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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

“We are not going to let this country be invaded!

We will not be stampeded!

We will not capitulate to lawlessness!

This is NOT business as usual.

This is the Trump era!," the Attorney General said.

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Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 11:49pm: Border Patrol Sets Up Shop In New England – Gets Unbelievable Results In Only 11 Hours!
6/25/18 Hillary Silverman
US Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) agents have recently set up immigration checks in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to question motorists about their citizenship status as part of immigration enforcement actions under the Trump administration.
CBP agents made nine drug seizures and two arrests for immigration violations during an 11-hour checkpoint Wednesday, reports CBS Boston.
During the weekend of June 15-17, five illegal aliens were arrested from “Brazil, China, Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico,” according to CBS Boston.
The checkpoints are “a means of preventing smuggling organizations from exploiting existing transportation systems to travel to the interior of the United States,” the CBP said in a statement.
The Supreme Court has affirmed that the CBP can conduct immigration checks that are a “reasonable distance” of 100 air miles from U.S. borders and coastlines. Officers also have the ability to ask about their citizenship status irrespective of any suspicion.
“Travelers have the right to remain silent,” the CBP statement continued. “Travelers who cooperate are passed through quickly, unless the agent suspects they are in violation of federal law.
Travelers who refuse to cooperate may be referred to a secondary examination area to allow agents to conduct additional questioning to determine the traveler’s citizenship or residency.”
The American Civil Liberties Unions in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont filed suit against the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement in May. They are seeking records concerning local immigration enforcement actions, including bus raids, checkpoints, ICE arrests at previously safe locations like courthouses, and the alleged targeted arrests of immigrants’ rights activists.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 9:56am: CBS Poll: 51% of Americans Believe a Border Wall is a Good Idea!
6/24/18 Timothy Meads
As Townhall previously reported, a CBS poll released today showed that more Americans than not want illegal alien families either detained or deported all together. But, that same poll shows that 51% of Americans believe that a wall along the United States southern border is a good thing, even if that structure does not span coast-to-coast.
According to the poll, 32% of Americans believe that "a wall along the U.S. Mexican border" is a "good idea that can probably be completed." 19% of those polled answered that the wall is a "a good idea that should be tried, even if it cannot be completed." 48% of the 2063 adults polled said the wall was a "bad idea."
The CBS poll was conducted last week from June 21-June 22. The poll comes after nearly two weeks of intense national scrutiny of the Trump administration regarding its handling of the southern border child migrant crisis.
Democratic officials, liberals, and moderate Republicans have blasted President Trump for his "zero tolerance" policy of separately detaining illegal alien children from their parents when caught crossing the Mexican-American border.
President Trump has long promised a "big beautiful wall," but so far has been unable to receive the necessary funding.
In an op-ed on Friday, liberal commentator Andrew Sullivan argued that Democratic representatives should give Trump "his f*cking wall. He won the election. He is owed this. It may never be completed; it may not work, as hoped. But it is now the only way to reassure a critical mass of Americans that mass immigration is under control, and the only way to make any progress under this president."
But, Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who often votes against Trump, argued today that just a few months ago Congress actually had given President Trump the necessary funding for the border wall, but the White House opted to decline the bill in hopes of getting more political victories.
Sen. King told NBC "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd that, "Mike Rounds and I had an amendment, it was the one that got the most votes on the floor of the Senate. We got 54 votes. It was in a sense DACA for the wall. And the wall was fully funded. The Democratic Caucus voted, I think, 46 out of 48 members, 49 members for it. That was a hard sell. But the White House itself torpedoed the bill. They threatened to veto, they sent out a scurrilous press release from DHS and we had the votes. We had probably 65, 67 votes. They killed it. They had the wall in their hand and they let it go because they wanted more."
Despite President Trump signing an executive order last week that stopped the separation of families apprehended at the border, it is unclear where the debate on this issue will lead before the 2018 midterm elections.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 9:28am: Koreas discuss removing North's artillery from tense border.
6/25/18 7:22 AM AP News
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas are discussing the possible relocation of North Korea's long-range artillery guns away from the tense Korean border, South Korea's prime minister said Monday, as the countries forge ahead with steps to lower tensions and extend a recent detente.
If realized, it would be yet another conciliatory step by North Korea since it entered talks on giving up its nuclear weapons earlier this year. But some experts say it might be a tactic to push Seoul and Washington to withdraw their more sophisticated artillery systems from front-line areas in return for pulling back its outdated conventional weapons.
In a speech marking the 68th anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said that "moving North Korea's long-range artillery to the rear is under discussion," as he explained what types of goodwill steps between the Koreas have been taken in recent months.
