[FoxNews] Nearly 80,000 immigrants approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which shields those who came to the country illegally as minors from deportation, have an arrest record -- including arrests for violent or sexual offenses.
The data released Saturday by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows only arrests or apprehensions for a criminal offense or an immigration-related civil offense and does not take into account whether there was a conviction, acquittal, dismissal or a lessening of charges.
The report finds that of the nearly 889,000 applicants for the DACA program, 110,000 had arrest records. Of the more than 765,000 approved for DACA, 79,398 had arrest records. Of that number, 67,861 were arrested before their most recent DACA approval, while 15,903 were arrested after their most recent approval.
The offenses incurred by DACA requestors who were arrested before their most recent approval include battery (3,421), assault (3,308), burglary, breaking and entering (1,471), rape (62), murder (15) and theft or larceny (7,926). The largest population arrested were suspected of driving-related offenses excluding DUIs (23,305) and immigration-related offenses (12,968.)
The report comes as the Obama-era program’s constitutionality is under examination at the Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case began this week.
“As DACA continues to be the subject of both public discourse and ongoing litigation, USCIS remains committed to ensuring transparency and that the American people are informed about those receiving DACA,” USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement.
“This agency is obligated to continue accepting DACA requests from illegal aliens as a direct result of the previous administration’s decision to circumvent the laws as passed by Congress. We hope this data provides a better sense of the reality of those granted the privilege of a temporary deferral of removal action and work authorization under DACA,” he said.
The Trump administration announced its plan to phase out the program in 2017, only for the federal courts to rule that it could not apply retroactively and that DACA should be restarted in full. The White House fought back against those decisions, saying the president has broad authority over immigration enforcement policy.
Trump on Tuesday ripped into the program, saying that some in DACA are “far from ‘angels’” but also promising to make a deal to let recipients of the program stay.
“Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from ‘angels,’” Trump tweeted. “Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!”
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DACA is the ultimate representation of The Shitshow in all its inglorious virtue-signaling absurdity, incompetence, and disgusting play-acting.
DACA = amnesty. To be exact, ANOTHER f---ing amnesty after Reagan, McCain et al. got played in 1986's amnesty, which Reagan later called "the stupidest thing I ever did in politics."
Failed then, and elicited tens of millions illegals to bum rush the border and try their luck.
If we do Amnesty Part 2, how many tens of millions more illiterate, unskilled peasant aliens -- and this time not just Central Americans but people from all over S. America and even Africa and Asia -- will this foolish Shitshow act attract into this country.
Insane = doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
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Do you think the Democrats will be able to work with Orange Man Bad to accomplish something he wants, even of it’s something they claim to want, Lex? I suspect his tweet was deliberately intended to shut them up on the subject, though he’d deal if they actually were capable of considering him a fellow member of the human race.
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^ "the triumph of Hope over Experience."
Dems = Lucy, GOP = Charlie Brown, "immigration reform" is the football
The only way it can work is if our idiot political class gets the message, loud and clear, that any deal must be predicated in the notion that there shall be no amnesties. DACA candidates need to render some form of compensation for their offense-- hefty fines and/or (stateside) military service, etc.
[NationalReview] After three decades of radical progressivism, California residents are tiring of one-party straitjacket rule.
From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California’s 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans.
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The same thing that'll happen (IMO) to all Republicans (to all anti-left) if the current trends of letting judicial activism/loud minorities/bureaucrats make the laws of the land.
#2
If you accept that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link then it needs to be understood that the GOP is only as conservative as people like Mittens Romney, Murky Murkowski and Droopy Susan Collins. A party that keeps letting people like Todd Akin and Roy Moore run, thus flipping reliability red seats blue is actually worse than a party that doesn't even bother to contest many races.
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We left. If we wanted to live in Mexico, we'd have moved there.
The middle class is shrinking. S.t. like 200,000 middle-class households leave each year, replaced by a 10/90 mix of super-wealthy techies (10% max) and super-indigent illiterates from Mexico and Central America (90%+).
The best gauge of this mix is the California Dept of Education's demographic stats. For over 30 years, the CA public school population has been shedding middle class whites and adding poor Latinos.
Typically, the Latino share of the total public school population increases one percentage point each year. This is how the CA schools went from a bad-but-manageable 20% Latino population in the late 1980s to over 50%, and still climbing, today. Now for the fun part: per the CDE, which helpfully disaggregated the ed stats by ethnicity in great detail, Latinos - who now constitute an absolute majority of CA school kids - are failing at rates of >70% in Language Arts and 85-90% in Math. At all grade levels. For both recent immigrants and 2nd- or 3rd or nth generation Latinos. Failing, in huge numbers. Failing.
And this failing majority-minority is soon to be the majority, period, in the state. The thin sliver of great wealth along a few tiny coastal enclaves cannot hide the fact that California's social model is converging with Latin America's: neo-feudal oligarchy.
aka Banana republic. If youcan keep it, California
#5
Too late, GOPers. In the words of Yip-yip the First, Sublime Porte and Opressor of all Kuffrs. "Democracy is a streetcar you get off of at your stop."
