Who are these people, and why are we letting them run the country? (Updated)

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Remember voting for him? Apparently, you did

UPDATE — two further thoughts:

Understand, 95% of the people who show up at our border are “economic refugees”, and our asylum law specifically excludes economic reasons as a grounds for admission. Biden let them all in anyway, and now this judge not only insists that they be allowed to stay, but that we must grant entrance to anyone else who shows up at the border demanding to be let in. Biden opened the border in direct violation of our laws, Trump closed it, the royal judiciary has decreed that the floodgates be opened again.

Update. Further thoughts.

Remember “remain in place”? Would-be immigrants were told to stay on the other side of the border, file their asylum claim, and if successful, they’d be allowed in. Biden reversed that process, saying, “come on in, make yourself comfortable for a few years, and we’ll get to your case when we get to it”. He did that using his executive powers; Trump used that same power to reverse the policy, and a judge says he can’t do that? BS.

Another thought: In a move I hadn’t noticed last night, but one that was predicted in conservative legal circles after last week’s Supreme Court decision limiting the power of judges to issue nationwide injunctions based on a single individual’s plea for relief, the plaintiffs here moved to convert the individual claims to class-actions, and the judge has granted them that status. Will that tactic be sufficient to evade the Supreme Court’s ruling? Stay tuned.

Here’s the Politico article he’s referring to — notice that the judge has ruled that anyone claiming asylum, even those who have snuck across the border outside approved ports of entry, so no screening, no identification, false or otherwise, must be allowed to remain in the country while they have their individual case adjudicated and, doubtless, appealed over the ensuing decades. Some call that treason.

Judge blocks ‘sweeping’ asylum crackdown after Trump declared ‘invasion’ at southern border

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said Trump’s proclamation declaring an “invasion” at the border cannot be used to justify the unilateral restrictions he sought to impose on asylum seekers.

President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on asylum claims by immigrants crossing the southern border vastly exceeded his legal authority and must be halted, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said Trump’s Jan. 20 proclamation declaring an “invasion” of southern border-crossers cannot be used to justify the “sweeping” unilateral restrictions he sought to impose, including severe limits to asylum applications and the ability to seek protection from torture.

Under Trump’s proclamation, people who crossed the southern border between “ports of entry” are barred from seeking asylum or invoking other legal protections that would allow them to temporarily remain in the U.S. while their claims are processed.

And the proclamation further says that immigrants who do arrive at ports of entry — designated locations where people can enter the country legally — are severely restricted from invoking those protections. To do so, they must provide far more detailed personal information than is required under federal immigration law, such as extensive medical and criminal histories.

By imposing the severe restrictions, the proclamation allows immigration authorities to quickly deport people who say they are fleeing violence, persecution or humanitarian strife, rather than processing their claims. Trump and his allies say this was a necessary step to regain control of an overrun border.

But Moss said those limitations go far beyond what the law allows. Existing procedures in the Immigration and Nationality Act, the judge said, provide the “sole and exclusive” means for the federal government to deport people who cross the border illegally — no matter how cumbersome or inadequate the administration views the process. Trump’s proclamation established “an alternative immigration system” that has no basis in law, the judge ruled.

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Moss, an Obama appointee in Washington, said his ruling will apply to all people “who are currently present or who will be present in the United States” and might face the restrictions being challenged in the case. He said a separate ruling would address similar claims by those already deported under the procedures he has found to be illegal.

“The Court recognizes that the Executive Branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” Moss wrote. “But the INA, by its terms, provides the sole and exclusive means for removing people already present in the country.”

Moss agreed to pause his ruling for two weeks to give Trump a chance to appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Moss acknowledged the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions but noted that the decision left room for judges to act under a federal law that allows them to “set aside” efforts by government agencies to implement new policies the courts deem unlawful. Moss’ ruling effectively blocks federal agencies from implementing Trump’s proclamation and requires that immigrants covered by the decision continue to have the ability to seek asylum or relief under the international Convention Against Torture.

A White House spokesperson called the ruling “an attack on our Constitution, the laws Congress enacted, and our national sovereignty” and said the administration would appeal.

“A local district court judge has no authority to stop President Trump and the United States from securing our border from the flood of aliens trying to enter illegally. The judge’s decision — which contradicts the Supreme Court’s ruling against granting universal relief — would allow entry into the United States of all aliens who may ever try to come to in illegally,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said. 

And then there’s this, from Legal Insurrection:

Pro-Trump Legal Group Launches Website Tracking the Hundreds of Lawsuits Blocking Trump’s Agenda

A pro-Trump group launched an online website Tuesday detailing the more than 250 legal cases against President Trump’s agenda and tracking the crucial nationwide injunctions that were issued by lower court judges before the Supreme Court halted the practice last week.

