Democrats Squirm as ‘Peaceful’ Protest Narrative Falls Apart

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Democrats Squirm as ‘Peaceful’ Protest Narrative Falls Apart

It’s getting harder and harder to portray violent Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs as “peaceful” protestors, and Democrats and friendly news media outlets appear to know it.

After two months of sustained rioting and attacks on police, the narrative is shifting from innocent civil rights-oriented groups being abused by law enforcement officers, to calling out left-wing violence—to the extent they admit it exists.

The shift is almost certainly brought about by changing public opinion.

Last week, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, accused federal law enforcement of “brutally attacking peaceful protesters” in Portland, Oregon, as they assaulted officers and tried to burn a federal courthouse to ground.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the federal officers “stormtroopers” and House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-South Carolina, called them “Gestapo.”

But on Monday, Joe Scarborough, a rabid NeverTrumper and MSNBC host, called the riots “self-destructive.”

“How does breaking windows at a courthouse, setting fire to a federal building, firing guns in crowds, and committing acts of vandalism forward any cause? Actually, don’t bother because there is no good answer. It is self-destructive to any cause you promote,” Scarborough tweeted.

Longtime Clinton ally and DNC operative Lanny Davis went much farther, decrying in a tweet Monday that the so-called protests were helping President Donald Trump.

President Trump also noticed the shift and has taken to Twitter to seize the advantage.

“The Fake News Media is trying to portray the Portland and Seattle ‘protesters’ as wonderful, sweet and innocent people just out for a little stroll. Actually, they are sick and deranged Anarchists & Agitators who our great men & women of Law Enforcement easily control, but who…,” Trump wrote.

“…would destroy our American cities, and worse, if Sleepy Joe Biden, the puppet of the Left, ever won. Markets would crash and cities would burn. Our Country would suffer like never before. We will beat the Virus, soon, and go on to the Golden Age – better than ever before!” he continued.

Trump later retweeted the messages to his 84.2 million followers to amplify the sentiment.

But cutting through the political tit-for-tat, was the first real mainstream media foray into the activist mob violence.

Mike Balsamo, the lead Department of Justice and federal law enforcement reporter for the Associated Press, broke ranks with widespread media efforts to hide, gaslight and minimize the rioting.

Balsamo penned an exhaustive story and a 12-part Twitter thread detailing his “eye opening” weekend experience at a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon.

Balsamo said he intended to tell both sides of the controversy, but the result was a damning indictment against two-months of news coverage and Democrat officials’ previous refusal to condemn the shocking violence.

Mortars, industrial-grade fireworks, flares, frozen bottles, concrete, rocks, cans, batteries, sling-shotted ball bearings, and other dangerous items “regularly whizzed over the fence at high speeds,” he explained.

“The fear is palpable,” Balsamo added, as he recounted how federal law enforcement officers were under nightly attack, with some potentially permanently blinded by powerful lasers.

GOP Budget Hawks Stunned by Pork Slipped into COVID Relief Bill

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GOP Budget Hawks Stunned by Pork Slipped into COVID Relief Bill

The latest trillion-dollar economic stimulus, the CARES Act II, if passed, will placate many lower- and middle-class taxpayers with another round of $1,200 relief checks plus $500 for dependents of any age.

But fiscal conservatives are calling attention to the staggeringly sloppy franken-bill, even by Capitol Hill standards, according to Axios.

Among the more controversial riders is $1.75 billion for a brand-new FBI building, even as the agency continues to face serious fallout—and, likely, forthcoming criminal indictments—for its role in Obamagate scandals including the abuse of FISA surveillance warrants and unmasking of US civilians.

Surprisingly, the deep-state boon came not from House Democrats but from the Trump White House itself.

“Obviously we had to have an agreement with the administration in order to get started,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “and they’ll have to answer the question of why they insisted on that provision.”

McConnell said he opposed all of the “non-germane” amendments to the package.

