You could say Chris Jordan eats with his hands.

As the director of exercise physiology at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute and the person behind the popular 7-Minute Workout, Jordan is known for his health and nutrition prowess.

One aspect of eating right, Jordan says, is eating the right amount. To make sure he’s not overindulging, Jordan eyeballs his food using his fists as a measuring hack.

In other words, while he still uses a knife and fork to feed himself, Jordan aims to eat about “3-5 handfuls of food” at each meal, he says.

Jordan suggests sizing up your plate “using your own hand as a guide.” The breakdown should looks something like this:

Protein – 1 handful Fruits and vegetables – 1-2 handfuls Whole grains – 1-2 handfuls

By those guidelines, here’s what a serving of rice might look like:

Knowing how difficult nutritional advice can be to follow, I decided to try Jordan’s advice out at dinner.

I made oven-baked potato wedges (which I figured could count towards my “whole grains” category), baked fish (my protein), and minty green beans (my vegetables).

On my plate, you can see I have about a fist-and-a-half of potatoes, a fist of greens (I later helped myself to another serving, bringing my total to 2 fistfuls of veggies), and a fist-and-a-half of fish.

That all added up to about 5 handfuls of food, right in line with Jordan’s advice. The tip proved to be a simple way to make sure I had a fairly balanced meal.

President Donald Trump was one of the primary subjects in the new Netflix documentary “Get Me Roger Stone,” an account of the longtime Republican operative and Trump confidant.

But Trump may have had second thoughts about sitting down with the film’s directors.

Speaking before the premiere of their film on Sunday, co-director Dylan Bank said after conducting an interview with Trump, the then-real-estate mogul called Stone to tell him not to cooperate with the directors.

“Roger, after the interview with Trump, told us that Trump called him and said, ‘I don’t think you should do this movie, this is a hit piece, these guys are asking a bunch of tough questions,'” Bank said. “So I bet he’ll love the movie.”

The film, which will be released on Netflix on May 12, traces Stone’s arc from minor campaign aide to President Richard Nixon to part of Trump’s inner circle, detailing his role in the rise of negative campaigning and lobbying as a political action committee founder and bomb-thrower.

Stone remained wary of the film’s directors throughout the process, despite signing a release allowing them access to film his life.

Co-director Morgan Pehme told Business Insider that Stone jokingly threatened to have the directors killed “many times” over the five years they followed Stone, calling them “liberal, New York Times-reading, pinko-commies.”

Still, the directors said they didn’t really believe Stone wouldn’t enjoy the film.

“It’s a film about Roger, so he’s going to love it,” executive producer Blair Foster said before the premiere.

Despite the president’s warnings and Stone’s joking threat to bring a libel lawyer to the film’s premiere, the longtime political operative publicly didn’t seem to mind the dark portrait it cast of him.

“I liked what I saw,” Stone said, noting he arrived a half hour late to the screening because of traffic. “Handsome guy, that Roger Stone.”

Watch the clip below:

There are moments in life when your phone’s camera is crucial: your child’s first steps, or their graduation from high school, for instance.

But your phone is likely full of stuff, and you could end up facing this obnoxious message:

There are few things as frustrating in our convenience-filled world as repeatedly running into your phone’s storage limit. It means an action as simple as taking a photo is delayed while you free up space … often by deleting old photos.

For most people hitting that storage limit, there’s one culprit: photos.

They take up a lot of space, and you take a lot of them – you might even be taking “HDR” photos (which are even larger files than standard photos). So, what do you do? You have two main options:

Buy a phone with more internal storage, which costs more money. Regularly offload photos and delete them from your phone, which costs your time.

But there’s a third, totally free, amazingly simple option: Google Photos. Here’s everything you should know about Google’s secret-best service.

If you have a Google account — Gmail, for instance — you already have Google Photos.

It’s true, and it’s incredibly simple:

-Navigate to photos.google.com (while signed in to your Gmail account).

-Start using Google Photos!

If, for some reason, you don’t already have a Google account, you’ll need one to use Google Photos. Signing up is free and easy.

But let’s not kid ourselves – y0u probably have a Google account already, right? Almost certainly.

But you’re here to free up space on your phone, right? For that you’re going to need the Google Photos app — it’s available for free on both the iTunes App Store and Google Play:

The app is really where the best Google Photos stuff is. I’ll explain why momentarily, but first and foremost you need download links – here they are:

–iTunes App store

–Google Play store

Now that you’ve got the app installed, what’s so good about it? While there are many answers to that question, prime among them is Google Photos’ “Back up & Sync” function.

Despite logic dictating that you should click the “Free up space” option in the main menu, the first place you should navigate is the “Back up & Sync” menu in Settings.

This is the main reason that Google Photos is so great: It takes your entire photo library – every photo you’ve ever taken on your phone, as well as screenshots and photos taken within Instagram and whatever else – and uploads it to the internet. The photos remain private, hidden behind your Google account information, but now you can access them anywhere. On your laptop? Yep. On a new phone? Yep. On your tablet? Yep, there too.

This unto itself is pretty incredible – but what’s even more incredible is what this means for the concept of storing photos on your phone. Specifically: You can straight up delete your entire photo library, thus freeing up a tremendous amount of your phone’s free space.

Having uploaded your phone’s entire photo library to your Google account, you can safely delete that library from local storage.

Of my phone’s 32 GB, I’m using around one-third of the storage. Notably, under 100 MB of that storage is being used by images. That’s specifically because of Google Photos – every time I connect to WiFi, my phone automatically starts uploading photos I’ve taken to Google Photos. After it’s done, it automatically deletes the original on my phone.

