Tag: President of the United States of America

Those who think “Fake News” started with Trump and the media’s “slobbering love affair” with a U.S. president started with Obama should have seen John F. Kennedy’s term. Generals Curtis Le May and Maxwell Taylor represented opposite poles of the military establishment. yelled then Navy Chief George Anderson upon hearing on October 28, 1962, how JFK "solved" the missile crisis. But not for the Soviets. "We ended up getting exactly what we'd wanted all along," snickered Nikita Khrushchev in his diaries, “security for Fidel Castro’s regime and American missiles removed from Turkey and Italy. The genuine threat came --not from Moscow—but from the Castros and Che. The Coast Guard in Florida got 12 new boats and seven new planes to make sure Castro remained unmolested. JFK's Missile Crisis “solution” also pledged that he immediately pull the rug out from under Cuba’s in-house freedom-fighters. He labeled the thousands of Cuban anti-Communist rebels, then battling savagely and virtually alone in Cuba's countryside, with small arms shipments from their compatriots in South Florida as their only lifeline.

President Trump Has Decided to Terminate the DACA Immigration Program, Report Says. (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children, but with a six-month delay, people familiar with the plans said Sunday. The delay in the formal dismantling of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program would be intended to give Congress time to decide whether it wants to address the status of the so-called Dreamers in legislation, according to two people familiar with the president's thinking. Trump has been wrestling for months with what to do with the Obama-era DACA program, which has given nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the form of two-year, renewable work permits. It would be up to congressional lawmakers to pass a measure to protect those who have been covered under the program. "These are kids who know no other country, who are brought here by their parents and don't know another home. The Obama administration created the DACA program in 2012 as a stopgap to protect some young immigrants from deportation as they pushed unsuccessfully for a broader immigration overhaul in Congress. It mimicked versions of the so-called DREAM Act, which would have provided legal status for young immigrants but was never passed by Congress. The House under Democratic control passed a Dream Act in 2010 but it died in the Senate. But since Republicans retook control of the House in late 2010, it has grown increasingly hardline on immigration, killing the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill in 2013 and failing to even take up a GOP border security bill two years later because of objections from conservatives.