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Roberts deserves applause for standing up to 47 and maintaining his integrity.

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You know DJT is thinking with maximum clarity when he resorts to ALL CAPS.

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Trump hates being subject to the law.

Because he's a deranged narcissist with delusions of grandeur.

Trump believes that his election means that he can do whatever he wants even in violation of the Constitution

Exactly.

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Rubio said Monday that he had confidence that the deported Venezuelans were gang members but that even if not, they were illegally in the United States.

So that means the Alien Enemies Act can be used to send any undocumented alien to a prison in El Salvador?

That's not what you said before, Marco.

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"It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post aimed at Chief Justice John Roberts.

Too bad Don. The courts won't allow you to keep doing illegal things.

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I thought the Supreme Court would just roll over, play dead and be a lap dog for Trumputin, especially with that sellout Clarence Thomas still on it. May have to rethink it.

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May have to rethink it.

Thomas and Alito are certainly in the tank for His Majesty. The other conservatives may still have a certain amount of judicial spine left. We'll see, though.

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Let's go judges..

Stop MAGA regime fascist agenda..

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A convicted felon telling the U.S. courts how to do their jobs. WTF?!

elections have consequences. . . hopefully the next 4 years will go by quickly without great harm

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Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to smack all these judges down, so he can continue with agenda

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Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to smack all these judges down, so he can continue with agenda

SC ruled against him last time, remember? It was only a couple of weeks ago.

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For Heaven's (and the world's) sake, "LOCK HIM UP!" Even some Scotus Supremos must be feeling the shame (they brought on themselves) now that they find themselves being dictated to by a convicted felon.

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bass4funk

Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to smack all these judges down, so he can continue with agenda

It's the Chief Justice that he is complaining about!

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The voters voted for it. High time for it all to be implemented 200% down the line.

Even if one disagrees, they definitely didn't vote to have illegal gang members repatriated.

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Europe needs to learn a lesson from this, take out all the trash for the benefit of decent people and to protect the innocents.

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Give an inch he'll try take a mile.

The supreme Court should never have given him immunity in the previous misdeeds

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Blacklabel

Trump demands courts stop blocking his agenda

not what an activist partisan judge wants or thinks.

They aren't "activist" or "partisan" judges.

And it's the judges job to point out and block when Trump's agenda is illegal.

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They aren't "activist" or "partisan" judges.

The LGBT judge blocking transgender policy for the entire military isn’t partisan nor an activist?

she basically admitted she has no authority but wants to activate “heated public debate” and the “appeals process” with her ruling,

cause the policy, while legal, it’s “mean” or something. lol

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Trump demands courts stop blocking his agenda

How about you stop doing unlawful stuff, Donnie? Then the judges won't have to block you.

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People...if you elected someone to reintroduce slavery and child prostitution would you expect the Courts to just smile ?

Every day...the same posters...the same erroneous arguments.

Electing Trump doesnt mean suspending the US Constitution.

How many times must this be said !!!!!!!!!!!

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Isn’t it super interesting that nearly everything the American people elected Trump specifically to do is suddenly deemed as supposedly illegal?

student debt forgiveness was “illegal”. Biden did it anyway. How odd.

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Blacklabel

They aren't "activist" or "partisan" judges.

The LGBT judge blocking transgender policy for the entire military isn’t partisan nor an activist?

No.

she basically admitted she has no authority

No, she didn't.

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Blacklabel

Isn’t it super interesting that nearly everything the American people elected Trump specifically to do is suddenly deemed as supposedly illegal?

Well, we warned them that he would be a dictator, but they didn't listen.

student debt forgiveness was “illegal”.

No, it wasn't. How he did it was.

Biden did it anyway. How odd.

He changed the way he did it. Simple.

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It's the Chief Justice that he is complaining about!

They both can complain about each other, it’s good and healthy for democracy to disagree.

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Invoking wartime powers when there is no war is not legal Jupiter. The US is not at war with Venezuela. Abset a war you cannot invoke the Enemy Aliens Act. Simple. Obey the nation's laws and its Constitution and you won't have problems with the courts. It's not that hard to do. Congress writes the laws, not you Jupiter. Your job is to execute the laws and budgets Congress pass, and if you don't expect to get sued. That is why there is a judiciary and why it is independent of the Executive and Legislative branches. They are the check on the Executive and Legislative branches exceeding their constitutional authority. We all know you want to be able to kick people out without due process. The laws do not permit that. Obey the law.

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So.. I guess "separation of powers" and the principles of democracy in the US are no more?

And still the same old people will defend this, saying this is part of democracy and the "US consitutio" supports this, when in truth, it doesn't and if anything this situation is already a sign that the US government has pass the threshold to a dictatorship.

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Isn’t it super interesting that nearly everything the American people elected Trump specifically to do is suddenly deemed as supposedly illegal?

