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UPDATED 11:13 AM PT — Saturday, June 22, 2019
President Trump says ‘when people come into our country illegally, they will be deported’.
That’s according to a series of tweets by President Trump Saturday,
regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s upcoming deportation
sweep this week.
The people that Ice will apprehend have already
been ordered to be deported. This means that they have run from the law
and run from the courts. These are people that are supposed to go back
to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country,
& now by staying.
The President said, the individuals ICE are scheduled to apprehend
‘have already been ordered to be deported’ saying ‘they have run from
the law and run from the courts, these are people that are supposed to
go back to their home country’.
ICE will begin its massive deportation sweep Sunday, with reports
saying, they plan to remove up to 2,000 illegal migrants across ten
major cities.
Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor, Lori Lightfoot, says the city’s police will not cooperate with ICE in the deportation effort.
Rather, Lightfoot tweeted on Friday, that she ordered Chicago police
and law enforcement officials to block ICE’s access to city department
databases related to immigration.
She also said she personally reached out to ICE leadership in the city to voice her opposition to the raids.
Other cities where raids are expected to take place include Houston, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles.
In
this June 18, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his
re-election kickoff rally at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. Trump
declared Thursday that “Iran made a very big mistake” in shooting down a
U.S. drone. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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UPDATED 11:22 AM PT — Saturday, June 22, 2019
Cyber security firms say they’re seeing an uptick in Iranian cyber attacks against the U.S.
Iran is allegedly targeting U.S. cyber infrastructure in its recent
attacks, as tension continues to rise between Washington and Tehran.
Most often, the attacks take the form of a deceptive email, meant to
trick users into installing malicious software onto their systems.
Experts say, the report shows the length to which the Iranian regime is going to find out what the next U.S. move will be.
The surge in attacks this month took place around the same time the U.S. blamed Iran for the oil tanker attacks.
Former Vice President and current presidential candidate Joe Biden
promised Saturday that on "Day One" of a Biden presidency he would
repeal President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and close $500 billion on tax
loopholes.
Speaking at the South Carolina Democratic Party
Convention, Biden said that "Income inequities are at an all-time high
and made worse by Trump's tax cuts and enormous giveaways to the top
one-tenth of the 1 percent ... and it's time we start to reward work
over wealth."
Outlining
his policy proposals in this visit to the early primary state, Biden
said the GOP-backed tax cuts, which have been heavily criticized in some
quarters as beneficial only to the rich, have no socially redeeming
value. He vowed to "put that money to good use."
Biden promised
that, among other things, residual funds from the tax break would be put
toward initiatives such as green energy research and
development, two-year college tuition grants and a public-option health
insurance plan.
The
2020 hopeful also proposed an $8,000-per-child credit for child care.
In addition, he promised to increase Title I funding for schools with
high numbers of low-income students, and to allocate between $15 billion
and $45 billion to expand universal pre-K, raise teachers' pay, fully
fund special education and double the number of school psychologists,
guidance counselors and nurses to support public school systems.
Biden
also reiterated his plan to implement a public health care option like
Medicare, which would guarantee that low-income individuals have health
coverage.
Biden continues to lead the polls in a field of some two-dozen Democratic contenders.
President Trump said on Saturday that his administration was preparing an additional round of "major" sanctions against Iran amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
"Iran
cannot have Nuclear Weapons! Under the terrible Obama plan, they would
have been on their way to Nuclear in a short number of years, and
existing verification is not acceptable. We are putting major additional
Sanctions on Iran on Monday," he wrote in a tweet. "I look forward to
the day that sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and
prosperous nation again - The sooner the better!"
Earlier in the day, Trump told reporters that his administration was moving forward with sanctions.
“They’re going on slowly and in some cases pretty rapidly," Trump said as he was departing for Camp David.
The president also confirmed in a tweet that he would discuss Iran at Camp David this weekend.
“I am at Camp David working on many things, including Iran!” he wrote.
Concerns
about the possibility of a military confrontation rose on Thursday,
after Iran shot down a U.S. spy drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
Officials in Tehran and Washington have disputed whether the drone was
in Iranian airspace or not.
Trump said in a
tweet that the U.S. was “cocked & loaded” to retaliate on Thursday
night, but that he ultimately decided against doing so because 150
people would have died.
“We want to be
proportionate,” he said on Saturday, though he did not rule out the
possibility of future military action against Iran.
