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KUALA LUMPUR: A woman suspected to have raked in millions by offering illegal immigration services to foreigners and employers was arrested at a condominium in Taman Melati Utama in Setapak here.

Kuala Lumpur Immigration director Syamsul Badrin Mohshin said the 48-year-old suspects year-old operation was busted when they raided the house at 11am Wednesday (May 17) in Ops Serkap.

He said she charged her "clients RM2,500 each for Labour Recalibration (RTK) registrations and RM8,000 for Temporary Work Visit Pass (PLKS) renewals although the department had never appointed any party to do such work.

"We conducted intelligence and surveillance operations for a month after an employer made a report on the activities of the woman.

"Our investigation found that she conducted her scheme with the help of a friend believed to be a Bangladeshi and collected millions from her customers, he told a press conference at the Home Ministry here today (May 18).

He said three foreign men, aged 42 to 48, were also arrested during the raid.

"We seized, among other things, 314 Bangladeshi passports, a computer, mobile phones, 17 CIDB cards and RM61,550 in cash, he said.

Syamsul Badrin said his officers also raided the womans office in Taman Sri Rampai, Setapak at about 12.20pm on the day of her arrest.

They seized 53 Bangladeshi passports, 198 CIDB cards, seven payment record books, eight company files and three company licences from the office.

He said the woman and the three men were detained for investigations under the Passport Act 1959/63. - Bernama

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An 8-year-old girl who died while in U.S. border custody on Wednesday had been detained for a week more than twice the amount of time the government generally aims to hold migrants, particularly children, according to two people familiar with the situation.

The girl and her family were being held in a Customs and Border Protection facility in Harlingen, Texas, where they were waiting to be deported on a flight to Honduras. The family was among thousands of migrants who crossed the countrys southern border ahead of the expiration of a pandemic-era immigration rule that the authorities had feared would lead to a large influx of migrants and overcrowding at border holding facilities.

The people familiar with the situation spoke on the condition of anonymity because the childs death is under internal investigation.

Hondurass foreign ministry identified the girl as Anadith Danay Reyes lvarez, a Panamanian national known to her family as Ana, who was born with a heart condition. Her parents, who are Honduran, traveled to the United States so that their daughter could have a better life, said Antonio Garca, the countrys foreign vice minister.

Customs and Border Protection officials said on Wednesday that emergency medical services had transported the girl to a hospital, where she died. Biden administration officials did not respond to additional questions about the circumstances surrounding the childs death, citing the internal review. A border official in Texas who was not authorized to speak publicly said that Ana had a serious medical conditionof which officials had not immediately been aware.

Though all migrants are given health screenings when taken into federal custody, the death of a child is at the heart of concerns about the governments policy of detaining children for any period of time and particularly in crowded settings. While there is no law or official guidance about how long undocumented migrants are to be detained while in border custody, the government typically aims for about three days.

In the past week the authorities have struggled with overcrowding at border facilities, which quickly exceeded capacity after a spike in illegal migration ahead of last weeks lifting of the pandemic-era public health rule, known as Title 42.

That policy had allowedofficialstoexpelsome migrantsswiftly, instead of holding them in custody. Sinceitsexpiration, officials have reverted to policies that involve longer processing times for migrants.

On May 17, the day Ana died, migrants were being held for an average of four and a half days, according to internal data obtained by The New York Times, compared to an average of a little under three days on May 10.

The bottom line is you need to get families out of C.B.P. custody because the conditions generally are substandard and not appropriate for kids to be held in, said Wendy Young, the president of the advocacy group Kids in Need of Defense. Scientific studies have concluded that detaining children, even if they are with their parents, can cause developmental and mental health issues.

Brandon Judd, the leader of the Border Patrol labor union, said agents have raised concerns about the crowded detention centers.

Theres a reason that you have a certain capacity, and thats for the safety of everybody, Mr. Judd said. When you exceed that capacity, then safety levels are going to go way down.

In 2018 and 2019, when the numbers of migrant crossings reached high levels,the Trump administration came under intense criticism for the death of minors in Customs and Border Protectiondetention.

In an interview with Univision on May 18, Lorna Santos, Anas aunt, said that the childs mother told officials at the Customs and Border Protectionfacility that Ana was having trouble breathing, but that a medical staff member dismissed her concerns.Ms. Santos said the girls mother told her that Ana later faintedand was taken to a hospital, where she died in the waiting room.