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So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder?
One reason is the recent voting rules change that gives the two candidates with the highest vote totals in the state-wide primaries a place on the ballot rather than picking the highest from each party.
The best gauge of this mix is the California Dept of Education's demographic stats.
An even more dramatic example is U-Haul truck rental truck rates.
A 20' truck from Oakland, CA to Dallas, TX costs ~$3,000.
Going the other way from Dallas to Oakland is ~$1,000.
#8
Demographics explains CA schools' slide from best in the nation to 49th. It's ENTIRELY due to the shift from <20% Mexican/C. American to the current 53% proportion. Entirely.
As go the schools, so goes the state's politics and culture.
Demographics explains CA's slide. Stop illegal immigration, shift to skills- and points-based immigration, and deport re illegals -- and you might just have a shot at reversing CA's slide.
But if none or just some of the above happens, CA is finished as a middle-class, healthy, well-governed Democratic polity.
#12
Some of us are still here. We pay the taxes so we can enjoy the ocean breezes. Stay off the freeways and out of the big cities and it's still pretty nice. Be sure to sign the petition to recall Gavin Newsom.
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As am I and my 3 4 generations (counting Mom). Native San Diegans
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To answer this question is to ask why is Chicago 30% Hispanic? Larger than the Black population.
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We left in January of this year, Gardnerville/Minden is close but the disaster CA has become. Simply could not stand it any more being exiled after 43 years because it was not longer America.
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The American identity cannot be separated from the values, assumptions, tendencies and practices of English reform Protestantism. Thanks to this culture, Catholics in this country have more in common with each other than Catholics do with their Irish or Italian cousins.
California's reigning techno-, entertainment, politico- and socio-cultural elites piss on this culture daily. The virtues of humility, self-restraint, politeness, immunology provision, simple good works, respect for the land and for common sense-- these Yankee and midwestern virtues are scorned by California's shitty self-aggrandizing elites.
These people belong in a Latin-style oligarchy-- Brazil, maybe, or Mexico City. A place where corruption is taken for granted, where hypocrisy rules, where the middle class struggles and the elite huddles with its servants behind tall walls and electrified gates.
F--- these bastards. They have ruined the golden gift that was California.
[Ynet] A senior Labour party official says leaks from a report on Russian interference in British politics raises serious questions about the security of next month's election.
The Sunday Times says the report from Parliament's intelligence committee concludes that Russian interference may have affected Britain's 2016 Brexit referendum, though the impact was unquantifiable. The Times says the report discusses the impact of articles posted by Russian new sites that were widely disseminated on social media. I guess claims of Russian interference will be integral part of any "western" elections annoying EUSSR and friends (such as USA 2016) from now on
Given that there have been Soviet [Russian!!!] spies and fellow travelers throughout the the Labour Party and the bureaucracy since the 1920s or ‘30s, I’m not sure what is different or concerning about the Brexit vote.
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My favorite part, not mentioned in the linked story is, people were told via email they were going to be claimed as endorsers unless they opted out.
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almost like they were "Tokens™". Typical Dem Plantation
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Fabulous!
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[NPR.ORG] A State Department aide testifying behind closed doors on Friday confirmed to House impeachment Sherlocks that he overheard President Trump asking a top U.S. diplomat about political investigations that he was seeking from the president of Ukraine.
The official, David Holmes, was the aide mentioned Wednesday by William Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, as having overheard a phone call between Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, and Trump.
According to Taylor's testimony, a member of his staff ‐ later identified as Holmes ‐ was with Sondland in Kyiv when he overheard Sondland speaking to Trump on July 26, a day after the call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that sparked the impeachment inquiry. Holmes, according to Taylor, could hear Trump on the phone asking Sondland "about the investigations," and Sondland told the president the Ukrainians "were ready to move forward."
In his statement, Holmes said that Sondland told Trump that Zelenskiy would do "anything you ask him to," and that the Ukrainian leader committed to "do the investigation."
CNN obtained a copy of Holmes' opening statement to the politicians. Holmes' lawyer, Kenneth Wainstein, confirmed to NPR that the statement is an accurate copy of his client's opening statement.
Holmes said he overheard the conversation between the president and Sondland in a restaurant in Kyiv and said the call was loud enough to hear through the phone earpiece, and that Sondland held the phone away from his ear for a period of time and the president's voice was "very loud and recognizable." He said two other staffers were present at the time.
Holmes told the committee Sondland told the president that Zelenskiy "loves your a**." Holmes also acknowledged that he didn't take contemporaneous notes, but said he has "a clear recollection that these statements were made."
Following the call, according to Taylor, Holmes asked Sondland what Trump thought about Ukraine, and Sondland said that Trump cared more about the investigations of Biden.
