Rep. Tlaib calls to ‘defund’ DHS, CBP, ICE amid migrant crisis
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) questions Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has extended her calls to defund the police to federal law enforcement agencies. In a recent interview, the Democrat congresswoman said she wants to eliminate funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), particularly its’ border protection and immigration enforcement agencies.
“We must eliminate funding for CBP, ICE and their parent organization, DHS,” said Tlaib.
Campaign to discredit Trump s enemies
The story was first broken by The New York Times, who were able to talk to several people involved in the operation. Veritas was reportedly encouraged to conduct the operations after Trump s frequent attacks on the FBI, CIA, State Department and others who he was convinced were trying to undermine him. The unelected deep-state operatives who defy the voters to push their own secret agendas, he said in 2018, are truly a threat to democracy itself.
It is unclear if anyone in the White House had knowledge of the efforts, but according to the Times, at least one person with access to McMaster s calendar was roped in. That was confirmed by Barbara Ledeen, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ledeen was confirmed to have a role in the operations. Leeden told the Times, I am not part of a plot and insisted she was merely a messenger.
More than 40 attorneys general ask Facebook to abandon plans to build Instagram for kids
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Attorneys general from 44 states and territories urged Facebook to abandon its plans to create an Instagram service for kids under the age of 13, citing detrimental health effects of social media on children and Facebook s reportedly checkered past of protecting children on its platform.
Monday s letter follows questioning from federal lawmakers who have also expressed concern over social media s impact on children.
Facebook committed to not show ads in any Instagram experience we develop for people under the age of 13, a spokesperson said in a statement.
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