Yuma Sector Border Patrol Surpasses 50,000 Apprehensions in FY19…
May 23, 2019
Yuma Sector ranks third in the nation for total apprehensions along the Southwest Border, and has spent more than $1 million in humanitarian costs for the care of families and unaccompanied alien children in custody in fiscal year 2019... This week, Yuma Sector has detained three large groups of illegal aliens. On Monday, agents apprehended nearly 800. On Tuesday, another 500 illegal aliens were detained, and by Wednesday morning, Yuma Station agents took nearly 160 illegal aliens into custody east of San Luis.
Pentagon approves DHS request to build tents to house 7,500 migrants at southern border…
May 23, 2019
The May 9 request from DHS asked the Department of Defense (DOD) to “construct temporary facilities to house and care for a minimum of 7,500 total single adult male and female aliens that have been processed by Customs and Border Protection and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Enforcement Removal Operations custody,” according to a statement from Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Chris Miller...
U.S. Treasury backs away from plan for Harriet Tubman on $20 bill next year…
May 23, 2019
Mnuchin said during a hearing with the House Financial Services committee he was focused on redesigning the bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making any changes to their imagery. “We will meet the security feature redesign (goal) in 2020. The imagery feature will not be an issue that comes up until most likely 2026,” Mnuchin told lawmakers.
Devin Nunes: Someone on foreign soil was ‘running operations’ against Trump campaign associates…
May 23, 2019
"I think we can be sure about one thing and that is that on foreign soil, someone was running operations against Trump campaign people," Nunes said. "Now, we don't know if that was our government, if it was the British government, or if it was some type of firm of some kind that was doing it. But I think it is definitely a fact, Sean, that at least on British soil, possibly on Italian soil, there were activities going on that we need to get to the bottom of."...
Scientists Have Pinpointed the Mystery Source of an Ozone-Destroying Chemical – It’s CHINA…
May 23, 2019
The finding, published in Nature on Thursday, shows that eastern China is responsible for upwards of 60 percent of the recent rise in CFC-11 emissions...
Matt Gaetz Delivers Impassioned Foreign Policy Speech: ‘America First Means the American People First’…
May 23, 2019
His address came at an event that brought together two veteran advocacy groups from the right and the left — Concerned Veterans of America and Vote Vets — to call for the end of costly and limitless war.
Ex-FBI lawyer: Carter Page FISA application approved in ‘unusual’ way by McCabe, Yates, and Baker…
May 23, 2019
Anderson stressed “in this particular case, I'm drawing a distinction because my boss and my boss’ boss had already reviewed and approved this application.” She emphasized “this one was handled a little bit differently in that sense, in that it received very high-level review and approvals — informal, oral approvals — before it ever came to me for signature.”..
EU President Jean-Claude Juncker Lashes Out on Eve of Elections: “These Stupid Nationalists – Are in Love with Their Own Countries”…
May 23, 2019
NY Dems make it easier for registered independent voters to re-enroll as Democrats to vote in 2020 presidential primary…
May 23, 2019
Those registered in an official party -- Republican, Democratic, WFP, Conservative, Independence, for example -- can switch their affiliation up to 60 days before a primary. Those who are registered voters but are unaffiliated will have more time to make up their minds. Their deadline is 25 days out. For unregistered voters, the time remains the same as it is under the current rules, 25 days before.