1 of my favorite stories of the year he’d been in this country for 43 years and had made annual trips to Canada with his family…only now did any problems ever come up don’t worry mindless drone, they’ll make u a permanent citizen if u have 5 million dollars
We saw this happen with the construction worker in Georgia/Florida. There's a routine 24-hour hold (customary) followed by a release if the detention was done in error. The process has guardrails and it works. GOOD DAY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/11/trump-third-term-legacy-era/ How Trump plans to avoid becoming a lame duck The president can’t seek a third term. But he might continue to dominate U.S. politics. July 11, 2025 at 3:41 p.m. EDT Most presidents stumble in their second term. Years into their presidencies, mistakes have had time to develop into crises: Vietnam for Lyndon B. Johnson, Watergate for Richard M. Nixon, Iran-contra for Ronald Reagan. Voters often empower opposition parties in Congress, blocking presidents from making big policy changes. The country’s focus drifts toward the next presidential race. President Donald Trump might be uniquely positioned to avoid this fate, at least for a time. He is the first president since Grover Cleveland to serve nonconsecutive terms, giving him a fresh start with a new team, a pliant Congress — and an unpopular predecessor to blame for the country’s problems. His continuing influence over the Republican Party’s base and showman’s command of the bully pulpit might allow him to exert unusual influence over the nation’s direction, even if Democrats flip control of the House for his final two years in office. Trump is on the longest hot streak of his second term. He signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill” on Independence Day. He avoided an escalating conflict after bombing Iranian nuclear sites by cajoling Israel to agree to a ceasefire. The Supreme Court issued a string of decisions permitting the president to use broad executive powers. The costs of his tariffs, the subject of much attention this week, have not yet bitten hard. Among other things, the past couple of weeks show that Trump can still enforce party discipline. Just ask Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), who opted to retire after deciding to oppose the president’s tax bill. Trump could also dominate the 2028 conversation. He might be a kingmaker in the GOP primaries, and he’s in no rush to anoint an heir. Asked whether JD Vance is his successor, he responded by praising the vice president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. One especially ostentatious way that Trump has sought to avoid becoming a lame duck is by flirting with seeking a third term in 2028. Usually, Trump is clearly joking. At other times, he has acknowledged that he will be a two-term president. The 22nd Amendment says a president cannot be elected more than twice. One idea, untested in court, is for Trump to run for vice president and then have his running mate resign if his ticket wins. But the 12th Amendment states that no person ineligible to be president can become vice president. Another idea is for Trump to be elected speaker of the House. (Technically, the chamber’s leader does not need to be an elected official.) But Republicans could easily lose the House, and it’s hard to see leaders such as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) stepping aside. It is even harder to imagine that, after the 2028 vote, a newly elected GOP president and vice president would both resign to make way for Speaker Trump to reenter the White House. Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, nevertheless told the Financial Times in a piece published last weekend that Trump will run and win in 2028, even as he declined to elaborate on how that would work. “Trump’s not leaving,” Bannon said. “He’s going to be in your head for a long time.” Though there is no plausible scenario in which Trump could remain president beyond Jan. 20, 2029, Bannon might still have a point. Some of the factors that could make Trump an unusually powerful second-term president might enable him to exert political power even after he leaves the Oval Office. But they have also led him to act with less restraint than in the past, and the country will eventually see consequences from Trump’s second-term policy blitz. His tax cuts promise to add trillions to the debt, risking a fiscal crisis the likes of which Americans have never experienced. Despite the use of big U.S. bombs, elements of Iran’s nuclear program appear intact; knowing that the United States might not be able to destroy its nuclear capabilities, the regime could try to race to develop a nuclear weapon. The president’s erratic tariff policy risks stoking inflation and promotes corrosive uncertainty for businesses trying to plan and invest. His war on undocumented immigrants, marked by a provocative, militarized federal presence in Los Angeles, could bring more economic pain. The president has proved to be one of the most resilient American politicians ever to hold office, and the future might be better or worse than these predictions suggest. But, as Trump rolls out a new, massive tariff seemingly every hour, the bigger he goes, the higher the risk to the nation’s fortunes.
