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Isabela Dias at Mother Jones:

Is the dream dead? And, if so, who killed it? On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the Rose Garden of the White House to announce a massive change in immigration policy. For years, Congress had been unable to pass legislation to protect from deportation the so-called Dreamers, undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. In 2001, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) first introduced a bill that would have granted them a path to citizenship. But, a decade later, the Dream Act had failed—again.

Obama declared that day he had taken matters into his own hands. His administration put forward an executive action to create a now-famous program: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they’re friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag,” Obama, facing pressure over his administration’s harsh immigration enforcement practices, said. (He had begun to be called a moniker that would stick: “deporter in chief.”) “They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper.” As such, they shouldn’t be expelled from the country or have to live under the “shadow of deportation.”

DACA went on to become a landmark achievement of the Obama presidency—lauded for its seamless logistical implementation led by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, then head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the economic benefits of authorizing eligible beneficiaries to work. Crucially, it gave a lifeline to more than 800,000 young immigrants raised and educated in the United States. DACA was “a temporary stopgap measure,” Obama had said. But its success, for a time, allowed the program’s original sin to be played down. The expectation, Mayorkas told the New York Times recently, “was that DACA would be a bridge to legislation.” Politicians could assume that change, albeit delayed, would likely someday materialize. Over the past quarter of a century, the issue of Dreamers has enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress. It has been included in virtually every immigration negotiation. And the stories of promising undocumented young people have been common on front pages and magazine covers—inspiring a rare kind of solidarity that transcended political divisions. (There was even a Broadway musical.) This year, all of that seemingly changed. 

The common-sense vision for a permanent solution for Dreamers has gone from a no-brainer to an afterthought. It used to be the case that legislative pushes for stricter border enforcement measures would not even merit consideration unless they were tied to relief for Dreamers (to say nothing of the millions of other long-time undocumented people often also included in proposals). Legislation could fail to pass, as it repeatedly did. But that signaling of support—even if in sentiment alone—made clear where Dreamers stood. Now, that tacit pact has been broken, and with little ceremony. In an effort to appease cries of “open borders,” Democrats and President Biden endorsed a controversial bipartisan Senate border deal that would have brought about one of the harshest overhauls of the immigration system in decades. Biden lauded the bill as the “toughest” in history. He also lamented that it didn’t include a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. Still, he urged Congress to advance it. The border deal never saw the light of day. But it begged the question: When did standing up for DACA stop being “the right thing to do“? (Or a political necessity for Democrats.)

Adding to the disregard for Dreamers is the potential end of their life raft. DACA is more at-risk than ever, relegated to die a slow death in the courts where its legality and very existence is being litigated. As Congress and the public relentlessly debate immigration policy with a laser focus on the border, the fate of Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants living in the country has become a footnote.  “Congress used to care about the ‘Dreamers,'” the Washington Post editorial board wrote in January. “What happened?”

[...] The threat of DACA’s imminent demise is real. While in office, in 2017, former President Donald Trump rescinded the program, which then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed as “unilateral executive amnesty.” The US Supreme Court blocked the termination in a 5-4 decision ruling it was “capricious and arbitrary,” but left the underlying question of the program’s legality open. If given the opportunity, Trump would likely try to end DACA again. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook for the next conservative administration refers to it as an unlawful program. Stephen Miller, former White House senior adviser to Trump, previously called DACA “an erasure of immigration law” and his dark money-backed “lawfare” group opposed efforts to shield the initiative. “We already know what a Trump administration would do because we have had this experience,” Cecilia Muñoz, who served as director of the Domestic Policy Council under Obama and helped establish DACA, says. “You can expect DACA to shrink or disappear entirely.”

