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“It has been suggested that
we should rename as many as
10 of our Legendary Military
Bases, such as Fort Bragg in
North Carolina, Fort Hood in
Texas, Fort Benning in
Georgia, etc,” President Trump
wrote on Twitter.
“These Monumental and very
Powerful Bases have become
part of a Great American
Heritage, and a history of
W i n n i n g , Vi c t o r y,
Freedom. The United States of
America trained and deployed
our HEROES on these
Hallowed Grounds, and won
two World Wars.”
“Therefore, my Administra-
tion will not even consider the
renaming of these Magnificent
a n d F a b l e d M i l i t a r y
Installations. Our history as the
Greatest Nation in the World
will not be tampered with.
The Trump administration
proposed a major rewrite of
t h e a s y l u m s y s t e m
Wednesday, curtailing the
types of dangers that can
qualify for protections and
effectively barring those who
fear domestic abuse or gang
violence from getting
asylum.
Officials said they are
returning asylum to what
Congress intended: a
Respect our Military!” he
added.
President Trump's remarks
come after a spokesperson for
A r m y S e c r e t a r y
McCarthy said in a Monday
interview with Politico that he is
“open” to a “bipartisan
discussion” on whether to
rename 10 bases and facilities
t h a t a r e n a m e d
Confederate figures.
a n d
Army spokesperson Col.
Sunset Belinsky said Defense
Secretary Mark Esper also
supports possible discussions
on the matter.
On Tuesday, Retired U.S.
Army General and former CIA
Director David Petraeus urged
for the removal of the names of
Confederate figures from U.S.
Army bases around the world.
protection for racial, political
or religious minorities
f l e e i n g g o v e r n m e n t
persecution, rather than a
safety valve for more
mundane developing-world
problems.
Under the proposed rule,
issued by the Homeland
Security and Justice
departments, migrants who
traveled through other
countries to reach the U.S.
Trump’s News
Trump Rejects Call to
Rename Military Bases
Named After Confederate
Leaders
by JOSHUA CAPLAN | Breitbart
President Donald Trump on Wednesday
rejected the idea of renaming U.S. military
bases named after Confederate leaders,
declaring: “Our history as the Greatest Nation
in the World will not be tampered with.”
Acknowledging this fact is
Petraeus wrote in an op-ed imperative. Should it fail to do
for The Atlantic that “It is time to so, the Army, which prides itself
remove the names of traitors on leading the way in perilous
like Benning and Bragg from times, will be left to fight a
our country's most important rearguard action against a
military installation,” a more inclusive American
reference to bases named future, one that fulfills the
after Gen. Henry Benning in nation's founding promise.
R y a n Columbus, Georgia, and Gen.
Braxton Bragg in Cumberland Petraeus's op-ed followed
County, North Carolina. the U.S. Marine Corps'
decision to order the removal
It gives me considerable o f a l l C o n f e d e r a t e
pause, for example, to note paraphernalia from Marine
a f t e r that my alma mater, West bases.
Point, honors Robert E. Lee
with a gate, a road, an entire “The Confederate battle flag
housing area, and a barracks, has all too often been co-opted
the last of which was built by violent extremist and racist
during the 1960s. A portrait of groups whose divisive beliefs
Lee with an enslaved person have no place in our Corps.
adorns a wall of the cadet Our history as a nation, and
events like the violence in
library, the counterpoint to a
portrait of Grant, his Civil War Charlottesville in 2017,
nemesis, on a nearby wall. highlight the divisiveness the
use of the Confederate battle
We do not live in a country to flag has had on our society,”
which Braxton Bragg, Henry L. the U.S. Marine Corps said in a
Benning, or Robert E. Lee can Friday statement.
serve as an inspiration.
Trump administration proposes
major asylum overhaul
By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times
could be denied asylum. migrants used fraudulent
Domestic abuse, personal documents.
feuds, endemic crime or
gang violence would no Asylum is the protection
longer be considered to be granted to migrants fleeing
distinct social groups, and persecution who reach U.S.
therefore would not be, on
their face, a reason to claim soil. They are similar to
refugees, who apply for
asylum.
protection from outside the
U.S.
“That's not the way the
system was designed. It's
not the way it's supposed to T h e s t a t u s e s a r e
function,” a senior Justice supposed to be granted to
Department official said in people being persecuted
describing the change to because they belong to a
reporters. specific social group, such
as a minority religion or an
out-of-power political group.
Bogus claims could also Successful claims are
b e d i smi sse d b y a n supposed to prove that the
immigration judge without government was either
having to go to trial, and involved in the persecution
judges and asylum officers or was so indifferent to it that
would be told to look more it amounted to the same
skeptically at cases in which thing.