ALF Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) Trump’s Misleading Blame on Opioids President Donald Trump misleadingly cited a 23 percent decline in federal drug prosecutions between 2011 and 2016 to claim that the Obama administration ignored the opioid crisis. The 23 percent decline is for all drug-related prosecutions — including a steep drop in marijuana-related prosecutions, in part because it was legalized in certain circumstances in two states. Although the data cited by Trump did not provide information on opioid prosecutions, federal sentencing data (as opposed to prosecutions) show the number of people sentenced on heroin charges increased by more than 50 percent between 2011 and 2016. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trumps-misleading-blame-opioids/ Mexican cartels are expanding their control over the US heroin market Opium and heroin production in Mexico has expanded significantly over the past several years, and according to data gathered by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, that increased supply has flooded the US market Heroin from each of the world's source areas — Mexico, South America, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia — can be found in the US. http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-control-us-heroin-market-2016-12 NEARLY ALL HEROIN FUELING A U.S. RESURGENCE ENTERS OVER THE 1,933-MILE MEXICO BORDER. “We're catching people who are 82 years old ... bringing narcotics to the U.S. Juveniles, young kids that are in middle school or high school.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/12/sophisticated-smuggling-rings-supply-heroin-surge/9713909/ Edited September 7, 2017 by ALF
grinreaper Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Trump’s Misleading Blame on Opioids President Donald Trump misleadingly cited a 23 percent decline in federal drug prosecutions between 2011 and 2016 to claim that the Obama administration ignored the opioid crisis. The 23 percent decline is for all drug-related prosecutions — including a steep drop in marijuana-related prosecutions, in part because it was legalized in certain circumstances in two states. Although the data cited by Trump did not provide information on opioid prosecutions, federal sentencing data (as opposed to prosecutions) show the number of people sentenced on heroin charges increased by more than 50 percent between 2011 and 2016. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/trumps-misleading-blame-opioids/ Mexican cartels are expanding their control over the US heroin market Opium and heroin production in Mexico has expanded significantly over the past several years, and according to data gathered by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, that increased supply has flooded the US market Heroin from each of the world's source areas — Mexico, South America, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia — can be found in the US. http://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-control-us-heroin-market-2016-12 NEARLY ALL HEROIN FUELING A U.S. RESURGENCE ENTERS OVER THE 1,933-MILE MEXICO BORDER. “We're catching people who are 82 years old ... bringing narcotics to the U.S. Juveniles, young kids that are in middle school or high school.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/12/sophisticated-smuggling-rings-supply-heroin-surge/9713909/ Seems like gator disagrees with you: Tiberius, on 06 Sept 2017 - 7:01 PM, said: Yes, let's pretend this situation exists in a vacuum. The guy scapegoated and still does the immigrants.called them rapists and druggers and murderers and everything bad under the sun. He literally blames them for the opioid epidemic they have absolutely nothing in the world to do with. It makes rural whites feel better if it's someone else's fault they have a drug problem. Also, Obamas executive order has never been ruled unconstitutional. No official challenge has been for all attempted. There was no urgency here, he just did it to satisfy his base
ALF Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) I never looked into it till now , so tibers post made me curious. He is probably referring to the DACA who have been here many years not more recent arrivals. Edited September 7, 2017 by ALF
Nanker Posted September 7, 2017 Author Posted September 7, 2017 Persons entering the US illegally are more inclined to criminal activity. "the Government Accountability Office released two unsettling reports in 2005 on criminal aliens who are in prison for committing crimes in the United States, and issued an updated report in 2011. The first report (GAO-05-337R) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27 percent of all federal prisoners. Yet according to the Center for Immigration Studies, non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nation’s adult population. Thus, judging by the numbers in federal prisons alone, non-citizens commit federal crimes at three times the rate of citizens. The findings in the second report (GAO-05-646R) are even more disturbing. This report looked at the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens that “entered the country illegally and were still illegally in the country at the time of their incarceration in federal or state prison or local jail during fiscal year 2003.” Those 55,322 illegal aliens had been arrested 459,614 times, an average of 8.3 arrests per illegal alien, and had committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses, an average of roughly 12.7 offenses per illegal alien. Out of all of the arrests, 12 percent were for violent crimes such as murder, robbery, assault and sex-related crimes; 15 percent were for burglary, larceny, theft and property damage; 24 percent were for drug offenses; and the remaining offenses were for DUI, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, weapons, immigration, and obstruction of justice. The 2011 GAO report wasn’t much different. It looked at 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Those aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. Sixty-eight percent of those in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prisons were from Mexico. Their offenses ranged from homicide and kidnapping to drugs, burglary, and larceny."
DC Tom Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Persons entering the US illegally are more inclined to criminal activity. Persons entering the US illegally are already engaged in criminal activity. That's the !@#$ing definition of doing anything illegally.
B-Man Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Persons entering the US illegally are already engaged in criminal activity. That's the !@#$ing definition of doing anything illegally. Racist.
