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.@jaspscherer reports @SylvesterTurner @Lina4HC denounce @icegov raids, but interestingly, Houston & Harris County is largest city/county in nation to not designate any taxpayer funds for deportation defense. (Even SA/Austin do) tinyurl.com/y38xlbew
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advocates say it’s time city/county leaders make this a priority, given # Houstonians at risk @HTXimmigration
Chicago, for instance, the nation’s 3rd biggest city to Houston’s 4th, just earmarked $250k for deportation defense. nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-roo…
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Here is today's example of @icegov lack of transparency. Witnesses say ICE was pursuing the driver of a truck, which crashed into a car and 1 person was hospitalized. Photos show ICE directing traffic. But ICE won't provide any details into what happened.
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
After several back and forths, ICE now says it was not pursuing anyone "at the time of the accident," but won't release any more details into whether it was attempting to detain the driver, why so many ICE agents were there at that time, why they were directing traffic, etc.
Me: Witnesses say X
ICE: No comment but off the record, Y.
Me: I can't use off the record.
ICE: fine, you can say Y.
Me: what about all the other questions related to X, including did you arrest anyone, were you you trying to detain the driver at any point, etc
ICE: no comment.
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Johnny Clegg, who died today, is the opposite of the discussion happening in the USA today. Born in England, he was raised mostly in South Africa and became one of its most celebrated singers, incorporating Zulu street guitar during Apartheid.
What an inspiring man and musician.
"I got into trouble with the authorities, I was arrested for trespassing and for breaking the Group Areas Act,." "npr.org/2019/07/16/738…
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lomikriel
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When White House counsels informed Trump that 212(f) does not give him legal authority to override federal law, he would tell how he put up a giant flagpole at Mar-a-Lago. It violated ordinances, resulting in fines/lawsuit, but he was ultimately allowed
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“His constant instinct all the time was: Just do it, and if we get sued, we get sued. To him, it’s all a negotiation. As if the first step is a lawsuit. I guess he thinks that because that’s how business worked for him in the private sector. But federal law is different."
Interesting that Kelly warned Nielsen not to do that presser.
When the White House briefing was over, Kelly’s warning to Nielsen proved true. “Family separation is her legacy. She could have saved America from a Category 20 hurricane and there’d still be no other legacy for her”
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