Ana Navarro is not to be messed with. Donald Trump supporter, Jeffrey Lord, learned that the hard way. In a recent debate about Donald Trump on CNN, Lord told Navarro she is not a Latina because legal immigrants should consider themselves American. Navarro, a Nicaraguan-born Republican strategist, was quick to shut him down. Grab the popcorn.
Jeffrey Lord: “I don’t think you’re a Latino, Ana. I think you’re an American.”
Ana Navarro: “Oh, really! What am I? What do you think I am?”
Lord: “You’re an American, just like me and like everybody else in this country who’s here legally.”
Navarro: “I am an American. America is my home and I’m an American who was born in Nicaragua and naturalized under Ronald Reagan’s amnesty. Now, go ahead. Now that you’ve lectured me on how I should feel as a Republican. Now that you’ve lectured me on what I’m hedging about and now that you’ve lectured me about what I am; do you have an actual point you’d like to make? Because I’m not going to argue with you about what you are.”
President Joe Biden has a lot of work ahead of him and he is hitting the ground running. On his first day in office, President Biden has a series of executive actions he is signing to reverse a lot of the damage created by the Trump administration. Here are some of the things President Biden will do with these actions.
The border wall on the southern border is done, y’all.
The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by WaPo. https://t.co/hnbaElznR0
President Biden is saving the taxpayers billions of dollars by halting the construction of President Trump’s border wall. The border wall is one of former President Trump’s several unfulfilled promises at the expense of the taxpayers.
Despite his unrelenting campaign, Mexico never paid a dime to the wall. President Biden’s action to halt the border wall is a humanitarian and conservationist move that will save billions of tax dollars. According to estimates, there would be $3.3 billion in unused funds in the projects accounts.
The emotionally devastating Muslim ban will finally come to an end.
I keep remembering that tomorrow @JoeBiden will repeal the Muslim Ban, and then I smile real big to myself and think what it must feel to be the partner, parent, child, or loved one for whom it will become possible once again to reunite and be with those dear to their hearts.
Former President Trump famously put an end to travel from predominantly Muslim countries. The order arbitrarily excluded a group of people based on their religion. The order that has kept families apart for years is finally coming to an end thanks to President Biden.
President Biden’s ation will bring families together and safeguards the rights of religious freedom. The ban has kept spouses separated, children apart from parents, and caused real damage. There is more to be done to make up for the stain on American history and the action is the first step.
The Keystone XL Pipeline is toast.
The Keystone pipeline is & always has been a disaster. I'm delighted that Joe Biden will cancel the Keystone permit on his first day in office. With all of the major crises facing America, we must never lose sight of the most existential threat facing our planet: climate change. https://t.co/8lDZDOgsVy
We all remember the terrifying scenes of Native people being brutalized by federal officials under Trump’s command. President Biden will make sure that the permit for the pipeline is revoked and put an end to a project that has been devastating the Native community. Activists have been fighting for years to get this done.
Undocumented people will have to be included in census counts.
Joe Biden to enforce the letter of the Fourteenth Amendment on his first day in office. How refreshing. https://t.co/pEcCfMfobT
President Biden is getting rid of the Trump administration’s terrible policy of ignoring undocumented people in the census. There have been several arguments by officials that the move would work to undermine certain states. The policy would take federal money away from states that did not support the former president and have high undocumented populations.
President Biden is going to preserve DACA.
President Joe Biden was already set to roll back Trump-era immigration policies on Inauguration Day, his transition team confirmed. | via @TexasTribunehttps://t.co/9hSebc6mn0
More than 600,000 people benefit from the Obama-era program. Former President Trump waged a war against DACA and Dreamers for political points. Most Americans support DACA and a pathway to citizenship for DACA beneficiaries. With the new executive action, President Biden will instruct the federal government to restore the program to its fullest.
There is still a lawsuit the Biden administration will have to fight. The lawsuit challenging DACA’s legality was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
In total, President Biden will sign 17 executive actions that will roll back several issues created by the previous administration.
— MARIA TERESA KUMAR #WearAMask (@MariaTeresa1) January 20, 2021
“Today, hours after taking the oath of office, President-elect Biden will take a historic number of actions to deliver immediate relief for families across America that are struggling in the face of converging crises. He will sign a combination of executive orders, memoranda, directives, and letters to take initial steps to address these crises, including by changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing economic relief, tackling climate change, and advancing racial equity,” reads a statement from the Biden-Harris Transition Team. “President-elect Biden will take action — not just to reverse the gravest damages of the Trump administration — but also to start moving our country forward. These actions are bold, begin the work of following through on President-elect Biden’s promises to the American people, and, importantly, fall within the constitutional role for the president.”
Love him or hate him, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long called himself the voice of the people – and many Mexicans agree with him. That’s why his latest announcement against social media companies has many so worried.
In the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s (along with many other social media platforms) announcement that they would be restricting or banning Donald Trump from their platforms, the Mexican president expressed his contempt for the decisions. And his intention to create a Mexican social network that won’t be held to the standards from Silicon Valley.
Mexico’s AMLO moves to create a social media network for Mexicans outside of Silicon Valley’s control.
The newspaper Milenio offered these graphics for possible Mexican alternatives to the big social media networks. Facebookóatl? AMLO moves to create social media network for Mexicans@Facebook and #Twitter have become 'global institutions of censorship'https://t.co/ATwqrk5li7pic.twitter.com/XGftiTEAS6
A week after his United States counterpart was kicked off Facebook and Twitter, President López Obrador floated the idea of creating a national social media network to avoid the possibility of Mexicans being censored.
Speaking at his daily news conference, AMLO instructed the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) and other government departments to look at the possibility of creating a state-owned social media site that would guarantee freedom of speech in Mexico.
“We care about freedom a lot, it’s an issue that’s going to be addressed by us,” he told reporters. He also added that Facebook and Twitter have become “global institutions of censorship,” sounding a lot like the alt-right terrorists that stormed the U.S. Capitol.
“To guarantee freedom, for freedom, so there’s no censorship in Mexico. We want a country without censorship. Mexico must be a country of freedom. This is a commitment we have,” he told reporters.
AMLO deeply criticized the moves by Twitter and Facebook to ban Trump from their platforms.
Credit: Hector Vivas / Getty Images
AMLO – like Trump – is an avid user of social media to connect with his constituents. He’s also been known to spread falsehoods and boast about his achievements on the platforms – sound familiar?
So, it came as little surprise when he tore into social media companies for ‘censoring’ Donald Trump, saying that they have turned into “global institutions of censorship” and are carrying out a “holy inquisition.”
Nobody has the right to silence citizens even if their views are unpopular, López Obrador said. Even if the words used by Trump provoked a violent attack against his own government.
“Since they took these decisions [to suspend Trump], the Statue of Liberty has been turning green with anger because it doesn’t want to become an empty symbol,” he quipped.
So what could a Mexican social media network be called?
The president’s proposal to create a national social media network triggered chatter about what such a site would or should be called. One Twitter user suggested Facemex or Twitmex, apparently taking his inspiration from the state oil company Pemex.
The newspaper Milenio came up with three alternative names and logos for uniquely Mexican sites, suggesting that a Mexican version of Facebook could be called Facebookóatl (inspired by the Aztec feathered-serpent god Quetzalcóatl), Twitter could become Twitterlopochtli (a riff on the name of Aztec war, sun and human deity Huitzilopochtli) and Instagram could become Instagratlán (tlán, which in the Náhuatl language means place near an abundance of something – deer, for example, in the case of Mazatlán – is a common suffix in Mexican place names.)
