Drain the swamp, drain line, sink, swim together, emigrate, immigration, the Swamp Has Not Been Drained

A Post review found that the president has largely failed to fulfill the pledges he made in 2016 to curtail the influence of lobbyists and special interests in Washington.

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• Donald Trump to describe his plan to fix problems in the federal government.^[1][11] In the three weeks before the 2016 election, he tweeted "Drain the swamp" 79 times, usually as a hashtag, and he tweeted the word "swamp" another 75 times in the four years following that election.^[12] His 2020 campaign's senior advisor, Jason Miller,^[13] and his 2020 campaign manager, Bill Stepien,^[14] referred to the Commission on Presidential Debates as "swamp monsters." Protests against the role of Goldman Sachs alumni in the Trump administration also used the metaphor.^[15]

Recording Shows That the Swamp Has Not Been Drained
The recording of a dinner President Trump held with big-dollar donors in 2018 shows how special-interest access and influence persists in Washington.
The Red Star Line Museum is a journey into the past and an encounter with the present. Although the face of migration has since changed the human aspect of migration continues to be a timeless and universal phenomenon.

Poland's Central Statistics Office estimates that 2.1m Poles are living abroad. That figure peaked at 2.3m in 2007, after which some people started to move back. Yet predictions of a mass return of emigrants as Western Europe slid into recession proved wrong. For the past three years, the number of emigrants has been rising steadily again. Alarm bells are ringing in Warsaw http://econ.st/1gqX9Kb

Poland's emigration headache

 

Euro Governments Must Sink or Swim Together

S&P has highlighted that divisions in Europe will unite the continent in sharing economic suffering. The real answer is greater political and fiscal unity to overcome those divisions—including euro bonds.

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immigration

/ɪmɪˈɡreɪʃn/

noun

1. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

   
   

   "a barrier to control illegal immigration from Mexico"

   • the place at an airport or country's border where government officials check the documents of people entering that country.

     
     

     "the airport has long queues at immigration and baggage reclaim"

   
   
2. 
   

[名]

1. 1UC（…から/…へ）移住する［させる］こと，（…からの/…への）移住，入植，移民≪from/to，into≫
2. 1aU〔集合的に〕移民（immigrants）；（一定期間内の）移民者数
3. 2U（空港などでの）出入国管理（業務），出入国審査；出入国管理カウンター（immigration contro

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emigrate

Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪgreɪt/

Translate emigrate | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

[no object]

• leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another:
• Rose’s parents emigrated to Australia

Origin:

late 18th century: from Latin emigrat- 'emigrated', from the verb emigrare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + migrare 'migrate'

[名]

1. 1（他国への）移住≪to≫（⇔immigration）
2. 2移民団；〔集合的に〕移民，移住者

emigration

/ˌɛmɪˈɡreɪʃn/

noun

1. the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

   
   

   "mass emigration from Ireland to the United States"

   synonyms:

   moving abroad, moving overseas, expatriation, departure, withdrawal, migration, evacuation;  exodus, diaspora;  relocation, resettling;  defection "the major financial reason for emigration was higher salaries"

drain
(drān)

v., drained, drain·ing, drains. v.tr.

1. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process: drained water from the sink.
2. 1. To cause liquid to go out from; empty: drained the bathtub; drain the pond.
   2. To draw off the surface water of: The Mississippi River drains a vast area.
3. To drink all the contents of: drained the cup.
4. 1. To deplete gradually, especially to the point of complete exhaustion. See synonyms at deplete.
   2. To fatigue or spend emotionally or physically: The day's events completely drained me of all strength.

v.intr.

1. To flow off or out: Gasoline drained slowly from the tilted can.
2. To become empty by the drawing off of liquid: watched the tub slowly drain.
3. To discharge surface or excess water: The Niagara River drains into Lake Ontario. When flooded, the swamp drains northward.
4. To become gradually depleted; dwindle: felt his enthusiasm draining.

n.

1. A pipe or channel by which liquid is drawn off.
2. Medicine. A device, such as a tube, inserted into the opening of a wound or body cavity to facilitate discharge of fluid or purulent material.
3. The act or process of draining.
4. 1. A gradual outflow or loss; consumption or depletion: the drain of young talent by emigration.
   2. Something that causes a gradual loss: interruptions that are a drain on my patience.

drain (REDUCE) 
verb
1 [I or T] to reduce or cause something to reduce:
The long war had drained the resources of both countries.
War drains a nation of its youth and its wealth (= uses them until they are gone).

2 If the blood/colour drains from someone's face, or if their face drains (of blood/colour), they turn very pale, often because they are shocked or ill:
The colour drained from his face/cheeks when they told him the results.

drain
noun [S]
something that uses more of your energy, money or time than you want to give:
Having a big mortgage is a real drain on your earnings.brain drain noun [S]
when large numbers of educated and highly skilled people leave their own country to live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better:
Britain has suffered a huge brain drain in recent years.


━━ vt. 排水する （draw off）; （水を）はかせる ((away, off, out)); 排水［下水］設備を施す; かわかす; 飲み干す, からにする ((of)); 奪い去る ((of)); 精根を尽きさせる; 流出させる ((of)).
━━ vi. 流れ去る ((off, away)); （血が）引く ((from)); 注ぐ ((into)); からになる ((away, off)); しだいに減ってゆく ((away)); 排水する, かわく; （国外へ）頭脳が流出する ((away, off)).
 drain dry　枯渇させる, かわかす, かわく; 飲み干す.
 drain the cup of　…の苦杯をなめる.
━━ n. 排水（みぞ）; 排水（管）; （pl.） 下水施設 （sewer）; 流失 ((on)); 出費; 負担 ((on)); 【電気】ドレイン ((トランジスターの電極の1つ)).
 down the drain　〔話〕 浪費して; 無益になって; なくなって.
 laugh like a drain　〔英〕 ばか笑いする.

Drain the swamp is a phrase which has frequently been used by American politicians since the 1980s. The phrase alludes to the physical draining of swamps which is conducted in order to keep mosquito populations low in order to combat malaria,^[1] and Washington D.C. being founded on a supposed swampy ground.