June 19, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where even conservatives are freaking out about how the media says federal officials treat children at the border. The facts aren’t nearly so sensational, Fred Lucas discovers. The hullabaloo seems designed to distract attention from that bombshell inspector general’s report on the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton email scandal. Rachel del Guidice looks at a Senate panel’s initial moves. Plus: David Inserra on faulty immigration reforms, Mike Gonzalez and Joseph Natali on Ivy League discrimination, and Jim Campbell on the real man behind the wedding cake case. It’s Juneteenth, and Jarrett Stepman explains the import.
Ninety percent of apprehended children last year were released to a sponsor who was either a parent or close relative.
Rather than making the right changes on border security, enforcement, and legal immigration reforms, the bill is based on a complex amnesty scheme.
When Union Gen. Gordon Granger steamed into Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, as the newly appointed commander of the District of Texas, one of his first orders of business was to declare all of the state’s slaves free.
“We are going to hold accountable any employee for potential misconduct,” says FBI Director Christopher Wray.
For years, Asian-Americans have been cowed into hiding their race to improve their chances at attending an Ivy League school. Any serious advocate of civil rights should be outraged at such a blatant injustice.
One day when I was with Jack Phillips in his bakery, a woman introduced herself and said: “I’m gay, and I support you. You’re in the right.”
Before Germany’s Angela Merkel opened the borders, there was a conspicuous lack of suicide bombings outside music festivals, of civilians being attacked with an ax on trains, of Christmas market shoppers being run over by trucks.
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