the country composed of immigrants is sending out a mixed message these days turns out that the fed spend more money on immigration control than any other kinds of law enforcement will ask if this exodus of government cash is money well spent just a minute. idle no more indigenous tribes in canada are coming together to protest a bill that would weaken the environmental protection movement is working to protect the land earth and sea and is now moving beyond the canadian border we'll tell you what people want just ahead. and most students turn to

a guidance counselor if they feel they're being treated unfairly in school but it taxes student one further than that actually suing her school for making her wear a badge with a tracker inside the outcome of her case head. it's wednesday january ninth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our. we begin this hour with news out of fort meade pretrial hearings for private first class bradley manning continue today with word that the accused might have to wait a bit longer to see his day in court originally scheduled to begin in march a military judge has pushed back a proposed start date to june third allowing the defense more time to complete several pretrial interviews they deem necessary for this trial now this comes a day after army colonel dennis lindh ruled to reduce any sentence the private

receives by one hundred twelve days all due to his treatment while being detained now if all proceeds as planned this summer manning will have spent a total of three years in custody while awaiting trial manning faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy if convicted he could face life in prison stay tuned here to r.t. for the latest. let's talk now about taking a closer look at the way the government spends your money a new report out this week found that just last year nearly eighteen billion dollars was spent on enforcing immigration laws the report is called the immigration enforcement in the united states the rise of formidable machinery but i want to put this in perspective for you that's more than the government spends on the f.b.i. the d.a. the u.s. secret service u.s. marshals service and the a.t.f. combined spending has gone up dramatically as well and just in the last decade let's go back to two thousand and five the budget for u.s.

customs and border protection was about six point three billion dollars and last year it was eleven point seven billion and eighty five percent increase now i use them aggressions and customs enforcement saw a similar spike their budget back in two thousand and five three point one billion and last year almost six billion dollars. fellow why the massive increase and how does this fit with the notion that many in this country have that president obama isn't doing enough to deal with the quote immigration problem actual comedy at all is the founder of the organization quentin may and join me earlier i asked him what does this say about immigration under the obama administration take a lesson that there really what has happened is the criminalization of migration of immigration and what do i mean by that that there's been over emphasis on in forstmann capacities meaning on securing the border particularly militarizing the

border the use of technology the use of a lot of money to patrol the border which is customs and border patrol c.b.p. takes about twelve billion dollars and then we have internal controls or ice which means the detention and removal again also partly to focus on what we're calling criminalization of migration because this ends up in our judicial system through immigration procedures and criminal procedures integration is a civil matter it has always been treated as a civil matter and it would always be a civil matter but this focus this change this shift over the last decade into what it's effectively a criminalization area cost money why because it's treated as a crime scene that's a crime we have to protect in the force and increase the numbers and what that causes is a huge humanitarian crisis that is just growing and growing by the day i want to play something after the president obama said i criticizing republicans for being a little over the top about immigration and said we needed to triple the border

patrol or now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol or the want to hire fence maybe they'll need a moat. they do want to know a good in the boat and so the president is sort of chiding republicans here but in fact he has taken in foresman several notches deportations according to this report have skyrocketed talk a little bit about this. yeah absolutely we're seeing a deportation number in the vein of four hundred thousand approximately a year this has increased tremendously over the last taken this is partly again because of the shift into the criminalization but it's not only under this administration this comes prior to this administration is through operation operation streamline which means that upon the detention of an immigrant they will be put forward into the criminal procedures and then either put on detention or put on deportation both areas are heavily funded right now so that means that we're

going to see a rise in deportation to four hundred thousand which is an astounding number of particularly of immigrants that leave behind a lot of families here a lot of relatives a lot of folks that have been here for decades they will be deported to sometimes what's called lateral deportation which is areas that they don't don't know and they're very vulnerable to drug enterprises and criminal enterprises because they're going to want to come back and so that's one area and the second area is the tensions and that's a huge amount there has been an increase in detention funding to thirty four thousand beds spaces a lot of them for for profit facilities as well as the industry which is which is ice nowadays that rules out contracts so combined those detention deportation that's the bulk of it you're seeing of the eighteen billion dollars that are being spent and we're spending that at a time where the push and the pull factors for migration out of that all time low

that programs like alternative to detention are at a higher level of efficiency so we have to move into that direction in order to provide a better alternatives for immigration as we're talking right now about immigration reform what do you what do you mean ask of these alternatives to deportation well there are some programs that the administration particularly isis. testing out a tedious called which are programs that please individuals who have been considered low risk individuals or medium risk individuals individuals that have demonstrated. they don't have convictions that they don't have particularly negative records they're placed with their families and in their home. and their homes with their environments and they just have to show certain thresholds to you know the proceedings that have been imposed now we're seeing ninety four percent of

