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'We're going to see more': Sanctuary cities cave in face of Trump's funding threats
[FOX] Several towns, cities and counties around the nation are caving to President Trump's threat to pull funding, and abandoning their "sanctuary" pledges to shield illegal immigrants from federal authorities.

Dayton, Ohio, dropped a policy that restricted the city’s cooperation with immigration officials pursuing illegal immigrants arrested for misdemeanors or felony property crimes, according to the Dayton Daily News. Police Chief Richard Biehl said federal authorities will no longer be impeded by the city when pursuing illegal immigrants being held by his department.

Other communities that have dropped policies of shielding illegal immigrant suspects from Immigration and Customs Enforcement include Miami-Dade and Dayton, are Saratoga, N.Y., Finney County, Kan., and Bedford, Penn., according to The Center for Immigration Studies, which keeps a list of sanctuary communities.

"We are reviewing policy changes at a multitude of other jurisdictions as well," said Marguerite Telford, CIS’s director of communications, who said the organization is "being inundated" by officials on its sanctuary map who want to be taken off.

The mayor of Miami-Dade County, which was considered a sanctuary community, made headlines recently when he changed a policy that called for refusing to hold arrested immigrants for immigration officials unless they committed to reimbursing the county for the cost of detention.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2017 03:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No Gray vs. Blue?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2017 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The whole premise of a "sanctuary" city always depended on a spineless federal government -- or one that was in cahoots with the advocates for sanctuaries. The moment the federal government enforces the law, the cities and states will cave.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/11/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Since Dayton, Ohio rescinded their insanity, we shall see what Cincinnati does next....they declared Sanctuary status a week ago....
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 02/11/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||


Texas-Mexican Citizen Faces 8 Years In Prison And Deportation For Voter Fraud
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Prosecutors say the reason officials at the elections department in Dallas didn’t stop the voter fraud from happening is because Rosa Ortega claimed she was a citizen on her application.

Now the Tarrant County D.A.’s office is calling for those claims to be verified before handing out registration cards.

Her attorney said she has a learning disability and was confused about the difference between being a citizen and a legal resident, so she thought she was allowed to vote.

"The jury didn’t believe that story. They believed that the defendant knew exactly what she was doing, and they responded accordingly," Prosecutor Jonathan White said.

White told CBS11, when Ortega tried to register to vote in Tarrant County, she admitted she was not a citizen, so her application was rejected. When she told them she had already been voting in Dallas County, that’s when Sherlocks started looking into her case. Defense attorney Clark Bidsall said his client’s case has been politicized and now Ortega has a difficult road ahead even after her sentence.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  8 years is a bit harsh, when probably everyone she knows is doing the same thing.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/11/2017 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  8 years is a bit harsh, when probably everyone she knows is doing the same thing.

So let her make a deal, turn state evidence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2017 6:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Now to deal with the 40 million other Rosa Ortegas.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2017 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  If she turns states evidence, we might have a scandal on our hands...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/11/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Voter fraud is treason, or if committed by a foreign national, an act of sabotage/espoinage as it's an attempt to illegally alter a US election and by that, essentially overthrow the will of the United States citizenry in electing the government they desire. She should be executed or ransomed back to her country like any other spy.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/11/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Just voting for the politicians Americans won't vote vote for.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 02/11/2017 19:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Real voter suppression. Undermining the value of legal votes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2017 21:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Klingons say 'no can do' to security clearance of Mike Flynn deputy
BLUF [Palmer Report] The Central Intelligence Agency has now denied elite security clearance for Michael Flynn’s top National Security Council deputy Robin Townley, meaning that Townley is immediately out of a job, as the clearance was required for the job. Incoming CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who was recently appointed by Donald Trump and is presumably still fully loyal to him, signed off on the denial of clearance. Assuming that Pompeo is acting on Trump’s orders, it means that Trump is now immediately freezing Michael Flynn and his staff out of power.
Not sure I agree with the Palmer 'Russian' or 'freezing Flynn out' analysis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2017 09:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For what reason?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The new director has not had enough time to get his feet on the ground yet. This action could see a reversal. Bottom line, Flynn is no friend of the Klingon institution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/11/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Palmer is a muckraker for the left. Chances are this issue has nothing to do with Flynn's Rooshin chat. That said, you can make book that CNN and the rest already has some "expert" peddling this narrative.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 02/11/2017 12:19 Comments || Top||

#4  But the Iranian IT support guys still have access.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2017 12:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Hell fire! Hillary Clinton may still have access.
Posted by: Deadeye Sninesing7238 || 02/11/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#6  They are barking up the wrong tree
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2017 17:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe Trump should create an Auxiliary Security Service and staff it with people who are on our (America's) side.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/11/2017 18:40 Comments || Top||

#8  The president can "force" approval of security clearances - several have done so on behalf of kitchen cabinet members
Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 || 02/11/2017 21:56 Comments || Top||


Chelsea Clinton says she won’t run for Senate
[NYPOST] What do you do when President Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway tweets that your mom is a loser?

