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Massachusetts Sheriff: Arrest Leaders Of Sanctuary Cities
WASHINGTON (CBS) – A Massachusetts law enforcement official testifying before Congress on Tuesday called for leaders of sanctuary cities to be arrested.

Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told the House Subcommittee on Illegal Immigration that sanctuary cities “have become magnets for illegal aliens, some of which have violent criminal records.”

“If these sanctuary cities are going to harbor and conceal criminal illegal aliens from ICE, which is in direct violation of Title 8 of the U.S. Code, federal arrest warrants should be issued for their elected officials,” Hodgson said. “Our citizens would be safer if we never stopped enforcing immigration law and if we never formed or turned a blind eye toward sanctuary cities.”
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2017 10:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm with Sheriff Tom on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||


RT: Border searches of electronic devices prompt FOIA lawsuit against Trump administration
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You know, I'm beginning to think Russia is trying to meddle in our politics!
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Additionally, news reports indicate that border officials appear to be targeting
Muslims, including U.S. citizens who are Muslim, for searches of their electronic devices at the
border.

Maybe the Border Patrol should throw a few little old ladies, Mormons, kids, nuns, etc. into the mix just to show they are not targeting Muslims. Who are the people who are committing "terror acts"? If some white guy with a beard committed a bank robbery, you wouldn't look for an Asian guy, woman or some black guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  If some white guy with a beard committed a bank robbery, you wouldn't look for an Asian guy, woman or some black guy.

Only the bearded ones.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Using an iPad to hide a bomb has never occurred to Cynthia McFadden, senior investigative and legal correspondent at NBC News?
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 03/29/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  What percentage of American citizens live in this so-called "border" zone?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/29/2017 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  I do - in San Diego. I've gone through multiple ICE/BP checkpoints here and going east on I-8 to AZ and NM and NEVER had my stuff checked
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Joe Manchin gets a pair? Will reportedly defy Dem filibuster, vote for cloture on Gorsuch
[Hot Air] Do I hear 55? CNN does:

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota) -- "As I said last year when Judge Garland was nominated -- and reiterated again when Judge Gorsuch was nominated -- the US Senate should have an up or down vote on any Supreme Court nominee as part of fulfilling our constitutional duty of providing advice and consent on nominees to the Supreme Court. I’m in the process of reviewing the materials (Gorsuch) submitted and testimony from his hearing before the Judiciary Committee while I continue to consider his nomination." -- Statement on 3/27/2017

Not a definitive "yes," but there’s no obvious way Heitkamp gets from that statement to a no on cloture. If you’re looking for someone to thank for twisting Manchin’s arm, thank Mike Pence, who used his speech in West Virginia on Saturday night to mention Manchin by name as someone who can help put Gorsuch on the High Court.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 06:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Allegedly in return for gun control today, he'll pay you next Tuesday...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2017 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  This guy a DINO? Democrat in name only?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Coal Miner and stealth anti-Obama vote?
Posted by: magpie || 03/29/2017 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Whatever Manchin's personal views, in a state where Trump beat Hillary by 42 points, he needs to appear moderate. At the same time, if he's not liberal enough, he will face a primary challenge. The fact that he hasn't re-registered as a Republican - in the most pro-GOP state in the union - suggests to me that he is at heart a liberal who is tacking as far left as he can without destroying his political viability.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 03/29/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  There will be just enough Dems from redish states to avoid the Reid (nuclear) option. They are saving that fight for the next nominee.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/29/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  All he asks in return is to let his daughter keep gouging consumers buying the Epipen.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/29/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||


DNC Asks All Staffers For Resignation Letters
[NBCNEWS] Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has launched a major overhaul of the party's organization, which has been stung by recent crises -- and the DNC has requested resignation letters from all current staffers.

Party staff routinely see major turnover with a new boss and they had been alerted to expect such a move. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the mass resignation letters will give Perez a chance to completely remake the DNC's headquarters from scratch. Staffing had already reached unusual lows following a round of post-election layoffs in December.

Immediately after Perez's selection as party chairman in late February, an adviser to outgoing DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile, Leah Daughtry, asked every employee to submit a letter of resignation dated April 15, according to multiple sources familiar with the party's internal workings.

A committee advising Perez on his transition is now interviewing staff and others as part of a top-to-bottom review process to decide not only who will stay and who will go, but how the party should be structured in the future.

Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well Tom "Kim Jung" Perez why not just put all of your people in front of anti-aircraft guns?
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/29/2017 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Good idea nero
Posted by: chris || 03/29/2017 5:45 Comments || Top||

#3  DNC needs younger, more committed communists. Those resigning can line up alongside this nice ditch here...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2017 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Did they get that idea from Trump, or the media?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 7:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Clears out the in-house Bernie-supporting leakers that they and the Media (redundant, I know) renamed 'Russian Hackers'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/29/2017 8:44 Comments || Top||

#6  in-house Bernie-supporting leakers

Un-reconstructed mensheviks...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7  The Obama-Hillary schism is revealed as Perez purges all Hilda's people from power. Look for even more connection to champs shadow organization and perhaps the emergence of ValJar and more Muslim staffers.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/29/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Throwing in for full lefty national socialism I see.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/29/2017 15:08 Comments || Top||

#9  This is a good thug for the dems. The need to rid the Hillary crowd out. Let's see how the socialist and firing do now. This is more important then people give credit. Bring popcorn.
Posted by: 49 pan || 03/29/2017 16:31 Comments || Top||

#10  The Dems are either unwilling or unable to look into themselves and see what went wrong with their whole game. They were roundly rejected.

