Federal law enforcement and intelligence officials are concerned that a group in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is connected to ISIS.
They believe that the jihadists are already working on a plan to attack the United States by crossing terrorists over the unsecured Mexican border.
Judicial Watch has reported that intelligence officials have recording of radio talk and chatter indication the terrorist groups aim to “carry out an attack on the border” and that it is “coming very soon.”
The unnamed source told Judicial Watch that the threat is considered so severe that the commanding general at Ft. Bliss in El Paso is being given details on security measures to protect the base from potential attack.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has sent a bulletin about the situation that was obtained by Fox News: “A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending Aug. 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of the U.S., for terror attack.”
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott regarding a ruling that blocks parts of the state’s strong abortion law.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal on the grounds that Abbott was too late in filing the appeal.
“[Abbott] waited until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31 to file the stay motion; a corrected version was sent at 12:08 a.m. Monday, Sept. 1,” decided the Fifth Circuit. “This did not allow time for a response, or for the court adequately to consider the motion, before the scheduled effective date, though the appellants claim irreparable harm from the statute’s not being enforced.”
Abbott had appealed a decision that stops the regulations regarding abortion clinics having the same safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers. Judge Lee Yeakel, who had attempted to strike down the law previously before being overruled on appeal, said the requirements clinics have health standards like surgical centers makes it too hard for a woman to kill their child via abortion.
The ruling now will stand pending a full appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A Federal judge has ruled that because a majority of abortion clinic providers refused to make changes to their clinics as required by a Texas law and thus would have to close, the law is unconstitutional.
District Judge Lee Yeakel, who had previously ruled against the law in a case that was quickly overturned by an appeals court, said that requiring clinics to widen doors so paramedics could bring in a stretcher for a woman in distress is “too costly for abortion clinic owners” and therefore puts an undue burden on women wanting to kill their baby via abortion.
“The court concludes that the act’s [House Bill 2] ambulatory surgical center requirement, combined with the already-in-effect admitting privileges requirement, creates a brutally effective system of abortion regulation that reduces accesses to abortion clinics, thereby creating a statewide burden for a substantial number of Texas women,” Yeakel wrote.
The clinics had a year to bring their clinics up to the new standards but some abortion providers just refused to make the changes. That did not matter to the judge.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the state will appeal the decision.
A Texas school district has covered two plaques dedicating the school and its students to the Lord because of an anti-Christian group’s threat.
The Midlothian Independent School District confirmed plaques at Mountain Peak Elementary School and Longbranch Elementary School because of the threats of anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation.
The plaques read: “Dedicated in the year of our Lord 1997 to the education of god’s children and their faithful teachers in the name of the Holy Christian Church.” The plaques also contain the phrase “Soli Deo Gloria” which means “Glory To God Alone.”
“It should go without saying that a public elementary school may not proclaim ‘glory to God alone’ nor dedicated itself to a particular church,” FFRF said in a statement. “We do applaud the school district for taking swift action to correct this Constitutional action.”
“Although MISD has not been threatened with a lawsuit,” Superintendent Jerome Stewart told Fox News’ Todd Starnes, “the school district’s attorney advised that it would not prevail in court if it refused FFRF’s request and a lawsuit followed.”
A major abortion facility in Austin, Texas closed last week as a result of the pro-woman legislation that was passed last year.
Whole Woman’s Health of Austin, which has been ending the lives of babies via abortion for over ten years, announced the immediate closure of the facility. The abortionists said they had to close because of House Bill 2.
“House Bill 2 … has forced us into yet another closure, this time because we’re unable to meet the standards of an ambulatory surgical center at this location,” a statement read.
The closing of the center comes two years after the center was fined $22,000 by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for dumping babies killed at the facility in a landfill.
A report from the University of Texas at Austin says the number of babies in Texas who have died from abortion has fallen 13% over the last year.
Credentialed pastors are being banned from ministering to the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants being kept at border patrol facilities in Texas and Arizona.
“Border Patrol told us pastors and churches are not allowed to visit,” said Kyle Coffin, the pastor of CrossRoads Church in Tucson, Arizona to Fox News’ Todd Starnes. “It’s pretty heartbreaking that they don’t let anybody in there — even credentialed pastors.”
A Border Patrol spokesman confirmed the surprising ban.
