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Mr. Obama plans to meet with President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City to discuss the drug war, as well as issues such as energy and the economy, before heading to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday.Denis McDonough, the director of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said the president visit underscored U.S. sup stanley cup port for its southern neighbor at the highest levels.It designed to send a very clear signal to our friends in Mexico City that we have a series of shared challenges as it relates to the economy, as it relates to security, insecurity, the threat of violence, and the impact of drug trafficking on both our countries, McDonough said, according to Reuters.On the eve of the president visit, the Obama administration announced sanctions on three Mexican organizations designated as cartels at the center of the country violent drugs war. The White House said the groups would be censur stanley cup ed under a law that allows the Treasury Department to block or seize their assets.Last month, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced several interagency efforts to step up law enforcement and border security in the southwestern United States, such as increasing the number of agents, installing more surveillance equipment and collaborating with Mexican authorities on identifying and capturing drug gangs stanley cup .And Wednesday, she named Alan Bersin, a former Justice Department offi Cjxy House votes to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus
DES MOINES, Iowa 鈥?Democrats wasted no time looking for political opportunity after Donald Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton of starting the rumor that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S.Just hours later, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was on Philadelphia R 038;B station, WDAS, critiquing Trump behavior. Days later Clinton North Carolina state organizers met in Raleigh, in part t salomon o chart how to use negative reaction to Trump statement to motivate the state disproportionately high black voting bloc to turn out. And Clinton team welcomed Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights activis af1 t, to a Philadelphia voter registration event where he railed against Trump claim.Polls suggest Clinton can count on an overwhelming percentage of support from African-Americans. But she can ;t necessarily count on them to vote.If they feel like they have the African-American community locked up, they should be very, very careful about making that assumption, Sara Lomax Reese, president of Philadelphia independent black radio station WURD, said of Clinton and her team.One of the biggest questions of the 2016 election is whether African-American voters will turn out for Clinton as they did for the first black president. They voted at a historic level in 2008 and an unexpectedly high rate in 20 adidas campus 12.Also to be seen is how political consequences play out over tensions between majority-white police departments and |
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