Lee's comments appeared to be Seoul's first official confirmation of media reports that South Korea demanded that North Korea reposition its forward-deployed artillery pieces during inter-Korean military talks on June 14.
Seoul's Defense Ministry, which has denied those reports, said it had no immediate comment on Lee's speech.
North Korea has deployed an estimated 1,000 artillery pieces and rockets along the 155-mile border, putting the Seoul metropolitan area within its striking distance.
Seoul, a capital city with 10 million people, is about 25-30 miles from the border.
Many experts have called the North Korean artillery threats "significant" because it can inflict massive casualties and devastate much of Seoul in the initial hours of a war before the much-better-equipped U.S. and South Korean militaries could fully respond.
But there are also views that such an assessment may be an exaggeration as the North's artillery guns in general have poor accuracy and cannot destroy hard concrete structures.
During a North Korean artillery strike on a South Korean border island in 2010 that killed four people, 90 of the 170 shells fired by the North fell into the sea while 30 of the 80 shells that reached the island didn't explode, according to military commentator Lee Illwoo.
North Korea's pullout of its artillery would be "meaningless" or a symbolic
"gesture for peace," Lee said.
South Korean media speculated that during the June 14 military talks, North Korea likely demanded that South Korea and the United States withdraw their own artillery systems from the border as a reciprocal measure. Local media reports said North Korea also proposed the two Koreas and the United States stop flying surveillance and other aircraft near the border.
Shin Won-sik, a retired three-star South Korean general, said in a newspaper column last week that the South may not be able to find any place to reposition its artillery assets in densely populated rear areas if it pulls them from the border.
North Korea has said it's willing to give up its nuclear program if it's provided a reliable security assurance from the United States.
But it hasn't HASN'T any serious steps toward disarmament while repeating a vague pledge to achieve "complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," a phrase it has used in the past when it requested the United States to withdraw its 28,500 troops from South Korea and stop military exercises with the South.
North Korea's outreach to Seoul and Washington has still produced a temporary detente on the Korean Peninsula, with U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un holding a landmark summit on June 12.
South Korea and the United States recently announced the suspension of their annual military exercises called Ulchi Freedom Guardian and two other small-scale drills to increase the chances of successful nuclear diplomacy with North Korea. Some experts say the drills' suspension could weaken the allies' combined defense posture against North Korea.
On Monday, military officers of the two Koreas met and agreed to fully restore their military hotline communication channels, the South's Defense Ministry said.
The U.S. military said Saturday it moved 100 wooden coffins to the inter-Korean border to prepare for North Korea's return of the remains of American soldiers who have been missing since the 1950-53 Korean War.
The two Koreas last week also agreed to restart temporary reunions of families separated by the war in August.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 8:58am: Trump Wants Illegal Aliens Who 'Invade' US Sent "Immediately" Back Home!
6/25/18 8:54 AM Leah Barkoukis
President Trump on Sunday called for illegal immigrants who “invade” the U.S. to be sent “back from where they came” from without due process for deportation cases.
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country! When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, send them back from where they came! Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order,” he tweeted. “Most children come without parents…”
“Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit - we need people who will help to Make America Great Again! Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit - we need people who will help to Make America Great Again! ” he added.
The president's suggestion was quickly criticized by groups like the ACLU, which said what he was calling for was illegal.
“What President Trump has suggested here is both illegal and unconstitutional,” Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, told the AP. “Any official who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws should disavow it unequivocally.”
The House is expected to vote on immigration legislation this week, but Trump has signaled the lawmakers are "wasting their time."
"Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November.
Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem!
We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!" he wrote on Twitter Friday.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 8:47am: America’s Mexican Border Crisis: A 'Stage-Managed Creation'!
6/25/18 Carl Horowitz
The scripts and biased media images are indelible.
Roughly 2,300 minors from south of our border are living in temporary shelters in the U.S., many of them sobbing over separation from their parents, in the process winning the hearts though not necessarily the minds of morally unctuous politicians, corporate executives, journalists and clergy.
These pop-up humanitarians are using the crisis as a pretext to denounce President Trump and prod Congress into enacting pending amnesty legislation.
Their bluster should be ignored. [This is a stage-managed crisis!]
Its intent is to embarrass the current administration whose “crime” is enforcing laws long neglected by previous administrations.
That Trump caved into his critics by signing an executive order on June 20th barring family separations, predictably, has not quelled the outcry.--
In recent months, illegal immigration from Mexico, often by people passing through Mexico, has exploded.
In a press conference held Monday, June 18, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen laid out the situation:
I)n the last three months we have seen illegal immigration on our Southern Border exceed 50,000 people each month – multiples over each month last year. Since this time last year, there has been a 325% increase in Unaccompanied Alien Children and a 435% increase in family units entering the country illegally.
