If nothing else, what happened to the courts is a generational fukk up.
RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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Mueller coming :Auntiemaxine:
The unredacted files Mueller has are the holy grail
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Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
Republicans were genuinely excited about Trump.Yep. Dudes act like they're at a pep rally. This is for real life shyt that affects you, your kids if any and your whole family present and future.
'I'm not excited. It didn't feel good.' Jesus...
Democrats were told, "No, that's not for you. You can't have that. Line up and vote."
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
CEO of Morgan Industries
Superstar
immovable object vs unstoppable force.
hopefully Mueller is the immovable object and trump is the unstoppable force going in the wrong direction.
wrong thread
LeVraiPapi
Redemption is Coming
Nap, we would all appreciate it if you stayed on topic and not derail this thread. AGAIN!
Thank you
Thank you
The US Government is so fukking far ahead
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U.S. gathers data on migrants deep in Mexico, a sensitive program Trump’s rhetoric could put at risk
By Joshua Partlow and Nick MiroffMEXICO CITY —
The United States government is expanding a program to capture the biometric data of tens of thousands of Central Americans and other migrants arrested in Mexico, gaining unprecedented access to Mexican immigration jails to identify criminals, gang members and potential terrorists long before they reach the U.S. border.
Operating in detention facilities in southern Mexico and here in the capital, Department of Homeland Security officials have installed scores of screening terminals to collect migrants’ fingerprints, ocular scans and other identifying features, including tattoos and scars.
President Trump recently blasted Mexico as doing “very little, if not nothing” to stop the flow of people across Mexican territory en route to the United States. While he later softened his tone, Trump has not acknowledged that Mexican authorities have, over the past several years, allowed the United States a wider view into the identities and backgrounds of those often headed for the border. U.S. authorities see this partnership as a potential model for other countries, and they are in talks with Central American nations to adopt similar measures.
The information gathered is immediately forwarded to DHS and other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence databases, alerting American officials if an individual in Mexican custody is a convicted criminal or in a category known as “Special Interest Aliens,” which includes potential extremists, according to current and former U.S. officials who described the program on the condition of anonymity because many of its details have not been publicly disclosed.
“These are bilateral programs that build Mexican capacity in a way that benefits our security,” said an official from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, which has budgeted $75 million to install the scanning equipment at immigration jails across Mexico and deliver mobile terminals that can gather and transmit biometric data from almost anywhere.
Paid for through the $2.5 billion Merida security assistance program launched by President George W. Bush in 2008, the data-collecting effort requires the kind of U.S. access to Mexican facilities that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. It has been largely kept quiet by Mexican authorities, who risk public backlash over suspicions of American government technology and the perception that Washington interferes in the country’s affairs.
The two nations’ deepening security cooperation came under fresh strain this week when Trump accused Mexico of allowing an unimpeded flow of Central Americans through Mexican territory. His ire was directed at a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants that was traveling north through Mexico. When caravan organizers decided to end the journey in Mexico City, rather than head to the border, Trump thanked Mexico for its “strong immigration laws” and “willingness to use them.”
[Migrant caravan will end in Mexico City, though some vow to continue to U.S. border]
Arrests by U.S. agents along the U.S.-Mexico border topped 50,000 in March, the highest one-month total since Trump took office. Over the past two decades, the character of illegal immigration has changed dramatically, as the number of Mexicans apprehended crossing illegally has plunged from more than 1.6 million in 2000 to 130,000 last year. Central Americans accounted for more than half of those arrested by U.S. border agents last year, and Mexico is now a transit country as well as a destination for Central Americans.
The surge of Central American families and children coming into Texas to seek asylum became a crisis for the Obama administration in 2014. Under U.S. pressure, Mexican authorities made it more difficult for Central Americans to pass freely to the United States. Mexican immigration officials set up new checkpoints near the Guatemalan border and caught and deported far more people.
Last year, the Mexican government detained 95,000 migrants, the vast majority from Central America’s gang-plagued Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The three nations have some of the highest homicide rates in the world.
“I think we would have been in a significantly worse position in McAllen [Tex.] and the Rio Grande Valley if it wasn’t for the work that Mexico was doing on their southern border,” Gil Kerlikowske, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for part of President Barack Obama’s tenure, said in an interview.
national address that Trump should not use Mexico to score domestic political points and that Mexico would not negotiate with the United States at the expense of its sovereignty and dignity.
[Mexican president rebukes Trump over border threats]
Angry Mexican senators this week also approved a nonbinding resolution calling on Peña Nieto to break off cooperation with the United States on security and migration issues. Laura Rojas, the head of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, said in support of the resolution that Trump’s behavior has been “permanently and systematically disrespectful and insulting,” and based on “prejudices and misinformation,” while making “frequent use of threats and blackmail.”
Such talk is unnerving to the U.S. diplomats who have worked for decades to overcome mistrust in Mexico and persuade authorities here to allow American officials to work alongside them despite the risk of public backlash.
Although American officials would like Mexican authorities to stiffen immigration enforcement along Mexico’s southern border, they say Mexico has been a vigilant and crucial partner in guarding against potential Islamic extremists who might be looking for a backdoor into the United States.
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Military, defense and security at home and abroad.
U.S. officials said they have had preliminary discussions with governments in Central America about expanding the biometric program there, giving nations across the region the ability to potentially track gang members and other border-crossing criminals.
