That George Wallace–era prank Texas governor Greg Abbot has been playing and Florida governor Ron DeSantis has attempted to emulate rreally isn't any funnier than it was in 1962
There are no new ideas https://t.co/nLmASZYQQK
— big dicta energy (@BigDictaEnergy) September 15, 2022
if you recognize how frightened and bewildered the people they're using must feel, but that obviously doesn't bother DeSantis
Jeez, Ron, you don't act as if you take it seriously. You act like you're running an episode of Punk'D https://t.co/NShd37exnw
— Three Blog Night (@Yastreblyansky) September 15, 2022
But it's re-raising a bunch of issues that haven't gotten the attention they really deserve; just summarizing:
It's not the "exact same thing", and it's not two years. It's what used to be done before Trump and Sessions vandalized the system and started separating families and putting everybody in concentration camps in US or Mexico. It's what Trump called "catch and release"...
— Three Blog Night (@Yastreblyansky) September 16, 2022
Trumpies hated the system not because it snuck fake asylum applicants into the country, as they falsely claimed, but because judges in places where the communities are, in Los Angeles or NYC or NJ, tended to grant asylum, while TX judges didn't understand and turned them down.
— Three Blog Night (@Yastreblyansky) September 16, 2022
Not that there's anything wrong with the churches that provide aid
and comfort in these manners, like the one in Martha's Vineyard that's met the
occasion so well—glad to see all the examples of Christianity according to the
spirit to contrast with the Christianists or Christian Identity fanatics using
it as an excuse for bigotry.
I don't know if I've mentioned before how different the odds are of getting you asylum approved are depending on where you land, but it's enormous, and it really is connected to their knowledge of the communities they're working with, New York and Los Angeles judges being familiar with the horrors of gang violence and police corruption in Central America and Houston judges know from "wetbacks" and little else. But you can bet Sessions and his Nazi acolyte Stephen Miller knew all about it.
Nobody's ever done that before, the duty to give an asylum applicant a hearing had become sacred in federal and international law ever since the horrors of the 1940s when US authorities sent Jewish refugees to their deaths in Europe rather than let them off the boat...
— Three Blog Night (@Yastreblyansky) September 16, 2022
So sick of you guys talking about your support for "law and order" when the only laws you care about are the ones that punish people who are having a hard time, and you don't gaf about the laws that say you need to pay your taxes and conduct your business ethically.
— Three Blog Night (@Yastreblyansky) September 16, 2022
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