May 6, 2025: Hasta lo Bye-Bye

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Bill to Require Arizona Hospitals to Inquire About Immigration Status Heads to Governor
Arizona lawmakers voted Monday to require hospitals to inquire whether patients are here illegally despite concerns it would deter some people from seeking care.

But the sponsor of Senate Bill 1268 says she doesn’t care.

“They should stay in their own country if they want to have care”… (Continue to full article)

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Admit Roughly 12,000 Refugees
A judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States under a court order partially blocking the president’s efforts to suspend the nation’s refugee admissions program.

The order from U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead followed arguments from the Justice Department and refugee resettlement agencies over how to interpret a federal appeals court ruling that significantly narrowed an earlier decision from Whitehead.

During a hearing last week, the administration said it should only have to process 160 refugees into the country and that it would likely appeal any order requiring it to admit thousands… (Continue to full article)

Nearly 50 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Southeast With Money and Guns
Police arrested 48 illegal immigrants over the course of a week in the Southeast as part of a larger operation.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection partnered with the Homeland Security Investigations and local law enforcement for “Operation Magnolia,” a highway interdiction operation which resulted in the apprehension of migrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, Kazakhstan, Honduras, Colombia, and Guatemala in the last week of April. Three U.S. citizens were also arrested.

“If you attempt to smuggle narcotics, contraband, or illegal aliens through Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana, you will be caught, prosecuted, and put in jail… (Continue to full article)

Rubio Designates Haitian Gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, adding to a list of transnational criminal organizations, including Mexican cartels and the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.

Rubio designated the violent Haitian gangs, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, as FTOs and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), saying they “are the primary source of instability and violence in Haiti” and pose “a direct threat to U.S. national security interests in our region.”

Gang members, known for killing and attacking Haitians, Haitian security forces, and Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission personnel, have vowed to overthrow the Haitian government… (Continue to full article)

GOP Criticize Arizona Governor’s Vetoes of Immigration Bills
Republicans Monday blasted Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ vetoes of bills designed to protect communities from criminal illegal immigrants.

The vetoes were two of 23 that Hobbs announced late Friday.

While Republicans hold majorities in both houses of the Legislature, they don’t have enough seats to override the Democratic governor’s vetoes… (Continue to full article)

Trump Administration Says It Will Pay Immigrants in the U.S. Illegally $1,000 to ‘Self-Deport’
The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.

HEY… GTF OUT!!! (Continue to full article)

Migrant Arrests Piling Up in New Border ‘Military Zone’
Border agents in the past week have arrested at least seven migrants for trespassing on military property while entering the United States illegally in southern New Mexico.

The numbers are piling up since the Department of the Interior transferred a 60-foot-wide strip of land running parallel to the U.S. border wall to the Department of Defense on April 15. That came in the wake of the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of troops to the Southwest border to stem illegal immigration… (Continue to full article)

White House Announces Number of Illegal Immigrant Registrations
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that 47,000 illegal immigrants had notified the government of their presence, after new regulations were introduced.

The figure for the 2 1/2 weeks since the Alien Registration Requirement (ARR) kicked in was part of a rundown of actions taken by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) since President Donald Trump’s return to office

The requirement puts those in the U.S. without legal status in a potentially no-win situation. Failure to register could lead to criminal prosecution, but informing the government where they are living and how long they have been in the U.S. without documentation could also lead to deportation or other actions… (Continue to full article)

Courts Can’t Put Politics — or Illegal Immigrants — Above the Law
After 100 days of Trump 2.0, America’s southern border is officially secure. Illegal border crossings are at their lowest levels in decades .

But President Trump’s push for border security, among other policies, has hit superfluous judicial roadblocks every step of the way. After the Trump administration refused to return two airplanes deporting illegal immigrants to El Salvador last month, the U.S. District Court for D.C. found probable cause to hold Trump in contempt, claiming the administration demonstrated a “willful disregard” for an emergency order to turn those flights around… (Continue to full article)

Nationwide Proposal to Remove Cellphones From Classrooms Introduced

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As cellphone bans in schools are gaining steam in dozens of states, one lawmaker is taking it to the federal level by proposing legislation leading to cellphone-free schools.

Freshman Virginia Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman has introduced the UNPLUGGED Act, which the lawmaker describes as the “first step in restoring quality education” by removing cellphones from classrooms.

