Light News Dump

Two New Tent Cities Will Be Built in Texas to Hold Migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/mcaleenan-migrants-border-texas.html

We're Spending Nearly $40M on New Tent Cities to House Migrant Families
https://splinternews.com/were-spending-nearly-40m-on-new-tent-cities-to-house-m-1834137481

The U.S.-Mexico border isn't protected by militias, it's patrolled by domestic terrorists.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/u-s-mexico-border-isn-t-protected-militias-it-s-ncna997056

 Trump is directing the secretaries of state and homeland security to find ways to combat visa overstays, setting a deadline of the end of the summer for next steps on the issue. Immigrant rights advocates warned that the memorandum issued by Trump on Monday could lead to action with broad implications for legal immigration. “Similar to the executive orders from the first days of the Trump administration, this order lays the groundwork for significant policy changes . . . that continue to curb legal immigration and further expand enforcement operations,” Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said in a statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-eyes-action-against-countries-with-high-visa-overstay-rates/2019/04/22/26f19c3c-654b-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?tid=sm_tw_pol


America’s Elderly Are Twice as Likely to Work Now Than in 1985 — Twenty percent of those age 65 and up haven’t retired. Many can’t afford to.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/america-s-elderly-are-twice-as-likely-to-work-now-than-in-1985

Trump just said 'nobody disobeys my orders.' Here are 7 times they seemingly did.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/836615/trump-just-said-nobody-disobeys-orders-here-are-7-times-seemingly-did

House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Don McGahn
https://www.axios.com/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-don-mcgahn-1555967307-85473834-e0be-4c2c-a090-45a5029f6ae0.html

YEP: Anti-Semitism, British politics, and the indecency of Jeremy Corbyn
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/03/07/anti-semitism-british-politics-and-the-indecency-of-jeremy-corbyn/

Leader of armed militia at US border boasted of training to kill liberals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/armed-militia-leader-us-border-assassination-training-fbi

RNC pays tiny, unknown intelligence firm for 2020 opposition research on Democrats
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/rnc-hires-little-known-intel-firm-outliers-group-for-opposition-research-on-dems.html

Mueller Clearly Thinks Trump Could Be Charged Once He’s Out of Office: The special counsel makes his view plain in a single footnote. A possible remedy through impeachment for abuses of power would not substitute for potential criminal liability after a President leaves office. Impeachment would remove a President from office, but would not address the underlying culpability of the conduct or serve the usual purposes of the criminal law. Indeed, the Impeachment Judgment Clause recognizes that criminal law plays an independent role in addressing an official’s conduct, distinct from the political remedy of impeachment. See U.S. CONST. ART. l, § 3, cl. 7. Impeachment is also a drastic and rarely invoked remedy, and Congress is not restricted to relying only on impeachment, rather than making criminal law applicable to a former President, as OLC has recognized. A Sitting President’s Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution, 24 Op. O.L.C. at 255 (“Recognizing an immunity from prosecution for a sitting President would not preclude such prosecution once the President’s term is over or he is otherwise removed from office by resignation or impeachment.”).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/mueller-report-footnote-1091-prosecute-trump-obstruction-post-presidency.html

Wayne Messam becomes third 2020 Dem to back Trump impeachment. Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro called for impeachment as well.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440057-wayne-messam-becomes-third-2020-dem-to-back-impeachment-proceedings

The number of Canadians who are $200 or less away from financial insolvency every month has climbed to 48 per cent, up from 46 per cent in the previous quarter, in a sign of deteriorating financial stability for many people in the country, according to a new poll.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/maxed-out-48-of-canadians-within-200-of-insolvency-survey-says-1.1247336

We Asked Democratic Activists Who They’re Backing (Copmala and Booker) — And Who They’d Hate To See Win (Tulsa and Bernard)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-asked-democratic-activists-who-theyre-backing-and-who-theyd-hate-to-see-win/

Britain has broken its record for the longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48015613

Would Texas' Endangered, Recovering Bears Survive Border Construction?
https://www.adventure-journal.com/2019/04/would-texas-endangered-recovering-bears-survive-border-construction/

Zero Tolerance: Inside the Secretive Network of Immigrant Youth Shelters in Illinois — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/zero-tolerance-illinois-immigrant-youth-shelters-reporting-propublica-illinois

Brunei defends death by stoning for gay sex in letter to EU
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/brunei-defends-stoning-death-gay-sex-letter-eu

Boyfriend's fury as Indian men who 'drugged, raped and beheaded his girlfriend before hanging her from a tree' are freed on bail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6946443/Boyfriends-fury-Indian-men-drugged-raped-beheaded-girlfriend-freed-bail.html

[Rosenthal] #RedSox right-hander Nathan Eovaldi will undergo surgery tomorrow to remove the loose bodies in his elbow, a source tells The Athletic. Had similar procedure in 2018 and missed two months while with #Rays.
https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1120449436440829953?s=21

[SNY] Brodie Van Wagenen says Jacob deGrom's MRI came back "clean"
https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1120446621316202498?s=21