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Daily News Briefing: Here are 16 facts that corroborate Donald Trump's statements on immigration 

Here are 16 facts that corroborate Donald Trump's statements on immigration

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Published by: Clark Barrow

DAILY BRIEFING
SUMMARY

• OVERWHELMED - There are over 200 "sanctuary cities" in 32 states that give safe harbor to illegal immigrants, even violent ones with felony records like the man accused of killing a San Francisco woman last week, according to The Center for Immigration Studies.
  

• HACK - Hackers stole Social Security numbers from more than 21 million people and snatched other sensitive information in a recent breach of U.S. government computer systems, the Obama administration said Thursday.
  

• TARGETED - Documents obtained by the government accountability group Judicial Watch reveal that the Lois Lerner IRS scandal is worse than originally believed, extending beyond the walls of the agency into the Department of Justice.
  

• OBAMACARE - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying an Obamacare regulation requiring restaurants to display calorie information until December 2016 after businesses complained they did not have sufficient time to comply with the complex rules.
  

• WHITE HOUSE - President Obama's latest effort to ease repayment for student loans will benefit 2 million borrowers and cost the government $15.3 billion, according to new estimates from the administration.
  

• TRUMP - Donald Trump's position on immigration does not seem to be hurting the real-estate developer's standing in the Republican presidential primary. Two new polls have him in first place among registered Republican voters.
  

IN THE DISTRICT

• TRUMP - Donald Trump's position on immigration does not seem to be hurting the real-estate developer's standing in the Republican presidential primary. Two new polls have him in first place among registered Republican voters.
  • The latest poll arrived Thursday. In the Economist/YouGov poll, Trump holds 15% of the Republican vote nationally — ahead of former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida (11%).
  • A new Public Policy Polling survey of North Carolina published Wednesday also placed Trump ahead of the GOP pack. In that poll, Trump led Bush 16% to 12%.
    

