🆘 U.S. officials have discarded the idea of legal constraints altogether.

The day after the United States kidnapped Maduro and his wife in Venezuela,
the senior Trump aide #Stephen #Miller explained the administration’s thinking in an interview with the CNN host Jake Tapper.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength,
that is governed by force,
that is governed by power,”
Miller said.

“These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Neither Miller nor anyone else in the administration offered any real legal justification for launching a military assault on Venezuela
—an operation that killed at least 75 people.

There has been no legal justification, either,
for the plan Trump announced on social media to seize “between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels” of Venezuelan oil.

Instead, the State Department shared an image of the U.S. president emblazoned with the words
“This is OUR Hemisphere,”

and Trump styled himself in a Truth Social post as the
“Acting President of Venezuela.”

Now, the administration has begun to turn its sights on #Greenland.

A White House statement issued days after the capture of Maduro
claims that the United States
“needs” Greenland

and that acquiring the territory is a “national security priority.”

👉What is so troubling about the Trump administration’s words and actions is not just that the administration is breaking the law.

-- And it is:
⚠️the intervention in Venezuelaclearly violates the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force.

But more than that,

❌ U.S. officials have discarded the idea of legal constraints altogether.

The only constraint, Trump said in an interview with The New York Times last week,
is his “own morality.”

There is no real argument to defend the government’s behavior.

No pretense.
No attempt to persuade.

When a policy is announced in an online post,
without explanation or justification,
one has the unsettling sense that its makers see no need to bother cloaking it with a lie.

A system of #rules can survive some hypocrisy,
but #nihilism will bring it down.

At the same time,
the Trump administration is acting as though the threat or use of force alone can grant it legal entitlements.

#Gunboat #diplomacy, roundly renounced when war was outlawed,
has returned.

The United States is using oil blockades, coercive seizures, and military threats
to extract political and economic concessions from other countries.

This is an attempt to assert that power alone creates rights, regardless of reason.

🔥A world in which the powerful no longer feel the need to justify themselves is not merely unjust.
-- It is barbaric:

Operations to kill, steal, and destroy are severed from any claim of right.

That world does not have a legal order at all.

It has only force,
guided by one man’s whims.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-without-rules

A federal officer has 💥shot a second person in Minneapolis,
-- just days after Trump immigration hawk
#Stephen #Miller told ICE agents that they have
❌“federal immunity” to act as they like
— and that anyone obstructing them will face prosecution from the federal government.

In a Fox News segment shared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on X,
⚠️ Miller falsely said that it was a “felony” to obstruct
or even so much as touch
an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer while they’re on duty.

He repeated claims like Vice President #JD #Vance’s assertion that officers are “protected by absolute immunity”
that have been roundly debunked by legal experts.

“Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony.
You have immunity to perform your duties, and no one
— no city official,
no state official,
no illegal alien,
no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist
— can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties,” Miller said.

#Renee #Good’s killing has spurred the Trump administration to try to empower ICE agents to be even more violent and repressive
-- with comments like Miller’s suggesting that ICE officers can act however they please and get the full backing of the federal government.

Legal experts have said that this is bogus.

However, the Trump administration has carried out many illegal actions without consequence,
-- and federal agents have already been acting like they have immunity in conducting their horrific crackdowns and disappearances across the country.
https://truthout.org/articles/fed-agent-shoots-second-person-days-after-miller-claims-agents-have-immunity/

Donald Trump has ordered U.S. #special #forces commanders to draw up a 💥plan for the invasion of Greenland
-- but is being resisted by senior military figures.

Sources say that the policy 'hawks' around the US President,
led by political adviser #Stephen #Miller, have been so ⚠️emboldened by the 'success' of the operation to capture Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro
that they want to move quickly to seize the island before Russia or China makes a move.

British diplomats believe that Trump is also motivated by a desire to ⭐️ #distract #American #voters from the performance of the US economy before the mid-term elections later this year,
after which he could lose control of Congress to the Democrats.

According to sources, Trump has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan,
✅ but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be #illegal
- and would not be supported by Congress.

One source said: 💥'They have tried to #distract #Trump by talking about less controversial measures,
such as intercepting Russian 'ghost' ships
- a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Moscow to evade Western sanctions
- 🔥or launching a strike on Iran.'

Diplomats have war-gamed what they describe as an 'escalatory scenario' under which Trump uses force or 'political coercion' to sever Greenland's links to Denmark.

