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Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- In August, 2016, two professors from the University of Austin, Texas, and an Associate Teaching Assistant Professor, sued the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, the President of the University of Texas, Austin, and the Members of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas at Austin.

A number of frivolous claims were offered in an attempt to stop the Texas statute allowing exercise of the Second Amendment on Campus from going into effect.

The claims included that the law is vague, the law violated the plaintiffs' First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The arguments were childish, irrational, emotional rants.

Here is an example:

48. The Texas statutes and university policies that prohibit Plaintiffs from exercising their individual option to forbid handguns in their classrooms violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applied in Texas through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies and procedures deprive Plaintiffs of their Second Amendment right to defend themselves and others in their classrooms from handgun violence by compelling them as public employees to passively acquiesce in the presence of loaded weaponry in their place of public employment without the individual possession and use of such weaponry in public being well-regulated. This infringement lacks any important justification and is imposed without any substantial link between the objectives of the policies and the means chosen to achieve them.

Judge Lee Yeakel heard the claims, read the suit, and concluded that the plaintiffs had no standing because they had not suffered any harm.

From reporternews.com:

A federal judge has dismissed a long-shot lawsuit filed by three University of Texas at Austin professors seeking to overturn the state's 2015 campus carry law, which allows people to carry concealed handguns inside most public university buildings.

District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote in his decision that the professors Jennifer Lynn Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter couldn't present any concrete evidence to substantiate their fears that campus carry would have a chilling effect on free speech.

From the decision, at texasattorneygeneral.gov(pdf):

The court concludes that Plaintiffs have not established an injury-in-fact, nor that the alleged injury is traceable to any conduct of Defendants. Friends of the Earth, 528 U.S. at 180-81. Accordingly, the court will dismiss this cause for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. Crane v. Johnson, 783 F.3d 244,251 (5th Cir. 2015). (Because [appellants] have not alleged a sufficient injury in fact to satisfy the requirements of constitutional standing, we dismiss their claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.)

III. CONCLUSION

IT IS ORDERED that UT Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint (Clerk's Doc. No. 64) and Defendant Ken Paxton's Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Complaint (Clerk's Doe. No. 65) are GRANTED

The results of the lawsuit are were expected. The claims were frivolous to those who actually read them.

It took nearly a year for the court to reach that conclusion. Some Minnesota students attempted to duplicate the Texas protests. No serious incidents have been associated with the restoration of Second Amendment freedoms on Campus. Other than the Minnesota copy cat protests, protests related to Texas Campus Carry have withered away. 2017 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.

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About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Mario Giro claimed that the Italians were having to negotiate hard with the bloc in order to help them resolve the current migration problem.

Some European countries, such as Poland and Hungary are facing losing funding from the European Union as they have taken a hardline stance against taking in their migrant quota.

Speaking on Al Jazeera, Mr Giro insisted that the country would not start handing out visas to migrants after a threat was being discussed.

He said: We are not preparing to deliver unilaterally visa.

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The only thing that we are asking Europe is to let relocation function.

This is very important symbolically and politically.

The deputy foreign minister insisted that the Italians were having to fight hard tonegotiatea resolution with the Brussels bloc.

He continued: We are continuing topush because in Europe you know, particularly multilaterally, in general, the only thing that counts ishardnegotiation.

We are hardly negotiating on this issue with Europeans particularly.

The only thing that we are asking Europe is to let relocation function

Mario Giro

We are also doing a good job in the south with Libyans on one side and Africans on the other side.

Migration is a global affair to be globally resolved.

Mr Giro also voiced his concerns that the migration issue could play a massive role in recent elections in Germany and Italy.

This is a very political and controversial issue, he added.

The question of welcoming refugees coming from Africa and also from Asia it is a controversial question.

We think that we need a European Common Policy on one side and in the countries not to let the populistto havepolitical space, we also need a partisan policy.

In a bid to deal with the crisis, Italy threatened to invoke wartime legislation to hand out 200,000 temporary EU visas to asylum seekers which would allow the migrants to legally travel north using a Brussels directive.

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The Italian Government believes that they can exploit European Council Directive 2001/55, which was put in place after the Balkans conflict to give temporary European entry permits to a large number of displaced people.

Mr Giro and Luigi Manconi, a senator with the ruling Democratic Party, confirmed to The Times that the visa idea was being discussed.

Official figures show that at least 86,000 migrants have arrived in Italy this year alone.

Mr Giro told Il Manifesto: We are in a tug of war.

We dont accept being turned into a European hotspot, or feeling guilty because we rescue people, so deciding what to do with the migrants who arrive is everyones responsibility.

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The L Samuel Beckett dropped anchor in Bantry Bay yesterday to play an integral part in the West Cork Literary Festival.

This particular festival highlight took place onboard and featured BBC radio journalist Emma Jane Kirby. She was interviewed by Sue Leonard about her recent book The Optician of Lampedusa, which she wrote after reporting from the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.

The naval ship was an inspired venue, not only for its literary name but for the shared journey of the vessel and its crew, who served in the Mediterranean on humanitarian work rescuing migrants from the ocean.

