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donbosco
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OK. Thanks.
ZenMode
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That's actually a very interesting perspective. Link to page where it came from?Just so we are all on the same page regarding the official data:
ZenMode
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Agree. The numbers were high, but the normal process was followed for those coming to a port of entry. They got in line, were detained, vetted, screened etc.
Some were allowed into the US. Others weren't.
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Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations
The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.
Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help fund costly deportations
The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.
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“… The administration is also looking at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Coast Guard as possible areas from which to take money to give ICE.
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The executive branch is allowed to move money appropriated by Congress from one agency to another within a department, and the Trump administration would not be the first to do so to make up for an ICE budget shortfall.
Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
ICE was facing a $230 million budget shortfall even before Trump took office and ramped up deportations, when it averaged around 282 arrests per day. On Sunday, ICE arrested more than 1,200 people, according to a senior DHS official, and senior leaders at ICE have been told the agency must continue to arrest 1,200 to 1,500 people per day.
A former and a current DHS official told NBC News that during the Biden administration the average cost to ICE to deport a single person was about $10,500, starting with the arrest through the person’s time in detention and onto a flight back to the person’s home country. …”
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“… A Government Accountability Office report in May found that from 2014 to 2023, DHS — under which ICE, the TSA, CISA and the Coast Guard all fall — had notified Congress that it planned to move a total of $1.8 billion to help parts of ICE that needed more money. Some of that came from other parts of ICE, but most came from other agencies, including the TSA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Coast Guard.
Cuts to TSA could be met with backlash if they led to longer lines at airports and impact travelers. Trump has publicly criticized the other agencies apparently contemplated as funding sources. He has gone after CISA for weighing in on what it deemed to be misinformation surrounding the 2020 presidential election. He also abruptly fired the commandant of the Coast Guard upon taking office.
Congress must be notified of such transfers, and there are limits on how much can be transferred. For example, according to a 2023 Congressional Research Service report, in fiscal year 2023, up to 5% of any DHS appropriation could be moved elsewhere within DHS, so long as the recipient’s budget as originally set by Congress didn’t increase by more than 10%. …”
“… A Government Accountability Office report in May found that from 2014 to 2023, DHS — under which ICE, the TSA, CISA and the Coast Guard all fall — had notified Congress that it planned to move a total of $1.8 billion to help parts of ICE that needed more money. Some of that came from other parts of ICE, but most came from other agencies, including the TSA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Coast Guard.
Cuts to TSA could be met with backlash if they led to longer lines at airports and impact travelers. Trump has publicly criticized the other agencies apparently contemplated as funding sources. He has gone after CISA for weighing in on what it deemed to be misinformation surrounding the 2020 presidential election. He also abruptly fired the commandant of the Coast Guard upon taking office.
Congress must be notified of such transfers, and there are limits on how much can be transferred. For example, according to a 2023 Congressional Research Service report, in fiscal year 2023, up to 5% of any DHS appropriation could be moved elsewhere within DHS, so long as the recipient’s budget as originally set by Congress didn’t increase by more than 10%. …”
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Pentagon Allows ICE to Use Colorado Military Base to Detain Migrants
The decision to allow law enforcement officers to use facilities at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colo., plunges the U.S. military deeper into President Trump’s order to secure the southwestern border.
Pentagon Allows ICE to Use Colorado Military Base to Detain Migrants
The decision to allow law enforcement officers to use facilities at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colo., plunges the U.S. military deeper into President Trump’s order to secure the southwestern border.
“… Law enforcement officers began using facilities at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colo., on Monday, plunging the military deeper into President Trump’s order to secure the southwestern border.
No military personnel are to be involved in processing and detaining “criminal aliens within the U.S.,” the Northern Command said in a statement. But deportation officers will benefit from the sprawling base’s infrastructure and overall security.
The immigration service requested and received “a temporary operations center, staging area, and a temporary holding location for the receiving, holding, and processing of illegal aliens,” according to the Northern Command.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, his first full official day on the job, that “whatever is needed at the border will be provided.” He did not rule out Mr. Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a law more than 200 years old, to allow the use of the armed forces for law enforcement duty, which is otherwise barred.
