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Originally posted by rat2306:
Why would Bolton be given protection by the Secret Service; he's a former Secretary of State (I think he was a national security adviser also at one point) who left office perhaps six years ago. And he may have let some sensitive info into his book.

He may need to provide for his own security like the rest of we serfs and vassals.

He's on a list along with Mike Pompeo, Matthew Pottinger, Brian Hook, Victoria Coates and Robert Greenway have all been identified as being on a list the IRGC wants to assassinate in revenge for Solemani's death.
IF any of them are killed by the IRGC, particularly on US soil, that pushes-open the door for a larger conflict.

Fantastic to see President Trump speak to business leaders at the WEF, answering questions extemporaneously at length.

The contrast with past presidents is stark. Trump has been a businessman all his life. Biden was a career leech. Obama the fraud never even ran a lemonade stand. Donald Trump's POV will always be as a real estate developer. He's dealt with the staggering bureaucracy, the tax codes, etc.

In times past, America has needed different types of leaders, but, today, there is no better choice than Donald Trump.

1. Yes you are
2. Biden is gone
3. There's a new Sheriff in town

Too bad, so sad, bye bye


https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1882454269170995526

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Originally posted by Pavilion:
Middle East priorities? Trump redesignates Houthis as terrorists,

It's really no wonder the middle east is in flames. Biden and his idiots have been funding every terrorist in the region for the past 4 years.

Trump to world companies: Make products in US or face tariff

Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that businesses should make their products in the United States if they want to avoid facing a tariff.
Appearing in a videoconference with business leaders at the annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said that companies should set up manufacturing operations in the United States.
"My message to every business in the world is very simple, come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth."
https://www.reuters.com/world/...e-tariff-2025-01-23/


If only it was that easy, we no longer have a skilled workforce. The ones we have want unions and more pay. Income tax and health care is too high. Companies are overwhelmed with environment laws and diversity hire crap. Need to fix this stuff first.

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Originally posted by corsair:

He's on a list along with Mike Pompeo, Matthew Pottinger, Brian Hook, Victoria Coates and Robert Greenway have all been identified as being on a list the IRGC wants to assassinate in revenge for Solemani's death.

Trump today revoked the security details of both Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook. Pompeo is a traitor to Trump, a leech, and deserves everything coming his way.

https://www.newsweek.com/donal...avos-remarks-2019724

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Companies are overwhelmed with environment laws and diversity hire crap. Need to fix this stuff first.

That's in the process.

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If only it was that easy, we no longer have a skilled workforce. The ones we have want unions and more pay. Income tax and health care is too high. Companies are overwhelmed with environment laws and diversity hire crap. Need to fix this stuff first.

Much of this is not necessarily skilled labor. Many manufacturing jobs can be done with on the job training. I believe the income tax is going to get overhauled. I think a flat consumption tax is being floated already. Trump has already begun deregulating. Nothing you mentioned can't be fixed and the speed at which Trump is operating it won't take long.

Welfare offices need to be turned into employment offices. Women on welfare who get knocked up do not get additional monies to support that child. Around here it is a cottage business with the gang bangers knocking up their girlfriends to get the welfare increase. Those kids never stand a chance, baby daddy just views them as an income increase. Baby momma can't handle the stress of four babies crying and screaming with another one coming and no sign of baby daddy. Kids get neglected and abused. Disgusting cycle that needs to stop! That always took me to another level of pissed off!

Well it didn't take long to draft up legal actions on the Birthright issue, which I think was Trumps point, lets get it in the courts and take it to SCOTUS, in the meantime some R have drafted legislation ending birthright.

Going to be an interesting fight..


Judge to hear 4 states bid to block Birthright Citizenship

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US judge to hear bid to block Trump birthright citizenship order

By Daniel Catchpole and Nate Raymond January 23, 202511:24 AM EST
Updated 2 hours ago

SEATTLE, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Four Democratic-led states will urge a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday to block President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States.

The executive order issued by the Republican president on his first day on office on Monday has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states, who call it a flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle is set to hear arguments on a request by Democratic state attorneys general from Washington state, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon for a temporary restraining order to prevent the administration from carrying out this key element of Trump's immigration crackdown.

The challengers have argued that Trump's action violates the right enshrined in the citizenship clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen.

Trump in his executive order directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither their mother nor father is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

In a brief filed late on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department called the order an "integral part" of the president's efforts "to address this nation's broken immigration system and the ongoing crisis at the southern border."

The lawsuit filed in Seattle has been progressing more quickly than the four other cases brought over the executive order. It has been assigned to Coughenour, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan.

The judge potentially could rule from the bench after hearing arguments, or he could wait to write a decision ahead of Trump's order taking effect.
Under the order, any children born after Feb. 19 whose mothers or fathers are not citizens or lawful permanent residents would be subject to deportation and would be prevented from obtaining Social Security numbers, various government benefits and the ability as they get older to work lawfully.

More than 150,000 newborn children would be denied citizenship annually if Trump's order is allowed to stand, according to the Democratic-led states.

