Evil is the right word for this; taking people who are safe in the United States, who have proven to a judge they would be persecuted in their home country, and dumping them in a random country in the middle of a civil war.
Is it legal? Sadly, probably yes. Is it evil? Also yes.
It's good that @KristiNoem got bounced, but her replacement @SecMullinDHS seems to have an equally shaky understanding of basic American law. Short of true threats, 'verbally assaulting'--shouting at or protesting--federal agents IS free speech. https://t.co/PsFCF4rlxn
I've been diagnosed with PTSD myself, so I don't say this lightly. Graham Platner using his diagnosis to excuse the things he's done is an insult to every veteran who carries the same weight and never used it as cover. I don't know one veteran who has acted the way he has.
RACIAL PROFILING. A Hispanic man with an accent was randomly approached by ICE. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. Instead of treating him with respect, they hancuffed him, took him to a different location, and questioned him for two hours before releasing him — with no apology.
Federal officials don’t get to outsource censorship by bullying private platforms into doing their dirty work.
Sens. Cruz and Wyden’s JAWBONE Act would help stop that coercion and give victims a way to fight back. Passing it would be a win across party lines.
You can tell someone has zero affirmative defenses for their behavior if their reaction is "everyone mad it me is just as big of a hypocrite as I am." Extremely convenient way to avoid self-reflection.
(looks cautiously over shoulder) The left-wing response of basically ignoring Platner's scandals is extremely understandable and, although I don't agree with it, it's hard to condemn without implicating Trump supporters as similarly morally ambivalent
If you flip the script, if Graham Platner was a Republican, Dems would be denouncing him as unfit.
If Ken Paxton was a Democrat, GOPers would totally trash him. It's all about winning, and control, at any cost https://t.co/ZccgCGjsGP
Trump is exactly what we knew he was. The harshest questions and criticisms of journalism today and history tomorrow are about how a generation of Republican politicians, partisan media, and US voters willingly chose to ignore it for power.
Unpopular view incoming: Republican fraud claims are untrue and it is what defenders say it is but that if the Democrats saw a red state regularly take forever to count and watched their margins diminish day after day they'd develop theories, too, even if explanations existed.
I don't speak for all media, of course, but I don't think the answer is very complicated and I don't think it's sudden pro-GOP media bias.
I think it's mostly because Platner is relatively new on the scene and there are fresh revelations about his misogyny and mendacity nearly every day. His primary is on June 9.
Paxton has been around for decades (first elected in 2002) and his many scandals have been widely and exhaustively reported for years. His primary/runoff has already happened and he next faces voters in November.
I suspect we'll see abundant coverage of Paxton's scandals (which I find disqualifying) in the months ahead.