The movement to ban the technology from classrooms has gained bipartisan popularity by several state lawmakers. State leaders on opposite sides of the political, ideological spectrums appear to have found common ground, saying phones in the classroom are distractions and contribute to mental health issues. Continue reading →

Assassinating JFK Led to the Vietnam War

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With April 30, 2025, being the 50th anniversary of North Vietnam’s defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War, it is worth revisiting the role that the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President Kennedy played in that war.

The story begins with the war between JFK and the U.S. national-security establishment that broke out after the Bay of Pigs disaster soon after Kennedy assumed the presidency. The CIA was hoping to manipulate Kennedy into providing air support for the operation, but the scheme failed. Realizing what the CIA had done, Kennedy vowed to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” For it’s part, the CIA was livid over what it believed was Kennedy’s cowardice, weakness, and incompetence for failing to come to the assistance of the Cuban exiles, all of whom were killed or captured by Cuba’s communist forces while invading the island. Continue reading →

Smith: The Fall of Saigon and Vietnam: The Final Message…

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By March 1969, the U.S. Army was under a new commander, General Creighton Abrams, and forces had peaked at 543,000 in country, as peace talks had begun and a new plan was underway for the “Vietnamization” of South Vietnam and the “pacification” of any remaining communists in the countryside, the hamlets and villages. Some ninety thousand North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers remained in the South, strewn throughout the countryside and in certain sanctuary villages sympathetic to the Ho Chi Minh brand of communism, just waiting for orders to mount attacks at a moment’s notice. Continue reading →

Smith: ‘Nam – Some Came Home

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One article from 1966 written by Francis FitzGerald, I found to be extremely thought provoking, even if it was written from a leftist perspective. She wrote, in part, painting a vivid picture:

“Before entering Saigon, the military traffic from Tan Son Nhut airfield slows in a choking blanket of its own exhaust. Where it crawls along to the narrow bridge in a frenzy of bicycles, pedicabs, and tri-Lambrettas, two piles of garbage mark the entrance to a new quarter of the city. Every evening a girl on spindle heels picks her way over the barier of rotting fruit and onto the sidewalk. Triumphant, she smiles at the boys who lounge at the soft-drink stand, and with a toss of her long earrings, climbs into a waiting Buick.

Behind her the alleyway carpeted with mud winds back past the facade of new houses into a maze of thatched huts and tin-roofed shacks called Bui Phat. One of the oldest of the refugee quarters, Bui Phat lies just across the river from the generous villas and tree-lined streets of French Saigon. On its tangle of footpaths, white-shirted boys push their Vespas past laborers in black pajamas and women carrying water on coolie poles. After twelve years and a flood of new refugees, Bui Phat is less an urban quarter than a compost of villages where peasants live with their children. The children run thick underfoot. The police, it is said, rarely enter the quarter for fear of a gang of teen-age boys whose leader, a young army deserter, reigns over Bui Phat.”
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Bennett: In the Garden of Eden A Tribute… and thanks

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~ Forewords ~
October 1, 2017 ~ Several years ago on a reunion trip with several of my cohorts from the rice paddies, the boys went out for lunch, while I stayed behind at the hotel in Newport, California to make some notes and write a bit of remembrance. The three of us had spoken for several years about collaborating on a book about our time together over ‘there’ – but I began to realize that both of the guys were bullshit artists, and really had no desire to follow through, and so I decided to write a preface – to what I hope would become my story about the twenty-one months I spent in the Far East – VietNam. What came out of that several hours of peace, can be read HERE. I would highly recommend that you read it before you continue… but – at your discretion…

As for now – we pick up where we left off… ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Publisher and Veteran
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Dickens: Ridiculousness ~ What Is Wrong with You?

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How can you see anything with your head that far up your derriere?

To our elected representatives in Congress, the opposite of progress, and all the other government decision-makers who tirelessly work all the angles, shake all the hands, kiss all the babies, make impossible promises, craft all the back-room deals, spend all our money on new and better ways to enrich their supporters and friends at our expense, concentrate your efforts on all the things that damage this republic, ignore the people who elected you, and cultivate the art of mendacity. It’s frustrating to see how you prioritize your interests over the nation’s well-being. Continue reading →

POW Who Shared Cell With McCain Recounts Six-Year Ordeal

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NOTE: Having served 21 month in the Nam and having now lived in Arizona for 49 years – allow me to state that I was NEVER a fan of McCain. As a prisoner – he was given better treatment than the rest of those who were held. Click on the link at the bottom of the column.  ~ Editor

He was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for a staggering six years. An Air Force pilot who shared a bond – and a prison cell – with the late Sen. John McCain is now sharing his story, as the nation marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon.

