Desperate drive to make the debate stage shakes Dem campaigns – POLITICO
hmmmm
After Felony Conviction, Iraq War Veteran Faces Deportation To Mexico
In one incident last year, he pointed a handgun at his domestic partner; in a second incident, he punched her. She pressed charges. Baltazar was found guilty of “aggravated assault on a family member with a deadly weapon.”
Because he served in Iraq, his case was moved to a special county court for veterans. There, he received a deferred sentence.
Things were going well. Baltazar was attending counseling sessions and passing drug and alcohol tests. In February, he drove across the border to Reynosa, Mexico, to see a nephew fight in a boxing match. The veterans court had approved the trip. But when he tried to return to Hidalgo, Texas, federal agents on the international bridge checked his record, spotted the felony and took him into custody.
After Felony Conviction, Iraq War Veteran Faces Deportation To Mexico : NPR
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Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight
But when the children, all between 5 and 12 years old, arrived at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s adults-only Port Isabel Detention Center, rather than seeing their parents, they saw a parking lot full of vans just like theirs, with children from other facilities who, just like them, were waiting to be processed and reunified with their parents.
Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited.
…There was no one present to greet the arriving children and they were not equipped to process them in a parking lot.
…ICE told BCFS staff that if the children returned to Harlingen, they would be further delayed in seeing their parents. The children began to sleep in the vans.
Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight
Are you fucking kidding me???!
We remove children from their parent’s homes for less.
The officers involved belong in jail.
Patrick Shanahan: USS John McCain ask made to 7th Fleet by WH
The White House Military Office coordinated directly with the Navy’s Seventh Fleet to have the USS John S. McCain hidden from view during President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters Sunday.
Patrick Shanahan: USS John McCain ask made to 7th Fleet – CNNPolitics
sigh…
These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns.
These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns. – The New York Times
Wild.
The article even dips its toe into the legacy of a millennia of monastic traditions. …Which is rare in itself.
Leah Chase, whose restaurant Dooky Chase’s helped change New Orleans, dies at 96
“African-Americans didn’t have restaurants like that to go to. When I came here, I said, ‘We’ve got to change things,’” said Chase. ”Growing up, mother always kept nice things for company. Nice glasses, nice things. That’s how we look at it here. Everybody who comes through that front door is my company. People deserve that.”
RIP
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