An Appeal To Pragmatism
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For decades, capital punishment has been in decline. Under Trump, the death penalty appears to be back.

First term, Trump oversaw the most federal executions since 1896. This term, 2025 had the highest state execution total since 2009 and the sharpest rise since 1999 so far.

Trump has called to bring back the death penalty since the 80s, and now has advanced changes to streamline the process and improve the DOJ's ability to execute. We just need more, better Republicans in Congress to expand the application through legislation.
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President Trump announces that we are finally leaving Iraq, having been there for more than 20 years and dragged on by both Obama and Biden. The existing Prime Minister there is Trump-endorsed, and will help ensure safe departure.
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President Trump signed an order calling for the total death of invasive mosquitos and ticks, directing several agencies such as HHS, Dept of Interior and Dept of Ag to pursue up to a 90% reduction in foreign mosquitos and 50% reduction in ticks, starting with the D.C. area.
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The federal workforce has dropped to the lowest level in 60 years amid Trump's purge of federal employees.
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Beginning on October 1st, many aliens will lose access to Medicaid and CHIP thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

Refugees, asylees, parolees and more will become ineligible for coverage and child insurance. The Republican OBBB has already begun purging aliens from SNAP and CTC.
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In the 14 years after 9/11, between 2001 to 2015, the U.S. revoked just 122,000 visas.

The Trump admin has revoked more than twice that — within 20 months. More than 250,000 visas have been revoked by the Trump admin so far, in the largest visa revocation effort in U.S. history.
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NYT: Thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, illegal and legal migrants are now being restricted from food stamps and health coverage.

And Trump's immigration crackdown has caused a significant drop in green cards, which will delay and prevent many from becoming eligible again.
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An Appeal To Pragmatism
Forbes fears Trump is forming a virtual prohibition of the H-1B program
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Vice President JD Vance says: "The H-1B system is broken. I'd be very supportive of just eliminating it." He explains that without Congress, he cannot end it, but he and Stephen Miller and Trump will continue to choke it and restrict it.
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President Trump has terminated Somali TPS, cut funds to Minnesota in many ways, and secured guilty pleas and criminal sentences for hundreds of millions in Somalian fraud
Removal orders for Somalians have skyrocketed in 2026, putting them on track for deportation by ICE.

Most Somalis in America are citizens, meaning most cannot yet be deported by normal means, but this shift shows the Trump admin is going after the ones it can arrest and remove.
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16 months in a row of no migrants released at the border under Trump. Never been seen before.
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By the numbers, Trump has the highest ICE arrest rate and largest volume of voluntary departures on record.

Asylum grants have fallen to an all-time low. Border encounters have flatlined, with zero releases at the border for 16 months straight. Even naturalization has collapsed. This is officially the administration of remigration.

The Trump admin has also carried out the largest revocation of visas in history, the most denaturalization filings, and overseen more removal orders than ever.
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