>https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1885870807387164847
>Pete said the other day they were wearing NVG
would have severely limited their field of view unless they were looking around.
'horseblinders" if they were only 2 tubes.
Anyone know if they use the 4 tube models?
Heard those were specialized to NavySeals and HRT
Golden Venture 1993
The Golden Venture was a cargo ship that carried 286 undocumented immigrants from China to the United States in 1993. The journey took about four months, with the ship leaving China, stopping in Kenya, and then sailing to the U.S. via an indirect route to avoid detection. On June 6, 1993, the Golden Venture ran aground on the coast of Rockaway Beach in New York. Ten people drowned while trying to reach the shore, and six managed to escape before immigration enforcement officers arrived. The rest of the passengers were detained and some were sent to the York County Jail in Pennsylvania.
President Bill Clinton signed a classified memo, known as PDD-9, about 12 days after the Golden Venture's arrival, instructing immigration officials on how to handle the undocumented immigrants and future smugglers. The memo described the incident as a matter of serious concern but aimed to ensure that migrants were not unfairly penalized for seeking to emigrate without authorization…
https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/12740
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The Golden Venture, Plus 100,000
The four-month nightmare voyage of the Golden Venture ended Sunday morning when the tramp freighter dumped its starving and frightened cargo of nearly 300 Chinese immigrants into frigid waters off one of New York City's most popular public beaches. Six passengers died from drowning or exposure, several had to be hospitalized and the remainder were sent to detention centers to await Federal hearings. But for the estimated 100,000 illegal Chinese immigrants who arrive each year, mostly to New York, the nightmare typically goes on and on. The $3,000 down payment they make to "snakehead" smugglers before departure — several years' earnings for a typical Chinese — covers barely a tenth of what they must ultimately pay to travel huddled below deck for months without adequate food or sanitation. The remaining money must be paid off through years of indentured servitude — virtual slavery — in Chinese restaurants and sweatshops.
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PUBLISH DATE
June 9, 1993
PAGE NUMBER
20
In Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address to Congress, the 42nd president laid out a tough stance towards illegal aliens, claiming that they took jobs from legal residents and cost taxpayers money because of the public services they used. “We are a nation of immigrants,” Clinton said. “But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”
In 1996, Clinton signed two Republican-sponsored bills that had a significant effect on immigration policy. Together, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 significantly increased the potential penalties faced by immigrants both with and without formal immigration status. The laws expanded the number of crimes for which immigrants (including green-card holders) could be deported, and made the deportation eligibility retroactive. The laws also allowed undocumented immigrants apprehended within 100 miles of the U.S. border to be deported without arguing their cases before an immigration judge.
In Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address to Congress, the 42nd president laid out a tough stance towards illegal aliens, claiming that they took jobs from legal residents and cost taxpayers money because of the public services they used. “We are a nation of immigrants,” Clinton said. “But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”
https://www.congress.gov/104/crpt/hrpt828/CRPT-104hrpt828.pdf