- The university had said it was legitimate and approved by the Department of Homeland Security. The department had listed the university as a legitimate place for foreign students, said immigration attorneys in contact with the students.
Diabolical. For Trump, maybe the best thing about impeachment is that it provides cover in liberal/centrist news for Steven[sic intentionally] Miller's stream of schemes hatched from more than just the undertones of white supremacism (dog whistle term: nationalism). Even if we pretend that his leaked emails never happened (they did)... ...we are forced to confront the reality that almost every single new U.S. immigration scheme/"policy" fits into a pattern of harassment and abuse of the basic human rights of non-white foreigners. Justifying Miller's actions requires an element of dehumanization, at the bare minimum. Once you're there, we know propaganda can kindle a race to the bottom - full-blown ethnic fanaticism. Edit: and the fact that not violating human rights costs more money IS NOT an argument for violating human rights!!! Immigration policy desperately needs to be bumped up in the queue of bipartisan legislative attempts. The House democrats owe it to America to take up this issue immediately. Through inevitably failed negotiations with the Senate GOP and Trump, the dems could even build yet another narrative for an article of impeachment potentially filed the day after the election: abuse of human rights through executive branch immigration policy, with no indication of intent to compromise. Any investigations into Trump administration discussions or documentation into immigration-related decisions would of course be stonewalled. The dems could probably draft an entirely new obstruction article solely from events between whenever they punt to the Senate (likely by the end of the year) and the next election. Also, it bears mentioning that the dems don't want to conduct impeachment inquiries/hearings during an election year. That would be unprecedented, and opens them up to allegations of election tampering. Because the Senate trial will be controlled by republicans, it's another matter entirely.
I would too, but one of ICE's goals is harassing mexican immigrants (documented citizens or otherwise) so racist trump supporters (and useful idiots) can be happy about 'those aliens' getting 'what they deserve.' It gives republicans the ability to be 'tough on immigration'...which obviously matters more than giving people a common level of courtesy (or rights) It's working as desired for a distressingly large demographic, including this fucking idiot:
Who are the people who worked on a project like this fake school? Do they go home at the end of this thinking they’ve done a good job, do they have families who support their career? How do we have so many people working for an organization like ICE.
I understand why you're jaded. My experience has been different. Prior to September 11, airport security was private contractors. They were effectively mall cops. They were mall cops in a decidedly somber environment, however, because hijackings were still happening on the reg and they knew that if they screwed up people could die. So while they weren't shining paragons of humanity, they were generally semi-good, if bored, people. September 11 turned all that around. I flew in February 2002 and was astonished by the number of retired police and military who answered the call to protect their country from the forces of evil. They were good people who knew they could do more for humanity by putting on a blue uniform than hanging out at home and tending their turnips. Of course, six months under the TSA and they were all back in their potting sheds and the TSA was a beacon to racists, grifters, thugs and skull-crackers who couldn't get through a basic police exam. My experience with the border patrol on the northern side of the country is very different than the border patrol on the southern side of the country - and even on the southern side, things vary. Border partol on the Rio Grande is very different from Border Patrol out in Organ Pipe. The guys in Organ Pipe know that their primary job is to find people whose snakeheads led them astray before they die of exposure. The guys on the Rio know their job is to snag the dudes sneaking across a thigh-high river. Cops, too, have changed a bunch. The ones who signed up prior to Rodney King had a different idea of the job than the guys who sign up in the post-militarization bodycam era. The work matters. What you do on a daily basis matters. So you can focus on the idea that "your goal is nothing more than to control the parameters of the experience you wish to unfold" but if you're working to ensure the constitutional rights of the indigent that "experience" is going to be very different than if the "experience" is deporting everyone with an accent. All you're doing is piling hopelessness upon itself if you dismissively wave your hands and say "all government bad." It's not. If you work for NOAA your goal is to get as much meteorological information in front of the people who need it as you humanly can. If you work for Accuweather your goal is to charge as many people as you can for information NOAA gives away for free. There's a difference. ICE is evil and it attracts evil people. Customs and Border Protection has some areas where evil is done and those areas attract evil people but as an agency, they're doing a decent job. Folding up ICE would be a net good, folding up CBP would be a net bad. It isn't all an undifferentiated miasma of self-serving.