Stop complaining if you keep them in office

This years Sabine Freestate Festival poster. Great design featuring areas infamous stretch as “No Man’s Land”. It sucks that the non profit group that runs the Festival chose to allow a political ad on the poster. The bottom right hand features an ad for a local candidate for district attorney. Other than that (which could lose the group non profit status) the poster is great !

Tired of being at the bottom in every way? 💙

Tired of data centers being a thought? 💙

Tired of Republicans screwing you over? 💙

Immigrants who enter the United States without appointments with immigration officials can be detained indefinitely and are not entitled to bond hearings, regardless of how long they have lived in the country, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

The 10-7 decision was issued in the case of three immigrant fathers in Texas who were detained without bond. It applies to immigrants who have already entered the U.S., as well as those who will enter in the future, and it has far-reaching implications for the more than 20,000 people held indefinitely in detention centers in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi – the states in the appeals court district. 

Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi hold more than 40% of all ICE detainees by average daily population, making the 5th Circuit the largest jurisdiction for people challenging their confinement as unconstitutional. So far, it continues to be one of only two circuits to have upheld the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy.

The 5th Circuit reversed an earlier decision by a panel of three of its own judges, which had granted bond to immigrants in detention after 90 days. The new ruling says people in ICE detention have no constitutional right to due process.

In the majority opinion issued Friday, Judge Cory Todd Wilson wrote that immigrants who have been in the U.S. a long time are still “applicants for admission” and therefore are subject to mandatory detention without bond.

Rebecca Cassler, an attorney at the American Immigration Council, who represented the three men, said the ruling is “an affront to the U.S. Constitution."

James Percival, general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, praised the majority’s ruling.

“Big win in the Fifth Circuit on mandatory detention for illegal aliens, a principle codified in 1996 legislation but ignored by the deep state for decades,” Percival said Friday.

LADR stole $7,000 from me by offsetting my federal tax refund check with no warning. I have never received any mail or notification about debts owed to Louisiana.

So I called their offices this morning and it turns out that it’s from 2021 unpaid taxes. But in 2021 I worked in a filed taxes in California. And Louisiana knows this because the lady on the phone, before I even said anything to her about California, she asked me to submit proof that I was working in California that year.

Furthermore, they have had 4 years to try and collect alleged debt and again they have never notified me, and they didn’t offset my federal returns from the last 4 years.

The fact that offsetting occurs is bad enough. But when done inaccurately, I feel like that crosses a line and is unacceptable.

I’ll be looking for an attorney to sue the state of Louisiana. I’m truly sick of the dysfunction here. And I am being traumatized and incurring damages by them holding onto MY money. They said it would take over 30 days to process my refund. Unacceptable.

I cannot wait to file my petition. I should have never moved back to this state.

I now have lawsuits against the state, against the largest medical facility in the state for civil rights violations and medical malpractice. My house in New Orleans has been robbed 6 times this year. My car stolen twice over the last decade. $15,000 bills from Sewerage and Waterboard. $750 bills from Entergy. I mean, the fact that I’m still standing is truly by the grace of God. This state is literally killing me.

#GetOut

Hello! I am planning a roadtrip through Louisiana next year and I had questions about the ferries. I wanted to camp at Palmetto Island state park then drive along the gulf beach highway until I hit Texas. However I noticed there is a ferry in Cameron. How much do these cost? Is it something I could do in my civic with no issues? Do they only make the trip a couple times a day? I’m from Kansas so the idea of a ferry taking your car around is pretty crazy to me so I apologize if these are dumb questions.

No need to ask which ad because she only seems to have the one. But I'm confused by her assertion that increased flood insurance rates are the causal factor forcing "seniors to sell the homes that they've paid off."

Isn't it more likely that the increased costs of, idk, everything else is contributing to a greater degree to people having to sell the assets they've paid off?

Louisiana’s Constitution guarantees citizens the right to observe government proceedings and restricts certain special privileges for corporations.

Now Vermilion Parish residents are suing over alleged secretive government meetings involving the SpaceX project.

I’m all for economic development and bringing good jobs to Louisiana. But when public resources, tax exemptions, and corporate confidentiality agreements are involved, shouldn’t taxpayers have a right to know what their elected officials are agreeing to?

At what point does protecting corporate negotiations become protecting corporations from public accountability?

I’m genuinely interested in hearing what others think, especially anyone familiar with Louisiana’s Constitution and Open Meetings Law.

Etoufee?

How's everyone doing today just trying to get to know new people

41 m Louisiana here

I am not a Louisianan, but I have had a cursory interest in the US Senate race (and I visited New Orleans in the late 2010s-lovely city!). I’ve been insistent in my belief the seat, while likely voting for Letlow, isn’t as safe as many assume it to be. Right now, there has been some evidence pointing to this-mostly a Republican pollster saying Letlow isn’t going to totally crush Davis, and turnout apparently being Democratic-favorable compared to last cycles. At the same time, though, Davis isn’t raising that much money, nor spending much.

However, while it’s not as reliable, I do kind of want to see if there’s anecdotal evidence that Davis is doing well. Does it feel like he’s taking the challenge seriously and using what resources he has to reach as much of the state as effectively as possible? Does it feel like he’s kind of invisible, like many challengers in safe seats? Is Letlow taking this seriously? Is she coasting? Do none of these describe what they’re doing? I’d really love to hear it.

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