Sounds risky, right? What if it deletes a photo without fully uploading it? Good news: I’ve never had that happen. If anything, I’m consistently impressed with how seamlessly this whole process works.

Google Photos is remarkably flexible and customizable — you can bend it to your needs quite easily.

Perhaps you’d like Google Photos to group photos together featuring the same person/people? Google Photos can do that.

Or maybe you’d like to exclusively back up photos while you’re connected to WiFi? Google Photos is also happy to do that (you can also back up using cellular data if you’d prefer).

Perhaps you’d like to immediately identify any photos that have already been backed up, and then delete them? Just tap the “Free up device storage” button and you’re all set.

Google Photos is a ridiculously customizable application. And that’s especially important as we’re talking about an application that manages and categorizes every photo you take – one or two big mistakes could mean huge problems. In the past few years I’ve spent using Google Photos regularly, I’ve never encountered any major problems. I can’t even think of any small-scale problems. It’s my actual favorite Google service, and I say that as a guy who depends on Google for the vast majority of my professional life.

Aside from the immediate benefit of offloading the photo library from your phone, there are other major benefits to using Google Photos. Like categorization:

Because Google Photos uses geolocation and face recognition, it automatically puts together genuinely useful photo albums, collages, and movies.

For instance, I went to Peru last month on vacation. While I was in Peru, I took a lot of photos (surprise!). Before I could put together a photo album, Google Photos had already done so – every photo I took while in Peru, it automatically stitched together into a chronological album. That’s rad!

Going a level deeper, Google Photos automatically categorizes your entire photo library for easy search. Wondering what you did in April 2016? Google Photos knows.

Rather than just look through your photo library as a chronological list, Google Photos enables you to pinpoint a specific month and year for persual.

That’s nice, no doubt, but what’s amazing about it is how that categorization is used as the framework for all exploration of your photo library. It smartly operates as the foundation for everything.

But what’s even more impressive is how search works. What if I only want to see photos from the portion of my Peru trip that was spent in Cusco? Can do!

That’s really rad as well. Maybe you want to see all the photos you’ve ever taken while visiting your in-laws in the Pennsylvania suburbs? That’s totally doable.

And search gets even more intense in Google Photos: How about searching by faces?

I’m married, have no kids, and travel as much as humanly possible. Priorities!

As such, I have a ridiculously large number of photos of my beautiful wife. Google Photos is keenly aware of this, and it recognizes her in photos. I can even search by her face to see the many instances of her appearing in my photos.

There are a wide variety of search options in Google Photos, including “type,” location, and by face.

Best of all, this is entirely free — you can upload an unlimited number of photos (they’re slightly compressed, but still very high quality).

If you really want to upload full resolution photo backups, you can – but after a certain amount of storage, Google wants money. That said, the “high quality” option is beyond adequate.

I had to scale down the quality of this incredible breakfast sandwich photo – it clocked in at 4048 x 3036 pixels, and 3.7 MB. That’s ridiculously large! Also, the sandwich was very good.

Perhaps you’re uncomfortable with uploading all your personal photos to your Google account? Make sure you have two-factor authentication switched on!

First and foremost, if you’re taking a lot of photos you’d rather keep private, it’s totally possible that Google Photos isn’t for you. Even with perfect security, there’s needless risk involved.

That said, for the rest of us, two-factor authentication is more than enough back up. Remember when Apple’s iCloud was hacked a few years ago, and various images of naked celebrities leaked to the internet? Apple’s immediate response was to add two-factor authentication.

Moreover, you should have two-factor authentication turned on anyway, so here’s an excuse to do that. Google’s got instructions for how to do it right here.

There’s evidence that tripping on magic mushrooms could actually free the mind.

Several small studies have linked the psychoactive ingredient in shrooms (which are illegal) with several purported health benefits, including the potential to help relieve anxiety and depression. But, as with any drug, shrooms also come with risks. And because they’re classified as Schedule 1 – meaning they have “no accepted medical use” – it’s been pretty tough for scientists to tease out exactly what they can and can’t do.

Here are a few of the ways we know shrooms can affect your brain and body:

Derek Jeter is one step closer to becoming a Major League Baseball owner, but the deal to buy the Miami Marlins also comes up short of his true goal – to be the next George Steinbrenner.

According to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has reached an “agreement in principle” to sell the club to a group led by Jeb Bush and Jeter for $1.3 billion.

During a 2014 interview with Jack Curry of the Yes Network shortly before retiring, Jeter called owning a team “the next ultimate goal.” However, Jeter also added that he wants to be the guy “that calls the shots.” Specifically, Jeter said he would like to be an owner like Steinbrenner, whom Jeter played under for 16 seasons.

“I learned a lot from [Steinbrenner] on how to run an organization,” Jeter told Jackson. “I would like [to be like Steinbrenner]. I thought he, in my opinion, I’m a little biased obviously, but I feel he was the best owner in all of sports.”

That won’t happen with the Marlins, at least not right away.

A source told Jackson that Bush is expected to be the “control person.” Jackson described that role as “the individual who would have ultimate control over franchise decisions.”

Jackson would only say that Jeter “plans to take an active role with the franchise.”

Jeter is still just 42 years old. It is possible that he views this ownership opportunity as somewhat of an apprenticeship, a chance to gain some experience running a team before branching out and achieving his ultimate goal. But for now, Jeter would seemingly have to take somewhat of a back seat to Bush.

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio believes the Affordable Care Act should be fixed, not repealed.

Kasich said in an interview with Business Insider that if there’s “one campaign promise” Republicans “ought not to fulfill,” it is repealing “Obamacare without a decent replacement.”

“Well, you have to fix it, not repeal it,” he told Business Insider during a Monday interview while promoting his new book, “Two Paths: America Divided or United.”

