CNN “New Day” host John Berman and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) battled Friday over border security and the possibility of President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to direct funding to build a wall.

Berman opened the interview with Brooks asking him why he thinks Trump has the authority the declare this situation a national emergency.

“Because the United States code says so,” Brooks responded.

Berman followed that response up by pointing out how the Alabama congressman has been against executive action in the past.

Brooks replied, “[O]nce again, you guys at CNN are misleading the public. Those are different circumstances than what we face today. What we are facing today is a national emergency of major proportions, and Congress has delegated to the president of the United States the right in its expressed United States code – you can look it up yourself – the right to declare a national emergency under certain circumstances. This meets that bill.”

“What’s the emergency?” the CNN host asked.

“With the southern border, we have the loss of at least 15,000 Americans a year. You have 2,000 that are homicides by illegal aliens, according to federal government data. You’ve got another 15,000, 16,000 that die each year from heroin overdoses, 90 percent of which comes across our porous southern border. That’s not counting the 55,000 additional deaths that are caused by overdoses, a significant amount of which comes across the southern border,” Brooks stated. “So, how many dead people do you have to have, John, before you’ll consider it an emergency?”

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A seminar at American University in February will instruct faculty members to disregard a student’s “quality” of writing when grading their papers.

According to a report from The College Fix, an upcoming seminar at American University will ask professors to disregard a student’s “quality” of writing when grading their assignments. The seminar, which will be conducted by University of Washington-Tacoma Professor Asao Inoue, will include a variety of lectures that will encourage professors to disregard the quality of writing from students.

One event will encourage professors to recognize “white language supremacy” is perpetuated by standard grading practices.

This plenary will argue against the use of conventional standards in college courses that grade student writing by single standards. Inoue will discuss the ways that White language supremacy is perpetuated in college classrooms despite the better intentions of faculty, particularly through the practices of grading writing.

The seminar, which is entitled “Grading Ain’t Just Grading: Rethinking Writing Assessment Ecologies Towards Antiracist Ends,” will include several events that focus on “antiracist” writing styles.

This workshop will engage participants in rethinking what standards for writing in their courses could be and how those standards can be assessed and graded most meaningfully for students. It will offer a brief account of two antiracist writing assessment practices, and consider one more carefully, dimension-based rubrics for writing assignments. When used in particular ways, this rubric can be a way to acknowledge the diverse range of readers in any classroom. It also can resist the negative effects of grading by a single standard that most conventional rubrics and scoring guides embody.

The event seemingly suggests that any and all language standards are oppressive to students who did not receive the high-quality childhood education of their peers.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this event.

San Diego’s KUSI News reported Thursday that CNN asked them for a local news view on the border wall. When KUSI informed CNN that border patrol agents have uniformly told the station that the wall works, CNN lost interest.

Thursday morning, CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if one of our reporters could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdown…

We believe CNN declined a report from KUSI because we informed them that most Border Patrol Agents we have spoken to told us the barrier does in fact work.

Here’s the clip and below that CNN’s response to it. CNN doesn’t deny it contacted KUSI for a local perspective but claims the decision not to use their reporter is a “non story.”

We called several local stations to book someone for a show. We didn’t end up booking any of them. That happens many times every single day. We did, however, book a reporter from KUSI for a story on immigration and the border wall in November. This is a non story. #factsfirst🍎

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) January 11, 2019

Hannity spreading B.S. about CNN again. @CNNPR‘s response: “We called several local stations to book someone for a show. We didn’t end up booking any of them. That happens many times every single day. We did, however, book a reporter from KUSI for a story” in November… https://t.co/rtGj10QlN7

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 11, 2019

This explanation sounds reasonable and might even be true. I think the problem here is that it’s really not hard to believe CNN would decline to air a viewpoint that basically backed the president’s view of the border wall.

Just yesterday, CNN’s Jim Acosta was at the border making videos whose clear aim was to say there was nothing much happening at the border which anyone should worry about. That wasn’t true as this report from the same area by Good Morning America’s Matt Gutman demonstrated: “So many surrendering themselves, we struggled to keep up…”

Pres. Trump is set to travel to the southern border today, as he continues to make his case for building a barrier along the southern border amid an ongoing partial government shutdown: https://t.co/VWyDNCOwMv@mattgutmanABC reports live from McAllen, Texas. pic.twitter.com/RnhE18HUk0

— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 10, 2019

In his on-air reporting yesterday, Acosta also emphasized about 5 times (in under a minute) that McAllen, Texas has a low crime rate. That’s true but Acosta did not mention that a Gallup poll from 2012 and 2013 rated McAllen the city in America where people felt most afraid to walk the streets alone at night:

McAllen was the only metro area in which less than half of all respondents felt safe walking home alone at night. This was despite the fact that McAllen actually had a lower violent crime rate than the United States overall in 2012, at just 319 incidents per 100,000 residents, versus 387 crimes for 100,000 residents nationally. However, violence along the border with Mexico remains a concern for many McAllen residents. The State Department warns against traveling to the neighboring city of Reynosa, Mexico, due to high levels of drug-related violence.

