On Unrealized financial gains

Taxing Unrealized Gains Is a Bad Idea

Unrealized Gain Definition (investopedia.com)   "An unrealized gain occurs when the current market value of an asset exceeds its original purchase price or book value, but the asset has not been sold. It is sometimes called a "paper" gain, since it only exists as an accounting entry until it is realized. A paper loss is similarly an unrealized loss.

"An unrealized gain becomes realized once the position is ultimately sold for a profit. It is possible for an unrealized gain to be erased if the asset's value drops below the price at which it was bought.

Key Takeaways

• An unrealized gain is a theoretical profit that exists on paper, resulting from an investment that has not yet been sold for cash.
• Unrealized gains are recorded on financial statements differently depending on the type of security, whether they are held-for-trading, held-to-maturity, or available-for-sale.
• Gains do not affect taxes until the investment is sold and the gain is realized.
• If an investment is held for longer than a year, the profit is taxed at the capital gains tax rate.
• An unrealized loss is the opposite of an unrealized gain where an investment has decreased in value but has not yet been sold.

How an Unrealized Gain Works

"An unrealized gain occurs when the current price of a security is higher than the price the investor initially paid for the security, including any fees associated with the purchase. Many investors calculate the current value of their investment portfolios based on unrealized values. In general, capital gains are taxed only when they are sold and become realized.

Investors may choose to sit on unrealized gains for tax benefits. Most assets held for more than one year are taxed at the long-term capital gains tax rate, which is either 0%, 15%, or 20% depending on one's income.

Assets held for one year or less are taxed as ordinary income, with rates ranging from 10% to 37%.    Full article

Yes, Harris Plans to Institute 25% Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains — of Wealthiest Americans | Snopes.com       

What's True: "It's true Harris endorsed a plan to institute a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains. However …

What's False … "The plan specified that the tax would apply only to those with wealth exceeding $100 million — i.e., not the middle class. Given that it would therefore only affect the wealthiest 0.01% in the country, it is unlikely to cause an "economic calamity." While the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, Illinois, in August 2024, a rumor began to spread that the party's presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, had endorsed a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains (archived):" . . .

Given that this measure is only set to affect the wealthiest 0.01% of the population, however, it is unlikely to cause an "economic calamity." If it were to apply to people in the middle class, on their homes or their investments, it might, in fact, affect their purchasing power, their ability to plan for the future or their ability to own homes. As it stands, however, the measure is too limited in scope for that.   Full article...

 O'Leary: It's 'unprecedented' for Kamala Harris to do this - YouTube

Oct &: A modern pogrom through history’s lens

 The left is not just contemptible; it is murderous | Phyllis Chesler Organization

This suggests that there are no or very few “innocent” Gazans. These heavily indoctrinated Arabs are barbarians, and the Westerners who support them are not merely bystanders but collaborators. 

Also in the U.S. Iranians teach American sheep to shout with fury

. . ."I immediately knew that Oct. 7 was a pogrom, yet my understanding of what was unique about this particular Iranian-funded crime against the Jewish people and humanity overall has evolved in the months since the initial attack. As we approach the first anniversary of that horrific event, a number of items stand out.

First: Hamas terrorists recorded live video footage of their atrocities and released it on social media. They even sent it to the families of those who were tortured, raped, murdered or kidnapped.

Second: The attacks unleashed an ugly and increasingly ominous global firestorm that has cheered on Hamas’s sadism as “resistance” and condemned all Israeli civilians—be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze or Buddhist. It has also led to a seemingly unstoppable, propaganda-driven, worldwide siege against the Jews.

Third: The alleged “progressives” in the West, including the feminists who have, at the very least, paid lip service in vocalizing their opposition to the torture, gang rapes and murders of women, children and dissidents in countries like Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan, have remained silent. They refuse to condemn Hamas’s brutality against women on Oct. 7 despite myriad video evidence of the atrocities.

Fourth: Many governments and international organizations keep demanding more and more proof of Hamas’s actions and continue to deny the Oct. 7 atrocities. Yet these same actors have not denied any other 21st-century genocides.

