Friday quickies

Well, we have seen repeatedly that crime doesn’t pay . There are penalties! Like how Jussie Smollett walks on a DA’s blunder, or the Navy guy who has to serve 19 months instead of 125 years, Alec Baldwin’s case  – okay, maybe crime only goes with punishment in book titles.

Remember in May, the two Jordanian guys who were arrested trying to drive in and around Quantico?  They claimed to work for Amazon (not true).

The attempted breach happened on May 3. A spokesperson for the base said two people in a box truck were stopped at a gate, with the driver allegedly telling military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources told Fox News in May that one of the Jordanian men crossed into the U.S. illegally in April before being released. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told Fox News the other man was a foreign student whose status was terminated in January.

Sure sounds prosecutable to me.

U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter threw out the misdemeanor charges against Hasan Hamdan and Mohammad Dabous on Oct. 3, the same day that U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a motion to dismiss the charges against the men, Military.com reported.

It was unclear why the federal judge dismissed the cases “without prejudice,” though court documents obtained by the outlet stated, “the ends of justice are best served by this dismissal.”  Fox News

Would love to hear the backstory on THAT decision.

Logan International airport may have set a bit of a record Monday – not just one collision between commercial planes, but TWO.

The first incident happened Monday afternoon, when an American Airlines flight clipped the wing of a Frontier Airlines plane waiting to leave the gate with 200 passengers, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The American Airlines flight had just landed from London, and all passengers deboarded shortly after the incident. No one was injured.

Meanwhile, all 200 passengers on the Frontier flight to Texas had to re-book after the flight was canceled, NBC Boston reports.

bet those Frontier passengers were happy.

Later that day, a tug vehicle towing an empty JetBlue plane struck a Cape Air plane that had just landed from Nantucket, the FAA said in a statement. Two pilots and three passengers were on board the Cape Air plane. There were no injuries, NBC Boston reports, but the pilots were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

At least the tug vehicle missed the Sandpiper Air plane.

And for some good news.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has voiced resistance to Trump’s campaign promise to conduct mass deportations and last week said he would even go to jail to stand up for the cause.

Denver as a whole is known as a sanctuary city which doesn’t like to cooperate with Federal immigration authorities, right?

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar nominee, said both he and Johnston think he should be behind bars if he doesn’t abide by what could be a federal policy.

“Look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing: he’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail,” Tom Homan said Monday on Fox News.

He pointed to a statute that says it’s illegal to knowingly conceal, harbor or shield an illegal migrant “from detection” or attempt to do so. It’s also a felony “to impede a federal law enforcement officer,” he added.

“So if we don’t help, that’s fine, he can get the hell out of the way,” Homan said. “But we’re going to go do the job.”  The Independent

I’m liking Homan’s talk. I’m looking forward to finding out if he walks the walk.

Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Illegal Immigrants