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President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as U.S. Attorney General in his new administration. "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans," Trump wrote in an announcement of the nomination. "Not anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime, and making America safe again." Bondi was Florida's attorney general from 2011 to 2019. During her tenure, she brought or participated in lawsuits to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Bondi was also a defense lawyer for Trump during his first impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate and has worked at the conservative nonprofit America First Policy Institute . Bondi's nomination is subject to Senate confirmation. RELATED STORY | Matt Gaetz says he's removing his name for consideration for attorney general Bondi's nomination comes the same day that former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration for the position. Trump nominated Gaetz last week, a decision that was quickly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans. On Thursday, Trump thanked Gaetz for his efforts to try and secure the support of the senators needed for confirmation. "Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do," Trump said on Truth Social. This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Jonah Goldberg Among elites across the ideological spectrum, there's one point of unifying agreement: Americans are bitterly divided. What if that's wrong? What if elites are the ones who are bitterly divided while most Americans are fairly unified? History rarely lines up perfectly with the calendar (the "sixties" didn't really start until the decade was almost over). But politically, the 21st century neatly began in 2000, when the election ended in a tie and the color coding of electoral maps became enshrined as a kind of permanent tribal color war of "red vs. blue." Elite understanding of politics has been stuck in this framework ever since. Politicians and voters have leaned into this alleged political reality, making it seem all the more real in the process. I loathe the phrase "perception is reality," but in politics it has the reifying power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Like rival noble families in medieval Europe, elites have been vying for power and dominance on the arrogant assumption that their subjects share their concern for who rules rather than what the rulers can deliver. Political cartoonists from across country draw up something special for the holiday In 2018, the group More in Common published a massive report on the "hidden tribes" of American politics. The wealthiest and whitest groups were "devoted conservatives" (6%) and "progressive activists" (8%). These tribes dominate the media, the parties and higher education, and they dictate the competing narratives of red vs. blue, particularly on cable news and social media. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of Americans resided in, or were adjacent to, the "exhausted majority." These people, however, "have no narrative," as David Brooks wrote at the time. "They have no coherent philosophic worldview to organize their thinking and compel action." Lacking a narrative might seem like a very postmodern problem, but in a postmodern elite culture, postmodern problems are real problems. It's worth noting that red vs. blue America didn't emerge ex nihilo. The 1990s were a time when the economy and government seemed to be working, at home and abroad. As a result, elites leaned into the narcissism of small differences to gain political and cultural advantage. They remain obsessed with competing, often apocalyptic, narratives. That leaves out most Americans. The gladiatorial combatants of cable news, editorial pages and academia, and their superfan spectators, can afford these fights. Members of the exhausted majority are more interested in mere competence. I think that's the hidden unity elites are missing. This is why we keep throwing incumbent parties out of power: They get elected promising competence but get derailed -- or seduced -- by fan service to, or trolling of, the elites who dominate the national conversation. There's a difference between competence and expertise. One of the most profound political changes in recent years has been the separation of notions of credentialed expertise from real-world competence. This isn't a new theme in American life, but the pandemic and the lurch toward identity politics amplified distrust of experts in unprecedented ways. This is a particular problem for the left because it is far more invested in credentialism than the right. Indeed, some progressives are suddenly realizing they invested too much in the authority of experts and too little in the ability of experts to provide what people want from government, such as affordable housing, decent education and low crime. The New York Times' Ezra Klein says he's tired of defending the authority of government institutions. Rather, "I want them to work." One of the reasons progressives find Trump so offensive is his absolute inability to speak the language of expertise -- which is full of coded elite shibboleths. But Trump veritably shouts the language of competence. I don't mean he is actually competent at governing. But he is effectively blunt about calling leaders, experts and elites -- of both parties -- stupid, ineffective, weak and incompetent. He lost in 2020 because voters didn't believe he was actually good at governing. He won in 2024 because the exhausted majority concluded the Biden administration was bad at it. Nostalgia for the low-inflation pre-pandemic economy was enough to convince voters that Trumpian drama is the tolerable price to pay for a good economy. About 3 out of 4 Americans who experienced "severe hardship" because of inflation voted for Trump. The genius of Trump's most effective ad -- "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you" -- was that it was simultaneously culture-war red meat and an argument that Harris was more concerned about boutique elite concerns than everyday ones. If Trump can actually deliver competent government, he could make the Republican Party the majority party for a generation. For myriad reasons, that's an if so big it's visible from space. But the opportunity is there -- and has been there all along. Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch: thedispatch.com . Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!Unions attack 2.8% Government pay rise proposal for NHS workers and teachersIowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks beats Dem challenger in state's 1st Congressional DistrictAgventure Commodities Limited has unveiled an organic and natural sesame hulling plant in Kano State as part of efforts to expand agro export in the country. The new sesame hulling plant is expected to generate employment opportunities for the local community, creating about 300 direct and indirect jobs. Sheeju Prabhakaran, general manager of the Indian plant, Adventure Commodities Limited, said the launch of the plant will help enhance the quality and quantity of the country’s sesame export. “The newly established sesame hulling plant represents a significant milestone as it is poised to increase sesame seed processing capacity by 7,000MT per year.” “Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the plant will enable efficient and high-quality sesame hulling, meeting the growing demand for premium hulled seeds in international markets such as the USA, Europe and Asia,” he stressed. Prabhakaran who noted that absence of such a facility in the community had reduced farmers’ export output in the state over the years. He expressed optimism that the inauguration of sesame hulling plant would galvanise sesame production capacity, export potential, sustainable growth in the state’s agricultural sector and also support local sesame farmers’ productivity. “The facility has been built to comply with international standards for food manufacturing and utilise state-of-the-art technologies, including dry hulling and colour sorting,” he said. “A full quality assurance programme has been implemented and extensive training and monitoring programmes are in place to ensure that products comply with stringent quality standards, providing full traceability from the farm through production and delivery.” “We are thrilled to launch this new facility, which aligns with our long-term mission to deliver the finest quality sesame seeds to our global clients.” According to him, the investment will not only enhance Nigeria’s export capabilities but also creates new opportunities for local farmers by providing a stable market. While highlighting the company’s past achievements, Derek Olokor, treasury director of the company, said: “We believe that innovation and sustainability go hand in hand. Our new plant is a testament to our efforts to adopt responsible production practices while supporting the livelihoods of farmers in the region.”
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How Close Are We to Fully Sentient AI Companions in Iowa?AP Sports SummaryBrief at 5:38 p.m. ESTALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted Tuesday while arriving for a court appearance in Pennsylvania, a day after he was arrested at a McDonald’s and charged with murder. Luigi Nicholas Mangione emerged from a patrol car, spun toward reporters and shouted something partly unintelligible referring to an “insult to the intelligence of the American people” while deputies pushed him inside. Prosecutors were beginning to take steps to bring Mangione back to New York to face a murder charge while new details emerged about his life and how he was captured. The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family was charged with murder hours after he was arrested in the Manhattan killing of Brian Thompson , who led the United States’ largest medical insurance company. At the brief hearing, defense lawyer Thomas Dickey informed the court that Mangione would not waive extradition to New York but instead wants a hearing on the issue. He has 14 days to challenge detention. Mangione, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, mostly stared straight ahead at the hearing, occasionally consulting papers, rocking in his chair or looking back at the gallery. At one point, he began to speak to respond to the court discussion but was quieted by his lawyer. Mangione likely was motivated by his anger with what he called “parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed, a law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said. He wrote that the U.S. has the most expensive health care system in the world and that profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, according to the bulletin, based on a review of his hand-written notes and social media posts. Mangione called “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski a “political revolutionary” and may have found inspiration from the man who carried out a series of bombings while railing against modern society and technology, according to police bulletin. Mangione remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. Manhattan prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant, a step that could help expedite his extradition from Pennsylvania. Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania — about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of New York City — after a McDonald's customer recognized him and notified an employee, authorities said. Officers found him sitting at a back table, wearing a blue medical mask and looking at a laptop, according to a Pennsylvania police criminal complaint. He initially gave them a fake ID, but when an officer asked Mangione whether he’d been to New York recently, he “became quiet and started to shake,” the complaint says. When he pulled his mask down at officers' request, “we knew that was our guy,” rookie Officer Tyler Frye said. Images of Mangione released Tuesday by Pennsylvania State Police showed him pulling down his mask in the corner of the McDonald's while holding what appeared to be hash browns and wearing a winter jacket and beanie. In another photo from a holding cell, he stood unsmiling with rumpled hair. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Mangione was carrying a gun like the one used to kill Thompson and the same fake ID the shooter had used to check into a New York hostel, along with a passport and other fraudulent IDs. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione also had a three-page, handwritten document that shows “some ill will toward corporate America." A law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity said the document included a line in which Mangione claimed to have acted alone. “To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,” the document said, according to the official. It also had a line that said, “I do apologize for any strife or traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.” Pennsylvania prosecutor Peter Weeks said in court that Mangione was found with a passport and $10,000 in cash, $2,000 of it in foreign currency. Mangione disputed the amount. Thompson, 50, was killed Wednesday as he walked alone to a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. Police quickly came to see the shooting as a targeted attack by a gunman who appeared to wait for Thompson, came up behind him and fired a 9 mm pistol. Investigators have said “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were written on ammunition found near Thompson's body. The words mimic “delay, deny, defend,” a phrase used to criticize the insurance industry . From surveillance video, New York investigators determined the shooter quickly fled the city, likely by bus. A grandson of a wealthy, self-made real estate developer and philanthropist, Mangione is a cousin of a current Maryland state legislator. Valedictorian at his elite Baltimore prep school, he went on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a spokesperson said. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s family said in a statement posted on social media late Monday by his cousin, Maryland Del. Nino Mangione. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.” From January to June 2022, Luigi Mangione lived at Surfbreak, a “co-living” space at the edge of touristy Waikiki in Honolulu. Like other residents of the shared penthouse catering to remote workers, Mangione underwent a background check, said Josiah Ryan, a spokesperson for owner and founder R.J. Martin. “Luigi was just widely considered to be a great guy. There were no complaints,” Ryan said. "There was no sign that might point to these alleged crimes they’re saying he committed.” At Surfbreak, Martin learned Mangione had severe back pain from childhood that interfered with many aspects of his life, from surfing to romance, Ryan said. Mangione left Surfbreak to get surgery on the mainland, Ryan said, then later returned to Honolulu and rented an apartment. Martin stopped hearing from Mangione six months to a year ago. ___ Scolforo reported from Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Contributing were Associated Press writers Cedar Attanasio and Jennifer Peltz in New York; Michael Rubinkam and Maryclaire Dale in Pennsylvania; Lea Skene in Baltimore; and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher in Honolulu.
The Washington Commanders secured a play-off spot after beating the Atlanta Falcons 30-24 in overtime. Rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels rushed for 127 yards, throwing for another 227 and for three touchdowns, including the game-winning touchdown pass to Zach Ertz. The Commanders staged a dramatic comeback from a 10-point deficit at half-time, sending them to the play-offs for the first time in four years. The win was enough to give the Los Angeles Rams the NFC West title as it ended the Seattle Seahawks hopes ahead of their meeting in the final week of the season. The Falcons need other results to go their way along with a win over the Carolina Panthers in their final game. Saquon Barkley became the ninth running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a single season as the Philadelphia Eagles clinched the NFC East title with a victory over the Dallas Cowboys. The 27-year-old achieved the feat with a 23-yard run during the fourth quarter of the Eagles’ crushing 41-7 success at Lincoln Financial Field. Barkley is 100 yards short of Eric Dickerson’s record of 2,105 yards, set in 1984 for the Los Angeles Rams, ahead of next week’s regular season finale against the New York Giants. However, he could be rested for that game in order to protect him from injury ahead of the play-offs. The Minnesota Vikings scored their ninth consecutive win after hanging on to beat the Green Bay Packers 27-25. Sam Darnold threw touchdowns to Cam Akers, Jordan Addison and Jalen Nailer, pushing his total for the season to 35. The victory set up a final-week showdown with the Detroit Lions for both the division title and top seed in the NFC. The Miami Dolphins kept themselves in the play-off race with a 20-3 victory over the Cleveland Browns. With Dolphins’ quarterback Tua Tagovailoa out with a hip injury, replacement Tyler Huntly threw for 225 yards and a touchdown. Miami will need to beat the New York Jets and hope the Denver Broncos lose to the Kansas City Chiefs to clinch the final AFC wildcard berth. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers kept alive their dreams of reaching the play-offs by overcoming the Carolina Panthers 48-14. Veteran quarterback Baker Mayfield produced a dominant performance at Raymond James Stadium, registering five passing touchdowns to equal a Buccaneers franchise record. The Buffalo Bills clinched the AFC conference number two seed for the post season with a 40-14 success over the New York Jets at Highmark Stadium. Josh Allen passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing for another. Buffalo finish the 2024 regular season undefeated at home, with eight wins from as many games. The Indianapolis Colts’ hopes of reaching the play-offs were ended by a 45-33 defeat to the Giants. Malik Nabers exploded for 171 yards and two touchdowns and Ihmir Smith-Marsette broke a 100-yard kick-off return to give the Giants their highest-scoring output under head coach Brian Daboll. Quarterback Drew Lock threw four touchdown passes and accounted for a fifth on the ground to seal the win. Elsewhere, Mac Jones threw two touchdowns to help the Jacksonville Jaguars defeat the Tennessee Titans 20-13, while the Las Vegas Raiders beat the New Orleans Saints 25-10.
Pat McAfee did not hold back when asked about his thoughts about the Indianapolis Colts after being eliminated from playoff contention. On X (formerly Twitter), the former Colts punter responded to a fan who wanted McAfee to talk about the Colts on his show Monday. “I’ve said what I believed to be the truth about the team.. & a bunch of ‘Colts fans’ on the internet were trying to get me booed out of the city.. Current players, who have won nothing during their entire tenures, started using me and my face to try and paint me as the enemy in the city I’ve committed my life to,” McAfee wrote. “And in the end... everything went.. just like I f***ing said it would In the biggest moments everybody with a brain knew they’d crack.. and they did.” McAfee went on to talk about Joe Flacco giving the Colts a better chance to win than Anthony Richardson . “When I said Joe Flacco gives us a better chance to win than AR immediately after the tap out.. I would’ve said whatever backup QB we had on the roster. That can’t be what the face of your team is doing.. just can’t be.. and to a bigger aspect of it all, somehow AR thought it was ok to do that. That’s a locker room issue.. that’s a culture issue.. thats an indicator of a loser attitude radiating thru a building that was built by greats.” Pat McAfee continues rant against Colts McAfee also said he’s not renewing his season tickets next year. “As a multiple year season ticket holder (not renewing).. and someone who has actively, daily, attempted to be an additive to this beautiful city. I hope they become a good franchise again.. this city deserves it.. the OGs in the Colts building deserve it (equipment managers, trainers, ticketing, PR, sales).. and on the flip side the players/coaches in that building deserve whatever happens to them. Your unwarranted arrogance, laziness, and lack of professionalism has lead you to ANOTHER early vacation... which is probably what most of you entitled bums have been hoping for.” On Sunday, the Colts lost to the New York Giants 45-33. Their record is now 7-9 on the year and will miss the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. Richardson, who did not play on Sunday due to multiple injuries, has thrown eight touchdonwns and 12 interceptions with a 61.6 passer rating in 11 games. He is execpted to be the team’s starting QB in 2025. This article first appeared on 5 GOATs and was syndicated with permission.
