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California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D) wants to give free, taxpayer-funded legal aid to illegal migrants who have "been convicted of, or who is currently appealing a conviction for, a violent or serious felony."

The bill, AB 2031, would also "expand those qualifying services to persons having an intent to reside in and having a nexus to the state," and would include "legal representation and related services for removal defense."

California's most insane bill yet?

Meet AB 2031, a new bill just introduced by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer.

The bill seeks to grant illegals convicted of SERIOUS and VOlLENT crimes with legal assistance, such as helping them avoid deportation.

These services will be paid… pic.twitter.com/MiUS2zThPc
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 10, 2024
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This isn't the first time Jones-Sawyer has tried to slide money to illegals to help them remain in the country. Last year he introduced Assembly Bill 617 (failed) - which would have similarly provided illegal immigrants convicted of serious or violent felonies obtain taxpayer-funded grants to hire lawyers to fight deportation from the United States.

In 2017 California Democrats voted to create a government grant program called One California to provide $45 million per year in grants for nonprofits that provide defense and other legal services for low-income illegal immigrants.
Current law prevents illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious or violent felonies from accessing these taxpayer funds. AB 617 would change this requirement and expand access to these violent felons. -reformcalifornia.org
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"Not only is this offensive to taxpayers to have to pay for $45 million in legal bills for illegal immigrants — and possibly illegal immigrant violent felons, but it is offensive to treat non-citizens with the same or better benefits as citizens," said former San Diego City Council member and talk radio show host Carl DeMaio (R), chairman of Reform California, last April.

"For example, if a citizen got sued by the federal government for not paying taxes, they would never get a grant from their state government to hire a lawyer and fight the feds - but these illegal immigrants are," he added.
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President Joe Biden will consider conditioning military aid to Israel if the country moves forward with a large-scale invasion of Rafah, according to four U.S. officials with knowledge of internal administration thinking.

Biden’s openness to taking this step reflects the extreme strains in his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has rejected subtler efforts by the Biden administration to rein in his conduct of the war with Hamas.

While Biden has not made any decision on limiting future weapons transfers, officials said that he very well might do so if Israel launches a new operation that further imperils Palestinian civilians.

“It’s something he’s definitely thought about,” said one of the officials, who like the others, was granted anonymity to speak freely.

Biden has given varying indications of how he feels about future weapons sales to Israel. Last year, he called the idea of conditioning military assistance a “worthwhile thought.” In a weekend interview, he said that he would continue sending arms to the country, particularly the Iron Dome missile defense system that protects against Hamas rockets. But in that same interview, he said that mass civilian casualties in Gaza was a “red line” for him.

“You cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead,” Biden told MSNBC.

The Biden administration has used a bevy of diplomatic tactics to influence Israel. A movement toward conditioning aid could be another way to get Israel to shift its thinking about a broad Rafah campaign.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement to POLITICO that “we are not going to comment on speculation by anonymous sources or add to what the president said this weekend.”

But asked about Biden’s willingness to tie aid to future Israeli actions, White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton said “he thinks that there are other approaches which we have taken and are taking that are more effective.”

“I don’t think that it’s productive to assign a ‘red line’ sort of terminology to what is a very complex set of policies,” she told reporters aboard Air Force One. “You’ve seen the president be very vocal and forthright about what we think about the situation on the ground and what needs to happen from here.”

Shanna Kirschner, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at Allegheny College, noted how past administrations, including Republican ones, conditioned aid to Israel over policy disagreements. “If the situation continues, and it continues at the rate that we’re at right now, then that’s something that you have to consider,” she said.

The future of additional military aid has become less clear as Biden and Netanyahu’s relationship continues to sour.

Early in the war, Biden pursued a hug-in-public-push-in-private strategy with Israel, hoping that would allow the U.S. to maintain sway with Netanyahu and his far-right government. But Israel continuously rejected the White House’s advice by pursuing an all-out military campaign to root Hamas out of Gaza, one that has led to widespread shortages of food, water, medicine and other supplies in an enclave of 2.2 million people.

