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Red said:
I’m sure many people who are Mexican nationals, as well as those originating in Central and South American have some indigenous heritage….Is that why this happens?

www.theguardian.com

Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids

Group takes steps to protect members after ‘traumatizing’ reports of people being stopped or detained by agents
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No. It is just the opposite. The enforcement isn't race-based. This may be hard to comprehend for someone who lives in the northeast, but in southwestern Arizona, you cannot tell who is an American national and who is not by looking at them. Where I live is also like that. Most Americans who reside in that area are ethnically Hispanic, and in many cases, the people who are not ethnically Hispanic are those most likely to be foreign nationals. There are a ton of East Asian, Indian, Arab, and Caucasian (as in from the Caucasus area of Asia) that cross the southern US border illegally. In those areas, Border Patrol will set up stops, not too different from a DUI check, and want to see everyone's ID regardless of ethnicity.

Most checkpoints are temporary, but some are permanent. Below is a photo of the US Border Patrol checkpoint between San Diego and Orange County, roughly 75 miles north of the US border. If you are in a car on I-5 North, you get stopped. I'm sure among those stopped will be every ethnicity, because we're a diverse area and we all use cars.

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Red said:
Hard to keep track with all the decisions of our “unifying” president….

www.thebulwark.com

Move Fast and Break the Government

A blizzard of regulations; a power grab over federal funds; and the hollowing out of our nation’s public workforce. It’s just week two.
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The breakneck speed of Trump’s orders could quickly turn into an acute constitutional crisis, with the executive branch essentially usurping the power of the purse from the legislative body. Certainly, it has already had profound political and psychological effects. Federal employees described utterly dispirited workplaces, where paranoia is creeping in. There is a belief that the new administration is set on turning the government into a tool for Trump and searching for the pretext to fire anyone unwilling to go along. It did not go unnoticed that the statement from the DOJ official announcing the firings on Monday noted that “Acting Attorney General James McHenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda” (emphasis ours).

But it’s also not hard to see how the tremors being sent throughout the government could hurt Trump in the long run. It starts with small examples of over-compliance with the vague orders that the administration has to walk back, like the Air Force removing videos honoring the Tuskegee Airmen from training materials because they believe those videos violated the administration’s anti-DEI push. They move to larger problems, like prison guards who are responsible for securing ISIS militants no longer turning up for work because their salaries have been cut. And then they become disasters on your watch, like infants dyingbecause water was cut off in the foreign aid freeze.

That’s the thing about moving fast and breaking things. Sometimes you end up breaking things you wish you hadn’t and can’t repair.
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The big problem with all that is that Trump and his cronies do not care what the consequences are as long as the moves they make solidify and increase their power.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The big problem with all that is that Trump and his cronies do not care what the consequences are as long as the moves they make solidify and increase their power.
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Yep. trump has no skin in the game. If America falls into shambles he has the money to easily move to another country.
 
LogGrad98 said:
He is closely following the Project 2025 playbook, you know, the thing he said he wouldn't do. You can always count on Trump to lie. He would be a terrible poker player.
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I see him as the guy who would shove all-in any hand he wanted to play and think he was "demanding respect" from the other players as they fold time after time... right up until someone calls him.
 
Sardines said:
I see him as the guy who would shove all-in any hand he wanted to play and think he was "demanding respect" from the other players as they fold time after time... right up until someone calls him.
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You can see in his pumpkin face that he is lying anytime he makes **** up. He would lose all bluffs every single hand. JD Vanker though has great poker face, that sucker can lie his *** off and not a single muscle moves in his face. I would not like to play him heads up.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The big problem with all that is that Trump and his cronies do not care what the consequences are as long as the moves they make solidify and increase their power.
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The shock and awe approach, with Democrats reeling from loss, still has to clear the courts. They must know that. The approach itself seems baked into Project 2025, in that that blueprint in part is about increasing executive power, and filling the ranks with loyalists, something certainly baked into Trump as well. Any vacancies created by federal employees accepting the new “buy-out” offer will be filled by loyalists, Inspector Generals will be as well. It sure does look like, in just the past couple of days, as if accumulating power, well, it’s obvious, and Trump will take it as far as he is able. Gee, I wish someone had seen this coming….

“The Project 2025 blueprint is one of four pillars of a larger plan overseen by the Heritage Foundation.7 The other three pillars include a personnel database of loyalists to potentially replace tens of thousands of federal government civil servants, a private online educational tool to train them, and an unpublished 180-day playbook with transition plans for each federal agency.8 The Heritage Foundation aims to include 20,000 people in the database, and it is already taking its recruitment efforts on the road across the nation.9 When acting together, the four pillars are designed to grease the wheels for a new, far-right administration to quickly start accomplishing a president’s radical agenda.”


 
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Revenge of the petty variety…punishment for offering a truthful assessment of Trump.

www.foxnews.com

Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance 'immediately,' may face demotion in retirement

Retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance is being pulled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.

The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say.

The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army's Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.

The first portrait of Gen. Milley, from his time as the U.S. military's top officer, was removed from the Pentagon last week on Inauguration Day less than two hours after President Trump was sworn into office.

www.theguardian.com

Trump’s Pentagon strips Mark Milley of security clearance and guard detail

Pete Hegseth, US defense secretary, also seeks review of retired general’s rank in latest move by Donald Trump’s administration against his critics
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Milley called Trump a fascist and detailed Trump’s conduct around the Capitol insurrection.

