The military prison open indefinitely. This comes as trump repeatedly links immigration with terrorism. Pres. Trump in recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in new york were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration. In the age of terrorism, these programs present risks we can just no longer afford. Amy and while 2017 was the second warmest year on record, trump never mentioned Climate Change or Global Warming. Pres. Trump we have ended the war on American Energy, and we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. Amy today, we will hear excerpts from the state of the union and get response from Maru Mora Villalpando, a leading undocumented immigrants rights activist who attended the state fears sheon as she faces deportation. We will also hear from ilhan omar, former refugee who has become the first somali american muslim legislator in the United States. Plus Bill Mckibben of 350. Org ,nd katrina vanden heuvel publisher of the nation. We will also speak to daniel ms 13 and how more deportations will not helpful stop all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump read his first state of the Union Address on tuesday night in which he called on congress to pass an immigration overhaul and repeatedly tried to conflate immigrants, including dreamers, with terrorists and gang members. Among his guests to the state of the union were the parents of a young girl who was killed by members of the ms 13 gang two years ago in long island, New York Post up to girls, in the 13 is a thing that originated in the 1980s and since reggie Central America as a result of the u. S. Mass deportation policies. During a lengthy address, trump announced he had signed an executive order keeping the Guantanamo Bay military prison open and escalated his warmongering rhetoric against north korea, calling the north korean government depraved, warning it poses a nuclear risk to the United States. Trump celebrated his massive tax overhaul in a fitting corporations and the richest americans, among them, himself and his family. Trump entered the state of the union with the lowest Approval Rating of any president in modern u. S. History, entering his second year in office. We will have more on the state of the union after the headlinenes. A federal judge in new york city says he will not ignore President Trumps vicious comments about latinos as he considers whether to halt the termination of daca, thats the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, which gives nearly 800,000 young undocumented people permission to live and work in the United States. President trump canceled daca last fall. But on tuesday, judge Nicholas Garaufis slammed trump for his vicious, recurring, redundant drumbeat of antilatino commentary. This is new York State Attorney general eric schneiderman, one of 16 attorneys general who have sued to block the termination of daca. It is a massive, Successful Program that they are attempting to shut down. The issue of discriminatory animus can map this came up. The judge was very focused on issues, very wellinformed, and we look ford to getting a dedecision. Amy this comes after a San Francisco judge alsoso issued an injunction blocking dacas cancellation earlier this momon. In financial news, the pharmaceutical giant pfizer says its reaping a staggering 11 billion gain as a result of President Trumps tax overhaul, which massively benefited corporations and the richest americans. President trump and republicans claimed the tax plan would help the middle class, but a recent reuters poll shows only 2 of surveyed workers say theyve received any benefit from trumps tax overhaul. Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage after the Trump Administration announced it would not impose new sanctions against russia, despite the fact these sanctions were enshrined in a law passed by congress and signed by President Trump last year amid concerns about russia meddling in the 2016 election. Instead, the state Department Released a list of Prominent Russian political leaders and oligarchs. The oligarchs list is an exact copy of russians listed on the Forbes Magazine 2017 billionaires list. This is New Hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. Thehe Trump Administration has had six months to configure a sanctions regime, sanctions based on a vote, as you heard from senator congress. 5 in and what did they come up with . They gave us this list, the unclassified list as senator cardin said, the oligarchs that are part of this list are taken from Forbes Magazine. Amy this comes as the cia director recently met with top russian officials, including the head of russian intelligence. The federal Emergency Management agency, known as fema, is ending shipments of food and water to puerto rico today, four months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. About a third of puerto rico still has no electricity. Some rural areas still have no clean running water. San juan mayor carmen cruz criticized the move while speaking at a gathering of latino leaders and washington, d. C. , saying while i am standing here with you, there are children without food in puerto rico. We need the help and it is not help we have paid for. She attended the state of the Union Address with new york