I think he was trying to help them get contracts now. The likelihood of a 2nd Trump admin seemed quite remote for most of the Biden term.
It was right before the election.
I think he was doing this contracting throughout the Biden term.
As for this happening all the time in, for example, academia, it still doesn't usually happen with fast food bags full of cash
And when I do software development contracting with larger organizations it doesn't happen either. When I've seen cash (or crypto) it's been for small orgs, sole proprietorships or a two person partnership. The first time I got paid in crypto I actually checked with my bank's branch manager to see if money coming from a crypto exchange is going to be an issue for the bank or the feds. He had no idea. A day later he called and said it no problem, at most someone might as what sort of work was the payment for if its sufficiently large. The cash payment I mentioned previously, the auto repair shop, he handed me an envelope in his office at the auto repair shop. I declared it on my taxes like I did with the crypto proceeds. No one ever asked me about either. Weird but it happens.
I know US conservative types love corruption ...
Then you do not know much. Politicians of all types love corruption.
Some people, when they find out that someone who is supposed to be on their "side" had a closet full of gold bars and cash stuffed into shoes and bags and things don't fish around for every excuse possible actually say to themselves "this guy is corrupt, we should not support him".
Actually that NJ Senator was known to be corrupt for decades and everyone in the party looked the other way, until they couldn't anymore.
Yeah, you know what I always used when doing freelance software development? A contract.
Deals with cash and crypto payments have contracts too.
I pointed out that the issue is that you never clearly state what you're claiming is wrong out what I said which was largely factual statement and only partially opinion.
Again, I read what you wrote and it was flawed. And I've explained that.
Clearly not irrelevant. Even you yourself wrote: "mmigration judges are part of the due process ". Note "part of" which was accurate, but that doesn't magically translate to regular judges somehow not having any say or being actual judges as opposed to "administrative judges".
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the topic, you have misinterpreted "part of". Immigration judges are part of due process as in not everything requires a judge and jury, that sometimes due process is an administrative process. Deportation is such an administrative process.
Remember that the context was you claiming that because Tom Homan said that some percentage had a removal order that somehow that meant that legal immigrants weren't being targeted.
Uh, no, is "legal" a typo? What I stated was the around 70% detained had either criminal warrant or conviction (domestic or foreign), a removal order, a national security order (ex from Iran), etc.
Since immigration judges are not the only authority, it's relevant that there are real judicial branch judges that can override them.
A higher judge can overrule them, but that is exceptionally rare. Again, the system has been setup to handle the normal common situations at an administrative level.
The point of the sarcastic response was you implying that all of the issues with the system are due to the specific cause of dealing with "fake" asylum claims.
No, I am pointing out that insiders are saying that the exceptionally long wait times are a result of the huge increase in claims from the Biden open border era, most of which are "fake".
I wasn't talking about that case at all. Although if you're bringing it up, you might need to look into the Tokyo convention and how flag jurisdiction works at international airports (for the excuse that once the plane landed, the US would lose jurisdiction, so it couldn't just land, not disembark the detainees, refuel and return). Also, you're ignoring that the people on the plane were detainees of the federal government, not of a civilian airline.
Tokyo is about jurisdiction regarding crimes committed aboard an aircraft. Not about a judge having operational control of civilian aircraft in international airspace. The federal guards on board and the detainees were passengers, not aircrew.
Considering that the country just passed its 250th anniversary and it's been less than a hundred years since that even became a thing, that's an obviously false statement. Not to mention that crossing the border and legally entering the country were actually distinct concepts for most of the time since. It was generally accepted that people could cross the border on the map, then present themselves to "enter" at a "port of entry". This was back when these things were run by people who had a good grasp of physical and geographical reality.
You mean by people facing a wilderness and a lack of infrastructure, roads, ports of entry, territories not states, etc. That is not the conditions today, even the US Mexico border. But yeah, ports of entry became a thing once we had mass immigration.
Traditional practices there were based on real world logistics.
Again, the port of entry system evolved because the real world logistics changed. Non-frontier, mass immigration.
Of course, once again, we're mostly not actually talking about people sneaking across the border into the country. The anti-immigrant faction always try to pretend that's the issue, but the main thing actually being discussed is people who came here legally, one way or another.
Nope. The issue is not with the legal immigrants. Trump often talks about the doors in that wall that so offends you.