“When we get to the end of the process I would hope all of the non-COVID-related measures are out,” he said Tuesday following a Senate Republican luncheon.

Axios reported that two of the key Trump administration players—Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin—also were in attendance at the lunch meeting.

While McConnell, himself in the middle of a contentious re-election campaign, has tended more toward pragmatism in regards to the massive appropriations in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the less-than-loyal GOP mavericks were not as diplomatic.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a frequent Trump critic, blamed both House Democrats and the White House for their wasteful spending of tax coffers—which will inevitably saddle future generations with debt.

“The swamp should stop pretending there’s some thoughtful negotiation happening here,” Sasse said in a statement, according to Axios, while referring to Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as “”two big government Democrats.”

Other conservative Trump allies—including GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Josh Hawley of Missouri—expressed their bewilderment with the process.

“It’s a mess. I can’t figure out what this bill’s about,” said Hawley.

Hawley noted that it was unlikely the final product would look anything like the draft proposal, which is merely the starting point for bargaining with Democrats.

“This is not going to be the bill,” he said. “They’re going to go negotiate with Pelosi. We have no idea what the final bill will be, and we’ll be the last to know.”

But Meadows suggested that his famous deal-making boss may have taken that into account when making his opening bid.

He downplayed the idea that the current package was intended to be exclusively for COVID-relief measures, particularly as the nation faces equally serious threats from ongoing domestic race-riots and from enemies abroad like China and Russia, which are likely to attempt, once again, to interfere in the November elections.

“There are a number of things in the last bill that had nothing to do with the coronavirus,” Meadows told reporters. “I think everybody acknowledges that it’s a funding mechanism. And I don’t see it standing in the way of us getting a deal.”

BIG BROTHA: George Floyd Family Unveils Hologram Overlooking Va. Monument

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BIG BROTHA: George Floyd Family Unveils Hologram Overlooking Va. Monument

(Headline USA) The family of George Floyd witnessed the unveiling of a hologram in Virginia Tuesday night, where flickering lights came together to create an image of Floyd’s head and shoulders transposed over the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue.

The event in Richmond on historic Monument Avenue was the first public unveiling of the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project. A press release says the project aims to “transform spaces that were formerly occupied by racist symbols of America’s dark Confederate past into a message of hope, solidarity and forward-thinking change.”

Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May, while in police custody, sparked protests across the country calling for criminal justice reform across the nation.

The Richmond-Times Dispatch reported that the project’s week-long tour will take it to a number of cities in North Carolina and Georgia mirroring the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides.

The hologram features a myriad of lights that swarm like fireflies to form into a 3-D image of Floyd, with his name depicted around his image. The tour is organized by Change.org and The George Floyd Foundation.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Trump Skips Farewell to Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis

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Trump Skips Farewell to Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis

(Associated Press) One by one, they passed through the grand Capitol Rotunda to pay respects to the civil rights icon.

It was a solemn display of unity as congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle offered praise for longtime Georgia Rep. John Lewis. There was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called Lewis the “conscience of the Congress”; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who praised him as a model of courage. Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, came as well.

But missing was a man whose absence spoke volumes: President Donald Trump.

“No, I won’t be going,” Trump told reporters when asked whether he planned to pay his respects to Lewis, the first Black lawmaker to lie in state in the Rotunda. Lewis’ body was later moved to the steps on the Capitol’s east side for a public viewing.

Trump’s absence was another break in convention for a president who has broken so many norms, and one that underscored his separation from much of Washington society, along with his dismal relationship with Democrats on Capitol Hill — especially members of color.

Trump had long harbored resentments toward Lewis.

A spokeswoman for Lewis, who died of pancreatic cancer, brushed off any talk of politics when asked whether the Lewis family had any communication with the White House about whether Trump should attend, calling it “irrelevant.”

“I would say that this is not a political event,” said Brenda Jones, the congressman’s longtime spokeswoman. “It’s our time to pay respect to a man who did a great deal for this country. And that’s all we want it to be.”

