The Border & Illegal Aliens, And What We Are Doing About It.

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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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**** ONCE IN, YA CAN'T GET THEM OUT !! ****
John McCain's Replacement Announced?
05/29/18 by: TTN Staff
Senator John McCain a long time staple in the United States Senate is gravely ill, and will likely need to be replaced soon. But in a new twist, the seat looks to be staying in the family. His wife Cindy, is reported to be his heir apparent.
According to Emily Zanotti of Daily Wire:
If Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) dies in office, his wife, Cindy McCain, will succeed him, according to a new report from Washington, D.C. insider and veteran journalist John Gizzi.
Although no official plans have been made just yet -- and Sen. John McCain is still well enough to remain at work -- Arizonans with knowledge of the situation tell Gizzi and Newsmax that they fully expect Arizona's Republican governor, Doug Ducey, to appoint McCain's wife to finish out his Senate term.
I've always assumed that was the arrangement," one "friend of the McCain family" told the outlet.
Another former Republican Senator reportedly agreed: "I don't know if this succession has been formalized, but that's what people who know John tell me."
Apparently, the McCain's like to keep it in the family and will not relinquish the McCain name being associated with this Senate seat without a fight.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Check Out This Lost 1980 Election Eve Speech Written for Ronald Reagan:
5/30/18 4:20 pm Reason Staff
During the 1980 presidential campaign John McClaughry served as one of Ronald Reagan's three principal speechwriters. In late October 1980, he was assigned to draft Reagan's election eve national television speech. The idea—initially—was to summarize the main points of his campaign for the presidency, and to illustrate how his thinking on public issues would serve the American people.
Before McClaughry could produce a third draft, there was a new development. According to three-day running polls, Reagan was leading President Jimmy Carter by 10 points nationally and his support was trending upwards. So the campaign high command decided—rightly—to not have Reagan give an election eve address.
"Reagan's Lost Speech" was never cleared for delivery, or even (so far as we know) shown to Reagan. But it encapsulated ideas that made Reagan so appealing to so many, most importantly the notion that "the overriding question is not one of Left or Right.
It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
In the speech, which unfortunately bore little resemblance to his presidency once it was underway, Reagan would offer his dream as president to "capture a vision of America—strong, vital, productive—where the affliction of giantism began to give way before a resurgence of individual liberty, of strong families, of the human-scale institutions that give meaning to our existence, of a new faith in American's future."

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This Late-Night Host Actually Defended Trump Against Fake News.
5/30/18 Daily Caller
Late-night comedian Trevor Noah defended President Donald Trump Tuesday night by refuting the claims his administration lost track of 1,500 immigrant children.
“If you were only reading the headlines and the tweets, you’d being thinking right now that the Trump administration had captured and then lost 1,500 kids, and because of that people online lost their shit. They were like ‘this is an outrage! How could Donald Trump lose our precious immigrant babies?'” Noah, the host of “The Daily Show,” said.
“It turns out these immigrant kids aren’t lost by Trump. They just don’t want any contact with anyone in the Trump administration.”
Noah then explained that the children are not missing but actually unaccounted for because sponsors have refused to respond to follow up calls according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Source: Daily Caller