It was supposed to be his final scheduled flight over Vietnam. On Nov. 11, 1966, Orson Swindle was piloting an F-8 Crusader. He had already completed 205 missions when he was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese.

“And we knew we were going to be beaten down. That was a given,” Swindle said.

He would spend the next 2,305 days as a prisoner at the infamous Hanoi Hilton, confined in brutal conditions where torture and starvation were common. He shared a cell with McCain, sleeping side by side for years. Continue reading →

Dickens: Black Robed Bandits ~ The Courts are now in Charge!

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In old movies, especially westerns, you could always tell the good guys from the bad guys, the hero from the villain, by the color of their clothes, especially their hats. Good guys wore white, and bad guys wore black. This was designed so audiences in the early silent-movie era could distinguish characters in black-and-white films.

The stereotype carries over into our modern thinking. Continue reading →

EXPOSED: Secret War Raging on US Borders

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One of the largest and most expensive secret wars in the history of these nations is targeting Canada, Mexico, and the US. Not only are lives and ruined communities at stake, but no one seems to be able to stop the carnage.

Native American communities on reservations, particularly those situated along borderlands. From Arizona to Montana, and even into territories that straddle the U.S.-Canada line, drug cartels have discovered both opportunity and immunity on tribal lands, and American Indian communities are paying the price. Continue reading →

Why Aren’t Schools Taking Bulling Seriously? My Child’s Story and the System That Failed Us

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My 12-year-old came home sobbing last week after months of weight-shaming by classmates. The teacher’s “solution”? Forcing a hollow apology that only fueled more cruelty. When I demanded action, the vice principal shrugged: “Kids will be kids.”

But here’s the reality… Continue reading →

Rockwell: The Menace of “Public” Education

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Parents are rightly concerned about what is happening in our “public” schools. Crazed “educators” are encouraging impressionable children to “transition” to another sex, as if such a thing was possible. Students are taught that sexual promiscuity is a good thing. They are brainwashed to accept socialist attacks on our free enterprise system.

What can we do about this disaster? The Trump Administration and anti-woke Governors like Ron deSantis have tried to solve the problem by issuing directives to the schools to eliminate the noxious programs and give parents more say-so about what their children are taught. But teachers who have been indoctrinating our children are well-entrenched, and it will be extremely difficult to curb their baleful influence. Continue reading →

The Failure of Ritalin

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We’ve gone way too far with stimulants and our kids!

The extremism around the question of how to treat gender dysphoria has begun to erode under the pressure of science and common sense. Is it possible that the same will happen regarding ADHD?

A long New York Times Magazine piece skeptical of the ADHD consensus, by Paul Tough, published about a week ago, could be an inflection point in the debate and, one hopes, lead to a fundamental reconsideration of how we think about this overdiagnosed, overprescribed, highly ambiguous disorder.

For a couple of decades now, we’ve made fidgeting in the classroom and other typical childhood behavior, especially among boys, a medical condition that should be treated with amphetamines. Continue reading →

Easter: God’s Message of Grace and Justice

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The Angel Declaring the Resurrection – (Gustave Doré)

Several years ago, I heard a very popular Christian speaker talk to a large audience for an hour. He said nothing heretical. He said nothing controversial. He just focused on the “unconditional” love of God. Again, nothing wrong with what he did say, but it is what he did not say that bothered me. He said nothing about repentance of sin. There is a reason Jesus said what he said in the above bible verse. And there is a reason John the Baptist introduced Jesus to the world with the exact same proclamation in Matthew 3:2: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

There is a popular trend going on in the American Christian church. The trend is to talk of the love of God without talking about the justice of God. But if you read the Bible, it is clear, there exists both the grace of God and the wrath of God, and Jesus Christ spoke of both. Continue reading →

Whitehead ~ Refugee. Dissident. Enemy of the State: Would ICE Have Crucified Jesus?

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“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.” – President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the Constitution

                  Jesus – What happened to America?

It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.

Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of the population. A hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.

This is what it looks like when the government makes itself the arbiter of who is deserving of rights and who isn’t.

Here is what we know: one segment of the population at a time, the Trump Administration is systematically and without due process attempting to cleanse the country of what it perceives to be “undesirables” as part of its purported effort to make America great again.

