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That has sometimes led to allowing asylum seekers into the country while they await court dates with immigration judges, a practice critics deride as “catch and release.”

Trump has little desire to inherit, in the longer term, a war he has derided as expensive and pointless.

Opponents deride the policies as “forced outing” that make schools less safe for LGBTQ+ people.

One likely early target will be Biden-era tailpipe emissions rules that Trump has derided as an electric vehicle “mandate.”

Portland’s four-member city council lived far from these neighborhoods, sometimes derided by locals as the faraway “numbers.”