About 1,600 Marines and Army soldiers have arrived near the Mexican border in California and Texas in the past week, joining 2,500 Army reservists called to active duty who were already there. More troops are expected to deploy to the border in the coming days, Pentagon officials say.“
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Trump deported 200 Colombians. None were criminals, Colombian officials say.
Among the deportees who arrived back home Tuesday in Colombia were two pregnant women and more than 20 children.“President Donald Trumpthreatened to punish Colombia with tariffs, a travel ban and other sanctions to compel it to accept deportation flights carrying “Illegal Criminals.” But Colombian officials said there were no criminals among the two planeloads of migrants the U.S. government sent over Tuesday.
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“They are not criminals,” Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombia’s foreign minister, said in a video statement posted on X. “Being a migrant is not a crime.”
The social media standoff between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Trump erupted over the weekend as the new U.S. administration attempted to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. In the end, Trump dropped his trade threats after Colombia agreed to the flights.
… White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Tuesday that the administration considers “all” immigrants who are in the United States illegally to be criminals.
“They illegally broke our nation’s laws and, therefore, they are criminals as far as this administration goes,” she said, calling the declaration a “big culture shift in our nation.
Deportation is a civil, not criminal, proceeding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported last year that people with criminal histories accounted for only 8 percent of the immigrants it was tracking for possible removal.
… In interviews with local media in Bogotá, some who were sent back said they had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and were quickly picked up and sent home.
Though recent border crossers have long been a priority for removal, including under the Biden administration, federal records show most border crossers do not have criminal records.
… The White House has been posting orange-framed mug shots of people arrested in cities such as Houston, Baltimore and Seattle, sometimes without names, making it difficult to independently verify their criminal records. …”
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Trump Is Using the Same Playbook
Donald Trump’s first ten days back in the White House have been nothing short of a whirlwind. He’s once again “flooding the zone,” keeping his base energized while leaving opponents scrambling to keep up. And
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“… It’s the same playbook he ran in 2017.
As the New York Times reported then:
That’s probably the best way to understand Trump. …”
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“… The subject line of the email to federal employees was “Fork in the Road,” the same subject line of an ultimatum message Elon Musk sent to his employees at Twitter in 2022.
On the campaign trail, Musk frequently talked about downsizing the federal government. He has played an integral part in the rollout of the federal government buyout, an official told CNN, through his position leading the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration.
“We will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we’re going to give very long severances,” Musk told a Philadelphia rally in October. “Like two years, or something like that.”…”
On the campaign trail, Musk frequently talked about downsizing the federal government. He has played an integral part in the rollout of the federal government buyout, an official told CNN, through his position leading the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration.
“We will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we’re going to give very long severances,” Musk told a Philadelphia rally in October. “Like two years, or something like that.”…”
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“… The subject line of the email to federal employees was “Fork in the Road,” the same subject line of an ultimatum message Elon Musk sent to his employees at Twitter in 2022.
On the campaign trail, Musk frequently talked about downsizing the federal government. He has played an integral part in the rollout of the federal government buyout, an official told CNN, through his position leading the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration.
“We will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we’re going to give very long severances,” Musk told a Philadelphia rally in October. “Like two years, or something like that.”…”
On the campaign trail, Musk frequently talked about downsizing the federal government. He has played an integral part in the rollout of the federal government buyout, an official told CNN, through his position leading the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration.
“We will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we’re going to give very long severances,” Musk told a Philadelphia rally in October. “Like two years, or something like that.”…”
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Greenlanders Overwhelmingly Reject Trump
A Verian poll, commissioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenland’s Sermitsiaq publication, showed 85% of the population on the self-ruling Arctic territory don’t want to be part of the US.
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“… A longtime anti-vaxxer with a propensity for far-fetched conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. has insinuated that an attempt to assassinate members of Congress via anthrax-laced mail in 2001 may have been a ‘false flag’ attack orchestrated by ‘someone in our government’ to gin up interest in the government preparing for potential biological weapon threats.
He has claimed that COVID was ‘targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,’ and that 5G is being used to ‘harvest our data and control our behavior.’ He has suggested that the use of antidepressants might be linked to mass shootings.
