Border Patrol Dangles $30K Bonuses for New Recruits as Agency Stretched Thin by Migrant Crisis, Staffing CrunchAs the United States Border Patrol struggles to cope with limited resources and a record surge in migrants in the southwest, potential new recruits are being offered bonuses of up to $30,000 to sign up. Customs and Border Protection — the agency… Jan 19 24January 19, 2024Article at The Messenger
Parents of Kids Killed in Uvalde Shooting Want Criminal Charges for Police After Damning Report: ‘Standing There While Our Babies Were Murdered’Families asked what more District Attorney Christina Mitchell needed to remove officials from their positions Parents who heard Thursday of the "complete failure" of law enforcement the day their children were shot dead at an elementary school in… Jan 18 24January 18, 2024Article at The Messenger
Uvalde Police Told Hopeful Parents Another Busload of Survivors Was Arriving. It Never CameFamilies of Robb Elementary School students were given conflicting information on whether their children were alive or dead following a mass shooting, with some only finding out their kids had died when autopsy reports were ordered, a damning new… Jan 18 24January 18, 2024Article at The Messenger
Police Response to Uvalde Elementary School Mass Shooting Was Complete ‘Failure’, DOJ FindsOver 400 law enforcement officers waited outside the school for over an hour while the shooter was still inside The Department of Justice said Thursday that the police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, was a… Jan 18 24January 18, 2024Article at The Messenger
Family of Tech CEO Allegedly Killed by Repeat Offender Let Out Early on ‘Good Time’ Credits Push for Changeason Billingsley, was released early from prison in October 2022, having served just seven years of a 30-year sentence for a violent sexual assault in 2013 The family of a murdered Baltimore tech CEO, whose alleged killer was out of jail early on… Jan 17 24January 17, 2024Article at The Messenger
New Jersey Governor Warns Bus Companies Against Dropping Migrants off at Rail StationsNew Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said Monday that over 1,800 migrants had been dropped off in the state, as a way to get around New York City's new rules banning unannounced bus arrivals. The Garden State has become the drop-off point for bus loads of… Jan 08 24January 08, 2024Article at The Messenger
Sixth Grader Dead, Five Injured in Perry, Iowa School ShootingThe incident is the fourth mass shooting across the United States in 2024 A school shooting in Perry, Iowa Thursday morning left a middle school student dead and five other people wounded, while the shooter was found dead from a "self-inflicted"… Jan 04 24January 04, 2024Article at The Messenger
New York Mayor Eric Adams Sues Texas Charter Bus Companies for Cost of Caring for MigrantsNew York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday that the city is suing charter bus companies, which have brought migrants from Texas, for over $700 million — an amount the city argues the companies should have already paid. The lawsuit is aimed at… Jan 04 24January 04, 2024Article at The Messenger
Just Four Days Into 2024, Perry, Iowa High School Shooting Is Fourth Mass Shooting of the YearA school shooting in Iowa on Thursday, in which multiple victims were reportedly killed or injured, became the fourth mass shooting of the year, just four days into 2024. According to the Gun Violence Archive, which compiles mass shooting data, the… Jan 04 24January 04, 2024Article at The Messenger
Migrants Arriving Unannounced in NYC by Plane and Bus, as Mayor Accuses Texas Governor of Using Migrants as ‘Political Pawns’Around 7,200 more migrants have arrived in New York in the past two weeks, with the city struggling to cope Texas put another almost 200 migrants on a plane Tuesday to send to a so-called "sanctuary city," this time New York, with the city's mayor… Dec 27 23December 27, 2023Article at The Messenger
Texas Starts Flying Migrants to Sanctuary Cities as Border Overwhelmed by MigrantsTexas has chartered its first airplane to send migrants to sanctuary cities, with around 150 people landing unannounced in Chicago Tuesday night. The flight, chartered by the Texas Department of Emergency Management, marked a first for Texas, which… Dec 20 23December 20, 2023Article at The Messenger
Video Shows Texas National Guard Looking on as Migrant Mother Holding Baby Pleads for Help in Rio GrandeTexas National Guard officers appeared to ignore a migrant mother's desperate pleas for help as she waded in the Rio Grande, asking them to bring their boat closer as she could not stand any longer, in a video shared Tuesday. The footage, obtained by… Dec 20 23December 20, 2023Article at The Messenger
NYC Migrant Shelter Housing 1,400 Floods Overnight, But Real Danger Could Come Later at High TideUp to three inches of flood water was reported in some tents at the Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn Migrant families sheltering in tents in New York City said they woke up to find water pouring through the ceilings as the structures shook in a storm… Dec 18 23December 18, 2023Article at The Messenger
Israeli Troops Accidentally Kill Escaped Hostages Who Were Mistaken for Hamas TerroristsThe three hostages had fled the terror group and were running toward IDF soldiers Israel said Friday that its troops killed three escaped hostages after mistaking them for Hamas terrorists during combat in Gaza. Israel Defense Forces posted to X,… Dec 15 23December 15, 2023Article at The Messenger
Immigrants Paid $10,000 To Be ‘Robbed’ in Elaborate Scheme to Fast-Track Visa Process: FBITwo men are accused of carrying out eight fake armed robberies across Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Tennessee in order to get the "victims" work visas, but only after charging $10,000 a hit. Charges were filed Tuesday in Massachusetts… Dec 14 23December 14, 2023Article at The Messenger
Migrant Deaths at Texas Border Crossing Jump 2,383% Over Last Six YearsResidents of New Mexico have stumbled on bodies in the desert, while workers have had to get used to the smell of decaying bodies found in the Rio Grande More migrants are dying at the United States-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, than at any other… Dec 01 23December 01, 2023Article at The Messenger
It Will Soon Cost You at Least $15 to Drive Into ManhattanDrivers entering downtown Manhattan will soon have to pay a minimum of $15, New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority announced Thursday. Final recommendations for the United States' first congestion pricing zone for the area of Manhattan below… Nov 30 23November 30, 2023Article at The Messenger
Tennessee Town’s Reliance on 1949 Law Leads to ‘Ban’ on Public HomosexualityA town in Tennessee passed new guidelines this summer which effectively banned homosexuality in public, after using definitions of inappropriate sexual behavior introduced in the 1940s that it has now quietly modified. Murfreesboro City Council's… Nov 16 23November 16, 2023Article at The Messenger
Alleged Jan. 6 Participant Joined Maryland Police Department After Capitol Attack, Didn’t Show up on Background CheckA Maryland police department has suspended one of its officers for his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol six months before he applied to join the department. The Montgomery County Police Department said Thursday that… Oct 20 23October 20, 2023Article at The Messenger
Another E-Bike Explodes in NYC Apartment Building Causing Raging Fire: ‘Like a Blowtorch’The fire department said this was the 216th fire connected to lithium-ion batteries in New York City this year The number of people injured in fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in New York City year rose to 120 Tuesday when yet another e-bike… Oct 17 23October 17, 2023Article at The Messenger
