[7/27/19] Supreme Court allows Trump to use Pentagon funds to build border wall
[7/13/19] Mike Pence visits border detention camps
[7/11/19] Veronica Escobar is the voice of passion and reason
[7/1/19] Honduran man dies in ICE custody
[7/1/19] Secret border patrol facebook group being investigated
[7/1/19] Politicians visit migrant detention camps
[6/28/19] Congress passes $4.6 billion humanitarian aid package after Pelosi capitulates
[6/25/19] Head of Customs and Border Protection is resigning
[6/25/19] Government moves most children out of Texas Border Patrol station
[6/7/19] Trump slashes aid to El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras
[6/7/19] Trump suspends tariffs after Mexico pledges to contain migration crossing the border
[6/5/19] Teacher fired for tweeting to president to remove the illegals from public school
[6/5/19] Republicans opposed to Trump's plans for tariffs on Mexico
[5/16/19] Trump proposes immigration overhaul to merit based system.
[4/4/19] The real border crisis [Jonah Goldberg]
[4/1/19] On the other hand, Beto O'Rourke.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke
declared that immigrants make the country safer as he staged rallies
across Texas to formally kick off his 2020 White House bid, looking to
shore up his deeply conservative home state and champion the U.S.-Mexico
border at a time when President Donald Trump has threatened to shut it.
[2/18/19] 16 states suing Trump
[2/14/19] Trump declares national emergency to fund wall (among other things) / fact check
[2/14/19] Trump signs bipartisan bill to avert shutdown, vows to declare national emergency to build wall
[2/12/19] Coulter calls it the Yellow New Deal
[2/12/19] Trump and Beto in dueling rallies
[2/11/19] Lawmakers reach tentative agreement in hopes to avert another shutdown
[2/11/19] El Paso mayor disputes Trump
[2/6/19] Wall not a top priority with U.S. Customs and Border Protection
[2/6/19] New Mexico governor withdraws National Guard from southern border
[1/28/19] The case against a wall
[1/28/19] Hannity still supports Trump
[1/28/19] Trump criticizes John Roberts and Gillian Turner of Fox News / Julie Banderas stands by colleagues
[1/26/19] And here was Lindsey Graham's prediction
[1/25/19] Trump agrees to deal to temporarily end shutdown and open negotiations
[1/24/19] Senate rejects both Republican and Democrat plans to end government shutdown
[1/23/19] Pelosi won't allow Trump to give State of the Union address from the House floor until government re-opens
[1/22/19] Building the wall would backfire on Trump (commentart)
[1/20/19] Who should get the blame? [quora]
[1/19/19] Trump proposes DACA for Wall / Democrats reject it before it was proposed
[1/12/19] Canada wants more immigrants
[1/10/19] Democrats argument against the wall lacks evidence (writes Michael Barone)
[1/9/19] Trump doubles down in prime-time / after speech fact check
[1/8/19] Trump storms out of meeting with Democrats
[1/8/19] Fact-checking Trump, even before he speaks
[1/7/19] Trump claims past presidents supported the wall / past presidents claim they don't
[1/6/19] Sarah Sanders can't spin statistics past Chris Wallace
[1/6/19] The wall was originally a memory trick
[12/30/18] John Kelly says it's not a wall
[12/30/18] Trump blames Democrats for death of two children
[12/28/18] Trump called for President to be fired over shutdown
[12/27/18] An analysis of Trump's artistically designed steel slats
[12/27/18] Let's review
[12/24/18] What Reagan said about border security
[12/22/18] Partial government shutdown begins
[12/20/18] GoFundMe page to build wall raises $3.4 million in four days
[12/11/18] A look at the numbers
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Sunday, July 07, 2019
Pelosi vs. AOC
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
has issued a surprisingly scathing attack on the gutsy crew of
progressive freshmen women in the House of Representatives, dismissing
them as a tiny squad who have a “public whatever,” but no backing in
Congress.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) shot back on Twitter later saying that the “public whatever” is public sentiment.” She added: “Wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country.”
Pelosi’s harsh comments followed a quote from a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez in a Washington Post op ed Friday that the “greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the Democratic Party.” The young squad of Pelosi critics also includes Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
Pelosi attacked the women in an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published Saturday as she defended herself against criticism (including in the Huffpost story “What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?”) that she’s caving into the Republicans.
She has come under particular attack for her push to pass the Senate Republican bill (instead of the House version) increasing border funds without humanitarian guarantees for detained immigrants, particularly children.
Pelosi insisted that the bill — which the squad of four voted against — was the strongest she could get.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi said, referring to the women. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
She blamed the shortcomings of the border bill on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom she described as “authentically terrible.”
“With all due respect, the press likes to make a story that is more about Democrats divided than the fact that Mitch McConnell doesn’t care about the children,’’ she said.
“If the left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it,” Pelosi concluded defiantly. “As I say to these people, come to my basement. I have these signs about single-payer from 30 years ago. I understand what they’re saying. But we have a responsibility to get something done, which is different from advocacy. We have to have a solution, not just a Twitter fight.”
Check out Dowd’s full interview here.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) shot back on Twitter later saying that the “public whatever” is public sentiment.” She added: “Wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country.”
Pelosi’s harsh comments followed a quote from a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez in a Washington Post op ed Friday that the “greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the Democratic Party.” The young squad of Pelosi critics also includes Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
Pelosi attacked the women in an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published Saturday as she defended herself against criticism (including in the Huffpost story “What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?”) that she’s caving into the Republicans.
She has come under particular attack for her push to pass the Senate Republican bill (instead of the House version) increasing border funds without humanitarian guarantees for detained immigrants, particularly children.
Pelosi insisted that the bill — which the squad of four voted against — was the strongest she could get.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi said, referring to the women. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
She blamed the shortcomings of the border bill on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom she described as “authentically terrible.”
“With all due respect, the press likes to make a story that is more about Democrats divided than the fact that Mitch McConnell doesn’t care about the children,’’ she said.
“If the left doesn’t think I’m left enough, so be it,” Pelosi concluded defiantly. “As I say to these people, come to my basement. I have these signs about single-payer from 30 years ago. I understand what they’re saying. But we have a responsibility to get something done, which is different from advocacy. We have to have a solution, not just a Twitter fight.”
Check out Dowd’s full interview here.
Saturday, July 06, 2019
Putin meets the Pope
ROME — Pope Francis is viewed by many European liberals as the greatest moral voice against the resurgence in populism and the demonization of migrants.
But
for many European nationalists, anti-migration politicians and
opponents of gay rights, the real spiritual strongman of their movement
is the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, their alternate pope.
So when Mr. Putin visited the Vatican on Thursday, it was more than a
mere meeting — their third — between the two men. Rather it was a
tête-à-tête between the standard bearers of competing views of
Christianity on the European continent as ideological polarization between nationalists and liberals cleaves the West.
The men exchanged gifts, and also what the Vatican later described as
‘‘cordial’’ conversation on “questions of relevance to the life of the
Catholic Church in Russia,” ecological issues, and the political
situation in Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela.
For Mr. Putin, the meeting was a way to burnish his reputation as a
global leader. For Francis, Mr. Putin’s cooperation is essential for the
protection of Christians in the Middle East, where Russia is active.
The pope is also pursuing unity, or at least better relations, with the
Russian Orthodox Church.
migrants face unthinkable choice
CAIRO — A boat carrying 86 migrants sank in the Mediterranean and left
only three survivors, authorities said Thursday, just days after an airstrike on a detention center near the Libyan capital killed dozens of others.
The twin tragedies illustrate the almost unthinkable choice facing those who have reached the North Africa coast while seeking a better life in Europe: Risk a hazardous sea voyage in a flimsy, rubber-sided boat, or face being crammed into a detention center, where some of the migrants say they have been forced to assemble weapons for someone else's war.
The United Nations and aid groups blame the deaths in part on the European Union's policy of partnering with militias in war-torn Libya to prevent migrants from trying to cross the sea. They say the policy leaves migrants at the mercy of brutal traffickers or confined in detention facilities near front lines, often without adequate food and water.
The twin tragedies illustrate the almost unthinkable choice facing those who have reached the North Africa coast while seeking a better life in Europe: Risk a hazardous sea voyage in a flimsy, rubber-sided boat, or face being crammed into a detention center, where some of the migrants say they have been forced to assemble weapons for someone else's war.
The United Nations and aid groups blame the deaths in part on the European Union's policy of partnering with militias in war-torn Libya to prevent migrants from trying to cross the sea. They say the policy leaves migrants at the mercy of brutal traffickers or confined in detention facilities near front lines, often without adequate food and water.
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