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Why the Trump admin wants more detention space for migrants and Democrats want a limit – NBC News
Why the Trump admin wants more detention space for migrants and Democrats want a limit – NBC News

WASHINGTON — Talks to avert another government shutdown broke down over the weekend — this time over Democrats’ demand for a cap on the number of undocumented immigrants who can be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The issue has reared its head because the White House has asked for $4.2 billion for ICE to increase its capacity to detain immigrants to 52,000, up from 40,000 currently funded by Congress. Democrats want to cap the detention space ICE can use to hold immigrants in the interior of the country — away from the border — at 16,500.

Here’s a look at what’s driving both sides to their positions.

Why does ICE need more space?

Currently, ICE is already holding more immigrants than Congress has authorized. Although it is only authorized to hold 40,000, there were 49,057 immigrants in ICE detention as of Feb. 6, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee. An ICE spokeswoman said the average daily population for this year as of Jan. 26 was 45,671.

When ICE does not have funding for space, they may take funds from other areas or use contracts with prisons to find additional beds for immigrants.

In the interior of the country, where Democrats would like to see a limit of 16,500 immigrants in detention, there are approximately 20,800 migrants being held, according to an ICE official authorized to speak on the subject.

Who are these immigrants in ICE detention?

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said ICE is holding dangerous criminals, including murderers. While ICE held immigrants in fiscal year 2018 who collectively were convicted on 54,630 charges, only 1,641 of the charges were homicide. The most frequent charges were for driving under the influence, followed by drug offenses, traffic offenses and immigration offenses (such as re-entering the country after a deportation order.)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers frisk undocumented immigrants after detaining and bringing them to a processing center last April at the U.S. Federal Building in lower Manhattan.John Moore / Getty Images

Why are noncriminal or nonviolent immigrants in ICE detention?

Under President Barack Obama, ICE was told to prioritize immigrants convicted of serious crimes and those who posed threats to national security. As a result, in fiscal year 2016, 98 percent of immigrants arrested in the United States fit those priorities.

Trump changed that practice, making every immigrant in the country illegally a priority for arrest and deportation by ICE. As a result, in fiscal year 2018, 20 percent of immigrants arrested by ICE had no criminal conviction.

The ICE official told NBC News that 89 percent of immigrants currently being held in detention have been convicted or charged with crimes.

Criminal immigrants in ICE detention have served their time in the U.S. penal system and are awaiting deportation.

Why do Democrats want a cap?

After high-profile deportations and raids by ICE, including arrests at courthouses and deportations of military spouses, some Democrats began calling for ICE to be abolished.

Democrats on the conference committee negotiating the budget have pushed for ICE to cap its detention space so that noncriminals will be left out of ICE enforcement operations.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, a Democrat from California and a member of the conference committee, said in a statement, “A cap on ICE detention beds will force the Trump administration to prioritize deportation for criminals and people who pose real security threats, not law-abiding immigrants who are contributing to our country.”

A Democratic aide who reviewed the White House’s January budget request said the proposal “continues to assume that the only approach to handling recent border crossers is detention. This is also an historically high number of beds to maintain and could be used as a ‘bail out’ for ICE, which has been consistently operating well over its appropriated levels for detention space in the past few years.”

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Julia Ainsley is a national security reporter for NBC News.

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Trump holds rally in Texas amid border wall debate – Fox News
Trump holds rally in Texas amid border wall debate – Fox News
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President Trump held a campaign-style rally Monday night in El Paso, Texas — just as possible 2020 contender and former U.S. Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke led a border wall protest roughly a half-mile away.

Trump’s event, held at the El Paso County Coliseum for his first “Make America Great Again Rally” of the year, didn’t identify the dueling rally nearby, in the town that sits along the U.S.-Mexico border, but the president did mention O’Rourke.

The “young man” with a “great name,” “challenged us,” the president said in reference to O’Rourke.

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“We have, let’s say, 35,000 people tonight, and [O’Rourke] has 200 people, 300 people — not too good,” Trump told the crowd. It was not immediately clear how many people were at Trump and O’Rourke’s events.

Trump added, “In fact, what I would do is, I would say that may be the end of his presidential bid, but he did challenge it.”

The president announced his rally last week during his second State of the Union address, in which he alleged El Paso is now one of the nation’s safest cities because of a “powerful barrier” that was put in place — a claim that others disputed.

He reiterated that point on Monday night. Speaking to the crowd, in front of a large red banner that read, “finish the wall,” Trump said El Paso is one of the “safest cities” in America “thanks for a powerful border wall.”

LAWMAKERS REACH ‘AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE’ IN BORDER SECURITY TALKS, WITH $1.3B FOR BARRIER

He claimed that El Paso, compared to Juarez, Mexico, just across the southern border, had far less murders than the nearby Mexican city, adding: “Walls work.”

Moments before the president took the stage Monday, lawmakers reached “an agreement in principle” to fund the government and avoid another partial government shutdown. The deal includes around $1.3 billion for a barrier along the southern border.

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Trump mentioned on stage that he didn’t know details, as news of the deal broke just before his rally, but acknowledged that “progress [was] being made” for border security.

The White House last month agreed to a temporary spending bill to end a 35-day partial shutdown, although Trump said at the time that the move was not a “concession” and that he would not relent on his demands for a wall.

BORDER-SECURITY ADVOCATES FORM ‘HUMAN WALL’ ALONG US-MEXICO BORDER

The talks had cratered over the weekend because of Democratic demands to limit immigrant detentions by federal authorities, but lawmakers apparently broke through that impasse Monday evening.

Trump — who touched on several topics throughout his rally — was interrupted several times throughout the event, seemingly by protesters. His supporters responded by shouting chants of “USA” and “finish the wall” over the disturbances.

The president brought up embattled Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., after speaking on Democrats’ position on abortion. He said he liked Northam — who is facing calls to resign after his medical school yearbook page featured one person in blackface and another in a KKK robe — because he steers negative news coverage away from his administration.

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“I like him,” Trump said. “Keeps us out of the papers. I’d like to find a few more guys like this one.”

Trump also mentioned Northam’s first news conference regarding the ordeal — “He almost moonwalked!” — in which the governor recalled how he darkened his skin when he dressed as Michael Jackson once for Halloween.

Fox News’ Mike Emanuel, Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Negotiators say they reached an agreement in principle to avert shutdown – CNN
Negotiators say they reached an agreement in principle to avert shutdown – CNN

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for Israel comments, calls out ‘problematic’ role of AIPAC, ‘other lobbyists’ – Fox News
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for Israel comments, calls out ‘problematic’ role of AIPAC, ‘other lobbyists’ – Fox News
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Freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for tweet about AIPAC’s influence in US politics

‘Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,’ tweeted Rep. Omar; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., apologized Monday for comments in which she implied that a prominent pro-Israel lobby compensated lawmakers for their support of the Jewish state, but insisted on what she called “the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics.”

