All things disgusting with and around dump

Hüsker Dü said:
Federal regulators on Tuesday disputed the Trump administration's claim that struggles facing the coal and nuclear industries threaten the reliability of the nation's power grid.

"There is no immediate calamity or threat," the Republican chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission told Congress. Existing power sources are sufficient to satisfy the nation's energy needs, FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre added.

Four other commissioners from both parties agreed there is no immediate threat to the grid. The comments before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee contradict a recent White House directive ordering action to keep coal-fired and nuclear power plants open as a matter of national and economic security.

"There is no mystery behind the radical proposal" the Energy Department is considering, said Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state, the senior Democrat on the Energy Committee.

A top coal CEO, Robert Murray, "sent a letter to the Trump administration with pre-written executive orders to bail out coal mines, eliminate worker safety and allow more pollution," Cantwell said. Murray called for an emergency Energy Department order to keep coal plants open for two years "and that is exactly what DOE is proposing," she said.

"I know the president wants to deliver on this, but the grid operators say the emergency does not exist," Cantrell said.

http://myconnection.cox.com/article/politics/b414f398-6e66-11e8-be97-3b5f4b46834b/
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But on the same day that Sessions issued his sanctuary decision, his department also announced a filing that garnered less attention. Administration lawyers filed a motion in support of conservative activists who are suing the University of Michigan, claiming that its policies against bullying and harassment violate protections on free speech.

New York Times, it’s the fourth time that Trump’s Justice Department has weighed in against policies on public campuses that seek to curb hateful or divisive rhetoric.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sessions...-af35-103e35afc7bf&.tsrc=notification-brknews
 
The morning after Corey Stewart’s victory in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Virginia, party officials assessed how their candidate might affect House races in November. They didn’t like what they saw.

Kenney said he believes that many Republicans will stay home this year because of Stewart.

“No one is getting off the couch for a white nationalist,” Kenney said of Stewart (except other white nationalists)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia...rey-stewart-drag-house-members-180558438.html
 
espola said:
Money laundering, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, perjury, campaign finance violations - at a minimum. Basically, everything he has touched since joining the t campaign.
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He's in jail for what he did in the Trump campaign?

btw, looks like today is last week's "tomorrow".
 
Bottom line: The Trump administration implemented the current separation policy.
While it's designed, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions describes it, to have a deterrent effect, it's also a negotiating play to try and force Democrats to the table on immigration legislation the President favors.
But Democrats aren't in the room on those legislative efforts and the President just nuked the lone House GOP effort that had a shot at passage. And the Senate wants no part of this.
So its prospects -- and any effort in the near future to prevent families from being separated at the border -- aren't looking good.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/family-separation-democrats-trump/index.html

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with...-about-his-child-migrant-policy-1256997955776
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Bottom line: The Trump administration implemented the current separation policy.
While it's designed, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions describes it, to have a deterrent effect, it's also a negotiating play to try and force Democrats to the table on immigration legislation the President favors.
But Democrats aren't in the room on those legislative efforts and the President just nuked the lone House GOP effort that had a shot at passage. And the Senate wants no part of this.
So its prospects -- and any effort in the near future to prevent families from being separated at the border -- aren't looking good.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/family-separation-democrats-trump/index.html

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with...-about-his-child-migrant-policy-1256997955776
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Apparently there are consequences for illegally entering the country...
 
A group of United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions . . . The group has accused Sessions, who is a member of a Mobile, Alabama, Methodist Church, of among other things, child abuse . . . "I hope his pastor can have a good conversation with him and come to a good resolution that helps him reclaim his values . . ."
 
Hüsker Dü said:
A group of United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions . . . The group has accused Sessions, who is a member of a Mobile, Alabama, Methodist Church, of among other things, child abuse . . . "I hope his pastor can have a good conversation with him and come to a good resolution that helps him reclaim his values . . ."
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I love it when non-believers believe.
 
Lion Eyes said:
Apparently there are consequences for illegally entering the country...
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"illegally"?

Trump's words ring especially hollow in light of his administration's actions just two days before that tweet, when it was announced that he had nominated Ronald Mortensen, a fellow with the far-right anti-immigration group, the Center for Immigration Studies, to work as assistant secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the State Department. The bureau's missionis to "provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world," but Mortensen, in the tradition of Trump appointees, has a career that strongly suggests he objects to the very mission of the group he's been challenged with leading.

“Trump is stacking the immigration wing of his administration wing with people connected to hate groups," explained Heidi Beirich, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. “They’re undermining immigration policy by putting anti-immigrant folks into positions of authority in the administration over these issues.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/30/ne...wants-to-expand-the-war-on-legal-immigration/

“There is no question that President Trump administration’s policy of separating mothers and fathers from their children is designed to impose severe mental suffering on these families, in order to deter others from trying to seek safety in the USA. Many of these families come from countries experiencing generalized violence and grave human rights violations, including Honduras and El Salvador. This is a flagrant violation of the human rights of these parents and children and is also a violation of US obligations under refugee law.”

Amnesty International recently interviewed 17 asylum-seeking parents who were forcibly separated from their children, and all but three of them had entered the USA legally to request asylum.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/06/usa-family-separation-torture/
 
"If you are going to deport me, please deport me with my son," a sobbing Abel Ramirez Nicolas told Macdonald. "Even though I wouldn't want that. There are so many serious problems in my country, crime."

MORE: ICE to send 1,600 immigration violators to federal prisons

The Guatemalan migrant had crossed the Arizona border only two days before, saying he wanted a better, safer future for his son.

But under the federal government's "zero-tolerance" crackdown on illegal immigration, Ramirez Nicolas found himself in the Tucson court, convicted of a misdemeanor for illegal entry.

He said he didn't know what happened to his son after they were separated. Standing before the judge, he pleaded that they be reunited.

At least one advocacy group, Kids In Need of Defense, has already documented at least two cases earlier this year where U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement deported parents back to their home countries without their infant children, who remained in U.S. custody.



"convicted of a misdemeanor"

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...ed-without-kids-immigration-border/683483002/
 
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