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Texas Governor Announces Bi-Partisan School Safety Plan In Wake of Santa Fe Shooting.
5/30/18 5:00 PM Beth Baumann
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday announced a bi-partisan school safety plan for schools in the Lone Star State.
The plan was crafted after Abbott held a three-day roundtable with victims, parents, educators, lawmakers, law enforcement and policy experts, to discuss how to strengthen safety in schools.
“This plan is a starting point, not an ending place,” Abbott said in a statement. “It provides strategies that can be used before the next school year begins to keep our students safe when they return to school. This plan will make our schools safer and our communities safer.”
Gov. Abbott's School and Firearm Safety Plan includes:
• Criminal Justice Division in the Office of the Governor will provide $70 million in grants and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 will provide an additional $40 million in grants to help implement the plan. Abbott will also work with the Texas legislature to find an additional $30 million for this initiative.
• Immediately increasing law enforcement presence at schools by hiring retired law enforcement officers and military veterans for school security.
• Training more school marshals, increasing funding for school marshals and increasing the number of school marshals that can be appointed at each school.
• Removing the firearm storage requirement for school marshals who are in direct contact with students, revamping marshal training requirements to focus more time on firearms training and requiring marshals to undergo an annual refresher course.
• Providing active shooter and emergency response training by better preparing campus security to respond to active shooter. The Texas School Safety Center will partner with the I Love You Guys Foundation to provide training in the Standard Response Protocol and the Standard Reunification Method for school personnel.
• The Texas Education Agency (TEA) will work with school districts to prioritize $62.1 million in new federal funding toward immediate school safety improvements, including school hardening, increased law enforcement patrols, implementation of mental health programs, and other recommendations discussed in this plan.
• The School Safety and Security Committee should be required to discuss the expansion of patrol zones to include the school district with local law enforcement; hold meetings at least three times a year; periodically provide updates to the school board; and schools should be required to notify parents if a significant threat to students’ safety occurs.
• Providing mental health evaluations to identify students at risk of harming others and expand access to Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s Telemedicine Wellness Intervention Triage & Referral (TWITR) Project.
• Increasing Mental Health First Aid training during summer 2018.
• The Texas School Safety Center will partner with SIGMA Threat Management to deliver training on Behavioral Threat Assessment to school personnel.
• Expanding Crime Stoppers operations and launch an awareness campaign for school employees and students to encourage the reporting of tips related to school crime.
• Increasing the use and awareness of DPS’ “iWatch Texas” reporting system to enable and encourage parents, students, and teachers to easily report potential harm or criminal activity directed at school students, school employees, and schools.
• Increasing the number of fusion centers in Texas to improve law enforcement’s ability to identify, process, and resolve potential threats that appear on social media.
• Including charter schools in the same school safety requirements and options as Independent School Districts.
• Creating a statewide case management system to provide magistrates immediate access to critical information and to speed the timely reporting of court records for federal background checks.
• Encouraging the Texas Senate and House leaders to issue an interim charge to consider the merits of adopting a red flag law allowing law enforcement, a family member, school employee, or a district attorney to file a petition seeking the removal of firearms from a potentially dangerous person only after legal due process is provided.
• Mandating a 48-hour reporting period to close gaps in federally mandated background checks.
• Strengthening The Safe Firearm Storage Law and promoting the use of gun locks.
• Making it mandatory for gun owners to report when their firearms are lost or stolen within 10 days.
Santa Fe will immediately receive $1 million to Santa Fe ISD through the School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) program:
• Deploying crisis response counselors to beet immediate mental health needs.
• Assisting Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) efforts to provide a long-term behavioral health response.
• Ensuring First Responders have mental health resources.
• Providing additional counselors to ISDs in the Santa Fe area.
• Providing highly-trained counselors to Santa Fe ISD for the upcoming school year.
• Coordinating long-term community mental health efforts.
The Dallas Independent School District live streamed the press conference, where the plan was unveiled:

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Hamas Just Sent a Mortar, Likely Provided By Iran, Through an Israeli Kindergarten.
5/30/18 5:30 PM Katie Pavlich
Over the past 24-hours, the Iranian backed terrorist organization Hamas launched nearly 100 rockets and mortars into Israel with the intention of slaughtering innocent civilians.
Israeli Defense forces responded by targeting a series of Hamas strongholds in the Gaza Strip.
A close look at the rockets shows many were developed and sent by Iran. While the Iron Dome has intercepted most of the attacks, one of the mortars landed in the yard of an Israeli kindergarten where children play.
Luckily, it was in the early morning hours before children were at the school. Another landed in a civilian home.
A number of Israeli soldiers and civilians have been wounded as a result of the rocket fire.
During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, when Israel launch a full-scale military operation to combat Hamas and their rocket war, medical workers at a hospital in Ashkelon were forced to permanently move premature babies into a bomb shelter.

