The Democrats and their brand.

Or even by their savior Trump.

I hope that will happen soon!!

Trump is absolutely ending investigations and oversight and fired at least 17 independent inspectors general. Just a few examples

www.pbs.org/newshour/show/inspectors-general-fired-by-trump-issue-warning-about-lack-of-oversight

The Trump administration's first weeks saw a wave of firings, including more than 17 inspectors general, independent watchdogs overseeing government waste, fraud and abuse.


www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/doj-disbands-crypto-unit.html

Justice Dept. Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit
The Trump administration is dialing back its enforcement of cryptocurrency, and criticizing Biden-era prosecutions

www.npr.org/2025/03/12/1237991536/trump-checks-on-power-firing-inspectors-general

The Trump administration continues to fire, shut down or defund independent elements of the federal government that traditionally work as a check on presidential power.


www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-all-supervision-companies-2025-02-09/

Feb 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was defanged over the weekend with all activities suspended, its upcoming funding facing a cut and its headquarters temporarily closed, removing a layer of oversight over consumer-facing financial companies.

The agency, a lightning rod for conservatives and the industry since its 2010 creation by Congress, was hobbled by its acting chief Russell Vought, who ordered staff to cease all "supervision and examination activity" and said he would zero out the agency's funding.


www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say

No he most certainly isn’t. 

Another example of Trump’s DOJ rewarding and encouraging criminal behavior. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-administration-reviewing-case-fbi-informant-convicted-lying/story?id=120718444

How quickly some have forgotten that one of Trump's first acts in office was to fire 17 inspectors general from different agencies across the government. IGs are tasked with rooting out fraud and corruption, acting as a check on the power of both the executive and the agency itself.

apnews.com/article/trump-inspectors-general-fired-congress-unlawful-4e8bc57e132c3f9a7f1c2a3754359993

At the time, Trump claimed he was going to replace the fired IGs with "better people," but I'm not able to find any evidence that has happened other than at DoD (though I'm betting Stebbins won't last long now that he's opened an investigation into Signalgate). Because, of course, all IGs will now be expected to look the other way when corruption or lawbreaking happens IF it benefits Trump or his people, or risk losing their jobs. That's what it means to be "better people" under Trump.

(As an aside, in case Elon is wondering, this is what a wall of receipts should look like. Not the meaningless nonsense currently posted on the DOGE website. www.oversight.gov/inspectors-general/department-defense-oig These investigations were all started during the Biden admin, of course.)

Additionally, of course, Trump has attempted to dissolve the CFPB, an entity that protects consumers from predatory financial practices. This has been litigated and the courts - including two of his own appointee judges - have determined that he can't dissolve it entirely. But he will still significantly shrink the bureau, limiting its ability to hold corporations accountable for their financial mistreatment of Americans. www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/politics/trump-cfpb-appeals-court-order/index.html

And in dissolving the DoE and specifically the part of it that investigates civil rights violations and failures to accommodate children with special needs, he is allowing public schools to get away with breaking those laws. In ending the 1965 order by LBJ to prevent discrimination in federal hiring, he is allowing and encouraging further civil rights violations.

So yes, it's fair to say that Trump is both allowing and encouraging various kinds of white-collar crime, including fraud, corruption, civil rights violations, educational rights violations, and fraudulent and predatory business practices.

I think that non-Trumpers need to come to the realization that Trumpers are cult members. There is no reason to even try to reach them. They are gone. It will take deprogramming to bring them back.

Trumpers are cult members

For 4 years libs/dems tried to convince everyone that biden was fully cognizant, competent and able to fulfill his duties as president.  That man couldn't find his way off stage, fell multiple times, couldn't up the climb stairs, couldn't hold a press conference for more than 3 minutes, couldn't answer simple questions, couldn't read off of a teleprompter, couldn't cognizently participate in a debate and fell asleep during meetings with foreign officials. 