But as Biden has grown more openly critical of Israeli operations, Netanyahu has moved only marginally. The Israeli prime minister on Sunday told Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company, that his forces would move into Rafah, despite the president’s warnings.

“We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again,” he said.

Israel's Netanyahu lays out his 'red line' in fight against Hamas


An Israeli military official, who like others was granted anonymity to detail a sensitive dynamic between the U.S., Israel and their leaders, said a Rafah invasion wasn’t imminent. Civilians still need to be evacuated and forces prepped before going into the city on the Gaza-Egypt border, the official added, confirming an operation couldn’t begin today even if Netanyahu gave the order.

Israel still has not shared a “credible and implementable” plan to protect civilians in Rafah with the Biden administration, a fifth U.S. official confirmed. The U.S. wants to see one before it gives an implicit green light to Israel’s advance.

Experts on the U.S.-Israel relationship tracking the war said the delay could help Hamas, which uses tunnels and time to their advantage. They also note Israel has already shifted to lower-intensity, more-precise military operations, including going into the tunnels to kill or capture Hamas militants.

Biden’s animus toward Netanyahu was palpable even before the retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people. Biden publicly denounced Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the Israeli judiciary and privately suggested that the prime minister was acting “like a criminal,” comparing his efforts to former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election, according to two other officials familiar with the president’s views but not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations.


Biden’s opinion of Netanyahu has only plummeted since then. As far back as late October, Biden’s top aides began privately discussing what a post-Netanyahu Israel would look like, believing that the security failures of Oct. 7 would eventually lead to the prime minister’s ouster.

After his State of the Union address, in which Biden did again resolve to support Israel while promising to get more aid into Gaza, the president was caught on a hot mic saying that he was soon going to have a “come to Jesus” moment with Netanyahu. And then Biden went public this weekend with his fear that Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war was irrevocably damaging Israel’s standing in the war.

“He has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas, but he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken,” Biden said in the MSNBC interview. “In my view, he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel. It’s contrary to what Israel stands for, and I think it’s a big mistake. So I want to see a cease-fire.”

A pause in fighting is vital for Biden who is dealing with an intense political blowback from progressives, who have called for a permanent cease-fire and an increase in civilian assistance of Palestinians in Gaza. Top Biden administration officials flew to Michigan to meet with the state’s large Arab-American and Muslim-American population about the U.S. policy toward the war. That did little to assuage progressive and pro-Palestinian concerns in the state, as more than 100,000 people voted “uncommitted” in Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary as a measure of protest.

The administration counters that a full stop to the war helps Hamas. U.S. officials assert that they have pushed Israel to let in more aid, getting Netayahu’s government to open more land crossings. Biden’s team wants more assistance to get in, leading the U.S. to airdrop packages of aid and now having the military build a temporary port for Gaza.

“He needs to change the pictures in Gaza,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East peace negotiator, said of Biden. As for Netanyahu, Miller, who is now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said “he’s desperate, not just because of his trial, but he knows full well that when the war winds down, the pressure is going to mount on determining who was responsible” for the Israeli failure to prevent Hamas’ attack.

Biden, in the weekend interview, did not rule out giving a major public address on the war to create distance between himself and Netanyahu, perhaps by speaking before Israel’s legislative body, the Knesset. The White House has no plans for such a dramatic gesture, which was first reported by POLITICO in February.

Should Israel invade Rafah, which most analysts say would happen after Ramadan, the biggest question for Biden on conditioning aid would remain: Would that compel Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza?

“He cannot do that without the active cooperation and coordination with the government of Israel,” said Miller.
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Puff said:
TL;DR insurance is more of a scam than you thought and is becoming a way for companies who offer benefits to extract money from their employees, not a way to benefit them.
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And before anyone tries the whole "deregulating this shit will fix it" do you know what an analogue that has no regulations looks like?
Pet Insurance.