these folks that continue attending and participate effectively in this program and continue attending to this program that's in this down to malad and it shows that treating folks in the civil manner in a civil manner is much more efficient than treating folks in the criminal manner i want to talk about sort of the last two elections that we've seen two thousand a direction we had you know a republican running from arizona so this was a huge issue and of course barack obama immigration was a hot topic we saw obama promised an immigration bill within the first year of his term now as we know the first term is over about to start the second term we didn't hear much about immigration this time around in this campaign is that because there was nothing that for the other side to sort of point fingers at because he in fact has been extremely tough on it i mean talk

a little bit about the direction that we're going and also about what some of the people that you speak to want to happen i think should happen here. yeah well i mean certainly was a hot topic particularly within our community in particular the latino community that was a strong driving force and we saw latinos coming out in droves after this during this election to participate in a large quantity in a large amount particular send a message to immigration should be a priority in this agenda and that should be a project a priority right after inauguration what happened during the campaign and what has happened during the last couple of campaigns is that there has been no solutions proposed there has been no sensible policy proposed not not one that actually makes sense on the ground to the folks that really impact what we're saying and what we're hearing from individuals from families from young students from folks on the

ground is that this is urgent people see it particularly on the right and folks on the left and democrats and republicans and both parties see this as an expediency it's a political issue or something about numbers and jobs and border security and fiscal issues and blah blah blah but what we're seeing is folks every single day struggle they get separated from their families they get ported they can't go to school where they have attended they put in detention facilities their children are put in foster centers for adoption this is a humanitarian crisis well i think if the government rights issue it's a good point you raise too because this is something i think that a lot of people on the right were very shocked to learn you know just how many latinos mexican americans are immigrants from other countries as well in this country that are citizens that came out to vote this time around and want something to get done do you think that you know that that will propel something to happen

now that both sides realize hey. these are this is a huge block of people who are representing here. oh absolutely in fact one of the statistics that we saw is that one in three of our community of latinos knows someone or is related to someone who isn't currently in document in this country this is why it's personal and this is why it's a daily issue that it's in your guts we call it your jealousy of now that this must happen right now and this is why the push from the latino community is to get it done right now because everybody that passes by without sensible immigration reform the tackles the issues about deportation deportation and detention that we're talking about the military solution of the border and the him and the military crisis every day that passes by impacts someone and it impacts the latino community as a whole and it gives rise to all these elements in these anti immigrant groups that continue pushing and pushing this certain notion of what immigrants are and what

the latino community is about certainly this is certainly a priority yes certainly an important topic as well and really just an astounding numbers when you when you look at this eighteen billion being spent just last year alone on immigration enforcement founder of quantum a thanks so much thank you did you ever play that game would you rather as a child would you rather get stung by a jellyfish or have slugs stuck between your toes well there's a new poll out that finds most people would rather be around disgusting scary in sex than have the u.s. congress this in fact is commonly called the american cockroach we mostly know cockroaches as past. that's right in a recent survey conducted by public policy polling these pests got more people in favor of them then the u.s. congress here's some other things they preferred americans prefer root canals to congress fifty six percent to the cong to the congress's measly thirty two percent

and there's more home of brussel sprouts kids a hate eating their brussels sprouts and their vegetables but adults well they may not love them but they would apparently pick brussels sprouts over congress and here's another insect people tend to prefer over congress head lice sixty seven percent to congress's nineteen percent pac even the rock band nickelback beats out our chosen leaders now it's a sentiment some members of congress are indeed aware of my goodness the journal revenue service has a forty percent approval rating. compared to or nine percent. so there it is documented in the public record forever now the members that you know they've seen these numbers but they don't believe them after all when they go home they're hailed as heroes they're given money and parties and fifteen thousand dollar plates dinners it can't be true but there are various polls out there from gallup pew research center and rasmussen all of which show approval rating for

congress is extremely low numbers so the question is do members of congress care will decisions they make this upcoming term reflect not only their campaign promises but also the will of the people or will they continue to make decisions based on lobbying dollars thrown their way in a return status quo complete with partisan bickering hours spent yelling at an ember empty chamber and working tirelessly on legislation that has no chance of ever passing or will they finally take the constructive criticism to heart and make some changes the just might boost their approval ratings by the people they're elected to represent and can't be that difficult since it would be hard to imagine those ratings getting any worse. well now we want to bring attention to a movement called i don't know more of it's taking place in canada started by four woman and called on people to protect the land and water by protecting the rights of canada's indigenous people it's

