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A_Gupta wrote: ↑29 May 2025 10:58 https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE rules that Trump does not have the power to tariff virtually every country, only Congress can do so.

Per Curiam: The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” and to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3. The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (“IEEPA”) delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world. The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.

KL Dubey wrote: ↑30 May 2025 04:29

Amber G. wrote: ↑28 May 2025 23:48 US green card new rule for lawful permanent residents in America
-Starting May 29, 2025, applicants must use the new Form I-90 to replace a Permanent Resident Card (Green Card). Older forms will no longer be accepted.

^^BTW, the form seems practically the same as the previous one. This appears a routine announcement on the USCIS site that the DDM is trying to use.

gakakkad wrote: ↑31 May 2025 06:34 Folks following that Vemuri kid incident in MIT?

https://www.jta.org/2025/05/30/united-s ... n-genocide

CT - I feel desi kids particularly girls are specifically targeted to such propoganda for social engineering purposes. we should explore this further.

KL Dubey wrote: ↑30 May 2025 04:35 Yes, a lot of people are too emotional/too gullible...

Amber G. wrote: ↑31 May 2025 10:22 Megha Vemuri, MIT Class of 2025 president, was (and her family) banned from attending the undergraduate commencement ceremony on Friday, May 30, 2025.



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Today it is Megha Vemuri of MIT
A month ago it was Ranjani Srinivasan
Last year it was Prahalad Iyengar
Before that it was Riddhi Patel

I hope they gets blacklisted and never lands a job in a civilized world..

Amber G. wrote: ↑31 May 2025 10:40 US President Donald Trump says, "Pakistan representatives are coming in next week. We're very close to making a deal with India. And I wouldn't have any interest in making a deal with either if they were going to be at war with each other..."

Cain Marko wrote: ↑31 May 2025 09:11 Just putting out there: speculation alert:

India will get a solid deal at every level post op sindoor and in return for it's acceptance of the ceasefire.

1. H1b quotas may increase, opt barriers reduced
2. Road to gc might get expedited and backlogs removed
3. Free trade deal for high tech, defence and electronics
4. F414 deep tot in exchange for f35 purchases?

Right now there's a lot of noise while deep and fundamental deals are being hammered out.

Tanaji wrote: ↑31 May 2025 22:44

Cain Marko wrote: ↑31 May 2025 09:11 Just putting out there: speculation alert:

India will get a solid deal at every level post op sindoor and in return for it's acceptance of the ceasefire.

1. H1b quotas may increase, opt barriers reduced
2. Road to gc might get expedited and backlogs removed
3. Free trade deal for high tech, defence and electronics
4. F414 deep tot in exchange for f35 purchases?

Right now there's a lot of noise while deep and fundamental deals are being hammered out.

With the greatest of respect and also for our selfish benefit: kindly let us know your supplier details so that we can partake of his product as well.

vera_k wrote: ↑31 May 2025 08:00 Its double jeopardy imo. Most Indian population is in urban areas that tend lefty. And then a surprising number of parents are penny wise pound foolish in sending students to public schools where they get brainwashed. I'm not seeing this later bit as much with Chinese origin kids.

On the flip side, this student is set up for a plum position in a future Dem administration.

KL Dubey wrote: ↑31 May 2025 23:44 This is a lot of unsupported speculation based on a single case. Vemuri is from Alpharetta GA and attended Alpharetta High School, which is of excellent quality. It is a well-to-do town with a very large concentration of Indians. There are no reports of systematic "lefty brainwashing" in that school (I know many people that send their kids there).

vera_k wrote: ↑01 Jun 2025 00:15

KL Dubey wrote: ↑31 May 2025 23:44 This is a lot of unsupported speculation based on a single case. Vemuri is from Alpharetta GA and attended Alpharetta High School, which is of excellent quality. It is a well-to-do town with a very large concentration of Indians. There are no reports of systematic "lefty brainwashing" in that school (I know many people that send their kids there).

Oh, its not a single case. I have personal experience. To be fair, there's no systematic brainwashing, just following social groups and cliques in school. What I see is a common sentiment that India must be doing something bad to Pakistan due to the size differential, and then extends out from there.