Wilson Paz, the director of Hondurass migrant protection service, said Anas father told Honduran authorities that she had undergone surgery in Panama three years ago to address a membrane blocking blood from reaching her heart. Mr. Paz said she was tested for Covid-19 when she went to the United States, and she was diagnosed with the flu.

The Biden administration has been managing a historic spike in illegal migration for the past two years, as people flee authoritarian states, violence and extreme poverty.

Though the administration added more staff to help process migrants into the country and increased Customs and Border Protections capacity to hold migrantsbefore Title 42 expired, it was not enough to stave off the backups that led to overcrowding last week.

In the week since the policy ended, however, the number of illegal crossings have been down significantly, with an average of 3,000 to 4,000 apprehensions a day, the Homeland Security Department said, compared to the nearly 10,000 apprehended a day around the time that Ana and her family crossed. The majority of the migrants have been from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. Since May 12, more than 11,000 migrants have been expelled to Mexico or repatriated, the department said in a statement on Friday.

On May 10, ngel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, a 17-year-old Honduran boy, died while he was in a Florida shelter overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency charged with overseeing the care of migrant children who cross into the United States without a parent or guardian. The boys mother said he was epileptic but had not been sick when he traveled to the United States.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs contributed reporting from Washington.

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Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida continues to make headlines for staking out controversial positions at the heart of the culture wars. Most recently, he issued a ban on "critical race theory" and "equity, diversity, and inclusion" in Florida's primary and secondary education systems, defunding DEI in all of Florida's public schools.

He's on to something. Today's DEI is a big grift that grafts advocacy for sexual preferences and illegal immigrants onto the outstanding obligations due to the descendants of U.S. slaves. Under the guise of representing Black Americans, DEI subordinates our interests to the aims of new, sometimes manufactured victim groups.

It's time to say that DEI must dieand the Black mis-leadership that depends upon it can go down with it.

Everybody knows that DEI gets its moral authority from the participation of Black leaders who are funded by white liberalsa group of people who found a way to make themselves "minorities" based on lifestyle choices. This conflict of interest ensures Black political leaders are unable to do their actual job of delivering for Black Americansbecause they are too afraid to lose sponsorship from white DEI powerbrokers.

Where is this happening, you ask? Watch how New York City Mayor Eric Adams, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and newly elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have served as cheerleaders for President Biden's border crisis, even as resources are diverted from their Black constituents.

We see more Black mis-leadership in how the Congressional Black Caucus wasted four years disrespecting President Donald Trump instead of working with the leader of the free world to deliver on the economic and political interests of Black Americans. The CBC is a cohort of Black officials charged with using their tenure in Congress to represent and fulfill Black Americans' political interests, though it's probably hard to tell, considering they consistently advocate for illegal aliens and everything else.

This same mission drift is happening in historical Black organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Legacy organizations have sold out to the immigration lobby and one-sided Pan-Africanism instead of securing the domestic interests of the descendants of U.S. slaves. Thus, the president of the NAACP advocated for descendants of U.S. slaves to forgive African slave traders and serve as an economic base for Africa rather than advising Black Americans to lean into our Americanness.

What kind of leadership tells Black Americans to build a third-world continent rather than reclaim our protected class status in the first-world country where we have multiple generations of sweat and blood equity?

But it's classic misleader speak to tell Black Americans to feel more kinship with random "brown" people instead of holding our country and new arrivals accountable to our human rights legacy and socioeconomic agenda.

It's an open secret that singing in the DEI choir and seeing your destiny as part of the "Black-and-brown coalition" helps foreigners legitimize their political aimsbut never ours.

It's time to acknowledge that the DEI industry is selling us out to an intersectional coalition that demands Black elected officials kiss the ring of migrants, the LGBTQIA+, and various other "people of color" while giving nothing in return for our community. For us to get anything as Black Americans, we have to get our political agenda approved by illegal aliens, sexual minorities, and new Americans.

Make that make sense! Such submissiveness is beneath the dignity of the legacy of our ancestors.

Meanwhile, leftists of all shades fail to condemn their own complicity in Black American servility. And why would they? It's been working in their favor to promise us nothing and deliver even less.

The weakened political position of Black Americans is the fault of Black leaders who worship "diversity" interests first and foremost. For example, of the 56 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, two dozen represent predominately Black districts, but every single Black House member voted against H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, which passed the House along party lines. Those elected officials must break from the grips of white-led DEI and the global citizenship narrative of Black leftists.

