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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:

For years, Republicans have railed about “invaders” who break into the country illegally to claim asylum — how they were paroled and issued court dates only to disappear into the shadows, never to be seen again.

Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.

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Suffer the Children 0

As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.

Read the report that Farron discusses.

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Courting Disaster 0

Writing at the Washington Monthly, George Thomas expresses–er–concerns that we cannot rely on the Supreme Supremacist Court to check Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the clock to the 1950s (or, for that matter, the 1850s, which methinks is where his heart am longin’ to go).

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Via the Charlotte Observer, the Los Angeles Times’s Karen Musalo hears a rhyme of refugees betrayed a long time ago.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Stumper 0

Title:  Game Show for Citizenship.  Image:  Immigrants on a

Image via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

News item:

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly reviewing a pitch for a reality TV show in which immigrants compete for the chance to fast-track their path to U.S. citizenship.

Even if there’s little or no truth to this report, that persons are willing to believe it shows the extent that mean for the sake of mean has become an accepted Republican family value.

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The Rude One looks at Donald Trump’s attempt to undo birthright citizenship and argues forcefully (and rudely) that “there Is no ‘America’ without birthright citizenship.”

Here’s a bit from his article (slightly expurgated); follow the link for the rest.

But what galls me and what ought to gall everyone is this simple idea: the United States is what it is because of immigration and birthright citizenship. The very concept of “America” is that it’s always been a mongrel nation pasted together by people from . . . everywhere, man, all, in theory, working towards that mythical “more perfect union.” We’re the only country in the world that has even attempted to do this. We’re an incredibly diverse, and an incredibly inclusive country, and if you don’t see that as a strength, then you don’t actually understand who , . . we are.

Aside:

Donald Trump himself, as a descendant of immigrants, has benefited from that very birthright citizenship he would deny to others, yet he seems eager to take us back to the days–and to the era–before it was passed.

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Cruel and Unusual 0

At NJ.com, Daysi Calavia-Robertson describes what life is like for an Uber driver who’s now in an ICE concentration camp detention center.

Just go read it.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Retired professor Peter S. Wenz wonders why Pete Hegseth has purged a book that he coauthored, Faces of Environmental Racism, from the Navy. Here’s a bit of his article:

My more serious guess is that the term “racism” is the reason for the book’s expulsion.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Hoist on His Own Petard 0

As my old professor of the Early Federal Period delighted in pointing out, “history is irony.”

And some ironies are more delightful than others.

Steve Smith, a prominent Trump donor and conservative Nashville bar owner, was forced to close kitchens at three of his high-volume Broadway properties over the weekend, as management told workers afraid of being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to go home.

Much more at the link.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

It’s just my opinion, but I do not think that “enforcing the law” and “mean for the sake of mean” are synonymous.

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Republican Family Values 0

Caption:   Let the children come to MAGA.  Image:  RFK Jr. holds a sign reading

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme–one that I am also hearing–and it’s given him a straw at which to grasp.

I hope he’s right about said straw.

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*Mark Twain.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sam and the crew explain why the Trump maladministration is renditioning refugees, including Afghan refugees who helped American forces during George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie, but making exceptions for white folks from South Africa.

(Spoiler alert: No surprises here.)

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A Contradiction in Terms 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sheri Berenbaum explains why fighting prejudice, in this case antisemitism, while also opposing DEI is an oxymoronic objective, regardless of what Trump and the Trumpettes would have us think. Here’s a tiny bit from her letter to the editor (emphasis added):

Protecting the rights of one group means protecting the rights of all groups. It’s not possible to battle antisemitism without also battling racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Another woman’s story.

For the life of me, I can’t see anything behind this but racism, bigotry, and mean for the sake of mean.

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Lady Liberty atop her pedestal which reads

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A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0

Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.

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A Woke Pope? 0

Thom explains why the Trumpettes don’t like the new Pope.

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.

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