“We always say ‘repeal and replace,’ those are like, political words. … It needs reformed. And, the exchanges need to be reformed. And with Medicaid expansion, you can, over time, begin to return that to a more reasonable match with the states. I mean there are ways to deal with this, I just don’t want people being cut off.”

Kasich, who sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2016, has been an outspoken voice in the debate over healthcare. He visited the White House in late February and discussed healthcare policy with the president. The meeting occurred just before the introduction of the American Health Care Act, the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

Polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly agree with the sentiment expressed by Kasich. An April poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling found that 62% of voters surveyed said they preferred Congress keep the Affordable Care Act and fix the problems with it. Just 30% of respondents said they would rather have Congress vote to repeal the law and start over with new legislation.

On his meeting with Trump at the White House, Kasich said the president was “extremely receptive” to the governor’s views on healthcare.

“I even talked about the crisis with the pharmaceutical industry and how the government has to have some leverage on these prices,” he said. “You know, I was there for a long time and it was a very pleasant meeting. Where it ended up was not where I wanted it to, and that’s why I kind of stood against this healthcare bill.”

“But to tell you the truth, I don’t think the president has any hard feelings about this, hard feelings about healthcare,” he added. “I don’t think he’s in stone on something. He’d just like to see something get done. And I think there’s a battle for him inside this White House. Those who want him to be more reasonable and those who want him to be more hardline and whoever wins, it’s like a tug of war, and we’ll judge him on the basis of who he’ll listen to.”

Kasich, who said he has no sense of how the healthcare debate will shake out, expressed concern that “people that don’t have power are not priorities for people in public office.”

“Maybe it’s always been that way, but I see it more starkly now,” he said. “Maybe because of my job as governor. So, if you’re drug addicted, ‘Well, well.’ If you’re mentally ill, ‘Well, you know. Well.’ If you’re really poor, ‘Well, you know, bootstraps.’ This is concerning to me because nobody should be left behind. And I see it happening too much.”

“And we’re going to fix Obamacare by repealing some of the tax increases on some of the richest people in the country and then have less resources to help people with mental illness and drug addiction?” he added. “It’s foolhardy. It’s nonsense. I don’t buy it.”

The Trump administration is rapidly losing steam in its fight to crack down on so-called “sanctuary cities.”

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday afternoon blocking an executive order Trump signed Jan. 25 threatening to withhold federal grant money from jurisdictions that refused to comply with federal immigration law.

San Francisco and Santa Clara County had sued the Trump administration last month, arguing that the order threatened a loss of billions of dollars in federal funding and threw their budget planning into chaos.

Yet just hours before the injunction was granted, Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a handful of mayors and reportedly assured them that the definition of a “sanctuary city” is so narrow that most cities are not at risk of losing federal funds anyway.

“Based on what we’ve heard, I don’t know of any cities that are out of compliance with that at the moment,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said after the meeting, according to Politico.

One of the issues at the root of the clash between the federal government and localities across the country is the definition of a “sanctuary city.”

Although Trump and Sessions have complained repeatedly about jurisdictions that decline to honor federal requests to detain suspected unauthorized immigrants, Sessions reportedly told the mayors on Tuesday that compliance with those requests is not included in the administration’s understanding of what a “sanctuary city” is.

Instead, the Trump administration’s only working definition refers to 8 USC 1373 of the federal code, which states that local officials cannot interfere in communications with federal officials regarding individuals’ citizenship or immigration statuses.

But Sessions and Trump have attempted to persuade localities to go beyond mere compliance with Section 1373 and start honoring federal detainer requests, arguing that despite immigration enforcement being a federal responsibility, state and local partners are needed to assist in detaining and deporting unauthorized immigrants accused of crimes.

“People in this country illegally who have committed serious crimes like domestic violence, child abuse, and rape are often released back onto our streets. That makes us less safe,” Sessions said earlier this month at a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Mayors and law enforcement officials across the country have shot back that the detainer requests are merely requests – they are not legally binding documents like a judge-signed warrant. In fact, federal courts have ruled in the past that honoring detainer requests without warrants can violate detainees’ Fourth Amendment rights.

‘A sleight of hand’

The meeting between Sessions and the mayors on Tuesday is just the latest development in a contentious battle between the Trump administration and big cities across the country. Last Friday, the Justice Department sent letters to nine jurisdictions ordering them to prove compliance with Section 1373 before June 30 or risk losing certain grants for the fiscal year 2016.

As many of those jurisdictions have publicly said they already follow Section 1373, it’s unclear which – if any – localities are actually violating the law. But another question raised by mayors on Tuesday is how localities should provide proof they are compliant with the law. It’s unclear whether information such as fingerprints shared with the FBI and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will be enough to satisfy the Trump administration.

“We’ve got more clarity than we’ve ever received, but we also have other thorny issues to sort through,” Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza said after the meeting, the Associated Press reported.

Sessions said in a statement that the Justice Department is pleased that the mayors assured him they wanted to comply with the law, but that obeying Section 1373 was only the bare minimum.

“The vast majority of state and local jurisdictions are in compliance and want to work with federal law enforcement to keep their communities safe,” Sessions said.

“Of course, compliance with 8 USC 1373 is the minimum the American people should expect. We want all jurisdictions to enthusiastically support the laws of the United States that require the removal of criminal aliens, as many jurisdictions already do.”

But legal experts have speculated since it was first announced in January that by continuing to pressure jurisdictions on immigration detainers at the same time as insisting that cities follow a law they’re already following, the Trump administration is attempting to conflate two separate issues and confuse the public.

“What it clearly doesn’t impact – Section 1373 – is the decision to detain or not detain somebody at the request of the federal government,” Christopher Lasch, a professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law told Business Insider in March. He called the Trump administration’s actions on sanctuary jurisdictions a “sleight of hand.”

