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Bananas and rice sound good together. Is that cultural appropriation?

The right leaning folks are the problem?

So because she said it on X it is true? Grifters have a way of lying if they see a chance for a payoff. Remember Jussie Smollett? Feel free to contribute to her GFM if you believe her. Btw, where is the story about the 5 yr old being arrested after the father abandoned him in the cold? I hear ICE is being castigated by ABC News for not letting a complete stranger extremist activist take the kid. I am curious, why is this only happening in Minneapolis? ICE is operating all over the country.

What is wrong with a little fraud as long as some of the money ends up in politicians hands?

So a mistake was made because the locals refuse to share information with ICE. One wonders why this only happens in Minnesota and other heavy sanctuary locations, but I will place the blame where it belongs, at the feet of the Democrats and their sanctuary city policies put in place for purely political reasons. As to the current play the left is using about the 4th Amendment, where were they when Obama’s ICE was doing the same thing? Sure, in politics two wrongs, but there is no reason for Republican Administrations to take any high road, they need to use the same tactics the Democrats use. Btw, it is called X now, and didn’t you post something from X about this Somali woman and allude that it must be true? Regardless, I will put more faith in X eventually getting it right, than waiting for MSM to stop reporting in a biased manner, and not correcting themselves with the same vigor when they are found to be wrong. I did love this woman’s monologue regarding bananas and rice, but I won’t be giving her money.

Saw this while on the beach in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Maybe the UK can follow the U.S. lead. Dozens of sanctioned Russian tankers navigate Channel despite UK vow of 'assertive' action https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d77rr51rko

Seems Mr. Thai may have been harboring some bad folks, but I am sure he was a standup guy. I don’t believe a word of Ms, Ahmed, seems a regular grifter (remember BLM). Immigration enforcement uses final deportation orders. Are you suggesting that these should also go through regular federal courts?

Hmm, why was that? Seems the extremists are mostly on the Left.

Yep, that happened. You do realize people see grift opportunities for those gullible enough to believe what they say at face value.

Why doesn’t the MSM look for the whole story and only insist on reporting one side? Did you ask yourself why ICE was there in the first place? Do you think they are only going door-to-door? Could this guy be charged with aiding and abetting? Maybe that is why he was taken in for questioning?

Did you dig deeper into this or just take it at face value?

Always more to the story. Are the parents bad for leaving the kids in the car to go and protest?

The purse thing and shoes spreads across many cultures.

How long before the GoFundMe page shows up? If this in fact actually happened, then yes, it needs investigation, but grifts are huge now, and people see a way to get money.

When my wife came to the US (fiancé at the time), and we married, she made me clean out all the frozen pizza and canned chili. Made sense as her cooking is way better than Hormel or Red Baron.

Another case of socialism driving a country into the left ditch? Germany: Europe’s Growth Engine or Basket Case? There is growing frustration in Germany over the nation’s economy. The stagnant economy has caused enormous political problems in Berlin, where tax revenue is nowhere near enough to pay for the perennially growing demands on the welfare state. Like in most of Europe, the stagnant German economy is also permanently impoverishing the young generation. Echoing these frustrations, on January 5, Deutsche Welle business writer Arthur Sullivan asked if 2026 will be the year when Germany breaks free from its economic stagnation: Any return to economic growth in Germany in 2026 is expected to be slower and weaker than previously anticipated, according to several economic forecasts. Yes. Mine is one of them. Back in August, I reported: Chancellor Merz has conceded that Germany can no longer sustain its expansive welfare state—a fiscal surrender to economic reality that other nations may soon be forced to replicate. I also explained in detail how the German welfare state consumes two-thirds of the government budget and how it suppresses economic growth. This suppression, in turn, works as a feedback loop of unaffordability into the welfare state: the weaker the economic growth, the weaker the growth in tax revenue as well. The result is a budget deficit that erodes the nation’s economic future and makes it excessively difficult to form a sustainable government. https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/germany-europes-growth-engine-or-basket-case/

I agree, if he has a new visa he can try, but if he thinks the visa he had when he overstayed is still valid, he needs to do some more research.

Wait, I thought this agent was dancing around after the incident? At least that is what I heard from the mayor. So I guess being hit with an approximately 4500 lb vehicle even at low speed can cause injuries.

What is different now?

Thanks for the update, and congratulations! As to travel, you are fine with your extension letter and expired GC. The ROC NOA has that boilerplate verbiage, but in the end, you are still an LPR (at least until your oath ceremony), and you have valid proof of that. That being said, I would take a copy of your ROC NOA with you just in case, and also keep a record of the time you are out of the country as they (USCIS reps) should ask you about any international trips between your N400 interview and the oath ceremony when you check in for the ceremony. Good Luck!

So you are saying just being in the Epstein files (flight logs, or other things) makes one criminal? I believe Trump actually cooperated with the Obama DoJ regarding Epstein. Did Bill and Hillary cooperate?

Love the strawman Jose. So are you suggesting ICE should give up on any enforcement due to the Jose's out there? Btw, I would like to know more about Jose. How did he enter? Did he repeatedly leave and re-enter? Why hasn't he pursued legal avenues now that he is married to a USC? Also, if you or others that support the Jose's really want to help, then like I said earlier, isn't it time to protest your congress members to change the laws to protect them. Instead the extremist want to actively impede enforcement of existing laws. Regardless, let's talk about the large amount of ICE/Federal agents in a city like Minneapolis. Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many there? I believe this has been talked about many times, but I expect the major factor is the leftist/Democrat sanctuary city play. Do you support cities/states run by Democrats with their sanctuary city play? Wouldn't cooperation by the local officials with respect to the worst of the worst protect the Jose's out there? Would they need so many agents if the worst of the worst were handed over to ICE when their prison sentence is finished? As to those in ICE detention, how many of these folks have been issued a removal order by an IJ? Lastly, yes, when a protester graduates from protesting to impeding, assaulting, and eluding, then they go from "protestor" to "extremist". This woman actively positioned the vehicle so the agent was directly in front of her, and who knows what was in her mind as her partner egged her to drive away. We shall see what the investigation says, but that was one of the big questions in my mind (why the agent was in front of the vehicle) until I saw more videos showing it was the driver that made that happen.

Europe is fairly silent right now related to what is going on in Iran. When solidarity costs too much: Europe’s silence on Iran Meanwhile, in Iran, something remarkable is unfolding. Women are tearing off their hijabs in open defiance. Students are facing down security forces. Workers are walking off the job. Protesters are being dragged to prison, tortured, and executed after trials in kangaroo courts. And Europe’s response? A few statements. Some vigils. NGO reports that barely make the news. Nothing remotely approaching the mobilization for Gaza. This isn’t about compassion fatigue or lack of information. The images are there. The stories are brutal. The gap reveals something fundamental: certain causes carry an ideological cost, and that cost determines which struggles ignite mass solidarity. The uprising in Iran checks every box that should matter to progressive Europeans. It targets a theocratic regime that subjugates women, censors thought, executes dissidents, and denies basic freedoms. The protesters in Iran demand exactly what the European left claims to defend as universal human rights: free speech, bodily autonomy, and the dignity of self-determination. By any measure, what is happening from Tehran to Iranian backwaters is a textbook liberation movement. Yet it remains marginal in Europe’s political imagination. The reason is structural, not moral. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-solidarity-costs-too-much-europes-silence-on-iran/