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Wait, what ...???
Trump reassigns ICE director due to frustration with low deportations (February 2025)
san.com
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The acting director of ICE was reassigned due to President Donald Trump's frustration with low deportation numbers. Caleb Vitello will continue leading the agency's field and enforcement operations.
Trump is reportedly angry that more people are not being deported.
ICE agents have been told to arrest 1,200 to 1,400 individuals per day. They are far below that.
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@#2 ... I know you want them gone already ...
Do you really want to look into my mind?
... but hold your horses and give the team a few months.. It's going to take a little time. ...
OK, I'll ask ...
How much more time?
Stated differently...
Given the current rate of deportation of illegal immigrants, how long will it take to reach the goal Pres Trump has set for "10's of millions" to be deported?
Trump deported fewer people last month than Biden a year ago, but border crossings have plummeted
www.nbcnews.com
... According to the data, ICE deported around 11,000 migrants last month, the first full month Trump was in office, compared to just over 12,000 in February 2024. One major reason for the higher numbers under the Biden administration was higher traffic from attempted border crossings, both legal and illegal, in 2024 compared to 2025. ...
OK, I need to take out the calculator, a trusty old HP-35, for this ...
OK, 10 million deportations, divided by 11,000 per month seems to be, 909.09 months.
Do you see a problem here?
Canada has been a long-time friend and ally of the United States.
The longest non-militarized border on this planet.
And, can you say "NORAD?" I knew you could.
Why is Pres Trump treating Canada as an enemy and Pres Putin as an ally?
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
en.wikipedia.org
... The Haskell Free Library and Opera House (French: Bibliothque et salle d'opra Haskell) is a Victorian building that straddles the Canada"United States border, in Rock Island (now part of Stanstead), Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, respectively. The Opera House opened on June 7, 1904, having deliberately been built on the international border. It was declared a heritage building by both countries in the 1970s and 1980s.
The library has two different addresses: 93 Caswell Avenue, Derby Line, Vermont, and 1 rue Church (Church Street), Stanstead, Quebec. ...
Overview
The building was designed by architect James Ball in the Queen Anne Revival style. The first floor houses the book collection and reading rooms and a 500-seat theater occupies the second and third floors.[3]
The library collection and the opera stage are located in Stanstead, but the main entrance and most opera seats are located in Derby Line. Because of this, the Haskell is sometimes called "the only library in the U.S.A. with no books" and "the only opera house in the U.S.A. with no stage". There is no entrance from Canada; however, there is an emergency exit on the Canadian side of the building. All patrons and visitors must use the U.S. entrance to access the building. Patrons from Canada are permitted to enter the United States door without needing to report to customs by using a prescribed route through the sidewalk of rue Church (Church Street), provided that they return to Canada immediately upon leaving the building using the same route.[4]
A thick black line runs beneath the seats of the opera house and diagonally across the center of the library's reading room to mark the Canada"United States border.[5] The stage and half of the seats are in Canada; the remainder of the opera hall is in the US. The building has different postal codes (93 Caswell Avenue, 05830 and 1, rue Church (Church Street), J0B 3E2) and different telephone area codes (+1-802-873-3022 and +1-819-876-2471) in its two respective countries. ...
Why does Pres Trump want to destroy this long-time friendship with Canada?
ATSC 3.0
en.wikipedia.org
... The standards are designed to offer support for newer technologies, including HEVC for video channels of up to 2160p 4K resolution at 120 frames per second, wide color gamut, high dynamic range, Dolby AC-4 and MPEG-H 3D Audio, datacasting capabilities, and more robust mobile-television support.[1][4][emphasis mine]
The capabilities have also been foreseen as a way to enable finer public alerting and targeted advertising. ...
Yeah, ATSC 3.0 seems to use your Internet connect to monitor what you view.
@#11 ... get with the jist of the exchange. ...
I presume that was about my @10 comment.
... Court's have enjoined his stupid but the question was about discipline (sanctions) ...
But I'll ask again, if Pres Trump decides that he will not follow the Court decision, what can the Court do to make him follow that decision?
Any enforcement of the decision would likely fall onto the DoJ, which Pres trump (did you listen to his speech?) seems to have in his pocket.
So, yeah, my question may be outside of the gist of the exchange, but I think it is relevant.
So, what say ye?