“It is the detainer compliance that’s what’s really bothering the administration, and they’re using 1373 as this ruse to try to convince people that sanctuary jurisdictions are somehow flouting federal law.”

On Tuesday, a California judge blocked Trump’s order to withhold funding from sanctuary cities, places that refuse to cooperate with ICE and other authorities enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.

Lawyers representing San Francisco and Santa Clara County argued that Trump’s executive order cracking down on sanctuary cities violates jurisdictions’ 10th Amendment rights and could deprive them of billions of dollars in federal funding. The judge’s preliminary injunction blocking the order will stay in place while the lawsuit moves through court.

It’s the latest development in the fight between some cities that have decided to stand with their unauthorized immigrant communities, and authorities that enforce the nation’s immigration laws.

Jersey City, home to an estimated 22,000 unauthorized immigrants, has taken steps to strengthen and codify its sanctuary status, openly defiant of immigration officials.

But even then, in many cases, Jersey City may still be powerless to protect undocumented immigrants.

The limits of sanctuary

Nearly 10 years after a woman from the Philippines settled in New Jersey, there was a knock on her door.

She had come to Jersey City in part because that’s where immigrants have settled for more than 400 years. It’s a city so synonymous with immigrants that, back in 1996, it declared itself a “sanctuary” for unauthorized US residents.

But on this January morning in 2016, the woman, who spoke with Business Insider on the condition of anonymity, was about to experience the limits of a place declaring itself a sanctuary city.

It was before sunrise. She had just fallen asleep, having come back recently from her job on the overnight shift.

The woman’s sister let two men into their apartment. They were from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a moment later they were in her bedroom.

“I thought it was just a dream,” the woman told Business Insider.

The agents showed her a photo of herself. There was no denying it. She had been a permanent resident but lost that status after being convicted and serving time for possessing methamphetamines. So they took her away to the local ICE headquarters and then placed her in Hudson County jail, only a few miles from her home.

A city of immigrants takes a stand

Jersey City, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, is said to be the most culturally diverse city in America. Forty percent of its population is foreign-born. Its streets are home to immigrants from Italy, Cuba, the Philippines, Poland, India, Ireland, the Dominican Republic, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Jersey City has been a place for immigrants since before there was a United States, dating all the way back to when the Dutch settled the area in the 1600s. Tens of millions of immigrants passed through Ellis Island, which is within the city’s borders, and many stuck around in Jersey City.

All this at least partly explains the actions of Jaime Vazquez in 1996, when the US was tightening its immigration policies, denying public assistance to immigrants and calling on government employees to report anyone they suspected of being in the country illegally. Vazquez, an outspoken, pro-immigrant councilman from Puerto Rico, wrote up a resolution to declare the city a “safe haven” for immigrants and to discourage city employees from reporting people suspected of violating immigration laws.

“It’s un-American to have people living in fear because some social worker is going to report them to immigration. That’s almost Gestapo-ish,” Vazquez told the North Jersey newspaper The Record at the time. “Some people say that’s an extreme comparison. OK, maybe. But the Nazis started somewhere.”

By passing a resolution that declared the city would not help enforce federal immigration efforts, Jersey City had become a sanctuary city.

“The resolution embodies what the Statue of Liberty stands for: compassion, liberty and freedom,” Vazquez, who died last year, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Then-Jersey City council president Tom DeGise was equally emphatic.

“We wanted to make a statement that, in our ethnically diverse city, we didn’t want any city agency ferreting out illegal immigrants,” he told The Christian Science Monitor at the time. “My job as a school teacher is to educate the children in front of me, not be in a position of saying, ‘Are you an illegal immigrant?'”

But, as Jersey City’s current government recently learned, symbolic gestures can do only so much, and now DeGise is on the other side.

The power of financial incentives

As Jersey City was first calling itself a sanctuary in 1996, nearby Hudson County Correctional Facility began housing immigration detainees under a so-called intergovernmental service agreement. As a contractor for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, Hudson County, where Jersey City is located, began providing housing, safekeeping, subsistence, and other services for INS detainees in exchange for $77 per detainee per detained day.

DeGise has a different job now and a different perspective along with it. He’s Hudson County’s executive, and in this role he says he supports the county’s efforts to help ICE detain unauthorized immigrants.

It was under his leadership, in 2009, that the Hudson County Department of Corrections entered into an agreement with ICE known as 287(g) to honor immigration detainers, which are requests that local authorities hold people suspected of violating immigration laws until ICE can pick them up and detain them. The agreement also allows the county to identify noncitizens who are subject to removal from the US. Around the same time, the county’s detainee-day rate also increased to $110 a day from $90.

The 287(g) agreement essentially deputizes three corrections officers from Hudson County to function as immigration agents and allows them to interrogate, charge, and detain any immigrant already at the Hudson County jail.

When people are arrested for indictable offenses in Jersey City, their fingerprints are scanned and sent to the FBI, which then shares them with ICE. If their fingerprints come up in an ICE database as somebody who is wanted on suspicion of an immigration violation, then ICE can issue a detainer. Sanctuary status can’t prevent that.

In June 2016, the county said it probably wouldn’t renew its contract with ICE. “Barring overwhelming evidence presented by ICE of its law enforcement value or of the need for county, rather than ICE personnel to carry out this function, the 287(g) agreement will not be renewed,” county spokesman Jim Kennelly told The Jersey Journal at the time.

But the following month, the county did renew the contract.

“I was convinced that it’s a very effective tool in trying to keep some bad guys out of our communities and off of our streets,” DeGise told NJTV News in defense of the agreement.