Each one of these theories is demonstrably false. The Republican Party has often found itself at war with mainstream science in recent years, but confirming RFK Jr. would be a remarkable anti-science advance. If Republican senators are willing to do so, is there any scientific belief they would place above the wishes of Donald Trump? …”
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So far this Administration has been openly hostile to scientific expertise and I expect that will continue unabated regardless of what happens with the RFK nomination, but it is critical to keep this nut job out of government anyway. I find myself hoping the hard core GOP abortion opponents end up killing this nomination.
He has claimed that COVID was ‘targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,’ and that 5G is being used to ‘harvest our data and control our behavior.’ He has suggested that the use of antidepressants might be linked to mass shootings.
Each one of these theories is demonstrably false. The Republican Party has often found itself at war with mainstream science in recent years, but confirming RFK Jr. would be a remarkable anti-science advance. If Republican senators are willing to do so, is there any scientific belief they would place above the wishes of Donald Trump? …”
A Day for Pseudoscience in Congress
The stakes of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings are clear. What will senators decide?
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So far this Administration has been openly hostile to scientific expertise and I expect that will continue unabated regardless of what happens with the RFK nomination, but it is critical to keep this nut job out of government anyway. I find myself hoping the hard core GOP abortion opponents end up killing this nomination.
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U.S. Immigration Trends
These interactive data tools visualize changing patterns and characteristics of the immigrant population over time, at U.S., state, and sometimes county levels. Topics covered include: legal and unauthorized immigration, naturalization, and refugee resettlement; immigrants' countries of birth...
Immigration and National Identity | The Provost's Blog
lawtig02
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She should be. Far from the person I would choose, but there's no reason I've seen not to confirm her.
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Disaster spreads in Rwanda and Congo, as Rwandan M23 militias seize regions in Congo, and victimization of women and children continues
GIFT LINK [Not an easy read, includes stories of gang rape] —> https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/th...64?st=XpMH5b&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
“… On Tuesday, the rebels still were exchanging gun- and artillery fire with the Congolese army in parts of the city, trapping more than a million civilians inside Goma and threatening to open a bloody new chapter in a decades-old war set off by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Rwandan President Paul Kagame and “urged an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for all parties to respect sovereign territorial integrity,” the State Department said.
Senior U.N. officials said streets in Goma were littered with bodies and hospitals were flooded with hundreds of wounded. Several World Food Program warehouses had been looted, and officials warned of severe shortages if emergency assistance wasn’t restored in the coming hours. Swaths of the city were without power and water, deepening what was already one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Some 1,500 miles away in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, mobs angered over the city’s fall set fires and besieged the U.S., French, Belgian, Ugandan and other embassies, as well as the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force.
Observers and diplomats fear that the M23’s gains could encourage the rebels and Rwanda’s army to advance on Kinshasa in an echo of the 1990s wars, which sucked in several other Africa countries and led to the deaths of more than five million people.
Rwandan officials have denied that the country has deployed troops inside Congo and say its military is defending Rwanda’s territory and security. …”
GIFT LINK [Not an easy read, includes stories of gang rape] —> https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/th...64?st=XpMH5b&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
“… On Tuesday, the rebels still were exchanging gun- and artillery fire with the Congolese army in parts of the city, trapping more than a million civilians inside Goma and threatening to open a bloody new chapter in a decades-old war set off by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Rwandan President Paul Kagame and “urged an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for all parties to respect sovereign territorial integrity,” the State Department said.
Senior U.N. officials said streets in Goma were littered with bodies and hospitals were flooded with hundreds of wounded. Several World Food Program warehouses had been looted, and officials warned of severe shortages if emergency assistance wasn’t restored in the coming hours. Swaths of the city were without power and water, deepening what was already one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Some 1,500 miles away in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, mobs angered over the city’s fall set fires and besieged the U.S., French, Belgian, Ugandan and other embassies, as well as the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force.
Observers and diplomats fear that the M23’s gains could encourage the rebels and Rwanda’s army to advance on Kinshasa in an echo of the 1990s wars, which sucked in several other Africa countries and led to the deaths of more than five million people.
Rwandan officials have denied that the country has deployed troops inside Congo and say its military is defending Rwanda’s territory and security. …”
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I take issue with her repeated lies about the 2020 election being stolen and active efforts to help overturn that election result, but given that this is a Trump nominee, I know that if a feature. But I acknowledge that other than that history of spreading disinformation to try to overturn a presidential election, despite my political disagreements with her, she is otherwise qualified for the post.