Jones added that “people can pay their respect in a lot of different ways. … He has that right. Let him to do what he wants to do. And I’m sure that John Lewis would be supportive of it.”

The White House did not respond to questions about why the president did not attend. But Trump’s off-the-cuff declaration Monday afternoon that he wouldn’t go caught some White House aides off guard, according to two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose private conversations.

While the chances of Trump going were always slim, there had been preliminary conversations in the West Wing about Trump potentially making a visit on Tuesday. Trump had previously expressed a reluctance to publicly mourn Lewis because he remained angry about the congressman’s past criticisms.

While the president’s lingering grudge played a role, White House officials also are leery of sending Trump places he isn’t wanted and weren’t sure what kind of reception he would have received.

Pence, who had a personal relationship with Lewis, was seen as a safer choice. Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, like Pence a former House member, and other Cabinet members also attended.

Trump had an antagonistic relationship with Lewis. After Trump’s election, Lewis called him an illegitimate president because of Russia’s efforts to help him win, and the congressman boycotted Trump’s 2017 inauguration as a result. Trump countered by blasting Lewis’ Atlanta majority-Black district as “falling apart” and directed him to “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S.”

In December of that year, Lewis refused to speak at the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum because Trump would be there. Lewis also endorsed Biden and urged young Black voters to rally behind the former vice president.

While Trump did acknowledge Lewis’ death on Twitter, it took him 14 hours to do so and his message felt more perfunctory than heartfelt, especially in contrast with his effusive tribute to television personality Regis Philbin, who died last week.

“Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing. Melania and I send our prayers to he and his family,” Trump wrote.

But for many, Trump’s absence wasn’t missed.

“I think it’s better if he doesn’t attend,” said Phillip Estes, 53, an urban planner from Washington, D.C., who was among the hundreds who gathered to pay their respects to Lewis on Tuesday.

“He would probably just make it all about himself,” Estes said.

Jay Stegall, 33, an American University graduate student originally from Lewis’ Atlanta district, echoed those sentiments as he stood with his two young sisters and his 4-year-old daughter.

“It wouldn’t have been authentic,” Stegall said. “It would just have been another photo op for him. He definitely wouldn’t have understood the meaning of the moment.”

Born to sharecroppers during Jim Crow segregation, Lewis was beaten by Alabama state troopers during the civil rights movement, spoke ahead of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington and was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 2011 by the nation’s first Black president.

Seattle Mayor: Fed. Agents Have ‘De-Mobilized’ and Left City

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Seattle Mayor: Fed. Agents Have ‘De-Mobilized’ and Left City

(Headline USA) Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Tuesday she had received confirmation that U.S. agents had left the area after being sent to Seattle last week to protect federal buildings amid ongoing race riots.

Durkan, Gov. Jay Inslee and other local leaders said in a joint news release that the Department of Homeland Security’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit had ‘demobilized.’

In testimony before the US House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr took issue with the misleading use of military terminology and rhetoric to describe the dispatching of federal offices, noting that the reality was only a handful of peacekeeping officials had been sent.

Durkan, Inslee and others on the Left had used the deployment of federal forces without  consent from local officials as a political bludgeon in their ongoing attacks on President Donald Trump and his administration.

However, the Seattle police chief had spoken out recently against local officials for refusing to support law enforcement, including a mandate that would ban the use of crowd dispersal techniques like teargas, leaving police with nothing but their batons and side-arms amid the violent chaos of Antifa-led groups.

Seattle law enforcement warned that businesses would be on their own if police were prevented from doing their jobs.

The anarchist rioters already spent several weeks occupying six blocks downtown in what they called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, leading to the deaths of two young “CHAZ” residents after first responders were unable to reach shooting victims.

Officials did not say why the federal agents decided to leave.

However, federal officials have wavered on whether involving themselves in the unrest and allowing themselves to be scapegoated for the local problem is worth fomenting what some see as a constitutional crisis impacting matters of state and local autonomy.

