I think technically, in terms of "removals" based on an immigration judge ordering it, Obama still has the record.
For "repatriations" which includes "removals", "returns" (no order, can be voluntary), and Covid-19 health related "expulsions", Biden holds the record.
I think data availability has been poor during the Trump administration, but from public numbers that I could find for spring of this year, it's not clear that even with all the raids the Trump administration is actually deporting more people than prior administrations ... but perhaps the goal is to keep more people in detention.
Yes, but that's the line some people repeat to themselves over and over to justify the political violence being used against the immigrant community in the United States these days.
> "It's not our guy's fault for going after these people, it's your guy's fault for letting so many in"
During the Falklands War, the Royal Navy requisitioned a lot of civilian ships at short notice, the Atlantic Conveyor being the most famous after it was sunk.
The US Navy would likely do the same, the biggest issue could be retaining enough crew.
> The US Navy would likely do the same, the biggest issue could be retaining enough crew.
It doesn't help that when the U.S. Merchant Marine was made a part of the U.S. Navy during World War 2, the U.S.M.M. mariners were entitled to Vetern Status and benefits, but the U.S. Navy denied them that. Some mariners were able to get it, but they had to fight for it.
The U.S.M.M. had the highest casualty rate out of all of the services during World War 2: 4% - double that of the next highest - the U.S. Marines with 2%.
They do it this way so they can move the wages inch by inch. There is not as much opposition if you do it one industry at a time. Same thing they did with the fast food worker minimum wage.
Florida had public transit before the 1950s. All those Northerners that came down for the winter during the 1920s land boom traveled on train. It isn't like they bought a car just for their visit. For example, Coral Gables, next to Miami, had an electric trolley system.
My aunt used busses to get around the Tampa area back in the 1960s, when Florida transit was segregated.
There's a bunch of rails-to-trails routes because many places used to have train service. Take Perry, for example. It's only a few thousand people but it's over 100 years old (with an infamous massacre of blacks in the 1920s), and you can see the old stationhouse at https://maps.app.goo.gl/NJK8B6mjJpEXRrdK6 right next to the tracks, a few blocks from the town center. (If you visit, Johnson's Bakery has some of the best donuts I've tasted, though they've changed ownership since I was last there.)
So no, Florida is not too big for Public Transit.
That there is too much sprawl is a rather different topic. A Florida developed around mass transit instead of personal car ownership would look very different even if it had the same population and area.
“Florida is too big for public transit” is entirely circular reasoning.
Things are so spread out because of dependence on private transit.
The more densely (and public-system connected) we can make our cities, the more divine Ocala National Forest-like experiences we can access and preserve for our children.
It might be true. But I know that the shady cop in my neighborhood could easily put in a request to my ISP to get some data about me. But he could never get the same data from the NSA. I'm not a terrorist, so I don't feel threatened by the NSA. The thing I need to protect myself against is corrupt law enforcement.
The new NY city mayor wants to convert parks into low income housing.
https://abc7ny.com/post/mayor-adams-makes-elizabeth-street-g...