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From 1996 through 2016, just under half of all aliens who were set free pending a trial date—1.25 million in total—were ordered removed, i.e. deported. Of that number, 952,291 were removed for evading court. Less than a quarter of this same group actually appeared in court. Over the span of more than two decades of court business, nearly two-fifths (37 percent) of those who were let free before their trial ended up fleeing court.

Since 1996, an average of 45,000 migrants each year disappeared, adding to a backlog of unexecuted removal orders that in 2016 numbered 954,000. If predictions are correct, nearly 57,000 people will evade their hearings in 2018 and bring the 23-year failure-to-appear total to 1.05 million—that’s 9.3 percent of the illegal population in the U.S. as measured by a 2017 Pew Research Center study.

It is here that damage to the courts, immigration enforcement, and national security intersect.

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Lies have worked so long for proglodytes that it’s their default setting. A more accurate statement would be ‘We don’t put children in cages, even though Obama did, we put them in Re-education Camps that pretend to be schools.’

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Not Good News.

Yet another reason why I will not fly — I will not subject myself to the Security Theater Gestapo.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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I don’t think that’ll happen.

I’m waiting for somebody to demand that Blumenthal recuse himself from any Senate vote concerning money.

Brought to you by the Federal Reserve System, inflating your money for over a hundred years now.

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has announced steps it will take to continue decreasing the percentage of white students on campus.

The school’s white student population fell from 63 percent to under 55 percent from 2017 to 2011, but the administration says there “is still much work to do,” according to The College Fix.

Cal Poly SLO wants the school’s proportion of white students to come closer to parity with the state’s percentage, which sits at 39.7 percent.

They have to be careful not to fall the magic number of white students that causes schools to be good rather than failing.

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Send your kid ot a government school,
And he will grow up a fool;
That’s they way things are today:
Your tax bucks at work and play!

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Every time I see Trey Gowdy I think ‘There are aliens among us, and they have been elected to Congress.’

Which really explains a lot, if you think about it.

Seriously, people who indulge in eccentricities of dress or grooming are afflicted with a serious case of Second-Hander Disease (thank you, Ayn Rand). Their whole existence depends far too much on what other people think of them, and have not enough comfort with their own selves. Whenever I see somebody with tattoos or piercings or strange hair colors not found in nature, my brain supplies a chyron that shouts ‘Look at me! Look At Me! LOOK AT ME! I’m a somebody, not a nobody! LOOK AT ME!’. I avoid such people as if they were toxic waste dumps, which psychologically they are.

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The old system is the standard way the government does things and is the primary reason whyy we can’t have nice things.

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Really, it always has been. Dallas has ‘HOV” (high occupancy vehicle) lanes but the requirement starts at two people — that’s ‘high occupancy’? — which makes no sense until you realize that (a) me and my driver can use the lanes while (b) Joe Sixpack heading to a job site in his F150 cannot. Then it becomes clear.

Most rail transit systems are based on the premise that the jobs are Downtown and the people leave out some ways in the suburbs, but nobody puts their offices Downtown any more — except major corporations who have always been there and those companies who want that Downtown address for prestige.

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Of course. If parents knew what teachers were up to in government schools these days, homeschooling would blossom.

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You can’t say that Chuck Schumer doesn’t have a sense of humor.

I’ll bet Trump laughed so hard he stopped breathing.

I understand that Senator McConnell, in response, tweeting a video of Michael Jordan laughing until he cried.

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When President Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, he also pulled us out of paying any additional money to the so-called “Green Climate Fund” (GCF). Sorry, no more green for the greenies’ fund. This is the fund which has been given $7.2 billion dollars of taxpayer money from a variety of countries. It is the fund that countries around the world have been pushing hard to get their hands on. It is also the fund that was supposed to be given $100 billion, so they could parcel it out for corrupt third world politicians and greedy UN rent-seekers to swim around in for decades … dream on.

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NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection has tried to protect other worlds from us and us from other worlds since the Cold War. But the future wants a better way.

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This is in accord with the new Crazy Latina Demagogue Party Congressional candidate from Queens: Free government jobs for everyone!

John Hinderaker turns over a rock.

Justice Sotomayor wrote the dissent that Democrats were hoping for. It is a fiery denunciation of President Trump, but one that includes little material relevant to the case. She quotes, at great length, statements that candidate Donald Trump made during the campaign about wanting to restrict all Islamic immigration. One problem, of course, is that the order at issue doesn’t bar all Islamic immigration–it affects only a tiny percentage of it. The fact (if it is a fact) that Trump would have preferred to issue a different order, obviously can’t make the order he did issue unconstitutional.

