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Exclusive: Thousands of agents diverted to Trump immigration crackdown​



“ Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally.

Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized to work.

Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.

As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport “millions and millions” of “criminal aliens,” thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud.

… U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an interview with Reuters, denied the changes across federal law enforcement were hindering other important criminal investigations.

“I completely reject the idea that because we’re prioritizing immigration that we are not simultaneously full-force going after violent crime.”

He said the crackdown was warranted. “President Trump views what has happened over the last couple years truly as an invasion, so that’s how we’re trying to remedy that.” …”
 

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million​

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
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“… When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with university trustees and later publicly castigated the university president as “a dummy” and “a total moron.”

That drama dates back 25 years.

… Some former university officials are quietly wondering whether the ultimately unsuccessful property transaction sowed the seeds of Mr. Trump’s current focus on Columbia. His administration has demanded that the university turn over vast control of its policies and even curricular decisions in its effort to quell antisemitism on campus. It has also canceled federal grants and contracts at Columbia — valued at $400 million.

… In the previous dispute, Lee C. Bollinger, the former president of Columbia who eventually opted not to pursue the property owned by Mr. Trump, chose instead to expand the Columbia campus on land adjacent to the university. “I wanted for Columbia a much more ambitious project than the Trump property would permit, and one that would fit with the surrounding properties, that would blend in with the Morningside campus and the Harlem community,” he said in an interview.

… But in negotiations, he [Trump] frequently changed his demands, even as reports would appear in Mr. Trump’s favored tabloid, The New York Post, claiming that Columbia was close to buying it.

In private, he tossed around numerous prices, topping out at $400 million, according to a Columbia official from that era, a figure that an anonymous source leaked to The Post a few times.

No matter the amount, Mr. Trump said to Columbia officials, the university would be getting such a great deal that it should also rename its business school the Donald J. Trump School of Business.

An administrator rebuffed Mr. Trump’s request. The university does rename buildings, the person told him, noting that its engineering school had been recently named for a businessman who had donated $26 million. If Mr. Trump wished to make such a gift, the person said, there were other officials at Columbia who would be eager to meet. Mr. Trump did not make a donation. …”
 
Zoo_View said:
Who is this douchebag? I realize I should recognize him; but, I don’t.
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When Vladimir Putin heard Donald Trump had been shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania last year, the Russian president said he went to his local church, met with his priest and prayed, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Friday in an interview with Tucker Carlson.


Putin, according to Witkoff’s conversation with the man, prayed not because Trump was a U.S. presidential candidate at the time, but because he “had a friendship with him, and he was praying for his friend.”

Witkoff said Putin shared the anecdote with him during Witkoff’s second visit to Russia in mid-March, which, he added, got “personal.” Witkoff said Putin gave him a “beautiful portrait” of Trump that Putin had commissioned by a “leading” Russian artist, and asked that Witkoff bring the painting back to the White House.

Trump “was clearly touched by it,” Witkoff said, sharing the story as part of a broader conversation about Russia-Ukraine negotiations. “So this is the kind of connection that we’ve been able to reestablish through, by the way, a simple word called communication.”

… Negotiators for both sides are also preparing to return to Saudi Arabia on Monday for continued talks. Witkoff told Carlson he believed they were close to a broader ceasefire deal.

“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy,” Witkoff told Carlson. “That is a complicated situation, that war and all the ingredients that led up to it,” he continued. Carlson nodded, adding, “yes, amen.”

 
Zoo_View said:
This will drive illegal immigrants increasingly into the hands of unscrupulous employers willing to hire people without documentation who will work for cash for less money per hour.
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That’s already going on. This will just make it worse. It will also deprive the IRS of tax revenue.
 
nycfan said:

Exclusive: Thousands of agents diverted to Trump immigration crackdown​



“ Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally.

Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized to work.

Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.

As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport “millions and millions” of “criminal aliens,” thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud.

… U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an interview with Reuters, denied the changes across federal law enforcement were hindering other important criminal investigations.

“I completely reject the idea that because we’re prioritizing immigration that we are not simultaneously full-force going after violent crime.”

He said the crackdown was warranted. “President Trump views what has happened over the last couple years truly as an invasion, so that’s how we’re trying to remedy that.” …”
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Thank god maga is focused on the societal evils that are taquerias, and have shifted away from persecuting the everyday Americans falsely accused of child sex crimes.
 
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