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How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers. The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around the world were crossing into the United States every…

How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

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Federal judges block new Trump public charge rule

"The Rule will expose individuals to economic insecurity, health instability, denial of their path to citizenship, and potential deportation," he wrote.

Under federal law, the government can deny green cards, visas, and other forms of legal immigration status to “public charges.” The Department of Homeland Security defines a “public charge” as an immigrant who depends on “cash assistance or government-funded long-term institutional care.”

This definition isn’t nearly broad enough to cover all the brown people that Trump wants to kick out and keep out of the United States. So the administration has expanded the definition of “public charge” to include everyone it deems “likely to use at some point one public benefit for 12 months during a 36-month period.” (Receipt of two public benefits in one month counts as two months.) The administration also expanded the definition of forbidden “benefits” to include “food stamps, non-emergency Medicaid, certain prescription drug subsidies and housing vouchers.”

Under Trump’s new policy, non-citizens currently living and working in the United States legally would be subject to non-renewal and deportation whenever the Trump administration “deemed [them] likely to use at some point one public benefit.” Fortunately, two different federal courts have enjoined Trump’s new policy. In the words of one of the judges:

“Overnight, the Rule will expose individuals to economic insecurity, health instability, denial of their path to citizenship, and potential deportation. It is a rule that will punish individuals for their receipt of benefits provided by our government, and discourages them from lawfully receiving available assistance intended to aid them in becoming contributing members of our society.”

Trump will, of course, appeal immediately.

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“Give me your tired...” 25″ x 37″ acrylic on paper, 2019, Ward Schumaker

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Attorney General says ‘hands are tied’ in vote-dumping investigation

Ken Cuccinelli said his hands were tied, offered to support change to Virginia law

A Cautionary Tale for Republicans screaming about supposed voter fraud:

Back in 2012, the Republican Party of Virginia hired a “voter registration supervisor” to register Virginia voters. He was caught dumping completed voter registration forms in the trash. This is, of course, illegal.

The Republican Party of Virginia promptly fired him, and released a statement claiming: “The Republican Party of Virginia will not tolerate any action by any person that could threaten the integrity of our electoral process.”

The Virginia Attorney General’s office “does not have the authority to investigate election matters unless explicitly requested to do so by the State Board of Elections.” One might reasonably conclude, therefore, that the Republican-controlled Virginia State Board of Elections would ask the Attorney General to investigate.

Nope.

The Board felt this “appeared to be an isolated incident,” so:

“The State Board Of Elections says it will not ask Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to investigate the case of a Republican Party contract worker, accused of throwing voter registration forms in the trash.”

Postscript:

Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, had an idea: He publicized the fact that his office couldn’t investigate without a request from Board of Elections, and the fact that the Board wasn’t requesting an investigation.

It worked: the Board called a special emergency meeting two days later and “voted unanimously that an investigation should proceed.”

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DHS Deputy Secretary's grim warning on COVID spread among migrant caravan

DHS Deputy Secretary's grim warning on COVID spread among migrant caravan

DHS Deputy Secretary's grim warning on COVID spread among migrant caravan Category Main Description: DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli warns of coronavirus surges on ‘Hannity’. #FoxNews #Hannity Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch … TopTrengingTV Hunting the most trend video of the moment, every hour every day 24/7. Youtube Video Data Published At: 2021-01-19T03:50:45Z…

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DHS watchdog won’t investigate Wolf and Cuccinelli appointments, says courts will have to decide In its report, the GAO referred the legality of actions taken by Wolf and Cuccinelli, as well as the question over who should be serving in the top two roles, to the DHS inspector general.

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Ken Cuccinelli unlawfully appointed to lead US immigration agency, judge rules

Ken Cuccinelli unlawfully appointed to lead US immigration agency, judge rules

Ex-Virginia attorney general named to new position of ‘principal deputy director’ in June, which made him acting director

Ken Cuccinelli speaks during a press conference in Washington DC, on 7 February. Photograph: Samuel Corum/Getty Images

A federal judge has ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and as a result…

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DHS Ken Cuccinelli accuses the rabbi of stabbing immigration and amnesty 2020 Ken Cuccinelli, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, blamed Saturday for a rabbi being stabbed in New York City for illegal immigration and amnesty in a Monday tweet that has since been deleted.