[Free Beacon] Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he is seeking to pass a law which would put government officials behind bars for enacting sanctuary city policies.
"Texas is going to come down hard on any city, any county, any public official that adopts a sanctuary city policy," Abbot said on "Fox and Friends."
He said the law would "impose real penalties," including fines up to $9 million per year and the "possibility of criminal penalties for public officials who adopt sanctuary city policies."
Abbott said he would pass an anti-sanctuary law in the coming months.
"Fox and Friends" co-host Steve Doocy asked Abbott to clarify whether a particular Texas county sheriff with allegedly lax immigration enforcement could be arrested under Abbott's new law.
Abbott confirmed that statement, and said officials, including sheriffs, could "wind up in jail, the place where they are releasing dangerous criminals from."
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Abbott confirmed that statement, and said officials, including sheriffs, could "wind up in jail, the place where they are releasing dangerous criminals from."
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Why, just remove their 'immunity of office' when they act in conflict with laws of the state and nation, under aiding and abetting. An illegal kills, assaults, rapes while given protection in a sanctuary city, allow the families to sue the officials who created the environment that attracted the perps. Win a couple of those and the problem will disappear over night.
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We need a federal law for states like California. I'd love to see Moonbeam surrounded by federal marshals doing the perp walk.
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I am curious, since they claim they are not required to enforce federal immigration laws, are they also immune from the enforcement of any federal law that isn't mirrored in their state of local jurisdiction? Surely there is some precedent for concurrent jurisdiction when a witness to direct violation of federal law (illegal alien status, or perhaps illegal documentation like fraudulent SS numbers, benefit/healthcare use)?
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#4 "When Adam delved, and Eve span - who was then the gentleman?"
The hare saw a tomcat. "I'll grab it!"
She bare him (the hussy!) a cabbit.
If Bob wears a habit
And drags it in drabbit,
Then why can't a Bess be an abbot?
[One America News Network] NEW YORK - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met with federal prosecutors on Friday as part of their lengthy investigation into whether people involved in fundraising for his election campaign broke corruption laws, according to news reports.
De Blasio, a Democrat who faces reelection in November, has repeatedly said he and his campaign staff have done nothing wrong and that he was cooperating with prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan in their yearlong criminal investigation.
"We did everything right," he said in a television interview last month. "My team did everything right."
Prosecutors and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned him on multiple topics, according to the New York Times.
The meeting took place at his lawyers’ office in Manhattan, and his black sport-utility vehicle was seen departing from the office garage about five hours after it arrived. News photographers briefly gave chase, but de Blasio did not emerge from the vehicle to speak with waiting reporters.
A spokesman for the mayor did not respond to questions on Friday.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s public corruption unit are looking at whether people who helped raise money for de Blasio’s 2013 election campaign and a non-profit organization that his advisers operated received favorable treatment from the mayor or his aides at City Hall, according to news reports.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, which typically does not discuss ongoing investigations, declined to comment.
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@1 Doubtful, I'm thinking her, Bill and others are the next target of US Attorney Bharara. I'm thinking Weiner gave Bharara lots of information in return for a plea deal on the sex charges and that investigators are busy running down all the leads & evidence they got from Bharara, who has a deserved reputation for putting NY politicians of both parties in jail.
h/t IMAO
[Duffelblog] President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned his post amid constant bullying from Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, sources confirmed.
The two retired Marine generals pushed the former intelligence chief repeatedly in the halls of The White House, and at least one stole Flynn’s lunch money on a daily basis.
In letter of resignation, Flynn mentioned that Mattis and Kelly would snap towels at him in the cabinet locker room while referring to his butt cheeks as "Boris and Natasha."
Though Flynn admitted that he gave Vice President Mike Pence and others "incomplete information" about his calls with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Flynn explained that he actually reached out to Ambassador Sergey Kislyak for lessons in the Russian martial art of sambo.
"I was just tired of those two jocks pushing me around," said Flynn in his letter. "They haven’t left me alone in nearly a month."
Flynn further complained Mattis once pinned him against a wall in the White House and told him that "integrity was like virginity," and Flynn was "likely going to give up both."
Likewise, Kelly was accused of pushing the national security adviser to tears during a national security briefing after detailing a racy encounter he allegedly had with a Russian mail-order bride that turned out to be Flynn’s mother.
"Those guys are just dicks," said Flynn. "I quit."
Both Mattis and Kelly were unavailable for comment as calls to their offices resulted in nothing but raucous laughter.
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The little story about the transgender dog and the refusal of the Old Guard at Arlington Hall to let an "openly transgendered" mare pull the Presidential Caisson...
I'm sorry, I've been cleaning coffee off my computer and my desk for almost an hour...
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flynn got it. His replacement is another idiot from the "nothing to do with islam let's win the hearts and mind" failure brigade.
ie: exactly the problem that people voted trump in to get rid of.
there is no clearer indication that Trump has not been able to succeed. It is obviously impossible for civilian elected governments to actually change US policy.
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He won't generate the fireworks Ellison would have, but, given obumble said Perez "is wicked smart," we should see more Dumby Wasserbag Shulz follies for sure...
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As long as they keep being the party of Hollywood and DC, they will keep losing elections.