Over the last ten years, there has been a 1,700% increase in 'asylum claims', resulting in an asylum backlog today, in our country of 600,000 cases!
Since 2013, the United States has admitted more than a half a million illegal alien minors and family units from Central America – most of whom today are at large in the United States.
At the same time, large criminal organizations such as MS-13 have violated our borders and gained a deadly foothold within the United States.
This is an accurate assessment. Yet high-minded cynics are determined to put the Trump administration on trial.
Our nation is a haven for victims of persecution, they say. As such, any attempt to separate children from their law breaking elders, even for a few weeks, constitutes a gross human rights outrage.
The setting for this moral theater is longstanding federal law mandating the federal government to provide temporary support for alien minors unaccompanied by detained parents who entered illegally.
The much-publicized detention centers are NOT “concentration camps!”
The Trump administration put forth its “zero tolerance” policy for illegal entry into the U.S. not to punish children, but to discourage further wanton law breaking. This policy is intended to prevent suffering of children, not impose it.
It is authorized by the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Homeland Security Act.
Unfortunately, many opinion leaders in this country are reading something sinister into this. Sen. dianne frankenstein, D-Calif., in an interview on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes,” accused the Trump administration of “using these children as hostages.” In a tweet, Sen. john mccain, R-Ariz., called the zero-tolerance policy “an affront to the decency of the American people.”
Former First Lady Laura Bush, in a guest opinion piece for the June 17 Washington Post, wrote, “This zero-tolerance policy is cruel.”
Apple Computer CEO Tim Cook denounced administration enforcement as “inhumane.” And avowed Trump supporter Franklin Graham, head of the nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse and son of late evangelist Billy Graham, called the family separations “disgraceful.”
Such comments are blind to reality. The current border crisis is the culmination of decades of laws, policies, court decisions and enforcement practices pushed by open-borders fanatics. And almost without question it is being timed to facilitate congressional passage of amnesty legislation. Wrapped in the rhetoric of bipartisanship, such legislation, far from resolving the border crisis, would exacerbate it.
Let’s look at some inconvenient facts.
Most of the unauthorized immigrants entering the U.S. through the Mexican border actually are from Central America.
According to information from the dozens of Mexican consulates located here, fewer than 25 of the roughly 2,300 minors taken from their parents – about 1% are mexican.
The vast majority are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras; most unaccompanied mexican children already have been deported.
It is a mark of the failure of mexican authorities as well as our own that our southern border remains porous despite large increases in U.S. Border Patrol deployment.
Many “parents” of these children are NOT parents, but lying!
Many of the people who brought the children here are smugglers, commonly known as “coyotes,” who for a price take people from mexico and drop them off at unspecified U.S. locations not far inland.
Obviously, these children did not have the money to pay the smugglers. Someone is covering the expense! These smugglers are not humanitarians. They don’t do anything for free. They are akin to operators of “rescue ships” ferrying African migrants across dangerous Mediterranean waters to Europe.
When debriefed by law enforcement, many cannot answer even basic questions about their supposed offspring. Wonder why?
The parents, not the Trump administration, have created “family separation.”
Even assuming that asylum-seeking adults who transported minor children to the U.S. ARE the parents, they have a lot to answer for.
They effectively are using these children as 'political cover' in an effort to win asylum status.
In making that long trip from Central America into the U.S., they are exposing their children to a wide range of dangerous situations, both natural and man-made.
Many adults who seek asylum are coached to lie.
Under federal law, an alien who enters our country illegally must demonstrate a “credible fear” of persecution back home to avoid removal. 'Most' are gaming the system.
It is an open secret that asylum-seeking adults from abroad are coached on how to concoct tales of woe in filling out written application and then explaining their situation in face-to-face interviews.
This is a racket. Back in 2012, fully 26 individuals, including several lawyers, were indicted in Manhattan federal court for submitting fraudulent applications on behalf of alien applicants.
The Trump administration has been trying to move unaccompanied children to long-term housing.
The administration is doing everything it can to find alternatives to detention centers. Unfortunately, this task requires coordination with outside parties. And it’s not getting it.
Three commercial air carriers – American, United and Frontier Airlines – each recently announced they will not fly unaccompanied alien youths from “cages” to dormitory-style shelters in various states.
This high-minded response will have the unintended effect of keeping kids in detention centers that much longer – a self-fulfilling prophecy.
There is something contemptible about using children as love objects for political gain.
The current crisis started long before President Trump moved into the White House.
For decades, Congress, the courts and a succession of administrations have allowed our nation to be overwhelmed by illegal immigration "freeloading" from the U.S. public benefit trough.
The Trump administration is trying to manage the consequences!
Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen said Monday:
“Congress and the courts created this problem, and Congress alone can fix it. Until then, we will enforce every law we have on the books to defend the sovereignty and security of the United States!” She’s right.
And any subsequent immigration legislation must reflect the national interest. America is still a nation, not a borderless global sanctuary.