[Bullheaded Texan]

Deported Immigrant's Wife: Trump Just Doing His Job.
05/29/18 by: TTN Staff
The media slams President Trump and spins the story every time one comes out of a deportation.
In all actuality, the president is only doing his job. Well, the media will not like what the wife of a deported immigrant had to say recently.
According to Fox News:
A U.S. citizen appeared on CNN on Tuesday to defend the Trump administration's decision to deport her husband.
Jorge Garcia was escorted by immigration agents through the security gates at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in January and deported to Mexico after he spent nearly three decades living in Michigan and raising a family.
Although she wants to see changes to U.S. immigration laws, Garcia said she is not angry with immigration officials for following the current laws.
"I am not upset at our government due to the fact that I am a U.S. citizen and that our laws come first," Garcia said. "Our laws are broken and need to be fixed, but I can't be mad at Trump for doing his job, because that is his job to protect us, as U.S. citizens, from criminals."
Immigration reform is needed, and a major push is happening from the Trump Administration and in Congress. Hopefully, change comes sooner rather than later.

[Bullheaded Texan]

New York Times Issues Correction After Trump Tweets.
05/30/18 by: TTN Staff
The New York Times recently had to issue a correction after President Trump called them out for false reporting. The Times original estimate was off, significantly, and Trump took to Twitter to let them know they were wrong.
According to The Hill:
The New York Times has corrected a crowd size estimate it provided following President Trump's rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night, after receiving sharp criticism from the president.
The paper on Wednesday stated that attendance was more than five times larger than estimates it had originally reported.
“While no exact figure is available, the fire marshal’s office estimated that approximately 5,500 people attended the rally, not about 1,000 people,” the correction stated.
The correction comes after the president railed against the Times on Twitter Wednesday morning, accusing the newspaper of intentionally underestimating the crowd size and of being comprised of "very dishonest" people who don't "get" him.
The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes estimated the crowd last night at “1000 people,” when in fact it was many times that number - and the arena was rockin’. This is the way they demean and disparage. They are very dishonest people who don’t “get” me, and never did! Donald J. Trump 5/30/18
This isn't the first time Trump has had to call out a media mistake. The only questionable pattern of the mistakes seem to be they never exhibit a positive lean. Is that a coincidence or intentional?

