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by tgma 2y ago
The article you linked says 'Many have no _ US _ criminal record.' That is not at all the same as not having a criminal record.
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by tgma 2y ago
There is an individual[1] who goes to pro-Hamas protests in England carrying a sign that states the official stance of UK on Hamas (i.e. that it is a terrorist organization) and inevitably gets arrested by the UK police state. Quite rich of
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by tgma 2y ago
> Most of the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador appear to have no criminal record Your appear to does a lot of heavy-lifting here. Appear to whom? > And Trump has explicitly said that citizens are next. You have a different dictionary
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by tgma 2y ago
Sure, that's the narrative to manufacture consent from the naive, but I don't buy it at all. Perhaps for very small fledgling universities that makes partial sense; even then I am skeptical. For Harvard, definitely not. At very le
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by tgma 2y ago
Next step: taxing that endowment (which is a good idea irrespective of the other demands: universities are government-subsidized tax-free hedge funds)
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by tgma 2y ago
Rubio affirmatively suggested the op-ed is not why she got deported. Nothing happened to her co-authors.
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by tgma 2y ago
A war is not an essential requirement for invocation of AEA. Read the statute. (The steel-man for your case would be on TdA being tied to a foreign government, not that it is not a war--an invasion or predatory incursion is enough. We will
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by tgma 2y ago
My friend was married to a USC (bona fide legit marriage) and they almost fucked them over during Biden administration casting doubt on their marriage. In San Francisco, not some red state. Many examples of that nature regardless of the adm
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by tgma 2y ago
Actually USCIS pretty much has blessed your VWP "loophole" > "INA section 245(c)(4) renders aliens admitted under the VWP ineligible to adjust status to that of a person admitted for permanent residence. This provision, ho
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by tgma 2y ago
I believe they stated that for at least a few of the cases: dude came to the US to dismantle western civilization and acted upon it. Good riddance. They are free to exercise their Freedom of Speech and Due Process under Sharia Law in their
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by tgma 2y ago
Unless there is an imminent threat or you want to send a message and act as a deterrent.
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by tgma 2y ago
+1. This. As an alien you would have generally been extra wary of your behavior. Civil disobedience and dedication to political action is not what you should expect of an average alien. Some natural born citizens seem to have been introduc
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by tgma 2y ago
Your point in hypocrisy of appeal to Freedom of Speech (cultural, not constitutional) is well-taken, but I would argue it is a red-herring: unless you have studied their intelligence files, it is not at all clear to the general public wheth
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by tgma 2y ago
The law spells out exactly what can be done. Your issue is you don't like the law and want more leniency for the alien, which is a fine position to argue, but that is not the law that has been on the books for 30+ years. I don't w
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by tgma 2y ago
I believe you are mixing up different cases. That is not the statute used at all for the Turkey case. The Alien Enemies Act you are referring to was exclusively used for the designated foreign terrorist organizations (i.e. TdA & MS13; V
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by tgma 2y ago
I believe they are free to challenge the decision in an administrative court in the US (under Attorney General, not an Article III court) but they can be arrested. In any case, most countries would reserve the rights to kick you out. That&#
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by tgma 2y ago
The terminology makes all the difference, though. You cannot just handwave it away. A US National is not removable by the discretion of U.S. Secretary of State, but a LPR can be found deportable based on that. The law could not be more clea
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by tgma 2y ago
> A legal permanent resident is by definition a national You just pulled this from your ass. Absolutely not true.
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by tgma 2y ago
I mean, I was discussing the law, now we pivot to emotions? The "masked" guys immediately showed their badges if we are talking about the same incident. When you come to the US on a visa, you should not be under any illusions th
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by tgma 2y ago
There's a huge difference between not being able to buy properties and seizing them. The former is already in place to some degree in various forms including anti-money-laundry and sanction-prevention pretexts: https://www.k
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by tgma 2y ago
The system is actually quite resilient. What you are describing is a specific impact the system might have on someone's situation. That makes a specific situation non-resilient, not the system. Everyone in the whole world who is on a v
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by tgma 2y ago
Genuinely interested people in debate would not start by calling the other party's statement "laughable" out of the gate and backtrack later.
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by tgma 2y ago
I gave a concrete example to the affirmative to a different commenter, so strictly speaking, yes. Arguably many European politicians don't say this but advocate for policies whose immediate logical conclusion is stagnation or decreas
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by tgma 2y ago
It might be absurd to you, but clearly not absurd to the authors who have tried to address some of these explicitly. In any case, I leave it between you and the authors to hash out a left-accelerationist agenda—I am out of here as a simplet
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by tgma 2y ago
It was not me who characterized the respective ideologies with those simplified labels. I don't characterize either of them with those labels to sensibly debate the point.
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by tgma 2y ago
> Fucking everyone does No. Many people don't. Lots more don't have it as a priority. Ted Kaczynski and all the climate-change crowd come to mind. Also you conveniently deleted my first word "deregulation."
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by tgma 2y ago
Feel free to act outraged. I am not going to further debate this charged topic. The authors are literally on every podcast trying to contrast themselves from various aspects of DOGE or deregulation and ideas that came before from Peter Thie
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by tgma 2y ago
Both advocate deregulation and increasing economic growth. Of course you can debate the difference at the margin ad nauseam, something the authors are doing more authoritatively than you and I could on every single podcast on the planet, tr
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by tgma 2y ago
There's this old amusing book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook[1] in which Dennis Ritchie has written a funny "Anti-Foreword." "...Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want the same thing you have, but w
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by tgma 2y ago
I'll bite: regardless of your emotions, 70% drop in almost any established process would be surprising. It's not like Trump hasn't been POTUS before either. That said, it seems like the figure is simply some estimate from an

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