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U.N. rights expert to probe U.S. treatment of illegal immigrants

A United Nations human rights expert will head to the United States later this month to investigate a highly criticized Texas center for detained immigrant families and two border areas where U.S. officials have announced they would crack down on Mexicans illegally crossing the border, a U.N. official said Friday.

Jorge Bustamante, the Human Rights Council's independent expert on migrant rights, will "witness first hand the situation of migrants at the borders and in immigration detention facilities," said Yvon Edoumou, a spokesman for the U.N. human rights office in Geneva.

The U.S. government is facilitating the visit, which will take place from April 30 to May 18, Edoumou said.

Bustamante, a Mexican, will examine the U.S.-Mexican border in San Diego, California and Nogales, Arizona — two of seven places where U.S. immigration officials announced earlier this week that they would fill in illegal cross-border tunnels to keep smugglers from reopening them.

Bustamante will also discuss migrant issues with American government officials, campaign groups and immigrants during the mission that includes stops in Tucson, Ariz.; Austin, Texas; Fort Myers, Fla.; New York; and Washington D.C.

He also will visit the T. Don Hutto facility — a former prison in Taylor, Texas — that typically houses about 400 non-criminal immigrants awaiting deportation or other outcomes to their immigration cases.

Earlier this month a U.S. district judge said living conditions seemed "questionable" at the facility. Civil liberties and immigration advocates contend families at Hutto are subjected to psychologically abusive guards, inadequate medical care and inhumane conditions and that the facility is run like a prison (Well, you snuck into our country illegally, so what do you expect, to be put up at the Waldorf Astoria?). They sued federal officials in March on behalf of several children detained at the center. Bustamante's findings will be presented to the 47-nation rights council at its next session in June.

The United States is a sovereign nation with a constitution and sovereign laws regarding immigration into OUR country. The United Nations has no right to interfere in our internal laws. Just incase those of you at the U.N. don’t know or may have conveniently forgotten, you were formed as a PEACE KEEPING organization. Do what you were formed to do and keep out of our internal affairs, GOT IT?

Climate change hits Mars

Gosh the little “Green” Martian aliens are driving SUVs and flying around in private jets. Man, who knew?

According to Jonathan Leake, Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap.

NASA Scientists say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period. Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.

European Parliament to take 'homophobic' countries to court

In a debate in the European Parliament (EP) Wednesday, members of the European Parliament from France, the Netherlands and Italy, among others, vilified Poland as "hateful" and "repulsive" for refusing to allow promotion of homosexuality in schools.

A vote was held Thursday to approve an EP resolution chastising Poland for 'homophobia.' The resolution - adopted by 325 votes to 124, with 150 abstentions - calls for a fact-finding mission to be sent to Poland, for "worldwide de-criminalization of homosexuality" and for the commission to take member states to court if they breach their EU obligations.

At issue was a proposed law in Poland which would forbid "homosexual propaganda" in schools. Explaining the legislation earlier this year, Roman Giertych, Poland's minister of education: "One must limit homosexual propaganda so that children won't have an improper view of family"

Beginning the debate in the EP France's MEP Rour Martine called statements in defense of the traditional family by Polish parliamentarians, "diatribes" and noted that they "must stop", adding that they were "repulsive" and "hateful". "These are not Europe's values," she proclaimed. (Apparently, neither are freedom and Christian values, since Europe is going Dhimmi)