Donald Trump launched his campaign on the issue of immigration – particularly Mexican immigration to the United States – saying he would stop and deport all undocumented Mexican immigrants.
Well, as he nears the end of his first year in the White House, it seems the Trump administration isn’t quite as productive in deporting Mexican nationals as his predecessor.
So far in 2017, about 27% fewer Mexican nationals have been deported compared to the previous year.
In total, Trump’s use of the United States’ deportation machinery resulted in roughly 152,000 Mexican nationals being deported between and January and November 2017. Obama’s use of the nation’s deportation machinery resulted in roughly 205,000 Mexican nationals being deported between January and November 2016.
The information was released by Mexico’s Interior Ministry and first reported on by Milenio. Overall, Trump’s record on immigration so far amounts to a 27 percent drop in deportations of Mexican nationals compared to Obama’s final year at the helm.
As far as U.S. government statistics are concerned, data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) shows a somewhat similar drop in “removals” of Mexican nationals from the country during financial year 2017 compared to financial year 2016–the U.S. government financial year spans from October 1 to September 30.
According to ICE, During Obama’s final year spearheading the nation’s deportation system, some 150,000 Mexican nationals were deported. During Trump’s first year, some 129,000 Mexican nationals were deported. Those numbers together result in a 21 percent drop in expulsions from Obama to Trump.
Oh, man. The year 2017 just took one more beloved TV star from us.
Rose Marie, 3-time Emmy Award nominee for her role as “Sally Rogers” on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s, has passed away at the age on 94.
I’ve been following her on Twitter the last few months as she began tweeting in part to promote the new documentary, Wait For Your Kaugh, which chronicles her 9-decades long career. The joy she expressed in the positive reception of the film was charming and infectious.
She began her career at 3, starring in her own show on NBC radio by the age of 5, cutting records and appearing in vaudeville, in shorts including 1929’s “Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder” and in Paramount’s 1933 feature “International House” with W.C. Fields.
Variety founder Sime Silverman himself mentioned Rose Marie in its pages for “The Child Wonder,” writing, “Though but a kidlet, she seemed to have an idea of her own.”
Later, as a teenager, she became a nightclub singer before returning to radio as a comedienne.
In the early 1950s Rose Marie appeared on television variety shows as a singer and dancer, and she returned to the bigscreen in 1954, starring opposite Phil Silvers in “Top Banana,” an adaptation of Silvers’ Broadway show about a TV comedian.
The actress recurred on “The Bob Cummings Show” as Martha in 1958-59, and she was a series regular on a brief TV adaptation of “My Sister Eileen.” After “The Dick Van Dyke Show” she guested on a variety of TV shows, including “The Monkees” and “My Three Sons,” and she recurred on “The Doris Day Show.”
During the 1960s she also appeared onstage in “Bye Bye Birdie” and in a pair of features, starring opposite her “Van Dyke” co-star Morey Amsterdam in “Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title,” and appearing in “Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round,” starring James Coburn.
Rose Marie made a steady stream of TV appearances from the early 1970s until the early 2000s, appearing, for example, on “Adam-12” and “Kojak”; recurring as Hilda the sandwich delivery lady on “S.W.A.T.”; appearing repeatedly in different roles on “The Love Boat”; guesting on “Cagney and Lacey” and “Murphy Brown”; appearing as a series regular on the brief 1994 sports comedy “Hardball”; and guesting on “Caroline in the City” (with Amsterdam), “Wings” and “Suddenly, Susan.” She was also a semi-regular on “Hollywood Squares” in the 1980s and ’90s.
Onstage, she starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue “4 Girls 4,” which toured the U.S. and made television appearances for several years beginning in 1977.
I had one small brush with Rose Marie – in 1984, I got my Equity card performing in West Side Story at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. While we rehearsed during the day, Rose Marie was starring as the Queen in Once Upon A Mattress at night with her Dick Van Dyke Show co-star Morey Amsterdam.
I watched a rehearsal one day (she was hysterical) and got to say ‘hello’ a few times. Having grown up on The Dick Van Dyke Show, I was thrilled to meet the TV icon. I was amazed when she recently tweeted about the production.
Rose Marie with her DVDS co-star Morey Amsterdam in “Once Upon A Mattress at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
Her final tweet from yesterday brings another small coincidental connection as I live in Las Vegas and was literally at The Flamingo last night.
Rest in peace, Rose Marie. You had a great run.
After opening the @FlamingoVegas 71 years ago this week, I always considered myself a Flamingo Girl, and worked there many times. I worked other casino showrooms, but only after I made sure it was okay with “the boys” at the Flamingo. pic.twitter.com/x9NFOCElo2
• Kenneth-in-the-212 has a regular series of posts on “Hunks of House Hunters” because haven’t we all noticed the many handsome home seekers on the popular HGTV series?
