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1 minute ago, 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

 

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

 

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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

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

 

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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31 minutes ago, F250 said:

Who will think of the wealthy New Yorkers!

lulz

 

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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1 hour ago, 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.

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

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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.”

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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5 minutes ago, 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.

 

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 5/17/2021 at 1:48 PM, Captainant said:

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

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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.

Nothing surprising about that at all. 

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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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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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8 hours ago, 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.

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

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

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The Biden administration said it is sending additional border agents to a South Texas town where thousands of Haitian migrants are being held under a bridge, as officials prepared to begin flying them back to their home country under a public-health policy allowing for rapid expulsions.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to send 400 agents and officers to Del Rio, Texas, and is moving migrants to other processing locations along the border, including about 2,000 on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday. DHS, which plans to start flying people back to Haiti on Sunday, according to officials, also said it is moving to increase the pace of flights to their home countries or counties where they last lived.

Haitians have been coming at a steady clip all year to Del Rio, a remote region of the border west of San Antonio, creating a fresh humanitarian crisis in a year when illegal border crossings have hit a two-decade highand the Biden administration has been struggling to handle a crush of asylum seekers.

 
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Haitian migrants crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to get food and supplies to bring back to the encampment of people sheltering under the bridge in Texas.

PHOTO: PAUL RATJE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
 

“Today has been a significant change in strategy. We have much more resources that are being delivered to the Del Rio area,” said Mayor Bruno Lozano at a news conference on Saturday. He put the number of migrants waiting to be processed at over 14,000.

 

The Border Patrol, whose facilities aren’t large enough to accommodate the recent crush, has been holding the migrants under the bridge—often for days—as they work to process immigration paperwork.

“Border patrol agents are doing everything they can but it’s clear they need more support and they need it now,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R., Texas.) in a statement, noting that the number of migrants had grown sharply since he visited the migrant camp on Thursday.

The Biden administration is sending the Haitians in Del Rio on flights back to Haiti under a Trump-era pandemic health measure known as Title 42, which gives the government the authority to turn back any migrant caught crossing the border illegally, regardless of their country of origin.

 

On Thursday, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the Biden administration is violating immigration law by rapidly expelling migrant families using the title 42 policy, but that judge stayed the effect of his decision for two weeks. 

On Friday, the administration appealed the decision to a higher court.

Haitians being held under the bridge huddled closely together, sleeping on the dirt and walking back to the river to relieve themselves, according to officials who visited and videos of the scene. A pile of trash stood 4 feet high. Migrants had built makeshift shelters out of cardboard and materials they were finding along the river to shield themselves from the desert sun. The temperature in Del Rio on Friday afternoonreached 100 degrees.

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Haitians have been migrating to the U.S. in increasing numbers in the past few years. Many of them, migration experts say, left the island nation years ago for jobs in South American countries like Chile and Brazil. They have headed to the U.S. border during the Covid-19 pandemic—which caused economies in those countries to contract—and because of a perception that the Biden administration would be likelier to let them stay once they cross.

Mr. Biden and other administration officials have repeatedly urged would-be migrants not to come to the U.S.

 

Border officials also closed the port of entry in Del Rio as a precaution, telling the public to use the nearest port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas, about an hour to the south.

Haitians are one of multiple groups reshaping the demographics of migration at the southern border. Whereas most illegal border crossers have historically been Mexican, and have more recently come from Central America seeking asylum, more than one in four in recent months has come from countries in South America or the Caribbean.

Migrants from different countries also tend to take different routes to the border, typically dictated by smuggling routes. That has made historically quiet parts of the border like Del Rio, with limited Border Patrol facilities or shelter space, sudden hot spots of activity.

The stretch of border near Del Rio became the second-busiest Border Patrol sector this year, with nearly 215,000 arrests out of 1.47 million across the entire border since October, the beginning of the government’s budget year, according to CBP data. That is a record high for the region; during the previous border surge in 2019, it saw just over 57,000 migrants.