They also risk losing the optical battle as rioters deliberately try to provoke violence in their effort to influence political outcomes, a frequently used tactic among pro-Marxist radical groups.

“This demobilization means Washingtonians no longer have to worry about the White House’s aim to provoke confrontation and undermine peaceful protests,” Inslee claimed.

Durkan called the president’s actions “to target and ‘dominate’ Democratic cities through the use of federal forces” chilling.

“It has increased violence in Portland, Seattle and other cities across the country, which was what the president intended,” the mayor said, ignoring the prior occupation of her city by the radical protesters.

“We will continue to heed this moment in history and to work with the community to make systemic and generational changes to make Seattle more just,” she claimed.

Indications were also that the federal authorities had left or planned to leave Portland, the largest city in neighboring Oregon.

Protesters there have tried to tear down a fence erected to protect the building, set fires and hurled fireworks and other objects at the building and at agents.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty on Monday asked Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for a meeting to discuss a cease-fire and their desire for the removal of the extra federal agents.

Wolf had earlier pledged to remain until the violence was over and had planned to dispatch the federal peace-keepers to several other left-leaning cities, including Chicago, that have refused outright to address crime and violence.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Project Veritas Report Leads Rep. Gaetz to Issue Criminal Referral for Mark Zuckerberg

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Project Veritas Report Leads Rep. Gaetz to Issue Criminal Referral for Mark Zuckerberg

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fl., sent a criminal referral to Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday, asking him to investigate Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for misleading Congress, Project Veritas reported.

Zuckerberg claimed during an April 2018 Senate testimony that Facebook does not have any bias in its treatment of conservative people or ideas. He spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Yet, Project Veritas has learned from former Facebook “content moderators” that the technology company does, in fact, engage in purposeful bias against conservative content.

“As a member of this body, I question Mr. Zuckerberg’s veracity, and challenge his
willingness to cooperate with our oversight authority, diverting congressional
resources during time-sensitive investigations, and materially impeding our
work,” Gaetz wrote in a letter released on July 27.

Former Facebook employees Zach McElroy and Ryan Hartwig both said in June that Facebook is biased against conservatives.

“I would say, given what I’ve seen, I think that there is inherent bias and inherent bias against conservatives in what is allowed to be said about conservatives,” McElroy said.

He said he would volunteer to detail his understanding of Facebook’s policies in a congressional hearing.

McElroy said Facebook’s algorithms pull conservative and Republican content for additional review by Facebook employees.

“I saw a stark contrast between Republicans versus Democrats in the queue,” said McElroy. “I saw upwards of 75-to-80 percent of the posts in that queue were from Republican pages, politicians, journalists and pages that supported the president or supported conservatives.”

Gaetz said Zuckerberg may have violated federal laws against making falsement statements to Congress. The laws carry a prison sentence of up to five years.

Project Veritas CEO James O’Keefe said Barr should immediately begin investigating Zuckerberg’s statements, since it directly relates to the integrity of the 2020 elections.

“If someone—anyone—lies to a lawmaker, he or she is deliberately manipulating the legislative process,” he said. “I urge DOJ to act quickly and investigate Mark Zuckerberg before Americans vote in November.”

Major Teachers Union Tells Members to Strike If They Have to Return to Work

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Major Teachers Union Tells Members to Strike If They Have to Return to Work

(Headline USA) One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures.

The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans.

In providing its blessing, the union is also offering local chapters access to its financial and legal resources as they navigate a return to the classroom.

Union officials said they will provide legal support, communications support and staffing to local chapters that vote to strike.

Although the measure says strikes should be considered only as a “last resort,” it lists conditions the organization wants met for schools to reopen.

It says buildings should reopen only in areas with lower virus rates, and only if schools require masks, update ventilation systems and make changes to space students apart.

In announcing the measure, the union’s president blamed President Donald Trump for pressuring schools to reopen since the virus presents virtually zero danger to healthy children and adults.

