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Currently ICE agents are overwhelmed by the demands of the Trump Administration to arrest 3000 migrants a day and have moved from detaining illegals with criminal records to anyone within their grasp. Masked ICE agents show up at courts and haul out people attempting to go through the lesal process. In June alone ICE captured 965 legal applicants at 26 Federal Plaza. Just following orders adn they actions are applauded by Trump supporters, despite the obvious disregard for the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.

Internal finding from the Immigration Agency show that the daily arrest average has been about 2000. Still below the quota demanded from Kristen Gnome, the secretary of Homeland Security. More feet on the ground are needed to achieve the 3000 per day and ICE has announced at a recruitment plan offering possibly $50,000 in signing bonuses.

The guardian reported that the Secretary said in a news release, “Your country is calling you to serve at ICE. This is a defining moment in our nation’s history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.”

Other perks are overtime for deportation officers and other benefits such as loan repayment or forgiveness options. Ten thousand vigilantes to carry out the exile of millions of illegals from the USA. How many millions. Maybe thirty million. At a million a year the task will take over thirty years, unless the prey decide to leave the country voluntarily en masse, leaving the USA underpopulated by workers in factories, hotels, restaurants, and fields.

Between 1958 and 1961 Chairman Mao as part of the Great Leap Forward instituted agricultural reforms establishing new farming techniques, the killing of sparrows which fostered a carefree life as well as demanding millions of farmers to abandon their fields for low level steel production. As a result of these plans millions starved in China.

"No need to pay to eat, focus on producing".

Despite the warnings of bureaucrats Mao continued with his folly, as Trump does now.

Millions of farm workers have abandoned the fields in fear of ICE. The nation is approaching harvest time. Crops are rotting on the vines. No words of warning from the US agriculture secretary Brooke Leslie Rollins, a graduate of Texas A&M with a law degree, but she speaks a good game.

“Every day, I will fight for American farmers, ranchers, and the agriculture community. Together, we have an historic opportunity to revitalize rural America and to ensure that U.S. Agriculture remains the best in the world for generations to come.”

Get ready for the call from the White House to vacate the cities and everyone move on up to the country as the Khmer Rouge demanded of Cambodians to wreak havoc on anyone opposing them. Millions died, but then judging from the GOP's success in cutting Medicare and Medicaid it is obvious that they want us all dead. Not so fast, Fatso 47. We are us. We will never be them.

Mao's Bird Fetish

Chairman Mao has been dead for forty-one years. China's glittering shopping malls, high-speed trains, ultra-modern skyscrapers, super highways, and expansive airports have transformed the Middle Kingdom into a workers' paradise. Mao Tse-Tung's statue overlooks Tiananmen Square with stern serenity. His followers praise him every May Day, but nothing can stop the birds from shitting on the Great Leader.

They want revenge, for in April 1958 Mao declared birds to be enemies of the state.

Especially sparrows.

To Mao birds symbolized freedom from authority and the Chairman urged his people to bang on pots to prevent the sparrows from landing to rest. They died in the millions and the crop output increased to meet party demands. The only problem was that the sparrows controlled the insect population and the next season the locusts ravaged the harvest. More than 30 million starved to death during the Great Leap Forward.

In the end Mao recognized his error and quietly pardoned the surviving sparrows.

Their population quickly recovered from the slaughter.

The Chinese people took a little longer, but they had learned their lesson.

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery." Mao Tse-Tung

And China was not for the birds.

The Mao is an endangered species on the Samoan Islands. Little is known about its feeding and breeding habits.

"The idea that the state mistakenly took too much grain from the countryside because it assumed that the harvest was much larger than it was is largely a myth – at most partially true for the autumn of 1958 only. In most cases the party knew very well that it was starving its own people to death. At a secret meeting in the Jinjiang Hotel in Shanghai dated March 25, 1959, Mao specifically ordered the party to procure up to one third of all the grain, much more than had ever been the case. At the meeting he announced that 'When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.'" [47]

Chinese Bacon

Every Saturday morning I go to the Academy Diner in Fort Greene to enjoy a breakfast of bacon and eggs. Nothing cures a hangover faster than that plate, however the corporate heads of Smithfield Foods have threatened America's ability to recover from a night of hard drinking by offering their company for sale to sate China's appetite for pork. The price is $4.7 billion. The transaction will be determined by CFIUS, which according to USA Today is headed by the Treasury secretary and includes members from the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Energy. Few members of the American media have responded to this danger. Me? I'm heading to the Academy this weekend. Bacon, eggs, and rye toast. An American classic. ps the meaning of haired bacon is Chairman Mao's tomb. These are for bacon.