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What the hell do I do?

Yell increasingly loudly until you get to talk to someone besides the secretary? Maybe not actually yell, but that general area of things. If roadblock seek runaround or steamroll, more or less.

Y'ain't entirely wrong, at least. Dunno how much I'd hope they'd bug biden, though. Get what you're getting at, but I'd probably be more comfortable if folks just kinda' left the guy alone, 'least until he decided to ramp things up again.

Fellow that outlives their kid could stand a year or two off, other circumstances allowing, y'know? Ain't gon' wish people mess with that if it ain't what the fellow wants.

I've kinda' forgot right at this moment, but I want to say it very much can? If not necessarily has to in all situations.

There's tax relief available for certain kinds of debt, and certain ways of moving debt that count as income for purposes of taxation, just off the top of my head.

Think there's a few kinds that don't have to be reported (either at all, or in a yearly sense) by the person owing the debt (whoever they're paying is a different story, mind, and a thorough investigation would be subpoenaing those records as well), too, though, and gods only know how it varies on a state level, which is very much somethin' you'd be looking at when auditing along with whatever's part of the federal's purview.

E: Or to put it another way, even if it didn't the signs of it would. So it would only remain hidden if your books are cooked ridiculously well or the investigators involved are not terribly good at their job.

E2: Though... point the second (or third, or something), it's also very much possible he could be in massive debt, but not in a way that's abnormal. There's a lot of high roller stuff that can regularly be in debt for amounts approaching their net worth; in a financial sense it's even approaching optimal for certain industries. So massive debt could be just kinda' what should be there. It would proooobably still look absolutely terrible to huge chunks of the public, though, because gods know fiscal sensibility isn't terribly high up on our electorate's competencies or sense of priorities.

Hey, neat. Apparently some of the JFK assassination stuff got declassified/released/something-cause-I-haven't-actually-read-the-article-and-to-be-honest-probably-won't. Least looking at other folks talking about it, it seems like there's some interesting stuff in 'em.

... basically all of it? The whole point is to enact legislative change; the RAISE Act is a bill currently involved in going through the senate. They could try to implement the thing on a practical level without passing it, but that would be a new and incredibly stupid way to subsidize the judiciary and families of immigrants and nonimmigrants as the lawsuits started rolling in.

Well, won't get the same benefits as a citizen, can't get work, can't get any sort of public aid, presumably even if specifically directed at nonimmigrants or their families, barred from consideration if their kid isn't rich enough to cover what's mentioned...

Like, I think the most impressive fuck you in that is that the reading looks a lot like any material support the parent is able to supply for themself is ineligible for consideration so far as that section goes. If pops tries to come and stay and drops a fifty to help cover a doctor's visit, that may be a violation of the section and grounds to throw the parent out.

A lot of me hopes I'm actually misunderstanding those bits, honestly. 'Cause trying to pull fuckery like that is a good way to royally piss off anyone with the bloody least amount of familial piety, filial or otherwise.

Anything in place? I see a lot of sites saying "merit-based immigration laws" but nothing with what's actually going in.

This seems to be the latest bit. Direct from the congress website. If that ain't the latest, it's at the very least the starting point propositions being put forward.

The thing specifically being aimed at, this time, is called the RAISE Act... pretty sure it was mentioned upthread a bit. Searching that may give you better results for finding somethin' more focused on specifics.

E: As near as a quick skim can parse, it could alternately be titled the "Fuck the Immigration and Nationality Act Act". The bill itself summarizes its contents as

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to limit the President’s discretion in setting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, to reduce the number of family-sponsored immigrants, to create a new nonimmigrant classification for the parents of adult United States citizens, and for other purposes.

Other stuff, too! Kill the visa lottery, preference english speaking immigrants, bar most non-immediate family from having some extra support for joining their immigrated loved ones, some other things, buncha' junk really. And it only has to get 8 non-GOP members (or more, if some of the GOP senators say sod that) to vote for it to pass.

That sound you hear in the distance may be the sound of one pro-immigration senator or another laughing.