Pompeo warns governors of Chinese infiltration into US: 'It's happening in your state' Pompeo discusses China at the National Governors Association

Pompeo warns governors of Chinese infiltration into US: 'It's happening in your state'

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China's Communist Party has infiltrated various levels of America's infrastructure and is working to destroy the values of the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a speech Saturday, while also warning state governors to be wary of China's infiltration.


“We can’t ignore China’s actions and strategic intentions," he said while addressing the National Governors Association winter meeting. "The Chinese government has been methodical in the way it's analyzed our system... it's assessed our vulnerabilities and it's decided to exploit our freedoms, to gain an advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local level."


“Competition with China is happening. It’s happening in your state," Pompeo added. "In fact, I'd be surprised if most of you in the audience had not been lobbied by the Chinese Communist Party directly."


He said groups loyal to communist China are operating out in the open in Virginia, Minnesota, Florida and dozens of other states all around the country. Other Chinese groups, however, practice their nefarious actions in the shadows in an attempt to exercise influence over U.S. citizens and lawmakers.


Pompeo cited a letter from a diplomat at the Chinese Consul in New York to the speaker of an unnamed state legislature, advising that U.S. officials refrain from independent interaction with Taiwan.


“You add a diplomat from China, assigned here to the United States, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party, in New York City, sending a letter urging that an American elected official shouldn’t exercise his right to freedom of speech," he explained.


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The secretary said this isn't an uncommon event and that Chinese officials based in the U.S. are actively seeking to sow seeds of chaos at the state and local level -- specifically in the realm of education on college campuses and K-12 classrooms.


“Maybe some of you have heard about the time when the Chinese consulate paid the UC San Diego students to protest the Dalai Lama," he continued. “It shows depth. It shows systemization. It shows intent.”


He added: “Chinese Communist party officials, too, are cultivating relationships with county school boards and local politicians -- Often through what are known as 'Sister City Programs' ... This competition is well underway."


Pompeo also spoke about China's campaign to recruit U.S. scientists and academics to share vital secrets, in exchange for monetary gain through their "Thousand Talents Plan," a campaign that has already targeted scientists and professors on campuses such as Virginia Tech and Harvard and triggered investigations by the Department of Justice (DOJ).


He also explained how Beijing pressures Chinese students in the U.S. to keep an eye on their fellow countrymen and report back to the government about their activities.


"China’s propaganda starts even earlier than college. China has targeted K-12 schools around the world," he said. "Do you know that we have no ability to establish similar programs in China? We should have reciprocity in all things. Today they have free reign in our system and we're completely shut out from theirs... Beijing knows that today’s kids are tomorrow’s leaders."


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Pompeo then warned state governors about doing business with China and said it is common to indirectly finance communism without realizing it. He then extended the hand of the federal government and said the Trump administration is standing by, ready to help states with this growing problem.


“I want to urge vigilance on the local level too," he said. "It’s worth trusting but verifying. There are federal officials prepared to help you work your way through these challenges when they arise. Don’t make separate individual deals that undermine our national policy. I know none of you would do so intentionally. Let us help you."


“I hope you will all take on board what I've said today," Pompeo added. "Don’t lose sight of the competition from China that's already present in your state. Let's all rise to the occasion and protect our security, our economy, indeed all that we hold dear."


Nick Givas is a reporter with Fox News. You can find him on Twitter at @NGivasDC.

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Sun faces H-1B visa probe and the Murders of Immigration Activist Murders

SAN FRANCISCO--The Department of Labor began an administrative law hearing Monday into whether Sun Microsystems violated regulations concerning the employment of foreign workers in the United States on temporary H-1B work visas.

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SAN FRANCISCO--The Department of Labor began an administrative law hearing Monday into whether Sun Microsystems violated regulations concerning the employment of foreign workers in the United States on temporary H-1B work visas.

The hearing was prompted by allegations by Guy Santiglia, a former systems administrator at Sun, who said that even as the company was laying off him and thousands of other employees, it retained H-1B workers and was applying for the ability to hire thousands more. Santiglia also accused Sun of violating his right to inspect public records.