One diplomatic cable describes the 'worst-case' scenario as leading to ⚠️'the destruction of Nato from the inside'.
It adds: 👉'Some European officials suspect this is the #real #aim of the hardline MAGA faction around Trump.

Since Congress would not allow Trump to exit Nato, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to abandon Nato.
If Trump wants to end Nato, this might be the most convenient way to do it.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15452323/Donald-Trump-orders-army-chiefs-plan-invade-Greenland-President.html

#Stephen #Miller is ...
disgusting, revolting,
an asocial psychopath,
a wretch.

The fact that Miller is #WH Deputy Chief of Staff
says EVERYTHING there is to know about #Trump
the #MAGAs
and his administration.

Homeland Security Secretary
#Kristi #Noem had a baffling excuse Wednesday for a
⚠️federal agent shooting a U.S. citizen ⚠️
protesting an ICE operation in #Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Speaking from Brownsville, Texas, #Noem claimed that the officer had been responding to “an act of domestic terrorism.”
The secretary claimed that the victim had “attacked” a group of federal officers whose vehicle was stuck in the snow, attempting to “run them over and ram them with her vehicle.” An officer had “defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him” and killed the woman, Noem said.

⭐️Witnesses reported seeing something entirely different.

Emily Heller, a Minneapolis resident, claimed that the woman had been blocking traffic with her car as part of the protest earlier Wednesday.
When the woman tried to turn her car around, an ICE agent standing in front of her car leaned over the hood and 🆘 shot her in the face at least three times.

Another resident, Aidan Perzana, told Fox9 that he’d seen three ICE agents attempt to detain the driver.
When the vehicle suddenly reversed and then pulled away from the officers,
one of the agents shot through the driver’s side window three times.

Minnesota Representative #Ilhan #Omar indicated that the deceased victim was not only a U.S. citizen,
but a legal observer.

A video of the incident appeared to show that the woman’s car did not move toward the ICE officers,
but away from them.

❌Despite these stories, it seems that the Trump administration intends to run with its claim that the victim was a so-called “domestic terrorist.”

White House deputy Chief of Staff #Stephen #Miller also claimed that the victim had committed a federal crime. “Democrats continue to lend aid and comfort to domestic terrorism,” Miller wrote on X, responding to Minnesota Senator #Tina #Smith’s plea for ICE to leave Minneapolis following the incident.

Assistant DHS Secretary #Tricia #McLaughlin, who has spent the last several months spinning blatant #lies about immigration officers’ violent interactions with civilians, described the victim as a “violent rioter” who was attempting to kill the federal agents.

“This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement,” McLaughlin wrote on X.
https://www.tiktok.com/@cosplayermami/video/7592688141002132791?_r=1&_t=ZP-92sf7DtRJ6d

The Cuba-born Harvard economist behind Trump’s immigration crackdown

#George #Borjas has provided the intellectual underpinnings of the White House’s sweeping immigration policy changes, including restrictions on H-1B visas.

#Stephen #Miller has been the public face of the Trump administration’s unprecedented immigration crackdown and deportation campaign,
but a Cuba-born Harvard University economist who prefers a lower profile provided the intellectual underpinnings of Donald Trump’s sweeping policy changes until he left the White House on Friday.

In the 1980s and 1990s, George Borjas pioneered the field of "immigration economics".

In seismic papers, Borjas’s research described the drawbacks of immigration,
-- including his oft-cited,
though much-disputed,
findings that the arrival of lower-skilled immigrants hurts American workers who compete for jobs, especially poor people and African Americans.

More recently, his research has found new attention and urgency in Donald Trump’s second term:
Borjas, 75, worked as a top economist on the "Council of Economic Advisers",
a post he stepped down from last week.

Borjas is an immigrant and refugee who escaped Cuba for the United States in 1962 and later obtained citizenship
— a point of tension he has referenced in his writing.

“Not only do I have great sympathy for the immigrant’s desire to build a better life,
I am also living proof that immigration policy can benefit some people enormously,”
he wrote in a 2017 opinion piece for the New York Times.

♦️“But I am also an economist, and am very much aware of the many trade-offs involved.
Inevitably, immigration does not improve everyone’s well-being.”

One of Borjas’s direct contributions to the Trump administration this past year was his extensive behind-the-scenes work on Trump’s overhaul of the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers that added a $100,000 fee.

Borjas had previously written about the “well-documented abuses” of that program over the years.

The White House official said Borjas was among many Trump administration members involved in redesigning the H-1B visa program and confirmed that Borjas provided intellectual support for other Trump immigration initiatives last year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/07/trump-immigration-policy-george-borjas/

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