New York Times | How Donald Trump Wins by Losing New York Times It is impossible not to watch: Every day of the Trump administration seemingly brings another plot twist, a new initiative, outlandish attack or bizarre reversal. Not since wartime has news been so riveting and with the president fighting so many ... |
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During the visit, Trump quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who hoped that inferior education would become a thing of the past. He commented that the school was doing a fantastic job and pointed out thateducation at St. Andrew enriches both the mind and the soul.
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Thats a good education, he added.
Trump spoke to a class of about 25 students, asking them what they wanted to do with their lives and where they wanted to go to college.
One student said she hoped to open her own business.
Thats a good idea. Make a lot of money, right? But dont run for politics after, Trump replied.
Trump was joined by Florida Governor Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio, as well as Secretary of Education Betsy Devos. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner also joined the trip.
Ivanka Trump signed one eighth-graders cast:
The president repeated a slogan from his speech to Congress on Tuesday, calling education the civil rights issue of our time.
Betsys going to lead the charge, right? he asked, looking at his choice to lead the Department of Education.
You bet, DeVos answered.
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An executive order signed by Donald Trump last month allows a significantly broader population of immigrants to be picked up for deportation.
As promised, "bad dudes" are getting kicked out of the country, President Donald Trump told manufacturing CEOs at a recent meeting.
"You see whats happening at the border, all of a sudden for the first time, were getting gang members out, were getting drug lords out. Were getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobodys ever seen before," Trump said Feb. 23. "And theyre the bad ones. And its a military operation, because what has been allowed to come into our country when you see gang violence that youve read about like never before, and all of the things, much of that is people that are here illegally. And they are rough, and theyre tough, but theyre not tough like our people. So we are getting them out."
Trumps comments are partially accurate, but he also leaves out details. Well give more context to his comments.
For a start, the military will not be used for deportations, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has clarified. Trump just used the term "military operation," as an adjective, to indicate "its happening with precision," said Trumps press secretary, Sean Spicer.
We also wanted to know how much Trumps policies are different from what happened under the Obama administration. There are some similarities, but there are some key differences, too.
Bad dudes
Trump is known for referring to immigrants convicted of crimes as "bad hombres" and "bad dudes."
At a press conference Feb. 13 with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump said his immigration officers were at work getting criminals out of the country.
"I said at the beginning we are going to get the bad ones -- the really bad ones, we're getting them out. And that's exactly what we're doing," Trump said.
But criminals have been deported before Trump took office. At least 2,000 people deported last fiscal year were suspected or confirmed gang members, according to immigration officials.
The same day as the press conference with Trudeau, Kelly issued a statement saying U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement had conducted a series of targeted enforcement operations the week before in the areas of five major cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio and New York City. Some regional operations were done over the course of two, five or seven days. In total, more than 680 people were arrested. About 75 percent of them had been convicted of crimes that included but were not limited to homicide, drug trafficking and aggravated sexual abuse, Kelly said.
A sample of the arrests, according to ICE:
235 arrested by agents from ICEs Chicago office: 163 had criminal convictions.
161 arrested in the Los Angeles area: 151 had criminal convictions.
51 arrested in the San Antonio area: 23 had criminal convictions.
Data on overall arrests and removals is not yet publicly available.
Kelly said targeted enforcement operations are routine and have been going on for years.
Targeted operations under Obama
An ICE fact sheet also issued Feb. 13, highlighted several past arrests of convicted criminals during "Cross Check" operations.
Among them:
2015: A national 5-day operation that resulted in the arrest of more than 2,059 convicted criminals (58 were known gang members or affiliates, 89 were convicted sex offenders.)
2012: A national 6-day operation that led to the arrest of more than 3,100 people, including 2,834 individuals who had prior criminal convictions (50 were gang members, 149 convicted sex offenders.)
2011: A national 7-day operation were 2,901 individuals were arrested (42 were gang members, 151 were convicted sex offenders.)
More people were arrested in these operations, but they were of larger, national scale. Trumps focused on five regions.
In fiscal year 2016 (Oct. 1, 2015 through Sept. 30, 2016) ICE carried out 240,255 removals (includes people apprehended by ICE in the interior of the country and by border patrol at or between ports of entry). Of that total, 2,057 were suspected or confirmed gang members, according to the agency.
In fiscal 2016, ICE said that 65,332, or 92 percent of people apprehended by ICE officers and removed from the country were convicted criminals.
Randy Capps, director of research of U.S. programs at Migration Policy Institute, said the recent February targeted operations were similar or even smaller in scale to operations done at times during former President Barack Obamas administration.
"So the scale of the operation was not significantly larger than anything weve seen in the recent past," Capps said. "It remains to be seen whether the Trump administration will increase the scale of such operations, and if so by how much."
Without statistics yet on overall ICE arrests and removals, its difficult to tell whether Trump has increased the scale of arrests or removals in other ways, Capps added.
For reference: from fiscal years 2013 to 2016, the percentage of ICE interior removals of individuals with criminal convictions ranged from 82 to 92.
In Februarys operations, the share of those arrested with criminal records was 75 percent.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., claimed the recent targeted operations did not lead to arrests only of criminals and said the enforcement was "not business as usual." We rated that Half True as there were reports of people in violation of immigration laws but without criminal convictions being arrested, though for the most part operations focused on people who committed crimes.
