Trump won’t rule out military action against Greenland and Panama.

A reporter asked if Trump would rule out “military or economic coercion” to put the US in charge of Greenland and Panama.

He said, “No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But, I can say this, we need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military. I’m not going to commit to that now … it might be that you’ll have to do something,” Trump continued.

He added: “The Panama Canal is vital to our country. It’s being operated by China, China, and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn’t give it to China, and they’ve abused it.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/07/us-politics-live-trump-justice-department-carter

How repulsive!!

“Several officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report “brown folks” they suspect are undocumented immigrants, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

“The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office recently learned about a letter being circulated throughout Lincoln County which encourages community members to track and report information regarding people of color, specifically community members that are believed to be undocumented,” the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.”

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/letter-urging-residents-report-brown-folks-condemned-oregon/story?id=117082954

Despite the protestations, this did happen more frequently when Trump was president last time. And it’s already happening again.

“Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested in Grand Junction, Colorado, after police say he followed KKCO/KJCT reporter Ja’Ronn Alex’s vehicle for 40 miles. Alex told police that he believed he had been followed and attacked because he is Pacific Islander.

“After arriving in Grand Junction, Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and said “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!” Egan then followed him back to his news station and tried to strangle him.

“This, uh, really does not bode well for the next four years.”

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/28/colorado-man-trumps-america-now-00196098

So he backs off on Trump’s plan to revoke U.S. citizenship from children whose parents are undocumented, and instead wants to put them in a “halfway house.”

“President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan delivered alarming new logistical details of a forthcoming mass deportation effort, a day after promising to restart the first Trump administration policy of family separation.

“In an interview with NewsNation, Homan, tapped by Trump to lead border security policy, admitted that millions of mixed-status households created a “difficult situation”

“The ​​Center for Migration Studies estimates that at least 4.7 million households in the U.S. are home to both documented and undocumented family members and that 5.5 million U.S.-born children live in homes with at least one undocumented person.

“Homan ruled out the Trump-backed plan to retroactively repeal American-born children’s birthright citizenship but acknowledged that the children of undocumented parents may be put in dire positions.”

Source: https://www.salon.com/2024/12/27/border-chief-us-born-children-of-undocumented-going-to-be-put-in-a-halfway-house/