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[kscarbel2]

The Biden administration pushed through the pork-ridden Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 which included hiring 87,000 more IRS agents. The act had little to do with debt reduction, and the expense of 87,000 new agents would put the country further into debt.

On day one, President Trump signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until his administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so. 

Speaking in Las Vegas today, the President said:

They hired, were trying to hire 88,000 new [IRS} workers to go after you, and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border. I think we're going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they're so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border.

[kscarbel2]

Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar has written DHS asking them to spare migrants who entered the country under Biden's humanitarian parole program.

Salazar represents a district in Miami-Dade County, which has the highest share of immigrants of any county in the nation (54.3% immigrants and 93% of them were born in Latin America).

Salazar asked DHS to protect migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) who entered the country under the CHNV parole process.

Per CBP, 531,690 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans arrived under Biden's humanitarian parole program as of December.

The Trump administration is giving ICE the power to deport migrants who were allowed into the country temporarily under Biden-era programs including CHNV parole and the CBP One app. 

(The Biden administration created the CHNV program in January 2023, allowing nationals from those countries to stay in the U.S. temporarily, up to two years, allegedly due to urgent humanitarian reasons and heightened instability. But taking people from those countries is a recipe for trouble. They should have remained and fixed their countries, orchestrating revolutions for better countries they can be proud to call "home".)

I strongly urge you to ensure that all Cubans paroled in under the CHNV program eligible for or with pending applications for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected from deportation until their cases are fully resolved. Additionally, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived under the CHNV program, have no criminal record, and have applied for asylum through the proper legal channels should also be protected until their cases are fully resolved. Although President Biden originally created this program on dubious legal grounds and brought individuals here without a plan for their future, they were still enrolled under programs offered to them.

Maria Elvira Salazar

 

The DHS says:

The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration.

This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis.

 

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[kscarbel2]

President Trump is imposing a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Colombia, to be raised to 50% in one week's time, because Colombian President Gustavo Petro refused to allow two U.S. military illegal immigrant flights (80 prisoners per aircraft) to enter Colombian air space on Sunday and land.

President Trump also announced a travel ban and immediate visa revocations on Colombian government officials, and all allies and supporters. All party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government also will face visa sanctions.

I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States, so I have directed my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures. These measures are just the beginning, We will not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States!

President Trump

It was reported that Mexico also blocked one flight this week. But on Saturday night, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “Thanks to President Trump: Yesterday, Mexico accepted a record 4 deportation flights in 1 day! This comes in addition to unrestricted returns at the land border, the deportation of non-Mexicans, & reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico. Mexico has also mobilized 30K National Guard."

 

[kscarbel2]

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence, will have a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

“I do hope though that we won’t see anyone questioning her patriotism. You know, Hillary Clinton has basically called her a traitor in the past. This is a woman who served more than 20 years in our nation’s army. She’s passed five different background checks. I reviewed the latest one. It’s clean as a whistle. It’s fine for people to have policy differences and ask questions about those differences. I hope no one would impugn Ms. Gabbard’s patriotism or her integrity.”

Committee Chair Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)

[Joey Mack]

Tulsi was a Democrat from Hawaii.. But she is a true soldier and patriot, and a fighter pilot.    I mean really..  She is amazing.. my simple words do not give the credit she deserves..

[kscarbel2]

1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:

Tulsi was a Democrat from Hawaii.. But she is a true soldier and patriot, and a fighter pilot.    I mean really..  She is amazing.. my simple words do not give the credit she deserves..

She thinks outside the box. And to win, you must have such people.

[kscarbel2]

Is the Air Force trying to embarrass Trump?

Nothing wrong with the Tuskegee Airmen nor the WASPs.

 

Associated Press / January 26, 2025

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military, to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.

The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.

In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”

The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework. However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.

[kscarbel2]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Colombian President Gustavo Petro had initially authorized the deportation flights and then cancelled them "when the planes were in the air."

President Trump "has made it clear" that the US will "no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of".

Rubio says US sanctions and tariffs to be imposed on Colombia will illustrate that the administration is "unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America's border security. It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner."

The consequences for Colombia in a trade war with the US could be grave, as the US is the Latin American country's number one trading partner. According to the US state department, more than $39.3 billion in bilateral goods and services were exchanged in 2022 with large investments in the mining and manufacturing sectors. The US's primary imports from Colombia include crude oil, coffee, and cut flowers.

[GA_Dave]

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Colombian President Gustavo Petro had initially authorized the deportation flights and then cancelled them "when the planes were in the air."

President Trump "has made it clear" that the US will "no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of".

Rubio says US sanctions and tariffs to be imposed on Colombia will illustrate that the administration is "unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America's border security. It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are illegally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner."

The consequences for Colombia in a trade war with the US could be grave, as the US is the Latin American country's number one trading partner. According to the US state department, more than $39.3 billion in bilateral goods and services were exchanged in 2022 with large investments in the mining and manufacturing sectors. The US's primary imports from Colombia include crude oil, coffee, and cut flowers.

We should give Petro a choice - either we land our planes there and unload them or we fly over and drop them off!

[GA_Dave]

2 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

Is the Air Force trying to embarrass Trump?

Nothing wrong with the Tuskegee Airmen nor the WASPs.

 

Associated Press / January 26, 2025

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military, to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI initiatives.

The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.

In a statement, the Air Force confirmed the courses with those videos had been removed and said it “will fully execute and implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President, ensuring that they are carried out with utmost professionalism, efficiency and in alignment with national security objectives.”

The problem may not be with the historical videos themselves, but that they were used in Air Force basic military training DEI coursework. However, the lack of clearer guidance has sent the Air Force and other agencies scrambling to take the broadest approach to what content is removed to make sure they are in compliance.

This is typical behavior for those unhappy with the elimination of DEI - take it to the extreme.  The Tuskegee Airmen and the WASP's have nothing to do with DEI and these clowns know it!