Democratic state attorneys general have said that the understanding of the Constitution's citizenship clause was cemented 127 years ago when the U.S.
Supreme Court held that children born in the United States to non-citizen parents are entitled to American citizenship.

The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 following the Civil War and overturned the Supreme Court's notorious 1857 Dred Scott decision that had declared that the Constitution's protections did not apply to enslaved Black people.

But the Justice Department in its brief argued that the 14th Amendment had never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born in the country, and that the Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark concerned only children of permanent residents.

The Justice Department said the case by the four states also "flunks multiple threshold hurdles." The department said that only individuals, not states, can pursue claims under the citizenship clause, and that the states lack the necessary legal standing to sue over Trump's order.

Thirty-six of Trump's Republican allies in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday separately introduced legislation to restrict automatic citizenship to only children born to citizens or lawful permanent residents.

ICE has been freed to make arrests at churches. More immigrants took sanctuary in Philadelphia than anywhere else.


The president's reversal on 'sensitive locations' frees agents to act not just at churches but at schools, hospitals, colleges, funerals, and rallies


ICE has been freed to make arrests at churches. More immigrants took sanctuary in Philadelphia than anywhere else.


The president's reversal on 'sensitive locations' frees agents to act not just at churches but at schools, hospitals, colleges, funerals, and rallies

More than a dozen migrants took sanctuary inside Philadelphia churches during President Donald Trump’s first administration, the most of any city in the country, blocking their deportations by putting themselves beyond the reach of ICE agents.
Agency policy deemed houses of worship off limits, except in extraordinary circumstances.

Now that protection is gone. A Trump administration directive issued Monday eliminated the restraints that kept federal agents from entering churches, schools, and hospitals in what the federal Department of Homeland Security said was a move to keep American citizens safe.

On Wednesday, Philadelphia activists who helped shelter undocumented immigrants in churches in Germantown, University City, and North Philadelphia pledged fresh resistance, pointing out that a knock on the door does not automatically require an answer.

“It feels like emotional warfare, that this is really the aim, an attempt to take away every last safe space,” said Peter Pedemonti, codirector of New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, whose members include 33 churches in the region.

“Congregations are not just safe spaces, those are sacred spaces. This feels like a desecration.”
New Sanctuary Movement has been alerting church leaders that the change in policy does not mean ICE can enter at will, Pedemonti said, and clergy should ask to see legal judicial warrants if agents appear. Churches should have response protocols in place and train staff on how to respond if U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents arrive, he said.
Philadelphia ICE officials did not immediately reply to a request for comment Wednesday.

Hours after Trump’s Monday inauguration, homeland security officials directed that federal enforcement agents will be allowed to take action at places where they were previously barred, including colleges, funerals, rallies, and shelters, eliminating the church refuge that Philadelphia immigration advocates saw as a last-ditch but lifesaving tactic.

“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,” the Department of Homeland Security, which governs ICE, said in a statement. “The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”

The revocation also applies to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, whose mission is to safeguard the borders and enhance economic prosperity.
“It says there is no place where people can be safe,” said the Rev. Renee McKenzie, who less than a year into Trump’s first term made the decision to welcome a frightened, undocumented family of five into the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. “I’ve been anticipating this, based upon things were said and knowing how this administration feels about immigrants.”

McKenzie, now serving at Calvary St. Augustine Episcopal Church in the Belmont neighborhood of West Philadelphia, said she worries that some churches might think twice about helping undocumented immigrants, knowing they could be targeted.

Is Philadelphia prepared for federal immigration enforcement?

The directive threw the Philadelphia School District’s “sanctuary schools” policy into question on Wednesday, even as City Councilmember Rue Landau convened a “Trump Preparedness” hearing to confront what could be four difficult years for a big, Democratic-led city.

The City Hall hearing underlined criticism of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker for not forcefully endorsing Philadelphia’s status as a sanctuary city — a place that deliberately limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
City Solicitor Renee Garcia said the city’s sanctuary safeguards remain in place, but stopped short of confirming whether Parker was considering additional steps as she and her staff reviewed Trump’s first-day slew of executive orders on immigration.

The city faces an additional challenge at a time of federal scrutiny: Hours after the Trump administration directed U.S. prosecutors to investigate local officials who do not cooperate with its plans for mass deportations, Parker announced that the director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, Amy Eusebio, will leave her job on Friday. The city will undertake a national search for a successor, the mayor said.

The Defender Association of Philadelphia, which provides counsel to people who cannot afford to hire private attorneys, said at the hearing that it intends to create an “immigrant defense unit” to assist those at risk of deportation, according to Chief Defender Keisha Hudson. The association will seek an additional $800,000 from the city for that, she said.

How churches became the backdrop to a national debate over immigration
About 47,000 undocumented people live in Philadelphia, their lack of legal status placing them at risk of deportation. They are among 153,000 *00,000statewide, with an additional 440,000 900,000 in New Jersey.