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Analysis: As Competing Russia Accusations Swirl, Pay Close Attention to What Rowdy Trey Gowdy is Telling Us.
5/30/18 2:05 PM Guy Benson
Very interesting stuff from retiring Congressman Rowdy Trey Gowdy -- a former federal prosecutor and South Carolina conservative who's developed a reputation in Washington for sharp thinking and independent straight shooting.
He is also among the exceptionally small handful of lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been privy to details pertaining to the federal government's handling of the Russia probe and its various tentacles. In an interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum last night, Rowdy Gowdy acknowledged a string of legitimate frustrations President Trump harbors about the Russia matter, as well as certain former members of the intelligence community and Justice Department.
But he quickly pivoted to reassuring both Trump and the American people that the furor over 'spy-gate' (the narrative under which the obuma DOJ supposedly placed an informant within the opposition party's presidential campaign to help defeat it) has been vastly overblown:
Was that point of view that you're talking about right now strengthened when you went into this briefing last week?
TG: Yes. I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. He followed this up with an appearance on CBS This Morning earlier today.
Gowdy was one of the very few people who attended one of two closely-held, classified DOJ briefings last week about this very controversy.
He has seen more actual information and specific details related to this issue than nearly anyone on the face of the earth who's opining about it, especially in print or on air:
Even as he treads carefully not to betray any secret information, what is Gowdy telling us?
(1) He's saying that the FBI's investigation of Russia's election interference ("Russia was the target" of the probe, he asserted several times across the two highlighted segments) was launched on a good-faith basis and was not illegitimately predicated, in his estimation. The portion of Gowdy's response to MacCallum that's getting the most play in the media today is his statement that he's now "even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do" under the circumstances. Similarly, responding to a question from a CBS anchor about whether he believes the FBI "acted properly in this matter," Gowdy replied: "Based on what I have seen, I don't know what the FBI could have done or should have done" differently. That's a meaningful effective endorsement, especially when coupled with his multiple diplomatic rejections of the terms "spy" and "spy-gate."
Confidential informants, he notes, are used "all day, every day" by law enforcement. It may be quite unusual for a CI to exist within a presidential campaign, to be sure, but that is still not the same thing as a "spy" being placed inside a campaign by politically-motivated actors in an effort to bring it down.
'That' would indeed be one of the biggest scandals in US history, as the president has been saying -- if there were any evidence to back it up. Right now, there is not. Granted, that could change as the respected and tough DOJ Inspector General fulfills his latest charge (which I support, by the way), but Gowdy seems to doubt that any such proof will turn up. This seems like a relevant moment to remind you of my biggest problem with the most conspiratorial "deep state" and "spy gate" hyperventilations:
(2) Garnering less attention is the second bolded piece of Gowdy's answer excerpted above, which strikes me as rather significant. Even if the feds were examining the conduct and associations of a small number of individuals "loosely connected to" the Trump campaign as part of a broader probe, the FBI's focus and targets had "nothing to do with Donald Trump," he said.
Either the South Carolinian has an extremely strong poker face and somehow has it in for the president, or he's seen enough material about the provenance and progress of the investigation that he's convinced Trump is not a target and is not in any serious peril.
My suspicion that the latter is true is only deepened by Gowdy's advice that Trump ought to talk to Robert Mueller (within reasonably confined parameters, he adds) in order to formally assert his innocence on alleged "collusion."
My guess is that Gowdy firmly believes that Trump himself with emerge unscathed from this probe, and having cooperated with it will be an asset in claiming full vindication.
This flies in the face of a lot of counsel, the general consensus behind which is that Trump should avoid an in-person interview with Mueller like the plague. It's possible that Gowdy's opinion on this may be turn out to be foolish, but I think he's in a better and more informed position to dispense advice than almost anyone else weighing in on the subject.
(3) Finally, this answer seems telling:
CBS: Your Republican colleagues -- are they on board with the way you're speaking out? You're breaking ranks with some people...
TG: I will tell you this, the ones that are on SSI [the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence], Marco Rubio and others -- Tom Cotton's on SSI. He's hardly a flaming liberal...the folks who have seen the information, I think, have the same perspective I have. Those who have not seen the information? I don't know what informs their perspective.
Sure enough, here's how Rubio addressed this firestorm on ABC News' The Week this past Sunday:
"What I have seen is evidence that they were investigating individuals with a history of links to Russia that were concerning...As far as what I have seen to date, it appears that there was an investigation not of the campaign, but of certain individuals who have a history that we should be suspicious of, that predate the presidential campaign of 2015, 2016. And when individuals like that are in the orbit of a major political campaign in America, the FBI, who is in charge of counterintelligence investigations, should look at people like that."
Also notice how Tom Cotton, who never seems afraid to stick his neck out or ruffle feathers, has remained conspicuously muted on "spy-gate" and the Russia investigation, reflecting the posture of SSI's bipartisan membership. Speaking of notable silence, there's also this:
Carter Page had been on the government's radar screen due to his connections with Moscow long before Donald Trump was even a candidate for the presidency. And a few other people connected to Trump's eventual campaign -- either intimately or tangentially -- really were tied into (or seriously alleged to be connected to) some pretty sketchy activities over the years. What Gowdy et al appear to be signaling is that there was enough 'smoke' to justify the feds' use of an informant within the Trump campaign, which is not tantamount to spying on Team Trump in order to harm the campaign. I'll say it again: The easiest way the "deep state" could have devastated Trump's (already thin-seeming) electoral chances would have been to leak the existence of a multi-pronged federal counter-intelligence investigation into Trump campaign figures, circa October 2016. That didn't happen. I'll leave you with the president's tweets quoting Gowdy from this morning's CBS News interview, which only dealt with the Congressman's answer about Trump's frustration with his Attorney General:
"And I wish I did!" Trump reportedly berated and ridiculed Jeff Sessions to his face, urging him to reverse his recusal call ("the right decision under the rules of the Justice Department," according to...Rudy Giuliani last year) or to resign. Today's tweets are just the latest taunting indignity Sessions has endured.
The president has a remedy here, of course. As we've written before, if he's lost faith in his Attorney General, he has complete authority to fire him -- just as he has fairly sweeping authority to declassify a trove of key documents related to the Russia investigation. If Sessions is failing at his job, and if the publication of a currently-classified paper trail would justify Trump's constant drumbeat of fuming tweets (which his own lawyer has confirmed is at least partially a public relations strategy), why not pull the trigger on both and let the chips fall?

