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  • Romney to vote against Trump's emergency declaration

    03/14/2019 10:42:15 AM PDT · by Eyes Unclouded · 116 replies
    The Hill ^ | 3-14-2019 | Jordain Carney
    Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Thursday that he will oppose President Trump's emergency declaration to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall. "I will vote today for the resolution of disapproval. This is a vote for the Constitution and for the balance of powers that is at its core," Romney said in a statement. Romney is the sixth Republican senator to say he will vote for the resolution of disapproval, which is getting a vote in the Senate later Thursday.
  • Levin explains to Mike Lee & Others why Trump’s National Emergency does NOT violate the Constitution

    03/14/2019 8:24:30 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 21 replies
    Mark Levin Show ^ | 3/13/19 | Mark Levin
    On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, Republicans are undermining the President of The United States, some even dress up as Constitutional conservatives. Some of them don’t understand the Constitution, the separation of powers, or the budget process.
  • Border wall construction for DHS - a mile a day!

    03/13/2019 3:04:42 PM PDT · by Dana1960 · 42 replies
    DC Examiner ^ | 3/13/19 | Anna Giaritelli
    Officials from the @realDonaldTrump administration are here watching as Fisher Industries workers demonstrate how they would install the 30-foot steel bollard border wall
  • Mumps, other outbreaks force U.S. detention centers to quarantine over 2,000 migrants

    03/12/2019 1:17:34 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 31 replies
    reuters ^ | MARCH 10, 2019 | Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke
    (Reuters) - Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he found a lawyer to help him seek asylum. Then he was quarantined. In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. “When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,” Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall. His attorney was not...
  • Town Hall: What (Diverse) L.A. Residents Really Think of L.A. as a Sanctuary City.

    03/12/2019 4:46:11 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 4 replies
    WOW :) . WATCH VIDEO!
  • Theology and Border Walls

    03/12/2019 3:48:14 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    Providence Magazine ^ | Feb 28, 2019 | John Shelton
    Perhaps American Christians cannot think clearly about homeland security, borders, and immigration for the same reason Americans cannot think clearly about anything else. As Christians we have rich, intellectually credible traditions and frameworks for ethical reflection at our fingertips, and yet, as Americans, we suffer from a historical amnesia. What we need is a historically-attuned theological framework that can lay the foundation for our debates and political deliberations. Without one, we risk acting in ways that contradict the Gospel that we profess. To jump, as we tend to, from Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Hobbes is to ignore crucial...
  • History Of Hispanic Socialism In South America (No Wonder They Are Dying To Escape)

    03/12/2019 3:42:33 PM PDT · by Richard William I · 4 replies
    RichardWilliamz.Blogspot.Com ^ | 03/12/2019 | Richard Williamz
  • Support for Trump dwindles among ICE officers

    03/12/2019 9:18:22 AM PDT · by guyman · 125 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | March 11,2019 | By Stephen Dinan
    "ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises, saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only still happening, but has gone into “overdrive.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers say they’re being roped into such mundane tasks as opening the doors on vans to release immigrants already caught by Border Patrol agents. That’s dragging the officers from their usual duties of nabbing fugitives, or scouring local prisons and jails for immigrant criminals who lived illegally in the U.S. ready to be deported. The shell game...
  • Caravans of illegal aliens are at pace for nearly one million crossing border this year

    03/11/2019 1:57:16 PM PDT · by cowpoke · 19 replies
    THE WESTERNER ^ | 3/11/2019 | Frank DuBois
    ...In 2010, Lt. Col. (retired) Oliver North visited the ranch where Ashurst lives. He was working on documentaries called “War Stories.” He was accompanied by Chuck Holton, a freelance war correspondent and former U.S. Army Ranger who has worked with North on his films and books. When the caravans of illegal immigrants began forming last year in southern Mexico, Holton was sent there to report on them. Ashurst shared some of the information he received from Holton. The migrants are not being paid to join the caravans, but they are being supported and encouraged to join by opposition political elements...
  • Trump Budget to Request $8.6 Billion in Additional Wall Funding

    03/10/2019 9:30:25 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 53 replies
    NYT ^ | March 10, 2019 | Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
    President Trump will ask Congress on Monday for $8.6 billion in additional funding to build a wall along the United States border with Mexico, a person familiar with the details said on Sunday. The request, which will come as part of Mr. Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal, is certain to reignite a conflict with Democrats that led to a record-long government shutdown this year. Mr. Trump had previously requested $5.7 billion to build a wall but was rebuffed by both Democrats and Republicans, who approved a spending bill that did not include the funding. That resulted in Mr. Trump declaring...
  • Sign: ICE now detaining 50,000 in all-time high, and yet Congress continues to oppose POTUS...

