Bharat Rakshak

saip wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 02:35Popcorn time?

Amber G. wrote: ↑05 Jun 2025 23:10 A hateful politician trying to divide the community, Zohran K Mamdani
The religious, regional appeal for votes is a first in NY politics.

I hope his opposition plays this clip of this abuser of Rama .. as attack ads

Rudradev wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 01:36 Trouble in MAGA-dise

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022?s=19

Amber G. wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 03:16

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 04:41 ...Probably they fixed the match...

• Increase debt by nearly $3 trillion, or roughly $5 trillion if made permanent.

• Increase the deficit to 7.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2026.

• Double interest costs between 2024 and 2034 to $1.8 trillion (4.2 percent of GDP).

• Increase debt from 100 percent of GDP today to 124 percent of GDP by 2034, 129 percent of GDP if made permanent, and 133 percent if interest rates remain high.

• Significantly front-load costs and back-load savings such that nearly three-quarters of the official primary deficit impact would be in the first four years and a quarter.

Rudradev wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 01:36 Trouble in MAGA-dise

“It begins with the critically important One Big Beautiful Bill that includes the LARGEST mandatory spending cut to the federal government in history (by almost 400%), the LARGEST tax cut in history, the LARGEST investment in border security in a GENERATION, along with arguably the STRONGEST collection of pro-growth provisions EVER passed,” Johnson continued.

Cutting expenditure by 400% is technically impossible. A percentage decrease indicates a reduction from an original value, with 100% representing spending reduced to zero. Exceeding this is not financially viable, as it suggests negative spending, which contradicts common financial practices.

vera_k wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 04:48 Agreed. Not a true fight unless Elon is deported for his student visa violations along with a check for $1000

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 04:21

saip wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 02:35Popcorn time?

I think you have to wait. Maybe for a long time.

chanakyaa wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 06:26

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 04:41 ...Probably they fixed the match...

My bet is that this is likely to be fixed match, may be, a much needed distraction to keep six pack Joe away from questioning "One Big Beautiful Bill", which will increase debt by $3-5 Trillion, more inflation, and stubbornly high interest rates, which is not desired. And, getting liberals back to EVs is a nice bonus.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/cbo-estimate ... ssed-obbba

• Increase debt by nearly $3 trillion, or roughly $5 trillion if made permanent.

• Increase the deficit to 7.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2026.

• Double interest costs between 2024 and 2034 to $1.8 trillion (4.2 percent of GDP).

• Increase debt from 100 percent of GDP today to 124 percent of GDP by 2034, 129 percent of GDP if made permanent, and 133 percent if interest rates remain high.

• Significantly front-load costs and back-load savings such that nearly three-quarters of the official primary deficit impact would be in the first four years and a quarter.

Lisa wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 19:55 ^ How do you nationalise a company in the US and where do you deport a US citizen to? Please!

Lisa wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 19:55 ^ How do you nationalise a company in the US and where do you deport a US citizen to? Please!

Mort Walker wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 20:07

Lisa wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 19:55 ^ How do you nationalise a company in the US and where do you deport a US citizen to? Please!

Listen to what people like Steve Bannon are saying. Basically use Defense Production Act to seize SpaceX assets.

Lisa wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 19:55 ^ How do you nationalise a company in the US and where do you deport a US citizen to? Please!

Amber G. wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 21:53 To understand the US - this says it all.
(People may remember it is coming from "father" of Kash Patel...

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When Kashu and Vivek were small they would play together in the parking lot while I was working in the motel.
Now Kashu is director of the FBI and Vivek is helping clean up the government with DOGE.
So proud of my son and his friends "

Rupa. K. Bose
A non-resident Indian's India
Rupa Bose, an IIM A alumnus, is a consultant, specializing in international business who frequently blogs at http://rupabose.com/

In the 1970s, India’s economy was growing 3-5% annually, and most opportunities were abroad. Perhaps half of our IIMA class has been overseas for at least some part of their careers. Many intended to go back to India; but most have not.

What makes a return so difficult?

Two things: we’ve changed, and India has changed.
The Delhi I grew up in and left behind was a sort of idealized bucolic place that exists in my memory, and may never actually have been. Bombay – not Mumbai then - was exciting and artistic, vibrant and accessible, a desi distillation of New York. India is even more exciting and vibrant now. Like many NRIs, I love visiting India, seeing friends, family, the sights, chasing down memories.

What stops us moving back?

The overwhelming irritations of inconvenience and pollution? Living in India, it was taken for granted that we’d cope with water shortages, power shortages, dirty air and streets, and poverty around us. It was part of the texture of life. Nowadays, it’s more crowded, with more pressure on the infrastructure, and the traffic problems traditionally associated with Kolkata are now true of every major city. Having lived away for so many years, it does bother me. I don't want it to, but until I’m acclimatized again, it will.

The differences in how things get done?

Connections, facilitation payments, ways to beat the system, ways to cope. Many I spoke to said it's only getting worse. I’m not trying to make an ethical judgment. Every society privileges certain ways of doing things. But it means re-learning a cultural language of coping, rebuilding the network of connections that allow effective functioning.

Finally, and possibly critically: Our American children?

Our children, growing up here, are not Indian kids. They may decide to live in India; I know some who have. But more likely, they identify as American, and don't want to move. They have lives here, and commitments.
Sometimes, I wonder about a parallel life in which we never left India, never became de-acclimatized. A part of me is forever lodged in Delhi and Mumbai, whether the real city or the imaginary ones. Then again, I've loved and left a number of cities all over the world. Perhaps one of the issues of moving worlds is a permanent state of mild nostalgia.

