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Trump Purges Top Ranks of Homeland Security[/h1]
President Trump moved to sweep out the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after pushing out its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, accelerating a purge of the nations immigration and security leadership, the [link=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/politics/homeland-security-trump-purge.html]New York Times[/link] reports.
Government officials said three more top department leaders were expected to leave soon: Francis Cissna, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Randolph Alles, the Secret Service director; and John Mitnik, the agencys general counsel.-
He is going to put a Putin advocate in charge
Selling out the country
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[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-program-forcing-asylum-seekers-to-remain-in-mexico-while-awaiting-court-hearings/2019/04/08/68e96048-5a42-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?utm_term=.ce4e2b9f4479]Judge blocks Trump plan forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings[/link]
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A federal judge on Monday blocked an experimental Trump administration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases make their way through the immigration court system, a major blow to President Trump as border crossings have surged to their highest point in more than a decade.U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/federal-judge-ruling-on-migrant-protection-protocols/?noteId=1d2014fe-a089-40ff-bfb3-ac1c0288f5dd&questionId=900c94f3-53a5-4052-93f0-a49738dabaa6&utm_term=.0bce968bbef3]enjoined the Migrant Protection Protocols[/link] policy days after outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen pledged to expand the program. The policy began in January.
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End the charade. Appoint Stephen Miller to run DHS.
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It is time to end the charade. Trump is agitated that Nielsen was not barbarous enough for his depraved tastes. She still retained some vestigial loyalty to the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Given that we are in a time of purported emergency, we can no longer afford such sentimental attachments. Rather than appoint another outsider who will never live down to his expectations, Trump should nominate as her successor the actual mastermind of the administrations immigration policies: White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.This is the 33-year-old wunderkind who orchestrated the Muslim travel ban, vast reductions in refugee admissions, efforts to build the wall, attempts to deport the “dreamers,” the deployment of troops to the southern border, and, of course, the family separations policy along with the accompanying hysteria about crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. He even went so far as to deny that the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free represents the spirit of America. Miller has further ambitions such as ending birthright citizenship and slashing legal immigration. He should assume formal, legal responsibility for this un-American approach.
Stop trying to put a civilized face on an uncivilized policy. Trump should have the courage of his racist convictions: nominate Miller as secretary of homeland security and let the puppetmaster come out from behind the curtain. Or is Trump afraid that even a Republican-controlled Senate wouldnt confirm this nativist fanatic? Miller may well be judged too radioactive because he eschews the white lies favored by Nielsen and her predecessor, John F. Kelly. If an honest defense of the administrations heartless and vindictive approach to immigration wont survive the light of day, perhaps that should be an indication to the president that the real problem is not personnel but policy.
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Miller is an American patriot. God bless him.
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Miller used spray on hair. That’s about how seriously he should be taken.
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Miller used spray on hair. That’s about how seriously he should be taken.
Stupid comment, but (so?) I’m glad you wrote it.
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Hahahaha
Spray on hair
Who does that????
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Miller is no patriot unless being a white nationalist is the new patriotism.
Not yet in America.
But this is funny considering white nationalists dont consider Miller as being eligible for their club. Millers uncle spits on him for forgetting family history.
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Stephen Miller is an American patriot. He is admired and respected.
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Why do you think he is a patriot?
George H W Bush was a patriot
John McCain was a patriot
Jack Kennedy was a patriot
What has Steven spray-on-hair Miller done that qualifies him as a patriot
Is he in the chrome dome hall of fame or what
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Stephen Miller champions immigration policy that places American interests first.
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We are going to have to disagree on that definition of patriotism
He is a small character man with small narrow ideas
Nothing about him resembles a patriot
Building your career on divising ways to keep people out particularly since he himself is a 2nd generation immigrant…… is just wrong
Again not my definition of a patriot
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We are going to have to disagree on that definition of patriotism
He is a small character man with small narrow ideas
Nothing about him resembles a patriot
Building your career on divising ways to keep people out particularly since he himself is a 2nd generation immigrant…… is just wrong
Again not my definition of a patriot
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American interests means keeping the disperate brown people out.
