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Congress May Still Be Far Away From Immigration Bill Passing
Teen Missing From Detention Center
House Republican leaders are facing partywide insurrec- tion over an immigration bill that has been repeatedly sabo- taged by President Trump. They've promised a vote on compromise legislation.
House Republicans seemed to be losing momentum late last week after President Donald Trump tweeted Fri- day that he thought the House GOP conference should wait to address immigration until after the midterms and stop "wast- ing their time.”
Over the weekend, aides and members worked to see if they might be able to include a pro- vision to expand E-verify, a program the U. S. government uses to check the immigration status of workers, as well as a guest worker visa program.
House speaker , Paul Ryan and House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy (R,CA) are not likely to sway any changes.
Authorities in Texas are searching for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly walked away from the nation's largest children's immigration cen- ter, police said Monday.
Det. J.J. Trevino of the Brownsville Police Depart- ment told ABC affiliate KRGV that officers were called to the center in Brownsville on Saturday after the boy was reported missing from the Southwest Key Casa Padre location.
A spokesman for Southwest Key, which runs several facil- ities along the U. S.-Mexico border, said the Brownsville facility in a converted Wal-
mart store is not a detention center and employees there cannot prevent children from leaving if they wish.
“As a licensed child care center, if a child attempts to leave any of our facilities, we cannot restrain them," Jeff Eller, a spokesman for Southwest Key, told ABC News. "We are not a deten- tion center. We talk to them and try to get them to stay. If they leave the property, we call law enforcement.”
Neither caretakers nor au- thorities released the boy's identity but his information was entered into the missing children's database.
But, there was little evidence that the changes would be enough to get the bill passed.”
Even if congressional lead- ers do manage to bring legisla- tion to a vote, members say it is all but certain to fail, under- scoring the party’s lack of con- sensus on how to address the hot-button issue. Lawmakers
may then proceed with a nar- rower proposal aimed specifi- cally at addressing the mounting uproar over the practice of separating the chil- dren of illegal immigrants from their parents. But it is unclear whether they can win sufficient support for that legislation ei- ther.
Restaurant Owner ‘86ed’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders From Her Restaurant
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her party of 7 were asked to leave restaurant on Friday.
How Some Folks Associated With Pres.
Trump’s Circle Feel About Children
Separated From Immigrant Parents
Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager is refusing to apolo- gize for dismissing the latest disturbing story to come out of Trump’s aggressive “zero- tolerance” border tactic.
The exchange happened during a Fox News panel set to discuss Trump’s immigra- tion policy.
Lewandowski started the segment by stating “as soon as you cross that border illegally, you have committed an act which is a disservice to all of the people who have stood in line and waited to get into this
Corey Lewandowski goes ‘Womp Womp’ about Zero Tolerance policy.
Red Hen restaurant co- owner Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — when the choice presented it- self. Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was her chef at the tiny farm-to-table restaurant, in- forming her that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huck- abee Sanders and a party of 7 others had just walked into the restaurant and wanted to know what to do.
“I’m not a huge fan of con- frontation,” Wilkinson said. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
According to the Washing- ton Post, Wilkinson stated that several Red Hen employ- ees are gay. They knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar trans- gender people from the mili- tary. This month, they had all watched her evade questions and defend a Trump policy that caused migrant chil- dren to be separated from their parents. So she asked the staff what they wanted her to do? “Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,”
Wilkinson told her staff, she said. “They said ‘yes.”
All the same, she was tense as she walked up to the press secretary’s chair and asked for a word outside on the patio.
There she asked her to leave. She agreed and she and her party left.
Huckabee Sanders later tweeted about being 86ed from the restaurant that led to the incident becoming national news, tweeting:
“Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexing- ton, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, includ- ing those I disagree with, re- spectfully and will continue to do so.”
Of course, no one is sur- prised that Huckabee Sanders’ boss, Donald Trump had time to chime in on Monday.
Pres. Trump tweeted: that the Red Hen restaurant in Lex- ington should be concerned with cleaning its "filthy" exte- rior instead of refusing to serve a " fine person" like Sanders.
"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the out- side, it is dirty on the inside!" the president added.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has emerged as the leading Black voice in the resistance against President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that has torn migrant children away from their families seeking asylum at the U. S. border.
Other African-American leaders have also stepped to stop the inhumane practice, but Bottoms has taken things a few steps further by turning her rhetoric into di- rect action.
“I have signed an Executive Order stopping Atlanta from
Mayor Keisha Bottoms takes a stand in her city.
accepting new ICE detainees into the City jail.” Trump, in the face of backlash over his policy of separating children from their parents, appeared to be sending mixed signals to confuse his opponents.
He abruptly ordered im-
migration officials on Wednesday to stop taking children from their parents at the U. S.-Mexico border. By Tuesday, federal authorities said more than 2,000 chil- dren were separated from their parents and placed in cages in detention facilities.
Bottoms, undistracted by Trump’s sleight of hand, on Wednesday signed an execu- tive order banning the At- lanta city jail from accepting new detainees from the Im- migration and Customs En- forcement Agency (ICE), the Atlanta Journal-Consti- tution reported.
country legally.”
When Democratic strategist
Zac Petkanas chimed in to shed light the news of a 10- year-old girl with Down Syn- drome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage, Lewandowski boldly cut
him off with an unsympa- thetic and distasteful “womp womp,” setting Petkanas off.
“Did you just say ‘womp womp’ to a 10-year-old with down syndrome being taken from her mother? How dare you,” Petkanas said. “
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Signs Order Not To House ICE Detainees In City’s Jail
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