TRUMP STUMPS CARAVAN: DOJ, DHS MOVE TO RESTRICT ASYLUM ELIGIBILITY FOR ILLEGALS

The DOJ and DHS announced new policies Thursday restricting illegal aliens from asylum eligibility.

In an Interim Final Rule announced by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the Trump administration was granted broad authority to block asylum claims for people who violate US immigration laws.

“Consistent with our immigration laws, the President has the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens into the United States if he determines it to be in the national interest to do so,” Whitaker and Nielsen said in a joint statement.

“Today’s rule applies this important principle to aliens who violate such a suspension or restriction regarding the southern border imposed by the President by invoking an express authority provided by Congress to restrict eligibility for asylum. Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those who truly deserve it. Today, we are using the authority granted to us by Congress to bar aliens who violate a Presidential suspension of entry or other restriction from asylum eligibility.”

A Justice Department press release cites a section from the Immigration and Nationality Act which state the attorney general “may provide by regulation for any other conditions or limitations on the consideration of an application for asylum.”

The administration is hoping the new rules will encourage people planning on entering the US illegally to instead use ports of entry where can be formally processed.

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States suspicious of FBI, DHS intrusion on voting systems

Donald Trump has expressed the belief that the November 8 election could be rigged in favor of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. He has reason to be concerned.

Never before in the recent history of U.S. elections have so many U.S. intelligence officials weighed in with their political favoritism. Former acting Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell has endorsed Mrs. Clinton and lambasted Trump. Former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden has called Trump a threat to national security. Disgraced former CIA Director David Petraeus, who shares the distinction with Mrs. Clinton of being called national security threats because of their mishandling of classified material, is known to be aghast at Trump’s candidacy and is quietly pulling for Clinton. One former CIA clandestine services officer, Evan McMullin, is running as an independent candidate for president to draw votes away from Trump.

Clinton is clearly the war hawk who wants to continue George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s “regime change” forays around the world.

In recent days, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have warned that nefarious but nebulous “Russian hackers” have penetrated election systems in Arizona and Illinois. Although U.S. election systems have been fraught with security and accuracy problems, protection of voting machines are state, county, municipal, and precinct responsibilities. Only more benign federal agencies, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have a potential advisory role in recommending secure and accurate voting systems for states and lower levels of government.

To have FBI agents and DHS employees with as much computer security and data integrity knowledge as their fellow nincompoops at the Transportation Security Administration mucking around in election software and hardware systems should worry every state official who strives for a clean and accurate election.

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