[LA Times] Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday to take money but not marching orders from President Trump in deploying 400 National Guard troops to various locations around the state, insisting any service members near the border would not enforce federal immigration law.
"Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state," Brown wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Defense Secretary James N. Mattis.
Brown was the last of the nation's border governors to respond to Trump's request for a beefed-up presence. In his letter, he said that he wanted to be "crystal clear" in what he was agreeing to provide.
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At the VERY first sign of difficulty, Federalize the entire bunch under an active duty General officer. Anyone who defies orders, off to Leavenworth Kansas immediately, pending UCMJ action.
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Gimme money! But I will defy any federal laws I don't like.
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There is precedent for Besoeker's suggestion in 1957 when Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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Give Jer a cape and let him demand "no night time raids..."
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From 1991 - 1995 I was the Counterdrug Coordinator and Commander of the California National Guard Counter-Drug Task Force, approximately 450 active duty, Title 10, Soldiers and Airmen supporting 75 law enforcement agencies throughout the state. We did extensive work with the US Customs and US Border Patrol (now CBP) at the Port of Entry inspection cargo, constructing and improving a huge part of the cross compartment road network, especially in the San Diego Sector, built the first wall using PSP and steel landing plates, (Pierced Steel Plating was a terrible idea, like a ladder) and conducting clandestine observation post missions with reporting and coordination for the Border Patrol. Ever soldier was armed with a sidearm and there was never a shooting confrontation in 4.5 years of my tour. We had ROE and arming orders, and extensive coordination and cooperation with the BP. The Cal Guard has a long history of working on the border, knows it well and can play a vital role. The tragedy is what Brown might do as he grandstands in his special, demented way...
[Kansas City Star] JEFFERSON CITY - Concerned about the plight of black people in her Missouri district, a Democratic state senator on Tuesday called for reparations for former slaves and criticized her own party for taking African-American votes for granted.
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, criticized white Democrats, such as U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, saying there's "no difference" between them and Republicans. Both parties, she said, have failed black people.
"Neither one of them give a heck about the black community, only the votes," Chappelle-Nadal said.
Speaking on the Senate floor during a debate on a tax bill, Chappelle-Nadal said she was motivated by the calls and emails she receives about her constituents' needs.
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"Neither one of them give a heck about the black community, only the votes," Chappelle-Nadal said.
Well she got that right.
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So the reparations should be a first class one way ticket to repatriate them. Give them some cash, change their citizenship, and all is good. That will fix the wrong committed to them.
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Bill of Rights specifically prohibits Ex Post Facto laws.
Going after slave owners for a practice that was legal at the time is ex post facto.
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If they can find someone who was a slave in the US they should absolutely give that person reparations of some kind. Possibly out of the assets of the slave-holder.
[AP] As for the federal Russia probe that has occupied much of Washington’s attention for months, he said he had not been interviewed by special counsel Mueller’s team, but “I know we’re working with them.” He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation. Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.
Perhaps the IRS should be asked whom Zuck's firm has been working for. Going back 5 years should be good enough.
This article starring:
Mueller
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Facebook, a "we didn't know" web platform for Russian election interference? That didn't work, now they must directly influence the mid terms themselves.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
