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In fiscal year 2017, ICE conducted 226,119 removals nationwide. 83% of individuals removed from the interior of the United States had previously been convicted of a criminal offense.

Remember to check back next week for the next installment of our crime watch.

Illegal immigration may be a hot topic for politicians running for office, but as Americans, it should be an even greater area of concern. The left is determined to make us an open border country, allowing any and everyone in, no matter their criminal background. That’s why I feel it is important to highlight the serious crimes committed by so many illegal immigrants in this weekly report

Brilliant???

Knife attacks are up
Acid attacks are up
He wants to ban cars in parts of the city
Crime is up in general

Go ahead, make my day.

Impeach me, and it will ruin yours.

President Trump telling our Ainsley Earhardt it would be a big mistake.

But not for the reason you might think.

So: end Trump-- you end the Trump rally.

Lower the boom on me, there goes the boom for you.

That is quite a threat. And it might even happen.

The longest bull market in history just could be history, if Democrats dare to make the president history.

What the president is saying is we're all making gravy. So why stop the train?

I don't know, maybe because the train rests on shaky tracks?

Or the conductor of that train has said and done some shaky things? Or at least said some inconsistent things.

Look, good times should never be used to ignore bad things.

I'm not saying unconstitutional things or even illegal things, but enough things to give pause.

Yes, even in the face of a market rally that does not.

Making money should never get in the way of simply getting answers.

Not answers that topple a government, maybe just clarify it. Or force the government to clarify itself. That's all.

All I'm saying is you don't prevent a constitutional crisis by threatening a financial one.

But Mr. President, you guarantee both, when your very actions and words create that crisis, or make people think you're hiding one.

Like when you say you knew nothing about payments to a stripper and a former Playboy model, until you did.

Then explained your former lawyer Michael Cohen made those decisions, until we heard on tape you did.

Just like you said you knew nothing about a Trump Tower meeting back in June 2016 that included your son Donald Trump, Jr. and some Russian officials.

Then clarified that meeting really wasn't about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton, but about Russian adoptions.

Then clarified yet again, that nothing came of that meeting of which you knew nothing, so there's nothing to see here. Move on.

But you see, that's the problem here. We can't move on. Lots of stuff like that that keeps popping up here. Getting added here. Getting re-explained here.

Some are big and worrisome. Others, consistent and tiresome.

Like when you argued that Ohio Governor John Kasich was unpopular when he wasn't.

Or U.S. Steel was building six new steel mills when they weren't.

Or said your poll numbers were higher than when Abraham Lincoln was president, even though we didn't have polls when Lincoln was president.

Or argued crime was way up in Germany when it was the lowest in decades.

Said foreigners were screwing us with 20-plus percent tariffs on our cars, but not a word about the 20 percent tariffs that we slap on their trucks.

Argued we have a massive trade deficit with Canada when we're actually running a current accounts surplus with Canada.

Said you enacted the biggest tax cuts in American history when they weren't.

Didn't personally benefit from your tax cut, but you did.

Said you signed more legislation than anybody, but you haven't.

Loved, loved Michael Cohen until you didn't.

Said he was a great lawyer until he wasn't.

None of these make the market any less impressive. Maybe just the guy overseeing it all.

You're right to be frustrated, Mr. President.

But you are part of what's frustrating.

It's not about stepping on your message. It's about constantly changing it.

You're right to say your critics should be held accountable.

But that doesn't mean you should hold this economic boom you hold so dear hostage.

It cheapens your argument and it cheapens this country.

I like tax cuts and soaring markets as much as anybody.

But what good is it to fatten your wallet, if you've lost your soul?

If you forget your friends and you embolden your enemies?

You're right to say some are out to get you.

But oftentimes, Mr. President, the problem is you. What you say. And how you keep changing what you say.

I know you'll call this fake. But the implications of what you're doing, Mr. President, are very real.

You're so darn focused on promoting a financial boom that you fail to see that you're the one who's creating this moral bust.

And we all could be the poorer for it.

The number of people killed on Britain’s roads reached a five-year high last year, new figures show. Some 1,792 deaths were recorded in road traffic accidents in 2016, up 4 per cent on the previous year and the most since 2011.

Pedestrian deaths saw the largest year-on-year rise at 10 per cent, followed by car occupants (8 per cent). Motoring research charity the RAC Foundation said the figures showed the need for road accidents to be investigated in more detail. Director Steve Gooding said: ‘These numbers tell a familiar story. Since 2011 there has been next to no progress made in cutting the number of crash deaths.

Convicted former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has publicly contradicted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' sworn testimony to Congress, saying both Sessions and Donald Trump apparently supported his proposal that Trump meet with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, according to a court filing late Friday night.

"While some in the room rebuffed George's offer, Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it. George's giddiness over Mr. Trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed," Papadopoulos' lawyers wrote in a court filing Friday. Papadopoulos' legal team said that he has shared with special counsel Robert Mueller his recollections of the March 31, 2016, meeting.

Sessions, when asked about that meeting under oath, said that he "pushed back" on the idea of the Putin summit. CNN previously reported that Trump "heard him out," according to another adviser in the room, when Papadopoulos proposed the idea and offered to help execute it.

The new description came in a criminal sentencing request Papadopoulos' legal team filed to a federal judge late Friday night -- the same day a lobbyist for Ukrainians admitted in court to criminal obstruction when he lied to Congress, and amid the President's intensifying public feud with Sessions.

A Republican political consultant linked to Paul Manafort and Cambridge Analytica has admitted to funneling $50,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration committee.

Sam Patten paid the money to an American “straw purchaser” on behalf of the unidentified oligarch, in return for four tickets to Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, according to a plea agreement made public on Friday. The inauguration committee was not allowed to accept money from foreigners.

The disclosure came as Patten pleaded guilty to illegally lobbying in the US for pro-Russia politicians from Ukraine. As part of his plea deal, he agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating links between Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Patten, 47, admitted causing the Ukrainian funds to be paid to the inauguration committee, and to then lying to a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in an attempt to cover this up. He was not charged for these actions.

He pleaded guilty to one count of working as an unregistered agent for the oligarch’s Ukrainian political party, Opposition Bloc, which also employed Manafort, the former chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign. Patten was released on bail by judge Amy Berman Jackson following a hearing in Washington.

The charge was brought by the US attorney’s office in the capital, which took over the case following a referral from Mueller’s office. The court filings indicated that Patten had been in discussions with Mueller’s office for at least three months.

Unless there is some kind of smoking gun such as proof of a private meeting between Trump and Putin to discuss Putin willing to help Trump win the presidency,