Gary M Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Persons entering the US illegally are more inclined to criminal activity. "the Government Accountability Office released two unsettling reports in 2005 on criminal aliens who are in prison for committing crimes in the United States, and issued an updated report in 2011. The first report (GAO-05-337R) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27 percent of all federal prisoners. Yet according to the Center for Immigration Studies, non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nation’s adult population. Thus, judging by the numbers in federal prisons alone, non-citizens commit federal crimes at three times the rate of citizens. The findings in the second report (GAO-05-646R) are even more disturbing. This report looked at the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens that “entered the country illegally and were still illegally in the country at the time of their incarceration in federal or state prison or local jail during fiscal year 2003.” Those 55,322 illegal aliens had been arrested 459,614 times, an average of 8.3 arrests per illegal alien, and had committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses, an average of roughly 12.7 offenses per illegal alien. Out of all of the arrests, 12 percent were for violent crimes such as murder, robbery, assault and sex-related crimes; 15 percent were for burglary, larceny, theft and property damage; 24 percent were for drug offenses; and the remaining offenses were for DUI, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, weapons, immigration, and obstruction of justice. The 2011 GAO report wasn’t much different. It looked at 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Those aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. Sixty-eight percent of those in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prisons were from Mexico. Their offenses ranged from homicide and kidnapping to drugs, burglary, and larceny." Please stop scapegoating those poor, hungry, tired people.
Tiberius Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Persons entering the US illegally are already engaged in criminal activity. That's the !@#$ing definition of doing anything illegally. Exactly, so if an illegal is arrested at the border its "proof" they cause crime. Please stop scapegoating those poor, hungry, tired people. I'm sure right wingers are not touting this: Alaska was the nation's most dangerous state in 2013 and the only state with more than 600 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. Incidents of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter and rape both rose nearly 10% in 2013 from 2012, despite falling across the country last year. Alaska residents have struggled with sexual assault for years. According to a 2010 survey of Alaskan women, 37% of respondents reported being the victims of rape or sexual assault. As of 2013, rapes were reported nearly four times as frequently as they were nationwide. High violent crime rates in Alaska may seem incongruous with the state's socioeconomic environment. As of 2013, fewer than one in 10 residents lived in poverty, and thanks to a permanent fund that pays residents a share of oil profits, the state had the second highest median household income in the country, at $72,237 .Are there tons of illegals in Alaska? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/01/03/24-7-wall-st-most-dangerous-states/21214169/
Koko78 Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Please stop scapegoating those poor, hungry, tired people. They are simply yearning to breathe free. The immigration policy poem even says so!
DC Tom Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 Exactly, so if an illegal is arrested at the border its "proof" they cause crime. This is the first time in fifteen YEARS I've seen you spell "border" correctly. I'm !@#$ing floored.
Azalin Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 This is the first time in fifteen YEARS I've seen you spell "border" correctly. I'm !@#$ing floored. If you hadn't quoted it, I wouldn't have believed it.
DC Tom Posted September 7, 2017 Posted September 7, 2017 If you hadn't quoted it, I wouldn't have believed it. That's why I quoted it, knowing how many of you have him on ignore. "Holy ****...people have GOT to see this!" He's actually misspelled it as "boarder" through three different usernames. Just think about that...he is more consistent in failing second-grade spelling than he is in what he calls himself. Today is truly epochal.
B-Man Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 IS THERE NOTHING HE CAN’T DO? How Trump Killed the New York Daily News: Like Newsweek, it sold for a buck, and like Newsweek it tried to survive on trolling covers. And then there was the structural problem. The Daily News was a tabloid. Tabloids play to the working class. But as the Dems became a leftist elite, they no longer spoke the same language. And the Daily News was out to sea. The previous editor, Jim Rich, had been resisting pressure from management to soften the Trump covers, people familiar with the matter said. He was told they were diminishing an already much diminished print subscriber base, these people said, particularly among blue-collar readers in certain corners of New York’s outer boroughs, where Trump’s nationalistic populism apparently resonates in a way that is anathema to the city’s cosmopolitan districts and immigrant enclaves… Now, many News staffers and alumni feel like the air has been sucked out of the room, and they are perhaps coming to terms with the notion that Trump is more popular with segments of their readership than they thought, even in deep blue New York. The Daily News had no base left. Its hate covers were popular with progs who didn’t buy or read the paper. And so here we are. And the decline of the left-wing dead tree media rolls on Even before Trump became the GOP frontrunner, as with Newsweek, the craziness and partisan outrage did seem to accelerate as the end moved ever closer.
Azalin Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 That's why I quoted it, knowing how many of you have him on ignore. "Holy ****...people have GOT to see this!" He's actually misspelled it as "boarder" through three different usernames. Just think about that...he is more consistent in failing second-grade spelling than he is in what he calls himself. Today is truly epochal. I suppose we've got to give him credit, then. Is there an award for the most consistently obtuse poster? We ought to award him something.
TakeYouToTasker Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 I suppose we've got to give him credit, then. Is there an award for the most consistently obtuse poster? We ought to award him something. A participation trophy feels just about right.
Azalin Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 A participation trophy feels just about right. Since he's apparently had at least three different aliases, I'd say participation is the one thing he's excelled in.
TakeYouToTasker Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 Since he's apparently had at least three different aliases, I'd say participation is the one thing he's excelled in. /sagenod
Nanker Posted September 8, 2017 Author Posted September 8, 2017 A participation trophy feels just about right. And here he is accepting it:
B-Man Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 (edited) WEIRD HOW THIS DIDN’T COME OUT DURING THE CAMPAIGN: Video Emerges of Hillary Clinton Saying Illegal Immigrant Children Have to Go. Or even after the campaign, until Democrats and journalists (but I repeat myself) suddenly decided that Hillary was bad for the brand. Democracy dies in darkness. Or as a great philosopher puts it: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/275034/ . Edited September 8, 2017 by B-Man
/dev/null Posted September 8, 2017 Posted September 8, 2017 I already had low expectations for the upcoming Star Trek series. http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/07/star-trek-discovery-trump-political-divide/ I give it less than a season before viewership tanks. The second season will be branded as finding their niche. Third season will come from brand recognition. Then it will Trump's fault they cancelled Star Trek
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