Thursday, December 19, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Remain in Mexico Demonstrates Lack of Legit Asylum Claims
A fraction of the asylum seekers required to wait in Mexico have qualified for protected status in the U.S. under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols program. Migrant Protection Protocols, a program popularly known as “Remain in Mexico,” requires tens of thousands of asylum seekers to wait south of the border while their claims are processed in the U.S. court system. Many of them wait in hopes of entering the interior of the country; however, the overwhelming majority of them don’t meet the standards, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday.
There were more 47,000 individuals in the Remain in Mexico program as of September, according to data the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University compiled. Less than 10,000 of those people did not yet complete their case. Of those individuals: 5,085 cases were denied and 4,471 cases were discharged with no verdict given, the Union-Tribune reported. This left 11 cases — or 0.1% of all the completed cases — where the U.S. government found claims of asylum to be legitimate.
Launched in January by the Trump administration, Remain in Mexico mandates non-Mexican nationals who lodge asylum claims with the U.S. government to wait in Mexico until an immigration judge adjudicates their claims. The program is intended to weed out fraud, with the idea that those filing frivolous claims are not going to wait months on end at the border before hearing a decision.
Migrant Protection Protocols has done a considerable job at managing the flow of illegal aliens who attempt to illegally cross into the U.S., with the Trump administration expanding the program across the southern border throughout the year.
"The same people are deciding these cases as all of the other cases in our immigration system. So it would seem that our concerns about people coming to the southern border with what amount to fraudulent or baseless claims, was largely true." current Acting Deputy Director of DHS Ken Cuccinelli stated in...
'He's lost his mind': Trey Gowdy rips Comey for FBI mismanagement
Appearing on Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum on Tuesday, Gowdy, now a Fox News contributor, was played a clip from Comey’s Sunday interview with Chris Wallace.
Comey addressed whether Attorney General William Barr had any credence in speculating that there were bad-faith actions during the investigation.
“[Barr] does not have a factual basis as the attorney general of the United States to be speculating that agents acted in bad faith. The facts just aren’t there. Full stop. That doesn’t make it any less consequential, any less important, but that’s an irresponsible statement,” Comey said.
Gowdy responded to the clip by proclaiming that Comey has “lost his mind.”
“How many of these ‘close calls’ went in favor of President Trump?” Gowdy asked. “When they changed the email, was it to help Trump or hurt him? When they put the dossier material in, was it to help Trump or hurt him? When they put the DNC-funded Fusion GPS research material, was that to help Trump or to hurt him?
“Everything that happened was done to hurt Donald Trump. Look, this is the same Jim Comey who thought it was nonsense that we were looking into it, now he’s had a mea culpa,” Gowdy added.
FISA Chief Judge Blasts FBI for Submitting Intentionally False Info on Carter Page
The chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued a strong rebuke of the FBI’s handling of Carter Page’s surveillance application process and has given the bureau a January 10 deadline to come up with solutions, according to Fox News.
The rare public order from presiding judge Rosemary M. Collyer states, “This order responds to reports that personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI’s case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U. S. citizen named Carter W. Page,” Collyer wrote.
The order continues, “The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the [Office of Inspector General] report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above. The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.”
The special order comes days after the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report which uncovered 17 “significant errors or omissions” in the FBI’s FISA applications for...
Migrant sneaks into Swiss home to rape owner
A migrant entered a single woman's apartment on the night of Sunday to Monday. He tried to assault her sexually. The events took place in Holderbank, in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland.
HOLDERBANK-While she was sleeping peacefully in her bed, a woman woke up to realize with fright that her nightmare was very real. When she opened her eyes, she saw that a man was lying on her, his hands pressed against her nose and mouth and he was trying to rape her.
In shock, the victim nevertheless managed to free herself from the hands of her attacker. She ran from left her apartment to ring the doorbell at a neighbour’s house. Her attacker chased after her and the man gave her a violent blow to the face, breaking her nose in passing, before fleeing into the night.
The victim took refuge in the house of her neighbor, and she contacted the police at around 3:00 am.
Several officers were dispatched to the scene, where they tracked down the alleged assailant, hiding in a bush. He is a 28-year-old Algerian asylum seeker, who, according to the first elements of the investigation, broke into his victim’s house, who was alone at the time of the facts.
He had opened the door which was not locked. He was probably under the influence of...
Latvian government says it flagged ‘suspicious’ Hunter Biden payments in 2016
As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “ suspicious” financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev’s help investigating, according to documents and interviews.
The Feb. 18, 2016 alert to Ukraine came from the Latvian prosecutorial agency responsible for investigating money laundering, and it specifically questioned whether Vice President Joe Biden’s younger son and three other officials at Burisma Holdings were the potential beneficiaries of suspect funds.
“The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived from Criminal Activity … is currently investigating suspicious activity of Burisma Holdings Limited,” the Latvian agency also known as the FIU wrote Ukraine’s financial authorities.
The memo was released to me by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office and confirmed by the Latvian embassy to the United States.
Latvian authorities said they did not get any incriminating information back from Ukraine to warrant further investigation and did not take additional action in 2016.
But the memo adds to the mounting evidence that there was ongoing investigative activity surrounding Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden’s compensation as a board member in the weeks just before Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor overseeing the Burisma investigation in...
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