Biden administration asks for DELAY handing over details of Prince Harry's immigration papers to a judge because 'searching' for them has taken 'longer than expected'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13210827/prince-harry-visa-immigration-drugs-court-heritage.html

• Department of Homeland Security asks for another two weeks to find Harry files

• It comes in a Freedom of Information tussle over the prince's visa documents

• DHS lawyers made their request in a filing on Sunday as judge mulls ruling

The Department of Homeland Security says it needs an extra two weeks to hunt down Prince Harry's immigration records as a federal judge weighs whether or not they should be made public.

The department made its request in a court filing Sunday, saying it needed more time to respond to Judge Carl Nichols' order to provide more information about why his immigration details should be kept secret.

The conservative Heritage Foundation is seeking the release of the documents amid questions about whether Harry lied about his drug use in his visa application.

'Defendant has begun the search but searching for and reviewing the records has taken longer than anticipated,' wrote D.H.S. lawyers in the filing.

They also said other government agencies may need to review the documents before they can be handed over to the judge.'Thus, having established good cause, defendant respectfully requests an additional fourteen days, up to and including April 4, 2024, to comply with the court's order,' they wrote.

The filing is the latest twist in the legal battle over the Duke of Sussex and his immigration status. He entered the U.S. in March 2020 lives with his American wife Meghan and their two children in Montecito, California.

However, in his memoir 'Spare,' he admitted using cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms.

U.S. immigration authorities routinely ask about drug use on visa applications. British celebrities including singer Amy Winehouse and model Kate Moss have run into difficulties.

But acknowledging past drug use does not necessarily result in automatic rejection. Against that background, the Heritage Foundation filed a Freedom of Information request last year to get to the bottom of what happened.

Nile Gardiner, who is spearheading the request, said it was a matter of ensuring that no one got special treatment.

'Again, Harry has publicly admitted to extensive illegal drug use,' he wrote recently.

'What do we submit this means? That Harry seems to have received special treatment: the DHS looked the other way if the Prince answered truthfully, or it looked the other way if the Prince lied on his visa application.

Trump says Jewish people who vote for Democrats 'HATE their religion and hate Israel' - and that Biden and Schumer are being critical to win votes of liberals supporting Palestine

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13212299/Trump-Schumer-Biden-Netanyahu-Israel-Palestine.html

• Trump was asked why Biden and Schumer have been so hostile to Netanyahu

• 'I actually think they hate Israel,' said Trump, who has criticized the Israeli PM

• 'Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,' he added

Donald Trump has accused Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats of hating Israel and 'their religion' in a radio interview with former White House staffer Sebastian Gorka.

Trump was asked by Gorka why the Democrats - specifically President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer - were so hostile to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

'I actually think they hate Israel,' answered Trump, who has himself criticized Netanyahu for a lack of preparation for the October 7 Hamas terror attack.

Trump - whose daughter Ivanka is Jewish - then went further in his line of attack toward Jewish Democrats.

'Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,' he said. 'They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.' Following the remarks, the White House issued a statement condemning Donald Trump's 'vile and unhinged antisemitic rhetoric.'

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Mediaite: 'President Biden has put his foot down when it comes to vile and unhinged Antisemitic rhetoric.

'As Antisemitic crimes and acts of hate have increased across the world – among them the deadliest attack committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust – leaders have an obligation to call hate what it is and bring Americans together against it.

'There is no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. None. Like President Biden said, he was moved to run for President when he saw Neo Nazis chanting ‘the same Antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the 1930s’ in Charlottesville.'

A Pew Research Center study in 2021 said that seven in ten Jewish voters are Democrats.

The former president - who counted among his accomplishments during his term the moving of the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the Abraham Accords normalizing trade between the Jewish state and several Gulf nations - sees these Democrats as cowering against pro-Palestinian sentiment.

'Don't forget, when you see those Palestinian marches - even I am amazed at how many people are in those marches,' Trump said.

'And guys like Schumer see that, and to him it's votes. I think it's votes more than anything else, because he was always pro-Israel. He's very anti-Israel now.'

Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish official in the U.S., called for new leadership and elections in Israel in a stunning rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Senate Majority leader says Netanyahu has 'lost his way' and has now become an 'obstacle to peace' five months after the October 7 Hamas attacks and the start of the war in Gaza.

In an extraordinary 45-minute speech on the Senate floor Thursday, the longtime defender of Israel said Netanyahu has put himself in a coalition of 'far-right extremists' and is more interested in his own political survival than a solution.

The White House said Schumer had informed it of his comments in advance and it 'respected his right' to make them. It expressed 'no approval or disapproval'.