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Republican pressure intensifies to end family separations at border (Fox News)
The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure from fellow Republicans and other allies to end the practice of separating children from parents caught illegally crossing the border, as backlash over the enforcement policy quickly escalates into a political crisis.
Some GOP lawmakers want the administration to stop the policy on its own, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and others are proposing emergency legislation. Senate Majority Whip Cornyn, R-Texas, said Tuesday he thinks Congress might be able to act on the issue this week. “We need to fix it,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell added.
House Republicans reportedly are working on their own plan to allow children to be detained for extended periods with their parents, loosening rules that now limit the amount of time minors can be held to 20 days. Meanwhile, GOP governors are pulling their state’s National Guard troops from the border in protest. [Read More]
GOOGLE “INTERNET,” MEDIA! (Ann Coulter)
Journalists know absolutely nothing about immigration and refuse to learn, so when I cited the fraudulent “humanitarian” cases on TV Sunday night, I footnoted myself live on air, citing a New Yorker article as well as my book, “Adios, America,” which has nearly 100 pages of footnotes. That should make it easy for even the stupidest reporters.
You haven’t met The Hill’s Jacqueline Thomsen! She was at a loss. The New Yorker? What’s that? Jacqueline thought and thought and thought, until her head hurt! Finally, she decided, as she wrote in The Hill, “It’s unclear what New Yorker article Coulter was referring to.”
Armed only with the information that there was an article in a tiny little publication known as “The New Yorker” about asylum applicants being coached on their fake asylum claims, how could an American reporter ever hope to locate “The Asylum Seeker” in the Aug. 1, 2011, New Yorker? Forget “Adios, America,” where it is cited, along with many, many other sources. I can’t read a BOOK, Thomsen thought to herself. [Read More]
Two or three anti-Trump FBI personnel worked on Russia investigation, says IG (Washington Examiner)
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Tuesday that some of the unnamed, anti-Trump FBI agents in a report on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server may have also worked on the investigation into whether President Trump collaborated with Russia during the election.
Horowitz released a report last week that revealed communications between five FBI personnel that Horowitz said “cast a cloud” over the Hillary Clinton email investigation and caused damage to “the FBI’s reputation for neutral factfinding and political independence.”
Two were named previously, FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, but the others, two FBI agents and one FBI lawyer, were not named. [Read More]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded to critics of the administration’s handling of people seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border in an interview on FNC’s Ingraham Angle Monday night. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) likened the conditions to Nazi Germany.
“It’s a real exaggeration,” Sessions said in an interview with Laura Ingraham. “In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country but this is a serious matter. We need to think it through, the rational and thoughtful about it. We want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it. ” [Read More]
Gowdy Says Anti-Trump Bias in FBI Can’t Be Put Aside (Bloomberg)
Republican Representative Trey Gowdy questioned the Justice Department’s inspector general over “attempts to mitigate” anti-Trump bias in the FBI, as House members held a politically charged hearing on the watchdog’s 500-page report.
“Bias and fairness cannot co-exist,” Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Tuesday. Evidence of prejudice against Donald Trump within the FBI “conjure anger, disappointment and sadness to everyone who reads it.” [Read More]
Tomorrow you go to the polls.
In addition to voting on primary races, you will be asked to weigh in on a referendum called Initiative 77 that seeks to eliminate the tip credit in D.C.
The tip credit allows restaurant operators to pay tipped workers like servers, bartenders, and bussers a lower base wage of at least $3.33 an hour, asking customers to pay most of workers’ wages with tips. If tips do not carry a tipped worker over the standard minimum wage, which is currently set at $12.50 and scheduled to reach $15 in 2020, the employer is obligated to make up the difference. If voters pass Initiative 77, the tipped minimum wage will go up in eight increments until it reaches $15 in 2025.
Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), a national organization with a D.C. office, collected enough signatures to get 77 on the ballot. ROC leaders want to elevate a sector of workers they say earn poverty wages, adding that tipping and a two-tier wage system disadvantages women and people of color and is a prime cause of sexual harassment. Opponents call 77 “a solution in search of a problem” that could devastate an industry that already operates on thin profit margins. [Read More]
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