H-1B visas, which allow skilled foreigners to work in the United States for up to six years, have sparked controversy in the past several years. During the current technology slump, unemployed U.S. tech workers have voiced anger at the way the visas allow foreigners to hold scarce jobs.

Critics also charge the guest workers make less than U.S. workers, thereby undercutting U.S. wages. Still, legal challenges to the program have been rare, said Michael Hethmon, an attorney with the Federation of American Immigration Reform who is representing Santiglia. "Because of the Byzantine nature of the regulations, it's been very difficult for guys like Mr. Santiglia to go forward and prepare a complaint," Hethmon said.

Sun spokesperson Diane Carlini said the company didn't take national origin, visa status or salary into account in cutting its work force from about 42,000 to 35,000 beginning about 18 months ago. To have considered national origin or visa status would have amounted to discrimination, she said. Carlini couldn't say whether any H-1Bs workers have been hired during the past 18 months, but said the company has done very little hiring during the tech downturn.

Santiglia's case is without merit, Carlini said, pointing out that a Labor Department investigation of his claims found no violations of law in how Sun made use of the program. She also said other federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Justice, have dismissed claims against Sun by Santiglia.

The case Monday, heard by Department of Labor Judge Jennifer Gee, stemmed from Santiglia's appeal of the Labor Department's initial ruling.

Santiglia's complaint focuses on part of the process of securing an H-1B visa, known as the Labor Condition Application (LCA). The document requires employers to describe the salary that will be paid to the guest worker and to testify that use of the visa won't harm working conditions of similar U.S. employees. Santiglia said Sun's employment of H-1B visa holders adversely hurt his working conditions, in that he and three other U.S. employees were laid off in his work group while three H-1B visa holders in the group were retained. 

Along with other allegations, his complaint also charges that Sun didn't properly post notices of LCAs in the workplace, that Sun failed to accurately describe the prevailing wage rate for specific jobs, and that the company didn't provide proper access to public documents. Santiglia said Sun didn't let him photocopy its LCAs, barred him from seeing them for several months, and ultimately required him to sign a statement precluding him from reproducing the material.

Roxana Bacon, an attorney representing Sun, argued Monday that the company never prevented Santiglia from taking notes by hand. She also said Sun had to take steps to protect the safety of employees because Santiglia raised his voice with Sun officials. Bacon told Gee that the company has been reasonable in giving him access to the LCAs. "Not only has there been no reprisal against Mr. Santiglia, there's been every effort to accommodate him," she said.

During the opening day of the hearing Monday, Gee upheld Sun's motion to preclude the expert testimony of Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at the University of California, Davis. Matloff has long been a critic of the H-1B program and has testified before Congress on the matter. Gee said Matloff's expertise wouldn't contribute to a decision about whether Sun had followed Labor Department regulations.

But Matloff said during a break in the hearing that Sun's use of H-1Bs harmed comparable U.S. workers by pressuring them to work longer hours, given that H-1Bs themselves are likely to work long hours. H-1Bs are beholden to employers, Matloff said, partly because the guest workers may rely on the employer initially to obtain permanent residency status.

Santiglia worked at Sun's Santa Clara, Calif., campus as a full-time employee for about four months before being laid off Nov. 5, 2001. He had worked as a contractor at Sun since late November 2000. Prior to the beginning of Sun's layoffs in 2001, about 4 percent of the company's workers were H-1Bs. Carlini said Monday that she didn't know the current percentage of H-1Bs.

Santiglia isn't the only U.S. tech worker taking an H-1B related case to the courts. Pete Bennett, an out-of-work Web programmer currently working in the mortgage business, filed a claim with the Department of Justice, saying employers rejected him on the basis of national origin. Bennett, a Danville, Calif., resident who runs the Web site Nomoreh1b.com, suggests additional legal challenges are coming. "There are more popping up every day," he says "People are fighting bac

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Connecting Success Factors to Bennett

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The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammel Crow, Lennar, Catellus.

