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Zero Tolerance
Zero Tolerance
BIG STORY
SALAM NEWS
Trump separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents. Can Biden fix it?
Piercing crying, fear and no possibility to say goodbye. Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy orphaned thousands of children. Now Biden administration is trying to correct his mistakes. He has allowed the arrival of the first group of immigrants separated from their children
During his first days as a president, Joe Biden wanted to show that he intends to withdraw the USA from controversial and catastrophic decisions of the Trump administration. Right after his inauguration he lifted a travel ban on people from Muslim countries (the so called Muslim Ban). He also ordered to promptly reunite immigrant parents with their children, who were separated upon Donald Trump’s order during arrests and deportations. This was a part of his fearsome immigration policy.
As announced by the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, the US authorities will allow for the arrival of the first group of immigrants, who have been separated from their children at the border. Four out of more than thousand separated families will be reunited. Parents have been granted a humanitarian parole to the US. Among them, there are mothers from Mexico and Honduras, who were deported in 2017 without their children.
“The first families reuniting this week are mothers. They are sons. And they are daughters. They are children who were 3 years old at the time of separation. Also they are teenagers who have had to live without their parents during their most formative years” – said the Secretary, quoted by CBS TV.
They escaped, so that their daughters wouldn’t fall victim to crime
Donald Trump never concealed his plans for the immigrants. He structured his election campaign around the idea of building a US- Mexico border wall. Yet despite sealing the borders, numerous deportations and arrests, US actions did not discourage the inhabitants of Latin America and Mexico from trying to get into the US in search of a better life.
So then Trump decided to implement the solution that no one has dared to introduce before. He attacked the mothers by taking away their children. Trump attacked women who were running away from Mexico, Honduras or Guatemala, running away from domestic abuse, rape, gang recruitment and even human trafficking. He attacked mothers who had decided the escape so that their daughters wouldn’t be forced to prostitution when they grow up.
During his campaign, Donald Trump only mentioned that he would stop illegal immigration to the United States. He said that he would tighten immigration rules. He did not tell his voters, however, how he would achieve this. Nor that he intended to separate children, including babies, from their parents or guardians, who were trying to cross the border illegally. Adults, after being indicted, were kept at federal prisons and later deported back to their countries of origin, but now without their children.
United States Attorney General: “We have to take the children”
The decision to separate families was officially in force on the US-Mexico border from April to June 2018. According to the official government data, the number of children separated from their parents was over 4 thousand. But the real number can be much higher. Taking away children from their parents at the border, including parents that were seeking asylum, was the official US policy.
Throughout 2017, from the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, head officials of the United States Department of Justice and of the Department of Homeland Security were exchanging emails suggesting the extension of family separation policy. The then United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions, during one of the meetings, told his co-workers that “we have to take their children”. Also Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior advisor and one of the people making immigration decisions in his administration, said that not following the family separation policy would mean “the end of our country as we know it”.
Without saying goodbye
What was happening to the children taken away from the parents who were trying to illegally cross the border? They were being sent to temporary detention centers for children, among others in Texas. And if there was place, then they were sent to orphanages. Conditions in these centers for immigrant children were catastrophic. Children were sleeping on the ground, in cages made of wire net, under foil blankets. They spent most of their time inside the centre. Hygiene and food standards also left a lot to be desired. The youngest children did not have any toys and they had to take care of one another.
Children were taken away from their parents or guardians by force or by deception. They did not know what happened to their loved ones. Parents did not even have the chance to say goodbye to their children. To tell them, maybe for the last time, that they love them. To promise them that they will come back. They could not. They were aware that they were perhaps seeing them for the very last time.
Populism won
Under the pressure of the public opinion and after many protests, the Trump administration withdrew from the official policy of separating families of illegal immigrants. The protesters compared the actions of the then president to what was happening during the era of slavery or World War Two.
Probably neither the Trump administration nor the United States of America will ever bear responsibility for causing suffering to so many families. How did this happen that a nation considered by the international community to be the symbol of democracy and the insurer of human rights committed such a shameful atrocity?
Trump made some populist promises to get into power and he succeeded. His orders, with catastrophic consequences, were executed with the consent of many voters. Those voters also saw immigrants as a threat to their powerful America.
