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Anyone who tells you it's impossible to fire a government employee simply hasn't done it correctly.

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I'm from Kentucky, but heard relatives in South East Ohio use it. Maybe it's an Appalachian saying? Because my Mom and Aunt used a lot of Appalachian slang when they'd talk together, and to us. There's a book out there called the "Dictionary of Appalachian and Southern Slang," or something like that, and when I got it from the library, I immediately recognized some of the words I'd heard as a child.

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I've never been teased playfully before, especially involving cartoons. Usually it involved hurtful topics, like my shortness and "girl-stache" which I learned about a few years ago as a new moniker. It's nice to have some lighthearted teasing ;D

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This past week, a El Paso mass shooting witness scheduled to give testimony in the murderer's upcoming trial was deported--she was stopped for having a burned out light on her car. They also deported a group of Haitians to Mexico, not Haiti. What they do to deport people is take them to the top of one of the international bridges and watch them walk into Juarez, Mexico. This seems to be part of the CBP/ICE playbook, in defiance of their new orders. Firings for insubordination need to take place.

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I imagine President Biden could do some very helpful things with ICE's budget of: to $8.3 billionSince the creation of DHS in 2003, ICE spending has nearly tripled, from $3.3 billion to $8.3 billion today (Figure 2).

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You're nicer than I am, dear Fae. They should all lose their jobs and be forced to re-apply at other agencies.

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Probably potted shrimp in the curtain rods, knowing that lot.

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He pretty much did that, but as with all things trump, he was too stupid and lazy to capitalize on it. Lucky for us.

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Southerner here, and I never heard that one. Interesting.

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As I recall, trump had an entire computer full of stuff like that. Wonder what happened to it.

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Very well put.

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No, there isn't. It's redundant, since BP does the same job. Just as Homeland Security was started as a Shrub "Turkey Farm", so was ICE.

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They should disband them, and let other departments take over their duties put it back the way it was organized, pre-Bush. You are right. Let them reapply and don't hire back any with complaints about them.

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