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THE HILL, by Morgan Chalfant,Jacqueline Thomsen ,Chris Mills Rodrigo and Rafael Bernal — July 15, 2019

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The Trump administration is moving to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced Monday.

According to text of the rule set to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday, asylum seekers who pass through another country before reaching the United States will be ineligible for asylum when they reach the southern border.

The move marks an acceleration in the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the number of migrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico and has the potential to considerably reduce the number of asylum claims.

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https://thehill.com/latino/453050-trump-to-end-protections-for-central-american-migrants-at-us-mexico-border

NATIONAL REVIEW, by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — July 13, 2019

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Double-jeopardy rules almost certainly prohibit settling a federal case and then prosecuting it again in federal court.

Alex Acosta did a bad job on the Jeffrey Epstein case. This column was nearly finished when news broke Friday that he would resign as labor secretary. I was going to argue that his lapses did not justify joining the nakedly political mau-mauing by Democrats who have no interest in exploring the behavior of Democrats who are neck-deep in a monstrous pedophile’s activities. My friend Jennifer Braceras has ably addressed that point in a Washington Examiner column. I was also going to add that I’d shed no tears if President Trump forced Acosta out — easy for me to say, since I think (a) he should never have been nominated in the first place, and (b) his commitment to Trump’s deregulation agenda has never been sufficiently ardent.

Under the circumstances, I’ll spare you a few hundred words of critique on Acosta’s indecorous performance. Instead, to cut to the chase, I do not believe we can yet total up the wages of the sweetheart deal he cut for Epstein while he was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida (SD-Florida). The commentariat is glibly assuming the courts will give the feds a second bite at the apple by allowing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to prosecute the charges that Acosta forfeited. I don’t think so.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-double-jeopardy-rules/

The Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph N. DiStefano — July 11, 2019

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It’s one of those Wall Street mysteries: How did Jeffrey D. Epstein, the “billionaire financier” and past social pal of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, who was arrested on sex-trafficking charges as investigators raided his Manhattan apartment last week, get to be so rich?

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From his prison cell at Fort Dix and later in a string of legal actions, Epstein’s former boss, Steven J. Hoffenberg, has for years claimed a simpler explanation. Hoffenberg alleges that Epstein kept proceeds from Towers Financial Corp., the vast 1990s Ponzi scheme that landed Hoffenberg a 20-year sentence and an order to repay nearly half a billion dollars — more like $1 billion by now, with interest.

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https://www.inquirer.com/business/jeffrey-epstein-hoffenberg-trump-clinton-20190711.html

Gateway Pundit, by Joe Hoft — July 13, 2019

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A girl by the name of Rachel Chandler is suspected of being a witness to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes on his “Orgy Island” with this sick friends.  The young lady may have devastating information that has been handed over to the government.

The story goes that the young Chandler was recruited by Jeffrey Epstein’s friend or madam as some refer to her, Ghislaine Maxwell.  Maxwell supposedly recruited young girls who then flew on Epstein’s airplanes with the rich and famous who in turn used and abused these young women.

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Chandler and Roberts were both reportedly young under age women recruited by Jeffrey Epstein to prostitute themselves for Epstein’s rich and famous friends.

Chandler has shared pictures of herself with many celebrities and politicians.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/rumors-swirling-that-one-of-epsteins-underage-prostitutes-has-provided-damaging-information-on-epsteins-friends-and-accomplices/

Townhall, by Guy Benson — July 12, 2019

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His position untenable and his saga inflicting an endless parade of headache-inducing news cycles upon the White House, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced his resignation this morning.  Some of the points he made in his own defense at a lengthy press conference this week seemed fair and valid, but his combination of buck-passing, contrived helplessness, and selective talking points left numerous questions unanswered.  So he’s out.  The stomach-turning Epstein case is far from over, of course, and one gets the sense that there’s much more sordidness lurking beneath its already-seedy and disturbing surface.  

Without delving into every outrageous aspect of this mess, two questions continue to baffle: First, how did Epstein amass his fortune?  Second, what was Sec. Acosta talking about when he reportedly told the Trump administration’s vetting team that he was waved off of throwing the book at Epstein because of nebulous intelligence community interests?  Let’s begin with Epstein’s money.  The source of his prodigious resources is shrouded in confusion and opacity — and has long been the subject of guessing games among New York’s elite finance community.  New York Magazine delves into one growing theory, fueled by the confounding reality that nobody within that plugged-in world seems to know virtually any Epstein investors, nor have they traded with him.  

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/12/with-acosta-out-two-huge-epstein-mysteries-remain-n2549975

DAILY CALLER, by Jason Hopkins — July 11, 2019

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday publicly warned illegal immigrants not to open the door if an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is knocking.

“An ICE deportation warrant is not the same as a search warrant. If that is the only document ICE brings to a home raid, agents do not have the legal right to enter a home. If ICE agents don’t have a warrant signed by a judge, a person may refuse to open the door and let them in,” Pelosi, reading from a card, said at her weekly press conference.

The speaker’s comments come as the Trump administration is once again preparing to launch sweeping raids across the U.S.

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https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/07/11/pelosi-illegals-avoid-ice/

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