Articles by Walter Einenkel

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GOP's next hostage in shutdown: Unemployed Americans

The Trump administration is now threatening to attack unemployment benefits amid the GOP’s government shutdown. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer broke the news during a press conference on Tuesday. “As far as the Department of Labor goes, as was mentioned when we're talking about the SNAP program, one of the other programs that we're definitely concerned about—and we've sent letters out to all 50 states—is unemployment insurance as is delivered by those states,” she said. “That will be the next thing that we have to be concerned about,” Chavez-DeRemer added. “If people stop receiving their unemployment insurance, [it] will be another detrimental fact to the American workforce.”

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Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as criminals

President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan appeared on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday, where he admitted that his Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons are invading communities and targeting undocumented immigrants regardless of criminal history. “When we go into the community and find that bad guy,” Homan said. “Many times they’re with others. Others are in the country illegally but may not have a criminal history—but guess what? They're coming too. ICE is no longer going to turn a blind eye to illegal aliens in this country.” Homan’s remarks come just days after Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that ICE’s immigration crackdowns “haven’t gone far enough,” and claimed that the raids were primarily targeting “criminals” and “murderers.” It appears that the administration is no longer pretending that its racial-profiling, gestapo-style tactics are solely in the service of detaining dangerous criminals.