El Salvador to refuse U.S. deportations until children are reunited with parents

The government of El Salvador said Thursday it won’t accept back deportees from the U.S. unless it’s certain they have gone through the full legal process and have been reunited with their children. The Central American nation has been highly critical of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance border policy, demanding better treatment for thousands of its citizens who have fled horrific conditions at home and headed north to the U.S. Some will qualify for asylum but most will have their claims rejected and the U.S. will attempt to deport them. But without travel documents those deportations can’t take place. El Salvador said it won’t issue those documents until it is sure children separated from their parents have been resolved.

That could add to the Trump administration’s difficulties as it tries to clear the family cases. Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. President Trump on Wednesday reversed himself and ordered a halt to family separations, saying directing children and parents to be held together in immigration detention facilities. Under the previous practice parents charged with illegal immigration crimes had been sent to Justice Department jails, and since there are no family facilities in those jails the children had been sent to Health Department-run dorms. While children won’t generally be separated going forward, at least 2,300 children were separated in May and June. The government is trying to figure out how to address the situation. So far, it hasn’t announced any policy for reuniting those children with parents.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/21/el-salvador-refuse-us-deportations/

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>>1850936

Amazing how they think they have any say in this at all, these people are their citizens, so if we drop them off at their port of entry, not much they can do about it.

House defeats first GOP immigration bill

The House defeated the first of two GOP immigration bills Thursday, rejecting an enforcement-heavy approached favored by conservatives that would have mixed a narrow legalization for “Dreamers” with a major boost in border and interior enforcement. The bill was expected to fail, but it still marked a blow for conservatives who’d said it was a viable alternative that improved security without offering a full amnesty.

It was defeated 231-193.

Next up for a vote is a more moderate bill that combines a full pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and other immigrants with less comprehensive enforcement measures. That too is expected to fail.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/21/house-defeats-first-gop-immigration-bill/

Trump, new Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte forge unlikely bond

ROME — One is a flamboyant billionaire from Queens famous for speaking off the cuff, the other an obscure law professor from a small southern Italian village who rarely departs from his prepared remarks. But among the leaders of the world’s industrialized countries, President Trump and newly installed Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte seem to have forged an unexpected bond over two of the world’s prickliest geopolitical questions: the treatment of migrants and the global role Russia should play.

While the U.S. is drawing concentrated fire from many of its closest allies for its border and immigration policies, Italy has drawn ire from many of the same critics for turning away refugee rescue ships. At the contentious Group of Seven summit this month in Canada, Mr. Conte was the only leader to voice support for Mr. Trump’s suggestion that Russia — which had been booted from the exclusive club after its invasion of Crimea in Ukraine — should be allowed to rejoin. Mr. Trump seemed appreciative of the support from Mr. Conte at the G-7 gathering, even as he was taking shots at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the summit’s host, over trade and other issues. “The new prime minister of Italy is great,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Fox News in Singapore, where he traveled after the G-7 summit for his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “He’s very strong on immigration, like I am.”

Mr. Trump cited his Italian counterpart in an effort to rebut media reports that he was isolated at the summit and continued the charm offensive on Twitter. Mr. Conte “will be honored in Washington, at the White House, shortly …,” Mr. Trump tweeted June 9. “The people of Italy got it right!” Mr. Conte, who has never held elective office, seemed to be trying to walk a fine line at his first major international get-together, saying both sides had a point in trying to deal with the challenge from the Kremlin. “Italy thinks it’s important to have a dialogue with Russia, but this doesn’t mean that the system of sanctions can be overcome overnight,” he said in Canada. Despite his low-key manner, Mr. Conte shares with Mr. Trump a delight in upsetting the political establishment and the dominance of traditional political parties and orthodoxies. “If ‘populism’ is the attitude of the ruling class to listen to the people’s needs … and if ‘anti-establishment’ means aiming at introducing a new system able to remove old privileges and encrusted power, well [the new government] deserves both these epithets,” he said in his inaugural speech to the Italian Senate this month.

Blooming friendshipMany Italians appear not to know quite what to make of their hitherto obscure new leader’s new best friend. But some say Mr. Conte provided a lone reaffirming voice for Mr. Trump in a venue he is known to dislike. “It does seem the two men have found common ground on some difficult areas,” said Arianna Montanari, a professor of political sociology at Rome’s Sapienza University. “They are both part of the same trend. Will anything change for the White House because Italy has some of the same views? Will the Italian government be bolstered by the situation? Maybe a little. But the real news is that the anti-establishment wave that created Brexit and then Trump’s victory has now rolled over Italy.”

Analysts said the face of that trend in Italy is not Mr. Conte, but rather Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-establishment League party and the powerful minister of the interior in Mr. Conte’s government. Mr. Salvini is a longtime admirer of Mr. Trump. When Mr. Salvini was just the leader of a regional political party two years ago, he traveled to the U.S. expressly to meet and pose for a photo with candidate Trump. Mr. Salvini is the main author of the policy to turn away most refugee rescue ships headed for Italy from northern Africa that created a crisis within the European Union this week. Although Mr. Salvini has not formally called for Russia’s return to the G-7, the League has been dogged by reports of Russian ties in recent years and, like Mr. Trump, Mr. Salvini says he is an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “For now, at least, it seems Salvini will have the biggest say in what direction the Italian government will head,” said Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, a former Italian diplomat who is now president of Italy’s Institute of International Affairs. “But Conte is the head of government, he has the final say, and Conte clearly has sympathies for much of Trump’s agenda.”

