Saturday, February 9, 2019

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Partial Federal Government Shutdown and How It Applies to an Immigration Workforce

Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz’s ‘crocodile tears’ in fiery speech on Senate floor on government shutdown: Sen. Michael Bennet gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor on Thursday where he excoriated Sen. Ted Cruz for “crocodile tears” that Cruz was making in a speech about first responders impacted by the government shutdown. Bennet attacked Cruz for the 2013 shutdown, which negatively impacted Colorado, reeling at the time from a series of floods.

While Trump deports Southeast Asian refugees en masse, the mainstream media stays silent

France on alert for tide of British refugees risking lives to cross Channel

The (Real) Emergency is Us: It’s Not the Wall. It’s Not the Shutdown. It’s You and Me.

Trump’s Border Wall is a Vortex of Stupidity that Trump and the GOP Can’t Escape: The Wall started as an applause line at Trump’s campaign rallies, and has morphed into one of the dumbest policy debates in the history of American politics.

Test of steel prototype for border wall showed it could be sawed through: A photo shows that the steel columns were breached with a common industrial tool.

Noah Rothman  Trump's shutdown gamble now hinges on a wall many Republicans were never truly sold on: For two years, the GOP had many opportunities to fund Trump’s wall both in part or in whole and it declined on every occasion.

Falling Illegal Immigration Numbers Confirm No Border Crisis

Russia reveals new details of ‘Poseidon’ underwater nuclear drone

The Promise Hardcover – April 18, 2018
          
Has Trump peddled bogus claims about the border because of a movie?

U.S. Intelligence Chiefs Contradict Trump on North Korea and Iran

Most Americans Say It’s Time For Trump To Move On From The Wall: Trump voters — who still want a wall — are divided over whether the president compromised too much.

'This Is Very Dangerous': Trump Administration Seizes Venezuela Oil Assets, Renews Threat of Military Action If Maduro Stays.  "The problem here is that these efforts by the United States to change other countries' governments often lead to catastrophe."

Can US live up to Pompeo’s promises?

‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration: The influence of evangelical Christianity is likely to become an important question as Trump finds himself dependent on them for political survival

Tipping the balance: During his regional tour US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made every effort to mobilise Arab states behind efforts to weaken Iran

Great potential in Turkey, US economic ties to substantially expand, Trump says

Trump’s lethal confusion on Middle East policy: Washington is beset by mixed signals and growing hawkishness

Pompeo’s Cairo speech revealed the total incoherence of Trump’s Middle East policy: The secretary of state rebukes Iran and Obama but fails to make a compelling case for the administration’s strategy in the Middle East.

The One Thing Trump Gets Right About Middle East Policy: The best hope for Trump’s Middle East policy is that his administration continues to avoid getting America into new conflicts and to think about how to disentangle it from old, unwinnable ones.

Trump's foreign policy advisers are making fools of themselves 

Trump makes a DACA offer Democrats can and should refuse

Trump's phony 'compromise' has now been unmasked as a total sham

Why Trump's border wall is not just a wall

As the UN jabs nervously at the truth about Khashoggi, remember how often journalists’ deaths are brushed aside: Why is the fate of the Saudi reporter of infinitely more pressing importance than that of Yaser Murtaja, shot by the Israelis in Gaza?

Trump claims walls work, but the discovery of border tunnels says otherwise: NBC News' Jacob Soboroff got a tour of a lengthy and deep underground passage near San Diego.

Jonathan Franzen's Controversial Stance on Climate Action: The author talks birds, climate failure, and how to find meaning in dark times

30 unaccompanied children were among 376 migrants who tunneled under border wall into Arizona

VENEZUELA: WHAT ACTIVISTS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE U.S.-LED COUP

How a Secret Jewish Group Documented Nazi Atrocities in Hopes Their Archive Would ‘Scream the Truth at the World'

Department Of Homeland Security Compiles List Of All Bloggers, Journalists, & "Social Media Influencers"

Department Of Homeland Security Faces Lawsuit Over 'Harmless' Journalist Database

Lashing Back – Israel’s 1947-1948 Civil War

PA TV presents image of Nazi camp victims as taken from ‘Deir Yassin massacre’: Original picture, photographed right after liberation of Nordhausen, edited to exclude images of corpses in striped uniforms
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-tv-presents-image-of-nazi-camp-victims-as-taken-from-deir-yassin-massacre/

DEIR YASSIN – startling evidence: Hazem Nusseibeh, editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service’s in 1948, tells the BBC how a press report was compiled, falsely claiming that atrocities had occurred at Deir Yassin.

