 note about being in the laundry room, in your new sort of home office working in there. What's going to happen next? I mean, we talked a little bit about the detention centers and the pandemic. I'm really worried about, there's this humanitarian crisis, plus, now that's just sort of simmering. What can happen next? What can happen? I mean, this is maybe this is a really unfair question, but what can possibly happen next or what can possibly happen if we can imagine a different president in 2021?
JS: Well, that's what I was gonna say. I think it largely depends on what happens with the election, but we don't…Even if Biden won, we don't know what Biden would necessarily do. What we do know is today asylum, as we know it, is gone, migration across the Southwest border is forever changed. Tens of thousands of people are waiting because of the MPP program in these cities in Mexico directly on the other side of the border. And thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are being turned back and expelled from the country immediately once they get here now, you know, under the cover of a reaction to the coronavirus. And inside the Department of Health and Human Services are less than a thousand unaccompanied minor children today, when two years ago, when I was there at the height of the crisis, the number was over 10,000. So the honest answer is I was an advance guy in college to the mayor of New York and then later to a presidential candidate. And then what I learned is if you don't know the answer, say, I don't know. And the truth is, I don't know. It depends on what our political leadership wants to do, and if it's the Trump administration, I can only imagine that we'll get more restrictive. And it's on his opponent to lay out what the borderlands will look like, what asylum will look like in a Biden administration.
YB: We're living in a time when we're questioning certain monuments to history and their real legacy. And even of our lexical choices, not just in a way toward a nod to political correctness, but just a thoughtful way to communicate clearly. And I was thinking about how these issues that you cover in your book. How in the world could they intersect somehow with this incredible momentum that we had a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, with the protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd? And I was just watching the momentum tick up and up and up and wondering how would that look for this issue that has really been an issue for years and years and years? Why, why doesn't this…what is a, a real humanitarian crisis…why hasn't it ever just taken hold?
JS: Because I think it feels “Other” to people in the United States. And that's part of the reason I wanted to name the book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, because that's what this is and how does it relate to what we're seeing in the streets? And how does it relate to the movements that many of us have been a part of, you know, over the course of the last couple of months? I think that the violence and the systematic racism and discrimination that we’re having a real reckoning with right now, it's all part of America. And this is America, and the way we treat migrants and refugees is America. It isn't, it isn't someplace else or someone else. And if there's anything that I hope the book accomplishes is that, you know, we think differently about what the United States is. So many people who've come here for a better life—and it's cliché—but for a better life, believe in America, but this is what America did to them. So when I say “Separated,” you know, it's, it's the physical act of what happened to Juan and José and 5,000 plus other families. But it's also a sort of a state of mind that admittedly, I had, a separation from the reality of how we got here. And I think many of us also had, not all of us, but many of us. And so not until we can sort of reckon with the fact that this is our country, all of it, I don't think we'll be able to move on from that.
YB: Jacob Soboroff, thank you so much for your time and for the gift of this book.
JS: I'm grateful to you. That means a lot to me. Thank you.
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Honestly don’t remember how in depth the disclaimer was. Probably minimal. Jumped out of the cars, said a quick hello, and we were off.
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To turn aside - Their sentences have the effect, and are designed to have, to pervert justice, and to oppress the poor, or to deprive them of their rights and just claims; compare Isaiah 29:21; Proverbs 27:5.
The needy - daliym - דלים dalı̂ym. Those of humble rank and circumstances; who have no powerful friends and defenders. "From judgment." From obtaining justice.
And to take away - To take away by violence and oppression. The word גזל gāzal, is commonly applied to robbery, and to oppression; to the taking away of spoils in battle, etc.
That widows may be their prey - That they may rob widows, or obtain their property. This crime has always been one particularly offensive in the sight of God; see the note at Isaiah 1:23. The widow and the orphan are without protectors. Judges, by their office, are particularly bound to preserve their rights; and it, therefore, evinces special iniquity when they who should be their protectors become, in fact, their oppressors, and do injustice to them without the possibility of redress. Yet this was the character of the Jewish judges; and for this the vengeance of heaven was about to come upon the land.
My friend wishes to leave me her mobile home but wants to make sure her stepchildren get some money. The value of the home is $800,000, and she wants me to have it in a way that she will not incur tax costs prior to dying. An attorney suggested that she leave the home to me but require that I pay $300,000 to buy it in order to make sure that there’s money to distribute to the stepchildren. I am concerned that my friend may need to access equity in the house should she run out of her long-term care insurance and her savings. I suggested that I could lend her $5,000 a month at a time that she feels she needs it, until it reaches $500,000, at which time the loan would be payable at the time of settling the estate. Can you see any problem with my suggestion other than the $500,000 may have been used up prior to death? Then what?
I like the idea of your being required to buy the home for $300,000. The way this would work is that your friend’s will would direct that the house be sold, giving you an option to purchase it for $300,000. This would have no adverse tax consequences for her. The only problem with this plan is if your friend had to take out a mortgage, whether from you or from someone else. Then the $300,000 may have to be used to pay off the mortgage rather than being distributed to the stepchildren. This could be corrected by giving you the option of purchasing the property for $300,000 plus any outstanding mortgage amount.
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Commits per day hour (UTC)I'm guessing it might have a different name based on the region. Felt like I was living in a fever dream of frustration when I was trying to get my dad to watch *Airplane!* which he would love but had vexed seen before. But he could half remember some scenes. Maybe disaster movies were in vogue back then because he could remember an extremely similar movie called *Flying High*. It had many of the same beats and I kept telling him it couldn't be what I was thinking of because the movie I wanted him to watch was *Airplane*. I'd thought I'd confused it with another movie because when we were talking about it the *Not Another ________ Movie* franchise was in full force and I wondered if the name was too simplistic. But no, looked it up, showed him images. Yup, he was sure it was *Flying High.* Which it was. Because New Zealand, where he is from,  released *Airplane* as *Flying High.* There's many movies and a few books, *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone* comes to mind, that this happens to, and it may be that the more popular name has drowned out the variant.It may not have made John Lenn