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Jewish Leaders Outraged By Trump Saying Jews Disloyal If They Vote For Democrats
Trump Admin To Allow Longer Detention Of Migrant Families
President Donald Trump on Tuesday criti- cized Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats, saying "it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloy- alty."
Trump was speaking to the press in the Oval Office about two Democratic con- gresswomen barred from en- tering Israel over their involvement in the move- ment to end international support for the country be- cause of its policies toward Palestinians.
"Five years ago, the con- cept of even talking about this -- even three years ago -- of cutting off aid to Israel be- cause of two people that hate Israel and hate Jewish people -- I can't believe we're even having this conversation," Trump added. "Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they're defending these two people over the State of Is- rael?"
He added, "I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat -- it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
The remark led critics to argue the President was dab- bling in the anti-Semitic trope of "dual loyalty," which questions the loyalty of Jew- ish citizens.
"It's unclear who @POTUS is claiming Jews would be 'disloyal' to, but charges
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ofdisloyalty have long been used to attack Jews. As we've said before, it's possible to engage in the democratic process without these claims. It's long overdue to stop using Jews as a political foot- ball," Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted later Tuesday.
Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Demo- cratic Council of America, called the comments "yet an- other example of Donald Trump continuing to weaponize and politicize anti-Semitism."
"If this is about Israel, then Trump is repeating a dual loyalty claim, which is a form of anti-Semitism. If this is about Jews being 'loyal' to him, then Trump needs a re- ality check. We live in a democracy, and Jewish sup- port for the Republican Party has been halved in the past
four years," Soifer added.
J Street, a liberal advocacy group focused on reaching a resolution between Israel and the Palestinian territories, said in a statement, "It is dangerous and shameful for President Trump to attack the large majority of the American Jewish community as unintelligent and 'dis-
loyal."
The President has sug-
gested that Jewish Ameri- cans, who are traditionally staunch supporters of the Democratic Party, are leaving it. But polling suggests that Jewish Americans continue overwhelmingly to be De- mocrats and opposed to Trump.
Jewish Americans voted for the Democratic Party by about a 3:1 margin in the 2018 midterm elections. And Jewish Americans are far more likely to call themselves Democrats than Republicans.
Undocumented women and their children being released from ICE custody walk to a bus station in San Antonio to continue their journey.
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans that could hold undocumented families detained together in- definitely, replacing the agree- ment that set a 20-day limit for holding children.
The rule unveiled by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is part of the administration's aggressive effort to revamp immigration laws as the number of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the U. S.-Mexico bor- der has increased.
In recent months, the ad- ministration has proposed rules that could make it more difficult for immigrants to get green cards, worked to end temporary protected status for migrants from certain coun- tries and limit avenues to de- clare asylum.
Under what is known as the Flores settlement, the govern- ment is required to release a minor from a non-licensed fa- cility as expeditiously as possi- ble, which has been set at 20 days.
McAleenan said the rule is meant to reduce the number of families trying to enter the U.
S.
"By closing this key loophole
in Flores, the new rule will re- store integrity to our immigra- tion system and eliminate the major pull factor fueling the crisis," he said at a news con- ference Wednesday.
The proposal would give the government new licensing au- thority, allowing the use of ei- ther a state license or Immigration and Customs En- forcement detention stan- dards, according to a DHS official, meaning families can be kept longer than 20 days.
The regulation is certain to face legal challenges and must also be examined by the judge who oversees the Flores settle- ment. It will take effect 60 days after it is formally published later this week.
"This is yet another cruel at- tack on children, who the Trump administration has targeted again and again with its anti-immigrant policies," said Madhuri Grewal, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "The govern- ment should not be jailing kids, and certainly shouldn't be seeking to put more kids in jail for longer."
A Petition To Rename A Street By Trump Tower After Obama Received 100K Signatures
More than 100,000 people have given their digital signa- tures to a petition requesting a block of Manhattan Avenue be renamed after President Barack Obama. This is the same stretch of land that houses Trump Tower.
Elizabeth Rowin started the MoveOn.org petition as a joke and quickly realized there were others who supported the idea. While speaking with Newsweek, Rowin said she's heard from "several" city coun- cil members who showed inter- est in the idea.
If the change were to be made then the address of any building between 56th and 57th streets and Fifth Avenue would be changed including Trump Tower's address, which would be 725 President Barack H. Obama Ave.
The only catch to Rowin's
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request: to rename a street after a person in New York City, the person has to be dead.
"I am sure the conditions can be changed," Rowin said. "There are two streets in LA named after former President Obama. These laws are arbi- trary and can be worked around," she said.
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