Randi Weingarten called Trump’s response “chaotic and catastrophic,” saying it has left teachers afraid.

“We will fight on all fronts for the safety of our students and their educators,” Weingarten said. “But if authorities don’t protect the safety and health of those we represent and those we serve, as our executive council voted last week, nothing is off the table.”

The union’s leaders approved the resolution Friday but announced it Tuesday at the group’s convention, which is being hosted online.

The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, separately said its members will do “whatever it takes” to protect students.

“Nobody wants to see students back in the classroom more than educators, but when it comes to their safety, we’re not ready to take any options off the table,” the group’s president, Lily Eskelsen García, said in a statement.

For weeks, Trump has pressed for a full reopening of the nation’s schools.

Last week he acknowledged that some schools may need to delay a return to in-person instruction, but he’s still asking Congress to withhold future virus relief to schools that fail to reopen.

Some of the nation’s largest public school districts are starting the school year online, including in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston.

The Chicago Teachers Union, which has clashed with the city over its school reopening plan, said on Tuesday that it isn’t ruling out a work stoppage.

“It’s long past time for our nation’s educators to come together and fight collectively for the common good — up to and including striking to ameliorate the social and economic inequalities at the root of the consequences of this insidious virus,” the union’s vice president, Stacy Davis Gates, said in a statement.

Davis Gates said any safety strike would include broader demands to support front-line workers, to provide broadband access to every student, to ensure universal health care and to get “a hard commitment from public officials to protect Black and Brown lives, whose neighborhoods are disproportionately bearing the burden of death and illness from COVID-19.”

In Massachusetts, nurses represented by the Boston Teachers Union are planning a sit-in at City Hall on Wednesday over the city’s reopening plan.

The nurses are calling for rapid testing in schools to identify COVID-19.

They also want more protective equipment for nurses and teachers and assessments of air quality in school buildings, among other measures.

In Ohio’s largest district, about 2,700 Columbus City Schools educators had previously signed a letter calling on leaders to start the fall term online, with the union arguing that the stakes “are too high for experiments.”

They got their wish Tuesday as the district announced it will start the year with virtual learning for all students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.

For other districts planning to reopen, the federation’s safety demands could be difficult to meet.

The union says schools should open only in areas where the infection rate among those tested for the disease caused by the coronavirus, COVID-19, is below 5%, and where the transmission rate is below 1%. It also says local authorities must have plans to close schools if cases spike.

Along with mask requirements, the union is also pushing schools to keep people 6 feet apart, to keep buildings and buses clean, and to make accommodations for teachers at greater risk of health problems if they contract COVID-19.

For many schools, more funding will be needed to reopen safely, the union said.

It estimates the average school will need at least $1.2 million, amounting to $116 billion nationwide.

The resolution says Trump and Senate Republicans have “have failed to negotiate and pass a new stimulus bill to address the resources vitally needed for reopening our schools.”

The latest stimulus proposal from the White House and Senate Republicans includes $105 billion for schools and colleges, though some of the money is only for schools that reopen for in-person classes.

In May, the Democratic-led House included $100 billion for schools — none of it limited to those holding on-site classes — but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said even more money is needed.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Anonymous Source: Trump Administration In Talks with Oregon Gov. to Remove Federal Agents

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Anonymous Source: Trump Administration In Talks with Oregon Gov. to Remove Federal Agents

(Headline USA) The Trump administration has started talks with the Oregon governor’s office and indicated that it would begin to draw down the presence of federal agents sent to quell two months of violent protests in Portland if the state stepped up its own enforcement.

An anonymous White House source allegedly told The Associated Press that the talks with the office of Democratic Gov. Kate Brown are in the early stages and there is no agreement.

Brown didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office also didn’t immediately respond to an email.

Just a day earlier, the U.S. Marshals Service and Department of Homeland Security were weighing whether to send in more agents.

The marshals were taking steps to identify up to 100 additional personnel who could go in case they were needed to relieve or supplement the deputy marshals who work in Oregon, spokesman Drew Wade said.

