Posted on 01/22/2024 3:04:52 PM PST by Mariner
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said negotiators have yet to agree on a border security deal that could unlock President Biden’s emergency supplemental request including aid for Ukraine.
“We remain hopeful, but it’s certainly not a done deal yet. There are a handful of issues that have not yet been agreed to,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “On something as complicated as the border, it’s not just what we do that matters, it’s how we do it. So negotiations are not done yet.”
Schumer noted that he remained in contact with negotiators throughout the weekend.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), one of the lead negotiators, indicated last week that a deal could come together imminently, but he said Monday that an agreement might be days away still.
Lankford, along with Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), have led talks alongside top administration officials for weeks, with all of those involved noting the complexity of writing an immigration measure.
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Dims are sitting pat.
Republicans will get nothing but lip service and lipstick.
Whatever ChuckU wants stinks for the Citizens of the USA.
Not a DONE deal? If we deal with the dims, we are ALL DONE!
Quotes from the 1951 Refugee Convention:
Article 23 - Public relief
The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.
Article 34 - Naturalization [and giving the military age male invaders the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]
The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees
Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the Left wants it settled, and then it is settled.
The only way to end that truism is for the nation to have a leftectomy.
The US has zero obligation to follow that treaty when those to our south are funneling economic refugees up to us by the millions.
Please President Trump - empty the Gulag and put Schumer in there!
“Ukraine”
WIKI
The Flying Tigers began to arrive in China in April 1941. The group first saw combat on 20 December 1941, 12 days after Pearl Harbor (local time). It demonstrated innovative tactical victories when the news in the U.S. was filled with little more than stories of defeat at the hands of the Japanese forces, and achieved such notable success during the lowest period of the war for both the U.S. and the Allied Forces as to give hope to America that it might eventually defeat Japan. AVG pilots earned official credit and received combat bonuses for destroying 296 enemy aircraft, while losing only 14 pilots in combat.
The American Volunteer Group was largely the creation of Claire L. Chennault, a retired U.S. Army Air Corps officer who had worked in China since August 1937, first as military aviation advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the early months of the Sino-Japanese War, then as director of a Chinese Air Force flight school centered in Kunming. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union supplied fighter and bomber squadrons to China, but these units were mostly withdrawn by the summer of 1940. Chiang then asked for American combat aircraft and pilots, sending Chennault to Washington as an adviser to China’s ambassador and Chiang’s brother-in-law, T. V. Soong.
Chennault spent the winter of 1940–1941 in Washington, supervising the purchase of 100 Curtiss P-40 fighters and the recruiting of 100 pilots and some 200 ground crew and administrative personnel that would constitute the 1st AVG.
Of the pilots, 60 came from the Navy and Marine Corps and 40 from the Army Air Corps. (One army pilot, Albert Baumler was refused a passport because he had earlier flown as a mercenary in Spain, so only 99 actually sailed for Asia. Ten more army flight instructors were hired as check pilots for Chinese cadets, and several of these would ultimately join the AVG’s combat squadrons.) The volunteers were discharged from the armed services, to be employed for “training and instruction” by a private military contractor, the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO), which paid them $600 a month for pilot officers, $675 a month for flight leaders, $750 for squadron leaders (no pilot was recruited at this level), and about $250 for skilled ground crewmen. Some pilots were also orally promised a bounty of $500 for each enemy aircraft shot down, and this was later confirmed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Chennault set up a schoolhouse that was made necessary because many pilots had “lied about their flying experience, claiming pursuit experience when they had flown only bombers and sometimes much less powerful aeroplanes.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers
I’m sure the USA has retired F-16 pilots who might enjoy retiring to Ireland (no extradition treaty with the US) in a Ukrainian-government purchased country house.
“Republicans will get nothing but lip service and lipstick.”
Oink! Ja! Oui! Si!
“The US has zero obligation to follow that treaty when those to our south are funneling economic refugees up to us by the millions.”
Leftist law school-educated judges will say otherwise.
Who in their right mind, would do that, when they are supposed to do this, anyway. Should tell them to go pound sand and do their job. Not negotiate.
I’m more concerned about walling off our money by constitutional caps on real property and income taxation.
that means... “its a done deal” bank on it!!
“Leftist law school-educated judges will say otherwise.”
No.
Trump has already refused to let them in with the “stay in Mexico” policy that Biden abandoned.
US law is clear on the matter.
WIKI
The Soviet Volunteer Group was the volunteer part of the Soviet Air Forces sent to support the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War between 1937 and 1941. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed leading to considerable Soviet military assistance to China, including the volunteer squadrons. China paid for the support with raw materials.
Starting from 1933, a German mission headed by Hans von Seeckt provided crucial military support to the government of Chiang Kai-shek, reorganizing the army and providing training and modern arms. German aid began to wane in 1937 and was cut completely in May 1938, as Adolf Hitler realigned himself with Japan and Manchukuo instead.
In September 1937, a secret decree issued by the Soviet Orgburo ordered that 225 aircraft, including 62 Polikarpov I-15, 93 Polikarpov I-16 and 8 Yakovlev UT-4 trainers, be sent to China. In March and July 1938 as well as in July 1939, China received loans of 50, 50 and 150 million $ respectively, with an annual interest of 3%. The loans were to be repaid through exports of tea, wool, leather and metals. Upon a Chinese request the Soviets also agreed to provide military advisors and volunteer pilots. The first group of military advisors arrived in China in early June 1938. By February 1939, 3665 Soviet military specialists headed by Mikhail Dratvin had been deployed.
In October 1937, some 450 Soviet pilots and technicians assembled in Moscow, subsequently traveling to Alma Ata to bring 155 fighter aircraft, 62 bombers, and 8 trainers into China. The Soviets arrived as private citizens and initially wore civilian clothing, the mission remaining a secret even from their closest relatives. They were instructed to avoid using the term comrade, and in the event of their capture they were to claim that they were former members of the White movement permanently residing in China. Prior to each mission, the pilots changed into Chinese uniforms, whilst their planes were marked with Chinese Air Force insignia. By 1941, the Soviet-built aircraft sent to China would amount to 885, including two-engine and four-engine bombers, though the latter were never used in combat. Apart from the aforementioned I-15, I-16 and UT-4, the Soviets also supplied Tupolev TB-3, Tupolev SB, and Ilyushin DB-3 bombers. Over 1,200 aircraft had been sent to China by the end of 1941. At the time of the arrival of the first Soviet volunteers, the Chinese Air Force had been reduced to less than 100 serviceable aircraft. These were machines so outdated that the Soviets described them as a “museum of antiquity”
The Soviet squadrons were withdrawn after the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939. As a result, the Chinese turned to the United States, which authorized the creation of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Volunteer_Group
“stay in Mexico” policy
That was an anti-Covid measure.
The 2024 Election Fraud Virus has yet to be released into the wild.
“US law is clear on the matter”
Mayor Adams and the Mayor of Chicago would surely like to hear from any lawyer that can prevent their cities from becoming majority Hispanic.
Remember the Irish and Italian mayors!
If a perfectly secure US/Mexico border was created the invader flights will head to Canada (instead of Mexico and Central America), where ‘Fidel Junior’ will have them led southward.
If a perfectly secure US/Mexico border was created the invader flights will head to Canada (instead of Mexico and Central America), where ‘Fidel Junior’ will have them led southward.
I’m more than willing to give that approach a try.
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