Justice Sotomayor and Justice Ginsberg, who joined in her dissent, do not shy away from the conclusion that if another president had issued the same order, it would have been valid and constitutional. It is only Donald Trump who can’t issue this proclamation, on account of various statements he made that the justices interpret as being hostile to Islam. If Hillary Clinton had issued the same order, it would have been fine.

I therefore see the Sotomayor opinion (and the Breyer opinion, too, although it is more circumspect) as political, not legal, documents. They reflect the Democratic Party’s continuing refusal to accept the result of the 2016 election. In their view, Donald Trump isn’t really our president: he doesn’t have the powers that any other president would have.

So we have two Justices of the Supreme Court who would have made a blatantly wrong decision for partisan political purposes. I think that’s grounds for impeachment. But that’s me, and I have more testosterone in my hangnail than the whole Republican Congressional delegation.

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Republican legislators grow a spine. When did that happen?

UPDATE: MSNBC Contributors Awkwardly Defend Maxine Waters’s Call for Harassment

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Hint: Quite possibly.

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This is not making me like John McCain very much.

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This is progress.

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From 1996 through 2016, just under half of all aliens who were set free pending a trial date—1.25 million in total—were ordered removed, i.e. deported. Of that number, 952,291 were removed for evading court. Less than a quarter of this same group actually appeared in court. Over the span of more than two decades of court business, nearly two-fifths (37 percent) of those who were let free before their trial ended up fleeing court.

Since 1996, an average of 45,000 migrants each year disappeared, adding to a backlog of unexecuted removal orders that in 2016 numbered 954,000. If predictions are correct, nearly 57,000 people will evade their hearings in 2018 and bring the 23-year failure-to-appear total to 1.05 million—that’s 9.3 percent of the illegal population in the U.S. as measured by a 2017 Pew Research Center study.

It is here that damage to the courts, immigration enforcement, and national security intersect.

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I certainly hope they make him pay back the cost of his taxpayer-funded education, but I’m not holding my breath.

Ace of Spades turns over a rock and some really ugly stuff crawls out.

I’m waiting for somebody to be fired or go to jail.

Not holding my breath, however.

John Hinderaker reads it so you don’t have to.

Evidently many FBI employees at senior levels (as reflected in Attachments G and H) were working hand-in-glove with Democratic Party reporters. It isn’t hard to deduce the purpose of these constant communications.

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The IG’s report exposes a corrupt and politicized FBI and Department of Justice. And so far, we are seeing only half of the story, at most. No one has yet looked into the Democrats’ “Russia” tale or any partisan corruption linked to Bob Mueller’s farcical “investigation.” Given DOJ’s bitter refusal to cooperate with the Congressional committees that have constitutional oversight responsibilities over that Department–has anyone tried to justify DOJ’s stonewalling? If so, I haven’t seen it–we can assume that the damning documents that have been produced so far are only the beginning. Most likely, they provide only an inkling of the information the Justice Department, apparently still dominated by Obama holdovers, is withholding from Congress, or perhaps has already destroyed.

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This illustrates one of the problems with the attitude that the government must regulate all areas of human activity otherwise WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Just watch any news program and one of the worst things people can say (watch their body language) about some activity is that it’s ‘unregulated’, as if ‘unregulated’ means rabid dogs wandering the street and zombies coming after you.

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What do you think that the chances of a government-funded quango would find the opposite? Less than zero, I suspect.

A better term than ‘landmark’ would be ‘midden’.

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Look for … the Union label….

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Ordinarily I don’t like treatments of The News As Parable  — just report the damned news! — but this analysis piece sums up the comic nature of the current ‘Russia! Russia!’ investigation very nicely.

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Needless to say, a Democrat.

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I guess he didn’t get the memo that she was black.

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And past time, too.

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All of the flaws and none of the benefits of government-provider systems like Britain’s NHS.

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Apparently the road to Obamaland is not as smooth as one might think.

On May 14, a preservationist group called Protect Our Parks filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, seeking a court order that would bar local government agencies from building Obama’s center in the revered and beautiful Jackson Park, which served as the site of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The group also wants to bar the city from giving control of the center’s site to the Obama Foundation. They are opposed by a phalanx of avid Obama supporters headed by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and including local labor unions, businesses, newspaper editorial boards, and a range of do-gooders who have uncritically embraced Obama’s library plans.