In all, the Article III Foundation listed 266 lawsuits at JudicialSabotage.org. But there are plenty more of them against the administration, brought by individual plaintiffs such as illegal immigrants looking to stay in the country.

“The primary purpose [of the online database] is so that people can understand the enormous scope of judicial lawfare against the Trump administration. It is not just a few lawsuits. It is overwhelming all over the country,” said Will Chamberlain, senior counsel for the Article III Foundation. “What stuck out was the sheer number of injunctions that have been issued against the administration in such a short amount of time.”

About a third of the 266 lawsuits involve matters related to immigration policy. Other areas include transgender policies, spending and firing freezes, and efforts related to the budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.

Here’s what the judge is reversing, precisely because it’s worked — can’t have that, can we?:

THE TRUMP EFFECT – Total Border Patrol encounters for the entire month of June 2025 was 6,070. That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden
on many days. Also, none of the 6,070 were released into the U.S. ZERO. President Trump has created the most secure border in the history of the nation and the data proves it. We have never seen numbers this low. Never. God bless the men and women of the US Border Patrol and God bless the men and women of ICE. The interior arrests and consequences help to drive down illegal immigration. The TRUMP EFFECT keeps America winning.
~ Thomas D. Homan
U.S. Border Czar

From The New York Post:

The total released by Homan marks a 93.1% drop in nationwide Border Patrol encounters from June 2024, when 87,606 migrants were nabbed trying to enter the country illegally.

It’s also a 94% and 97% decline from June 2023 and June 2022, when, respectively, 100,606 and 193,027 migrants were encountered by Border Patrol.

In June 2022, the average daily total of migrant encounters was about 6,434 per day.

People in $5 Million Dollar Rock Ridge homes shouldn't throw truffles

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John Cooper has always been a bit of a turd; he was one of those dweebs at GHS who ran for various orifices in the student government and actually believed they were important positions that could effect — I don’t know, the price of his ice cream bar(s) in the Student Center vending machines? — and crushed when he lost, every time.

But over the past decade or so, Cooper’s hysteria has developed into frothing, incontinent incoherence, as his Letter to the Editor, published today, clearly shows. It’s a beauty, declaiming words that must be said, speaking truth to power from a position of smug, moral superiority, and really, quite moving.

Cooper: The oligarchs are at the gate and the lock has just been sprung!

Submitted by John Cooper, Greenwich

To the Editor

Hey folks, get ready for a big 4th of July weekend, because it could be our last as free Americans! If this congress can agree to the reconciliation bill just passed by the Senate, the one that claws back almost every penny of assistance given the less fortunate and indigent poor, [So, $5, $6 trillion dollars then; wow! — Ed] our Republic is in peril. The oligarchs are at the gate and the lock has just been sprung!

There are currently 902 billionaires ($1,000,000,000.00) in the United States, 13 in Connecticut. From them, I have not heard nor read a single interview, article, LTE or op-ed offering to forego the tax cuts that are the raison d’être for the entire exercise. Nether has there been pushback against the bill from the same quarter. This callout of self-interested, uncaring one percenters should include centi-millionaires ($100,000,000.00) as well, of which there are over 10,500 in the US, a statistic that has doubled since 2003.

When the real damage contained in this huge, bloated, ugly bill comes to fore, everyday people will suffer and die. DJT and the creators of Project 2025 insist that this will not happen. When it does, will the 20,000 (by then) centi-millionaires and billionaires’ cash in some chips and lend a helping hand to the poor, the sick and the dying?, not likely… [As unlikely as fat folk living in Greenwich mansions will sell up, donate the proceeds to the poor, and go live on a sidewalk amongst them in a soggy cardboard box — just sayin’ —Ed.]

I am beyond ashamed to be an American today and fear for the lives of so many people I know and care about. Therefore, I cannot think of closing this with “have a Happy 4th of July”, without feeling sick to my stomach.

Well, don’t throw up, John; whatever you do, don’t do that!

Remember what happened the last time you over-ate at the Moms for Gums banquet!

Because there are no illegal aliens, only sex perverts we've hidden in Minnesota’s school system (where else, unless it’s California’s or New York’s?).

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Convicted sex offender from Kenya avoids deportation, lands state job

A Kenyan national convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman in Minnesota wasn’t deported after his prison sentence — he was promoted.

Wilson Tindi holds a director position at the Minnesota Department of Education, where he audits taxpayer spending and oversees internal accountability.