You can certainly argue that this fear is misplaced but my point here is that CNN’s Acosta doesn’t really seem interested in presenting a nuanced perspective on the situation at the border. Instead, as has been the case for months, he seems focused on trying to dunk on President Trump.

So while CNN can protest that the failure to use this one reporter in San Diego was just a show production decision, the fact remains that their actual reporter on the scene didn’t seem very interested in communicating the message about the border wall which that KUSI reporter was prepared to deliver to CNN’s audience. In other words, the problem isn’t this one scheduling decision, the problem is CNN’s obvious bias on this issue. Here’s an AP report from 3 years ago about ranchers along the border being threatened at gunpoint by drug traffickers. I wonder if CNN has spoken to any of these people?

During a public briefing on border security with President Donald Trump, Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz near the Rio Grande in McAllen, Texas, a border patrol officer stood up for the president in his push for a wall on the southern border.

Leftist politicians and the establishment media have tried to paint the wall as alarmist and unnecessary.

This border patrol agent who has seen the immigration crisis firsthand went after the media’s distortions by setting the record straight.

“So far this sector has apprehended folks from 41 different countries. Just yesterday we apprehended 133 people from countries other than Central America and Mexico,” he began. “That includes individuals from India, Pakistan, China, Romania, Ecuador, Nicaragua, on and on and on. And so, I know we keep talking about the family unit and unaccompanied children.”

In other words, it isn’t just helpless migrants escaping poverty who are coming across our border. It’s unknown people from all over the world, many of whom could be dangerous.

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“That makes up about, typically about 60, 70 percent. We’ve seen a change over the last couple of weeks where that number’s less than 50 percent of the apprehensions we make here in South Texas.”

This means the number of individual males coming across the border has suddenly increased in recent weeks.

“So, South Texas continues to lead the country in apprehensions, as well as marijuana seizures between the ports of entry,” he continued. “So CBP and DHS are committed to both our border security mission, as well as our humanitarian mission.”

He then took a moment to thank the president and the members of Congress who took the time to see the border for themselves.

“Mr. President, Senators, we couldn’t do it without your support,” he said.

“We really appreciate you coming down here. It means an awful lot to the men and women of DHS, CBP, the border patrol, our local law enforcement. Thank you.”

The border patrol stands by President Trump :Listen to their own words ,We need the wall pic.twitter.com/MbPEFeLmJs

— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) January 10, 2019

Thank God for these border patrol agents who work hard every day to protect our nation while exposing the lies exposed the lies of the left and establishment media by sharing the facts.

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His words emphasized the need for border wall funding now. Democrats must end the shutdown by giving the country the funding it needs to remain a safe and sovereign nation.

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Just one day after Democratic leadership denied that there is a crisis at our southern border, three illegal immigrants were arrested in New York for stabbing a 16-year-old boy.

On Wednesday afternoon, the 16-year-old victim was eating at a Burger King in Long Island with his friend, according to WABC-TV.

While they were eating, six of their classmates from Huntington High School entered the restaurant and began staring at them threateningly.

The two teens left the fast-food restaurant, but they were followed by three students who turned out to be illegal immigrants and MS-13 gang members.

A fight broke out in the parking lot with gang members wielding bats and knives.

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That’s when 19-year-old illegal immigrant Ramon Arevalo Lopez stabbed the victim in the back.

The stabbed boy was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries and the illegal immigrants tried to flee.

Police were able to catch the alleged perpetrators, who were found covered in blood.

Lopez and the other MS-13 gang member suspects, 20-year-old Nobeli Montes Zuniga and 17-year-old Oscar Canales Molina, were charged with second-degree assault.

Each of these gang members had been caught by the Department of Homeland Security in late 2017, but were later released by a federal judge.

This horrific attack from three illegal immigrants came just one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer once again announced to the nation their refusal to fund border security.

On Tuesday, Schumer slammed President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall as “ineffective,” despite testimonies from border agents saying otherwise.

The same night, Pelosi claimed that “the women and children at the border are not a security threat.”

.@SpeakerPelosi: “The fact is: the women and children at the border are not a security threat, they are a humanitarian challenge – a challenge that @realDonaldTrump’s own cruel and counterproductive policies have only deepened.” https://t.co/DhbFovuVyo pic.twitter.com/WW1LhnL5cP

— Charles Davis (@CharlesPDavis) January 9, 2019

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With no wall, violent gang members like the ones who committed this stabbing are able to enter the United States and travel anywhere in the country.

It’s unacceptable that three illegal immigrants, who were once caught, easily traveled from the southern border to New York.

The threat of attacks from violent MS-13 gang members can happen anywhere.

Democrats need to get over themselves and do what’s best for the country they have sworn to serve.

If they don’t, it sure seems to prove what the president said about Democrats on Thursday: “They don’t give a damn about crime.”

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During their infamous Oval Office showdown last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer essentially laid out what the Democratic perspective on border security was going to be: “The experts say you can do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and doesn’t solve the problem.”

That’s been pretty much what almost every liberal factotum has been repeating, in varying forms, since early December.

Nobody seems to have given the message to former President Barack Obama’s Border Patrol chief, however.

Mark Morgan served under Obama during the last year of his presidency. He was removed by President Donald Trump. Yet he seems to agree more with the man who fired him than the man who hired him.

In an appearance Thursday night on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Morgan said that — no matter what the media’s current line may be — the problems at our southern border certainly weren’t a “manufactured crisis.”

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“Anybody who says that, Tucker, is misinformed,” Morgan told Carlson. “And they’re misleading the American people.”

“Before I was even chief of the Border Patrol, I served in the FBI for two decades,” he continued. “One of my assignments was that I led the El Paso office.

“From my office, on the border, I could see Juarez (Mexico). Every single day, Tucker, we worked the DEA and all components of DHS. And we worked human trafficking cases, we worked drug cases and we worked gang cases all impacting the southern border.

“And then as chief (of Border Patrol), Tucker, I was briefed every single day about the men and women who are risking their lives every day and they’re apprehending murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders and gang members.

“That is not manufactured, that is real, and it’s a fact, and it’s still happening today.”

Obama’s fmr. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan: “I was briefed every single day about the men and women who are risking their lives every day and they’re apprehending murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders, and gang members. That is not manufactured, that is real” pic.twitter.com/doyB6lCgyq

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 10, 2019

Morgan had appeared on the show just days earlier where the former Obama official also offered an endorsement of President Trump’s strategy.

“The president is right, the president of (National) Border Control Council is right,” Morgan said, according to The Daily Caller.

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“The other day when they had the national press conference and they got up and they said, ‘The wall works,’ they are right, and it’s not based on a personal, political ideology,” he said. “That’s based on historical data and facts that can be proven.”

“Why do you think people oppose it?” Carlson asked.

“I think it’s a political point they are trying to make,” Morgan said.

At least on that account, Morgan isn’t playing ball with Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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In a shocking video, award-winning actor Robert Davi blasted Democratic leadership for their “disingenuous” comments about President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.

Davi uploaded the video to Twitter on Wednesday morning with the caption: “To the American people.”

The video seems to be in response to the address from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after Trump’s Oval Office address on Tuesday.

“My dear Mr. Schumer, I find what you are doing is absolutely disingenuous. You’re lying to the American people. How many times are you going to continue to sit there like a rotten corpse with a bald-faced lie on your face?” Davi said.

Davi wasn’t the only one who thought Schumer resembled a “rotten corpse” on Tuesday night. His awkward appearance with Pelosi sparke hundreds of memes and mocking tweets.

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Who OK’d their lighting and staging? It made them look like if you say their names three times while facing a mirror they’ll appear behind you. It would make anyone look harsh. They went with this optic with all the people they know in Hollywood and the networks? Seriously. pic.twitter.com/8PusDio0iN

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 9, 2019

But Schumer’s comments that night were just as bad as his appearance. He claimed that Trump’s proposed border wall would be “ineffective.”

Davi also criticized Democratic leadership for their hypocritical opposition to the border wall after they supported a wall in the past.

“I saw you, sir, vote for the wall. You voted for a wall, sir. Several years ago. So did Ms. Pelosi,” Davi exploded.

In 2009, Schumer applauded efforts to secure the border. He claimed that a 630 miles of border fence “created a significant barrier to illegal immigration.”

Chuck Schumer tonight: Trump’s border wall is “ineffective” and “unnecessary”

Chuck Schumer in 2009: “630 miles of border fence” made our southern border “far more secure” because it “created a significant barrier to illegal immigration” pic.twitter.com/3ywVpKu2LH

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 9, 2019

Old comments about illegal immigration have haunted several other Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Of course, you won’t see the establishment media cover the Democrats’ flip-flop.

“How come the networks aren’t showing your flip-flopping?” Davi asked. “Show that, CNN, MSNBC. Show Schumer wanting a wall.”

To the American people pic.twitter.com/oEkouZBnYL

— Robert Davi (@RobertJohnDavi) January 9, 2019

Davi also slammed Democratic leadership for questioning the morality of a border wall.

Last week, Pelosi claimed that the border wall is an “immorality.”

Nancy Pelosi: “The fact is, a wall is an immorality. It’s not who we are as a nation.” https://t.co/l6dDLDRRf0 pic.twitter.com/tq3DDjG0Gp

— ABC News (@ABC) January 4, 2019

But Davi reminded Democrats that their party is pro-abortion, the definition of immoral.

“What about 50 million babies being killed, sir and madam? Is that not immoral?”

Bravo Mr. Davi, bravo.

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