Is the Pope American?

Which one? You could be describing Adams, or Trump. (Or Cuomo, even)

Adding an exit check would either slow traffic to a crawl by checking cars on a normal road

Yes, this is exactly what they could do, if they wanted to. They don’t give a shit about slowing traffic, in fact they will want that because it is making what they do more visible. Their only goal is to intimidate certain people into not coming here.

That one was during the day IIRC, there were many more planes in the air. This one at least happened overnight, with less traffic.

Exit Immigration is a real thing that can be done, even if the US doesn’t normally do it. You can leave the US on a plane without any US border agent seeing your passport. Other countries will inspect your paperwork on departure, even if just to stamp it marking that you left . (And stamps seem to be generally going away, too, I was surprised to find when I last went to the UK that I didn’t get a stamp.)

US Border patrol does have the ability to check cars at the land border as they leave, they just usually don’t bother to Canada. I haven’t crossed the land border since COVID, though, so I don’t know if they are stopping cars heading out now.

I do wonder how that handful of people got nabbed at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, who took a wrong turn onto the bridge without their paperwork, got caught. Did they make it to the Canadian side and then were told to turn around? Or were they nabbed before going across? I wonder if it makes a difference with regard to their immigration status…

I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time

Personally, I think it goes back to the Catholic Church’s special status as its own sovereign country. They didnt just elect a Pope this week. They elected an absolute monarch. Even though that monarch’s territory is only .5 sqkm, it used to be much larger, and the Church literally has outposts everywhere indirectly subject to its rule.

And a key thing to understand is that the Church doesn’t use confession to hide crimes from just anyone. If some random Catholic confessed to a priest that he was diddling kids, you can bet that as part of the penance, the priest would tell that person to turn themselves in to the authorities. But we know what has happened when the confessor was a priest.

The Church was always super arrogant when it came to transgressions by its own people. To them, subjecting a priest to civil law makes just as much sense as subjecting an Italian to Australian law. When a priest confessed he was diddling kids, they would handle it in their own manner, without getting the local authorities involved.

That’s the real reason why this law is written the way it is. It’s to keep the Church from hiding its own people. The Church, as an institution, has proven over the years that it can’t be trusted on that front.

I haven’t read the law, but it would be interesting if it explicitly allowed a “mandatory reporter” to satisfy the requirement by facilitating the transgressor to turn themselves in. That is a clear way out of this problem, keeping the confidentiality intact while keeping the local government’s jurisdiction over crimes as well.

Why should the President tell the truth, ever? He is shielded from all consequences for it, as long as a majority of the House (or, failing that, 1/3 of the Senate) agree with him.

That’s true, will they even let him into the country since he went and changed his name and it doesn’t match his birth certificate anymore?

The team that shall not be named won that one

I lost $2 when he picked “Leo” instead of “Bootylicious”…

No, someone at Wikipedia is working overtime though

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

His wiki says that “Hilary” is also a correct translation. It would be so triggering to certain people to have a “Pope Hilary”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Hilarius

I wonder how much money is about to change hands in the Pope betting markets.

They are voting on the Pope’s new name, too. I have $2 on Pope Bootylicious

Two reasons. First, they’re not wrong: now that the man is in foreign custody, the US can do nothing more than ask for his release. The Administration cannot compel his release. They could ask forcefully, but El Salvador can still decline.

But second, the administration did this on purpose, because it can. They set up this foreign prison precisely so that people they sent there can never be forced to come back by any US court, in direct opposition to the US Constitution. And they are doing this publically, so everyone knows that people can be “disappeared” by this government. Any foreign national is at risk of being "administrative error"ed into non-existence. And let’s face it, that means any human in the US can be, because anyone who can’t prove their citizenship status on the spot will be presumed to be a non-citizen, and even people with documentation on their person can have it confiscated and “lost”. It is straight-up intimidation of people who the President doesn’t like.

Well, a third reason, too: if this guy ever comes back and tells his story to the press, that might be the thing that snaps all the MAGAs out of their trance. So it is not in the Administration’s interest to ever have him come back.