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Dihq Commentary: Welcome to McCarthyism 2.0
Officials in Texas on Monday designated a Venezu stanley cups uk elan gang called the Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist group and endorsed former President Donald Trump s baseless claim that many migrants crossing into the United States were released from prisons in Latin America. The Tren de Aragua is an international criminal organization that operates in stanley mug several Latin American countries and engages in extortion, homicide, drug trafficking and smuggling of people, authorities say. Because of a political and economic crisis in Venezuela, many people from that country are allowed to enter the United States and apply for asylum. But Texas s top border official, Mike Banks, argued that Venezuela has released prisoners with one condition: you leave Venezuela and don t come back. He said the administration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is encouraging such people to come to the United States with what Banks called an open border policy. Harris is running against Trump in November s presidential election.Immigration advocates present a very different picture, asserting that the Biden administration has harshly cracked down on the border with undue restrictions on people wishing to cross and seek asylum. Appearing at the same news conference as Banks, Gov. Greg Abbott formally declared Tren de Aragua a fore stanley cup ign terrorist organization. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in undated photo. Spgm Obama s Balancing Act On Free Trade
Getty Images CBS News Even as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., admonished as sinister her accusations linking Huma Abedin - longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - t stanley cup o Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said Wednesda stanley quencher y she will not be silent as this administration appeases our enemies instead of telling the truth about the threats our country faces. Letters signed last week by Bachmann and four other Republican members of Congress questioning the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical groups access to top Obama administration officials, Bachmann said Wednesday, are unfortunately being distorted. The tea party firebrand and onetime presidential hopeful included in the letters a critique of Abedin s high-profile position considering her family members ties to Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood. The Department s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members - her late father, her mother and her brother - connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and /or organizations, Bachmann wrote in the letter, which was sent to State Department De stanley fr puty Inspector General Harold Geisel, among others. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making. Abedin is also the wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., and Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., joined B
Officials in Texas on Monday designated a Venezu stanley cups uk elan gang called the Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist group and endorsed former President Donald Trump s baseless claim that many migrants crossing into the United States were released from prisons in Latin America. The Tren de Aragua is an international criminal organization that operates in stanley mug several Latin American countries and engages in extortion, homicide, drug trafficking and smuggling of people, authorities say. Because of a political and economic crisis in Venezuela, many people from that country are allowed to enter the United States and apply for asylum. But Texas s top border official, Mike Banks, argued that Venezuela has released prisoners with one condition: you leave Venezuela and don t come back. He said the administration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is encouraging such people to come to the United States with what Banks called an open border policy. Harris is running against Trump in November s presidential election.Immigration advocates present a very different picture, asserting that the Biden administration has harshly cracked down on the border with undue restrictions on people wishing to cross and seek asylum. Appearing at the same news conference as Banks, Gov. Greg Abbott formally declared Tren de Aragua a fore stanley cup ign terrorist organization. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in undated photo. Spgm Obama s Balancing Act On Free Trade
Getty Images CBS News Even as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., admonished as sinister her accusations linking Huma Abedin - longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - t stanley cup o Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said Wednesda stanley quencher y she will not be silent as this administration appeases our enemies instead of telling the truth about the threats our country faces. Letters signed last week by Bachmann and four other Republican members of Congress questioning the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical groups access to top Obama administration officials, Bachmann said Wednesday, are unfortunately being distorted. The tea party firebrand and onetime presidential hopeful included in the letters a critique of Abedin s high-profile position considering her family members ties to Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood. The Department s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members - her late father, her mother and her brother - connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and /or organizations, Bachmann wrote in the letter, which was sent to State Department De stanley fr puty Inspector General Harold Geisel, among others. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making. Abedin is also the wife of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., and Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., joined B
