SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman in San Francisco has resigned after becoming frustrated by Trump administration statements about a recent sweep targeting illegal immigration.
James Schwab told The Chronicle on Monday that officials, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, repeatedly said roughly 800 immigrants escaped arrest because Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff’s Feb. 24 warning about the four-day operation. Schwab understood the number to be lower and he didn’t want to deflect media questions about it.
Schwab says statements were misleading because the agency would never be able to capture everyone on the Northern California target list.
The mayor praised Schwab.
Sessions said he had learned that “ICE failed to make 800 arrests that they would have made if the mayor had not acted as she did.”
Believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House … I could take any position in the White House, and I’ll have a choice of the 10 top people having to do with that position. Everybody wants to be there.”
Will the last one leaving the Oval Trailer please turn out the lights and fumigate it?
Shorter James Schwab: I can’t sell my soul to the devil.
OT I had a dream last night … Cadet Bones Spurs had just stepped from of his limousine on the Otay Mesa to inspect the vanity prototypes of his vanity project when a mega-sound truck began broadcasting.
“Beinvenidos, pendejo!” came the voice of a classic Tijuana radio announcer. “¡Vamos a empezarrrrrrr esta fiesta!” he bellowed, utilizing his most percussive alovear trill. The sound truck then blasted a double-time tribute written especially for the occasion.
“Los Tigres del Norte?” I wondered.
The truck sent its sub-sonic vibrations across the border, disheveling the vanity Prez’s ‘do and making it impossible for anyone within two miles to verbally communicate. Then the music abruptly stopped mid-chorus and a familiar voice said, “We are not going to pay for your fucking wall!”
It was the voice of former Mexican Presidente Vincente Fox. “¡No vamos a pagarrrrr tu jodida parrrrrr-ed!” the radio announcer bellowed as a mighty cheer went up.
The music began again. [Oom-pah oom-pah oom-pah oom-pah]
As the banda played on, hundreds of Trump piñatas attached to clusters of orange balloons with big red neckties began to appear from south of the border. Then, from the Otay Mesa Industrial district to the west, another invasion of Trump piñatas began to waft aloft.
Again the music stopped abruptly. “We are not going to pay for your fucking wall!” said Fox. “¡No vamos a pagarrrrr tu jodida parrrrrr-ed!” the radio announcer boomed. And the banda played on. [Oom-pah oom-pah oom-pah oom-pah]
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A guy can dream, can’t he?
In my class today, I will be leading a discussion on theoretical issues raised by research in Artificial Intelligence; chief among those issues is the nature of human consciousness and the fact that we lack the empirical means to detect it even as we all swear up and down that it exists–and that that paradox complicates our discussion of AI, whether it’s possible to build a truly conscious, self-aware machine, and how would we know we had done so (and never mind the question of whether to try and do these things is wise in the first place).
This discussion will actually be easier to follow and make sense of than has so far been the news out of this administration this morning.