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 3:40am: Teen sentenced in 2014 street fight killing of another Chicago girl.
14 6/20/18 By/ Crimesider Staff/ AP/
A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting another 14-year-old girl in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy will be eligible for parole in April next year.
The teen, who turns 19 next month, struggled to hold back tears as she read a statement to the court before her sentencing Wednesday.
She asked the family of Endia Martin for forgiveness and acknowledged:
"Nothing I can say will mend your hearts."
The defendant hasn't been named because she was 14 when the shooting occurred and was charged as a juvenile.
She was handed a mandatory sentence of at least five years in custody, and she can't be held beyond her 21st birthday. With the time she has already served, she will be eligible for parole next April.
The teen also pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the wounding of Lanekia Reynolds, the girl she had intended to fight the day she killed Endia.
The case came to symbolize how the gun violence that plagues parts of Chicago passes from one generation to the next. The girl was given the firearm by an adult who knew the cost of gun violence as well as anyone.
"There is a cycle of violence that just perpetuates itself," said Eugene Roy, a retired police commander who oversaw the investigation of the shooting. "And unfortunately, what happened is not surprising."
Her uncle Donnell Flora, who has been paraplegic since he was shot in 2010, testified that when he learned his niece and Reynolds planned to fight, he grabbed a handgun, got onto a bus and made his way to the scene, which was outside of a home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side.
Flora testified that he brought the gun to protect his niece and gave it to her with instructions to give it to her adult cousin, Vandetta Redwood, which he saw her do.
But in the chaos of a crowd of a few dozen people that had gathered on the street, the freshman honor student raised the gun and opened fire.
Reynolds and Martin, who were on the porch of a house, fled inside. As they did, one bullet grazed Reynolds' arm. Another found Endia Martin's back, killing her.
Flora was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the case and was sentenced to 100 years in prison.
Redwood, meanwhile, was charged with handing the loaded gun to the teen, but she was acquitted.
"There are no excuses or rationalization for giving a child a gun to take to a ridiculous fight about a boy," Judge Thaddeus Wilson told Flora when he sentenced him in January. "Children in this city are dying by the hundreds because adults fail to and/or refuse to be adults."
During a recent phone interview from his prison in southern Illinois, Flora didn't make excuses for introducing a gun to a dispute between young girls. Choosing his words carefully so as not to endanger his appeal, he tried to explain his rationale.
"You have kids 12, 13, 14 with guns," he said. "It wasn't no grown-up who shot me, it was a kid."
Joel Brodsky, an attorney who represented Flora during his trial, said Flora just wanted to have a gun at the scene for his niece's protection.
"He really cared for his niece, didn't want any harm to come to her. And his testimony was he wanted the gun to be present in case somebody came at her with deadly force," Brodsky said.
Roy, the police commander who oversaw the investigation, isn't buying it.
"Here's a guy who's a paraplegic, his life has already been destroyed by gun violence, and what's he doing?" Roy asked. "He's encouraging gun violence that went to the next step: murder."
**** BLACKS KILLING BLACKS, BECAUSE BLACK LIVES MATTER. ****