“Due to the unique operational and security challenges of the Nogales Placement Center, religious services provided by outside faith leaders are not possible at this time,” the Border Patrol told me in a statement. “However, CBP’s chaplaincy program is supporting the spiritual needs of the minors for the limited time they are at the center.”
Area churches are even prohibited from donating items like soccer balls or other recreational items for the children.
A counselor that worked at the Lackland Air Force base center said in their entire tenure at the facility not a single minister or chaplain was brought to the children.
A child being held in an immigration center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas has been confirmed to have H1N1 swine flu.
Authorities told The Blaze that the child was taken to a hospital in critical condition but has improved after receiving treatment. The child is still hospitalized.
The confirmation of the illness has led to an emergency shipment of 2,000 doses of swine flu vaccine to the base for anyone who may have had contact with the child.
“We are told the sick child was feverish for several days before being sent for medical treatment,” U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas said. “Having spent the weekend on our border, I can tell you that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not taking charge of the undocumented children in any kind of reasonable time frame as they are absolutely required to do.”
The Department of Health and Human Services has reported an increase in H1N1 infections this year. The Centers for Disease Control is refusing to comment on the case and is deflecting all health questions regarding illegal immigrants at detention centers to HHS.
A man who identified himself as “Satan’s Son” will be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
A Dallas judge sentenced Randy Torres, 23, to life in prison without parole for the killing of 55-year-old Cathy Wilder in June 2010. Torres stabbed the woman repeatedly after he invited her to his mobile home.
Torres lured the victim by saying he wanted to have a Bible study, prayer and to learn more about Jesus. The body was found with a note on it that was signed “Satan’s Son.”
Wilder’s family said that she was a committed Christian who was dedicated to helping others come to Christ. Her husband had warned her not to go visit the young man the day of her death but she said that she had to “help people with God wherever I can.”
Torres went to a bar after the killing and then called police to turn himself in. He said that he stabbed the woman in the back so hard it broke the knife’s handle and he had to get another knife. He said he enjoyed the killing and would have kept on killing other people.
Dallas police officer Sean Moses said in testimony the killing was one of the goriest he’d ever seen in his career.
A Texas appellate court has found a Texas pastor and a member of his congregation that had been arrested for crossing a police line at an event where they were protesting not guilty.
Pastor Joey Fault and members of the Kingdom Baptist Church in Venus, Texas were protesting at an event in Fort Worth Texas in October 2012. When some of the event’s attendees were upset the Christians were passing out information and pamphlets that disagreed with the event’s mission, the police formed a human barricade to keep the Christians from being able to reach attendees.
Pastor Faust told the Christian News Network police told them that they could go no further and they were forbidden from even crossing the street.
The pastor and his group continued their protest but then noted police were allowing those who were not part of the church group to pass through their line and across the street. The pastor then attempted to cross the street and was immediately seized upon by the police and arrested for “interfering with public duties.” He was jailed for 20 hours and released on $1,500 bail.
Last May, a judge said the pastor and another member of his congregation who arrested on the same charge were guilty. The case was appealed to the Second District of Texas Court of Appeals that ruled the men were not guilty and that the police had infringed on the First Amendment rights of the church.
“The skirmish line prohibited all member of the church from exercising their right of free speech merely because of their association with the church,” the court rules. “This is too far a limitation.”
The abortionist called the “Gosnell of Texas” in reference to convicted murder Kermit Gosnell who killed babies born alive has been shut out of performing abortions in Texas.
Douglas Karpen has been unable to obtain admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of his clinics, effectively banning him from performing the abortion procedures. However, the clinics have found other abortionists with privileges allowing the centers to continue to end the lives of babies via abortion.
Former employees of Karpen’s clinics have come forward to report multiple times that Karpen has killed babies born alive in his clinics. They report he has also violated the laws against late-term abortions.
Harris County District Attorney’s office officials said that they did not find enough evidence at the clinics to back the allegations. However, unlike Pennsylvania authorities that raided the clinics of Gosnell before announcing the investigation, Texas officials announced it first so Karpen knew the searches would be coming.
Karpen and his staff reportedly spent the time between the announcement and the raid cleaning up the facilities and disposing of evidence.
Karpen is currently defending against a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims that he ruptured her uterus during a late-term abortion in February 2013 and then did not tell her about the life-threatening mistake.
