Sunday, December 24, 2017
Report: FBI Deputy Director Mccabe To Retire Amid Allegations Of Bias
As FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe faces accusations of political bias, new report he is also planning to retire early next year.
The report, published on Saturday suggests McCabe plans to leave his role in early march when he is eligible for pension benefits.
The former right hand man of fired FBI Director James Comey has dealt with criticism from lawmakers on capitol hill, for the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and more recently the Russia probe.
This comes after McCabe faced hours of questioning behind closed doors on capitol hill this week as GOP leaders continue to investigate alleged political bias from McCabe and the agency.
Meanwhile, President Trump slams the FBI Deputy Director, saying he is racing the clock to retire.
In what appears to be a response to reports Andrew McCabe is stepping down next year, the President fired off a series of tweets Saturday claiming McCabe is waiting until he receives full benefits to quit.
How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2017
Additionally, The President blasted McCabe for alleged political bias, questioning how his wife can be given $700,000 for her campaign by Clinton puppets during the investigation.FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2017
Homeland Security says chain migration let terrorism-related suspects into U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security said chain
migration is the common element in two cases allegedly tied to terrorism
activities, according to a statement released Saturday.
In the statement on Twitter, Acting
Press Secretary Tyler Houlton said DHS “can confirm the suspect involved
in a terror attack in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and another suspect
arrested on terror-related money laundering charges were both
beneficiaries of extended family chain migration.”
BREAKING: My statement on Immigration Backgrounds of Recent Terror-Related Suspects: pic.twitter.com/I3JfZOfuBh— Tyler Q. Houlton (@SpoxDHS) December 24, 2017
WHITE HOUSE TO PUSH MERIT-BASED IMMIGRATION IN NEW CAMPAIGN
The memo referred to Ahmed Aminamin El-Mofty, 51, who it said was a naturalized U.S. citizen admitted to the U.S. from Egypt on a family-based visa. El-Mofty went on a shooting spree Friday in Harrisburg and was reportedly targeting police officers.
The gunman, carrying two rifles and a shotgun, fired at officers in multiple locations.
"He fired several shots at a Capitol police officer and at a Pennsylvania state police trooper in marked vehicles," Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said. The state trooper was injured but is “doing well,” he said.
El-Mofty pursued the trooper to a residential neighborhood and encountered law enforcement officers, who ultimately killed him after he fired “many shots” at them.
The statement also mentioned Zoobia Shahnaz, who DHS said was a naturalized U.S. citizen who entered from Pakistan, also on a family-based visa. Shahnaz was indicted on Dec. 14 after she allegedly laundered more than $85,000 through Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies overseas to the Islamic State.
END CHAIN MIGRATION, AS TRUMP WANTS, AND SWITCH TO MERIT-BASED IMMIGRATION
Acquiring the money through fraudulently obtained credit cards and a bank loan, Shahnaz laundered the funds to people in Pakistan, China and Turkey and “planned to travel to Syria and join ISIS,” federal officials said.
Shahnaz was charged in federal court with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In the DHS statement Saturday, Houlton said, “These incidents highlight the Trump administration’s concerns with extended chain migration.”
“Both chain migration and the diversity visa lottery program have been exploited by terrorists to attack our country,” Houlton said. “Not only are the programs less effective at driving economic growth than merit-based immigration systems used by nearly all other countries, the programs make it more difficult to keep dangerous people out of the United States and to protect the safety of every American.”
With immigrant pardons, Gov. Brown butts heads again with White House
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Butting heads once again with the White House on
immigration, California Gov. Jerry Brown used a Christmas holiday
tradition to grant pardons Saturday to two men who were on the verge of
being deported for committing crimes while in the U.S.
Brown characterized the pardons as acts of mercy, according to an article on Saturday in the Sacramento Bee.
The Democratic governor moved as federal officials in
recent months have detained and deported immigrants with felony
convictions that resulted in the loss of their legal residency status,
including many with nonviolent offenses from years ago.With the pardons, the reason for deportation may be eliminated, lawyer Kevin Lo of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, which represented some of the men in a recent class-action lawsuit, said in the Bee. The pardoned immigrants will still need to ask immigration courts to reopen their cases, he said.
In all, Brown pardoned 132 people for mostly nonviolent and drug-related crimes, and commuted the sentences of 19 others, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Brown’s pardons involved two Northern California Cambodian men picked up in October in immigration sweeps, Mony Neth of Modesto and Rottanak Kong of Davis.
Kong was convicted on felony joyriding in 2003 in Stanislaus County at age 25 and sentenced to a year in jail. Neth was convicted on a felony weapons charge with a gang enhancement and a misdemeanor charge of receiving stolen property with a value of $400 or less in 1995 in Stanislaus County, The Bee said.
Both men came to the U.S. as children after their families fled the Khmer Rouge.
Brown last defied the White House in October by signing into law so-called “sanctuary state” legislation, placing limitations on state and local law enforcement’s ability to help federal officials enforce immigration violations.
North Korea calls UN sanctions 'an act of war,' 'rigged up by the US'
North Korea on Sunday condemned the latest U.N.
sanctions as “an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic
blockade” and threatened to “punish those who support the measure.”
The response follows a unanimous vote
Friday by the U.N. Security Council for tougher measures against Kim
Jong Un's regime for its November test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
With the resolution, the U.N. aims to limit North
Korea’s access to refined petroleum products and crude oil. In addition,
the U.S.-backed resolution threatens to impose further restrictions if
North Korea conducts another nuclear test or launches another ICBM, Reuters reported.North Korea responded with a statement published by the state-run Korean Central News Agency: “We define this ‘sanctions resolution’ rigged up by the U.S. and its followers as a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our Republic, as an act of war violating peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region and categorically reject the ‘resolution.’”
KCNA: "Those countries that raised their hands in favor of this 'sanctions resolution' shall be held completely responsible for all the consequences to be caused by the 'resolution' and we will make sure for ever and ever that they pay heavy price for what they have done."— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) December 24, 2017
But North Korea’s foreign ministry insisted that the weapons were for self-defense and were not in violation of international law. However, North Korea has been pursuing its nuclear and missile programs for years in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has been critical of China – North Korea’s biggest trading partner – for not playing a bigger role in easing tensions. China has preferred to address North Korea with more measured solutions.
China said that the latest U.N. resolution highlights the need for a diplomatic solution to reduce tensions. A state-run tabloid in China suggested that the U.S. had pushed for even harsher sanctions, and that there was no way the U.N. would allow the U.S. to pursue military action on the Korean Peninsula.
“The difference between the new resolution and the original U.S. proposal," the tabloid said in an editorial, "reflects the will of China and Russia to prevent war and chaos on the Korean Peninsula. If the U.S. proposals were accepted, only war is foreseeable.”
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