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Trump reassures farmers immigration crackdown not aimed at their workers

Trump reassures law-flouting Big Ag that he's been lying to his gullible Trumpettes

FTFY
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Sign our petition to DHS now before it’s too late:

Dear Secretary Kelly,

As we approach the renewal deadline, I urge you to save -- not terminate -- Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. By terminating TPS, 50,000 Haitians who have lived, worked, attended school, and sought refuge in the United States would be at risk for deportation back to Haiti, which has yet to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake. Please do the right thing and renew Haitians’ TPS now.
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Who says that petitions don't work?

Secretary Kelly's Statement on the Limited Extension of Haiti's Designation for Temporary Protected Status

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Dear supporter,

The Department of Homeland Security’s Secretary John Kelly announced that TPS for Haitian migrants will be renewed for only six (6) months. The program duration is traditionally 18 months.

We recognize they are caving to the collective organizing around keeping this program alive and that’s a partial victory for all of us. However, we believe this is not enough.

Six months is not enough.


Six months is not enough for the situation in Haiti to radically improve to a place where over 50,000 Haitians migrants can return and be reintegrated safely or holistically.

Six months is not enough for our families who’ve lived here for an average of 7-15 years to uproot everything they know and return to Haiti.

Moreover, in six months, we’ll also be fighting to save the entire TPS program as renewals for Somalia, Sudan and countries in Central America will be due. We are still moving forward with our investigation of their TPS renewal decision-making process after their concerning emails revealing their intent to vilify Haitian immigrants.

So we are asking you to keep up the pressure and join us as we fight to save the TPS program and keep our communities safe.

Thank you and we will press on with you,
Patrice and Jonathan
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Appeals Court Slaps Down Donald Trump's Travel Ban Yet Again

READ: US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling on Trump's travel ban

:---P

10-3, opinion written by Chief Judge Roger Gregory, who was appointed by George W. Bush. The perpetually terrified and self-destructive bigots lose again.


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“Have sex with an immigrant. We’re going through a tough time right now, and it would just be really great for morale.

When I came to Grinnell I was a devout Muslim who had never romantically touched a girl and I was going to get a degree that guaranteed me a job. By the time I graduated I was basically a Rastafarian with a white American girlfriend and a philosophy degree. College changes you, is my point.

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that’s how you evolve. I think that’s scientifically accurate — I don’t know, I had a liberal arts education.”


-- Comedian Kumail Nanjiani, Grinnell College in Iowa commencement speech

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CBC: Body of woman, 57, found near Manitoba border believed to be asylum seeker, U.S. police say
Members of the sheriff's office, with assistance from the U.S. Border Patrol, found the body of a woman near Noyes, Minn., on Friday around 3 p.m. CT. She was found in a ditch not far from the Canadian border, west of Highway 75, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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In the first four months of this year, the RCMP intercepted 477 asylum seekers in Manitoba, federal government figures state. 
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Janzen said it's time to close the "loophole" requiring asylum seekers to do irregular crossings.

Under the Safe Third Country agreement, Canada generally does not accept refugee claimants coming in from the U.S., but there are exceptions. Canada is also a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, so those who irregularly cross into the country — meaning they enter somewhere other than a border crossing — can be given permission to make a claim here.
That 477 asylum seekers is just for Manitoba, and doesn't include those who the RCMP didn't intercept.

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Just wait until the Haitian exemption expires in 5 1/2 months.
A body found less than a kilometre from the Manitoba border in Minnesota is believed to be that of an asylum seeker who died of hypothermia, police say....
So close. :( That sucks to die from hypothermia in May.
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Kellyanne Conway’s husband criticizes Trump’s travel ban tweets as ‘sad’

:thumbup: , but still :crazy: . Will Kellyanne now defend Dolt .45 from her own husband's tweets?
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Vrede too wrote:
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Kellyanne Conway’s husband criticizes Trump’s travel ban tweets as ‘sad’

:thumbup: , but still :crazy: . Will Kellyanne now defend Dolt .45 from her own husband's tweets?
No doubt. Question is, will Trump make her dump her husband to keep her phony-baloney job?

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Always be yourself! Unless you can be a goat, then always be a goat.
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Only Mass Deportation Can Save America

:lol: :thumbup:
Well by-God said.
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rstrong, I think it was you that I stole the quip from. Under an article about Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin's wedding to a Scottish actress I posted, "As with so many immigrants, Melania and Louise Linton are doing jobs that Americans refuse to do."

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207-23 positive thumbs and a dozen people taking the time to post things like "Awesome", "LOVE. THAT. ^^^^", "Now, THAT was funny!", "THE BEST", etc.

Thanks!
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rstrong, I think it was you that I stole the quip from. Under an article about Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin's wedding to a Scottish actress I posted, "As with so many immigrants, Melania and Louise Linton are doing jobs that Americans refuse to do."

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207-23 positive thumbs and a dozen people taking the time to post things like "Awesome", "LOVE. THAT. ^^^^", "Now, THAT was funny!", "THE BEST", etc.

Thanks!
And the bride just looks so frakkin happy in that picture!
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You're welcome! :thumbup:

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rstrong wrote:
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:30 am
... 207-23 positive thumbs and a dozen people taking the time to post things like "Awesome", "LOVE. THAT. ^^^^", "Now, THAT was funny!", "THE BEST", etc.

Thanks!
You're welcome! :thumbup:
286-29, "Brilliant!", "You win the internet today", etc. Thanks!

JTA, I've gotten lots of compliments for "Dolt .45", too.
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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Jun 26, 2017 3:24 pm
rstrong wrote:
Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:51 am
Vrede too wrote:
Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:30 am
... 207-23 positive thumbs and a dozen people taking the time to post things like "Awesome", "LOVE. THAT. ^^^^", "Now, THAT was funny!", "THE BEST", etc.

Thanks!
You're welcome! :thumbup:
286-29, "Brilliant!", "You win the internet today", etc. Thanks!

JTA, I've gotten lots of compliments for "Dolt .45", too.
That's my favorite. Subtle yet poignant. Did Boatrocker or rstrong come up with that one though? I can't remember if it we me or someone else.
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Not me.

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My bad. :oops:
http://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtopi ... t45#p75044
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Well, really, where is any evidence that the trumphole has ever surrounded himself with decent, competent people? Reagan brought in some real wieners, but he also brought in people who, though we find them ideologically reprehensible, were capable, competent and smarter than Reagan. Because Raygun might have been a little dementia-addled, but he was not a narcissist psychopath with a biblical ego and a hydrogen-fueled insecurity to boot. Dolt45 considers himself an Übermensch, is certain that there is no one available as smart and capable as he is, and wouldn't want them around, if there were. This asshole could keep even a quack like Dr. Phil in business for years.
Thanks Boatrocker!
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