Trump Cites ‘Need’ for More Immigration at Event for American Worker…
March 6, 2019
“Well, we’re going going to have a lot of people coming into the country, we want a lot of people coming in and we need it, it’s not a question of do we want it,” the president said, in response to a question from reporters at the end of a White House meeting of his American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.
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Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly cited the booming economy as a reason to allow more legal immigration into the country, despite his promise to help create more jobs and wage growth for the American worker.NYT Says Border at ‘Breaking Point’ After ‘Fact Check’ Claimed No Emergency…
March 6, 2019
“This is false,” the Times told its readers, using a non sequitur about individuals attempting to cross the border, while admitting — at the bottom of the fact check — that a “record number of families have tried to cross the border in recent months.”
At the time, this phony fact check was widely ridiculed for its absurd attempt to hide the fact that a “record number of families” stressing the resources of our southern border does not somehow constitute a legitimate crisis, and now, almost exactly a month later, this very same Times is reporting our border is at a “breaking point.”
Senate confirms controversial Trump court pick who backed ObamaCare lawsuit
March 6, 2019
Senators voted 52-47 on Chad Readler's 6th Circuit nomination, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) siding with Democrats to oppose him.
Readler, who previously worked as an assistant attorney general for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, ran into controversy over a brief he filed last year supporting a lawsuit filed by Texas and other states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
Bad News For McCabe – Trump to nominate federal prosecutor Jessie Liu for No. 3 Justice…
March 6, 2019
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Liu would serve as associate attorney general - a job that involves overseeing the department’s civil litigation, including antitrust matters, civil rights, and environmental law. A White House representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. Attorney General William Barr confirmed the plan in a statement, adding that he had recommended Liu for the post.
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Liu has served as U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., since September 2017.... Liu’s office has been involved in some high-profile cases since she joined. It has taken the lead on handling Mueller’s criminal case against former Trump political adviser Roger Stone, and convened a grand jury to investigate whether former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe should face criminal charges for lying to investigators about his interactions with reporters.President Trump Participates in an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board Meeting
March 6, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez Regrets Costing NYC 25,000 Amazon Jobs As CoS Backpedals…
March 6, 2019
"What she was vocal about was the process by which it happened," explained Chakrabarti, completely ignoring the fact that the hill AOC died on revolved around the $3 billion in tax breaks the company would receive (which she repeatedly suggested was being "handed" to Amazon).
Alien Miguel Merecias-Lopez Charged with Making 10,000 Fake IDs in Oregon Lab – Sold Across the US…
March 6, 2019
SALEM, Ore. — Located in an apartment in a primarily Hispanic town in Oregon, a clandestine lab churned out thousands of fake Social Security cards, drivers' licenses and immigration documents that were sold around the United States for years.
The clandestine operation, revealed for the first time Tuesday in a federal court document, showed that a syndicate based in Oaxaca, Mexico, operated the forged-document factory in Woodburn, a town of 24,000 in an agricultural region a half-hour's drive from Portland.
CBP Releases Fiscal Year 2019 Southwest Border Migration Stats…
March 6, 2019
This fiscal year to date, CBP has seen a more than 300 percent increase in the number of family units apprehended compared to the same time period in fiscal year 2018. Today, family units and unaccompanied alien children (UAC) make up 60 percent of apprehension that have occurred along the southwest border and are predominantly from Central America, namely Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Additionally, there have been 70 large groups of 100 or more individuals totaling 12,069 apprehensions, compared to what Border Patrol encountered in FY18, which was 13 large groups, and in FY17, which was only two.
A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant…
March 6, 2019
Following news of a man in the UK who has been free of HIV since his cancer treatment, a similar case has been reported by researchers who treated a patient in Germany. Together, they add to evidence that it may be possible to cure HIV.
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Since then, no one else had had HIV eliminated from their body in the same way, until a second case was announced on Monday. This person, known as the London patient, was given bone marrow from a donor with the CCR5 mutation as a treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, another immune cell cancer. He was advised to stop taking the antiviral drugs that keep the virus in check about a year afterwards. Eighteen months later, the virus hasn’t returned.Felony charges filed against alleged attacker of conservative activist at UC-Berkeley…
March 6, 2019
The Alameda County District Attorney’s office has filed criminal felony charges against a software engineer who allegedly attacked a conservative activist at the University of California, Berkeley campus on Feb. 19.
The charges against the engineer, Zachary Greenberg, 28, include three felony counts and one misdemeanor count, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Fox News.
