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Under Trump, Border Patrol arrests immigrants far from U.S.-Mexico border

The Trump administration is increasingly relying on Border Patrol agents to help carry out the president’s mass deportation plan and arrest immigrants in cities far from the nation’s southern border — a departure from the agency’s traditional role that some lawyers and advocates consider alarming.

In the past month, Border Patrol agents have swarmed a Los Angeles park on foot and horseback; taken immigrants into custody at a New York City courthouse; raided a cannabis farm in California’s Ventura County; and detained day laborers at Home Depot parking lots as far north as Sacramento.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt

WASHINGTON — President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned.

Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing any “anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization.”

Upon conducting the review, administration officials took issue with UNESCO’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies as well as its pro-Palestinian and pro-China bias, a White House official told The Post.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUNESCO, USA

Trump thinks Canadians ‘nasty’ for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador

Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks the country is “nasty” to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said Monday.

Pete Hoekstra told a conference audience on Monday that such steps “don’t send positive signals” about Canada treating the United States well.

Hoekstra was speaking at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue, Washington.

Leave it to Ford…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 billion on DEI grants, delayed air traffic control upgrades: records, industry insiders

WASHINGTON — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders.

In one meeting, Buttigieg — who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run — told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, “and so why would that be in his interest?” sources said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", USA, WTF?

Lutnick Says Trump Will Renegotiate Trade Pact With Canada, Mexico Next Year

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that President Donald Trump will renegotiate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) when the trade pact is due for review next year.

The USMCA, enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term in July 2020, replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The agreement requires that 75 percent of automobile components be made in the United States, Mexico, or Canada for a vehicle to qualify for tariff-free treatment. The trade agreement also mandates that up to 45 percent of parts and components be made by workers earning at least $16 per hour, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Stellantis warns of $3.7B Cdn loss for first half of 2025 due to tariffs and some big charges

Stellantis, the maker of Jeep and Ram vehicles, says its preliminary estimates show a 2.3-billion euro (nearly $3.7-billion Cdn) net loss in the first half of the year due to U.S. tariffs and some hefty charges.

The head of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) says plants like those in Windsor and Brampton, both in Ontario, can’t survive that kind of storm.

The automaker anticipates an impact of about 300 million euros (about $480 million) for net tariffs incurred, and also expects planned production losses related to implementing its response plan.

I doubt that EV Battery plant will ever be finished.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada Is the Best Friend America’s Got

We should be working together to counter China, not trapped in a harmful trade war.

When President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017, I was profoundly disappointed. In 2015, as Canada’s minister of international trade, I helped negotiate the ambitious agreement that set high standards for the global economy and countered China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region. It was more than a trade deal—it was a strategic blueprint for shared prosperity and security among like-minded nations.

That withdrawal signaled a larger shift. The Trump administration over its two terms has steadily retreated from the multilateral, rules-based order the U.S. had built since World War II. It has refused to appoint judges to the World Trade Organization’s appellate body, effectively paralyzing the system that enforces global trade rules. It has turned to tariffs as a blunt instrument of coercion, wielding them against strategic competitors like China and longtime partners such as Canada.

Canada is riddled with ChiCom interference, not sure the USA would risk its security any further than it has with Canada’s Liberal government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

New York Magazine’s cover about Canadian fury got people talking. This is why it matters

A buck toothed national mascot throttling a squawking bald eagle under the headline “You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are” had to get people talking. I suspect many who opined about it have not even read the extensive cover story in a recent issue of New York Magazine by Simon Van Zuylen Wood that attempted to let Americans know just how angry Canadians are about President Trump’s trade war.

I promptly posted about it on LinkedIn with the caption: “Captain Kirk is quoted in New York magazine”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Two Days Inside the Movement to ‘Reindustrialize,’ and Rearm, America

Handy vehicle to have come the civil war.

Investors from Silicon Valley and senior officials in the Trump administration descended on a convention hall in downtown Detroit last week for a conference committed to spurring a “techno-industrial renaissance” in the United States.

In some ways, it looked like a normal convention. The makers of everything from carbon brushes to boat propellers milled around a large hall, looking at a flying boat, a customizable electric truck, an air taxi and a humanoid robot. But at times, it turned into an urgent and literal call to arms as discussions moved from manufacturing to national security.

“You will help us forge a future where we can build and sustain an industrial base that can deliver the critical weapons we need, fast and at scale,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the participants in a video message. “Time is short.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Family of Montreal woman detained by ICE for over 3 months living a ‘nightmare’

… On March 28, Callejas was arrested for battery after family said there was an altercation with her then-boyfriend. Family say Callejas maintains her innocence in the situation and said she was defending herself.

After posting bail, her family said Callejas was taken into ICE custody.

An ICE spokesperson said Callejas entered the United States on a non-immigrant visitor visa and violated the terms of her admission. ICE said she will “remain in custody pending completion of her immigration proceedings.”

The CBC makes this woman out to be a martyr.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Detainees describe what it’s like inside Alligator Alcatraz: ‘This is a concentration camp’

OCHOPEE, Fla. — One worked in a celebrated restaurant in Miami’s Design District.

Another is an aspiring DJ.

An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S.

All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound of tents and trailers built to hold up to 3,000 migrants deep in the Florida Everglades.

h/t Canucklehead

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Ryan Cardwell: Supply management isn’t free

Supply management (SM) is a complex set of government policies that restricts production, marketing, and trade of dairy and poultry in Canada. At its core, SM is a textbook cartel in which producers collude to fix production at the national level, and set prices charged to processors who make the consumer food products sold in restaurants and grocery stores. Such collusion is illegal in other industries — food and elsewhere — but is mandated in SM through government policies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

John Ivison: Canada’s letting Americans hack apart our crypto industry. We may soon regret it

The shareholders of leading Canadian crypto trading platform WonderFi approved the sale of the company to American financial services giant Robinhood Markets on Thursday.

The shareholders of WonderFi, which owns the Coinsquare and Bitbuy crypto exchanges, are happy, not least the company’s chairman, who stands to earn nearly $2 million for brokering the $250-million deal.

But not everyone thinks this deal should be allowed to stand, particularly when it has been reported there are interested Canadian bidders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Canada, USA