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If Tom Homan were an actor, he’d play the dumb corrupt cop, and he’d be perfect for the role:
In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.
The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.
It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation. But a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case a “deep state” probe in early 2025 and no further investigative steps were taken, the sources say.
Nice to see at least one of the major networks can still commit some journalism.
I feel bad for the immigrants who are victims of this stupidity, but not for the tech bros who thought that Trump would take care of them:
President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee for high-skill visa holders only applies to new applicants — not current visa holders who may be on travel outside of the U.S. — according to the White House.
The president’s H-1B announcement on Friday immediately spurred chaos, with companies and immigration lawyers warning travelers to return to the U.S. before midnight on Sunday, when the new policy is scheduled to kick in.
The whole point of the H1-B program is to let large tech firms underpay talented immigrants. Smaller companies can’t afford the paperwork and overhead of H1-B, but larger companies can essentially treat H1-B holders like indentured servants because they have no other choice than to work for the big tech company that hired them. Trump’s addition of a $100K fee fucks the whole thing. Elon has an elegant riposte about Trump’s new mandate:
When Elon took over Twitter and made his many stupid decrees, he was surrounded by H1-B visa holders there, because they had no choice but to go “hardcore”, since they’d have to go back to their home country if King Musk fired them.
I’m guessing the $100K fee is Trump’s opening offer, and we’ll see the major tech firms once again prostrate themselves in front of Trump in a disgusting display of obesiance. Those idiots didn’t learn the fundamental lesson of dealing with Trump: the answer is always “no”. He thinks he can bleed them, and he’s right.
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