Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any country in the world, with approximately 202.9 million people identifying themselves as Muslim, or 87.2% of the total population in 2011. Their month-long celebration of Ramadan, however, is mainstream– vaguely similar to Christians’ Lent. So is the ubiquitousness of Islam in Indonesia really reason for Americans living in […]
Archives for June 2015
Sensitive or stupid? U.S. Embassy moves July 4th celebration ‘out of respect for Ramadan’
June 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Small Pennsylvania Town Struggles With Immigration Debate
June 9, 2015 By 1 Comment
A small northeastern Pennsylvania town isn’t the first place you’d expect an immigrant debate, but Hazelton, PA. has just that. Hispanics made up just 5 percent of Hazleton’s population in 2000, according to the U.S. Census, but by 2010, that number increased to 37 percent, and has only grown since. According to Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi, Hazelton’s cheap […]
Immigrant Gang Members Rape 16-Year Old Girl
June 8, 2015 By 8 Comments
Three El Salvadorian immigrants– 17-year-old Jose Cornejo, 18-year-old Bryan Larios and 17-year-old Joel Escobar– are being tried as adults for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in Long Island, NY. “This is one of the most brutal, heinous crimes that I have seen in a long, long time,” Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said at […]
D.C.’s “Mansion Murderer” could face deportation
June 8, 2015 By 3 Comments
Quadruple homicide suspect Daron Wint has been flagged for deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Wint allegedly broke into the multimillion dollar home of his former employer, Savvas Savopoulos, in Northeast D.C., where he held Savopoulos, his wife, their 10-year-old son and their housekeeper hostage overnight. After receiving $40,000 in ransom money, Wint […]
Obama flip-flops on immigration plans
June 8, 2015 By 5 Comments
Just two days ago, President Obama promised to keep fighting for the legal rights of illegal immigrants. “I’m going to keep doing everything I can to make our immigration system more just and more fair,” said Obama on Saturday, in an address celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month. Obama announced in November that up to 5 million […]
Jobs Report Stunner: Nearly All New Jobs Went to Foreign-Born
June 8, 2015 By 1 Comment
Economists and politicians hailed Friday’s jobs report as a howling success with both the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s Establishment report and Household survey showing over 280,000 jobs created in the past month far above expectations of 215,000. However, the folks at Zero Hedge dug into the BLS data sets a little closer than the mainstream […]
