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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a pair of clean immigration wins last week, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded by announcing he would ignore them. Now Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is sounding the alarm.
The Court ruled 6-3 Thursday in Mullin v. Doe to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants. This ruling set off predictable outrage from the progressive wing of the party. Mamdani was first out of the gate. In a video statement, he declared the decision "cruel" and invoked the specter of the Haitian Revolution to frame deportation enforcement as a betrayal of universal freedom.
"To have people who frankly taught the world about freedom have their own freedom put into jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and federal administration - it is not only cruel, it's not something we will ever accept," Mamdani said. "The Supreme Court just sparked one of the largest attacks on immigrants in modern American history. In one fell swoop, thousands of Haitians and Syrians now risk losing the right to live and work in the country they call home."
He went on to reassure migrants that New York City would not comply with the ruling.
"To the tens of thousands of New Yorkers with TPS who are watching the news, frightened about what comes next, hear me clearly: New York City is your home. You belong here. We will not turn our backs on you," Mamdani said. "You will not face this cruelty alone. This administration will stand alongside immigrant New Yorkers today, tomorrow, and every day that follows."
These are not ambiguous rulings with room for creative local interpretation. The Supreme Court made its ruling, and Mamdani's position is that he can ignore it just because he doesn't like it.
All branches of the U.S. military began once again requiring their recruits to get flu vaccines earlier this month, an exception to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to lift the military's vaccine mandate, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
The news comes as Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — home to the Air Force's Basic Military Training program — grapples with a flu outbreak that has infected 275 people in recent weeks, a congressional staffer with knowledge of the matter told CBS News. The process of reinstating the mandate for recruits began before the Lackland outbreak was publicly acknowledged.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-flu-vaccine-recruits-hegseth-lackland-outbreak/
The southwest border is “more secure than at any point in history,” but Americans are still paying an enormous price for the Biden administration’s unprecedented illegal immigration crisis, including a new multi-million-dollar investment to support the influx of underage migrants still living in the United States.
The government calls them Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), though the overwhelming majority are not really children but rather young adults in their teens and some have criminal histories. Under U.S. law the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is responsible for caring for UAC, which are overwhelmingly males over the age of 14, according to government figures.
They come from Guatemala (32%), Honduras (20%), Mexico (20%), El Salvador (8%), and “other” (19%). More than half a million entered the country during the Biden administration and Uncle Sam has spent a fortune to provide them with housing, food, an education, medical care, and recreational activities before and after they are released to sponsors throughout the country.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/FQ4ezikBho8?ra=m
i think this woman (?) is living in a reality bubble, where attending college and doing your assigmments somehow equates to an “education”
i question if this person is actually a woman, because of the off-putting way she tries way too hard to feminize her voice by speaking in falsetto. but i digress.
we have gotten to the point where if a “poorly educated” (conservative) says “sex is basic biology”
their standard rebuttal is “gender is advanced biology”
and they imply that if only you would attend more classes, and complete more busy-work, and earn more inflated grades, and take on more student loan debt…
then eventually you will see the light, and accept the fact that men can get pregnant
she seems to be completely oblivious to the root causes of anti-intellectualism, and doesn’t understand why the general public has a long history of turning on the “educated” elite, once they have finally had enough of their bullshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
never forget:
the vast majority of people with a PhD believe men walked on the moon,
and if they can’t even figure out that obvious bullshit, why should we believe anything else they have to say?
oh and shes a “sociologist” by training
and she thinks that makes her more educated, and somehow better than you