NB: This is here because "Understanding the USA" is a superset of "Understanding PIOs in the US". All of us our own lived experiences, our socioeconomic-religio-political biases, ...
"Understanding the US" is a gestalt of our own understanding of the US.

pravula wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 01:14 He is a US citizen now. His citizenship has to be revoked before he can be deported. There are provisions to do so under certain circumstances, like lying on his citizenship paperwork etc and has been done in the past. But that was for a person who was a nazi jailer iirc

saip wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 08:59

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 04:21

I think you have to wait. Maybe for a long time.

When two bi**es fight it is ALWAYS popcorn time and I have abig jar. Let us hope Melania is also deported and Baron with Musk.

Mort Walker wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 20:07 Listen to what people like Steve Bannon are saying. Basically use Defense Production Act to seize SpaceX assets.

Amber G. wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 21:53 To understand the US - this says it all.
(People may remember it is coming from "father" of Kash Patel...

A_Gupta wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 22:53 Under Trump an Indian looking girl young person (FTFY) who was out of status for three days, went back to India, got a new student visa, was placed in indefinite detention when she tried to reenter.

Of course the arbitrary application of the laws do not apply to white male billionaires, unless of course Trump is very determined.

pravula wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 01:14 He is a US citizen now. His citizenship has to be revoked before he can be deported. There are provisions to do so under certain circumstances, like lying on his citizenship paperwork etc and has been done in the past. But that was for a person who was a nazi jailer iirc

pravula wrote: ↑06 Jun 2025 07:44 pm
He is a US citizen now. His citizenship has to be revoked before he can be deported. There are provisions to do so under certain circumstances, like lying on his citizenship paperwork etc and has been done in the past. But that was for a person who was a nazi jailer iirc

New York: A naturalized American from India has been stripped of his US citizenship, the first case under a government initiative designed to clamp down on fraudulent immigration, widened under the Trump administration.

Baljinder Singh, 43, from Carteret, New Jersey became a naturalized citizen in 2006 after marrying his American wife.

But he arrived in the United States in 1991, flying into San Francisco without travel documents or proof of identity, giving his name as Davinder Singh, the Justice Department said.

He dodged a subsequent court hearing and was ordered to be deported in January 1992.

A month later he filed for asylum under the name Baljinder Singh, which he then abandoned after getting married.

Last Friday, a federal judge in New Jersey revoked his naturalization, reverting him back to lawful permanent resident, which means that he can be subject to removal proceedings.

"I hope this case, and those to follow, send a loud message that attempting to fraudulently obtain US citizenship will not be tolerated," said US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna, a Trump administration appointee.

The Justice Department said it was the first denaturalization under Operation Janus, a long-running Department of Homeland Security initiative against fraudulent immigration.

Here’s the story: In 1991, a 17-year-old Punjabi male with no travel documentation arrived in California seeking asylum. He was taken into custody, and a translator recorded his name as Davinder Singh. At his request, he was released to friends in New Jersey and ordered to appear in court in January 1992. When he didn’t show up to court on the day he was directed to appear, the court issued a deportation order. We don’t know if he left the country.

Less than a month later, someone with the same set of fingerprints but the name Baljinder Singh filed for asylum in the same New Jersey court. The court found that the case had enough merit to proceed. Eventually, Baljinder Singh became a citizen.

More than 25 years later, the government, under Operation Janus, matched the two sets of fingerprints and alleged that Singh intentionally used a fraudulent identity to get a second chance to seek asylum and get citizenship. In January 2018, the government officially revoked his citizenship.

At first glance, this case may seem straightforward.

But in an article forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, we explain how the discrepancy in name could have easily resulted from a translator’s error rather than from intentional fraud.

We don’t know exactly what happened to Singh. We have not been able to locate him, and no news articles about his case include interviews with him.

However, the evidence shows that the way denaturalization cases are being litigated makes it difficult for the justice system to distinguish between fraud and bureaucratic error.

For example, Singh lost his citizenship without ever appearing in court to defend himself, either personally or through an attorney. Our review of the 2017-18 court records reveals it’s possible he didn’t know a denaturalization case had been filed against him.

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 02:22
Are you talking about the Columbia student who self-deported to Kannedda? The same one who was leading anti-semitic protests with "cheen ke lenge azzadi, pyaar se lenge azaadi, ..."?

“To paraphrase the obnoxious and misleading public service announcements of the secretary of Homeland Security: Leave now, and maybe you’ll be able to come back again in the future,” said Bill Ong Hing, a professor and associate dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

A_Gupta wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 04:39

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 02:22
Are you talking about the Columbia student who self-deported to Kannedda? The same one who was leading anti-semitic protests with "cheen ke lenge azzadi, pyaar se lenge azaadi, ..."?

Contemptible.

We learned of this girl's detention because of someone else who was detained but released after 3 weeks or so.
This following is a second-hand report: https://medium.com/blog/what-its-like-t ... e1c46f8de1

A_Gupta wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 04:39

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 02:22
Are you talking about the Columbia student who self-deported to Kannedda? The same one who was leading anti-semitic protests with "cheen ke lenge azzadi, pyaar se lenge azaadi, ..."?

Contemptible.