Trump's Second Term

'Evil': Critics Recoil as Trump DHS Moves to Bar Disaster Aid for Undocumented Immigrants

The Trump administration is reportedly putting new restrictions on nonprofit organizations that would bar them from helping undocumented immigrants affected by natural disasters.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is "now barring states and volunteer groups that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants" while also requiring these groups "to cooperate with immigration officials and enforcement operations."

Documents obtained by the paper reveal that all volunteer groups that receive government money to help in the wake of disasters must not "operate any program that benefits illegal immigrants or incentivizes illegal immigration." What's more, the groups are prohibited from "harboring, concealing, or shielding from detection illegal aliens" and must "provide access to detainees, such as when an immigration officer seeks to interview a person who might be a removable alien."

The order pertains to faith-based aid groups such as the Salvation Army and Red Cross that are normally on the front lines building shelters and providing assistance during disasters.

Scott Robinson, an emergency management expert who teaches at Arizona State University, told The Washington Post that there is no historical precedent for requiring disaster victims to prove proof of their legal status before receiving assistance.

"The notion that the federal government would use these operations for surveillance is entirely new territory," he said.

Many critics were quick to attack the administration for threatening to punish nonprofit groups that help undocumented immigrants during natural disasters.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) lashed out at the decision to bar certain people from receiving assistance during humanitarian emergencies.

"When disaster hits, we cannot only help those with certain legal status," she wrote in a social media post. "We have an obligation to help every single person in need. This is unfathomable discrimination against immigrants that will cost our country lives."
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So remember, if you're in a flood and you're hanging from a tree branch, make sure you have your papers!
 
Andy_Ross said:
Vance: This happens too much in our country. We really do have I think a mental health crisis We take way more psychiatric medication than any other nation and I think it's time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence

https://twitter.com/x/status/1961141364294656416
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Right. In the meantime, while you're asking these "very hard questions" that don't really go anywhere except to make you sound like you're addressing the causes, how about we do something about the undeniable means? That is to say, the other thing that we have way more of than any other nation and is the reason it so coincidentally happens too much here and not as much elsewhere? It shouldn't really amaze me, but it still does, that people like Vance will all but name the problem and in the same breath refuse to acknowledge an obvious solution.
 
turingtest said:
It shouldn't really amaze me, but it still does, that people like Vance will all but name the problem and in the same breath refuse to acknowledge an obvious solution.
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On that note...

The Long Con: Why Every Republican Policy—From Guns to Healthcare to Taxes—Harms the Public...

Yesterday there was another highly publicized school shooting. Republicans, as usual, are offering thoughts and prayers:
But why?
Why have Republicans — who, before Reagan, were the party in favor of gun control — decided that it’s just fine for America to be the only country in the world where the leading cause of childhood deaths and injury is bullets?

Why have Republicans — who, during the Eisenhower administration, pushed for massive public works programs like the interstate freeways and new schools coast-to-coast — decided instead to kill off as many of those sorts of programs as possible to pay for tax gifts to billionaires?

Why are they defending insider trading in Congress, supporting monopolies that rip off consumers and small businesses, and refusing to do anything about uninsured people or student debt?

The question is answered most easily with another set of questions, these ones rhetorical:

Would you trust your doctor if she told you the only reason she went into medicine was to get rich and doesn’t much care for people? Would you take your kids to such a physician?

Similarly, would you trust your child’s teacher if he said he hated kids but needed the paycheck and though teaching might be a great way to meet attractive single mothers of young kids? Or a pilot who hates flying but loves the paychecks and the flight attendants?

Yet this is exactly what Republicans have done with government. They stand up at campaign rallies and proudly proclaim that government doesn’t work and never will, and then voters hand them the keys.

Once in office, they make sure their wealthy friends and donors get the perks while they steer the rest of us straight into turbulence. It’s sabotage disguised as leadership, and the only way they get away with it is because they’ve convinced enough people that wrecking the plane is the same thing as piloting it.
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Hartmann has written plenty more at the link, either way.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Rep. Barry Moore REFUSES to answer the simple question of who pays Trump's tariffs leading his constituents at his town hall to start chanting "Who pays the tariffs!? Who pays the tariffs!?"
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A while ago I mentioned the mediocre 80s movie "Turk 182" and the need for a catchphrase criticizing a politician equivalent to the movie's "Zimmerman Flew and Tyler Knew". There are a lot of things bigger than tariffs, but maybe we take what we can get.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Pulte (U.S. Director of Federal Housing)
Tax fraud often accompanies mortgage fraud
The sanctity and integrity of mortgage applications and mortgage contracts are paramount. Violating the integrity of these agreements means putting the entire country at risk. This is why, in my mind, mortgage fraud is such a serious crime.
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Uh... your boss has 34 felony counts for exactly that sort of behaviour.

ETA. ninja'd
 
bruto said:
While I don't think it has anything to do with wokeness and I think Trump a fool and an idiot for thinking it does or thinking he should say anything about it anyway, I do suspect that the logo change was a mistake, based likely on some corporate person thinking that the secret to restoring sagging growth was to modernize the logo rather than to attract more customers with actually useful changes. Not that this changes the likelihood that they changed it back for the wrong reasons as well.
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Late to the show. Or, they had a genius marketing agent. Tell everyone they're changing their logo and receive millions worth if free advertising as the right wing outrage machine churn on and on.
 
Well, you have to admit that Vance is sort of right that there's a mental health crisis in this country right now. After all, our president is insane, most of his staff are deluded cultists who need deprogramming, and at least some of his cabinet are brain damaged by drugs, alcohol and parasites.

The phone is ringing. The call is coming from inside the house, junior deputy.
 
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