placeholder

But that's not the point. It's about the weak leverage the U.S. has to compel South American nations to do its bidding re: China.

It's still far from broke. And in the meanwhile South Americans want to expand their trade with China. Even rightwing Milei of Argentina: Xi Jinping’s ‘strategic patience’ pays off as Argentina's Milei U-turns on China ties President Javier Milei has surprised everyone by changing his approach to the Asian giant. Jorge Malena, a specialist in contemporary Chinese politics and international relations, explains the “realism and pragmatism” behind the La Libertad Avanza leader’s shift in stance. https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/mileis-twist-and-xi-jinpings-strategic-patience-the-reasons-behind-the-governments-approach-to-china.phtml

Has it occurred to you that it might be even worse if not for their efforts?

Of course, they're immune from prosecution. Why wouldn't they be given that they were authorized by the FBI to be there?

Because charities inherently don't tackle the problems of homeless or improving education? Given that you've raised the question, you should do the research and find out for yourself what, if anything, they are doing.

Donald Trump wants to roll back China’s growing footprint in Latin America... But if, or rather when, the pressure does come bearing down, don’t expect all of Latin America to respond the same way. Instead, be prepared for the region to divide less along ideological lines than geographic ones — into a northern half more tightly welded to Washington and a southern half likely to drift, especially if pushed, towards Beijing. https://www.ft.com/content/d2e9255d-21e2-48a8-8c13-01a5899559e2

That's because they were informants. Part of an authorized investigative action.

It's funny how aseannow.com has so many members who are gerontologists.

My point was the same as blaze_master's. Yet for some reason you didn't have a problem when he raised it. As for the rest, just more ranting.

You're talking about a guy who refused to put his businesses into a blind trust. Whose resort charged retail rates to Secret Service agents. Who proposed having his Doral resort play host to the G7? Whose resort jacked up the membership price after he was elected president. Who scuttled the plans to move the FBI building that just coincidentally would leave a prime space vacant for a hotel that could compete with his.

So let me get this straight. If a legal immigrant commits a crime that's a consequence you prepare to live with. But if it's an illegal immigrant, that's unacceptable. Because it makes a difference to the victim of the crime if the criminal was legal or illegal?

Because the First Amendment only protects American citizens? It's clear you don't understand the First Amendment at all.

So Trump is going to solve the problem by outlawing protests and demonstrations he doesn't approve of?

Somebody needs a math refresher. And your argument just is just so dumb Since it would apply to all immigrants.

You call it a landslide in which Trump didn't even win 50% of the popular vote?

https://www.cato.org/blog/new-cato-research-shows-illegal-immigrants-are-less-likely-be-convicted-murder-texas

What makes it even worse is that she was shot in the privacy of her own home and not at the front of a mob trying to break through to the location where members of Congress were sequestered...oh wait a minute...

The Cato Institute's research on the relation between immigration status and the propensity to commit crimes concluded that native born Americans were more likely to commit crimes than undocumented aliens. Score one for the Cato Institute.

But put yourself in South Korea's position. Not only are they faced with a nuclear-armed foe, but the incoming POTUS actually called American-South Korean military maneuvers provocative. Why should they believe that the US will stand with them for the next 4 years?

During the Obama Administration and the Biden Adminstration, information about who was entering the White House was public information. Under the Trump administration that information was concealed.

To be fair, she said space lasers controlled by the Rothschilds that were responsible for forest fires.. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse. But it was certainly moronic

We seem to be going around in circles. For H-1B visas the best and the brightest aren't necessary. Good enough is. What you seem to be proposing is nothing less than open borders and the free movement of labor.

Care to share with the rest of us your program for achieving that goal?

One solution might be to require that these workers, if they really are elite, to be paid an income that is in the top 10th percentile for such workers. I think we'd see a very sharp drop in demand except for those who were truly elite.

I doubt that these people are as much concerned with whether or not they have the the right to invade the U.S. as they are motivated by the desire to escape poverty.