[AA.TR] The White House made the highly provocative move of barring major news outlets from a planned press briefing Friday, prompting protests from the media.
The Los Angeles Times, New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , CNN and Politico were denied entry to an informal press gaggle scheduled in place of the daily briefing because of the president's travel.
In response, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and Time magazine boycotted the press briefing while the White House Correspondents Association, which heads the press corps, formally protested the White House's action.
Association president Jeff Mason said the group's board "will be discussing this further with White House staff".
Far-right nationalist news outlet Breitbart News was allowed in, along with other conservative outlets such as the Washington Times and One America News Network. ABC, CBS, the Wall Street Journal and others were also present.
The White House's actions comes just hours after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... took aim at the media, slamming "fake news" as he pledged to "do something about it".
The Trump administration has faced a number of scathing media reports, one of which prompted the ouster of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
His departure cemented the shortest term for such a high ranking official.
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They should refer to 'major news media' as 'legacy media'.
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They refused the nation national enquirer and Bernies gay free press too!! oh the shame of sliding down to your peers being gossip press.
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You only need one agency of the Donk Party to attend the meetings. They always share on their coordinating website, distribution and mailing list anyway to speak with one narrative. Makes more room for others, the press room is really small.
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Big misunderstanding. Trump just excluded the NYT because the NYT won't permit a single person of color to join its board of directors. (OK, there's an Asian guy, but that's not really what we're talking about.) Nothing but racist one percenters.
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The California Senate was thrown into chaos and anger on Thursday when a Republican member was forcibly removed from the floor for allegedly speaking out of turn during a session.
Republican colleagues say Sen. Janet Nguyen, R-Garden Grove, was silenced by the Democratic majority when the Senate sergeant-at-arms escorted her from the chamber as Nguyen tried to criticize the late Democratic lawmaker Tom Hayden for his stance against the Vietnam War.
"I’m enraged at the violation to free speech, our Constitution and the precedent this sets," said Senate Republican Leader Jean Fuller, who asked the Senate Rules Committee to look into what happened and make sure there is no "retribution" against Nguyen for the incident.
Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee who represents a large Vietnamese community in Orange County, said she was shaken up and "quite upset" at being removed. Two days after the Senate memorialized Hayden, who traveled to North Vietnam with then-wife Jane Fonda in 1974, Nguyen said she wanted to offer "another historical perspective."
"He sided with the communist government that enslaved and killed millions of Vietnamese, including my family," Nguyen said. Without U.S. support for South Vietnam, "I wouldn’t be here today. I would be dead."
At an unrelated press conference later, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said he was "greatly unsettled (by) what took place on the floor."
De León, a Los Angeles Democrat, agreed to the Rules Committee review and said he would talk to Nguyen and Fuller. But he added that the situation "could have easily been dealt with" if they had followed parliamentary procedure.
Nguyen attempted to make her comments during the adjourn-in-memory portion of the Senate floor session, when members typically offer tributes to constituents who have recently died. After first delivering her comments in Vietnamese, Nguyen was quickly cut off as she tried to repeat them in English.
"Members, today I recognize in memory the millions of Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who died in seeking for freedom and democracy," she said. "On Tuesday, you had an opportunity to honor Sen. Tom Hayden. With all due respect, I would like to offer this historical perspective ..."
Presiding Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, interrupted Nguyen and gave the floor to Sen. Bill Monning, D-Carmel, who said Nguyen was out of order because she did not raise her objections during the Hayden tribute ceremony two days before. Nguyen continued to speak for several minutes, even as Lara repeatedly asked her to take a seat and then eventually ordered the sergeants to remove her.
"Sergeants, please remove Sen. Nguyen from the chamber," Lara said. "Have her removed immediately. Sergeants, please remove Sen. Nguyen, she is out of order."
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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise"
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Tom's still dead. The communist ideology that was his religion is almost dead. His ex wife looks like death warmed over.
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Whatever the specifics of the Senate floor rules, she was removed because she criticized a Communist. Her country was conquered by Communists in Vietnam, with the help of Hayden and Fonda and the other traitors who took their side against Americans. Tom and Jane, as well as the California legislature, belong in the hottest part of Hell.
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Another example of how the left does not like to hear the truth about their "good intentions"
I still seethe over Hanoi Jane and those pictures of her sitting at an AA gun. I still don't understand why she wasn't tossed in the slammer as soon as she got home.
[The Hill] A State Department memo spotlighting the threat of leaks by department employees was leaked to The Washington Post, the newspaper reported Friday.
The memo, which is authored by acting State Department legal adviser Richard Visek and intended for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, reportedly details Tillerson’s authority to protect certain privileged information and presents a case against leaks.
“When such information is leaked … it chills the willingness of senior government officials to seek robust and candid advice, which ultimately is to the detriment of informed policymaking and the reputation of the institution from which the leak emanated,” the Post quoted the memo as saying.
The leaks from within the State Department, the memo says, could potentially hinder department officials’ ability to participate in policy discussions, if concern mounts that information isn’t protected.
“If the Department is going to be able to influence policy deliberations, we need to have a reputation for engaging responsibly in those deliberations,” the memo reads.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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[Free Beacon] Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he is seeking to pass a law which would put government officials behind bars for enacting sanctuary city policies.