• TRUMP - According to a recent Newsmax.com article, here are 16 Reasons Donald Trump is not wrong on immigration:
  • 1. The border is extremely porous: The United Nations reported that 97 percent of the illegal immigrants who enter the U.S. clandestinely do so across the nearly 2,000-mile Mexican border, but only 20 percent of those who cross illegally are caught.
  • 2. Illegal immigrants do bring crime: Of the 61,529 criminal cases initiated by federal prosecutors in 2013, more than 40 percent were filed in court districts neighboring the border. Nearly 22 percent were drug-related, 19.7 percent were violent crimes, and 10.2 percent involved white-collar offenses.
  • 3. Immigrants are killing Americans: According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 57 percent of the 76 fugitive murderers wanted by the FBI in 2009 were foreign-born. The Center also disclosed that in Maricopa County in Arizona, 22 percent of felons are illegal immigrants.
  • 4. Illegal immigrants pose a danger on the roads: About 4.5 million illegal aliens in the U.S. drive on a regular basis, many without licenses or insurance or even the ability to read road signs written in English, The New York Times reported. In Arizona, 63 percent of cited drivers have no license, no insurance, and no registration for the vehicle, and 97 percent of them are illegal aliens.
  • 5. Statistics back up Trump's charge that illegals bring drugs: In Pinal County, Ariz., about 70 miles from the Mexican border, Sheriff Paul Babeu said marijuana seizures went from about 19,000 pounds in 2008 to more than 45,500 pounds in 2010.
  • 6. Many immigrants entering the country illegally have a criminal record in the U.S.: In 2010, the Border Patrol reported that 212,000 illegals were caught in the Tucson, Ariz., sector alone, and as many as 30 percent of them already had a criminal record in the U.S.
  • 7. Many illegal alien convicts have been arrested multiple times: A Government Accountability Office study of 55,000 illegal aliens found that they were arrested at least 459,614 times, averaging about eight arrests per alien. About one-quarter of them had 11 or more arrests.
  • 8. Deportation of illegal immigrants doesn't keep them out of the country: Due to the wide-open Mexican border, the number of people prosecuted for coming into the country illegally after being deported has increased by 175 percent since 2005, according to a report cited by the Constitution Party website. The illegal alien recently accused of randomly murdering a woman in San Francisco had previously been deported five times.
  • 9. The Mexican border is being used by illegals from other countries: Arrests by the Border Patrol of illegals from countries other than Mexico, particularly from Central America, increased from 59,000 in 2010 to 99,000 in 2012.
  • 10. Immigrants are filling U.S. jails: One quarter of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals, as are 40 percent of inmates in Arizona and 48 percent in New Mexico. And 75 percent of those on the most wanted criminals list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
  • 11. Illegals do include "rapists," as Trump charged: Among many examples, an undocumented alien was arrested in Baltimore for raping a 9-year-old girl. In Austin, Texas, police arrested two Mexican nationals who allegedly participated in the gang rape of a 13-year girl in June. As many as 13 men took part, and some filmed the crime on their cell phones. Earlier this year an illegal alien from Mexico admitted in court that he raped a 12-year-old girl.
  • 12. Prominent figures agree with Trump on the dangers of illegal immigration: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told MSNBC that while most people who cross the border come for economic reasons, "hidden with them, because they're coming across unchecked, are people who rape, murder people, kill people and are terrorists."
  • 13. Ordinary Americans agree with Trump as well: According to Rasmussen Reports, 63 percent of Americans want the U.S. to gain control of the border. A recent CNN national survey found that of the announced Republican candidates, Trump placed second only to Jeb Bush. And Bill Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, said Trump "is an outsider who was saying some things that the establishment doesn't want to hear, that is resonating with voters."
  • 14. Relatives of victims know that Trump is right: The mother of a teenager who was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, praised Trump for "trying to do something about a failed immigration system."
  • 15. Even wealthy Mexicans agree with Trump: Reuben Navarette Jr. writes in The Daily Beast that Mexico's elite, despite displaying "outrage" at Trump's comments, often speak in the same manner at high-end golf courses and banquets.
  • 16. The Pew Research Center estimated that there are nearly 12 million illegal aliens in the nation — and the key word is "estimated."
    

• OVERWHELMED - There are over 200 "sanctuary cities" in 32 states that give safe harbor to illegal immigrants, even violent ones with felony records like the man accused of killing a San Francisco woman last week, according to The Center for Immigration Studies.
  • Meanwhile, high-profile Democrats now speaking out about San Francisco's "sanctuary" treatment of an illegal immigrant charged with the murder of a young woman weren't always so critical of the policies.
  • Hillary Clinton and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., both criticized San Francisco for ignoring a federal request to hold Francisco Sanchez -- who already had been deported five times -- when he went into city custody in March. He was released in April, and is now in jail for the murder last week of Kate Steinle, 32.
  • "The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported," Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, said in an interview with CNN. "So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on."
  • But Clinton, when she was a New York senator running for president in 2007, was openly supportive of sanctuary city policies, which limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
  • Meanwhile, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, under fire for setting an illegal immigrant free who now is charged with killing 32-year-old Kathyrn Steinle, has questioned why U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials sent the man to his city in the first place.
  • It turns out, Mirkarimi's own office asked ICE for custody of 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
  • In an interview on Tuesday witn KQED radio, Mirkarimi sounded perplexed how his office was even able to have Lopez-Sanchez in its custody instead of ICE.
    

• HACK - Hackers stole Social Security numbers from more than 21 million people and snatched other sensitive information in a recent breach of U.S. government computer systems, the Obama administration said Thursday.
  • The U.S. Office of Personnel Management said Thursday that more than 19 million who applied for background investigations had their information compromised, as well as nearly 2 million of their family members — like spouses or cohabitants — who never applied for a background check.
  • OPM Director Katherine Archuleta said that, in addition to Social Security numbers, hackers took information about people's criminal, financial, health, employment and residency histories, as well as information about their families and acquaintances. She said hackers got hold of the user names and passwords that prospective employees used to fill out their background investigation forms, as well as the contents of interviews conducted as part of those investigations.
    

