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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #3927 - Immigration and Science/Non-science -Camestros Felapton



Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #3927 - Immigration and Science/Non-science -Camestros Felapton

Some of this post has been in the queue for a long time.

The immigration situation grows ever more horrible and atrocious as the actions of ICE driven by this administration and its "president" show more and more that comparisons to Nazis and Gestapo are warranted as are claims of racist actions and "policies."

We need to take our country back from those who seek to destroy it (and here, I do NOT mean those who emigrated from other countries).

Some recent news and then older content.


Supreme Court to review controversial policy at US-Mexico border to limit asylum seekers

Maureen Groppe and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY
3 min read


WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court will decide whether the federal government can turn asylum seekers away at the U.S.-Mexico border if too many migrants want the chance to apply.

The court on Nov. 17 agreed to review a practice known as “metering,” which has been used by both Democratic and Republican administrations.

The Department of Justice said the practice is a critical tool when there are surges of people at the border.

But lower courts said federal law allows migrants to seek assistance once they’ve reached U.S. territory.

Thirteen asylum seekers and the immigrant rights group Al Otro Lado challenged the practice in 2017 on behalf of migrants who were turned back to Mexico. Their lawyers said in a statement on Nov. 17 that turning asylum seekers back at the border was an "illegal scheme."

"Vulnerable families, children, and adults fleeing persecution were stranded in perilous conditions where they faced violent assault, kidnapping, and death," the lawyers said.

The DOJ didn't immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.

The 1986 Immigration and Nationality Act allows anyone “who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States” to apply for asylum.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the best way to interpret “arrives in” is that it doesn’t mean the same thing as “physically present,” which would be redundant.

Instead, the term “encompasses those who encounter officials at the border, whichever side of the border they are standing on,” a divided panel of judges said.

Otherwise, the court said, the law gives migrants an incentive to try to circumvent border crossings, something Congress likely did not intend.


The DOJ argues that that interpretation defies the plain text of the law.

“In ordinary English, a person 'arrives in' a country only when he comes within its borders,” the government said in its appeal.

The practice of not letting a potential asylum seeker cross through a checkpoint was used periodically during former President Barack Obama's administration, when border officers began turning away hundreds of Haitian asylum seekers at ports of entry in California.

Customs and Border Protection officers could stop undocumented migrants from physically setting foot on U.S. soil whenever they considered a border crossing too busy.

The policy was formalized during the first Trump administration, and the Biden administration rolled back the formal policy but allowed exceptions.

The current Trump administration told the Supreme Court it wants the option to formally revive the practice.

Managing the nation’s 1,900-mile border with Mexico is daunting even without surges of migrants that have repeatedly recurred in recent years, the DOJ said in its filing.

A district judge and the appeals court sided with the asylum seekers.

Lawyers for the migrants said the Supreme Court should not get involved because the government is now using other ways of controlling the border and is unlikely to bring back metering because it pushed asylum seekers to cross the border between ports of entry.

The administration’s appeal is expected to be heard next year and decided by the end of June.

This article has been updated to add new information.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Supreme Court to review 'metering' border policy for asylum seekers









https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-border-patrol-arrests-81-234716773.html

US Border Patrol arrests 81 on first day of Charlotte immigration crackdown

By Brad Brooks - Nov. 16, 2025

(Reuters) -Federal agents arrested at least 81 people in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend, a senior commander ​said on Sunday, marking a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s ‌mass deportation campaign.

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who led immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles ‌and Chicago before he arrived in Charlotte this week, said on social media early Sunday that agents made the North Carolina arrests within a roughly five-hour span on Saturday, their first day of operating in Charlotte. Many of those arrested had "⁠significant criminal and immigration history,"‌ Bovino wrote.

Neither the Border Patrol nor Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately responded to requests for comment on Sunday. The Department ‍of Homeland Security, which oversees those agencies, did not respond to a request for comment.

Mass deportation and strict enforcement of immigration laws have been a key part of U.S. ​President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda. Since Trump, a Republican, ‌took office in January, federal immigration agents have carried out raids in largely Democratic-run cities, along with more conservative rural areas.

The efforts have led to large protests in the impacted cities, with citizens often confronting immigration agents as they attempt to detain those suspected of being in the United States illegally. Immigration rights groups and ⁠others have accused the administration of illegally detaining scores ​of law-abiding citizens caught up in the ​raids.

DHS officials on Saturday said that the raids in Charlotte were a response to the refusal of local officials to comply with almost 1,400 ‍"detainer" requests ⁠by immigration officials to hold suspects for up to 48 hours beyond the time they would ordinarily be released.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, a Democrat, and ⁠city commissioners have urged people to seek help, including from the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Police Department, which ‌is not participating in the federal raids.

(Reporting by Brad ‌Brooks in Colorado; Editing by Diane Craft)











FROM - https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/reason-hell-deception-by-graphs/


Reason Hell: Deception by graphs

Which has this graph in it: 
The point of the image being: ‘look at that alarming rise’. Nicely, though, the graph itself is hosted here https://www.theatlas.com/charts/SyQXAao3e and you can download the data such that it is
Throwing into the mix the actual US population for the historical years and looking at those figures as a proportion gives:
popproportion
This graph tells a different story: a return to a historical norm rather than a change of character. A baby boom and some shifts in immigration policy leading to an unusual dip by the 1970s.








FROM -
https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/weird-internet-ideas-science-isnt-science/



Weird Internet Ideas: Science isn’t Science

It is deeply saddening that the anti-science attitude has become so entrenched on the right and in the government. However, it is nice to find all your targets standing in a row.
The minor good news is that watching the presentation and recognising the names, I’d already debunked this nonsense. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/dont-forget-climate-change-chapter-12-climate-science-venus-market-researchers/
Yes, this is the same warmed over nonsense I tackled when I went through a climate change denial book last year.
From the presentation:
armstrongiswrong
What I found then was that Armstrong and Green, to reach a conclusion that a forecast of global cooling was more ‘accurate’ than global warming, had to make the following errors:
  • Use only ONE warming scenario
  • Use a cooling scenario smaller in magnitude to the warming scenario
  • Use a retroactive forecast using the warming scenario that does not actually correspond with the warming hypothesis (specifically using modern rates of warming for the mid 19th century)
  • Ignore more recent data (specifically from 1975)
What was even more notable was that some of these problematic steps were in violation of their own ‘principles of forecasting’.
There’s more, but I’ll come back to it later.


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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2511.18 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3792 days ago & DAD = 446 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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