For hundreds of children it is already too late
Orphaning thousands of children just to scare away the immigrants, so that they would not try to cross the US border in search of a better life is one of the darkest pages in the US history. Lawyers are still fighting to find parents of at least a couple hundred of separated children. Is there hope that the children who were taken away will ever return to their biological parents?
The people in power did everything so that it never happens. First of all, no sufficient documentation on the families, which would allow for parents-children reunion, was written.
Many children have been separated for the last couple of years. Both they and their parents have to face traumas, which will stay with them for the rest of their lives. And what about children whose families will not be found? Most frequently they will end up in orphanages or in foster families. Within “DACA” program, immigrants who came to the US as minors can be granted temporary, conditional stay and are eligible for a work permit. It also allows them to obtain a driver’s license or apply for a social security number
Will the “new Americans” ever discover the truth about themselves?
Older children will remember where they come from. But the younger, and the babies, may have difficulties with their own identity. Will the officials or foster parents ever tell them the truth about how they came to the United States? Will the children from Mexico, Honduras or Guatemala, once they grow up, find out that their lives look the way they do because they fell victim to a brutal anti-immigration policy? Or maybe the new authorities will turn them into the “new Americans”, who do not know their origins?
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Out of the Heart Come Evil Thoughts
Out of the Heart Come Evil Thoughts
13
He replied,
“Every plant
that my heavenly Father
has not planted
will be
pulled up
by the roots.
14
Leave them;
they are
blind guides.
If
the blind
lead the blind,
both will
fall into a pit.”
15
Peter said,
“Explain
the parable to us.”
16
“Are you still
so dull?”
Jesus
asked them.
17
“Don’t you see that
whatever
enters the mouth
goes into
the stomach
and then
out of the body?
18
But
the things
that
come out of
a person’s mouth
come from
the heart,
and these
defile them.
19
For
out of the heart
come
evil thoughts—
murder,
adultery,
sexual immorality,
theft,
false testimony,
slander.
20
These are
what defile
a person;
but
eating with
unwashed hands
does not
defile them.”
Matthew 15:13-20
마음에서 나오는 것은 악한 생각과
15:13
예수께서
대답하여 이르시되
심은 것마다
내 하늘 아버지께서
심으시지 않은것은
뽑힐 것이니
15:14
그냥 두라
그들은
맹인이 되어
맹인을인도하는 자로다
만일
맹인이
맹인을인도하면
둘이 다
구덩이에
빠지리라 하시니
15:15
베드로가
대답하여 이르되
이 비유를
우리에게 설명하여
주옵소서
15:16
예수께서
이르시되
너희도
아직까지 깨달음이
없느냐
15:17
입으로 들어가는
모든 것은
배로 들어가서
뒤로 내버려지는 줄
알지 못하느냐
15:18
입에서
나오는 것들은
마음에서
나오나니
이것이야말로
사람을
더럽게 하느니라
15:19
마음에서
나오는 것은
악한 생각과
살인과
간음과
음란과
도둑질과
거짓 증언과
비방이니
15:20
이런 것들이
사람을 더럽게 하는
것이요
씻지 않은
손으로 먹는 것은
사람을
더럽게 하지
못하느니라
마태복음 15:13-20
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Pope Francis Condemns Death of George Floyd
Pope Francis Condemns Death of George Floyd
Rome(CNN)
Pope Francis has called
the death of George Floyd
at the hands of US police officers “tragic”
and said he is praying for him and
“all those others who have lost
their lives as a result of
the sin of racism.”
After an eighth night of protests
across the United States,
Francis addressed Floyd’s death
during his weekly Angelus prayer
at the Vatican on Wednesday.
“Dear brothers and sisters
in the United States,
I have witnessed with great concern
the disturbing social unrest
in your nation in these past days,
following the tragic death of
Mr. George Floyd,”
Francis said.
“My friends,
we cannot tolerate
or turn a blind eye to racism
and exclusion in any form
and yet claim to defend
the sacredness of every
human life.
“At the same time,
we have to recognize that
the violence of recent nights is
self-destructive and self-defeating.
Nothing is gained
by violence and so much is lost,”
he urged.
CNN Senior Vatican Analyst
John Allen said it is “relatively rare”
for the Pope to mention a specific
person by name.
A Vatican spokesperson told CNN
it was a “special appeal.”
From: CNN
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Robbers of The Truth
Robbers of The Truth
3
If
anyone
teaches
otherwise
and
does not
agree
to
*the sound
instruction of
our Lord
Jesus Christ
and
to *godly
teaching,
4
they are
conceited
and
understand
nothing.
They have
an unhealthy
interest
in
controversies
and
quarrels about
words
that result
in envy,
strife,
malicious talk,
evil suspicions
5
and
constant
friction
between
people of corrupt
mind,
who have been
robbed of
the truth
and
who think
that
*godliness
is a means to
financial
gain.
6
But
*godliness with
contentment is
great gain.
7
For
we brought
nothing
into
the world,
and
we can
take nothing
out of it.
8
But
if
we have
food
and
clothing,
we will be
content with
that.
9
Those who
want to get
rich
fall
into
temptation
and a trap
and into many
foolish
and harmful
desires
that
plunge people
into ruin
and
destruction.
10
For
the love of
money
is
a
root of
all kinds of
evil.
Some people,
eager for
money,
have
wandered
from the
faith
and
pierced
themselves
with
many griefs.
Final Charge to Timothy
11
But you,
man of God,
flee
from all this,
and
pursue
righteousness,
godliness,
faith,
love,
endurance
and
gentleness.
12
Fight
the good fight
of the faith.
Take
hold of
the eternal life
to
which
you were
called
when
you made
your good confession
in
the presence
of many
witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:3-12
6:3
누구든지
* 다른 교훈을
하며
바른 말
곧 우리 주
예수 그리스도의
*말씀과
경건에 관한
교훈을 따르지
아니하면
6:4
그는 교만하여
아무 것도 알지
못하고
변론과
언쟁을 좋아하는
자니
이로써
투기와
분쟁과
비방과
악한 생각이 나며
6:5
마음이
부패하여지고
진리를 잃어 버려
*경건을
이익의 방도로
생각하는
자들의
다툼이
일어나느니라
6:6
그러나
자족하는 마음이
있으면 *경건은
큰 이익이 되느니라
6:7
우리가 세상에
아무 것도 갖고 온 것이
없으매
또한 아무 것도
가지고 가지
못하리니
6:8
우리가
먹을 것과
입을 것이 있은즉
족한 줄로
알 것이니라
6:9
부하려 하는 자들은
시험과 올무와
여러 가지
어리석고 해로운
욕심에 떨어지나니
곧 사람으로
파멸과 멸망에
빠지게 하는 것이라
6:10
돈을 사랑함이
일만 악의 뿌리가
되나니
이것을
탐내는 자들은
미혹을 받아
믿음에서 떠나
많은
근심으로써
자기를 찔렀도다
6:11
오직 너
하나님의 사람아
이것들을 피하고
의와
경건과
믿음과
사랑과
인내와 온유를
따르며
6:12
믿음의
선한 싸움을
싸우라
영생을 취하라
이를 위하여
네가
부르심을 받았고
많은 증인 앞에서
선한 증언을
하였도다
디모데전서 6:3-12
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Trump’s Economic Plan?
Trump’s Economic Plan?
Trump’s Wealth Management Skill
In 1982,
Trump was listed
on the initial Forbes list
of wealthy individuals as having
a share of his family’s estimated
$200 million net worth.
His financial losses
in the 1980s caused him
to be dropped from the list
between 1990 and 1995.
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The Apprentice is an American reality television program
that judged the business skills of a group of contestants. It ran in various formats across fifteen seasons on NBC from 2004 to 2017.
From Encyclopedia
In its 2020 billionaires ranking,
Forbes estimated Trump’s net worth
at $2.1 billion[a] (1,001st in the world, 275th in the U.S.)
making him one of the richest politicians in American history
and the first billionaire American president.
During the three years
since Trump announced his presidential run
in 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth declined 31%
and his ranking fell 138 spots.
When he filed mandatory financial disclosure forms
with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in July 2015,
Trump claimed a net worth of about $10 billion;
however FEC figures cannot corroborate this estimate
because they only show each of his largest buildings
as being worth over $50 million, yielding total assets worth more than $1.4 billion and debt over $265 million.
Trump said in a 2007 deposition,
“My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down
with markets and with attitudes and with feelings,
even my own feelings.”
Journalist Jonathan Greenberg reported
in April 2018 that Trump, using a pseudonym
“John Barron”, called him in 1984 to falsely assert
that he owned “in excess of ninety percent” of the Trump family’s business, in an effort to secure a higher ranking on the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans.
Greenberg also wrote that Forbes had vastly
overestimated Trump’s wealth and wrongly
included him on the Forbes 400 rankings of 1982, 1983, and 1984.
Trump has often said he began his career with “a small loan of one million dollars” from his father, and that he had to pay it back with interest. In October 2018,
The New York Times reported that
Trump “was a millionaire by age 8”
, borrowed at least $60 million from his father,
largely failed to reimburse him, and had received $413 million (adjusted for inflation) from his father’s business empire over his lifetime.
According to the report,
Trump and his family committed tax fraud,
which a lawyer for Trump denied.
The tax department of New York says
it is “vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues
of investigation” into it.
Analyses by The Economist
and The Washington Post have concluded
that Trump’s investments underperformed
the stock market.
Forbes estimated in October 2018
that the value of Trump’s personal brand
licensing business had declined by 88%
since 2015, to $3 million.
Trump’s tax returns from 1985 to 1994 show
net losses totaling $1.17 billion
over the ten-year period, in contrast to his claims
about his financial health and business abilities.
The New York Times reported that “year after year,
Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money
than nearly any other individual American taxpayer”,
and Trump’s “core business losses in 1990 and 1991 –
more than $250 million each year –were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years”. In 1995 his reported losses were $915.7 million.
From Encyclopedia
Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump
From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016,
Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts, including battles with casino patrons, million-dollar real estate lawsuits, personal defamation lawsuits, and over 100 business tax disputes.
He has also been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault, with one accusation resulting in him being held civilly liable.
In 2015, Trump’s lawyer Alan Garten called Trump’s legal entanglements “a natural part of doing business” in the U.S. While litigation is indeed common in the real estate industry, Trump has been involved in more legal cases than his fellow magnates Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., Donald Bren, Stephen M. Ross, Sam Zell, and Larry Silverstein combined. Much of the lawsuits were filed against patrons with debt to his casinos. Of all cases with a clear resolution, Trump was the victor 92 percent of the time.
Numerous legal matters and investigations occurred during and after Trump’s presidency, some being of historical import. Between October 2021 and July 2022 alone, the Republican National Committee paid more than US$2 million to attorneys representing Trump in his presidential, personal, and business capacities. In January 2023, a federal judge fined Trump and his attorney nearly $1 million, characterizing him as “a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries”.
On December 6, 2022, the parent company of Trump’s many businesses, The Trump Organization, was convicted on 17 criminal charges.
Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and is appealing an order to pay more than $80 million in damages to the victim, E. Jean Carroll. Trump, together with his associates, has also been found liable for fraud regarding overvaluation of The Trump Organization and Trump’s net worth, and is appealing a $364 million fine[16] plus $100 million interest. In 2024, Trump was convicted on numerous counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels,[19] although the sentencing has been delayed in light of a Supreme Court ruling that may have relevance to the case.
In 2024, Trump will also face trial on federal charges related to the 2020 election. In 2025, Trump is expected to go to trial for federal charges relating to his handling of classified documents.
From Encyclopedia
Trump’s Bankruptcy
THE FACT CHECKER
Washington Post
6:58 PM
September 26 by Michelle Lee
Fact Check: Has Trump declared bankruptcy four or six times?
“You’ve taken business bankruptcies six times.”
–Hillary Clinton
“On occasion – four times – we used certain laws that are there.”
–Donald Trump
THE FACT CHECKER | Clinton is correct.
Trump’s companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which means a company can remain in business while wiping away many of its debts. The bankruptcy court ultimately approves a corporate budget and a plan to repay remaining debts; often shareholders lose much of their equity.