Norwegians are another matter, they are welcome anytime. Like that Breivik guy.
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Building your career on divising ways to keep people out particularly since he himself is a 2nd generation immigrant…… is just wrong
What are you saying? That he should allow personal bias to cloud his decision?
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American interests means keeping the desperate brown people out.
Norwegians are another matter, they are welcome anytime. Like that Breivik guy.
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American interests means keeping the desperate brown people out.
Norwegians are another matter, they are welcome anytime. Like that Breivik guy.
You’re hysterical.
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You can trust Trump. His father was “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, after all.
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Thank you for the complement Knob. Didnt think youd get the joke.
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People on both sides of this issue are very different
There is not going to be a solution
If the wall goes up….. the left will tear it down in a decade
If it doesnt go up the nationalists will keep trying
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The only reason to tear the wall down would be to enable illegal border-crossings. Perhaps the Left should simply admit that’s what they want.
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[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/28/judge-blocks-trump-fast-track-deportations-007717]Judge blocks Trump plan to expand fast-track deportations[/link]
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administrations effort to expand use of a process that fast-tracks undocumented immigrants for deportation without the involvement of immigration courts.
The expedited removal procedure has previously been used to quickly send recent border-crossers back to Mexico, with policies limiting its use to individuals apprehended within 100 miles of the U.S. border and who are determined to have crossed into the U.S. illegally in the past two weeks.
However, in July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced plans to eliminate those constraints, allowing use of the fast-track process for any immigrant suspected of being in the U.S. illegally for less than two years.
Story Continued Below
In [link=https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv2369-40]a 126-page ruling[/link] issued just before midnight Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson halted the policy shift, declaring that the Trump administrations decision-making process leading to the change appeared to have violated federal law. She said the decision seemed arbitrary and faulted officials for failing to carry out a formal notice-and-comment practice required for major changes to federal rules.
Government actors who make policy decisions in their official capacities cannot succumb to whims or passions while rulemaking, wrote Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama. If a policy decision that an agency makes is of sufficient consequence that it qualifies as an agency rule, then arbitrariness in deciding the contours of that rulee.g., decision making by Ouija board or dart board, rock/paper/scissors, or even the Magic 8 Ballsimply will not do.
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[link=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/trump-border-wall-mexico-shutdown-shoot-migrants]TRUMP WANTED TO SHOOT DOWN MIGRANTS, GIVE BORDER WALL AN ALLIGATOR-FILLED MOAT[/link]
This is not from The Onion. This is our president.
Per the Times’s excerpt of Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear’s forthcoming book Border Wars: Inside Trumps Assault on Immigration, the president’s shutdown idea was one of several he’s had about how to keep immigrants off the U.S. Mexico border. Other suggestions the president has privately floated: Fortifying the border wall with electric spikes that could pierce human flesh and a water-filled trench, which would naturally be stocked with snakes or alligators. Trump has also suggested shooting migrants who throw rocks at immigration officials and shoot[ing] migrants in the legs to slow them down, only to be told that committing violence against migrants at-will is, in fact, illegal. (Though White House aides did reportedly seek a cost estimate for the alligator-filled moat.)
But Trump was most insistent about his plan to shut down the border completely, forcefully insisting that it be done by noon tomorrow during a March Oval Office meeting. You are making me look like an idiot!
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Is there a meme for Trump Snakes yet? I wish there was.
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[link=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/trump-border-wall-mexico-shutdown-shoot-migrants]TRUMP WANTED TO SHOOT DOWN MIGRANTS, GIVE BORDER WALL AN ALLIGATOR-FILLED MOAT[/link]
This is not from The Onion. This is our president.
Per the Times’s excerpt of Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear’s forthcoming book Border Wars: Inside Trumps Assault on Immigration, the president’s shutdown idea was one of several he’s had about how to keep immigrants off the U.S. Mexico border. Other suggestions the president has privately floated: Fortifying the border wall with electric spikes that could pierce human flesh and a water-filled trench, which would naturally be stocked with snakes or alligators. Trump has also suggested shooting migrants who throw rocks at immigration officials and shoot[ing] migrants in the legs to slow them down, only to be told that committing violence against migrants at-will is, in fact, illegal. (Though White House aides did reportedly seek a cost estimate for the alligator-filled moat.)
