The migrant families Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lured on to busses and sent to Vice President Kamala Harris's neighborhood wait for help. Kevin Dietsch | Getty

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1

"European Union puts Hungary on notice: Following an EU parliament vote that declared Hungary no longer a democracy
 "

FOX has Embraced
this FAR 'right' enclave
and now that Democracy
has Died there, they're prollly
gonna Quadruple Down on declaring
their Fealty cum Victimhood to those Nazis

fabulously-well-to-Do
Elitist "Tucks" Carlson
is also a Victim but
he'll prolly get a-
long just Fine if
Hungary gets
the Boot.

expect Crocodile
Tears and perhaps
Flooding in Alaska

2

Maria Cantwell debated Susan Hutchison, Patty should extend the same courtesy to Tiffany.

Not that multiple wrongs make a right, but it was former Mayor David Denkins of NYC who started the practice of unloading folks onto other states.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-is-a-home-for-ny-homeless/1842737/

3

Is there really no way to defeat an obviously guilty defendant who went judge shopping until he found a corrupt one willing to gleefully immolate herself and betray America for the glory of her cult ruler?

Asking for a country.

And just when you thought Republinazis couldn't be any more cruel, depraved, and insane, they openly demonstrate that kidnapping, human trafficking, terrorism, theft and embezzlement are all A-OK as long as fascist rich white men do it. In fact, the KKKountry will enable, facilitate, and reward these crimes. The American legal system sure is one sick, grotesque charade.

4

Re 2: Not Denkis, Bloomberg.

5

DHS should be abolished. Waste of taxpayer money. We couldn't even protect the homeland from a gaggle of hillbillies.

6

@3 -- be a damn Tragedy
if Someone were to Tag our
formerly-Supreme Ct with an
UNnext to the EQUAL* otherwise
what it says carved in Stone in letters
6' High is Nothing but a Another Big Lie.

*as in
UNEQUAL JUSTCE UNDER LAW

a little Truth in Advertising
shall we USSC?
hmmm?

whom am I kidding?
those Whacko Zeal-
ots've already Deci-
ded on who's The
President in 2024

wanna
hazard
a Guess?

some prefer Fascists.
some prefer Nazis.
I prefer Sanity.

vote Blue.

7

WTF is a "secure" southern border, anyway? Has the Mexican border ever been "secure"?

12

Most, if not all, sovereign nations have vested interests in preventing unauthorized access into their countries. Simply because the adjective "secure" is not realized to its ideal state, is a tangential gimmick and can be disregard.

It is illogical to negate the effort just because the ideal wasn't achieved. For example, we don't ask "WTF is fair judicial system, anyway?" or say "Or course, there is no such thing as a "fair" judicial system which is the whole point."

13

@ 7,

If Jesus Christ himself appeared at the southern border, the Republinazi mob would enthusiastically lynch him. It’s mass psychosis.

It’s quite a trick for them to ignore literally everything the Bibbel says about caring for immigrants, the poor, and the sick while promoting a toxic ideology of greed, hatred, and sadism while worshiping ex-Prezinazi AntiChrist.

14

@Original Andrew - That is the most apt commentary I've seen in awhile. Very sad though. I think hubby and I might have to shop for a new country to retire to just in case.

@Brent Gumbo - Agree 1000%!

16

The ‘gang of eight’ supported immigration reform in 2013, with a bipartisan 2 to 1 majority in the Senate. I believe Senators Rubio and Graham voted for it.
Since Boehner didn’t want to take on his own GOP representatives in the House, it never passed.
The solution has always been there.

17

@10 I assume you take such passionate issue with all the other nonviolent misdemeanor offenses people commit as well?

18

@10: so, you want all illegal crossings stopped. you (still) want Trump's wall.

illegal crossings have never been stopped previously. it's never been "secure" by that measure. you and your fellow xenophobes want an impossible ideal.

or maybe you just want a cudgel to brandish at election time.

