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This story, which fits right in with the above story, comes from TCC, the Trump Cheerleading Channel (also known as Fox News). Trump continues to stoke fear and hatred in his followers by saying the migrants from Central America are "invaders" and falsely claiming their number includes "gang members," "terrorists" and "bad people." By the way, in a new poll out today, Trump's approval rating fell four percentage points in the past week.
Trump: Caravan migrants are 'wasting their time'
Fox News, Oct 29 2018
President Donald Trump told Fox News this evening that Central American migrants approaching the US-Mexico border in caravans are "wasting their time" and vowed, "They are not coming in."
Trump spoke to Laura Ingraham hours after the Pentagon announced it would deploy some 5,200 troops to the southern border in an effort to "harden the southern border" by stiffening defenses at and near legal entry points. "They're wasting their time. When they are captured, we don't let them out," Trump said. "We're not letting them out. We're not catching, we're not releasing. We're not letting them into this country."
The President repeatedly has raised the alarm about the first migrant caravan approaching the US. "Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border," Trump tweeted this morning. "Please go back. You will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!"
The White House is also weighing additional border security measures, including blocking those traveling in the caravan from seeking legal asylum and blocking them from entering the United States.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...5sle?ocid=AMZN
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"I'm not fear-mongering," Trump declared today. "Immigration is a very important issue." The migrants are still 900 miles away from our border and they say they will not sneak into the United States but will ask for asylum and seek legal citizenship. Yet Trump thinks we need 15,000 military personnel at the border to keep these migrants out of the "land of the free and the home of the brave. " You're wrong, Donald. You are fear-mongering. You're stoking fear, hatred and racism in your blindly loyal, immigrant-hating followers -- and what is truly sad is that you enjoy doing so.
Trump says number of US-Mexico border troops could hit 15,000, catching the Pentagon by surprise
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...8Qke?ocid=AMZN
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It is a shame that our immigrant-hating President is so busy calling migrants "terrorists" and "bad people" and insisting we need to build a border wall and talking about sending 15,000 military men to the border and hinting that they will shoot at any migrants who throw rocks and sending out videos claiming Democrats will allow millions of killers into the US. He's so busy, he probably will not see this story. It's okay, though -- he would just say it's "fake news."
Births to undocumented immigrant parents in US falls to lowest level since 2000, new Pew Research Center report shows
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fewer-b...center-report/
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Trump's attempts to deter lawful migrants from seeking asylum, his plans for "tent cities" and his policy of separating parents from children are indeed unconstitutional -- but what do you expect from a man who attacks the free press, wants to abolish the 14th Amendment by "executive order" and tries to persuade the Justice Department to punish his enemies? Two years ago, Gold Star father Khizr Khan asked if Trump has ever read the Constitution. Maybe he has, I don't know. It doesn't matter, though. Trump ignores the Constitution.
Migrants sue Trump for his 'shockingly unconstitutional' border policy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...fEaM?ocid=AMZN
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Only one-fifth of the 7,000 migrants headed northward are expected to make it to the US border and there are no terrorists among their number -- but Trump wants to send as many as 15,000 soldiers to the border to protect us from the "invasion" of "terrorists" and "bad people." Trump also continues to insist he is not fear-mongering. He is.
Military's assessment of migrant caravans undermines Trump's rhetoric
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar...hoPf?ocid=AMZN
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Trump refuses to admit that his racist, bigoted, hateful, white nationalist rhetoric and his xenophobic, anti-immigrant fear-mongering are greatly hurting our nation. He blames the news media for all the strife, anger, division and hate crimes. Migrants fleeing the violence and poverty in Central America are planning to apply for legal asylum in the United States and the Fearmonger-In-Chief calls them "invaders" and rants and raves as if these migrants are the greatest threat our nation has ever faced. And yes, his hateful rhetoric does have a negative effect. Exhibit 'A': More than 200 armed vigilantes are heading to the border to help fend off the "invaders."
US militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump's call to arms
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-...iGxA?ocid=AMZN
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Reports of the migrant caravan bring out the worst in some people, such as the immigrant-hating Texas vigilantes (above), our immigrant-hating President and his immigrant-hating followers, but they also bring out the best in some people. In Texas, churches and donors are providing food and shelter for the migrants. Care, concern, compassion, respect and decency -- what a concept!
Texas communities scramble to help Central American migrants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/te...jO0b?ocid=AMZN
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"Hey, if the President of the United States doesn't have to respect the First Amendment, we shouldn't have to either." What do the immigration officials not want the public to find out about? Filth? Brutality? Disease? Sexual abuse? Inadequate nutrition? All of the above?
ICE moves to silence detention center volunteer visitors
Los Angeles Times, Nov 6 2018
Immigration officials have stopped allowing a volunteer group to visit people at Otay Mesa Detention Center unless its members agreed not to talk with the media or other groups about conditions inside.
Immigration & Customs Enforcement said members of Souls Offering Loving & Compassionate Ears must sign the Volunteer Code of Ethics to be in compliance with the agency's detention standards. The group so far has refused, arguing that detention standards don't require them to sign away their 1st Amendment rights in order to visit detainees.
"I think they're circling the wagons to stop people from knowing what’s going on inside," said SOLACE volunteer Steve Gelb of Mission Valley. "It gives ICE more impunity."
Since 2012, SOLACE volunteers have made more than 1,450 visits to at least 800 immigrants at Otay Mesa. They try to give detainees who don't have anyone to visit them a feeling of humanity, emotional support and hope. "Without SOLACE, people who are detained at Otay have very little way to communicate with the outside world," said Angela Fujii, who coordinates the program through the First Unitarian Universalist Church. "It's a very vulnerable population that we know is now suffering and being neglected."
The new requirement took volunteers by surprise. They thought they had a good relationship with ICE and had been told the agency appreciated their work. Volunteers speculate that either the political climate or critical media coverage of conditions in immigration detention facilities may have led to the change but they could not think of a specific report that might have triggered the code's restrictive language.
The confidentiality sections of the new code require volunteers to agree not to share information they acquire without written permission from the warden. The volunteers worry that if a detainee told them about abuse at the facility, they wouldn't be able to speak up. They also took issue with a part of the form that says they "represent" CoreCivic, the for-profit prison company that owns and operates Otay Mesa.
To David Loy, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego, the restrictions in the code are unconscionable. "This is an absolutely unconstitutional attempt to stifle speech and evade accountability," he said. Loy has sent a letter threatening legal action if ICE doesn’t reinstate SOLACE.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...106-story.html
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The Deferred Action On Childhood Arrivals program shields from deportation young adults who, as children, were brought to the US ilegally by their parents. Trump sought to end the program. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just told him he can't.
US Appeals Court rules against Trump on DACA immigration program
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-...unYt?ocid=AMZN
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People fleeing war, violence, persecution or famine in their home country can seek sanctuary in the United States. Asylum is granted on a case-by-case basis. Our megalomaniacal, immigrant-hating President has decided that illegal immigrants are such a huge security risk -- never mind that the majority of mass shootings are committed by American-born white men -- that he plans to deny asylum to all immigrants who illegally cross into the US. Trump may eventually think he even has the power to halt legal immigration. That would not surprise me.
Trump claims new power to bar asylum for immigrants who arrive illegally
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...uTlE?ocid=AMZN
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Well, the filing of this lawsuit was not unexpected:
ACLU files suit to stop Trump's new asylum limits
The Associated Press, Nov 9 2018
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's order denying asylum to migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. The lawsuit was filed today in federal court in San Francisco and argues the new rules are against the law. Attorney Lee Gelernt says the regulations will put families in danger. The suit seeks to declare the regulations invalid and asks a judge to stop the rules from going into effect while the litigation is pending.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/aclu...um-limits.html
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Now that the midterm elections are over, Trump no longer sees any reason to stoke fear and hatred by making false claims about an "invasion" of "bad thugs" and "Middle Eastern terrorists." Of course no mass shootings or terrorist attacks have ever been carried out by anyone who crossed the border from Mexico into the US but Trump's anti-immigrant base doesn't want to hear that.