DeGise declined Business Insider’s requests for an interview, but in the 20 years since he backed Jersey City’s sanctuary status, his change of rhetoric shows the limitations of sanctuary-city policy.

Even though Jersey City is a sanctuary city, its residents are at a higher risk of being detained and deported because ICE is embedded into the county’s corrections system.

Amid concerns from advocates that the county would have to abide by new national guidelines introduced by Trump that allow ICE to prioritize just about every unauthorized immigrant for detention, the county issued a statement about a new policy it adopted that says it plans to continue following the priorities for detention it signed onto when it re-entered the agreement with ICE in July. According to those earlier standards, county correction would flag for detention only people who committed serious offenses.

In an email to Business Insider, Kennelly wrote, “The only reports sent to ICE by Hudson County Corrections are limited to serious offenses, laid out in a county policy put in place after the new Presidential administration took office.”

The policy, however, also laid out guidelines for whom the county would screen and process – included on this list are people who have been arrested on suspicion of any misdemeanor that could result in at least three months of jail time.

“I’m a liberal Democrat, one who thinks that serious criminals, especially those who commit sexual assaults against women and children or engage in violent felonies don’t deserve to remain in this country to prey on the very immigrants we cherish in Hudson County,” DeGise said in a statement.

But critics say 287(g) is more of a public-relations program for ICE to say it is ridding the streets of dangerous immigrants, and they dispute the characterization – people arrested for minor offenses wind up in detention all the time, advocates say.

Rosa Santana, a detainee-visitation program coordinator at First Friends of New Jersey and New York, tells Business Insider she has visited with detainees who are in jail for traffic violations. “We have heard of clients who called the police for a domestic violence dispute and then both parties were detained and ended up in immigration detention,” she says.

Rev. Eugene P. Squeo, a longtime immigrant advocate who visits Hudson County detention center twice a week, says he often hears stories that fathers who support their wives and children sometimes spend months to years in detention for minor offenses.

Kennelly says ICE can detain whomever it wants, including people who have committed lesser crimes, and the county will house these detainees. Hudson County has no hand in choosing these detainees, he says. “With 287(g), we exercise very careful discretion in the choices of foreign-born individuals we report to ICE who are drawn from the arrested persons brought to our facility by local police,” he writes.

Advocates say that, ultimately, the reason Hudson County kept its 287(g) contract with ICE is that the county didn’t want to bite the hand that feeds it.

Chia-Chia Wang, the organizing and advocacy director at American Friends Service Committee who is also head of the group’s Immigrant Rights Program, tells Business Insider that at a rate of $110 a day for each detainee, it behooves the county to identify more immigrants to be detained.

“The reason DeGise decided to renew the partnership with ICE was for the $20.5 million the county received in 2015 from the federal government for incarcerating immigrant detainees,” Eugene G. Drayton, the president of the Hoboken Branch of the NAACP, wrote in an op-ed article for The Jersey Journal. “The county profits financially when, rather than being released, immigrants whose criminal charges have been dismissed or otherwise resolved, continue to be held on immigration matters.”

At the end of March, nearly half – about 600 – of the almost 1,200 inmates at the jail were being held on ICE detainers, according to The Jersey Journal. While the jail’s overall population has been dropping since January thanks to a new law that says only pretrial defendants deemed a danger to the public or to a witness may be detained, immigration advocates suspect this makes room for more immigrant detainees to occupy beds there.

“It seems that Hudson County is in a race to fill empty criminal defendant beds with immigrant detainees to collect federal cash,” Wang wrote in an op-ed article for The Jersey Journal.

Kennelly says, however, that the county’s budget is huge – about a half-billion dollars – and, after expenses, the county nets only $8 million in income for housing ICE detainees. What’s more, he says the county hasn’t received any indication from ICE that Hudson County’s jail would not be used if the county were to end its involvement with 287(g).

And while the bond rules are freeing up beds, he says the county’s focus for the future is repositioning its jail as a regional center for drug treatment for inmates throughout the state and region.

Meanwhile, Jersey City has a financial incentive to protect its 22,000 unauthorized immigrants.

In the New York metro area, which includes Jersey City, 36% of service jobs like making and serving food, working in offices and retail shops, and caring for children and the elderly are done by immigrants, both with documentation and without. And the concentration of immigrants in this area working blue-collar jobs like construction, truck driving, and factory work is even higher at 50% of the working class, CityLab reports.

Immigrants living in the US illegally aren’t just working for small businesses, either. Immigration expert Harry Pachon once estimated that up to 10% of such immigrants run their own businesses. If true, that would suggest there are more than 2,000 unauthorized entrepreneurs in Jersey City.

A new city under a new administration

You can grab a fresh, hot samosa from one of the many restaurants lining Newark Avenue in the “Little India” section of Journal Square, and, after a quick bus ride up Central Avenue, wash it down with a cafe con leche from one of the Latin American bakeries in The Heights.

Jersey City is also changing, with a waterfront rapidly becoming home to hipsters and finance workers priced out of New York neighborhoods like Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

“A lot of diverse folks live in proximity to each other, and they call them neighbors and friends and family,” Jersey City Council President Rolando R. Lavarro tells Business Insider.

But the new administration has brought new fears to those subject to deportation.

From the outset of Trump’s campaign for the US presidency, he has vowed to deport the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the US illegally using a “deportation force” and crack down on cities that provide a safe haven for these people. His immigration policies as president so far appear to be an attempt to bear these promises out.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States,” Trump said in his executive order on immigration. “These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic.”

Trump’s executive order to withhold federal grant money from sanctuary jurisdictions was reiterated by Sessions, the attorney general, who specified that Department of Justice grants could be at risk. Just last year, Jersey City received a grant of almost $1.9 million from the DOJ to support the hiring of 15 new police officers.

