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Schmidt, an electrical engineer, had been returning to the US on 7 March. His mother did not hear from him until 11 March, when he was transferred to hospital after collapsing. She told NBC news she had no idea why her son had been detained, saying: "I feel helpless, absolutely helpless." Schmidt and his mother moved to the US from Germany in 2007 and got permanent resident cards the following year. He renewed his legal permanent residence status last year and has no active legal issues, his mother said, although she added that he had faced misdemeanour charges about 10 years ago. ... The CBP sent the Guardian the same statement, without further explanation. The statement also said: "When an individual is found with drug-related charges and tries to reenter the country, officers will take proper action." read more
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"Example, almost all clothing is made in these tariff targeted Asian countries"
I remember vaguely when garment manufacturing died in this country, when I was a kid. They ran ads, look for the union label. Republicans killed the unions to facilitate the redistribution of wealth upwards.
To be fair, the liability for giving all those low paid workers lung disease from airborne cotton particles was also a financial crisis of the industry's own making from which the industry probably could not escape. More on the science that shows how American corporations were harmimg American workers here:
blogs.cdc.gov
"any entities they create should be subject to executive oversight to ensure the funds are spent appropriately."
Hey Genius,
Those entities already have executive leadership.
For example, the Fed has a Board of Governors.
en.m.wikipedia.org
NASA has an Administrator. en.m.wikipedia.org
You have a room temperature IQ. en.m.wikipedia.org
Roughly half the country doesn't pay attention to politics, by which I mean they think of it no differently than they think about the weather. It's sort of an inevitable thing that just happens, beyond our control.
It's not hard to see why they think that,
as all the kings horses and all the kings men stand around doing nothing
while Trump crashes Air Force One into Wall Street
"I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that tariffs might use tariffs as weapons."
--Consolation Rice, in the aftermath of the April 2 attacks.