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My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.  

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Vinod Khosla ~ The Billionaire with many houses, Pete Bennett Jobs Activist at Sun Micro - now homeless

Connecting Vinod Khosla where Pete Bennett founder of nomoreh1b.com (Stolen by Godaddy Investors) held a protest with other US Workers losing their job. 

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The folks at TPG will have to answer to my Whistleblower Complaints on the truly odd collection of RFPs emanating from companies connected to Richard Blum, William McGlashan, CBRE, Regency Centers, Trammell Crow, Lennar, Catellus and Khosla Ventures.


About Pete Bennett
Software Developer / Programmer / Jobs Activist on H-1b / Arson Victim / Fraud Victim / Victim in Several Police Corruption Incidents / Whistle Blower Case Morphed into SEC Witness Retaliation /

Over 40 years Mr. Bennett went a long run of complex cases, incidents, fires, accidents and attempts on his life.  The sources of these perplexing incidents, legal cases and endless setbacks bubbled up in 2011 via arrests of Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce (CNET) but his courtroom losses resulted in losses in the millions.

The end result suggests possibly one of the longest unchecked Racketeering, Witness Tampering and Witness Murders operation of all time.

My story is about witness murders, private equity, mergers and acquisitions linked back to the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific lost in 1989.  It was a winnable case as long the witnesses testified.

There are many story connections to 101 Ygnacio Valley Road Walnut Creek, one is Lawrence Investments which is legal name for Real Estate Empire of Larry Ellison, the other is Nearon Properties, and several law firms that win cases against but refuse to consider cases connected to Pete Bennett.

Vinod Khosla
Born: 28-Jan-1955
Birthplace: Pune, India
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Venture capitalist
Investor in ethanol companies. Unfortunately, Khosla is not an expert on the subject, and additionally will distort both facts and figures to make the ethanol picture appear much rosier than it is. Claims he has made include that ethanol is more efficient than petroleum (false by a wide margin), that ethanol is cheaper than gasoline (consistently false for the last quarter century), and that Brazil has replaced 40% of their petroleum use with ethanol (his inflated by a factor of four, it is closer to 10%). The truth is that all energy scenarios for the United States are bleak, and ethanol will be little help.
Wife: (four children)
    University: BSEE, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
    University: MS Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University
    University: MBA, Stanford University (1979)
    Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers General Partner (1986-)
    Daisy Systems Co-Founder
    Sun Microsystems Founding CEO (1982-85)
    Biden for President 
    Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee 
    Energy Future Coalition Steering Committee
    Friends of Dick Lugar 
    George W. Bush for President 
    Hillary Clinton for President 
    John Kerry for President 
    John McCain 2008 
    Kerry Victory 2004 
    National Venture Capital Association 
    Obama for America 
    Obama Victory Fund 2012 
    World Technology Network 
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    The Singularity Is Near (26-Aug-2010)

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"Exporting America" May 22, 2003 LOU DOBBS, CNNfn ANCHOR, LOU DOBBS

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"Exporting America" May 22, 2003
LOU DOBBS, CNNfn ANCHOR, LOU DOBBS
MONEYLINE: Good evening, everyone. Tonight, we continue our series of special reports, "Exporting America." This country's unemployment rate rose to six percent last month matching an eight-year high. Nearly nine million Americans are out of work. Many are bitter because their jobs are going to foreign workers who came to this country on special visas called H1-B. Kitty Pilgrim reports.

KITTY PILGRIM, CNNfn CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mike Roberts was laid off from his technology consultant job in California. He sold his house and is living in a hotel room with his family and plans to leave California for good when his daughter finishes the school year. He says the company he worked for brought in a wave of foreign workers on H1-B visas. He eventually was replaced.

MICHAEL ROBERTS, TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT: They were bringing in consultants like one, two, three every week, all H1-Bs, so you start asking and then you start discovering they're all coming through just one or two agencies and you realize they're not even considering American citizens at all.