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Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggles, shouts while entering courthousePresident-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the sprawling government agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace — celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz — recently held broad investments in health care, tech, and food companies that would pose significant conflicts of interest. Oz’s holdings, some shared with family, included a stake in UnitedHealth Group worth as much as $600,000, as well as shares of pharmaceutical firms and tech companies with business in the health care sector, such as Amazon. Collectively, Oz’s investments total tens of millions of dollars, according to financial disclosures he filed during his failed 2022 run for a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat. Trump said Tuesday he would nominate Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The agency’s scope is huge: CMS oversees coverage for more than 160 million Americans, nearly half the population. accounts for approximately $1 trillion in annual spending, with over 67 million enrollees. UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest health care companies in the nation and arguably the most important business partner of CMS, through which it is the leading provider of commercial health plans available to Medicare beneficiaries. UnitedHealth also offers managed-care plans under Medicaid, the joint state-federal program for low-income people, and sells plans on government-run marketplaces set up via the Affordable Care Act. Oz also had smaller stakes in CVS Health, which now includes the insurer Aetna, and in the insurer Cigna. It’s not clear if Oz, a heart surgeon by training, still holds investments in health care companies, or if he would divest his shares or otherwise seek to mitigate conflicts of interest should he be confirmed by the Senate. Reached by phone on Wednesday, he said he was in a Zoom meeting and declined to comment. An assistant did not reply to an email message with detailed questions. “It’s obvious that over the years he’s cultivated an interest in the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry,” said Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a watchdog group. “That raises a question of whether he can be trusted to act on behalf of the American people.” (The publisher of KFF Health News, David Rousseau, is on the .) Oz used his TikTok page on multiple occasions in November to praise Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including their efforts to take on the “illness-industrial complex,” and he slammed “so-called experts like the big medical societies” for dishing out what he called bad nutritional advice. Oz’s positions on health policy have been chameleonic; in 2010, he urging Californians to sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, telling viewers they had a “historic opportunity.” Oz’s 2022 financial disclosures show that the television star invested a substantial part of his wealth in health care and food firms. Were he confirmed to run CMS, his job would involve interacting with giants of the industry that have contributed to his wealth. Given the breadth of his investments, it would be difficult for Oz to recuse himself from matters affecting his assets, if he still holds them. “He could spend his time in a rocking chair” if that happened, Lurie said. In the past, nominees for government positions with similar potential conflicts of interest have chosen to sell the assets or otherwise divest themselves. For instance, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Attorney General Merrick Garland agreed to divest their holdings in relevant, publicly traded companies when they joined the Biden administration. Trump, however, declined in his first term to relinquish control of his own companies and other assets while in office, and he isn’t expected to do so in his second term. He has not publicly indicated concern about his subordinates’ financial holdings. CMS’ main job is to administer Medicare. About half of new enrollees now choose Medicare Advantage, in which commercial insurers provide their health coverage, instead of the traditional, government-run program, from KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. Proponents of Medicare Advantage say the private plans offer more compelling services than the government and better manage the costs of care. Critics note that Medicare Advantage plans have a long history of than the traditional program. UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna are all substantial players in the Medicare Advantage market. It’s not always a good relationship with the government. The Department of Justice filed a 2017 complaint against UnitedHealth used false information to inflate charges to the government. The case is ongoing. Oz is an enthusiastic proponent of Medicare Advantage. In 2020, he proposed offering Medicare Advantage to all; during his Senate run, he offered a more general pledge to expand those plans. After Trump announced Oz’s nomination for CMS, Jeffrey Singer, a senior fellow at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, “uncertain about Dr. Oz’s familiarity with health care financing and economics.” Singer said Oz’s Medicare Advantage proposal could require large new taxes — perhaps a 20% payroll tax — to implement. Oz has gotten a mixed reception from elsewhere in Washington. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, the Democrat who defeated Oz in 2022, signaled he’d potentially support his appointment to CMS. “If Dr. Oz is about protecting and preserving Medicare and Medicaid, I’m voting for the dude,” on the social platform X. Oz’s investments in companies doing business with the federal government don’t end with big insurers. He and his family also hold hospital stocks, according to his 2022 disclosure, as well as a stake in Amazon worth as much as nearly $2.4 million. (Candidates for federal office are required to disclose a broad range of values for their holdings, not a specific figure.) Amazon operates an internet pharmacy, and the company announced in June that its is available to Medicare enrollees. It also , One Medical, that accepts Medicare and “select” Medicare Advantage plans. Oz was also directly invested in several large pharmaceutical companies and, through investments in venture capital funds, indirectly invested in other biotech and vaccine firms. Big Pharma has been a frequent target of criticism and sometimes conspiracy theories from Trump and his allies. Kennedy, whom Trump has said he’ll nominate to be Health and Human Services secretary, is a longtime anti-vaccine activist. During the Biden administration, Congress gave Medicare authority to negotiate with drug companies over their prices. CMS initially selected 10 drugs. Those drugs collectively accounted for between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023, under Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit. At least four of those 10 medications are manufactured by companies in which Oz held stock, worth as much as about $50,000. Related Articles Oz may gain or lose financially from other Trump administration proposals. For example, as of 2022, Oz held investments worth as much as $6 million in fertility treatment providers. To counter fears that politicians who oppose abortion would ban in vitro fertilization, Trump making in vitro fertilization treatment free. It’s unclear whether the government would pay for the services. In his TikTok videos from earlier in November, Oz echoed attacks on the food industry by Kennedy and other figures in his “Make America Healthy Again” movement. They blame processed foods and underregulation of the industry for the poor health of many Americans, concerns shared by many Democrats and more mainstream experts. But in 2022, Oz owned stakes worth as much as $80,000 in Domino’s Pizza, Pepsi, and US Foods, as well as more substantial investments in other parts of the food chain, including cattle; Oz reported investments worth as much as $5.5 million in a farm and livestock, as well as a stake in a dairy-free milk startup. He was also indirectly invested in the restaurant chain Epic Burger. One of his largest investments was in the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain Wawa, which sells fast food and all manner of ultra-processed snacks. 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TORONTO - Ontario says Ottawa’s tax holiday will cost the province $1 billion, but it will support the GST break for consumers. Last week, the federal Liberal government announced plans to pause the GST for two months on prepared food, toys, some types of alcohol and other holiday season staples. In provinces like Ontario, where the provincial and federal sales taxes are blended together into a harmonized sales tax, the entire HST would be removed from such items. Premier Doug Ford has said he was supportive of the move. Now, the office of Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy confirms it will remove the provincial sales tax on items not already covered under provincial rebate. Ontario has long removed the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax from similar items listed in Ottawa’s GST break plan, such as children’s clothes and some food. The premiers of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have said they want to be compensated by Ottawa for the provincial revenue lost during the tax holiday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 27, 2024.
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Tucson high school senior Angeles says she tries to be a role model for her two younger siblings, as well as her cousins who still live in southern Mexico. The 17-year-old stays busy with school, her part-time job in Marana's outlet mall and playing bass in a band with friends. She’s been accepted at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where she hopes to study business. But as the eldest, U.S.-born daughter of two undocumented parents, Angeles said that sense of responsibility has been weighing on her since Donald Trump won the presidential election, following repeated campaign promises to "launch the largest deportation effort in American history." “It’s often in my head, especially at work,” she said, her voice breaking. “I’m just scared to come back one day and not see my parents at my house.” Monica and her husband, who are undocumented, and their three children Angeles, Amaya and Axel, who were all born in the U.S., put their hands together. “I’m just scared to come back one day and not see my parents at my house," Angeles says. Instead of feeling excitement about NAU, Angeles says she can't help but think about the worst-case scenario. If her parents were to be deported, she's prepared to delay or leave college and start working full-time to support her younger sister until she finishes high school. Her parents act calm when discussing how their family would deal with such a situation, but Angeles says she knows they’re stressed. “I see it by looking at their eyes,” said Angeles, who asked the Arizona Daily Star to only use her first name. “We have so much here. We have community. If they do end up getting deported, they would be losing so much.” Between the twin threats of Trump's promised mass deportations, and the passage of Proposition 314 in Arizona — which allows local police to arrest people for immigration violations — many in Southern Arizona's immigrant community are experiencing fear and anxiety reminiscent of the days of SB1070. That's Arizona's notorious "show-me-your-papers" law, passed in 2010, which has been largely nullified by the courts. "The scary part is both the state and federal attacks combined," said Carolina Silva, director of immigrant-youth-led Scholarships A-Z, which advocates for education equity for undocumented students. SB1070 offers lessons for organizers today, although, with Trump in the presidency, it's harder to predict what the reality will look like, Silva said. "There’s a sense of, we’ve been on a similar train before but, as we know, Trump is a really chaotic individual. He has really anti-immigration people in his cabinet, so we can’t take much safety or comfort" in past experience, she said. Amid the uncertainty, many are finding solidarity in Tucson advocacy groups, which are mobilizing to inform the immigrant community about their rights and making plans to defend those vulnerable to deportation. "We're going to create a plan of accompaniment and ultimately, a plan of resistance," said immigrant-rights activist Isabel García, an attorney with Coalición de Derechos Humanos — Human Rights Coalition — and co-founder of Tucson’s “Stop the Hate” collective. "We have to protect our brothers and sisters in the community." Isabel Garcia listens to one of the dozens of people who turned out for the weekly meeting of Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson on Thursday evening, discussing ways to deal with the incoming Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. "We're going to create a plan of accompaniment and ultimately, a plan of resistance," says Garcia, an immigrant-rights attorney. Advocates and experts say