Fifth: More people now know that the raging, masked, keffiyeh-wearing demonstrators who have been flooding American and European cities and campuses since Oct. 7 have been bought and paid for by Russia, Iran, Arab oil money, and woke American philanthropists and foundations. It is also now clear that these same groups have been preparing for this moment for 60 years.

Sixth: As some have suggested, Hamas’s behavior on Oct. 7 seems to have been influenced by the most sadistic pornography, as well as by mood-altering drugs. This sadism rivals and may even exceed the horror of other pogroms or war zones.

Seventh: Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of so-called civilians in Gaza joined in this “carnival of violence.” They surged into Israel right along with the armed paragliders and fiends on motorbikes. Just as some Palestinian Arabs celebrated Sept. 11 by cheering and handing out candies, so, too, did Gazan civilians happily, perhaps even joyfully, sit down, eat, drink and loot Israeli homes, even as Israelis were being tortured, raped and murdered in the next room or very nearby.

"This suggests that there are no or very few “innocent” Gazans. These heavily indoctrinated Arabs are barbarians, and the Westerners who support them are not merely bystanders but collaborators.

"I am now and forever an Oct. 8 Jew and an Oct. 8 American."

"Kamala Harris can’t repair her immigration record" Emily Jashinsky, "Unherd"

"Right now, the more people think about abortion, the worse it is for Republicans, and the more people think about immigration, the worse it is for Democrats. The theatre in Douglas may be well executed, but the stunt is poorly conceived no matter how it goes." . . .Julianna Frieman

‘Couldn’t Be Further From The Truth’: Border Patrol Union Slams Kamala Harris’s ‘Slap In The Face’ Border Visit | The Daily Caller   "The Border Patrol Union slammed Vice President Kamala Harris after she made a campaign stop Friday at the southern border for the first time as the Democratic presidential nominee.

"Harris traveled to Douglas, Arizona, including a stop along the border wall, which she previously called a “gross misuse of taxpayer mmoney which she would “block any funding for” when former President Donald Trump was in office. The vice president delivered remarks blaming Trump for the failed Senate bill proposing $48 billion to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia and nearly $16 billion to aid Israel in its conflict with Hamas in exchange for border security reforms."

. . ."The Border Patrol Union blasted Harris for ignoring the migrant crisis “she created for over three years” just to give a 20-minute speech and photo-op on the campaign trail.

“Vice President Harris has ignored the border problem she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photo op and decides to repeat some of the things the NPBC has said before. But again, where has she been the last 3 ½ years?” the Border Patrol Union wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter)."   What about that, MSNBC?

Kamala Harris: Woman on the run - Silvio Canto, Jr. 

Second, V.P. Harris does not take questions from a friendly press.  I’m sure she would have gotten some questions about the aforementioned numbers aforementioned numbers.  Unfortunately, she waved goodbye to the reporters and moved on.  So we will never know how the V.P. feels about letting all of these criminals into the U.S.. . .

 The Harris Campaign Is Pure Run-Out-the-Clock Cynicism (Victor Davis Hanson)  She paints Trump as  racist with the help of Whoopi Goldberg and the cast of The View.

“Thank You Israel!” Brigitte Gabriel THANKS Israel for Eliminating Hezbollah’s Leadership

Remember when Lebanon was the crown jewel of the Mediterranean?   "Brigitte Gabriel delivers a powerful message of gratitude to Israel for eliminating the top leadership of Hezbollah, the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world. Gabriel highlights Hezbollah’s attacks on American interests and the group’s complete control over Lebanon. This victory, she says, brings hope to Lebanese people everywhere who dream of reclaiming their country from terror.

"Gabriel shares her personal experiences of a time when Israelis and Lebanese lived in harmony, traveling freely between the two nations. She recounts how Hezbollah destroyed that peace and prosperity, driving out Lebanon’s Christians and replacing innovation with terrorism. Gabriel calls on Lebanese leaders to seize this moment and make peace with Israel, pointing to successful peace deals in the region. "Gabriel urges all Lebanese influencers to unite and take their country back from Hezbollah. She emphasizes that now is the time to make history by bringing peace to Lebanon."