PILGRIM: Thirty-year-old Daniel Soong was making $160,000 a year but no longer. He lost his job to an H1-B visa worker. The former consultant now can't find a job and lives with his parents. He talks about a recent job interview that went nowhere. [Daniel Soong contacted ZaZona.com with a clarification: CNN made a mistake, he was making $60,000 a year, not $160,000.]
DANIEL SOONG, TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT: They were just interviewing me in order to satisfy the equal opportunity requirements of the state so they wouldn't be discriminating against American citizens, but in reality they had no intentions of hiring me and they wanted to hire an H1-B visa candidate.
PILGRIM: The H1-B visa was born in the tech room of the early 1990s. There were not enough American workers, so employers asked for a special visa to bring in college educated workers from overseas to fill specialized jobs.
In 1992, the H1-B visa let in a maximum number of 65,000 workers, but by the end of the decade that number jumped to 195,000 every year and that doesn't count visa renewals. For example, in 2001, 342,000 people renewed their H1-B visa.
RON HIRA, IEEE-USA CHAIR: Usually in the technology area that you would bring an H1-B worker in temporarily. Unfortunately, the program has changed into instead of being a last resort the H1-Bs have become in some cases, you know, a first choice.
PILGRIM: Peter Bennett started a Web site complaining about the H1-B visas. Then it gets 1,500 hits a week on his Web site.
PETE BENNETT, NOMOREH1B.COM: Across the country, workers are being displaced wholesale. Entire teams are brought in to replace American workers and where they're being forced to train their replacements.
PILGRIM: Charles Corry did consultant work in Colorado Springs with many high tech firms that use the H1-B visa. He says to him it's clear that companies give preference to the H1-B applicants because the workers are willing to put in longer hours for less money, anything to keep their job in the states.
CHARLES CORRY, TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT: They're a modern version of indentured servitude, the hours, the salaries typically much lower. I was probably getting twice what the H1-B visa people were.
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PILGRIM: And the General Accounting Office is looking into whether the H1-B visa workers are moving American workers out of their jobs. They expect to come up with a report by mid-September, and that timing is critical because Congress decides on the limits on the number of visas the following month - - Lou.
DOBBS: They're studying whether H1-B visa employees are taking away jobs from Americans?
PILGRIM: They want to make a study, everything.
DOBBS: It seems like as they say a no-brainer.
PILGRIM: Yes. It pretty much is industry knowledge that they are but they have to make a study of it -- Lou.
DOBBS: How many are there now, H1-B visa holders in this country?
PILGRIM: There's no real clear number because some people go back. Some people stay. Some people stay without the status.
DOBBS: What's the best estimate?
PILGRIM: But they think about a million.
DOBBS: A million?
PILGRIM: About a million and the problem is that you can reapply. You can stay in the country for three years and then renew it and stay for six, so you can stay for a long time on this visa.
DOBBS: Kitty, thank you very much, fascinating, Kitty Pilgrim. Still ahead here tonight our "Quote of the Day" on a much needed boost for the economy. Then, we'll be talking with Congressman Peter DeFazio on why free trade is to blame for some of the problems our economy is experiencing and why free trade may be a misnomer.
Also tonight, Saudi Arabia the target of terror, Saudi Foreign Policy Advisor Adel al-Jubeir will join us to talk about his country's new approach. Stay with us.
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DOBBS: This week we're focusing in our special series of reports on "Exporting America" on the reasons for the loss of jobs abroad. Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio blames the loss of American jobs on poorly written trade agreements. The Congressman says one way to turn around that situation is to create a non-partisan congressional trade office. He says it would write smarter agreements that could uphold labor and environmental standards.
Congressman Peter DeFazio joins us now from Washington, D.C., Congressman, good to have you here.
REP. PETER DEFAZIO (D), OREGON: Thanks, Lou, appreciate being on the show.
DOBBS: The issue of free trade, membership in the W.T.O, (unintelligible), all of these agreements ostensibly a level playing field for lesser developed nations as well as industrialized. Why do you find it's not working?
DEFAZIO: Well, actually if you look back to NAFTA, the whole intent of NAFTA was to make the export of capital safe because the appropriations earlier in the last century in Mexico. So, it was really set up to protect capital exports, capacity exports by U.S. manufacturers and the other agreements are modeled on that.
