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Trump Approval With Hispanics surges 10 points according to polling data

Assuming a survey from the Harvard University-Harris poll is valid, Hispanic support for President Donald Trump has grown by 10 percentage points.

The data was gathered from an  online poll of about 1,500 registered voters in in late June while the illegal immigration/family separation controversy was raging.

The mainstream media tends to insist that various constituency groups always vote in a monolithic fashion, but the Harris poll — which is headed by a former Clinton adviser — suggests otherwise.

.@tuckercarlson on @POTUS's rising approval ratings during his recent crackdown on illegal immigration: "After a full month of cable news morons calling him 'Hitler', Trump's approval rating rose"

In a month Trump's approval rating among hispanics shot up 10 points! pic.twitter.com/luZW13plTv read more

Children Separated from Their Families — Permanently [Video]

Mary Ann Mendoza, Laura Wilkerson, and Agnes Gibboney spoke with FNC’s Martha McCallum about their meeting on Friday with President Trump at the White House with other Angel Moms and Dads and family members.

“Both appearances centered around the meaning of ‘real separation’ versus the manufactured media ‘crisis’ going on at the U.S.-Mexico border,” The Daily Caller explained in the context of the temporary separation of some minors and their illegal alien parents or others with whom they entered the U.S. on an undocumented basis.

Agnes Gibboney, a legal immigrant, had this to say.

“When my son was murdered I didn’t know for 11 years that the man that killed my son was an illegal alien [and] had an ICE hold. The media doesn’t report truthfully what the separation of families really is, but I would like to show everybody what real separation of families is. This is what separates my son and myself is a coffin and six feet of dirt. How is that for real separation of families?”

Said Mary Ann Mendoza:

“When you have a problem like what is happening at the border you can’t start at the end result and start placing blame. You have to go back to the origin of the problem. And that’s what the parents, the mothers letting their children go with these smugglers and the cartel bringing these children to our borders. That is where the anger needs to be directed. It should not be directed at the United States for upholding its laws, and quite frankly I’m happy that the United States was able to step in and save some of the children from the fate they were dealt, and who knows what was going to happen to them?”

We are gathered today to hear directly from the AMERICAN VICTIMS of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. These are the American Citizens permanently separated from their loved ones b/c they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores…https://t.co/ZjXESYAcjY read more

Does Bill Maher Want Mike Cernovich to Die?

Is anyone dying for a recession?

On June 8, HBO comedian Bill Maher claimed that an economic recession is a good thing because it would be a way to get rid of President Donald Trump.

Author, journalist, and filmmaker Mike Cernovich subsequently tweeted that since suicides increase during recessionary periods, “Bill Maher wants people to die,” which caught the attention of the Real Time host.

Last night, Maher satirically agreed, specifically naming Mike Cernovich as a potential recession casualty.

Maher continued, however, that “No, I don’t want him to die. I don’t know who the f**k you are Mike Cernovich, but I want you to live a long, healthy life and get the help you so desperately need.”

Cernovich told Gateway Pundit that “It’s funny. He’s obviously a stealth fan.”

In his monologue, Maher added that “In a situation this grave, it is not crazy to use economic manipulation…A recession is a survivable event What Trump is doing to this country is not.”

Bill Maher can be an amusing and sometimes perceptive observer of the political scene (who knows how many staff writers are feeding him material). To his credit, he occasionally dissents from the liberal, politically correct groupthink on some issues, to the shock of the trained seals in his audience.

That said, he — like many of his contemporaries in Hollywood — appears to be suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.

Video: @BillMaher: “One way you get rid of @realDonaldTrump is a crashing economy, so please bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people, but it’s either root for a recession or lose your democracy.” #RealTime #TTT pic.twitter.com/wSd6jNYueC read more

Crying Honduran Child Separated from Migrant Mother Was Never Separated

A crying little girl whose image was blasted all over the Internet as a symbol of the Trump (and Obama) administration’s harsh family separation policy was never separated from her mother at the southern border. They are currently detained together in McAllen, Tex, where the mom has applied for asylum.

“The moving photo was used by the liberal media and far left activists to pummel the Trump administration for its decision to start strictly enforcing immigration laws at the border,” Gateway Pundit explained.

But wait, there’s more.

From the Washington Post:

“But the girl’s father told The Washington Post on Thursday night that his child and her mother were not separated, and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed that the family was not separated while in the agency’s custody.”

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The Daily Mail reports the mom left three children behind in Honduras and also was deported from the U.S. in July 2013 according to ICE. Reentry after deportation is a felony.

“[The husband] said that [his wife] set out on the 1,800-mile journey with the baby girl on June 3, at 6 am, and he has not heard from her since…He said he heard from friends that his wife paid $6,000 for a coyote – a term for someone who smuggles people across the border.”

Time nonetheless says that it’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.

JUST IN: Time magazine standing by the cover: pic.twitter.com/gXKg4shL6F read more

Kevin McHale Allegedly Attends Trump Rally in Duluth

Blue-check Twitter is apparently calling for ex-NBA star and coach Kevin McHale to be fired from his job as a TNT commentator after allegedly attending the Donald Trump rally in Duluth, Minn., last night.

Merely showing up to hear a president speak doesn’t necessarily mean that a person supports the entire POTUS agenda. Moreover, the controversy du jour that has enraged the social justice cohort — family separation at the border — was also in effect during the Obama administration with no outcry.

“Speculation that the man in the images is McHale was fueled by his wife Lynn McHale, who regularly posts pro-Trump updates on Twitter. And when Twitter users thought they had seen her husband at the Duluth rally, they descended on her account—which she then deleted,” Newsweek explained.

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From Clay Travis’ Outkick the Coverage blog:

“It’s important to note that LeBron James attended a Hillary Clinton campaign event on the stage and not one person with any kind of audience in the country had any issue with that or even remotely suggested it should impact his job status. Because LeBron’s a citizen, just like you and me, and he has a right to his political opinions, just like you and me, even if we disagree. This is what reasonable adults used to think… all Kevin McHale did was attend a rally. He was just in the crowd. He didn’t speak or openly support Trump. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but he didn’t do it.) All McHale did was show up in the corner of a photograph of the rally.”

Greg Popovich, Steve Kerr, LeBron, all of them can rip Donald Trump publicly & no one says a word about their jobs. But Kevin McHale, in his own private life, can't even silently stand in the crowd at a Trump rally? The sports media has gone insane: https://t.co/fb6G9EB3Bx read more

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