Tag: Border Crisis

Supreme Court Justice Warns Texas Will “Sow Chaos” With Latest Ruling

“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together […]

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Supreme Court Gives Texas Green Light on Controversial Immigration Law

“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together […]

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Supreme Court Gives Abbott Free Rein on Controversial Immigration Law

“The only FRAUD in the Peekaboo James case, our failed and disgusting New York State Attorney General, was her convincing ‘Judge’ Arthur Engoron to put a value on Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, of just $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount. This was fraudulently and illegally done, working closely together […]

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Is the Rio Grande Valley Just Lost Now to Democrats?

The border has always been the stuff of myth, mystery, and violence, and the Rio Grande Valley has its own distinctive character and history. Four counties make up the Valley—Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr, and Willacy—the terrain of hunters and gatherers dating back 11,000 years, when it is said the Coahuiltecans hunted animals, fished, and gathered fruit […]

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Cognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Bonkers Rant at Border

Lauren Boebert, for her part, said in a statement that her son “will take responsibility for his actions and should be held accountable for poor decisions just like any other citizen.” “I love my son Tyler, who has been through some very difficult, public challenges for a young man, and the subject of attention that […]

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The Texas National Guard’s Chaotic Migrant Border Chase

On the plateau, the Mexican immigration agent has cornered Rodrigo and is directing him toward the van. They’ll drive him far from the river, to a detention center where he’ll wait as the Mexican government attempts to contact his family, so they can take him back to Guatemala. Should he be so unfortunate as to […]

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The Cruel Chaos of Greg Abbott’s Border Battle

On the plateau, the Mexican immigration agent has cornered Rodrigo and is directing him toward the van. They’ll drive him far from the river, to a detention center where he’ll wait as the Mexican government attempts to contact his family, so they can take him back to Guatemala. Should he be so unfortunate as to […]

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Biden Considers Resurrecting Asylum Ban Using Same Authority as Trump

Biden summarized his various business ventures over the past couple decades, which included a few partnerships with his nephew Hunter. But Joe Biden “played no role, was not involved with, and received no benefits,” his brother said. Republicans have also seized on two checks that James Biden gave his older brother, one for $200,000 labeled […]

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Biden Considers Asylum Ban, Using Same Statute as Trump’s Muslim Ban

Biden summarized his various business ventures over the past couple decades, which included a few partnerships with his nephew Hunter. But Joe Biden “played no role, was not involved with, and received no benefits,” his brother said. Republicans have also seized on two checks that James Biden gave his older brother, one for $200,000 labeled […]

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How Tom Suozzi’s Big Win Upended Washington’s Border Wars

In keeping with the theme of the week, we’ll turn now to a major policy issue for Long Island politicians in particular: the state and local tax deduction, colloquially known as SALT. (It’s also generally a major priority for Republicans in high-tax, typically blue states, but I’m sticking to a motif here.) In 2017, Republicans […]

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Republican Congressman’s Biden Border Meme Backfires Spectacularly

“I think there are some Republicans who support Trump out there saying, ‘Oh, it’s, you know, it’s not a big deal. He’s not going to do it, so on and so forth.’ I’m telling you, I was there in Brussels when he damn near did it,” Bolton said, referring to the 2018 NATO summit. According […]

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GOP Congressman Spews Racist Screed on Fall of “Western Civilization”

“I think there are some Republicans who support Trump out there saying, ‘Oh, it’s, you know, it’s not a big deal. He’s not going to do it, so on and so forth.’ I’m telling you, I was there in Brussels when he damn near did it,” Bolton said, referring to the 2018 NATO summit. According […]

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The Most Cynical Week in Washington

Many Democrats support either eliminating Social Security’s cap on taxable wages, expanding the types of compensation subject to Social Security payroll taxes—fringe benefits like health insurance, for example—or increasing payroll taxes. “The problem has been that, over time, the amount of revenue that is subject to [Social Security payroll] tax has been declining, partially because […]

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House Republicans Are in a Wild Rage Over Incompetent Mike Johnson

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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The “Border Deal” Was Disgusting. Democrats Shouldn’t Be Campaigning On It.