mass deportations won't begin suddenly; there's time to make emergency plans, organize important documents and contact lawyers. Any effort to ramp up deportations will face considerable logistical, financial, diplomatic and legal challenges, including the limits of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's capacity to detain people, the willingness of other countries to accept deportations, and the already massive backlog in U.S. immigration courts, experts say. Most immigrants who are already settled in the U.S., rather than recent arrivals at the border, can't be deported without a hearing before an immigration judge. "Any kind of significant ramp up in enforcement will take time. Obtaining new detention capacity will take months or potentially years," as will hiring more ICE agents, said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at immigrant-rights research group American Immigration Council. "Despite Stephen Miller and others talking in terms of a 'shock-and-awe' campaign, I’m deeply skeptical the U.S. government has the capacity to do something like that." Angeles' mother, Monica, who asked that the Star only use her first name, said she wishes she could shield her children from the stress they're experiencing, but Trump's re-election has forced them to have hard conversations. Monica, a housekeeper and immigrant-rights advocate, has a wide smile and is quick to laugh. But her eyes fill with tears when talking about leaving Tucson, which now feels more like home than the one she left in Oaxaca, Mexico, nearly 20 years ago. Monica, a housekeeper, drapes her arms around her husband and her three children Angeles, Amaya and Axel, on Friday. Monica and her husband are undocumented immigrants whose three children were all born in the United States. Tucson now feels more like home than the one Monica left in Oaxaca, Mexico nearly 20 years ago, she says. Speaking to the Star in Spanish on a recent afternoon, a thick braid of hair draped over her shoulder, Monica recalled the years when she kept the shades drawn and always had the suitcases packed in case they had to leave. She's warned her children to be careful of police officers who might act more aggressively, emboldened by Proposition 314, as she said happened under SB1070. "Now we have to prepare, as a community," she said. "It's a sad and painful time." Community mobilizing As the sun set on Thursday evening, nearly 50 activists and organizers gathered at Coalición de Derechos Humanos' community center in South Tucson. Bouncing between English and Spanish, community members, legal advocates and social-justice activists pulled chairs into circle and hammered out details of an upcoming "Know Your Rights" clinic for undocumented immigrants and allies. The network of human-rights groups, led by Coalición de Derechos Humanos, is forming committees — including education, political outreach, emergency response and mental health — and scripting role-playing skits on how to respond if detained and questioned about one's immigration status. "We need volunteers to be actors," organizer Jennifer Cervantes announced at the meeting, joking, "It is a dark comedy." Jennifer Cervantes leads the weekly meeting of Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson on Thursday evening, discussing efforts to deal with the new administration’s mass deportation plans. They're also seeking allies, U.S. citizen volunteers willing to show up quickly when someone is detained, or to accompany people to required check-ins with ICE, where they could be vulnerable to arrest. Organizers, some of whom are undocumented themselves, worry they could be targeted, too, said immigration attorney Alba Jaramillo of the Human Rights Coalition, and co-executive director of the Immigration Law and Justice Network. "We're going to have to figure out a way to do this that is safe," she said. "After Jan. 20, it's going to have to become an underground movement." In times of fear, it's crucial to empower people with knowledge and tools to defend themselves, said Manuel Ruiz, an activist who is also undocumented. "I think my family, and all immigrant families, will be greatly impacted by the insecurity of leaving your house and not knowing what will happen," he said in Spanish. "It's a chaos and a stress that are affecting us greatly." He advises maintaining an "emergency kit" with important documents — such as passports, asylum-petition documentation or birth certificates — in a secure place. Undocumented parents should sign power-of-attorney or guardianship papers to ensure someone they trust could care for their children, in case of a sudden detainment. If questioned during a traffic stop, assert the 5th Amendment right to remain silent, Silva said. “Don't say where you were born, don't respond to their questions. Say, 'I'm not allowed to say anything without an attorney present,'" she said. Local law enforcement Trump’s team has "two camps” with competing ideas of how mass deportations will be carried out, Reichlin-Melnick said. On one side is Stephen Miller, Trump's named deputy chief of staff of policy, who describes detention centers constructed by military, deployment of National Guard troops in immigrant-friendly cities and a sweeping effort to round up undocumented people, with no prioritization of those with criminal records, as is currently the policy under the Biden administration. Tom Homan, the former ICE director who will be Trump’s “border czar,” envisions a “more restrained operation" akin to current ICE operations targeting criminals, but with more resources, scaled-up detention capacity and "collateral arrests" of people near ICE's intended targets, Reichlin-Melnick said. Local officials said it's not yet clear what mass deportations will actually look like, and what kind of pressure local authorities will face to cooperate. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, a Democrat who faces a recount in his narrow Nov. 5 election victory, told the Star that sheriff's deputies here will not participate in immigration enforcement. “I will say this: If Border Patrol called the Sheriff's Office and said, ’We need you to help us check on businesses and make sure everybody there has immigration status that's correct,’ we would never do that," he said. Nanos said sheriff's deputies cannot hold people for immigration violations without a court-ordered warrant transferring them to ICE custody. If ICE needs more detention space, "we’re not putting them in my jail," he said. "That's the federal government's problem." Most of Proposition 314's provisions will only go into effect if a similar law in Texas survives a court challenge. If enacted, it allows local law enforcement to arrest people for immigration violations, but it's not a mandate, Nanos said. "I do not plan to put deputies on the border. I need deputies here on my streets," he said. "My deputies have a job to do, and it has nothing to do with immigration.”’ Facing hard limits on the number of deportations that can happen in four years, the Trump administration will use fear to push people to leave on their own, Reichlin-Melnick said. "I think it's important for people to realize the Trump administration is going to weaponize fear here. They’ll weaponize public relations around raids," he said in a recent interview on The Majority Report . "We’re going to see a lot of cases in the first six months where ICE carries out a pretty standard operation and rather than a small press release coming out from the ICE Public Affairs office, we’ll see the White House blast out media images of raids. ... The idea there is to send people into the shadows and get them to self-deport." Economic, social impacts Deporting 1 million people annually would cost an average of $88 billion per year, including costs of arrests, detentions, legal processing and removals, according to an October report from the American Immigration Council. The U.S. economy also stands to lose the billions in revenue that undocumented immigrants contribute through sales, income and property taxes. In 2022, undocumented workers contributed $96.7 billion in federal, state and local taxes, according to a July study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. (People without Social Security numbers can pay taxes using Individual Tax Identification Numbers, issued by the Internal Revenue Service.) That includes $25.7 billion for Social Security and $6.4 billion for Medicare, programs for which undocumented workers are not eligible themselves. And in Arizona, undocumented immigrants paid $706 million in state and local taxes in 2022. Manuel Ruiz addresses the dozens at the weekly meeting of Coalición de Derechos Humanos — Human Rights Coalition — about plans to react to the Trump administration’s mass deportation promises. The Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is trying to educate Arizona's U.S. legislators on what mass deportations would mean for the economy, particularly in industries like agriculture, construction and hospitality, said Robert Elias, chamber CEO. Work shortages in the farming sector could increase reliance on automation and reduce jobs in the long-term, as well as increase food prices, he said. “Arizona's economy heavily relies on undocumented immigrant labor,” Elias said. "I don't believe anybody who says they care about the economy can be for this type of (deportation) policy, regardless of whether they’re Democrat, Republican or Independent.” Housing advocates say construction workforce shortages could exacerbate housing costs by slowing new homebuilding. “We are monitoring the situation closely," David Godlewski, president and CEO of the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association, said in an email. "The home building industry recognizes the importance of a robust and reliable workforce which is integral in meeting the current and future housing needs of our region. It’s a balancing act that requires investing in the workforce training, increasing the number of visas and exploring comprehensive immigration reform.” U.S. citizens affected, too Deportations have a ripple effect on the finances of entire households, and the wider community, said Geoff Boyce, research affiliate at the University of Arizona's Binational Migration Institute. In a 2020 study based on interviews with 125 Tucson households, Boyce calculated families incurred an average loss of $24,000 per arrest following a deportation, including lost income and legal fees. Two-thirds of family members in the survey were U.S. citizens, part of mixed-status families, he said. "What we find is the majority of people impacted by deportations are in fact U.S. citizens," Boyce said. "That's a reflection of how undocumented people are not a population that's isolated and lives apart from the rest of the community. They’re part of our families, our neighborhoods and our lives." Using a sports metaphor, Boyce said mass deportation can be understood as an "own goal," that is, "our own government sabotaging the health and well-being of the people it is supposed to serve and represent." Workplace raids don't usually net large numbers of deportations, relative to the massive amount of resources needed to carry them out, Reichlin-Melnick said. But they could be an effective P.R. strategy for Trump, he said. Workplace raids are experienced locally as disasters, said Liz Oglesby, associate professor in the UA's Center for Latin American Studies. Between 2007 and 2013 Oglesby interviewed residents of three U.S. cities hit by large-scale raids, carried out like military operations, under Republican President George W. Bush. In the small town of Postville, Iowa, the children of Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants were the only reason some local schools had been able to stay open, Oglesby said. The town lost one-third of its population when its foreign-born residents fled, following a raid led by 800 ICE agents that picked up nearly 400 undocumented workers at a meat-packing plant. In Postville, "the response in the community became bipartisan, in the sense that across the political spectrum people stood up and said, 'No, we don't want this kind of disaster in our community,'" Oglesby said. "It tore apart the social fabric of the community." Impact on children About 11 million undocumented residents live in the U.S., and about 4.4 million U.S.-born children live with an undocumented parent, according to the Pew Research Center . A 2017 study estimated the cost of foster care for U.S.-born children of deported parents to be $118 billion, assuming one-third of affected children remained in the U.S. instead of leaving with their parent. In Arizona, about 8.6% of U.S.-born children live with a foreign-born parent, and deportation threats cause tremendous stress, said Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat. In Tucson under SB1070, the wave of fear that spread through the community led to high rates of absenteeism at schools, as parents kept their children home. Ultimately, the Tucson Unified School District lost about 15,000 enrolled students as families fled Arizona, said Grijalva, a former TUSD Governing Board member. Most Pima County schools now have emergency protocols for if a student's parent is detained, mostly involving crisis-response teams, Grijalva said. "It's mostly trauma services, the same sort of services you would provide if a parent was in a car accident," she said. TUSD did not respond to the Star's request for details on those protocols, but spokeswoman Karla Escamilla in an email, "Federal law prohibits public schools from requiring documentation on immigration status for enrollment." “There have to be safe spaces for our kids," Grijalva said. “That’s a protection every public school should