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Post by soonernvolved on May 24, 2019 14:01:01 GMT -6
Read before commenting, seriously, it's not rocket surgery:
AOC being corrected, yet again:
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Post by kcrufnek on May 24, 2019 17:25:39 GMT -6
It doesn't matter. People like her, Omar, etc., will, even if out of office, be everywhere. MSM, The View, speaking tours, college lectures. They will get rich while continuing to spout this nonsense - almost always without challenge. That women that lost in Georgia is in the news a lot more than the guy that beat her.At least if out of office they won't be hurting anyone.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 27, 2019 8:08:48 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/05/27/ocasio-cortez-glamour-shot-hope-hicks/Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out over a New York Times photo of former White House communications director Hope Hicks Saturday, calling the photo a “glamour shot.” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday complaining about The New York Times’ coverage of Hicks. The former communications director received a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler for her to testify as part of an investigation of the Trump administration, according to The Hill. Ocasio-Cortez voiced frustration with a “glamour shot” of Hicks, comparing the New York Times’ coverage of Hicks to a lifetime drama called “Hope’s Choice.” (RELATED: House Democrats Are Coming For Hope Hicks And A Former Top White House Lawyer) “What gets me is news breaks that this woman is weighing committing a crime before Congress &it’s getting framed by the NYT as some Lifetime drama called ‘Hope’s Choice,'” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This is a fmr admin official considering participating in a coverup led by the President. Treat her equally.” What gets me is news breaks that this woman is weighing committing a crime before Congress &it’s getting framed by the NYT as some Lifetime drama called “Hope’s Choice.” This is a fmr admin official considering participating in a coverup led by the President. Treat her equally. t.co/XcNbSuU4QB— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc) May 26, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez was referencing a photo shared by The New York Times shared as part of an article on Hicks. “Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena,” The New York Times Politics account tweeted. Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena t.co/8NXpfQvxQL pic.twitter.com/L7aWVMsIdq — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) May 24, 2019 The New York congresswoman compared Hick’s photo to “menacing” photos shown of “people-of-color” victims of shootings. “Yup,” she wrote in a tweet. “Where’s the “no angel” take now? In the immediate aftermath of shootings, media routinely post menacing photos of people-of-color victims + dredge up any questionable thing they’d ever done. But when Hope Hicks considers not complying w a subpoena, it’s glamour shot time.” Yup. Where’s the “no angel” take now? In the immediate aftermath of shootings, media routinely post menacing photos of people-of-color victims + dredge up any questionable thing they’d ever done. But when Hope Hicks considers not complying w a subpoena, it’s glamour shot time. t.co/ACnvXlKF7Q— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc) May 26, 2019 The House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to former White House aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson for documents and testimony Tuesday, setting a deadline of June 4 for Hicks and Donaldson to reveal relevant documents. Both Hicks and Donaldson were asked to appear before the committee to testify on separate occasions later in June. Follow Mary Margaret on Twitter. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 29, 2019 7:04:40 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 1, 2019 20:52:46 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/01/veterans-ocasio-cortez-meeting/Two U.S. military veterans criticized Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying the way she spoke at a closed-door Bronx community meeting Wednesday night was “BS.” Silvio Mazzella, 74, a Vietnam War veteran and treasurer of Community Board 11, said he walked out of the conference, along with former chairman of the board and Army veteran Anthony Vitaliano, 78, and another individual, reported the New York Post. “She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” Mazzella said. “I just couldn’t hear her BS anymore. I just got up, got my umbrella in my hand and walked right out,” former chairman of the board and Army veteran, Anthony Vitaliano, 78, said. Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman Corbin Trent denied there was a walk-out during the conference. “The only person that left the meeting while it was underway was someone who had to go pick up their children,” he said. Vitaliano fired back at Trent’s claim, calling it “bullshit.” “Everybody that was there knows I walked out,” he added. Ocasio-Cortez held the private meeting with about a dozen members of Community Board 11, according to the New York Post. She reportedly fielded questions from attendees, including one that concerned American foreign policy. Attendees said she blamed the U.S. for fueling the Yemen Civil War during the meeting in her response. “Talking about America, that really turned me off completely,” Mazzella told the Post. Vitaliano said Ocasio-Cortez “danced around” the question of Columbus Day, which his neighborhood marks every year with a parade. He said he supports designating a separate day for celebrating indigenous people, but not to replace Columbus Day. (RELATED: AOC Talks About What It’s REALLY Like To Be So Popular) Another attendee said of the meeting that “a lot of people that really adored what she was saying,” the New York Post reported. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 2, 2019 13:30:54 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/02/veterans-ocasio-cortez-spox-denies-walkout/American veterans Silvio Mazzella and Anthony Vitaliano confirmed Sunday that they did, in fact, walk out of a meeting with Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Silvio Mazzella, 74, a Vietnam War veteran, and Army veteran Anthony Vitaliano, 78, appeared on “Fox & Friends” following claims from Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent that only one person left the meeting. “The only person that left the meeting while it was underway was someone who had to go pick up their children,” Trent said. “It was a prepared agenda for the — let’s put in this way, she is our congresswoman from January, we haven’t seen her in our area until May 28, Tuesday at 5:30. Everybody else in the United States has seen her except her own district,” Vitaliano said, noting that the intent of the meeting was to address local issues. But then one board member, a Yemeni immigrant who is now a U.S. citizen, brought up the civil war that is ongoing in Yemen, and Ocasio-Cortez responded by blaming American actions in the area for the unrest. “That’s what started me off. Her comment was that it’s ‘American bombs,'” Vitaliano added. “That’s insulting,” Mazzella agreed. “I heard that, ‘American bombs.’ In my head, I say to myself, ‘what about the Iranian bullets and Iranian bombs? Aren’t they killing people, too?'” Mazzella argued that Ocasio-Cortez’s comments reminded him of the protests he faced when he first returned from war. “Didn’t feel good,” he said. “‘It reminds me when I came home from ‘Nam and we had the protesters here. You know that’s not the way to treat people.” Vitaliano said that Ocasio-Cortez had also referred to President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “two clones,” and not in a positive manner. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Defends Democrat Whose ‘Appalling Accusation’ Was Stricken From The Record) “There was another insult. Israel is one of our strongest allies,” Mazzella added. “To do something like that and come out with a statement like that is not, that’s not who we are.” “It was like Netanyahu and the president are two peas in a pod,” Vitaliano continued. “They’re the same. They are no good. They are no good for the area. The area. And that’s where we got the second part about the tension in the Middle East what’s going on. Right after this is when I left. She says that the tension is being caused by President Trump because he withdrew from the Iran deal and that is why we are having all this tension. I think she should do her homework that tension has been going on since 1948.” That, according to Vitaliano and Mazzella, is when they decided that they had had enough and walked out of the meeting.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 8, 2019 11:33:27 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 11, 2019 2:10:06 GMT -6
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Post by Cooter Brown on Jun 11, 2019 5:37:11 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 11, 2019 8:21:15 GMT -6
I'd still hit it.
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Post by Cooter Brown on Jun 11, 2019 9:57:33 GMT -6
Ha...good luck with that...she won't shut the fuck up...she just rambles on and on and on and on...
