Associated Press:
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration despite fierce Democratic opposition to the Alabama Republican over his record on civil rights and immigration.This came in spite of Senator Elizabeth Warren's attempt to label Sessions as a racist. The Republicans need to take note that their attempt to shut her up after the fact only made them look bad, and had no effect on the stupidity she was spouting.
In fact, Warren's reference to a letter by Coretta Scott King was shown to be obsolete:
True Pundit:
Well, that was quick. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s racial stunt that sparked her removal from the senate floor Tuesday night proved even shorter than her time living in a teepee.Admittedly, the praise is just thanking Sessions along with a list of other people. However, if King really felt he was such a racist, why would she stoop to thanking him?
Warren attempted to use the words of Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr., to smear Sen. Jeff Sessions’ bid for Attorney General. Warren’s now warrant-less claim was that King’s wife’s words framed Sessions as a bigot.
But now a more recent video has surfaced where Coretta King in fact praises Sessions at the launching of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
Regardless, the smearing of Sessions with the racist label is typical of the Left. When they see something they don't like, it must be racist. The Left seems to have lost the definition of racism over the years.
In other news...
New York Times:
For eight years, Guadalupe García de Rayos had checked in at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office here, a requirement since she was caught using a fake Social Security number during a raid in 2008 at a water park where she worked.Why wasn't she deported in 2008? Surprisingly, the writer of this story failed to ask that question, and the editor didn't ask the writer to ask it.
Every year since then, she has walked in and out of the meetings after a brief review of her case and some questions.
But not this year.
On Wednesday, immigration agents arrested Ms. Rayos, 35, and began procedures to send her back to Mexico, a country she has not seen since she left it 21 years ago.
Even worse:
The Obama administration made a priority of deporting people who were deemed a threat to public or national safety, had ties to criminal gangs, or had committed serious felony offenses or a series of misdemeanor crimes. Ms. Rayos did not fit any of these criteria, which is why she was allowed to stay in the United States even after a judge issued a deportation order against her in 2013.
That all changed under Mr. Trump. Among the 18 executive orders that he has issued since taking office on Jan. 20 is one stipulating that undocumented immigrants convicted of any criminal offense — and even those who have not been charged but are believed to have committed “acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense” — have become a priority for deportation.Sarcasm on.
Oh no! This is horrible! He's enforcing the law! Is he allowed to do that?
Sarcasm off.
Sorry New York Times, but this is just another example of Trump doing what he promised to do in the election. While he has been known to lie and get his facts skewed, isn't it refreshing to see a politician doing exactly what he promised to do?
As for the immigration laws leading to this, if you don't like them, change them. This isn't a "Trump problem". This is a problem we've had with bad immigration laws being poorly enforced for decades.
Finally...
Business Insider:
A former National Security Agency contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges he willfully retained national defense information, in what U.S. officials have said may have been the largest heist of classified government information in history.He was arrested LAST AUGUST and we are just now hearing about this? It must have been that transparent Obama administration at work.
The U.S. Department of Justice said Harold Thomas Martin, 52, faces 20 criminal counts, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Martin worked for Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp when he was taken into custody last August. Prosecutors have alleged he spent more than two decades pilfering secret documents and hoarding them at his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
The contractor also employed Edward Snowden, who leaked a trove of secret files to news organizations in 2013 that exposed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the NSA.
Seriously, federal government information security has more holes than swiss cheese. These are the same people whom the politicians want running our lives. Sleep well, America.
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