We Are Having A National Emergency!

[bodysong]

Trump personally spoke to border patrol agents and told them to break the law and lie to judges

April 8, 2019

Aaron Rupar Verified Account
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TRUMP: "This is our new statement- the system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it's asylum or anything you want - illegal immigration - we can't take you anymore. Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full. Can't take you anymore, I'm sorry. Turn around"

12:50 PM - 5 Apr 2019



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@justinjm1

Trump told border agents to break U.S. law and defy judicial orders

1:08 PM - 8 Apr 2019

The President appeared to not care, as he coached the Border Patrol agents on committing an apparent illegal act.

“Tell them we don’t have the capacity, he said,” CNN reports Trump said. “If judges give you trouble, say, “‘Sorry, judge, I can’t do it. We don’t have the room.'”

That would be a lie, and judges obviously would know it was a lie.

Once the President “left the room, agents sought further advice from their leaders, who told them they were not giving them that direction and if they did what the President said they would take on personal liability. You have to follow the law, they were told.”

“At the end of the day,” a senior administration official told CNN, “the President refuses to understand that the Department of Homeland Security is constrained by the laws.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/tr...trol-agents-told-break-law-lie-judges-report/

tRump is told that he should not do it, cannot do it, because it is an illegal act, and that he would be breaking the law.

Then, again, he has ordered plenty of his minions to lie, and to break the law.

 

[KeithD]

Kirstjen Nielsen was a key department head in the government's failure to respond well or soon enough the Hurricane Katrina. Enough said.

 

[bodysong]

CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan takes over as acting head of the Department of Homeland Security

Geoff Bennett
Geoff Bennett Verified Account
@GeoffRBennett

!!! DHS leadership vacuum:
no confirmed secretary,
no dep. secretary,
no Secret Service chief,
no head of FEMA,
no head of ICE,
no head of science & technology branch,
no head of policy branch,
no Inspector General

& no CPB commissioner (Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection) once McAleenan moves over


10:51 AM - 8 Apr 2019

The head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
L. Francis Cissna, and Homeland Security General Counsel
John M. Mitnick are expected to be pushed out of their positions,
the officials said.

There’s no confirmed secretary,
no deputy secretary,
no head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
no formal head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
no head of Customs and Border Protection once McAleenan moves over,
and no head of the science and technology branch.

In addition, the deputy undersecretary for management at the agency,
Claire Grady, will have to be moved aside for Trump to install
McAleenan as acting secretary.

https://www.boston.com/news/politic...up-leadership-at-homeland-security-department

headless ?

Caution!

Demolition in progress.

 

[KeithD]

And yet the Republicans in Congress continue to support this.

 

[bodysong]

US Secret Service director Randolph Alles has been removed from his post just one day after homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign.

(Will anyone say why ?)


U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles is leaving the Trump administration, the White House said Monday, a day after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was asked by the president to step down.

Trump has selected James Murray, a career Secret Service member who is currently the assistant director for the Secret Service Office of Protective Operations, to take over in May, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

(yeah, SS Huckabee, what-everrr,
yah bucket of slippery, rotting lie slurry
Bucket of Red Herrings ?)

)

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/po...0190408-64d7z2kwnjfjlnnleicro3s754-story.html

Alles, a former US Marines general, was recommended to lead the Secret Service by former White House chief of staff John Kelly, also a former Marine general. Kelly, who left the White House at the end of last year, also supported Nielsen when she succeeded him at homeland security.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ves-secret-service-director-homeland-security

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The outgoing Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles must testify before Congress as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago involving a Chinese national arrested with malware, and other counterintelligence and national security threats.

1:38 PM - 8 Apr 2019


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@SenSchumer Replying to @SenSchumer

The public and Congress need to know the extent to which adversarial governments—like China—and their agents are attempting to gain access to, or conduct electronic surveillance on, conversations or other information regarding national security at President Trump’s properties.

