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At the time of this post, this is breaking news. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned. There are no reports yet or statements from her as to why she has resigned.

She is one of the very few Trump appointees I'm sorry to see go. She has been one of the very few reasonable people to serve in the Trump administration.

I shudder to think who Trump will come up with to replace her. Just think about who the worst possible choice might be and chances are very good that you will be right.
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"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
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Ready for who Trump wants as Nikki Haley's replacement?

Mr. Trump, why not just declare yourself King, or better still a god, and be done with it?
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Trump says Ivanka would be "dynamite" as U.N. ambassador, but fears "nepotism" accusations

By Kathryn Watson, CBS News

October 9, 2018

President Trump said his daughter and top aide Ivanka Trump would be a "dynamite" pick to replace outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, but fears people would accuse him of nepotism.

"I've heard Ivanka. How good would Ivanka be?" Mr. Trump told reporters Tuesday on the White House South Lawn, hours after Haley announced she will leave her post at the end of the year. "The people that know it's nothing to do with nepotism, but I want to tell you the people that know, know that Ivanka would be dynamite. But uh, you know I'd then be accused of nepotism, if you can believe it, right?"

The president, asked if former deputy national security adviser Dina Powell is a possible replacement for Haley, said Powell is "under consideration."

"Dina's certainly a person I would consider, and she is under consideration," the president said.

Mr. Trump, seated alongside Haley in the Oval Office Tuesday morning, said he expected to select a replacement for Haley "within the next two or three weeks." The president said numerous people are under consideration, and want the job.

The announcement of Haley's impending departure came as a surprise to many in Washington, and even top officials in Mr. Trump's national security apparatus. Multiple sources told CBS News' Fin Gomez and CBS News' Kylie Atwood that both national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were unaware that she was leaving.

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Trump will never appoint Ivanka. I reckon that was merely red meat for the base and it's nothing to do with nepotism. Ivanka would need to go through the Senate confirmation process and that would open up all manner of questions about finances, questions Trump will avoid at all costs.
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Just when I thought the Trump administration couldn't sink any lower . . .
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Trump administration weighs new family-separation effort at border

By Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey and Maria Sacchetti

October 12, 2018

The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States, according to several administration officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

One option under consideration is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice — stay in family detention with their child for months or years as their immigration case proceeds, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody.

That option — called “binary choice” — is one of several under consideration amid the president’s frustration over border security. Trump has been unable to fulfill key promises to build a border wall and end what he calls “catch and release,” a process that began under past administrations in which most detained families are quickly freed to await immigration hearings. The number of migrant family members arrested and charged with illegally crossing the border jumped 38 percent in August and is now at a record level, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.

Senior administration officials say they are not planning to revive the chaotic forced separations carried out by the Trump administration in May and June that spawned an enormous political backlash and led to a court order to reunite families.

But they feel compelled to do something, and officials say senior White House adviser Stephen Miller is advocating for tougher measures because he believes the springtime separations worked as an effective deterrent to illegal crossings.

At least 2,500 children were taken from their parents over a period of six weeks. Crossings by families declined slightly in May, June and July before surging again in August. September numbers are expected to be even higher.

While some inside the White House and DHS are concerned about the “optics” and political blowback of renewed separations, Miller and others are determined to act, according to officials briefed on the deliberations. There have been several high-level meetings in the White House in recent weeks about the issue. The “binary choice” option is seen as one that could be tried out fairly quickly.

“Career law enforcement professionals in the U.S. government are working to analyze and evaluate options that would protect the American people, prevent the horrific actions of child smuggling, and stop drug cartels from pouring into our communities,” deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in an emailed statement.

Any effort to expand family detentions and resume separations would face multiple logistical and legal hurdles.

It would require overcoming the communication and data management failures that plagued the first effort, when Border Patrol agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and Department of Health and Human Services caseworkers struggled to keep track of separated parents and children.

