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I feel like we may be seeing the very early stages of a Bruce Willis situation developing with Bill Belicheck with him being led about by handlers for profit 10 years longer than he ever should have been working.

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I wonder if Amazon will also explain to the American public why its profit margin must increase every single year

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If this actually needs explaining to the American public . . .

Say what you will about racist arse melly gibson, but in addition to his Mt. Rushmore of movies, his undercard is filled with a bunch of watchable movies:

Maverick
Payback
Man with a face
Forever Young
Ransom
Conspiracy Theory
Signs
Hamlet
Tequila Sunrise
We were soldiers
What women want

(His acting Mt Rushmore of course being braveheart, mad max, lethal weapon, Patriot)

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Eh, bankruptcy is a healthy thing. Poorly run businesses deserve to fail.

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No disagreement from me on that, and I have no idea why that graph trends how it does.

I do believe bankruptcy can result in further consolidation and understand that could be a concern in American ag. And I do feel bad for business that operate on thin margins in times of policy upheaval and uncertainty. A soy farmer that just lost a market wasn’t necessarily a poorly run business.

When I was a kid I would spin a globe in my room and wherever my finger would land was where I was going to live.

As an adult I spin a globe in my room and wherever my finger lands I’m a geopolitical expert online.

Hopefully India and Pakistan will one day see there is room enough in this world for both of them to make us soft and cozy sweaters.

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Went in for the first time today. I don’t get it. It’s the size of a CVS and it’s crowded with wine-aunts. The selection isn’t so great from what I could see. Is the popularity simply driven by social media?

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Quality and cheap fruit and produce. Very good frozen foods. Decent dairy. Great cheese board and party snack items. Weak meat section. The best flower section of any grocery store by a mile.

It’s also a well run store that actually staffs employees at each check out bay instead of sending you through the spiritual colonoscopy that is grocery store self checkout.

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Families of illegals are routinely kept together at detention facilities. The ACLU even sued to make sure this became the status quo (Mrs L v ICE).

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But this isn’t a family of illegals. It is a family of illegals and citizens. The ACLU settlement you reference deals with detention of families at the border and does not involve US citizens.

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The other option is to strip the child from the mother. I'm not sure how nor why you consider that a better option for the child, other than just using the child as a strawman because you don't like deportations to begin with.

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I don’t believe I’ve ever said the mother’s custody of the child should be stripped from her, and what I like is government following process particularly when a US citizen is involved.

I believe the current ICE guidelines for such a situation are roughly:

“ICE agents to “remain cognizant of the impact enforcement actions may have” on lawful permanent resident (LPR) or U.S.-citizen children.

According to ICE’s 2017 Detained Parents Directive, when LPR or U.S.-citizen minor children are encountered during immigration enforcement, ICE agents should “generally accommodate” the parent or legal guardian’s efforts to make childcare arrangements before contacting local child welfare or law enforcement to take temporary custody of the children.”

“If parental rights remain intact, parents with a pending deportation may make custody arrangements for their children to stay in the United States. ICE is supposed to “accommodate, to the extent practicable,” a detained parent's efforts to make guardianship or travel arrangements for the child prior to deportation.”

This isn’t a novel situation. Parents of citizens get deported all the time. It is a very complicated situation. The government says we fully accommodated the mom’s wishes. The judge said I’d like to double check to make sure her hand written instruction was her true intent, given without duress and informed of all options for the child.

3 days from detention to deportation does not feel like adequate consideration of the best interests of this child. The outcome may well have been the same. This is not a case about outcome, but about process.

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Two-year olds lack the cognitive ability to understand immigration proceedings, respond to questions or even provide coherent testimony. There is no right to government-provided counsel in immigration court so the child would likely be appearing pro se.

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Why would a US citizen ever be in front of an immigration court judge? Again for those in the back, the kid is a US Citizen.

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That sort of foolishness is why, for children so young, their due process rights are usually tied into that of their parents.

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Sadly, very minor children often are in front of immigration judges being asked questions with no representation.. it’s horrific.

But this kid is a US citizen. A US citizen’s due process rights aren’t tied to that of their parents. Due process protection does not start at the age of majority.

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The tent is awesome when it’s hot.

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Very legit tent. You walk in and it’s just a wall of fresh cut fruit, olive bar and ice coffees. But it lacks the real food options at some of the business tents like first horizon and shell.

If you like to go to jazzfest for 6+ hours a hospital tent goes a long way. I’ve never understood the appeal of coming and going with the brass pass. That seems like a lot of trouble.

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Where is the court order to remove the child?

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There is none. That is the point.

Do you think the child flew commercial back to Honduras?

The judge has succinctly stated the issue:

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“In the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process,” Judge Doughty said in the order, a hearing is scheduled on May 16 in Monroe, Louisiana. The judge added, “It is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain for deportation, or recommend deportation of a U.S. citizen,”

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You make very good points about the petition. Had any of this been before the judge seems likely the same outcome would have been reached.

But 3 days in jail without access to a lawyer seems like challenging circumstances to make a decision on what’s best for a child.

I hope this US citizen is in the best possible situation and isn’t an indigent beggar on the streets of Tecugicalpa when we have services to protect our most vulnerable citizens like Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, Head Start, free public schools, lunch vouchers, etc. to help her.