1:38 PM - 8 Apr 2019

(The current tRump tradition, they are fired before they are questioned.)

 

[bodysong]

Julia Ioffe Verified Account
@juliaioffe

According to the President, we have a national emergency at our southern border. Yet, because of the President, we do not have a Secretary of Defense or a Secretary of Homeland Security.

3:31 PM - 7 Apr 2019

 

[bodysong]

April 10, 2019

The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quit Wednesday, the latest departure among top immigration officials as President Donald Trump calls for tougher border control.

The announcement came after Trump told reporters last week that he was pulling his nomination of acting ICE chief Ronald Vitiello for the director’s job, saying he wanted to go in a “different direction” with someone “tougher.”

The departure comes after Trump forced out Nielsen on Sunday and the acting deputy secretary of DHS resigned on Tuesday.

http://time.com/5568048/immigration-chief-quits-ice-ronald-vitiello/


Justin Blum
Bloomberg News

April 10, 2019

Vitiello, who served for more than 30 years with Customs and Border Protection before joining ICE, “has protected our homeland with courage and conviction,” said outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a statement.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/na...her-nominee/Je4HkOQ3OE2ooq56XGvxEL/story.html

Is tRump hoping to trick the new hires into breaking the law ?

 

[bodysong]

"...Trump effectively knighted Miller, saying the aide would be in charge of immigration going forward. "

Asked by reporters whether he had considered tapping Miller to lead Homeland Security, Trump said: "Stephen is an excellent guy. He's wonderful person." But, he added, "Frankly, there's only one person that's running it. You know who that is? It's me."

article

Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller in battle for future of Trump's immigration policy

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-116290979/


By Renée Graham Globe Columnist April 09, 2019

The Trump whisperer gets louder

"For all racist intents and purposes, Miller, a speechwriter and senior adviser who shapes and amplifies Trump’s worst instincts, is likely behind the Department of Homeland Security purge."


"Miller is now running DHS, and everyone knows it."


“Stephen Miller should be the next Secretary of Homeland Security,” tweeted conservative columnist Erick Erickson . “The president trusts him on the issues, they see eye to eye, and he already has authority on those issues.”


"You can also bet Miller pushed for the recent disbanding of the department’s domestic terrorism unit, despite nearly 50 murders committed by right-wing extremists in 2018."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...gets-louder/LNZmnTwba8Ptkvl7k7sjnI/story.html


Domestic terrorism is no big deal, according to Trump

April 05, 2019

Right-wing nationalists committed nearly 50 murders last year linked to extremism. The Trump administration’s response has been to disband the Department of Homeland Security’s domestic terrorism intelligence unit.

According to ADL statistics, last year was the fourth deadliest for domestic extremist violence since 1970.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...rding-trump/CxnXEjIcqVOsADfBo45Z3N/story.html

Candace Owens put the finishing touches on what became a farce.


Southern Poverty Law Center Verified Account
@splcenter

Candace Owens would rather "talk about real issues" as opposed to hate & the rise of white nationalism," as she testified before the House today. Hate crimes soared 17% to 7,106 in 2017 despite rampant underreporting.

If you ask us, that's a "real issue.

9:15 AM - 9 Apr 2019


Southern Poverty Law Center Verified Account
@splcenter Replying to @splcenter

Testifying before the HJC's hearing on hate and white nationalism today, Candace Owens tried again and again to deflect and justify white nationalism ideology in the U.S.


12:20 PM - 9 Apr 2019

 

[bodysong]

RENÉE FELTZ: Customs and Border Protection head Kevin McAleenan. He was signed on that memo, as well. We—

AMY GOODMAN: And, by the way, in order for Trump to put him there—

RENÉE FELTZ: Yes.

AMY GOODMAN: —he has to get rid of Claire Grady, who’s in between, who would be the number two. And it’s not—well, we’ll see if she’s fired, because that is the order of succession.