senator gigillibrand. Of faithas, delegation leaders from the u. S. Is denouncing the United States support for honduran president her and it is raisman and not rated for second term despite allegations of widespread termdent for a second despite allegations of widespread voting fraud in the november 26 election. This is reverend Kathleen Mctigue of the Unitarian Universalist service committtte, speaking outside the u. S. Embassy in tegucigalpa on monday. We demandnd t the investitign and prososecution of those directly responsible for and those behind the killings during the protests from november 27 until today. Amy in colombia, longtime land defender and Community LeaderTemistocles Machado has been assassinated in the port city buenaventura. Known to the community as temis, he helped lead the massive, threeweeklong civic strike in the afrocolombian city this past summer, which was protesting widespread violence in the region and a lack of basic services, such as clean water. The polish parliament has sparked outrage by passing a bill that would make it a crime punishable by up to three years in prison to suggest the polish government was complicit in naziera crimes. Opponents say the bill seeks to rewrite and erase the history of polands antijewish pogroms leading up to world war ii, and the collaboration between the polish state and nazi germany after the nazis occupied poland in 1939. In turkey, more than 300 people have been arrested f for posting messages online crcriticizing te Turkish Military offensive against the syrian city of afrin, a majority kurdish city controlled by a u. S. Backed militia. The turkish government says those arrested include journalists, politicians, and activists. The government is accusing them of spreading terrorist propaganda by speaking out against the deadly military offensive. In egypt, a coalition of opposition parties and prodemocracy groups are calling for a boycott of egypts upcoming president ial elections. The authoritarian egyptian president Abdel Fattah Elsisi is almost certain to win the march elections after nearly all of his challengers were arrested or disqualified. In japan, a woman has filed a landmark lawsuit suing the japanese government for sterilizing her without her consent because of a mental disability when she was 15 years old. Shes one of an estimated 16,000 people in japan who were forcibly sterilized under japans eugenics law, which was in force from 1948 until 1996. In france, o oxford professor ad renowned islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been detained in paris after he w was accused by two women of rape and Sexual Assault last year. Ramadan has denied the accusations. And gene sharp, a lifelolong advocate of nonviolent resistance, has died at the age of 90. Gene sharp was most famous for his book on nonviolent struggle, including the influential book from dictatorship to democracy a conceptual framework for liberation. He was also the founder of the Albert Einstein institution, which is dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action. This is gene sharp accepting the right liveliho a award i202012. Nonviolent struggler nonvlent actionncludes ree one,ori of method the method of nonviolent prott. Sysymbol actions, rching dow the street, dilaying ctain colors also inclus mu more powerful method of ncooperaon, such asocial boycotts ecomic boycotts, lartrikes, litical ycotts, civil disedience, and thily, the metho off noiolence, interveioion a diuption, su as citizens to sitins. Amy gene sharp died sunday at the age of 90 in hisis home in boston. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump his first state of the Union Tuesday claiming americanour new moment. You focused heavily on immigration, renewing his call for a border wall while linking immigration to terrorism. Pres. Trump in recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in new york were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration. In the age of terrorism, these programs present risks we can just no longer afford. It is time too reform. Rulesoutdated immigration and finally bring our immigration system into the 21st century. An echo President Trump never mention the words Climate Changege or globobal warming o but he did acknowledge the recent hurricanes and wildfires. Pres. Trump to everyone still recovering in texas, florida, louisiana, peru go, and the virgin islands, everywhere we are with you, we love you, and we always will pull through together. Always. Amy thahat was presesident trs only refeference to puerto rico. Or to do, fema is endining shipipments of food and waterer, evenen though ababout one ththif the islanand still hahas no elelectricityy over fofour monts after hurricicane mariria struc. On the Foreign Policy front, trump threat north korea again, suggested hehe will start sendig more prisoners to the u. S. Military prison at guantanamo in cuba where no new prisoner has been sent in almost a decade. Pres. Trump i just signed, prior to walking in, in order directing secretary mattis, who is doing a great job. Thank you. [applause] to reexamine our military dedetention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay. Ensureking congress to that in the fight against isis and al qaeda, we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists wherever we chase them down, wherever we find them. And in many cases, for them it will now be Guantanamo Bay. Is the prison population currently 41, down from a high of 684 in 2003. President trump also used the state of the union to issued a veiled threat to federal workers. Pres. Trump so tonight i call on congress to empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to report good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American People. Amy today we spend the hour looking at what President Trump said and did not say during his state of the union. We begin with katrina vanden heuvel, editor and publisher of the nation, americas oldedest weekly magazazine. Overall, your response to what you saw last night . In july in youngstown, President Trump said, one speech is not going to make me president ial. It takes a lot more. We heard platitudes and promises. We heard warmongering. We heard a lot about scams. President iallet me step back. You were just talking about guantanamo. I think one of the ugliest moments was when the president cheered on his move to move the capital the embassy to jerusalem. Along with reopening gitmo for business. You had the republican party, lets not forget trump is the head of the republican party, cheering on defiance of International Law and human rights. I think that was the telltale moment because that is what this a administration is about on the Foreign Policy front. He is a false populist. F no reactionary populist, but a populist. Last night was littered with broken promises even as he promised war. Im not going to hold my breath for lower drug prices, which he spoke of. Im not going to hold my breath for more treatment of an Opioid Crisis come up which as you probably know in 2016 there were more opioid overdoses than combat deaths in vietnam. And he has scammed the American People with a tax cut. I know youre talked a lot about it on this program, which was essentially a handout to the corporations a big into his own family. Last night he tried to boast that this was a tax cut for the American People. Future, this our tax cut. It feels to invest in a future. Which of the democrats were wise, they would put out a bold, bold plan in the next few days about what they would do specifically on these issues of jobs, of infrastructure not a private has ever Structure Plan a real health care, medicare for all, of tuition free hire education, and get real specific about what theyre going to do for working people in this country. And working people, by the way, of all colors. There is too often pitting class versus identity when in fact the working class is brown, black and yellow, white. Amy when you talk about pitting, there was direct references to immigrants, taking poor americans jobs. Bubut i want to go to that issue in a moment. But first, to the Foreign Policy front. Where president said he would beef up the u. S. Nuclear arsenal, dismissing global efforts to ban nuclear weapons. Pres. Trump as part of our defense, we must modernize and ,ebuild our Nuclear Arsenal hopefully, never having to use it, but making it so strong and terpowerful that it will de any act of aggression by any other nation or anyone else. [applause] perhaps someday in the future, there will be a magical moment when the countries of the world will get together to eliminate their nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, we are not there yet. Sadly. Amy that was President Trump in his First Official state of the Union Address. Katrina vanden heuvel . For the Nuclear Issue, dont forget he also said he wanted to break these ending caps. Because soor issue much already goes into defense. Not making us more secure. Our pentagon budget is at a historic high rife with waste and abuse. We dont need more. With the modernization of think it makes us less secure. It is a continuation of obamas plan to modernize the Nuclear Arsenal. He was going to throw one choice in dollars over three decades. 1s she was going to throw trillion over three decades. President trump is elevated the Nuclear Issue in the north korea carol to a new high because people are going to does are concerned about his finger on the nuclear button. We need to be concerned. Accidents, false alerts as we saw in hawaii a few weeks ago. At a minimum, we need to take off the hairtrigger alert and first use. Theres legislation in congress from ted lieu and senator markey to ensure there will be some congressional involvement in any use. The President Trump probably does not know that someone i dont know how he feels about him. Henry kissinger, senator nunn, former clinton secretary William Perry have come out for the abolition of nuclear weapons, as have the majority of countries in the world through the General Assembly at the United Nations last year, putting through a treaty. Believe. Ns i to seek the build down and end of nuclear weapons. That is true security, not a president who talks and rattles his thumbs and fingers and twitter feed against the leader of north korea. Nor is a president who tries to decertify the iran agreement, which is in our security interest. And if it is broken, will lead to more Nuclear Proliferation and less security. This president is clueless when it comes to what Real Security is. And he is out of