Trump offers $1,000 incentive to migrants who leave the country voluntarily
Trump offers financial incentives for self-deportation : NPR
And the poor bastards actually expect to get paid?
I’m not the only one wondering.
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But immigrant advocates are skeptical. Even if some people may take the administration up on their offer, immigration advocates say most don’t believe they will ever receive the incentive and eventually be able to apply for legal status, as the administration has suggested.
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See also this post I just put up:
Umm Donny? Using numbers that you think are too low that’s as much as $10 billion US. Where you planning on getting that money . . . other than gutting the social safety net of course.
“Planning”: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Have you not encountered this man before now?
Great. Now trump wants to ship immigrants to Ukraine. 
Trump team urged Ukraine to take U.S. deportees amid war, documents show
The Trump administration earlier this year urged the Ukrainian government to accept an unspecified number of U.S. deportees who are citizens of other countries, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post, an extraordinary request of a nation at war and dependent on American military and financial support for its survival.
The documents do not indicate how officials in Kyiv responded to the late-January proposal, relayed by a senior U.S. diplomat, that called for sending third-country nationals to Ukraine amid Russia’s deadly, devastating invasion — and despite the absence of a functioning airport there because of continual air attacks. A Ukrainian diplomat informed the U.S. Embassy only that her government would offer a response once it formulated a position, according to the documents, which show that similar proposals were issued to a number of other countries around the same date.
Ukraine has not accepted any third-party nationals from the United States, and there is no indication that Kyiv seriously considered the American proposal. Two Ukrainian officials familiar with the matter, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss interactions with the Trump administration, said the topic never reached the government’s highest level. One of the officials said he was unaware of any “political demands” made by the United States regarding its desire for Ukraine to take in deportees.
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Re last post, working in rare earth mines, in a war zone, sounds like the kind of job Americans will not do. And given the profits being sent to a government sympathetic to Russia, that being the United States, I suspect Ukrainians won’t do it either. So . . .
Meanwhile,here’s something new from the New York Times:
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
Gee, deporting people to unstable regions with a history of anti-American sentiment seems like a GREAT way for us to make friends in the region! Especially if we make sure to cancel our humanitarian programs there.
The court ordered Ozturk to be transferred to ICE custody in Vermont no later than May 14.
and now good news:
Despite their apparent hostility to most migrants and refugees, the Trump administration is working to quickly bring in South Africans of Afrikaner descent. One guess why the administration is more sympathetic to this group than others.
As we say in the colourful Cape Town vernacular, “Trump se ma se vis poes”, which I will leave to the reader to translate.
It is not polite.
‘Trump’s mother’s fish pussy’?
That’s what i got, too. I scratched my head and moved on.
In Friulian (detected language), it’s ‘Trump is but if he sees poetry.’ Oh, well.
I got “Trump if but if you can” via Google translate so… ???
That’s what I got too.
This is what I was told about the phrase (spoilered because I asked an AI so, grain of salt):
The phrase “Trump se ma se vis poes” appears to be in Afrikaans, a language spoken primarily in South Africa. This is a vulgar expression that translates to English as “Trump’s mother’s fish pussy.” It’s an adaptation of a common South African vulgar insult phrase “jou ma se poes,” which means “your mother’s pussy.”
This is considered a highly offensive and vulgar expression in Afrikaans. The addition of “vis” (meaning “fish”) in this variant makes it even more crude.
I should note that this type of expression would be considered extremely disrespectful and inappropriate in most contexts.
Not sure if this is the best thread for this so mods, go ahead and move if you want (or tell me to while I can):
NEWARK, New Jersey — A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said arresting three Democratic members of Congress is “on the table” following a chaotic scene outside of an immigrant detention center on Friday.
Three New Jersey Democrats — Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver — were there for a tour of a new Trump administration Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, Delaney Hall, which is expected to play a significant role in its Northeast immigration operations. But chaos broke out when federal agents arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor, setting off a tense scrum including the three members of Congress.
“Trump’s mother’s fishy pussy.”
I told you it was rude, but it is WAY more rude in Afrikaans culture. Like it would lead to a fist fight or a stabbing.
Not a term I use lightly. And yes, it is a gendered insult, so I will not repeat it here again.
What’s to stop a Democrat Governor of a state to order the arrest of ICE agents that live in their state; as a tit for tat response for ICE arresting their state’s representatives ? Maybe the Child Protective Service for New Jersey needs to make a “welfare check” on the homes or in school visits with the kids of the local ICE workers who reside in New Jersey…
That’s probably not legal. But they might be charged with kidnapping.