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In article <vrcgk7$34vhm$1@dont-email.me>, chine.bleu@www.yahoo.com 
says...
> 
> Alan wrote:
> > On 2025-03-18 07:21, Skeeter wrote:
> >> In article <vrarpj$1mkop$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
> >>>
> >>> On 2025-03-17 20:14, pothead wrote:
> >>>> On 2025-03-17, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fentanyl Seized at US-Mexico Border Falls 40%, Lowest Since 2021
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By Thomas Seal
> >>>>>
> >>>>> March 13,2025 at 12:07 AM UTC
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The amount of fentanyl seized at the US-Mexico border fell 
> >>>>> dramatically since
> >>>>> January to its lowest level since December 2021, according to 
> >>>>> new US Customs
> >>>>> and Border Protection data.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Some 590 pounds of the deadly synthetic opioid were 
> >>>>> intercepted in February,
> >>>>> down 40% on January's 990 pounds.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> To be sure, the drug is so potent that a potentially lethal 
> >>>>> dose is just 2
> >>>>> milligrams. But the sharp drop could strengthen President 
> >>>>> Claudia Sheinbaum's
> >>>>> hand in the high-stakes dispute over border security with 
> >>>>> President Donald
> >>>>> Trump, who imposed 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and 
> >>>>> Canada in emergency
> >>>>> orders citing the national security risk of fentanyl flowing 
> >>>>> over US borders.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fentanyl Falls
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Quantity of fentanyl seized by US at southern border lowest 
> >>>>> in years
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Source: US Customs and Border Protection
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The US has temporarily delayed tariffs on goods compliant 
> >>>>> under its free
> >>>>> trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> At the northern border with Canada, just 1.14 pounds was 
> >>>>> seized, higher than
> >>>>> January but lower than the average figure for the preceding 
> >>>>> 12 months.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In February US Border Patrol agents reported making about 
> >>>>> 8,300 arrests along
> >>>>> the southwest border, a roughly 71% drop from January. It is 
> >>>>> the lowest
> >>>>> monthly arrest figure in decades.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Arrests of foreigners seeking entry at legal border crossings 
> >>>>> dropped by
> >>>>> about 90% to roughly 3,300, according to Customs and Border 
> >>>>> Protection data.
> >>>>> The Trump administration closed off access to ports to asylum 
> >>>>> seekers and
> >>>>> ended a smartphone app that allowed about 41,000 foreigners 
> >>>>> to make an
> >>>>> appointment to come to the ports to ask for protection each 
> >>>>> month.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yep.
> >>>> The libbys kept claiming that Biden needed approval from 
> >>>> congress to control
> >>>> the border.
> >>>> Really?
> >>>> Two months under Trump and the crossings have dropped ~95%.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Are those numbers as accurate as claiming $8 BILLION in "waste"...
> >>>
> >>> ...(without proving it was waste)...
> >>>
> >>> ...when it was actually only one THOUSANDTHS as much?
> >>
> >> So you have something to back this up? Didn't think so.
> > 
> > 'Here Are The Biggest DOGE Hoaxes And Inaccuracies?As $8 Million 
> > Canceled ICE Contract Listed At $8 Billion'
> > 
> > <https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/19/here-are-the-biggest-doge-hoaxes-and-inaccuracies-as-8-million-canceled-ice-contract-listed-at-8-billion/> 
> > 
> > 
> > Note that it is from that terrible left-wing rag: Forbes <smirk>
> > 
> > But now that we're looking at it:
> > 
> > 'Did Doge Close Jimmy Carter?s Office In Atlanta?
> > 
> > Not exactly. DOGE lists $128,233 in savings on ?allowance to 
> > former presidents? after the agency said it closed a nearly 
> > 7,700-square-foot office in Atlanta. Data from the General 
> > Services Administration shows a property of the same size leased 
> > from President Jimmy Carter?s charity, the Carter Center, at 
> > $128,233. The GSA provides funds for each former president 
> > annually, though Carter?s allowance would have ended anyways on 
> > Dec. 30, 2024, the day after he died.'
> > 
> > 'However, while Social Security fraud certainly exists, there?s no 
> > evidence it takes place at anywhere near the scale Musk and 
> > Leavitt have claimed. The Inspector?s General office that oversees 
> > the agency found erroneous payments accounted for less than 1% of 
> > total payments between 2015 and 2023. The office has found 
> > improper payments to dead people, though on a far smaller scale, 
> > and while tens of millions of people over the age of 100 who might 
> > be deceased remain in the SSA database, it?s not clear how many 
> > actually receive payments. '
> > 
> > 'Did The Government Pay Reuters For ?social Deception??
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 'Did Fema Spend $59 Million On Housing Migrants In Nyc Luxury Hotels?
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 'Did Samantha Power Earn $23 Million As Usaid Chief?
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 'Did Chelsea Clinton Get A Big Paycheck From Usaid?
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 'Did Usaid Pay Celebrities To Visit Ukraine?including Ben Stiller 
> > And Angelina Jolie?
> > 
> > There is no evidence USAID paid celebrities to visit Ukraine.'
> > 
> > 'Did Usaid Fund Research That Caused Covid-19?
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 'Did Usaid Spend $6 Million On ?tourism In Egypt??
> > 
> > No.'
> > 
> > 
> 
> <https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272406/trump-suspends-asylum>
> 
> Seeking asylum in the U.S. through the southern border has been 
> suspended under an executive order President Trump signed this week.
> 
> Critics say this move to suspend asylum indefinitely is 
> unprecedented, and likely to be challenged in the courts.

Oh well. Deal with it.