border wall
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GOP Senator Will Support Resolution to Block Trump's Border Wall
Trump’s wall emergency is seeing pushback from Trump’s own party. GOP Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina wrote Monday that he will support a resolution to block Trump’s national emergency declaration that would see him procure funding to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. “I would vote in favor of the resolution…
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Ayanna Pressley Opposes Increased ICE Funding: ‘They’ve Proven Themselves Corrupt’
Donald Trump may not have gotten his wall on the U.S./Mexico border, but a new bill approved by Congress yesterday may still give him and his administration plenty of means to harass, detain, and deport tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants and migrants. Among the lawmakers who pushed back against the bill, which would substantively…
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Dealmaker-in-Chief Trump Intends to Sign Border Deal for Pennies on the Dollar
Though Trump may look for a loophole, it seems there will be no wall after all. Despite his unhappiness with the tentative deal reached by Congress earlier this week, CNN reports that Trump will sign a border security deal to avoid another government shutdown, weeks after the longest on record. Congress has until Friday to…
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Trump Says He's Not 'Happy' With Border Deal and Continues to Lie About the Wall Being Built Right Now
On Tuesday, the president of people who buy jogging baby strollers said he’s not “happy” with a bipartisan agreement to prevent a government shutdown that provides $1.375 billion for fencing and other physical barriers along the Southern border, far less than the $5.7 billion the president has demanded in previous negotiations. “I don’t think you’re…
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American Citizen Shot in the Head While Attempting to Escape into Mexico
As Republicans decry violence at the United States’ shared border with Mexico, they may want to look a little closer. An American citizen in Nogales, Ariz. was shot in the back of the head while trying to flee into Mexico Thursday night. It remains unclear why the officer involved elected to use lethal force, and…
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Maybe Black People Need a Wall
On Tuesday, a few hours before Donald Trump’s Shout-Outs of the Union speech, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that he wouldn’t bring charges against the police officer who shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Bradford Jr. I tried to listen objectively as the bullshit-artist-in-chief used one-third of his speech to demonize undocumented immigrants, painting them…
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Nancy Pelosi: When We Go In This Store, Don't Touch Anything! Trump: Then I'm Going to Declare a National Emergency!
President Donald Trump is hinting at the fact that he’s going to declare a national emergency and because the president is a reality star who lives for drama, he’s probably going to announce it during the State of The Union, Feb. 5. “I think there’s a good chance we will have to do that,” the…
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Chuck Schumer: Trump Can't 'Take Hostages' In Negotiations Over Border Security
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was in a relaxed, confident mood when I met him in his office Tuesday afternoon—and for good reason. President Donald Trump had recently been forced to agree to the Democratic position that the government be reopened before any talks about a possible border wall—the reason Trump shut the government down—without…
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Trump Now Wants to Put His Wall on a Layaway Plan
President Trump is becoming desperate, so desperate that he’s now willing to put funding for his border wall on a pay-as-you-go plan. On Thursday, lawmakers shot down two dueling proposals to reopen the government. A Republican-backed proposal sought to have the full $5.7 billion for the wall and a Democrat-sponsored proposal sought to reopen the…
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White House Squatter Mulls Fake National Emergency to Secure Border Wall Funds
The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is preparing to falsify a national emergency along the southern border in order to bypass Congress’ refusal to fund his steel-slatted fever dream. After being put in his place again (and again) by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over his plans to carry on…