A federal court just found a First Amendment right to force kids into conversion therapy

Trump Sought a Loan During the 2016 Campaign. Deutsche Bank Said No.

Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing.  It referred to the process of reuniting separated families as a “burden.”

Fiction Can Help Us Deal With Trump’s Chaos: Making sense of the presidency, one novel at a time.

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Killers for Decades: The US Border Patrol played a key role in propping up Latin American dictatorships.

Why Does Trump Want to Terminate Temporary Protected Status? He plans to expel hundreds of thousands of refugees who have become productive members of American society. But they’re fighting back.

An Offer From the Oval Office to Open the Federal Government

No Ransom for Hostages

Miles and Miles of Big, Beautiful Lies

Trumpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall …

Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a War With Iran? He Worried Even Mad Dog Mattis: Bolton has been agitating for a war on Iran for two decades

What the Shutdown Really Means

Rights Disappear When US Policy Engages Children as Weapons of Deterrence

Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency

New Mexico governor withdraws National Guard from the border, slams Trump's 'charade': “New Mexico will not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said.

Trump’s Shutdown Was a Cruel Joke: It revealed the folly of the president’s approach to politics.

The vindication of Nancy Pelosi: How Pelosi delivered Trump the most humiliating loss of his presidency.

For Democrats, Shutdown Success Also Brings Danger: Democrats won the showdown with President Trump, but their victory comes with three little-noticed problems

Trump Can Break the Democrats on Border Security: How to split the Democratic Party.

Put Washington in a time-out. Bring in people who know something about the border

Republicans may block Trump from another shutdown: The Senate GOP has no appetite for another political debacle and is pushing Trump away from closing the government again.


Mockery, Backlash, or Court: Trump is looking at three terrible options in his endless, pointless battle for a border wall.

The Last Shutdown?  The 35-day government grounding may have been enough to convince Congress to stop shutdowns for good.

And now, Venezuelans must lead the way to a new, democratic future

How Seriously Should the World Take Trump’s Venezuela Threat?  This isn’t the first time the president has threatened military force against the country, but now he is surrounded by regime-change advocates.

Putting Boots On The Ground In Venezuela Would Be A Grave Mistake: Venezuela's situation is terrible, and Nicolas Maduro's stronghold might grow less stable over the course of the month. We still shouldn't intervene.

Maduro Should Go

WILL TRUMP INVADE VENEZUELA TO OWN THE LIBS?  A longtime obsession on the right has become an irresistible military target for Trump.

IN BOMBSHELL NBC NEWS STORY, MERKLEY REVEALS SECRET TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLAN TO CREATE BORDER CRISIS: Leaked memo shows deliberate plans to create a border crisis—including family separation and increased detention of children—as early as December 2017

No ‘Clear Motivating Factor’ Inspired Las Vegas Gunman, F.B.I. Says: Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017, left no suicide note, manifesto or communication about the attack or his thinking, investigators said.

Trump National Golf Club in N.Y. Fires Undocumented Workers, Lawyer Says: About a dozen workers at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were fired this month because they were in the country illegally, according to their lawyer.

Israel's ex-military chief launches campaign to unseat PM: Benny Gantz aims to have broad appeal with message of ‘no more right and left’

A moving border, and the history of a difficult boundary

A History of the Southern Border: Fences and walls are a relatively new addition to the U.S.'s 1,954-mile boundary with Mexico. Here's everything you need to know:

Confucio y Maduro: Las democracias del mundo debemos enviar un mensaje inequívoco: Guaidó es nuestro presidente

No longer safe: Researcher harassed by China in her own country

Is the Trump team pulling off a diplomatic coup to end America's longest war?

A US-Taliban peace deal may be on the way. But it could easily fall apart. “Talking to the Taliban is a waste of time,” said one former general.

Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan

It’s time to end the war that can never be won in Afghanistan

Despite talk of national emergencies or a second shutdown, Trump is likely to fold

House Democrat rips into acting attorney general over devastating 'magnitude' of family separation

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