PELOSI, DEM LEADERS CONDEMN REP. OMAR FOR ‘ANTI-SEMITIC’ LANGUAGE

“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.”

“At the same time,” she added, “I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee], the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry. It’s gone on too long and we must be willing to address it.”

Omar drew condemnation from members of both parties after she tweeted Sunday evening that AIPAC has been paying members of Congress to support Israel. On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called on Omar to apologize, saying that “her use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive.”

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said it was “shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the anti-Semitic trope of ‘Jewish money.'” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., called the comments “deeply disappointing and disturbing.”

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“Her words are deeply hurtful and offensive, particularly as they build on a previous comment she made [in 2012] about Jews ‘hypnotizing’ the world in support of Israel — another old trope born of hate-filled texts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Nadler said. ” … In this fragile moment in our nation’s history, we must all redouble our efforts to engage in policy debates in ways that respect the dignity and humanity of all people.”

Omar apologized last month for posting the tweet referenced by Nadler, which read: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine#Israel.” As of Monday afternoon, the messages that caused the most recent furor were still posted on Omar’s Twitter page.

Last month, Omar argued in a Yahoo! News interview that Israel could not be considered a democracy and compared it to the Islamic theocracy in Iran.

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“When I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East I almost chuckle because I know that if we see that any other society we would criticize it, call it out,” she said. “We do that to Iran, we do that to any other place that sort of upholds its religion. And I see that now happening with Saudi Arabia and so I am aggravated, truly, in those contradictions.”

AIPAC responded Sunday night by tweeting: “We are proud that we are engaged in the democratic process to strengthen the US-Israel relationship. Our bipartisan efforts are reflective of American values and interests. We will not be deterred in any way by ill-informed and illegitimate attacks on this important work.”

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For the second time in a month, Ilhan Omar says she unknowingly spread anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner
For the second time in a month, Ilhan Omar says she unknowingly spread anti-Semitism – Washington Examiner

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claims that on Sunday when she sent out multiple tweets decrying the nefarious influence of Jewish money in American politics that she had no idea she was spreading anti-Semitism until she subsequently learned about the implications of her statements. That might have been a more compelling excuse if it weren’t for the fact that she used the exact same one last month, when explaining an earlier anti-Semitic tweet.

On Sunday night, the freshman Democrat, who was given a slot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reacted to a story about a plan from the desk of House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to “take action” against the anti-Semitism being exhibited on a regular basis by Omar and her ” sister” freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., by tweeting out “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.” She then followed it up by saying she meant AIPAC, and then promoted several other supportive tweets furthering the same argument about Jewish donor influence.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that Omar apologize, and then Omar tweeted out a tortured statement in response.

“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Omar wrote. “My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This is why I unequivocally apologize.”

She went on to attack AIPAC as “problematic” while lumping them in with other special interest groups including the NRA and the fossil fuel industry.

This tweet is completely insincere, however, given that just last month, she was forced to respond to criticism of an earlier tweet about the magical power of Jews to control world events, in which she wrote, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

In a Twitter thread from less than three weeks ago, she wrote, “It was after my CNN interview that I heard from Jewish orgs. that my use of the word ‘Hypnotize’ and the ugly sentiment it holds was offensive.” She then added, “That statement came in the context of the Gaza War. It’s now apparent to me that I spent lots of energy putting my 2012 tweet in context and little energy is disavowing the anti-semitic trope I unknowingly used, which is unfortunate and offensive.”

Clearly, she actually learned nothing.

Omar’s response to the newest controversy will no doubt serve its purpose of allowing Democrats to move on. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who criticized her initial tweet last night, thanked Omar ” for her leadership” in response to the “apology.” But any honest observer should see right through it.

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Trump Heads to El Paso to Champion Border Wall, While Opponents There March in Protest – The New York Times
Trump Heads to El Paso to Champion Border Wall, While Opponents There March in Protest – The New York Times

The crime rate then increased by 17 percent from 2006 to 2011. Construction of the wall began in 2008, under President George W. Bush, and was completed in mid-2009, during the Obama administration. Crime has ebbed and flowed within a fairly narrow band since then.

Local officials, including Mayor Dee Margo, a Republican, have spoken out against Mr. Trump’s claims. Representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who recently won Mr. O’Rourke’s former seat, has demanded that the president apologize and meet with migrant families seeking asylum in the United States.

Among lawmakers who represent border districts, there is remarkably little support for a wall, and Democrats in Washington have stuck to their refusal to give Mr. Trump the $5.7 billion he is requesting for it. The latest numbers floated by Democrats in their negotiations with their Republican counterparts are between $1.3 billion and $2 billion.

Yet Mr. Trump has been undeterred. During his State of the Union address, he repeated grisly stories of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants — never mind that the crime rate among immigrants is no higher than among native-born residents. He said a wall would stem the flow of deadly opioids and other illicit drugs into the United States — another dubious assertion, given that most drugs arrive at legal ports of entry.

Mr. Trump’s aides are trying to build a momentum after what they believe was a speech well received by his political base. Unlike some of his predecessors, the president did not immediately leave on a road trip to sell the messages in the address. But he has been eager to return to rallies, which energize him and filled up his calendar before the midterm elections.

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Trump’s racist Elizabeth Warren taunts have entered a new phase – CNN
Trump’s racist Elizabeth Warren taunts have entered a new phase – CNN

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    Lake Shore Drive closed northbound – Crain’s Chicago Business
    Lake Shore Drive closed northbound – Crain’s Chicago Business

    Northbound Lake Shore Drive is closed at Randolph Street because of a “structural emergency” that will hit today’s rush hour—and the closure could last longer. 

    The city’s Office of Emergency Management & Communications announced the news on Twitter shortly before noon today. A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said all traffic is being diverted at Randolph Street while the bridge over the Chicago River is being surveyed. All southbound traffic is running normally, he said.

    Chicago Department of Transportation spokeswoman Susan Hofer said the problem is on a ramp to Lake Shore Drive from Randolph. 

    CDOT said in a statement: “Crews are working to install a shoring tower as quickly as possible under the viaduct structure that carries northbound Lake Shore Drive. The road will be closed through Monday’s PM rush and possibly longer.

    “CDOT discovered a crack in a steel beam that supports the roadway,” the department said. “No injuries or damage to vehicles has been reported.”