19

there're 6- or 7,000,000
as-yet-Unfilled Jobs
in the USofA

employers can't find employees
or not at rates commensurate
or far too Risky or whatever
so here's some LABOR
peeps! put 'em to
fucking Work

they WANT to Work
so get 'em some
Childcare and
let them do
what they
wanna Do:
Contribute.

Evidently we
could Use them.

20

"What my son and I want is for this country to get serious about defining who we want/need to migrate to this country, make it legal for them to be here to do that work, and to end the hypocrisy." --@Faxnow

I can't argue with that.

21

@16 Yes and before that, we had George W. Bush's attempt at immigration reform, in which he gave the xenophobic "no amnesty" right virtually everything they demanded just to get something passed that would bring the millions of undocumented already here out of the shadows and into some kind of regulatory system. The resulting bill was extremely narrow in scope, punitive and byzantine in its requirements (remember the fiendish "touchback"?), and consequently VERY hard to support from the left. But it wasn't the Democrats who killed it.

24

Will, hope you have a great trip! I have (fond?) memories of red eye flights to FL though Hartsfield.
Get some pool time or beach time in. The rain will be here soon enough.

26

So if someone shoots at me, my friends and I have the right to spray as many bullets as possible in their general direction on a crowded downtown street in “self defense,” no matter how many bystanders are killed or maimed in the process?

America, ladies and gentlemen! What a country!

29

@9, @26: The prosecution’s mistake was in seeking first-degree murder and assault charges, which means they had to prove intent on Tolliver’s part. Second-degree charges do not require proof of intent, which would have been the realistic course to take. This was prosecutorial overreach, and the jury seems to have rewarded it with acquittals.

(After the murder of George Floyd, Minnesota’s AG, Keith Ellison, did NOT seek a first-degree murder charge against Floyd’s killer. The charges were second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter. The jury found guilt on all three.)

33

@26- no shit. And the defendant here was already a convicted felon who had lost his gun rights, which the jury was not allowed to hear. He should be doing 20 just for carrying the gun, whether or not he fired it.

34

@30- “lawful act by lawful means” should have been the end of the self-defense claim. This asshole was breaking the law by even having a gun, much less using it.

36

@30: “Try to prove Criminal Negligence, and you are admitting the defendant had the legal right to use deadly force to begin with.”

I’ve been a juror in King County, in a case where a defendant charged with second-degree murder claimed self-defense. The right to use deadly force in self-defense is not unlimited; the force used must be reasonable, as defined by law. Given the number of non-assailants struck by Tolliver’s bullets, proving that Tolliver exceeded the bounds of reasonable self-defense would seem possible. Too bad the prosecution never even tried. They needlessly set a very high bar for themselves to meet, and they failed.

@33, @34: Tolliver wasn’t being tried on a weapons charge, so his lacking a legal right to own a weapon was not material to his case.

Again, the prosecution screwed this up, big-time.

38

"....but I say that if you don't GTFO after hearing it hoot at you repeatedly, then it's justified in standing its ground."
Here we go again.....
So, Will, I guess you won't mind if you are walking down the street and someone takes a few shots at you because they don't like you walking front of their house.
Seattle posted a very appropriate notice. But you, expecting people to have some clue that they are about to be attacked because of a few owl hoots, is more stupidity.....just like expecting police officers to know that, when a crazy person runs at them thrusting with a knife, it's just all in good fun.

"....DeSantis, governor of Florida, somehow orchestrated a scheme to fly migrants from the Texas border to Martha's Vineyard...."
Has it occurred to anyone that DeSantis may be doing them a favor? First, what do the people writing about this mean by 'migrants'? If they're just undocumented, indigent people crossing the border, they'll probably get better services in the more Democratic states anyway. It would be different if they were 'migrant workers' who had a job in FL and they were being shipped off. But if they're just looking for help with immigration & housing, I'd rather be in the NE than the South. Not that DeSantis isn't a major jerk off, of course. And, as often happens, the joke may be on the jerk off.

