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well, they passed something,

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 23:48:01 +0000

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well, they passed something, but apparently it wasn't very pretty and Politico says it proves Nancy is not invincible:

‘Everyone hates this place’: Border bill tears apart Democratic caucus https://t.co/6KOLBfY96s
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2019

Game changer: Senate passed

artappraiser — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 05:11:20 +0000

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Game changer: Senate passed their own bill with huge majority, 84 to 8, so any stink the House might make about this that or the other thing should be different can easily be labeled as obstructionist. They've really no option now except trying to bargain in what they want changed:

Senate Passes $4.6 Billion Emergency Border Funding Bill Signalling Battle With House

June 26, 20195:25 PM ET @ NPR.org

Democrats should sweeten the

NCD — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:03:54 +0000

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Democrats should sweeten the Bill by adding a provision to make Trump's birthday a national holiday, MAGA Day.

Dare Mitch McConnell to not bring it up for a vote.

White House threatens to veto

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:53:06 +0000

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White House threatens to veto House Democrats' southern border bill

By Rebecca Falconer @ Axios.com, 4 hrs. ago

The White House threatened Monday night to veto House Democrats' bill on meeting the Trump Administration's requested $4.5 billion emergency border funding package.

"By opposing detention beds — where illegal migrants are placed pending their removal — Democrat lawmakers are declaring their belief that illegal immigrants, including those who skip court hearings or commit additional crimes, should be allowed to remain in our country indefinitely."

Details: House Democrats were met Monday night to discuss their bill, H.R. 3401, which would require the Trump administration to use funds that Congress has already provided for aid to Central American countries and restrict Department of Health and Human Services policies on unaccompanied migrant children.

Latino and liberal Democrats are pressing House leaders to add stronger protections for migrant children in the bill, which House leaders still hope to get approved Tuesday, according to AP [....]

ICE leakers suddenly appear!

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:41:35 +0000

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ICE leakers suddenly appear! They are fed up with his chaotic bullshit too! Timing a coincidence with Congressional activity? I think: NOT.

ICE Agents Are Losing Patience with Trump’s Chaotic Immigration Policy

By Jonathan Blitzer @ NewYorker.com, June 24

[....] The agency was not ready to carry out such a large operation. Preparations that would typically take field officers six to eight weeks were compressed into a few days, and, because of Trump’s tweet, the officers would be entering communities that now knew they were coming. “It was a dumb-shit political move that will only hurt the agents,” John Amaya, a former deputy chief of staff at ice, told me. On Saturday, hours before the operation was supposed to start in ten major cities across the country, the President changed course, delaying it for another two weeks.

On Sunday, I spoke to an ice officer about the week’s events. “Almost nobody was looking forward to this operation,” the officer said. “It was a boondoggle, a nightmare.” Even on the eve of the operation, many of the most important details remained unresolved. “This was a family op. So where are we going to put the families? There’s no room to detain them, so are we going to put them in hotels?” the officer said. On Friday, an answer came down from iceleadership: the families would be placed in hotels while ice figured out what to do with them. That, in turn, raised other questions. “So the families are in hotels, but who’s going to watch them?” the officer continued. “What happens if the person we arrest has a U.S.-citizen child? What do we do with the children? Do we need to get booster seats for the vans? Should we get the kids toys to play with?” Trump’s tweet broadcasting the operation had also created a safety issue for the officers involved. “No police agency goes out and says, ‘Tomorrow, between four and eight, we’re going to be in these neighborhoods,’ ” the officer said.

The idea for the operation took hold in the White House last September, two months after a federal judge had ordered the government to stop separating parents and children at the border. At the time, the number of families seeking asylum was rising steadily, and Administration officials were determined to toughen enforcement. A D.H.S. official told me that, in the months before the operation was proposed, “a major focus” of department meetings “was concern about the fact that people on the non-detained docket”—asylum seekers released into the U.S. with a future court date—“are almost never deported.” By January, a tentative plan had materialized. The Department of Justice developed a “rocket docket” to prioritize the cases of asylum seekers who’d just arrived in the country and missed a court date—in their absence, the government could swiftly secure deportation orders against them [....]

Progressives are right to

NCD — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:52:12 +0000

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Progressives are right to vote against giving Trump more money.

There is zero evidence he will do anything but more of the same with it. He has not followed one court order, one law, or even allowed doctors or lawyers into the concentration camps. He'll use the money for whatever he wants to, and neither Congress nor the courts could stop him without years of litigation. The GOP base loves the cruelty.

for instance - the children told us that nobody’s taking care of them, so that basically the older children are trying to take care of the younger children. The guards are asking the younger children or the older children, ‘Who wants to take care of this little boy? Who wants to take [care] of this little girl?’ and they’ll bring in a two-year-old, a three-year-old, a four-year-old. And then the littlest kids are expected to be taken care of by the older kids...

Positions on the basis by

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:03:31 +0000

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Positions on the basis by which immigrants are admitted into the US appear to have stabilized, with the majority of Democrats preferring priority be given to immigrants with family members, and a majority of Republicans wanting greater emphasis on skills/education pic.twitter.com/YxZyAOifUJ
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) June 25, 2019

As of May 2019, independents tend towards 'background' (48%) vs. 'family ties' (38%)
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) June 25, 2019