Threats to federal grants in sanctuary cities have been met with support by numerous conservative politicians, including New Jersey’s governor, Chris Christie.

“Elected officials can’t be allowed to pick and choose the laws they wish to comply with,” Christie said during his call-in radio show. “And if they say they’re not going to change, I can guarantee them something: Donald Trump is going to take away federal funding if you don’t comply with the law.”

The New Jersey governor also said he would veto “on arrival” any legislation seeking to reimburse sanctuary cities for any lost federal funds, calling such a bill “outrageous” and “political pandering.”

But Jersey City decided to fight back. It has attempted to fortify its sanctuary status into an official law.

“I think it took [Jersey City] a little while to realize that, while in name you might be a ‘sanctuary city,’ in real practice you need to put a bit more than just a sentiment in there to actually do something,” says Johanna Calle, the program coordinator at the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

In February, the city codified its official status as a sanctuary city into law.

Mayor Steven Fulop signed his own executive order that, among other things, bars the city’s employees, agents, and law enforcement from honoring ICE detainers.

Fulop’s order also bars city agents from assisting in civil immigration-enforcement operations; requesting information about anyone’s immigration status unless it’s required by state or federal law, regulation, directive, or court order; or allowing federal immigration officers access to municipal facilities or databases without a warrant.

“In today’s climate, despite threats, it’s just a strong statement from Jersey City saying that we won’t be bullied and we won’t be mistreated and we’re going to stand by the values that are important to us,” Fulop said at the executive-order signing.

The real value in sanctuary-city policy

Lavarro, the Jersey City council president, says Jersey City has never aided ICE before. But by codifying its sanctuary-city status, the city is officially forbidding its police force from helping ICE.

But local officials can’t stop federal immigration agents from entering the city and detaining immigrants themselves. Advocates say the real value in sanctuary-city status is its symbolism. It sends the message that local police officers are on their side, which historically has made immigrants more willing to cooperate.

The liberal Center for American Progress has found crime to be lower in counties that do not honor ICE detainers than in counties that do. And unauthorized immigrants have been found to commit crimes at a rate lower than that of native-born Americans.

Fulop tells Business Insider that making Jersey City a sanctuary city was imperative because he wanted to ensure there was a sense of community in which people felt comfortable they could rely on city resources, which Trump’s executive order threatens.

Jersey City’s director of public safety, James Shea, tells Business insider there is no question the city has seen instances in which fear of deportation has hindered law enforcement.

“The big challenge in policing under our system of law isn’t just apprehension – it’s conviction,” Shea says. “And that requires cooperation from the community in the form of witnesses, canvassing, sharing their video cameras with us from their homes or businesses. It requires a whole team effort from the community. Anything that helps the community feel comfortable making that effort works for us.”

Hopes for the future

After she was picked up by ICE, the woman from the Philippines spent 11 months in the Hudson County jail until a judge declared she’d most likely be persecuted if deported. She won a “withholding of removal,” essentially meaning she can stay in the US and apply for a job.

“When I came here, I had my pockets full of hopes, because living in the Philippines is really hard,” she said. The woman is transgender, and the Philippines are not known for being accepting of LGBT people.

She says she’s been clean of drugs for five years and wants to stay in the US. She says the US needs immigrants as much as immigrants need this county.

“I want to see this country be united,” she says. “I want this country to still have immigrants because immigrants built this country, and I want this country to remain diverse. I want us to be more united because when we’re united we’re stronger, and we should not just let one person decide for the lives of the many.”

Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday congratulated Fox News staff in an internal memo after the first day of the network’s new lineup following star host Bill O’Reilly’s departure.

“Last night’s ratings are in and I couldn’t be more proud to announce that, not only did FOX News beat all other cable news competition with our new primetime debut, but we also increased our ratings 31% in total viewers and 54% in the demo compared to last year,” the executive chair of 21st Century Fox wrote in a memo obtained by Business Insider.

“This was a stellar performance that couldn’t have happened without the amazing effort and dedication from everyone on the team over the last week,” he said. Murdoch continued: “I know the last few weeks have been tough for everyone here, but our passion for news and commitment to our viewers continue to lead us through. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work.”

Fox’s new lineup on Monday indeed drew a notably sizable viewership despite the absence of O’Reilly, long the ratings king of cable news.

On Monday, Tucker Carlson, who took over O’Reilly’s 8 p.m. time slot, drew just under 3.2 million viewers, far more than the entire 8 p.m. viewership of CNN and MSNBC combined. Though he did not match O’Reilly’s viewership, Carlson delivered almost exactly the same number of viewers in advertiser’s coveted 25-54 age demographic as O’Reilly did his final show.

“The Five,” which now occupies Carlson’s former 9 p.m. time slot, also debuted to strong ratings, besting MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who notably overtook Carlson among viewers 25-54 years old in March.

It remains to be seen whether the network can sustain the audience that O’Reilly drew. Last week’s fill-in hosts, Dana Perino and Eric Bolling, failed to match O’Reilly’s numbers.

The network has faced increased negative scrutiny and potential legal trouble following the release of New York Times story earlier this month detailing a long history of sexual harassment allegations against O’Reilly, the network’s decades-long marquee star.

DALLAS – Businessman and philanthropist Trammell S. Crow founded Earth Day Texas in 2011 and it has gotten bigger every year since.

This Earth Day weekend, an expected 150,000 people attended the event at the Texas State Fairgrounds. School groups, families, college students saw 850 exhibitors, and about 260 speakers come together to talk about protecting the environment.

Here’s what it looked like:

First of all, Earth Day Texas is huge. Held in Dallas’ 277-acre Fair Park, it was a haul to get around.

