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Interesting article in the NYT a couple months back agout growers in the Valley in CA who largely voted for Trump at the same time they knowingly rely on illegal immigrants to work their fields and harvest their crops.It's an open secret that they're illegal, they come back year after year, the local economy is dependent on them, buying groceries amongst other things, they've become their friends, some have settled there permanently and bought houses, they're the natives' next door neighbors. The REPUBLICAN state rep has filed a bill in Sacramento for a pathway to regularize their status becaue they're indispensable. Just indicative of why the country as a whole overwhelmingly rejects Trump;s views on illegals and wants the government to figure out how to regularize their status rather than Trumps's draconian deportations.

Now I saw this on the internet so it must be a fact.
The Trump/Ryan Health Insurance Bill was scheduled for failure all along. That was the whole plan of the GOP. They did it so that Netflix could sneak in the greenlighting 3 Adam Sandler movies.

Cute. You must be so proud of yourself.

Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians

Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin, according to administration and congressional officials.

The White House Counsel’s Office was informed this month that the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, wanted to question Mr. Kushner about meetings he arranged with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, according to the government officials. The meetings, which took place during the transition, included a previously unreported sit-down with the head of Russia’s state-owned development bank.

Until now, the White House had acknowledged only an early December meeting between Mr. Kislyak and Mr. Kushner, which occurred at Trump Tower and was also attended by Michael T. Flynn, who would briefly serve as the national security adviser.

Later that month, though, Mr. Kislyak requested a second meeting, which Mr. Kushner asked a deputy to attend in his stead, officials said. At Mr. Kislyak’s request, Mr. Kushner later met with Sergey N. Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, which the United States placed on its sanctions list after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia annexed Crimea and began meddling in Ukraine.

A White House spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, confirmed those meetings, saying in an interview that nothing of consequence was discussed and that they went nowhere. Mr. Gorkov, who previously served as deputy chairman of the board at Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-owned bank, could not be reached for comment.

could result in billions in lost revenue.

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Hawaii judge who blocked Trump’s travel ban faces death threats, is getting 24-hr protection from fed marshals http://bit.ly/2nnMA2k

President Donald Trump’s approval rating reached a new low in Gallup’s daily polling average Monday.

According to Gallup, 36 percent of respondents to its daily polls approved of Trump’s performance in office, while 57 percent disapproved.

Gallup arrives at its approval numbers by averaging the previous three days of polling. Monday's numbers reflect responses from March 24-26, during and following the surprising failure of Republicans’ Obamacare replacement plan on Friday.

Trump’s Gallup approval is now lower than former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton's approval numbers were at any point in their presidencies, according to an analysis by Gallup's editor-in-chief. Obama reached a low of 38 percent in 2011 and 2014. Former President Bill Clinton reached a low of 37 percent in 1993.

Former President George W. Bush reached his low, 25 percent, in October 2008.

Perhaps the White House had planned all along for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make an appearance at today's press briefing to rail against sanctuary cities. But the timing is consistent with what I've long feared will be the impulse for the Trump administration: When the going gets rough (failed Obamacare repeal, low poll numbers, etc), it will fall back on appeals to racism and xenophobia to regain political footing.

The covert meeting that the House Intelligence Committee chairman held with a source on the White House grounds last week has not raised suspicions of an inappropriate leak within the executive branch, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday.

“We’re not concerned about that,” Spicer told reporters at his daily press briefing.

Even illegal immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans.

The article makes the point that the budget cuts inhibit the IRS from collecting taxes due - so losing $239 million, while not a huge amount in terms of DC budgets, could result in billions in lost revenue.

How about the question of 'less likely to commit a crime," eh?

We know that 100% of illegals have already done that. That's why they're called "illegals," ya know?

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Funny or racist?

Although it implies that the white Southern sheriff is a bigot, I don't consider it "racist", although we can pretty much assume that the black guy was killed by racists. It's obviously referring to the Jim Crow era (or a holdover sub-culture) and there are many, many examples of stereotypical good ol' boys making these kinds of cracks in movies and TV.

guijohn wrote:

You assume he was killed by a racist?? It would be more likely that he was killed by another black and the sheriff was being a indifferent...But you think just like a liberal...You can't help it.

SNICKER: Gooey thinks just like a racist!!!!!!! In all likelihood because he was raised by and around racists. Quelle surprise. He can't help it because he 'don't know no better' (to use the Vernacular). Ain't that rich.