It will be deep in the Florida Everglades & will house up to 5000 migrants awaiting deportation. A 'low cost facility fortified by Mother nature' is how they're describing it. There's a backlash from immigration rights activists, from environmentalists & the indigenous community.
Migrants will be housed in repurposed trailers & tents. Despite temperatures which can reach the 90s.

An evacuation plan is being developed in case of hurricanes...


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565735/...r-alcatraz

More than 500 people have already been killed while attempting to get food.

I'd like to see Natanyahu & his govt arrested for war crimes & also the leaders of Hamas. Let them all stand trial & allow peace groups to do whatever they can to fix the situatiion.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565694/...ion-system

Silly boy. Claims he was 'testing the speed of the car'...


Of course he was. And I am Marie of Romania...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5657...-lights-on

Poor baby, poor mum. A woman is in custody.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5657...n-auckland

Every so often one of our delightful govts will decide to 'get tough' on crime, & bring ever harsher penalties. Generally it does gain votes; no one likes crime & no one wants more of it.

And yet statistics show that, by voting foe those harsher penalties, that is exactly what they're voting for. And really, you'd expect politicians of all stripes to be aware of that since surely a part of their job is to check these things.

So in voting for  yet harsher penalties, either those politicians are deeply ignorant - or they're not averse to potentially ruining lives in order to appear 'tough on crime' in order to gain support.

I think its high time that we set about educating high schools pupils & Uni students about the effects of harsher penalties.




https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/...recidivism.



"As someone who works in the criminal justice sector, the recent policy proposals by major political parties make we wonder whether politicians are more concerned about appearing hard on crime than they are with reducing criminal offending.
This long-standing punitive approach to crime withstands the plethora of evidence and research that disproves its effectiveness for reducing re-offending. On the contrary, criminal justice experts and statisticians have consistently said harsher sentencing increases recidivism".

"This bill... cloaked in fake numbers, with handouts to big Republican donors, loots our country" - Senator Whitehouse

https://v.redd.it/ubwx523zm4af1

Netanyahu is the first Israeli PM to be charged with corruption - he claims due to his 'hawkish policies'..

He was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud & breach of trust, all of which he denies.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565462/...tion-trial

Just as long as they're wealthy..


And despite the large number of submissions against it.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5655...ity-uproar

Their govt wanted to suppress a gay pride parade & got a reply they weren't expecting because their people recognise the thin edge of the wedge when they see it.

The march proceeded in defiance of the ban because they see it as being about far more than just being gay, but about the right to assemble & protest. Thousands of people joined the march.

Well done the Hungarians.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565446/...pest-pride

He's managed to get the judge's power curbed & claims its a 'massive victory & will stop the barrage of injunctions 'against him.

So now, he can end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented migrants & some temporary residents & visitors.

A judge who disagrees, Justice Sotomayor wrote that 'the court's decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the govt to bypass the constitution.'


There seems to now be nothing to stop Trump from doing whatever he likes. Poor America.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz9yj7k5953t