She asked the family of Endia Martin for forgiveness and acknowledged: "Nothing I can say will mend your hearts."

The defendant hasn't been named because she was 14 when the shooting occurred and was charged as a juvenile.

She was handed a mandatory sentence of at least five years in custody, and she can't be held beyond her 21st birthday. With the time she has already served, she will be eligible for parole next April.

The teen also pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the wounding of Lanekia Reynolds, the girl she had intended to fight the day she killed Endia.

The case came to symbolize how the gun violence that plagues parts of Chicago passes from one generation to the next. The girl was given the firearm by an adult who knew the cost of gun violence as well as anyone.

"There is a cycle of violence that just perpetuates itself," said Eugene Roy, a retired police commander who oversaw the investigation of the shooting. "And unfortunately, what happened is not surprising."

Her uncle Donnell Flora, who has been paraplegic since he was shot in 2010, testified that when he learned his niece and Reynolds planned to fight, he grabbed a handgun, got onto a bus and made his way to the scene, which was outside of a home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side.

Flora testified that he brought the gun to protect his niece and gave it to her with instructions to give it to her adult cousin, Vandetta Redwood, which he saw her do. But in the chaos of a crowd of a few dozen people that had gathered on the street, the freshman honor student raised the gun and opened fire. Reynolds and Martin, who were on the porch of a house, fled inside. As they did, one bullet grazed Reynolds' arm. Another found Endia Martin's back, killing her.

Flora was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the case and was sentenced to 100 years in prison. Redwood, meanwhile, was charged with handing the loaded gun to the teen, but she was acquitted.

"There are no excuses or rationalization for giving a child a gun to take to a ridiculous fight about a boy," Judge Thaddeus Wilson told Flora when he sentenced him in January. "Children in this city are dying by the hundreds because adults fail to and/or refuse to be adults."

During a recent phone interview from his prison in southern Illinois, Flora didn't make excuses for introducing a gun to a dispute between young girls. Choosing his words carefully so as not to endanger his appeal, he tried to explain his rationale.

"You have kids 12, 13, 14 with guns," he said. "It wasn't no grown-up who shot me, it was a kid."

Joel Brodsky, an attorney who represented Flora during his trial, said Flora just wanted to have a gun at the scene for his niece's protection.
"He really cared for his niece, didn't want any harm to come to her. And his testimony was he wanted the gun to be present in case somebody came at her with deadly force," Brodsky said.
Roy, the police commander who oversaw the investigation, isn't buying it.

"Here's a guy who's a paraplegic, his life has already been destroyed by gun violence, and what's he doing?" Roy asked. "He's encouraging gun violence that went to the next step: murder."