RENÉE FELTZ: He wants to get as quickly as he can to a yes-person who will help him carry out Stephen Miller’s policy. Stephen Miller is lurking in the background as an adviser.

I think it’s important to note that Kirstjen Nielsen opened the gates for family separation to happen. She was a yes-person for Trump herself, even though she’s being portrayed as someone who occasionally said no to Trump.

Also, family separation continues to happen right now, the administration is acknowledging, and they say that sometimes they’re separating children who come with their parents for their own safety. You know, Amy, there was a recording of a young girl who was separated from her mother, that was shared with ProPublica. It was wrenching to listen to. You can hear the child sobbing. And anyone who’s heard that will never forget what Kirstjen Nielsen’s legacy is about.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: I think we have that ProPublica audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, where children were between the ages of 4 and 10 and are heard crying “Mama” and “Papi” after being separated from their parents. This is the audio.

CHILD: [crying] Papi! Papi! Papi! Papi!

BORDER PATROL AGENT: [translated] Well, we have an orchestra here, right? What we’re missing is a conductor.

AMY GOODMAN: That’s a border agent saying that over.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/9/kirstjen_nielsens_cruel_legacy_outgoing_dhs


ProPublica Verified Account
@propublica

Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help. A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.” Listen to the full audio here:

(link to audio)

3:40 PM - 18 Jun 2018

A border patrol agent says:

Well, we have an orchestra here, right?

The crying continues.

Another border agent says:

What we’re missing is a conductor.

A woman says:

Keep this number. Don’t lose it, you hear? Good.

These children are now numbers.

Agents ask children – who can barely breathe through their tears – where they come from. “El Salvador,” says one. “Guatemala,” says another.

Cries of “Mummy”, “Mami”, and “Papá” are relentless. But they’re continually told not to cry.

One girl asks, while sobbing, to speak to her aunt. She memorised her aunt’s phone number. She persists and asks:

Are you going to call my aunt so she can pick me up?

According to ProPublica, this little girl is six-year-old Alison Madrid.

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2...ir-parents-heres-the-sound-of-trumps-america/

A river of children were captured, taken, and put in a prison for children, since then. The people that are administration for concentration camps for children found a way to take more children into the prisons. Narrow definition of what separated from family means. The children's grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles and aunts, sisters and brothers, cousins, were not accepted as family.

It gave our American government an opportunity to lie, and say the children were on their own, and not separated.

 

[Dumpington]

Year in and year out, there have been demands that the government secure our borders. This issue was one of the major factors leading to President Trump’s historic victory in 2016. Denying what the public sees as an obvious truth will most certainly hurt the Democrats at the polls in 2020.

Unlike our booming economy (which the Democrats’ unsuccessfully tried to credit to the Obama administration) the Democratic Party's do-nothing approach to illegal immigration is a self-inflicted wound for all of that party's presidential hopefuls. Denying that your house is on fire while it burns to the ground because you want to cash in on your fire insurance is not sound public policy, but that's exactly what liberals are doing in their zeal to get illegals voting in our elections!

Although they refuse to admit that a border security crisis exists, behind closed doors Democrats are now recognizing that this is going to bite them in the ass. A great economy and continued unchecked illegal immigration will very likely result landslide 2020 losses for the Democrats.

One other notable pitfall that will haunt the Dems for years to come is the collusion hoax. That massive waste of taxpayer money and resources cannot be swept under a rug. There was no collusion, and the 2020 polls will put the final stamp on that sham.

The Democratic Party's unforced errors coupled with President Trump’s great governance means that it's also increasingly likely that the House of Representatives will also return to Republican control. NOTHING is going right for the Dems right now!

 

[bodysong]

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@pbpost

(tRump) arrives amid partisan debate over Mueller findings

7:36 PM - 18 Apr 2019

President arrives amid partisan debate over Mueller findings

About seven hours after the 448-page report went public,


Trump and first lady Melania landed at PBIA to spend

Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

The Palm Beach Post @pbpost

 

[icanhelp1]

Kirstjen Nielsen was a key department head in the government's failure to respond well or soon enough the Hurricane Katrina. Enough said.