It's time to take over predominately Black districts by electing pro-Black and America First candidatesin the vein of Republican Thaddeus Stevens and Democrat Barbara Jordan.

And rather than turning the other cheek, Black Americans need to accept that it is never too soon to recall a mayor or governor who isn't useful to us.

Today's diversity, equity and inclusion is not a religion Black Americans should practice. The current DEI agenda amounts to replacement, more divestment, and political underminingall done in the guise of good vibes.

It's time Black Americans call the nation back into fulfilling the original intent of the Civil Rights Movement. Our moral authority and our human rights legacy must be leveraged toward our self-interests.

Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

Pamela Denise Long is CEO of Youthcentrix Therapy Services, a business focused on helping organizations implement trauma-informed practices and diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism (DEIA) at the systems level. Connect with Ms. Long online at http://www.youthcentrix.com or @PDeniseLong on social media.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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Nonetheless, the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts have apparently concluded that the Second Amendment does not apply to the people in its broadest sense as written, but only to law-abiding people. Alito came perhaps the closest to explaining the difference in his concurring opinion in Bruen. While the dissent seemingly thinks that the ubiquity of guns and our countrys high level of gun violence provide reasons for sustaining the New York law, the dissent appears not to understand that it is these very facts that cause law-abiding citizens to feel the need to carry a gun for self-defense, he explained, referring to Breyers dissent.

Alito then went on to describe how law-abiding citizens interact with and can be distinguished from criminals in more detail. No one apparently knows how many of the 400 million privately held guns are in the hands of criminals, but there can be little doubt that many muggers and rapists are armed and are undeterred by the Sullivan Law, he wrote, referring to the New York statute at the heart of the case. Each year, the [NYPD] confiscates thousands of guns, and it is fair to assume that the number of guns seized is a fraction of the total number held unlawfully. He went on to state, citing statistics and anecdotes alike, that ordinary citizens frequently use firearms to protect themselves from criminal attack.

Some of this is a bit obvious. A mugger carrying a gun is not law-abiding; a person defending themselves from a mugger is law-abiding. But Alitos reference to the NYPDs confiscation of guns held unlawfully is where things break down a bit. The whole point of the legal challenge in Bruen was that otherwise law-abiding New Yorkers who lacked concealed-carry permits could not go to certain places in New York City with their guns without facing arrest and seizure. According to the friend-of-the-court briefs filed in Bruen, more than a few people whose guns were seized by the NYPD in recent years intended to use them for self-defense, or at the very least did not intend to use them to commit a crime. Criminality, in other words, is more than just whatever a state decides to criminalize.

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(The Center Square) A constitutional challenge to Illinois gun and magazine ban is under advisement at the Illinois Supreme Court.

Illinois bans the sale and possession of more than 170 semi-automatic firearms and certain magazines. If the law is sustained, those with such firearms owned before the law was enacted must register the weapons under criminal penalty by Jan. 1. The law is being challenged in federal and state courts.

Tuesday at the Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield, justices heard oral arguments in the case Caulkins v. Pritzker. The case comes out of Macon County where state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, and others allege, among other things, the law violates equal protections because it does not apply to active and retired police officers and others in law enforcement and security fields.

Justice Elizabeth Rochford asked Caulkins attorney Jerry Stocks about the training exemption law enforcement officers have.

And that they continue to maintain that training while they maintain their exempt status as opposed to just everyone else, Rochford said. Is that an arbitrary

It is arbitrary, Stocks said.

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Stocks said retired military who have training arent exempt. Other justices asked whether this is a Second Amendment challenge or an equal protections challenge.

You cannot even begin to address the grounds that are in this complaint without addressing and finding what the Second Amendment says in this case, Stocks said during the hearing.

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The court took the issue under consideration and could rule in the months ahead. The states ban also faces challenges in federal court with several cases consolidated at the appeals court level and a motion for emergency injunction pending in front of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Defending the state, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said he was confident the ban is constitutional after the Illinois Supreme Court hearing, especially with continued news of recent mass shootings. Raoul was asked about similar training the public could take.

Well, you play a different role, right, Raoul said. Its not just a question of training, youre not in a law enforcement role, I dont think.

Raoul criticized the plaintiffs for not arguing the Second Amendment in their pleadings but raised it in the court.

Stocks reiterated his claim the law violates equal protections of civil liberties.

This was about the fundamental individual right under the Second Amendment that could not be diluted by Illinois version of the Second Amendment, Stocks said after the hearing.

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