provide. ... Both Pima County and the City of Tucson have taken strong positions on this (under SB1070) and I anticipate we'll renew our efforts this upcoming year." DACA recipients also worried This year's election night was painful for Jimena, 28, and her husband José, 36, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Veracruz, Mexico, when he was 14. The couple asked that the Star only use their first names because they worry José, like many others, is vulnerable to losing his protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The Obama-era program protects from deportation 535,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. DACA recipients can get work permits, and must renew their status every two years. The Supreme Court blocked Trump's first-term efforts to rescind DACA in 2020. The program's future is now up to an appeals court, after the Biden Administration challenged a 2023 Texas federal judge's decision ruling the program illegal. Congress hasn't acted to provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients despite polls showing strong support for it. Jimena and José said they stayed up late on election night, planning for if they have to leave the home they own in Casa Grande. At 13 weeks pregnant, Jimena says it's been hard to get excited about becoming parents. Trump's election feels like a personal attack, said Jimena, a naturalized U.S. citizen from El Salvador. "It feels like half of the country hates us. You can't feel safe," she said. "Sometimes I just feel numb. It's not that we forget we’re expecting a baby, but it just feels like this time where we should be focusing on our family, we have to focus on all the negativity around us." When Jimena looks at her husband, who runs an auto-glass tinting business, "I see the definition of an American dreamer," she said. "I see him as coming to this country and making something of himself. He has a business, he employs people, he pays his taxes, and he gets nothing in return but uncertainty. That's the thing that breaks my heart." Deportation causes trauma and grief, said Silva of Scholarships A-Z, whose family moved from Peru when she and her brother were children. When she was 19, Silva’s brother was detained at a traffic stop and later deported. It was 2011, and then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was ramping up the deportation program that would give him the moniker "deporter-in-chief" among critics. It was also one year before Obama created DACA, which Silva’s brother would have qualified for. “I wouldn’t wish deportation on anyone,” she said. "I don't know that anyone is safer because my brother isn’t in this country anymore." Now, once again, “it feels like our community is literally being hunted,” Silva said. “That is not okay. That is not what a first-world country should do." Seek community DACA recipient Luna Lara, 29, is a housing advocate in Tucson. She recalls “constantly looking over my shoulder” while growing up undocumented in Texas after her family moved from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She and her brother “grew up on home remedies” because their parents were too scared to take them to the hospital if they were sick, she said. “It was drilled into us that we had to be good, we had to have good grades, we had to make sure we never got in trouble or in a fight, anything that would arouse suspicions or get anybody’s attention,” she said. The hyper-vigilance has never gone away, Lara said. “Even to this day, once a year my mom will have a conversation with me, 'Hey, if something happens, here’s where all the paperwork is, here’s your next step,’” she said. For those feeling isolated and anxious, seeking support in faith groups or advocacy groups is key, Silva said. "I want our community to know they’re not alone, to know they have rights, they are worthy and everything they’re feeling is valid," she said. "They don't have to go through the next four years feeling isolated." Dora Rodriguez, migrant-rights activist and founder of Salvavision in Tucson, noted that Democrats and Republicans alike have targeted immigrants. Obama deported more people in each of his two terms than Republican Trump did, and currently under the Biden Administration's June asylum restrictions , 1,200 newly arrived migrants each week are being quickly deported back to Nogales, Sonora, she said. At 19, Rodriguez nearly died crossing the Sonoran Desert after she fled war-torn El Salvador in 1980. Rodriguez doesn't believe Trump can follow through on his deportation threats — "Mexico didn’t build the wall like he told us," she said — but she's concerned about how local law enforcement will react to Proposition 314 if it goes into effect. As activists, "We’re not scared. We’re more outraged," she said. "I don't have space to be afraid. I don't have space to give up. ... When I talk to people who are already saying, 'I'm going to take my husband to California because I am terrified of that new law in Arizona,' how can you answer that? You just have to be there for that person and say, 'No, you're not alone. We’re gonna fight for you.'" Lara said the prospect of mass deportations makes her feel angry, but she doesn’t want to say she’s afraid. “I hate to use the word fear, because I’ve lived in fear all my life," she said. She’s still holding on to hope that what she was taught to love about the U.S., as a place of equality and freedom, might still be true. “I’m blessed every day to be waking up in a great country that I still believe in,” Lara said. “I just need it to love me back.” Contact reporter Emily Bregel at ebregel@tucson.com . On X, formerly Twitter: @EmilyBregel In a Friday Instagram video , Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, a Democrat, said: " I want to reassure every single resident that I am committed to do all we can to keep our community safe. I am deeply troubled by President-Elect Trump’s plans for mass deportation. I believe they are cruel and immoral. I will work with our police chief to make sure that our focus remains on protecting and serving Tucsonans. Here in Tucson, we know how to stand up and fight against hate and racist laws. Part of our history is coming together with our faith leaders and other organizations to protect children and families from separation. I am unwavering in my commitment to this fight. While we do not have specific details about how mass deportations will be carried out by President-Elect Trump’s administration, we do know that it will be painful to children, families and our immigrant community. We do not have the exact details as to when and if Proposition 314 goes into effect, we know that this hate-filled proposition draws from SB1070 — the "show me your papers" law. We are a compassionate city that knows we are stronger together and that values our multi-racial heritage. 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