It's so funny how you gloss over the fact that Governor Blanco's inept ability to take advice or to lead or to prepare her state for the coming storm. How about the corrupt Ray Nagin ( bribery, money laundering ) who sold his city of New Orleans down the tubes for personal gain. Remember the school buses he could have used to evacuate his citizens to higher ground. Yeah, let's just blame Bush and Nielsen.

 

[trysail]

Oh, To Work In Nancy Pelosi's Vineyard

by Charles Hurt

"Once again, President Trump has hit upon a supposedly “controversial” proposal that has caused the entire herd of fainting goats in the Washington press corps to collapse in fevered panting and jerky spasms. And, once again, the idea is simple, logical and genius. Faced with a massive and growing crisis of 100,000 illegal immigrants storming the border every month, Mr. Trump must decide what to do with all these people who have discovered the giant Trojan horse that is America’s immigration system.

Cross the border, claim asylum, get a court date, be set free and vanish into the interior of the country — never to show up for that court date. Even better, grab a child or buy somebody else’s child (previously known as “human trafficking” or “child slavery”) and hit the border claiming to be a “family.”

These people — chiefly Democrats and journalists these days — claiming there is no crisis on the border and encouraging this disaster to continue are on the wrong side of what is turning into a massive humanitarian crisis.

All so they can feel good about themselves. They think of themselves as “welcoming” and are encouraging so many people to make such a treacherous journey — guided by mercenary merchants of misery and death — that should end with them getting sent right back to where they came from. If they don’t get raped and killed along the way.

All of this, of course, is underwritten by the murderous drug cartels that use their human packages as diversions at the border to tie up U.S. Border Patrol agents..."


more...



​

​

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

He's got a funny way of accomplishing your goals, then. Shouldn't he be trying to wreck our economy or something?

Trump is destroying America's farms, he's destroying America's tourism industry and he's destroying America's renewable energy industry.

Trump is NOT good for the U.S. economy!!

 

[Articulate_and_Analytical]

A river of children were captured, taken, and put in a prison for children, since then. The people that are administration for concentration camps for children found a way to take more children into the prisons. Narrow definition of what separated from family means. The children's grandfathers and grandmothers, uncles and aunts, sisters and brothers, cousins, were not accepted as family.

It gave our American government an opportunity to lie, and say the children were on their own, and not separated.

This is kidnapping. The United States government is now running the largest kidnapping operation in America.

 

[bodysong]

Larry Mitchell Hopkins does not look like a hero
of anything, after he is busted at the border

(pic)

The FBI began investigating Hopkins after receiving reports that the United Constitutional Patriots were targeting Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and George Soros for assassination.

Hopkins is no stranger to investigators who track right-wing activities. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Hopkins, using his pseudonym Horton, claims to have advised President Trump on border security.


https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/7161...facing-federal-firearms-charges-in-new-mexico

Asylum-seekers have two ways to escape detention while their cases are still being reviewed: bond or parole. The use of bonds in immigration court increased in the final years of the Obama administration, a trend that has been reversed under President Trump. And parole — a type of release granted to asylum-seekers who are found to have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries — has nearly disappeared altogether, immigration advocates and attorneys say.

"The way the system is operating right now, especially in Louisiana, is a farce," said the wife of one of the hunger strikers at River Correctional. For fear of retribution from ICE agents, she asked to be identified only as "Dee," an abbreviation of her first name. She also asked that her husband's name not be included for fear it would interfere with his asylum case.


"This immigrations system has become so lucrative," she said. "This whole system is for profit."

River Correctional, a private prison owned by Ruston-based LaSalle Corrections, has held immigration detainees since late last year, according to Cox.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/7139...ntion-centers-spread-as-parole-bond-is-denied

In an important immigration policy shift, Attorney General William Barr announced a decision Tuesday to block some immigrants seeking asylum from being released on bond while they wait in detention for their asylum cases to be processed.

