey due, according to the President, to his aggressive stance in relation to the Russia investigation.

(Side note: To show just how much Trump has changed perceptions and expectations of how a president acts, imagine for a second Barack Obama sending this same tweet out about Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch. It's literally impossible to conceive of.)

Add it up and here's what you get: Trump wants Sessions gone. But he doesn't want to swing the proverbial sword. He wants to make Sessions' life so uncomfortable that Sessions throws up his hands and walks away.

What does Trump do in the wake of that statement? Ramps up the rhetoric against Sessions so there can be no debate between reasonable people that Trump wants his attorney general to go do something else. But he doesn't do it to Sessions directly; he does it via a serious of public statements and leaks.

Sessions hasn't responded to this latest Trump volley. But, at this point, it is very tough for Sessions to simply ignore the message coming out of the White House. And that message is: We want you gone. So, go.

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