If there’s one thing U.S. President Donald Trump can’t resist, it’s attention from royalty. “I Love King Charles,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform, sharing an article from The Sun stating that Britain’s King Charles wants to offer the U.S. an associate membership in the British Commonwealth.

Trump’s reaction to joining the international association based on the ruins of the British colonial empire: “Sounds good to me!” The U.S., of course, has its own history with British colonialism, as next year will mark the 250th anniversary of the founding 13 states’ Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

According to The Sun, King Charles will propose Washington’s partial membership in the Commonwealth during President Trump’s upcoming visit to the palace, in an effort to ease tensions between the White House and Canada amid their trade war and diplomatic drift.

Canada, which Trump would like to welcome as the 51st of the United States, is also part of the Commonwealth — not to be confused with the U.S. states that call themselves as such. The British Commonwealth is made up of 56 nations, including the United Kingdom and many of its former colonies.

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.

The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors. Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U.S. illegally. He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order.

Trump said on March 6 that he would decide “very soon” whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the conflict with Russia. Trump’s remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April.

Biden launched a parole entry program for Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States have been strained.

The new legal pathways came as Biden tried to clamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration’s decision to strip the legal status from half a million migrants could make many vulnerable to deportation if they choose to remain in the

U.S. It remains unclear how many who entered the U.S. on parole now have another form of protection or legal status. In a notice set to formally publish in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place the migrants in a fast-track deportation process known as “expedited removal.” Under a Trump-era policy implemented in January, expedited removal can be applied to certain migrants in the U.S. for two years or less.

According to whistleblower cops, the police manipulate cases in several ways: pressuring victims not to file reports, misclassifying serious crimes as minor offenses, delaying evidence collection until surveillance footage expires, and conducting superficial or non-existent witness interviews. These tactics allow police departments to appear more efficient while quietly discarding cases that require real investigative work.

One officer, Martin Bjørnvig, has publicly admitted that he and his colleagues routinely deceive the public. “We violate citizens’ legal rights by failing to investigate reported cases. And we lie to citizens about the reasons,” he told Danish state media. He told how he was tasked with processing a large backlog of cases involving economic crime save was instructed to close cases, even if there were named suspects or fraud for large amounts. An anonymous ex-cop admitted to having “washed” assault andremoved cases.

Other officers, speaking anonymously, confirm that leadership not only tolerates but actively encourages this practice. One states: “You have no choice. Management decides. In the end, you’re just a number with an attractive detective job”

The motivations behind this fraud are clear. On an individual level, officers seek to meet internal performance metrics while avoiding complex, time-consuming cases. As an institution, the police force prioritizes bureaucratic efficiency over justice, preferring tidy statistics over meaningful law enforcement.

Despite overwhelming testimony from rank-and-file officers, senior police leadership denies everything. The National Police has flatly rejected the existence of “washing,” dismissing the accusations as mere “prioritization.” Yet officers describe an environment where questioning these methods leads to professional retaliation, confirming that the deception is systemic.

The Liberal Party, one of three parties making up the Nordic hermit kingdom’s Social Democrat-led right-wing regime, has reacted to the scandal not by demanding accountability but by pulling out an old reactionary hobby horse and demanding more money for the police. The party’s justice spokesperson, Preben Bang Henriksen, called the revelations “deeply troubling” but framed the issue as a lack of police resources rather than a structural failure of law enforcement itself.

The government, eager to maintain its pro-police “law and order” stance, has signaled no intention of holding the police accountable. Instead, it continues to lavish funding on both law enforcement and the military, while slashing education, healthcare, and social services. This demonstrates the regime’s true priorities: protecting the state’s coercive apparatus while neglecting the well-being of ordinary citizens.

The Danish “washing” scandal is yet another reminder that, under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the claim that police exist to “protect and serve” is a lie. The police exist to uphold the existing social order, ensuring that the state’s priorities—not justice—are enforced. Any protection the public receives is incidental; their real purpose is to maintain control.

• Source: DR (state media), March 23rd 2025