a movement that's gaining steam and even inspired protests across the country. this one here is in manitoba capital of when a pagan is drawing public attention to canada's bill c forty five which critics say will challenge indigenous sovereignty could leave lead to extreme harm being done to land and water in the area across the united states asia europe and new zealand large groups of people are showing support for idol no more some of those involved say it's directly connected to others around the world including the occupy movement and the arab spring and other recent uprisings or of a gateau writes about racial justice native rights and immigration for the nation and joins me now to talk more about this aura talk first about what is at the heart of this legislation budget bill c forty five i know it's been pushed here by canadian prime minister stephen harper. hi christine thanks for having me well as

you mentioned you know for nine months last year canada's parliament debated bill c. forty five this is four hundred fifty page budget implement omnibus bill and among some of what it contains are real challenges to indigenous sovereignty in canada some of what's at stake includes willing down federal protection for nearly one hundred percent of the rivers in canada as a way to pave way for the pipelines and the environmental degradation that may come with them are let me stop you right there because because you have said something that really stuck out to me when i was looking at some of the numbers the number of protected lakes and streams and coastal areas correct me if i'm wrong but i read they would go down those protected areas from two point six million to just eighty seven is that possible yes yes that is possible under this bill and it's something

that is going to imminently be implemented. and something else that's at stake are also key changes to the indian act canada's indian act and this is something that really has no business being in in a budget implementation bill you talk about the indigenous people their sovereignty really at stake here talk about other losers in this case and also who are the winners who would this legislation benefit well the this would definitely benefit corporations it definitely is you know comes from the right wing. supporters prime minister harper of course and the losers are not just first nations people in canada the losers are people even outside of canada period. of this is going to make changes first nation.

this is so timely in terms of what the future of the country might look like. i mean at the xcel pipeline definitely comes to mind i'm definitely more familiar with what's going on in the united states in terms of native rights but in canada there definitely are a lot of corporations that would benefit not only from the navigable waters act that's part of this on the bus bill but also the environmental assessment act as it stands right now if somebody has effects the corporation has a large project that could possibly have environmental. environmentally devastating

consequences there is a route through which that needs to be assessed and approved this omnibus bill essentially takes that away or you wrote about this for the nation and you wrote about someone at the center of this movement chief theresa spence of the ottawa hiscock cream band plan saying that right chief spence began a hundred hunger strike about thirty days ago what's her role in this has so you know during these nine months in which parliament was debating this budget implementation bill and including the changes to the indian actor they didn't consult with first nations leaders they didn't have any representation during this time it somehow didn't occur to them. no one was brought to the table and so around the time that this bill ascended about a month ago. as you mentioned chief spence decided to go on a hunger strike because she felt like this was one way that she wanted to bring

attention for her people in particular in the article that i wrote i talk about some of the conditions that the people of office got deal with in particular we're talking about a really really remote area with deep deep poverty that really shouldn't be a reality in such a rich nation like canada and she spence did this as part of a broader movement of i don't know more which has really caught the imagination of people native people in particular in canada and in the united states at a time when we don't usually see a lot of activism you know the winter holiday of two thousand and twelve wasn't supposed to be a time when people were really going to come out into into this space but we've seen native people in canada and the united states really come out and represent themselves in public spaces like parks and malls and that's what i was going to ask you i mean and what is it about i don't know more that's really not only caught the

attention but really caught the great support from so many people across the world . well i think that we can we hear a lot about the environment and i think that this really is an environmental justice issue and we need to think about the way that native americans and indigenous people in general are always disproportionately negatively affected by environmental degradation i mean this comes with the history of colonization and the global north being able to really reap the resources and the land of so many nations we see that hundreds of years later it's really global south nations indigenous global south nations that stand to imminently and permanently lose their homelands and if we bring it to a place like the us we're seeing the same thing here the history of colonisation here meant that a lot of people benefitted from the land and resources and a lot of people lost out in that process native people in particular because it was

their land absolutely are of a gato a blogger with a nation thanks so much thank you christine. we want to bring you an update to a story we've been following for the last several months about a high school student who was suspended from her school for refusing to wear her student identification card around her neck fifteen year old andrea hernandez said she objected to wearing the i.d. implanted with a radio frequency identification chips on religious grounds calling it quote the mark of the beast the school agreed to take the microchip out of the id card but would still require her to wear the badge and she refused and sued the school while yesterday a judge sided with the school now she lost her battle and the ruling could teach us much more on the war being fought in this country against breaches on privacy and civil liberties let's big now with john whitehead who represented hernandez in the case and is a constitutional attorney for the rutherford institute hey there john talk to me these are if id tags they're away for the school to try to keep attendance up to