Quick hits
An overview of immigration executive orders signed by Trump and implementation memos issued by the secretary of Homeland Security.
Trumps campaign promise to triple the number of ICE officers is In the Works, he has signed an executive order authorizing it, but hirings still need to happen.
Plans to build a border wall and have Mexico pay for it are still a campaign promise In the Works. An executive order signed by Trump directed its construction, but Mexico has not conceded to footing the bill.
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President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpMerriam-Webster again needles Trump over spelling fumbles Senate Dems request DOJ watchdog probe Sessions recusal Social media users mock Trump for misspelling 'hereby' in multiple tweets MOREs speech at last weeks CPAC meeting was a stirring reiteration of themes deployed throughout his campaign and in his inaugural address. Like a rock star packaging a series of concerts, the President has undertaken an American carnage tour. Everywhere he goes, he takes pains to remind his listeners that the country he now leads is a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.
At the center of the mess that Trump conjures is the problem of violent crime. At CPAC, he again highlighted it and promised to work with the Department of Justice to being (sic) reducing violent crime.
Trumps Chicago would seem to be worse off today than it was during the notorious crime era of the Roaring Twenties. And, listening to the President you would think that Chicago is Americas most dangerous city.
That honor actually goes to Detroit, and a recent study based on crime rates and economic data did not even find Chicago to be one of the "25 Most Dangerous Cities in America.
It turns out that 7 of the 10 Americas most dangerous cities are found in states that Trump won. These are cities like Memphis, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; Birmingham, Alabama; Cleveland, Ohio; and Indianapolis, Indiana. The last should especially draw a wince from Trumps Vice President, Mike PenceMike (Michael) Richard PenceGOP rep: Trump or Mike Pence will be president for next 4 years The Hill's 12:30 Report What Donald Trump learned from Barack Obama MORE, who was Indianas governor from 2013 to 2017.
These are, of course, the kind of inconvenient facts that Donald Trump likes to avoid.
If we think about crime in the country as a whole, there are more inconvenient facts. FBI crime statistics estimated that 1,197,704 violent crimes were committed around the nation in 2015. While that was an increase from 2014 figures, the 2015 violent crime total was 0.7 percent lower than the 2011 level and 16.5 percent below the 2006 level.
The murder rate shows a more dramatic decline: in 2014 there were 4.5 murders for every 100,000 people in the US. That figure has fallen consistently since its high point of 10.2 in 1980. Todays murder rate is lower than it has been since 1950 when it was 4.6 per 100,000 people
But these inconvenient facts make no dent on Trumps current law and order rhetoric which he began ratcheting last July, after the tragic mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas. Accepting the Republican nomination, he pointed out that America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas were brutally executed. An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans. I have a message, he said, to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order our countryIn this race for the White House, I am the Law and Order candidate.
Others have noted how this turn echoes the law and order campaigns of President Richard Nixon. True, but I think Trump also learned an important political lesson from an insight Barack ObamaBarack ObamaLeft wing protests only strengthen the Right Important economic lessons from the Land of the Rising Sun What Donald Trump learned from Barack Obama MORE offered during the 2008 Presidential campaign, when he imprudently noted that older, white men in the United States seemed angry and politically confused, such that they would vote against their own economic best interest.
As Obama put it, You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Sarah Palin made fun of Obamas wording in the 2008 campaign, but it expressed a sentiment that was all too well understood by the Republican candidate in 2016. Donald Trump saw an enormous opportunity to capitalize on those frustrations if he could wrap himself in the flag, patriotism, the Second Amendment, and the rhetoric of law and order.
He has relied on this rhetoric to deliver a coded message about race and to stoke racial fear, while allowing him to deny allegations of racism or that he is responsible for escalating racial and ethnic tensions in the US.
Lest there be any doubt about Trumps intentions, his current message echoes views vividly expressed in an ad he ran in New York newspapers after the arrests of one Latino and four black men (known as the Central Park Five) in the rape and beating of a white jogger in 1989.
The ad was titled BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY, BRING BACK OUR POLICE! It read: Let our politicians give back our police departments power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of police brutality which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save anothers. We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal population of this City. Give New York back to the citizens who have earned the right to be New Yorkers.
How little things have changed for Donald Trump since the 1980s. Once again, it is far easier for the President to praise American law enforcement and to rail against bad dudes and bad hombres than it is to address the real causes of crime and violence in American cities or to restore Americas manufacturing base and improve the economic lives of our workers.
Americans need to come to terms with this shrewd but cynical move. We need to understand the political work that Trumps law and order rhetoric does for him, but also the damage it does to the social fabric of the nation he leads. We must resist its divisive allure and recognize that the most significant threat to law and order in the United States is found not on the streets of Chicago, but in the Oval Office.
Austin Sarat is Associate Dean of the Faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science at Amherst College. He is author or editor of more than 90 books on American law and politics.
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Miami Herald | President Trump returns to Mar-A-Lago Friday Miami Herald President Donald Trump returns to South Florida again Friday and will stay at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Trump arrived in Orlando at 1:08 p.m. and was greeted by Gov. Rick Scott. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Education Secretary Betty DeVos were ... |
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