    03/09/2019 3:04:47 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    The National Sentinel ^ | March 9, 2019 | Jon Dougherty
    FULL TITLE: Sign: ICE now detaining 50,000 in all-time high, and yet Congress continues to oppose POTUS Trump’s emergency declaration The number of people being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reached an all-time high of 50,000 as migrants from Central America and Mexico continue to stream towards the United States, deepening the humanitarian crisis. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified to a Democrat-controlled House this week that the federal government and, specifically, her border agencies, are fast running out of resources to deal with the rising numbers of migrants as well as space to detain them....
  • Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says 'I've made my decision' about President Trump's national emergency vote

    03/07/2019 9:53:41 PM PST · by conservative98 · 76 replies
    Desert News ^ | 3/7/19 | Matthew Brown
    Romney is among a few GOP senators who have not disclosed how they will vote on a joint resolution that rejects Trump's national emergency declaration as a way to secure funding for a promised wall along the Mexico border. Trump is expected to veto the resolution if it passes. "You really can't say how you're going to vote on something until you know precisely what will come," Romney said. "But, I have studied this at some length and spoken with a number of people about it and I've made my decision, pending what the final bill looks like that comes...
  • Yes Virginia, there is a national border emergency

    03/07/2019 10:55:29 AM PST · by Starman417 · 5 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 03-06-19 | DrJohn
    Ripped from today's headlines.  Literally. I used to work with a guy who, when he heard about a new concept, said (when he wasn't deriding it) "Let's think about that." Then about a week later he'd say "I have this great idea." Just like the NY Times. After beating on Donald Trump for weeks screaming that there is no border emergency, the NY Times does a 180 and declares that there really is an emergency at the border: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month For the fourth time in five months, the number...
  • Tucker Carlson: 1 million illegal aliens at the border is a crisis

    03/07/2019 9:14:23 AM PST · by ek_hornbeck · 26 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/7/19 | Tucker Carlson
    Do you ever get the feeling that news stories come and go faster than they used to? Ask anyone in the news business. It's real. The O.J. Simpson story lasted about a year. Now, it feels like there is an O.J. a week. Maybe it's the effect of staring at screens all day, jumping from snippet to snippet. Our brains have been rewired to think only in the present tense. Or maybe there is a lot more news than there used to be. Some world historic crisis hits every four days, knocking the last world historic crisis from our collective...
  • DOJ to pause hiring of immigration judges due to budget constraints

    03/06/2019 9:05:24 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 12 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/06/19 | John Bowden
    The Trump administration is reportedly planning to freeze the hiring of immigration judges at the Justice Department due to a budgetary shortfall that has left the department searching for resources to combat the massive backlog of immigration cases it faces. BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday evening that the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, James McHenry, told immigration court staff earlier in the day that the department is "considerably short of being able to fulfill all of our current operational needs" due to the timing of 2019's budget process. As a result, the DOJ will not be able to...
  • US asylum shift targets Spanish speakers, Latin Americans

    03/06/2019 6:20:00 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 11 replies
    AP ^ | March 07, 2019 | Staff
    Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government priority to address the burgeoning number of Central Americans arriving in the country. The Trump administration launched the program in late January in what marks a potentially seismic shift on how the U.S. handles the cases of immigrants seeking asylum and fleeing persecution in their homeland. The program initially applied only to those who turned...
  • Violent MS-13 Crossing Border, Spreading Throughout U.S.

    03/06/2019 6:18:57 PM PST · by Libloather · 39 replies
    The Patriot Post ^ | 3/06/19 | Louis DeBroux
    Sex trafficking, child prostitution, murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, racketeering, assault, kidnapping, and arms trafficking. This is just a sampling of the criminal, often violent activities engaged in by Mara Salvatrucha, otherwise known as MS-13; a vicious, brutal El Salvadoran street gang now firmly rooted in the U.S. MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the late 1970s by El Salvadorans fleeing their own country’s civil war. Today, there are an estimated 30,000-50,000 MS-13 gang members, having spread from LA into nearly every state in the U.S., and throughout Central and South America....
  • Nielsen defends Trump's border emergency declaration

    03/06/2019 8:35:33 AM PST · by McQ444 · 22 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03-06-19 | BRETT SAMUELS
    Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday defended President Trump's assessment that the situation at the southern border constitutes a national emergency, telling lawmakers that an extended influx in migrants could "overwhelm" the immigration system. Nielsen testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security that illegal immigration "is spiraling out of control and threatening public safety and national security." Democrats pressed her on whether the situation genuinely required Trump's emergency declaration, which the House voted to overturn last week. "Although we may disagree on solutions, I hope there can be a consensus that the current system isn’t working and that...
  • Sen. Graham on Stunning Border Crossing Stats: 'If This Is Not a Crisis, What the Hell Would Be?'

    03/06/2019 10:45:37 AM PST · by LibWhacker · 28 replies
    YouTube ^ | 3/6/19 | FOXNews Interview
    5 min 30 sec YouTube video: Click here => Sen Lindsey Graham Interview
  • Senator Graham Presents Two Ways to Fix the Crisis at the Border

    03/06/2019 9:20:01 AM PST · by jazusamo · 50 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | March 6, 2019 | Katie Pavlich
    Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security released new numbers showing 76,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border into the United States in February, a significant increase from the 58,000 individuals who crossed in January. Today Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is holding a hearing about the problem. "Contrary to what some political opponents and media outlets claim the situation at our southern border is dangerous and growing worse. It’s not a hoax. It’s not a manufactured crisis. It’s not a cable television ploy. It is real. It is serious. It is a threat. And it poses a direct...