3312

More detail here on how this was a patternof all news releases.

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However… not having to work for some insane jerk who makes unreasonable and suicidal schedules that destroys your will to live? That’s worth something. The crap my niece has to deal with working at McDonalds and a friend who works the phones for an insurance company. They’re great employees, been there for years and yet have never had solid schedules. Morning, then evening, never getting two days off in a row despite pleading for them even offering to work weekends. The schedule itself runs them into the ground before the work. I’m sure the business’s could do something reasonable so they get their days off together like normal.

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This sort of thing is generally a function of having fewer employees than are necessary to normalize a schedule. As you say, in all likelihood the employer could hire a few more people, perhaps even one more person, and the result would be schedule sanity. But they’d be paying for more hours and employment expenses, and they don’t want that.

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My oldest daughter has run into this with her jobs, retail (Victoria’s Secret), a restaurant job and now working for a non-UPS owned UPS store. In all three she never knew her schedule until shortly before the work week started. In at least the retail store they probably had more employees than they needed and so limited most everyone’s hours. In the other two they probably did have fewer employees than actually required, but still hours were kept limited. She now actually manages one of the UPS stores.

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The same officer then asked him to unlock his phone and laptop, and left to search them for roughly five hours, Ajjawi alleges. After the search, the officer questioned him about his friends’ social media activity.

“When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell them about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all,” he wrote. “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.”

Ajjawi wrote that he told the officer he had not made any political posts and that he should not be held responsible for others’ posts.

“I responded that I have no business with such posts and that I didn’t like, [s]hare or comment on them and told her that I shouldn’t be held responsible for what others post,” he wrote. “I have no single post on my timeline discussing politics.”

The officer then canceled Ajjawi’s visa, informed him he would be deported, and allowed him a phone call to his parents.

3318

Fuck this whole administration and all the shitheads that feel enabled by it. I say some pretty anti-US stuff on my social media pretty regularly. So if I have a friend with a Visa, they could be deported now as well?

3319

Remember, it’s not censorship if you “willingly” choose to moderate your own criticisms! /s

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I’ve never really understood the concept of the “swamp” and why it so appeals to certain Republicans, why Trump is their banner-bearer, and why they see him as their class hero.

But the inability of Trump to build the wall is evidence of what “the swamp” means to them, which is the inability of government to do anything. It’s entirely in character for Trump to promise to pardon everyone if they just “get it done” and why his supporters will cheer if and when he does.

I mean i just never really got their thought processes until i spoke with some and understood their frustration at winning both the legislature and executive and still not getting their wall (setting aside the justice or legality of it). It’s also why i think they’re increasingly leaning toward anti-democratic strong men.

3323

Some leading Dem should tell the White House Staffers that they should not be worried in the short term – no charges will be filed before January 2021 at the earliest, so they have plenty of time to get lawyers, etc.

3324

And also no charges will be filed then, because we’ve got to look forward, not back!

3325

This will be popular with the troops

3326

Yeah, this is holy to the power of shit.

3327

I’m confused:

Previously, children born to U.S. citizen parents were considered to be “residing in the United States,” and therefore would be automatically given citizenship under Immigration and Nationality Act 320. Now, children born to U.S. service members and government employees, such as those born in U.S. military hospitals or diplomatic facilities, will not be considered as residing in the U.S., changing the way that they potentially receive citizenship.

Does this mean that U.S. Citizen service members who are overseas have less rights than non-service members overseas? Or does this apply mostly to non-citizen employees? Or are they changing the rules for all US citizens abroad?

3328

It means… we’re going to have a mess and expensive court battles around whether or not someone is “really” a citizen, probably all them not white because no one questions the other one.

3329

I’ve been trying to make sense of that for the last couple of hours. I’m not sure that it has the effect of nullifying the notion that child born of US citizens is a US citizen regardless of location or not. I think it does not, but in that case I can’t figure out what the intent of that particular change is.

In any event, the notion that children of US citizens are more or less automatically citizens is enshrined in law and the constitution and Trump’s executive orders / rules changes can’t really revoke that.

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Well presumably it means non-citizen government workers and service members, at least if it is the case that their children are automatically citizens

3331

Seems like that would be communicated much more clearly if you dropped the “service members / employees” bit, and just said:

those born in U.S. military hospitals or diplomatic facilities, will not be considered as residing in the U.S.

I.e. it doesn’t contradict other ways they might be citizens by birth, but it simply means that military hospitals are no longer “US territory” for purposes of citizenship.