U.S. judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico

"A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to use to stem a recent flood of migrants.

The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco. The preliminary injunction will apply nationwide".


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-asylum/us-judge-halts-trump-policy-of-returning-asylum-seekers-to-mexico-idUSKCN1RK2E6


A judges job is to apply the law not make it up as they go along based on feelings.

They Say It’s Bad Now But Republicans Disclosed Private Tax Returns In 2014


"WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration and its defenders in Congress argue that Democrats are breaking the rules in seeking the president’s private tax information.

“We should not be in a situation where individual private tax returns are used for political purposes,” Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s private attorneys, said Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

“When you have people in the Congress who, for political reasons, are trying to get access to someone’s tax returns, that’s as wrong as it gets,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Friday on C-SPAN.

Accusing Democrats of having “political” ― as opposed to legitimate oversight ― reasons for wanting to see Trump’s tax returns is the GOP’s main talking point these days.

And as talking points go, it’s an awkward one. Republicans themselves used private tax returns for political purposes just a few years ago, and they used the very same law that Democrats are now relying on to request the last six years of Trump’s tax returns".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/bad-now-republicans-disclosed-private-221215402.html

Congress has the power to ask for copies of anyone’s tax return thanks to a 1924 law enacted as a check on corruption in the executive branch. What comes around goes around.


http://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/education/congress-represented/ebook.pdf

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Will he ever be right about ANYTHING Charles ?

I wish fear mongering crap like this wasn't allowed on a thread. This serves no purpose but to try to inflame others with false information. It serves no purpose but to try to scare people into believing this far fetched crap. With absolutely ZERO to back it up. On top of that Jussy Smollett has nothing to do with any of this. It's just another fear mongering tactic to try to take peoples eyes off of the real problem. Trump and his craziness, and crookedness. And how he is running our government.

First. thank you for finally providing links to non Facebook sources.

Second. going through the links, they actually dont dispute my claim.

They speak about the crossings in the past YEAR only, under Trump, which I also had set aside as an outlier to the downward trend happening BEFORE TRUMP started running his mouth about the crisis.

Kirstjen Nielsen: Trump 'berated homeland security secretary' early in the morning and demanded illegal actions, report claims

"Kirstjen Nielsen, the US homeland security secretary who helped enforce President Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policies, has resigned amid claims of a contentious working relationship with the US leader.

According to The New York Times, Ms. Nielson has had a rough ride since she took the job in December 2017 and was "regularly berated" by Trump, who is said to have demanded that she take a more aggressive approach to tighten immigration".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kirstjen-nielsen-quits-trump-tensions-homeland-security-white-house-a8859436.html

George Conway Rips Trump For Punishing Those Who Won't Help Him Break Laws

"George Conway went on a tear again against President Donald Trump on Sunday, this time for a disturbing “pattern” apparent in his ouster of Homeland Security head Kirstjen Nielsen.

On Twitter, Conway pointed to a report in The New York Times that said Trump often blew up at Nielsen when she warned him about how the actions he demanded against immigrants were illegal".

http://www.yahoo.com/news/george-conway-rips-trump-punishing-064419848.html

Another promise broken.

The Trump administration is holding up a crucial infrastructure project


"The Trump administration’s decision to withhold funding for a critical East Coast infrastructure project could cause economic trouble for the entire country.

The Gateway Program is a transportation project intended to fix the crumbling infrastructure carrying roughly 200,000 daily of commuters between New Jersey and New York through the Hudson River Tunnel. The project’s inception in 2011 arose as a means to replace the “Access to the Region’s Core” tunnel project that was canceled by then-N.J. Governor Chris Christie.

The Obama administration agreed it would cover half of the costs of the $30-billion project, with the remaining half would be split between the New York and New Jersey state governments. But the deal fell apart after Trump was elected, and according to the New York Times, the president denied there ever was an agreement".

url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ny-nj-tunnel-project-trump-192623246.html

The Stats on Border Apprehensions

"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said monthly border apprehensions have returned to “previous levels” since dropping significantly after President Donald Trump took office. That’s true: There was a sharp rise in those apprehended at the Southwest border in March from a year ago, putting the figure back in line with 2016.

But what about the long-term view? Apprehensions have been on a general downward trend since the mid-2000s".

http://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/the-stats-on-border-apprehensions/

Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What’s the Reality?

"President Trump has frequently called the situation at the southern border with Mexico a crisis and insists that building his long-promised border wall will fix it. Here are some of Mr. Trump’s most common assertions of a crisis, and the reality of what we know about immigrants and the border".

"THE REALITY Illegal border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades. In 2017, border-crossing apprehensions were at their lowest point since 1971.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/us/politics/trump-border-crisis-reality.html

3 Charts That Show What's Actually Happening Along The Southern Border


"The total number of people apprehended for illegally crossing the southern U.S. border has been steadily falling for almost two decades. It's a long-term trend that sociologists, economists, and federal officials have been tracking for years".

According to the Department of Homeland Security, there is a long-term trend of fewer people being arrested or apprehended for allegedly crossing the border illegally. Most apprehensions happen along the southern border. (Years shown are fiscal years.)

http://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/622246815/unauthorized-immigration-in-three-graphs


Illegal Immigration Statistics

"There were 12 million immigrants living in the country illegally as of January 2015, according to the most recent estimate from the Department of Homeland Security. The estimates from two independent groups are similar: The Pew Research Center estimates the number at 10.7 million in 2016, and the Center for Migration Studies says there were 10.8 million people in 2016 living in the U.S. illegally.

That would be about 3.3 percent to 3.7 percent of the total U.S. population in 2016 or 2015.

http://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/illegal-immigration-statistics/

Thats what happened to me ! I tried to go to one of his links and my service provider flashed me a warning
"WARNING" THE LINK YOU ARE ATTEMPTING MAY CAUSE HARMFUL MAL-WARE TO YOUR DEVICE FROM MALICIOUS FOREIGN ACTORS "
Thanks for the heads up

The IRS audits most anyone over a certain level of income such as President Trump. There was probably a team of auditors that have followed Trump tax returns for years. Should he not have filed a legal tax return and paid his taxes, I'm sure the IRS would have gone to great lengths to collect what they thought was owing.

I think it is all about politics. The Trump tax returns would give the democrats plenty of ammunition to claim Trump is a poor, little rich boy that has no idea of what being a common person is about. I would expect Trump's income to be on a similar level as other CEOs, celebrities, and sports stars. His and Melania's income probably makes the Obama's look like the poor folk struggling to get by. Trump probably paid more in taxes than the Obamas made!!