12k for a shoddy "emergency surgery" that was so shitty I almost had to watch my dog get dismeboweled leading to me not trusting vets so much I asked to inject him myself because I was just so fucking tired of their fuckups.
Then had the balls to charge me 300 bucks for an urn. While advertising a loan system. Because of course.

These fuckers are disgusting and their entire parasitic infastructure and all analogous ones deserves to get it's shit kicked in.
 
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“That entire team came down. They were from the military side. My impression was their mindset was – we are going to do it the way we want to do it. Their motto at the time was – we are in Charleston and we can do anything we want.”
“They started pressuring us to not document defects, to work outside the procedures, to allow defective material to be installed without being corrected. They started bypassing procedures and not maintaining configurement control of airplanes, not maintaining control of non conforming parts – they just wanted to get the planes pushed out the door and make the cash register ring.”
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For anyone still wondering if this is incompetence or malice, here it is.
Its pure unfiltered malice all the way to the top
 
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If they fire whoever makes those shitty text messages saying I'm letting everyone down and we failed them, it will be the best firing ever, yuge, amazing.
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Current cope on the grapevine: All this infighting about "RINOs" makes you guys just as bad as the lefties that don't totally exist just to be evil pedophiles.

Yeah I don't get it either.
 
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And before anyone tries the whole "deregulating this shit will fix it" do you know what an analogue that has no regulations looks like?
Pet Insurance.

12k for a shoddy "emergency surgery" that was so shitty I almost had to watch my dog get dismeboweled leading to me not trusting vets so much I asked to inject him myself because I was just so fucking tired of their fuckups.
Then had the balls to charge me 300 bucks for an urn. While advertising a loan system. Because of course.

These fuckers are disgusting and their entire parasitic infastructure and all analogous ones deserves to get it's shit kicked in.
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I feel for you about losing a pet, but ngl you're kind of a great big dummy if you buy any insurance that you're not legally compelled to
insurance companies aren't in business because they pay out
you might as well "plan" to win the lotto as much as you can "plan" for any insurance to pay anything ever
 
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Buy insurance, idiots.

Realize that insurance companies are not profitable for a reason.

If you look at my insurance claims over a 12 month period, you will see that it is 99.6% big payouts.

Get it twisted. I paid $1,000, insured North WTC for $7mil, paid $4mil got back $7mil on South WTC.

Insurance is a get rich quick scheme, it will put you in a rich part of life.
 
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I seriously doubt Biden has the balls to say no to Israel. Well I mean his handlers, but same difference.
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The other day he said there was no read line they could cross to stop support. What is happening is they have realised they have been to open about the unconditional support and it is costing them. So they're defaulting back to just lying about everything.

Biden said before the Primary a ceasefire was imminent. It was a lie because of uncommitted voters.

Now they're moving onto a phase where they'll just lie that they're being tough of Israel, which not doing anything and providing complete support and participating in the horrors they're committing.

The interesting thing will be how the compliant media will react. I assume the narrative will be Biden is super tough and we need him to be because Trump would support them. Yet how they would actually push that while also running cover for the actions of Israel might not be possible. So I assume just more censorship of what is actually going on.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I feel for you about losing a pet, but ngl you're kind of a great big dummy if you buy any insurance that you're not legally compelled to
insurance companies aren't in business because they pay out
you might as well "plan" to win the lotto as much as you can "plan" for any insurance to pay anything ever
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The shocker for me is that free insurance through work is a worse deal than cash. We don't need to stop abusing gig work for them benes, the upside to being direct hire is job security and that's pretty much it. And the rule of thumb is an employee costs double their pay. All I want is for them to give me that instead of an insurance company that's getting ripped off by the doctors in turn.
Funny how when there's a set of rules for how and what to pay that it gets gamed and everything goes to shit.
 
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