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FREDDY GRAY: Why Trump is looking to Britain as he plans to crack down on illegal migrants - as an example of how NOT to do it Follow DailyMail.com's politics live blog for all the latest news and updates By FREDDY GRAY Published: 23:31, 22 November 2024 | Updated: 23:50, 22 November 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Speak to anyone in Donald Trump ’s orbit and the message is clear: fixing the border is paramount. The incoming administration will stop at nothing to resolve the vast migrant crisis that has afflicted America under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris . And senior Team Trump members are looking at Britain, in particular, as a salutary lesson in how uncontrolled immigration can hobble a country. Elon Musk , aka Trump’s First Buddy, is especially interested in what he regards as the disastrous British experiment with multi-culturalism. As his outbursts on social media suggest, he was profoundly affected by the anti-immigration riots in Southport, as well as by Labour ’s attempts to clamp down on free speech in the aftermath. A Common’s select committee’s decision to ‘summon’ Musk for a parliamentary grilling on the subject this week has only added to the sense in Trumpworld that something is going badly wrong in what Musk calls ‘the Mother Country’. Musk promptly retaliated by saying UK MPs will be called to the US to ‘explain their censorship and threats to American citizens’. Republicans in Washington, meanwhile, have attacked Britain’s Online Safety Act as part of a ‘tsunami of censorship headed towards America’ and vowed that the incoming administration is ‘committed to confronting this growing threat’. JD Vance , the vice president-elect, has many British friends and does not appreciate Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner calling him ‘fruity’ for having suggested that the United Kingdom is ‘the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon . . . especially since Labour just took over’. Fixing the problem that is the US border was a key campaign point for Donald Trump (pictured) Migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, on December 24, 2023 Immigrants keep warm by a fire at dawn after spending a night alongside the U.S.-Mexico border fence on December 22, 2022 in El Paso, Texas Even more importantly, Donald Trump himself shares Musk’s and Vance’s concern that the UK is not OK. ‘Musk’s affection for the UK is extraordinary,’ adds Nigel Farage, the Reform leader. ‘We’re very lucky to have these people coming in. In fact, throughout Trumpworld, from the big man down, the affection for our country runs deep. They are currently looking on with a sense of despair about what’s happening here.’ As the proud son of an even prouder Scotswoman, Trump is widely said to be troubled by the left-wing zealotry of Keir Starmer’s administration. He’s also determined to show the West that the world’s most powerful democracy can and will stop uncontrolled mass migration. Read More Trump threatens to unleash Elon Musk on rebel Republicans who refuse his Cabinet picks ‘We see that cultural cohesion in the UK has collapsed,’ says an immigration adviser at Trump’s Palm Beach estate in Mar-a-Lago. ‘We see that Western notions of free speech and public behaviour have collapsed. We look at that and we think: “Hmm . . . we don’t really want that for America.” ’ There’s even talk in Trump circles of taking over the British Conservative party’s Rwanda scheme, which Labour has abandoned, as a destination for migrants deported from America. But the incoming US administration is under no illusions that any ‘third-party option’ will make the immigration issue magically disappear. Under Joe Biden’s watch, the US has allowed up to ten million ‘aliens’ to enter the country, illegally. Trump knows he has been re-elected in large part because he explicitly promised to fix the broken border and remove masses of illegal migrants. Unlike the Labour Party, or indeed the Tories before them, he fully intends to deliver. Trump’s team is now assembling what it believes is a crack team of fierce border hawks to, as The Donald puts it, Make America Safe Again. Americans who were effectively dismissed as ‘far right’ only a few years ago are now being brought in to direct the effort at all levels of federal government. Elon Musk , aka Trump’s First Buddy, is especially interested in what he regards as the disastrous British experiment with multi-culturalism Trump knows he has been re-elected in large part because he explicitly promised to fix the broken border and remove masses of illegal migrants, writes Freddy Gray Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government have brought an end to Tories short-lived Rwanda policy Trump has named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, to be his telegenic yet tough Secretary of Homeland Security. Noem’s political career appeared to be on its uppers earlier this year after she published a memoir in which she bizarrely confessed to having shot and killed a 14-month-old dog called Cricket in a gravel pit because the pet was ‘dangerous’ and ‘untrainable’. ‘I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here,’ she wrote. Such overt political incorrectness is exactly what Donald Trump, who also happens to dislike dogs, is looking for when it comes to immigration control. And Noem will be ably supported from within the White House by Stephen Miller, another figure of hate in polite society for his hardline views, who is to be Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy. ‘You cannot conceive of a nation without a strong, secure border,’ Miller says. ‘It is fundamental and essential to the idea of sovereignty and national survival.’ Read More Major update in Donald Trump's hush money trial sentencing To do the even uglier work on the frontlines of the US immigration war, Trump has appointed the impressively thuggish figure of Tom Homan. He’s a former New York police officer who served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ‘He’s a cop’s cop,’ says Todd Bensman, author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. ‘He especially understands what’s happened in the past three years under Biden.’ Homan appeared this week on the podcast hosted by Donald Trump Jnr, the President-elect’s eldest child, and promised to implement a strategy of ‘shock and awe’. He said: ‘I’m getting a lot of negative press, but they simply don’t understand that I don’t care what they think of me. I’m going to do the job. Please keep screaming, keep yelling, coz I’m coming. And me and the president of the United States, we’re going to make this country safer.’ Homan boasts that the ‘best part of this job is that I’m guaranteed success because I’m following such utter failure’. On ‘day one’, he insists, the new administration will end ‘catch and release’ – the Biden policy of arresting illegal immigrants, then letting them go free. Trump has named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (pictured), to be his telegenic yet tough Secretary of Homeland Security To do the even uglier work on the frontlines of the US immigration war, Trump has appointed the impressively thuggish figure of Tom Homan (pictured) Homan is a former New York police officer who served in Trump’s first administration as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homan’s plan is to go after ‘the worst, first’. By this he means tracking down known criminals – including, according to official records, some 13,000 immigrants who have been convicted of homicide but somehow aren’t in jail – as well as the many foreign-born individuals ICE considers threats to national security. The next objective is to catch and expel ‘fugitives’ – the 1.2 million or so people who have ignored orders from the US government to leave. Joe Biden did, in fact, issue a number of executive orders to deter and remove illegal migrants but the Democrats in charge of homeland security conspicuously failed to implement his proposals. ‘Biden put in place some tools for solving the problem,’ says one source. ‘We’re going to actually use them.’ Read More Dana White makes shock political U-turn after backing Donald Trump in the election As a demonstration of his resolve, Trump is willing to go further than his predecessor and deploy the US Army or National Guard to carry out his orders. On his Truth Social platform this week, the president-elect confirmed that his administration will ‘use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion’. The Trump deportation programme also intends to tackle the further 10 million or so undocumented migrants within the United States. As Homan puts it, ‘If you are here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.’ If the rhetoric sounds brutal, that’s the point. Trump is playing mad-man politics: intimidating his opponents into believing he is crazy enough to do just about anything in order to push his agenda. ‘It’s everything the president does,’ says an insider. ‘What we’re seeing is the aggressive first phase of a Trump negotiation.’ The Trump administration knows that, in a country as large as America, tracking down and forcibly removing quite so many people will be near-impossible. On his Truth Social platform this week, the president-elect confirmed that his administration will ‘use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion’ The Trump deportation programme also intends to tackle the further 10 million or so undocumented migrants within the United States There was a global outcry over ICE agents separating migrant families and putting children in cages during Trump's last term– a policy that began, in fact, under President Obama The agenda is more to make the political, economic and social conditions so uncomfortable for non-US citizens, or those without visas, that many will ‘self-deport’. Trump’s Department of Commerce, led by the billionaire Howard Lutnik, will introduce tougher laws to stop businesses from using undocumented labour. US border officials, meanwhile, will deploy the ‘carrot not stick’ approach, making it clear to migrants that, if they depart the country they entered illegally, their chances of being granted asylum or citizenship in the future will not be harmed. Read More MAGA ally Kelly Loeffler emerges as the frontrunner for top role in Trump's Cabinet ‘It’s a silver buckshot, not a silver bullet approach,’ says a source. ‘We’re going to be doing a million things to try to establish facts on the ground.’ More realistic experts admit that the idea of some voluntary mass exodus is mostly wishful thinking. It’s also acknowledged that, in a country as large as America, any forced deportation drive will run up against insurmountable obstacles, even if Trump’s administration spends a trillion dollars trying. The big idea, rather, is that the very harshness of the action against illegal entrants will create a significant psychological barrier to those following their path. Insiders point to the first Trump term, when a dramatic drop-off in migrant numbers coincided with the global outcry over ICE agents separating migrant families and putting children in cages – a policy that began, in fact, under President Obama. For this reason, Team Trump 2.0 actually wants its opponents to howl about the inhumanity of its agenda: the more the media denounces the President as a racist xenophobe, the better. Mexico’s new leader Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who was elected on her pledge to smash the cartels, is seen as a crucial ally by the Trump administration The 2024 election showed that, even in the most migrant-heavy parts of the American south, Trump's anti-immigration platform has majority appeal The incoming administration will revive the ‘remain in Mexico’ policies of Trump’s first term, which pressured the Mexican government to quell the waves of migrants The people-smuggling gangs operating in Latin America will get the message that America is no longer a soft touch. And Trump is confident he has already won the political argument, having been re-elected on a promise to fix the border no matter what. It also helps that so many Latino voters now support Trump. The 2024 election showed that, even in the most migrant-heavy parts of the American south, his anti-immigration platform has majority appeal. The worry for Republicans looking to the 2028 election, in fact, is that the Democratic Party may finally have understood that the Biden-Harris administration has lost the debate. Noem, Miller and Homan believe their side now has the moral high ground. They point to evidence that the US government has, in recent years, ‘lost’ some 300,000 migrant children, many of whom have been drawn into drug dealing and