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Good sir, we are only three months into the kakistocracy that is the Trump administration. There is far more fuckery ahead for us all.
Are we going to do another Caravan episode next September through November? Whats planned for the season finale? He renews his vows with Milania with Stormy as her maid of honor sounds like captivating television.
Oof. I said I wanted to live longer, not that I wanted each day to feel like an eternity...
Damn monkey's paw got me again.
Why do you think he moved to Texas? The press was used to bring Europeans in then and now.
I better not see any black person in the next few years forgiving them for this BS.....
Owners of bakery have their green cards, but employees did not.
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Billionaire Trump backer warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs
Amid market turmoil, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president should take three months to allow countries to renegotiate their trading relationships with the US. On Monday, Mr Ackman's warning was echoed by another prominent Wall Street figure, with JPMorgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon saying that Trump's tariffs risked pushing up prices for Americans.
James FitzGerald
BBC News
April 7, 2025
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Bill Ackman switched allegiance to Trump before the 2024 presidential election
Amid market turmoil, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president should take three months to allow countries to renegotiate their trading relationships with the US. On Monday, Mr Ackman's warning was echoed by another prominent Wall Street figure, with JPMorgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon saying that Trump's tariffs risked pushing up prices for Americans.
James FitzGerald
BBC News
April 7, 2025
Billionaire Trump backer Bill Ackman warns of 'economic nuclear winter' over tariffs - BBC News
Bill Ackman says the US president should pause his planned import taxes - or risk shattering investors' confidence.
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Bill Ackman switched allegiance to Trump before the 2024 presidential election
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s tariff regime, in a sign of spreading rightwing opposition to a policy that has sent international markets plummeting.
Robert Tait in Washington
7 Apr 2025
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A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s tariff regime, in a sign of spreading rightwing opposition to a policy that has sent international markets plummeting.
Robert Tait in Washington
7 Apr 2025
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
New Civil Liberties Alliance says president’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful
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I had a white liberal terrorist try to mimic me on TV. Everytime I am getting ready to escape some roadblock pops up.
I spoke to Trump asked him about the probationary employees being fired. He is removing two feet of Biden contamination with lead and heavy metals. He got the EPA involved. It is the same process with the LA wildfires.
Biden was a hardened criminal politician. No way I am staying in the U.S. with that level of criminality
I spoke to Trump asked him about the probationary employees being fired. He is removing two feet of Biden contamination with lead and heavy metals. He got the EPA involved. It is the same process with the LA wildfires.
Biden was a hardened criminal politician. No way I am staying in the U.S. with that level of criminality
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
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By April 11, 2025 / 12:19 PM EDT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team.
"I sincerely regret to inform you that due to the complete loss of our Lead Program, we will be unable to support you with this," Aaron Bernstein, director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, told city officials April 3 in an email obtained by CBS News.
Officials in Milwaukee and Wisconsin's state health department had formally requested the CDC's help on March 26, after many of the city's schools were found to have "significant lead hazards" exposing children. Federal experts were asked to help develop a strategy to test and triage Milwaukee public school students for lead poisoning, as well as help with outreach to the community.
"This only underscores the importance of the role local public health plays in protecting communities – and the challenges we now face without federal expertise to call on," Caroline Reinwald, a spokesperson for the City of Milwaukee Health Department, said in a statement to CBS News on Thursday.
Children exposed to lead can face serious harm to their brain and nervous system, including slowing their development and causing problems with their hearing and speech.
Most of Milwaukee's schools were built before 1978, local health officials said in their initial request to the CDC for help, before lead-based paint was banned in the U.S. Inspections of some schools has turned up "significant lead hazards," they said.
"These findings suggest contamination may be widespread in MPS schools and continued visual inspections are ongoing," they wrote.
Reinwald said local health departments rely on the CDC for help "with complex environmental investigations like ours." She also said Milwaukee's health department "remains committed to moving this work forward and finding solutions locally."
