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  • Romney (!): Mandatory E-Verify is critical to turn off ... incentives that encourage illegal immigration.

    06/26/2020 1:57:40 PM PDT · by rintintin · 50 replies
    twitter.com/SenatorRomney ^ | June 27 2020 | Mitt Romney
    Mandatory E-Verify is critical to turn off the magnet that draws people to enter the country illegally. While continuing work to secure our southern border, Congress must also put in place measures to eliminate incentives that encourage illegal immigration.
  • Trump broke the law by using military money for border wall, appeals court rules

    06/26/2020 11:50:57 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 73 replies
    LA Times ^ | June 26, 2020 | Maura Dolan
    A federal appeals court decided 2-1 Friday that the Trump administration violated the law when it used military funds to build a wall on the Mexican border. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the power of the purse belongs to Congress, and the administration lacked constitutional authority to transfer the military money. Two Democratic appointees were in the majority. A Trump appointee dissented.
  • Pentagon Will Deploy 4,000 Troops to Southern Border, Starting in October

    06/25/2020 5:53:26 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 13 replies
    Voice of America ^ | June 25, 2020 | Carla Babb
    The Pentagon will put up to 4,000 troops at the U.S. southern border with Mexico from this October through September 2021, a move that will decrease the overall number of troops there (20%) while extending the mission another year. “Secretary [Mark] Esper has approved a request for assistance from the Department of Homeland Security and authorized the deployment of up to 4,000 DOD personnel to the southern border,” Pentagon spokesman Army Lieutenant Colonel Christian Mitchell said Thursday. As of late April, the total number of U.S. military forces deployed to the border was about 5,000, according to the U.S. Northern...
  • Mexican Man FIRED for Making White Power Sign

    06/24/2020 9:01:47 PM PDT · by Pining_4_TX · 28 replies
    The Blacksphere ^ | 06/24/20 | Tiffany Lane
    San Diego Gas and Electric employee was fired after a stranger posted to Twitter a photo of the man making the white power symbol with his hand while in a company truck. Emmanuel Cafferty says he was just cracking his knuckles, but he was suspended and a few days later, fired. It all started about two weeks ago near a Black Lives Matter rally in Poway when Emmanuel Cafferty, a San Diego Gas and Electric employee, encountered a stranger on the roadway. The stranger followed Cafferty and took a picture of him as his arm hung out the window of...
  • Trump Lauds Border Wall as 'Really Foolproof' During Arizona Visit

    06/24/2020 5:23:03 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 33 replies
    Voice of America ^ | June 24, 2020 | Steve Herman
    U.S. President Donald Trump praised what he described as a “powerful and comprehensive” wall along the nation’s southern border Tuesday, highlighting one of the key promises from his successful election campaign four years ago to secure the U.S. borders. A day after ordering tighter restrictions on a variety of visa categories, Trump visited a new section of the border wall in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona. After signing a plaque on the imposing slatted black wall at San Luis, the president, in response to a question from VOA described the new construction as “really foolproof.”  “You have everything you...
  • Horowitz: Most serious surge in virus cases? Coming across the Mexican border

    06/24/2020 8:18:02 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 13 replies
    CR ^ | · June 23, 2020 | Daniel Horowitz
    We were told that the governmental interest in ensuring that hospitals aren’t overrun with too many COVID-19 patients was so strong that it superseded the Bill of Rights. All businesses had to be shut, masks must be worn, church services had to be canceled. As Chief Justice John Roberts said in upholding California’s ban on church services, “When those officials ‘undertake to act in areas fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties,’ their latitude ‘must be especially broad.’” The very first action one would expect a government to undertake to stem the tide of a virus is to not purposely admit...
  • Kerik: “I just listened to SenMikeLee on FoxNews ShannonBream say the people tearing down statues have a valid grievance. REALLY?”

    06/22/2020 9:00:31 PM PDT · by rintintin · 94 replies
    Bernard B. Kerik Twitter ^ | June 22 2020 | Bernard B. Kerik
    “ I just listened to @SenMikeLee on @Foxnews @ShannonBream say that the people tearing down statues have a valid grievance. REALLY? What’s the grievance? What justifies arson, lawlessness, looting? Stop cowering to thugs!”
  • Border Wall System Update (as of 22 Jun 20)

    06/22/2020 8:33:11 AM PDT · by BeauBo · 26 replies
    @USBPChief (twitter) ^ | 22 June 2020 | Chief Rodney Scott
    216 miles completed, 339 miles under construction, 183 miles under pre-construction. (738 Total)
  • Trump expected to sign executive order expanding immigration restrictions

    06/20/2020 3:21:06 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 11 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 20 2020 | Adam Shaw
    President Trump is expected to sign an expansion of immigration restrictions in the coming days in response to the economic downturn from the coronavirus pandemic -- an order that will reportedly suspend a number of guest worker programs. Trump signed an order in April suspending some forms of immigration, citing “the impact of foreign workers on the United States labor market, particularly in an environment of high domestic unemployment and depressed demand for labor” as a reason for the restriction, as well as pressures on health care and other factors. That order suspended, for 60 days, green cards for immigrants...
  • Mitt Romney says it's clear that fellow GOP senator's Hunter Biden probe is politically motivated

    06/17/2020 12:10:21 PM PDT · by kevcol · 92 replies
    The Week ^ | June 15, 2020
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) considers himself "a straight shooter" who "calls them as I see them." That's why he says he's leading an investigation into former Obama officials for allegedly unfairly targeting President Trump and his associates during the presidential transition period in 2016, as well as a probe into Hunter Biden's time on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which faces corruption allegations. -------------- Romney, who sits on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs which Johnson leads, did vote for his fellow senator's subpoena authorizations targeting former Obama officials. But he declined to say if...
  • Border Wall System Update (15 June 2020)