“It’s always on the table until we get this solved,” he added. “We have a tremendously powerful military force in that area.”
Trump
announced last year that Washington would unilaterally withdraw from
the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, bucking U.S. allies while imposing a
punishing round of economic sanctions.
The estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. should be granted 10-year visas “immediately,” a Democrat seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination said Friday.
John Hickenlooper, who served as Colorado’s
governor from 2011 until earlier this year, made the comment at the
NALEO forum in Miami, during a candidates forum sponsored by the
Spanish-language TV network Telemundo.
Other 2020 Democrats
participating in the forum were Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Amy
Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell and Elizabeth
Warren
Hickenlooper was asked what message he would have for those living in the U.S. illegally, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
“What
I would say with the 11 million people that are here now,” Hickenlooper
said, “[is] that we should give them a 10-year visa immediately, put
them on a pathway to citizenship and make sure that if it takes longer
they can have extensions."
During his response, Hickenlooper also referred to a 2014 interview in the Wall Street Journal, for which he received backlash for suggesting that illegal immigrants didn’t regard U.S. citizenship as a priority.
"What I was trying to say at that time,” Hickenlooper explained Friday, according to the Free Beacon, “was the priority should be allow people to come out from the shadows.”
Hickenlooper also proposed free health care for the undocumented.
At the same forum Friday, Hickenlooper also addressed remarks from earlier in the week, in which he criticized the Democratic socialism preached by fellow Democratic candidate Sanders.
Having
taken heat over criticizing a fellow Democrat, Hickenlooper instead
framed his answer as part of a critique of President Trump.
“President
Trump is fueling a national crisis of division in this country that is
moving the country backwards,” Hickenlooper said, according to the Hill. “But socialism is not the answer.”
Hickenlooper
announced his White House run in March, saying he aimed “to produce the
progressive change Washington has failed to deliver.”
Friday’s
event in Miami was part of the annual conference of the NALEO
Educational Fund, a nonprofit that helps U.S. Latinos participate in the
nation’s political process.
The conference for NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials) is scheduled to conclude Saturday.
Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden is reliably gaffe-prone and is leading in the polls chiefly due to his association with former President Barack Obama, according to Sean Spicer.
The
former vice president's name identification is another reason he leads a
pack of more than 20 candidates -- not because he is running a good
campaign, Spicer, a former White House press secretary under President
Trump. said Friday on Fox News' "Hannity."
"I think there's a false narrative out there that Joe Biden is some sort of political success," Spicer told guest host Jason Chaffetz.
"He's been saying dumb things since he was first elected in the early
1970s. He has run for president twice and epically failed.
"I
think there's a false narrative out there that Joe Biden is some sort
of political success. He's been saying dumb things since he was first
elected in the early 1970s. He has run for president twice and epically
failed." — Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary
"Biden
right now benefits from eight years of ... being vice president to,
frankly, a popular president from the Democratic Party."
However,
Biden's penchant for making public gaffes and the absence of Obama at
his side will hurt him when he joins his fellow contenders for next
week's primary debates in Miami, Spicer said.
"He is a flip-flopping gaffe machine," Spicer claimed.
"Right
now, once the other candidates have an opportunity to go after him on
the debate stage coming up ... and he doesn't have Obama to carry the
ticket, he will fail epically as he has twice before."
Most recently, Biden remained defiant
after making comments about how he was able to work well with former
Sens. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., and James O. Eastland, D-Miss., despite
the fact they were avowed segregationists.
Biden's
campaign defended the comments while the candidate himself rebuffed
calls for his apology -- and has fired back at his critics.
“Apologize
for what?” Biden told reporters Wednesday night when asked about the
criticism over his remarks. “Not a racist bone in my body. I've been
involved in civil rights my whole career. Period. Period. Period.” Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Eight Democratic presidential candidates made their pitches in Miami on Friday, courting the state’s more than 2 million Latino voters.
The
candidates spoke at the annual conference of NALEO, the National
Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. The group
included Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Hickenlooper, Pete Buttigieg and Eric Swalwell.
Most took swipes at President Trump and
his policies while covering topics that included immigration, climate
change and the U.S. economy. Just one day earlier, the president claimed
his support among Latinos has "gone way up."
Noticeably absent from the NALEO event was Joe Biden, the former vice president who is the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a recent Fox News Poll.
