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Border Patrol Makes Its Case For An Expanded 'Border Barrier'
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 66 Comments • 5 years ago
“We could not make a measurable impact on the flow [of undocumented immigrants] across the border. It wasn't until we installed barriers along the...”
Senior Border Patrol officials are taking up President Trump's call for more miles of border barrier, pushing back against congressional Democrats who say additional fencing is unnecessary. During a ride-along with the Border Patrol on Wednesday in its San Diego sector, agents made it clear...
New Mexico ranchers frustrated with situation along U.S.-Mexico border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 44 Comments • 5 years ago
“There are so many voices, all of them important, in the national debate about border funding.”
HIDALGO COUNTY, N.M.- There are so many voices, all of them important, in the national debate about border funding. Tribal politics has pitted the country into “us versus them.” This very debate has also paralyzed the federal government in the longest shutdown in...
RUSSIA ROUTED MILLIONS TO INFLUENCE CLINTON IN URANIUM DEAL, INFORMANT TELLS CONGRESS
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 5 years ago
Moscow routed millions of dollars to the U.S. expecting the funds would benefit ex-President Bill Clinton’s charitable initiative while his wife, Hillary Clinton, worked to reset relations with Russia, an FBI informant in an Obama administration-era uranium deal stated. In a written statement...
She wields the knife’: Pelosi moves to belittle and undercut Trump in shutdown fight
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 5 years ago
“House Democrats on Wednesday were making plans to undermine President Trump at his Jan. 29 State of the Union address.”
House Democrats on Wednesday were making plans to undermine President Trump at his Jan. 29 State of the Union address. Just past 8:30 a.m., the leadership’s communications arm sent an email to lawmakers urging them to bring furloughed federal workers or other “message-related” guests to the...
Shutdown may upend State of the Union speech
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 95 Comments • 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown threw a prime Washington ritual into question Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to forgo his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech, expressing doubts that the hobbled government can provide adequate security....
Navajo code talker Alfred K. Newman dies at 94
Via: 1stwarrior • Anishinaabe - The First People • 5 Comments • 5 years ago
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A Navajo code talker who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II has died in New Mexico at age 94. Navajo Nation officials say Alfred K. Newman died Sunday at a nursing home in Bloomfield. Newman was among hundreds of Navajos who served...
'New party, who dis?'
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 5 years ago
“29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez mocks aging Joe Lieberman, 76, for hoping 'she's not the future' as frightened House Democrats scramble to deal with...”
Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped a hammer on Joe Lieberman on Thursday, after the onetime Democratic vice presidential candidate said he feared her brand of high-tax socialism could doom the party's chances for long-term dominance in Congress. 'I certainly hope she’s not the...
Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 5 years ago
“The effort is part carrot, part stick. But it's far from clear the anti-establishment political novice can be made to play ball.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus — and some of its members are mounting an operation to bring the anti-establishment, democratic socialist with 2.2 million Twitter followers into the fold. The effort, described by nearly 20 lawmakers and aides,...
THINGS DEMOCRATS HAVE FUNDED THAT COST MORE THAN THE BORDER WALL
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 101 Comments • 5 years ago
“Lawmakers have put less thought into other, more expensive projects over the years”
After President Trump requested $5.7 billion to fund the border wall he campaigned on in 2016, Democrats have dug in, refusing to appropriate the funds that the administration says are needed to better manage the flow of immigration across the southern border. Democrats are not traditionally...
Border Agents Give Media An Education About The Border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
“President Donald Trump held a surprise news conference on Thursday with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) who addressed the...”
President Donald Trump held a surprise news conference on Thursday with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) who addressed the media about the realities that Border Patrol agents face every day on the southern border. Trump started by congratulating Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on...