All of this while the libs, the press and the press secretary tried to sell the American people that he was smart, competent and running circles around his staff (which we all know now is not even near the truth, based on several books that have recently come out), and told the American people that reports that biden wasn't competent, were “hearsay” and “fallacious".  The press secretary even stated that "I can't keep up with him", which didn't say much for her abilities.  

And you have the balls to call Trumpers "cult members"?  Now that's something I find incredibly laughable. 

100% this. I’m sure that’s how my ancestors got here too.

There was no screening aside from a quick check by a doctor on a boat

Wrong...they were documented, too.  Like they should have been. 

1. Ship Manifests:

Purpose:

Ship manifests were the official record of each immigrant's arrival, containing detailed information gathered at the port of departure.

Content:

Included details like name, age, occupation, destination, and other pertinent information.

Role:

Served as the foundation for inspection procedures and the source for official immigration statistics.


2. Medical Inspections:

Purpose: To ensure immigrants did not pose a threat to public health.

Procedure: Doctors on "the Line" at Ellis Island would conduct rapid physical examinations, including looking for signs of contagious diseases.

Focus: Examining immigrants for contagious diseases and assessing their overall physical condition.


3. Legal Inspections:

Purpose: To determine if immigrants were eligible to enter the United States.

Procedure: Legal inspectors used the information from the manifest to cross-examine immigrants, asking questions about their background, intentions, and financial situation.

Focus: Assessing whether immigrants were likely to become a public charge, had a criminal history, or had entered under false pretenses.


4. Documentation and Records:

Punch Card System:

The Immigration Service adopted a punch-card system to collect and tabulate data from the manifest.

Storage:

Manifests were filed at each port and then bound into books for storage and future reference.

Interpreters:

Interpreters were employed to facilitate communication between immigrants and inspectors, ensuring accurate record-keeping.
Most immigrants were released after a few hours, but those with serious health issues or deemed likely to become public charges were detained and potentially deported, says the Statue of Liberty — Ellis Island Foundation.

They saw the need to regulate the number of and type of immigrants even back then, and to make sure that everyone was documented:

Americans encouraged relatively free and open immigration during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and rarely questioned that policy until the late 1800s. After certain states passed immigration laws following the Civil War, the Supreme Court in 1875 declared regulation of immigration a federal responsibility. Thus, as the number of immigrants rose in the 1880s and economic conditions in some areas worsened, Congress began to pass immigration legislation.



The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 and 1887 prohibited certain laborers from immigrating to the United States. The general Immigration Act of 1882 levied a head tax of fifty cents on each immigrant and blocked (or excluded) the entry of idiots, lunatics, convicts, and persons likely to become a public charge.



These national immigration laws created the need for new federal enforcement authorities. In the 1880s, state boards or commissions enforced immigration law with direction from U.S. Treasury Department officials. At the Federal level, U.S. Customs Collectors at each port of entry collected the head tax from immigrants while "Chinese Inspectors" enforced the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The federal government assumed direct control of inspecting, admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States with the Immigration Act of 1891. The 1891 Act also expanded the list of excludable classes, barring the immigration of polygamists, persons convicted of crimes of moral turpitude, and those suffering loathsome or contagious diseases.



The national government’s new immigration obligations and its increasingly complex immigration laws required a dedicated federal enforcement agency to regulate immigration. Accordingly, the 1891 Immigration Act created the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration within the Treasury Department. The Superintendent oversaw a new corps of U.S. Immigrant Inspectors stationed at the country’s principal ports of entry.



Federal Immigration Stations

On January 2, 1892, the Immigration Service opened the U.S.’s best known immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. The enormous station housed inspection facilities, hearing and detention rooms, hospitals, cafeterias, administrative offices, railroad ticket offices, and representatives of many immigrant aid societies. America’s largest and busiest port of entry for decades, Ellis Island station employed 119 of the Immigration Service's entire staff of 180 in 1893.

