Walmart Sells “Impeach 45” t-shirts:
Walmart has begun selling anti-Trump “Impeach 45” apparel on its website. There are three different companies that offer variations of the “Impeach 45 t-shirts” on Walmart.com including: Old Glory, City shirts, and Hanes.
In addition to the “Impeach Trump” t-shirts, the companies also have baby onesies available. Old Glory also has a “45-YOU’RE FIRED” t-shirt.
Supporters of President Trump on Monday launched a boycott against Walmart after it was discovered the superstore was selling apparel promoting Trump's impeachment. The hashtag #BoycottWalmart became a trend on Twitter as users railed against the company.
Ryan Fournier, chairman of the group Students for Trump, was one of the first to discover Walmart was selling the clothing item, according to the International Business Times. He tweeted, “@walmart why are you selling Impeach 45 baby clothes on your website????? What kind of message are you trying to send?”
Currently, the t-shirts are still available on Walmart.com.
Judge rules DHS must give asylum seekers individualized parole hearings
A federal district court judge, Judge James Boasberg, on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the Trump administration must consider on an individual basis whether immigrants who come to the U.S. seeking asylum represent a flight risk or a danger to their community before they can be detained if they've proven a credible fear of persecution.
Judge Boasberg issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from arbitrarily detaining asylum seekers. In his ruling, Boasberg said he was ordering DHS to follow a policy the government admitted it was required to follow.
“To mandate that ICE provide these baseline procedures to those entering our country — individuals who have often fled violence and persecution to seek safety on our shores — is no great judicial leap,” he said. “Rather, the issuance of injunctive relief in this case serves only to hold defendants accountable to their own governing policies and to ensure that plaintiffs receive the protections they are due under the Parole Directive.”
The order stems from a class-action lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed in March 2018 on behalf of asylum seekers who have been denied parole even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials found they had a credible claim of persecution in their home countries.
In the lawsuit, ACLU argued DHS had created a blanket policy of detaining asylum seekers at ICE field offices in Detroit; El Paso, Texas; Los Angeles; Newark, N.J. and Philadelphia.
Current Data on People Awaiting Asylum
The recent spike in claims from Central Americans at the U.S.-Mexico border has contributed to an unprecedented backlog of more than 680,000 cases in immigration courts, more than double the number in 2013 (these include both defensive asylum cases and other types of immigration cases).
There are also 300,000 affirmative cases waiting to be processed by USCIS, an increase of 1,750 percent over the last five years. Asylum-seekers often wait three to four years to have their cases heard, and the process can take even longer if they are initially denied and then appeal their cases.
Most recent data on people granted asylum (most recent data):
(Asylum data for fiscal year 2016 were retrieved by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) in January 2017.)
During 2016, 20,455 individuals were granted asylum. This number includes 11,729 individuals who were granted asylum affirmatively by DHS and 8,726 individuals who were granted asylum by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The leading countries of nationality for persons granted asylum were China, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Generally, the process of seeking asylum for any foreign national present in the United States or arriving at a port of entry may seek asylum regardless of immigration status. Those seeking asylum must apply within one year from the date of last arrival or establish that an exception applies based on changed or extraordinary circumstances. Principal applicants obtain asylum in one of two ways: affirmatively through a USCIS asylum officer or defensively in removal proceedings before an immigration judge (IJ) of the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).
Harvard-Harris Poll reveals Percentage of Democrats who support Open Borders
Trump has passed the three-week mark of blistering media coverage following the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Media outrage reached a fever pitch as stories regarding the administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border became public. Trump has since stopped the separation policy of families at the border, yet the outrage continues.
New polling, however, indicates that in spite of media outcry, the vast majority of the American public agrees with Trump. A Harvard-Harris poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans think that illegal aliens should be returned to their country of origin, want stricter immigration laws and favor a physical border wall.
Results of the polling showed that a substantial majority said illegal border crossers, and the children they brought, should be returned to their home countries. To that end, 80 percent (84 percent of Republicans, 79 percent of Democrats, and 78 percent of independents) favored hiring more immigration judges “to process people in custody faster.”
The polling found other results broadly favorable to the Trump approach to immigration.
For example, one question asked, “Do you think we need stricter or looser enforcement of our immigration laws?” 70 percent (92 percent of Republicans, 51 percent of Democrats, and 69 percent of independents) said stricter, while 30 percent said looser.
Another question asked respondents “do you support or oppose building a combination of physical and electronic barriers across the U.S.-Mexico border.” 60 percent (92 percent of Republicans, 39 percent of Democrats, and 54 percent of independents) supported the barriers, while 40 percent did not.
61 percent (73 percent of Republicans, 49 percent of Democrats, and 60 percent of independents) said current border security is inadequate.
Fact Checking Bill’s Interview with Lanny Davis
On Monday’s No Spin News, Lanny Davis was disputing some of the facts that Bill was mentioning during their immigration debate. We checked the facts and Bill was right. Here is what we found.
O’REILLY: The court stepped in to stop President Obama from separating parents from their children in 2014. All right. The federal government at the time had a system to deal with unaccompanied kids but it was underfunded and overloaded, so President Obama ordered the border patrol to hold kids away from their parents beyond the 72 hours mandated. That's what President Obama ordered. So that's the same as the Trump administration.
DAVIS: Whatever you are reading, whatever you're reading is not accurate
Politifact says that “A report to the U.S. Senate in 2016 stated that since the beginning of fiscal year 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services had placed almost 90,000 unaccompanied minors with sponsors in the United States. These minors were detained in a jail-like setting until they could be placed with a parent, family member, or other sponsor living in the U.S.”
Under the terms of the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, unaccompanied minors from countries other than Canada and Mexico were transferred from Border Patrol to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, by law within 72 hours, said David Fitzgerald, co-director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at University of California San Diego.
There isn’t a clean answer for average detention time, but in federal filings in the Flores settlement case, the government said that for residents booked into family residential facilities during a stretch between October 2015 and May 2016, the average length of stay was 11.8 days.
The Flores settlement was a January 1997 court agreement between advocates for unaccompanied minors detained by immigration authorities and the Justice Department. The agreement determined immigrant children must be held in the "least restrictive setting."
In another portion of Monday’s interview, Lanny Davis didn’t believe Bill when he said that 85% of illegal immigrants don’t return for their immigration hearing. However, U.S. immigration courts have the highest failure to appear (FTA) rate of any courts in the nation. The Center for Immigration Studies says, 85 percent of the SIT (Special Interest Countries regarding terrorism) and SST (state sponsors of terrorism) aliens released who eventually receive final orders of removal will abscond
Gallup Poll Shows Record Low Say They Are 'Extremely Proud' To Be Americans
For the first time in Gallup’s 18-year history of asking US adults how proud they are to be American, fewer than a majority say they’re “extremely proud”.
Gallup found that 47 percent of citizens are “extremely proud” to be Americans, while 25 percent are “very proud.” Both numbers mark new low points since Gallup started polling on the question in 2001.
The number of people who are “extremely proud” has slowly been declining in recent years, according to Gallup. The number peaked at 70 percent in 2003, but was down to 52 percent in 2016 and 51 percent in 2017.
Democrats in particular are less proud to be American, the poll found. Thirty-two percent of Democrats are “extremely proud,” down 11 percentage points from last year.
Among Republicans, 74 percent say they are “extremely proud,” according to the poll.
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