    Traffic is detoured off of northbound Lake Shore Drive at Randolph and Monroe, westbound to Columbus, northbound to Lower Wacker Drive and back to northbound Lake Shore Drive, CDOT said.

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    GOP strategist says Virginia ‘just got purple’ | TheHill – The Hill
    GOP strategist says Virginia ‘just got purple’ | TheHill – The Hill

    Republican strategist Holly Turner said on Monday that blackface scandals and sexual assault allegations surrounding Virginia’s top three Democratic elected officials have turned the commonwealth purple. 

    “Virginia just got purple,” Turner, who is the CEO of Stampede Consulting, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton during a panel discussion on “Rising.”

    Turner said she doesn’t think Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) or Attorney General Mark Herring (D) will resign, despite numerous calls for them to step down from both state and national Democrats, adding that there could be an impact on the party in future elections.

    The Republican strategist noted that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonKlobuchar says she will kick off campaign in Wisconsin, alludes to 2016 controversy Klobuchar jumps into 2020 race Elizabeth Warren: Carries the torch of economic populism in 2020 but can’t shake ancestry controversy MORE won the state by almost 40,000 votes. 

    “If you combine Trump’s votes with Gary JohnsonGary Earl JohnsonEx-Massachusetts gov rejoins GOP as he weighs Trump primary challenge Schultz presidential rollout ignites fury on left Hillicon Valley: Social media struggles with new forms of misinformation | US, Russia decline to join pledge on fighting cybercrimes | Trump hits Comcast after antitrust complaint | Zuckerberg pressed to testify before global panel MORE and Evan [McMullin], she only won by 40,000 votes,” Turner told Hill.TV. 

    Earlier this month, a photo emerged from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page showing two individuals, one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan robe. Though the governor initially apologized for the racist photo, he has since denied that he was one of the two men in question. He did acknowledge that he once wore blackface to dress up like Michael Jackson, but has made it clear that he does not intend to resign. 

    Herring also admitted that he wore blackface when he dressed up as rapper Kurtis Blow at a college party 1980.

    Meanwhile, a second woman has come forward accusing Fairfax of sexual assault. Meredith Watson said last Friday that Fairfax raped her in 2000 when the two were in college. Stanford Professor Vanessa Tyson earlier had accused the lieutenant governor of forcing her to perform oral sex on him during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

    Fairfax has called for an investigation into the allegations and denied any wrongdoing.

    Like Northam, he is also resisting calls to resign.

    “The one thing I want to make abundantly clear is that in both situations I knew at the time, and I know today, that the interactions were consensual,” Fairfax said in a statement issued last Saturday.

    —Tess Bonn

    Source Article from https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/429434-gop-strategist-says-Virginia-just-got-purple

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    Democrats reject backup plan to fund government if border talks fail – Washington Examiner
    Democrats reject backup plan to fund government if border talks fail – Washington Examiner

    Democrats are rejecting a backup proposal to temporarily fund the government if a broader border security deal falls through.

    A senior Democratic aide said Monday that Democrats will not agree to a yearlong spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department funded because Democrats believe it would allocate too much money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and too much money for barriers along the southern border.

    The opposition to such a plan might make it even more difficult for Congress to meet a Feb. 15 deadline to agree to some kind of spending deal that includes border security funding. Republicans are pushing for even more border security spending, including funds for a border wall, in the ongoing talks.

    But with little progress in those talks and Democratic threats to spike the level-funding backup plan, the chances are rising again that a partial government shutdown will happen at the end of this week. With no deal by Friday, dozens of agencies and nine departments would partially shutter for the second time this year.

    Democrats are saying specifically that they can’t agree to a continuing spending resolution unless it puts more limits on funding for ICE and a border barrier.

    “A so-called ‘clean’ full-year CR for Homeland Security would allow the Trump administration to increase funding for both physical barriers and ICE detention beds,” the Democratic aide said.

    Democrats want to limit ICE detentions to 16,500 between now and the end of the fiscal year, which is Sept. 30. That’s now a major sticking point in the bipartisan talks among lawmakers seeking a border security funding deal.

    Democrats want to cut the number of detention beds, which would prevent ICE from holding detainees.

    “Under a full-year CR, the Trump administration would fund ICE adult detention beds at a level of 46,000 or even higher,” the aide said. “In contrast, in conference negotiations, Democrats and Republicans had narrowed down the potential funding level for ICE to a range that would require ICE to ramp down the number of detention beds to between 34,000 and 38,500 by the end of the year.”

    The aide said the Trump administration also believes it would be able to use $2 billion in the CR for physical barriers along the U.S. Mexican border.

    “An acceptable compromise will fund border security without being overly reliant on physical barriers, and will include curbs on the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies,” the aide said.

    On Monday afternoon, a group of bipartisan negotiators were huddled in the Capitol, attempting to revive talks that stalled after Democrats insisted on capping ICE detentions.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/democrats-reject-backup-plan-to-fund-government-if-border-talks-fail

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    With her prosecutorial record under fire, Kamala Harris changes her tune on weed – ThinkProgress
    With her prosecutorial record under fire, Kamala Harris changes her tune on weed – ThinkProgress

    With a presidential bid underway, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is pivoting on weed, saying Monday morning that she supports legalizing marijuana and smoked weed in college.

    Asked during an interview on morning radio show The Breakfast Club about whether she supports legalization, Harris said, “Look, I joke about it, half joking — half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”

    As is customary for presidential candidates, Harris was also asked on Monday whether she’s ever smoked weed. She said she had, in college, adding, “I did inhale. It was a long time ago, but yes.”

    “Listen,” she said, laughing, “I think [marijuana] gives a lot of people joy and we need more joy in the world.”

    The Harris who was cracking jokes during the Monday morning interview is basically unrecognizable compared with the Harris of just a few years ago.

    In 2010, while Harris was San Fransisco district attorney and running for state attorney general, she came out in opposition to Proposition 19. The measure would have legalized marijuana in California, and in a statement shared with The New York Times, Harris said Prop 19 would encourage “driving while high” and drug use in the workplace.

    As CBS reported at the time, both Harris and her Republican opponent, then-Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, refused to give a straight answer during a debate when they were asked whether they’d defend Prop 19 if it passed.

    Prop 19 ultimately did not pass, with 53.5 percent of California voters voting no on the measure. California voters put Harris in the Attorney General’s office that year, as well.

    Four years later, Harris was up for re-election, and her Republican opponent Ron Gold made legalizing recreational marijuana part of his platform. When a local news reporter asked Harris what she thought of Gold’s position, Harris said, “He’s entitled to his opinion,” before bursting into laughter.

