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On the immigrants crisis at the border. From Dan Crenshaw on Rogan. Dan Crenshaw is literally a one eyed Republican congressman.
The cartels controls the border on the Mexico side. They charge about $300 per person. For families with kids they're put on a raft and told to surrender on the US side of the river. Nothing will happen and you'll be processed.
Single men are charged a bit higher and have to cross using cartel guides, coyotes. Less guarantee of success.100,000 border crossings every month equals a tidy 30 million dollar side business for the cartels!
The border processing for the Trump administration and the President Harris ( just quoting Joe. 4 times publicly at least🙂) administration are very similar. The single men get sent back immediately mostly. The families stay in grossly overcrowded processing areas. NGOs test for covid but border forces have no resources to deal with covid carrying asylum seekers.
The difference in Administrations strategy is small but showed effectiveness. The previous administration would randomly pick 29% of asylum seekers - let's be clear what these people are in order to bypass normal immigration processes. They are asylum seekers, fleeing persecution and death. A fast track into the United States.
The randomly picked 21%, singles and families, are (were) immediately sent back to US premises in Mexico where their asylum applications were taken over by Mexico and other Latin American countries. Trump had agreements with Mexico and others to aide this. Apparently Biden dispensed with those working relationships.
The effect of the random 29% was that bad actors and non genuine asylum seekers weren't willing to risk life savings payments to cartels only to lose the processing lottery and be back in Mexico minus the non refundable money you just paid to the cartel. This stalled the crossing numbers and greatly relieved border resources.
Spurious, non genuine border crossing attempts dropped away significantly due to this simple random sampling.
Under theHarrisBiden administration, crossings have surged and asylum seekers have stated that the atmosphere is that Joe will let you in. Asylum seekers are wearing Biden shirts in some epic trolling, probably supplied by the $30,000,000 a month cartelsPresident Trump was pilloried for his inane and destructive public utterances. President Biden has a few of his own, and a chocka block border to show for it.
According to Dan Crenshaw.
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@siam said in US Politics:
. Dan Crenshaw is literally a one eyed Republican congressman.
Ex- Navy SEAL. Lost his eye in combat. Set up a bi-partisan group in congress with Tulsi Gabbard and others to encourage politicians to find ways of working together rather than just shouting insults.
When SNL mocked his war injury, he didn't demand an apology but went on the show to talk about Veterans Day and the need for Americans to come together. Very classy.
Def. one to watch.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@siam said in US Politics:
. Dan Crenshaw is literally a one eyed Republican congressman.
Ex- Navy SEAL. Lost his eye in combat. Set up a bi-partisan group in congress with Tulsi Gabbard and others to encourage politicians to find ways of working together rather than just shouting insults.
When SNL mocked his war injury, he didn't demand an apology but went on the show to talk about Veterans Day and the need for Americans to come together. Very classy.
Def. one to watch.
He comes across very well, and is very good at tripping up hosts with calmly stated facts.
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@pakman said in US Politics:
@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@pakman Gun lobby is pretty much broke isn't it? He might be going gently gently but the first stuff to come out sounds pretty mild.
Kudos to him for at least having a go.
I think the real problem is the real animosity & insult-throwing between the NRA and a sizeable minority in Congress, which makes warfare between Trump and his opponents look tame.
Trump tried to build a bi-partisan approach (and tbf, as did Obama & Bush) while reassuring the NRA and had McConnell & even Pelosi on board but it came to nothing, seemingly as Senators started squabbling and shouting.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/trump-nra-gun-reform-talks-1454533
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@duluth said in US Politics:
Crenshaw is almost as hated as Jeb Bush by the right over the last few months. He’s seen as inauthentic and inconsistent, the new Jeb, Rubio, Ryan etc. I don’t see how his reputation recovers amongst the voters he needs
Crenshaw is UK-born so can't run for President, but I just think he's the sort of calm, measured, pragmatic politician the US needs but seems to lack at the moment.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
Crenshaw is UK-born so can't run for President, but I just think he's the sort of calm, measured, pragmatic politician the US needs but seems to lack at the moment.
He probably is eligible. It would be challenged though as several candidates have been before (McCain, Obama, Cruz off the top of my head.. it would be nice if the courts actually rules on one of the challenges so we can have a settled definition)
He's talked about running several times. Plenty of pundits/journalists have suggested him for 2024.I agree he's media friendly but that becomes a negative when your base thinks you have sold them out. I can't see him having any impact now
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@duluth said in US Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
Crenshaw is UK-born so can't run for President, but I just think he's the sort of calm, measured, pragmatic politician the US needs but seems to lack at the moment.
He probably is eligible. It would be challenged though as several candidates have been before (McCain, Obama, Cruz off the top of my head.. it would be nice if the courts actually rules on one of the challenges so we can have a settled definition)
He's talked about running several times. Plenty of pundits/journalists have suggested him for 2024.I agree he's media friendly but that becomes a negative when your base thinks you have sold them out. I can't see him having any impact now
Dunno. I think his grown-up style of politics might appeal to people who are sick and tired of the Pelosi's & Trump's of this world.
Maybe he's a sign of a change in the tone of US politics. Hope so.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
Dunno. I think his grown-up style of politics might appeal to people who are sick and tired of the Pelosi's & Trump's of this world.
Maybe he's a sign of a change in the tone of US politics. Hope so.
I don’t see anything new. The criticism of him from the right is that he pandered certain groups that he didn’t really support. Words not matching actions. He’s nothing special, just your standard politician with above average tv presence.
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@kirwan said in US Politics:
Happening in our schools too, just not as overtly.When I trained as primary school teacher in 2004 -
I was told I could not call out a Maori student because Maori felt special shame. (he was stealing other children's things)
I was told I had to apologize to a naughty student who had mocked me and then run off the school grounds after I told him off.
Two girls got another trainee teacher suspended because they said she hit them - turns out it was false and no punishment was given to them.
I was not allowed to read any story with two parents in it, because too many fatherless families.
It'll much worse now - of that I am sure
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@kirwan said in US Politics:
And here is a good insight of why the US is in the shitshow it is;
Happening in our schools too, just not as overtly.
America is a failing state. We're in the enviable position of witnessing what it must have been like to watch the Roman Empire crumble.
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@frank said in US Politics:
@kirwan said in US Politics:
Happening in our schools too, just not as overtly.When I trained as primary school teacher in 2004 -
I was told I could not call out a Maori student because Maori felt special shame. (he was stealing other children's things)
I was told I had to apologize to a naughty student who had mocked me and then run off the school grounds after I told him off.
Two girls got another trainee teacher suspended because they said she hit them - turns out it was false and no punishment was given to them.
I was not allowed to read any story with two parents in it, because too many fatherless families.
It'll much worse now - of that I am sure
I teach in Asia. None of that PC bullshit here.No wonder you had trouble, you can't even spell Māori correctly.
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@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@frank wtf, where did that happen? All from your placement teacher or during from lecturers etc on your course? I trained maybe a year earlier and had a totally different experience.
All from my placement schools. Owairaka Primary School, Epsom Normal Primary School and one more I cant remember the name of .
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