[Right Scoop] DHS Chief McAleenan is now predicting a drop in the migrant surge and he’s saying it’s not just because of the weather:
NBC NEWS ‐ Border Patrol agents are on track to apprehend up to 25 percent fewer undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in June compared to May, acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said at a press conference Friday.
In May, more than 144,000 immigrants were stopped crossing the border, including some presenting themselves legally at points of entry, the highest monthly total in 13 years.
The number of immigrants crossing into the Southwest United States typically drops off as temperatures heat up in the summer, but McAleenan said the decline was more than just seasonal.
McAleenan said new agreements with Mexico, including increased interdictions of Central Americans crossing through that country to the U.S. and a policy of holding asylum-seekers in Mexico until their hearings in the U.S., contributed to the decrease.
The agreements with Mexico are working, which is fantastic. This is the first good news I’ve heard on the border all year.
McAleenan also hit back on reports about children being held in "terrible conditions" at a border station in Texas. He said it’s not true:
[Babylon Bee] MIAMI, FL‐Experts around the country and numerous poll results revealed Wednesday evening that the decisive loser in the Democratic debate was the American people.
A poll found that an overwhelming majority of respondents believed that America lost the debates by a wide margin, with 5% of Americans believing Americans won last night and a whopping 62% stating that "oh my gosh America is doomed." 33% elected to turn off the TV and just watch neighborhood cats fight instead of watching the debate once it became clear that America was going to get decimated.
"America really needed a win out there tonight, but only fell further behind," said one commentator, adding that he didn't have "high hopes" for the country's chances moving forward. "Things are not looking good for America's prospects in the 2020 campaign at this point. If America doesn't pull out a win tonight, we can only expect America to drop out of the race entirely."
"It's not looking good. Honestly, I don't know if I can watch."
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Besoeker you were right about these so-called debates--you weren't going to waste your time. I wasted 10-15 minutes of my life that I'll never get back. In fact, I went in the hole and I lost IQ points for that brief exposure. I guess I'll take a nap and see if there is any recovery.
[American Thinker] The first two Democrat debates were the height of farce. They featured hilarious, inconsequential, and pure bilge being passed off as serious political worldviews.
What characterizes a farce? A farce is a literary piece that "contains highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, violent horseplay, extravagant exaggeration." Collinsdictionary.com suggests that "[i]f you describe a situation or event as a farce, you mean that it is so disorganized or ridiculous that you cannot take it seriously."
Skipping down to the bottom line:
It is hilarious to hear 20 persons boasting "I am the best" when their tirades and self-aggrandizement lacks substance and evidence. While laughing uproariously, we can reject them all.
[Town Hall] Former President Jimmy Carter dove off the conspiracy theory deep end on Friday morning and claimed President Trump didn't actually win the White House in 2016.
"If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered on his behalf," Carter said.
First of all, President Trump won the 2016 election fair and square. Second, did Carter completely miss two years of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation? And hours of endless media coverage about the investigation?
In fact, the 400-page Mueller report states the following: "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
"The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election," the Department of Justice stated about Mueller's findings. "As noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities."
With 19 attorneys, Mueller issued more than 2000 subpoenas and carried out 500 search warrants over a two year period. They interviewed hundreds of people. That's a full and thorough investigation.
#5
Hasn't Jimmuah made a career out of rubber stamping left wing stolen elections in Latin America?
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...This from a man who spent most of his time in office kissing Soviet a$$ in the name of 'peace', and who didn't 'stand up' to them until he realized Ronald Reagan was going to clean his clock in the next election if he didn't.
Mike
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He's 94, and been wrong most all his life so there's that
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In a way I'm fine with this bullshit because I can't wait until Trump's second term is over and keeps tweeting about and insulting all the Dem losers in office until he's 120 years old.
#10
Just when you think Carter may have not been all that bad (in retrospect) given the current Dem cast of characters, he has to open his gob and comfort us once again that he only served one term as US president.
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"If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered on his behalf," Carter said.
Just when I was beginning to think Jimmy was better than this, he proves me wrong.
#12
So when the 'full investigation' shows you're correct, Jimmy, what do you propose to do then? Install Queen Hillary? Armed insurrection? Move to Canada?
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He's been off the conspiracy theory deep end for a very long time about a lot of things.
