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DOJ reportedly plans to send fleet of judges to immigration detention centers

The Justice Department is reportedly sending 50 judges to immigration detention centers across the U.S. to hear more cases...Court will be in session from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., two sources told Reuters.

One of President Trump's first executive orders was to fast-track deportations and detaining illegal immigrants until their cases can be heard, effectively ending the “catch and release policy.

You apparently don't recognize how patronizing you are when you address women on this forum. But that doesn't surprise me, often males with a affectation of male superiority tend to be somewhat high handed with women, because they realize men like themselves won't gig them and they secretly believe that they can crush a woman's spirit with their dismissals. tsk, tsk, tsk George, tsk, tsk, tsk.

The economic ‘mess’ Trump says he inherited continues to add jobs

The economy added 235,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.7 percent, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s the first job report to measure the economy under President Trump.

While Trump has said he “inherited a mess,” February’s job report marks the 76th straight month of job creation, the longest streak since 1939, with 2.2 million jobs added over the course of last year.

Trump retweeted a Drudge report headline touting the number of jobs added in February that said, “GREAT AGAIN.” But the economy added 238,000 jobs in the last report of Obama’s presidency.

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Republicans must be careful in that the Dems own the failed ObamaCare disaster, with its poor coverage and massive premium increases......

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But what did the president mean by letting Obamacare fail on its own? Health care experts say that his comment may allude to conservatives’ belief that the market will become too expensive on its own — and the fact that the White House is already taking actions to undermine the individual mandate.

Without the mandate, there would be an imbalance between sicker and healthier people, causing premiums to climb. Healthier people would drop out as a result, and that would drive up premiums further. This process is known as the “death spiral.”

One of the first actions the Trump administration took to foster uncertainty about Obamacare was issuing an executive order that directed federal agencies to delay implementation of any provisions that “impose a fiscal burden on any State, or a cost, fee, tax penalty, or regulatory burden.” It also told agencies to encourage development of a “free and open market” in health care services in the states.

The Affordable Care Act was running ahead of 2016 enrollment totals by 4 percent. On January 26, the administration said it would stop running through mid-January, according to the CBPP, but final 2017 enrollment fell ng ads for the final week of open enrollment.

In February, the Trump administration proposed rules that discouraged enrollment and took away an IRS tool for enforcing the individual mandate. Even though the mandate still exists, the IRS announced that it would stop its plans to reject tax returns if people did not say whether they had coverage. Edwin Park, vice president for health policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, told ThinkProgress that tax preparation companies are already preparing software that acknowledges these new rules by not asking people to answer yes or no on whether they have coverage.

“If they don’t have to pick, they aren’t subject to the mandate, and that discourages them from enrolling,” Park said.

A few days after the confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed rules it claimed would lead to “market stabilization,” but would in fact do the opposite. The rules would give insurers more power to offer less generous plans and allow fewer people to sign up for the ACA’s “special enrollment period.” The rules would also shorten the sign-up period from three months to 45 days.

“In regard to the individual mandate, is the administration going to enforce the mandate? There are a number of specific exemptions for the individual mandate. There is an exemption that it is up to [the secretary of Health and Human Services] to define hardship,” Parks said. “They could dramatically expand what hardship means so fewer people would be subject to the mandate, and then fewer people participate. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Although Republicans argue that Obamacare is already in a death spiral, the Republican plan will certainly result in one, Park said.

“There is this rhetoric from Ryan where he says the market is in a death spiral, but all the actions the House is taking are going to end up resulting in a death spiral,” he said.

You mean like Bush did.

We need a special prosecutor to thoroughly investigate the Left for all of their crimes.