Category: International Affairs,

Former US Army 4-star general blasts Trump’s visit to US troops – INSIDER

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Last week, Trump announced he would withdraw the roughly 2,000 US troops from Syria, citing the highly disputed claim that the Islamic State group had been “defeated.” Following the backlash from many national-security experts, Trump suggested he was open to using Iraq as a staging point for another intervention in Syria, “if we wanted to do something.”

McCaffrey also criticized Trump, who did not meet with Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi during the trip, for snubbing the leader of Iraq.

…”Announcing we’re going to use it as the site from which we’ll conduct combat operations in other nations, I mean, it’s just inciting Iraqi sovereignty concerns.”

He also criticized one of Trump’s falsehoods about the military: the claim that US troops received their first pay raise “in more than 10 years” under his administration.

Former US Army 4-star general blasts Trump’s visit to US troops – INSIDER

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Indigenous activist urges the Vatican to revoke 500-year-old documents

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He described the doctrine as the idea that the first Christians to locate land inhabited by Indigenous peoples had a “right of domination” over those lands and peoples.

“We got in the habit of calling it the ‘doctrine of discovery,’ but what I’ve learned from studying those documents … is that it’s really the doctrine of domination,” he said. 

Indigenous activist urges the Vatican to revoke 500-year-old documents | CBC Radio

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Donald Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees

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In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.

…Many pre-1995 arrivals, all of whom were previously protected under the 2008 agreement by both the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, were refugees from the Vietnam War. Some are the children of those who once allied with American and South Vietnamese forces, an attribute that renders them undesirable to the current regime in Hanoi, which imputes anti-regime beliefs to the children of those who opposed North Vietnam. This anti-Communist constituency includes minorities such as the children of the American-allied Montagnards, who are persecuted in Vietnam for both their ethnicity and Christian religion.

…“Forty-three years ago, a lot of the Southeast Asian communities and Vietnamese communities fled their countries and their homeland due to the war, which the U.S. was involved in, fleeing for their safety and the safety of their families,” said Kevin Lam, the organizing director of the Asian American Resource Workshop, an advocacy group. “The U.S. would do well to remember that.”

Donald Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees – The Atlantic

WTF?! Unamerican son-of-a-festering-putrid-asshat

 

Family Of Migrant Girl Disputes U.S. Officials’ Story Of Her Death

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Border Patrol officials on Friday said agents did everything they could to save the girl but that she had not had food or water for days. They added that an initial screening showed no evidence of health problems, and that her father had signed a form indicating she was in good health.

But the family took issue with that form, which was in English, a language her father doesn’t speak or read. He communicated with border agents in Spanish but he primarily speaks the Mayan Q’eqchi’ language.

“It is unacceptable for any government agency to have persons in custody sign documents in a language that they clearly do not understand,” the statement said.

…In a statement released by lawyers, the parents of Jakelin Caal said the girl had been given food and water and appeared to be in good health as she traveled through Mexico with her father, 29-year-old Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz. The family added that Jakelin had not been traveling through the desert for days before she was taken into custody.

…The consul said Nery Caal told him the group they were traveling with was dropped off in Mexico about a 90-minute walk from the border.

Family Of Migrant Girl Disputes U.S. Officials’ Story Of Her Death |

Sounds like the border officials are as full as shit as the bloviated crazy person in DC who keeps ranting about a pointless wall. When it is proved that they lied, the individuals involved need to be immediately dismissed, charged, and imprisoned.

Border Patrol death: Girl, 7, fled impoverished Guatemala village

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There were only four agents working with a group of 163 migrants, including 50 unaccompanied children, and only one bus to take them to the nearest station 94 miles away. The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general has opened an investigation.

That single bus set out on a several-hour trip to the Border Patrol station filled with unaccompanied minors – following protocol – while the daughter and her father waited for it to return. They left about eight hours after being detained.

Caal told the consul that while they were on the bus, his daughter began to feel warm and uncomfortable and began to vomit, and Caal told the driver that his daughter was ill.

…The girl died at about 12:30 a.m. Dec. 8, roughly 19 hours after she began throwing up on the bus and 27 hours after being apprehended. Officials said she had swelling on her brain and liver failure. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause of death. The results could take weeks.

Border Patrol death: Girl, 7, fled impoverished Guatemala village

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Senator calls potential Trump intervention in Huawei case ‘very disturbing’

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Blumenthal said that “makes it look like law enforcement is a tool of either trade or political or diplomatic ends of this country. … That may be true in other countries, but not in this one.”

Senator calls potential Trump intervention in Huawei case ‘very disturbing’ – POLITICO

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