• TARGETED - Documents obtained by the government accountability group Judicial Watch reveal that the Lois Lerner IRS scandal is worse than originally believed, extending beyond the walls of the agency into the Department of Justice.
  • Judicial Watch sued both the IRS and the DOJ when both failed to comply with FOIA requests. What the newly released documents confirm is that the Obama administration not only targeted tea party and other conservative organizations for increased scrutiny, improper questioning (including lists of donor names), and delayed approval for their applications in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential elections–but also sought ways to criminally prosecute them.
  • To this end, an email reveals that Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS’ tax exempt organization unit, coordinated to have 21 discs containing 1.25 million pages of confidential tax information of these groups transmitted to the DOJ, for criminal investigation purposes.
    

• TOO CLOSE - Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash featuring an “ice luge” for liquor shots.
  • The emails, originally turned over to a congressional committee and obtained by FoxNews.com, show communications to and from former EPA policy administrator Michael Goo, in the Office of Policy. While some deal with policy matters, others concern parties in 2011 and 2013 aptly named "Goofest."
  • The parties, it would appear, were off the hook.
  • Among the attendees to at least one of them was League of Conservation Voters official Tiernan Sittenfield, according to the emails. Goo emailed Sittenfield afterward to ask whether she had indeed attended, which she apparently had.
    

• SCANDAL - House Republicans investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya on Wednesday released a March subpoena issued to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, one day after she said in a nationally televised interview that she "never had a subpoena" in the email controversy.
  • Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the Benghazi panel, said he had "no choice" but to make the subpoena public "in order to correct the inaccuracy" of Clinton's claim.
  • Clinton told CNN on Monday that she "never had a subpoena," adding: "Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation."
  • Gowdy said the committee issued the March 4 subpoena to Clinton personally after learning the full extent of her use of private emails while serving as secretary of state.
    

• YOU LIE - Commentators, pundits and journalists the world over were quick to point out that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first television interview since her April 12th presidential campaign announcement was full of misleading statements and outright lies.
  • Here are seven of the most questionable statements Clinton made in the 20-minute interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar:
    • 1. “People should and do trust me.”
      • Fifty-three percent of American voters said Clinton is not honest and trustworthy in a May Quinnipiac poll. And in a May AP-GFK poll, nearly four in 10 Democrats and more than six in 10 Independents said “honest” is not the best word to describe her.
    • 2. I’m subjected to a “constant barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the Right … “
      • The New York Times broke the news in March that Clinton exclusively used a personal email account stored on a private server to conduct government business as secretary of state, and since then every major media outlet has followed the story.
    • 3. “I only used one device.”
      • Clinton initially told reporters she set up the private server for convenience, because she didn’t want to carry separate devices for her work and her email. “People across the government knew that I used one device,” she reiterated Tuesday. “Maybe it was because I am not the most technically capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.”
      • But in an email to Sidney Blumenthal while she was secretary of state, Clinton mentioned she was without Blackberry coverage after a tropical storm and so had switched to a “new iPad” for her emails.
    • 4. “I’ve never had a subpoena.”
      • Asked why she deleted more than 30,000 emails while under subpoena, Clinton said: “I’ve never had a subpoena.”
      • In response, the House Select Committee on Benghazi released its March subpoena to Clinton Wednesday, which it sent directly after it became aware of her personal email account and private server. The subpoena demanded she turn over all records and emails in her possession related to Benghazi.
    • 5. “I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me”
      • “Now I didn’t have to turn over anything,” Clinton said, referring to the emails she turned over last year. “I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system.”
      • But new emails surfaced in June that had not been turned over to the Benghazi committee, suggesting either that Clinton lied about turning all the remaining emails over to the State Department, or that the State Department for some reason didn’t turn all the relevant emails over to the Benghazi committee.
    • 6. Republican presidential candidates are all “in the same general area on immigration.”     
      • The Republican presidential candidates are in very different places on immigration. Former Sen. Rick Santorum is expressly calling for reduced legal immigration and rejects a path to citizenship. Sen. Ted Cruz also rejects a path to citizenship.
    • 7. On raising taxes: “I’m going to be telling the American people what I propose.”
      • Hillary’s campaign announced her policy proposals will include tax hikes in June. “We are rolling out major policy proposals over the summer/fall,” her campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted. “Among those proposals will be revenue enhancements.”
        

