Immigration in the US

I know it’s more of a rhetorical question but this is a quick rundown of his career. It sounds like he’s rubbed elbows with a Who’s Who? of pond scum and villainy during his “ascent” to the White House position.

Decades of rIght-wing media / propaganda.

In addition to the above: Stephen Miller is one of the few people who have been able to stand working with Trump and who has figured out how to placate his boss’s raging ego. He’s the king of sucking up.

Didn’t see this linked earlier:

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), sent a letter to President Donald Trump, demanding answers regarding statements he made during a 2017 joint session of Congress that ultimately supported Trump’s decision to issue the first Muslim travel ban.

During a joint session of Congress in 2017, Trump noted that “[a]ccording to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.” In August 2017, fact-checkers at The Washington Post found no statistical evidence from the Department of Justice to support that claim. On July 24, 2018, the Department of Justice announced that “no responsive records were located” to support Trump’s claim.

In their letter, the Member’s wrote , “While we may disagree about the policies you were seeking to implement by way of your so-called “travel bans,” we hope we can all agree that any factual statements made to support this or any other Administration policy should be both accurate and made in good faith. Making false statements before Congress obviously raises a number of very troubling issues and concerns for both the Congress and the Nation.”

One wonders what kind of crime/penalty there is for lying to Congress as President…

I dont know about the United States but misleading the house (lying to parliament) if the only sure fire way for a minister or priminister to get the axe. In the UK that is the line you never cross.

Impeachment.

Nobody in the administration cares about this. They care what their base thinks, or what they can lead their base to think. If building a wall around the whole country polls well with that base, that’s where they’ll go.

A giant tax cut for millionaires and a huge deficit didn’t poll well with the base. Nor do cuts to Medicaid. Nor do a host of other policies they’ve supported for the last couple of years. The Republican agenda is tax cuts and deregulation. Everything else they do is to shore up their coalition of useful idiots.

wtf.

With a side of military action to keep the America, Fuck Yeah! crowd involved.

Texas Observer: ICE Crashed a Van Full of Separated Mothers, Then Denied It Ever Happened

The driver failed to come to a stop and T-boned an F-250 that was entering the gas station, police said. The mothers told the Observer the impact slammed them against the seats in front of them, resulting in headaches, dizziness, nausea and injury to one woman’s leg, which began swelling immediately.

“The crash was really strong, like maybe we were going to flip,” said Dilcia, a Honduran mom who requested that the Observer not publish her full name, out of fear of angering government officials. “We were all trembling with shock from the accident; my whole body hurt,” added another passenger, Roxana, who also did not want her full name published.
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For nearly three weeks, ICE denied the crash happened and ignored requests for information. The Observer was first alerted to the crash the day after it occurred by immigrant rights activists in Austin. The next day, Leticia Zamarripa, an ICE spokesperson, denied the incident twice. “Your sources misinformed you,” Zamarripa wrote on July 20. “There was no crash.”
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“ICE has proven to us over and over we can’t trust them: They’ll lie when there’s a hunger strike, a crash… about anything, at any time,” said Cristina Parker, communications director for the Austin nonprofit Grassroots Leadership. “This is a vindication of what activists and organizers have been saying for a long time, which is ICE regularly lies to media and public officials.”

Himmler, from hell:

Not exactly positive, but at least a “not quite as evil as before” move.

To clarify what Ana Navarro is talking about, Meliana’s parents just became citizens today:

Fox News and Hannity are currently tearing into the First Lady and Trump about this right now.

Oh wait, no, I think it’s something about the Deep State pizza parlor…

Remember what I said about “anchor babies” being first, and then “welfare babies” being next? This is how it happens.

Fox News failing to point out Republican hypocrisy?? Say it ain’t so!