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Israel Stops Taking Counsel from the Angel of Death - Clarice Feldman

"The message in Lee Smith’s brilliant article in Tablet Magazine this week is that the U.S. must stop losing wars. We create and fund and staff our military to protect us and it’s time to do that:

. . ."If Washington and the Europeans are appalled by Israel’s campaign over the last two weeks, it’s because the Israelis have resurfaced the ugly truth that
no modish theories of war, international organizations, or even American presidents could long obscure. Wars are won by killing the enemy, above all, those who inspire their people to kill yours. Killing Nasrallah not only anchors Israel’s victory in Lebanon but reestablishes the old paradigm for any Western leaders who take seriously their duty to protect their countrymen and civilization: Kill your enemies." . . . 

‘Rotten media’: Douglas Murray blasts MSNBC after soft Kamala interview

Author Douglas Murray has blasted MSNBC over its exclusive interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. - YouTube

"Author Douglas Murray has blasted MSNBC over its exclusive interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. "Ms Harris sat down with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle for a wide-ranging interview where the Vice President stressed she would raise corporate taxes if elected. "Mr Murray said the interview showed why the Democrat nominee does not put herself in front of the media. " 'I just think this is this is an example of the fact that everyone should demand that any candidate for the most important office in the land has to be questioned,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. " '“This is why they have to be questioned but of course she gets the light barely scratching the surface questions from a court journalist who is not there to question her but to help her. " ''That's just the rottenness in the media right there.”

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MSNBC's Fake News Finally Catches Up to It in Court - Judge Rules Hosts Made ‘Verifiably False' Statements  "MSNBC is learning the hard way what happens when they spread fake news only for the sake of blasting former President Donald Trump.

MSNBC's parent company NBCUniversal is going to trial after being sued for defamation by Dr. Mahendra Amin for $30 million.

"Amin worked as a gynecologist at a Georgia Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where he treated women being detained. Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia found in her ruling that Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Chris Hayes made multiple "verifiably false" allegations about Amin.

"A nurse at the facility, Dawn Wooten, alleged Amin was performing "mass hysterectomies" and that he was known as the "uterus collector." The Washington Free Beacon reported her claims were based on hearsay and have been proven false.

"The discovery process of the lawsuit shows how MSNBC and NBC journalists and executives had concerns over the authenticity of Wooten's claims, but chose to move forward with their coverage anyway.

"NBCUniversal's deputy director of standards Chris Scholl said to Hayes in a conference call that Wooten "has no direct knowledge of this stuff "and that Amin "has a pretty clean record."

"While Hayes said he initially "discounted the whole thing," he interviewed Wooten on his show, titling the segment, "ICE whistleblower speaks out, alleges mass hysterectomies performed on migrant women."

"Maddow ran her own coverage of Amin on her show. "The nurse says she and her fellow nurses, quote, questioned among ourselves, like, goodness, he’s taking everybody’s stuff out, that’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector … He’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taking their tubes out." . . .

Over 425,000 Illegals in the US Have Criminal Backgrounds: Report

 Anthony Gonzalez (resistthemainstream.com)

"In a shocking revelation, recent data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has exposed the alarming criminal backgrounds of hundreds of thousands of migrants currently residing in the United States. 

"This information, obtained from ICE’s “non-detained docket,” paints a disturbing picture of the potential threats posed by illegal immigrants who have been released into American communities.

"According to the report, ICE is currently monitoring 425,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions who are not in federal custody. Even more concerning, an additional 222,000 migrants have pending criminal charges against them. 

"These figures underscore the magnitude of the issue and raise serious questions about public safety and the effectiveness of current immigration policies.

"Among the most alarming statistics is the number of violent offenders who have been allowed to enter and remain in the country.

"The report indicates that over 13,000 convicted murderers are among those released into the U.S., with nearly 2,000 more facing pending homicide charges, as reported by Florida Voice News.

"This unprecedented number of potentially dangerous individuals roaming free in American neighborhoods has sparked outrage among law enforcement officials and concerned citizens alike." . . .