A CDC spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CDC's lead poisoning team was among several branches in the agency's National Center for Environmental Health that were eliminated by Kennedy on April 1, as part of sweeping Department of Health and Human Services layoffs. The environmental health center had also handled a variety of other issues like cruise ship outbreak investigations, which are now reeling from significant layoffs.
Beyond lead poisoning, now-eliminated teams had also housed the federal government's public health experts for helping local and state health departments respond to a range of other environmental emergencies, said CDC officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"All expertise related to radiological and nuclear threats is eliminated. All capacity for natural disasters response has been eliminated," agency officials said in a memo after the layoffs.
Health experts tasked with investigating cancer clusters, overseeing chemical weapons demolition and responding to toxic substance spills, like the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, were also cut, multiple officials said.
"It's extremely concerning that there's no one who is going to be responding," said one CDC official, who warned that recruiting expertise to respond to environmental health emergencies had long been challenging for the agency.
"You can't go find them on the street. They don't teach people this in college," the official said.
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Consumers now face "tariff surcharges" for some goods as companies pass along costs
Some enterprises, from small businesses to nationally recognized brands, have already announced higher prices, citing President Trump's tariffs. While others, from footwear companies to furniture brands, are warning consumers to brace for increased costs to come.
By Megan Cerullo
Edited By Alain Sherter, Anne Marie Drummond Lee
April 11, 2025
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Some enterprises, from small businesses to nationally recognized brands, have already announced higher prices, citing President Trump's tariffs. While others, from footwear companies to furniture brands, are warning consumers to brace for increased costs to come.
By Megan Cerullo
Edited By Alain Sherter, Anne Marie Drummond Lee
April 11, 2025
Consumers now face "tariff surcharges" for some goods as companies pass along costs
U.S. businesses are starting to add a tariff fee to customer bills and shopping carts to offset rising import costs.
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
Lauren Villagran
USA TODAY
Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics.
They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse, married after two years and were saving to buy a house and have kids. Muñoz was already caring for Bartell's now 12-year-old son as her own.
But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Muñoz aside in the airport.
"Are you an American citizen?" asked the agent. She answered no, she wasn't. She's from Peru. But she and her husband had taken the legal steps so that one day she might get U.S. citizenship.
Millions of Americans, including Bartell, had voted for President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on "criminal illegal immigrants." But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded to include immigrants whose application for legal status in the country is under review.
Even those married or engaged to U.S. citizens are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USA TODAY has learned.
In addition to Muñoz, USA TODAY has confirmed through attorneys, family members and documents that ICE has detained for weeks:
None of the women has a criminal record, according to a USA TODAY review of national law enforcement records. All were in an ongoing legal immigration process and felt comfortable enough boarding a domestic flight. Immigration agents swept each of them up at airport checkpoints in mid-February, in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- a woman in her 50s who has lived in the country more than 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen;
- a woman in her 30s with proof of valid permanent legal residency, whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens, and who first came to the U.S. as a teen;
- a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21;
- a woman engaged to a U.S. legal permanent resident, with whom she has lived for nine years.
Neither ICE nor its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, responded to multiple requests for comment.
Another detention: Lawyers fight Palestinian advocate Mahmoud Khalil's arrest, call it 'un-American'
Nora Ahmed, legal director of the ACLU of Louisiana, said immigrants in legal limbo of any kind should take precautions if they plan to travel.
"The unfortunate answer is they have to be worried," she said. "If you are not a citizen of the United States, and you are going through an immigration process, your first thought needs to be: How can this process be weaponized against me?"
David Rozas, an immigration attorney representing Muñoz, agreed: “Anyone who isn’t a legal permanent resident or U.S. citizen is at risk – period."
Bartell and Muñoz wore their wedding rings for the flight home, secure in the knowledge that the U.S. government knew they had applied for her green card. She had overstayed her original visa but, they reasoned, she had been vetted from the start, worked on a W-2 and paid her taxes.
Before agents led her away, Muñoz pulled off her wedding ring, afraid it might get confiscated. She shoved it into her backpack and handed it to Bartell.