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/20/giuseppe-conte-italy-prime-minister-and-donald-tru/

>>1850995

It shouldn't be but desperate times = stupid desperate measures.

>>1851023

agreed,shit holes!

Sen. Flake holds up Trump's judicial nominees over tariffs, Cuba: Report

The SenateJudiciary Committee delayed voting on one of President Trump’s circuit court nominees Thursday due to concerns from Republican Sen. Jeff Flake about unrelated matters, said committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley. Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, announced the committee would delay voting on Britt Grant, Mr. Trump’s nominee to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, due to Mr. Flake’s issues with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Trump administration. Mr. Flake has long been a staunch critic of Mr. Trump and has decided not to seek reelection.

“Unfortunately, we won’t be able to vote on her nomination today and will hold her over for another week while Senator Flake works out his concerns … on issues not related to her nomination,” Mr. Grassley said. According to CNN, Mr. Flake is threatening not to vote on any of Mr. Trump’s circuit court picks until there is more action addressing travel to Cuba and tariffs. “We’re discussing it,” the Arizona senator told CNN.

Because the Judiciary Committee has 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, Mr. Flake’s vote is needed to break any tie when advancing Mr. Trump’s judicial nominees to the Senate floor for confirmation votes. Filling the federal bench has been one of the president’s — as well as the Senate majority leader’s — main goals during the administration, where they have been able to place more circuit court judges on the federal bench than both of Mr. Trump’s predecessors in the first year.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/21/flake-holds-trumps-judicial-nominees-tariffs-cuba/

Russian hackers likely scanned election systems in all 50 states during 2016 race: Obama cyber czar

Russian hackers likely probed election systems in all 50 states during to the 2016 U.S. presidential race, the Obama administration’s former cyber czar said Wednesday — more the double the number previously given by the Department of Homeland Security.

Michael Daniel, the White House cybersecurity coordinator from 2012 to 2017, made the remark while appearing on Capitol Hill during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing involving Russian interference in the race. “We have received from the Department of Homeland Security inconsistent and varying numbers on the number of states whose systems were scanned by the Russians,” said Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican. “How likely do you think it is that Russian cyber actors at least scanned all 50 states?” “I think it is highly likely,” responded Mr. Daniel, who was the Obama administration’s top cyber policy official at the time of the election. Mr. Daniel said he believed that “there was no reason why they wouldn’t have at least attempted recognizance against all 50,” adding: “It was more likely that we hadn’t detected it than it didn’t occur.

The Russian government waged an attack against the 2016 election that used state-sponsored hackers and other operatives to disrupt the campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, the U.S. intelligence community concluded near the end of the Obama administration in January 2017.

Four months later, the DHS under President Trump said that Russian hackers had eyed state election systems as well. “We determined that internet-connected election-related networks in 21 states were potentially targeted by Russian government cyber actors,” Samuel Liles, acting director of the cyber division for the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, told the Senate Intelligence Committee last June. “It is important to note that none of these systems were involved in vote tallying.”

Two months ago, meanwhile, the top cyber official at DHS said that more than 21 states were likely probed. “The 21 states references the visibility that we had, whether that was the intelligence community or the sensors, of Russian targeting of state infrastructure related to elections,” Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at DHS, said at an April 24 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. “I think we can assume that the majority of the states were probably a target,” Ms. Manfra added. Addressing Russia’s operations Wednesday, Mr. Daniel said that “understanding what happened in 2016 is really critical to protecting ourselves in future elections.” “Maintaining state and local control of elections is very important, but it’s not realistic to expect them on their own to go up against nation-state actors,” he added. Russia has denied meddling in the 2016 race. Moscow’s alleged interference remains under investigation in the House, Senate and Department of Justice. The Trump administration eliminated the role of cybersecurity coordinator earlier this year.

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>>1851229

He definitely just needs to go far far away, kek

>>1851361

She take orders too, I am still holding firm that the order ultimately come from Obummer, not to say that she does have a roll or doesn't have dirty hands by any stretch of the imagination, but with her background, in her mind whatever she does serves the President, she thought he would have her back.

>>1851399

All because for so many years we have had selections, not true elections, they didn't care which candidate got in because either way it went, they were their people. Until Trump! Thank God, because this time it was a true election.

>>1851356

He was there with ES a couple of weeks ago. I believe having to do with internet access.

>>1851470

All just ridiculous, just don't know how they think they are going to worm out of this one. Seriously most of the systems in place were done by them, they know the capabilities and yet they insist on continuing with the charade.

>>1851137

Thank you so much for your kind words and your participation as well, you also are very much appreciated! God Bless you and keep you safe!

>>1851137 Baker Nominate for Notable

I believe all Anon's should see this as a source of encouragement.