Seems pretty straightforward. The power to expel "enemy aliens" is a wartime power. The US is not at war with Venezuela. In fact the US is not in a declared war with any nation. The President does not have legal authority to invoke wartime powers when there is no war. Pretty simple. Absent an actual shooting war with Venezuela, the only legal path to deporting Venezuelans or anybody else is through the statutory process laid out in the nation's immigration laws. That this is inconvenient to Jupiter is just too bad. The Executive Branch is not excused from obeying the laws as they are written.

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*Isn’t it super interesting that nearly everything the American people elected Trump specifically to do is suddenly deemed as supposedly illegal?*

I don't think the American people elected Trump to deport soccer coaches and keep French scientists out of the country. Did they? Nor did they elect him to dismantle the deferal government and follow Project 2025 to the letter. Because he said he didn't even know what it was. Remember?

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bass,

"Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to smack all these judges down, so he can continue with agenda"

if those Supreme Court judges still understand what democracy, rule of law, and nobody is above the law means, they won't do what you're asking for! Of course some might consider siding with Donald ..... question would be: how much did he pay them and was it worth it? I mean the both of us also know that he is such a cheapskate!

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How many of those crying foul about the planes are willing to open their home and house a couple of pure, innocent Venezuelans with gang tattoos while their paperwork is being processed? Let's count all those raised hands.

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@falseflag,

"Europe needs to learn a lesson from this, take out all the trash for the benefit of decent people and to protect the innocents."

Yup, agree (even though I downvoted you, sorry).

The trash presently occupying the WH and all the other "disposables" - for the benefit of decent people and to protect the innocent!

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innocent Venezuelans with gang tattoos 

Tatoos like the Real Madrid logo, you mean?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-deported-el-salvador-alien-enemies-act-soccer-logo-tattoo-attorney/story?id=119983892

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How many of those crying foul about the planes are willing to open their home and house a couple of pure, innocent Venezuelans with gang tattoos while their paperwork is being processed? Let's count all those raised hands.

So, you are saying that anyone that have a tattoo and makes an meanecing face should be expelled from the US (or any othre country) and sent to a prision that has no relation with that person origin nor crime withiout any due proces legal procedure?....I guess, of course you, your family and friends don't have any tattoos.

Also, that means Japan is fare and square to grab any tattooed american citizen, shave his/her head and put it on a plane to be sent to a prision in Philippines????

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He changed the way he did it. Simple.

ok. Look forward to your support end approval when Trump just changes “the way” he gets the same exact result.

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They both can complain about each other, it’s good and healthy for democracy to disagree.

It is not a good thing when a President calls for the impeachment of judges because the President doesn't like their decisions. The judge has committed no crime. There is no ground for impeachment. In a healthy democracy there should never be disagreement between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches on something as fundamental as the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary. What Jupiter is trying to do is break the separation of powers written into the US Constitution and usurp it to accumulate power in the hands of the Executive. If you bothered to read the writings of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson or John Adams they warned us of these very dangers. The were very open in their writings that the Constitution they helped write was designed specifically to limit the powers of the Executive and prevent the abuses of the European monarchs. Do some reading of what the founders of the US wrote and learn.

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don't think the American people elected Trump to deport soccer coaches and keep French scientists out of the country. Did they

if you are leaving out the part that they are also illegals or affiliated with terrorists, yes.

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How many of those crying foul about the planes are willing to open their home and house a couple of pure, innocent Venezuelans with gang tattoos while their paperwork is being processed? Let's count all those raised hands.

100 years ago my grandparents were disparaged in terms not unlike the current mob of racists speak about Arabs and Hispanics. There were supposedly scientific papers written claiming that southern Europeans had inferior intellects and were more prone to crime. And oh, don't you know that you can never trust a Catholic because they owe their allegiance to the pope and not to the US. And, oh the horror, they drank wine in a time when temperance was the coin of the realm. Horrible people those dark southern Europeans. The US even banned immigration from southern Europe and China, a ban that lasted into the 1960s. So you will just have to deal with the fact that I have nothing but revulsion for the way Hispanics, Arabs and Asians are being treated in the US today. I would rather have a poor immigrant for a neighbor than some strutting born in the US white, cough cough, "christian nationalist". I have a lot more in common with the immigrant. They are the same as my grandparents. My grandfather just arrived here one day. That's how you did it. Once he had residence he went back and got his fiancee, brought her here and married her here. My grandmother never spoke English. Didn't need too in the immigrant community she lived in. Oh the horror. That is the immigrant experience.

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This is what it looks like when you elect someone with little intellect and no experience for a job. They simply don’t know how to do their job.

