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December 26, 2024

Cartels turn to social media to lure Americans into human smuggling as Texas enforces stricter laws..Texas Tribune

Thousands of people have been arrested under Texas’ human smuggling law. Now they face at least a decade in prison under sentencing guidelines that took effect this year.
Texas law enforcement made 1,400 human smuggling arrests the year before Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in early 2021. By 2022, the number had exploded to 17,500.
A Tribune review of arrests made by the Texas Department of Public Safety — whose troopers have flooded the border under Operation Lone Star — shows that about half of the people arrested by troopers for smuggling each of the last three years were younger than 27. Teens younger than 18 accounted for roughly 6% of arrests each year.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/20/texas-mexico-border-human-smuggling-law-mandatory-minimum-sentence/

December 15, 2024

Freddie Scott...Hey Girl

December 4, 2024

David Feldman Comments: Biden Pardon; Russian approval & overview of Trumps appointments, Repub's Med Adv for VA



16:30 to 17:40 Russia approval of Trump's appointments on Russia TV
19:00 to 36:00 Discussion of Trump's appointments (some lesser mentioned ones as well)
36:00 to 41:00 How they are converting VA to Med Advantage


November 17, 2024

What to do differently next campaign, Deputy atty gen pick, discussion on future cabinet. David Feldman


David's videos are quite long, but I just want to point out a couple parts ....(most of the discussion was on Trumps appointments but)

6:00 to 9:00 minutes : Discussions of raising & spending $, did we spend too much on consultants soliciting for more contributions?

my thought: I'm still getting solicited for money contributions. Imagine a person struggling to get by who early contributed a few dollars to the campaign, and is thus rewarded by 10 emails everyday thereafter soliciting $....do you think they might be turned off a bit by those emails?

14:00 to 16:00 minutes: The Mid-Terms: "Maybe next time we have less celebrities, and instead set up outside rally's areas to help people like food distribution, Dr;s , Dentists, & car repair to help people repair a busted taillight so they don't get pulled over."

my thoughts: we should show who we care about....

56:00 to 57:00 Appointment of Tod Blanch as Deputy Atty General: "the President of the US his defense lawyer is like they're just getting rid of all pretense that the Justice Dept is going to be anything other than Trump's personal law firm"









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Retired, 77 years old, lifelong Democrat
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