But Trump was most insistent about his plan to shut down the border completely, forcefully insisting that it be done by noon tomorrow during a March Oval Office meeting. You are making me look like an idiot!
Gullibility, thy name is dergon.
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Yes we all heard before
Trump was probably just kidding
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Anti-immigration has nothing ever to do with racism, I’m sure.
IN A season of bigotry, President Trump has often reveled in the role of bigotrys loudest troubadour, spouting hateful rhetoric designed to sow and exploit racial, ethnic and nationalist discord. At a [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/11/trump-somali-refugees-minneapolis-rally/?tid=lk_inline_manual_1]campaign rally[/link] in Minneapolis on Thursday, he returned to the theme, at the expense of Minnesotas community of Somalis, eliciting jeers and boos at their very mention from his audience.
Telegraphing what is certain to be among his favorite refrains in the 2020 campaign, Mr. Trump remarked on the impact of Minnesotas 50,000 Somalis, who began arriving there a quarter-century ago as refugees and now represent roughly 1 percent of the states population. Referring to an executive order he issued recently, the president said he will prohibit refugee resettlements unless states and cities expressly consent to them.
Believe me, he said of his policy to grant communities what amounts to a veto on refugee resettlement, no other president would be doing that.
Notwithstanding his boast that no other president would enable states and cities to bar refugees, Mr. Trump fits a long lineage of Americans who snarled at newcomers think of the Know-Nothings of the 1840s, who derided Catholics coming from Europe; of Father Charles Coughlin, who used his radio program as a pulpit from which to attack Jews and other immigrants starting in the 1930s; or of the assortment of everyday citizens who disparaged Irish, Italian, German and other newcomers a century ago.
The story of America is a story of immigrants not always pretty, rarely without friction. Tolerance and intolerance have jostled for advantage, as they do today even with a paragon of intolerance in the Oval Office. Fortunately, the resistance to his hatefulness remains strong. Almost immediately after Mr. Trump thundered that communities would have to grant consent before refugees could be resettled, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, [link=https://twitter.com/Jacob_Frey/status/1182477764965863424]tweeted his riposte[/link]: Consent given. Immigrants and refugees are welcome in Minnesota.
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During Trump’s term I recall more than a few AM posts and posters regarding who is really ‘white’ and who is not. Are Spaniards white? They are “Hispanic” after all. That special status of “white” only relatively recently included many people considered not white in America’s history. That includes Jews as well as southern Europeans like Italians.
Interesting article on how some groups with power can emigrate from the “not white” status to white. But like today, I’m sure it never had anything to do with racism since Italians aren’t a different race, yes? At least not by today’s ideas anyway.
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html]https://www.nytimes.com/i…n-american-racism.html[/link] -
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[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467201-trump-says-us-is-building-a-wall-in-colorado]Trump says US is building a wall in Colorado[/link]
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It’s not hard to understand. They have nothing else is TRump is out. Their base will turn on them and their base is all they have.
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[b]Trump Plans to Divert $7.2 Billion for Border Wall[/b][/h1] [b]
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President Trump is preparing to divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction this year, five times what Congress authorized him to spend on the project in the 2020 budget, the [link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-planning-to-divert-additional-72-billion-in-pentagon-funds-for-border-wall/2020/01/13/59080a3a-363d-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html]Washington Post[/link] reports.
The Pentagon funds would be extracted, for the second year in a row, from military construction projects and counternarcotics funding. According to the plans, the funding would give the government enough money to complete approximately 885 miles of new fencing by Spring 2022, far more than the 509 miles the administration has slated for the U.S. border with Mexico.-
Some quality border wall pictures can be found on Twitter. I guess the wind blew the thing over onto the Mexican side yesterday. Also theres sections where the dirt has eroded away from rain. It leaves a huge gap and people just go under it.
