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Al Sharpton calls border crisis an 'invasion,' wants GOP senators pressured for 'allowing this to continue'
While bashing some Republicans for not getting on board with the Senate immigration bill unveiled over the weekend, MSNBC host Al Sharpton used the word “invasion” Monday to describe the border crisis, which some liberals found to be highly controversial.
President Biden and politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties have touted the deal as a bipartisan compromise to secure the border. However, many Republicans argue that not only is this deal insufficient, but Biden already has the necessary ability to take action to secure the border. One of their main critiques is that it would include Title 42-type authority that would only be mandated if numbers at the southern border exceeded 5,000 migrant encounters a day. Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla is so far the only Democratic senator to have publicly criticized the bill. He called the deal a “new version of a failed Trump-era immigration policy that will cause more chaos at the border, not less.”
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., went on “Morning Joe” to tout the bill he helped negotiate and Sharpton asked him what could be done to get voters to pressure their senators to support the bill.
Sharpton expressed urgency and channeled people “outraged” across the country at the “influx of migrants,” pointing the finger at senators who aren’t on board as the ones “allowing this to continue.”
MSNBC host referred to the migrant crisis at America’s southern border as an invasion. (MSNBC)
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“What is being done to get the public to really rise up in various states to say to their senators that they want to see the border issue resolved?” he asked. “I mean, you’re getting migrants beating up policemen in the streets of New York. You’re seeing an influx of migrants all over the country that, frankly, have people outraged. Couldn’t there be some kind of public pressure put in the next couple of days in some of these senators’ states saying, ‘Why are you allowing this to continue?’ Because at the end of the day, senators have to deal with their voters.”
After mentioning funding to Israel and Gaza, Sharpton went back to the border, referring to the migrant crisis as an “invasion,” a term that sparks outrage among immigration advocates and the left.
“But the border, I mean, we’re looking every day at the invasion of migrants, and they’re playing a time game with politics on this?” Sharpton asked. “Couldn’t the pressure be put to bear in their home states?”
Dec. 18, 2023: Migrants flood into Eagle Pass, Texas, waiting to be processed. (Fox News)
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HuffPost senior reporter Paul Blumenthal objected to the use of the term “invasion” to describe the massive influx of people who are coming across America’s southern border, in a Monday piece warning, “Texas Makes Absurd Argument That Immigration Is ‘Invasion.’”
“Once confined to the nativist far-right, this rhetoric of immigrant invasion has surged into the Republican Party mainstream since former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016,” Blumenthal wrote. He went on to say, “This rhetoric has been deployed throughout American history to fuel support for anti-immigration measures and most notably in the Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.”
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He went on to cite a quote from University of Baltimore School of Law professor Matthew Lindsay who argued that such rhetoric has “portrayed immigrants as faceless masses, who were racially incapable of assimilating into American conceptions of liberty, and would undermine the country’s system of free labor by taking work at exploitative wages.”
Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
Courtesy of Juliet
Drake, Travis Scott, Lizzo and many other celebrities were name-dropped in the release we received about the latest modern steakhouse opening in Dallas this summer.
Juliet opened in Houston in 2022, and the movie-themed steakhouse quickly became a buzzy celebrity hangout. Now, it’s expanding into Dallas with a new location in the Design District at 1400 Hi Line Drive, right next to Delilah, another “celebrity-magnet supper club,” they called it.
The release touts that if we thought Delilah turned heads, we should wait until we see what is walking in beside it. If it’s anything like the last four Old Hollywood art deco-themed supper club restaurants to open in Dallas, sadly, they’re probably right.
The layout
What will make Juliet different is that it’s an immersive dining experience built around a movie-theater concept. Classic films will play in the background, and the dining room will have cinematic elements throughout.
The exterior of the Houston location is a replica of a movie theater marquee, and inside, it features a mock lobby with candy and popcorn displays.
A black curtain separates the lobby from the main dining room. Past it, you’ll find a wall of mirrors and black-and-white photos from iconic scenes in cinema decorating the dining room.
If they have The Godfather running in there, count us in.
The cinematic dining destination has made a name for itself with a laundry list of A-list celebrities coming in to dine with them. Notable guests they mentioned were the Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Cee Dee Lamb, Lizzo, Glorilla, Olandria, Travis Scott and Drake.
They say that to match the ambition of the Dallas dining scene, they’re delivering an even more elevated atmosphere than the Houston original.
Juliet is likely to come in swinging with its entire roster of menus, which includes brunch, dinner, dessert, steak night and happy hour. Executive chef Jeff Auld is leading the kitchen.
The dinner menu is straightforward and centered around prime steak cuts, seafood, a raw bar and classic apps like crab cakes and calamari.
Prices aren’t listed on their website, but based on Google images, you can expect appetizers to range from $14 to $28. Entrees start at $34, but there’s a jump from that cheapest option to the others, which cost $42 and up. All sides are $14.
Wednesday night is Steak night. This is $39.95 on OpenTable; diners get a choice of potato soup or Caesar salad with a 6-ounce filet mignon. There’s also a $25 Girl Dinner on Sunday nights.
Interestingly, Juliet will seemingly work in tandem with its new neighbor, Delilah, instead of against it. The side-by-side glitz of both restaurants is likely to make this strip of Dallas the place to go to see and be seen.
Imagine that.
MIAMI — Christian Martinez was at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday, facing charges for stealing three gold bracelets, a gold chain, a pair of shoes, and $100 at gunpoint after a crash in Miami, records show.
Martinez, who turns 30 on Wednesday, was driving his gray Honda Odyssey when he crashed in the Liberty City neighborhood, threatened two victims, and “displayed a silver handgun that was tucked in his waistband,” according to the police report.
While demanding cash, Martinez, of Allapattah, grabbed the gun and pointed it at the victim’s rib cage before also using the firearm to strike him “across the face,” according to the police report.
One of the victims escaped, and the other was injured during the armed robbery shortly after 4:10 a.m. on June 28 at Northwest Seventh Avenue and 52 Street, according to the police report.
“I obtained CCTV footage that captured the entirety of the robbery,” a Miami detective wrote, according to the police report.
Surveillance video shows Martinez at the Shell gas station at 5343 NW 7th Ave., before the armed robbery on June 28, and license plate readers show him “traveling northbound through the intersection of Northwest Second Avenue and 54 Street at 4:15 a.m., according to police.
Martinez’s face “can be clearly seen in this video,” a police officer wrote about the surveillance at the gas station, according to the police report.
Miami police officers arrested Martinez at 7 p.m. on July 2 at Northwest Sixth Avenue and 69 Street, and found a firearm in the car, according to the police report.
Corrections booked Martinez, also known as Christian Martinezguerra, shortly before 10:05 p.m. on July 2 at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Martinez-Guerra faced two felony charges in Miami-Dade County: Armed robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. A judge placed a pre-trial detention hold.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.
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