Nothing to see here, he was an idiot when he was my boss and he's still an idiot.
#14
We're all so very fortunate that, after four years of malaise from 1977 to 1980, jimmuh failed to win reelection in 1980. If he had, the Soviet Union would still be in business.
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President Carter did not just fail to win re-election — he was rejected by everyone, resulting in Ronald Reagan winning by a landslide: Reagan took the Electoral College 489 to 49. Carter won in six states and Washington, DC. It was my first election; up until then I assumed I would always vote liberal Democrat, but I was part of the everyone who decided it was better to take a risk on Ronald Reagan.
Looking back on that election is part of the reason I don’t worry about violent revolution in America. The common folk of the electorate easily replaced one of the worst presidents of modern history with a man lambasted by the Democrats and the media as a stupid, ignorant, radical rightwing, warmongering, Israel-loving tool of the Evangelicals — and within a few years he had reversed almost all of the policies his predecessor had put into place. And now President Trump is doing the same, mostly quietly behind the scenes while triggering his opponents into shrieking about his tweets instead of paying attention to what’s important.
#16
I see how you mean now. Well, God is with him. I think when that's the case, we only jump the gun while He works with his chosen servants quietly and openly while the enemy blunders about missing the point.
#17
The first, First President I had the dis-pleasure of voting against. When he became involved in low-cost Habitats for Humanity™ homes my feelings softened on him and then he went on his I Heart Left-Wing Dictator Tour™... *Spit!* Go Way, Jimmie, just shut up and go away.
#18
Only Dem that I ever voted for. He was touting zero based budgeting and that appealed to me and the 'pubs were nothing to cheer about. But it didn't take long to recognize my mistake and vote for "Ronaldus Magnus" in '84. I've spent most of my life voting against people, not for.
#22
Carter's total failure led to Soviet over-extension during the time. His ineptitude followed by Reagan probably cut the Cold war by a decade or two.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ‐ A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.
"All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in one lawsuit.
Speaking Saturday at a press conference marking the end of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Trump called the decision "a disgrace."
"So we're immediately appealing it and we think we'll win the appeal," he went on to say. "There was no reason that that should have happened. And a lot of wall is being built."
The decisions are in line with Gilliam's ruling last month that blocked work from beginning on two of the highest-priority projects ‐ one spanning 46 miles (74 kilometers) in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles (8 kilometers) in Yuma, Arizona.
But the fight is far from over. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to take up the same issue of using military money next week.
At issue is President Donald Trump's February declaration of a national emergency so that he could divert $6.7 billion from military and other sources to begin construction of the wall, which could have begun as early as Monday.
Trump declared the emergency after losing a fight with the Democratic-led House that led to a 35-day government shutdown.
The president identified $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and $600 million from the Treasury Department's asset forfeiture fund.
#2
Build it from the Mexican side. Use secret Klingon/USAID funding to purchase firearms pay off Mex POLS, hire Mex contractors, contract security, shadowy American advisers, materials, and construction equipment.
#5
How does this judge have a ny jurisdiction how military funds are spent?
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My question exactly. I don't remember anything in the Constitution about giving judges the power of the purse. Thought that all started in the House and then went to the Senate.
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[Hot Air] I’ve written a lot about homelessness on the west coast and the property crime that tends to go with it. This story from Garden Grove in Orange County is happening just about five miles from my house. Homeless people have set up a camp of sorts in the parking lot of a local Walmart. There are complaints about harassment of shoppers, break-ins and vandalism of parked cars, and shoplifting from the store itself. And yet, not much is happening to change it.
A nearby store has hired security guards to patrol the lot as well as maintenance people to clean up the trash left behind by the homeless but that doesn’t solve the crime or other problems. According to KCAL 9, the Walmart where this homeless camp is being set up has refused to ask people to leave and local police say there’s not much they can do.
"There’s just a lot of homeless, a lot, asking for money," said one shopper who was there with a child. "I don’t come after it’s dark."
And when area cops are called out to the scene, their hands are tied.
"Many times they sit there and say, ’Can’t you just arrest them?" But it doesn’t work that way," Brian Meers, a Garden Grove police officer assigned to the homelessness problem, said. "Most of the violations in the state are misdemeanor crimes now and they get out in six hours, and the reality of it is that they’re going to go right back to doing what they were doing before."