Court records show Tindi was convicted in 2016 of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct after breaking into a woman’s home and assaulting her in bed where she slept. He pleaded guilty to the sex assault charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping a first-degree burglary charge.

Tindi was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to register as a predatory offender. His sentence was stayed for five years, but he was also sentenced to 210 days in the workhouse, records show.

However, despite the felony conviction and offender status, Tindi serves as Director of Internal Audit and Advisory Services at MDE, according to public records and his LinkedIn profile.

After Alpha News reached out to MDE for comment, Tindi’s bio was removed from the agency’s website.

Former prosecutor calls Tindi ‘dangerous’

A former prosecutor with direct knowledge of Tindi’s case told Alpha News they were disturbed to learn he now holds a leadership role in state government.

“I don’t know how he would have passed a background check,” the attorney said. “He’s a felon and a registered sex offender—how is he employed?”

The attorney said that in addition to the 2016 conviction, Tindi was also accused of a similar crime in 2012, as court documents state. Although the case was never charged, prosecutors filed a Spreigl notice—a legal move to introduce evidence of prior misconduct—citing the 2012 allegation as evidence of a disturbing pattern.

“He is dangerous,” the attorney said. “He has no business being paid out of our taxpayer dollars and should be back with ICE.”

Tindi’s ICE detention and federal court challenge

Records show Tindi was taken into ICE custody in August 2016 as the U.S. government sought to deport him to his native Kenya.

In 2016, an immigration judge ordered his removal based on the felony sex crime conviction. The decision was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals but stayed by an appeals court.

Tindi filed a federal habeas corpus petition, arguing that his detention had become unconstitutional because it dragged on too long without actual deportation.

A federal judge agreed, writing that Tindi’s continued detention no longer “serve[d] the purpose of preventing deportable criminal aliens from fleeing prior to or during their removal proceedings.”

After 18 months in ICE custody, Tindi was ordered released in February 2018.

Tindi tries to vacate plea over immigration fallout

In May, Tindi filed a petition for post-conviction relief, asking a Hennepin County judge to vacate his guilty plea. He claims his defense attorney failed to properly warn him that the conviction would have devastating consequences for his immigration status. He says he is a lawful permanent resident.

In the petition, Tindi says he would never have pleaded guilty if he had known it would make him permanently inadmissible under federal law—effectively banning him from ever reentering the U.S. if he left.

But then in June, Tindi filed a second motion, this time asking the court to withdraw his request to overturn the conviction, admitting the odds of success were slim under current state law. He reserved the right to try again in the future.

Adding to the list of legal troubles is Tindi’s recent DWI arrest. [Ed.: 06/07/2025]

Neither MDE nor Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s returned requests for comment.

Mr. Tindi’s lengthy vacation in federal custody occurred during the Trump 1 administration; this time, with Trump’s newfound attention to deportations, my guess is that “Wilson’s” next job will be a a baggae-handler at the soon-to-be-Chinese-owned Jomo Airport in his native Kenya. Not to worry, though: Minnesota’s Department of Education is certain to have a lengthy list of Somalian replacements, all carefully vetted and vouched for by Rep. IIhan Omar.

No kidding: they actually used her photograph to illustrate this story. That borders on cruel

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Sad

Still, they were being kind, I suppose: they had quite a variety of pictures of our Congresscreature to choose from, and they went with the most sane.

CT’s Rosa DeLauro is the Ranking member of the house appropriations committee — upon the democrats’ return to power, she will be chairman, and enjoy setting the nation’s priorities via the power of the purse; some may find that alarming

They committed to a zero-emissions program, and they achieved that goal. Only one problem ...

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Why did Jaguar’s auto sales disappear to nothing? It stopped selling cars.

Forget 'Go Woke, Go Broke' — Jaguar Went Stupid Instead

Stephen Green:

Pity poor Jaguar. The British-based luxury and performance carmaker has had a rough go of it this century, but nothing could prepare anyone for the most bone-headed move in corporate history — and I don't mean Jaguar's woke "Reimagine" ad from late last year.

Let me bring you up to speed.

As recently as 2018, Jaguar sold 180,833 cars annually. Last year, they sold fewer than 33,000. In April — the most current sales figures available — Jag sold just 49 cars in the massive UK/Europe market. U.S. sales figures aren't available yet, but they aren't any better. 

Jaguar went from selling 1,961 cars a month to 49 in just six years. I'm no car industry expert, but that looks pretty bad to me. 

"This 97.5% plunge marked one of the steepest declines for a premium carmaker in recent history," Design Rush just reported. But I have to ask, is that really in recent history or is it ever?