    Harris first announced her support for legalizing marijuana just last year, long after her home state and several others around the country legalized its use. In a book released last month, she called for legalizing and regulating the drug, as well as expunging nonviolent marijuana-related offenses “from the records of millions of people who have been arrested and incarcerated so they can get on with their lives.”

    Harris’s pivot comes amidst increased scrutiny of her prosecutorial record. In addition to her earlier comments about weed, Harris has a complicated prosecutorial history with sex work, school truancy, and wrongful convictions.

    During her time as California’s attorney general, Harris fought against a movement to legalize sex work in the state, arguing, as LA Weekly reported in 2015, that anti-sex work laws protect people from human trafficking, something many advocates and sex workers have repeatedly refuted.

    As ThinkProgress has previously reported, sex workers and their allies say that criminalization only further endangers them.

    “We know what best practices around addressing exploitation in labor are, and it’s not making people more isolated and more vulnerable,” Kate D’Adamo of Reframe Health and Justice told ThinkProgress last year.

    A truancy program Harris instituted while she worked as San Fransisco’s district attorney has also come under fire in recent weeks. The program began in 2008, and, in an effort to to get chronically truant kids to school, Harris’s office threatened to prosecute their parents.

    Harris’s office argues that the program is actually a progressive policy, as a spokesperson for Harris told Vox, “A critical way to keep kids out of the criminal justice system when they’re older or prevent them from becoming victims of crime is to keep them in school when they’re young.”

    But progressive criminal justice advocates say the program was dangerously misguided.

    “You’re essentially threatening people with prison when there’s underlying poverty issues that are potentially preventing them from having their kids show up to school on time,” Jyoti Nanda, who runs runs a youth and justice clinic at UCLA, also told Vox. “It’s using a crime lens to address what’s really a public health issue.”

    Perhaps the most disturbing detail of Harris’s record, however, hasn’t gotten as much attention. As The New York Times outlined in January, California’s former top lawyer has a history of defending wrongful convictions.

    In 2015, according to the Times report, Harris’s prosecutors likely could have freed George Gage, a man who was charged with sexually abusing his stepdaughter. Gage was convicted largely on the basis of his stepdaughter’s testimony, despite the fact that his stepdaughter’s mother described her child as a “pathological liar,” and the fact that Gage was forced to act as his own lawyer. Harris sent the case to mediation and refused dismiss it. Gage remains in prison.

    Similarly, as the Times reported, Harris worked to keep another man, Daniel Larsen, in prison for possession of a concealed weapon even though there was compelling evidence of his innocence, arguing that he failed to raise his arguments in a timely fashion.

    Harris also defended Johnny Baca’s murder conviction, even though a judge found that a prosecutor presented false testimony during the trial. Harris later “fought tooth and nail,” as Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher put it to The Press-Enterprise, to keep the transcript that proved the false testimony out of the court’s hands.

    “It looks terrible,” Fletcher told the paper.


    Source Article from https://thinkprogress.org/harris-record-weed-history-ce37afd239ce/

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    We already know Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite. The question is, do Democrats care? – Washington Examiner
    We already know Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite. The question is, do Democrats care? – Washington Examiner

    That Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has made another statement peddling an anti-Semitic trope on Twitter wasn’t particularly surprising. Her anti-Semitism has been obvious to any honest observer ever since she became a public figure. The only remaining question is: Do Democrats care?

    To recap, on Sunday night, the freshman Democrat, who was given a slot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reacted to a story about Republican House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s plan to “take action” against the anti-Semitism being exhibited on a regular basis by Omar and her ” sister” freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she wrote, using a song reference and slang term for $100 bills to attack Jewish influence in politics.

    She then followed it up with another tweet saying she meant, ” AIPAC,” a reference to the pro-Israel lobbying group.

    The idea of Jews using money and power to advance foreign interests and exert a nefarious influence on policy is an age old anti-Semitic smear. It also isn’t true, by the way, that Omar was referring merely to AIPAC. She later retweeted former Harry Reid deputy chief of staff attacking the influence of Sheldon Adelson — the linked article doesn’t mention AIPAC at all. So it’s clear that her attack is on Jewish money and influence.

    It’s also one that Omar has advanced in some form or another for years. For instance, she previously infamously tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” She later feigned ignorance of how anybody could have been offended, but obviously didn’t learn anything from the gullible Jewish liberals who earnestly tried to explain to her the implications of what she said.

    It’s not worth litigating why her latest statement is anti-Semitic in excruciating detail. It is, however, worth stating a few things for the record. To start, the “PAC” in AIPAC does not stand for “Political Action Committee” but for “Public Affairs Committee.” That is, AIPAC does not donate money to candidates, it tries to lobby members of Congress in both parties to make sure support for Israel is bipartisan. Furthermore, Republicans don’t need AIPAC to convince them to be pro-Israel. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. I’ve had plenty of Republican lawmakers and staffers confide in me over the years that they’re increasingly frustrated with AIPAC for working to water-down various letters in support of Israel to get Democrats on board and thus preserve the idea that support for Israel is bipartisan, even though a Republican-only letter in a given instance could have been much more supportive of Israel. The truth is that Republicans are pro-Israel because their voters overwhelmingly are — all you need to do is look at polling data (shown below), or go to conservative conferences at which statements of support for Israel often get the most resounding applause.

    Also, there’s nothing wrong with any group engaging in the democratic process to influence policy. And it isn’t even as if AIPAC is particularly influential or all powerful. Former President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal went against everything AIPAC had been advocating for years, Israel was loudly opposed to it, and he pushed it through anyway and earned the support of critical mass of Democrats in Congress.

    This really isn’t about Omar, however. She’s one member of Congress from a district that sent anti-Semite Keith Ellison to the House for 12 years. None of her anti-Semitic statements will cause her problems back home. Instead, with the help of the media, her statements will get spun as mere criticism of Israel, and her status as a brave truth-teller on the Left will only grow.

    What’s more interesting is what this says about the Democratic Party. For years, I’ve been warning about how liberals were normalizing anti-Semitism by broadening the type of discourse that gets excused away as mere criticism of Israel. Obama’s Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel had decried the influence of the “Jewish Lobby” in Congress. In selling the Iran deal, Obama suggested that those opposing the deal were being influenced by donors, and that they weren’t thinking about what was in the best interests of the U.S. Liberal websites accused Sen. Chuck Schumer of dual loyalty for his criticism of the Iran deal. All that’s happening with Omar and Tlaib is they’re just being a bit more explicit.

    So the question is, when do Democrats draw a line in the sand, if ever? The reluctance to say anything up until this point reflects an understanding of an ugly truth: that these views are representative of where a lot of their party is, and at a time when they’re trying to present a unified front, they want to avoid an all out war on a tense issue.