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[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/federal-court-strikes-down-trumps-asylum-ban-346939]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/federal-court-strikes-down-trumps-asylum-ban-346939[/link]
[h2]Federal court strikes down Trump’s asylum ban[/h2] The CAIR Coalition, Human Rights First, RAICES, Hogan Lovells and nine individual asylum-seekers brought the suit in August 2019.A federal judge in Washington struck down a Trump administration rule that would require migrants seeking to enter the U.S. to first seek asylum in countries they travel through on their way to the southern border.
Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an appointee of President Donald Trump, delivered the [link=https://subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=00000173-0acf-d52b-affb-8acfdc0c0000]opinion[/link] late Tuesday. Kelly said the ban, which was published on July 16. 2019, without a typical notice-and-comment period, failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act governing how agencies should implement rules.
Defendants unlawfully promulgated the rule without complying with the APAs notice-and-comment requirements, Kelly said, concluding that the court didnt need to rule on other claims about the validity of the rule to vacate it.
[b]The impact:[/b] The ruling arguably bucks the view of the Supreme Court that the asylum ban could go into effect when the high court [link=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/11/supreme-court-asylum-trump-restriction-1727124]ruled on this topic last September[/link], suggesting there are additional legal battles on the way over how the administration is implementing asylum policies.Kelly also denied the government’s request to stay his order pending appeal, meaning he has blocked a policy that would have automatically denied asylum to a population of migrants that the U.S. had long allowed to at least file asylum applications once they reached U.S. soil.
Kellys decision also fits a pattern of courts disrupting Trump administration initiatives by aggressively enforcing the Administrative Procedure Act. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the administrations effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census violated the APA because of what it said was the faulty reason officials cited for the decision.
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As a serious question, why exactly should asylum seekers (those running away from harm, etc.) be allowed to travel through countries that are deemed safe enough to go all the way to a country of preference?
Example 1:
– Asylum seeker from Guatemala traveling through Mexico to US when Mexico is deemed stable and acceptable as a country. Why should that person be allowed access to the US?
Example 2:
– Asylum seeker from Iran takes a boat to Canada and then seeks asylum in the US. Canada is clearly a stable and acceptable country. Why should that person be allowed access to the US?
Is there a difference between the two examples legally?
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US law mandates that only a “safe third country” can host asylum seekers.
In order for the US to allow asylum seekers to be held in Mexico it would have to be considered a “safe third country” under US law. Under this terminology the third country must be safe for the asylum seekers and must not be a refugee-producing nation itself.
I was able to find the wording in the Immigration and Nationality Act:A Safe Third Country is one “in which the alien’s life or freedom would not be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and where the alien would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection.”
I think that a strong legal argument can be made that Mexico is not a safe alternative for asylum seekers and that it, at least intermittently, produces refugees of its own. … and at least for now it is not considered one under US law.
Trump tried to get the Guatemalan president to sign a bilateral safe third country agreement but he backed out when he realized how many refugees he would be stuck with.
There was some legislation put forward in 2017 by Chaffetz to eliminate the “safe third country” provision… but it didn’t pass.
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Canada otoh is considered a safe third country by the US and would be considered the appropriate place for the Iranian refugee to make his/her asylum claim.
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So, it all just boils down to an argument of whether Mexico is a “safe third country” then. Seems like someone should settle that argument legally. Maybe define some criteria?
Looks like this was a debate even prior to Trump.
[link]https://www.unhcr.org/59c4be077.pdf[/link]-
Also, just to be clear about it, I have no problem with actual asylum-seekers gaining entry to the country even if it’s through Mexico. I just want to make sure the system isn’t “gamed.” I think I’ve made it clear that we should be way more allowable with legal immigration. Illegal immigration is the issue.
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Once you add racial or ethnic “animus” into the equation the legality gets muddy for the courts.
If the intent of declaring Mexico a safe third country is viewed by the courts as being solely or significantly meant to decrease immigration of one certain group, then it might be illegal on its face regardless of the facts on the ground in Mexico.
____I personally favor a marked expansion of asylum to the US.
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Is there any data on the “merits” of asylum seekers vs. illegal immigrants? Are asylum seekers more easily assimilated into the workforce and society or no?
