Almost never mentioned in debates is the fact that the US bears considerable responsibility for the influx at its southern border.
Among the countries supplying the heaviest count of refugees are Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, each of them a site of US military intervention or subversion that fomented civil violence, the most recent instance being the military coup in Honduras in early 2009 (supported by Obama’s State Department under Hillary Clinton).
Should the Democrats be silent about the long past of the troubles at the border? Consider ICE the innovation of Cheney and Bush, its powers were then expanded under Obama, and the progressive people who know its oppressive tactics are cheering the slogan ‘Abolish ICE’.
Good, but what will you put in its place? A 1996 federal law permits the deportation of legal non-citizen residents who have committed violent crimes. Would the Democrats repeal that law?
The invention of the liberal state originally derived from the need for balance in the parts of government; the presence, as Locke put it, of an ‘umpire’ and the absence of any power capable of acting as the judge in its own cause. Yet for half a century now, there have been signs of a growing non-attachment to the rule of law at the heights of American politics. The Nixon pardon was only the clearest example. Think of the Iran-Contra pardons; Bill Clinton’s pardon of the most exorbitant tax defrauder in American history, Marc Rich (also a donor to the Clinton Presidential Library); or Obama’s refusal to prosecute anyone implicated in the financial collapse of 2007-8 or the torture regime of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Nixon befouled the 1968 election in a manner Putin could only have dreamed of – the facts are now established – by having Anna Chennault tell the leaders of South Vietnam not to negotiate. The Reagan campaign team appears to have done much the same in 1980 by bargaining to have the return of American hostages from Iran delayed until after the election: their release added a pleasant grace note to his inauguration day.
Criminality at the highest levels has been overlooked, redefined, extenuated and forgiven. are wrong to suppose there can be just one cause: that Trump stole the election by getting Russia to corrupt the system. Duh Democrats
Among the countries supplying the heaviest count of refugees are Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, each of them a site of US military intervention or subversion that fomented civil violence, the most recent instance being the military coup in Honduras in early 2009 (supported by Obama’s State Department under Hillary Clinton).
Should the Democrats be silent about the long past of the troubles at the border? Consider ICE the innovation of Cheney and Bush, its powers were then expanded under Obama, and the progressive people who know its oppressive tactics are cheering the slogan ‘Abolish ICE’.
Good, but what will you put in its place? A 1996 federal law permits the deportation of legal non-citizen residents who have committed violent crimes. Would the Democrats repeal that law?
The invention of the liberal state originally derived from the need for balance in the parts of government; the presence, as Locke put it, of an ‘umpire’ and the absence of any power capable of acting as the judge in its own cause. Yet for half a century now, there have been signs of a growing non-attachment to the rule of law at the heights of American politics. The Nixon pardon was only the clearest example. Think of the Iran-Contra pardons; Bill Clinton’s pardon of the most exorbitant tax defrauder in American history, Marc Rich (also a donor to the Clinton Presidential Library); or Obama’s refusal to prosecute anyone implicated in the financial collapse of 2007-8 or the torture regime of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Nixon befouled the 1968 election in a manner Putin could only have dreamed of – the facts are now established – by having Anna Chennault tell the leaders of South Vietnam not to negotiate. The Reagan campaign team appears to have done much the same in 1980 by bargaining to have the return of American hostages from Iran delayed until after the election: their release added a pleasant grace note to his inauguration day.
Criminality at the highest levels has been overlooked, redefined, extenuated and forgiven. are wrong to suppose there can be just one cause: that Trump stole the election by getting Russia to corrupt the system. Duh Democrats
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