CURRENT EVENTS April 7- 14

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Ramrouser said:
I guess no one here wants to mention that the consumer price index fell by .1 percent compared with the previous month after climbing each month since July 2022.
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nycfan said:
There is literally a thread dedicated to this sort of economic news & and today’s CPI announcement was covered there.

Also, please share the link for your data. Thanks!
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Look at nycfan gettin' salty!!
 
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Background: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/nx-s1-5075171/water-treaty-mexico-united-states

“Eighty years ago, the United States and Mexico worked out an arrangement to share water from the two major rivers that run through both countries: the Rio Grande and the Colorado. The treaty was created when water wasn't as scarce as it is now.

Water from Mexico flows to Texas' half-billion-dollar citrus industry and dozens of cities near the border. On the Mexican side, some border states like Baja California and Chihuahua are heavily reliant on the water that comes from the American side of the Colorado River.

Now, those water-sharing systems are facing one of the biggest tests in their history. Mexico is some 265 billion gallons of water behind on its deliveries to the United States…

… As urgent as receiving water from Mexico may seem, it isn't the only water problem for Texas. In Texas and several other states across the U.S., a significant amount of water is wasted from infrastructure breaks and leaks.

The state lost an estimated 129 billion gallons of water in 2022 — the latest figures available from water-loss audit data submitted by public water suppliers to the Texas Water Development Board.

… To address the water scarcity in Texas, officials last year proposed a solution: a treaty "minute," or amendment, that would allow Mexico to pay water directly to South Texas instead of giving two-thirds to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas first, as currently specified in the treaty.

… "Priority must be given to domestic water, which is consumed by people rather than by companies," [Mexico’s prior president] he said. "We are looking for a way to address the problem of drought, of water shortages — work is being done." …”

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Texas isn’t wrong about Mexico being well short of its delivery obligations and Mexico isn’t lying about their need being for citizen consumption and the Texas demand being to feed its citrus business.

BTW, Texas is also in a major water dispute with New Mexico, a settlement of which was rejected by SCOTUS last year due to federal objections.
 

Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Number​


By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

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Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers

By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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“… Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans.

…The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and more easily spend money.

… The initial names are limited to people the administration says are convicted criminals and “suspected terrorists,” the documents show. But officials said the effort could broaden to include others in the country without authorization.

Their “financial lives,” Leland Dudek, the Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff members, would be “terminated.”

The move is the latest in an extraordinary series of actions by the Trump administration, pushed by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to harness personal data long considered off limits to immigration authorities in order to advance President Trump’s vision for a mass migrant crackdown. This week, several top officials at the Internal Revenue Service moved to resign after the tax agency said it would help locate undocumented immigrants. …”
 


“… Retired Air Force fighter pilot Caine replaces Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who Trump ousted in February alongside other senior military leaders.

… The firings were an unprecedented move to replace top uniformed officers across several branches of the armed services as the administration accused the Pentagon of failing to focus on its core war-fighting mission.

Brown was the military’s highest-ranking Black officer and Franchetti a top female commander. Trump appointees have said diversity policies by the Biden administration had resulted in promoting unqualified officers. …”

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“… Caine is a retired three-star Air Force general, who would need a waiver to be confirmed by the Senate because he hasn’t held one of the previous senior jobs required by law before becoming chairman.

Caine emphasized that he would be an apolitical chairman and pledged to “provide the president with the best military advice, even when the president may have different feelings about it.” …”
 
Oh, no! He had consensual sex with an underage girl! Clearly a menace to society. Like Matt Gaetz. Can we deport him?

This reflexive need to slam brown people for committing less serious crimes than white conservatives, while defending said conservatives, is just weird. And disappointing. And it comes from the lizard brain
 
Silence Dogood said:
Why are you ignoring the illegal entry in 2018? Always deflecting
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Oh for fuck's sake. So deport all decent undocumented immigrants, many of whom are hard workers, that you almost certainly benefit from, just to prevent a one-in-a-million chance of crime?

Let's go over this again ...
"Immigrants in the United States commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population, notwithstanding the assertion by critics that immigration is linked to higher rates of criminal activity. "

Explainer: Immigrants and Crime in the United States

A significant and growing body of research at U.S., state, and local levels demonstrates that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population. This explainer delves into the key takeaways and also looks at the screening process for new arrivals.
www.migrationpolicy.org www.migrationpolicy.org
 
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