Any guesses on the cabinet?
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Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS
Presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Monday he wants Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security Department, tapping an Obama-era mainstay who helped create the DACA program that protected “Dreamers,” but was also part of the team that expanded family detention.
He also was deputy secretary, under Secretary Jeh Johnson, when the department grappled with the first surge of migrant children and families in 2014 and 2015. The department dramatically expanded family detention — from 100 beds to 3,000 — and built the chain-link fence pens, now derided as “cages,” used to hold immigrants who were in the country illegally at the border.
All right, then.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Biden selects architect of DACA to lead DHS
Presumed President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Monday he wants Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Homeland Security Department, tapping an Obama-era mainstay who helped create the DACA program that protected “Dreamers,” but was also part of the team that expanded family detention.
He also was deputy secretary, under Secretary Jeh Johnson, when the department grappled with the first surge of migrant children and families in 2014 and 2015. The department dramatically expanded family detention — from 100 beds to 3,000 — and built the chain-link fence pens, now derided as “cages,” used to hold immigrants who were in the country illegally at the border.
All right, then.
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@Mik said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
Seems problematic.
If the GOP holds the senate, what do you think his approval odds are?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Why would I celebrate? There isn't going to be a Biden cabinet.
Not that I'm a democrat, obviously.
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@Mik said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
Seems problematic.
If the GOP holds the senate, what do you think his approval odds are?
@George-K said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
@Mik said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
Seems problematic.
If the GOP holds the senate, what do you think his approval odds are?
If it’s literally true they’re zero. Even in a dem senate it would be a problem.
I doubt it’s true though.
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@George-K said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
@Mik said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
Seems problematic.
If the GOP holds the senate, what do you think his approval odds are?
If it’s literally true they’re zero. Even in a dem senate it would be a problem.
I doubt it’s true though.
@jon-nyc said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
If it’s literally true they’re zero. Even in a dem senate it would be a problem.
I doubt it’s true though.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Mayorkas
In 2015, a Department of Homeland Security inspector general (DHS IG) report criticized Mayorkas' oversight of the EB-5 investor visa program, which offered lawful permanent resident status (green cards) to foreign investors who invested a half-million dollars into businesses that created jobs in the U.S. The program's popularity greatly increased under Mayorkas's tenure. The DHS IG report, which was the culmination of an investigation beginning in 2013, focused on allegations that politically connected businesses were given special treatment under the program, focusing specifically on the Sahara casino and hotel in Las Vegas, backed by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and an electric car company led by Terry McAuliffe and involving Anthony Rodham. The report concluded that "The juxtaposition of Mr. Mayorkas' communication with external stakeholders on specific matters outside the normal procedures, coupled with favorable action that deviated from the regulatory scheme designed to ensure fairness and evenhandedness in adjudicating benefits, created an appearance of favoritism and special access." The "fast-tracking" of approvals for individuals involved in the casino program was controversial because it was made over the objections of USCIS analysts "who were suspicious about the source of the funds."
The inspector general's report found that Mayorkas's acts did not violate the law, but did create an appearance of favoritism. In House Homeland Security Committee testimony in May 2015, Mayorkas expressed regret that his intervention created an impression of favoritism, but said his involvement was motivated by a desire to ensure that the applications were handled in accordance with the law: "I did not let errors go unchecked, but instead helped ensure that those cases were decided correctly, nothing more and nothing less.
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The Brad
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@LuFins-Dad said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/fullpage/500000-green-card-eb-visa-program-28662457
"Mayorkas declined requests for an interview for this report, and when ABC News caught up with him, he ignored the cameras and questions altogether."
BUT TRUMP WALKED OFF THE PODIUM WITHOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS!!!!
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Nothing in there about him selling them.
But he still may have trouble. It gives the GOP something to latch onto other than DACA.
@jon-nyc said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
But he still may have trouble. It gives the GOP something to latch onto other than DACA.
Yes. In politics there doesn't need to be much smoke for there to be fire. What is worrisome is that the fire will be fueled by a revenge factor, which of course has no place in politics, particularly national politics. "They did it to our guy, so now we're gonna do it to their guy!"
That's polarization for you. There is no more pulling together, no more working for the good of the whole. It's us versus those bastards!
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@jon-nyc said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
But he still may have trouble. It gives the GOP something to latch onto other than DACA.
Yes. In politics there doesn't need to be much smoke for there to be fire. What is worrisome is that the fire will be fueled by a revenge factor, which of course has no place in politics, particularly national politics. "They did it to our guy, so now we're gonna do it to their guy!"
That's polarization for you. There is no more pulling together, no more working for the good of the whole. It's us versus those bastards!
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A little late to cry " it's us against those bastards". We had someone who was fighting the peoples' fight against the political class but apparently he got voted out and we've handed it all back to the corrupt ruling class again because he hurt some people's widdle feewings.....
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A little late to cry " it's us against those bastards". We had someone who was fighting the peoples' fight against the political class but apparently he got voted out and we've handed it all back to the corrupt ruling class again because he hurt some people's widdle feewings.....
@Larry said in Any guesses on the cabinet?:
A little late to cry " it's us against those bastards". We had someone who was fighting the peoples' fight against the political class but apparently he got voted out and we've handed it all back to the corrupt ruling class again because he hurt some people's widdle feewings.....
That's about right
He's not unique, plenty of others will pick up the cause