The
forum took place five days ahead of the first Democratic debate, which
also will be held in Miami, and came just three days after Trump
officially launched his 2020 re-election campaign with a raucous rally in Orlando, Fla., unveiling the slogan, "Keep America Great."
'Trump is a demagogue'
In
his speech, Sanders -- a U.S. senator from Vermont -- called out what
he referred to as the president's “racism” and “xenophobia” and promised
that if elected he would “undo the fear and the damage" Trump has
caused." He labeled Trump a “demagogue” who is picking on the immigrant
community in order to divide the nation.
"Let us not forget that
this administration is ripping children from the arms of their mothers,"
Sanders said. "Some of those children have died."
Sanders referred to Trump as a "demagogue."
"What
we have got to do is to understand that Trump is a demagogue and he
does what demagogues always do," Sanders said, according to the Hill,
"and what that is, is to pick on a minority -- and today that minority
is the immigrant community."
O'Rourke, a former congressman from
El Paso, Texas, announced that he would reunite every child separated at
the border and end the detention of migrant children through an
executive order.
"We will no longer put children in cages!” he told the audience.
Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census was a key issue at the event.
“It
is racist in its design,” O’Rourke said. “It's intended to suppress the
vote of Latinos, people of color, those whose country of national
origin was some other place, who came here to contribute to our babies.
Let's make sure they can by counting every single one of them.”
'That is our country'
Sen.
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said she would wait to weigh in on
the Census issue until after the Supreme Court decides the case. She
focused much of her speech on the economy but also promised to help
"Dreamers" -- those benefitting from DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals), an Obama-era program for assisting adults who came to the
U.S. illegally as children.
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
D-Mass., speaks during a forum on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Miami.
(Associated Press)
Julian Castro, a Texan who served in the Obama
administration as secretary of housing and urban development, said if
elected he would decriminalize illegal border crossings, expand DACA
through executive order and protect Venezuelans with Temporary Protected
Status.
“That is our country. That is America,” Castro said about his Mexican grandmother who came to the U.S. as a 7-year-old orphan.
Castro added: "Right before [President Trump] leaves [the White House] ... I'm going to tell him, 'Adios!'"
"Right before [President Trump] leaves [the White House] ... I'm going to tell him, 'Adios!' " — Julian Castro
Pete Buttigieg warned about Trump becoming a distraction as Democrats try to pitch their ideas to voters.
"The more we talk about this president, the less we talk about the people," he said.
"The more we talk about this president, the less we talk about the people." — Pete Buttigieg
Buttigieg,
who had been off the campaign trail to deal with an officer-involved
shooting in South Bend, Ind., where he is mayor, spoke about the
importance of giving Puerto Rico the right to vote.
“The
embarrassingly poor response to [Hurricane Michael, which struck the
island last October] would not have happened if Puerto Rico were
afforded electoral votes,” he said.
He added that America “must welcome the decision of the people of Puerto Rico” if they choose statehood. The Associated Press contributed to this story.
President Trump plans to nominate Army Secretary Mark Esper as the nation's next defense secretary, the White House announced Friday evening.
Esper
is set to start as acting defense secretary Monday following the
departure Friday of current acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan,
the Washington Post reported.
The transition at the Pentagon comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, following Iran's downing of a U.S. drone over international waters and the country's suspected involvement on attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month.
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 2, 2019. (Associated Press)
President Trump had announced Tuesday that Shanahan
was withdrawing from consideration for a permanent appointment to lead
the Pentagon because of family matters. In that same message, the president revealed that Esper was his choice to succeed Shanahan.
"I know Mark, and have no doubt he will do a fantastic job!," the president wrote.
Esper
has been secretary of the Army since November 2017. He served in the
Gulf War, worked on Capitol Hill and has been a lobbyist for Raytheon, a
defense contractor. His Washington experience far outweighs that of
Shanahan, who was a Boeing executive.
After Esper was nominated to lead the Army in 2017, the former infantry officer was confirmed by the Senate in an 89-6 vote, the Hill reported.
There has been no permanent secretary of defense since James Mattis
resigned last December. Under the Vacancies Reform Act, which says
department secretary positions can have an acting head for only 210
days, Trump must nominate a defense secretary by July 30, the Washington Post reported.
If nominated, Esper will have to step down from his acting secretary role while the Senate considers his nomination.
Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
D-Mass., speaks during a forum on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Miami.
(Associated Press)
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 2, 2019. (Associated Press)