Princess Chelsea Clinton, who attended her friend Tanya Taylor’s fashion presentation Friday, shared some helpful advice on how to deal with social media bullies: Focus on making your voice heard and ignore the taunts and low blows. "Just have it be background noise," she told The Post.
"And if that doesn't work or if your feelings are hurt, encourage your filthy rich friends to fund riots and looting," she added quietly...
Clinton also had an emphatic, one-word response to rumors that she’ll run for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat: "No!"
Darn! As bad a Senator as Gillibrand is, she'd mop the floor with Chelsea.
Posted by: Fred || 02/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is a relief. The choice New York has is between Kennedy and this Clinton.

The problem is all of the New Yorker and New Jersey refugees that cannot afford their idiot lazy voting habits now live in my State.

I see why they fled, but I cannot understand why they are turning my state into blue state New York.

I call this bullshit DAMN YANKEES.

Like a bunch of locusts, eating everything and leaving, then imposing their idiocy here and thinking I agree with them.

I don't.

We should put all of you blue state voters on a train from whence you came and force you to live with your own idiot save the world decisions.

But I Digress.

I in no way hate Chelsea Clinton. I just think she belongs on the View and OUR Nation deserves studied Leaders again.

And that means nothing from the shallow gene pool of this fake family or anything willing to subject US to the left.

Fix your shit New York. None of the above is your only option.



Posted by: newc || 02/11/2017 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Easier to migrate and reform than to resolve failed illusions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/11/2017 3:54 Comments || Top||

#3  A barrier requiring room temp. IQ for candidates?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/11/2017 4:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Clintons lie.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 02/11/2017 5:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Chelsea is probably not running for Senate because her future is a bit uncertain due to the investigations.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Didn't Chelsea's hubbie's hedge fund go Tango Uniform as soon as Hill lost her influence (aka the election)?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/11/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  She did not rule out a run for the House
Former first daughter and failed hedge-fund wife Chelsea Clinton has no interest in being a U.S Senator, the New York Post reports.

“No!” Chelsea told the Post when asked about rumors, first reported in the New York Daily News, that Chelsea could be in line to replace Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand should the New York Democrat run for president in 2020.

Chelsea, however, said nothing to dispel other rumors that she is being groomed to run for a New York congressional seat. Her newly saucy behavior on social media has increased speculation that Hillary’s daughter is planning a career in politics. In a 2015 interview with Sky News, Chelsea said she would “absolutely” consider running for office.

Chelsea could also use a job and a steady salary. Her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, recently shut down his failed hedge fund, and the Clinton Foundation, where Chelsea is currently employed, is having trouble raising money from foreign governments and sketchy corporations since her mom lost the presidential election.

It’s hard out there for a Clinton.


Gotta keep that graft and influence peddling going
Posted by: Frank G || 02/11/2017 12:58 Comments || Top||

#8  They bought that $10 million condo in Manhattan in 2013. Even if they paid cash back when they were flush, there are still the running expenses to consider. The other Clinton daughter, Huma Abedin, must be finding herself in similar need for well-paid work, though by all accounts she and Mr. Wiener were not nearly so extravagant.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/11/2017 13:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I want these people to go away.
Let someone else screw up the Nation for once.
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2017 14:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
California Asks For $100B Despite Refusal To Enforce Immigration Laws
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2017 09:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Send them $100 billion pesos.
Posted by: Matt || 02/11/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Send them $100 billion pesos.

Way too much. Send 'em a trillion Zimbob bucks.
Posted by: PBMcL || 02/11/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Send 'em 100 Billion FUCK OFFs.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  How 'bout no
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/11/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  How about raising your own taxes? You say you're the richest state economy and can make a go of it without the rest of us.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/11/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  What P2K said. Enforce the immigration laws; get rid of sanctuary cities.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/11/2017 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  They already have sky high taxes which drive more businesses away then they create. The only reason they haven't completely collapsed is the tech and entertainment industry. And that gravy train is coming to an end as well.

If the federal tax breaks on Hollywood end there is no way they can be financially viable in California.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/11/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  $100B? No problem. Everything east of I-5 now belongs to Nevada and Arizona. Do you need a receipt?
Posted by: Woozle Brown4509 || 02/11/2017 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  U.S. to California:

Drop dead.
Posted by: charger || 02/11/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  How about raising your own taxes?

Ouch, man! They're already killing me. How about squandering less money on illegal aliens instead?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/11/2017 14:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Send them bananas. The 9th circus banana republic monkeys are in charge of the place.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 02/11/2017 14:59 Comments || Top||

#12  It's a third world country. Either very rich or very poor.
Posted by: newc || 02/11/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#13  of course thjey do. why spend money n maintenance when the cool kids are saving alien murderers and thieves.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/11/2017 19:15 Comments || Top||



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