📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Images of “deportation flights” swept social media on Friday after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted striking pictures capturing illegal aliens waiting to leave the country. “The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors,” Leavitt wrote on X. “The Trump Administration also deported hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals via military aircraft. The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway. Promises made. Promises kept,” she said. Why are they still getting paid? Get rid of them and don't give them any more money! I think they are not going to get paid. In the Eastern U.S. where I grew up, being "laid off" was kind of a temporary thing when the work slowed down. But here in California, if you are laid off, it's permanent, you are gone. And the article does say, they will first be put on paid leave (who knows for how long?) and agencies are told to develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management-- a "reduction-in-force action" against those federal workers. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and told agencies to develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management. The memo follows an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government's diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. The memo direct agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday and take down all public DEI-focused webpages by the same deadline. Several federal departments removed the webpages even before the memorandum. Former President Joe Biden spent his last days in office doing what he does best, which is, of course, nothing good for the American people. Biden gave pre-emptive pardons to members of his family, Dr. Fauci, General Mark Milley, and January 6 committee members — allegedly to stop Trump from taking swift revenge on them. “I don’t know about you, but I have a real problem with somebody giving people who work in the government blanket pardons for anything that they might have done wrong. That just doesn’t seem like American justice, and it doesn’t seem like a system where you could hold people accountable for what they’ve done wrong,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. “If I were one of the people that Biden pardoned, I would be very upset. First of all, it makes it sound like they did something wrong, even if they didn’t, and second, it denies them their Fifth Amendment rights, so they can now be held in front of Congress and investigated completely,” Dershowitz tells Glenn. “So I don’t think Biden did them any favors, and he also set a dangerous precedent,” Dershowitz continues. “I just don’t understand why Biden did that after violating his own promise to the American public when he said he wouldn’t pardon his own son.” However, this might be a good thing for President Trump. “For President Trump, it probably establishes a good precedent because he now has much more flexibility in his pardons he can issue,” Dershowitz explains. https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/biden-pardon India has reportedly offered to repatriate all of its citizens who are currently residing illegally in the United States. While India has historically complied with the U.S.' repatriation flights, New Delhi is signaling early cooperation with President Donald Trump's administration to avoid potential visa restrictions and stricter trade policy, a Tuesday report from Bloomberg revealed. India seeks to ensure its citizens can continue to enter the U.S. with student visas and through the H-1B program. According to government data, 72% of the H-1B visas granted in 2023 went to Indian nationals. U.S. officials have reportedly identified more than 18,000 illegal Indian nationals for deportation. However, the figure could be significantly higher, sources indicated to Bloomberg. Customs and Border Protection data reveals that agents encountered more than 18,000 Indian nationals in the first three months of fiscal year 2025. The previous year, nationwide encounters of Indian nationals exceeded 90,000. Yet, immigrants from India account for only 3% of total illegal crossings. A report from the Department of Homeland Security estimated that there are roughly 220,000 Indian nationals in the U.S. illegally as of 2022. Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India's Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg, "As part of India-U.S. cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration. This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the U.S." "The latest deportation of Indian nationals from the U.S. by a chartered flight is a result of this cooperation," Jaiswal stated, referring to an October repatriation flight that returned more than 100 illegal aliens to India. During the previous 12 months, over 1,100 Indian nationals were returned to their country of origin.
First Images of Flights Deporting Illegal Aliens Go Viral: ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept!’
Trump administration to put all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff on leave: