increased numbers at our southern border. they sent a team down this week to ask about whether or not there were enough teachers there or what the accommodations were for kids? how about the team ask what are we doing to stop it and turn these migrants back and tell them this isn t the way to come to america? dana: i really think we need to focus on the humanitarian condition. is it more humane to say do not come. let us get our systems in place but do not come right now. you will be turned away. don t take the journey. don t undertake it. try to deal with your situation better at home rather than forcing them out on the trail. bill: a lot of policies in the trump years have been turned around in 60 days. surprisingly the white house sent the senior team down to the border over the weekend. spent a few days there and we re told through the white house just yesterday that they hope to meet with president biden sometime this week. that was the phrase that was used yesterday
Portland-based attorney James Buchal on the federal government dropping nearly half of all Portland riot cases.
Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler said Saturday he was grateful for the White House’s support after President Biden reversed a Trump administration order that allowed federal agents to intervene in the city s riots last summer. Thankful for the support of the current administration, the embattled mayor, who narrowly won reelection, pointedly wrote on Twitter.
The anti-rioting executive order was among several Biden reversed Friday through his own executive orders.
Trump actions canceled by Biden included the former president s July order to create a garden of monuments to American Heroes in response to damage to statues across the U.S.
The Democratic mayor of Portland Ted Wheeler said Saturday he is grateful to President Joe Biden for rescinding Donald Trump s order allowing an influx of federal agents to help quell riots that gripped the city last summer.
The executive order, issued in July, directed agents to protect monuments, statues and federal property as violent mobs ransacked Oregon s largest city following demonstrations sparked by George Floyd s murder.
The order is one of several issued by Trump that Biden has now rescinded, prompting Wheeler to tweet: Thankful for the support of the current administration.
Ted Wheeler - Mayor of Portland, Oregon - on Saturday welcomed news President Biden had rescinded a Trump executive order dispatching federal troops to help quell riots
The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest local newspaper, retracted its previous endorsement for defunding the police when it published an editorial calling for the
“While we supported the move at the time, we – and all Portlanders – should recognize what has also been lost. The Gun Violence Reduction Team responded to every shooting, identifying incidents that were connected and helping disrupt potential retaliatory action,” wrote
“Officers had established relationships with many of those considered high-risk for being involved in gun violence, connecting people with resources in the community as well as communicating with them about ongoing disputes to keep violence down,” continued the article. “And as part of their work, they took dozens of guns off the street.”
Mar 15, 2021
Back in June of last year, as the mayors of liberal cities tried to “out-woke” each other during the George Floyd/BLM riots Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced that he was defunding the police department by $12 million.
He said that the money taken from the police budget would be diverted to other city departments to support communities of color. Some of the money defunded a police unit that focused on gun violence reduction.
“My privilege as a white man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community I believe shielded me from time to time from the many difficult and uncomfortable truths about our history and about our society.”