The number of Central American families arrested for entering the United States illegally surged again in August, according to a Trump administration official and Border Patrol agents in South Texas, an increase that comes as the president threatens a government shutdown to extract funding from Cong[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
September 6th, 2018 - 6:19 pm § in Bill of Rights, Donald Trump
ICE subpoenas N. Carolina voter records
Trump’s immigration police want North Carolina’s voting records. All of them. Not just those of individuals suspected of being non-citizens, but everybody’s. Why? Are we all illegal now? Read story here. Note: If you live in a Republican state, don’t expect your state officia[...]
June 28th, 2018 - 11:25 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Ex-spokesman says ICE lies to the public
A former ICE spokesman who quit in March went on TV Thursday to tell the public the agency lies. “James Schwab told CBS News on Wednesday that he became ‘extremely uncomfortable’ in February when Attorney General Jeff Sessions made false statements about immigration raids in Oakl[...]
June 23rd, 2018 - 9:15 am § in Repugnants
To this Republican, all immigrants are criminals
No, I’m not talking about Trump, although he’s another one. This comment is about Mike Huckabee, a failed GOP presidential candidate, and father of Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee. When Huckabee sees this he thinks of this. Now you know where Sar[...]
June 21st, 2018 - 12:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Repugnants
Melania visits caged kids
And struts her clueless taste in fashions. Read story here. [...]
June 19th, 2018 - 2:08 pm § in Donald Trump
Immigration update
A growing number of states — so far, eight — are pulling their National Guard troops off our southern border because their governors want no part of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here and here. Over 640 members of Jeff Sessions’ church have formal[...]
June 19th, 2018 - 1:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Repugnants
Faces of evil
Trump, 2018: Family separation policies Hitler, 1930s: Racial purity laws Will humanity ever learn? [...]
CLEAN DACA … and then ….
Trump did it again. With 80 % of Americans in support of legalizing the DACA children, he gave a spiel about Mexican gangs. His press arm … the Alt News media, meanwhile, managed to find two (out of 2 million) DACA recipients involved in people smuggling. This is his pattern. Trump d[...]
January 24th, 2018 - 10:31 am § in Misc.
KEEP DACA SIMPLE!
NOW, the issue is simple. The DP must push for a clean DACA. The GOP will push to tie that to other issues, esp expanded issues in re immigration. These issues matter to both parties BUT, the DP needs to make it clear that the immediate issue are the children brought here, illegally, but not [&hel[...]
February 13th, 2017 - 9:41 am § in Donald Trump, The Ave Scene
Will Silicon Valley Migrate to Vancouver?
In Silicon Valley, curbs on immigration could lead to a brain drain. Canada stands to benefit. Vancouver — just a two-hour flight from San Francisco — already has 75,000 tech jobs and one-third of its office space devoted to the industry. And with foreign-born tech workers worried their U.S. vis[...]