    06/15/2020 4:13:35 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 20 replies
    @USBPChief (twitter) ^ | 15 June 2020 | Chief Rodney Scott
    210 miles completed, 306 miles under construction, 222 miles under pre-construction.
  • Supreme Court denies petition to hear 'sanctuary' case

    06/15/2020 8:34:03 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 15 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06 15 2020 | Rafael Bernal
    The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by the Trump administration to review California's so-called sanctuary laws, which limit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Two justices, conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, were listed by the court as having been in favor of reviewing the law, which was upheld last year by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. With the denial, the Supreme Court let stand the lower court's resolution in favor of three California sanctuary laws, which limited law enforcement cooperation on immigration and banned state and local authorities from using their...
  • Border wall construction

    06/10/2020 7:27:51 AM PDT · by BeauBo · 6 replies
    Arizona Public Media ^ | Jun 10, 2020 | Ariana Brocious
    In January, hundreds of people gathered on a small bridge spanning the San Pedro River to protest the pending construction of a border barrier across the riverbed. Since then, the project has moved ahead. Cottonwood trees have been cleared and construction crews are setting up... After months with no new details on the project design, last week the agency said the barrier across the San Pedro River will consist of a bridge with gates, and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
  • Mexico’s Leftist Leader Rejects Big Spending to Ease Virus’s Sting

    06/08/2020 3:42:03 PM PDT · by NRx · 8 replies
    NY Times ^ | 06-08-2020 | Azam Ahmed
    MEXICO CITY — For the second time in a month, top business leaders sat down with Mexico’s president to implore him to do more to save the economy. People were losing jobs by the tens of thousands, they warned. Small and medium-size companies, which employ more than 70 percent of the Mexican work force, were running out of cash. The government needed to intervene, they argued. The data was irrefutable. “I have other data,” shrugged the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, according to two businesspeople with direct knowledge of that conversation in April. “You do whatever you think you need...
  • George Floyd Protests Go Global—From Mexico, London, Germany And France—And Sometimes Violent

    06/06/2020 6:26:53 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 54 replies
    Forbes ^ | 06/06/2020 | Sergei Klebnikov
    Another wave of demonstrations kicked off across the globe on Saturday, with tens of thousands—from Germany and France to Mexico and Australia—turning out in solidarity with U.S. protesters against the death of George Floyd, while also denouncing racism and police brutality within their own countries. In London, tens of thousands of people peacefully gathered in Parliament Square on Saturday afternoon, holding signs paying homage to George Floyd, before demonstrating in front of the U.S. embassy. A fresh wave of anti-racism protests kicked off across Germany on Saturday, filling up cities like Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Nuremberg. Thousands crowded into Alexanderplatz...
  • Laredo to allow access for border wall surveys

    06/06/2020 4:36:24 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 9 replies
    Laredo Morning Times ^ | June 6, 2020 | Julia Wallace
    (Laredo, TX) City Council reaches agreement with government providing right of entry for 982 acres along the Rio Grande. The city is the largest landowner in the Laredo area to have been sued over this right of entry, the first document the federal government needs signed by any property owner with land that could be impacted by a border wall. If a landowner does not agree to sign this form, the Department of Justice will pursue a condemnation case against them in federal court. A landowner has never won a right of entry case against the government... The agreement, which...
  • As Some Republicans Break With Trump Over Protests, Mitt Romney Posts Photo of Father Participating in a Civil Rights March

    06/06/2020 4:10:19 PM PDT · by kevcol · 67 replies
    Newsweak ^ | June 6, 2020 | Benjamin Fearnow
    Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney continued offering his support for the George Floyd-inspired protests against racism and police brutality Saturday, highlighting his father's own backing of 1960s U.S. civil rights campaigns. ... "No Americans should fear enmity and harm from those sworn to protect us. The death of George Floyd must not be in vain: Our shock and outrage must grow into collective determination to extinguish forever such racist abuse."
  • Protester sets fire to police officer in Mexico

    06/05/2020 3:29:44 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    aa.com.tr ^ | 06/05/2020 | Sierra Juarez
    Protests swept over the city of Guadalajara, located in the western state of Jalisco, after 30-year-old builder Giovanni Lopez was found dead. The last time Lopez was seen was documented in a video circulating on social media earlier this week. The video showed Lopez with police officers who were arresting him because he was not wearing a face mask. Enraged by the video, protesters took to the streets, burning patrol cars outside of the Governor’s Palace and writing messages demanding justice for Lopez on the walls in the historic center. Later that evening, Lopez’s family went to the police station...
  • LGC Global in Detroit Awarded $51.9M Contract to Build Portion of U.S.-Mexico Border Wall (Del Rio & Eagle Pass, Texas)

    06/05/2020 12:27:34 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 6 replies
    D Business ^ | June 5, 2020 | R.J. King
    LGC Global Corp., a multi-faceted, minority-owned contracting company in Detroit, has been awarded a $51.9-million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a four-mile section of the border wall between the United States and Mexico. The work will begin in the next two weeks and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The federal government is working with several contractors to build the border wall from south of San Diego to the eastern shoreline of Texas, near Brownsville, at the Gulf of Mexico. The LGC Global project consists of building the 30-foot-tall wall...
  • (President) Trump Expected To Visit Border Fence Near Yuma Next Week

    06/04/2020 9:08:38 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 11 replies
    KAWC (Arizona Western College) ^ | Jun 4, 2020 | VICTOR CALDERÓN
    President Donald Trump is expected to visit the border fence near Yuma next week. The Washington Post reports Trump is expected to attend a ceremony in the Yuma Sector on an as yet unannounced day to mark the completion of the barrier’s 200th mile. That is according to officials who were not authorized to describe the plans.