All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Brian Peacock]

Mmm....coal ash. I'm looking forward to all the cheap coal-ash-fed chlorinated chicken we'll be eating once we BREXIT.

But at least we'll have a comprehensive medical insurance sector ready to help us barely afford two-thirds of the treatment we'll need.

[Tero]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump Playpens

Another one of the best people.

'Kirstjen Nielsen’s Testimony About the Border Was an Utter Embarrassment'

Nielsen’s responses seemed to indicate that the secretary was either not aware of the severity of the treatment of migrants in the United States — particularly children — or she was intentionally giving misleading answers to obfuscate the endless reports of abuse against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.

When asked by Homeland Security Chair Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) if she was “aware of family members who have been separated from their children and deported back to a country without their children,” Nielsen responded that she was aware. But, she added a caveat, implying that it was entirely the choice of the family members being deported to leave their children in the United States.

“There was no parent who has been deported to my knowledge without multiple opportunities to take their children with them,” Nielsen said.

Nielsen’s statement directly contradicts multiple news reports detailing traumatic deportations of parents who were separated from their children at the border and may never be reunited.

Later, when being questioned by Representative Lauren Underwood, about the research showing that family separation can be traumatizing for children, Nielsen again claimed to be unaware of the specific effects of Trump’s zero-tolerance policies. Nielsen’s response led Representative Underwood to declare that she was unsure “if DHS was so negligent they didn’t know how traumatic family separation was for children, or if they knew and did it anyway.”

Representatives asked her about reports of children being held in cramped enclosures surrounded by chain-link fences — which Nielsen insisted weren’t cages. Representative Thompson then asked her to tell him what they were. “They are areas of the border facility that are carved out for the safety and protection of those who remain there while they’re being processed,” Nielsen responded.

[pErvinalia]

[Brian Peacock]

Ouch!

[JimC]

Takedown!

[L'Emmerdeur]

In the interest of protecting border security, creating watchlists of journalists and other troublemakers is sometimes necessary.

'Source: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database'

Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.

At the end of 2018, roughly 5,000 immigrants from Central America made their way north through Mexico to the United States southern border. The story made international headlines.

As the migrant caravan reached the San Ysidro Port of Entry in south San Diego County, so did journalists, attorneys, and advocates who were there to work and witness the events unfolding.

But in the months that followed, journalists who covered the caravan, as well as those who offered assistance to caravan members, said they felt they had become targets of intense inspections and scrutiny by border officials.

One photojournalist said she was pulled into secondary inspections three times and asked questions about who she saw and photographed in Tijuana shelters. Another photojournalist said she spent 13 hours detained by Mexican authorities when she tried to cross the border into Mexico City. Eventually, she was denied entry into Mexico and sent back to the U.S.

These American photojournalists and attorneys said they suspected the U.S. government was monitoring them closely but until now, they couldn’t prove it.

Now, documents leaked to NBC 7 Investigates show their fears weren’t baseless. In fact, their own government had listed their names in a secret database of targets, where agents collected information on them. Some had alerts placed on their passports, keeping at least two photojournalists and an attorney from entering Mexico to work.

[Sean Hayden]

--no stone unturned eh? Just what are their capabilities these days I wonder. Can they look at everything 24/7? Is it just a matter of finding how to identify what's worth looking at from all the available data, and by all I mean literally all? Just what are they building in there?

--but seriously, what are they building in there?

[JimC]

US members of Rationalia will be first on the hit list. Watch for the black helicopters, Sean!

[Sean Hayden]

I guess it's time to revisit those backyard bunker plans. I wonder if preppers have started digging to each others bunkers yet? We're going to need a network...

[Clinton Huxley]

Mmm....coal ash. I'm looking forward to all the cheap coal-ash-fed chlorinated chicken we'll be eating once we BREXIT.

But at least we'll have a comprehensive medical insurance sector ready to help us barely afford two-thirds of the treatment we'll need.

It's win-win.

[rainbow]

Mmm....coal ash. I'm looking forward to all the cheap coal-ash-fed chlorinated chicken we'll be eating once we BREXIT.

Remember that coal ash is a natural product, and therefore it must be good for you.

Pure, natural organic goodness

[Clinton Huxley]

Mmm....coal ash. I'm looking forward to all the cheap coal-ash-fed chlorinated chicken we'll be eating once we BREXIT.

Remember that coal ash is a natural product, and therefore it must be good for you.

Pure, natural organic goodness

Arsenic, lead, mercury. A banquet fit for a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

[rainbow]

[rainbow]

Mmm....coal ash. I'm looking forward to all the cheap coal-ash-fed chlorinated chicken we'll be eating once we BREXIT.

Remember that coal ash is a natural product, and therefore it must be good for you.

Pure, natural organic goodness

Arsenic, lead, mercury. A banquet fit for a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Yes but all perfectly natural. Some bacteria eat As, Pb and Hg.https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ectrometry

Do you want to deprive these little critters of their sustenance?