Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[BeBMan]

A couple brave guys in London kept a knife-wielding terrorist in check until police came around, using a Narwhal tusk and a fire extinguisher, which is both sad since two ppl were killed already and cool because of the Narwhal tusk bit

In footage that has since emerged, Khan is sprayed with a fire extinguisher, while another man tries to suppress the assailant with a narwhal tusk – a long pointed tooth from a type of whale – lunging at him. It is believed the item was pulled from the wall of Fishmongers’ Hall, a Grade II-listed building on London Bridge, by a Polish chef called Łukasz.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/30/narwhal-tusk-and-fire-extinguisher-used-to-tackle-london-bridge-attacker

[Dinner]

A properly functioning immigration system would help.

It seems to work well. My wife and step son got their green cards in just five months. Once they got their green cards it only took two weeks to get their social security cards.

[giblets]

Mostly India and China seem to do this but many others, each fake university (they are all non-accredited and exist only on paper mostly with just a P.O. Box); I don’t believe the US has attacked either India or China in the last 75 years or so... So please stuff that nonsense where the sun does not shine.

"Mostly" India and China so not just India and China. But we do try our hardest to keep smart people from India and China out with an immigration system that doesn't factor in a country's population when deciding the quota lol

[BeBMan]

I think if one country builds a wall, other countries would strife to get up counter-walls to not allow a wall-gap! We might end up in a cold wall war soon where more and more resources are put into wall-building to keep a height advantage.

Also, one wall doesn't strike me as enough - it needs backup-walls and pre-wall walls to have enough protection. I call it a deep wall system.

[Broken_Erika]

A properly functioning immigration system would help.

[Dinner]

Walls in the right places do help. Visa reform and a system to verify who leaves when they are supposed to would help more.

[Lorizael]

They are not normal, they are created illegally just to get around immigration laws, and there are tens of millions of 3rd worlders who want to come here but who know they never will get a green card doing it the legal way. So they lie, cheat, and steal to get a fraudulent student visa then become illegal after that. Visa fraud is the main way illegal aliens get into the country.

If only we had a wall.

[Dinner]

Mostly India and China seem to do this but many others, each fake university (they are all non-accredited and exist only on paper mostly with just a P.O. Box); I don’t believe the US has attacked either India or China in the last 75 years or so... So please stuff that nonsense where the sun does not shine.

[giblets]

The bastards are trying to sneak into a country that consumes the world's resources instead of staying in a country that America periodically drops bombs on or stages a coup in

[Dinner]

They are not normal, they are created illegally just to get around immigration laws, and there are tens of millions of 3rd worlders who want to come here but who know they never will get a green card doing it the legal way. So they lie, cheat, and steal to get a fraudulent student visa then become illegal after that. Visa fraud is the main way illegal aliens get into the country.

[Proteus_MST]

There are hundreds if not thousands of fake universities out there and each usually specializes on students from one country. None of them have any staff (other than one guy who makes fake paper responses to immigration), there are no classes, no home work, no grades, and no instruction. They exist only on paper and their sole reason for existence is to cheat the immigration system. “Students” sign up knowing it is a fake university but they still get a student visa and so pay $1000 or so to the fake university for setting up the scam. They then fly to the US, never attend any school, and just work illegally under the table.

Interesting ... never suspected that fake universities are "quite normal" in the USA.
I always thought that Trump University would have been the only fake university out there

[Uncle Sparky]

Are all of them Trump Universities? Or, is someone cutting in on his scam?

[Dinner]

Wait, what?
Do I understand this correctly?

The DHS created a fake iuniversity in order to attract foreign students to the USA just in order to have some victims which thwey could deport?

This is crazy on so many levels

There are hundreds if not thousands of fake universities out there and each usually specializes on students from one country. None of them have any staff (other than one guy who makes fake paper responses to immigration), there are no classes, no home work, no grades, and no instruction. They exist only on paper and their sole reason for existence is to cheat the immigration system. “Students” sign up knowing it is a fake university but they still get a student visa and so pay $1000 or so to the fake university for setting up the scam. They then fly to the US, never attend any school, and just work illegally under the table.

[giblets]

The US government seems to have a history of poorly thought out sting operations like Operation Fast and Furious. This particular incident might also have an element of institutional racism.

[giblets]

Allegedly it was supposed to catch people who intentionally enroll in fake colleges in order to get visas but given that the government labeled the university as legitimate there is no proof that the students were attempting fraud.