DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 12, 2025

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A White Aryan Nation?  That’s Us!  History being rewritten daily.  Most of it by Elon Musk.  For example:

DOGE Now Controls Federal Grants:

U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government’s long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive situation.

The changes to the process — which will allow DOGE to review and approve proposed grant opportunities across the federal government — threaten to further delay or even halt billions of dollars that agencies usually make in federal awards, the people said. The moves come amid the Trump administration’s broader push to cut federal spending and crack down on grants that DOGE and other officials say conflict with White House priorities.

Immigrants Are Now Officially Dead:

Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falselylabeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.

Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of technology experts, had pushed back on the Trump administration’s plan to move the migrants’ names into a Social Security death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages and, officials hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed with Scott Coulter, the new chief information officer installed by Elon Musk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was illegal, cruel and risked declaring the wrong people dead, according to three people familiar with the events.

But his objections did not go over well with Trump political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.

They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy — pushed by Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service and the Department of Homeland Security — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by government agencies, employers, banks and landlords to check the status of employees, residents, clients and others.

We’re witnessing a ‘flooding the zone’ with so many similar actions that the intent behind them is clear:  Amerika must be a dominant white nation again.

Which could only happen with mass capitulation.  As in:

More Law Firms Cave:

Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action by President Trump reached deals on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to causes supported by the president.

Four of the firms — Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett — each agreed to provide $125 million in pro bono or free legal work, according to Mr. Trump. A fifth firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, agreed to provide at least $100 million in pro bono work.

With the latest round of deals, some of the biggest firms in the legal profession have agreed over the past month to provide a combined $940 million in free legal services to causes favored by the Trump administration, including ones with “conservative ideals.”

Why were these firms targeted?  Same as the others:

Everything else is the same as all the other firms statement of capitulation or Trump’s version of it for them.

The only thing different is that they were all sent notices on March 17th from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that were now rescinded. The letters probably said they were under investigation for having DEI policies, which has been turned on its head to mean racial discrimination against white people.

White people have been discriminated in the US for centuries.  That’s the New History.

Looks Like Trump Might Cave On This.  He may suddenly discover that farm workers aren’t gang members, drug mules, and pro-Palestinian.  As long as they work for pennies on the dollar:

Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations was always reliant on a degree of shock and awe. Fear and intimidation were both means and ends. But recently, the administration has had to slow down or even abandon individual deportations in the face of strong popular resistance. And now the president is signaling another huge exception to his deportation policy.

“We’re also going to work with farmers,” Trump said Thursday. “If they have strong recommendations for their farms for certain people, we’re going to let them stay in for a while. . . . We have to take care of our farmers and our hotels and various places where they need the people.”

‘We’re going to let them stay for awhile’.  Turn that phrase over in your heads a few times.

Trump Defies Court On Bringing Back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  Utterly Kafkaesque.

The Trump administration defied a court order on Friday, telling a judge in writing and verbally that it could not provide information about a man that it admitted it wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison.

At the court hearing, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis for the District of Maryland repeatedly asked a DOJ lawyer to provide basic information about the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported on March 15.

“I have a simple question: Where is he?” Xinis implored more than once.

Each time the judge asked, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign was unable to answer the question. He said he had no personal knowledge and that Trump administration officials were still assessing what they could and would tell the court about Abrego Garcia.

“The Supreme Court has spoken quite clearly, yet I can’t get an answer from you about what has happened,” a visibly frustrated Xinis said.

Ensign repeatedly refused to budge. He said that the administration needed time to interpret the Supreme Court’s ruling mandating that it comply with Xinis’ decision to facilitate Abrego Garcia return. In an earlier written filing on Friday, the administration did much the same: It said that it would not comply with a request for information about its efforts to release Abrego Garcia because Xinis had provided too short a deadline.

Ensign contended that Xinis should have asked for more briefing from the Trump administration after the Supreme Court’s ruling before issuing her new order demanding information on the status of the Abrego Garcia. The judge strenuously disagreed.

“My words are clear,” Xinis said.

After being stymied from learning of Abrego Garcia’s current status, Xinis turned to the question of what the Trump administration had already done to try to facilitate his release. Xinis noted that the administration had been under her deadline beginning last Friday and continuing until last Monday, when the Supreme Court lifted the deadline. Ensign said the administration was not prepared to provide that information, at one point suggesting it may raise new claims of privilege to avoid responding.

Bottom line: They’re not gonna do anything to bring him back, and there’s nothing the Court can do to make them.

They can, and will, however, continue to deport students:

Eight University of Delaware sponsored visa holders have had their visas terminated by the Department of Homeland Security.

Three current students and five former students on post-graduation Optional Practical Training work authorization had their visas revoked.

The federal government gave UD no advance notice of the decisions, and the ACLU of Delaware says many of the students also didn’t get any advance notice.

ACLU of Delaware Executive Director Mike Brickner.

“We would very much like to hear from students who have had their visa revoked, because we’re very concerned about the constitutional implications for this that when you have your visa revoked, it should only be for very specific reasons according to federal law, and that the students should have due process that they have a right to be notified. They have a right to challenge that revocation,” said Brickner.

Brickner notes those who had their visas revoked are in danger of being detained or deported at any moment.

He adds the visas revoked weren’t expiring, and there’s been well over 400 known cases of student visas revoked nationwide.

At least one Delaware school is taking action:

Meanwhile, Delaware State University President Tony Allen has joined an amicus brief filed by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration opposing the policy of targeting non-citizen students and faculty.

I could keep going, but I think I’m already stressing everyone’s attention span.

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