Barr’s ruling, which will take effect in 90 days, acts on President Donald Trump’s frequent calls to end what he calls the “catch and release” policy, officially known as “release on recognizance,” which allows eligible immigrants to be released from detention and live in the United States while waiting for their asylum claims to be decided.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...ate-bond-for-certain-asylum-seekers-explained

tRump and Malania handed out autographs, to their fans.
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were in
Wyoming for Passover.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the couple arrived
at Cheyenne Regional Airport in President Donald Trump's
personal Boeing 757 Thursday before heading to Saratoga,
a resort town about 150 miles away.

 

[bodysong]

4/24/19

At Opioid Summit, Trump Whines, 'I Had The System Rigged On Me'

Trump alleged on Wednesday that the U.S. justice system had been “rigged” against him.



Maggie Haberman Verified Account
@maggieNYT

Perfect distillation of approach - POTUS says something that obscured intent of event on opioids, then blames journos for reporting on what he said.

11:40 AM - 24 Apr 2019


Atlanta Journal Constitution

AJC
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Atlanta, GA
Atlanta's best source for news. You can reach our customer service team here: @AJCassist
ajc.com



AJC
AJC Verified Account
@ajc

(tRump and Malevolent Malania) headlined the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon.

6:15 PM - 24 Apr 2019

The gathering of Atlanta politicians


Greg Bluestein
@bluestein
9h
Replying to @GovKemp @GeoffDuncanGA and 2 others

.@GovKemp, @GeoffDuncanGA, @ChrisCarr_Ga and @RepDrewFerguson are among the Georgia dignitaries waiting for President Trump.

9:55 AM - 24 Apr 2019


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@bluestein Replying to @bluestein

A few thousand people await Trump’s speech at an Atlanta hotel

10:20 AM - 24 Apr 2019



Greg Bluestein Verified Account
@bluestein Replying to @bluestein

The Trumps spent some time joshing with Kemp and Co. after he landed. I asked one of them what they were laughing about. The response:

pic

10:10 AM - 24 Apr 2019 from Hapeville, GA

Cody Hall
@CodyHallGA

This is my “get out of the TV shot” face.


View photo

Greg Bluestein
Greg Bluestein Verified Account

@bluestein Replying to @CodyHallGA

Nothing beats this pic

9:49 AM - 24 Apr 2019 from Hapeville, GA

Governor Brian Kemp

MTM
@MTMcWilliams Replying to @CodyHallGA @GovKemp @BrianKempGA
I appreciate @GovKemp saving the State money but I’m not so sure I like our governor flying around in a PC-12, I think a jet would be better. A jet has two engines. If the PC-12 loses its engine, there is no second engine during the emergency. Consider a jet, @BrianKempGA. Thanks

11:54 AM - 24 Apr 2019

 

[bodysong]

So much pretending, at the tRump White House

Pretending at a NRA rally.

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8 Replying to @ddale8

Trump says he'll sign a document asking the Senate to stop the arms-trade treaty ratification process and send the treaty to him in the Oval Office, "where I will dispose of it."

9:52 AM - 26 Apr 2019


President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared their
love of golf on a sunny, windy Saturday (tRump's private property in Virginia).

Rally in Wisconsin, April 27 at Green Bay’s Resch Center

Molly Beck Verified Account
@MollyBeck

Wisconsin Senate leaders @SenatorRoth and @SenFitzgerald and Assembly leaders @jimsteineke and @rep89 waiting for President Trump at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport.

pic

4:15 PM - 27 Apr 2019



Doug Schneider Verified Account
@PGDougSchneider

We have @realDonaldTrump's arrival at the Resch

5:01 PM - 27 Apr 2019

Wisconsin State Journal Verified Account
@WiStateJournal

Once a 'Never-Trump' bastion, Donald Trump returns to Wisconsin with GOP unified behind


10:06 AM - 27 Apr 2019

Will not be here

Saturday, April 27th Solemn and grim White House Correspondents’ Dinner, featuring Ron Chernow (historian).


comedian Samantha Bee's "Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner" Saturday, April 27, 2019

 

[bodysong]

Watch Trump Dismantle Your Will to Live During His Unhinged Rally

Before the rally, Trump promised it would be
“very positive,” unlike the White House
Correspondents Dinner.