Trump's warnings about migrant caravan fall off after election
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...GD4u?ocid=AMZN
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I'm making a list of all the Republican leaders who have not spread lies, conspiracy theories and false accusations against Democrats. So far I have Jeff Flake. There must be one or two others but I can't think of any right now.
Ted Cruz backtracks on claims Beto O'Rourke campaign funded migrant caravan
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/cruz-orourke-caravan/
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Thousands of people are crossing the border and asking for asylum. No, not our southern border -- our northern border. The majority are Haitian immigrants who fear Donald Trump will take away their temporary protected status.
2,550 US citizens applied for asylum in Canada in 2017. That's more than 6 times as many as in previous year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...KBpr?ocid=AMZN
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Trump sent 5,800 members of the military to the southwest US border so they could protect and defend us from the "invasion" of "thugs" and "gang members" and "Middle Eastern terrorists" making their way northward from Central America. Actually, those migrants are fleeing war, crime, poverty and natural disasters and were planning to ask for asylum in the US -- but our immigrant-hating President thought Republicans would sweep the midterm elections if he stoked fear and hatred in his anti-immigrant supporters. His outrageous, immoral, unethical, costly use-our-troops-to-boost-the-Republican-party scheme failed.
Troops at US-Mexico border to start coming home
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2...e-home-1005510
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The judge ruled that Trump has no authority to "rewrite immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has strictly forbidden," i.e., crossing only at a "designated port of entry." A Justice Department lawyer had said a "crushing strain" of migrants with "meritless claims" for asylum were planning to cross the border ilegally. Of course the Justice Department lawyer was unable to provide any evidence to support his ridiculous statement.
In blow to Trump's immigration ban, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter illegally from Mexico
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in...UaNN?ocid=AMZN
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Trump, a narcissist who thinks everything is about him, denounced the "Obama judge" who ruled that Trump can not arbitrarily change asylum rules that were approved by Congress. And now.......
In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Trump for comment about 'Obama judge'
The Associated Press, Nov 21 2018 9:49 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump's description of a judge who ruled against Trump's new migrant asylum policy as an "Obama judge." It's the first time the leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of Trump, who has previously blasted federal judges who ruled against him.
Roberts said today the US does not have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges." He commented in a statement released by the Supreme Court after a query by The Associated Press. Roberts said on the day before Thanksgiving that an "independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."
Last year, the President used the term a "so-called judge" after the first federal ruling against his travel ban.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...-obama-n939016
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Surprise, surprise, surprise! The Trump administration has worked out a deal with the transition team of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador that will allow migrants to stay in Mexico while their requests for asylum are processed in the US. Nothing has been formally signed, as details are still being worked out. The "Remain In Mexico" program is likely to face legal challenges because more than 750,000 asylum requests are pending in the courts and this new program would require applicants to wait, likely for many years, in Mexico instead of in the comparatively safer United States.
Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at US border
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...2WME?ocid=AMZN
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The Central American migrants were not rioting or throwing rocks and bottles. Granted, they should not have tried to squeeze through gaps in the border wall, but couldn't guards have found a more humane way to stop them than by firing tear gas? I guess we should be thankful they didn't use the "lethal force" authorized by Donald Trump.
US agents fire tear gas as some migrants try to breach border fence
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mi...4onJ?ocid=AMZN
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We're used to Trump telling lies about the Central American migrants: They're an "invasion," they're "terrorists," they're "gang members" -- and now DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has come up with some lies of her own, saying the migrants are convicted burglars, assaulters, drug dealers and child abusers. Does everyone in the Trump administration hate immigrants?
Trump defends using 'safe' tear gas as DHS claims more than 600 migrants are convicted criminals
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preside...are-criminals/