Crow describes himself as a conservative Republican and an environmentalist. He has made it his mission to get people from those two camps to come together on fighting climate change.

About 850 exhibitors from companies, non-profits, and schools filled 1,720 booths. The Republican Party was set up right across from the Democratic Party.

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry attended on Friday. He touted Texas’ environmental accomplishments when he was governor and said he would use the state as an example for the federal government to follow.

Read more about Perry’s visit here »

Another Cabinet member, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, also attended. Here’s the hall where he was supposed to speak. But he was late, and the audience of several dozen people had to move to an auditorium in the basement.

Read more about Pruitt’s visit here »

While waiting to move downstairs, two protesters unfurled a banner and started chanting, “science not superstition,” accusing Pruitt of being the wrong choice to lead the EPA. The crowd looked on unperturbed, not joining in the chants.

Read more about Pruitt’s visit here »

Pruitt spoke with Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton for about 20 minutes. Three protesters interrupted the talk, and Pruitt’s staff removed them from the hall.

Read more about Pruitt’s visit here »

Many, many brands attended to tout their sustainable business practices or environmental programs. Chipotle was there advertising its new “clean food” campaign.

Chester Cheetah was there with PepsiCo giving out free chips and Gatorade.

Tesla was there, too.

The LEGO exhibit was extremely popular with kids and adults.

LEGO challenged people to make a creation that touched on one of two themes: protecting bees or keeping the ocean clean.

Some kids used those ideas as a springboard, but many made their own unique creations.

One of the buildings was entirely dedicated to agriculture. Here, ranchers attend a panel on soil regeneration.

The Texas Farm Bureau had a simulator in a truck where you could go in and pretend to virtually harvest corn

Virtual reality was a top draw for many different booths.

Most of them used Oculus Rift VR headsets.

“You wanna go off the grid?” this man asked before jumping on the bicycle to power a set of light bulbs.

Tons of activities were interactive for kids, like this one from CMC Recycling’s booth where kids got to color a giant mural.

Tree climbing was a popular event.

The kids used ropes instead of tree limbs to climb.

There were free fitness classes. These people were learning Tai Chi.

Tiny houses seem to be a mainstay at any environmental conference these days. These were slightly larger than ones I’ve seen in the past, though, and they donated one to a homeless veteran.

“Fun facts” about trees were posted throughout the festival.

The massive fountain running through the middle of the event was turned off and is being renovated to conserve water.

All seven of the major buildings where exhibitors had booths and where speakers held talks had bare floors.

While many of the materials used at the event were recyclable, like any large event, Earth Day Texas produced a lot of waste.

The Savor Food Garden offered six tastes of sustainable foods for $5. I tried a vegan brownie, vegan chili, bread pudding (seen here), watermelon gazpacho and a few other delights.

What Earth Day Texas is complete without a sustainable beer garden?

Not a live tiger.

Live birds of prey attended, too.

Texas A&M University’s booths stretched an entire row.

Local non-partisan, non-profit Texas Heritage Protection taught people about the environmental impacts of litter.

A lot of Texans brought their dogs to the festival!

Despite the 50-degree temps on Saturday. lots of people tried scuba diving in the pool.

Joining cities around the country for the Science March on Saturday, demonstrators marched from City Hall to the Earth Day Texas event 3.5 miles away.

Science March participants showed off their signs and costumes at Fair Park.

Legendary ocean scientist Sylvia Earle delivered a keynote speech on the importance of scientific inquiry.

Kids loved the little petting zoo.

Here’s a man on stilts talking on the phone with a cow in the background.

Until next year, Earth Day Texas!

Alphabet CEO Larry Page was thrust into the center of the high-profile legal drama involving Google, Uber and self-driving cars.

At issue is a conversation that Page may, or may not, have had with Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car pioneer who is accused of taking technology he worked on while at Google and bringing it to Uber.

Lawyers for Uber say they need to talk to Page, to ask him about his conversations with his former employee.

Page was aware that Levandowski had supposedly taken 14,000 files from Google after he left, Uber lawyer Arturo Gonzalez alleged in court on Tuesday. Yet, Uber argues, Page never brought it up in conversations with Levandowski or when he met with Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick in October.

Uber also claims that Page was aware that Levandowski was thinking of joining Uber before Uber acquired Otto, a self-driving truck startup that Levandowski had cofounded. If true, Uber says that Waymo’s effort to stop its self-driving car project in its tracks is unnecessary since Page hadn’t see the need to urgently intervene before.

Just one question

But don’t expect to hear much from Page anytime soon.

Lawyers for Waymo, the official name of Google’s self-driving car spinout, called Gonzalez’s points about the conversations between Page and Levandowski as “something made up” in his mind.

“What you just heard your honor is something that was made up in the mind of Mr. Gonzalez,” Waymo’s lawyers said in court on Tuesday.

And Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley was also skeptical that Uber needed to depose Page since its lawyers failed to give evidence that these conversations happened in the first place.

Instead, Uber will get to ask Page a single, written question.

“I realize I’m giving you an inch when you wanted a mile,” Corley said.

Page will have to answer a question about whether or not he had conversations with Levandowski, pre-acquisition, in which Levandowski told Page he was considering going to Uber.

The next week will be crucial for the two parties involved in the trade secrets case that’s pitting two of Silicon Valley’s giants against each other. On Wednesday, the two will have a settlement conference followed by a hearing about Uber’s motion to compel arbitration on Thursday. The following week will be the hearing over the preliminary injunction.

President Donald Trump has a button on his desk in the Oval Office he can use to summon a butler on demand.

According to the Associated Press, Trump tends to employ its powers to order up a Coke on occasion.