say you know if you're not in class we still know where you are the funding they receive from the state is directly tied to attendance so give us the legal reasons here first that your client took issue with us well first of all she had a religious objection. she's an image of the christian they feel this is the mark of the beast of the area christ. to where it would be worshipping a false god since it's a complicated view but as the supreme court has held the views don't have to be fully rational for everybody believe it they have to be sincere the judge or actually said in this decision yesterday they're she did this or else they'll go secular concerns are religious concerns of the supreme court is very clear that courts cannot close second yes people's religious go to whether or not it's a serious and. obviously here she's been very very sincere but of the least. the school we got on the case it caused a lot of uproar press releases those things so they said here's

a little bit if you will where the bags indorsing the program. we will take the chip out and you can stay in school and she refused to do that says i cannot endorse a program that well it's my religious belief this is for speech the supreme court's been very clear that students can't be forced to do these kind of things in these cases go back and kill the liking for these also there's a very important equal protection claim here because she wouldn't wear the badge in the chip she can go to a homecoming king and queen she is limited in the library service is actually correct blackberries and she's been placed in a segregated lunch line we did away with were segregated in our schools today but it still exists but i think on appeal we are appealing to the filter of the builder got a good case because these cases usually go through the courts i think that the supreme court might even want to take a look at this and the key issue in the case is whether or not if people have concerns about their products see about being tracked everywhere can they opt out

of these programs and that's all she's asking here so i want to take apart a little bit about you know what happened here and take a look really quick at the ruling itself judge orlando garcia ruled that quote the accommodation offered by the district is not only reasonable it removes plaintiffs religious objection from legal scrutiny altogether so basically they're saying removing the are fighting chips hernandez can no longer make a religious argument because that's what that's what the judge said so let me get your response he can't say that though i said the spring course been very clear that courts cannot second guess people's religious view if it's sincere it's a religious view this protected by the constitution i think that's a really good issue on appeal so i think we've got really good issues all appeal he did a really carefully look at the equal protection argument was that she's been treated like a second class citizen in our schools so. i've been practicing in this area for many many years and the cases that we wanted the supreme court we lost every place else

this is go to a more carefully refined judges at the fifth circuit by i think in the fifth circuit court of appeals rather much better yeah that's what i was going to ask and we do have quite a few of your viewers who have been really interested in this case have been following it and you said that you're going to appeal it so how long does this process work that's going to take it takes a while but i think the key to this case is these chips are going to spread around the country the large corporations are making a lot of money from them so they're only influenced in school history so use them in fact some of the pall breathing devices are already in schools as well where kids have to have their palms read before they can even see what these are money making schemes so i think the issue in this case is if you have an objection either constitutional or religious or otherwise can you just use a regular id pledge ninety nine percent of students in the in the united states you why can't she do that why does she restricted well obviously here the school wants the money yes understanding but i've got to say that a lot of critics are looking at this case and saying you know what some schools

have uniforms and most jobs have id cards that you need to keep with you sure don't students especially those under eighteen invariably give up lots of rights when they step on school property not really their rights are more limited because they're not adults but she was using the idea again like every school in the country ninety nine percent of schools a country have id cards he just was a regular id card this law later writes in the question is in america. state school are you forced to become a second class citizen because you won't use it r.f.i. the chip why can't you use a card like you're really feeling sorry for you and again this is not for safety the schools been very clear they get money from the state and it's not classroom attendance by the way it's attendance in the school he can be in the bathroom outside slope a cigarette doing a dance out of the law field it's not classroom and him assert their copulate here so it's a money making scheme that's what it is but the question here is it is her right to opt out of this program constitutionally protected if not close it's all over your

you will have no privacy well that's what i wanted to ask i mean your last this round but what are you hoping the discussion becomes one of the bigger implications of this case here the bigger case in this case is that you object to a program like this on religious rounds across years around can you opt out of the program just have a regular id card and still be treated like a citizen an equal citizen here she was treated unequally as she did a segregated lunch line she's watched like she's a criminal is that labor will treat our kids in school if they stand up for the principle. it's a really important question long we'll keep our eye on john whitehead who represent hernandez in this case he's also a constitutional attorney for the rutherford institute. and now on to the upcoming presidential inauguration which is expected to bring between six and eight hundred thousand people to congregate on the national mall and offending on how much they're willing to spend these people could end up with quite

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