• The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld the Oregon labor commissioner’s decision that Christian bakers Melissa and Aaron Klein must pay $135,000 in damages to the lesbian couple they denied a lesbian couple a wedding cake.
• These shirtless guys working out in the snow has to be seen to be believed. Titled “Twisted Snow” in a post by Powerlifting Motivation, the video features “powerlifting” with dry humping in the falling snow. I think some folks will find this just a bit amusing 🙂
Earlier this week, I saw this tweet from Vanity Fair that suggested, among other things, Hillary Clinton should “Take up a new hobby in the New Year. Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy… Literally anything that would keep you from running again.”
I rarely have any strong views, or any at all as to Vanity Fair, expectations and interest too low, but that thing on Clinton? WTF? Not just *stupidly* sexist but also explicitly, smugly ageist. You have decades of accumulated global experience too offer? Go knit.
Hey, @VanityFair, how we feeling this morning? Tired? Sexist? Hopefully, the criticism you received for that awful video on Hillary made you wake up wanting to do better. Quick tip: don’t tell one of the most accomplished women in the world to take up knitting.
In any case, Donald Trump (who has no time for golf or watching Fox News or reading anything the least bit negative about Hillary Clinton) chimed in today on the subject chiding Vanity Fair and somehow invoking the name of Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue – a completely different publication from Vanity Fair (other than that “V”).
Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!
Well, this will surely go into the “Who am I? Why am I here?” moment for sure. Dotard Trump forgets that Anna Wintour is with Vogue, not Vanity Fair.#ThursdayThoughtspic.twitter.com/tmpVmRKRTo
Failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore still refuses to concede he lost the U.S. Senate election in Alabama to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Democrat Doug Jones.
In what looks to be a lame ‘hail Mary’ attempt to stop Doug Jones from being seated, Moore has filed a complaint with the Alabama State Canvassing Board intended to stop the certification of Jones’ victory.
The Moore campaign filed a complaint late Wednesday night in state circuit court in Montgomery, the state capital, seeking a temporary restraining order to postpone the certification, alleging “potential election fraud that improperly altered the outcome of this election.”
“This is not a Republican or Democrat issue as election integrity should matter to everyone,” Moore said in a statement released by the campaign.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told The Associated Press on Wednesday evening that he has no intention of delaying the canvassing board meeting.
“It is not going to delay certification and Doug Jones will be certified (Thursday) at 1 p.m. and he will be sworn in by Vice President Pence on the third of January,” Merrill said.
Moore’s statement gives few details of the purported irregularities, which it says were substantiated “with a reasonable degree of statistical and mathematical certainty” by three election experts.
State officials say they have seen no evidence of voter fraud in the Alabama Senate race.
One of Moore’s “election experts” also says he has “mathematically proven” a vast conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. So, there you go…
Moore also included the results of a polygraph he claims “proves” none of the allegations of sexual misconduct are true.
#WhatEverHappenedToClass?
CNN spoke to Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill this morning who says Moore’s last-minute shenanigans won’t stop his office from certifying the results of the election.
Watch below.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: “Do Roy Moore’s claims of election fraud have any merit?” Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill: “The short answer to that is no. Doug Jones will be certified today” https://t.co/ZXkfcsTrAqhttps://t.co/pQxRhhhYJ7
Roy Moore is suing to stop Alabama election results from being certified, citing unusually high voter turnout in Jefferson County, Alabama. The county seat is Birmingham (73% black). What could possibly motivate black people to vote against an old white man who supports slavery? https://t.co/o6Zetf0nAm
Roy Moore had said America hadn’t been great since slavery, can’t understand high voter turnout by Blacks who voted against him. https://t.co/33I7YYsVt7
• It’s Hump Day – Do I really need to explain why actor/model Trevor LaPaglia (above) is here? #woof
• Who could possibly be a big enough star to headline the Sydney Gay & Lesbian 40th Mardi Gras celebration the year that marriage equality becomes a reality? Word is it’s the one and only Cher.
• Donald Trump’s lawyers are telling the Trumpster the Robert Mueller investigation will soon come to an end, but those in the know say that’s “fanciful” thinking as Yahoo News reports Mueller has just collected “a mountain of new evidence.”
• Kansas City weatherman Gary Lezak came out to the world and introduced his longtime partner in a moving Facebook post last week.
Donald Trump will be thrilled to know that he has shattered at least one record as a first-year president. The Trumpster, who famously campaigned on the promise that he wouldn’t “have time to play golf” if elected president, spent nearly one-third (111 days) of his first year in office on vacation. Most of those were at his own golf properties resulting in a windfall for him financially due to the costs of housing Secret Service, aides and staffers. Continue reading “Donald Trump Shatters First-Year Presidents’ Vacation Days Record”
