Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
I hope NY Democrats do the right thing and vote him out during his primary.
Imo this was the most insane oval meeting yet.
I hope NY Democrats do the right thing and vote him out during his primary.
Yeah……we’re fukking cooked….Yeah it's up there
The DOJ saying they're not responsible for what happens to these people and have no control over them
Bukele saying he wont return the man
Trump asking for more prisons and to send Americans to
Its impossible to keep up with the daily fucckery of this idiot@Silkk i bet USC will comply with Trump administration![]()
Miller lying saying the SC sided with them 9 - 0.Yeah it's up there
The DOJ saying they're not responsible for what happens to these people and have no control over them
Bukele saying he wont return the man
Trump asking for more prisons and to send Americans to
In the eyes of this administration, immigrants who are undocumented are all “illegal immigrants” and these “illegal immigrants”, ergo, are all “criminals”.
But, on so many levels, it’s just not true. It’s a popular myth pushed by the right that needs urgent debunking.
First, people are not, are never, illegal. It was the Nobel laureate and former Auschwitz prisoner Elie Wiesel who pointed out how “no human being is ‘illegal’” because it is “a contradiction in terms. People can be beautiful or less beautiful, they can be just or unjust, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?”
An act can be illegal; people cannot inherently be illegal.
Second, the anti-immigrant right has not only gotten the language wrong but the law wrong, too. Under the US criminal code, as the ACLU has noted: “The act of being present in the United States in violation of the immigration laws is not, standing alone, a crime.” Why? Because illegal entry is considered a misdemeanor not a felony, under 8 US Code § 1325, and is subject to civil, and not criminal, penalties. It is the “reentry of removed aliens”, under 8 US Code § 1326, that is considered a felony and subject to criminal punishment.
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The inconvenient truth for the anti-immigrant right is that it is not a crime for immigrants simply to be present in the United States without proper documentation. They are not “illegals”. Don’t take my word for it. Or the ACLU’s. Take the word – the 5-3 majority ruling! – of the supreme court of the United States. In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”.![]()
So why can’t liberals more broadly, and elected Democrats in particular, say this? And say it loudly and repeatedly? Why can’t they reject both the butchering of the English language and the misrepresentation of US criminal law by rejecting the entire “illegal immigrant” framing of the nativist right? And if not now – when a far-right administration is grabbing innocent people off the streets and sending them to be tortured in a foreign gulag – then when?
shame on everyone that has folded