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“Saudi students in at least eight different states have fled the U.S. after being charged with serious crimes, including manslaughter and sexual assault.” @Oregonian

We’re supposed to believe DHS/CBP/ICE were in the dark? Really?
oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/f…
Sen @RonWyden may believe Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is “now investigating” their disappearance - as though they’ve been caught by surprise.

Uhhhh. Nope.
“All five of the Oregon cases involved young men studying at a public college or university with assistance from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the time of their arrest.”

Here with assistance from the Kingdom.

Escaped with assistance from the Kingdom.
In four of the Oregon cases, “the Saudi government paid the defendant’s bail and legal fees. Three surrendered their passports.” And yet they were able to leave. expo.oregonlive.com/news/g66l-2019…
The @Oregonian found similar cases in Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.
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Thousands of children across the UK are on strike today, 15 February, protesting lack of political/government response to global #climateChange.

h/t @digitalmaverick
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Governor @GavinNewsom

And probably no other state has the political will or pocketbook to initiate this legal action.

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“death penalty repeal had passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday by a unanimous vote.”

Passed the House by safe margin.

Voted down in Senate,12-18.
Nationally, the death penalty was reinstated in 1973.

Since then, approximately 165 death row inmates have been exonerated across the country.

And only 20 states (of the 31 with death penalty laws) had executed someone in 15 years last August.

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