    The data from Pew Research Center points to a widening gap between Republicans and Democrats, and particularly conservatives and liberals, when it comes to Israel. Though the parties were once relatively just as likely as Republicans to say they sympathized with Israel over the Palestinians, the gap has dramatically widened over time, with 79 percent of Republicans now saying they sympathize more with Israel, compared with just 27 percent of Democrats (who are now nearly as likely to say they sympathize more with Palestinians). But the ideological breakdown is even more stark. Conservatives back Israel by an 81 percent to 5 percent margin, while liberals actually favor Palestinians by nearly two-to-one. Political parties like to talk about issues that united their party, but Israel is an issue that objectively divides the Democrats, as conservative/moderate Democrats are the polar opposite — favoring Israel two-to-one.

    So Omar and Tlaib really present a test to Democrats about which type of party they want to be. The British Labour party has already been taken over by anti-Semitic leader Jeremy Corbyn, and there’s no reason why the same thing couldn’t happen in the U.S. Rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, just this month touted what an “honor” it was to have ” such a lovely and far-reaching” conversation with him.

    Just last week, pushing back against those calling out her anti-Semitism, Omar said, “Our domestic policy values need to be aligned with our foreign policy values. No exceptions!” The clear suggestion is that if you want to be on board with the resurgent liberal agenda, it isn’t enough to back sweeping economic and social policies at home, you have to adopt her hostility toward Israel.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer may not share Omar’s foreign policy vision, but if they don’t call out anti-Semitism within their own ranks, they will only signal to others that it’s perfectly acceptable as long as it’s spun as mere criticism of Israel.

    (Disclosure: In 2008, the author took a trip to Israel funded by the AIPAC-linked American Israel Education Foundation.)

    UPDATE: Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders are now demanding that Omar apologize, a positive development. Let’s see if this is a one off statement in response to the latest tweet, or a part of a new commitment to snuffing out anti-Semitism within their ranks. The underlying forces within the Democratic Party that produced this moment, as described above, aren’t going to be washed away with one statement.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/we-already-know-ilhan-omar-is-an-anti-semite-the-question-is-do-democrats-care

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    ICE Detention Beds Disagreement Threatens Another Government Shutdown – NPR
    ICE Detention Beds Disagreement Threatens Another Government Shutdown – NPR

    With some Democrats calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, congressional negotiators want to cap the number of the agency’s detention beds.

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    As the clock ticks toward a Friday deadline to avert another partial government shutdown, a new stumbling block has emerged in talks between congressional Democrats and the White House: Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds.

    The Trump administration said last month that it wanted $4.2 billion to support 52,000 detention beds. “Given that in recent months, the number of people attempting to cross the border illegally has risen to 2,000 per day, providing additional resources for detention and transportation is essential,” the White House said.

    But Democrats are seeking to cap the number of detention beds. In a statement Sunday, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., asserted that “A cap on ICE detention beds will force the Trump administration to prioritize deportation for criminals and people who pose real security threats, not law-abiding immigrants who are contributing to our country.”

    Roybal-Allard chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security and is a member of the House-Senate conference committee trying to reach agreement on spending levels.

    Democrats want to limit to 16,500 the number of beds used in the interior of the country, where ICE places people it arrests who have overstayed their visas or committed misdemeanor crimes. Roybal-Allard charges the Trump administration with:

    “pursuing an out-of-control deportation policy focused on removing immigrants with no criminal records, many of whom have deep roots in their communities. This approach is cruel and wrong. A cap on detention beds associated with interior enforcement will rein in the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.”

    Democrats say a cap of 16,500 would restore immigration enforcement to levels in place at the end of the Obama administration. They further wish to limit the number of ICE detention beds to 35,520 overall, according to documents leaked to the Washington Post.

    In a Sunday interview on Fox Business, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. said of the Democratic position, “not only is it enough they want to abolish ICE. They want to abolish the bed spaces available to the country to house violent offenders so they can be held and deported.” Graham added, “I promise you this. Donald Trump is not going to sign any bill that reduces the number of bed spaces available to hold violent offenders who come across our border. He can’t do that. He won’t do that, and you can take that to the bank.”

    President Trump tweeted Monday that “The Democrats do not want us to detain, or send back, criminal aliens! This is a brand new demand. Crazy!

    But Democrats say they want nothing of the sort. Roybal-Allard said the cap will ensure the Trump administration “targets violent felons and other people who pose security risks for deportation, instead of pursuing reckless mass deportation policies that actually make us less safe.”

    Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/02/11/693460861/ice-detention-beds-new-stumbling-block-in-efforts-to-prevent-another-shutdown

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    Trump and O’Rourke Face Off in El Paso Over Wall – The New York Times
    Trump and O’Rourke Face Off in El Paso Over Wall – The New York Times

    Mr. Trump is scheduled to begin speaking at a Make America Great Again rally at the El Paso County Coliseum at 7 p.m. Mountain time (9 Eastern). Mr. O’Rourke and his supporters will meet up at Bowie High School at 5 p.m., then march to Chalio Acosta Sports Center, about a half-mile away. He will also begin speaking at 7 p.m.

    During his State of the Union address last week, Mr. Trump falsely cited El Paso as an example of a city where building a wall worked to deter crime.

    “The border city of El Paso, Tex., used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the entire country, and was considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country,” he said.

    But before the border barriers were completed in El Paso, in 2008, the city had the second-lowest violent crime rate among more than 20 similarly sized American cities. In 2010, after the fence construction, it retained its ranking. Also, El Paso was never one of the most dangerous cities in the United States.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/politics/trump-el-paso-beto.html

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    California to pull troops from U.S.-Mexico border in rebuke to Trump – Reuters
    California to pull troops from U.S.-Mexico border in rebuke to Trump – Reuters

    (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that he is ready to withdraw hundreds of the state’s National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border, a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s stance that a national security crisis is unfolding there.

    In his State of the State address on Tuesday, the newly elected Democratic governor will say that border crossings had fallen to their lowest since 1971 and California’s undocumented population had dropped to a more than 10-year low, spokesman Brian Ferguson said.

    “The border ‘emergency’ is nothing more than a manufactured crisis — and CA’s National Guard will not be part of this political theater,” Newsom said on Twitter.

    As a result, the governor would reassign about 360 California National Guard troops at the border to address the “real threats” faced by the state, including drug trafficking and wildfires, the spokesman said in an email.

    Newsom’s office did not provide a timeline for the redeployments.

    Newsom’s predecessor, Governor Jerry Brown, agreed to send the troops to the border last April after reaching agreement with the Trump administration that they would focus on fighting criminal gangs and smugglers, but not enforcing immigration laws.