The company understood that something had to change, and in November, it revealed its "Copy Nothing" rebranding. If you missed it then, don't miss it now:

I mean, the company had to try something after years spent watching sales swirl down the toilet. But I don't hesitate to remind you that just because something must be done, that doesn't mean they had to go and do this particular (and particularly stupid) thing.

"Copy Nothing," with all its bored-looking gender-fluid whatever people and zero cars, came at the second-worst possible time, too — just as consumers and corporations turned 180° away from the woke stuff.[But] Jag's nosedive isn't because of the brand's woke rebranding, although it does stem from the same mindset — one they'll teach in business schools for decades as an example of what not to do.

You see, Jaguar stopped selling cars because they stopped making them:

This dramatic drop coincided with Jaguar’s effort to reinvent itself as an all-electric luxury marque.

Under the “Reimagine” plan introduced in 2021, the company halted internal combustion model production in anticipation of an EV relaunch set for 2025–2026.

By late 2024, Jaguar suspended sales in the U.K., leaving dealerships with almost no inventory.

"Heading into 2025," the report concluded, "Jaguar had phased out nearly every vehicle in its lineup: the XE and XF sedans, F-Type sports car, E-Pace, and I-Pace crossovers."

Other European luxury carmakers slowly introduced EV models into their lineups, while adjusting production and expectations as EV adoption slowed in recent years. Jag spun down its ICE cars before it could spin up EV production.

Remember when Coca-Cola switched to New Coke that tasted more like Pepsi? This is like Coca-Cola switching to New Coke but then not making any to put on store shelves or in soda fountains.

Jaguar: "We have this exciting new electric car!"

New Customer: "Amazing, I love it. Where can I buy one?"

Jaguar: "You want to what?"

Just what we needed, I guess, but such language!

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We can always use another layer of bureaucracy, whether in our government or in our public schools, although the accompanying chart might suggest a slight slowdown in the latter might be in order, but look at the corporate gobbledygook our own school superintendent uses to announce her latest initiative — she spares no cliche, no unnecessary word in her “mission statement”; in fact, nothing in this press release would be unfamiliar to any model corporate flunky in a modern major business: sound and jargon, signifying nothing.

And that’s too bad — she might have used this opportunity to think outside the box, create a synergy that would move the needle, and use that leverage to grab the low-hanging fruit; cause a paradigm shift, to ….

Greenwich Schools Chief Announces Newly Created Position: Coordinator of Student Wellness & Support

Greenwich Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones announced on Monday that Jessica McEvily has been named coordinator of student wellness and support, effective immediately.

In this newly created position, the coordinator of student wellness and support provides strategic leadership, supervision, and coordination of the district’s mental health initiatives.

This role ensures the effective delivery of school-based mental health services through oversight of school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists. McEvily will support the comprehensive, multi-tiered system of supports to promote the mental, emotional, and social well-being of all students.

“This unique position for our district will be focused on creating a systemic approach by creating a more cohesive partnership between psychologists, social workers, school counselors, and outside providers to build and strengthen mental health supports across K-12,” Dr. Jones said.” 

Fourth time's the charm

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16 Marlow Court (at the end of Indian Head) was listed for $6.250 million in 2019, $5.850 in 2020 and again at $5.850 in 2022; no luck, even though it got a gushing, some might say fulsome write-up in Greenwich Time in 2019.* This time, it didn’t even hiot the MLS — two agents worked it out between itself, and it’s sold for $6.2 million.

Literary criticism aside, it is a very nice house, in a beautiful setting.

*Sample:

The house at 16 Marlow Court in Riverside is unique in many ways, but foremost, the little island stands out. Egrets and ospreys soar and dip over the little patch of trees and rocks in the cove off Cos Cob Harbor, hunting for fish. A red-tailed hawk makes a lazy loop over the islet.

The house at the water’s edge is beautifully situated to take advantage of the seaside tableau, but it took some visionary new owners to make the most of the old house, which dates to 1948.

Lawrence and Barbara Hathaway spent a full year in 2013 working to bring the old home into the 21st century, while maintaining the charm and character of a seaside colonial that would feel at home on Cape Cod. The structure was not expanded during the extensive renovations, maintaining its classic proportions, and the older features of the home, like a gambrel roof and a colonaded entryway, were preserved.

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The color palette used on the interior was picked with care. Natural grasscloth, a wall covering made of strands of natural fibers, was used to clad the front hall, a graceful way to enhance the natural connection to the outside. In the dining room, the Hathaways went with a shade of iceberg blue, playing off the watery view and a crepe myrtle just outside the window bursting with pink blossoms. The sitting room was painted in a shade of ivory. ….