This is how men, women and children are being made to disappear, snatched up off the streets by press-gangs of plainclothes, masked government agents impersonating street thugs.

Presently, these so-called “undesirables” include both undocumented and legal immigrants – many labeled terrorists despite having no criminal record, no court hearing, and no due process – before being extradited to a foreign concentration camp in an effort to sidestep judicial oversight.

By including a handful of known members of a vicious gang among those being rounded up, the government is attempting to whitewash the public into believing that everyone being targeted is, in fact, a terrorist. Continue reading →

Hall: We All Killed Him!

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The chain of blame which began at the fall of mankind ends at the mea culpa, and is replaced with the “ideo precor” – the beseeching of Mary, the angels, the all the saints.

Have you heard? The world is going to Hell in a handbasket. Our politicians are devils, our hierarchs are often devils themselves, and Catholics are leaving the Church in droves. The media lies to us, and our institutions turn our children into post-modern pill-addicted zombies who can’t be happy in a society where they lack no creature comfort.

Marriages are failing, and a lot of men are addicted to vile images of perversion that they sneakily watch on their phones while standing in a corner on the metro on their way home to their families.

And who is at fault? Continue reading →

Smith: The Bombing: America’s World Turned Upside Down in 1995

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9:02 Central Time – April 19, 1995 ~ It’s been 30 years since Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols carried out their domestic terror attack, and no matter how righteous their cause in the beginning or how righteous their initial intent, somewhere along the line they got completely off track and lost their way, plotting out one of the most heinous attacks on America that is hard to imagine or really fathom.

Evil use to be not so obvious, and atrocities came seldom. But whether there is something in the water or humanity has simply taken destructive genetic path of late, evil seems to be prevalent and lurking just around the corner on any given day and any given moment. By and large, one can only surmise that it’s simply just a matter of the American people having lost their way and rejecting God and His righteous ways to their own detriment – leading the country down a path to Her own destruction. Continue reading →

Trump-Itis!

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‘Impeach’: Judge Sparks Trump’s Outrage
Trump has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after the judge halted deportations of illegal immigrants tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). The Supreme Court recently intervened and ruled in favor of allowing the Trump administration to continue deportation flights of suspected gang members.

Boasberg’s order followed Trump’s announcement of his plan to use the Alien Enemies Act to expedite their removal from the U.S. Trump has since condemned Boasberg as being obstructive to immigration enforcement

SCROO de Judge!!! (Continue to full article)

Trump Denounces Judge’s Ruling on Migrants’ Legal Status: ‘Out of Control’
Trump expressed his outrage over a federal judge temporarily blocking his executive order revoking the work permits and legal status of more than half a million migrants flown into the United States under a Biden-era parole program.

“What is going on with our Courts?” Trump posted on Truth Social . “They are totally OUT OF CONTROL. They seem to hate ‘TRUMP’ so much, that anything goes! We are trying to bring our Country back from the destruction caused by the Democrats and Crooked Joe Biden.”

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama in Massachusetts, put a temporary block on Trump’s executive action terminating the CHNV parole program, which granted two-year entry to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In his order, Trump gave the migrants until April 24 to self-deport… (Continue to full article)

Trump Goal to End Taxes on Social Security Gets Bipartisan Support
One of President Donald Trump’s tax policy wishlist items is receiving support from some Democratic lawmakers – but with a caveat.

Trump has put pressure on Congress to include ending Social Security taxes in the upcoming budget bill. A recent budget analysis projects that move would reduce revenues by $1.5 trillion over 10 years and speed up Social Security’s insolvency by two years, as The Center Square reported .

But the newly-introduced You Earned It, You Keep It Act by Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., would, theoretically, fully finance eliminating all federal taxes on Social Security benefits and even extend the program’s insolvency deadline… (Continue to full article)

Scratch ‘n’ Sniff

Social Security’s Trust Fund Could Run Out of Money Sooner Than Expected Due to Changes in Taxes and Benefits
Social Security is one of the federal government’s biggest programs.

Roughly 67 million Americans, most of whom are 65 or older, received Social Security benefits in 2023 . An estimated 183 million workers paid the Social Security payroll taxes that provided the bulk of the nearly US$1.4 trillion in benefits that year, which consumed 21% of the total federal budget .