• SURRENDER - South Carolina lawmakers agreed Thursday to banish the Confederate flag from the grounds of the Statehouse, a move meant to foster a reconciliation and healing after last month's shooting massacre at a black church.
  • In a pre-dawn vote following a full day of debate Wednesday, the state's House of Representatives agreed overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag, which for decades has had a place of prominence in front of the legislature building.
  • The measure was passed by a resounding 94 in favor and 20 against -- far more than the two-thirds vote needed for final approval.
    

• HOT AIR - Two recent reports warned that global warming threatens polar bear populations across the world, but the warnings in those reports obscure today’s reality about polar bears — they are doing just fine, according to experts.
  • “They appear to be as abundant and as productive as ever, in most populations,” Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a polar bear expert with more than 30 years of experience who teaches at Lakehead University in Canada, told the Roy Green Show.
  • Taylor was responding to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey which warned that one-third of polar bears could be in danger from global warming by 2025 if nothing is done to curb carbon dioxide emissions.
  • Meanwhile, President Obama’s push to unilaterally commit the United States to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in the coming years is about changing the constitutional system that similarly hampered former President Bill Clinton’s global warming goals, according to a law professor.
  • In a congressional hearing Thursday, George Mason University law professor Jeremy Rabkin told lawmakers that Obama’s argument that he unilaterally commit the U.S. to a United Nations agreement without Senate ratification was “a real change in our Constitution.”
    

• WASTE - The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pouring nearly $300,000 into making college engineering programs more “inclusive” to the LGBTQ community.
  • The NSF project began July 1, and is being conducted by the American Society For Engineering Education. The study will examine “aspects of engineering culture that serve as impediments” to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals.
  • “There is compelling evidence that diversity among students and faculty is crucially important to the intellectual and social development of all students,” according to a grant awarded last month. “This project aligns with the National Science Foundation’s goal to promote a more diverse engineering workforce by promoting LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) equality in engineering—a group that has been underserved by other efforts to increase diversity in the profession.”
    

• CONGRESS - House Republicans passed on voting for a Confederate flag ban at the U.S. Capitol Thursday, electing to send the measure put forth by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to committee.
  • According to The Hill, Pelosi and other Democrats called for an immediate vote. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., however, called for a vote that would send the proposal to the House Administration Committee.
  • With Democrats shouting, "Vote! Vote! Vote!" the measure was passed and the bill will now be examined in the committee.
    

• CONGRESS - The House narrowly passed a Republican-led rewrite of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law on Wednesday, voting to dramatically lessen the federal role in education policy for the nation's public schools.
  • The bill, sponsored by Minnesota Rep. John Kline, gives states and local school districts more control over assessing the performance of schools, teachers and their students. It also prohibits the federal government from requiring or encouraging specific sets of academic standards, such as Common Core, and allows federal money to follow low-income children to public schools of their choice, an issue known as portability.
  • The vote was 218-213, with no Democrats supporting the measure and 27 Republicans voting against it. Passage comes five months after conservatives forced GOP leaders to pull a similar bill just before a scheduled vote. This time around, conservatives had indicated they would support the legislation if they had the chance to offer amendments.
    