    New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham last week ordered most National Guard troops deployed at the state’s border with Mexico to withdraw, also rejecting the Republican president’s contention of a crisis.

    Grisham, a Democrat, called Trump’s frequent declarations of an immigration crisis at the border a “charade.” The troops were deployed by her Republican predecessor, Susana Martinez, last year at Trump’s request.

    Trump has deployed an extra 3,750 U.S. troops on the border this month.

    Constantly pointing to threats from illegal immigrants, Trump has made building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a priority of his presidency. But Democrats are seeking to thwart that, saying it is unnecessary and a waste of money.

    Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to help build a wall led to a 35-day partial U.S. government shutdown that ended last month without the president getting wall funding. He agreed to reopen the government for three weeks to allow lawmakers time to find a compromise and avert another shutdown on Feb. 15.

    Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York and Rich McKay in Atlanta; Editing by Frank McGurty and Grant McCool

    Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-california/california-to-pull-troops-from-border-in-apparent-riposte-to-trump-idUSKCN1Q01AJ

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    Insects are dying off — alarmingly fast – Vox.com
    Insects are dying off — alarmingly fast – Vox.com

    Insects are the most abundant animals on planet Earth. If you were to put them all together into one creepy-crawly mass, they’d outweigh all humanity by a factor of 17.

    Insects outweigh all the fish in the oceans and all the livestock munching grass on land. Their abundance, variety (there could be as many as 30 million species), and ubiquity mean insects play a foundational role in food webs and ecosystems: from the bees that pollinate the flowers of food crops like almonds to the termites that recycle dead trees in forests.

    Insects are also superlative for another, disturbing reason: They’re vanishing at a rate faster than mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles.

    “The pace of modern insect extinctions surpasses that of vertebrates by a large margin,” write the authors of an alarming new review in Biological Conservation of the scientific literature on insect populations published in the past 40 years. The state of insect biodiversity, they write, is “dreadful.” And their biomass — the estimated weight of all insects on Earth combined — is dropping by an estimated 2.5 percent every year.

    In all, the researchers conclude that as much as 40 percent of all insect species may be endangered over the next several decades. (Caveat: Most of the data was obtained from studies conducted in Europe and North America.) And around 41 percent of all insect species on record have seen population declines in the past decade.

    “We estimate the current proportion of insect species in decline … to be twice as high as that of vertebrates, and the pace of local species extinction … eight times higher,” the authors write. “It is evident that we are witnessing the largest [insect] extinction event on Earth since the late Permian and Cretaceous periods.”

    Bees, butterflies, moths, dung beetles, and crickets are all declining

    Butterflies and moths, known as the Lepidoptera order, are some of the hardest hit: 53 percent of Lepidoptera have seen declining population numbers. This is especially concerning as butterflies, which are very sensitive to changes in landscape and food sources, are often a bellwether of environmental health.

    Some 50 percent of Orthoptera species (grasshoppers and crickets, another important source of food for an enormous array of animals) are also in decline. Forty percent of bee species are listed as vulnerable for extinction, and most dung beetle species (named for — you guessed it — what they like to eat) are vulnerable or endangered.


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    This new study is important because it paints a picture of a problem that’s been recorded in individual ecosystems. A 2017 study in Germany noted a 75 percent decline in flying insects over three decades. “The widespread insect biomass decline is alarming,” the authors wrote, “ever more so as all traps were placed in protected areas that are meant to preserve ecosystem functions and biodiversity.”

    This new study is imperfect: Scientists aren’t quite sure how many species of insect exist, let alone have good population data on all of them. The data in this study comes from developed countries like the US. The authors note that there’s not enough data from tropical regions, where new species of insect keep being discovered.

    But at least, this study makes it clear that the problem isn’t confined to just Europe, or even to a narrow band of insects.

    “Most worrying,” the authors write, is that the losses seem to impact both “specialist” insects and “generalist” insects. A specialist is an organism that occupies a tiny niche in an ecosystem (like a moth that only feeds on one particular plant). A generalist, on the other hand, is more adaptable and can more easily change environments and food sources.

    Both types of insects are facing major losses. “This suggests that the causes of insect declines are not tied to particular habitats, but instead affect common traits shared among all insects,” the study authors write.

    What’s killing all the insects?

    The state of insect biodiversity is “dreadful” because we know what happens when ecosystems lose insects: They lose other species as well.

    In October, a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science documented that between 1976 and 2013, the number of invertebrates (like insects, spiders, and centipedes) in the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico caught in survey nets plummeted by a factor of four or eight. When measured by the number caught in sticky traps, invertebrates declined by a factor of 60. And that loss of insects coincided with losses of birds, lizards, and frogs. “The food web appears to have been obliterated from the bottom,” the Washington Post’s Ben Guarino reported on the study.

    So what’s happening?

    The researchers in the new Biological Conservation paper outline four broad, global problems leading to insect loss. They won’t surprise you.

    1. Habitat loss as a result of human development, deforestation, and the expansion of agriculture
    2. Pollution, particularly via pesticides, fertilizers, and industrial wastes
    3. Parasites and pathogens — like the viruses that attack honeybees — and invasive species
    4. Climate change

    In summary: Human activity is to blame.


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    “Habitat restoration, coupled with a drastic reduction in agro-chemical inputs and agricultural ‘redesign’, is probably the most effective way to stop further declines,” the researchers write, with “redesign” meaning making agricultural plots more hospitable to the native insects (for instance, maintaining flowering plants for pollinators to feast on). Pesticide use needs to decline drastically as well. “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades,” the researchers write.

    And if we don’t act, the researchers give a stark warning:

    The repercussions this will have for the planet’s ecosystems are catastrophic to say the least, as insects are at the structural and functional base of many of the world’s ecosystems since their rise at the end of the Devonian period, almost 400 million years ago.

    With so much devastating and widespread loss of insects — and other forms of life — it’s hard to say where we should focus our attention. In Science, Jonathan Baillie, the chief scientist at the National Geographic Society, and Ya-Ping Zhang, the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, argued that half of all land should be protected for wildlife by 2050, to give plants and animals a chance to thrive.

    This is a lofty, perhaps unrealistic goal. But we’ve taken so much from wildlife. We need to think more about how to stop taking environments away from plants and animals. “Simply put,” Baillie and Zhang write in Science, “there is finite space and energy on the planet, and we must decide how much of it we’re willing to share.”

    Source Article from https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/11/18220082/insects-extinction-bological-conservation

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    Kamala Harris on why she married a white man: ‘Look, I love my husband’ – Washington Examiner
    Kamala Harris on why she married a white man: ‘Look, I love my husband’ – Washington Examiner

    Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday explained why she married a white man while defending her black heritage during a radio interview.

