Biden proposes two debates with Trump in June and September
by Brett Samuels - 05/15/24 8:26 AM ET

President Biden’s campaign on Wednesday proposed two debates with former President Trump, bucking the Commission on Presidential Debates and potentially setting the stage for a face-off as soon as next month.

The Biden campaign called for the first debate to take place in late June, after Biden returns from the Group of Seven (G-7) Summit in Europe and after Trump’s hush money trial in New York will likely have concluded.

The campaign suggested a second debate in September ahead of the start of early voting in many states, as well as a vice presidential debate in late July after the Republican National Convention.

“As Donald Trump has said he will debate ‘anytime, anywhere,’ we hope both campaigns can quickly accept broadcast media debate invitations on the parameters above,” Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in a letter to the commission on Wednesday. “Americans need a debate on the issues – not a tedious debate about debates.”

The Biden campaign said it would work directly with news organizations to set up the debates, spurring the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has facilitated the debates between presidential candidates since 1988. O’Malley Dillon in her letter suggested outlets that hosted GOP primary debates in 2016 and Democratic primary debates in 2020 to avoid any notion of bias.

Trump, who has repeatedly questioned Biden’s mental acuity and ability to do the job, said Wednesday he would accept the terms proposed by the Biden campaign.

“I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds – That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there. ‘Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!’”

Negotiations directly between the two campaigns could also keep independent and third-party candidates, most notably Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from joining Biden and Trump on the debate stage.

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Biden’s Curiously Timed Effort to Bar Asylum to Terrorist and Criminal Migrants
Could recent incursions by aliens at U.S. military bases be playing a role?
 
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 14, 2024

The Biden administration published a proposed rule yesterday that would allow asylum officers (AOs) to consider criminal and national-security bars to asylum during credible-fear interviews of illegal migrants. That’s curious given that the administration previously reversed a Trump-era rule that would have done the same thing. It's also curiously timed given that it was issued just over a week after a little-reported incident in which “a Jordanian foreign national who recently crossed the southern border into the U.S.” and an individual “on the U.S. terrorist watch list” tried to sneak onto Marine Corps Base Quantico in the dead of night.

“Expedited Removal” and “Credible Fear”, in Brief. Under section 235(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), aliens encountered by CBP at the border or ports without documents to enter the United States or with fraudulent entry documents — including illegal migrants — are subject to “expedited removal”. That process allows DHS to remove such aliens without placing them into removal proceedings and obtaining a removal order from an immigration judge (IJ).

There is, however, an exception to expedited removal for aliens who request asylum or claim a fear of harm if returned home. Those aliens must be interviewed by asylum officers (AOs) from USCIS, to assess whether their claim of fear is credible. “Credible fear” is a screening standard used to determine whether the alien may be eligible for asylum.

If an alien receives a “positive credible fear determination”, the alien is generally placed into removal proceedings before an IJ to apply for asylum. If instead the alien receives a “negative credible fear determination”, the alien can seek a “credible fear review” from an IJ or accept removal.

The Bars to Asylum. The asylum statute, section 208 of the INA, is written in an unusual manner.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-Curiously-Timed-Effort-Bar-Asylum-Terrorist-and-Criminal-Migrants

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In some weird joke of history, Wednesday = Odin's day

“Once a cheater always a cheater” - MLB fans troll Astros as pitcher Ronel Blanco gets ejected due to foreign substance
By
Cresswell McCoy



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