The felony counts relate to assault and causing or intending bodily injury, and criminal threats. A misdemeanor count is related to vandalism, the complaint shows.
Census question on citizenship ruled illegal by 2nd judge…
March 6, 2019
The ruling by Judge Richard Seeborg, which will head to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals if challenged by the government, said the Commerce secretary's decision to add the question was arbitrary and capricious and would violate a constitutional requirement that the census accurately count the U.S. population.
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Seeborg became the second judge to declare the move illegal, so the effect of his decision is limited. A federal judge in New York had previously blocked the administration from adding the question to the population count that occurs every 10 years, and the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to review that decision.After Facebook’s Scandals, Mark Zuckerberg Says He’ll Shift Focus to Private Sharing…
March 6, 2019
Mr. Zuckerberg, who runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, on Wednesday expressed his intentions to change the essential nature of social media. Instead of encouraging public posts, he said he would focus on private and encrypted communications, in which users message mostly smaller groups of people they know. Unlike publicly shared posts that are kept as users’ permanent records, the communications could also be deleted after a certain period of time.
He said Facebook would achieve the shift partly by integrating Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger so that users worldwide could easily message one another across the networks. In effect, he said, Facebook would change from being a digital town square to creating a type of “digital living room,” where people could expect their discussions to be intimate, ephemeral and secure from outsiders.
Trump threatens to block networks from hosting debates after Dems reject Fox…
March 6, 2019
Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2019
The DNC announced that it would not allow Fox News to host a primary debate after The New Yorker reported on the network's deep ties to Trump.
“Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in the statement.
Martha McSally Says She Is a Survivor of Sexual Assault in the Military…
March 6, 2019
Clapper claims he ‘didn’t lie’ about NSA spying on Americans, but ‘didn’t understand’ the question…
March 6, 2019
NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn’t lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn’t spying on American citizens – three months before Edward Snowden told everyone it was.
“I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake. I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about,” Clapper told CNN’s New Day, marking the third time he’s changed his story regarding his notorious pre-Snowden testimony. He further explained he’d been thinking of another dubiously constitutional surveillance program – section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – rather than section 215 of the Patriot Act, perhaps hoping the audience had forgotten the context of his response six years earlier.Priests could be arrested if they do not report sexual abuse…
March 6, 2019
The groundbreaking development would see Victorian priests potentially serve time behind bars if they ignore cases of sexual abuse revealed in confidence.
They have never previously been required to reveal confessions.
Current legislation requires police, teachers and doctors obligated to report instances of abuse. Priests would be added to the list of professions if the legal changes are accepted.
Dollar Tree to shutter 390 Family Dollar stores, rebrand others…
March 6, 2019
The Chesapeake, Virginia, company said Wednesday that its Family Dollar stores have been dragging down its overall performance since acquiring the chain in 2015 for nearly $9 billion in cash and stock.
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Its poor performance has forced the company to close up to 390 Family Stores nationwide this year and convert about 200 more into Dollar Tree locations, which have been exceeding expectations.‘Enough To Kill 10 Million People’ — DEA Agent Discusses ‘Tremendous’ $150 Million Fentanyl Bust…
March 6, 2019
Masterpiece Cakeshop wins again – Colorado drops prosecution for refusal to bake ‘gender-transition cake’…
March 6, 2019
The second attempt by the State of Colorado to punish Jack Phillips and his Masterpiece Cakeshop has come to an end, once again, with a victory for the baker.
Round 1 was the baker’s refusal to create a custom cake for a same-sex marriage, on the ground that it violated the baker’s Christian faith to create a message celebrating same-sex marriage. The baker also refused to create Halloween cakes and other cakes whose messages he viewed as religiously unacceptable. He didn’t refuse to sell to LGBT people, he just didn’t want to have to create the message. He won the case in the Supreme Court...
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Round 2 was when the State went after him because he refused to create a cake celebrating a transgender transition. We covered the lawsuit in Colorado goes after Masterpiece Cakeshop again – this time over “gender transition” cake:Cohen returns – new closed door hearing w/House members…
March 6, 2019
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is returning to Capitol Hill Wednesday to continue his closed-door interview before the House Intelligence Committee, one week after his blockbuster public testimony against President Trump.
His return appearance behind closed doors comes as House Democrats are readying broad probes into Trump and his administration, some of which involve Cohen and stem from allegations of criminal conduct he made last week.