    “Look, I love my husband, and he happened to be the one that I chose to marry, because I love him — and that was that moment in time, and that’s it,” Harris told the “Breakfast Club” hosts when asked about criticism she received on social media for marrying a white man. “And he loves me.”

    The hosts brought up a meme that began circulating after she announced she was running for president that questions her status as a black American by referencing her immigrant parents who were born in India and Jamaica and her formative high school years spent in Canada.

    “So I was born in Oakland, and raised in the United States except for the years that I was in high school in Montreal, Canada,” Harris said. “And look, this is the same thing they did to Barack. This is not new to us and so I think that we know what they are trying to do.”

    Shortly after declaring, conspiracy theorists circulated birther theories that said Harris would need to prove that she was born in the U.S. if she wanted to run for president — the same thing that happened when Obama ran for president.

    One host asked Harris what she would say to those that question the “legitimacy of your blackness.”

    “I think they don’t understand who black people are. I’m not going to spend my time trying to educate people about who black people are,” Harris said. “I’m black, and I’m proud of being black. I was born black. I will die black, and I’m not going to make excuses for anybody because they don’t understand.”

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-on-why-she-married-a-white-man-look-i-love-my-husband

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    Jail sought for woman who encouraged her boyfriend’s suicide – 10TV
    Jail sought for woman who encouraged her boyfriend’s suicide – 10TV

    TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas.

    Michelle Carter was sentenced to 15 months in jail in 2017 for her role in the death of Conrad Roy III, but the judge allowed her to remain free while she appealed. Massachusetts’ highest court upheld her conviction last week, saying her actions caused Roy’s death.



    A lawyer for Carter had urged the judge to allow the 22-year-old to stay out of jail while they take her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her attorneys said in court documents that she has no prior criminal record, hasn’t tried to flee, and has been receiving mental health treatment.

    But a judge ruled Monday that she should start her sentence. Carter showed no discernible emotion as she was taken into custody, though her shoulders sagged as she stood and prepared to be led away.

    Earlier in the day, Massachusetts’ highest court denied an emergency motion filed by her lawyers to keep her out of jail.

    Carter was 17 when Roy, 18, took his own life in Fairhaven, a town on Massachusetts’ south coast in July 2014. Her case garnered international attention and provided a disturbing look at teenage depression and suicide.

    Carter and Roy both struggled with depression, and Roy had previously tried to kill himself. Their relationship consisted mostly of texting and other electronic communications.

    In dozens of text messages revealed during her sensational trial, Carter pushed Roy to end his life and chastised him when he hesitated. As Roy made excuses to put off his plans, her texts became more insistent.

    “You keep pushing it off and say you’ll do it but u never do. It’s always gonna be that way if u don’t take action,” Carter texted him he on the day he died.

    But the juvenile court judge focused his guilty verdict on the fact that Carter told Roy over the phone to get back in his truck when it was filling with carbon monoxide. The judge said Carter had a duty to call the police or Roy’s family, but instead listened on the phone as he died.

    “After she convinced him to get back into the carbon monoxide filled truck, she did absolutely nothing to help him: she did not call for help or tell him to get out of the truck as she listened to him choke and die,” Supreme Judicial Court Justice Scott Kafker wrote in the court’s opinion affirming her conviction.

    At trial, Carter’s lawyer argued Carter had initially tried to talk Roy out of suicide and encouraged him to get help. Her attorney said Roy was determined to kill himself and nothing Carter did could change that.

    Her appellate attorneys said there was no evidence that Roy would have lived if Carter had called for help. They also argued there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that Carter told Roy to get back in his truck.

    Her phone call with Roy wasn’t recorded, but prosecutors pointed to a rambling text that Carter sent to a friend two months later in which she said called Roy’s death her fault and said she told Roy to “get back in” the truck.

    Daniel Marx, who argued the case before the Supreme Judicial Court, said last week that the court’s ruling “stretches the law to assign blame for a tragedy that was not a crime.”

    “It has very troubling implications, for free speech, due process, and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, that should concern us all,” he said.

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    Trump lashes out at Dems for ‘brand new demand’ in border security talks | TheHill – The Hill
    Trump lashes out at Dems for ‘brand new demand’ in border security talks | TheHill – The Hill

    President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump to sign executive order promoting artificial intelligence Trump’s new Syria timetable raises concern among key anti-ISIS allies Trump officials considering Mar-a-Lago for next meeting with China’s Xi: report MORE on Monday lashed out at Democrats after border security negotiations hit a snag in part because of their desire to cap the number of beds available to hold detained immigrants.

    “The Democrats do not want us to detain, or send back, criminal aliens! This is a brand new demand. Crazy!” Trump tweeted.

    Talks among lawmakers negotiating on funding for border security faltered over the weekend as the dispute about Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to hold immigrants in detention centers emerged as the latest sticking point.

    “I think the talks are stalled right now,” Sen. Richard ShelbyRichard Craig ShelbyBorder talks stall as another shutdown looms Trump: Top Dems aren’t allowing negotiators to make border security deal Key GOP senator: Border wall talks are stalled MORE (R-Ala.) said Sunday. “I’m hoping we can get off the dime later today or in the morning because time is ticking away. But we got some problems with the Democrats dealing with ICE, that is detaining criminals that come into the U.S., and they want a cap on them, we don’t want a cap on that.”

    Democrats want to cap the number of detention beds for immigrants picked up by ICE in other parts of the country away from the border at 16,000, an administration official said, down from 38,000. Republicans have pushed to exclude a number of immigrants convicted of a range of crimes from that cap.

    Trump has sought to paint the Democratic position as dangerous, tweeting on Sunday that the party does not “even want to take muderers into custody!”

    The standoff raises the specter of another partial shutdown or of Trump declaring a national emergency to secure wall funding. The latter move would likely prompt legal challenges.

    Trump triggered a recent 35-day government shutdown with his demand for $5.7 billion for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats have offered $1.3 billion in funding for other border security measures, but no money for the wall.

    The president agreed to reopen the government for a few weeks while a bipartisan group of lawmakers negotiates a deal to fund border security. Funding for a number of government agencies expires on Friday.

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    Border Troops: California’s Governor Mostly Ends National Guard Deployment – NPR
    Border Troops: California’s Governor Mostly Ends National Guard Deployment – NPR

    A section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The California governor plans to split his state’s National Guard troops on the border into three new deployments.

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    A section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The California governor plans to split his state’s National Guard troops on the border into three new deployments.

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    Gov. Gavin Newsom is rescinding former Gov. Jerry Brown’s deployment of California National Guard troops to the Mexican border, pulling most of 360 troops off their current missions but leaving some in the area to combat transnational drug smuggling.