The nightly protests often spiral into violence as domestic terrorists target the U.S. courthouse in Oregon’s largest city with rocks, fireworks and laser pointers and federal agents respond with tear gas, non-lethal ammunition and arrests.

“We, as you know, have done an excellent job of watching over Portland and watching our courthouse where they wanted to burn it down, they’re anarchists, nothing short of anarchist agitators,” Trump said Tuesday. “And we have protected it very powerfully. And if we didn’t go there, I will tell you, you wouldn’t have a courthouse. You’d have a billion-dollar burned-out building.”

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Tuesday that she had received confirmation that U.S. agents had left her city after being sent to Seattle last week to protect federal buildings amid lingering unrest.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Joe Biden Promises His Economic Policies Will Address Racial Inequalities

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Joe Biden Promises His Economic Policies Will Address Racial Inequalities

(Headline USA) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised Tuesday in front of an empty stadium that his economic agenda would combat racial inequalities.

Biden said the Republican president is exacerbating social discord across the country, including by sending federal authorities into major cities to addressing crime.

And he said Trump has little interest in addressing the racism that Biden said has been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He can’t turn the economy around. He’s determined to stoke division and chaos,” Biden said, speaking in a community center gymnasium in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. “It’s not good for the country, but Donald Trump doesn’t care. His campaign is failing and he’s looking for a lifeline.”

Biden countered with a litany of proposals to steer federal money and tax credits to small business and economic development programs for minority-owned firms and disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Biden also said he’d encourage home ownership to help close wealth gaps among minority communities and push the nation’s banking system, including the Federal Reserve, to more directly address economic inequality.

Many of his proposals — and the billions in federal spending needed to pay for it — had already been promised as part of previous, larger Biden plans to jump-start the economy when the coronavirus outbreak begins to recede.

A recent Politico story alleged that Biden’s longtime friend and vetting committee leader Chris Dodd, a former Democratic senator like Biden, had raised concerns about Harris going after Biden last summer on the debate stage and showing “no remorse” in conversations with Biden’s campaign.

On Biden’s notepad, he’d written below Harris’ name: “Do not hold grudges” and “Great respect for her.”

Biden did not field a question specifically about Harris. But he has praised her extensively, and he’s confirmed in recent weeks that his short list for vice president includes several black women.

Biden said most people in the streets are “peaceful protesters” who don’t require a response from the federal government. “Arsonists and anarchists should be prosecuted,” Biden said, and “local law enforcement can do that.”

Still, Biden said, “This election is not just about voting against Donald Trump. It’s about rising to this moment of crisis, understanding people’s struggle and building a future worthy of their courage and ambition to overcome.”

And he said that means thinking about every policy debate in terms of structural inequalities.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Department of Homeland Security to Reject New DACA Applications

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Department of Homeland Security to Reject New DACA Applications

(Headline USA) The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will reject new applications and shorten renewal periods for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.

The move, detailed in a memo from Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, ended a month of uncertainty about how the administration would respond to the Supreme Court’s decision.

Wolf said the administration may try to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program again.

He said the federal government needs more time to consider next steps, presenting the measures as a temporary change.

“DACA makes clear that, for certain large classes of individuals, DHS will at least tolerate, if not affirmatively sanction, their ongoing violation of the immigration laws,” Wolf wrote in the memo.

About 650,000 people are part of DACA, which allows young illegal alien children to work and shields them from deportation.

Roughly 66,000 people meet age requirements to apply, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

The government will deny all new applications, limit renewals to one year instead of two, and deny requests by DACA recipients to visit their home countries unless there are “exceptional circumstances.”

Recipients may seek permission to return home for family events, such as funerals or weddings, and other reasons.

The Supreme Court ruled last month that DHS failed to follow rule-making procedures when it tried to end the program, but the justices kept a window open for him to try again.

Democratic rival Joe Biden wants to keep DACA unconditionally.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

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