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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries

I want to hear him make this appear to be someone else's mistake. Biden would be my guess.
 

In March 2025, the United States launched a large campaign of air and naval strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. Codenamed Operation Rough Rider,[6] it has been the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East of President Donald Trump's second term.[7]
My apologies. How silly of me that we should bomb people who attack our ships and cut off the world's supply of oil.
 
Do you have some kind of delusion that I'm going to go through that list and analyze each one so that you can make some smart-ass comment about my analysis?
Nope, I had the suspicion that you would prove my entire point correct and look right here you did exactly that.

That point was this: you were just told that USAID was full of waste, fraud, and "woke" programs. You dutifully believed everything the government told you, without question. You know absolutely nothing about what USAID was doing, but are absolutely certain they shouldn't have been doing it.

And why? What is the motivation? Ultimately, you just didn't want to be feeding those kids with your tax dollars in the first place.
 
I did. They're included in the 85,000. Take some time to read up on the H1-B visa. You could learn something.
I forgot, you're one of those posters who keeps moving the goal posts, over and over and over, because you can't admit you were mistaken.
 
It isn't a "culture war whim" to cancel wasteful spending at a time of $36 trillion debt. The silly programs of USAID are well known now, and they are indefensible. But less well-known are the research programs cut, and the reasons for them. For example, a university research program for the treatment of a specific brain cancer was cut. But, as I pointed out in another thread here, there are at least half a dozen other university and cancer center programs on-going into the same cancer, and at least as many are already in clinical trials. Cutting one of many such programs isn't a "culture war whim."
Sorry, but any legitimacy to the position this administration is trying to address the debt given what they're looking to add to it isn't a serious position. The blanket statement that all of USAID is composed of "silly programs" betrays the ignorance of soft power. Was there an argument to make about making some cuts? Sure, but that's not the approach that was taken, and instead DoGE just swung wildly across departments and in many cases had to rehire people because it really didn't know what was valuable and what wasn't.

If their "opinions" become militant actions (e.g., Mohamed Khalil) they may well have their visas, granted for the purpose of academic study, withdrawn. And why shouldn't they? Would you tolerate an openly hostile guest in your home?
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So much for the idea of free speech then. We tolerate groups openly hostile to the concept of the US government, and I don't know about you, the fact they're citizens doesn't make me feel any better about it. However, we have agreed to allow free speech and ideas and chosen to punish behavior not ideas. In the case of Mohamed Khalil, he was far from a militant, and this action by the State Department under really silly claims that student activists pose some threat to US policy is laughable.
 
After reading this thread, it seems the extreme anti-Trumps are disappointed ICE is being directed to go in a new direction, much easier on farm workers, hotel and restaurant workers.

It makes fiscal sense that they would go easier if businesses are suffering. Trump has already acknowledged that these policies were affecting farmers and hospitality businesses by removing "very good, long-time workers" who are difficult to replace. It's economically understandable why Trump has changed course. It's a matter of preventing economic disruptions. Makes more sense to go after criminal activities like human trafficking and drug smuggling.

Perhaps it’s time to stop trying to make a punching bag out of those very good, long-time workers.
 
If fewer immigrants are being rounded up by fascists, that's good. However, I give the fascists no credit for dialing it down a few notches at the insistence of moneyed interests.
 
"Soft power" doesn't involve funding comic books or puppet shows pushing transsexuality.

I like comic books so...honestly that's really ignorant.
You dont like the format but its not different from radio, tv, pamphlets, newspapers or books.

Puppet shows about that isnt a hill im gonna die on honestly.

But you are needling in order to have a point and be relevant to this conversation.

You lost before you even begun to reply to me.

Shrug..learn about something before you grow an opinion over it
 
We haven't bombed anyone for years, and Trump's trying to stop the bombing by other countries.

What are you talking about. We bomb people all the time. We kust recently did it..
You dont know what you are talking about clearly.

We just discussed this over the singal chat drama.

We are done here till you can actually understand world events and reality
 
"Soft power" doesn't involve funding comic books or puppet shows pushing transsexuality.

That's exactly what soft power is. Winning hearts and minds.

Of course, that was back when our government looked at transgenders as human beings.
 
I like comic books so...honestly that's really ignorant.
You dont like the format but it’s not different from radio, tv, pamphlets, newspapers or books.

In fairness, they tried to destroy America’s soft power in other formats like radio, too. But, as with most of their dumbass policies, they’re finding they need to reverse course.

Voice of America Recalls Staff for Iranian Language News Service From Leave
The Farsi language news broadcast for Voice of America was abruptly reactivated on Friday, calling back dozens of workers for the news network who had been put on paid leave as hostilities between Israel and Iran intensified, two staff members at the Farsi news service said.

Voice of America, a federally funded news network that reports the news in dozens of foreign languages, had previously included a news service in Farsi, also known as Persian, the language most commonly spoken in Iran. Workers for the Farsi news service were among the vast majority of staff at Voice of America who were placed on paid administrative leave after President Trump signed an executive order gutting the news agency in March.

Employees for the news service have since sued to have the service restored even as the Trump administration moves to all but eliminate the news network. Supporters of the network argued that the service provided credible news in places that lacked an independent press, while the White House accused it of leftist bias.
 
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