Trump Admin Deports German Tourists For Not Booking A Hotel

 

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As a European, this story is one of the least shocking ones that we hear over here. How about arresting a young british girl because she was backpacking through the US, and when the police stopped her for an identity check, she told them that she either sleeps in her tent, or asks people for a place to sleep, and in return then did some chores around the house. That was not a smart move: she had a tourist visa and that doesn't allow you to work in the US. Yup: because she confessed to 'working' (doing some chores in return for a place to sleep), ICE was called and she was imprisoned for 19 days in a cel where the lights were on 24/7. She was malnourished when she was finally deported. During her imprisonment she was denied sanitary pads and had to make do with toilet paper. She was brought to the airplane on which she was deported in shackles like we see in the movie 'silence of the lambs'. That was filmed by the (British) crew from the airplane. Now do you tonedeaf americans understand why people all over the world avoid traveling to the US if possible? You have always had a very dubious reputation because of police brutality, but now you are going full gestapo.

German here. The US is not a destination for holidays anymore. Like I don't go to Russia, China or North Korea either. Just go to parts of the world where normal people live...

59yo German. I do not take kindly to anyone abusing teenage girls, let alone from my country. Curtailing their freedom of movement and putting them in prison together with real criminals without the slightest excuse is in my opinion a form of abuse, whatever ICE says. I am sorry for all decemt Americans whose reputation is ruined by those thugs in uniform. But as we Germans once learned the hard way, voting evil bullies into government tends to have bad consequences for everyone.

I'm European . Anybody I know will not visit USA till Trump pass away

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The Trump administration deported two German tourists that had traveled to Hawaii after holding them in detention for over 24 hours. The "crime" that the two women committed was that they hadn't pre-booked a hotel, which the administration thought could be an indicator that they were there to commit crimes. Not only was there no evidence to support this accusation, but the punishment comes AFTER the crime, not before it. Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.newsweek.com/germany-tour... Follow me on social media! https://bsky.app/profile/farronbalanc...   / farronbalanced     / farronbalanced   https://www.threads.net/@farronbalanced   / farronbalanced     / farronbalanced   Listen to my videos in an audio format by subscribing to my podcast: https://farronbalanceddaily.buzzsprou... Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected!

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There’s an old, overused saying that there are “two kinds of people in the world,” and while real life is never that simple, I do think that framing helps us understand this moment. On one side, we have those who helped Donald Trump rise to power and now double down, defending his regime no matter how far it goes. On the other, we’re seeing people—some with massive platforms—who were once complicit but are now sounding the alarm.

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• Not All Regrets Are Equal
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POLITICO Nightly: Are the Trump tariffs legal?

By Ankush Khardori President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the White House on April 22, 2025 in Washington. | Alex Brandon/AP TARIFFS AND THE TEXT — This week, the Trump administration offered its most extensive legal defense of the tariffs that it has imposed in recent weeks. The takeaway? The White House’s legal rationale behind its action is far weaker than you might have imagined. Boiled down to its essence, the administration contends that an emergency economic powers law passed in 1977, known as the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, grants the president the unfettered and judicially unreviewable power to impose tariffs across the globe. If only it were so simple. Congress – not the president – has the power under the Constitution to tax and impose tariffs , and it has delegated that authority to the president only in a handful of trade statutes . The IEEPA granted the president limited authority to impose things like economic sanctions in emergency situations, but there is no grant of tariff authority in the text of that law, and we were not in an economic emergency before Trump’s tariffs. It would not make sense to read broad tariff authority into the law, particularly since it was passed by Congress to limit the president’s emergency economic powers — not to give the president the power to disrupt, remake and possibly even tank the global economy whenever he wants. Any such reading would also run afoul of the Supreme Court’s relatively new “major questions doctrine,” which requires a clear statutory delegation of power from Congress when an executive action exceeds an undefined threshold of “economic and political significance.” In other words, it’s a relatively straightforward legal case against the tariffs . And the Justice Department’s responses to these arguments are at times hard to square with the Supreme Court’s approach to statutory interpretation and executive power under the current conservative majority. The government claims, for instance, that the president’s tariff authority flows from language in IEEPA that grants him the power to “regulate” the “importation” of foreign goods, but the argument suffers from several conspicuous shortcomings. For starters, it is far from obvious that the power to “regulate” includes the power to “tax.” The Framers, for what it is worth, did not use the terms interchangeably , and though the government’s briefs cite several definitions of the word “regulate,” none of them specifies that the term includes the power to tax or issue tariffs. In addition, the government relies heavily on a 50-year-old decision from an appeals court that permitted then-President Nixon to impose a broad tariff under analogous language in the Trading With the Enemy Act, a predecessor to the IEEPA. The outcome of the decision was debatable even at the time, but since then, the courts — and the Supreme Court in particular — have become far more wedded to textualism to guide their statutory interpretation, and more reluctant to read broad grants of authority into language that is arguably ambiguous. This decision cited by the Justice Department signed off on Nixon’s tariff, but the appeals court in fact went out of its way to disavow what is the Trump administration’s current position — namely, the idea that the president has broad and unfettered power in this area. The court specified that it was not approving “in advance any future surcharge of a different nature, or any surcharge differently applied or any surcharge not reasonably related to the emergency declared.” Then there is the major questions doctrine. The Justice Department argues that it does not apply here “because the doctrine does not apply to presidential actions, especially in the national-security and foreign-affairs domains.” At the moment, this is at best an open question — not one that has been resolved in the government’s favor. In fact, although the major questions doctrine is a relatively recent invention of the conservative justices, they have never addressed a situation like this one, and it is not clear that they would endorse the Justice Department’s proposed limitations. After all, the Trump administration has taken the position that the president directly controls every administrative agency , and if that is correct, the distinction between “presidential actions” and agency actions — which have been at issue in prior Supreme Court decisions under the major questions doctrine — becomes meaningless as a practical matter. Beyond that, there are many presidential powers that can be abused in a way that ultimately implicates the “national-security and foreign-affairs domains.” The world is big, complex and interconnected. That does not necessarily mean that the president has the power — or should have the power — to upend the global economy. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . 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The president announced plans on Monday to travel to Italy later this week for Pope Francis’ funeral. excerpt:  Leavitt said the trip is intended to help “strengthen ties” with the Middle Eastern countries. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have provided diplomatic support to the Trump administration in recent months, including assisting with ceasefire negotiations for the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. — Supreme Court appears to favor opt-out option for LGBTQ readings in school: A majority of justices sounded inclined to require public schools to provide parents with an opportunity to opt their children out of certain storybook readings as the Supreme Court grappled with a case about religious freedom today. 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