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My friend, it does not apply to non-citizens who are illegally in the United States. In other words, people who should not be standing on US soil, and are only doing so because they criminally entered the country. An Illegal alien inherently enjoys no rights within the US, as they should not be within US borders to begin with.
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To be clear, so-called "constitutional protections" do not apply to non-citizens within the United States illegally.
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Exactly. It's really quite simple, as you perfectly stated.
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A 16-page draft Trump administration executive order circulating among U.S. diplomats proposes a radical reduction to and restructuring of the State Department. The order would eliminate dozens of positions and departments, including those dealing with climate, refugees, democracy and Africa, as well as the Bureau of International Organizations, which liaises with the United Nations. It would also include a sharp cut to diplomatic operations in Canada. Under the changes, the sprawling State Department would be reorganized into four regional bureaus covering Indo-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Eurasia. Non-essential embassies and consulates in Sub-Saharan Africa would be shuttered. The order as written would eliminate, among others, the Bureau of African Affairs, the special envoy for climate, the Bureau of International Organizations, and the Office of Global Women’s Issues. Diplomatic relations with Canada would fall under a significantly reduced team delegated as the North American Affairs Office (NAAO) within the Office of the Secretary, and include a substantial downsizing of the U.S. embassy in Ottawa. Diplomatic staff would now be assigned to regions, where they would be expected to stay throughout their careers [Excellent!], rather than rotate around the world; current diplomats who don’t want to join the regional ranks could apply for a buyout until Sept. 30. A new foreign service exam would also be formulated requiring “alignment with the President’s foreign policy vision.” The prestigious Fulbright scholarship, which has sent thousands of promising students around the world for studies, would be recast as “solely for master’s-level study in national security-related disciplines” with priority “given to programs with intensive instruction in critical languages,” including Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Farsi and Arabic. The order would end fellowships associated with Howard University in Washington, as part of the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Under the plan, the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs would assume any mission-critical duties previously carried out by USAID. “All positions and duties must receive explicit written approval from the President of the United States,” according to the order. The State Department’s workforce includes 13,000 members of the Foreign Service, 11,000 Civil Service, and 45,000 locally employed staff worldwide. Sounds great to me.
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Airbus chose to assemble A320s in Tianjin from 2009. To date, they've produced over 750 aircraft there destined for the Chinese airlines. The administration is following China's playbook......Given we're a large country market, build here what you sell here. And that's a reasonable request from a large country market, so as to create jobs and share some of the profits. China's single-aisle COMAC CA919, that you speak of, is full of US and other western components. I suspect the trade war is going to cripple production. COMAC gained airliner experience from 1986 when McDonnell Douglas with US approval gave them a license to produce the MD82 (second generation DC9). I flew on many China Northern MD82s.
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Things that make you go hmm. On Monday, White House director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios, said the US currently has the ability to “manipulate time and space”, and “leave distance annihilated.”* On April 9th, President Trump said, “We have a weapon that no one has a clue what it is. And this is the most powerful weapon in the world, which is more powerful than anyone even close.” *In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and proved that time travel is possible. How fast time passes in your surroundings varies with your velocity, so the faster you travel, the slower you experience time.
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“The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated. The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth. Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent.” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
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And about those drones...............................
kscarbel2 replied to kscarbel2's topic in Odds and Ends
But they've still never told us who was behind the great drone show. . -
The 145% China tariffs should be painful for Boeing. Did you know only 50% of Boeing aircraft parts are produced in the US? Coming from China: AVIC SAC Commercial Aircraft Co. produces the massive aft fuselage sections and vertical fins. Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Co. produces forward entry doors, automatic over-wing exit doors and vertical fin rudders. Beijing Beimo produces the brake rotors. Zhongbeixing Aviation Technology Xianghe produces the landing gear.
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Democrats endangering America. ,
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President Trump wants to give [taxpayer] money and an airplane ticket to any illegal migrant who chooses to self-deport. “We´re going to give them a stipend. We´re going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we´re going to work with them - if they´re good - if we want them back in, we´re going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can.”
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The Trump administration has referred New York Attorney General Letitia James for prosecution over allegations of mortgage fraud. The referral comes from the Director of the US Federal Housing Finance Agency William J. Pulte, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. James falsified records so she could get a $218,780 mortgage to buy a home in Virginia in August 2023, just weeks before she prosecuted Trump in his civil fraud trial. James claimed that, despite serving as New York's top law official, it was her principal residence. Also, James bought a residence in both 1983 and 2000 and got her father to co-sign, but listed him and herself as husband and wife. Pulte also cites an earlier case where James bought a Brooklyn residence in February 2001. James consistently misrepresented the same property as only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications. 'While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James representations on mortgage applications. For both properties listed above, James falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms,’ Pulte said. He accuses James of wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.
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I don't get all the headlines, "Maryland man wrongfully deported.........." He is a illegal alien, not a US citizen nor a Maryland man (a Maryland man was born in Maryland). Abrego Garcia illegally immigrated to the U.S. in 2011 at the age of 16. In 2019, an immigration judge said he could stay, which I say was improper because he criminally entered the country. Illegal aliens have no right to due process. .
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I would be proud to say so. No, I was abroad during its development. But a former Mack engineer, a friend of mine, is involved. I've been all over this truck. The design, the spec including the perfectly-sized X12, is simply perfect. I've seen a tri-axle lowboy tractor and it also really looked good.
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I can tell you first hand, the Autocar is an extremely well engineered truck. I've been all over it. The Autocar is the truck that I would buy.
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