ANS -- Beavers to the rescue

Here is a very short and fun article.  From Doug Muder.

--Kim

As the climate changes, London’s famous fog and drizzle is more often turning into serious rain. So West London had a flooding problems that it could try to solve with expensive public works projects. Instead, it has brought in beavers, who had been virtually extinct in Britain.

In West London, conservationists got a government license to resettle a family of five beavers in a 20-acre urban park near the Greenford Tube station. It used to be a golf course, with a creek running through it. Within weeks, the beavers dammed up the creek, creating a pond that holds water and stops it from spilling into the city. They also diverted the creek’s flow into smaller tributaries, creating a wetland that better absorbs heavy rainfall — mitigating the risk of flooding downstream.

ANS -- This is Trump's INSANE immigration system

This is an article about the absurdity of the cruelty of Trump and the Trumpistas.  It's short. 

--Kim

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BREAKING: OMG! A Trump immigration judge just ordered a murdered teenage asylum seeker deported — even after his lawyer showed proof that he was dead.

Levi Mendez-Maldonado came to America alone at 17, fleeing Honduras. He found a sponsor, got a lawyer, applied for asylum the right way, became a father, worked as a mechanic, and was murdered in a shooting in November 2024.

On May 21, 2026, a North Carolina immigration judge ordered him deported anyway.

His attorney, Becca O'Neill of the Carolina Migrant Network, attended the hearing on his behalf. At the START of the proceeding, she informed Judge Amy Lee that her client was dead. She presented Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department records documenting his murder.

Judge Lee found the police records insufficient. The federal prosecutor said nothing. The hearing continued as if O'Neill had said nothing at all.

"The whole thing probably took maybe five minutes," O'Neill said. "The attorney acted like we were talking about the weather. The judge didn't take a moment to reorient herself after hearing he was dead."

The resulting deportation order contains NO mention of his death. It states simply that Mendez-Maldonado "failed to appear" and showed "no exceptional circumstances" for his absence.

He was MURDERED. That is the exceptional circumstance.

O'Neill had a name for what she witnessed: "This is the banality of evil. Just a boilerplate order: he didn't come to court, he didn't demonstrate good cause. Well, he's dead. And you know that because you saw a government website saying that he's dead."

This is NOT an isolated incident. The Charlotte immigration court granted legal relief in roughly 1% of cases in 2025. Judge Lee denied nearly 90% of her asylum cases between 2020 and 2025. Earlier this year, she ordered that one of O'Neill's clients be

removed to Ecuador, Guatemala, or Honduras. "My client is Mexican," O'Neill said. Lee told her to "stop talking."

Federal regulations EXPLICITLY permit cancellation of deportation proceedings in cases of death. The judge simply chose not to use that authority.

Levi Mendez-Maldonado did EVERYTHING right. He had legal representation — rare for unaccompanied minors. His work permit had been APPROVED. O'Neill had been trying to reach him for months to share the good news when she learned he had been killed.

His murder investigation is still open. His deportation order is now on the books.

This is Trump's INSANE immigration system. Please like and share if you think it has to change!

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