The Trump administration believes it is on solid legal ground, according to two officials, in part because U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, who ordered the government to reunite separated families in June, approved the binary-choice approach in one of his rulings. But a Congressional Research Service report last month said “practical and legal barriers” remain to using that approach in the future and said releasing families together in the United States is “the only clearly viable option under current law.”

Administration officials said the CRS report cited earlier legal rulings. But the American Civil Liberties Union, which launched the separations lawsuit, disputed that interpretation and said it would oppose any attempt at expanded family detentions or separations.

“The government need not, and legally may not, indiscriminately detain families who present no flight risk or danger,” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said in an email. “It is deeply troubling that this Administration continues to look for ways to cause harm to small children.”

Another hurdle is that the government does not have detention space for a large number of additional families. ICE has three “family residential centers” with a combined capacity of roughly 3,000 parents and children. With more than four times that many arriving each month, it is unclear where the government would hold all the parents who would opt to remain with their children.

But Trump said in his June 20 executive order halting family separations that the administration’s policy is to keep parents and children together, “including by detaining” them. In recent weeks, federal officials have taken steps to expand their ability to do that.

In addition to considering “binary choice” and other options, officials have proposed new rules that would allow them to withdraw from a 1997 federal court agreement that bars ICE from keeping children in custody for more than 20 days.

The rules would give ICE greater flexibility to expand family detention centers and potentially hold parents and children longer, though lawyers say this would be likely to end up in court.

Officials have also imposed production quotas on immigration judges and are searching for more ways to speed up the calendar in its courts to adjudicate cases more quickly.

Federal officials arguing for the tougher measures say the rising number of family crossings is a sign of asylum fraud. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has blasted smugglers for charging migrants thousands of dollars to ferry them into the United States, knowing that “legal loopholes” will force the administration to release them pending a court hearing. Federal officials say released families are rarely deported.

Advocates for immigrants counter that asylum seekers are fleeing violence and acute poverty, mainly in Central America, and deserve to have a full hearing before an immigration judge.

“There is currently a crisis at our southern border,” DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement, adding, “DHS will continue to enforce the law humanely, and will continue to examine a range of options to secure our nation’s borders.”

In southern Arizona, so many families have crossed in the past 10 days that the government has been releasing them en masse to shelters and charities. A lack of available bus tickets has stranded hundreds of parents and children in Tucson, where they sleep on Red Cross cots in a church gymnasium.

At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) told Nielsen that migrants were “flooding into the community” and that authorities there had “no ability to do anything about it.”

Nielsen said lawmakers needs to give DHS more latitude to hold families with children in detention until their cases can be fully adjudicated — a process that can take months or years because of huge court backlogs.

DHS officials have seen the biggest increase this year in families arriving from Guatemala, where smugglers called “coyotes” tell migrants they can avoid detention and deportation by bringing a child, according to some community leaders in that country.

On Friday, Nielsen called for a regional effort to combat smuggling and violence in the region and to “heighten our penalties for traffickers.”

“I think there’s more that we can do to hold them responsible, particularly those who traffic in children,” she said in a speech in Washington at the second Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America.

More than 90,000 adults with children were caught at the southwest border in the first 11 months of fiscal 2018. The previous high for a single year was 77,600 in 2016.

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I had a very difficult time watching the Stahl-Trump interview and listening to Trump's utter shit without vomiting.

I thought now, as a break, I would post about someone quadrillions of times more palatable, and quadrillions of times more qualified, than Trump can ever hope to be:

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What it means for the Trump administration to legally define 'sex'

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN

October 24, 2018

(CNN) - The transgender community is on high alert after a leaked memo suggested the Trump administration wants to create a legal definition of sex as "a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth," according to The New York Times.

During the Obama administration, Congress and federal agencies came down on the side of civil rights for transgender and gender-nonconforming people, building on years of court decisions. This proposal seeks to undermine those protections.

Full story and video: https://us.cnn.com/2018/10/24/politics/ ... index.html
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