"....If those states can find the undocumented that easily and send them to D.C., why can't the Feds, influenced by blue voters from the nation's northern cities,....."
Gee, could it be because those same Republican rubes keep voting against the taxes to pay for federal border patrol agents? Today when I was getting a haircut, the subject came up as to why you can't get someone to do any home (bldg or appliance) repair in NW Washington. I refrained from asking if it could possibly be because, in the USA, Republicans don't believe in educating anyone so that they can get a job that requires any training or skill? (When I was in Bordeaux Fr in April, one of the things I noticed most was all the colleges, universities, & training schools. I mean ALL OVER the city. It looked to me like the main industry in Bordeaux was education.)

@14, I've been shopping for a cheaper, better country to retire to for decades. That's why I'm pretty satisfied living where I am. It ain't perfect. But I haven't found anything better yet. If you actually find some place better, let us all know.

@17, @18, finish reading as @20 did before you post. @10 is just saying he wants equitable, defined immigration policy. Pretty hard to argue with that.

41

States do not need "cheap farm labor."

Capitalists, Big Ag Corporations and farmers do

And they do not want to pay for fair wage labor and deliberately create a desperate "criminal" workforce they can then extort and exploit through lobbying for idiotic immigration draconian laws.

42

"The Administration does nothing to support these states that are told they have to absorb the hordes of illegals without any Federal Support."

This is a total lie.

First off describing human beings with a definable number as "hordes" is laughable well poisoning.

Second. immigration is down orders of magnitude. On net, international migration added 247,000 people to the U.S. population between mid-2020 and mid-2021, according to Census Bureau estimates. This represents a substantial drop from the prior two years, when net migration was 568,000 (for the year ending July 1, 2019) and 477,000 (for the year ending July 1, 2020).
https://econofact.org/the-decline-in-u-s-net-migration

Third, it was federal tax payer aid that these MAGA Governor dips hits used for their inhumane stunt. Aid that was supposed to go to their citizens suffering from the pandemic.

Fourth "this administration" gives more than than the last administration in aid for dealing with migrants. We spend over $333 BILLION on border and immigration security. President's Budget for DHS provides about $1.2B new dollars for border infrastructure this year.

The fact is the republican run state are corrupt and grift these programs. Texas and Desantis have created a budgetary black hole. They ar grilling this money.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/18/texas-border-security-spending/

Fifth, the aid for migrant themselves is roundly rejected by REPUBLICANS in congress.

In short. Go fuck yourself Troll.

44

@36- my understanding was the the unlawful possession of a firearm charge have been severed from the others, because trying him on that would’ve required that they tell the jury about his past felonies. He pled guilty to that, however, but was not sentenced to nearly what he should be for that. The day we get serious about locking up people who unlawful carry guns for the rest of their damn lives, a lot of this will stop.

46

Yes, lock people up, specially poor people and POC. Oh. for the rest of their lives, that is your answer to destitute, mentally ill, desperate folks. You have NO comprehension of the causes to what the hell is going on in this sick, sick, system.

The southern border is under dispute by Mexico also because they had their lands stolen by this country and they see it as in dispute..

It works out well for the corporate elite to have destitute, brown people coming here for work? Doesn’t it? What a gift. Practically slavery. They are putting food on our tables at the risk of their lives. This economy would collapse without them.

When you have wealth are a white male or their imitators then you get to point fingers at everyone else and blame them for whatever you do not like. You get to own the legal system. The economic system. And talk shit on this thread at us without ever examining any facts or data that dispute your world view.

47

We are not even touching on the history or factual events that have caused people to often flee for their lives to come here.

The CIA invasion of countries is part of the picture.

48

@45 - generally prior acts (like the prior felonies here) are not admissible because they invite the jury to convict because they think the defendant is a criminal scumbag in general rather than because they think he did the particular thing he is on trial for.


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