Glad to see he fulfilled that promise.
Now I’m going to go drown myself
in the ocean.


[Rolling Stone]
Peter Wade
Rolling StoneApril 28, 2019




(tRump, Scum of the Earth)


Apr 27th, 2019



During a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, President Donald Trump called FBI and Justice Department officials “scum.”

“We’re taking on the failed political establishment and restoring government of, by and for the people,” Trump said. “It’s the people, or you’re the people. You won the election.”

Then turning to talk of his own intelligence officials he said this: “And if you look at what’s happened with the scum that’s leaving the very top of government, people that others used to say, oh, that’s one — these were dirty cops. These were dirty players.”

He continued on: “You take a look at what’s going on, there’s 21 of ‘em already. And I’m not even doing — they’re just leaving because they got caught like nobody ever got caught.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-calls-fbi-and-justice-department-officials-scum/

 

[bodysong]

Aaron Rupar Verified Account
@atrupar

LOL -- @MariaBartiromo desperately tried to wrap up her phone interview with Trump, but Trump refused to stop talking about "cleaning the swamp" and how (James) Clapper is "a dumb guy."


7:53 AM - 29 Apr 2019

 

[bodysong]

Aaron Blake Verified Account
@AaronBlake

Baritromo tried to end Trump interview 5 times in 18-min chat: Minute 12: "Mr. President, I know you have to run." 14: "Mr. President, I know you have to go." 15: "Before you go real quick..." 16: "I know you have to run..." 17: "Mr. President, thank you so much..." 18: End


8:09 AM - 29 Apr 2019

Seth Meyers noticed.

 

[bodysong]

Dead child.

Texas Border Patrol and I.C.E handed sick child to Trump's prison camp for children.



After a meet and greet, and giving at speech at the podium, Trump has lovely dinner in the White House State Dining Room with some of his favorite people, and 100 religious leaders.

National Day of Prayer happens on Thursday.

Did Trump watch himself, speaking with Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan, in his jammies ?

Also weighing in on the matter of who would ask questions was Trump. “They want to treat him differently than they have anybody else,” the president told Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan on Wednesday night, adding, “You elect people that are supposed to be able to do their own talking.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...-with-house-democrats-escalates-standoff.html

 

[bodysong]

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a new attack on sanctuary cities, with a program meant to allow local law enforcement to make federal arrests."


ICE framed the new program as a countermeasure to “sanctuary cities” across the United States


The Warrant Service Officer (WSO) program provides for a more limited form of collaborative immigration enforcement, but it could be logistically easier for local sheriff’s departments to adopt.

In devising the program, ICE realized it could also be useful to rural areas and counties that want to support federal immigration enforcement but lack the resources to send their deputies to lengthy training courses.

Immigrant rights groups and law enforcement agencies in Democratic strongholds have argued that such arrangements unlawfully turn sheriff’s deputies into federal immigration agents and jails into immigrant holding cells. They say such programs are a misuse of resources that detract from larger priorities, such as the pursuit of violent criminals, while also hurting relations with local immigrant communities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immi...e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?noredirect=on

 

[bodysong]

For more than 30 years, Oregon has had a sanctuary law (Statute 181a.820) on the books. Oregon voters defeated Measure 105, keeping in place the state's 31-year-old sanctuary state law, November 7, 2018

The new program — dubbed the Warrant Service Officer (WSO) program — allows local jurisdictions that join the program to be “be temporarily exempted from any local or state rules preventing them from cooperating in immigration arrests or detention, and allow them to execute arrest warrants issued by ICE,”


The Hill Verified Account
@thehill

ICE announces program to allow local law enforcement to make immigration arrests

4:55 PM - 6 May 2019

ICE to train Florida officers to serve federal warrants

May 6, 2019

The country's immigration enforcement agency on Monday announced a new partnership in Florida to allow some sheriff's deputies to serve warrants on behalf of the federal government.

