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ICE & DHS are rolling out a nationwide strategy to sweep and deport thousands of migrants a day
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Trump's basic negotiation tactic towards an adversary is to shoot really high so they talk him down to a point that feels lower.

On 4/2, everyone was hit was varying reciprocal tariffs of 10-100%—they freaked out, market tanked, he says I'll make it softer if you come deal. Dozens call to discuss, he reduces the tariffs to 10% on everyone (which is more than before) and they accept it—market skyrockets.

China was hit with 20, then 50, then 175% tariff, now that China wants to make a deal it's at 30%. US is getting what it wants while unobservant critics of the strategy feel like they've won something in the process.
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"It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists... so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves."

"...the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way."

"[Neocons and liberals] told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly."

Trump delivers a speech denouncing foreign intervention and missionary policy, telling Arabs to be proud of themselves.
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Trump delivers a speech denouncing foreign intervention and missionary policy
He added that it is not America's job to make foreigners Western nor is it our concern if their leadership is moral, a sharp retraction of the empire President Wilson and FDR built.

Unlike the military map drawn by Bush and Obama, President Trump appears to be setting up for greater U.S. withdrawal from the desert.
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Qatar commits 1.2T dollars into various U.S. industries and businesses, translating to some hundreds of thousands of jobs and dozens of large manufacturing projects. Increased economic cooperation and decreased government intervention saves a lot of time and effort for America to rebuild & remigrate, which much of Europe has to do.
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Europe has to do
I suspect Starmer's shift in rhetoric is a mix of abiding by the US-UK trade deal, as Trump and Vance have demanded everyone we deal with do better on their domestic affairs, and him hoping to leech off moderate voters by improving migration somewhat before 2029.
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Trump has so far received almost 10 trillion dollars in commitment from big companies and countries since his tariffs swept in. Gas prices, groceries, eggs are low—stocks have remained good, our allies and adversaries are more focused on making a deal than breaking off from us—virtually every panic about tariffs has been wrong, as usual.
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Starmer is extending stricter rules to migrants already in the UK
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Media explains that Trump is deporting twice the people Biden did from the interior, notes that 80% of Biden's deportations were turn arounds at the border—up to 60% of Obama's deportations were recent-arrivals being removed.

This agrees with my post that actual deportations are happening in greater numbers because of Trump; border crossing is virtually zero, which erases the filler previous administrations would report; the administration is actively pushing to boost the pace to achieve total removal.
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Supreme Court is arguing whether to allow Trump to end birthright citizenship, arguably the most important order in a century. Birthright Citizenship currently allows over 100 million people who do not belong here to be here—its end would serve as a demographic deadman's switch in our favour: once protection is off, the people go out.
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Birthright Citizenship currently allows over 100 million people who do not belong here to be here
After the Civil War, blacks and their descendants were granted citizenship. Amerindians were not given citizenship until 56 years later. In between that period, millions of unwanted migrants from Europe and masses from Asia flooded the country—a plurality never naturalised, an unknown total stayed by fraud and too many left an imprint.

Then the Civil Rights Era + 1965, 1990 immigration acts have introduced a menagerie from Latin countries, Africa, even worse parts of Asia, creating a pipeline of sewage directly into our national body. Birthright Citizenship has to end for us to unclog and clean out the surplus population.
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If or when the DHS has this request approved, immigration arrests would soar to levels unseen and no judge could stop it
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One day ago an agency-wide email has been sent out urging Border Patrol to offer agents for interior removals since the border itself so secure. This alongside national guard and 287(g) officers, plus any other deputised forces, would form the largest deportation force ever devised.
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