“This is definitely at a whole different level, no doubt,” said David Martinez, the Val Verde County attorney.

 

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

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The Biden administration said it is sending additional border agents to a South Texas town where thousands of Haitian migrants are being held under a bridge, as officials prepared to begin flying them back to their home country under a public-health policy allowing for rapid expulsions.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to send 400 agents and officers to Del Rio, Texas, and is moving migrants to other processing locations along the border, including about 2,000 on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday. DHS, which plans to start flying people back to Haiti on Sunday, according to officials, also said it is moving to increase the pace of flights to their home countries or counties where they last lived.

Haitians have been coming at a steady clip all year to Del Rio, a remote region of the border west of San Antonio, creating a fresh humanitarian crisis in a year when illegal border crossings have hit a two-decade highand the Biden administration has been struggling to handle a crush of asylum seekers.

 
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Haitian migrants crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to get food and supplies to bring back to the encampment of people sheltering under the bridge in Texas.

PHOTO: PAUL RATJE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
 

“Today has been a significant change in strategy. We have much more resources that are being delivered to the Del Rio area,” said Mayor Bruno Lozano at a news conference on Saturday. He put the number of migrants waiting to be processed at over 14,000.

 

The Border Patrol, whose facilities aren’t large enough to accommodate the recent crush, has been holding the migrants under the bridge—often for days—as they work to process immigration paperwork.

“Border patrol agents are doing everything they can but it’s clear they need more support and they need it now,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R., Texas.) in a statement, noting that the number of migrants had grown sharply since he visited the migrant camp on Thursday.

The Biden administration is sending the Haitians in Del Rio on flights back to Haiti under a Trump-era pandemic health measure known as Title 42, which gives the government the authority to turn back any migrant caught crossing the border illegally, regardless of their country of origin.

 

On Thursday, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the Biden administration is violating immigration law by rapidly expelling migrant families using the title 42 policy, but that judge stayed the effect of his decision for two weeks. 

On Friday, the administration appealed the decision to a higher court.

Haitians being held under the bridge huddled closely together, sleeping on the dirt and walking back to the river to relieve themselves, according to officials who visited and videos of the scene. A pile of trash stood 4 feet high. Migrants had built makeshift shelters out of cardboard and materials they were finding along the river to shield themselves from the desert sun. The temperature in Del Rio on Friday afternoonreached 100 degrees.

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Haitians have been migrating to the U.S. in increasing numbers in the past few years. Many of them, migration experts say, left the island nation years ago for jobs in South American countries like Chile and Brazil. They have headed to the U.S. border during the Covid-19 pandemic—which caused economies in those countries to contract—and because of a perception that the Biden administration would be likelier to let them stay once they cross.

Mr. Biden and other administration officials have repeatedly urged would-be migrants not to come to the U.S.

 

Border officials also closed the port of entry in Del Rio as a precaution, telling the public to use the nearest port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas, about an hour to the south.

Haitians are one of multiple groups reshaping the demographics of migration at the southern border. Whereas most illegal border crossers have historically been Mexican, and have more recently come from Central America seeking asylum, more than one in four in recent months has come from countries in South America or the Caribbean.

Migrants from different countries also tend to take different routes to the border, typically dictated by smuggling routes. That has made historically quiet parts of the border like Del Rio, with limited Border Patrol facilities or shelter space, sudden hot spots of activity.

The stretch of border near Del Rio became the second-busiest Border Patrol sector this year, with nearly 215,000 arrests out of 1.47 million across the entire border since October, the beginning of the government’s budget year, according to CBP data. That is a record high for the region; during the previous border surge in 2019, it saw just over 57,000 migrants.

“This is definitely at a whole different level, no doubt,” said David Martinez, the Val Verde County attorney.

 

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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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10 hours ago, mchookem said:

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

 

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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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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44 minutes ago, 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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1 hour ago, 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.

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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3 minutes ago, Satoshi said:

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

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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