Pinellas County in the Tampa Bay area is the first jurisdiction to participate, but more have expressed interest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.

The plan is intended for jurisdictions restricted by local policies so they can keep certain immigrants requested by authorities in custody for a longer time, the agency said.

The Florida Legislature last week passed a contentious bill that mandates local officials to honor ICE detainers for immigrants who are arrested or convicted of a crime while in the country illegally. Officials who defy could be suspended by the governor or sued by the state attorney general to force compliance.

The American Civil Liberties Union quickly condemned the plan, saying local agencies would risk violating search and seizure laws. The warrants are not reviewed by a judge.

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article230097684.html#storylink=topdigest_latest

Trained for one day. What could possibly go wrong ?

ACLU Verified Account
@ACLU

The program — which risks violating the Fourth Amendment — is just the latest scheme by ICE to enlist local police in its abusive deportation agenda. They should resist this dangerous proposal and stand by their commitment to the communities they serve.

12:56 PM - 6 May 2019

ICE Moves to Expand Local Law Enforcement Participation in Deportation Agenda


LARGO, Fla. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) introduced a new initiative today

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) introduced a new initiative today in an attempt to expand local law enforcement participation in its deportation agenda. The program would task local law enforcement officers to act as arms of ICE by conducting immigration arrests.

 

[bodysong]

tRump Hate Rally in Florida, lovely outdoor gathering in Panama City


Jim Acosta Verified Account
@Acosta

At Florida rally, Trump talked about frustration in stopping people at border: “Don’t forget, we don’t let them (I.C.E. and Border Patrol) and we can’t let them use weapons. Other countries do, but we can’t. I would never do that.” It appears a person in crowd shouted: “shoot them!”

6:28 PM - 8 May 2019

Trump rallies Panhandle supporters, who are
awaiting aid 7 months after Hurricane Michael

Trump flew into Panama City Beach on a massive helicopter, Marine One, several thousand sign-waving, red-capped fans filled an outdoor amphitheater. Before he took the stage Wednesday in the fading evening light, the crowd chanted, “Four more years!”

Earlier Wednesday, Trump was embraced by a contingent of Florida VIPs: Republican U.S. senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state elected officials as he arrived at Tyndall Air Force Base, just east of Panama City. The base was severely affected by the Category 5 hurricane. Almost every building appeared damaged in some way, including a collapsed hangar.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/po...ticle230127084.html#storylink=mainstage_card2

A relief package for areas affected by Michael, the California wildfires and other disasters passed the House, but the bill stalled in the Senate. The Senate had a deal on funding, but Trump balked at increased funding for Puerto Rico, whose leaders have been hotly critical of the president after Hurricane Maria. The president sees the government there as inept and untrustworthy stewards of the funds.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has tabled any measure until he's certain the White House will sign off.

tRump's Base in Florida


"As much as Bay County votes Republican, we don't need a political rally right now," said Bay County Commissioner Philip Griffitts, a Republican. Trump's rally will be in Panama City, which is in Bay County. "We need some good news from the federal government," he said.

Bay County went for Trump with 71% of the vote. That was one of the highest percentages of any large county in the state. Bay also saw the second-largest increase in Republican votes in the Panhandle from 2012 to 2016. Trump got about 5,300 more votes than Romney four years earlier in Bay, a 9% increase. Across Florida, only Santa Rosa County saw a bigger GOP vote increase.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/7208...-d-c-trump-to-rally-base-in-florida-panhandle