"The reference to an "audit" goes back to President Barack Obama, who issued a memo in April 2009 just a few months after taking office announcing that ICE raids at workplaces would focus less on the employees working the factory floors and picking crops and more on their managers and bosses. The move was widely seen as a reaction to the high-profile raids carried out under President George W. Bush, where agents dressed in tactical gear arrived by truck and helicopter and stormed the manufacturing plants and warehouses of major companies, arresting workers suspected of being in the country illegally by the hundreds."
"It may be early yet to tell which approach the Trump administration is committing to β the high-profile raids of the Bush administration or the audits favored by Obama. But this month's action suggests that both approaches are on the table. "What it seems is that they're doing a hybrid of those two investigations," Hahn says, at least so far as the raids at the 7-Elevens, which were carried out at 98 locations in 17 states. They also seem to indicate that employers, who some believe have long successfully deflected punishment for their hiring practices, are squarely in the crosshairs of immigration enforcement,"
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"In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New Yorkβs premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. With the ruthless attorney as a guide, Trump propelled himself into the cityβs power circles and learned many of the tactics that would inexplicably lead him to the White House years later."
"The requests came from a Virginia-based lawyer working with America Rising, a Republican campaign research group that specializes in helping party candidates and conservative groups find damaging information on political rivals, and which, in this case, was looking for information that could undermine employees who had criticized the E.P.A."
"Now a company affiliated with America Rising, named Definers Public Affairs, has been hired by the E.P.A. to provide βmedia monitoring,β in a move the agency said was intended to keep better track of newspaper and video stories about E.P.A. operations nationwide."
Trump family tried to vote absentee in the NYC mayoral election:
- MELANIA: Didn't follow directions to sign envelope so her vote didn't count
- IVANKA: Sent it on election day, too late
- JARED: Never sent ballot
- DONALD: Got his own b-day wrong by a month
Honestly, voting by absentee is relatively easy to do. Just don't do any mistakes done by the Trump family.
"Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly subpoenaed Trump family financial records from the German financial giant Deutsche Bank, a move that could signal a major new direction for his inquiry."
"Deutsche Bank has so far not accommodated or discussed American requests for information about the Trumps' accounts. The German business newspaper Handelsblatt, which first reported the subpoena, quoted a spokesman saying that the bank cooperates with official investigators but would not discuss individual cases."
"The Justice Department charged Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and a top aide with "conspiracy against the United States," "conspiracy to launder money" and other charges on Monday morning."
"Paul Manafort and his assistant, Rick Gates, turned themselves in to the FBI on Monday morning in response to the first charges in Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in last year's election."
"In 2002, Donald Trump was expected to be a savior for Rancho Palos Verdes. But over the next decade, he brought lawsuits and offended residents. It's a lesson in Trump's management style."