Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Could be hoping it functions as a deterrent, a bit like the British sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The problem is the US has been reliant on irregular migration since WWII, so there's been waves of tightening the border and deportation followed by looser regulations when food production needs labour.

It's an established pattern so migrants will still try in the future when they know the US is struggling with food.

It says in the article,

However, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent spoke to a family attorney and "refused to honour the request" and said that the "father could try to pick her up, but that he would also be taken into custody".

So I'm guessing he didn't.

It's worse in that at least gitmo was us a military lease.

El Salvador is acting as a subcontractor.

Agreed, much like Obama's tan suit, amirite?

Anyway, suit colour aside. What's your opinion on arresting judges, ICE using administrative warrants to do whatever they want, arresting people in courthouses without a warrant or presenting ID, maybe take a stab at sending innocent citizens to a foreign prison to never be seen.

Let's focus on the real issues.

So if his form stands by the end of tomorrow he will be telling Ukraine it should surrender, Powell will be in the firing line again, some of the tariffs on China that were reduced will be doubled again etc..

I won't be surprised if he insinuates that the tragedy in Canada happened because Canada has been nasty to the USA.

If a judge is suspected of breaking the law, they should be arrested. Similar to a politician or a businessman.

Remember when that Kerry judge was found with child porn on a computer, should get have been arrested? He got off on some technicality but all was well in the end, and the same may happen here.

You remember it?

Then you should know its not remotely the same situation.

This is an attack by a fascist administration on the independence of the judiciary resisting their diktats.

Kind of confusing now with Rubio telling the news media that if Trump/the US, put's more sanctions on Russia now, it will make the war last two [2] years longer.

Terrible, using that logic, that all the sanctions put on Russia to date because it invaded Ukraine [in continuation of the war it started in Ukraine in 2014] have ended with continuation, and not cessation of the Russian war efforts in Ukraine.

So wrong of the world's nations to have caused the continuation of the war.

BTW, I'm being a tad sarcastic in those last few lines.

Where it come to Crimea, what [apart from possible extension of Russia's toehold on the Black Sea - and bases close to other former USSR countries] does Crimea have value-wise?

Does Crimea have, percentage-wise, enough of Ukraine's rare earth and critical minerals to make it worthwhile for Russia to insist that it hold unto Crimea as part of any peace-deal Trump insists Ukraine accede to to end the war [as presently pursued by Putin]?

Not heading down the conspiracy rabbit-hole quite yet, I keep in mind how much of a row there has been between Biden and himself, not mentioning all the Ukrainians in several of that country's administrations and US ambassadors, over the past 10 years now where commercial interest-plans there are concerned. Letting go of the personal grudge match between Biden and Trump, what is in it for Trump at this stage. He has to know peace, not war, there is now an even longer term proposition for all those involved in any ceasefire there.

remember what exactly?

A judge getting arrested

On what Crimea has. Crimea in 2014-22 allowed Russia to turn Ukrainian trade through the Sea of Azov through Mariupol (especially steel - Azovstal was the worlds largest steel plant) on and off for political pressure.

That was likely a factor in why Russia built the Crimea bridge to Kerch.

Keeping it would allow them to do the same with Odessa including agriculture. 97% of Ukraine's grain exports use Odessa.

I'm surprised that the border with Crimea was so weakly defended. Some officials in the South seem to have betrayed orders to blow bridges. Promises of collaboration in Kyiv seem to have failed though, with people taking the Russian money and not helping them. Thats one of the reasons the siege of Kyiv failed.

"A mass lynching of Italian Americans in New Orleans in 1891 prompted U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to make the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival a national holiday in 1892, though he intended it to be a one-time celebration. In 1937 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the day an annual holiday."

"Congress declared Columbus Day a federal holiday in 1937 and a legal public holiday in 1968. Hawaii, Alaska and South Dakota do not recognize Columbus Day as a holiday. Columbus Day is not celebrated in 22 states. "

Might be nice to ask the ICE Barbie Noem why South Dakota does not recognize it.

"By the 500th anniversary of Columbus's exploration, the tide had turned against the explorer. Today, Columbus is regarded as the instigator in the series of events that led to genocide, dispossession and disease for Native Americans and African slavery in America"

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https://www.wuft.org/national-news/2012-10-08/twelve-little-known-facts-about-columbus-day-and-its-namesake