What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Jacob]

I've experienced that from Canadian border guards several times while I was a permanent resident. It's a good vibe.

[Admiral Yi]

I've gotten welcome home a few times.

[Zoupa]

I've gotten my camembert confiscated several times.

ACAB.

[Sheilbh]

To be honest I think I'd find it a bit weird - a bit like Brits often find American customer service a bit much (been 20 years since I was in the US so can't really judge)

[Richard Hakluyt]

Last couple of times I arrived home I used the e-gate to get back in. They were a bit shit at first but now only take a couple of seconds to let you back in.

[HVC]

I've gotten my camembert confiscated several times.

ACAB.

You'd think after a while you'd stop trying

[Sheilbh]

Yeah same actually. I had a couple of issues first few times and got sent to a desk but now never have a problem with them. Recently in London and Rome (as well as trip to Asia) and they basically functioned everywhere.

Thinking on it I'm not sure last time I actually had to interact with a border guard

[Richard Hakluyt]

Not interacting with border guards is one of those intangible benefits that don't get caught in GDP. Things like that, the
NHS app and online shopping are vast improvements in my life.... bring on the robot waiters and bar staff!

[Sheilbh]

I'm with you to a point.

On the NHS specifically as someone who goes to hospital for monitoring a couple of times of year it is insane the number of NHS apps and portals I have to log onto - and that's one NHS trust. I think I have one or my GP, one where I get test results, one where I get letters (including those notifying me of test results), another for booking appointments and another one that does something else (that might just have been a covid thing)

But I do slightly worry about the push to move everything online and onto apps. I think it can be pretty unforgiving for older people and some vulnerable communities who aren't fully in that world yet - but I think the support for them is just being phased out even quicker.

[Savonarola]

I think anyone who chooses to become a border guard is probably a bit of a dick

In the United States, Customs and Border Protection is one of the very few federal agencies that doesn't require a college degree.  Almost all border guards are ex-military.

I do remember reading Shadi Hamid talking about the great key of America's success - talking about how his family of Egyptian origin and other immigrants he knows become Americans and returning home and the passport people at the border say "welcome home", which doesn't happen in Europe.

And I think there's a lot to that - but my first thought was a British border guard has never said "welcome home" to me

My brother worked as an agricultural inspector for CBP in Detroit for a number of years.  When he was there they had to watch motivational videos telling them that they were the first people anyone entering the country would see so they were supposed to be welcoming and "The face of America."  (Since he worked at the land border between Detroit and Windsor that isn't usually how things worked; not only do they have an overwhelming amount of commuter traffic, but they also pick up a surprising number of people with warrants out for their arrest.)

But even at the Detroit Airport you'll get a "Welcome Home."   

[Savonarola]

I saw this on NPR:

70% of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division lawyers are leaving because of Trump's reshaping

The changes are being implemented by the division's new head, Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney whom Trump appointed and the Senate confirmed in April.

Speaking at a recent Federalist Society event, Dhillon likened the division's work under Democratic administrations to a speeding train. She said Republican administrations typically try to "just slow the train down."

"There really hasn't been a focus on turning the train around and driving it in the opposite direction. And that's my vision of the DOJ civil rights [division]," she said. "We don't just slow down the woke. We take up the cause to achieve the executive branch's goals. This is the opportunity where we can ensure that our nation's civil rights laws benefit all Americans, not just a select few."

And I was appalled.  Trains do not work like that.      



I'm surprised there wasn't a mass exodus during the first Trump term; that seems like the sort of job that would attract an idealist.  Now I'm surprised that 30% are staying.

[HVC]

Not interacting with border guards is one of those intangible benefits that don't get caught in GDP. Things like that, the
NHS app and online shopping are vast improvements in my life.... bring on the robot waiters and bar staff!

And they say Brits are antisocial

[viper37]

I've gotten my camembert confiscated several times.

ACAB.

You bring a weapon of mass destruction in the country, what did you expect!

[Josquius]

A quote from Putin with his meeting with trump "I have great respect for your wife."
Damn that's a good insult.

I'm with you to a point.

On the NHS specifically as someone who goes to hospital for monitoring a couple of times of year it is insane the number of NHS apps and portals I have to log onto - and that's one NHS trust. I think I have one or my GP, one where I get test results, one where I get letters (including those notifying me of test results), another for booking appointments and another one that does something else (that might just have been a covid thing)

But I do slightly worry about the push to move everything online and onto apps. I think it can be pretty unforgiving for older people and some vulnerable communities who aren't fully in that world yet - but I think the support for them is just being phased out even quicker.

You hear a lot about how aspects of privatisation should/are creeping into the NHS.
This is one area where we need more nationalisation and centralisation.
The way backend systems just don't connect is particularly dumb.
I had one experience not too long ago where my doctor sent me for an xray. But it was very convenient. The hospital had a centre just downstairs from the gp. No need to go anywhere. Great.
Except... The doctors order didn't come through. And they couldn't just look at something he wrote on paper to do it.

[viper37]

US immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say

Immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order on removals to third countries, attorneys for the migrants said Tuesday.

Up to a dozen people from several countries may have been deported to Africa, immigration rights lawyers told a judge.

The Department of Homeland Security and the White House did not immediately return messages seeking comment.