I think the major concern by those on the Right is a mass migration of people that will be immediately placed in “the system” – aka they will not work/work low-skilled jobs, not have health insurance, and reap social program benefits at a level we can’t afford. They also think those people will become sure-fire Dem voters.
The major concern of the Left is what exactly? That they won’t get the voters? Or is it supposed to be some kind of altruistic compassion? What is the benefit of taking in a massive amount of people that will take from the system much more than they put in? And, don’t get me stats on how immigrants do more than other Americans as far as taxes, etc. because I’m not talking about legal immigrants. If anything, you’d think the Left wouldn’t want anyone to come here considering how they spend all their days bashing this country.-
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[i]The Lincoln Project[/i]: Trump is building his wall — Just not the one he promised.-
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[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/23/canadian-court-rules-canada-us-asylum-deal-unconstitutional-380593][b]Canadian court rules Canada-U.S. asylum deal unconstitutional[/b]
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[b]Context: [/b]Under the existing deal, Canada may return migrants seeking asylum back to the U.S. if they try to enter the country at a land port of entry. It does not apply if they arrive from the U.S. by air or by sea or by land in between formal ports of entry. Numbers of those “irregular” migrants have swelled during President Donald Trump’s tenure, particularly in Quebec.
Human rights groups and a coalition of refugees challenged the agreement last year, not long after the Liberals eked out a minority victory at the polls. The party’s campaign platform vowed that the next government would work to modernize the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S., without providing many details.
[b]Key findings: [/b]The court declined to opine on the asylum system in the United States, instead focusing on what happens when the deal sends an asylum-seeker back to the U.S. Judge Ann Marie McDonald wrote in the opinion that the Canadian government isn’t “immunized” from the consequences the risk of detention posed for those refugees.
“Canada cannot turn a blind eye to the consequences … in its efforts to adhere to the [agreement],” she said. “The evidence clearly demonstrates that those returned to the U.S. by Canadian officials are detained as a penalty.”
[b]What’s next: [/b]The Trudeau government has until Jan. 22 to determine how to proceed. It will somehow have to overhaul its deal with the U.S. during an election year in which immigration is a hot-button issue, or appeal the decision.
Until then, the Safe Third Country Agreement remains in effect.
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[link=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/22/business/bc-us-virus-outbreak-migrant-children-hotels.html]https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/22/business/bc-us-virus-outbreak-migrant-children-hotels.html
[/link][b]Weve gotten to a place with the Trump administration where Hilton has to put out statements that it doesnt want to run child prisons.[/b]
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[h1][b]Supreme Court denies request to halt construction on Trump border wall[/b][/h1]The Supreme Court in a [link=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a60_bqm1.pdf]5-4 vote on Friday[/link] rejected a request from environmental groups to prevent construction of portions of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
[link=https://www.axios.com/trump-border-wall-court-528a6fbb-9e93-427b-b5e1-a1c78b62d409.html]A federal appeals court ruled[/link] last month that the administration’s use of defense funding for the project was an illegal breach of executive authority. The Trump administration said it would ask the Supreme Court to hear arguments in the case in August, per AP.
The Supreme Court [link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6219674/7-26-19-SCOTUS-Sierra-Club-Order.pdf]ruled in a 5-4 vote[/link] last July that the Pentagon could redirect $2.5 billion to build President Trump’s long-promised southern border wall.Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.
“The Court’s decision to let construction continue nevertheless, I fear, may operate in effect, as a final judgment,” Breyer wrote.
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[link=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/516423-judge-blocks-some-asylum-restrictions-rules-chad-wolf-likely]Judge blocks some asylum restrictions, rules Chad Wolf serving as DHS secretary likely unlawful
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A Maryland judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new asylum restrictions challenged by 20 state attorneys general and ruled that acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary [link=https://thehill.com/people/chad-wolf]Chad Wolf[/link] is likely serving in his role unlawfully.
