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Senate Votes Down Amendment to Bill To Make Human Trafficking a Serious, Violent Felony

August 23, 2022 2:30 amAugust 22, 2022 8:51 pm

The California Senate rejected new amendments made by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) to Assembly Bill 2167 on Monday, rejecting that human trafficking should be considered a serious and violent felony. AB 2167, authored by Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and...

Hollywood’s Selective Outrage over the Tragedies of Uvalde and the Truck Migrants

July 2, 2022 2:30 amJuly 3, 2022 9:40 am

Los Angeles—A galaxy of Hollywood stars reacted with horror and outrage over the tragic deaths of more than 50 migrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries whose bodies were found trapped inside a semi-truck near San Antonio this week. ...

Bypassing CA Border, Illegal So. Cal. Beach Landings Now a Routine Occurrence

June 28, 2022 2:50 amJune 29, 2022 6:33 am

By Scott Baugh and Sheriff Don Barnes One morning in May, on the shores of Laguna Beach, an Orange County resident videotaped the landing of a Panga boat with over a dozen people unlawfully entering our country. Customs and Border...

Bill To Impose Civil Penalties on Hotel Owners Over Human Trafficking Passed in Senate

April 1, 2022 12:22 pmApril 1, 2022 12:23 pm

A bill to allow civil penalties to be issued against hotels if owners know of human trafficking occurrences and don’t report them was passed in the Assembly on Thursday, and will move to the Senate. Assembly Bill 1788, authored by...

Ashton Kutcher’s Alarming Silence on Biden’s Border Crisis

August 6, 2021 6:40 amMarch 23, 2022 11:56 am

Human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors is an epidemic. While this issue is often diluted by political jockeying, there was a moment in 2017 where it seemed the tides were shifting. Ashton Kutcher, the slap-stick comedian and star...

Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Protect Sex Offenders Who Have Homosexual Sex with Minors

September 12, 2020 1:57 pmSeptember 13, 2020 4:23 am

California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom just signed Senate Bill 145, which lowers the penalties for adults who have sex with same-sex minors. As Senator Melissa Melendez Tweeted, “Well what a shock. Newsom signed SB145, the bill that allows a 24...

Sex and Taxes: Legislators’ Annual Preoccupation

September 1, 2020 10:13 amSeptember 1, 2020 10:49 am

“Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes,” the popular idiom says. But in California it is more accurate to say “sex and taxes.” With California in dire financial straits having been locked down since March,...