America: Israel's cowardly ally

 Israel Did Not Inform US of Hezbollah Strike Plans - and Why Should They?

. . ."Israel is under no obligation to inform the United States of its operational plans, against Hezbollah or anyone else — and given the disorganization and lack of competence of the Biden administration, one can scarcely blame them for playing things close to their chests." . . .

 The long-term consequences of U.S. intel leaks - CarolineGlick.com

The leaks weren’t only geared towards preventing an airstrike or commando raid on Iran’s installations. They were directed as well against Israel’s efforts to undermine the Iranian nuclear program through cyberwarfare and other forms of sabotage.

With friends like these who needs enemies?

"On Wednesday, Fox News and The Jerusalem Post ran stories based on a report from Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper claiming that the U.S. had revealed to Iranian authorities the identities of 10 Mossad agents in Iran who allegedly were involved in the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

"Al-Jarida claimed its report was based on information provided by a member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The alleged source told the Kuwaiti paper that U.S. officials had visited Iran secretly after the assassination with the goal of appeasing the regime. They told their Iranian counterparts that Israel had not informed them of its plans to kill Haniyeh and proceeded to provide them with the Mossad agents’ identities.

"On Thursday, Fox News deleted the story and the Post updated its report. The updated article led with the news that the U.S. National Security Council denied the Kuwaiti story.

"On Wednesday night, I shared the Post report on my X account. My post received well over one million views. Following the Post’s publication of its revision and Fox’s deletion of its initial report, I deleted my post and shared the Post’s revised story.

"Given the severity of the charge, why were Fox News and the Post so quick to report the Al-Jarida story? Why was my initial inclination to lend credence the report? The answer, in short, is that the Biden-Harris administration, like the Obama-Biden administration before it, has a track record of leaking Israeli operations in Iran." . . .

"Consider just a few well-known and widely reported examples.

"In May 2022, senior IRGC commander Sayyed Khodei was killed by gunmen outside his home. The gunmen escaped the scene on a motorcycle. According to Israeli officials, Khodei served as deputy commander of IRGC Unit 840 and was involved in planning cross-border plots against foreigners, including Israelis. At the time he was killed, Khodei was reportedly planning the assassination of French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.

"To avoid the prospect of retaliation and escalation, Israel did not claim responsibility for the strike. But Biden officials told The New York Times that Israel had killed him. The operation was carried out during Naftali Bennett’s premiership and Bennett and his associates were reportedly angered by the administration’s move, which raised the prospect of increased Iranian violence against the Jewish state." . . .

Obama-Biden-Harris is more than willing to cause the death of Israel's defenders as they are that of Donald Trump. Below: the work of Hamas, the Keffiyeh scarf people. TD

That Wasn’t An Interview. It Was A Campaign Rally

 Bob Maistros – Issues & Insights   

. . ."Which makes one wonder (wink, wink, nod, nod): Might Ms. Harris have actually been tipped off just a bit as to possible subject matter? Nah. Who needs that when the questioner is lobbing up not softballs, but beach balls?" . . .

Does this location give her street cred?

"Why? Because real reporters’ obsession is gettin’ ya in a “gotcha.” Pushing, prodding, twisting words out of context, and generally making nuisances of themselves. Especially hard-bitten, cynical, and largely antagonistic business journalists.

"Ah, that word. Journalist. A concept sorely lacking in the “interview” of Kamala Harris by MSNBC/NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle.

"Put aside that if you were playing the drinking game and had “dreams,” “ambitions,” “aspirations,” “opportunity economy,” and “middle-class family” on your Kamala bingo card, you were smashed before the first break. 

"That her veepness trotted out the usual canards about the “border security bill” (that ensured the polar opposite). The “worst economy since the Great Depression” Donald Trump supposedly left behind (a fiction recently dispatched on these pages). Women dying because of post-Roe restrictions (as opposed to complications from medically induced abortions).

"And that the airhead who once claimed that smaller tax refunds reflected a middle-class tax hike called Donald Trump “not very serious” about economic issues.

