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Mexican airline pledges to reunite immigrant families separated by Trump policy for free
The Mexico-based Volaris Airlines says it will reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy free of charge.
Volaris, also known as Controladora Vuela Cia de Aviacion, said it plans to work with “the authorities of the United States, Mexico and the countries where it operates in Central America” to reunite migrant children who were separated from their families as a result of the controversial immigration policy in a tweet Friday.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/393723-mexican-airline-pledges-to-reunite-immigrant
Support For Trump's Impeachment Is Higher Than His Approval Rating
SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT IS HIGHER THAN HIS APPROVAL RATING, POLL INDICATES
President Donald Trump is a mere 1 percentage point away from former commander in chief Richard Nixon when it comes to the number of Americans who want him impeached, according to a new poll released Friday.
A wide-ranging SRSS poll conducted for CNN touched on a number of topics, including Trump’s handling of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, and whether or not the president should testify before special counsel Robert Mueller.
But the question of impeachment stood out most, especially vis-à-vis the only president who ever resigned: Nixon.
Forty-two percent of those polled answered that Trump “should be impeached,” compared to 51 percent who answered they “don’t feel that way” and 7 percent who registered no opinion.
Five months before Nixon would eventually leave office in disgrace over the Watergate scandal, 43 percent of Americans thought he should be impeached, per a poll from March 1974, CNN reported.
The current poll also reflected a 39 percent approval rating for Trump, his lowest mark in the SRSS poll since February, when it was 35 percent. Results from March and May were far stronger, at 42 and 41 percent, respectively.
MORE:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-approval-rating-991900
Fearing bad PR-WH & EPA tried to suppress "Unsafe drinking water at 126 military bases in US"
Fearing bad PR, the White House and EPA tried to suppress a report that American troops and their families were potentially drinking unsafe drinking water at 126 military bases throughout the U.S.
The Military Drinking-Water Crisis the White House Tried to Hide
A new, previously suppressed report has grave implications for service members, veterans, and their families.
By EMILY ATKIN
June 21, 2018
The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized. Political aides to President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt pressured the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry against releasing the results.
Peace Officers“The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge,” an unidentified White House aide wrote, according to Politico. “The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.” The study was not released.
That is, until Wednesday. Amid a media firestorm about the administration’s immigration policy, the ATSDR—a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—quietly published its 852-page review of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, which are “used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefighting foams,” according to ProPublica. “All told, the report offers the most comprehensive gathering of information on the effects of these chemicals today, and suggests they’re far more dangerous than previously thought.”
These chemical compounds pose health risks to millions of Americans. They’re in roughly 1 percent of the nation’s public water supply, according to the EPA; in roughly 1,500 drinking water systems across the country, according to the Environmental Working Group. People who drink from these systems, even if their exposure to PFAS is low, now have a potentially increased risk of cancer; of disruptions in hormones and the immune system; and of complications with fetal development during pregnancy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/149280/military-drinking-water-crisis-white-house-tried-hide
Trump: "Phony Stories of sadness & grief"
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1010146875431948293
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/22/guatemalan-mother-reunites-7-year-old-son-after-separation/724568002/
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/17488458/obama-immigration-policy-family-separation-border
!This mom had her son literally grabbed from her- She sued U.S. govt to get him back -She just won!
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1010152266555420672
June 21: Her day in court
Williams said the hearing was running about 10 minutes late when an attorney from the U.S. Justice Department approached him.
The attorney wanted to talk about releasing Darwin to his mother. The two stepped out.
The attorney for the Justice Department offered to return Darwin in a couple days, Williams said.
Williams said he told the attorney, "If you can do it in a couple days, do it today."
June 21: Undocumented Immigrant children brought from US-Mexico border 2,000 miles to NYC
June 21: Trump executive order sparks questions, confusion as fate of immigrant children in custody unclear
An agreement was brokered. They went back into the courtroom.
Williams told Mejia-Mejia: You're getting your son back today.
The translator changed the words to Spanish.
"She started crying...and then she cried a lot," Williams said.
District Court Judge Paul Friedman took the bench and listened to the attorneys' agreement.