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 11, 2019 10:10:32 GMT -6
Ha...good luck with that...she won't shut the fuck up...she just rambles on and on and on and on... Two things: #1: It means she knows how to use her mouth. #2: As an old man once told me, "Son, they all look the same face down @$$ up". She can mumble all she wants into a pillow.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 11, 2019 10:15:57 GMT -6
Democrats thought about giving themselves a pay raise, others thought differently & now AOC is upset,( because making only $174,000 a year is under paid). www.dailywire.com/news/48254/congress-plan-give-themselves-raise-derailed-after-james-barrettAs The Daily Wire noted Monday, many in Congress feel like it's finally time to give themselves a long overdue raise after suffering a decade-long pay freeze at just $174,000 — more than three times the median salary in America (about $47,000 in the first quarter of 2019). Their proposed new salary would be $178,700, a $4,700 raise. But that plan appears to have been rather quickly derailed amid internal backlash from Democrats who fear that giving themselves more taxpayer money might end up putting their reelection chances in jeopardy. Though supporters of the pay raise stress that they had bipartisan support and insist that a "modest" bump in pay is a necessary "cost of living" adjustment, Politico reported Monday evening that the plan has been "postponed." "Top Democrats agreed in a closed-door meeting Monday night to pull a key section of this week’s massive funding bill to avoid escalating a clash within their caucus over whether to hike salaries for lawmakers and staff for the first time in a decade, multiple lawmakers confirmed," Politico reports. "At least 15 Democrats — mostly freshmen in competitive districts — had pushed to freeze pay after some Democratic and Republican leaders quietly agreed to the slight pay increase earlier this month." After "intense" debate over "whether to force members to go on the record about a pay raise" on Monday, Politico reports, the "vulnerable" Democrats appear to have won the argument. Voting for a pay increase, they maintained, would hurt them in 2020, when Democrats can't afford to lose any ground in the House. Politico cites "several Democrats in battleground seats" personally telling House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer that they would protest the vote. As The Daily Wire's Emily Zanotti pointed out Monday, while the current Congressional salary doesn't quite qualify them for the much-maligned "one-percenter" label, they do make the "five-percenter" category. Despite her calls for equality in America, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) has repeatedly called for a raise for legislators. "Members of Congress often vote to cut or keep their allowances low," she tweeted in March. "It’s a superficial gesture, bc keeping Congressional pay low is what creates the desperation + impetus for good, experienced staff to flee to lobbyist jobs. Raising staffer pay helps get money out of politics. Same w/ member pay. Members are paid more than avg — but job reqs 2 residences + we can't take tax deductions for work costs. No one wants to be the one to bring up increases, so instead ppl take advantage of insider trading loopholes & don't close them for the extra cash." Early Tuesday, she again defended Congress giving themselves a raise. "Yep. Voting against cost of living increases for members of Congress may sound nice, but doing so only increases pressure on them to keep dark money loopholes open," she wrote in a series of tweets. "This makes campaign finance reform *harder.* ALL workers deserve cost of living increases, incl min wage workers. What this does is punish members who rely on a straight salary, and reward those who rely on money loopholes and other forms of self-dealing. For example, it incentivizes the horrible kinds of legislative looting we saw in the GOP tax scam bill. It’s not a fun or politically popular position to take. But consistency is important. ALL workers should get cost of living increases. That’s why minimum wage should be pegged to inflation, too. Voting against cost of living increases is 1 reason why dark $ loopholes stay open." But those concerned about reelection appear to have won the day. As Global Strategy Group president Jeffrey Pollock told the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committeee, giving themselves a raise "feels like a potential ready-made attack ad," Politico reports.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 11, 2019 21:11:49 GMT -6
Two things: #1: It means she knows how to use her mouth. #2: As an old man once told me, "Son, they all look the same face down @$$ up". She can mumble all she wants into a pillow. #pillowprincess
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Post by Cooter Brown on Jun 12, 2019 6:24:15 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 12, 2019 17:24:16 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/12/ocasio-cortez-horrors-citizenshipDemocratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the United States has committed “unspeakable horrors” in the name of citizenship Wednesday. Ocasio-Cortez spoke during a committee meeting voting on whether to cite Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross with contempt of Congress, according to the Washington Examiner.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 12, 2019 23:09:14 GMT -6
