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I lost Kathleen's email addy, can you ask her to email me? thx
Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Seperation (sic)
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of this ...See MoreAffording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Seperation (sic)
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of this Administration to rigorously enforce our immigration laws. Under our laws, the only legal way for an alien to enter this country is at a designated port of entry at an appropriate time. When an alien enters or attempts to enter the country anywhere else, that alien has committed at least the crime of improper entry and is subject to a fine or imprisonment under section 1325(a) of title 8, United States Code. This Administration will initiate proceedings to enforce this and other criminal provisions of the INA until and unless Congress directs otherwise. It is also the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources. It is unfortunate that Congress's failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law.
Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this order, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Alien family" means
(i) any person not a citizen or national of the United States who has not been admitted into, or is not authorized to enter or remain in, the United States, who entered this country with an alien child or alien children at or between designated ports of entry and who was detained; and
(ii) that person's alien child or alien children.
(b) "Alien child" means any person not a citizen or national of the United States who
(i) has not been admitted into, or is not authorized to enter or remain in, the United States;
(ii) is under the age of 18; and
(iii) has a legal parent-child relationship to an alien who entered the United States with the alien child at or between designated ports of entry and who was detained.
Sec. 3. Temporary Detention Policy for Families Entering this Country Illegally. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations, maintain custody of alien families during the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members.
(b) The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child's alien parent would pose a risk to the child's welfare.
(c) The Secretary of Defense shall take all legally available measures to provide to the Secretary, upon request, any existing facilities available for the housing and care of alien families, and shall construct such facilities if necessary and consistent with law. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(d) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall, to the extent consistent with law, make available to the Secretary, for the housing and care of alien families pending court proceedings for improper entry, any facilities that are appropriate for such purposes. The Secretary, to the extent permitted by law, shall be responsible for reimbursement for the use of these facilities.
(e) The Attorney General shall promptly file a request with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to modify the Settlement Agreement in Flores v. Sessions, CV 85-4544 ("Flores settlement"), in a manner that would permit the Secretary, under present resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.
Sec. 4. Prioritization of Immigration Proceedings Involving Alien Families. The Attorney General shall, to the extent practicable, prioritize the adjudication of cases involving detained families.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 20, 2018.
bragging about his effect on the stock market!
:-(
First, thanks for getting the chatroom straightened out. Are you still working on the meeting room?
thx,Ron
It's Because the Rich Designed It!
Economist Michael Hudson is the best at explaining "Classical Economics" vs. Neoclassical or Neoliberal Economics." Classical Economics emerged after the French Revolution which ended the Feudal System of lords and serfs. Classical Economics started with Adam Smith and ended with Karl Marx. Among other th...See MoreIt's Because the Rich Designed It!
Economist Michael Hudson is the best at explaining "Classical Economics" vs. Neoclassical or Neoliberal Economics." Classical Economics emerged after the French Revolution which ended the Feudal System of lords and serfs. Classical Economics started with Adam Smith and ended with Karl Marx. Among other things, they argued that government should tax "unearned income" - like rents, and income from investments because it was too much like the income of feudal lords.
The rich so objected that they started Neoclassical Economics (now called Neoliberal), and the first sold-out economist was John Bates Clark (1847-1938), who argued . . . Well, in today's terms, argued that Paris Hilton earns her money. There is still a "John Bates Clark Award in Economics!"
The point here is, the current economic thinking in America is a sham economics invented by the rich for the rich. Worse, the rich have paid to have it taught in most Universities.
Below are 9 myths of Neoliberal Economics. Six are from Mark Blyth of Brown University and three of from Australian economist Steve Keen.
Americans have been tricked into believing:
1. That markets are efficient. (Ever heard of planned obsolescents.)
2. That banks have skin in the game. (They don't, they have "your" skin in the game!)
3. That people have rational expectations. (Tell someone in advertising this and they laugh.)
4. That investors evaluate risk carefully, the way insurance companies use actuaries.
5. That systemic risk is the same as individual risk. (Regulation is about stopping systemic risk, and you know how that has gone.)
6. That too-big-to-fail is not a problem. (And they are still getting bigger)
7. That government budgets are like household budgets, thus government austerity in hard times is a good thing! (This is a "like duh", if you understand "aggregate demand.")
8. That banks do not create money when they make a loan! (Yes, they do!)
9. That money loaned by a bank does not stimulate the economy by creating demand.
This is not a complete list, but the point here is the economics you know was invented by the rich to screw you over. Worst, the absolute worst, with Neoliberalism, you have the belief that the markets should mold the society rather than society molding the markets. That is, all laws, social or economic, must be based on economic thinking!
We need a whole new system!
I just finished "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"(1905) by Max Weber (1864-1920), and it is amazing that the work ethic needed to make capitalism dominate economics started with the Calvinist, or as we know it, the Puritan work ethic. What starts out being done for the "Glory of God" has ended up as today's capitalism which is dev...See MoreI just finished "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"(1905) by Max Weber (1864-1920), and it is amazing that the work ethic needed to make capitalism dominate economics started with the Calvinist, or as we know it, the Puritan work ethic. What starts out being done for the "Glory of God" has ended up as today's capitalism which is devoid of God, devoid of a sense of right and wrong, and has no sense of guilt over destroying the lives of others - or destroying the planet.
This is how Weber makes the connection:
(Quote)
Waste of time is thus the first and in principle the deadliest of sins. The span of human life is infinitely short and precious to make sure of one's own election (to heaven). Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury, even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It does not yet hold, with Franklin, that time is money, but the proposition is true in a certain spiritual sense. It is infinitely valuable because every hour lost is lost to labour for the glory of God. Thus inactive contemplation is also valueless, or even directly reprehensible if it is at the expense of one's daily work. For it is less pleasing to God than the active performance of His will in a "calling." Besides, Sunday is provided for that, and, according to Baxter, it is always those who are not diligent in their "callings" who have no time for God when the occasion demands it.
(End quote)
My emphasis on the word "calling", we have all heard people say things like teaching or nursing is "my calling." This is, of course, directly from religious calling, and if God has called you, you have better do the best you can for fear of damnation. The capitalists took full advantage of this!
In today's world, this has morphed into "God has a plan for . . . well, everyone!" Frankly, aside from removing free will, the world offers no evidence of this. For those who disagree I offer the story of Rabbi Harold Kushner. His son was born with Progeria (where you age and die, of old age, at about 13). People in his synagogue would say, "Well, God has a plan for your son!" The Rabbi found this so absurd he wrote the book "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People!" It is a good read.
Yet, I am still amazed at the role of religion in capitalism, and its current absence.
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Second, if you think the stock market means good things are happening in the rest of the economy, you flunk Econ 101. The stock market only reflects future expected corporate profits.
Some examples of things good for the country and b...See More