This is exactly the same problem that is happening in places like Seattle and Portland. In February, a report commissioned by area business leaders revealed that the 100 most prolific homeless offenders in the area were responsible for 3,500 criminal cases. The homeless are stealing from stores like Walmart, sometimes using a shopping list of items provided to them by a ringleader. The vast majority of the time these thefts aren’t caught, but even when they are caught and police are called, the thieves are back on the street in a day or less. It eats up an enormous amount of police time but nothing really changes.
You might be thinking that the obvious solution here is to enforce the law and make people pay an actual price for theft, harassment, and vandalism but that’s not a very popular notion in a lot of liberal big cities. In fact, there’s a coalition of activists in Los Angeles working this week to reduce police impact on the homeless. From the LA Times:
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So paying shoppers stay away and this Walmart goes out of business.
Not necessarily. Right now you can place your order online an pick it up without getting out of your car. I doubt the law, as it is currently constituted, would prevent them from fencing their lot and only allowing people who went online and made an "appointment" to shop on the premises.
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Cadaverine. Just sayin'. They will leave on their own.
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If the Walmart clientele are anything like those in Georgia, the KOA-Lite people are probably more upscale than the shoppers.
Could be a lucrative HUD contract in there somewhere.
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My understanding from listening to John and Ken on LA radio station KFI is that Proposition 47 is to blame.
California Proposition 47, the Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative, was on the November 4, 2014 ballot in California as an initiated state statute. The measure was approved.
HIGHLIGHTS
Nonviolent, nonserious crimes were reduced to misdemeanors.
As jail population numbers fell, estimated state savings grew by millions. Multiple court challenges stemmed from the initiative's passage.
As the Garden Grove police officer says, homeless individuals bums who are arrested on misdemeanors are quickly released due to jail overcrowding.
But I don't believe we need expensive jails for these people. Tent cities in the desert surrounded by concertina wire would suffice. Hell, they can even bring their own tents. RV bums could bring their own RVs!
Once incarcerated, give them food and water and nothing else. No alcohol, drugs or tobacco. If they're uncomfortable, so much the better, as long as they're not on the streets of our cities.
We need to stop coddling the homeless individuals bums. If they refuse to live like human beings then they have forfeited their human rights. Put them out it the boondocks with the coyotes and jackrabbits. We need to break the mindset they seem to have that this type of behavior is somehow acceptable. It isn't. Maybe this sounds harsh, but when these people die on the streets of disease, drug overdose or misadventure that's pretty damn harsh as well.
But I'm afraid it won't happen and the problem will only get worse until we end up looking, not like Mexico, but more like India with bums, trash, shit and flies all over the place. My biggest fear is that California Democrats want to turn this state into a Third World hell hole. They have no opposition and it looks like they are well on the way to success.
As for Walmart, if they can't provide a clean and safe environment for shoppers then screw 'em. And I don't want to order online. When I want to buy something, I want to look at it, feel it, check the label to make sure it isn't Made in China. Then, if I still want to buy it, I want it right now and not a week or two later when it arrives in the mail.
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#10
..maybe it's not a 'crime' except that Walmart is zoned for commercial not residential. Send in the zoning police and issue tickets to those violating the statutes which is not Walmart in this case.
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My guess is that this is the Walmart by Beach Blvd. and the Garden Grove Freeway. Cops won't do anything. About 15 years ago, the homeless set up a community in the parking lot of the Orange County Superior Court Courthouse! They held the county hostage for the better part of a year. Courts don't care either!
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[Right Scoop] DHS Chief McAleenan is now predicting a drop in the migrant surge and he’s saying it’s not just because of the weather:
[Babylon Bee] MIAMI, FL‐Experts around the country and numerous poll results revealed Wednesday evening that the decisive loser in the Democratic debate was the American people.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ‐ A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
[Hot Air] I’ve written a lot about homelessness on the west coast and the property crime that tends to go with it. This story from Garden Grove in Orange County is happening just about five miles from my house. Homeless people have set up a camp of sorts in the parking lot of a local Walmart. There are complaints about harassment of shoppers, break-ins and vandalism of parked cars, and shoplifting from the store itself. And yet, not much is happening to change it.