“As we deal with the reality of political campaigns and elections and the inevitable rhetoric they produce, let us remember we are cooperating with Mexico because it is in our national interest,” Brownfield said. “I would regret, as a retired official, if we allowed such rhetoric to undercut or end cooperation that is delivering real value to Mexico and real value to the United States.”
Miroff reported from Washington.
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U.S. gathers data on migrants deep in Mexico, a sensitive program Trump’s rhetoric could put at risk
By Joshua Partlow and Nick MiroffMEXICO CITY —
The United States government is expanding a program to capture the biometric data of tens of thousands of Central Americans and other migrants arrested in Mexico, gaining unprecedented access to Mexican immigration jails to identify criminals, gang members and potential terrorists long before they reach the U.S. border.
Operating in detention facilities in southern Mexico and here in the capital, Department of Homeland Security officials have installed scores of screening terminals to collect migrants’ fingerprints, ocular scans and other identifying features, including tattoos and scars.
President Trump recently blasted Mexico as doing “very little, if not nothing” to stop the flow of people across Mexican territory en route to the United States. While he later softened his tone, Trump has not acknowledged that Mexican authorities have, over the past several years, allowed the United States a wider view into the identities and backgrounds of those often headed for the border. U.S. authorities see this partnership as a potential model for other countries, and they are in talks with Central American nations to adopt similar measures.
The information gathered is immediately forwarded to DHS and other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence databases, alerting American officials if an individual in Mexican custody is a convicted criminal or in a category known as “Special Interest Aliens,” which includes potential extremists, according to current and former U.S. officials who described the program on the condition of anonymity because many of its details have not been publicly disclosed.
“These are bilateral programs that build Mexican capacity in a way that benefits our security,” said an official from the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, which has budgeted $75 million to install the scanning equipment at immigration jails across Mexico and deliver mobile terminals that can gather and transmit biometric data from almost anywhere.
Paid for through the $2.5 billion Merida security assistance program launched by President George W. Bush in 2008, the data-collecting effort requires the kind of U.S. access to Mexican facilities that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. It has been largely kept quiet by Mexican authorities, who risk public backlash over suspicions of American government technology and the perception that Washington interferes in the country’s affairs.
The two nations’ deepening security cooperation came under fresh strain this week when Trump accused Mexico of allowing an unimpeded flow of Central Americans through Mexican territory. His ire was directed at a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants that was traveling north through Mexico. When caravan organizers decided to end the journey in Mexico City, rather than head to the border, Trump thanked Mexico for its “strong immigration laws” and “willingness to use them.”
[Migrant caravan will end in Mexico City, though some vow to continue to U.S. border]
Arrests by U.S. agents along the U.S.-Mexico border topped 50,000 in March, the highest one-month total since Trump took office. Over the past two decades, the character of illegal immigration has changed dramatically, as the number of Mexicans apprehended crossing illegally has plunged from more than 1.6 million in 2000 to 130,000 last year. Central Americans accounted for more than half of those arrested by U.S. border agents last year, and Mexico is now a transit country as well as a destination for Central Americans.
The surge of Central American families and children coming into Texas to seek asylum became a crisis for the Obama administration in 2014. Under U.S. pressure, Mexican authorities made it more difficult for Central Americans to pass freely to the United States. Mexican immigration officials set up new checkpoints near the Guatemalan border and caught and deported far more people.
Last year, the Mexican government detained 95,000 migrants, the vast majority from Central America’s gang-plagued Northern Triangle — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The three nations have some of the highest homicide rates in the world.
“I think we would have been in a significantly worse position in McAllen [Tex.] and the Rio Grande Valley if it wasn’t for the work that Mexico was doing on their southern border,” Gil Kerlikowske, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for part of President Barack Obama’s tenure, said in an interview.
national address that Trump should not use Mexico to score domestic political points and that Mexico would not negotiate with the United States at the expense of its sovereignty and dignity.
[Mexican president rebukes Trump over border threats]
Angry Mexican senators this week also approved a nonbinding resolution calling on Peña Nieto to break off cooperation with the United States on security and migration issues. Laura Rojas, the head of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, said in support of the resolution that Trump’s behavior has been “permanently and systematically disrespectful and insulting,” and based on “prejudices and misinformation,” while making “frequent use of threats and blackmail.”
Such talk is unnerving to the U.S. diplomats who have worked for decades to overcome mistrust in Mexico and persuade authorities here to allow American officials to work alongside them despite the risk of public backlash.
Although American officials would like Mexican authorities to stiffen immigration enforcement along Mexico’s southern border, they say Mexico has been a vigilant and crucial partner in guarding against potential Islamic extremists who might be looking for a backdoor into the United States.
Checkpoint newsletter
Military, defense and security at home and abroad.
U.S. officials said they have had preliminary discussions with governments in Central America about expanding the biometric program there, giving nations across the region the ability to potentially track gang members and other border-crossing criminals.
“As we deal with the reality of political campaigns and elections and the inevitable rhetoric they produce, let us remember we are cooperating with Mexico because it is in our national interest,” Brownfield said. “I would regret, as a retired official, if we allowed such rhetoric to undercut or end cooperation that is delivering real value to Mexico and real value to the United States.”
Miroff reported from Washington.
@DonKnock @dza @88m3 @wire28 @smitty22 @fact @Hood Critic @ExodusNirvana @Blessed Is the Man @dtownreppin214 @JKFrazier @BigMoneyGrip @Soymuscle Mike @.r. @Dorian Breh @Dameon Farrow @TheNig @VR Tripper @re'up @Blackfyre_Berserker @Cali_livin
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