Milley has said he was grateful for the pardon by Biden, who said Milley and others “do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions”.

Trump had once suggested Milley should be executed for holding back-channel talks with China. Milley’s photo was removed from the Pentagon shortly after Trump was sworn into office.
 
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So much for the Constitution, but we should know by now that Trump could not care less about the rule of law, or checks and balances among the 3 branches of the federal government….what he meant by “only a dictator on day one” was that he would began creation of that dictatorship on day one….

www.theatlantic.com

‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’

Trump wants to go around Congress and freeze enormous amounts of federal spending. Can he?
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Buried within one of the dozens of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in his first days in office is a section titled “Terminating the Green New Deal.” As presidential directives go, this one initially seemed like a joke. The Green New Deal exists mostly in the dreams of climate activists; it has never been fully enacted into law.

The next line of Trump’s order, however, made clear he is quite serious: “All agencies shall immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.” The president is apparently using “the Green New Deal” as a shorthand for any federal spending on climate change. But the two laws he targets address much more than that: The $900 billion IRA not only funds clean-energy programs but also lowers prescription-drug prices, while the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law represents the biggest investment in roads, bridges, airports, and public transportation in decades. And the government has spent only a portion of each.

In one sentence, Trump appears to have cut off hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that Congress has already approved, torching Joe Biden’s two most significant legislative accomplishments. The order stunned even some Republicans, many of whom supported the infrastructure law and have taken credit for its investments.

And Trump didn’t stop there. Yesterday, the White House ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans—a move that could put on hold an additional tens of billions of dollars already approved by Congress, touching many corners of American life. Democrats and government watchdogs see the directives as an opening salvo in a fight over the separation of powers, launched by a president bent on defying Congress’s will. “It’s an illegal executive order, and it’s stealing,” Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, told me, referring to the order targeting the IRA and infrastructure law.

Withholding money approved by Congress “undermines the entire architecture of the Constitution,” Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told me. “It essentially makes the president into a king.” Last night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans “blatantly disobeys the law.”
 
Al-O-Meter said:
No. It is just the opposite. The enforcement isn't race-based. This may be hard to comprehend for someone who lives in the northeast, but in southwestern Arizona, you cannot tell who is an American national and who is not by looking at them. Where I live is also like that. Most Americans who reside in that area are ethnically Hispanic, and in many cases, the people who are not ethnically Hispanic are those most likely to be foreign nationals. There are a ton of East Asian, Indian, Arab, and Caucasian (as in from the Caucasus area of Asia) that cross the southern US border illegally. In those areas, Border Patrol will set up stops, not too different from a DUI check, and want to see everyone's ID regardless of ethnicity.

Most checkpoints are temporary, but some are permanent. Below is a photo of the US Border Patrol checkpoint between San Diego and Orange County, roughly 75 miles north of the US border. If you are in a car on I-5 North, you get stopped. I'm sure among those stopped will be every ethnicity, because we're a diverse area and we all use cars.

1006688_5454INVYDWDQC6r6ddnDr6UsBMTYf-CUExmobUv2M8Q.jpg
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Yeah, they all look alike. Some of the individual reports of stops seem to be upsetting some indigenous Americans. Navajo. Apache.

Most arrivals from Mexico, and central and South America will have some indigenous heritage. In fact, I like looking at such mass movements as part of the process begun with the “discovery” of America in 1492. The so-called “Indian Wars” that Americans tend to associate with colonization in the 17th and 18th centuries, and 19th century westward expansion, continue to this day. Especially in Brazil, in violent conflicts between miners and indigenous tribal groups. At least where nationals from Western Hemisphere countries are concerned, very few will not have some indigenous heritage, born of the great migration of Westerners begun centuries ago. But that’s just me, perhaps, I like to see historical developments in the broadest of contexts.

Anyway, perhaps a deeper dive into migration in the Americas in general.

www.americanprogress.org

Getting Migration in the Americas Right

The United States must reject the politics of cruelty and chart a new course on migration policy that is cooperative, compassionate, and pragmatic.
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Advancing U.S. national interests requires getting migration policy right.

This is particularly true as large-scale dislocations of people in Central America and Venezuela reshape realities across the Western Hemisphere. The scale and character of these dislocations require a new approach to managing the movement of people in the Americas. This approach must disavow cruel and counterproductive efforts at deterrence, emphasize cooperation between neighbors, and recognize the fundamental humanity of those seeking a better life for themselves and their loved ones.

Any effective approach, in addition to domestic reforms,1 requires understanding what is fueling these mass dislocations. It also requires being clear on what is not happening; despite the toxic, nativist rhetoric and policy President Donald Trump regularly peddles, the United States is neither being invaded, nor does it face an unmanageable migration crisis.

This does not mean, however, that the United States can afford to ignore current migration dynamics in the Western Hemisphere. Fear and desperation have led millions of people to uproot themselves and seek safety and security far from home. This situation requires a serious and well-resourced response from Washington and its regional partners, who must boldly reimagine both U.S. and regional responses in the short, medium, and long term. Anything less will aggravate an already serious humanitarian crisis and contribute to political and economic instability in the Americas.
 
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