3833

According to the article above, he has legal status (permanent resident). He does not, however, have citizenship. They’re revoking his resident status. I don’t know whether that’s standard procedure for felons or not, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

What makes his case more sympathetic is that he got that resident status when he was four months old.

3834

I’m also more willing to give greater leeway to someone who has made positive contributions to society. Like I am 100% in favor of giving someone who has military service, or who is fighting wildfires greater degrees of forgivness.

A felony conviction resulting in retraction of legal status? Eh, that’s fair in general, but in this specific case there’s enough co factors (age when he came, time, working as a firefighter) that I’d be more than happy for a judge to say ‘Instead of deporting you, we will put you on legalese for some form of probationary legal status in exchange for you continuing your work on CalFire’ or something.

3835

More economic anxiety.

3836

Saw the video. She’s a bitch.

Moe Darling is a certified Feng Shui professional

wow she’s not very harmonic.

3837

Just more right wing intimidation and violence being casually used to try and influence political views.

3838

This is a very interesting development.

While the actual law in question was enacted in 1952, Du says that much of the provisions of the earlier 1929 law persisted in the measure passed two decades later, without substantial efforts from Congress to address the origins. She says Congress in 1952 overrode a veto from President Harry Truman in which the president said he was concerned the latest immigration act perpetuates injustices of the past.

She also pointed to correspondence from the bill supporters in the early 1950s — including from the deputy attorney general at the time who used the racial epithet “wetback” — in rejecting arguments that the law was rooted in economic or national security concerns.

“The government’s alternative arguments—that a nondiscriminatory motive was “plain” or that subsequent amendments somehow imply the racial taint was cleansed—are not supported by caselaw nor borne out by the evidentiary record,” she wrote.

Hard to believe this ruling holds up through appeal. I don’t think there is much doubt that the government will appeal it.

3839
3840

Hopefully this is a trial balloon that doesn’t survive contact with political reality.

3841

The senior American envoy for Haiti policy has resigned, two U.S. officials said Thursday, in a letter that excoriated the Biden administration’s “inhumane, counterproductive decision” to send Haitian migrants back to a country that has been racked this summer by a deadly earthquake and political turmoil.

The diplomat, Daniel Foote, was appointed special envoy to Haiti in July, just weeks after President Jovenel Moïse was killed in his bedroom during a nighttime raid on his residence. Thousands of Haitians have since flocked to the Texas border, particularly in the past week, where they have crossed the Rio Grande into the United States and confronted Border Patrol agents on horseback before being deported.

Images of some of the horse-mounted agents chasing Haitians have prompted outrage over the treatment of the migrants. On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said the horse patrol unit in Del Rio had been temporarily suspended, and the agents’ actions are being investigated. Border Patrol agents have ridden horses to enforce security since the agency was created in 1924.

“I will not be associated with the United States’ inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life,” Mr. Foote wrote in his stinging resignation letter to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, dated Wednesday.

He also blasted a “cycle of international political interventions in Haiti” that “has consistently produced catastrophic results,” and he warned that the number of desperate people traveling to American borders “will only grow as we add to Haiti’s unacceptable misery.”

3842

Just out of curiosity, is it actually more inhumane to chase people with horses than with e.g. cars or helicopters, or does it just look worse?

3843

It’s a lot easier to beat them from a horse than a helicopter.

But at the end of the day the method of the abuse isn’t that relevant.
They’d do it from bikes if they had to.

3844

I guess if you had video of them beating migrants with the steering wheels of the car, that would probably seem as bad as what we did have.

3845

The videos I saw don’t show any beating. There’s a threatening rein-twirling and a shirt grab, and one guy falls over possibly because the horse nudged him. Not sure if I’ve seen all of it.

It’s obviously awful, just wondering if it’s more a ‘horse’ thing or an ‘asshole law enforcement’ thing.

3846

It is absolutely this. Though also possibly the other thing too.

3847

The problem in the equation isn’t the horse, that’s for sure.

They’d be running people over with ATVs and hitting them with batons if they were using ATVs.

3848

I mean the horse imagery certainly does recall some deep memories of institutional sin, overseers running down escaping slaves on horseback, probably with hunting dogs in the mix, and whatnot.

But yeah, it’s 95% that all border patrol agents are worthless shitbags beneath contempt who are a stain on our nation’s character.

3849

Only 95? Feeling generous in your old age, I see.

3850

Oh, I mean, 5% of what makes the story so impactful/horrifying is the horse imagery. The other 95% of what makes it horrifying is the universal shitbaggery of border patrol agents. If they all died of cancer tomorrow the world would be better in every single case :)

3851

Come on, tell us how you really feel.

3852

Yeah. I love Armando. But he forces the edginess a lot more now. I’ll still watch his channel. But he needs new jokes. :)