Trump’s Taj Mahal opened in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin,” The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow found. In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt.
PolitiFact uncovered two more bankruptcies filed after 1992, totaling six. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Trump Entertainment Resorts also declared bankruptcy in 2009, after being hit hard during the 2008 recession.
Why the discrepancy? Perhaps this will give us an idea: Trump told Washington Post reporters that he counted the first three bankruptcies as just one.
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The Bloodthirsty Hate a Person of Integrity
The Bloodthirsty Hate a Person of Integrity
1
Whoever
remains stiff-necked
after many
rebukes
will
suddenly
be destroyed—
without remedy.
2
When
the righteous
thrive,
the people
rejoice;
when
the wicked
rule,
the people
groan.
3
A man
who loves
wisdom
brings
joy
to
his father,
but
a companion of
prostitutes
squanders
his wealth.
4
By
justice
a king
gives
a country
stability,
but
those
who are greedy
for bribes
tear it down.
5
Those who
flatter their
neighbors
are
spreading nets
for their
feet.
6
Evildoers
are snared by
their own
sin,
but
the righteous
shout for joy
and
are glad.
7
The
righteous
care about
justice
for the poor,
but
the wicked
have no
such concern.
8
Mockers
stir up a city,
but
the wise
turn away anger.
9
If
a wise person
goes to court
with a fool,
the fool
rages and
scoffs,
and
there is
no peace.
10
The
bloodthirsty
hate
a person
of integrity
and
seek
to kill
the upright.
11
Fools
give full vent
to their rage,
but
the wise
bring calm
in the end.
12
If
a ruler
listens to
lies,
all
his officials
become
wicked.
13
The poor
and the oppressor
have this
in common:
The Lord
gives sight
to the eyes of
both.
14
If
a king
judges
the poor
with
fairness,
his
throne
will be
established
forever.
15
A rod
and a reprimand
impart wisdom,
but
a child left
undisciplined
disgraces
its mother.
16
When
the wicked
thrive,
so does
sin,
but
the righteous
will see
their
downfall.
Proverbs 29:1-16
왕은 정의로 나라를 견고하게 하나
29:1
자주 책망을
받으면서도
목이 곧은
사람은
갑자기 패망을
당하고
피하지 못하리라
29:2
의인이
많아지면
백성이
즐거워하고
악인이
권세를 잡으면
백성이
탄식하느니라
29:3
지혜를
사모하는
자는
아비를
즐겁게 하여도
창기와
사귀는 자는
재물을 잃느니라
29:4
왕은
정의로
나라를
견고하게 하나
뇌물을
억지로
내게 하는 자는
나라를
멸망시키느니라
29:5
이웃에게
아첨하는 것은
그의 발 앞에
그물을 치는
것이니라
29:6
악인이
범죄하는
것은
스스로
올무가 되게 하는
것이나
의인은
노래하고
기뻐하느니라
29:7
의인은
가난한 자의
사정을 알아 주나
악인은
알아 줄 지식이
없느니라
29:8
거만한 자는
성읍을
요란하게
하여도
슬기로운 자는
노를
그치게
하느니라
29:9
지혜로운 자와
미련한 자가
다투면
지혜로운 자가
노하든지
웃든지
그 다툼은
그침이
없느니라
29:10
피 흘리기를
좋아하는
자는
온전한 자를
미워하고
정직한 자의
생명을
찾느니라
29:11
어리석은 자는
자기의 노를
다 드러내어도
지혜로운 자는
그것을 억제하느니라
29:12
관원이
거짓말을 들으면
그의 하인들은
다 악하게 되느니라
29:13
가난한 자와
포학한 자가
섞여 살거니와
여호와께서는
그 모두의 눈에
빛을 주시느니라
29:14
왕이
가난한 자를
성실히
신원하면
그의 왕위가
영원히 견고하리라
29:15
채찍과
꾸지람이
지혜를 주거늘
임의로
행하게 버려 둔
자식은
어미를
욕되게 하느니라
29:16
악인이
많아지면
죄도
많아지나니
의인은
그들의 망함을
보리라
잠언 29:1-16
Holy Bible
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