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“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior leader than was Lame Duck Speaker Paul Ryan,” President Trump began on Twitter. “Tougher, smarter and a far better fundraiser, Kevin is already closing in on 44 Million Dollars. Paul’s final year numbers were, according to Breitbart, “abysmal.”” “People like….Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party.

According to the New York Daily News, federal agents conducted the operation in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, where they rang multiple doorbells in an apartment building but later left without taking any illegal aliens into custody. The Wall Street Journal reports that agents were turned away because they showed up without warrants. A similar situation occurred in Harlem, the Journal states. 

Immigration attorney Leon Fresco is praising House Republicans and House Democrats for advancing HR. 1044, legislation that allows thousands of Indian nationals who have taken American jobs through programs like the H-1B visa at the behest of tech conglomerates and Indian outsourcing firms to more quickly obtain green cards to eventually get American citizenship. The legislation allows Indian nationals to effectively monopolize the U.S.

The planned events were part of the “Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps” protest, which was sponsored by the ultra-left wing Women’s March, Indivisible, Code Pink, Arizona Democratic Party LGBTQ Caucus, AZ Resist, and dozens of other leftist groups. Organizers say “key events” took place in cities such as El Paso, Homestead, New York, and San Diego. The website cites numerous false narratives, mentioning “abuse,” “neglect,” and “no running water” at the facilities. The website

Presidential candidate Cory Booker highlighted his proposals to strengthen federal gun laws Friday in the wake of more than a dozen shootings in Boston over five days last weekend. In a phone call with local media, Booker, a New Jersey senator, touted his experience dealing with the “nightmare” of gun violence as a former mayor of Newark.

Four House Democratic freshmen who recently toured detention stations for migrants along the Texas border told a House committee Friday of jam-packed, fetid holding areas ‘‘in front of the American flag’’ and accused President Trump of intentional cruelty to discourage future arrivals. Representative Ayanna Pressley was one of the four representatives last week who visited McAllen, Texas, to tour border detention facilities for migrants arriving in the United States.

WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s resignation Friday amid the mushrooming Jeffrey Epstein investigation made him the latest in a growing list of President Trump’s Cabinet members to depart under a cloud of scandal, plunging an administration that has struggled with record turnover into further upheaval. Trump announced Acosta’s departure in a morning appearance together on the South Lawn, telling reporters that his labor secretary had chosen to step down a day after defending himself in a contentious news conference over his role as a US attorney a decade ago in a d

PHILADELPHIA — Days after tensions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boiled over publicly, several House Democrats sent a message to Washington: We’re not backing down. Three members of the ‘‘squad’’ — the cadre of liberal freshman lawmakers who are struggling with their party’s more centrist members over impeachment, immigration and other issues — defended their approach Saturday while appearing on a panel at the annual Netroots conference.

The House Democratic Caucus issued a rebuke of Rep. MORE’s (D-N.Y.) chief of staff Friday evening amid a public spat between House leadership and a small group of progressive members. The caucus hammered Saikat Chakrabarti for comments he made going after Rep. MORE (D-Kan.), who is Native American. Chakrabarti said in the quoted tweet that Davids had taken votes that “enable a racist system.” “Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color? Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice.

Tropical Storm Barry is expected to hit the Louisiana coast as early as Saturday, threatening to send floodwaters in New Orleans and other areas of the state. While it doesn’t appear that Barry will bring tremendous wind power, there are legitimate fears about storm surges causing extensive damage and endangering those who do not evacuate from areas set to be hit by the weather event. Here are five things to watch for. New Orleans levees may be tested New Orleans’s levee system was rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but experts have long worried another strong storm woul