The last time was a head-fake to create a media distraction for the emergency border funding appropriation bill. This time may actually be the real deal, but also to create a media distraction from Robert Mueller’s testimony next week. Better to focus media attention on a scandal that actually inures to the benefit of Trump … Read more
On Sunday, the New York Times in conjunction with the El Paso Times published an investigative report on the horrible conditions inside the Clint, Texas migrant detention center. Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. (excerpt): [I]nside the secretive site that is now on the front lines of the southwest … Read more
Huffington Post reports, Trump: Raids Against Immigrant Families Are Back On After July 4th: President Donald Trump announced Monday that the immigration raids he threatened to launch last month are back on. “After July 4, a lot of people are going to be brought back out,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office, per … Read more
My Spidey senses were tingling when I read this reporting on Friday. It simply could not be true, because ICE does not announce when it is conducting raids. ICE would lose the element of surprise, and the immigrants they are searching for would have time to go underground. Both the New York Times and the … Read more
Adam Serwer of The Atlantic got it exactly right last year when he wrote that President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear. The Cruelty Is the Point: Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is … Read more