Finland ends universal basic income
Finland is ending its universal basic income experiment, in which it offered 2,000 randomly chosen unemployed people $685 a month to spend as they liked, reports The New York Times. The Finnish government launched the program hoping it would “send more people into the job market to revive a weak economy,” says The Times. The Nordic country has now moved in the other direction, implementing rules that will cut benefits for unemployed people who are not actively pursuing work.
MS-13 members game U.S. immigration system by claiming they’re underage
- The Washington Times - Thursday, April 26, 2018
MS-13 is paying smugglers to coach gang members on how to game the U.S. immigration system, teaching underage members to claim UAC status — and telling those over 18 to lie and claim they are underage — to try to gain quick, easy access to the U.S., government officials said Thursday.
Rep. Peter T. King, a New York Republican, said his district is such a hotbed of MS-13 activity that authorities are “right now digging for bodies within a mile of my house.” He said some families are forced to facilitate gang members’ arrivals and are pressured by gangs to become sponsors and claim the children when they arrive.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed the pipeline.
“They recruit young children, they train them how to be smuggled across our border, how to then join up with gang members in the United States,” she told Congress.
The government this week detailed such a case from this month in Arizona, where Border Patrol agents nabbed an 18-year-old from El Salvador. He first claimed to be underage to try to claim UAC status. Under questioning, he acknowledged he was an adult and was part of MS-13 — though he insisted he was trying to leave the gang.
Unaccompanied alien children — those who arrive at the U.S. border without their parents — are among the trickiest populations of illegal immigrants.
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