In his testimony on Friday, Holmes said the call ended and Sondland said the president "was in a bad mood." Holmes said he then asked Sondland if it was true that the president didn't "give a sh** about Ukraine. Sondland agreed, repeating the president did not "give a sh** about Ukraine." After Holmes asked why that was the case, Sondland responded that the president only cares about "big stuff." Holmes said he noted there was "big stuff" related to Ukraine like the war with Russia, but that Sondland replied he meant "'big stuff' that benefits the president," and cited the "Biden investigation" that Rudy Giuliani, his personal attorney, was pushing.
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Oh, those poor State Department drones, hearing that their backwater podunk posting isn't that important to the president, who cares more about cleaning out corruption those poor State Department drones have profited from...
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So, basically, we are treated to what people in State Dept think about Trump instead of what Trump did?
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Bombshell testimony!!! We've really got him now! /sarc
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Holmes said he overheard the conversation between the president and Sondland in a restaurant in Kyiv....He said two other staffers were present at the time.
Q: What kind of underling can hear the big boss’s phone conversation across a noisy restaurant and snickers with his friends about it rather than quietly walk across the room to drop the man a note letting him know he isn’t as private as he thought?
A: The kind of little shit who would sabotage anyone not part of his supercilious little circle. Fire him for gross insubordination — people like that are poison in the workplace.
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OR.....he never heard Trump's voice at all and interpreted(wishcasted) from Sondland's audible response. Either way..he's Niedermeier..that sneaky little shit you don't want
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[BREITBART] Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is failing to garner significant support for his longshot presidential bid nationally, a Rooters/Ipsos poll released this week shows.
Bloomberg, who signaled his intention to jump into the crowded Democrat primary field this week by filing paperwork to appear on the ballot in Arkansas’ March 3 presidential primary, is failing to see any sort of significant support nationally, according to the latest Rooters/Ipsos poll.
The poll, which surveyed 2,235 adults between November 12‐14, 2019, showed only three percent of Democrats and independents supporting the former New York City mayor.
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Best outcome would be for Sanders to surge, the DNC and superdelegates to thwart him at the convention and nominate Biden, and Sanders to run on an independent ticket with a loon like BugEyes or Batshita or Omar.
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The poll, which surveyed 2,235 adults between November 12‐14, 2019, showed only three percent of Democrats and independents supporting the former New York City mayor.
Because one of the few things that unites most Americans is that we can't stand the guy?
[POLITICO] Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others... ’ campaign is careening toward a crackup.
As the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, senator crisscrosses the country trying to revive her sputtering presidential bid, aides at her fast-shrinking headquarters are deep into the finger-pointing stages. And much of the blame is being placed on campaign manager Juan Rodriguez.
After Rodriguez announced dozens of layoffs and re-deployments in late October to stem overspending, three more staffers at headquarters here were let go and another quit in recent days, aides told POLITICO. Officials said they’ve become increasingly frustrated at the campaign chief’s lack of clarity about what changes have been made to right the ship and his plans to turn the situation around. They hold Rodriguez responsible for questionable budget decisions, including continuing to bring on new hires shortly before the layoffs began.
Amid the turmoil, some aides have gone directly to campaign chair Maya Harris, the candidate’s sister, and argued that Rodriguez needs to be replaced if Harris has any hope of a turnaround, according to two officials.
"It’s a campaign of id," said one senior Harris official, laying much of the blame on Rodriguez, but also pointing to a leaderless structure at the top that’s been allowed to flail without accountability. "What feels right, what impulse you have right now, what emotion, what frustration," the official added. The person described the current state of the campaign in blunt terms: "No discipline. No plan. No strategy."
[Net] The state prosecutor will look into allegations against Israeli tech startup "Fifth Dimension"
Former Chief of Staff and current leader of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz acted as chairman of the board for the company before going into politics. It was fun when they were destroying Bibi's reputation
[IsraelNationalNews] What does it mean "the end of the mandate' on Wednesday?
The jurisdiction to create a government is with Benny Gantz , leader of the Blue and White Party and he has until Wednesday to inform the Knesset that he has succeeded and to present his government.
What will happen then?
If Gantz doesn't succeed then Israel will be in an unique situation that we haven't been in for decades. There will then be a period of 21 days where any member of Knesset can collect signatures from other MKs that prove his ability to form a coalition. If any MK succeeds in gaining 61 signatures then he will have 14 days to form a coalition.
If no MK succeeds to get 61 signatures?
Then 3rd elections will be called within 90 days.
It's been reported that Gantz and Liberman are attempting to form a "minority government." What does that mean?
By law, an Israeli government doesn't need 61 members. This can occur when less than 61 MKs vote on the government or if some members of an existing coalition resign leaving the coalition with less.
Is this possible?
Yes and has happened previously. Rabin stood at the head of a minority government in his second term, as did did Ehud Barak. It can happen in the current situation in two forms; a minority government supported by the Arab parties and Lieberman abstains, or a minority with Lieberman supported by only some of the Arab MKs.
Is this likely?
It's difficult to say but it seems unlikely. Lieberman supporting a coalition with Arab members only days after violence in the south seems odd.
If it's unlikely, why is Netanyahu worried?
Because at this point Liberman and the Arab parties appear to be game. Both sides are unwilling to declare that such a government will not happen.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
