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North Korea Steps Up Nuclear Threats on US, As Trump Seeks Tougher Economic Sanctions. First and foremost, North Korea has become far more threatening and belligerent lately, stepping up its nuclear ballistic missile threats with its most ominous warning this week: the U.S. “will receive more ‘gift packages’… as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts” against their country. “I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September DPRK [the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test” for for [an] intercontinental ballistic missile, he told the forum. As for plans by the Trump administration, the U.N. and North Korea’s neighbors, to impose tougher economic sanctions on the DPRK, Han dismissed them out of hand. “The DPRK will never under any circumstances put its nuclear deterrence on the negotiating table.” Nevertheless, the U.S. and its allies sent a stern warning this week that new sanctions will be imposed. “We look forward to working with our partners in the [Security] Council with regard to a new resolution that will put some of the strongest sanctions possible on the DPRK,” said U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood. “It can no longer be business as usual with this regime,” he said. But in a series of contradictory statements that followed, the president said he loved and admired these so-called “dreamers” and gave Congress six months to come up with a plan to “fix” the problem, presumably including a way to allow them to remain in our country. On other fronts, Trump was planning to end a free-trade agreement with South Korea, a move that is opposed by the director of his National Economic Council and his national security adviser. With North Korea threatening it’s neighbors with nuclear annihilation, including our ally in Seoul, this is no time to be undercutting South Korea’s economy.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that former President Barack Obama started in 2012. Opponents of the program said they are pleased the Trump administration's decision. A group that supports the program in Arizona is using a community summit this weekend to hold a session on DACA and reapplying. "A lot of it right now is just kind of like first, taking the time to reflect on what the decision means, and what is happening. Making sure that people who are able to renew will have the support to do so," Guerrero said. Supporters of the program demonstrated in New York City, where police handcuffed and removed over a dozen immigration activists who briefly blocked Trump Tower, and in other cities, including Salt Lake City, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Portland, Oregon. She's used her deferred action status to get a job that helps pay for college, where she is studying biotechnology. Something to help us continue moving forward as citizens of the United States because that's what we are," Marin said. Mendez's parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 1, and she didn't realize she was in the country illegally for years. We know that we are doing and contributing the best that we can to this economy to this country because we call this our home.

Republicans are making a choice. Rewriting our political and racial history using identity politics isn’t just immoral and dangerous, it’s a desperate choice. Identity politics are destroying our ability to govern. Identity politics are a tool for distracting away from actual policy debates. If Republicans have the better argument, if Republicans have the better policies and if Republicans have the better ideas, shouldn’t they be able to rise above the identity politics that they purport to hate and argue facts? A single-payer system doesn’t mean the private market disappears, it just means that you don’t die if you can’t afford health insurance. As the most powerful nation in the history of the world, we can afford to improve the lives of all Americans. We are the greatest country in the world, but with greatness comes an obligation. When that day comes, Republicans will have to answer for the decades of distractions, divisiveness and identity politics that have hurt countless Americans. When that day comes, it will be a truly great day.

Here's What President Trump Has Said About DACA in the Past. The Trump Administration announced Tuesday it will phase out the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protected nearly 800,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, allowing them to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation. Trump campaigned on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration, saying he would "immediately terminate" DACA if elected. He tweeted: "Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA!" DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me. We are going to deal with DACA with heart. "But the DACA situation is a very very, it's a very difficult thing for me because you know, I love these kids," he added. fIFQFETZHKXUM "They shouldn't be very worried" "They shouldn't be very worried," Trump said in an ABC News interview in January when asked how his policies would affect the Dreamers. Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried. "We’re going to work something out" In the months shortly after his election, Trump voiced sympathy for immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, calling it a "very tough situation."

"To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here," he said at a press conference. To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. If we were to keep the Obama Administration’s executive amnesty policy, the likeliest outcome is that it would be enjoined just as was DAPA. Simply put, if we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this type of overreach. He said: “In ordering this blanket exception, President Obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with.….If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense…The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.” Ending the previous Administration’s disrespect for the legislative process is an important first step. Our nation is comprised of good and decent people who want their government’s leaders to fulfill their promises and advance an immigration policy that serves the national interest. But there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws. The compassionate thing is to end the lawlessness, enforce our laws, and, if Congress chooses to make changes to those laws, to do so through the process set forth by our Founders in a way that advances the interest of the nation. But the Department of Justice does not represent any narrow interest or any subset of the American people. We at Department of Justice are proud and honored to work to advance this vision for America and to do our best each day to ensure the safety and security of the American people.

Trump's DACA decision triggers anguish, political firestorm. Mindful of the political firestorm whipped up by the decision, the White House insisted that Trump had wrestled with the question of the program, known as DACA, but concluded it was an example of overreaching by his predecessor. But in a statement, Trump insisted that the program, enacted with executive power by Obama after Congress had failed to address the plight of mainly young, undocumented migrants, was illegal. "As President, my highest duty is to defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America," Trump said in the statement. "No one is happy with this outcome -- including the President," one official said, explaining why Sessions was tapped to make the announcement. If not, hundreds of thousands of people could face deportation from the only country that many of them remember to the nations of their birth. "It's a political decision, and a moral question," Obama wrote. This is the only way, given the number of legislative days Congress has scheduled over the next six months, we realistically can expect Congress to complete DACA legislation in time," he said. "It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it," Zuckerberg wrote. House Speaker Paul Ryan said that though it was well-intentioned, DACA represented an overreach of executive power by Obama.