The ships 2016 deployment was featured in the recent RT documentary The Crossing.

Audience members sat on the top deck, basked in sunshine, and listened to Ms Kirby recount the harrowing experiences she encountered. A voice recording of the real-life optician Carmine Menna, a 60-year-old Italian who threw himself into the humanitarian disaster in the Med, set the tone of the afternoon.

Lt Cmdr Darragh Kirwan with author Emma Jane Kirby on board the L Samuel Beckett in Bantry Harbour

At the height of public concern about the migrant crisis, Ms Kirby realised migrant fatigue had set in on what she describes as one of the greatest human tragedies of our time, as well as one of the biggest news stories of our age.

This compelled Ms Kirby to seek stories that would cut through this fatigue. An investigation of people who were involved in the crises led her to meet Mr Menna, an everyman we could all identify with, someone who lived his daily life on the island of Lampedusa, 300km north of Tripoli in Libya, without getting involved in what was unfolding on the shores.

Until, that is, he took a life-changing boat trip while on holiday with his wife and six others.

Author Emma Jane Kirby with host Sue Leonard and their audience on board the L Samuel Beckett in Bantry Harbour for a reading of The Optician of Lampedusa.

One morning they awoke to a sea of drowning migrants whose vessel had gone down. In the moment he first grasped the hand of a drowning migrant, the situation became humanised for him. Mr Menna and his friends pulled 47 migrants from the sea that day.

Mr Menna had not wanted to share his story, refusing to be cast as a hero, and warning Ms Kirby it would haunt her. However, she convinced him of the value of sharing his experience, which she fictionalised in the book. Her report The Optician of Lampedusa, on which this book is based, went on to win the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents.

Ms Kirby lightened the sombre mood by speaking about other missions and mishaps. A trip to the China Sea in high weather resulted in two rafts containing the entire belongings of the press crew flipping in the wind as they descended the ladder a near miss that saw them dressed in Australian Navy boiler suits for several days.

Maria ODonovan, Kinsale, and Bernard OSullivan, Turners Cross, Cork, on board the L Samuel Beckett in Bantry Harbour for a reading of The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Jane Kirby.

Lt Donnacha Cahalane and Lt Cathal Quigley were among the crew onboard the L Samuel Beckett and who served on Operation Pontus.

Lt Quigley said: Its great to see it from a different perspective. Some of the readings today would provoke memories. The book is very good, we are delighted to have the author onboard.

The West Cork Literary Festival continues until 23 July. westcorkliteraryfestival.ie

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Colorado and federal prosecutors are urging illegal immigrants to report immigration-related fraud.

As The Denver Post reports, prosecutors say they are worried stigma and fear of deportation are keeping people from coming forward to report immigration-related cases of fraud.

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, said at a news conference earlier this month that while Colorado has good laws in place, there are barriers of fear and mistrust in these targeted communities that need to be broken down.

Coffmans office, along with Colorado district attorneys and the U.S. attorneys office, have teamed up to offer information sessions in the coming months about laws protecting people living in the U.S illegally in Colorado from being targeted.

Specifically, authorities want to ensure the immigrant community knows about two laws passed last year that make it illegal for any unauthorized people to advertise or perform immigration-related services or to sell immigration-related government appointments.

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Colorado and federal prosecutors urge illegal immigrants to report immigration-related fraud - HPPR

Our goal is not to reduce illegal immigration but to end illegal immigration,he told the July 17 gathering. We are already seeing positive results with illegal border crossings in March hitting the lowest monthly figure in 17 years. He continued:

In just 5 states over three days, ICE arrested 86 nationals. Sixty-two had criminal convictions and 23 had been previously deported. Seven were fugitives with outstanding final orders of removal. One U.S. Attorney in an average non-border state, told me they had presented 300 illegal reentry cases last year.

In 2016, roughly 500,000 illegals entered the United States. Roughly half of them illegally crossed the U.S. borders, and roughly halfoverstayedtheir legal visas for tourism, temporary work or business trips.

The Trump administrations ongoing record on immigration has both pleased and angered Trumps base.

Since January, federal immigration officers have pushed border-crossing by illegal aliens to a 17-year low and sharply increased arrests of illegal immigrants. In fact, arrests havedoubledin San Diego and other places. Moreover, illegal immigrants are increasingly resorting to self-deportation to avoid heightened immigration enforcement.

Also, the pending 2018s fiscal year budget includes $1.6 billion for a border wall.

Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security has laid out plans to deploy computer systems in airports by 2018 that will keep track of visa over stayers. A DHS report shows that 304,000 foreigners overstayed their 2015 visas into January of 2017. Around40 percentof the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States acquired their status as a result of visa overstays.

Despite such steps, advocates for conservative immigration reform expressed concern over other immigration policies, such as the DHS expansion of the controversial H-2B visa program.

While calling for a lawful immigration system, Jeff Sessions remarks included no mention of curtailing or reforming legal immigration, despite efforts in the administration and the Senate to cut annual legal immigration caps from 1 million to 500,000 entrants.

Also, Sessions did not say the agencys goal is to repatriate the entire population of roughly 11 million illegals now residing in the United States.

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