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  On 4/8/2021 at 2:46 PM, DonkeyCigars said:

It's not that difficult to follow if you read the last few comments, IMO. Submitted for your edification and without comment:

Undocumented immigrants flooding in NY

Taxes raised, in part, to fund undocumented immigrant services in NY

Materially significant businesses and people who make up tax base in NY leave NY for FL/TX for tax reasons

Tax creep and unintentional negative consequences for the 80% of the tax base (middle and working class of NY) that can ill afford it

 

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Yeah, I picked up on the slight of hand implication in her first post. 

 

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  On 4/8/2021 at 2:49 PM, F250 said:

Yeah, I picked up on the slight of hand implication in her first post. 

 

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sleight.

I don't think Penelope Cruz is that great of a person a poster because she's myopic and haughty, but she's not your enemy here dude. 

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  On 4/8/2021 at 3:03 PM, F250 said:

Who will think of the wealthy New Yorkers!

lulz

 

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Othering, vilifying and dehumanizing market makers and market movers, strategy setters and innovators, no matter the industry or geography (in America), while probably emotionally fulfilling in that most folks don't have to do anything or give anything up and be part of the popular movement along with the comfort of finding a therapeutic outlet for how they feel, leads to serious, vicious cycle of negative, unintended consequences. 

Luckily for us, this only happens on the internet and in real life people are more practical and ambitious, as a whole.

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  On 4/8/2021 at 3:34 PM, DonkeyCigars said:

Othering, vilifying and dehumanizing market makers and market movers, strategy setters and innovators, no matter the industry or geography (in America), while probably emotionally fulfilling in that most folks don't have to do anything or give anything up and be part of the popular movement along with the comfort of finding a therapeutic outlet for how they feel, leads to serious, vicious cycle of negative, unintended consequences. 

Luckily for us, this only happens on the internet and in real life people are more practical and ambitious, as a whole.

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Biden Will keep Trump's historically low cap on refugee admissions:

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The Biden administration will keep the target of refugee admissions for this year at the historically low level set by the Trump administration, walking back an earlier pledge to welcome more than 60,000 refugees into the United States.

President Biden in February committed to welcoming those fleeing persecution around the world, and to raising the cap of 15,000 refugees set by the prior administration. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken notified Congress on Feb. 12 that the administration planned to allow up to 62,500 refugees to enter the country in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

The reversal on Mr. Biden’s promise to welcome in thousands of families fleeing war and religious persecution signals the president’s hesitant approach to rebuilding an immigration system gutted by his successor. But the delay in officially designating the refugee admissions has already left hundreds of refugees cleared to travel to the United State stranded in camps around the world and infuriated resettlement agencies that accused Mr. Biden of breaking an earlier promise to restore the American reputation as a sanctuary for the oppressed.

A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the decision-making, said the administration grew concerned that the surge of border crossings by unaccompanied minors was too much and had already overwhelmed the refugee branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. But migrants at the border seeking asylum are processed in an entirely separate system than refugees fleeing persecution overseas.

While those who step on American soil are legally entitled to apply for asylum and can eventually appear before an immigration judge in the United States, refugees apply for protection overseas and are forced to clear multiple levels of vetting that can often take years.

The administration will change subcategories for refugee slots created by the Trump administration that gave priority to Iraqis who had worked for the U.S. military and people, primarily Christians, who are facing religious persecution. But the classification also disqualified most other Muslim and African refugees. As a region, Africa has the most displaced people needing resettlement. An administration official said the change would allow the Biden administration to fill the cap of 15,000, although it would also leave thousands of additional refugees cleared to fly to the United States stranded in camps.

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Just the worst and dumbest fucking thing to revert back to centrist optics-terror on. 

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Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border

(link to tranche of documents in documentcloud)

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In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. The documents also show that more lawyers were targeted than previously known.

Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d introduced himself as a counterterrorism specialist.

Levy was part of the legal team representing the father of a girl who’d died the previous month in the custody of the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP. “There was so much hate for immigration lawyers at that time,” she recalled. “I thought that somebody had put in an anonymous tip that I was a terrorist.”

The truth was more troubling. Newly released records show that Levy was swept up as part of a broader than previously known push by the administration of President Donald Trump to use the federal government’s expansive powers at the border to stop and question journalists, lawyers and activists.

The records reveal that Levy and attorney Héctor Ruiz were interrogated by members of CBP’s secretive Tactical Terrorism Response Team. The lawyers were suspected of “providing assistance” to the migrant caravan that was then the focus of significant attention by the administration and right-wing media. Officials speculated in later reports that immigration lawyers were seeking to profit by moving migrants through Mexico, and that “Antifa” may have been involved.