• OBAMACARE - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is delaying an Obamacare regulation requiring restaurants to display calorie information until December 2016 after businesses complained they did not have sufficient time to comply with the complex rules.
  • The FDA’s rule, which is the latest Obamacare regulation to be delayed, went into detail on whether pumpkin spice muffins should be labeled, but remained vague as to what the definition of a menu is, was set to take effect on Dec. 1.
  • “The Food and Drug Administration … is extending the compliance date for the final rule requiring disclosure of certain nutrition information for standard menu items in certain restaurants and retail food establishments,” the agency said in a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Friday.
  • “We are taking this action in response to requests for an extension and for further clarification of the
    

• IRAN - As international negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program continue with no new signs of a breakthrough and with critics saying the U.S. should give up, the Obama administration on Wednesday put the burden for completing a historic deal squarely on the shoulders of Tehran.
  • White House officials said they remain hopeful Iran can come to a final agreement with the U.S. and its international partners but stressed that President Obama is prepared to walk away from the negotiating table if Tehran won’t make key compromises.
  • Should the negotiations break down and a final deal prove unattainable, the administration already has begun to blame Iran for the failure.
    

• WHITE HOUSE - President Obama is facing bipartisan criticism for hosting Vietnam’s Communist Party boss at the White House this week, given the government’s “deplorable” human rights record and “authoritarian” one-party system.
  • The president met Tuesday with Nguyen Phu Trong, head of Vietnam’s Communist Party. Trong does not hold an official government position, but is regarded as the nation’s de-facto leader for directing Vietnam’s controlling party.
  • But the meeting, coming after the administration took yet another step to normalize relations with Communist Cuba, rubbed many on Capitol Hill the wrong way.
    

• WHITE HOUSE - President Obama has a problem in Kenya, and it has nothing to do with his fabled birth certificate.
  • Instead, the president’s first trip to his father’s homeland later this month will confront many of the challenges of his presidency back home, from Islamist terrorism to economic competition from China to his fight for gay rights.
  • Mr. Obama’s upcoming historic visit is prompting all manner of protests in Kenya, from a peaceful demonstration in Nairobi Wednesday by Kenyan employees of the U.S. Embassy who were injured in the 1998 terrorist bombing, to warnings from public officials and church leaders who don’t want the president to talk about gay rights in the wake of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
    

• WHITE HOUSE - President Obama's latest effort to ease repayment for student loans will benefit 2 million borrowers and cost the government $15.3 billion, according to new estimates from the administration.
  • The Department of Education, as detailed in a rule posted to the Federal Register website Wednesday, will expand eligibility for a program that caps federal student loan payments as a share of the borrower's income and forgives debt after a period of time.
  • The program, called Pay as You Earn, or PAYE, is the most generous of several income-based repayment plans available to student borrowers and was introduced by the Obama administration in 2012. The Labor Department's new rule, requested by Obama last year, expands the program retroactively for students who took out loans before 2007, as well as making other changes to eligibility criteria.
    

ECONOMIC NEWS

• STAND YOUR GROUND - Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the embattled Sweetcakes by Melissa bakery, have been ordered to contact Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries by July 13 to pay a $135,000 fine that was imposed after the Christian couple declined to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
  • Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries communications director Charlie Burr told TheBlaze on Wednesday that the Kleins must contact the agency by Monday, and that they have three options: pay the sum in full, make arrangements for monthly installments, or ask for a stay.
  • Aaron Klein told TheBlaze on Wednesday that his attorney is, indeed, drafting a request for a stay, which he hopes will freeze the current demand for payment, which the baker said could come along with interest and a penalty if the family doesn’t comply with the order.
  • Klein, who was fervent in his pledge to fight back against the fine when he spoke out last week, affirmed that he still has no plans of backing down from the order, which was handed down by Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian.
  • “I will not relent. I will continue,” he said. “I will use every legal remedy I have to make sure that this man cannot do this to me, cannot do it to my wife, cannot do it to my five children, cannot do it to any other American.”