Loading ...Canadian miner Iamgold Corp. is exploring a possible sale of all or part of the company amid a wave of consolidation in the gold sector, according to people familiar with the matter
Because the economy is so “strong?”
Auto-Loan Delinquencies Spike To Q3 2009 Level, Despite Strongest Labor Market In Years
So what do we have today?
Stock market opens down 250 but quickly erasing losses
PM’s open down and losses accelerating
Same as it always is. Time to call it a day 13 minutes in
Playing Hardball With Turkey
Turkish Lira Tumbles After Trump Terminates Preferential Trade Agreement In Retaliation For S-400 Order
For months, the Trump administration had been warning, at first, then outright threatening Turkey against following through with an agreement struck last year to purchase the advanced Russian S-400 missile defense system, and despite several “fake news” reports that Erdogan had canceled the deal with Moscow, Turkey ultimately said it would go ahead and receive the Russian missiles, demonstrative flipping off its NATO allies.
But if Erdogan was hoping that Trump would be all bark and no bite when it comes to retaliating against this painfully obvious snub of its “western” allies, well he had another thing coming.
Late on Thursday, the Turkish lira suddenly tumbled when Washington made it clear that this aggression will not stand, and the White House said it had terminated a preferential trade agreement with Turkey, finding the country no longer needed help as a developing country. However, the US did halve tariffs on Turkish steel from 50% to 25%.
Moggy
Questiom is why aren’t they going after these smuggling organizations?!! Instead they turned border patrol into a day care center. It’s almost funny but not.
Moggy check this out
They’re coming through Canada too along with Romanians.
The Trump administration’s rhetoric on border security has largely homed in on the southern border, which has seen an influx of thousands of families with children from Central America seeking asylum in the United States.
But officials have also seen an increase of illegal crossings on the northern border in the last fiscal year, according to the data. In fiscal year 2017, immigration agents apprehended 504 people crossing illegally from Canada, compared to 963 in fiscal year 2018, the Border Patrol data showed.
A large percentage of that spike came from the Swanton border patrol sector — along the border of New Hampshire, Vermont and New York — where agents apprehended 548 people in 2018, up from 165 in all of 2017.
Preliminary data from October to January shows 465 apprehensions from Canada, with 294 in the Swanton sector.
Border Patrol Agent Richard Ross, who runs the station in Newport, Vermont, part of the Swanton sector, told NBC News he thought the apprehensions were “definitely trending up.” He added that the type of apprehensions agents were seeing were “very organized,” sometimes using smuggling organizations.
Ross said he believed there may be a perception that traveling from Canada was “safer” and the increase could be attributed to recent immigration changes in Canada that allow those from some countries, such as Mexico and Romania, to enter without a visa.
He said some immigrants looking to get into the U.S. illegally could pay a few hundred dollars for a flight to Canada, pay a small electronic travel authorization fee and make their way into the United States.
Some smuggling agencies were “exploiting the fact that there’s an easier way to make it legally into Canada and then that provides some clientele to then be smuggled into the U.S.,” he said.
Ross said he had encountered instances of immigrants lured to Canada with the promise of employment. Once they arrive and there are no jobs, they become “ready-made clientele” for smugglers who charge them thousands more dollars.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illegal-border-crossings-canada-quietly-rising-data-shows-n981131
Moggy 7:44
So much for making them wait in Mexico.
I feel bad for these innocent children.
Have a kid get a free pass across the boarder.
It will be interesting to see how the Cubans will receive them. They are predominantly republican because they know what socialism is all about in Cuba.
They are not reserved like Americans and sent Pelosi running when she was down over there and they wanted her out of their state.
To our Florida members….my sympathy
Trump administration to release some migrants caught along southern border into South Florida
MIAMI – The Trump administration is preparing to release hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants caught along the southern border into Florida’s Broward and Palm Beach counties, with no apparent plan to house, feed or care for them, according to local officials who have been briefed on the plans.
Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said Thursday that Customs and Border Protection officials told him they would unload about 1,000 migrant families each month, evenly split between the two counties, for an unknown period of time.
Bogen called the plan “irresponsible” and warned that it would create a “homeless encampment” in his South Florida county.
“To bring hundreds of people here every week without providing the necessary resources to house and feed them is inhumane,” Bogen said.
Gold Train
Awesome aerial drone footage
flying with the giants.