The records were provided to ProPublica by the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, a public interest law firm and advocacy group that received them after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about the stops of Levy and Ruiz at the border in El Paso.

Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and others were targeted for questioning when crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, the Trump administration maintained that the incidents were limited to San Diego and a handful of U.S. citizens. But the new documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted.

While the records are heavily redacted, they provide a window into exactly how the targeting worked. They also show that the push was based in part on claims that were simply wrong — for example, that Levy met with members of the caravan in Mexico while they were traveling towards the border.

“This whole thing is COINTELPRO for dummies,” said Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to a notorious domestic spying program from decades ago. Tajsar is representing some of the San Diego activists who were stopped. An “intel-gathering apparatus was shared and deployed through a number of different agencies and resulted in a dragnet that ensnared a whole bunch of people.”

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TL:DR - CBP secret police arbitrarily classified immigration lawyers as ANTIFA terrorists to deploy domestic spying against them. Stephen Miller smiles.

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  On 5/21/2021 at 5:57 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

Here is a little more noise for immigration reform; good watch but I hope they aren't counting on the GQP because they don't seem interested in reform at all.

 

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Bipartisan?  The Democratic party and . . . . the Democratic party AND . . . . yeah.  The GQP will not support any call to "modernize America's immigration system" -- unless they're talking about using only the latest weapons tech to take out wetbacks.  Then they'd be super on-board.

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  On 5/23/2021 at 3:04 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:
SIAP, but this is pretty shitty. Do your damn job.
 

You have no idea how corrupt and shitty CBP is. Imagine how bad it could be. Triple that. Then quintuple it. And you’re still not close.

I had a cousin who was an agent. The stories he told would curl all your hairs. He got run out of the BP. By a superior who was fucking the wives of numerous subordinates, and spending gobs of money on them that he flat-out stole from people they detained. And a whole lot more. And it got a lot worse under the Trump admin, because they were made de facto shock troops for the president, and that shit went to their heads.
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  On 5/23/2021 at 4:00 AM, Brisketexan said:

You have no idea how corrupt and shitty CBP is. Imagine how bad it could be. Triple that. Then quintuple it. And you’re still not close.

I had a cousin who was an agent. The stories he told would curl all your hairs. He got run out of the BP. By a superior who was fucking the wives of numerous subordinates, and spending gobs of money on them that he flat-out stole from people they detained. And a whole lot more. And it got a lot worse under the Trump admin, because they were made de facto shock troops for the president, and that shit went to their heads.
There needs to be an overhaul of ICE and CPB.
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  On 5/23/2021 at 4:00 AM, Brisketexan said:


You have no idea how corrupt and shitty CBP is. Imagine how bad it could be. Triple that. Then quintuple it. And you’re still not close.

I had a cousin who was an agent. The stories he told would curl all your hairs. He got run out of the BP. By a superior who was fucking the wives of numerous subordinates, and spending gobs of money on them that he flat-out stole from people they detained. And a whole lot more. And it got a lot worse under the Trump admin, because they were made de facto shock troops for the president, and that shit went to their heads.

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Given what citizen cameras and body cams have been illuminating regarding law enforcement in general, I can surmise that in a 'closed' society such as BP and ICE the malfeasance is tenfold greater.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/987132269/federal-judge-rules-daca-unconstitutional-but-current-recipients-safe-for-now

 

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A federal district judge in Texas has found the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unconstitutional, striking a blow to the Obama-era policy that has protected more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation since 2012.

The largely expected decision leaves the fate of thousands of the program's beneficiaries, known as DREAMers, in the hands of Congress, the Biden administration and a Supreme Court where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of nine conservative-led states, including Texas, blocking the Biden administration from accepting new DACA applicants – saying the program is not legal.

However, the ruling allows for immigrants currently protected by the program to keep their status while the case goes through the appeals process.

The Biden administration has pledged to protect DACA or put something similar in place.

"This consideration, along with the Government's assertion that it is ready and willing to try to remedy the legal defects of the DACA program, indicates that equity will not be served by a complete and immediate cessation of DACA," Hanen wrote in the ruling.

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  On 7/16/2021 at 10:40 PM, Biff Tannen said:
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/987132269/federal-judge-rules-daca-unconstitutional-but-current-recipients-safe-for-now
 
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A federal district judge in Texas has found the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unconstitutional, striking a blow to the Obama-era policy that has protected more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation since 2012.

The largely expected decision leaves the fate of thousands of the program's beneficiaries, known as DREAMers, in the hands of Congress, the Biden administration and a Supreme Court where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of nine conservative-led states, including Texas, blocking the Biden administration from accepting new DACA applicants – saying the program is not legal.