And many Americans want them — among 13 million in the country illegally — to be deported. A new poll by Ipsos and the New York Times shows that 63% support removing immigrants who entered the country without permission during the last four years, and 55% said they support deporting all immigrants who are undocumented.
No one is currently in church sanctuary in Philadelphia, according to activists.
During Trump’s first term, sanctuary provided a dramatic backdrop for the furious national debate over immigration, as families and church leaders across the country pitted themselves against the power of the federal government.
From 2016 to 2018, as ICE increased enforcement actions, the number of immigrants in sanctuary jumped from five to 42, and the churches, synagogues, and mosques that were ready to offer housing nearly tripled to 1,110.
Philadelphia was ground zero. Most cities had no one in church sanctuary, others maybe one or two, Philadelphia had 14 at one point.
Only the most desperate families took sanctuary here, mostly mothers and children who believed they could be killed if sent back to their homelands.
Some stayed inside for years, supported in daily living by a network of clergy and groups like New Sanctuary Movement. All those in sanctuary eventually emerged safely after finding legal routes to stay in the United States.
Church sanctuary is arduous for all involved, but its protection, partly afforded by the sensitive-locations policy, gave families a crucial advantage in their fights to remain in the country: time. The years in sanctuary allowed space for new legal strategies to develop, for court cases to go forward, for presidential administrations to change.

The ICE sensitive-locations policy goes back years: It was created under President Barack Obama, remained in place during the first Trump administration, and then was strengthened under President Joe Biden. He specifically directed agents to focus on migrants who posed risks to national security, border security, or public safety.

All versions of the policy dissuaded agents from taking action at churches and other locations except in extraordinary cases.

Immigration advocates in Philadelphia said ICE sometimes violated its own rules, taking action at places that were supposed to be sacrosanct.

In 2020, agents detained a woman after she dropped off her child at Eliza B. Kirkbride Elementary School in South Philadelphia. School district officials said the woman was approached near Seventh and Dickinson Streets but did not know if she was on school property.

The same year, ICE took a Honduran man into custody at a Scranton hospital, then placed him in detention at the Pike County Correctional Facility. Pennsylvania lawyer Juliette Gomez said her client’s arrest clearly violated the sensitive-locations policy. ICE said the arrest began at the federal courthouse, and what followed was a continuation of that process.

In 2019, an ICE agent appeared in Courtroom 906 at the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center, flashing a badge and looking for a particular defendant. The incident led the city sheriff to demand that agents identify themselves to deputies if they are on duty inside a city courtroom.

“We pushed back before the sensitive-locations memo, and we’ll push back now,” Pedemonti said Wednesday. “The Trump administration doesn’t dictate what congregations do. God does.”

https://www.inquirer.com/news/...ations-20250122.html

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The Justice Department said the case by the four states also "flunks multiple threshold hurdles." The department said that only individuals, not states, can pursue claims under the citizenship clause, and that the states lack the necessary legal standing to sue over Trump's order.

It would be absolutely hilarious if their (D's) case got tossed on standing.

The nation is healing before our eyes

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1882464105153601659

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Originally posted by stoic-one:

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The Justice Department said the case by the four states also "flunks multiple threshold hurdles." The department said that only individuals, not states, can pursue claims under the citizenship clause, and that the states lack the necessary legal standing to sue over Trump's order.

It would be absolutely hilarious if their (D's) case got tossed on standing.

Fox News: Judge rules the order blatantly unconstitutional, on live TV

the States aren't in charge of citizenship, so they can go pound sand

Fox reports Murkowski is voting against Hegseth..

Not surprising, how the hell R keep her in office is beyond reason....

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Originally posted by PASig:
A local FB page for my area had numerous reports of lots of military helicopters flying low and west yesterday which we don't see too often. I wonder if they were going to a staging area possibility Fort Indiantown Gap in the middle of PA for deployment to the border?

One of my sons left this am for a combat leadership course there. Im going to check with him in a few days and see if he knows anything

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Originally posted by HRK:
Well it didn't take long to draft up legal actions on the Birthright issue, which I think was Trumps point, lets get it in the courts and take it to SCOTUS, in the meantime some R have drafted legislation ending birthright.

Going to be an interesting fight..
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I predict President Trump's action to end "birthright citizenship" will fail, simply because the 14th Amendment states:

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

So, the children are American citizens and should be treated as such. The parents, however, if in the US in violation of our immigration laws should be immediately deported and the child placed in the .gov run child abuse system, placed for private adoption by the parents before being deported, or taken with the parents when the parents get deported. The child is always welcome in our Nation; the immigration law breaking parents should be refused reentry permanently.

That President Trump can accomplish with a stroke of the pen, and best of all, there isn't a goddamned thing that can be done to challenge it. What are they going to argue? That the option of giving the child to the .gov run child abuse system is abusive?

There’s already clear grounds that the children of diplomats and invading armies aren’t included.

Why not individuals illegally in the country? It is an exact parallel.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Fox reports Murkowski is voting against Hegseth..

Might be time for a recess ...

There’s going to be a “deep dive” into the History books now. Researching exactly what was said in the post-Civil War Congress debates as to what was meant, past obscure 19th Century court cases, and some uncomfortable societal history. Be careful what you wish for, as you just might get it.