Imagine if Republicans had concocted a scheme to sell public land for a song to build a Donald Trump presidential library. Protect Our Parks argues that this is what the city of Chicago has done with Obama’s library, asserting that the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago don’t have the authority to transfer public parkland to a nongovernmental entity such as the Obama Foundation, especially for a nominal amount of money and in violation of state law that bars the “illegal taking of public park land.” The suit claims the sale is “a short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab.”

Sounds like Obama to me.

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Rustem Kazazi, 64, was headed to his native Albania to visit relatives in October, according to a federal lawsuit that he, his wife, Lejla, and son, Erald, filed this week in Ohio against the agency and others.

The suit alleges Customs and Border Protection used civil forfeiture laws to take the money without arresting or charging anyone with a crime.

As they far too often do.

Customs agents “interrogated him without a translator, and then seized his family’s life savings without charging anyone with a crime,” according to the Institute for Justice, whose attorney, Wesley Hottot, is representing the Kazazi family in the lawsuit.

The Institute for Justice does great work, certainly much more so than the ACLU.

In December, Customs and Border Protection sent Kazazi a notice saying agents had seized the cash because it was “involved in a smuggling/drug trafficking/money laundering operation,” according to the lawsuit. The agency also said $57,330 was seized, or $770 less than Kazazi was carrying, the suit said.

Your tax dollars at work.

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I was thinking ‘claymore mines’ but I guess this will have to do.

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McAuliffe no doubt thinks that’s a feature, not a bug.

Democrats: Party of Criminals.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care system! Don’t you wish we had one like that over here?

We could have the Post Office run it. It’s not as if they’re doing anything these days.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his first year in office.

Bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first year in office.

Bear that in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of a Managerial State is when the elected officials who are supposed to be running things are kept in the dark by the bureaucrats below.

Of course, considering how Clapper lies, this may or may not be true. Considering how Obama lies, we may never know.

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They’re going to start losing a lot of the students that they depend on for their Federal money.

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The school is obviously run by stupid people. Parents don’t want stupid people teaching their kids.

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And about time, too. It’s about time for some major sanctions on Mexico and Haiti.

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Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), responsible for overseeing union elections and enforcing labor laws, changed rules governing the process of unionizing the workforce. The changes expedited the election process, cutting down the time business management is notified about an election to when voting begins, from 38 days to 23.

Obama’s “ambush ruling” has appeared to prop up the union success rate in winning elections. Overall, unions are back to winning about 69 percent of elections, which is on par for unions’ historic win rate. Unions usually win elections because they put off petitioning for a vote until they are reasonably sure they can win.

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You can’t be a corrupt Democrat politician without nepotism.

I wonder whether her daughter is afflicted with BitterBeerFace as well?

The Other McCain sums up what we know so far.

Here’s the thing: FBI officials didn’t expect Hillary to lose. As we know, text messages between two high-ranking FBI officials discussed an “insurance policy” to prevent Trump from becoming president. Because they expected Hillary to win, they also expected to be able to prevent this taxpayer-funded espionage from becoming public knowledge.

And then Trump won.

Democrat operatives — in the Clinton campaign, in the Obama administration, in the federal bureaucracy, and in the media — panicked at the thought of what the newly-elected president might do (e.g., expose the corruption at the Justice Department) used information from the Steele dossier as a pretext for the Mueller “investigation.” Yet there was never any actual “Russian collusion” to investigate, and the purpose of appointing a special counsel was . . . what? To create a phony “scandal”? To undermine the legitimacy of the new administration? To cover up wrongdoing by the Obama administration and the FBI?

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The Social Security Administration improperly disbursed an estimated $571 million in disability benefits to people who had already returned to work, according to a government audit report.

Of the half a billion estimated overpayments, nearly $201 million of the improperly disbursed benefits checks were due to the administration’s slow processing, and the almost $371 million was the fault of the beneficiaries who didn’t complete paperwork on time, the Office of the Inspector General (IG) wrote in a report released Tuesday.

This is why you don’t want the government in charge of our health care. Whenever you read an article in the Proglodyte Press about how broken our health care system is, if you read it you find out that the reason it’s broken is because the government is so heavily involved. Whenever you read an article in the Proglodyte Press about how expensive drugs are in the U.S. compared to some cherry-picked overseas nation, they never mention the fact that it’s primarily due to the barriers the FDA puts in the way of medical research, barriers that can only be climbed by traversing a mountain of cash, which cash has to be recovered somehow in order to remain in business.

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Can you spell D-I-S-N-E-Y? I’m sure you can.

He who has the gold makes the rules.