    “The border ’emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” Newsom will say during his State of the State address Tuesday morning, according to advance excerpts provided by his office. “And California will not be part of this political theater.”

    Earlier this month, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of her state’s National Guard troops at the border to withdraw.

    Each of the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia maintain National Guard units. During peacetime, the Guard is under the command of each state governor and adjutant general and typically is called upon to respond to emergencies and natural disasters. In time of war, the president can place the Guard under military command.

    The recent National Guard deployment to the southern border is something of a hybrid. Federal authorities asked governors to provide Guard troops to assist with border security. The federal government is paying the cost of deployment. But the Guard troops remain under the authority of their state governor and adjutant general.

    The California governor is splitting the troops up into three new deployments in a move he will tell lawmakers will allow the National Guard to “refocus on the real threats facing our state”:

    • 110 troops to support CalFire’s wildfire prevention and suppression efforts. Unlike the current deployment, which is funded by the federal government, the state will need to foot the bill for this new mission.
    • At least 150 troops to expand the California National Guard’s statewide Counterdrug Task Force — if the Trump administration’s Department of Defense agrees to fund the expansion.
    • 100 troops for intelligence operations targeting drug cartels. The governor’s office says some of these troops who are “specially trained counter-narcotic screeners” will be deployed to California ports of entry — both at the Mexican border and elsewhere. The governor’s office says funding for this mission will continue to come from the federal government under the terms of the previous deployment agreed to by the Brown and Trump administrations.

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    California National Guard troops have been deployed at the border since last spring, when Brown gave them what he called a “crystal clear” scope.

    “This will not be a mission to build a new wall,” Brown wrote in an April 11 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and then-Defense Secretary James Mattis. “It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.”

    But the National Guard has been aiding federal efforts along the border by handling duties that otherwise would have had to be performed by U.S. troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, including vehicle maintenance, administrative support and operating cameras on the border.

    Aside from state National Guards, the president has ordered thousands of active-duty troops to the border. As NPR’s Greg Myre has reported, the National Guard and other troops at the border are limited to providing surveillance and other support roles. They cannot act as a police force or make arrests. Every president since Ronald Reagan has called on the National Guard for limited, temporary missions along the frontier.

    After initially praising Brown for agreeing to his deployment request, President Trump then criticized him for not supporting, in his words, a safe and secure border.

    Newsom’s reversal of Brown’s deployment is no surprise. During the gubernatorial campaign, Newsom said he disagreed with Brown’s decision. And on his first full day in office last month, Newsom said he had directed California National Guard Adjutant General David Baldwin to prepare “a menu of options.”

    “What’s appropriate, what would be inappropriate, what was our commitment under the executive order Gov. Brown signed, how does remuneration work, what exactly is the work currently being done versus the work that was initiated when the executive order wasn’t in place,” Newsom said that day.

    He added: “I can assure you I have not deviated from my previous statements in terms of my desire to move in a different direction.”

    Mark Katkov contributed to this report.

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    Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers – Fox News
    Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers – Fox News

    Joseph Alcoff, center, has been pictured with Rep. Maxine Waters, left, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, right.

    What a difference a year made for Joseph Alcoff.

    On Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he’s facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty.

    ANTIFA FIGURE CHARGED IN MARINE ATTACK

    But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.

    His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued press releases with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.

    As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic press conferences, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.

    He was also pictured with now-House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Both committees oversee financial regulatory policies Alcoff was advocating.

    Alcoff met with then CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other senior CFPB officials on April 2016, again in March 2017 and a third time in May 2017, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

    During this time, he reportedly was an Antifa leader in Washington.

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    Alcoff’s former employer had little to say about the matter.

    “As of December, Mr. Alcoff no longer works for AFR,” Carter Dougherty, spokesman for Americans for Financial Reform, told Fox News in an email.

    Dougherty didn’t answer whether Alcoff had been fired or resigned. He also didn’t answer whether the organization was aware of Alcoff’s associations during his employment.

    Alcoff was reportedly also an organizer for Smash Racism DC, the group responsible for gathering and shouting threats outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November and for heckling Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife Heidi at a Washington restaurant in September. Reports have not said Alcoff was directly involved in either incident; only that he was associated with the group.

    MARINES TESTIFY ON ANTIFA MOB ATTACK

    Democrats are hardly eager to be associated with Alcoff now. Most spokespersons for Democratic members of Congress did not respond to inquiries from Fox News, or distanced themselves from Alcoff.

    In one appearance, Alcoff dressed up as “Lenny the Loan Shark” at an event last March held outside the CFPB headquarters, which featured Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va.

    “The congressman has never interacted with him nor has he taken any financial policy advice from him. Their names have appeared on the same piece of paper,” Beyer spokesman Aaron Fritschner told Fox News. “He appeared at the same press conference, but they didn’t speak to each other. This person was literally wearing a shark outfit.”

    In the February 2018 press statement, House and Senate Democrats co-sponsoring the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, which boosted regulation on payday lenders, issued versions of a press release, most including the Alcoff quote.

    “The Consumer Bureau and Congress have in the past understood the way that payday lenders structure loans to catch Americans in a cycle of debt with exorbitant interest rates,” Alcoff said in the press releases. “It is unfortunate that some in Washington would rather open the loan shark gates than continue to think about sensible borrower protections. The SAFE Lending Act would put Washington back on track to stop the debt trap.”

    In August, Alcoff was a guest on the House Democrats’ Joint Economic Committee podcast, criticizing the decline of the CFPB under the Trump administration.

    “It’s been an incredible kind of erosion [Trump administration actions] recently, but these are really, really important basic functions [CFPB’s mission] that people across the country should be able to look to Washington and expect,” Alcoff said on the podcast.

    In connection with the subsequent attack in Philadelphia, the two Hispanic Marines said the Antifa mob of about 10 or 12 attackers shouted racial slurs during the beating. Only three from the mob were identified and arrested. The attack happened at the same time as a right-wing rally in Philadelphia, which Antifa showed up to protest. The Marines who were assaulted said they were not even aware of the rally.

    “On one side, you have the Proud Boys, a racist group of Nazi thugs. On the other side, you have anti-racist activists,” Alcoff’s lawyer Michael Coard told Philadelphia Magazine. “Unfortunately, in the mix, there were two Marines who were caught up in the whole thing as innocent bystanders.”

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    Coard, an African American activist in Philadelphia, also told the magazine regarding the alleged slurs, “The question that I have for the D.A.’s office and the police is this: Does anybody think that I, Michael Coard, would represent a racist? … I would never represent a racist. In fact, if I believed that he was a racist, I would prosecute him myself.”

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