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 3:28am: "The-restless-wave"
Straight Talk has long been Sen. John McCain's political hallmark.
Now, with his life quite literally on the line, the senator is offering straight talk and more in a new memoir, co-authored by the man our Chip Reid's been talking to:
John McCain returned to the U.S. Senate last July, for a critical vote on a Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and he was nearly moved to tears by his reception.
Just one week earlier, the Arizona senator had been diagnosed with brain cancer, after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a blood clot.
But just moments after that standing ovation, McCain -- always the maverick -- chastised colleagues in both parties with some of his renowned straight talk:
"Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and on the internet. To hell with them," he said. "We've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle," he said. "We're getting nothing done, my friends; we're getting nothing done."
On 7/27/17, turning his thumb down, Senator John McCain joined Republican Senators Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, and all Democrats, in voting against a Senate Bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Mark Salter, who has been writing speeches for McCain for 30 years," said McCain's words really resonated: "Part of it obviously was because he had just received this very tough diagnosis. And he looked like he had just had brain surgery. That speech spoke of his love for the place and what it was capable of doing and how senators can be the equal of statesmen in any White House, you know? And that we should strive to be that way and we should want to work together to make progress on our country's problems."
The story of that dramatic night is just one of many in McCain's new memoir, "The Restless Wave," published by Simon & Schuster (a division of CBS). Covering the last ten years, the book details his historic presidential campaign against barry obuma, as well as his disagreements with President obuma, and President Donald Trump, about America's place in the world.
The title, Salter says, comes from the Navy hymn. "He's a very restless man, as anyone who knows him or has covered him knows. And only God could slow him down. And that's [why] he thought that was an appropriate title."
As McCain writes (and as he's heard in the book's audio edition):
"I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe with the advances in oncology they'll find new treatments for my cancer that will extend my life.
"Maybe I'll be gone before you hear this," he added.
Reid asked, "Do you think this became a different book as a result of the diagnosis?"
"Yes, it did," said Salter. "Much different."
How so? "Well. I don't really want to say it's a last testament, 'cause he's fighting hard on sticking around for a while. But he did want to tell Americans how much this country meant to him before he was gone, and how much he thinks this country means to the world."
The book incorporates key themes from some of McCain's recent speeches, including one in Philadelphia last October, at the National Constitution Center, that many saw as a direct swipe at President Trump.
McCain said:
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership, and our duty to remain the last, best hope of Earth, for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems, is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history."
Salter said, "He didn't want to turn this into a personal attack on Donald Trump, and I don't think it really is. But it does take strong exception with some of the president's views because they are in great contrast to his own."
"If John McCain could sit down and try to change Donald Trump's mind on one issue, what would it be?" asked Reid.
"On the importance of American leadership in the world," Salter replied. "The world order that's existed for 75 years is worth maintaining. It has made us powerful and wealthy, and it has freed people from tyranny and poverty more so than at any other time in history."
At the U.S. Naval Academy on October 20, 2017, McCain said:
"We have to fight. We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. We have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions. We have to remind our sons and daughters that we became the most powerful nation on Earth by tearing down walls, not building them."
McCain also criticizes the way in which many Americans have walled themselves off from those who disagree with them, writing about his friendships with killary clinton, joe biden and murdering ted kennedy.
"He always seemed to have as many good friends on the Democratic side as on the Republican side," Reid said.
"He does. That's really one of the main messages he wanted this book to convey to the American people: Don't assume that if someone votes differently than you, that they don't deserve your respect, or your friendship," Salter said.
In fact, one of the book's most stunning revelation has to do with one of McCain's closest friends from across the aisle, expressing regret at not having chosen Senator Joe Lieberman (a Democrat who then became an Independent) as his running mate.
"He does," said Salter. "He does not say, though, as has been interpreted, that he regrets choosing Sarah Palin."
"That was my follow-up question: How can he regret not choosing Joe Lieberman but not regret choosing her?"
"Because he was persuaded not to pick Joe Lieberman. You know, it leaked out that we were considering it, and the advice of his staff -- among them me -- saying, 'You can't do it.'
"He regrets listening to us, I think!" laughed Salter. "But after he made the decision, he never regretted it. And in the book he defends her. And he's never uttered a word, in private or public, of criticism of her."
"Does he sometimes worry that there might have been a direct line from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump?" asked Reid.
"I've never heard him express that."
Last month, McCain underwent another surgery -- this one to treat an infection.
While his cancer is terminal, the 81-year-old war hero is still fighting, and says he doesn't feel cheated; he feels blessed.
"A fight not joined is a fight not enjoyed, and I wouldn't mind another scrap or two before I'm a memory. Who knows, maybe I'll get another round. And maybe I won't. So be it. I've lived in this wondrous land for most of eight decades, and I've had enough good fights and good company in her service to satisfy even my restless nature. Who am I to complain, my friends? I'm the luckiest man on Earth."

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 3:05am: Homeland Security employees warned of increased threats amid alien uproar.
6/24/18 CBS News
The acting deputy secretary of homeland security warned employees Saturday that "there may be a heightened threat" against them, according to a memo obtained by CBS News.
The warning comes amid the increasing furor over the Trump admin's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
"This assessment is based on specific and credible threats that have been levied against certain DHS employees and a sharp increase in the overall number of general threats against DHS employees -- although the veracity of each threat varies," says the message from Claire M. Grady. "In addition, over the last few days, thousands of employees have had their personally identifiable information publically [sic] released on social media."
Trump administration calls for expanded use of immigrant family detention
The memo recommends numerous safety precautions, including not displaying work badges in public, being careful with public conversations and using caution on all social networks. It also recommends DHS employees "always keep doors and windows locked" and "be aware of unexpected changes in and around your home." DHS employees are encouraged to call 911 if they feel threatened and if local law enforcement doesn't respond, to call Federal Protective Service.
Grady says she is "eternally grateful" for all the work DHS employees have been putting in, but "there are those who misconstrue your work in a negative way or seek to disrupt your work to advance outside agenda."
The Trump administration enacted a "zero tolerance" policy against undocumented immigrants entering the country in April, detaining parents and placing children in government-contracted shelters. Earlier this week amid intense backlash, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending family separation but said "zero tolerance" is here to stay.
The coverage of the controversy has dominated the news for over a week.
On Thursday, WikiLeaks published a database identifying more than 9,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees, according to The Washington Post. According to the Post, the database included information such as employees' publicly available personal information and job history scraped from LinkedIn and their LinkedIn profile pictures and information on their educational background and the city and state in which they're based.
As anger over the issue has grown, protesters on Tuesday disrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner at a Mexican restaurant.
On Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. The owner told The Washington Post she asked Sanders and her party to leave because "this feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals."
There were protests held nationwide Saturday over immigration as elected officials demanded access to the shelters where children are being held.
Late Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement that 522 children had been reunited with their families.
Those children were in the custody of Customs and Border Protection.
HHS said that as of June 20, 2,053 separated minors were in the custody of HHS.
HHS said it is "working with relevant agency partners to foster communications and work towards reuniting every minor and every parent or guardian via well-established reunification processes."

