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Homeland Security says Trump orders on ‘extreme vetting’ still in effect

January 29, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

President Trump with Mike Pence far right with White House Staff signing executive orders on Saturday (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON DC- (Stephen Dinan – Washington Times – Click to read the full story – Here is an excerpt) – The Trump administration said Sunday it will continue to enforce the president’s new “extreme vetting” executive order, showing a defiant stance in the face of a federal judge’s order forbidding the government from kicking out anyone who manages to reach U.S. soil. & “It is the right and duty of the president to do everything in his legal and constitutional power to protect the American people,” the White House said in a statement. “Saturday’s ruling does not undercut the president’s executive order. All stopped visas will remain stopped. All halted admissions will remain halted. All restricted travel will remain prohibited.” & Homeland Security issued its own statement early Sunday saying it’s following through on the executive order, which President Trump signed Friday afternoon, and which halts admissions from seven countries with a history of terrorism and pauses refugee admissions.

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Netanyahu backs U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem though signals no urgency

January 29, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

A man takes a picture of a giant banner on a building congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in Jerusalem, January 20, 2017 REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

JERUSALEM – (Jeffery Heller -Reuters News Service – Click on the link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt.) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support on Sunday for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem but mentioned no time frame, after a Republican activist accused Israel of pressing the Trump administration to delay the pledged step. In an interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Marc Zell, head of the Republicans Overseas Israel branch, said new U.S. President Donald Trump was “proceeding cautiously because of concerns raised by Israeli officials”. Trump’s team spoke often during the presidential campaign about shifting the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s self-proclaimed capital and a holy city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…..

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Republican gains boost morale for March for Life

January 27, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

Pro-life activists at a pre-march rally in Washington DC. (AP photo)

WASHINGTON DC – (Bradford Richardson Washington Times. Click on link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt) Hundreds of thousands of students, activists and congregants will take to the streets of the nation’s capital Friday, as the March for Life, no longer mired in the shadow of a pro-choice president, renews its fight to eradicate the practice of abortion. & With President Trump in office and pro-life policy already churning out of a Republican-controlled Congress, the pro-life movement is perhaps as close as it has ever come to accomplishing some of its biggest goals, including a federal ban on abortions after the unborn can feel pain, defunding Planned Parenthood and appointing a pro-life majority to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump argument bolstered: Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds

January 27, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who in this study received 81% of the voting illegal immigrants. (Evan Vucci -AP Photo)

NORFOLK VA -(Rowan Scarborough The Washington Times Please click on link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt.) Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. & Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen voting, and this week he posted a blog in response to Mr. Trump’s assertion.

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Eldorado man part of Trump administration

January 26, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

David Blair -Taken from his LinkedIn account when he worked in the Trump Campaign

WASHINGTON DC – (Harrisburg Daily Register- Travis DeNeal….Please click to read the full story- Here is an excerpt) A former Eldorado man now works for the top office in the country, after being sworn in as a member of the Trump administration. & David Blair, a 2009 graduate of Eldorado High School, Southeastern Illinois College (2011) and Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2013), currently resides in Arlington, Va. & On Friday, Blair was sworn in as a confidential assistant in the office of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. & Prior to his appointment, he served as youth leadership school director for the Leadership Institute in Arlington. & He also was a regional field coordinator and a field representative at the institute. Prior to that he was national director of Youth For Trump in New York.

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Trump creates name-and-shame list to embarrass sanctuary cities

January 26, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump, followed by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, waves as he steps off stage after speaking at the Homeland Security Department in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON DC – (Stephen Dinan, Washington Times Please click to read the entire story, and the rapid fire events that are happening in the new administration.) President Trump on Wednesday ordered the Homeland Security Department to begin releasing a name-and-shame list of sanctuary cities, listing the specific crimes such as murder or robbery committed by those who have been released back into their communities under the sanctuary policies. & Border Patrol and interior enforcement agents have been unshackled from the limits imposed by former President Barack Obama, as Mr. Trump said he wants to see them doing the jobs they were hired for. & He said he wants to enlist those local police and sheriff’s offices that are eager to enforce immigration law, and will punish those that throw up roadblocks — including the new name-and-shame list. & Some 279 cities and counties refused to cooperate on at least some deportations in 2016, accounting for 2,008 immigrants who were shielded, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Trump revives oil pipeline projects, demands U.S. steel used

January 25, 2017 By Jim Muir Leave a Comment

A person walks past smoke from a cooking fire at an encampment during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

WASHINGTON DC (Ben Wolfgang and S.A. Miller -Washington Times please click on the link for the complete story and other stories about the actions of the Trump administration ) President Trump resurrected the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines Tuesday, thrilling labor unions and advocates for domestic energy but outraging environmentalists and American Indians whose fierce protests persuaded the Obama administration to kill both projects. For Mr. Trump, reopening negotiations to build the cross-country pipelines was all about the jobs agenda that has dominated his first days in office. “We’ll see if we can get that pipeline built. A lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs — great construction jobs,” Mr. Trump said when signing the presidential memorandum that revived the proposed Keystone XL project. When completed, the Canada-to-Texas pipeline would carry more than 700,000 barrels of Canadian oil each day to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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