"The real issue with the “interview” – the individual styled as “NBC News Senior Business Analyst” seemed curiously uninterested in analysis.

"Talk about “not very serious.” Instead of questions, Ruhle offered up the Democratic candidate’s own campaign stump soundbites – and then re-affirmed and reinforced her responses. 

"Don’t take my word for it. Check the transcript:

Canada is fining the Amish $300,000 for not downloading a COVID app

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker

"Trudeau mandated that the COVID app was for the good of Canadians. Therefore, all Canadians must get with the program. Those who didn’t made themselves enemies of the loving state and they must pay. By defying the government’s love, they’ve lost the privilege to have freedom of conscience and religion."

"A month ago, news broke that, up in Canada, Justin Trudeau’s government is fining the Amish community $300,000 ($222,660 American dollars). Their crime? They didn’t download the government’s COVID app. The twist, of course, is that the Amish don’t have smartphones. They eschew all modern technology. This story has made almost no headlines, but it’s important because it’s a preview of coming attractions if Kamala becomes president. This is what leftists do. Acting for your own good, they destroy you.

"As anyone who has watched either Witness or Weird Al Yankovich’s brilliant Amish Paradise knows, the Amish lifestyle does not embrace modernity. To hark back to another American pop culture moment, the Amish have “no phone, no lights, no motor car, not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, it’s primitive as can be.” This is not because the Amish are victims. They have embraced a lifestyle of pre-modern simplicity because their faith calls upon them to live this way." . . .

If you watch Kamala, her message—her “joy” and “vibes”—is the same as Trudeau’s. I’m the embodiment of a loving government. Just do what I say. But if you don’t, look at what happened to Donald Trump and everyone near him. And don’t believe that we won’t do it to you, too.

Democrat Sen. Wyden's Bill to Destroy the Supreme Court

 M. Dowling (independentsentinel.com)  

As always, Democrats want all the power of government, and they will destroy whatever they don’t like.

 

"Far Left Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sponsored legislation to destroy the Third Co-Equal Branch of government because they don’t like recent decisions.

"The bill would stack the Court, adding six Justices. The Court would undergo audits, putting them under the authority of Congress. They would no longer be a co-equal branch of government, but another politicized entity.

"Wyden’s bill is called the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act. It would expand the court over 12 years. A president could appoint one nominee in the first and third years of a term in office.

"The bill would also require a ruling by two-thirds of the high court and the circuit courts of appeals, rather than a simple majority, to overturn a law passed by Congress.

"Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to recuse from a case.

"The Justices would be mandated to report all their personal and professional business.

The legislation would also require Supreme Court nominees to be automatically scheduled for a vote in the Senate if their nominations have lingered in committee for more than 180 days. It would prevent the minority from having a no vote." . . .

With Millions of new citizens let in by Biden-Harris who know nothing-NOTHING about our Constitution or system of government, and given prizes and gifts from Democrats, America will no longer be the nation we have cherished. Multiply The Squad by several hundred thousand.

Some of The Squad in Congress

The Democrats’ Joy Of Hating America – (issuesinsights.com) 

. . ."Another purpose was to “rub the right’s nose in diversity,” which lines up perfectly with what the American left has been up to for several decades, because the right unabashedly, and sincerely, loves this country, and that triggers the other side.

"The Democratic Party, Kamala Harris now its titular chief, unleashed illegal immigration after Donald Trump nearly closed the spigot. The lawlessness returned on Jan. 20, 2021, when the new president, Joe Biden, used executive orders to begin rolling back Trump’s border security policies. They were too successful for the left’s refined tastes, so Biden had to kill them." . . .

Hillary just may be the worst person in the world

 Patricia McCarthy - American Thinker

  Too many young people do not know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. They’ve been brainwashed by decades of leftist propaganda, propaganda that has infected them to the point that they are unable to discern the difference between the truth and blatant lies. Try and tell them they are misguided and suffer their all-knowing wrath — like those Hamas-loving college students throughout the country who were, shockingly,  supported by their university administrations!   This is the Democrat party today, remade by people like Obama, Biden, Harris, and yes, Hillary, their queen of mean.  Americans are sick of her narcissistic, hateful rants. She just may be one of the worst people in the world. 