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 2:26am: WATCH: President Trump Demands Action On Sanctuary Cities.
4/2/18
https://youtu.be/cezI_IN0YI0
Transcript:
"My Fellow Americans,
Protecting the safety and well-being of American Citizens is my highest duty as President. Yet, lawless sanctuary jurisdictions are nullifying federal law, obstructing immigration enforcement, and releasing thousands of criminal aliens into U.S. communities to prey on innocent victims. It’s absolutely terrible.
For example, in recent days, San Francisco officials denied ICE’s request to turn over a criminal alien with a prior conviction for battery and a charge for driving under the influence.
In another city in Mexifornia, local law enforcement recently denied ICE’s request to turn over a criminal alien convicted of Sexual Battery who had a history of domestic violence. A truly violent person.
And last week, the mayor of Oakland warned criminal aliens of a coming ICE enforcement action – giving them time to scatter and hide from authorities. The mayor’s conduct directly threatened the safety of federal immigration officers and the law-abiding Americans in her community.
The State of Mexifornia is sheltering dangerous criminals in a brazen and lawless attack on our Constitutional system of government. Every state in our Union is subject to the laws and Constitution of the United States – including Mexifornia.
Yet Mexifornia’s leaders are in open defiance of federal law. They don’t care about crime. They don’t care about death and killings. They don’t care about robberies. They don’t care about the kind of things that you and I care about.
In other recent cases, New York authorities released illegal aliens who were previously charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, possession of poisonous drugs, and strangling a person – in each case, New York officials had refused to turn these dangerous illegal aliens over to ICE or notify ICE about their release with enough time for them to be safely arrested!
Just this week, the city of Denver refused ICE’s request to turn over a criminal illegal alien charged with vehicular homicide for killing another driver in a horrific hit-and-run.
Sanctuary jurisdictions are the best friend of smugglers, gang members, drug dealers, human traffickers, killers, and other violent offenders!
We want our cities to be sanctuaries for Americans, not safe havens for criminals. That is why I am calling on Congress to block funds for jurisdictions that shield dangerous criminals.
It is time to end the bloodshed brought about by reckless sanctuary policies – and it is time to save American lives and American cities!
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America."
President Donald Trump

Comment by Bullheaded Texan on June 25, 2018 at 2:16am: Sessions Responds to His Critics.
6/23/18 by: TTN Source: Trump Train News HQ
In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Attorney General Jeff Sessions responded to his critics:
Sessions was personally criticized when he quoted scripture to justify separating families at the southern border, something CBN's David Brody asked him about.
"I don't think it was an extreme position that I took," said Sessions. "I directed it not to say that religion requires these laws on immigration. I just simply said to my Christian friends, 'You know, the United States has laws and I believe that Paul was clear in Romans that we should try to follow the laws of government of which we are a part.'"
"I believe, strongly, that it is moral, decent and just for a nation to have a lawful system of immigration," Sessions said. "I'm not aware of a single nation in the world that doesn't have some sort of rules about who can enter and who cannot enter. I believe there is biblical support for that, too."
Sessions told Brody that all of the criticism has not gone unfelt, especially the criticism coming from his Christian brothers and sisters.
Sessions, the former US Senator from Alabama, has stood by Trump's side since the early days of Trump's campaign.