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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Mexico demands from the US to help w the border fiasco...

    In a press conference on Friday, López Obrador called on the U.S. to approve a plan that would deploy $20 billion to Latin American and Caribbean countries, suspend the U.S. blockade of Cuba, remove all sanctions against Venezuela and grant at least 10 million Hispanics living in the U.S. the right to remain and work legally.
    This gets crickets...

    In a press conference on Friday, López Obrador called on the U.S. to approve a plan that would deploy $20 billion to Latin American and Caribbean countries, suspend the U.S. blockade of Cuba, remove all sanctions against Venezuela and grant at least 10 million Hispanics living in the U.S. the right to remain and work legally.
    Because Mexico is going to pay for it.

    What are your thoughts on the points raised by Obrador?
    He's got a set on him.
  • lindamarie73
    lindamarie73 Posts: 491
    Get wise and get out of sanctuary shitties…..
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,359
    fucking shame that plan didnt get to go into effect . republicants blocked it.

    so once again, false meme from a poster class that cant seem to engage in actual dialog.

    mahalo!!!!
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  • Ledbetterman10
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    edited January 2024
    So in NYC, they've moved students at Madison High School to remote learning so that they can house 1,900 migrants at the school. They have to protect them from the high winds and rain at the tent shelter they were at. No plans on housing the 48,000 homeless New Yorkers. But the migrants are being taken care of. 

    Parents fume after students at James Madison High forced to learn remotely while school housed asylum seekers (msn.com)
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  • nicknyr15
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    Ledbetterman10 said:
    So in NYC, they've moved students at Madison High School to remote learning so that they can house 1,900 migrants at the school. They have to protect them from the high winds and rain at the tent shelter they were at. No plans on housing the 48,000 homeless New Yorkers. But the migrants are being taken care of. 

    Parents fume after students at James Madison High forced to learn remotely while school housed asylum seekers (msn.com)
    Good times. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    So in NYC, they've moved students at Madison High School to remote learning so that they can house 1,900 migrants at the school. They have to protect them from the high winds and rain at the tent shelter they were at. No plans on housing the 48,000 homeless New Yorkers. But the migrants are being taken care of. 

    Parents fume after students at James Madison High forced to learn remotely while school housed asylum seekers (msn.com)
    I know that's wrong.  We house like 60,000 homeless on average.

    What has been happening is schools have been used repeatedly and parents get pissed and rightfully so.

    I've also mentioned that Floyd Bennett field was a mistake to put them.  What I initially thought was they'd use the airplane hangars there but they didn't. They set up one of those temp big house tents for the migrants.  Well the high winds we have had here aren't ideal for the winds so they had to move them to the schools.

    You'd have deaths if they didn't so I understand why they moved them.

    I would imagine the city building new "projects" soon.
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,071
    But London could use Honduran tacos, dammit!

    List of most powerful and weakest passports highlights global disparities

    A ranking of the world’s most powerful passports released this week shows that the global mobility gap is “wider than ever,” Henley & Partners, the firm behind the list, said in a news release. Passports from the countries topping the list, largely wealthy nations in Europe, have access to 190-plus destinations visa-free, while countries at the bottom, typically low-income countries in the Global South, have access to as few as 28, according to the rankings.

    The list, based on data from the International Air Transport Association, highlights the realities of passport privilege: For some, a passport is a key to the world, while for others, it’s a lock on it. Here are the rankings.

    The most powerful passports

    Smooth, visa-free travel essentially means carrying a European passport or being from one of a handful of high-income Asian countries, according to the rankings. Four E.U. member states — France, Germany, Italy, and Spain — moved to the top of the list this year, joining Japan and Singapore, economic powerhouses that have dominated global passport rankings over the past five years. The United States, which topped the list a decade ago, held its place at seventh, tied with Canada and Hungary.

    Trevor Williams, former chief economist at Lloyds Bank, said in a statement that the “overarching narrative that links greater economic performance with visa-free access” is “once again powerfully highlighted” by the latest report.

    1. France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Spain: visa-free entry to 194 destinations.
    2. Finland, South Korea and Sweden: visa-free entry to 193 destinations.
    3. Austria, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands: visa-free entry to 192 destinations.
    4. Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal and the United Kingdom: visa-free entry to 191 destinations.
    5. Greece, Malta and Switzerland: visa-free entry to 190 destinations.

    The least powerful passports

    Travel restrictions have decreased globally, with the average number of destinations travelers can visit visa-free nearly doubling since 2006, according to Henley & Partners, which advises wealthy people on residence and citizenship by investment. But not all countries have benefited from this increased access, and inequality between the wealthy and poorer countries has widened.|

    On the newly released list, of five countries at the bottom, four are also among the top 10 most impacted by terrorism, according to the Global Terrorism Index, and all have a recent history of armed conflict.

    Dutch professors Henk van Houtum and Annelies van Uden liken visas to “paper prisons” in a 2021 paper, writing that “affluent countries are excluding those who are seen as an economic or security risk, notably the global poor.” Such policies allow for what they call “a global aristocracy principally determined by birth” to lock in “a global underclass, and from afar.”

    1. Afghanistan: visa-free entry to 28 destinations.
    2. Syria: visa-free entry to 29 destinations.
    3. Iraq: visa-free entry to 31 destinations.
    4. Pakistan: visa-free entry to 34 destinations.
    5. Yemen: visa-free entry to 35 destinations.

    The passports with the most dramatic shifts

    Changes in passport mobility happen when countries add or remove visa requirements for travelers of other nationalities. Canada, for instance, opened visa-free travel to 13 new countries last year, while the United Kingdom announced it would impose visa requirements on Hondurans in response to an uptick in asylum applications at the border.

    The United Arab Emirates has seen the greatest shift in power in the past decade, jumping from 55th to 11th, by adding a “impressive” 106 destinations to the visa-free score, Henley & Partners said. China and Ukraine also saw significant shifts, both gaining 21 destinations for visa-free entry over the past 10 years.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/01/12/most-powerful-passports-2024-index-ranking/

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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • Merkin Baller
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  • mickeyrat
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,767
    mickeyrat said:

    No one could have predicted this. 
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,359

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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • mickeyrat
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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    mickeyrat said:

    I get her reasoning for it.  No mention of that in the tweet though.

    Has there been a study of how many kids are "trafficked" in?  I know alone kids have been coming over in droves.
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,767
    It's being reported that Republicans are walking away from negotiating border measures. "The politics have changed" McConnell is being quoted as saying last night. 

    Weird, huh? 
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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,071
    mickeyrat said:

    Sounds like a progressive to me.
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