What’s particularly disturbing about this week’s ordeal, though, is just how little the people on the receiving end of immigration policy seem to matter to the Democratic pundits and politicians looking to score political points off of it. Having already treated the lives of migrants as a poker chip to fund foreign wars, party leaders […]

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It’s Probably Good That the “Border Deal” Fell Through

What’s particularly disturbing about this week’s ordeal, though, is just how little the people on the receiving end of immigration policy seem to matter to the Democratic pundits and politicians looking to score political points off of it. Having already treated the lives of migrants as a poker chip to fund foreign wars, party leaders […]

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Today’s GOP: Senator Was Told He’d Be “Destroyed” Over Border Bill

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Republican Senator: Someone Threatened to Destroy Me Over Border Deal

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi Are Enjoying Every Second of This

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Jeffries, Pelosi Enjoying Every Minute of Mike Johnson’s Humiliation

The ruling was “masterful because it combined so many elements” like “constitutional text, judicial precedent, history, and just sheer logic and the party’s own concessions—Trump’s own concessions—just to make an absolutely cohesive whole opinion that just inexorably leads you to the conclusion that he is not immune,” Conway explained. And Trump’s February 12 turnaround is […]

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Here’s Mike Johnson’s Pathetic, Viral Reaction After Brutal Day of Losing

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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How the Media Falls for the Right’s Fentanyl Lies

But more coverage alone isn’t enough. The mainstream media is terribly handicapped by its supposed devotion to balance and “objectivity.” When one major political party, its presidential candidate, and its allies in infotainment are lying at top volume, the traditional “on the one hand, on the other hand” two-step is no longer an adequate way […]

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The GOP Owns the Border Now. Here’s How Democrats Make Sure of It.

And they killed it. Because Trump wants to say “open borders.” Forget policy, forget human beings, forget all that. Politics is politics, and lots of things happen for, duh, political reasons. But this was on a whole ’nother level. When we think their behavior can’t get more shocking, it always, always does. So how can […]

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The GOP Owns the Border Now. Here’s How Democrats Make Sure of It.

And they killed it. Because Trump wants to say “open borders.” Forget policy, forget human beings, forget all that. Politics is politics, and lots of things happen for, duh, political reasons. But this was on a whole ’nother level. When we think their behavior can’t get more shocking, it always, always does. So how can […]

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It Seems Mike Johnson May Have Lied Just so He Could Kill the Border Deal

“As [the National Archives and Records Administration] attempted to carry out its statutory responsibilities from 2021 into 2022, highly classified documents sat in a ballroom, bathroom, office space, and a basement storage room at a social club traversed by thousands of members, employees, and guests. NARA rightly involved other government agencies that had equities and […]

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MAGA’s Ugly New “Civil War” Fantasy Should be Taken Seriously

Far-right personalities are fantasizing about “civil war” again, amid a standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the feds over border enforcement. That may seem silly, but unbridgeable differences over immigration truly are driving many big stories of the moment, from that Texas battle to Senate negotiations over a border bill to the House GOP […]

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Senate Republicans Are on a Major Ukraine Collision Course

Meanwhile, GOP senators who support fully funding Biden’s Ukraine request increasingly find their voices drowned out in what has largely been a closed-door debate about foreign aid. “We can’t have people starving, or they won’t be able to maintain their operations,” Senator Mitt Romney, a retiring Utah Republican and former GOP nominee for president, said […]

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Texas Is Ginning Up a New Constitutional Crisis

This theory is born out by the actions of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who should theoretically be motivated to pass legislation to address a crisis that they often bring up. But that motivation is suddenly lacking. On Wednesday night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly told his fellow Republican senators that the time for […]

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Republicans Push Greg Abbott to Go All Out in Border War With Biden

New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization, and other company executives of fraudulently inflating the value of various real estate assets to get more favorable terms on bank loans. The judge presiding over that trial, Arthur Engoron, determined in September that Trump indeed committed fraud […]

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The GOP’s Surrender to Trump Unmasks MAGA’s Real Agenda

It’s sometimes argued that Democrats too are unreasonable on immigration; that they refuse to accept restrictions that are politically and substantively imperative. It’s true that any compromise would have to include new restrictions on asylum (my preferred deal would trade that for legalization of some undocumented immigrants living here and expanded legal pathways for entry). […]

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