Citizens United?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 14, 2019 14:16:09 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 4:21:17 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/18/ocasio-cortez-staff-financial-disclosureRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wealthy chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, did not file a disclosure revealing his net worth and outside income earned in 2018, despite the congresswoman having the legal means to compel him to do so. Chakrabarti cofounded two PACs — Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats — that were instrumental to the New York Democrat’s electoral rise. The political action committees funneled over $1 million to an LLC Chakrabarti controlled during the 2018 midterms. A complaint filed in March with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) called the operation “an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures.” Ocasio-Cortez announced in February that she was capping her staff salaries at $80,000, meaning that nobody on her payroll, including Chakrabarti, would earn the senior pay rate of $126,000 that requires congressional staffers to publicly disclose their finances, the Washington Examiner previously reported. But the House Ethics Committee requires every representative to have at least one staffer file a financial disclosure. Members such as Ocasio-Cortez that don’t pay any of their employees at the senior pay rate must designate at least one so-called principal assistant who is required to disclose their finances. Representatives have broad latitude to determine which employee to name as their principal assistants, but the House Ethics Committee encourages representatives to select employees who can, in some circumstances, “act in the Member’s name or with the Member’s authority.” Ocasio-Cortez’s senior policy analyst Dan Riffle was the only member of the New York Democrat’s staff to have a financial disclosure on file with the House Legislative Resource Center as of Monday afternoon. No financial disclosures were on file for Chakrabarti, who engages with Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional colleagues on Twitter. Chakrabarti co-founded a Silicon Valley firm in 2010 and purchased a $1.6 million home in 2018, according to the Washington Examiner. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Hit With Another FEC Complaint Over Affiliation With Justice Democrats) “Given Chakrabarti’s enormous wealth and potential for conflicts of interest, I am a little surprised he is not voluntarily filing financial disclosure statements,” said government affairs lobbyist Craig Holman of the left-leaning advocacy group Public Citizen, who noted that House Ethics rules grant Ocasio-Cortez “the legal means to require her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and other senior staffers to disclose their financial dealings.” “It is great that Senior Policy Analyst Dan Riffle is disclosing his finances, but if this interpretive ruling need be invoked for transparency of potential conflicts of interest, it should be invoked upon the wealthy chief of staff where the greatest potential for conflicts rests,” Holman told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Ocasio-Cortez’s office did not return a request for comment.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 5:05:14 GMT -6
Trivializing the Holocaust:
Called out:
A liberal Canadian:
Others:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 5:09:01 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 5:12:24 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 9:35:52 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/poll-aoc-unliked-untrusted-unwanted-in-her-own-ny-districtShe’s a star on the national political stage, but Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is viewed skeptically back in her Queens and Bronx 14th Congressional District, according to a new door-to-door survey. It found that she has a low 21% favorability rating, that just 11% believe she has their best interests in mind, and that only 13% would vote to reelect her. The survey of registered voters was conducted by the political action committee targeting her with a Federal Election Commission complaint, Stop The AOC PAC. A previous survey by the group found that residents were upset with the lawmaker’s opposition to bringing an Amazon headquarters to the district. In part due to Ocasio-Cortez’s complaints, Amazon backed out of moving to her district.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 9:40:12 GMT -6
Hammer, meet nail:
Bill Hemmer: She used the extermination of six million people. She used the phrase those who are concerned enough with humanity to say “never again” means something. Has she ever been to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, or Auschwitz Bierkenau in southern Poland or Dachau in Germany? “Never again” is the phrase Jews all over the world use to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again. And she’s using concentration camps to describe what’s happening on the southern border. How in the world is that acceptable? Does she not owe every Jew on this planet and apology?