It is analogous to the Vampire looking in a mirror. He does not see his reflection, so he cannot really see inward.

So the bottom line is that the dems are unable to face themselves and see where they went wrong. So they get further away from this defect by attacking everybody else in ways that demonize, ridicule, isolate, cause disruption, paralyze govt, etc. In other words, they evolve into a fifth column. And that is what they have become.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/29/2017 17:52 Comments || Top||

#11  49 Pan - Perez is part of the Obama/HRC crowd. He's no Bernie-Bro
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 18:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
De Blasio: Being A Sanctuary City Means Less Terrorism
[DAILYCALLER] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that New Yorkers will be at risk of terror if Attorney General Jeff Sessions follows through on cutting federal law enforcement grants to sanctuary cities.

Sessions appeared at the White House to say that jurisdictions that ignore immigration detainers will lose Department of Justice grants, which total $4.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal year.

“President Trump’s latest threat changes nothing. We will remain a city welcoming of immigrants who have helped make our city the safest big city in the nation,” de Blasio said in response. “Any attempt to cut NYPD funding for the nation’s top terror target will be aggressively fought in court. We won’t back down from protecting New Yorkers from terror – or from an overzealous administration fixated on xenophobia and needless division.”
Posted by: Fred || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Less terror, more crime.
Potato, potato.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I would think your police budget, which is larger than most nations is a big helping factor in why you are one of the safest major cities in the world.
Posted by: chris || 03/29/2017 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Depends on how you count 'crime'. Every illegal in a sanctuary city is a criminal due to their breaking of federal law. I would also consider any person ignoring federal law in regards to illegals a criminal as well.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/29/2017 6:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Immigrants don't need ""sanctuary", Bill. Only illegal aliens need it.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/29/2017 7:27 Comments || Top||

#5  That terrorism follows from cutting off the boodle is both a non sequitur and red herring.

an overzealous administration fixated on xenophobia and needless division.”

That would be the last administration.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/29/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#6  ...until critical mass is achieved.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/29/2017 16:48 Comments || Top||

#7  In that any terrorist events will be instantly blamed on other issues to avoid the "backlash" that seems to never comes, he's probably right.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/29/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Mass. State Rep Caught Tipping Off Illegal Immigrants To Imminent ICE Raids
[Daily Caller] Massachusetts state Rep. Michelle DuBois posted a warning to illegal immigrants on her Facebook page Tuesday about upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that are rumored to be taking place in the area.

In the post, DuBois wrote, "ICE raid in Brockton (MA) on 3/28."

"I got the following information from my friend in the Latin community: ’I have a message for the immigrant community of Brockton. Please be careful on Wednesday 29. ICE will be in Brockton on that day.'"

"If you are undocumented don’t go out on the street," DuBois, who represents the 10th district, added. "If there is a knock on the door of your house and you don’t know who it is, don’t open the door. I ask you to be careful."

The Democrat included a phone number for immigrants to call if they are detained by ICE.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A 'Kristall Nacht' in the night?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2017 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Blanche DuBois' older, drunker sister?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2017 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  To avoid raids, please take I-95 to Attleboro.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Let me know when they're in Lynn, or Chelsea, or Everett, or East Boston - I'll buy lunch for the ICE guys.
Posted by: Raj || 03/29/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  The "immigrant" community has nothing to worry about.

Its those damned ILLEGAL ALIENS that have something to fear.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/29/2017 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Jail the bitch.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/29/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Hub rush hour. Haymarket fusses.
Aboard the 110s, mumbled cusses
At passing the Tobin,
Then Medford and Woburn:
A whole town on border-bound buses!
Posted by: Menhadden Angash7279 || 03/29/2017 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8  I lived in Woburn.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/29/2017 15:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Gawddawgit. I confused my buses. It was of course the 111 I had in mind. Disgraced and ashamed.
Posted by: Menhadden Angash7279 || 03/29/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Pretty obviously her district is a hotbed of illegals. Trump should flood the zone with ICE/BPs for an unspecified period of time. Let's see how that works for the employers of illegals. Keep the boot on their neck and explain: "We thank Representative DoBois for alerting us to this pandemic"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2017 18:27 Comments || Top||

#11 
#2 Blanche DuBois' older, drunker sister?

Strangers have always depended on her kindness.
Posted by: charger || 03/29/2017 20:20 Comments || Top||

#12  How is this not interfering with officials in the conduct of their duty? Why hasn't she been charged yet?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/29/2017 21:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Exactly. But is Massholeachusetts.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/29/2017 23:36 Comments || Top||



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