They don't protect labor rights. They don't protect environmental standards, and they don't create a level playing field in any way. I mean U.S. workers can't compete with Mexican workers let alone China and others that they're being forced to compete with in this agreements.
DOBBS: As you know, Congressman, one of the facts is that jobs that were lost in this country to Mexico have subsequently been, at least a portion of them, lost to China which are now being lost to Vietnam. At what point does this Congress and this White House deal with the issue of real imbalances that are creating job losses and the exportation not only of capital and jobs but intellectual capital?
DEFAZIO: Well, we're hollowing out our economy, both our industrial strength and now our service sector, intellectual strength, and high technology which was supposed to be where the displaced industrial workers went. It is an extraordinary threat to the future of our productivity and I believe our national security. When does Congress wake up? I don't know. The American people have woken up. Even Alan Greenspan is speaking out strongly about the potential problems here.
The International Monetary Fund, controlled by the United States has said our trade deficit isn't sustainable. But inside the Beltway here there's this head in the sand attitude.
You know when we renewed the H1-B which your last segment talked about here in Congress, they lied to us. It was controversial when they renewed it even when the economy was booming. They did it after hours. They told us there would be no more recorded votes. People left and the Republican leadership brought it up and jammed it through and, of course, the Clinton administration was complicit in that.
DOBBS: The Clinton administration, you mean Democrats and Republicans alike lied to you, Congressman?
DEFAZIO: Well, I'm not sure what the Democratic leadership knew or didn't now but the Republicans did for sure because they told us no more votes. I left among others and no more bills coming up and they brought that through, passed it on a voice vote. So, it's not going to happen this time we would hope with the scrutiny that's now starting to come on this problem and this issue.
DOBBS: Well, the fact of the matter is that in the ten years since the H1-B visa was created, it has brought in a huge number of visa holders that are taking jobs whether one -- and as Kitty Pilgrim reported a study is underway. It doesn't seem to me to require a lot of studying to figure out that jobs have been lost to H1-B visa holders. What are you going to do about it?
DEFAZIO: Well, the conflict that Congress feels, and obviously this administration feels is that there are certain corporations that have done very well under this and they're putting counter pressure on against American workers and the American workforce.
I'm hoping that this will be a time when we're going to do one for the future of our country and for our workers and we can create enough inertia. They can't ignore this problem anymore. I mean all those displaced industrial workers were supposed to get retrained for high tech. Well, guess what, we brought in people to do your work and now we're starting to export it.
I mean the other thing, and I'm not sure she touched on it, is that a lot of times these people are brought in, trained in teams, and then sent back to India where they can pay them even less than here. Here they're paid less than American workers but over there they're paid less than half.
DOBBS: And is it your sense that anything will be done about this or is it -- because you talk about the corporations doing very well. The fact is whether one looks at this in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at it in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy. Shouldn't Congress be taking a serious look at the interests of this country?
DEFAZIO: Well, absolutely, and I'm hoping to engage some of the Republicans, like Duncan Hunter on Armed Services. We're now -- the Chinese are within half a generation of us in high tech computer technology and chips. We're supposed to by national policy maintain a two generation lead. That happened because of U.S. exports of technology to China under their demands. I mean they demand. We export the technology there and then they'll provide the cheap labor.
This is an extraordinary threat to the future of this country and, you know, there certainly should be a national security concern. If people aren't concerned about our workers they got to be concerned about our national security.
DOBBS: Congressman DeFazio we thank you very much and we wish you luck as you move forward with your advocacy of a congressional trade office. Thank you, sir.
DEFAZIO: Thanks, Lou. Thanks for shining a light on this.
DOBBS: Tomorrow on this broadcast we continue our series, "Exporting America." We'll take a look at the tremendous pressure faced by U.S. companies that try to keep their operations in this country, and we'll show you what businesses and governments are doing to at least try to encourage them to stay. And we'll try to find out precisely what the trade policy is of this country on this important issue.