"Is there a person on the planet that does not know that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most bitter, angry and hostile political person in the country?  Probably not; even those who may have supported her in the past have to know that she’s gone ‘round the bitter bend.  Trump’s victory in 2016, despite all the cheating the left had in place, rendered her permanently damaged, deranged with fury; how could anyone vote for Trump over her she wondered.  Trump broke her so badly that she remains thoroughly deranged.

"Now she wants to jail anyone who opposes her Saul Alinsky version of Marxism.  She worshiped Alinsky, and wrote her college thesis about him.  He was an evil entity who dedicated his little book to Lucifer.  But since he wrote that little book, the left/Democrat party has embraced and followed his “Rules for Radicals.”  It is a nasty little treatise, something akin to Mao’s little red book that laid out his cultural revolution that led to more deaths than Stalin or Hitler.  In short, Hillary Clinton and her Marxist pals are still trying to sell their evil ideology to the increasingly easily indoctrinated generations that have been taught to not think for themselves, or even to vote in their best interests, but in the interests of their self-appointed betters.  The dumbing down of two or maybe three generations of Americans has done horrific damage to our country. 

"Hillary is still so enraged at Trump and his supporters, she penned an op-ed in the Washington Post in order to double down on her “basket of deplorables”slur.  She accuses them of being drawn to “his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia.” Of course, Trump supporters are not drawn to any of those things.  Trump is none of those things.  In fact, it is a safe bet that among his vast number of friends, there are far more people of color than HRC has ever had on her rolodex.

"But now she says her “deplorables” comment “did not go far enough,” that it was an “important truth.”  Then she invoked the thoroughly debunked Charlottesville lie and, of course, January 6th which was, as most people have concluded by now, a set-up to stop any recounts in disputed states before certification of the 2020 election. . . ." 

Most thinking Americans realize that the Democrat party is no longer the party of JFK, but too few realize how much damage it has done to the nation over the last fifty years.  The party likes to call itself progressive but it is actually frighteningly regressive. . .

Now that millions of migrants are safely in the states, Kamala Harris visits border and vows to close the barn door next year

 

Monica Showalter - American Thinker

Now that news has broke that the Harris-Biden administration's illegal border surge has deposited more than 425,000 criminals, including 13,000 killers and 15,000 rapists into our country, she apparently thinks she can find just enough dumb people to buy her border claims to vote for her. 

The Border Patrol Union (NBPC) has been lambasting Kamala for her border stunt Friday where she spent 20 minutes for a photo op trying to make everyone forget that over the past 3 1/2 years she let in 20 million illegals pic.twitter.com/wXRqeRnabo

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) September 28, 2024

"Now that the millions of illegal migrants are in, and tens of thousands have gotten busy committing crimes against Americans as well as sopping up welfare programs, Kamala Harris has decided to visit the border in a new campaign stop in swing state Arizona to proclaim how "tough" she is on the matter. Five years ago, she called the crisis "fictional."

"And pay no attention to the past three years, where she served as Joe Biden's border czar, where she visited the border once on a stopover on the way to Brentwood, California.

"According to the New York Post:

Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit to the US-Mexico border as the Democratic presidential nominee Friday to hastily announce measures meant to mitigate the ongoing border crisis fewer than 40 days before election day — despite having been the White House border “czar” for more than three-and-a-half years.

“The United States is a sovereign nation, and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them,” Harris, 59, said at a rally after touring a section of the border wall in Cochise County.

“And I take that responsibility very seriously.”

She announced that if elected the 47th president, she would improve on an executive order announced by President Biden in June that barred migrants from applying for asylum when they cross the border illegally.

"She cut a fashionable figure in her what some say was a $76,000 necklace, and expensive linen safari jacket topper over an urban-hipster black top and pants to create an elongated line, and stylin' black high-heeled boots; her hair blow-dried and expensively coiffed. It created just the right study-in-desert-neutrals color contrast against the Trump-constructed border wall.

"It was kind of like a Vogue fashion shoot or an Instagram vanity post." . . .