Williams said he told the attorneys he wanted a status report by Friday to be sure the government had reunited Mejia-Mejia with her 7-year-old son.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately return a request for comment.
Finding a flight
They left the courtroom and went straight to a nearby Starbucks where they started looking for flights.
Nothing would get Darwin to D.C. and to his mom that same day.
They found a Southwest flight that would leave Phoenix a little after 6 p.m. and get in at 1:30 a.m.
But Williams said they continued to argue with officials with the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Southwest Key, the company that operates the shelter in Phoenix where Darwin was taken after he was separated from his mother.
Officials wanted Mejia-Mejia's fingerprints. That request came after wanting birth certificates and countless copies of other documents that most migrants don't have.
No, the government arrested her, you have her fingerprints, Donovan said.
Put Darwin on the Southwest flight, he said. No more excuses.
They tracked the plane. The flight was delayed. But the boy was on the plane — his first flight ever.
June 21: Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' border prosecutions led to time served, $10 fees
June 21: Small Texas border city finds itself in spotlight amid immigrant children separations
From the runway, the caseworker sent photos of her boy.
In one photo, Darwin is peeking out the window.
In another, he rests his head against the window, waiting.
A few hours later, the plane was on the ground, and Mejia-Mejia was waiting at the gate, a green-and-white blanket around her shoulders. Her attorney and others stood nearby, video cameras rolling.
After 2 a.m., Darwin stepped into the terminal. His eyes said he was unsure what was happening.
Mejia-Mejia set him in a waiting room chair, and wrapped the blanket around her son.
Then she wrapped her arms around him and sobbed.
“Why did they do this to us?" she said to him in Spanish. "Why did they separate us?”
"I love you son, the only one I have," she said. "Thank God you're with me, my love."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/22/guatemalan-mother-reunites-7-year-old-son-after-separation/724568002/
Fox&Friends: "These aren't our kids...it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas
Fox & Friends host: "These aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): The other thing that I think is the biggest joke that we're not addressing, it wasn't President Trump's idea to have everyone leave from Central and South America in June and well up at the border. Somebody has to deal with this issue. It doesn't matter who the president is. If you don't like his policy, he's also open to your policy rather than just criticizing his. He's trying to send a message to the other countries. This is not the way you do it because this is a country that has rules and laws. The port of entry will be one thing. We can bolster those laws, but we just can't let everybody in that wants to be here.
And these are not -- like it or not, these aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas. These are people from another country and now people are saying that they're more important than people in our country who are paying taxes and who have needs as well.
AINELY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Yeah, well he just wants to make sure we vet who's coming across the border, in case it's MS-13 or drugs.
VIDEO & MORE:
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/22/fox-friends-host-these-arent-our-kids-its-not-trump-doing-people-idaho-or-texas/220515
Trump throws in the towel
@JohnJHarwood
Trump throws in the towel
@realDonaldTrump
Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1010119499494952962
Former Republican Congressional Representative David Jolly Rips Melania
Former Republican Congressional Representative David Jolly, on the 11th Hour last night, made this comment about Melanias’s “ Up Your’s” olive drab rain coat. *
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“I want to revisit the Meliana moment because we’ve touched on it with kid gloves.
This was an unforgivable moment for the First Lady and the First Family.
Not because of what happened in the initial moment where; Wow did she wear this?
And there was intrigue.
And frankly I was one who dismissed this the first time when she was departing.
But to wear it on her return affirmed that she was making a political message.
This was not a fashion statement.
This was a political message when she said “I don’t care.”
And I don’t care personally. as David Jolly, how the White House tries to manipulate this.
She was going to the border where her husband has ripped families apart wearing a jacked that said “I don’t care.”
It is an unforgivable moment for Meliana, as First Lady, but also for President of The United States.
And she does not deserve latitude on this because she has doubled down on it after questions were asked.
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MORE:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/22/1774385/-Former-Republican-Congressional-Representative-David-Jolly-Rips-Melania
VIDEO:
https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/david-jolly-unforgivable-for-melania-trump-to-wear-that-jacket-1261512259560
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