However, the ruling allows for immigrants currently protected by the program to keep their status while the case goes through the appeals process.

The Biden administration has pledged to protect DACA or put something similar in place.

"This consideration, along with the Government's assertion that it is ready and willing to try to remedy the legal defects of the DACA program, indicates that equity will not be served by a complete and immediate cessation of DACA," Hanen wrote in the ruling.

 

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The Governor is sick. This is not immigration reform, this is cruelty perpetrated on the least of these. Please click on the entire thread and read. It is about 14 tweets in total. Although the Feds have stepped in, this is far from over, and Abbott has the support of people for whom this type of activity feeds a need for inflicting abuse. It lays out how the EO was enforced and the results for those that may have missed it. The criminal trespass charges will likely continue.

 

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Pretty wild scene developing over the last few days that I hadn’t seen discussed here. The border situation has deteriorated quite a bit over the last year but the Haitians are a new twist. 
 

 

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-sends-more-agents-to-crowded-texas-border-crossing-11631988140

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  On 9/19/2021 at 1:25 PM, Satoshi said:


https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-sends-more-agents-to-crowded-texas-border-crossing-11631988140

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AND BIDEN SLEEPS IN HIS OFFICE!!!!

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I hope, they are all be given food / water / meds if needed / medical help if needed as they wait to be processed. clothing would also be nice. 

it's the Texas way to be imo 

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well...i was in a hurry before, but i suppose it's more rhetorical. i mean ideally we'd allow them entry, process them, provide medical care, food, etc...treat them humanely, help them get resettled, etc...but 50% of this country would lose their collective shit if we do anything besides send them back.

hopefully life will somehow take a better turn for these people...it's very tragic. i'm reminded of the snail joke from Training Day. 😕

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  On 9/19/2021 at 1:58 PM, mchookem said:

what an unfortunate situation. Haitians, wow. sad they trekked so far and are being sent back, but what are other reasonable options?

 

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Immediately thought of Paul’s song “Let ‘Em in”

“Sister Suzie, brother John
Martin Luther, Phil and Don
Brother Michael, auntie Gin
Open the door and let 'em in,

yeah”
 
There’s the rub.

 

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  On 9/20/2021 at 12:09 AM, RDCanecutter said:

Say what you will about El Moco and Azul, but they ran a tight ship in Ciudad Acuña before that mariachi showed up.

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Maybe if Boys Town was still open the single Haitian men would just stay on the other side?

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Are the Haitians claiming political amnesty or whatever the term is where they are appealing to the risk of life and limb due to the dangers of their country? Maybe stemming from political destabilization due to the Haitian president's assassination a few months ago?

I think having tons of black, French-speaking people trying to pour in and raising a lot of visibility is going to raise the ire of the latinos at the border and illegal mexicans around that way, and so you'll see this handled in a more politically strident manner than if it were the traditional hispanic/latino situation at the border.

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  On 9/20/2021 at 5:34 PM, DonkeyCigars said:

Are the Haitians claiming political amnesty or whatever the term is where they are appealing to the risk of life and limb due to the dangers of their country? Maybe stemming from political destabilization due to the Haitian president's assassination a few months ago?

I think having tons of black, French-speaking people trying to pour in and raising a lot of visibility is going to raise the ire of the latinos at the border and illegal mexicans around that way, and so you'll see this handled in a more politically strident manner than if it were the traditional hispanic/latino situation at the border.

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  On 9/20/2021 at 5:34 PM, DonkeyCigars said:

Are the Haitians claiming political amnesty or whatever the term is where they are appealing to the risk of life and limb due to the dangers of their country? Maybe stemming from political destabilization due to the Haitian president's assassination a few months ago?

I think having tons of black, French-speaking people trying to pour in and raising a lot of visibility is going to raise the ire of the latinos at the border and illegal mexicans around that way, and so you'll see this handled in a more politically strident manner than if it were the traditional hispanic/latino situation at the border.

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Haitians have been leaving the island since the 2010 earthquake. They have spread across Latin American, but were never accepted. So go north Francois is the plan. 

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  On 9/20/2021 at 7:36 PM, Satoshi said:

It’s a DMN poll bruh. Is DMN alt-right? Is UT-Tyler the Trump tie in?

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No, the guy whose tweet you're quoting that's doing the nice cherrypicking is an author for the alt-right conspiracy rag the Federalist and was the rapid response director for Spanish-language media on trump's re-election campaign.

 

It's more that you're just coming around to only amplify the parts that appear to be politically damaging to Biden.

 

Which as I said before, is a big upgrade from trying to convince people to not vaccinate their kids. So good to see your growth, comrade.

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