The Service built additional immigrant stations at other principal ports of entry through the early 20th century. At New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other traditional ports of entry, the Immigration Service hired many Immigrant Inspectors who previously worked for state agencies. At other ports, both old and new, the Service built an Inspector corps by hiring former Customs Inspectors and Chinese Inspectors, and training recruits.



Implementing A National Immigration Policy

During its first decade, the Immigration Service formalized basic immigration procedures and made its first attempts to enforce a national immigration policy. The Immigration Service began collecting arrival manifests (also frequently called passenger lists or immigration arrival records) from each incoming ship, a former duty of the U.S. Customs Service since 1820. Inspectors then questioned arrivals about their admissibility and noted their admission or rejection on the manifest records.



Beginning in 1893, Inspectors also served on Boards of Special Inquiry that closely reviewed each exclusion case. Inspectors often initially excluded aliens who were likely to become public charges because they lacked funds or had no friends or relatives nearby. In these cases, the Board of Special Inquiry usually admitted the alien if someone could post bond or one of the immigrant aid societies would accept responsibility for the alien.



Detention guards and matrons cared for detained persons pending decisions in their cases or, if the decision was negative, awaiting deportation. The Immigration Service deported aliens denied admission by the Board of Special Inquiry at the expense of the transportation company that brought them to the port.



Enhanced Responsibilities

Congress continued to exert Federal control over immigration with the Act of March 2, 1895, which promoted the Office of Immigration to the Bureau of Immigration and changed the agency head's title from Superintendent to Commissioner-General of Immigration. The Act of June 6, 1900, consolidated immigration enforcement by assigning enforcement of both Alien Contract Labor laws and Chinese Exclusion laws to the Commissioner-General.



Because most immigration laws of the time sought to protect American workers and wages, an Act of February 14, 1903, transferred the Bureau of Immigration from the Treasury Department to the newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. An "immigrant fund" created from collection of immigrants' head tax financed the Immigration Service until 1909, when Congress replaced the fund with an annual appropriation.

It doesn't detract from the fact that they were still documented, every one of them that came over our borders.  Not like the last 4 years. 

As an aside about the Irish....
While the 1920s saw a shift in immigration policy with the Immigration Act of 1924, it wasn't primarily focused on deporting existing Irish residents. Instead, the law aimed to limit future immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe, by establishing national origin quotas. While some Irish immigrants, particularly those who were deemed "indigent" or "public charges," may have been deported due to existing state and federal deportation laws, the 1920s deportation of Irish residents was not as widespread as the act's impact on future immigration.

Here's a more detailed explanation:

1. Immigration Act of 1924 and its Impact:

The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, significantly restricted immigration by setting national origin quotas based on the 1890 census.

The goal was to limit immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as to further restrict Asian immigration.

This act didn't focus on deporting existing immigrants, but rather on limiting future immigration from specific regions.

2. Deportation of Irish in the 19th Century:

Deportation of Irish immigrants, particularly those who were indigent or deemed a "public charge," had a precedent in the 19th century, especially in states like Massachusetts.

State officials would check public records for people of different nationalities and remove them.

This was sometimes done by sending people to other states, like New York, or to Canada.

3. Irish Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment:

Nativist groups and some Americans had negative perceptions of Irish immigrants, often associating them with poverty, crime, and Catholicism.

These perceptions contributed to the 19th-century deportation of Irish immigrants deemed a burden on society.

4. Irish Immigration in the 1920s:

While the 1920s saw a significant wave of Irish immigrants, they were largely from the period after the Great Famine and before the restrictive immigration laws.

The number of Irish immigrants arriving in the 1920s decreased significantly after the national quotas were implemented.

In conclusion, the deportation of Irish immigrants in the 1920s was not as widespread or focused as the restrictions imposed by the Immigration Act of 1924. While some Irish immigrants might have been deported for being a "public charge" or for other reasons, the primary impact of the 1920s was to limit future immigration from specific regions, rather than to deport existing residents.