But these threats also elide the way the program is already quietly dying by a thousand cuts. A backlog of cases and months-long delays in processing applications means recipients risk losing their jobs. And short of an expansion, DACA as it currently exists will become obsolete. In order to qualify, applicants must have come to the United States before the age of 16 and have lived in the country since 2007. These requirements put the program out of reach for an entire new generation of Dreamers. “I have seen fewer and fewer DACA recipients in my classes,” Patler says. “My undergraduate students are now almost exclusively too young to have benefited from DACA, so they are facing the same barriers to pursuing higher education that undocumented students faced in the early 2000s.”  Even those who are eligible can still be excluded because of a court order blocking first-time applications. Judith Ortiz, 21, and her twin sister first applied for DACA in December 2020. A federal court ruling had just mandated that the Trump administration restore the program. Because the sisters, who came to the United States from Mexico at the age of two, share the same last name and birthday, their lawyer advised them to apply on different dates to avoid any confusion with the processing of their paperwork. Judith’s application was filed on December 23, 2020, one day after her twin sister. That one day would mean the difference between having legal status, however fraught, and remaining undocumented. 

In 2021, Judge Andrew Hanen of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas determined in a case brought by Republican attorney generals that DACA was unlawful because the Obama administration had failed to follow the formal rulemaking process. Hanen blocked new DACA applications from being considered. (He continued to allow renewals while the Biden administration revisited the program’s regulation.) The conservative Fifth Circuit upheld Hanen’s decision following an appeal by the Biden administration and sent it back to the district court judge, who ruled against the government’s attempt to strengthen and protect DACA. “While sympathetic to the predicament of DACA recipients and their families,” Hanen wrote in 2023, “this Court has expressed its concerns about the legality of the program for some time.” The case is now pending before the Fifth Circuit once more and could ultimately make its way to the Supreme Court.  When it comes to the courts, Muñoz sees a “worrisome corollary” in another Obama-era program, the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). Built on the same legal premise as DACA, that initiative would have offered temporary relief from deportation to undocumented parents of US citizens and permanent residents. In 2016, an equally divided Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s ruling in the United States v. Texas case, which challenged DAPA and an expansion of DACA, and prevented the program from being implemented. 

Mother Jones has an informative article on the slow-motion death of both DACA and DAPA.

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Bollettino del 10-12 agosto 2024 Il Dipartimento della Difesa (DoD) ha annunciato ulteriore assistenza militare per soddisfare le esigenze critiche di sicurezza e difesa dell'Ucraina.

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The Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Company recently revealed to the Press that the Philippine Government had sent them an Official Request for Information (RFI) for their new KF-21 Boramae Fighter Aircraft, indicating that the Philippines is now seriously considering its acquisition

This was initially released as an Article last July 31, 2024 at https://therhk111militaryandarmspage.blogspot.com/2024/07/paf-now-seriously-considering-acquisition-south-koreas-kf-21-boramae-fighter-aircraft.html

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part 36 of me explaining my fics rather than writing them

So, this is different from my rewrite lore, just a tamlin week fic I haven't written yet

TW: horror elements, gore mention, canon typical violence??, cannibalism because fae eat humans

Set UTM and Feyre goes after Tamlin like canon except it doesn't follow canon at all

Basically mashes ACOTAR and ACOMAF together

Feyre does her typical 'I love Tamlin, give him back to me' and Amarantha says 'sure, but kill these three fae first'

Sad, because Tamlin knows whats up but can't say anything because he's bound by Amarantha magically after the curse cemented itself

The fae are covered head to toe in black and mourning veils and cannot speak or move (which is formal wear in fae sacrifices)

Feyre kills them with an ashwood dagger and Amarantha basically orders Tamlin to go stand near Feyre because she 'gave' him to her (AKA Amarantha actually having the trickster traits of the fae and doesn't just make moves that could lead to her downfall plus explains the literal language of bargains)

Amarantha then reveals that the three hooded figures are actually Nesta, Elain, and Papa Archeron because Amarantha already had spies in the Spring Court (so she discovers that Tamlin and Rhysand were actually working together to stop her when Rhysand told her that Feyre was actually Clare Beddor)

AKA Tamlin and Rhysand have always been friends and were playing the long con ever since Amarantha came to Prythian because Tamlin warned Rhys about her

AKA Tamlin never betrayed Rhys, Tamlin's father killed Rhys's sister because she was Tamlin's mate (plus political shenanigans where Tamlin was already betrothed to Amarantha) and Tamlin actually orchestrated the death of his family as revenge (in this timeline, Tamlin's mother died young and he had bonded with Rhysand's mother as well)

Tamlin holds and comforts Feyre because that's all he can do at the moment

Amarantha then declares this her coronation and ascension ceremony with three humans as sacrifice and declares herself the Dark Mother

