>Are you saying the entirety of the DOJ apparatus could be politically steered to look for non-existent evidence or make frivolous referrals?

Yes, have you not been paying attention? Politically motivated prosecution is modus operandi for the Trump administration...

> Are you saying the entirety of the DOJ apparatus could be politically steered to look for non-existent evidence or make frivolous referrals?

Yes, absolutely and unquestionably. This fact is blatantly, blindingly obvious to anyone who hasn't had their head buried in the sand for the past year.

This trend really says a lot about America, billionaires build their own empires by getting free money from investors and the government, including huge tax breaks and subsidies. When the people ask for some of that wealth that they helped build to support universal needs, they pack up and leave without blinking. Who really has the leverage and power here?

As the richest country on the planet, there is zero reason we should have nearly a million homeless people. These leaders extract wealth from the state and then ditch town. It’s deplorable.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a new kind of crime committed by the US? We've been involved in a lot of regime change operations but I can't think of one where we just straight up kidnap a foreign head of state and bring them to the US. I guess Saddam Hussein but that was after we caused the collapse?

Is the goal now to just put Maduro through a televised sham trial as a new cover for the Trump admin?

Why one time? Why not a 1% wealth tax on over $1bn?

Hell, make it revenue neutral—use it to cut everyone else’s taxes by a per-capita amount. (About $875/voter/year [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_locations_by_voter_...

The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a "weighted" selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website. Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson, said: "The existing random selection process of H-1B registrations was exploited and abused by US employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers."

The move is the latest in a broad crackdown on US immigration by President Donald Trump, who has dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants and sent enforcement agents into cities across the country to carry out arrests. The change also follows moves earlier this year to curb the number of applicants for the H-1B visa, which is popular among technology and professional services companies, including charging an additional $100,000 fee.

Beryl Howell, a federal judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia, late on Tuesday ruled the White House could move forward with the application charge after the US Chamber of Commerce had sued in October to block the six-figure fee.