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Buy not a dictator, mind you

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According to Tobin, those alleged gang signs were the hand symbol for rock and roll and "I love you" in sign language.

suuuuure.

from the people that also claim at the same time the historical “ok” gesture is white supremacy.

and how many Mexican gangs have used the logos of sports teams for their gang colors and tattoos? A lot. Oakland Raiders?

cant have it both ways.

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History books and Time and Newsweek retrospectives fifty years from now are going to be very interesting

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if you are leaving out the part that they are also illegals or affiliated with terrorists, yes.

The guy thrown out for the soccer tattoo was none of this. He was tossed because some untrained nimrod in CBP has his head up his backside and because he is bigoted saw a Hispanic male with a tattoo and jumped to the incorrect conclusion it was a gang tattoo. It was a soccer tattoo. The guy in fact had been arrested and tortured by the Venezuelan police for demonstrating against the Maduro dictatorship. He is a soccer coach, not a gang member who had to get out of Venezuela for demonstrating for democracy. He is a hero, not a criminal. He is the kind of person we should welcome with open arms.

If Jupiter followed the law, an administrative hearing would have prevented this from happening. This is a great example of why these laws exist, to prevent such abuses of power.

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History books and Time and Newsweek retrospectives fifty years from now are going to be very interesting

Maybe, but maybe not. America is headed in the direction of a typical dictatorship, so if this path continues all media and history books will be regulated by the government and historical facts that don’t support the dictator’s message will be erased.

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and how many Mexican gangs have used the logos of sports teams for their gang colors and tattoos? A lot. Oakland Raiders?

What a ridiculous comment. You have been out of the US too long. You don't even know what gang tattoos look like. They are not the same as sports tattoos. Not even close.

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Wow you think you found one guy, so let hundreds of violent rapists and murderers stay?

your one guy has a lawyer.

Hope he doesn’t get a partisan activist judge.

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Blacklabel

He changed the way he did it. Simple.

ok. Look forward to your support end approval when Trump just changes “the way” he gets the same exact result.

If it's legal. At the moment he is stripping people's due process and that doesn't concern you?

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Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to smack all these judges down, so he can continue with agenda

Finally republicans are openly admitting they support fascism.

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Blacklabel

don't think the American people elected Trump to deport soccer coaches and keep French scientists out of the country. Did they

if you are leaving out the part that they are also illegals or affiliated with terrorists, yes.

How do you know? They didn't have due process.

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Blacklabel

Wow you think you found one guy, so let hundreds of violent rapists and murderers stay?

So you are OK to abandon the Constitution and due process to make it easier to send people to prison because you think they are a violent rapists or murderer because they have a tattoo?

And maybe they make a mistake or too, but that's OK because we don't want the inconvenience of a trial?

I guess you think you are a patriot too...

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and how many Mexican gangs have used the logos of sports teams for their gang colors and tattoos? A lot.

All people with soccer tattoos are now gang members. Sure thing, buddy.

Wow you think you found one guy, so let hundreds of violent rapists and murderers stay?

You're wallowing in a far-right wet dream 24/7 and it's affecting your brain. Go outside. Talk to people. You're losing it.

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that's OK because we don't want the inconvenience of a trial?

no i don’t want any more dead or raped women or children.

if one guy, a non American at that, gets “screwed” to save even one American from any crime, I got zero apologies.

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Blacklabel

that's OK because we don't want the inconvenience of a trial?

no i don’t want any more dead or raped women or children.

So have a trial. An if they are guilty, incarcerate them.

if one guy, a non American at that, gets “screwed” to save even one American from any crime, I got zero apologies.

That's not what you are trading here. You are trading the inconvenience of a trial with due process.

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Just like he ordered the DOJ to stop uncovering his crimes!

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How partisan politics have divided a Great Nation! Everything is viewed on tribal lenses. When will we ever grow up?

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Another Slapdown for Trump as Education Dept. Is Saved

https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-slapdown-trump-education-dept-184015426.html

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100 years ago my grandparents were disparaged in terms not unlike the current mob of racists speak about Arabs and Hispanics. There were supposedly scientific papers written claiming that southern Europeans had inferior intellects and were more prone to crime. And oh, don't you know that you can never trust a Catholic because they owe their allegiance to the pope and not to the US. And, oh the horror, they drank wine in a time when temperance was the coin of the realm. Horrible people those dark southern Europeans. The US even banned immigration from southern Europe and China, a ban that lasted into the 1960s. So you will just have to deal with the fact that I have nothing but revulsion for the way Hispanics, Arabs and Asians are being treated in the US today. I would rather have a poor immigrant for a neighbor than some strutting born in the US white, cough cough, "christian nationalist". I have a lot more in common with the immigrant. They are the same as my grandparents. My grandfather just arrived here one day. That's how you did it. Once he had residence he went back and got his fiancee, brought her here and married her here. My grandmother never spoke English. Didn't need too in the immigrant community she lived in. Oh the horror. That is the immigrant experience.