the sex trade. Team Trump will also wage a popular war on the Mexican drug cartels, which run the people-trafficking business and whose fentanyl-smuggling operations result in tens of thousands of American dying each year. The incoming administration will revive the ‘remain in Mexico’ policies of Trump’s first term, which pressured the Mexican government to quell the waves of migrants. Mexico’s new leader Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who was elected on her pledge to smash the cartels, is seen as a crucial ally on this front. She has been quick to establish cordial relations with Donald Trump since his victory. Last, though not least, comes the actual wall. Thanks to his real estate background, Trump is sensitive to the criticism that his first administration only ever erected a small section of the great barrier he promised to build across the southern border. For Trump 2.0, its completion will be their leader’s crowning achievement. ‘We gotta build the wall,’ says Homan. ‘The wall works.’ Nobody seems to care, this time, if Trump doesn’t make Mexico pay for it. Labour Donald Trump Share or comment on this article: FREDDY GRAY: Why Trump is looking to Britain as he plans to crack down on illegal migrants - as an example of how NOT to do it e-mail Add comment More top stories
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted lower Tuesday in the runup to the highlight of the week for the market, the latest update on inflation that’s coming on Wednesday. The S&P 500 dipped 0.3%, a day after pulling back from its latest all-time high . They’re the first back-to-back losses for the index in nearly a month, as momentum slows following a big rally that has it on track for one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 154 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.3%. Tech titan Oracle dragged on the market and sank 6.7% after reporting growth for the latest quarter that fell just short of analysts’ expectations. It was one of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500, even though CEO Safra Catz said the company saw record demand related to artificial-intelligence technology for its cloud infrastructure business, which trains generative AI models. AI has been a big source of growth that’s helped many companies’ stock prices skyrocket. Oracle’s stock had already leaped more than 80% for the year coming into Tuesday, which raised the bar of expectations for its profit report. In the bond market, Treasury yields ticked higher ahead of Wednesday’s report on the inflation that U.S. consumers are feeling. Economists expect it to show similar increases as the month before. Wednesday’s update and a report on Thursday about inflation at the wholesale level will be the final big pieces of data the Federal Reserve will get before its meeting next week, where many investors expect the year’s third cut to interest rates . The Fed has been easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high since September to take pressure off the slowing jobs market, after bringing inflation nearly down to its 2% target. Lower rates would help give support to the economy, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. Expectations for a series of cuts through next year have been a big reason the S&P 500 has set so many records this year. Trading in the options market suggests traders aren’t expecting a very big move for U.S. stocks following Wednesday’s report, according to strategists at Barclays. But a reading far off expectations in either direction could quickly change that. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.22% from 4.20% late Monday. Even though the Fed has been cutting its main interest rate, mortgage rates have been more stubborn to stay high and have been volatile since the autumn. That has hampered the housing industry, and homebuilder Toll Brothers’ stock fell 6.9% even though it delivered profit and revenue for the latest quarter that topped analysts’ expectations. CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. said the luxury builder has been seeing strong demand since the start of its fiscal year six weeks ago, an encouraging signal as it approaches the beginning of the spring selling season in mid-January. Elsewhere on Wall Street, Alaska Air Group soared 13.2% after raising its forecast for profit in the current quarter. The airline said demand for flying around the holidays has been stronger than expected. It also approved a plan to buy back up to $1 billion of its stock, along with new service from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul . Boeing climbed 4.5% after saying it’s resuming production of its bestselling plane , the 737 Max, for the first time since 33,000 workers began a seven-week strike that ended in early November. Vail Resorts rose 2.5% after the ski resort operator reported a smaller first-quarter loss than analysts expected in what is traditionally its worst quarter. All told, the S&P 500 fell 17.94 points to 6,034.91. The Dow dipped 154.10 to 44,247.83, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 49.45 to 19,687.24. In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in China after the world’s second-largest economy said its exports rose by less than expected in November. Stocks rose 0.6% in Shanghai but fell 0.5% in Hong Kong. Indexes fell across much of Europe ahead of a meeting this week by the European Central Bank, where the widespread expectation is for another cut in interest rates. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.The TOI Entertainment Desk is a dynamic and dedicated team of journalists, working tirelessly to bring the pulse of the entertainment world straight to the readers of The Times of India. No red carpet goes unrolled, no stage goes dark - our team spans the globe, bringing you the latest scoops and insider insights from Bollywood to Hollywood, and every entertainment hotspot in between. We don't just report; we tell tales of stardom and stories untold. 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NoneBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the Jan. 6, 2021 , U.S. Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was committed to holding accountable all perpetrators “at any level” for “the assault on our democracy.” That bold declaration won’t apply to at least one person: Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith’s move on Monday to abandon the federal election interference case against Trump means jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 campaign. The decision to walk away from the election charges and the separate classified documents case against Trump marks an abrupt end of the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal effort that once threatened his liberty but appears only to have galvanized his supporters. The abandonment of the cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats he was facing as he returns to the White House. It was the culmination of a monthslong defense effort to delay the proceedings at every step and use the criminal allegations to Trump’s political advantage, putting the final word in the hands of voters instead of jurors. “We always knew that the rich and powerful had an advantage, but I don’t think we would have ever believed that somebody could walk away from everything,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official. “If there ever was a Teflon defendant, that’s Donald Trump.” While prosecutors left the door open to the possibility that federal charges could be re-filed against Trump after he leaves office, that seems unlikely. Meanwhile, Trump’s presidential victory has thrown into question the future of the two state criminal cases against him in New York and Georgia. Trump was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money case , but it’s possible the sentencing could be delayed until after Trump leaves office, and the defense is pushing to dismiss the case altogether. Smith’s team stressed that their decision to abandon the federal cases was not a reflection of the merit of the charges, but an acknowledgement that they could not move forward under longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Trump’s presidential victory set “at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: On the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The move just weeks after Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris underscores the immense personal stake Trump had in the campaign in which he turned his legal woes into a political rallying cry. Trump accused prosecutors of bringing the charges in a bid to keep him out of the White House, and he promised revenge on his perceived enemies if he won a second term. “If Donald J. Trump had lost an election, he may very well have spent the rest of his life in prison,” Vice President-elect JD Vance, wrote in a social media post on Monday. “These prosecutions were always political. Now it’s time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again.” After the Jan. 6 attack by Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and several other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump during his Senate impeachment trial said it was up to the justice system to hold Trump accountable. The Jan. 6 case brought last year in Washington alleged an increasingly desperate criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters after Trump’s 2020 loss, accusing Trump of using the angry mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol as “a tool” in his campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and obstruct the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters — many of whom have said they felt called to Washington by Trump — have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries of federal charges at the same courthouse where Trump was supposed to stand trial last year. As the trial date neared, officials at the courthouse that sits within view of the Capitol were busy making plans for the crush of reporters expected to cover the historic case. But Trump’s argument that he enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution , and sent the case back to the trial court to decide which allegations could move forward. But the case was dismissed before the trial court could get a chance to do so. 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Smith appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but abandoned that appeal on Monday. Smith’s team said it would continue its fight in the appeals court to revive charges against Trump’s two co-defendants because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” In New York, jurors spent weeks last spring hearing evidence in a state case alleging a Trump scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. New York prosecutors recently expressed openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump’s second term, while Trump’s lawyers are fighting to have the conviction dismissed altogether. In Georgia, a trial while Trump is in office seems unlikely in a state case charging him and more than a dozen others with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The case has been on hold since an appeals court agreed to review whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case. Associated Press reporter Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed.
The TOI Entertainment Desk is a dynamic and dedicated team of journalists, working tirelessly to bring the pulse of the entertainment world straight to the readers of The Times of India. No red carpet goes unrolled, no stage goes dark - our team spans the globe, bringing you the latest scoops and insider insights from Bollywood to Hollywood, and every entertainment hotspot in between. We don't just report; we tell tales of stardom and stories untold. Whether it's the rise of a new sensation or the seasoned journey of an industry veteran, the TOI Entertainment Desk is your front-row seat to the fascinating narratives that shape the entertainment landscape. Beyond the breaking news, we present a celebration of culture. We explore the intersections of entertainment with society, politics, and everyday life. Read More Malavika Mohanan redefines elegance in a timeless red chiffon saree 9 morning habits to get rid of stomach discomfort 9 popular Korean desserts to try before 2024 ends Inside Alia Bhatt's love-filled Christmas celebration with Ranbir Kapoor, Raha and family 10 perfect baby names for kids born on a Thursday 10 countries with most cancer rates, see where India stands 10 things true friends don't do New Year dishes traditionally prepared in various Indian states In pics: Anil Ambani's grand and luxurious home 'Abode'
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