Conservatives in America – Like Marranos in Medieval Spain. For those unfamiliar with the term, Marranos was the name given to Jews in medieval Spain, especially in the fifteenth century during the Spanish Inquisition, who secretly maintained their Judaism while living as Catholics in public. Under these circumstances, they have decided that coming out as conservative or pro-Trump is not worth the persecution they would. But gays and Communist Party members comprised a tiny percentage of the American population. I wish I could share all the emails sent to me from professional musicians who play in some of the premier orchestras of America. They wrote to me following the nationally publicized attempts by left-wing members of the orchestra and of the Santa Monica city government to prevent me from conducting: they publicly called on members of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra to refuse to play, and members of the public to refuse to attend, when I conducted a Haydn symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall three weeks ago. As a radio talk-show host and columnist, I’m paid to express my opinions. Of course, American conservative Marranos don’t only live in the world of music. They are in every profession. These Americans live in fear, legitimately so in many cases, that if they do speak out, there will be severe consequences – a job lost, a promotion not given, even a child who will no longer speak to them.

Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear?. Trending By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention. What else does Kim want? He wants the U.S. to halt joint military maneuvers with the South, recognize his regime, tear up the security pact with Seoul, and get our forces off the peninsula. View Cartoon As the United States can only lose from a new Korean war in which thousands of Americans and millions of Koreans could perish, the first imperative is to dispense with the war talk, and to prevent the war Mattis rightly says would be "catastrophic." Japan, still recovering from World War II, was disarmed and entirely dependent upon the United States for its defense. South Korea is among the most advanced nations in Asia with a population twice that of the North and an economy 40 times as large. The world has changed dramatically since the 1950s. We cannot walk away from our Korean allies in this crisis. After this crisis, South Korea and Japan should begin to make the kind of defense effort the U.S. does, and create their own nuclear deterrents.

North Korea 'begging for war' says US, calling for strongest possible sanctions. The blunt statement by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, came as Donald Trump spoke with South Korean president Moon Jae-in and agreed that the North’s latest nuclear test was an “unprecedented” provocation. “The time for half measures in the security council is over. “His abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. We will defend our allies and our territory.” Haley said her country would circulate a resolution this week with the aim of getting it approved next Monday and, in a thinly veiled jab at China, said the US would target countries trading with Pyongyang, a prospect also raised by Trump on Sunday. There is no more road left.” Trump and Moon spoke for around 40 minutes by phone on Monday, according to South Korea’s presidential office. Trump reaffirmed an “ironclad” commitment to South Korea’s defence, it said, and the two countries agreed to seek stronger UN sanctions against the North. Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters after Monday’s meeting: “Resolutions aimed solely at sanctioning North Korea have not worked well before.” Reuters reported that diplomats have said the security council could now consider banning North Korean textile exports and its national airline, stopping supplies of oil to the government and military, preventing North Koreans from working abroad and adding top officials to a blacklist to subject them to an asset freeze and travel ban. He called on the security council to condemn the latest test, and said: “We continue to wish for a peaceful way forward: dialogue will always be our end goal but returning to dialogue without a serious sign of intent from Pyongyang would be a set up to failure. We also forecast North Korea could fire an intercontinental ballistic missile.” South Korea said its air force and army conducted exercises involving long-range air-to-surface and ballistic missiles on Monday.

Labor unions are trying to take back politics in the Midwest. On Labor Day — designated a federal holiday in 1894 to honor America’s labor movement — at least eight Democratic candidates will hold rallies in five Midwest cities to tell workers just how far the country has veered from its pro-labor roots. In Iowa, Republicans rolled back an increase in the minimum wage in March. Each candidate will center their campaigns on their support for a $15 minimum wage, progressive health care, and pro-union policies. Cathy Glasson, a registered nurse and union leader in Iowa who will officially announce after Labor Day her campaign for governor in 2018, said that before this year, she had never considered running for elected office. We had raised the minimum wage in five counties in Iowa and this administration literally took money out of the pockets of Iowans — 85,000 Iowans were affected by the rollback here.” Like other first-time politicians throwing themselves into 2018, Glasson has been a union member for decades and will prioritize the need for more American workers to join unions and employee associations. One of the country’s largest labor unions, SEIU and its Fight for $15 arm — a national campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 — will announce Monday a push to elect labor-friendly candidates in 2018 in the Midwest states where unions once held tremendous power. Republicans in Wisconsin have gerrymandered the state so they do not fear losing their seats, Bryce noted, but the union movement is going to latch onto policies that he believes will resonate with voters across party lines, like wages and health care. “It’s the right thing to do but it’s also going to help create jobs,” he said. “By collecting and pooling union members’ money, we are a force to be reckoned with in politics, and so the intentional attack on unions in the state of Iowa and the Midwest and beyond is intentional to silent the voice of everyday workers that need to have a voice in politics.” Bryce agreed that if unions do not get involved now, the Trump administration could decimate the labor movement to a point of no return.