Immigrants are great, I have the deepest respect for my grandparents and where they came from, it means so much to them and to me as well to be part of the American fabric, almost ALL Americans just want legal immigration, that's it, there is just no excuse for coming in illegally, and if you are seeking asylum, you have to wait in line, citizenship and obtaining a visa is a privilege and NOT a fundamental right under any circumstances. If you are illegal, you have no rights to be in any country-period.

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and if you are seeking asylum, you have to wait in line, 

What does that even mean? Where do you "wait in line" if you're seeking asylum? The country you're trying to flee because you could get killed?

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"lol". If you really cared about women or children, you wouldn't be a far-right cheerleader.

No, quite the opposite, who was it that lost over 300k children? No Democrat made any mention of it until the right started asking, the left didn't want to touch it because they knew it would have brought attention and scrutiny to what they were doing to the country for the last 4 years, and they avoided that like the Black Death.

https://nypost.com/2024/11/19/us-news/trafficking-expert-recounts-migrant-girls-abuse-under-biden-harris-policies-that-lost-track-of-300k-kids-not-an-isolated-case/

Because the two are by definition antithetical. The only thing you want is less "foreigners" in America.

Illegal, absolutely.

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Cephus

How partisan politics have divided a Great Nation! Everything is viewed on tribal lenses. When will we ever grow up?

This is bigger than that. This is about America becoming a fascist state if it continues down this path.

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innocent Venezuelans with gang tattoos 

Tatoos like the Real Madrid logo, you mean?

No, I mean gang tattoos. So how many are you volunteering to take into your home, let us hear the number.

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No, quite the opposite, who was it that lost over 300k children? 

Nobody, because that's a dumb and debunked figure.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0jlre7mymo

No Democrat made any mention of it until the right started asking,

There was a bipartisan immigration bill ready to be passed last year. Trump killed it because he didn't want to "give Biden a win". Trump doesn't care about immigration at all. It's just a con to get dumb people to vote for him.

nypost.com/

The New York Post is not a valid news source, have some decency.

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Nobody, because that's a dumb and debunked figure.

Like I am going to take the BBC word on that, you are too, too funny.

There was a bipartisan immigration bill ready to be passed last year. Trump killed it

YES

Why does a border-security bill increase green cards? The Lankford bill boosts family-based green cards by 32,000 a year for five years, and employment-based ones by 18,000 a year. 

The bill also gives automatic work permits to the relatives of certain temporary workers and others, speeds the issuance of work permits to illegal aliens seeking asylum (thus increasing the incentive to come), and provides taxpayer-funded lawyers to certain illegal aliens, which is currently prohibited by law.

But even worse is the fact that even the actual border provisions reflect the Democrats’ perception of the problem. It’s not that too many foreigners are using asylum claims as a gambit to illegally move here,

And on top of that, it did NOT completely and ultimately seal the border or even send illegal border crossers back. It was a bad deal and thankfully Trump killed or we would have been in an even worse situation.

 because he didn't want to "give Biden a win". Trump doesn't care about immigration at all.

He does, that is why Homan, Bondi and ICE are sending them back.

The New York Post is not a valid news source, have some decency.

It is, it is the second most read center-right conservative news source.

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No, I mean gang tattoos. So how many are you volunteering to take into your home, let us hear the number.

Nobody. Because nobody is advocating for keeping illegal gang members in the country. What people are advocating for is to make sure people are actually gang members (and not, for example, soccer coaches) before they get deported. Can you comprehend this?

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Like I am going to take the BBC word on that, you are too, too funny.

The BBC is assuredly and by all standards a more serious source than the New York Post.

Also, if you had actually read the link, you would have found actual facts contradicting the made-up "300000 children" figure, which is not based on reality.

But Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, a migrant advocacy group, told the BBC the figures are indicative of a bureaucratic "paperwork issue" rather than "anything nefarious".

"When you hear the phrase 'missing', you think that there is a child that someone is trying to find and can't," he said.

"That's not the case here. The government has not made any effort to find these children."

Many of the children, experts say, may well be at the addresses that are on file with the government, but were simply unable to make their court dates.

"That doesn't mean something bad happened to them," Mr Reichlin-Melnick said. "It means you missed a court hearing."

Do you understand any of this?

It is, it is the second most read center-right conservative news source.

The fact that dumb people read it is in no way indicative of it's validity as a news source. A lot of people also read News of the World and Breitbart.

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Nobody. Because nobody is advocating for keeping illegal gang members in the country.

Been to California or Denver lately?

What people are advocating for is to make sure people are actually gang members (and not, for example, soccer coaches) before they get deported. Can you comprehend this?

Well, Biden and Myorkas put the nation into this mess, expect mistakes will happen, but that’s not going to deter or slow the mission meanwhile

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