Mayorkas: Migrants who died in Texas 'put their lives' in criminal organizations' hands
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday warned against migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border after dozens died inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas last week. “These migrants received false information from smugglers,” Mayorkas said on CBS's "Face the Nation." “They put their lives, their life savings, in the hands of these exploitative organizations, these criminal organizations that do not care for their lives and only seek to make a profit,” he added, noting that smuggling organizations have become “very sophistic
Read MoreThere’s something more dangerous than the ‘Big Lie’
In a recent Jan. 6 hearing, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling revealed the most important insight into our current democratic challenges. He was describing how he painstakingly went through each false election claim put forward by one of his family members. When the list was exhausted, the family member acknowledged the evidence presented but declared that it didn’t matter. He knew “in his heart” the election was stolen. We need to understand and address this mindset to find our way forward as a democracy and a society. It’s not about the lie, but what lies beneath.
Read MoreNow more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton
Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for the Wall Street Journal which argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once unfathomable scenario — a comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024 — highly plausible. Our reasoning was that President Biden’s low approval rating, do
Read MoreHHS secretary: 'I don't believe' Roe will be overturned for long
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said during an interview aired Sunday that “I don’t believe” the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would stand for long. “I've been around long enough to know that nothing's ever totally safe. But remember, we still haven't even been able to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. And so this country has a way to go. But certainly I don't believe this decision by this court and Dobbs is going to stand long. This is just not America,” Becerra said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The Supreme Court last month ruled it wo
Read MoreJan. 6 panel member 'surprised' by prosecutors' reaction to Hutchinson testimony
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who sits on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said she is “surprised” by federal prosecutors’ reactions to testimony given before the panel this week by Cassidy Hutchinson, who previously served as an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that was aired on Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked Lofgren to react to a story published last week in The New York
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