"I smell weed" has been a classic for decades.
A long while back, I was harassed by the cops for "acting suspicious" while waiting for some friends at the mall. This quickly escalated to "suspected terrorist activity" for absolutely no reason I could discern or anyone afterwards could explain.
Cops just say shit. The best you can do is say you need to speak to a lawyer and clam up after that.
You are well aware that those are retcon? None of this existed before “A New Hope”.
Lucas had reems of material he used to turn out multiple screenplays before he ended on New Hope.
That's a big part of where those changes in the re-releases came from.
An easy thing to say if you've never been shot at
What’s rent for a one bedroom apartment?
Pretty wide range depending on neighborhood and quality. I'm in Condesa, so it's in the $600-1200 USD range. You can definitely find cheaper.
I imagine border security into the country is easier than the other way around.
It's not really an issue in Mexico City.
You only have to pay them if you move back to the US
Specifically if you're a contractor simply working abroad. If you don't actually reside in the US and you earn foreign income /pay taxes for a year, you're not going to owe anything.
That said, if you travel overseas for three months on contract, earn a ton of money, and come home to spend it, you have to report that in the US minus taxes payed abroad.
Don’t leave. It solves nothing
It keeps you alive. Just ask all those Europeans who fled the bloodbath of the world wars.
In Mexico right now. It's beautiful, the people are friendly, cost of living is easily half that of the States, and the food is spectacular.
Even more so when you remember that the original "we need to get rid of all those immigrants" argument stemmed from migrants costing the country too much money.
Trillions for deportation. Not one penny for infrastructure or social services.
Too many Americans seriously believe failure to carry state documentation makes you legally a non-person. And being undocumented while brown flags you as part of an invading army.
He's no better than an Arab, a Russian, or one of the dreaded Chinese and deserves to die in misery as an example to others
Destroying the lives of many people indirectly in pursuit of money, however, is just an unfortunate fact of life.
Hey now. That's not always true.
Consider the Twin Towers Attacks (which indirectly enriched the Saudi Royal family immensely). Americans were so enthusiastic to avenge the honored dead of Cantor Fitzgerald financial services that they flew to the opposite side of the planet and started wars with multiple other countries on totally false pretenses.
Similarly, we've been gungho in funding the massacre of Gaza residents when they greedily and villanuously attempted their Right of Return to homes lost in the '47 Nakba.
And let's never forget our 50 year crusade against the money grubbing, land stealing, economy looting Communists.
The Suez Crisis, the Iranian Revolution, Vietnam? I think we can all agree they were unconscionable and deserving of an unlimited Holocaust of native peoples in response.
Was out on a date with an Atom, but then he split.
The department is administered and governed by the police commissioner, who is appointed by the mayor to what is, nominally, a five year term.
Can Zohran fire the existing commissioner and replace him? Idk what the bureaucracy around that looks like. Entrenched power structures have a way of slow rolling executives thru don't like and ignoring rules they don't want to follow.
A lot of levers of power that worked for a Guliani or an Adams might suddenly stop working assuming Zohran can make it all the way through the general and into office.