“In sum, the Court concludes that Plaintiffs are likely to demonstrate (former acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin) McAleenan’s appointment was invalid under the agency’s applicable order of succession, and so he lacked the authority to amend the order of succession to ensure Wolf’s installation as Acting Secretary,” Judge Paula Xinis’ said in a [link=https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/casa_de_maryland_op.pdf]69-page ruling[/link] on Friday.…
Not only is this decision welcome news for asylum seekers who were unfairly targeted by the Trump Administration, but the courts have now found that Chad Wolf has no authority at the Department of Homeland Security, {New York State Attorney General Lettia} James [link=https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2020/attorney-general-james-helps-secure-victory-asylum-seekers-court-rules-chad-wolf]said in a statement[/link] Monday.
Every decision Mr. Wolf has made from trying to punish Dreamers to targeting New Yorkers with an unlawful Trusted Traveler suspension, and everything in between has been perpetrated by a man with no authority and no business sitting in the chair of the acting secretary of Homeland Security, she added. The Trump Administrations continued efforts to violate the law and impose draconian orders through lapdog appointees should be immediately stopped and all decisions already executed should be immediately vacated.”
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It doesn’t seem like Wolf was appointed legally but I seem to recall others being appointed in a similar manner in prior admins. I will have to go back and check on that though.
It does seem like the federal government should be able to impose almost anything they want regarding immigration.
Are they saying it can’t because Wolf is “illegal” or because they don’t think the feds have those powers? The Constitution pretty much gives the federal government any power it wants regarding immigration and if Dems want those changes they need to pass laws. I don’t like the “legislation” from the bench via judges who tie decisions to emotions and presumed bias/thoughts/opinions. That’s a terrible slope to go down.-
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[/h1] [link=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southern-border-wall-erosion-fisher-sand-and-gravel-60-minutes-2020-09-27/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=100596592]60 Minutes[/link] covered Trump’s wll last night.
Multiple former administration officials claim that President Trump pressured government officials to direct $2 billion in contracts to Fisher Sand and Gravel to build sections of the border wall on private land.
Engineers now say that part of the is going to fail due to poor structure.
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[link=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/520476-appeals-court-blocks-further-construction-on-trump-border-wall]Appeals court blocks further construction on Trump border wall
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that [link=https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump]President Trump[/link]s use of emergency powers to allocate millions of dollars in funding for the construction of a Southern border wall was illegal, the latest blow to the Trump administrations effort to limit immigration.
In [link=https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/10/09/19-17501.pdf]the 2-1 decision[/link], the court upheld a December 2019 district court summary judgment in favor of a request from the advocacy groups the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition against Secretary of Defense [link=https://thehill.com/people/mark-esper]Mark Esper[/link], acting Homeland Security Secretary [link=https://thehill.com/people/chad-wolf]Chad Wolf[/link] and all persons acting under their direction … from using military construction funds appropriated for other purposes to build a border wall.
The previous judgment was also made in response to a separate filing from nine U.S. states, including California, Colorado and New York, to stop the construction of the border wall.
According to court records, following the partial government shutdown in 2019, Trump invoked his authority under the National Emergencies Act to declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States. This came after the president announced he was not happy with the $1.375 billion for the construction of primary pedestrian fencing … in the Rio Grande Valley Sector [in Texas] given by Congress.
Trump had initially requested $5.7 billion from Congress for border wall construction.
According to the ruling, Trumps national emergency proclamation also declare[d] that this emergency requires use of the Armed Forces, because although he could do the wall over a longer period of time by going through Congress, he would rather do it much faster.
Esper then announced that $3.6 billion reserved for military construction projects would be diverted to fund eleven specific border wall construction projects in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Altogether, the projects include 175 miles of border wall, according to court documents.