He shook as he watched her disappear. He thought, "What the f— do I do?"
Looking for something lasting
Overstaying a visa is considered an administrative, not criminal, violation of U.S. immigration law, immigration attorneys say. It can result in a bar to returning to the U.S. for up to 10 years, or it can be lawfully forgiven, under a "waiver of unlawful presence," if the immigrant's spouse or immediate relative is a U.S. citizen.
But the U.S. government also has broad authority to detain immigrants, even when they have an application in progress with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
"If an individual is overstaying their visa, they are therefore an illegal immigrant residing in this country, and they are subject to deportation," Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, said in a January news conference.
Bartell didn't see it that way. Not when he met Muñoz in the small Wisconsin town where she had worked lawfully on a temporary visa. Not after they spent months filling out the USCIS paperwork to apply for her legal permanent residency.
He saw her as a funny, caring, hard-working woman who came legally, not one of the "illegals" who the president he supported promised to deport.
The town where they met, Wisconsin Dells – population 2,942 – draws tens of thousands of tourists each summer to a constellation of water parks, including one billed as the nation's largest, Noah's Ark.
Bartell grew up nearby, stayed and got a job with decent pay working maintenance in a factory. For Muñoz, the Dells region was an adventure. As a college student in Peru studying human resources management, she applied and was accepted to a work-study program, secured a U.S. visa and got a job picking up towels at one of the Dells waterparks in 2019.
When COVID-19 hit the following winter, with flights canceled and borders closed, she couldn't get home, and she overstayed her visa. She stayed in the Dells, packing vegetables for a local farm and working food service at hotels. When they met, Bartell gave her his number on a scrap of paper. She threw it away.
But they connected a few days later on Facebook. He invited her to dinner. Muñoz teased that it better not be at McDonalds. On their first date they both confessed: They were looking for a relationship that could last.
Ramping up enforcement
ICE is under extreme pressure from the White House to ramp up enforcement. Top ICE officials, including the newly installed acting director, were re-assigned within weeks of Trump taking office, allegedly over frustrations that detentions and deportations weren't rising fast enough.
The reality of immigration enforcement is that targeting convicted criminals requires time and manpower; it can take half a dozen agents to arrest a single person.
An airport checkpoint – like the one at the San Juan airport in mid-February – can quickly round up multiple people whose immigration status may be in limbo.
"ICE is really widening the net in a really chilling way in terms of who they are going after," said Jesse Franzblau, senior policy analyst for the National Immigrant Justice Center. "People who generally don’t fit the profile of who they picked up before are being picked up now."
It took days for Bartell to find his wife after she was detained at the airport.
It was nearly a week before Muñoz appeared in the ICE detention system. Her name finally turned up in an online locator, assigned to a privately run detention center in Louisiana. On a video call, her black curls hang askew. She wears a tan uniform, reflecting her lack of criminal record.
There are nearly 80 other women in the dormitory. The cost to taxpayers for detaining an adult was $282 per day in 2020, according to the American Immigration Council, a nonpartisan research organization.
Bartell worries about his wife. "Emotionally, I'm concerned for her," he said. "It can't be easy being trapped in a room with 100 other people. They don't have anything in there. It's just so wasteful."
They keep in touch on 20-cents-a-minute phone calls. She worries about Bartell's son, whether he is eating well or misses her Peruvian cooking.
The money the couple saved for a down payment on a home has evaporated into attorneys fees and savings to pay a bond for her release, if she's given that chance.
Both of them have been thinking a lot about Bartell's vote for Trump.
"I knew they were cracking down," he said. "I guess I didn’t know how it was going down."
He imagined the administration would target people who snuck over the border and weren't vetted.
But his wife, "they know who she is and where she came from," he said. "They need to get the vetting done and not keep these people locked up. It doesn’t make any sense."
Lauren Villagran can be reached at lvillagran@usatoday.com.
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a U.S. citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.www.usatoday.com
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