“Sessions’s new ‘zero tolerance’ plan seems distant and theoretical. On the border itself, however, the new policy feels close and horribly real.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/29/zero-tolerance-border-policy-immigration-mass-trials-children/
“The ACLU has sued over the practice of separating families at the border, though by the time that gets through the process, there will be much damage done to the children themselves, many if not most of whom came here seeking protection from violence in Central America. There’s also a strong argument that the policy violates international law and norms.”
“ICE apparently failed to turn over records after multiple requests. In December, ICE purchased access to two databases of automated license-plate reader data.”
“The agency’s original statement said the group of migrants started to hit him with ‘blunt objects,’ while the new statement makes no mention of any objects.”
“Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness.”
“In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers.”
“It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/03/09/banality-evil-war-drugs/
“The moves make perfect sense. What else should happen to convictions for a victimless crime when that victimless behavior is now no longer a crime?”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/18/marijuana_conviction_expungements_moving
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/
“It appears that the only way not to be killed, according to Netanyahu, is to meekly accept imprisonment inside the prison of Gaza.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-iran-israel-jerusalem-embassy/