Anonymous ID: 783563 March 18, 2019, 3:27 p.m. No.5758997   🗄️.is 🔗kun

 

Dear Father give us strength and protection as we enter the storm. Expand our armor of which you've provided to protect the innocent who have lost their way, allow us to rise as one in your righteous light.

 

Amen

Anonymous ID: 783563 March 18, 2019, 3:42 p.m. No.5759285   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9445 >>9642

Donald Trump: ‘Invasion’ Coming at the Border; U.S. Has ‘Captured’ Thousands of Illegal Aliens

 

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News during his exclusive interview last Monday that there is an “invasion” of illegal immigration coming across the southern border.

 

“You are talking about an invasion,” Trump said in response to a question from senior Breitbart News White House correspondent Charlie Spiering about immigration. “People get angry on the other side when I use the word ‘invasion.’ This is an invasion, but it’s an invasion not only of people, but an invasion of drugs and human traffickers and other things.”

 

Trump also argued that the language that the United States should use for illegal aliens whom federal agents take into custody should be the word “captured” rather than “apprehended.” He also argued that he needs more Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to shift from a “catch and release” and other loopholes that allow illegal aliens to take advantage of the system and get into the country.

 

“Look, I need border security. We’ve done a great job,” Trump also said. “Look, when I say we apprehended 75,000 people last month, you know how good a job—these aren’t people that came in. These are people that have been—I say, should we use a different word? Because maybe they don’t understand the word ‘apprehended.’ Maybe they don’t know what it means. Should we use the word ‘captured’? We captured 75,000 people last month. It’s never been like that. The biggest problem we have—we’ve apprehended/captured 75,000 people. The problem we have is you have catch and release. You have all of these crazy loopholes. What we do is, I call ‘catch and keep.’”

 

Trump also argued that the need for the border wall is exemplified in the fact that more people come across in areas where there currently is no barrier.

 

“Don’t let anyone tell you they don’t come through those areas,” Trump said. “When they have women in the back of a van because, you know, when they stop at a port of entry, they open the doors so they’re going to see it. When they have big boxes of drugs, they open the doors. The biggest part comes in in the areas where you don’t have the walls, where they go out into the land into the deserts.”

 

During the interview, President Trump also said he does not want people coming into the country who are dependent on welfare programs. In addition, President Trump said he was considering designating the Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations. On Friday, President Trump announced an executive order strengthening the government’s definitions of such transnational criminal organizations.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/donald-trump-invasion-coming-border-u-s-captured-thousands-illegal-aliens/

Anonymous ID: 783563 March 18, 2019, 3:52 p.m. No.5759488   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9642

Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidates Open to Packing Supreme Court

 

Nearly half a dozen 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are making the U.S. Supreme Court an issue in their campaigns for the White House.

 

But with Republican-appointed justices firmly in the majority, 5–4, an increasingly popular proposal is to expand the number of seats at the nation’s highest court.

 

Not since President Franklin D. Roosevelt has a court-packing scheme been attempted, and that effort failed in 1937, when members of Roosevelt’s own Democratic Party voted against it. But, according to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), all options are on the table in 2020.

 

On March 18, Harris told Politico that packing the court is something she’s taking seriously.

 

“We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court,” said Harris. “We have to take this challenge head-on, and everything is on the table to do that.”

 

Harris, along with Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), was among the leading opponents of the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh—a President Donald Trump appointee—in Oct. 2018. Harris sounded a similar alarm when Kavanaugh was confirmed.

 

“Millions of Americans are rightly outraged at this hasty and unjust process, which threatens to cloud the legitimacy of the Supreme Court of the United States,” she said in a statement.

 

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York have also refused to rule out a court-packing power play.

 

“It’s not just about expansion, it’s about depoliticizing the Supreme Court,” said Warren on March 18. “It’s a conversation that’s worth having,” she added.

 

Gillibrand said she believes Justice Neil Gorsuch, another Trump appointee, is illegitimate because Gorsuch’s seat should have gone to outgoing President Barack Obama’s 2016 nominee, Merrick Garland.

 

The U.S. Constitution calls for presidents to nominate Supreme Court justices, but requires the Senate to confirm them. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), opted to block Garland in 2016—not without precedent—and instead, let voters decide the balance of the Supreme Court during an election year.

 

Trump’s unexpected victory, however, enraged Democrats and has since led to calls for change. Last week, Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, weighed in.

 

“Given the Merrick Garland situation, the question of legitimacy is one that I think we should talk about,” Holder said. “We should be talking even about expanding the number of people who serve on the Supreme Court, if there is a Democratic president and a Congress that would do that.”

 

Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old progressive mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is strongly considering a Democratic campaign to unseat President Trump in 2020. Buttigieg launched an exploratory committee in January, and was in the early primary state of New Hampshire earlier this month.

 

Speaking at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on March 8, Buttigieg championed a Supreme Court expansion, as well as the abolition of the Electoral College.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/democratic-2020-presidential-candidates-open-to-packing-supreme-court_2843424.html