The appeals court said that while the district court had previously agreed to suspend an official order stopping construction pending the governments appeal, Fridays ruling lifts that stay, thus ordering the immediate halting of border wall construction.[/QUOTE]
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[link=https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/526545-federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-end]Federal judge orders Trump administration to end program that deports children crossing Mexican border alone
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[ul][*]U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction in a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.[*]In March, the Trump administration issued an emergency declaration, citing COVID-19, that allowed the federal government to send migrants back to Mexico or their home countries within hours of being detained and without providing the opportunity to request asylum.[*]At least 8,800 unaccompanied children have been deported since March. [/ul] -
[link=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/border-wall-mexico.html]https://www.nytimes.com/2…order-wall-mexico.html[/link]
[b]Armed Mexicans Were Smuggled In to Guard Border Wall, Whistle-Blowers Say[/b][/h1] [b]
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In a complaint unsealed on Friday, whistle-blowers working on President Trumps wall said that contractors were illegally bringing in Mexican guards to protect construction sites.
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[h1][b]Officials Expelling Migrant Children Despite Court Order[/b][/h1]
U.S. border officials have expelled at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children without a court hearing or asylum interview since a federal judge ordered them to stop the practice, [link=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-border-officials-expelled-dozens-migrant-children-violation-court-order/]CBS News[/link] reports.
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Have you considered adopting an illegal immigrant child?
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[link=https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/23/trump-border-wall-land-texas/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1608694781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter]https://www.texastribune….amp;utm_source=twitter[/link]
[h1]The Trump administration awarded border wall contracts to build on land it doesn’t own in Texas[/h1] [b]The governments strategy of awarding contracts before acquiring titles to land in Texas has led to millions of dollars in costs for delays. Things could get even more complicated if President-elect Joe Biden stops border wall construction.
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Austin Evers, the executive director of American Oversight and a senior counsel for the State Department during President Barack Obama’s second term, said the practice should be investigated by federal watchdogs.
The government is arguing that it has to seize these lands right now because it is being penalized under the contract it already signed, Evers said. In plain English, what that means is that American taxpayers are seeing their money thrown away for no purpose because the government signed the contract before it could execute the project.
Federal judges hearing CBPs eminent domain cases in South Texas also have expressed frustration with the governments legal argument for immediate possession in Starr County. In recent weeks, a segment of border fencing has quietly gone up in a remote area near Mendozas ranch.
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What would you do with the border instead of a physical barrier to prevent illegal crossings?
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I don’t consider illegal crossings to be anywhere near the top US immigration priority
Rather than fund a wall I would
a) Look for technological fixes over the uninhabited spaces …. drones, electronic triggers ,etc ( “smart wall” )
b) Provide funds to rapidly address asylum claims at the border. The current crisis is one primarily of asylum seeking.
c) Strengthen land crossings and other ports of entry. That’s going to get you the most bang for the buck in preventing entry of known criminals and terrorists, which is what I want to stop more than say a family of economic migrants.
d) Increase foreign aid and support policies to strengthen the economies and rule-of-law in central and latin America
e) expand and formalize guest worker programs to allow legal cross-border migration for those primarily seeking a job.
f) markedly increase penalties for [b]employers[/b] who hire illegal workers. Make it sting with massive fines. (combine this with E-veriphy and a pathway to citizenship for current undocumented migrants
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The White House announces that the president has withdrawn Chad Wolf’s nomination to be the permanent Homeland Security secretary, hours after Wolf urged the president to denounce yesterday’s violence.
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The acting director of ICE is gone – only took two weeks for this guy to run for the hills.
[i]The acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is resigning just two weeks after taking on the role, an agency official confirmed to The Hill.
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/acting-ice-director-resigns/index.html]CNN[/link] and [link=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-leader-resigns-after-two-weeks?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc]BuzzFeed News[/link] first reported Jonathan Faheys resignation Wednesday evening, citing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official and a source with knowledge of the situation, respectively.[/i]
[link=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/534174-acting-director-of-ice-resigns]https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis…of-ice-resigns[/link]
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Migrant caravans are back in operation.
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[h4][link=https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/538406-biden-terminates-trump-emergency-order-used-to-construct-border-wall]Biden terminates Trump emergency order used to construct border wall[/link][/h4]
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Under the supervision of a special master and with the blessing of the Biden White House, [link=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-have-found-parents-105-separated-migrant-children-past-month-n1258791]advocates have located parents of 105 of the separated kids in a month[/link].
