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Mexico has a serious immigration problem.
Each year, half a million illegal immigrants, most of them under age, from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, cross the border Mexico shares with Guatemala. They enter Chiapas state, home of El Chapo, the most dangerous, most lawless state in Mexico, to board freight cars on the long 1,500-mile journey up the central spine of Mexico toward the Rio Grande and attempted river crossings into the United States. The immigrants call the train El Tren de la Muerte
Hey. I just wanted to post a list of books, in no particular order, I’ve read in the past few months along with a few I’ve started or intend to start soon. Expect short reviews of all to be posted in the next few days.
FICTION:
Mean Town Blues, Sam Reaves
No Show, Simon Wood
Paying the Piper, Simon Wood
Slow Horses, Mick Herron
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Belfast Noir, Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville, eds.
Second Skin, Michael Wiley
The Bad Kitty Lounge, Michael Wiley
Don
How many times have you heard someone who feels wronged swear he or she will see justice done
The Wall Street Journal suggests that red light cameras may be coming to a full stop:
Yesterday’s post on the “right to remain silent” and the Fifth Amendment right not to be “compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against [yourself]” may have strayed a little too far into the weeds of legal jargon.
It’s an old criminal lawyers’ joke:
As an addendum to the previous post, a driver stopped by police is not required to consent to a search when a police officer asks for the driver’s consent.
This week, in Heien v. North Carolina, the United States Supreme Court held that evidence discovered by a police officer during a search of an automobile can be admissible as evidence during a later trial even when the police officer
Has NASA taken the first step toward airliners without any human pilots?