Here’s Trump with a soft drink on his desk:

When hosting the Associated Press at the oval office, Trump showed the reporters the red button, which sits in a rectangular wooden box. After pressing it a butler promptly arrived with a Coke for the president, the news wire service reported.

The call button is meant to be used to summon an aide whenever a president needs something, and it can be moved. President Barack Obama was seen sitting with the call button next to him at meetings in the past.

Here’s Obama dining with then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with the call box on the table in front of him:

Foto: President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have lunch in the Oval Office Dining Room of the White House, Oct. 22, 2009, with the call button visible on the table.sourceOfficial White House Photo by Pete Souza

A hacking group linked by cybersecurity experts to Russia’s military intelligence apparatus has begun taking aim at France’s centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro said in a report published on Tuesday.

On March 15, the group – known as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sednit, APT28, Sofacy, or STRONTIUM – began registering domain names like “onedrive-en-marche.fr” and “mail-en-marche.fr” in an attempt to trick members of Macron’s campaign team into clicking on links that looked affiliated with his political party, En Marche.

“A huge revelation in this Trend Micro report is that Fancy Bear has significantly upped the sophistication of its cyber attacks,” said Greg Martin, the CEO of cybersecurity firm JASK. “They’re taking advantage of vulnerabilities in cloud-based email services like Gmail to trick people into downloading fake applications, and compromising their inboxes without even having to steal a password.”

Martin said that when targeted by this kind of attack, known as “OAuth phishing,” the victim can’t just change their password to regain access to their account.

“It’s a new style of attack is very deadly and unprecedented,” he said. “It’s the first time we have seen this in the wild.”

A more primitive version of that phishing technique was on full display during the US presidential election. Emails stolen by Fancy Bear from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, were fed to WikiLeaks and the website DCLeaks, which is run by self-described hacker Guccifer 2.0, who researchers believe was a persona created by Russian military intelligence.

“The cat got out of the bag in terms of the tools used in the DNC cyberattacks, so Fancy Bear upped the ante this time around,” Martin said.

Fancy Bear’s cyberespionage activities date back to the early 2000s, when hackers would implant malware on computers to record users’ keystrokes and monitor the sites they visited. That information would then be sent back to the malware creators in Russia, according to Trend Micro.

As the firm said in its report, however, the hacking team’s days of under-the-radar spying appear to be over. Spanning the past two years, the group has taken on bigger targets than ever before – including US, French, and German political parties and candidates – by deploying phishing attacks, stealing information, and then weaponizing it to manipulate events and public opinion.

Cybersecurity experts caution that it is difficult to definitively trace a cyberattack back to a particular entity. Igor Volovich, the CEO of ROMAD Cyber Systems, said that the cyber artifacts used to trace hacks back to particular actors are “fungible,” which makes cyberattacks difficult to attribute.

“Using an IP address or a particular code to trace a hack back to a particular actor – those things, on their own, are inconclusive,” Volovich said in an interview. “But if you can correlate multiple sources of data in the attribution [of a hack], that adds a lot more credibility.”

According to Trend Micro, while Pawn Storm “makes good use of webhosting providers in Western countries that offer privacy to their customers,” the group still “has a clear preference for some hosting providers, DNS service providers, and domain registrars.” By monitoring those service providers, the firm said, much of the group’s infrastructure can be spotted and caught early.

And the fact that the hackers have consistently targeted a range of actors that could easily be characterized as Russian adversaries – including NATO, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the US Anti-Doping Agency, the Ukrainian military, and the president of Montenegro – has left researchers with little doubt that the cyberattacks were sponsored by the Kremlin.

In December, the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike revealed that the malware that Fancy Bear implanted on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units between 2014-2016 “was a variant of the kind used to hack into the Democratic National Committee,” the firm’s founder, Dmitri Alperovitch told Reuters.

Russia has been fighting a proxy war with the Ukrainian military since 2014, bolstering the likelihood that the Russia’s main foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, would have attempted to compromise and track Ukrainian artillery units sometime in the past three years.

The cyberattack, Alperovitch said at the time, “cannot be a hands-off group or a bunch of criminals. They need to be in close communication with the Russian military.”

The Russians would have been similarly motivated to compromise the US Anti-Doping Agency – which, along with the World Anti-Doping Agency, investigated Russia’s conspiracy to corrupt its drug-testing system and ultimately banned dozens of Russian athletes from last summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In October, a Russian plot to overthrow Montenegro’s pro-Western president – who has been negotiating the country’s accession into NATO – was foiled at the last minute. State websites have since been targeted by two waves of cyberattacks. The Montenegrin government said the attacks were “planned and synchronized” but stopped short of attributing them to Moscow.

The Russian government’s motivations to target France’s Macron, meanwhile, have parallels to their attacks on the US election last year: a desire to boost the more nationalistic, Russia-friendly underdog (Marine Le Pen in France and President Donald Trump in the US) and undermine the more globalist, hawkish frontrunner (Macron in France and Clinton in the US).

On Sunday, Macron and Le Pen won the first round of the election in a historic upset that saw France’s two traditional parties lose power for the first time in decades. The second round of voting, set to take place on May 7, will be perceived as a de-facto referendum on whether the nationalist fervor sweeping the West has continued into 2017 – a movement that propelled Trump into the White House last year and spurred Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The stakes are high for Russia. Depending on who wins, the French election could set the tone for a broader European shift toward Moscow and away from Washington. As France’s foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, told the French Journal du Dimanche, “It’s enough to see which candidates, Marine Le Pen or Francois Fillon, Russia expresses preference for in the French electoral campaign.”

“Whereas Emmanuel Macron, who is pro-Europe, is being targeted by cyberattacks,” he added.