Next, Ivy/Mit applications further are not as objective as college entrance in India. It helps to take part in these social groups to boost the application.

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(@A_Gupta ji, why are posting that here? It belongs to Understanding the US thread.}

The US has rejected India’s May 9 notice at the World Trade Organization that proposed retaliatory action against Washington imposing steep import tariffs on steel and aluminium and said its actions were not safeguard measures, which is why it would not hold any discussion with New Delhi on the matter, people in the know said on Sunday.

Under the current circumstances, India may retaliate by proportionately suspending concessions given to American imports (for example almonds and walnuts) and levy higher customs duties on metals coming from the US, said the people cited above, requesting anonymity. The Indian notice was against the US’s February 10 decision to impose 25% levies on all imports of steel and aluminium effective from March 12. Now, the matter has been aggravated further as the Trump administration on May 30 doubled tariffs on the metals to 50% effective from June 4, citing national security.
Against the US measure to hike import duties on steel and aluminium to safeguard American metal industries, India on May 9 formally notified WTO that it could suspend “concessions and other obligations” granted to the US “after the expiration of 30 days from the date of this notification”, which would be June 8.

Reacting to India’s notice, the United States on May 22 informed WTO that India’s proposed retaliation was not consistent with the multilateral trade rules. Washington said the US tariffs on metals were “not safeguard” measures. “Accordingly, there is no basis for India’s proposal to suspend concessions or other obligations under Article 8.2 of the Agreement on Safeguards with respect to these measures,” it said in its latest communication to WTO.

On grounds that the tariffs are not safeguard measures, the US also declined to discuss and resolve the dispute with India, leaving the ball in New Delhi’s court.

Experts said high tariffs on steel and aluminium by the US are of critical importance to India. “For India, the consequences are direct. In FY25, India exported $4.56 billion worth of iron, steel, and aluminium products to the US, with key categories including $587.5 million in iron and steel, $3.1 billion in articles of iron or steel, and $860 million in aluminium and related articles. These exports are now exposed to sharply higher US tariffs, threatening the profitability of Indian producers and exporters,” said Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) founder and former Indian Trade Service officer Ajay Srivastava.

Gentry Beach, a US businessman and ‘Trump associate’, has reportedly been making deals for the Trump family in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Turkey. Beach visited all three countries after US President Donald Trump took office in January and even met Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus.

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As per Economic Times, Beach visited Pakistan on January 30 – within a fortnight of Trump taking office – alongside a number of investors in a company called White Bridge Global.

Beach is reportedly chairman of the company.

The visit was organised by Pakistan’s Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC).

Top military officials such as Army chief Asim Munir and Lt Gen Sarfaraz Ahmed are on the SIFC.

White Bridge and a firm called Apex Energy have seemingly signed a deal to explore placer gold deposits near the Indus River.

As per DNA India, Beach, who referred to himself a ‘Trump associate ,’ met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Top Pakistani ministers including the finance and foreign minister were present at the meet.

“America cares about Pakistan… You are our front face in the entire region,” Beach told Sharif.

Beach also said the US would invest in Pakistan across several areas.

... we need Pakistan you are our front face in this entire region and this is going to answer a lot of questions for a lot of people a country called Pakistan let me tell you this is a very proTrump environment and all they want is peace i looked in their leaders' eyes and all they wanted was for that American Eagle to come there do great things and partner together it's a totally misunderstood place in the world and these are the type of things that we need to fix pakistan is the type of place we need to be building a strong bridge to

check it out this Gentry talking with the Pakistan officials there's another cringe one too where he's talking with the uh president of Pakistan

...everything that happened prior to President Trump taking office I would disregard it the future looks incredibly bright between our two countries incredibly bright i wouldn't be here if I didn't believe that america cares about Pakistan and I believe that together we can be very very strong and we need Pakistan you are our front face in this entire region very important so I would just tell you um for us we believe that it's time to do business in Pakistan

he's a joke

we believe that both administrations will work together to make it a good business environment so we can all make money together and create opportunity together and Pakistan has something that America needs and America has something that Pakistan needs that's a wonderful situation for us to both be in

told you it was cringe

It was a trip of a lifetime — my kids knew India's stories & food but had never seen it."