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 11:04:45 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-19/msm-pundits-slammed-defending-aoc-holocaust-comparisonRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is taking heat this week after she casually compared the border crisis to the holocaust, drawing wide condemnation from Jewish groups and others who thought her comments were in extremely poor taste. In response, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York slammed AOC, writing in a Tuesday statement: "We are deeply disturbed by the language used in your recent Instagram live video which seeks to equate the detention centers on America's southern border with Nazi-era Concentration Camps." "The terms 'Concentration Camp' and 'Never Again' are synonymous with and evocative of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany," the letter continues. Enter liberal pundits For some strange reason, several MSM pundits decided to die on this hill - defending AOC's comments by lying or splitting hairs. It was not a good look: Chris Hayes drew a rebuke from the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account after the MSNBC host suggested to Liz Cheney should 'learn some actual history' about the difference between 'concentration camps' and 'death camps.' Hayes eventually backed off, tweeting ""concentration camp" is an extremely charged term and I get why many people are, in good faith, uncomfortable with its application..." And people are seeing right through these semantics games.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:22:01 GMT -6
This from one who got a degree in international relations & economics but ended up as a bartender:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:52:27 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/19/cnns-avlon-calls-for-aoc-to-apologize-for-holocaust-comparison-across-the-line/amp/Wednesday, CNN senior political analyst John Avlon weighed in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) saying migrant detention centers are concentration camps. Avlon said on “New Day” that Holocaust metaphors are “beyond problematic,” adding what the socialist Democrat from New York said is “across the line” and “unacceptable.” “She said later she meant to make the comparison to internment camps. Look, internment camps are horrific; the key difference being millions of people systematically murdered by a state, so that doesn’t fly,” Avlon stated. “This is across the line,” he continued. “It’s not that hard to apologize. she should do it. It’s unacceptable.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:54:16 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/19/pelosi-on-aocs-concentration-camp-comparison-republicans-will-misrepresent-anything/amp/Wednesday at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was “not up to date” on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) comparison of border detention centers to concentration camps. However, she cautioned Republicans “will misrepresent anything that you say.” Pelosi said, “These members of Congress are—they come and represent their districts and their point of view, and they take responsibility for the statements that they make. I’m not up to date on her most recent one, I saw something in the news but I — no, I haven’t spoken to her about that. I do have some comments to make to my caucus writ large about the political nature of how politically charged the atmosphere is, so understand that while the Republicans have no interest in holding the president accountable for his words they will misrepresent anything that you say just if you have one word in the sentence that they can exploit.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 14:22:08 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 15:09:56 GMT -6
Fact checked by an ex immigration judge: Audio link at link: www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/06/19/fact-check-former-immigration-judge-debunks-aocs-concentration-camp-claim/amp/Art Arthur, a resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and former immigration judge, refuted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) characterization of U.S. migrant detention facilities as “concentration camps,” calling her comments “offensive” and noting that Democrats had no objection to these same facilities when the Obama administration used them. What is truly “reprehensible,” Arthur said, is the refusal of Congressional Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez to provide the humanitarian funding requested by the Trump administration to alleviate the suffering of migrant children and families. ........ Arthur told Breitbart News Tonight host Rebecca Mansour that he had direct expert knowledge to refute Ocasio-Cortez’s claim due to his years of work as an immigration judge. “I’m actually sort of an expert on this, given the fact that I was a judge at a detained court for eight years, and I had jurisdiction over a couple of other detained courts, as well,” he explained. “I would walk down the hall. I would have lunch in the dining hall with the correctional officers. I would work out in the weight room. It didn’t look like any sort of concentration camp.” Arthur continued, “It’s simply a place for individuals to be detained pending their removal proceedings and then only if they can’t show they’re not a flight risk or a danger to the community. These are really the furthest thing that I can think of [from] anything that would be called a concentration camp. Quite frankly, it’s an offensive statement.” “The purpose of immigration detention is not punitive, and that’s been established in case law for over a hundred years,” explained Arthur. “The purpose of immigration detention is to ensure that individuals actually appear for their removal proceedings. They also have a dissuasive effect, because if individuals are coming to the United States in order to live and work and make money in this country, and they’re detained until the time that their claims can be heard, people with bad claims aren’t going to come.” Arthur went on, “People who have bad asylum claims, weak asylum claims, or no asylum claims at all — and especially those with fraudulent claims — aren’t going to come, at all, and what that’s going to do is