[Bullheaded Texan]

In Calling MS-13 Gang Members 'Animals,' Trump Was Too Kind.
5/24/18 12:01 AM Larry Elder
President Donald Trump doubled down on calling members of a notorious street gang "animals." Good for him for not backing down and for shining a light on an outrageous group of thugs!, especially in Southern Mexifornia:
mexicano gangs that target blacks, whether or not they belong to gangs, for death.
Trump, during a roundtable discussion last week with state and local officials from Mexifornia about so-called sanctuary laws, said: "Deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws offer safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on earth, like MS-13 gang members, putting innocent men, women and children at the mercy of these sadistic criminals!"
Margaret Mims, the sheriff of Northern Mexifornia's Fresno County, talked about the problems caused by the state's so-called sanctuary laws, and that such laws made it harder "to find the bad guys." Mims said, "There could be an MS-13 gang member I know about: If they don't reach a certain threshold under Mexifornia's sanctuary laws, I will not tell ICE about it."
That's when Trump dropped the "A-word."
In response to Sheriff Mims' comments, Trump said: "We have people coming into the country -- or trying to come in; we're stopping a lot of them. But we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are "animals"! And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before."
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., immediately pounced. The Senate minority leader tweeted: "When all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren't 'animals,' and these people aren't either."
But even NBC's Chuck Todd admitted that his media colleagues widely misrepresented the President's remarks, especially the initial media reports that FAILED to note that Trump was referring to MS-13. "This is where I think that my colleagues do us all harm," Todd said. "You know, cover this legitimately. There is plenty of legitimate stuff to ding him on, if you think he deserves to be dinged on. Just be careful. Don't be sloppy about it." As for the "A-word," Todd said:
"A lot of people have called violent anybody animals. Anybody who is a violent criminal, in my book, can get called an animal if they're sitting there mauling, killing and raping people. I don't care where they're from."
Cue the selective outrage. Where was this concern for civility when killary
"deplorables" clinton said the NRA reminded her of the "Iranians" and the "communists"? Recall, too, clinton's own "animals"-type description of some black criminals. In 1996, clinton said: "We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels. They are NOT just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators."
Calling the MS-13 gang members "animals" is positively mild compared with what the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center said about other vicious mexicanos gangs.
In 2007, the SPLC published a report called: "mexicano Gang Members in Southern Mexifornia Are Terrorizing and Killing Blacks."
Some highlights:
"While the vast majority of hate crimes nationwide are not Calling the MS-13 gang members "animals" is positively mild compared with what the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center said about other vicious mexcano gangs.
In 2007, the SPLC published a report called: "mexican Gang Members in Southern Mexifornia Are Terrorizing and Killing Blacks."
Some highlights:
"While the vast majority of hate crimes nationwide are not committed by members of organized groups, Los Angeles County is a different story.
Researchers found that in areas with high concentrations, or 'clusters,' of hate crimes, the perpetrators were typically members of mexicano street gangs who were purposely targeting blacks!
"mexican Mafia leaders, or shot callers ... have issued a "green light" on all blacks. A sort of gang-life fatwah, this amounts to a standing authorization for mrcicano gang members to prove their mettle by terrorizing or even murdering any blacks sighted in a neighborhood claimed by a gang loyal to the mexican Mafia.
"Anti-black violence conducted by mexicano gangs in Los Angeles has been ongoing for more than a decade.
A 1995 Los Angeles Police Department report about mexicano gang activity in the Normandale Park neighborhood declared, 'This gang has been involved in an ongoing program to eradicate black citizens from the gang neighborhood.'
A 1996 LAPD report on gangs in east Los Angeles stated, 'Local gangs will attack any black person that comes into the city.'
"The LAPD estimates there are now 22,000 mexicano gang members in the city of Los Angeles alone.
That's not only more than all the Crips and the Bloods; it's more than all black, Asian, and white gang members combined.
Almost all of those mexicano gang members in L.A. -- let alone those in other Mexifornia cities -- are loyal to the mexican Mafia.
Most have been thoroughly indoctrinated with the mexican Mafia's violent racism during stints in prison, where most gangs are racially based.
"It's almost anywhere in L.A. that you could find yourself in a difficult position, if you are black,' says (a) LAPD probation officer. 'All blacks are on green light no matter where.'"
Trump, in calling brutal gang members "animals," did not go far enough!!
There are monsters, predators, and vermin!

