Addicts already have no freedom; mandatory treatment is a chance for them to get it back.

Helen Gym only cares about Helen Gym. She has eyes on higher offices and Philly is just a stepping stone.

There's a group doing renovations on the lower floors for four restaurants/cafes there. I was at event in the basement restaurant/event space there within the last year and it was pretty cool. They have a lot of work left to do on the building but it's getting there. The food was amazing too.

I don't know enough to answer for certain. The main guy in this article had a green card though, so he wasn't here illegally, but it was revoked when he was charged or convicted. I imagine most of these guys had similar immigration statuses. I don't think an illegal immigrant can join the military. I'm not an expert though so I might be wrong.

Yeah I wouldn't say that they all deserve deportation. Drug charges are a pretty frequent source of felony convictions and deportation seems unwarranted in those cases. I'm don't think it's unfair to deny citizenship to those who commit violent crimes though. I have don't know what the guy in the article was originally charged with. I do know when I've seen article in the past that profiled/interviewed a couple of these guys, several of them had committed shootings and or robberies.

Largely, yes. The article says the main guy profiled had a felony conviction. Now that could be a wide range of things; in a lot of cases it's drug related but in a fair amount it's violent crimes.

Most (if not all) of those deported committed crimes. When I first read about this years ago the article highlighted a guy who shot up an occupied (including with children) car and he felt he was unfairly deported.

The Philadelphia sheriff's department is so corrupt. If I recall correctly the last sheriff gave his buddies notice so they could snap up auction properties for cheap and the current one isn't much better. I swear this city needs Batman.

I think you're mostly stuck with online sales. It's a pretty niche market. Have you checked out Emisar before? They ship from China but it's a pretty smooth process.

I was there years ago and some little boy yarfed enough to filled a 5 gallon bucket, all over the floor. Good food though.