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Oregon community college shooting: 10 dead at Umpqua campus Associated Press Posted:   10/01/2015 11:25:43 AM PDT6 Comments | Updated:   30 min. ago 1/18 Friends and family are reunited with students at the local fairgrounds after a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang) Deadly shooting at Oregon community college ‹› ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- The latest on the deadly shooting Thursday at a community college in Oregon (all times local): 7:20 p.m. A neighbor of the man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Oregon college says he "seemed really unfriendly." Bronte Hart lived below 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer in the community of Winchester. She says Mercer would "sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light." Hart says a woman she believed to be Mercer's mother also lived upstairs and was "crying her eyes out" Thursday. Mercer was identified as the man who opened fire at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College, killing nine people. He then died after exchanging gunfire with responding officers. A patient is wheeled into the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore., following a deadly shooting Thursday at Umpqua Community College. (Aaron Yost/Roseburg News-Review via AP) ------ 7:10 p.m. A government official says the man who opened fire at an Oregon community college was 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer. The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly and provided the name on condition of anonymity. Mercer killed nine people at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College before he died during an exchange of gunfire with officers Thursday. The college is in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. -- By Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington ------ 6:40 p.m. Federal authorities say the gunman is among the 10 people killed in a shooting at an Oregon college. FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele declined to provide other information about the shooter. Advertisement Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says seven others were injured when the gunman opened fire Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College. Three of them were transferred to Eugene-area hospitals in critical condition. Hanlin has said the shooter died after exchanging gunfire with police. ------ 5:45 p.m. Officials at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon, say four people injured in a deadly mass shooting remain hospitalized there but are expected to survive. Dr. Jason Gray, chief medical officer, says three other patients were transferred to a hospital in Springfield. Gray says one of the four people still at Mercy Medical Center is in critical condition and the others are stable. He says some of the victims who were taken to the hospital suffered multiple gunshot wounds. They were injured when a gunman opened fire at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College. ------ 5:05 p.m. A sheriff says 10 people were killed in a shooting at an Oregon community college. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says 10 dead and another seven injured is the "best, most accurate information we have at this time." Earlier, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said 13 people were killed in the rampage at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. It's unclear what led to the discrepancy. Hanlin has said the gunman died after a shootout with police. He didn't clarify whether the shooter was included in the 10 fatalities. Hanlin says three people who were critically injured in the shooting have been transferred to hospitals in the Eugene area. ------ 4:45 p.m. The sheriff overseeing the investigation of an Oregon college shooting has been vocal in opposing state and federal gun-control legislation. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin registered his opposition this year as state lawmakers considered requiring background checks on private, person-to-person gun sales. Hanlin told a legislative committee in March that a background-check mandate wouldn't prevent criminals from getting firearms. He said the state should combat gun violence by cracking down on convicted criminals found with guns, and by addressing people with unmanaged mental health issues. Hanlin also sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden in 2013, after the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school. Hanlin said he and his deputies would refuse to enforce new gun-control restrictions "offending the constitutional rights of my citizens." ------ 4:35 p.m. A student at an Oregon community college where a deadly mass shooting happened says she was in a writing class when her teacher got a call from security saying the school was on lockdown. Hannah Miles is a 19-year-old freshman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. She says she heard gunshots from a neighboring classroom Thursday, and her teacher and fellow students huddled together in their locked classroom. She says they heard footsteps outside, and a man's voice call out to them, "Come on out, come on out." They remained quiet and didn't open the door. Miles says police soon arrived. And after students were convinced they were indeed officers, they opened the door. Miles says seeing the officers was "like a huge burden had been lifted." The shooting left 13 people dead and more than a dozen injured. ------ 4:10 p.m. Royals left-hander Jeremy Guthrie says he's keeping his Oregon hometown in his prayers after a mass shooting at a local community college. Guthrie was born in Roseburg and lived there until he was 12. But he moved just 100 miles away and visited there often after he left. His father sold cars in the community for about 20 years. "I used to ride around that entire town on my bicycle," he said before the Royals faced the White Sox in