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Damn Lib appointed judge.


Oh wait.
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Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by Mr Trump last year, said Mr Acosta's constitutional rights outweighed the White House's right to have an orderly news conference, the Washington Post reported.

 
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Number of migrant children in US custody hits record high
record high 14,000 migrant children are in U.S. government custody, as the White House implements its hard-line stance on immigration.

“Currently, there are approximately 14,000 minors in the unaccompanied alien children program, a number that can fluctuate up or down," Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokeswoman Evelyn Stauffer said Friday in a statement to The Hill. "The Trump Administration continues to enforce current laws to address our nation’s crisis at the border.”

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported the record number.

The news comes as thousands of Central American migrants, including women and children, make their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, with many intending to seek asylum from violence in their home countries.

The White House faced intense public backlash over its immigration practices earlier this year when it implemented a “zero tolerance” policy earlier this year that resulted in the separation of thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump ended the policy in June.

However, the number of migrant children in HHS custody continues to rise in part because of an agency agreement with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reached earlier this year that allows ICE to conduct background checks on potential sponsors, delaying the release of children from government custody.

Stauffer said the number of minors is in U.S. custody is "a symptom of the larger problem, namely a broken immigration system that encourages them to make the hazardous journey."

"Unaccompanied alien children are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking, exploitation and abuse," she added. "This is why HHS joins the President in calling on Congress to reform this broken system."

The Trump administration has recently announced additional hardline policies on immigration that could further increase the number of children in government custody.

Besides ordering thousands of troops to the southern border, Trump signed a proclamation last week blocking immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. from claiming asylum, a move that will likely lead to more migrants in detention facilities.

ICE’s acting director, Ronald Vitiello, said Thursday that separating families at the border could be an option for deterring migrants from entering the U.S. illegally.

“We’ll get less people bringing their children,” Vitiello told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday. “It is an option.”

The White House is also considering a policy that would give detained parents awaiting deportation hearings the option of either remaining detained with their children for an indefinite amount of time or allowing their children to be separated and taken to a government shelter for another relative or guardian to take custody of them.
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Damn eh... I would say at minimum a kid in custody would cost $5,000 per month, even with minimum services. Detaining these kids is costing the govt $70,000,000 per year.
 
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Libs have been saying the same Chicken Little bullshit for over 2 years now. Ohhh Trump is cracking, he's going nuts, impeachment will come any day now! The guy is a billionaire who was fairly elected to the highest political office in the world, just for shits and giggles. He's living a great a life and not giving a fuck about any of this nonsense. CNN correctly identified the liberal base as super gullible who they can keep regurgitating the same crap too over and over for maximum profits.

Durrr but Seth Meyers and CNN told me he's really angry and about to crack I bet that's true he'll be impeached any day now and then we'll finally get Madam President! herpaderp.

 
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Why doesn't Trump treat Acosta like Obama treated Fox News? Let him in, but don't call on him for questioning. Obama ignored the shit out of Fox reporters during those pressers. It was comical.

Let Acosta in, but don't give him a chance to be a grandstanding asshole.
 
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MC Gusto said:
Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed to Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.



View: https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1063196683432009729
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Just looking at that chart - 80% of workers in the majority of the US are getting a raise. That's wage growth.
The brown states (a smaller percentage that have received raises) are mostly in Dem controlled states.

For a chart that was meant to be a Debbie Downer against Trump's economy, it's pretty interesting.
 
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Hauler said:
Just looking at that chart - 80% of workers in the majority of the US are getting a raise. That's wage growth.
The brown states (a smaller percentage that have received raises) are mostly in Dem controlled states.
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You might want to read the article instead of base your opinion off one chart.

A couple noteworthy points from the article:

Despite a remarkably strong economy, the fiscal health of the United States is deteriorating fast, as revenues have declined sharply. The federal budget deficit — the gap between what the government collects in revenues and what it spends — rose to $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. That was a 17 percent increase from the prior year.A
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The growing budget gap means the Treasury must borrow more to keep the government running. The Treasury expects to borrow a total of $1.338 trillion from global investors this calendar year. That would be 145 percent higher than the $546 billion the federal government borrowed last year. That would be the highest level of borrowing since 2010, when the American economy was struggling to recover from the great recession.
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The nonprofit research group Just Capital, which is tracking 1,000 large public companies’ reports of how they are spending their tax cuts, calculates that the typical worker at one of those large companies has received about $225 this year in increased salary, a one-time bonus, or both, attributable to the new law.

Workers for those companies were more likely to see their wages rise if they lived in states where the minimum wage was relatively low — and where companies do not have to pay workers more to compensate for high housing costs. California workers at those companies saw an average benefit of about $160 each, which is less than half the average benefit for workers in Kentucky.
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Nearly a year after the cuts were signed into law, wage growth has yet to pick up when accounting for inflation.
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Finnish president denies ever discussing ‘raking’ with Trump
The leader of Finland denied on Sunday that he’d ever told President Donald Trump that the small Nordic nation relies upon “raking” its forests to prevent wildfires — even though Trump promoted the dubious conservation method during a visit to flame-ravaged California over the weekend.

“You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it’s a whole different story,” Trump said Saturday, standing alongside Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom of California among the charred ruins of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in the town of Paradise.

“I was with the president of Finland, and he said, ‘We have a much different — we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation,” Trump continued. “And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem. And when it is, it’s a very small problem. So I know everybody’s looking at that to that end. And it’s going to work out, it’s going to work out well.”

But President Sauli Niinistö of Finland told Ilta-Sanomat, the country’s second-largest newspaper, on Sunday that he never discussed raking with Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend, where the leaders attended various commemorations marking the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I.

“I mentioned [to] him that Finland is a land covered by forests and we also have a good monitoring system and network,” Niinistö said, adding that he recalled telling Trump: “We take care of our forests.”
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Retired admiral who oversaw bin Laden raid doubles down on Trump criticism
"I stand by my comment that the President's attack on the media is the greatest threat to our democracy in my lifetime," he said. "When you undermine the people's right to a free press and freedom of speech and expression, then you threaten the Constitution and all for which it stands."

McRaven, 63, noted that he did not back former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or any other candidate in the 2016 election, and that he worked under both former President Obama and former President George W. Bush.
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