blackbootz et. al -

Continuing in this vein, pretend for a moment you're an official in the Border Patrol. Your job is to keep America (and Americans) safe. So far, your anti-terrorism record is 1-0. And then you find out that your new President has turned you into the SS.

A source familiar with Booker’s exchange with CBP officials told The Daily Beast that officials with the agency refused to see him face to face. Instead, Booker wrote questions on a piece of paper which he handed to police officers, and those officers gave the paper—along with a copy of Brinkema’s ruling—to CBP officials. Those CBP officials then wrote out their answers to the senator’s questions, according to the source. The source described it as a half-written, half-spoken game of telephone.

Obviously, you need to do your job. Just as obviously, you need to follow the law. But how do you feel about the chain of events that turned you into the jack-booted thug keeping refugees from their husbands?

Then two wheelchair-bound people—an 88-year-old man and his 83-year-old wife, both of whom have green cards, according to their granddaughter—came out. Their granddaughter, Pegah Rahmani (an American citizen who lives in Fairfax, Va.) doubled over to hug them. She told The Daily Beast that her grandmother had recently had a stroke and her grandfather was legally blind.

In the spin industry this is called "bad optics."

You either believe that most people are fundamentally good and that things have been working reasonably OK for most people because nobody wants to go out of their way to fuck with strangers or you believe that half the country was just waiting for an excuse to crack skulls.

I'm a half-full kinda guy myself.