But within a decade, Social Security could run short on funds to pay the full benefits Americans are counting on… (Continue to full article)

Musk’s DOGE Is Claiming Victory After Uncovering $382 Million in Unemployment Fraud — but the Government Already Found It Years Ago: ‘I Don’t Think It’s News to Anyone’
The latest government waste touted by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency is hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims it purportedly uncovered.

One problem: Federal investigators already found what appears to be the same fraud, years earlier and on a far greater scale.

In a post last week on X, the social media site Musk owns, DOGE announced “an initial survey of unemployment insurance claims since 2020” found 24,500 people over the age of 115 had claimed $59 million in benefits; 28,000 people between the ages of 1 and 5 collected $254 million; and 9,700 people with birthdates more than 15 years in the future garnered $69 million from the government.

Business leaders and economists are warning about a national recession, so it’s natural to think about unemployment. It’s an attack on the image of a critically important program and perhaps an attempt to undermine public support on unemployment insurance when it couldn’t be more important… (Continue to full article)

HEAH Cum de Judge!: Judge Finds Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt for Violating Deportation Order ~ AGAIN!
A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and warned he could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.

The ruling from U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump has said should be impeached, marks a dramatic battle between the judicial and executive branches of government over the president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities… (Continue to full article)

Most Voters Want ALL Illegal Immigrants Deported: ‘Americans Like Where We’re Going’ Under Trump
CNN data guru Harry Enten presented numbers Thursday morning that showed that a majority of Americans want all undocumented immigrants forcibly removed from the country.

Enten said the issue is one of the few where President Donald Trump remains above water with voters.

While Trump’s opponents have spent weeks slamming his administration over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, Trump remains popular on immigration… (Continue to full article)

Texas Border: Large Groups Crossing Remote Areas
As illegal crossings have dropped to 15-year lows along once-busy historic crossing points between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande, law enforcement officers are encountering large groups of illegal aliens in more remote areas of the Texas border.

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveleland has posted photos of migrants encountered in groups of twenty by his deputies, Border Patrol Agents, and Texas Military Forces in his county in recent days – and the story is the same in the “badlands” of neighboring Brewster County.

Border Patrol Agents recently tracked more than 20 illegal aliens attempting to evade them in the rugged terrain of San Francisco Canyon within Big Bend National Park… (Continue to full article)

Time to HANG the Judges

Judge Can Jail Trump Officials — and He’s ‘Calling the Government’s Bluff’
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has the tools to proceed with criminal contempt charges against President Donald Trump’s administration — and can also enforce a sentence if they are found guilty, a legal analyst said Wednesday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern addressed Boasberg’s ruling regarding the government’s response to his court order.

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered to turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled.

In his 46-page opinion, Boasberg found that “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt”… (Continue to full article)

Trump Administration Says It Seized Control of Penn Station Renovation From MTA
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that the federal government has taken control of the renovations to Penn Station that were headed by New York City’s transit authority.

Duffy said the Department of Transportation and Amtrak will head the project. He added that a federal grant directed for the train company will be slashed and “rescoped,” resulting in $120 million in savings.

He also suggested that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority couldn’t be trusted with the project… (Continue to full article)

Trump’s Price Transparency Rule ‘Cements’ His Legacy of Lowering Healthcare Costs
President Donald Trump’s executive order to enforce healthcare price transparency has been hailed as transformative in lowering costs and “cements Trump’s legacy” as a leader in healthcare reform.

Trump in late February signed an executive order that renewed orders he had issued during his first term in office requiring hospitals and health insurers to deliver “meaningful price information to the American people.”

By requiring real-time prices of healthcare services for health insurance plans, consumers could price shop and find the best deal for their healthcare needs… (Continue to full article)

HERE are your Homes. Pack ’em up – and Go home to where you came from!

Immigrants Choose Self-Deportation Amid Fear of Forced Removal
Many immigrants in the United States are opting to self-deport rather than risk being forcibly removed under President Trump’s intensified deportation policies. Celeste, who traveled from Peru two decades ago, has decided to return to her home country after years of living in Los Angeles. She overstayed her tourist visa and worked in cleaning jobs while hoping for legal status. However, the lack of reforms and recent deportation efforts have left her feeling vulnerable.

According to the Los Angeles Times , President Trump, in his second term, has promised the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, targeting all undocumented immigrants. The administration has launched campaigns urging immigrants to leave voluntarily and has introduced the CBP Home app for immigrants to notify the government of their intent to leave… (Continue to full article)

…and the Beat goes on…