Amarantha then reveals the Cauldron and resurrects Nesta, Elain, and Papa Archeron using this moment to solidfy herself as someone who can control life and death

She then also resurrects both Jurian and her sister Clythia using more fae sacrifices because they don't have whole bodies

Because she's not yet done with her performance, she has Tamlin 'sit and stay' like a dog as she orders the Attor to tear Feyre limb from limb as he watches unable to do anything

Amarantha then orders a celebration feast and orders everyone to celebrate their new divinity

She also orders Tamlin to clean Feyre up and feed Feyre to Amarantha as even more punishment for not giving into her

Tamlin goes up to Amarantha and the Cauldron, but instead of giving Feyre to her, he put her remains in the Cauldron and uses himself as a sacrifice to bring her back to life as 'all things that have been Un-Made must once again be Made, and things Made must be Un-Made in the Cauldron'

At this, Feyre comes back to life but not as a human, but as a beast that begins to attack everything in sight and she eventually kills Amarantha, releasing everyone from her curse and rule

At this, Feyre and Clythia fight but everyone else joins in so Clythia runs away with Amarantha's body to Hyburn by winnowing

Thus, this begins a whole new story where Rhys never SAed Feyre and was actually working with the people around him to bring down Amarantha

This also means that Feyre doesn't have the other High Lords' powers but she does have Tamlin's shapeshifting ability because of his sacrifice

Feyre ends up permanently staying as a beast out of trauma, grief, and guilt (and is helped later on by Rhys because he's the only one that can communicate with her via telepathy)

Jurian, Elain, and Papa Archeron remain human but changed by the Cauldron

Nesta had actually brought herself out of Cauldron and did the same as canon and took from the Cauldron so that's why she has the appearance of a fae

So Prythian now has to go against both the King of Hybern and Clythia instead of just the KoH

And so this is where I reveal this is actually a TOG and ACOTAR crossover fic where the Cauldron also acts as a Wyrdgate and Tamlin was actually sent to the world of TOG

Also small TOG rewrite that doesn't follow the canon of TOG / also CCITY doesn't exist in this because I haven't read it yet

Currently planned (crackship) pairings, lemme know what you think:

Tamlin / Gavriel / Maura

Rhys / Cassian / Feyre

Azriel / Fenrys

Gwyn / Nox

Balthazar / Eris

Amren / Nesta / Varian

Mor / Elide

Emerie / Ressina

Elain / Kashin / Yrene

Lucien / Arghun

Nesryn / Sartaq

Tarquin / Papa Archeron

Cresseida / Jurian

Rowan / Aelin

Nehemia / Pelor

Aedion / Chaol / Dorian / Kaltain

Lysandra / Manon

Lorcan / Endymion

canon has no power here

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Nuove versioni del KF-21 Boramae In Corea del Sud la Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), l’Agenzia degli appalti del Ministero della Difesa di Seul, e Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) hanno reso pubblici gli sviluppi più recenti del programma relativo il caccia bombardiere KF-21 Boramae. In base a quanto è stato comunicato, del KF-21 Boramae (Hawk) saranno sviluppate tre diverse versioni, le KF-21EA, EX e SA. Il KF-21EA sarà un velivolo destinato principalmente a svolgere missioni di guerra elettronica e sarà sviluppato sulla base del KF-21B a due posti per addestramento e conversione operativa di cui sono stati realizzate due prototipi impiegati attualmente in prove di

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South Korea officially start Offer Discussion of KF-21 Aircraft to the Philippines

A Delegation from South Korea (SK) that is attending the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 Event in Malaysia met with Philippine Officials there recently to officially start the Discussions for the possible Export of the KF-21 Boramae Fighter Aircraft to the Philippines.

This was announced by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), the Agency within the Government of SK that is responsible for the development of Military Equipment. Aside from the Boramae, the possible Export of Submarines and additional FA-50 Aircraft was also discussed.

Here is the Link to the Article at the Defense Mirror Website: https://www.defensemirror.com/news/36773/South_Korea_Opens_Talks_to_Export_KF_21_Jets_to_the_Philippines

SOURCE: South Korea opens Talks to export KF-21 Jets to the Philippines {Archived Link}

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