give the good claims the opportunity to be heard more quickly.” Arthur stated, “People can be processed through the system very quickly when there is sufficient time and sufficient space to hear their cases, and that’s good for two reasons. One, they can begin their lives in the United States. Two, if they have loved ones abroad who are also in danger or who are in danger because of their relationship to that individual, they can come to the United States quickly, too. It’s only when the system is overwhelmed by the bad cases that we have a problem.” “Detention helps make that process move a lot more quickly, and ensures that individuals actually show up for court, and if they’re ordered removed, that they are removed,” said Arthur. Detention facilities for migrants are indispensable, noted Arthur. “If we did not have immigration detention, there would be nothing that would stop individuals from coming to the United States and simply being released in this country, and if that happened — we had 143,000 people enter illegally last month — we’d have a million people enter illegally a month,” Arthur stated. Arthur added, “This wasn’t even a controversial issue under the Obama administration. For some reason, if Donald Trump does it, it’s bad, it’s evil, and it has fascist overtones. That really is what this comes down to.” Recent derision of migrant detention facilities reflect political and partisan biases against President Donald Trump, assessed Arthur. “I often say that what many people think about immigration really is what they think about Donald Trump, and I think that Representative Ocasio-Cortez’s statements reflect this,” Arthur said. “She just doesn’t like Donald Trump. She doesn’t like anything that he does, and so she’s opposed to this.” Arthur continued, “But it’s worse than that, because the fact is, the president sent a supplemental request to Congress — I think six weeks ago — asking for money so that we could more humanely process individuals along the border, and Congress has been sitting on that request because they don’t want to give any more money — the Democrats in the House — don’t want to give any more money, at all, for immigration enforcement at the border.” “The people who are suffering are the families and the children, and that’s what’s so reprehensible about all of this,” he said. “This isn’t even a discussion that we should have. If this were a tsunami in Sri Lanka, we would be sending money. This is a tsunami on the border, and yet people sit around and they don’t even talk about it. They don’t do anything about it. This is the time for action. People have put themselves and put their children in the hands of criminals. Those people have suffered on the way to the United States.” Arthur added, “You can read the bipartisan report issued by the Homeland Security Advisory Council to hear about the horrible traumas that these children have gone through on the way to the United States. The president is asking for money so that we can humanely process these people — and especially the children — and get them sorted out to sponsors or alternatively return them to their families back home. And yet nothing gets done. I can’t understand it.” Mansour invited Arthur’s comments on House Democrats’ opposition to the sharing of information between the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security (DHS). The Hill reported: “The [House Democrats’] caucus has been wary of supporting anything that could, directly or indirectly, help enforce Trump’s immigration and border policies. Border funding was pulled out of a disaster aid package amid a stalemate over immigration-related provisions, including when HHS could share information with the Department of Homeland Security about potential sponsors for unaccompanied minors.” “The reason that they don’t want to do it is purportedly because they don’t want DHS to use the information about the sponsors in order to take removal action against those individuals,” Arthur explained. “But it’s important to note the sponsors with which these children are being placed, I think 78 percent of the time, have no status.” Arthur continued, “Many — if not most — of those sponsors are the parents who paid the smugglers, the horrible criminals, to bring their children to the United States. So in essence, you have individuals in the United States Congress who are saying that we don’t want to discourage people in the United States from paying criminals to smuggle children over a harrowing 1,000-mile journey through Mexico [in which] two-thirds of all individuals are assaulted, one-third of all women are raped [or] sexually assaulted, and they don’t want to take any action against the parents that are encouraging this kind of behavior.” Arthur concluded, “The United States government is completing the task of the smugglers. … If you are in the United States, and you have your child brought to this country, you should be known to DHS. DHS should place you into removal proceedings. If you’re eligible for benefits, you should get those benefits, but if you’re not, you should be returned to your country. We don’t want to encourage this behavior, but regrettably, that’s exactly what the position of the Democrats in the House of Representatives is doing, right now, is encouraging people to trust their children to smugglers.” “The idea that one agency [or] department of the United States government would have information that it just can’t give to another one, that’s when bad things happen,” warned Arthur. “That’s when kids get abused. That’s when kids get trafficked, and that should really make people angry.”
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