Chicago. "When we went somewhere, we jumped on our bikes and rode down to the shoe store, the mall, and as such you got to know people." Guthrie says he has several cousins, aunts and uncles who still live in the Roseburg area. "Certainly in those smaller towns everybody knows each other, so I'm sure there are many people that are directly feeling the pain today," he said. ------ 4 p.m. Vice President Joe Biden is predicting investigators will find that a semi-automatic or automatic weapon was used in the Oregon college shooting. Biden is speaking at a global summit in New York. He says it's still too early to know all the details, but he's basing his guess on the large number of people killed and injured. The vice president is renewing his call for what describes as "sane gun legislation." He says the Second Amendment doesn't allow someone to own a bazooka. Biden says there's almost nothing worse than getting a phone call saying, "Your child is gone." He's alluding to his own son's brain cancer death earlier this year. Biden spoke after 13 people were killed by a 20-year-old gunman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. ------ 3:40 p.m. President Barack Obama says the U.S. is becoming numb to mass shootings and says their perpetrators have "sickness" in their minds. He says thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in these situations because they don't do anything to stop similar acts from happening in the next week or a few months later. Obama spoke Thursday after 13 people were killed by a 20-year-old gunman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in southwestern Oregon. ------ 3:20 p.m. Hospitals are reporting they have received at least 13 patients from the shooting at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in southwestern Oregon. Monique Danziger, a spokeswoman for Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, says three women, ages 18-34, were flown to the hospital from Roseburg. She says their conditions were not available. Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg has at least 10 patients. Their conditions were also not available. A spokeswoman at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland says they hadn't heard of any patients transported there, but said that could change. Authorities say 13 people were killed in Thursday's shooting. The 20-year-old gunman died during a shootout with police. ------ 3:10 p.m. President Barack Obama will make a statement on the deadly mass shooting at an Oregon community college. The White House says the statement is scheduled for 6:20 p.m. Eastern time in the press briefing room. Obama last addressed a deadly mass shooting in June, when nine parishioners were killed at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. At the time, Obama said the shootings showed the need for a national reckoning on gun violence. The shooting Thursday by a 20-year-old gunman left 13 people dead and at least 20 injured at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College. The school is in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. ------ 3 p.m. Officials at high schools in an around an Oregon city where a mass shooting took place say they're preparing to support people affected by the killings. Sutherlin High School Principal Justin Huntley says his school has counselors available to students after the deadly rampage Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. Sutherlin is about 13 miles north of that city. Authorities say a 20-year-old gunman killed 13 people and injured at least 20 at the college campus. Roseburg Public Schools Superintendent Gerry Washburn says a large number of Roseburg High School students go straight to Umpqua Community College after graduation. "It's a small, tight community, and there is no doubt that we will have staff and students that have family and friends impacted by this event," Washburn said. "We're just trying to get ready to support them." ------ 2:30 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton says of the deadly shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, that it's beyond her comprehension that "we are seeing these mass murders happen again and again and again." Thursday's shooting at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College left 13 dead and 20 injured. Clinton said after a Dorchester, Massachusetts, campaign event that the nation needs to "get the political will to do everything we can to keep people safe." She says there's a way to have sensible gun control measures that keep firearms out of the wrong hands and save lives. The former secretary of state says she's committed to doing everything she can to achieve that. Meanwhile, the Justice Department says U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is receiving regular briefings from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which have agents at the scene. ------ 2:10 p.m. A student at the Oregon community college where a mass shooting occurred says the gunman shot her teacher and asked others in her classroom about their religion before spraying more bullets. Eighteen-year-old Kortney Moore of Rogue River tells the Roseburg News-Review newspaper that she was in a writing class at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg on Thursday when a shot came through a window. The gunman entered her classroom and told people to get on the ground. Moore says the man started asking people to stand up and state their religion and then opened fire. The shooting left 13 people dead and at least 20 injured. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says authorities responded and exchanged gunfire with the man. He says the shooter died at the scene, but he didn't say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police. ------ 2 p.m. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at a community college was a 20-year-old man. Authorities say the man is dead after killing 13 people and injuring at least 20 others at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says authorities received calls from the college at about 10:30 a.m. reporting an active shooter in one of the classrooms. Officers responded and found the gunman on campus. Hanlin says they exchanged gunfire with the man, and he died in or near a classroom. Hanlin didn't say whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by police. ------ 1:47 p.m. Authorities say the man who opened fire on an Oregon community college campus is dead. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said at a Thursday news conference that offers exchanged gunfire with the shooter and that "he is deceased." Hanlin didn't say whether the shooter was killed by officers or took his own life. Authorities say 13 people were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. ------ 1:30 p.m. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says 13 people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a community college in the rural city of Roseburg. The shooting happened Thursday morning on the campus of Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College, about 180 miles south of Portland. Authorities said earlier that at least seven people were dead. More than 20 other people were injured. Andrea Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County sheriff's office, says the threat to the school has subsided. She declined to say whether the gunman was taken into custody or killed. Meanwhile, the FBI says it's sending teams to Roseburg to assist. ------ 1:05 p.m. The former president of an Oregon community college where a gunman opened fire, killing at least seven people, says the school has only one security officer on duty at a time, and that person isn't armed. Joe Olson retired in June from his position as president of Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. He says last year, one of the biggest debates on campus was whether the school should have armed security officers. He says the college had three training exercises with local law agencies in the past two years, "but you can never be prepared for something like this." Olson says he suspects Thursday's shooting will start a discussion across the country about how community colleges prepare for something like this. Authorities say the gunman killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 others. ------ 12:50 p.m. The White House says President Barack Obama has been briefed by his homeland security adviser on a deadly mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. At the president's request, he'll continue to receive updates throughout the day. Authorities say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 others. A Douglas County sheriff's spokeswoman says the threat has subsided, but she declined to say whether the gunman was taken into custody or killed. The sheriff's office says students and faculty members were being bused to the county fairgrounds. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley says he's "absolutely heartbroken" about the shooting. Merkley says he's been in touch with local officials to express his condolences and offer assistance. ------ 12:40 p.m. The congressman who represents the southwest Oregon city where a mass shooting happened at a community college says the incident is a "heartbreaking tragedy." Authorities say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 others. Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio said in a statement that his thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. He also expressed gratitude for the first responders. DeFazio says once he knows more about what happened, he plans to work with his colleagues in Congress to find ways to prevent such tragedies. Andrea Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County Sheriff's office, says the threat at the college has subsided. However, she wouldn't say whether the gunman was taken into custody or was killed. ------ 12:30 p.m. A sheriff's spokesman says the threat has subsided following a mass shooting at a southwest Oregon community college. Authorities say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 more. Andrea Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County Sheriff's office, says there's "no more threat." However, she wouldn't say whether that meant the shooter had been arrested or was killed. Roseburg is about 180 miles south of Portland. Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately returned. ------ 12:15 p.m. Authorities say at least seven people are dead and 20 others are injured after a shooting at a southwest Oregon community college. The shooting happened at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. State Police Lt. Bill Fugate tells KATU-TV that seven to 10 people were killed and at least 20 others were injured. A photographer for the Roseburg News-Review newspaper says he saw people being loaded into multiple ambulances and taken to a local hospital. Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately returned. The Oregon State Police and Douglas County Sheriff's Office also didn't immediately returned calls from The Associated Press seeking additional details. ------ 11:35 a.m. Authorities are reporting multiple casualties in a shooting at a community college in southwestern Oregon. In a tweet Thursday, the local fire district advised people to stay away from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The city is about 180 miles south of Portland. The fire district later reported there were multiple casualties but released no further details. Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately returned. ------ 11:30 a.m. Authorities are responding to a report of an active shooter at a community college in southwestern Oregon. In a tweet Thursday, the local fire district advised people to stay away from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The city is about 180 miles south of Portland. Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately returned.

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