"Meeting the PM was very special; they saw an Indian man with a white beard & instantly placed him in the grandfather category.

China is trying to dominate Asia. We need strong allies and no one is going to be stronger than India,

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Amber G. wrote: ↑03 Jun 2025 11:40

It was a trip of a lifetime — my kids knew India's stories & food but had never seen it."

"Meeting the PM was very special; they saw an Indian man with a white beard & instantly placed him in the grandfather category.

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US 2nd Lady Usha Vance:

A_Gupta wrote: ↑03 Jun 2025 07:19 @Vayutuvan asks:

(@A_Gupta ji, why are posting that here? It belongs to Understanding the US thread.}

For example, upthread on this very thread on this very topic of students becoming pro-Palestinian:

Thank you very much, I think I will ignore you henceforth and leave it to the moderator alone.

Happening today at the National Press Club in DC, there is an event honoring the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing, known as the Kanishka tragedy.

The event will be focused on the threat of terrorism on a global level and what we can do to protect ourselves from terrorism.

The event is calling for unity and peace amid a rise in global acts of terrorism, including acts of Islamic terror on US soil in the last 2 weeks.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑03 Jun 2025 07:19 I bring in an actual investigative journalist who studies this stuff - e.g., Asra Nomani has compiled a ....

I have been investigating CAIR for 22 years, and I can tell you unequivocally that @EliseStefanik is correct and CAIR must be designated a terrorist organization.

In October 2003, when I walked up to the front door of my mosque in Morgantown, W.V., an Egyptian American elder told me "Sister, take the backdoor." He was practicing a regressive interpretation of Islam that defines two of three mosques in America, throwing women into back halls, basements and balconies, judging us too sexy to be seen by men.

I called the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to defend the civil rights of Muslims. A Muslim convert, Ibrahim Hooper, its cofounder and spokesman, laughed at me, as he protested at the French Embassy, opposing a ban on hijabs in France, and he said: "You need to find another mosque."

When I protested that my civil rights were being violated, he responded: "We do American-Islamic relations. Not Islamic-Islamic relations."

That's when I learned first-hand that CAIR is a fake civil rights group, created with one agenda: to destroy the state of Israel. In its founding meeting in Philadelphia, FBI agents heard its leaders refer to Hamas as "Samah," the name of the terrorist organization spelled backwards.

CAIR features heavily in my book WOKE ARMY because its executives have waged character assassination campaigns on Muslim reformers, Jews, Israel, America and the West. CAIR used progressive politics and critical race theory to racialize Islam and penetrate the Democratic Party
@DNC
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Its national headquarters is in D.C., and its leader are spread through Northern Virginia, a legacy group of the Muslim Brotherhood organizations -- from Holy Land Trust to International Institute of Islamic Thought -- established over the last 60 years with a base at 500 Grove Street in Herndon, Virginia -- in my backyard, poisoning K-12 education, politics, higher education and America with its regressive interpretation of Islam.

Its Chicago executive director, Ahmed Rehab, used fake identities to create a website -- http://Loonwatch.com -- to defame America, the West, Israel, Jews and Muslim reformers like me who challenge their extremism. I filed a defamation lawsuit pro se, filed subpoenas and got the receipts from GoDaddy and other social media platforms, showing Rehab used his credit card to create Loonwatch to defame his enemies. It's all in my book.

CAIR is running an extortion racket on corporate America and the United States of America, exploiting freedoms in the West to push its ideology of Muslim supremacy, while demonizing whites, conservatives and anyone who stands in the way of Muslim supremacy and the destruction of the state of Israel and the anti-semitic harassment of Jews.

For America to survive, CAIR must have its nonprofit status revoked and it must be dismantled.

Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik
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CAIR is a terrorist organization and should be designated as such by the U.S. government.

Amber G. wrote: ↑04 Jun 2025 06:40 Let me share this .. very well written part by the same journalist.. (and I endorse her views about .CAIR .. and it is relevant to US India relations.