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Syria’s president issued a decree granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed prior to Thursday, his office and state media reported. No reason was given for the amnesty but it came on the anniversary of the 1970 coup that brought the father and predecessor of President Bashar Assad to power. Assad has issued similar amnesties since the country’s deadly conflict that has killed half a million people began in March 2011.

Tens of thousands of people protested across Spain on Sunday against acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez's plans to grant amnesty to Catalan separatists in exchange for support for another term in office. The government secured a deal with Catalan separatist party Junts on Thursday which includes passing a contentious law granting amnesty to those convicted over Catalonia's attempt to secede from Spain in 2017. The deal sent shockwaves around the country, with Sanchez's conserva...

Marikina City Mayor Marcelino "Marcy" Teodoro announced on Friday, April 14, that the city government will grant amnesty to delinquent real property and business taxpayers as part of the city government's bid to help them recover from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and other prevailing social and economic issues in the country.

PASAY City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano encouraged all business enterprise and owners of real estate in the city to avail of a tax amnesty approved by the City Council under City Ordinance 6176. “Now that the country is slowly opening up its economic activities in a calibrated manner, this is the…

President of the united states, barack obama. >> barack obama has laid the table for an arab spring by demonstrating weakness. >> absolutely. >> he has anti-american views? >> absolutely. im very concerned that he may have anti-american views. >> obamacare, as we know, is the crown jewel of socialism. >> there are going to be people who die because of this. put the other handcuff on this lawless presidents hands so we constrain this president from granting amnesty. >> michele bachmanns term is c...

Washington is that sadly theyre fact free. several weeks ago the border patrol did a confidential study. they interviewed over 200 people who had come here illegally. they asked, why are you coming? a whistleblower passed this on. 95% of those coming in said were coming because we believe well get amnesty, we believe as you said a permisso. in my view its the opposite of humane, the opposite of compassionate to continue this crisis. i dont want to see tens of thousands of little boys and girls b...

Reid both engaging debates divorced from the facts and divorced from the reality. harry reid lives in the ritz-carlton in washington, d.c. and im sure from his perspective the border seems secure. i would invite harry reid to come with me down texas and see the border. on the border we are seeing the opposite of following the law. the border is not secured. 90,000 children are expected to come in to this country illegally this year and harry reid says the border is secure? ill tell you who is ho...

Or 11. the cause of the crisis was in june of 2012, president obamas granting amnesty. >> i under that argument. but what a lot of republicans even are saying is hey look without dealing with that, if we change the law, if we get more judges, if we get the seven day deadline, if we get more money for border patrols, if you want to throw -- you want to block that in effect youre perhaps the enemy of the good in pursuit of the perfect. >> what im interested in is fixing the problem. its only washi...

Skyrocketed so that this year the obama administration is estimating 90,000 kids will come next year, 145,000. thats up from just 6,000 three years ago. >> senator, the result of this democrats say and i think most independent people believe rightly or wrongly is that would mean nothing will get passed and even some of your fellow republicans say if nothing guess passed, if youre is going to hold up any action on the immediate crisis to the deal, to stop the president from his executive actions ...

>> thank you, chris. >> you want to block president obama from taking more executive actions to allow some of the illegals who are already in this country to stay here. you want to do that before moving to deal with the new crisis of kids coming from central america. why? >> what i want to do is solve the crisis. i agree with the president in one respect. we are seeing a humanitarian crisis. were seeing tens of thousands of young children coming in illegally, being brutalized, being mistreated b...