FedTiger

Sorry Brother - We lost our Shepherd late last year, she was 13 and it was time, but it still hurt. before that we had a great Collie that came down with cancer age 7, so I now how it feels.
Feel it, but be there for your wife and kids (if any), they are hurting too.

I usually use the New American Standard Bible.
Working with teenagers, I will also use the NIRV, the new international readers version.
The NIRV is not as poetic, but is simplified language which young people, and me sometimes, appreciate.

A ruckus in the early 1860's kind of decided the "are the states sovereign" question.

"subject to the jurisdiction thereof"

How about this line of reasoning,

By entering the US illegally, or remaining longer than authorized, the Alien has willfully - by his willful action - declared that US law ("jurisdiction") doesn't apply to him. Therefore, he has placed himself out side of the intended scope of the 14th Amendment relating to jus Soli.

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I think this argument can turn into a slippery slope that the left can use in the future, but the current situation and long term trajectory of America is not sustainable or survivable.

I'm a retired 27 year Fed LEO (USBP, INS, DHS counter terrorism).

I think they are trying to get people to "plead to lessor charges".
Implying that if you'r pardoned, you can't be criminally punished. BUT - you can be ADMINISTRATIVELY punished -

We (vengeful woke apparatchiks) will go after your military or federal retirement and benefits. Or other federal programs you and your family use - Agricultural programs, Educational programs, disaster relief programs, SBA programs, whatever. We will punish you! Unless you plead down and give us a scalp!

(stereotypical southern plantation owner voice (Foghorn Leghorn) -
Well dam it!
I'll have to pay a competitive wage to people to work my fields and pic my cotton !

If the leftist have their way, people won’t be able to comprehend ideas like the past, right and wrong and guilty or innocence.
Read 1984, it lays out how they want the world.

The Vance pick is part of the current civil war in the Republican Party. The establishment globalist / internationalist “please don’t call me a Nazi - I’ll let you win” wing, versus the still developing nationalist / populist, reactionary (move right, not just slowly left) wing.

The establishment / globalist slow-walked most of what Trump tried to do in the first Trump administration. That’s why there is so much talk of really gutting the bureaucrats in the appointed offices and as much of the senior civil-service as possible, and placing Trump loyalist.

I think, Trump sees J. D. Vance as someone who can lead the nationalist / populist reactionary wing, and a refocused Republican Party.

The same thing is happening in Texas right now. The power of the rich University Park / River Oaks /Austin lawyers versus the rich “new money' oil men and entrepreneurs. With Texas House speaker Dade Phelan championing the RINOs and Attorney General Ken Paxton Championing the “MAGA’ish” side. In the recent TX primaries, the reactionary / nationalist candidates defeated, something like, 16 of the 18 targeted RINOs.

The Democrats are also in a two or three sided civil war. The waining almost dead, “big globalist business is good, it is leading us to Scandinavian style socialism” wing think Pelosi and Schumer. The 1990’s-ish liberals for whom identity politics are the primary motivation (along with getting very wealthy themeless (not you), Obama. And, finally the Frankenstein’s monster lovechild of the other two the hyper woke, “BURN IT ALL!!!” radicals, think “the Squad” - BLM - ANTIFA.

Fun time in politics these days - as long as the bullets aren’t flying.

My GG GF was the Postmaster in his town in North Georgia, he had six or seven sons, half went for the Confederacy and half for the Union. The brothers and father who went for the Union quietly helped Confederate deserters and kept their head down.
One of the Confederate brothers became a leader of the Home Guard that tracked down deserters and sympathizers. He had his father brought before a grand jury (from the town), the GJ refused to charge the father, but the father had to live in a cave in the hills to stay safe for the rest of the war.
All of the brothers survived the war but the Union sympathizers weren’t safe post war. A few years later the entire family set out for Oregon. One or two ended up in Iowa, one in Arkansas and one in Texas. The father and two sons made it to Oregon. My G GF was born on the Oregon trail and my GF and father in Oregon.

No, as others have pointed out, US Military can't be law enforcement within the US (posse comitatus - result of yankee abuses during reconstruction).

BP and other Immigration Officers have the authority to arrest and return illegal aliens, its more complicated away from the border but still very cut and dry.

The problem for 60 years or so has been the lack of political will to enforce the laws.
The GOPe - are globalist that want cheep labor to keep wages down and to keep political control of their constituencies.

the LEFTIST - are globalist the don't believe America should have a border (its white supremacy / racist and mean) and they want cheep labor to keep wages down and to keep political control of their constituencies.

The millions of Illegals in the last 3 years are welcomed in because the administration decided to interpret international asylum laws (treaties) to mean that anyone who says the words "asylum" has to be let in and scheduled for an asylum hearing (years down the road). This interpretation is ludicrous and unique to Biden's administration.

"Elections" have concedes

I was 7 years USBP and INS, and 20 years DHS LEO (FAM), now retired.

Three things to think about:

1. China is in critical demographic / economic collapse. CCP / PRC has maybe 5 - 15 years left.

2. Opposed amphibious operations are incredibly hard to do. CCP's military has never done anything well, against the Soviet, Vietnamese and US military they failed to accomplish their goals.

3. Taiwan (RoC) has conventional (non nuke) long range ballistic missiles and Cruze missiles that can hit and maybe destroy the Three Gorges Dam. Braking the dam would be like nuking the CCP heartland.

CCP attacking Taiwan has very little chance of being worth it. But CCP's dictator may not be rational.