[Bullheaded Texan]

Pizza Place Employee Defends Himself From Mask Wearing Attacker!
5/30/18 2:00 pm by Tom Knighton
A lot of businesses have policies against their employees being armed.
The reality is that they don’t do much except disarm those employees and prevent them from defending themselves.
As a result, a lot of employees ignore those laws. They figure their life is more important than their job!
I’m not sure whether the Little Caesars in Holly Hill, Florida has such a policy, but at least one employee was glad he was armed.
The Little Caesars employee was closing up shop when a man in a bloody demon mask approached and attacked him.
The masked man repeatedly hit the employee with a large piece of wood, knocked him to ground, and attempted to stab him.
During the assault, the employee managed to draw his legally concealed firearm and shoot the masked man.
The employee then called police and requested medical assistance for himself and his attacker.
“Please help me,” the employee told a 911 dispatcher. “He tried to stab me with a pair of scissors. He hit me in the face with a big piece of wood. I’m bleeding all over the place.”
Police arrived a few minutes later and rushed the masked man to Halifax Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Holly Hill police Chief Steve Aldrich praised the employee for being able to effectively defend himself.
“As soon as he exited the building, he was immediately attacked by an individual that was wearing a scary clown mask and brandishing a stick,” Aldrich told WFTV. “Even though he’s being attacked he’s able to pull out a concealed firearm he has and fires multiple rounds at the suspect. I’m glad that he was able to defend himself and that he’s OK. It’s just unfortunate that this whole episode occurred.”
There are no charges pending against the employee, thankfully, and the bad guy is dead as a doornail.
They still don’t know who the attacker is or what his motivation for the attack was. There’s no indication that robbery was the motive, nor does it appear to have been someone the victim knew.
It’s a bizarre, brutal attack that was cut short by a citizen carrying a firearm.
Funny how that shakes out, isn’t it?
There has been no mention of the employee being fired over carrying a gun, so that’s good news.
I get angry when businesses fire people who defend their own lives in spite of a store policy that would have gotten them killed.
Here's a man who would have been murdered in a brutal attack had he been disarmed by store policy.
Instead, he’s alive and recovering from the attack while his attacker…
well, not so much.