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Basic Logic & Math

What portion of U.S. residents aged 16 to 65 years are able to correctly answer a question requiring basic logic, addition, and division?

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According to the latest nationally representative adult literacy test administered by the U.S. Department of Education, 37% of U.S. residents aged 16 to 65 years can correctly answer a question requiring basic logic, addition, and division — even though they were allowed to use calculators and take as much time as needed. You can see a similar question at the link below. It is the one about a shoe sale.

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Deporting Dreamers

U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D–VT) claims that President Trump has a “radical goal” of “mass deportation of immigrants,” “including legal immigrants” like “DREAMERS.”

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IN FACT, Dreamers are illegal immigrants who were granted benefits under illegal fiats by Obama and Biden. Moreover, only a tiny fraction of them have been deported, typically for committing crimes. Here are the specifics:

When Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator, he cosponsored a bill in 2007 called the “DREAM Act,” which stands for “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors.”
Obama’s bill would have legalized unauthorized immigrants who had entered the U.S. before the age of 16 and met other limited criteria, but Congress didn’t pass it.
When Obama became President, he lobbied Congress in 2010 to pass a similar bill, but Congress didn’t pass it.
In 2011, an “undocumented law graduate” publicly pressed Obama to grant “administrative relief for DREAMERS,” and Obama replied that he couldn’t “go and do these things” by “myself” because “we live in a democracy” and “you have to pass bills through the legislature.”
In 2012, without the passage of any legislation on this matter, Obama announced that his administration would not deport illegal immigrants if they were under the age of 16 when they arrived and met other limited criteria.
Obama’s “guideline,” called “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” or DACA, was applicable to 1.3 million illegal immigrants, and more than 800,000 were approved for it.
Beyond protection from deportation, Obama’s fiat also granted these individuals authorization to legally work in the United States and eligibility for certain government programs like Social Security and Medicare.
The official DACA memo stated that it “confers no substantive right” or “immigration status” because “only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights.”
In 2017, the first Trump administration rescinded DACA, but DACA recipients sued, and courts tied up this matter for years.
In 2020, seven months before the end of Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that the Trump administration could repeal DACA but didn’t follow the proper procedure to do this, and therefore, the repeal was unlawful.
In that ruling, the Supreme Court didn’t consider whether DACA itself was lawful.
On President Biden’s first day in office in 2021, he issued an Executive Order “to preserve and fortify DACA.”
In 2021, a U.S. district court judge appointed by George W. Bush ruled that the DACA program is “illegal.”
Two months after that ruling, the Biden administration proposed a regulation to formalize DACA and implemented it in 2022 while admitting that “DACA is not a form of lawful status.”
In 2022, a federal appeals court upheld the district court’s ruling that DACA was “substantively unlawful.”
In 2023, the same district court ruled that Biden’s regulation failed to address the legal defects in the original DACA guidelines and that DHS doesn’t have “power to do what Congress has rejected.”
In 2025, a federal appeals court upheld the district court’s ruling that Biden’s DACA regulation is “substantively unlawful,” but the appeals court weakened the remedial order and narrowed the nationwide injunction to Texas.
Per the Congressional Research Service, the appeals court ruling “means that someone with DACA in Texas would still be protected from removal but would no longer qualify to receive work authorization.” However, the court stayed this judgment on grounds that many people are reliant on DACA, and the matter is still in limbo.
At least 79,398 people were approved for DACA despite having a prior arrest, including 7,926 arrests for theft or larceny, 4,210 for driving under the influence, 3,308 for assault, 869 for fraud or money laundering, 587 for hit-and-run, 173 for kidnapping or trafficking, 62 for rape, and 5 for manslaughter or homicide.
The Obama administration terminated the DACA status of at least 865 immigrants for committing crimes and deported 365 of them.
In the first 2 months of Trump’s first term, the administration deported 43 former DACA recipients for committing crimes or gang activity.
In the last month of Biden’s presidency and the first 9 months of Trump’s second term, DHS arrested 270 DACA recipients and deported 174 DACA applicants, “none” of whom “had been granted protected status at the time of their removal.”

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